Chapter 162 Decoy and stalemate

Cao Cao was worried that Wei Yan and others would penetrate into his rear, and a general came to report: "The enemy general Wei Yan is outside to challenge." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" This made him immediately have an inexplicable joy, and then said angrily: "Shameless guy, you actually took advantage of the unfavorable morale of our army to attack just now, and then came to my door to show off your might?" I gave up the high ground and ran to the valley to fight our army, which is exactly what I want! Who among the generals is willing to fight and behead Wei Yan under the horse? ”

Zhang He wanted revenge, and immediately stood up: "I am willing to fight Wei Yan to avenge the shame of the day before yesterday!" ”

Cao Cao nodded in satisfaction, and at the same time ordered the other generals to prepare as well.

The sergeant of the Shu army, who pretended to be Wei Yan, was riding on a horse and glanced at himself from time to time, enjoying the prestige of the general, and seeing Zhang He leading the army out of the camp to meet the battle, he was inexplicably a little nervous.

Fortunately, for fear of being exposed, Ge Liang did not arrange for him to speak at first, but the guards beside him raised their heads and shouted: "Who is coming from ahead?" Quickly report the name, we will not kill the nameless ghost under the sword of General Wei! "It's like you're going to find someone to go head-to-head.

In fact, Zhang He has not met Wei Yan at all, but he knows a general appearance according to the intelligence, and when he saw that the other party only sent his subordinates to talk, he was even more angry and gritted his teeth, a small Yamen general, relying on Lao Tzu's inattention a few days ago, and made an ambush, he dared to come to me and pretend, if I don't crush you today, I swear not to be a person!

The small valley couldn't open the big formation, Zhang He simply didn't say a word, and directly pointed the spear in his hand, and all the Cao troops rushed up.

"Wei Yan" seemed to be really frightened by him, and as soon as he started fighting, he dodged and retreated into his own team, and he couldn't even find the flag down.

Immediately afterwards, another general flag was raised in the Shu army, with a big "horse" written on it.

"Ma Chao is here!" With a loud shout, Ma Chao, Chen Yin, and Hou Xuan several Xiliang generals flashed out of the Shu army and shouted to their Xiliang sergeants, "Capture Cao Cao alive and kill him back in Guanzhong!" ”

Sergeant Xiliang was full of anger, and he had been recuperating in the past few days, and seeing Cao Jun being frustrated in tackling key problems, he was even more motivated at this time, and he howled and pounced one by one.

Zhang He was startled when he saw that it was Ma Chao and them, and then he also launched a ruthless attack: Okay, you Wei Yan, you can only play yin, right? Ran to us to fight a battle, but still have to hide behind Ma Chao? Ma Chao is Ma Chao, no matter how powerful it is, this is at the gate of my military camp, I'm really afraid that you can't do it! On the one hand, he commanded the sergeants to engage in battle, and on the other hand, he sent people to report to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao was watching the battle between the two armies from a high place at this time, and saw that the front army seemed to be unable to resist the enemy's attack, and the opponent's main general was actually replaced by Ma Chao, so he hurriedly let Xu Chu lead the tiger army out to engage in the battle.

The two armies fought in the valley in a mess, shouting and killing for days, and the battle was inseparable, but it was getting late, and the sun was about to set.

The Shu Hou army Mingjin withdrew its troops, and it turned out that Zhao Yun led the army to meet Ma Chao's return to the customs. Cao Cao also ordered not to pursue, lest he fall into another enemy ambush.

Ma Chao and the others led the army back to Guanshang, and their enthusiasm for fighting was undiminished, and they all shouted that it was too late to attack, and they hadn't started fighting yet, why did it get dark so quickly.

Liu Bei comforted everyone: "The main reason for letting everyone attack today is to take advantage of the situation to demoralize the Cao army again, so that they feel that they are weak to attack on their backs, and they can't defeat us in the battle and feel cowardly." Everyone's willingness to fight Liu Bei understands, but since the terrain here is favorable to us, why not make full use of it? Let's recharge our energy, wait for our army to advance into Yongliang in the coming day, and then show our talents. ”

Liu Bei was so happy here, Cao Cao also felt that he didn't suffer a loss in the battle just now, and Wei Yan's appearance here made him feel a lot more relieved, but he really hoped that Liu Bei could send more people to challenge.

The next day, the Shu army really sent people to challenge again, Cao Cao was full of joy, walked out of the tent and stood on the slope to watch the enemy's situation, but he did not expect to be disappointed.

Is that also called a challenge? Cao Cao only saw dozens of Shu cavalry, standing two hundred steps away from his barracks, although they were lined up in a square formation, holding several military flags in a decent manner, but with such a small number of people, why should they challenge? It makes sense to say that they are here to reconnoitre.

"Who is here? This is also to seek a decisive battle? Cao Cao asked the sergeant who had just come in to report the news.

The sergeant replied: "It's Liu Bei's general Huang Zhong who came. He said that he had either come to inspect the military situation or to challenge, and said that they would be a hundred times better than us, and that they could beat us back to Chang'an with just one of them. ”

What kind of thing, just with so many dozens of people or generals? But Cao Cao, Huang Zhong's name, still knew it, so he ordered Xu Huang to face the battle.

Xu Huang also expected that the enemy was not here to fight at all, so he only brought two hundred pikemen and crossbowmen to the front.

Of course, the fake Huang Zhong would not start a war with Xu Huang, and as soon as Xu Huang's army left the camp gate, there were still a hundred steps away from them, and he began to lead the army to retreat.

Xu Huang did not chase and retreated to the camp. As soon as he got off the horse, the sergeant came to report again, and the "Huang Zhong" turned around and came back, and began to shout and provoke outside, and even dismounted, or sat or lay on the ground, unscrupulous.

Why is this old thing so shameless, so he turned his head and ran back? Do you all run fast on horseback? Xu Huang was also angry, ordered two hundred cavalry, suddenly opened the camp gate, and went straight to "Huang Zhong".

"Huang Zhong" quickly got up from the ground, flew on his horse, and galloped away with everyone.

Xu Huang also chased after the horses, and was sure to cut down these shameless people under the horse, and in a blink of an eye, he was about to reach Yangping Pass, and saw that under the front pass, Ma Chao led five hundred cavalry to wait there, and hurriedly grabbed the reins.

Ma Chao didn't say a word, with a move of the silver gun in his hand, he led the crowd to rush over.

Xu Huang turned his horse's head, quickly retreated to his military camp, and reported to Cao Cao: "That Huang Zhong really just came to reconnoiter and lure the enemy, and Ma Chao was still waiting behind. ”

Cao Cao knew that this was the case, but he couldn't tolerate the enemy coming to his door to scold people, didn't he? He instructed Xu Huang: "Since the enemy only sent a small unit to lure the battle, tomorrow you will also send people to prepare first, go out of the camp and ambush in advance, and when they come to provoke again, the waiter will capture these small groups of enemy troops." ”

However, in the following days, Liu Bei did not send anyone to challenge, and the sentinels sent came back every day to report, saying that there was no movement in the Shu camp.

Cao Cao's ambush failed, and he was even more convinced that Liu Bei was purely deliberately harassing and creating unease for the army.

After another two days, Cao Cao didn't need Liu Bei to challenge, and decided to take advantage of the faint moonlight to launch a night attack again, running so far away, seventy or eighty thousand troops, and the daily consumption of food and salary did not support him to spend time here and others for a long time. (To be continued.) )