When Cao Cao heard this person's voice, he was immediately overjoyed, and said in a loud voice: "Zilian came just in time, quickly block Ma Chao for me, and Gu Ke will reward you with 10 million money for buying your life." ”

After finishing speaking, Cao Cao immediately rode away.

Cao Hong was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately wheeled his sword and rode his horse, stopped Ma Chao, and fought to the death.

Ma Chao saw that Cao Hong had caught up, and he didn't care at all, because he knew that Cao Hong's ability was not as good as Zhang He's, and he was powerless to fight against him, so he could naturally win easily.

But what surprised him was that he didn't know what Cao Hong was crazy about today, and he didn't care that his shot would give him a transparent hole, and he directly slashed his neck with a horse wheel knife, which was completely a lose-lose style.

Ma Chao saw Cao Hong so fierce, but he was shocked, although he could stab Cao Hong to death with this shot, he was inevitably slashed by the other party at first, and even if he was lucky enough not to die, he would definitely be seriously injured. Although his life is not important, in this way, not only will he not be able to avenge his family, but he will also live up to the high hopes of the Duke of Chu, and he will definitely lead to the loss of Zhì Tongguan.

"I can't afford to die right now." Ma Chao had no choice but to dodge Cao Hong's desperate move, ready to look for an opportunity to do it again.

But he didn't expect Cao Hong to do the same with his second move, regardless of his own safety, and fought for Ma Chao again. Ma Chao was helpless, so he had to dodge again.

Ma Chao thought that the reason why Cao Hong was desperate was just because of the courage of the moment, and he would wake up within three or five rounds, but he didn't expect that this Cao Hong would use this kind of lose-lose style to fight him for nearly thirty rounds.

Ma Chao saw that he could kill Cao Cao and avenge his family, but he suddenly drilled out a Cao Hong, and he fought hard with himself as soon as he came up, and as a result, he was in a hurry. When he raised his eyes, Cao Cao had already run out of the way, if he didn't hurry up. I'm afraid that this time I can only watch Cao Cao escape, and I can't help but be angry, and shout: "Cao Hong, do you think that someone is really afraid of you?"

After finishing speaking, Ma Chao shouted. As soon as the gun's momentum changed, he no longer cared about Cao Hong's long knife, but launched a rush attack with him.

Ma Chao is now going all out, only attacking but not defending, and immediately killed Cao Hong, who was soft and difficult to resist. In addition, he saw that Cao Cao had already fled, and with Ma Chao's horse speed, it was difficult to catch up again, and his task was completed. There was no need to fight hard, so when he saw that the situation was not good, he was ready to flee for his life.

But how could Ma Chao let him go? If it weren't for him, he would have killed Cao Cao long ago, not only avenging his family, but also making great contributions to the lord. So, Ma Chao snorted coldly. The spear immediately stabbed at Cao Hong like a shocking rainbow.

Cao Hong couldn't get out of it if he wanted to leave at this time. I wanted to work hard but lost my fighting spirit, so I couldn't help but close my eyes and sigh: "It seems that I, Cao Hong, actually died here today, but it is worth saving Brother Meng De today." ”

At this moment, only the sound of long arrows breaking through the air was heard, and Ma Chao stabbed his spear and suddenly retracted it. Then I heard a voice shouting: "Xiahou Yuan is here, Ma Chao is leaving." ”

Cao Hong opened his eyes, but saw Xiahou Yuan leading dozens of horsemen to the front, protecting himself, and then attacking Ma Chao.

Ma Chao saw Xiahou Yuan shoot an arrow. was ruthless and fierce, and had no choice but to dial, but Cao Hongji escaped, although he was unwilling, but he was helpless. Xiahou Yuan's skills are not weak, and there are dozens of horsemen around him, so he is afraid that he will still have an ambush, so he does not dare to fight, so he can only return in a daze.

But said that after Cao Cao returned to the camp, Cao Ren, who had his own guard, defended the village and repelled the attacking Xiliang army, roughly calculated, the Cao army lost thousands of men and horses in this battle, and the generals Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang, as well as Le Jin, Zhang He, and Cao Hong were slightly injured, but compared to more than 100,000 troops, this loss is nothing, but Cao Cao cut his beard and abandoned his robe, and his image is still a little disgraceful.

