Chencang City, known as Xiyu in ancient times, is the birthplace of Zhou and Qin culture.

At that time, Liu Bang's Han army was blocked in the land of Hanzhong, and in order to get the Han army out of the customs, Han Xin used the most important strategy to repair the plank road in the open and Chen Cang in the dark.

And the Chen Cang that he did is Chen Cangcheng.

It is a city that must pass through Xiliang in the west and Hanzhong in the south to enter Guanzhong, and it is also a battleground for soldiers since ancient times.

In the past, Liu Bang seized Chen Cang and became the master of Guanzhong.

In history, Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition was blocked countless times before Chen Cang, and it failed.

The importance of Chen Cang is related to the gains and losses of the entire Guanzhong.

Just when the Wei army broke out in Jieting, a bloody offensive and defensive battle in Chencang City also reached the most critical juncture.

"Zhu Jin, you go and form a death squad, within today, you must break the city!"

The Wu army was the main attack, and Deng Zhi's Ninth Army had done its best to attack.

After he received the task, he immediately led the Ninth Army to set off towards Chen Cang, thinking that it would be a very easy task, but he didn't expect that Chen Cang had already been taken down by the five thousand elites led by Ma Dai.

He can only attack.

In nearly ten days, he spent three days to make siege equipment, and for the remaining seven days, he did not rest for a moment, and directly attacked at the beginning, but he was never able to take Chen Cangcheng.

His calm and composed temperament could not suppress the anger in his heart.

As a fortress city, Chencang has been a city with high walls since ancient times, allowing Ma Dai to recapture Chencang first, and Deng Zhi is destined to be a bloody battle if he loses the first hand.

Ma Dai's 5,000 soldiers and horses relied on Chen Cang's solidity to block the strong attack of more than 20,000 soldiers and horses of his Ninth Army.

"No!"

The acting commander of the 30th Division, who replaced Li Miao as the division commander, led a regiment led by a strong man from the south, and attacked head-on.

City.

The main general Ma Dai has a straight body, holding a big spear in his hand, standing at the head of the city, his expression is calm, and his eyes look at the Wu army that is surging down the ladder under the city: "This Wu general is persevering, the casualties are so large, and he is desperately attacking, it seems that he can't Chen Cang, and he won't give up!" ”

"General, the Wu army is coming up again."

A lieutenant wiped the blood from his face, looked at the dense Wu army, and reported in a deep voice.

"Come up and fight down!"

Ma Dai's indifferent and calm voice boosted the morale of the soldiers at the head of the city: "Stop them at all costs, Chen Cang is the only way for General Ma Chao to retreat, we would rather die here than take half a step back!" ”

As long as he didn't die, he would never allow Wu Jun to take Chencang City.

"Fight!"

"Fight!"

The 5,000 elite soldiers under his command are all Xiliang descendants, loyal to the elite of the Ma family, and can fight to the end for Ma Chao's bloody soldiers and horses, after hearing Ma Dai's firm voice, they fought hard one by one.

"General, no matter what, he must break through!"

Ma Dai looked into the distance, looking at the overlapping mountains in the distance, he knew that Ma Chao's current situation was very dangerous, but he believed that Ma Chao could fight a bloody way, so he would defend Chen Cang at any cost.

Guarding Chen Cang is equivalent to guarding Ma Chao's way of life.

For three consecutive days, Deng Zhi still did not break through Chen Cangcheng, which had been a high-intensity assault battle for nearly half a month, and the soldiers and horses under his command were tired.

Although the Wei army in the city also suffered heavy casualties, less than half of the soldiers and horses remained, but they just held on.

Chen Cang was still in the hands of Wei Jun.

"What should I do?"

Deng Zhi became more and more anxious, and his instinctive feeling told him that Chen Cangcheng was very important, and this might be related to the outcome of the battle in which the Wei army broke through.

"Report!" The scout came out of nowhere to report.

"Say!"

"Report to the Chief of Staff, fifteen miles away from the northwest, our scout platoon found a large-scale Wei army, and most of the entire scout platoon was killed by the Wei army scouts, only I escaped back!"

"What?"

Deng Zhi was shocked: "How could there be a Wei army from behind at this time, could it be that the Wei army has already broken through from the street pavilion, this is impossible......"

"How many soldiers do they have?"

"As far as I can see, there are at least 30,000 of them!"

"Pass my military order, the Ninth Army belongs, withdraw!"

Deng Zhi gritted his teeth, made a decision immediately, and gave an order.

Chen Cangcheng has never been able to attack for a long time, and if he suddenly gives the Wei army behind him a blow in the back at this time, his ninth army may be completely annihilated.

