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"Tian Yu, dog mongrel!"

A foul sentence popped out of Cao Hong's mouth, but it couldn't save the current passive situation. After being stabbed in the back by Tian Yu, Cao Hong's situation suddenly became more passive.www.biquge.info Originally, it was just a disadvantage, but now even with Cao Zhang's support, these more than 60,000 Cao army foot soldiers who are not strong in combat are almost muddy and can't support the wall.

In fact, it is not that these Cao soldiers lack training. In fact, they were all recruited after Liu Bei's escape from the Second Northern Expedition last time, and they have been training for more than two years so far. Generally, soldiers can go into battle after training for half a year, and after two years of training, they are already quite strong in terms of combat effectiveness. It's just experience on the battlefield, which no training can bring.

It's like Zhao Feng's first Northern Expedition to defend the Street Pavilion, with more than 20,000 foot soldiers, he was almost defeated by Xiahou Yuan with a considerable number of troops. However, later, the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army has been significantly qualitatively improved. In a word, the troops are fought.

It's a pity that these foot soldiers under Cao Hong don't have much actual combat experience. In order to increase their actual combat experience, Cao Ying originally sent them to attack Sanhan and other places, but fighting with those rabble in Sanhan can only be regarded as trivial. Now when you meet a really tough opponent, you can't bear it all of a sudden.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! Cao Zhang's face was hideous, and in the face of Zhang Ren's cocoon-like offensive, he almost took out all his strength. The wound on the lower abdomen had been simply bandaged, but under the fierce fighting, blood was still oozing there, and the previous bandaging was almost useless. At the same time, Cao Hong obviously couldn't hold on, and at that moment Cao Zhang made a quick decision and led all the tigers and leopards to ride back to Cao Hong for the final resistance. But Rao is like this, Cao Hong's fragile rear army has already shown signs of collapse under Tian Yu's encroachment.

"Zhao Botao, you give me death!" Cao Hong roared angrily, and slashed the big knife in his hand towards Zhao Feng on the opposite side with all his strength. Zhao Feng gritted his teeth and raised the spear in his hand with one hand with his right hand, blocking this move to the left, and then grabbed the opponent's knife with his left hand.

"What is this?" Cao Hongzheng was surprised at the meaning of his opponent's action, but saw that Zhao Feng had already thrown down his spear, pulled out the long sword at his waist, and aimed it at Cao Hong's knife shaft and slashed it with a sword. There was a soft sound, and Cao Hong's big knife was suddenly cut into two.

"Green Sword!" Cao Hong couldn't help blurting out. This sword is too familiar, it is the Qingyu sword worn by his nephew Xia Houen. In fact, it has been a few years since Zhao Feng got this sword from Xia Houen. But the long sword was not originally a blade suitable for immediate combat, and it was not used much in recent years. It's just that on a whim today, I want to try to see if this sword is really that sharp. As a result, after a try, it was really like cutting iron like clay. Cao Hong fought with only one move, his weapon had been destroyed, he knew that he would not have a good result if he continued to fight, so he threw the half-cut knife in his hand to block it with a false move, and pulled out his waist knife while walking while directing the army to retreat.

"Want to go?" Zhao Feng was about to chase after him, but he saw a familiar figure coming from the east, and couldn't help laughing and said: "Isn't this Mencius, Brother Zidu, you are not in Wancheng to be your Taishou, why did you come here?" "Seeing that Cao Hong was surrounded by a group of people and it was difficult to get close, Zhao Fengsuo surnamed Meng Da beat the horse and killed." But I can make it clear that even if you want to surrender today, I won't take you in again! ”

"Zhao Feng?" Meng Da saw Zhao Feng with a playful face coming towards him, and his teeth were also a little fighting. But then he noticed that Zhao Feng didn't have a spear in his hand, just a long sword, and immediately gritted his teeth and patted his horse to meet him.

