Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 781
"The general in the city is polite. This is Yang Ren, the leader of Zhang Shijun's tent in Hanzhong. This time, under the order of the master, he will lead the troops to support Luoyang! Please open the door and let someone pass through!"

Cao Ren took a look at the situation at Dagu Pass, and then put on the posture he had at Guangcheng Pass before, pleading with the city gate, but his attitude was very low.

"Hahaha... Your Excellency really thinks that we will all be deceived by you! Your Excellency should report your real name! You can also let me know who the person you killed today is!"

A young general on the city wall came to the arrow stack, looked towards him, and suddenly laughed. He had no intention of continuing to put on airs with Cao Ren below. Following his words, a row of soldiers appeared on the wall. Hundreds of archers armed with crossbows.

Cao Ren looked up, his expression changed drastically, he knew that his premonition was right, Zhu Weijun really knew the news of their sneak attack, but at this moment he was also a little at a loss.

There were at least dozens of crossbows facing him on the city wall, which made the hairs on Cao Ren's whole body feel terrified. He knew that he was in danger, so Cao Ren turned his head and looked behind him immediately. At this time, the 4000 people behind him Duo Cao Bing also appeared slightly confused because his identity had been seen through.

Cao Ren quickly turned his head to look at the city wall again, still pretending to say, "Why is this? Why is this? We are the army of Hanzhong, don't misunderstand!"

"Why? You want to sneak attack on my land! Do you really think that no one knows? To tell you the truth, my master has supernatural powers and can know your movements. Now Jia Junshi has also planned to plan, just waiting for you to throw yourself into the net At this time, if you are sensible and surrender, you can survive, otherwise you can only die in this pass!"

The young general in this city was Sun Quan who was sent out by Zhu Wei for the first time. He was naturally very excited to see that Cao Jun had fallen into a trap.

Who made Cao Cao choose the Guangcheng Pass and Dagu Pass that he was guarding this time as his targets, then he became the executor of Jia Xu's strategy as a matter of course.

Seeing Cao's army fall into the trap now, Sun Quan is also extremely excited. It was his first time to lead an army to achieve such a big victory.

"Cao Ren, the Cao clan, how could he surrender against his master! The whole army retreats!"

After hearing Sun Quan's words, Cao Ren knew that there was no room for maneuver, but naturally he could not surrender here, so he turned his horse and retreated in the direction from which it came.

At the same time, the lance held in his hand was also waved hurriedly behind him, hoping to resist the crossbow arrows shot by Zhu Weijun on the city wall.

"Fire arrows!"

Seeing Cao Ren's behavior, Sun Quan also shouted in a somewhat childish voice, and then looked at the cliffs on both sides of the valley outside the Dagu Pass.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

The crossbow archers on the city wall shot out their crossbow arrows one after another, and the rain of crossbow arrows shot at Cao Jun under the city wall, causing Cao Jun below to turn his back on his back.

And after these crossbow archers shot the crossbow arrows, they stepped back sideways, allowing another crossbow archer to reach their position, and then shot out another round of crossbow arrows, and then retreated to replace them, and shot another round of feather arrows.

There were at least [-] crossbowmen of the Zhu Wei Army on the city wall, and they were rotated into three batches of continuous shooting, and an interval was one or two breaths, so the crossbow arrows shot towards the city without stopping.

However, in order to pretend to be the Hanzhong army, Cao Ren led the Cao army directly to the south wall of Daguguan, so that they were completely within the range of the crossbow arrows.

Even if Cao Ren told them to retreat in time, it would be too late.

To be honest, even Cao Ren himself felt like he was being stared at by the god of death. As one of the few horse-riding generals in Cao's army, he was naturally the key target of Zhu Weijun's crossbowmen.

As Cao Ren felt before, at least more than 30 crossbowmen were staring at him, so when Cao Ren turned and fled, these crossbowmen also shot crossbow arrows at him immediately.

Even though Cao Ren tried his best to shift the spear behind him, more than a dozen crossbow arrows were pierced into his body.

Of course, because the armor he was wearing was of good quality, these crossbow arrows did not hurt his vitals, at most one or two crossbow arrows passed through the gaps in the armor on his back waist and shoulders, and penetrated a little deeper. .

But Cao Ren managed to get out of the crossbow's range with his horse, and escaped with his life for the time being.

However, the more than 4000 Cao soldiers brought by Cao Ren did not have such good luck. After being shot down by continuous crossbow arrows on the wall of Dagu Pass, at least 2000 Cao soldiers fell here either dead or injured.

About 1000 other Cao soldiers followed Cao Ren out of the range of the crossbow arrows, but basically lost their fighting spirit, and followed Cao Ren in a hurry to flee back and forth.

At this time, Xu Huang was stationed about two miles away from Cao Ren's army. However, with the sudden attack from Dagu Pass, Xu Huang also encountered an attack.

The location of Xu Huang's troops is probably where the cliffs on both sides of the valley are relatively protruding, like a figure-eight shape. This shape, which is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, allows the Cao soldiers led by Xu Huang to hide under the cliffs.

Even if there are ambushes on the cliff, they can't directly cause much damage to them.

But just as they were about to take action at Dagonguan, fireballs made of dry grass were thrown down from the cliff above the Cao soldiers led by Xu Huang, and then another altar of kerosene was thrown down. .

As the kerosene jar shattered on the ground, kerosene flowed in all directions, and the grass fireball quickly ignited the kerosene, turning the seemingly safe cliff valley here into a sea of ​​fire.

Xu Huang could only lead his troops to escape from the flame area quickly, but there were naturally a large number of Zhu Weijun's archers ambushing on the cliff valley, so when Cao Jun left the cliff valley with a certain degree of safety, he was exposed on the cliff valley In the eyes of Zhu Weijun's archers.

A large number of feathered arrows shot down from the cliff valley like rain, so the Cao army led by Xu Huang was also ambushed by Zhu Weijun, and gradually fell into chaos.

But Xu Huang didn't dare to retreat immediately, he had to meet Cao Ren in front, so Xu Huang could only lead his troops close to the edge of the cliff, using shields to form a barrier against arrows, barely resisting the feathers shot down from the cliff. arrow.

Then Xu Huang gathered some soldiers and tried to extinguish the flames in front, leaving a safe passage for Cao Ren to escape.

So when Cao Ren fled back here with the remnant soldiers, he rushed over quickly from the burning flame area, and finally merged with Xu Huang's army.

After that, Cao Ren and Xu Huang didn't dare to be negligent, so they took the remaining three or four thousand Cao troops and fled quickly to the mouth of the valley where Daguguan was located.

At this time, Xu Shang is still guarding the entrance of the valley. As long as they can escape from this valley, at least they can get rid of the geographical danger. But as Cao Ren and Xu Huang continue to retreat, they will soon Seeing that Xu Shang in front also withdrew his defeated soldiers to their side...

(End of this chapter)