Xiahou Yuan was in the middle of the plan, and he couldn't lead the troops to forcibly break through, and the soldiers suffered countless injuries, and they were about to die here, not only looked up to the sky and said: "Heaven will kill me Xiahou Yuan." ”

At this moment, I suddenly heard a shout of killing, shouting and killing came from behind the Ganning army, it turned out that Xu Shu led the troops to the rescue, Xiahou Yuan saw the vitality, raised his arms and shouted to boost morale and lead the troops to attack the Ganning army with Xu Shu on both sides, and finally broke out of the encirclement.

After Xiahou Yuan broke out of the encirclement, he counted the soldiers and horses and knew that Zhang Xiu did not know where to go, and after asking, he learned that Zhang Xiu did not break through the encirclement, and he was afraid that he would be folded in the chaos. Subsequently, Xiahou Yuan, with the assistance of Cao Hong, Cao Xiu, Zhang He and others, reorganized the soldiers and horses, but found that the soldiers had injured nearly 30,000 people. At this time, the soldiers came to report, saying that the grain route transported by Hongnong to Huayin was cut off, and a cavalry suddenly appeared on the grain road, not only robbing the grain and grass, but also capturing Hongnong.

Xiahou Yuan was so sad and indignant that he spat blood.

After Ma Hong led his troops to capture Hongnong, he heard that Gan Ning and Liu Ye had broken Xiahou Yuan, so he ordered Huang Zhong to lead 2,000 troops to defend Hongnong, and then led 6,000 cavalry with Wei Yan to break into the rear of Xiahou Yuan, and attacked Xiahou Yuan with Gan Ning.

Xiahou Yuan suffered this defeat, the army was disheartened, and was defeated by Ma Hong, Xiahou Yuan had to flee with a small number of troops led by Zhang He, Cao Hong, Cao Xiu and others, and Ma Hong and Wei Yan led the cavalry to chase after them. Zhang He saw that it was difficult to escape, so he took the initiative to ask for orders to lead 500 troops to block Ma Hong, and Xiahou Yuan allowed it.

Zhang He led his troops to defend the high ground and dragged Ma Hong's cavalry for two hours, the soldiers were killed and wounded, and Zhang He was captured with all his strength. Ma Hong ordered Wei Yan to continue to lead the cavalry in pursuit of Xiahou Yuan, after which he returned to Huayin with his captive Zhang He to join forces with Gan Ning.

On the other hand, Cao Cao's fourth line attacked Chang'an and other places, Yang Fu dragged Le Jin and Li Dian in Rui Township, and Cao Ren and Zhang Liao on the second road broke Ma Xiu and Ma Tie in Zheng County, and Ma Xiu and Ma Tie were defeated and fled to Huayin. Cao Ren and Zhang Liao led their troops to attack Yang Fu with Le Jin and Li Dian, but Yang Fu was defeated and retreated to Huayin. Cao Cao's third army, Xiahoudun and Xu Huang and Cao Cao's fourth main army, attacked Chang'an, and Pang Tong defended Chang'an, waiting for Ma Hong's reinforcements.

In the ninth year of Jian'an, in December, after Ma Hong and Gan Ning reconciled, he learned that the grain road was robbed, the supply of grain and grass was interrupted, and the grain and grass in the army were only enough for half a month, so Ma Hong ordered Huang Zhong and Wei Yan to lead the cavalry to attack Cao Cao's grain road in the rear of Cao Cao, seize Cao Cao's grain and grass and transport it to Huayin.

And Cao Cao's grain road was cut off, the siege of Chang'an failed, the anti-road march, marched along the road to seize the people's grain as grain and grass and drove to Zheng County to fight a decisive battle with Ma Hong, Ma Hong led the main army and Gan Ning, Liu Ye, Yang Fu, Ma Xiu, Ma Tie and others to Zheng County to fight against Cao Cao.

Pang Tong recruited 8,000 militia in Chang'an and Ma Liang, Zhao Ang, and my sister-in-law led the army out of the city to attack Cao Cao, and Cao Chun led 2,000 tigers and leopards to ride back three times, Pang Tong suffered heavy losses and retreated to Chang'an, just as Xi Zhen led 10,000 militia from Xiliang Hanyang to help, Pang Tong used long branches to make 3,000 wooden guns out of the city to attack Cao Chun again, luring Cao Chun's lone army to go deeper, and then split Cao Chun's tiger and leopard cavalry and defeated it with a crossbow. After that, Pang Tong continued to lead the army to attack in the direction of Zheng County.

In December, heavy snow fell and the roads were impassable, and the soldiers of Cao Cao's army froze to death and starved to death due to lack of food and grass. Due to the heavy snowfall, Wei Yan could not send grain and grass to Ma Hong's army in time, and the main army led by Ma Hong was also exhausted, and more than 8,000 soldiers froze to death and starved to death for a while.

Pang Tong's army was hindered by wind and snow in Weinan and stopped.

Ma Hong and Cao Cao led two tired troops to fight in the snow in Zheng County for seven days, and the soldiers were killed and wounded countless times.

In the east of Zheng County, Ma Hong's military camp, the snow on the ground has been more than three feet thick, the weather is cold and does not melt, Ma Hong is wrapped in a coat and stands in the cold wind looking at Zheng Cheng wrapped in silver, with a lot of thoughts.