"Yo, you're quite courageous!" Zhao Feng was stunned. "The general takes the gun!" At this moment, Niu Jin hacked an enemy foot soldier to death, snatched his spear and threw it to Zhao Feng. Zhao Feng caught it easily, this kind of ordinary wooden-handled spear, since he became a general, has not been used for many years, although it is a little lighter than his own muddy iron spear, but it is still okay to use. But Zhao Feng knew the details of Meng Da, and asked for the surname to play with him at the moment.

With a single shot, he swept away Meng Da's head-on slash, and Zhao Feng immediately stabbed Meng Da head-on. I didn't want Meng Da to be really afraid of Zhao Feng, and when he saw this situation, he actually dropped the big knife and directly grabbed the gun with both hands. Zhao Feng was slightly stunned, but he was not slow at all, and he punched the barrel of the gun.

The gun was smashed with a "click", and then in Meng Da's surprised gaze, Zhao Feng grabbed the back half of the wooden stick and stabbed him directly in the neck. The spear full of spikes pierced into his throat, but before Meng Da's screams could be released, they had already pressed back into his stomach.

"Who says you can't stab someone without a gun?" Looking at Meng Da, who was staring at him, Zhao Feng pouted, and then snatched a spear from one of the opponent's pawns and continued to fight. At this time, the Cao army was already under the leadership of Cao Hong and began to retreat one after another. But how could Zhao Feng agree to let them retreat so calmly, seeing that the other party wanted to slip away, he hurriedly began to do the same thing, sending cavalry to attack and harass the retreating enemy army, delay the opponent's withdrawal speed as much as possible, and kill and injure the opponent's living force. Of course, the Cao army is not without experience in dealing with this kind of thing, as long as the cavalry protects the two wings, even if the enemy can bite its own tail, the losses are extremely limited. But Cao Hong gave orders again and again, but he didn't see Shao come to help the battle.

"What are you doing, why didn't the Hu cavalry battalion come to cover the retreat of the army?" Cao Hong was furious and asked repeatedly. Beside him, Cao Zhang, who had just escaped death, had sharp eyes, and when he looked at it from a distance, he found that the Hu cavalry camp army formation had dispersed. Everyone scattered and fled, and few people came at all.

"Uncle, the Hu cavalry camp is scattered!" Cao Zhang was a little unbelievable, he didn't expect the Hu cavalry battalion to collapse like this. If there is no cover from the elite soldiers who are good at riding and archery in the Hu Cavalry Battalion, relying on their own tiger and leopard cavalry alone, it will definitely not be enough to cover the calm retreat of their own army. What he didn't know was that these Hu people didn't have much sense of identity with them, plus the opponent was so fierce and not afraid of death, and his own people were not strong, and now that the situation was wrong, the surname Suo dispersed in a hurry. The implication was repeated and shouted, but it had no effect.

"Let's die!" Just as he was in a hurry to command, a thunderous roar sounded from behind. Xian Shao turned back in amazement, but saw that it was Zhang Fei who was violently killing him. Along the way, even if someone wanted to stop them, they were also stabbed or slashed by Zhang Fei's Zhangba snake spear, and Zhang Fei's pace was not slowed down at all.

"Damn!" Qian Shao knew that he was not Zhang Fei's opponent, so he could only bite the bullet at this time, raised the spear in his hand and stabbed it with a shot, but was stabbed face to face by Zhang Fei with a spear.

But hearing the sound of "boring and boring", the iron spear in Shao's hand had a close contact with Zhang Fei's spear face to face, and was actually broken by Zhang Fei from the middle, and then stabbed into Shao's chest. Glancing at the slowly falling Shao in front of him, Zhang Fei snorted coldly, and then ordered all the cavalry to catch up with the pursuit.

Zhang Fei's addition made Cao Hong feel the already heavy pressure, which more than doubled in an instant. The speed at which the army is moving forward can be described as turtle speed. Almost every step you take, someone is killed or surrenders to your opponent.

