The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 426
Cao Hong and Cao Xiu were not slow to come, but they did not dare to fight the Chu army after they came to Xiabian.

First of all, the Chu army had more troops than Cao's army. At this time, Xu Shu had 3 elite troops, while Cao Hong only brought [-] horses to support Xiabian, because the area from Nanzheng, Guangtou, Mamingge to Yangpingguan needed to be guarded. .On the Huainan battlefield, Cao Jun was very passive and could not draw troops at all.

The second is that the Chu army actually has a lot of cavalry!It turned out that Xu Shu took advantage of Ma Chao's prestige in Liangzhou to recruit some Di people cavalry. These Di people were robbed of a batch of food by Xia Houyuan not long ago.

Although the cavalry of these ethnic minorities were not capable of fighting, their equipment was not good, and they did not understand battle formation and discipline, but with Ma Chao leading them, thousands of horses ran back and forth like this twice, which frightened Cao Hong.

Back then when Cao Cao personally conquered Ma Chao, he had numerous generals under his command, and Ma Chao cut off his beard and discarded his robes, and was almost killed by Ma Chao. Now Cao Hong and Cao Xiu dare not fight Ma Chao head-on even with elite cavalry.Cao Hong could fight Ma Chao for [-] rounds with his strength, but the opponent still has Pang De and Huang Zhong. What if he suddenly came over and chopped himself or Cao Xiu with a knife.

Fortunately, the opponent did not besiege Xiabian City, so Cao Hong, Cao Xiu, and Zhang Yun led troops into the city.In their view, although the opponent has an army of [-], they are defending the city and there is no shortage of food. Even if the opponent is exhausted, they will not lose many people.

But Xu Shu's real purpose was not to capture Xiabian, but to transfer the main force of Cao's army in Nanzheng so that they could not support Xiahouyuan in Dingjunshan.

Seeing Cao Hong leading his troops into Xiabian City, Xu Shu left Ma Chao, Pang De, and Ma Dai to lead [-] infantry and recruited Di cavalry to confuse Cao Hong. He led Huang Zhong and [-] troops to suddenly capture the area between Xiabian and Yangping Pass. Juxian County cut off Cao Hongjun's way back to Hanzhong.

Although Ma Chao really wanted to capture Xiabian City and tear his great enemy Yang Fu into pieces, but now he is no longer starting a business alone, but working with Zhang Wu, and he can't act on his own will.Moreover, Zhang Wu is not a cowardly lord like Zhang Lu, and Ma Chao dare not disobey Xu Shu's military order.

It took several days for Cao Hong and the others to realize that something was not normal. The Chu army outside the city had been making equipment, and occasionally came to attack the city without pain, and retreated before reaching the city wall. This is not like attacking the city. of!

It took several days to find out that Xu Shu had already led the main force to leave, and had already occupied Ju County, cutting off the road between Xiabian and Yangping Pass.

Cao Hong asked puzzledly, "What is Xu Shu doing?"

Zhang He was also a little confused, he said, "Could it be that they want to cut off our food supply and trap us all in the city?"

Although Cao Xiu was a melancholy young man, he still had a lot of ideas. He thought for a while and said, "Impossible. Even if the grain road in Hanzhong is cut off, Guanzhong can still come to support us. The grain and grass in the city are still relatively sufficient. If we don’t die, it will be very troublesome for the other party to transport food from Yizhou to here, and it is estimated that they will not be able to last for three months.”

"Then what exactly is Xu Shu going to do?" Cao Hong asked again.

This shows the weakness of Cao Jun's lack of military advisers. Cao Cao sent two counselors in Hanzhong.

Yang Fu said: "Xu Shu is the best counselor in the world. Could it be that his attack on Yangping is fake and his attack on Yangping is real?"

Zhang He was startled, and said: "Prefect Yang is saying that Xu Shu pretended to attack Xiabian to attract us, but he planned to attack Yangping Pass and then attack Nanzheng?"

"possible."

When Cao Hong first heard that Ma Chao had come to Wudu County, he felt that Ma Chao could not be allowed to disrupt Liangzhou no matter what, so he brought the main force to support him. Now, after hearing what Yang Fu said, he felt that he had been hit by the trick of turning the tiger away from the mountain. count.

It's just that Yang Fu didn't guess Xu Shu's plan. After all, Yang Fu is not very good at stratagem, but he is good at handling internal affairs.It is true to tune the tiger away from the mountain, but Xu Shu's goal is not Yangping Pass, because Yangping Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if there are no generals stationed there, as long as there are thousands of soldiers guarding, Xu Shu's 3 troops may not be able to attack.

Even if Cao Hong could guess Xu Shu's real plan, there was nothing he could do, because Xu Shu had already locked his position.If Cao Hong dared to lead his army back to aid, what would he do next?What if I fall into Xu Shu's ambush again?
Ma Chao and Pang De outside the city hadn't left yet, maybe they were waiting for Cao Hong to lead his army out of the city. Cao Hong and Zhang He were not sure that they could defeat Ma Chao in the field battle. Both of them had personally learned how powerful Ma Chao was.

So, after discussing for a long time, Cao Hong sent Zhang Xi to lead 5000 troops to detour to support Yangping Pass. In addition, Nanzheng was guarded by Du Xi. If he knew the military situation of Yangping Pass, he would definitely send troops to support it.In this way, Xiabian City will be safe and sound, and Yangping Pass will be able to hold. It depends on when Xu Shu's army runs out of food and grass.

At this time, the two armies on Dingjun Mountain were already at war, and Fazheng set up a camp in front of Dingjun Mountain. Xia Houyuan felt that he was being provoked, so he personally led troops to attack Fazheng's camp despite the advice of marching Sima Guo Huai.

Fazheng pretended to be defeated and left, losing even Dazhai and a lot of weapons and luggage. Xia Houyuan even looked down on Fazheng, a scholar.

At this time, the strength of the two sides is about the same, more than [-] people, Xia Houyuan would never have thought that the other party's more than [-] people were coming for him, and thought they were here to contain him and prevent him from supporting Yangping Pass and Distinguished.

After some probing, Fazheng got to know Xiahouyuan better, so he made a plan.

Xiahouyuan built two camps in the Dingjunshan sub-camp, and the Dongzhai was connected to Tiandang Mountain, guarded by his nephew Xiahoude, who stored a lot of food, grass and supplies.The Nanzhai was guarded by Xia Houyuan himself to resist the troops from Yizhou.

Fazheng ordered Li Yan to attack Cao Jun's Dongzhai at night, but he didn't really fight. Instead, he rushed to the opponent's vicinity every night, beat gongs and drums, and shouted loudly. When Cao Jun was ready to defend or attack, Li Yan led the army. retreat.

After several days of this, Xia Houde thought that the Chu army just wanted to harass them so that they could not sleep well at night, so they didn't dare to really attack, so they slacked off.

As a result, that night, Li Yan came for the real thing. Taking advantage of Cao Jun's slack, he led his army directly into the opponent's camp and began to kill and set fire.

Xia Houde was harassed by Li Yan for several nights without a good rest, and he was sleeping soundly in the big tent. Who would have thought that it would be a real fight tonight. When he got up and went out of the tent, there were flames and shouts everywhere. Cao Jun's soldiers panicked and trampled on each other.Xia Houde didn't even have time to put on his armor and saddle his horse, so he ran for his life.

When Xiahouyuan saw the fire in his East Village, he knew that the village had been robbed by the other party, so he quickly led his troops to rescue.

(End of this chapter)