Tongguan, the big tent of the Wei army

Cao Zhen discussed with Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Ba and others, and only heard Cao Zhen say lightly: "This Zhuge Liang is a rural villager, and he has never led soldiers to fight, so why be afraid?" The Shu thief asked this person to lead an army to reject me at Tongguan, but it was child's play! Since the traitor doesn't care about the life and death of the soldiers of the Shu army, how can he be polite! This time, I vow to annihilate these tens of thousands of Shu troops in one fell swoop, and then take advantage of the situation to take Shu and Han (Shu and Hanzhong)! ”

Xiahou Xuan and Xiahou Ba's hearts sank when they heard this, and what they were more worried about still happened.

Cao Zhen seemed to guess what the two of them were thinking, and said lightly: "Taichu, Zhongquan, you don't have to think too much, I'm not underestimating the enemy, let alone careless, the reason why the troops have not moved in the past few days is to wait until the siege equipment arrives before starting, but because the art of war is cloudy, because it is complicated and simple, that is to say, the problem that can be solved by the simplest method must not be complicated, and the opponent who can solve it at one time will never solve it twice." ”

While speaking, the guard Zhonglang reported Sun Li into the inner report: "General, the envoy of the Shu army asks to see!" ”

"Shu army envoy?" Cao Zhen frowned and said, "Interesting, please invite him in." ”

Sun Li took the order and left, and in less than a moment, he led a tall and heavily armored Shu army general into the big tent.

After the Shu army entered the tent, he just went there like an iron tower, and did not salute Cao Zhen, and then leaned to the west and said proudly: "According to the military order of the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, I am here to issue a war letter!" ”

With that, the Xiao general took out a silk book from the soft armor on his chest.

Sun Li snorted, reached out and took the silk book from the Shu Junxiao general's hand, and took two steps forward to present it to Cao Zhen with both hands.

Cao Zhen read the silk book, the corners of his mouth suddenly bloomed with a sneer of disdain, what was written in the letter turned out to be Zhuge Liang, the chief general of the Shu army, invited him to go to the northern suburbs tomorrow for a decisive battle, in front of the envoy of the Shu army, Cao Zhen laughed coldly: "Extremely arrogant!" A rural villager, relying on himself to read a few military books and learn a little bit of the art of war, even dared to get an axe? Calling in front of the general? It's just that I don't know whether to live or die! ”

After a pause, Cao Zhen said to the Shu army general: "Go back and tell Zhuge Liang, just say that I have taken this battle book, and tomorrow, a certain person will personally lead the army to meet the battle!" ”

"So, I'm going to take my leave!" The Shu army shook his head, then turned around and walked away.

Xiahou Xuan said with some worry: "General, tomorrow to face the Shu army, it is better for the last general to lead the army to ........."

"No!" Cao Zhen waved his hand and said in an unquestionable tone: "At the beginning, you led an army of 20,000 to stay in the camp and monitor Tongguan at the same time, and I should personally lead an army of 80,000 to break the enemy. ”

Xiahou Xuan was silent, what the general decided could not be changed.

At the foot of Tongguan, the Han army camp

The whole Tongguan is rectangular, two or five zhang long from north to south, and about a mile wide from east to west.

The official road that crosses from the pass becomes the central street of Tongguan Guanyi, and the barracks, arsenals, warehouses, post houses, shops, warehouses, and workshops of the garrison are distributed on the left and right sides of the central street.

The whole pass is like a small city with all kinds of internal organs. But since it is a small city, it can accommodate tens of thousands of troops is a little stretched, so Zhuge Liang left a sufficient defensive force in Tongguan, and chose to camp five miles outside Dongguan, and personally led the army to be stationed here.

The camp of the Han army, the big tent of the Chinese army

Zhuge Liang sat at the head of the case, on the left were Zhao Yun, Wei Yan, Fu Kuang, Wu Ban, Wang Ping, and on the right, Chen Zhen, Ma Yan, Fei Yi, and Yang Yi.