Liu Ye walked through the snow with great difficulty, stretched out his hand to hit the snow that fell on Ma Hong's head, and said, "Both sides are in the same situation!" If you don't fight, you will die. ”

Ma Hong nodded and wanted to open his mouth, but found that his lips could no longer be opened and were frozen, he pressed his tongue against his lips with difficulty, melted the ice attached to his lips with hot air and said, "Yes! There is little snow in the south, and I really don't freeze. ”

Liu Ye laughed miserably, licked his cold lips with his tongue and said, "Order the war horse to be killed!" With such a heavy snowfall, I am afraid that it will rain for a few more days, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to raise food in the past month. ”

"Okay, let's kill the warhorse! Let the soldiers have a full meal! Kill my horse, too! ”

Ma Hong's face was as pale as paper, and he was hungry and had no strength to speak, only feeling the cold coming out of his stomach and rushing from his throat to his mouth. The old wounds in my abdomen and shoulders hurt like pins and needles, and my head was so heavy that I could collapse at any moment.

"More than 400 heavily armored war horses, more than 3,000 war horses, it's a pity, how much energy and money did we spend to build this cavalry." Liu Ye sighed.

"No way! God won't help me! ”

Ma Hong looked up at the sky, and the black snow rushed to the ground.

In Zheng County, Cao Cao sat weakly.

Guo Jia took the wine jug and handed it to Cao Cao's mouth, and said, "Lord, drink a sip of wine to warm your stomach!" ”

"Have you finished eating all my tiger and leopard rides?"

Cao Cao sighed.

"Back to the lord, there is not much left." Guo Jiadao.

"And what do you eat next?" Cao Cao asked, and Cao Cao closed his eyes after asking.

Guo Jia was silent for a long time before he said the word "eat", and then he was silent for a long time before he spoke: "Cheng Yu said that he still eats that thing, please allow the lord, and Cheng Yu also said that he is still willing to bear this infamy for the lord." ”

Cao **** closed his eyes, tears came out of the corners of his eyes, and he slowly opened his mouth and said, "Okay, just do what Cheng Yu said." ”

In the ninth year of Jian'an, on December 25, on this day, the snow stopped, Ma Hongjun and Cao Cao's soldiers had a full meal, Cao Cao led the army out of the city, and stepped on the snow outside Zhengcheng to call Ma Hong, and Ma Hong led the army to meet the battle.

A total of 50,000 people of the two armies fought in the snow for a day and a night, and the snow outside Zheng County was trampled on, washed away by blood, and shaken by the shouts of killing.

When the snow fell again that night, the icy snow covered the icy corpses, and the 40,000 troops of the two sides fought in Zheng County, leaving less than 10,000.

At this moment, Ma Hong knew that in this war, the so-called win or loss only depends on who dies first between him and Cao Cao, if it is Cao ****, he Ma Hong will win, if Ma Hong dies, Cao Cao will win. If neither of them died, there would be no win or loss, and the result of this war would be that both Ma Hong and Cao Cao would be greatly injured, and Ma Hong's savings over the years would be ruined, and Cao Cao would be unable to recover in a short period of time after this battle, let alone attack other princes. If both of them died, the living princes would have won, maybe Liu Bei, maybe Sun Quan, maybe Yuan Shang, they should all have won.

In the moment before Ma Hong fell into a coma, the peach blossoms of Yicheng suddenly appeared in front of him, and he tried hard to think about everything in his previous life, but those were getting farther and farther away.

"What to do? What to do? ”

Gan Ning looked at Ma Hong, who was unconscious, and was at a loss with fright.

"After months of fighting, long-distance travel, the general's old wounds recurred, and he was infected with dampness, the weather was very cold, and the general was hungry for several days, I am afraid that it will be difficult to survive tonight." The military doctor spoke weakly and hung his head.

Ma Xiu stepped forward and took out a scimitar to stab Ma Hong's fingers with the tip of the knife, and took off Ma Hong's boots to stab Ma Hong's toes, but it had no effect.

Liu Ye stretched out his hand to hold Ma Hong's hand, and the palm was cold without a trace of temperature.

Ma Tie looked at all this, and suddenly thought of a way, took his war horse that had not been killed, killed the war horse in front of the generals with tears, and then cut a slit on the stomach of the war horse, took out all the internal organs of the war horse, boiled it with horse urine and human blood, and poured it into Ma Hong's mouth after it was slightly cold, after filling. Ma Xiu and Ma Tie stripped off all of Ma Hong's clothes, and then stuffed them into the belly of the war horse.

"Does that work?" Liu Ye asked with tears in his eyes.

"My father said that's how he came back to life." Ma Tie bit his lip and said.

Gan Ning turned his head and didn't look at Ma Tie's eyes, feeling a little unbearable, after all, Ma Teng's death had something to do with Ma Hong, and now if Ma Hong came back to life because of what Ma Teng said, then ......

Luyang.

Zhuge Liang stood on the city wall and looked at the silver everywhere, the hand holding the feather fan was red from the cold, and the corners of his mouth slowly opened: "What will happen to the battle situation there Senior Brother Ma?" ”

(To be continued.) )