Chapter 67

Zhang Quan led the people to control the city gate, and Hu Che'er led 5,000 soldiers to rush all the way into the city, so that Cheng Yu's men and horses could fight in one place. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info But the defenders in the city occupy a geographical advantage, there are knife carts on the road, and there are archers on the roof to shoot arrows.

Zhang Xiurang came out of Nanyang this time and brought 20,000 elite soldiers, almost all of his own family background. Zhang Fei feinted to attack the south gate with 5,000 soldiers and horses, and he led a large group of men and horses to attack the west gate.

But Zhang Xiu has a shortcoming, that is, he is suspicious. He did not press all his troops at the first time, but entered the city in batches. When Hu Che'er was fighting at the height of the battle in front, Zhang Xiu led his troops to watch outside the city. This is a lot of delay. When Hu Che'er couldn't stand it, Zhang Xiucai sent the second wave of soldiers and horses.

Just when Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu were waiting anxiously outside the city gate, there were suddenly shouts of killing behind them. Zhang Xiu looked back, there were about 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the Chinese army had a big "Cao" character waving in the wind.

Zhang Xiu was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, could it be that Cao Cao couldn't return to his teacher. Just hesitated, I saw an enemy general, born very powerful, with a thousand-pound gold gourd copper hammer in each hand, killing the general. It is really a god who blocks and kills God, and a Buddha who kills a Buddha, and Nanyang soldiers and horses have no enemy.

Zhang Xiu knew that this person was Dian Wei, a general under Cao Cao, and said to Jia Xu, "The general trend has gone, Mingjin, let our men and horses withdraw"; While carrying a gun, he went to Zhan Dian Wei in person.

Zhang Xiu is known as the king of guns in the north, and he has the true legend of Tong Yuan, who has a good sense of gunnery, and is known for his light and vicious marksmanship. However, it was difficult to use Dian Wei's tactics. Dian Wei's dispatch is called one force to ten meetings, no matter how you change, don't dodge or dodge, just a hammer to meet it. Zhang Xiu didn't dare to touch it, only the ability to parry. More than ten times stood down, gradually exhausted, coupled with the original fear of Cao Cao, Zhang Xiu had to fight and retreat.

When Hu Che'er heard Ming Jin, he was originally very annoyed, because in his opinion, he would be able to break through the defense line in half an hour. But I heard that there were reinforcements from the Cao army outside the city, and I knew that I couldn't do anything. After leaving five hundred and forty pieces, he led the troops to retreat.

Zhang Quan knew that today's events could not be said, and he, a tiger general, could not do it anymore, so he asked people to pile firewood, grass and oil by the city gate, and only waited for Hu Che'er's soldiers and horses to withdraw, and then blocked the road.

Because the soldiers and horses in the city did not expect the Nanyang army to withdraw, they did not dare to attack rashly for a while. Therefore, Hu Cheer was given the opportunity to withdraw more than half of the soldiers and horses.

As soon as Hu Che'er left the city, he saw a big man making enemies with his own general, Hu Che'er rushed up with a wave of his mace, "Wu Na thief general, don't hurt my general." Hu Che'er is here. ”

Hu Che'er and Zhang Xiu worked together, and they were just able to withstand Dian Wei.

Jia Xu led a large group of soldiers and horses to withdraw in the direction of the south gate, so as to meet Zhang Fei's soldiers and horses. Zhang Xiu and Hu Che'er also fought and left.

Zhang Quan was the last to withdraw, and as soon as he came out, he ran into Cao Jun. A young man in front of him was in a golden helmet and golden armor, blocking the way. Zhang Quan saw that it was none other than Cao Cao's eldest son, Cao Ang. I thought to myself, it was really bad luck for our army, and Cao Ang rushed back at this time.

If Zhang Quan was not afraid of Cao Ang in normal times, the two would fight, and it was not known who would win and who would lose. But today, his soldiers and horses have lost in morale, and they can't fight. Zhang Quan didn't answer, hung the gun on the saddle bridge, took off the divine bow from his back, and shot at Cao Ang in a row, first chasing the stars and the moon with three arrows in a row, and then five sons in a row. A few arrows were fired, and whether they hit or not, and they took their own soldiers and killed them from the oblique thorns.

Cao Ang stayed at Hangu Pass, unable to advance or retreat. When he was embarrassed, Jiang Qi offered advice and said that the general originally stayed in Xuchang, which was really a test for the general. Now he rushed to send troops, lost the first battle, and lost Hongnong. It is useless to stay here, so it is better to return to Xuchang as soon as possible, discuss countermeasures with Guo Jia and others, and defeat the Hedong Army strategically.

Cao Ang listened to the suggestion and returned to Xuchang. On the way, he happened to meet the messenger sent by Guo Jia, so he did not dare to delay, and marched day and night, which was just in time for the defensive battle of Xuchang.

Cao Ang did not expect to encounter Zhang Quan's tiger battalion soldiers and horses outside the city gate, because he did not know the situation in the city, and he did not think that Zhang Quan was friend or foe. So I didn't expect that Zhang Quan would attack him. But as a general, he still instinctively dodged, and even so, two arrows still hit him. Because the distance is too close, it is a penetrating injury. One on the left shoulder and one on the right chest.

Cao Ang fell off his horse in response to the arrow, and Cao Jun was in a big mess when he saw that the boss was injured.

Zhang Quan took the opportunity to rush out of the encirclement. Zhang Quan caught up with Zhang Xiu, and fought with Zhang Xiu and Hu Che'er against Dian Wei, shouting while fighting, "Cao Ang is dead." You won't be able to descend sooner. ”

Dian Wei was shocked, no longer chased, and directly withdrew to Ximen.

