Historically, Wei Yan was the Taishou of Hanzhong, Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, and it is understandable that Wei Yan proposed the strategy of the Meridian Valley, although Zhuge was serious and discarded, it also proved from the side that Wei Yan was indeed a flexible and unafraid of strong figures. Δ Xin "Bi Qu Ge .* Wei Yan's position in front of the Hanzhong Taishou is very low, just a Yamen general, Liu Bei moved to Chengdu, discerning talents, let Wei Yan be the Hanzhong Taishou, and asked: "Today, the secretary has a heavy responsibility, what is the desire of the secretary?" Wei Yan replied: "If Cao Cao comes from all over the world, please refuse it for the king; Partial to the 100,000 people, please swallow it for the king. Of course Liu Bei was happy, he said this with arrogance and confidence!

Now that Cao Cao has come from all over the world, Wei Yan has also experienced a hundred battles since following Liu Ze, and the sparks of collision are about to be staged in Xicheng.

The mediocre Zhang Wei couldn't withstand the day and night attacks of Cao's army, so he had to surrender. However, Zhang Wei's words poured a large basin of cold water on Cao Cao's head, which made Cao Cao's hands and feet suddenly cold, and the six gods had no master. Zhang Wei let Cao Cao into his mansion, and after being polite, he said: "I don't know if Duke Cao knows that Wei Yan of the Han army has occupied Xicheng?" ”

It took Cao Cao a long time to come back to his senses, and it was no wonder that Cao Cao, after all, the information transmission was too slow at that time, Xicheng was in the deep mountains, and there had to be a process for the news to spread outside. Cao Cao swallowed his saliva and asked with difficulty, "I don't know how long Wei Yan has occupied Xicheng?" ”

Zhang Wei said: "Wei Yu Shangyong, I received the news 20 days ago. ”

Cao Cao secretly calculated, Shangyong to Xicheng, the mountain road is crooked, nearly four hundred miles, so to speak, Wei Yan has been in Xicheng for more than a month. "I don't know how many mediocre people there are? How many days can the grain and grass last? ”

"There are less than 5,000 men and horses, and there is more than a month of grain and grass."

Cao Cao looked at Xun You, and Xun You said: "Without further ado, early tomorrow morning, General Xiahoudun will lead the army to seize Xicheng." ”

Cao Cao nodded, and said to Xiahoudun: "Yuan Rang, lead 20,000 troops, travel lightly, and seize Xicheng." ”

Xicheng connects Shangyong and Tin County with only one mountain road, Wei Yan is not the master of the city, he wants to make a fuss on the mountain road. The road west of the exit of Meridian Valley had already been blocked by a large stone when Wei Yan withdrew his troops, and another 3,000 men and horses were released, so Wei Yan was not worried at all. Wei Yan called over the deputy generals Guan Hai and Ma Feng and said: "If Cao Jun comes to invade Xicheng, he will take these two ways." The two of you go to the top of the mountain to choose a place to ambush, prepare more sassagsal wood and rolling stones, if Cao's army arrives, you don't have to fight, just care about pushing down the sassalwood and rolling stones, and smash him on his back. ”

Guan Hai was overjoyed, such a battle was too simple, and he patted his head and said: "Then I will scatter the children far away, and I can't discipline Cao Jun." ”

Wei Yan said: "No, we want to make Cao Cao suffer a big loss, and I think that Xicheng can be attacked." Seeing Guan Hai and Ma Feng's confused looks, Wei Yan continued: "Our emperor led a large army to block the retreat of Cao's army. If Cao Cao felt that Xicheng was difficult to break, would he return to the army? ”

Guan Hai smiled and said, "As soon as Wen Chang said this, I understood." Even if we drag Cao Jun into a soft egg, we can't let them return to the army to attack the emperor. ”

Ma Feng's insight is higher than Guan Hai's, and after listening to Wei Yan's words, he has already understood it thoroughly. "We pushed down the sassal wood and rolling stones, so that Cao Cao thought that our army was cowardly, and only knew that he would block the road with boulders."

"Yes, not only to kill Cao Jun, but also to let Cao Jun spend time and effort cleaning up the road." Wei Yan patted Ma Feng on the shoulder and said.

"Why didn't the general send the elite to the rear of the Cao army along the mountain and cut off its return journey?" Ma Feng really has an extraordinary mind.

"I think too, I guess it's too late. I can't think of three days, and Cao Jun will be there. Wei Yan looked at Ma Feng with appreciative eyes and said.