"Damn, like this, when will I be able to withdraw to the party!" Cao Hong couldn't help but scold angrily. It had been an hour since the withdrawal of the army, but the army had not traveled more than ten miles. Even Cao Hong had to admit that the attack tactics of Zhang Fei and others were extremely effective. This kind of wolf trapping tactic invented by the grassland people is to completely drag the opponent down and drag him to death, and finally annihilate the opponent in one fell swoop.

"It's not okay to go on like this, uncle, it's better for me to lead the people all the way, uncle, you should withdraw to the party first!" Cao Tai, who fought with the army, gritted his teeth and said.

"How does this work?" Cao Hong objected involuntarily, and at this moment Cao Zhang suggested: "Uncle, you see that there is a dirt mountain over there, why don't I hold on to the mountain for the time being, and then take advantage of the night at night to suddenly withdraw the army by surprise?" ”

"It's good!" Cao Hong couldn't make up his mind for a while, and Suo agreed to Cao Zhang's suggestion. So under the command of Cao Hong and others, the army successively climbed this small dirt mountain, and then sent crossbowmen to defend the four directions and dig trenches to prevent the enemy from attacking the mountain. Zhang Fei and others chased down the mountain, seeing that the mountain was quite steep, and it was not easy to attack the mountain for a while, so they temporarily set up camp and prepared to besiege. Of course, it was not a blind siege, Zhang Fei, Zhao Feng and others also gathered together to discuss what to do next.

"Righteousness, how's it going?" Seeing that Zhang Ren, who had counted the number of people, had just come back, Zhao Feng also asked. Zhang Ren nodded, and then spoke: "Our army suffered more than 14,000 casualties, including more than 3,000 cavalry; More than 24,000 enemy troops were killed, including nearly 4,000 Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and about 8,000 were captured or surrendered. It is conservatively estimated that the combined strength of Cao Hong and Cao Zhang on the mountain now is about 60,000. ”

"With the people and horses of the state, we still have no less than 90,000 elite soldiers, and Cao Hong will definitely be defeated!" Zhang Fei also nodded. Zhao Feng thought for a while, and then asked Zhang Rendao: "How many rations does Cao Jun carry?" ”

"According to the prisoners who interrogated Cao Jun, Cao Jun only came lightly this time, and the individual soldiers only carried three days' rations!" Zhang Ren nodded. Zhao Feng immediately understood when he heard this, and then said: "Cao Jun's rations are insufficient, so he must break through as soon as possible." In that case, I have a plan for now, maybe I can settle this place as soon as possible! ”

"Bo Tao, do you want to take the opportunity to raid the party?" Zhang Feiyou thought for a while. I didn't want Zhao Feng to shake his head, just smiled and said, "It's not the party, it's the kettle!" ”

"Kettle off?" Zhang Fei was stunned when he heard this. Zhao Feng nodded, and then explained: "Huguan is the main road connecting Jizhou and Bingzhou. Now that Cao Hong is trapped here, if we send a strange soldier and put on Cao Jun's armor, we may be able to avoid the real and take the Huguan in one fell swoop. In this way, you can intercept the reinforcements of Jizhou, and after solving Cao Hong, you can intervene in the battle situation in Jizhou and smash Cao Wei's capital directly! ”

"That makes sense!" Zhang Fei also nodded again and again when he heard this, Huguan is not far from Shangdang, and it was because Cao Hong's army was here that he could not storm Huguan. Now that Cao Hong is trapped here, even if there are still some left-behind soldiers and horses in the party, the Huguan garrison should be relatively empty. Thinking of this, Zhang Fei also immediately made a decision, and asked Zhang Ren to lead 5,000 elite soldiers to put on Cao Jun's clothes and armor to defraud Huguan. He and Zhao Feng stayed here, preparing to prevent the enemy army from retreating in the middle of the night.

Just when Zhao Feng and Zhang Fei were about to stop, a huge fleet of dozens of large ships quietly came to a beach on the shore of the Bohai Sea in the middle of the night.

(To be continued)