372. Yinping Ancient Road
Xu You's suggestion Cao Cao finally agreed, he transferred Cao Hong, and Cao Cao also asked him to bring 20,000 troops with him. Because of Cao Cao's arrival, the battle of Yecheng became a tug-of-war between the two sides. Cao Cao doesn't have a fierce general here, but he can't stand up to many soldiers! Especially after Xu Chu arrived, under his leadership, he turned around and destroyed Liu Beijun's three catapults in one fell swoop. If it weren't for Pound's action, the only two remaining catapults would have been destroyed by him.
Three of the five catapults were destroyed, which made Liu Beijun's attack power drop a lot that day, and the defenders in Yecheng easily defended it. At night, Cao Cao sent a tiger and leopard cavalry to attack the camp, although Guan Yu was prepared, but the camp was broken by the tiger and leopard cavalry and then rushed in to kill and set fire. When Guan Yu's inquiry came, Cao Jun's tiger and leopard riders had already fled. So Zhou Cang, who was in charge of patrolling the camp that night, was scolded by Guan Yu, and Zhou Cang felt more aggrieved in his heart, but there was no way who let the tiger and leopard ride too fiercely?
Since he didn't sleep well last night, and the catapult lost three planes, Guan Yu ordered the siege to be stopped for a day, and the army rested on the spot. At the same time, he wrote to Liu Bei, telling his eldest brother that Cao Cao had been attracted to Yecheng by him. Guan Yu's purpose was to prevent Cao Jun from freeing up his hands to go to Hanzhong to deal with Han Fei, and being able to attract Cao Cao to Yecheng at this moment was enough to show that Cao Cao attached great importance to this place, and the more he paid attention to this place, the safer Han Fei's side would be.
Besides, on Han Fei's side, after Zhao Yun picked Xiahou Yuan, Cao Jun immediately retreated. Cao Ren didn't dare to attack blindly, and Jia Mengguan had been replaced by Zhang Wei at this moment, and Xiahoudun was also transferred back to Hanzhong. Zhang Ren has been attacking under the Jia Meng official for a long time at this moment, not only has he lost his troops and lost his generals, but his people have never been able to reach the top of the city. At this time, Liu Zhang was afraid, and after he heard that Cao's army occupied Hanzhong, he ordered Zhang Ren to withdraw to Baishui Pass and start to retreat to defense. Without Zhang Ren's containment, Cao Jun in Hanzhong had only one enemy on Han Fei's side at the moment.
Han Fei couldn't help but have a little headache about Liu Zhang's weakness, the power in his hands was too small at the moment, so that it became very difficult for these people to confront Cao Jun in Hanzhong, the most important thing was that Cao Jun had his back against his own territory, and the personnel could be replenished at any time. Han Fei was different, the people here killed one less person, and he wanted to recruit troops on the spot, but he couldn't find many people.
Faced with such a grim situation, Han Fei was extremely angry in his heart, he was now looking forward to Wang Ping bringing back good news, as long as he found the Yinping Ancient Road, then he could take Chengdu directly, as long as he occupied Chengdu, when the time came, Liu Zhang would not be afraid that his civil and military forces would not be subservient. After a period of integration, he was confident that he could stop Cao Jun's thousands of troops. Even if Cao Cao Lao'er came over in person, don't want to bargain from him.
Time passed day by day, and finally Wang Ping sent someone back, and the Yinping Ancient Road was really found by him! Although they want to bypass the mountains, this road can be directly inserted from their current location to Mianzhu City, and after Mianzhu is a horse Pingchuan, when the time comes, it will be no problem to surprise Chengdu! Han Fei heard the report, and his heart finally fell to the ground, and at this time, good news also came from Baishui Pass, the Yang family of Baishui Pass completely fell to Liu Bei, the king of Qi, after Xu Shu's time of courting, as long as Han Fei spoke, Baishuiguan would immediately announce that he would leave Liu Zhang and join Liu Bei's command.
Han Fei was happy and felt a great responsibility, so he immediately revised a letter to inform Liu Bei of the situation here, and asked Liu Bei to agree to the plan to capture the king. He was allowed to lead a surprise attack on Chengdu to arrest Liu Zhang. The letter was sent, but it was still by water, and at this moment, Yizhou multiplied the number of merchants because of Liu Bei's army. A large part of them are shadow spies, who have infiltrated every city in Yizhou at the moment, even the larger towns and villages. After Han Fei sent the letter away, he got up and went to inspect the Yinping Ancient Road. There was no way, if he couldn't see with his own eyes an ancient road that had disappeared, Han Fei always felt that it was not real enough.
After Xiahoudun was transferred back to Hanzhong, he learned of Xiahouyuan's death, and he was immediately filled with grief and indignation! Immediately found Cao Ren and asked him to send troops to avenge Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren tried hard to dissuade him, and finally had to move out of Cao Cao, which stopped Xiahou Yuan. But even so, Xiahoudun said to Cao Ren: "Zixiao, this time I will listen to you, but when the reinforcements of the lord come, I will be the vanguard, and if I don't kill Zhao Yun to avenge my second brother, I will not be a man!" Cao Ren smiled bitterly and agreed, but after the letter asking for help was sent, it fell into the sea. Seeing that more than a month had passed, Xiahoudun couldn't wait any longer for him to find Cao Ren again.
Cao Ren already knew at this time that Cao Cao had led people to Yecheng, and the expected reinforcements were afraid that they would not be able to come. So after thinking about it, he decided to integrate the army in Hanzhong, even if he relied on human lives to pile up, he would also take down Han Fei and others. So when Han Fei got up to check the Yinping Ancient Road, Cao Ren sent troops, and the army of 80,000 people went straight to Dingjun Mountain to kill. Xiahoudun took 10,000 pioneers and rushed to the foot of Dingjun Mountain in more than a day and a half. After arriving here, Xiahoudun divided his men into two teams, one team camped at the foot of the mountain, and the other team went directly to attack Dingjun Mountain. In the afternoon, Xiahoudun personally supervised the battle of 5,000 Cao troops and frantically attacked the mountain. As a result, he was strongly counterattacked by Zhao Yun's men. Five thousand men and horses fought in one afternoon, and less than a thousand people remained, and seeing that it was getting late, Xiahoudun ordered the troops to be withdrawn. He had already prepared in his heart, he planned to fill in all these 10,000 horses here, and swore to take Dingjun Mountain to the death, and it was best to kill Zhao Yun by the way.
Facing Cao Jun's completely lifeless style of play, Zhao Yun also frowned. This is incomprehensible, the losses on my side are much smaller, but I can't stand the many Cao soldiers! And the soldiers on their side can't make up for it. Fa Zheng didn't have a better way at the moment, so he suggested asking for help! Zhao Yun wrote a letter asking for help overnight, and the letter was delivered to Han Fei at noon the next day. At this moment, Han Fei was standing at the starting point of the Yinping Ancient Road, and he also had a solemn face after seeing Zhao Yun's distress letter, it seemed that the task of personally exploring the Yinping Ancient Road could not be completed. "This is really afraid of something, it seems that Cao Ren is intent on fighting with himself this time. It's just that if they continue to fight like this, their side will suffer too much, and what can be done to make them retreat without a fight? Han Fei used his brain to think.
After thinking about it, he couldn't figure out his thoughts, so he ordered Xu Shu to rush back to help Wei Yan must defend Yangping Pass. And he immediately got up to meet Zhang Fei, and then rushed to Dingjun Mountain to support Zhao Yun. Anyway, since Cao Jun has already come to hide, he can't hide, so he can only talk about it in the last battle!
(End of chapter)