"Guan Yu!?" Ma Yue said in a deep voice, "So it's you?" ”

"Hmph." Guan Yu sneered, "Horse butcher, the taste of being flooded is not bad, right?" ”

"Hehe, it's okay." Ma Yue picked up a white Yellow River carp from the water and said to Guan Yu, "Your Excellency, do you want a Yellow River carp?" It's delicious. ”

"Humph!" Guan Yu snorted and said coldly, "It's all dying, and you're still playing tricks." ”

"Just because you want to leave the surname of this general with your hundreds of school swordsmen?" Ma Yue's face sank, Huo Ran straightened up, and said coldly, "It's still far away!" ”

"General~~"

"General, here we are."

When the two armies were facing each other, dozens of rafts suddenly appeared behind Guan Yu's army, and more than 300 Liangzhou soldiers were crowded on the raft. At this time, the tide of the battle took a sharp turn, and Guan Yu's five hundred school swordsmen immediately fell into the predicament of being attacked by the enemy in the north.

It turned out that last night, Guan Yu slashed Wang Fang, the main general of the Liangzhou army, and it was dark at that time, and the Liangzhou army lost the command of the main general and soon dispersed, and only gathered after dawn, and at this time the Yellow River embankment had been dug by Guan Yu, so he cut down the wood and built a raft along the waterway to find Ma Yue's army, not wanting to intercept Guan Yu here.

Guan Yu's face changed, and he hurriedly looked around and found that there was a "small island" not far from the left, so he ordered the five hundred school swordsmen: "Abandon the raft immediately and go to the island to line up to defend against the enemy!" ”

Guan Yu gave an order, and the five hundred school swordsmen immediately rowed the raft and landed on the island.

In the Liangzhou army, Li Meng turned around and asked Ma Yuedao: "Lord, do you want to attack or not?" ”

Li Su also said: "Lord, Guan Yu is a fierce general in the world, if he can be killed, he will definitely be able to severely defeat the spirit of Cao Jun." ”

"No need." Ma Yue said coldly, "Flooding Xiahou and the eight thousand Cao Jun may be Cao Ying's or Guo Jia's idea, but this black cauldron Guan Yu is determined, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Cao Chun, and the clan children of the Xiahou family can't spare him!" It's better to leave him with his life and go back to Xuchang to make trouble with these clan disciples, hum. ”

"Lord!" Ma Yue's voice fell, and Dian Wei suddenly pointed to the east and said loudly, "Lord, look, General Jutu and General Zhang Bao are here!" ”

"Oh?"

Ma Yue Huoran turned around, and saw more than 100 large and small ships slowly sailing on the eastern water, with Jutu and Jiangxia thief Zhang Bao standing side by side on the bow of a large ship in front, and more than 300 murderous Jiangxia thieves and more than 500 Liangzhou soldiers standing on the side of more than 100 large and small warships behind him.

Ju Tu and Zhang Bao saw the horse butcher from a distance and described him as embarrassed, most of the soldiers around him were disheveled, and the Liangzhou soldiers on the dozens of rafts around him were only six or seven hundred horsemen, so they knew that something had happened, and they couldn't help but be frightened in their hearts, and hurriedly knelt down on the bow of the boat and said in a panic: "The last general is too late for rescue, please forgive the lord!" ”

According to the original plan, Zhang Bao collected the large and small ships in advance and lurked in Xingshui, fifty miles south of Bishui Pass, on standby (even if the ship can move to Bishui Pass, it is difficult to ensure that it will not be smashed by the huge waves, of course, it is necessary to find a safe river to hide, complaining that the horse butcher is preparing for flooding but not preparing the boat, it is wronged), once the Yellow River bursts, the horse butcher's Liangzhou iron cavalry will seize the high ground in advance, and at this time, the entire east of Bishui Pass will become a Ze country, and Zhang Bao's Jiangxia thief can drive a boat to meet the horse butcher.

It's a pity that the horse butcher didn't expect Guan Yu's five hundred school swordsmen to suddenly kill from the north bank of the Yellow River, and even his own four thousand Liangzhou soldiers were caught off guard. This is called the lack of people's hearts and swallowing elephants, the horse butcher wanted to play big, and stacked Cao Ying in the Bishui Pass, but he never thought that Cao Ying did not get it but lost his capital.

There is a good saying, if the crockpot is not broken from the well, the general will inevitably die in battle!

Although Ma Yue is now a prince of one side, and his subordinates also rule millions of subjects and tens of thousands of miles of territory, he is still the butcher who gambled with his life during the Eight Hundred Liukou period! The only difference is that the horse butcher won the previous bet, but this one lost.

