In fact, after Pang Yan and Zhuge Liang led their troops to the Tiger Prison Pass, they did not completely rely on the Tiger Prison Pass to defend it.

They took the initiative to build a military camp on the eastern periphery of the mountain where the Tiger Prison Pass was located, and they were actually preparing to launch an offensive and defensive battle with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's coalition forces outside the Tiger Prison Pass.

Zhu Wei's army has a lot of offensive and defensive equipment, even if it is a large battalion guarding the military village, it also has a strong defensive advantage, which can kill and injure the attacking enemy army more than guarding a tiger prison pass.

Therefore, in this battle of Tiger Pass, Zhuge Liang put forward a military strategy of defensive counterattack, with the military purpose of killing and injuring the enemy's soldiers as much as possible.

Therefore, when the combined forces of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao came to the Tiger Pass, they also saw a Zhu Wei army camp that had been prepared for a long time, relying on the mountain where the Tiger Pass was located.

Although Cao Cao had already learned some about Zhu Wei's army from the scout's mouth, he still wanted to see the situation of Zhu Wei's army with his own eyes as soon as possible.

Therefore, after Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's combined forces came to the Tiger Prison Pass, Cao Cao left a part of the soldiers and horses to find land and build a camp three miles outside the Tiger Prison Pass, and he and Yuan Shaojun's Wen Chou and Fu Zhu went directly to the direction of Zhu Wei's army camp.

At the front of the military formation formed by the combined forces of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, Cao Cao took his generals Xiahou and Xu Chu and Wen Chou and Fu Zhu, who represented Yuan Shao's side, to ride their horses and march at the front end of the intersection of the two armies.

Behind them were 10,000 Cao army infantry and 10,000 Yuan army cavalry, which formed two wings of the army.

The Yuan army brought by Wen Chou this time is basically cavalry, most of them are also the Wuheng cavalry recruited by Yuan Shao in Youzhou, and now there are two major alien forces in Youzhou, Wuheng and Xianbei, but the Wuheng people are relatively close to the Han people, so after Yuan Shao became the lord of the north, he recruited a large number of Wuheng people to form his cavalry troops.

But Yuan Shao asked Wen Chou to lead the cavalry to unite Cao Cao's army to form a coalition army to attack Zhu Wei, and he also had a careful thought.

Since Wen Chou led the cavalry, he would naturally only give full play to the cavalry expertise to participate in the field attack with Zhu Wei's army, and it was impossible for the cavalry to become infantry to participate in the siege of the city.

Therefore, Yuan Shao meant that any siege and attack on the city would be handed over to Cao Cao's army, which was really a bit of a bully.

Cao Cao was noncommittal about this for the time being, and Cao Cao was not a person who was willing to suffer, but he had not yet fought with Zhu Wei's army, so he naturally did not use his means, but when they led the troops to the front of Zhu Wei's army camp, they were slightly surprised when they looked at Zhu Wei's army camp.

Although the Zhu Wei army camp is still only built with wood, but in the Zhu Wei camp facing Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's joint forces, a trench with a width of three or four steps and a depth of four or five steps has been dug, and only in the direction of the gate of the army camp there is a suspension bridge that can be placed on top of the ditch, so that Zhu Wei's army can go out of the village to face the battle.

The bottom of the trench is full of wooden pillar barbs, once you fall into it, I am afraid that you will not live long, so if Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's combined forces want to attack this camp, it is a bit like a siege, and these trenches must be filled first.

However, it is naturally impossible for the army in Zhu Wei's village to watch Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses fill the trenches, and they will inevitably use various means to counterattack at that time, and they will inevitably be able to kill many Cao soldiers and Yuan soldiers in the process.

At the same time, at the gate of Zhu Wei's camp, you can see a Xionglu banner hanging high, indicating that it is the first battalion of Zhu Wei's army to guard the camp here, and then there is also a "Pang" character flag erected, indicating that the main general in the military village is the first fierce general under Zhu Wei's tent Pang Yan.

Seeing Pang Yan's general flag, Cao Cao's brows furrowed slightly, it was this Pang Yan who killed Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Ba in the first place, so there was a blood feud between the Cao clan and Pang Yan.