Cao Cao didn't care at all, but said to the generals: "If I killed Cao Hong yesterday, I will die at the hands of Ma Chao today!" ”

He then called Cao Hong and ordered the abolition of the 100 military sticks owed and a reward of 10 million as a reward.

Cao Hong saw that Cao Cao had really redeemed the reward, and he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly thanked him, and his eyes became golden, as if he only had the tens of millions of dollars.

Cao Cao did not take Cao Hong's appearance as different, cleaned up the defeated army, and ordered to stick to the fence, deep ditches and high bases, and was not allowed to fight, such as those who moved.

Xiahou Yuan and the others said: "The soldiers of Xiliang, as long as they use spears, our army is elected as a bow and crossbow to welcome them. ”

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Whether to fight or not, it's all up to me, not a thief." Although the thief has a spear, can An can stab? The princes but the walls are strong, and the thieves retreat. ”

All the generals were puzzled, and said in private: "King Wei has always been in the battle, and he is the first; Defeated by Ma Chao today, why is it so weak? ”

When Cao Cao heard these words, he laughed at them.

A few days later, Cao Cao set up a banquet in the tent and said to the generals: "The princes laugh at me for not having a plan to break Ma Chao, I don't know what the princess has to do?" ”

I saw Xu Huang say: "Today, the king Shengbing is here, and the thieves are all stationed at the gate.

A few days later, a detailed report came: "Ma Chao has added 10,000 new soldiers to help in the war, it is the Qiang tribe." "it, it's a joy to hear it. The generals said: "Ma Chao added troops, and the king was happy." Why? ”

Cao Cao smiled: "When I win, I will say to you." ”

Three days later, the customs declaration and the addition of military horses, so far in Tongguan City has 50,000 fine horsemen.

Cao Cao was overjoyed, so he set up a banquet in the tent to congratulate him, and said to the generals: "The princes laugh at me for not breaking Ma Chao's plan, I don't know what the princes have to do?" ”

I saw Xu Huang say: "Now the king Sheng's soldiers are here, and the thieves are all stationed in the army, and there will be no preparation for going to Hexi; If an army secretly crosses Puhanjin and occupies Linjin, the king orders the army of Linjin and the prime minister to attack Tongguan, then Ma Chao will suffer from the enemy on his back, and the thieves will not correspond, and they will be in danger. ”

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Gongming's words are exactly what I want." ”

He taught Xu Huang to lead 4,000 elite soldiers, go to Puban with Le Jin, prepare to set up camp in Hexi through Guò Pubanjin, and receive Cao Cao's army from Hedong to Hexi, seize Linjin, Chongquan, Zheng County and other places, and then lead the army to break Zhou Yu's army and take Liu Bei into Hedong, so that Liu Bei can be rescued, and Zuo Fengyi's large land can be captured, and Ma Chao's army can be trapped in Tongguan. It's a really wonderful move.

It's just that Cao Cao didn't know that Liu Bei's army had been completely destroyed, and Liu Qi's army had already been ready for it, and this time it was destined to bring a big defeat to Cao Cao.

Xu Huang and Le Jin received the order and led 4,000 troops to secretly cross the river to Pusaka, and with the assistance of Du Ji, the Taishou of Hedong, they prepared ships. At the same time as Cao Cao crossed the river in the north, he quietly led the army across the river to capture Pubanjin.

However, it is said that after Ma Chao led the army back to Tongguan, Liu Qi had already sent Ma Jian to congratulate him, and brought an order from Liu Qi, asking Ma Chao to transfer the entire army of Zuo Fengyi and the 20,000 Qiang soldiers of Beidi County to Tongguan, in addition to reminding Ma Chao that Cao Cao would definitely choose to cross the river north in the near future. Ma Chao was asked to send a detailed investigation to closely investigate, and when Cao Cao led his army to cross the river, he could intercept and kill the troops on the south bank.

Ma Chao received the order, so he transferred Zuo Fengyi and the army of the north to Tongguan, made a decisive battle with Cao Cao, and sent a detailed plan to carefully plan the movements of Cao Cao's army.