"No!"

When the officers and men of the Ninth Army received the order, they immediately withdrew like a tide and continued to retreat in the southwest direction.

"Wu Jun has retreated?" At the head of the city, the soldiers of the Wei army saw this scene, and they were suddenly a little overjoyed.

"Wu Jun withdrew?"

Ma Dai was overjoyed, but he was a little surprised, and his inspiration moved: "Could it be that the general has broken out of the encirclement and killed back?" ”

He couldn't think of any other reason for the Wu army to withdraw his troops other than this reason......

Soon his conjecture turned into a fact, and the Wei soldiers standing at the head of the city saw a group of soldiers and horses swarming from the northwest, with the banners on one being Zhang and the other being Cao.

Cao is Cao Zhang, and Zhang is Zhang Lu.

One is the Wei army's breakthrough vanguard army, and the other is the Wei army's peripheral response army, and the two of them should be combined with the outside, but they broke through the three passes directly set up by the Wu army's army in the east, and suddenly broke through and went straight into Chencang......

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Rewind to the night three days ago.

Street Pavilion on the outskirts of the city.

The Wei army suddenly broke through with a large army, and wanted to take the Wu army by surprise and take advantage of the chaos to kill it, but they had always been under the nose of the Wu army, and they were always locked by the Wu army's soldiers and horses, so this breakthrough turned into a bloody battle.

The first to emerge from the street pavilion was the vanguard army.

The vanguard army was personally led by Cao Zhang, the king of Peng, with the assistance of Fu Zhi, and gathered the elite of Sima Yi's subordinates to break through directly to the east.

"Sons, kill it!"

Cao Zhang took the lead and was like a bamboo, but he was not sniped by the main force of the Wu army, but only faced the scattered arrow attacks of the Wu army, leaving hundreds of corpses and rushing out of the encirclement with weak casualties.

In this way, Cao Zhang and Fu Zhi were a little surprised, but they didn't worry too much, rushed out, and marched directly to Chen Cang in the east.

After the vanguard army, it was the main force of the Wei army.

The main force is the elite of the Northern Wolf Guard led by Sima Yi himself.

"Kill it!"

The main force broke through and encountered the sniping of the main force of the Wu army, but Sima Yi was prepared for this, and he also knew that it was the most difficult level for the main force to get out, and now he could only kill it.

"Zhang Heng, Yang Qiu, change the formation, they want to stop and cut off, let them go, give up contact with the vanguard army in the east, lead the troops to the south, and we will kill from the south!"

In the face of Zhuge Liang's strategy, Sima Yi can only divide his troops now.

"Yes!"

The main force of the Wei army changed formations one after another, gave up contact with the vanguard soldiers and horses under Cao Zhang, and turned south.

Suddenly changed formation, but Ju Yi was beaten very suddenly.

"Han Gang, block the South Road!" Ju Yi killed several Wei generals in a row, and when he saw such a scene, he suddenly let out a long roar.

"Yes!"

The Second Army did not turn around, trying to hold the southern flank.

But the change of the battlefield, time is only a moment, the Wei army changes too fast, when the main force of the Wu army wants to transfer the heavy troops back to the southern flank, the encirclement of the southern flank has been torn, and the main force of the Wei army began to break through to the south.

"Chase!"

Ju Yi was not frustrated, the strategy of this battle was originally to fight while consuming the main force of the Wei army, if it was blocked, maybe it would become a bloody battle of attrition in World War I.

As dawn passed, the sky brightened.

The main force of the Wei army after the break, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry also came out, led by Ma Chao himself, to keep up with the main force, but when they went out of the street pavilion, they were faced with the Xianbei army in the north direction, which had been eyeing the tiger for a long time.

"Ma Chao, take your life!"

Pang Tong sat in the Chinese army, and Kebi was able to take the lead and kill directly.

"Those who stand in my way will be killed, sons, kill them with me!"

Ma Chao is brave and invincible, and the Xiliang Iron Horse under his command is like the wind and crazy, rampage.

Kebi Neng's face was pale, he knew that he had let Wu Jun be a gun again, and gnawed at Ma Chao's hard bones, but he was helpless, the arrow was on the string, he didn't fight, and now he could carry it hard: "Xianbei warriors, kill!" ”

"Kill!"

The Xianbei army is also the cavalry among the cavalry, and the Xianbei Iron Cavalry is not as fast as the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and the soldiers and horses are more than twice as many as the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

……

A bloody battle for a breakout in the street pavilion began to become a little chaotic.

