Chapter 334: Cao Zhen has to hold on

Cao Zhen forced Xu Shu and Jiang Wei, who withdrew from the city challenge, to win a long-lost victory. Vertex updates are the fastest

Although it seems a little uneconomical, the enemy relied on chariots to form a formation to take advantage, and the casualties of his own soldiers and horses were greater than the enemy's, but after all, it was much stronger than forcibly attacking the city, and he was already relatively satisfied.

As soon as the army returned to the camp, he first organized a part of the men and horses to start evacuating.

However, he also knew that the enemy was cunning and could not be careless, so he sent people to build a simple camp at the crossing of the lower reaches of the Weishui River, according to the water grass, so as to prevent the enemy from launching an attack while the army was halfway crossing.

He even thought about it, and he personally led the army to come to the city of Ji early the next morning to challenge the defenders in the city.

However, after dark, he received news from the fast horses galloping in Guanzhong, saying that the enemy had poured into Guanzhong in large numbers from the direction of Chencang and Meridian Valley, and Ma Chao's department, which had taken the lead in breaking through, actually rushed straight to Tongguan in one breath and was making every effort to tackle the news.

These guys, what the hell are they trying to do? actually gave up Chang'an and went straight to Tongguan, could it be said that not only did they not look down on this Longyou place, but they didn't even want to pay attention to Guanzhong, and wanted to go straight to Luoyang?

Oh my God, it can't be that the enemy has already broken through Fancheng on the southern front and taken Wancheng, and they are in a hurry to meet in Luoyang, right?

No, no, no, it is impossible, the situation in the southern battlefield cannot change so quickly all of a sudden, even if Wancheng falls into the hands of the enemy, and Luoyang is surrounded by mountains on three sides, it is not so easy to enter.

So, the enemy abandoned Chang'an and directly fought for Tongguan, must he want to cut off the passage between Guanzhong and Luoyang, and want to eat all of our troops on the Western Front?

It is no wonder that after the enemy's 30,000 troops drove to Tianshui, except for the 5,000 men and horses that were damaged in battle, they did not send reinforcements to this side. Oh my God, this enemy's tone is so big, we have nearly 100,000 troops, they don't even pay attention to it, can it be said that they have prepared no less than 100,000 men and horses in Hanzhong?

Oh oh oh, no, no, no, just with the land of Jingyi and Jingyi that Liu Bei occupies, it is impossible to achieve such strength, right?

No, no, no, it's not impossible, you know, they defeated Cao Ren in Jingzhou last time, and lured Sun Quan to go deep into Jingzhou, but they killed back and wiped out Sun Quan's tens of thousands of troops, but they had almost no battle damage, if they could do this this time, the 100,000 army seemed to really don't care too much in their eyes!

Moreover, Guan Yu was in Xiangyang and Fancheng, and the Nage thieves were in Jiangling and Baqiu, not only did they suffer small battle losses, but also captured tens of thousands of prisoners in total, and after training, plus their own men and horses, it seemed that it was not impossible to say that there were two or three hundred thousand troops, and they attacked in two ways, right?

That's right, the last time they knew that Sun Quan was going to attack Jingzhou, but they deliberately lured the enemy deeper, set up an ambush, and then quickly attacked, beating the Wu army that rushed deep into the ground without any power to fight back.

Last month, Cao Xiu also went deep alone, but he was defeated by the Ge thief again, and almost the entire army was wiped out, which is no different from Sun Quan's battle of Jingzhou?

Oh my God, then I brought almost all the troops in Guanzhong this time, did I also fall for the thief's plan to lure the enemy in?

That's not right, Cao Xiu and I are obviously fighting on the land of my Great Wei, where is the lone army going deep into the enemy territory, it is obviously them who are the lone army going deep!

By the way, Sima Yi said that he came to Longyou to help the war this time, but he brought 20,000 of the remaining 30,000 horses and horses in Luoyang, if Emperor Cao Pi of Wei did not replenish his troops in time, and the enemy hit the luck again, quickly passed through Hangu Pass, and really killed near Luoyang quickly, then Luoyang City was unprepared, wouldn't it be over?

Even if Hangu Pass defends against the enemy, as soon as this Tongguan Pass is occupied by the enemy, the connection between himself and the capital Luoyang will be cut off, and he will really become a lonely army!

What to do? What to do?

Cao Zhen was really anxious, almost completely forgetting the pain on his body, and couldn't help but want to raise his hands to hold his head, but as soon as his mind moved, there was a heart-piercing pain in his left shoulder.

He looked at his left arm in frustration and asked himself, what is this? Even if it is his own army, he has not fought a few battles with the enemy, is it a remnant army?

"General, General!" Several generals were waiting in the tent to listen to Hou's orders, and when they saw Cao Zhen receiving the Guanzhong letter that came overnight, they immediately had painful expressions on their faces, and they were already frightened one by one, could it be that the enemy had already attacked Chang'an?

Cao Zhen heard the call of his subordinates and instinctively raised his head: "Huh? ”

The generals craned their necks to read the letter on the desk, and asked anxiously, "General, how is Guanzhong?" How's Chang'an? ”

Some people couldn't help but stretch out their hands, wanting to pull the messenger to their side and interrogate them personally.

Cao Zhen raised his head and saw the anxious expressions of the generals, and immediately realized that as the commander, he was really out of shape just now, calmed down, gently closed the letter, and then put his right hand on his left shoulder, cleaned up his mood, and said to everyone in a tone that was not in a hurry: "It's nothing, the defenders everywhere in Guanzhong are now on full alert, and the enemy has not occupied any city so far." I, I, I just now, just pulled the wound, and the pain was unbearable for a while. ”

The more critical the moment, as a coach, the more you need to be calm and hold on!

However, now that this situation is too calm, people don't believe it, so they have to say again: "Of course, now we need to rush back as soon as possible to protect the customs, and Longyou can't take care of it for the time being." Alas, it seems that I, Cao Zhen, am still a little underestimated, causing everyone to rush around, which has lost Longyou again, and I have no shame to return to see the saint. ”

Generals, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know whether to answer or not.

Cao Zhen arranged tasks for everyone, let them hurry up and prepare to evacuate, but at the same time left a long history and two cronies of the generals, revealed the real situation to everyone, and told them with a solemn face that although they were going to withdraw, they were now in a stalemate with the defenders of Jicheng, and he had to fight hard tomorrow and personally lead an army to challenge the enemy outside Jicheng.

Several people hurriedly persuaded: "The general is injured, in case the enemy really rushes out to fight to the death, we are worried about your safety, so let's take the troops there." ”

Cao Zhen shook his head: "As long as I am still behind, the retreating sergeants in front will not panic." I'm here to do more than you. ”

In the end, he arranged for Changshi to be responsible for directing everyone to retreat, leaving a personal general to follow him to set up a formation outside Jicheng tomorrow.

There's no way, you have to hold on to death!

The next day, the sun was completely obscured by thick clouds, and the sky and the earth were gray, as if it might rain heavily for the next two days.

Cao Zhen, who was also in a gloomy mood, could only pretend to be calm, and led his 10,000 followers to set up a formation under Jicheng to cover the withdrawal of the army.

The question is, how long will this last? (To be continued.) )