Xiahoudun had 20,000 horses, and at dusk the next day, he arrived thirty miles east of Xicheng. The soldier looked at Ma Feng, and Ma Feng said with a smile: "General Xiahou is not easy to come by, let them rest for one night." ”

Xiahoudun did not dare to advance in the dark, so he ordered the soldiers to choose a place to rest and sent scouts to investigate along the road. Xiahoudun looked up at the high mountain peaks, secretly despised Wei Yan, he didn't know how to use such an excellent location, how could he do it?

Early in the morning of the second day, Xiahoudun ordered his soldiers to cut down trees and make siege equipment. Seeing that the time had come, Ma Feng rang the bang, and in an instant, sassal wood and rolling stones rolled down from the hillside. Ma Feng made full preparations, and the stones he chose were all more than 300 catties.

Xiahoudun heard the sound of bangzi and knew that the bad food was bad, and there were still ambush drops, but the time to move was not as he expected. The boulder is rolling, how the people below dodge, Cao Jun, who only smashed it, cried and shouted, in the panic, you touch me, I hit you, and it increased the death. Xiahoudun relied on the horse under his crotch to dodge, and kept giving orders. However, the slope of the mountain is extremely steep, and the stones and giant trees are fierce, and they cannot be controlled for a while. The clever soldiers crouched behind the boulders and trees on the hillside, and the unclever ones were like headless flies. Cao Ren's men and horses also received the same care, Cao Ren was quite clever, saw the boulder rolling down, ran to the back of a boulder and hid his figure, and shouted loudly: "Find something to cover!" ”

Ma Feng estimated that the stones on the road were more than a foot high, and shouted: "Brothers, collect the army and return to the city." ”

Xiahoudun looked at the road full of stones, his soldiers were injured a lot, and he kept struggling, but he couldn't help it, and his mood was extremely gloomy. Cao Ren turned over the pile of stones and stumbled to find Xiahoudun, "Yuan Rang, are you okay?" ”

Xiahoudun smiled bitterly, "I'm fine, Zixiao, look at my brothers." ”

Cao Ren looked around, sighed and said, "The situation is similar over there. More than 10,000 casualties are expected. ”

The adjutant general and lieutenant, who were not injured, saw the two big men and slowly surrounded them, and Xiahoudun said: "Count the number of people and place the injured soldiers." I don't know when these rocks will be cleaned up? ”

Seeing that they were not moving, Cao Ren scolded: "Didn't you hear the words of the main general? ”

The adjutant general and lieutenant slowly left.

Zhang Jia and Li Yi are both 100 generals, and the two enlisted in the army together, with outstanding achievements, and they were promoted to 100 generals at the same time, which is very good. While watching his subordinates work, Zhang Jia said to Li Yi in a complaining tone: "What kind of battle is this dripping?" I didn't even see the hair of the people, so many brothers died. ”

Li Yi sighed, "I don't know what Gong Cao thinks?" In this land of poor mountains and bad waters, what are we doing here? ”

Zhang Jia said: "Rumor" Zhang Jia reviewed the Quartet, and saw that no one paid attention to him, so he lowered his voice and said: "Liu Ze, the emperor of Luoyang, persuaded the lord to let him consider the people, give up his military power, and no longer fight. It's just that the lord refused. ”

Li Yi said: "The lord has worked hard for more than ten years, how can he say that he can give up." ”

"Yes, but it's hard for us soldiers. Who knows which day a stone will come down and an arrow will come over, and this little life will be confessed to his mother. ”

"Not really. It's just that we wear this skin, and there is no way. ”

"Is there a way?" Zhang Jia nodded the mountain with his chin, "As long as you and my brother enter this mountain, with our martial arts, can we still walk out?" When we get home, we'll live in peace. What kind of wife and son, what kind of meritorious service, are all deceptive things. ”

"Yan and Henan are still in the hands of the lord, if we escape, won't we fall into the net?"

"You," Zhang Jia pointed at Li Yi with a smile and said: "Yan and Yu Erzhou, the elite is exhausted, will Emperor Liu seize the opportunity?" By the time we get home, we may have changed the world. ”

"yes." Li Yi said: "Why don't you make an appointment with a few good brothers and fellow villagers, and leave him tonight?" ”

Zhang Jia said in a low voice: "Don't say it clearly, so as not to be caught." First test with words, if there is really such a meaning, it is not too late to uncover. ”

Li Yi nodded, looking teachable.