The Wei army was divided into three ways to break through, the vanguard army led by Cao Zhangfu, the main force led by Sima Yi, and the most elite Xiliang iron cavalry led by Ma Chao himself.

And Wu Jun also chose a zipper siege.

The most important thing is that all the strategies of the Wu army are attrition strategies, and there is no choice to fight the Wei army head-on, so the Wei army rarely intercepts in the positive position, but the casualties in the rear of the middle delay their breakthrough.

From Jieting to Chencang, the battle line of more than two hundred miles, east, south, and north, all became a blood-colored battlefield.

In this big battle, the Wei army was on the run, the Wu army was chasing, the Wei army wanted to keep the main force and kill it, and the Wu army wanted to consume their main force with the least casualties.

On the outskirts of Jieting South City, the Chinese army commanded the main camp.

"Report!"

"Say!"

"An hour ago, on the plain battlefield ten miles northeast of Jieting, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry had already slaughtered the encirclement of the Xianbei army!" The scout shouted.

"Which way did they go out?"

The Wei army is divided, the battlefield has naturally been dispersed, Zhuge Liang, as the main general, must sit in command of the battalion, and respond to the cooperation of the soldiers and horses of the Quartet to encircle and kill, he looked at the detailed terrain sand table from the street pavilion road Chen Cang, and asked.

"Northeast!"

"Northeast, if Ma Chao wants to make a detour, if he goes out from the Northeast, he must penetrate the mountain of Yezi Mountain to go around Chencang, this is a good road, but the distance of two hundred miles, can he run out?"

Zhuge Liang looked at the sand table in the camp and drew a road.

"Commander, the Xianbei Army is still a little watery!" Xu Shu next to him whispered: "Otherwise, with Ma Chao's strength, even if he is fierce, he won't be able to kill him in a day!" ”

"Humph!"

Zhuge Liang's face was a little gloomy: "Kebineng is still a little resistant!" ”

"Commander, after all, Kebineng is the Great Khan of Xianbei, not our Great Wu general, and it is also normal for him to be reluctant to suffer casualties among Xianbei soldiers!"

Xu Shu stood next to him and said in a deep voice: "And Ma Chao is now a trapped beast fighting, if he doesn't fight hard, he will die here, if it is fierce, he is naturally not as good as Ma Chao, let Ma Chao break out, it is inevitable!" ”

"I want to know the results!" Zhuge Liang said.

"The casualties of the Xianbei army are about 5,000 soldiers, but they left at least 6,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry in one go, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry that was scattered is also a little, and there are less than 12,000 Iron Cavalry that can break through!" Scout said.

"It's a good result!"

Zhuge Liang nodded and said, "The war of attrition has achieved its goal, have you caught up!" ”

"At the insistence of Chief of Staff Pang, Kebineng has already led 10,000 cavalry and caught up behind!"

"Good!"

Zhuge Liang smiled with satisfaction: "Pang Tong should understand that at this time, expand the consumption of power and consume the Xiliang Iron Horse as much as possible, so there is no need to worry too much about this." By the way, where are the vanguard and main forces of the Wei army now! ”

"The vanguard army is about to enter the official road of Sifang Mountain!" Xu Shu said: "Jiang Qin's Eleventh Army is waiting!" ”

"The east side leads directly to Chencang, not to be underestimated!"

Zhuge Liang said: "I put the Eleventh Army and the Twelfth Army here, even if they can't be completely annihilated, they must leave part of the main force of their vanguard army, how much is left?" ”

"Fa Zheng and Jiang Qin won't let you down!"

"Where are their main forces?" Zhuge Liang asked again.

"The main force of the Wei army has become a little weird!" Xu Shu said: "They actually went straight to the south, but they couldn't go back to Guanzhong in the south, at most they went south to Hanyang, the martial capital!" ”

"You underestimate Sima Yi!"

Zhuge Liang looked at the sand table, his eyes lit up, and he shook his head: "Who said that you can't go back to Guanzhong from the south, don't forget Weishui!" ”

A Weishui River runs through the land of Sanfu.

"They want to go back to Guanzhong in Weishui?" Xu Shu was shocked in his heart and frowned: "But if they want to go back from Weishui, they have to have a ship, where do they have so many warships!" ”

"That's the key!"

Zhuge Liang squinted slightly: "Time is very important, Ju Yi's army is behind their buttocks, they don't have enough time, they want to force the Weishui crossing, how easy it is to say, I want to see what Si Yi has done, now the vanguard army and the broken queen army have been replaced, Cao Zhang's troops are not strong, and I don't have to leave too many troops in the east, Xu Sheng's 16th Army gave up the ambush point, moved south to the main force of Juyi, and encircled and suppressed Sima Yi's army!" ”

"Yes!"