Zhang Xiu led the defeated troops, met Zhang Fei at the east gate, and withdrew directly to Nanyang.

Zhang Fei failed to attack the city on this side, but he killed and injured many soldiers and horses, and he was also in a dark stomach. In addition, Jia Xu is not kind, and he did not say in advance that he was a feint. threw the pioneer seal to Zhang Xiu and went back to Xuzhou alone.

The west gate of Cao's army was breached, and more than 2,000 soldiers and horses were killed and wounded, especially Cao Ang's injury made people very worried.

Guo Jia asked Li Dian to strictly guard the four gates and clear the original power of Zhang Quan in the city. Then he asked people to write a letter to Cao Cao immediately. Among them, Cao Ang's arrow was hidden, and he only said that he hoped that Cao Cao would start the class as soon as possible.

Cao Ang's arrow was originally only a traumatic injury, not fatal. It's just that in the process of the doctor's diagnosis and treatment, there was an accident. Cao Ang developed symptoms of fever, vomiting, and coma. Then it was found that the wound was infected and blackened. The doctor found out that the arrow was poisonous.

This frightened the doctor, and he couldn't solve the poison that Cao Ang had in him. There was no choice but to post notices in the city and ask famous doctors to treat Cao Ang.

This back and forth dragged on for nearly ten days, and finally invited the famous doctor Hua Tuo from the countryside, but unfortunately, Cao Ang was terminally ill and was not cured.

Cao Ang is about to die, which frightens Guo Jia and the others. Cao Cao entrusted his eldest son to them, and now that such a situation has occurred, how can he explain it.

Guo Jia didn't dare to hide it, and immediately sent someone to write a letter to Cao Cao.

When Cao Cao received the letter, "first saw that the siege of Xuchang had been lifted", and said with great joy, "Guo Fengxiao really lived up to his trust." Looking down further, "I regret that the five senses are a general, a young man who is heroic, unfortunately hit the enemy's poisonous arrow, and died." Cao Cao "ahh

After a long time, Cao Cao woke up. Cao Cao shouted, "Cao Ang, my son, I will avenge you for my father." Come on, send an order to the three armies to send troops to Nanyang on the same day to exterminate Zhang Xiu! ”

The generals ordered each to prepare.

Chen Qun sighed secretly, "Cao Gong's father was killed in Xuzhou that day, which led Cao Cao to march eastward. Xuzhou was full of blood, and the people of Pengcheng were slaughtered. This time, I am afraid that the people of Nanyang will suffer another disaster. ”

Cao Cao raised troops to kill Nanyang, under the banner of "avenging the son and eliminating thieves for the Han Dynasty".

In Nanyang City, Zhang Xiu, Jia Xu, Zhang Quan and others were also worried. This time, he came out of the nest, originally wanted to take the opportunity to seize the center, but he didn't expect to steal chickens, but it caused Cao Cao's army to overwhelm the border.

Zhang Quan didn't expect that his arrows really killed Cao Ang that day, and now Cao Jun and Nanyang were afraid of an endless ending.

Zhang Xiu sent troops to ask Liu Biao for help, but Liu Biao was ill and did not see Zhang Xiu's messenger.

Jia Xu said to Zhang Xiu, for today's plan, there is only one way to descend Cao. Although Nanyang is an important town, it is only a fortress of Jingzhou. If Jingzhou doesn't support it, Nan ** can't hold it.

Zhang Quan proposed that he could unite with Hedong Tianjing. But Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu both rejected it, thinking that Tian Jing couldn't do much at all, and sooner or later he would be defeated in the hands of Cao Cao.

Jia Xu thought that since he had determined that he wanted to surrender, he must make a gesture of not surrendering, deliberately wanted to fight, and he wanted to hurt Cao Cao and then surrender.

Therefore, Jia Xu asked Zhang Xiu to write letters to Yuan Shao, Tian Jing, and Sun Ce respectively, saying that they would make an appointment to raise troops together to defeat Cao Cao. Zhang Quan wanted to promote the joint anti-Cao incident, so he personally sent a letter to Hedong. Zhang Xiu intended to stop it, but Jia Xu hinted that Zhang Xiu agreed.

After Zhang Quan left, Jia Xu asked Zhang Quan to copy each letter one by one, and sent his henchmen to Jizhou and Jiangdong to ensure safety. A deliberately negligent letter so that the letter would fall into Cao Cao's hands.

In this way, half a month later, Cao Cao's army came to Nanyang City. Cao Cao had people intercept Zhang Xiu's letter, and he already understood the contents. In order to undermine the morale of the Nanyang army, he deliberately mentioned that Liu Bei and Tian Jing had failed, Sun Ce was too busy to deal with Huang Zu, and Yuan Shao did not dare to go south at all.

Now if the soldiers and horses of Nanyang descend early, they can still spare the lives of the people in the city and give Zhang Xiu a whole corpse. If not, he will definitely slaughter all the recalcitrant people in Nanyang City, leaving not a single grass or tree.

Zhang Xiu doesn't care about him, he just sticks to the city. Cao's army besieged the city for more than ten days, but did not make any progress, leaving thousands of corpses behind.

Cao Cao first attacked Xuzhou, but he didn't have time to rest, and then he begged Nanyang, and the soldiers had many complaints. In the past few days, the people in the army have been unstable, and everyone thinks of home. Cao Cao was also unstable and killed several disobedient soldiers. There were more and more voices among Cao's army advocating the withdrawal of troops first.

Jia Xu knew that the time had come, so he said to Zhang Xiu like this, like this, and after some explanation, Zhang Xiu and Hu Che'er quietly led a group of people to prepare to go.