During the discussion, Yulin Zhonglang reported Zhang Bao outside the account: "Prime Minister Qi, Anguo (Guan Xing) has returned from the war letter!" ”

Zhuge Liang's face was overjoyed, and he said in a loud voice: "Let Guan Xing come in." ”

Guan Xinghu turned his back to the bear's waist, lifted the curtain and strode into the tent, clasped his fists and said loudly: "Humble yourself to meet the prime minister!" ”

Zhuge Liang asked: "Cao Zhen agreed to fight tomorrow?" ”

Guan Xing said: "Yes, Prime Minister." Cao Zhen was very arrogant and agreed very happily. ”

Zhuge Liang slammed the knot and exclaimed: "Since Cao Zidan wants to fight quickly, then good, let's fulfill him!" ”

Zhao Yun, the general of Zhendong, had a worried face and hesitated: "Prime Minister, the Wei army is strong and the front is flourishing, not only will we not let the Wei army hit their heads in front of Tongguan and break their blood, frustrating their spirit, but will fight a decisive battle with them in a hurry." The last general thinks that this is not the way to win! ”

Zhuge Liang said: "Zilong doesn't know, I am also helpless, my army's food and grass will soon be unsustainable." ”

"Unsustainable?" As soon as Zhuge Liang said this, there was an exclamation in the tent, and many people in the army did not know the news that the grain and grass were about to run out.

Yang Yi said in a timely manner: "Although our army marched all the way west, and even captured Chang'an, after all, Guanzhong has not yet been attached, and the local officials are still in their original positions, and the army cannot collect grain from Sanfu (Jing Zhaoyin, Zuo Fengyi, and Right Fufeng), and all the grain and grass baggage have to be transferred from Hanzhong, and the road is far away. ”

Saying that, Yang Yi sighed, "A stone of grain is transported over, and four layers will be lost on the road alone!" At present, the army's grain and grass can only last for more than half a month. ”

After listening to Yang Yi's talk about the current predicament of the Han army, many people in the account understood the inside story of the prime minister's eagerness to fight.

After listening to the news of the shortage of food and grass, seeing that everyone was a little depressed, Zhuge Liang encouraged: "Princess, Tongguan has been taken, as long as Cao Zhen's army is defeated, then if the Wei thief wants to send 100,000 troops from the Kanto region, if he doesn't have three months, he won't think about it!" At that time, the Yongliang lands have been swallowed by our army, and Liang asks you to work hard to move forward and recover the Han dynasty only today! ”

There was no word all night, and just after midnight the next day, before the eastern sky turned white, the Wei army camp was busy and noisy, and teams of shields, columns of spears, and rows of crossbowmen came out of the tents, and then a branch of torches was lit, and gradually converged on the wilderness in front of the camp like a river flowing into the sea.

In the wilderness in front of the camp, a four-foot high lookout car had been erected.

Looking at the car, Cao Zhen was wearing strong armor and standing proudly holding the guardrail. Cao Zhen's side, in addition to more than a dozen personal soldiers such as Sun Li, the general of the guard, was the young and vigorous Xiahou Ba. Xiahou Ba's sword eyebrows are starry, his face is ruddy, and he looks handsome and extraordinary, which is pleasing to the eye.

At this time, the sky was still dark, and I could only see the sparkling firelight moving in the camp, and then the vast soup towards the wilderness in front of the camp surging together, Xiahou Ba saw such a spectacular and magnificent night scene, his face was flushed with excitement, and he turned back to Cao Zhen and said: "General, I have this heroic teacher in Dawei, and it is just around the corner to achieve the will of the two ancestors (Taizu Cao and Shizu Pi) and sweep the world!" ”

Cao Zhen smiled slightly, and looked at Xiahou Ba with an encouraging gaze from the juniors, but did not speak.

Xiahou and Cao are each other's in-laws, sharing weal and woe, and becoming the two prominent surnames of the Great Wei. The first generation has Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Dun, etc., and the second generation also has Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu and Xiahou Shang.

The gentleman's ze, the third generation and the decline, the fifth generation and the beheading. In the third generation, it's up to Xiahou to dominate them......