It is easy to push the boulders and sassalwood down the mountain, but it is not an overnight task to clean them up. Xiahoudun and Cao Ren commanded the soldiers to work until dark, and cleaned up less than half of them.

Liu Ze's army pushed slowly, cleaned up the mess in Nanyang, and wiped Cao Cao's buttocks. Liu Ze was based on Wancheng, and Xu Rong and Zhang Liao's armies were stationed in Zhuyang and Shandu respectively, blocking Lao Cao's back road again.

Guan Yu took Yingchuan County, Dong Zhao couldn't hold it back, and led the army out of Chenliu, wanting to fight Guan Yu in a decisive battle. At this time, Xun Yu arrived. Xun Yu came to see Dong Zhao and said: "Gongren and wise people are also good and peaceful. Today, Cao Gong is far away from Hanzhong, and his intention is to take Yizhou as the foundation, and abandon Yan and Yu regardless of it. Emperor Xian is dead, my emperor obeys the heavens, inherits the unification, and keeps Han Zuo without cost. At this time, Gongren did nothing to make people laugh. ”

"Wen Ruoyuan is a lobbyist? Although Cao Gong abandoned the two states, but the two states were the foundation of Cao Gong, and the people only knew that there was Cao Gong in their hearts, but they did not know that there was a Han Emperor. And there are still 100,000 soldiers in the two states, Zhongde raised his arms, and 300,000 soldiers are at his fingertips, not without the strength to fight. ”

"What if there are a million soldiers? How can the land of the two states be raised? Compared with the rabble and the elite soldiers, which is higher or lower in combat power? The descendants of Confucianism of public benevolence, when they know benevolence and love the people, sit back and watch the people of Erzhou fall into fire and water? ”

Dong Zhao said for a long time: "For the sake of all the people, Zhao is willing to surrender." ”

Xun Yu was overjoyed.

Zhang Fei, Xu Huang, and Gan Ning attacked Runan, and the road went smoothly until the county was pacified. Jiang Ji and Li Dian tried every means to resist, resulting in a stalemate.

When Cao Cao came to the outside of Xicheng, he saw that Xiahoudun and Cao Ren's soldiers and horses were tired, and he was anxious, the army had been frustrated, and it seemed that he needed to re-agitate. Xiahoudun stubbornly said: "40,000 horses, under the attack of the enemy, nearly 10,000 casualties, and those who fled over the mountains have exceeded 10,000. ”

"What?" Cao Cao was furious, "As a general, you don't know how to restrain the soldiers? Come, take them out, and give them twenty spines each with a rod as a sign of punishment. ”

Xun You hurriedly said: "The lord is angry. When the soldiers are far away from their hometowns, it is inevitable that the morale of the army will be unstable, and it is not the fault of the two of them. Today's plan, to appease the soldiers, the siege is imminent, how can you beat the generals? ”

Cao Cao knew in his heart that it was not Xiahoudun and Cao Ren's fault, it was just a show. However, this also reminded Cao Cao that it was time for the soldiers to learn military discipline.

Cao Cao settled down and began to storm Xicheng. Wei Yan placed hundreds of stone-throwing carts on the city wall and in the city, arranged in echelons, as long as Cao Jun approached, the overwhelming stones greeted, anyway, there were mountains all around, and the most important thing was stones. The most leisurely were the soldiers at the head of the city, and occasionally a few ran under the city wall, and a few sharp arrows were solved.

Cao Cao pushed out all the troops of Nanyang, as cannon fodder, more than half of the soldiers of Nanyang were killed and wounded, which caused dissatisfaction in the army, and in the middle of the night, rushed away from the Cao army who was monitoring around, and ran away regardless of the road.

Cao Cao had no choice but to build a stone-throwing cart to attack Wei Yan. Cao Cao had an empty army, but unfortunately the Xicheng site was limited and could not be spread.

Cao Zhen saw Cao Cao one day and said: "Lord, the grain and grass in the army are less than ten days. ”

Cao Cao's eyes narrowed, and he said softly: "The military rations will be halved, perfunctory for a few days, and I will think of a way." ”

The soldiers can't eat enough, how can this battle be fought? The uneasy mood in the army began to raise its head again, the sky and the earth were big, and the stomach was the largest.

Cao Cao asked Cao Zhen one day: "What is the movement in Nanyang?" ”

"Zang Ba, Xu Rong, Zhang Liao, 200,000 troops are guarding the main road, and the way back of our army has been cut off."

After Cao Cao heard this, he looked up to the sky and fell.