However, Pang Yan's strength seems to be no less than that of Wenhou Lu Bu back then, and Cao Cao can't help but think about who under his account can fight with Pang Yan.

Thinking of this, Cao Cao turned his head and looked at Xiahoudun and Xu Chu who came with him, although the one-eyed Xiahoudun was brave and martial arts, his martial arts were also a little higher than Xiahouyuan, but in Cao Cao's opinion, Xiahoudun was really afraid that it would be a little worse if he faced Pang Yan.

As for Xu Chu, although he is brave, Cao Cao is also reluctant to let Xu Chu go to fight with Pang Yan, this Xu Chu is his personal guard commander and his personal bodyguard.

Therefore, Cao Cao's eyes flickered slightly, and he suddenly arched his hand to Wen Chou on the side like ordinary gossip, "General Wen, it seems that the one who guards the Tiger Prison Pass this time is Pang Yan, the first fierce general known as the black god in Zhu Wei's army, this person is extremely brave, alas, I am afraid that there is no one in our army who is invincible, and I can't challenge the strategy in front of the formation!" ”

"Hmph, what a black god, but I haven't met my northern hero! When the time comes, I want to try whether this Pang Yan is really that invincible! ”

Wen Chou can be regarded as the first brave general in Yuan Shao's army, and after listening to Cao Cao's words at this time, he was naturally unconvinced, and looked at the Zhu Wei camp and couldn't help but say proudly in his mouth.

"I'm afraid that Pang Yan won't do such a reckless thing!"

But the frustration on the side seemed to guess Cao Cao's thoughts, and deliberately interjected to interrupt Wen Chou's words, and then frustrated the professor looked at Xu Chu, who was like a black iron tower next to Cao Cao, and said with a smile, "Cao Gong, Cao Gong's words are too underestimated for the warriors in the army, this General Xu Chu, in the opinion of the award, is also an extraordinary brave general, if that Pang Yan really comes out to fight, there is no need for General Wen of my side to make a move, this General Xu Chu will also be able to defeat that Pang Yan!" ”

"Mr. Fu, I don't know what strategy can be used to break through this village this time, it seems that Pang Yan is really arrogant, and he actually wants to fight with our two armies outside the Tiger Prison Pass, it seems that Zhu Wei still looks down on our coalition forces! It's a pity that General Yuan didn't come in person this time, if General Yuan came, it would be so that Zhu Wei would not dare to despise our coalition army! ”

Cao Cao didn't take the topic of frustration, he just didn't want Xu Chu and Pang Yan to fight hard, so he deliberately encouraged Wen Chou to fight Pang Yan, but unfortunately there is still this frustration now, it seems that it is still a little difficult to implement if you want to let Yuan Shao's army and Zhu Wei's army fight hard.

So Cao Cao could only turn the topic to how to attack Zhu Wei's army, of course, Cao Cao also euphemistically expressed his dissatisfaction with Yuan Shao not bringing troops in person.

To be honest, this time Yuan Shao only sent Yan Liang and Wen Chou two troops over, and indeed Cao Cao secretly scolded Yuan Shao for stealing tricks.

In particular, Yuan Shao sent Yan Liang to the Mengjin Pass of the Yellow River, and asked Wen Chou to bring cavalry to join Cao's army.

In addition to Wen Chou's side coming to meet the situation, Yan Liang's side is even more here to show his posture, and when the time comes, whether Yan Liang will make efforts to cross the river and attack Mengjin Pass on Mengjin's side, who knows.

It can be said that although Yuan Shao sent 40,000 troops this time, he actually put Yan Liang's 20,000 troops on Meng Jin's side to put a posture, and as for Wen Chou's 20,000 cavalry, it is impossible to use them in the battle of storming Tiger Pass, so Yuan Shao basically made up his mind to sit and watch Zhu Wei and Cao Cao fight.

However, Cao Cao also wanted Yuan Shao and Zhu Wei to work hard in his heart, of course he didn't want to become a sandpiper and a clam competing with each other, and let Yuan Shao become a fisherman......