He always felt that this battle was not over.

Sima Yi is a good opponent after all, and the most important thing is that he is now pitying the casualties of the Wu army, and he is unwilling to fight with the Wei army, which has become a favorable condition for the Wei army to break through.

He calculated very well, if this battle went well, he would consume at least two-thirds of the main force of the Wei army with less than 10,000 casualties, and even if the remaining soldiers and horses let them escape back to Guanzhong, it would be useless.

But the unpredictable changes on the battlefield are beyond Zhuge Liang's calculations after all.

The pull and pull of this breakthrough battle, the two armies clashed, and they fought for three full days.

Three days later, the remnants of the Wei army broke through and gathered in Chencang.

……

All the results of this battle quickly converged in Zhuge Liang's Chinese army command camp from the battlefields in all directions, but the above report did not satisfy him, but made his expression a little gloomy.

"Zhang Lu's Hanzhong Army took over the Wei Army's vanguard army?"

"Yes!"

Xu Shu said: "We have all forgotten, Zhang Lu's troops and horses, after they failed to snipe the 14th Army in Xixian County to the north, they were taken advantage of by Sima Yi to send trouble, and they were assigned to transport grain, and the garrison was between Chencang and Jieting, he suddenly sent troops, attacked the two streams, forced back the 12th Army of Fazheng, and smoothly received Cao Zhang's vanguard army south to Chencang, although tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were captured, but it did not achieve the results we expected!" ”

"Zhang Lu, this is my negligence!"

Zhuge Liang said: "What about Sima Yi's main force? ”

"Let them get out too!"

"How did Sima Yi run out?"

"Originally, Sima Yi was blocked next to Weishui, Sima Yi did choose to forcibly cross Weishui, but according to our calculations, General Ju Yi gathered the second, third, fourth, and sixteenth armies to encircle and kill, even if Sima Yi can escape, at most there will be one or two thousand remnants, but your worries have become a fact, Pang De broke through Qishan, went north to Weishui, and met Sima Yi, the two armies are combined, there is no need to go Weishui, and a bloody road is killed head-on!"

"What about Ma Chao?"

"The siege of Ma Chaobu has made us a lot smoother!"

Xu Shu replied: "Ma Chaobu was intercepted and killed by Kebineng's Xianbei army all the way, and his walk was already a bit dangerous, and when he walked out of Yezi Mountain, his troops were less than one-third left, so he could only be regarded as a hasty escape!" ”

"But our attrition strategy failed in the end!"

Zhuge Liang's eyes were gloomy, and his gaze was cold: "Sima Yishu finally led the main force of the Wei army to save a breath of vitality and kill it, which means that next, we will not hesitate to pay the price to fight a frontal bloody battle with them!" ”

"They can't go back to Chang'an!"

Xu Shu thought for a while and said firmly: "Just now there was news from Jinyiwei that the 13th Army went north from Wudu and had taken Wugong City, separating the connection between Chang'an and Chencang, and we still have a chance to besiege and kill this part of the Wei army!" ”

"It's not a big defeat!"

Zhuge Liang nodded: "Pass on my military order, Ju Yi Ke can be inengable, each led his troops to surround Chencang, and Meng Shu on the south bank of Weishui immediately led his troops to Wuzhang Plain!" ”

"Gojohara?" Xu Shu was taken aback and asked, "Why Wuzhangyuan!" ”

"If you are Sima Yi, in the face of such casualties, and find that Wugong County has been taken by our army, will he still escape?" Zhuge Liang asked rhetorically.

"No!" Xu Shu said: "Running away is also death, fighting is also death, putting it to death and then living, you must fight!" ”

"And where is the final battleground?" Zhuge Liang's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Gojogahara!"

Xu Shu's eyes lit up: "I understand, Sima Yi and Ma Chao probably woke up in the face of this kind of attrition casualties, so they chose to attack head-on, but why not Chen Cang!" ”

"They still have a lot of elites, Chen Cang is suitable for offense and defense, but they can't be used, we can surround them, but they are helpless!"

Zhuge Liang analyzed: "If I were Sima Yi, since there was no way out, and there were chasing soldiers behind, I would follow the example of the overlord of Western Chu back then, break the cauldron and sink the boat, gather the main force, and have a bloody battle with us. ”

"So I conclude that Sima Yi will definitely persuade Ma Chao to withdraw from Chen Cang and fight us in a decisive battle on Wuzhang Plain, if he doesn't succeed, he will become benevolent!" (To be continued.) )