Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 425 Is there any good strategy?

In mid-June of 197 AD, the weather gradually entered the late spring and early summer, and the vegetation on Bowangpo also brought a bit of early summer heat.

Cao Jun Xiahouyuan's troops, who had been confronting Zhu Wei's subordinate Xiongba Battalion in Bowangpo for two days, finally launched an offensive on the area occupied by Zhu Wei's army in Bowangpo. Six or seven dangerous places in the Bowangpo-Xianghan pass.

Before Xia Houyuan launched the offensive, he naturally discovered some trails in Bowang Slope through Zhang Xiu, so Xia Houyuan had already dispatched many elite soldiers to sneak through the trails to the rear of some dangerous places where Zhu Wei's army was stationed.

Therefore, when Xia Houyuan sent troops to attack, these lurking elite soldiers also made a surprise attack from the rear, which inevitably made Zhu Wei's garrison troops at a loss, and had to abandon their defenses and retreat.

But it can also be said that among the six or seven dangerous places, Zhu Wei's army voluntarily abandoned their defenses and retreated in six places.

Therefore, Zhu Wei's army only lost more than a thousand people in this day, and more defenders retreated safely to a safe place behind.

But in the end, Xiahouyuan's offensive was also blocked at a narrow cliff in the Xianghan Pass of Bowangpo. The Xianghan Pass here seems to pass through a worm intestine valley road, as if in a place. Pass through the disconnected cliff cave, so the cliffs on both sides of the pass can be regarded as a rare natural pass in Bowangpo.

Even if Xia Houyuan could send elite soldiers to detour, he couldn't threaten the cliffs formed by the hills on both sides of the pass.

Therefore, Cao Jun's offensive on this day could only temporarily stop in front of this natural pass.

At this time, the Cao army under Xiahouyuan occupied one-third of the northern part of the Bowangpo-Xianghan Pass, and Xiahouyuan's main force also set up a general camp at the northern end of the Bowangpo-Xianghan Pass. It was set up on the side of Cao Jun's army stronghold under Xia Houyuan's department.

However, facing the natural pass ahead, Xia Houyuan also felt a little embarrassed, so after the end of the battle that day, Xia Houyuan recruited Zhang Xiu to his army to discuss.

This time, in Xiahouyuan's main camp, all the generals Che Zhou, Le Jin, Xiahouba, and Xiahoumao of Xiahouyuan's Cao army were gathered together, as well as Cheng Yu, the military commander Cao Cao sent to assist Xiahouyuan.

In Xia Houyuan's military tent, there is also a military map of Bowangpo unfolded. Before Zhang Xiu arrived, Xia Houyuan had already discussed with Cheng Yu, Che Zhou, Le Jin and others for a while.

Now seeing Zhang Xiu coming, Xia Houyuan smiled and bowed to Zhang Xiu, "General Zhang is here. Today's battle is thanks to General Zhang sending people to lead the way, so that our army can attack seven dangerous places in a row! General Zhang's contribution, a certain family must I will report back to Duke Cao, and after this battle, Duke Cao will also reward you for your achievements!"

This Xia Houyuan looks tall and slender, and his appearance also looks a bit powerful. Xia Houyuan can be regarded as Cao Cao's confidant relatives and generals. Cao Cao has deep trust and has already led the army and horses as the main general many times.

Now that he is just 40 years old, he can be regarded as the prime of life, coupled with his status in Cao Cao's army, he can be regarded as energetic, but he does not have much arrogance. kind.

"General Xiahou is polite, this is Zhang's duty! I don't know if General Xiahou invited Zhang to come here, but what difficulties did he encounter?"

Zhang Xiu knew in his heart that he was actually a false surrender, but the more he was like this, of course his posture would be more polite. In addition, Jia Xu had already given him instructions before. In fact, he also guessed that this time Xia Houyuan attacked Bowangpo, Difficulties may be encountered somewhere.

Now that he glanced at the map of Bowangpo, he was even more sure of where Xia Houyuan and the others were blocked. Well, everything seemed to be within Mr. Jia Xu's expectations.

In this way Zhang Xiu understands that now is the time for him to carry out Jia Xu's next plan.

Over there, Xia Houyuan followed Zhang Xiu's eyes and knew what Zhang Xiu had seen, so he smiled and said, "That's right, there are two cliffs protruding from the Worm Intestine Valley Road, just like a natural city wall. Both sides need ropes to climb up, occupied by Zhu Wei's army, even if the two sides attack, it is difficult to attack easily, I wonder if General Zhang has any good strategies?"

Zhang Xiu thought about what Jia Xu had told him before, and at this moment deliberately glanced at the military tent. Here, Che Zhou and Le Jin are obvious images of northern men, while Xia Houba and Xia Houmao are It was standing on the edge of the military tent with a childish face.

Then, in a dimly lit place, stood a tall and fat old man, who seemed to be completely harmless, with a smile on his face, his eyes slightly squinted, seeing Zhang Xiu looking at him , the old man also bowed slightly to Zhang Xiu and nodded, which was a simple nod.

But Zhang Xiu knew very well that this should be Cheng Yu, the counselor of the Cao Army that Jia Xu told him to be careful, so Zhang Xiu also nodded to Cheng Yu.

Then Zhang Xiu turned his gaze back to the map of Bowangpo, walked a few steps to the edge of the map, pointed to a mountain route and said, "Well, Zhang also knows that this worm intestine valley road is indeed difficult to capture, but we It is completely possible to let go of this worm intestine valley road. There is a small mountain path here, which can be directly reached here. As far as Zhang knows, this should be the main camp of Zhu Weijun's Xiongba camp! If our army can sneak attack this camp and defeat this The main force of the Xiongba Battalion, the Zhu Wei garrison on the Chongchang Valley Road, will naturally retreat without a fight!"

"Oh, sneak attack on the main stronghold of the Xiongba camp?"

Hearing Zhang Xiu's words, Xia Houyuan's expression changed. He was originally a person who likes to make surprise attacks. If he could go around and attack Zhu Wei's Xiongba camp leader's camp in Bowangpo, he would be able to defeat Zhu Wei in one fell swoop. The Xiongba camp can indeed decide Bowangpo in a single battle.

"That's right, how about this? I am the only one who knows this trail in the mountain best. I can personally lead five thousand of the elite army and rush along the trail to sneak attack on the army stronghold of the Xiongba camp. If it succeeds, General Xiahou can take it." Bring in troops to help, and when the Zhu Wei soldiers who want to come to the Chongchang Valley Road see the main battalion destroyed, they will have no morale to defend the army!"

Zhang Xiu seemed to have made up his mind, turned his head and said to Xia Houyuan, as if what he did was a vote of honor for Cao Jun.

"Why, General Zhang wants to personally lead the troops to attack? How can you let General Zhang take risks? No, no, General Zhang only needs to send someone to lead the way. Xiahouba, you have two thousand archers and three thousand infantry. How dare you attack the enemy’s main stronghold!”

After listening to Zhang Xiu's words, Xia Houyuan obviously did not agree with Zhang Xiu's taking risks, and then put this military order on his son Xia Houba, looked at the young Xia Houba, and asked solemnly...

(End of this chapter)