Therefore, Cao Cao's army has just launched an operation, and he has already reported to Ma Chao in detail.

Ma Chao smiled and said: "Cao Cao will not attack Tongguan today. And the people prepared the raft and wanted to cross the north. It will definitely take Jinye. I should lead an army along the river to resist the west of the river, and the troops will not be crossed, and within 20 days, the east of the river will run out of food, and the troops will be chaotic, but they will follow the south of the river and attack it. it. ”

Cheng Gongying said: "It doesn't have to be like this. Don't you hear that there is a cloud in the art of war: 'A soldier can be attacked in half a crossing'? When the troops were halfway crossed, the general attacked them on the south bank, and the soldiers all died in Hanoi. As for the land west of the river, the general does not have to worry, presumably the lord must have other arrangements. Otherwise, the general would not have ordered the transfer of troops in the first place. ”

Ma Chao nodded and said, "Gongying's words are very kind. "Even if people ask when Cao Cao crossed the river.

At nightfall the next day, Ma Chao got the news that Cao Cao was ordering the army to cross the river, and now half of the enemy army had crossed the river, but Cao Cao left Xu Chu to lead hundreds of Tiger Guards to protect him and break off together.

Ma Chao smiled: "This is the best time to capture Cao Cao. He personally led 20,000 cavalry, opened the gate, and went straight to Cao Cao's camp in Henan.

However, it was said that Cao Cao had brought his own relatives to accompany the guards to a hundred people, sat on the south bank with his sword, and watched the army cross the river. Suddenly, I heard the sergeant's report: "The white-robed general behind has arrived!" ”

The white-robed general is Ma Chao, because Ma Chao wears a white robe, so the sergeants are called Ma Chao by the white-robed general.

All of a sudden, only the rumbling of hooves was heard, and Ma Chao led the people into the camp.

Most of the soldiers in the battalion are preparing to cross the river, and only Xu Chu's more than 1,000 soldiers are holding on, but where can they stop the Xiliang cavalry who are good at riding and shooting and throwing spears? Ma Chao's army surrounded the city on all sides to attack, and in addition to this, it was constantly set on fire, and the soldiers could not support it, so they had to flee in all directions.

However, Cao Cao acted as if he had not heard of it, and let Ma Chao's army arrive, still sitting on the Hu bed and not moving, pressing his sword to restrain the sergeants from rioting.

All of a sudden, I could hear only the neighing of horses, and many soldiers flocked to him, and one of the generals came behind him, and said loudly: "Thief! Please come aboard! ”

Cao Cao raised his eyes and saw that it was Xu Chu, but he still said indifferently: "Zhong Kang is flustered, what's the matter with the thief?" ”

At this moment, I heard a loud shout from behind: "Cao thief, where to go?" ”

When Cao Cao heard this voice, his heart couldn't help but be shocked, and when he looked back, Ma Chao was no less than a hundred steps away from him, and then he panicked.

Xu Chu saw Ma Chao coming, and he didn't care about anything else at the emergency moment, so he picked up Cao Cao, carried it on his back, and dragged Cao Cao to prepare to get on the boat.

The accompanying soldiers all went into the water, grabbed the side of the boat, and fought to get on the boat and flee for their lives. How can the boat be small, how can it be forbidden for all the soldiers to do it together? Seeing that the boat was about to capsize, Xu Chu pulled out his saber in anger, slashed indiscriminately, knocked over the surrounding soldiers, and hurriedly ordered the boat to start.

When Ma Chao arrived at the riverbank, he saw that the boat had gone a hundred steps away, and it was too late to catch up, so he drew his bow and arrows, and ordered all the soldiers to shoot around the river.

Xu Chu was afraid that he would hurt Cao Cao, so he supported the fence with his right hand, put Cao Cao flat on the boat with his left hand, and raised the saddle to cover it.

Ma Chao saw that he couldn't shoot Cao Cao, so he had a plan and ordered to shoot the boatman, and for a while he saw that Ma Chao's arrow was not in vain, and the person who was driving the boat on the boat fell into the water, dozens of people were shot down, and the boat no longer walked, spinning in the rapid water.

Seeing this, Cao Cao couldn't help but sigh secretly: "It seems that this time I actually died here." (To be continued......)