Fortunately, now the horse butcher's capital is also abundant, even if he loses ten or eight, he will not lose all his old capital.

"Forget it." Ma Yue waved his hand, motioned for Ju Tu and Zhang Bao to get up, and said indifferently, "Today's defeat has nothing to do with you, it is the general's carelessness." What's more, this time he also destroyed Xiahoudun's 8,000 Cao army, Xiahoudun is the number one general under Cao Ying, and being able to kill him can be regarded as frustrating the spirit of Cao's army, and the sacrifice of more than 3,000 soldiers is worth it! ”

Jia Xu also said: "General Zhang Bao, let your people clean up the battlefield as quickly as possible and save all the brothers who are not dead on the boat." ”

Zhang Bao asked, "What about the soldiers of the Cao Army who are not dead?" Do you want to be taken prisoner or not? ”

"Don't." Ma Yue said, "All the heads!" ”

"What about Cao Jun?" Zhang Bao stretched out his hand and pointed at Guan Yujun on the island and asked, "Do you want to kill him?" ”

Ma Yue shook his head and said, "That gang of Cao Jun is hard stubble, but someone will clean them up for us, forget it this time." ”

"Yes."

Zhang Bao agreed and took the order.

……

Luoyang, Li Dian's official residence.

Since Xiahoudun led 8,000 troops back to Xuchang, there were only 2,000 soldiers and horses left in Luoyang City, and only 2,000 troops and horses of Xiahoudun's brother Xiahoulian were stationed in Hujiaoguan.

On this day, when Li Dian was worried about the war in Xuchang, a small colonel suddenly entered the hall panting and said quickly: "General, out ~~ something big has happened." ”

Li Dian's heart jumped, Huo Ran stood up, and said sharply: "What's wrong?" ”

Xiao Xiaoxiao's face was anxious, and he said in a trembling voice: "General Xiahou's 8,000 army has been flooded by letting the horse butcher release water!" ”

Because the water of the Yellow River completely submerged the abandoned Bishui Pass and completely cut off the only passage from Luoyang to Xuchang, it was difficult for the Cao army stationed in Hugao Pass and Luoyang to obtain the news of the Yingchuan Cao Army in a short time, and they did not know that the four thousand Xiliang iron cavalry of the horse butcher were also flooded.

"What?" Li Dian was taken aback, grabbed the collar of the little school, and yelled, "Is this true?" ”

Xiao Xiao Xiao said in a trembling voice: "It's true. ”

"General Li Dian! Where is General Li Dian? ”

The junior colonel's voice fell, and a panicked voice suddenly sounded outside the hall, and the figure at the door flashed, and Xiahou Lian's figure had already hurried in, and said urgently: "General Li Dian, you should already know the news that my eldest brother and the 8,000 army were flooded, right?" ”

Li Dian took a deep breath, quickly calmed down, and said in a deep voice: "The last general already knows, but the general is not in the Tiger Prison Pass, what are you doing in Luoyang?" ”

"Hey, the Tiger Prison has become a country outside the Tiger Prison, what's the point of guarding it or not?" Xiahou Lian said, "At present, the connection between Luoyang and Yingchuan has been completely broken, Luoyang has become a lonely city, and the defenders in the city are only two thousand, plus the two thousand tiger guards of the last general are only four thousand, since the horse butcher has flooded my eldest brother's eight thousand army, he will definitely take advantage of the situation to seize Luoyang, what should I do?" ”

"yes." Li Dian said worriedly, "I'm afraid this Luoyang can't hold it." ”

Xiahou Lian said: "General, it's better to abandon the city." ”

"Abandon the city?" Li Dian frowned and said, "Where are you going?" ”

Xiahou Lian said: "Go south to borrow Nanyang to return to Yingchuan." ”

"This must not happen!" Li Dian said categorically, "The last general bears the heavy trust of General Yuanrang and shoulders the heavy responsibility of guarding Luoyang, how can he give up halfway!?" ”

"What then?" Xiahou Lian hurriedly said, "When the Liangzhou rebels are killed, you and I will be unable to fly." ”

A trace of madness flashed in Li Dian's eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "Now that the matter is now, there is no other way but to take a risk!" ”

"Adventure?" Xiahou Lian said, "How to take the risk?" ”

"Surprise attack on Hangu Pass!" Li Dian said coldly, "As long as you take Hangu Pass, you can firmly hold the throat of the Liangzhou rebels, and even if the horse butcher has 100,000 male soldiers, it will be difficult to surpass the thunder pool by half a step after all!" ”

"Are you crazy?" Xiahou Lian hurriedly said, "Two years ago, the 23rd Route Coalition Army and more than 300,000 troops stormed Hangu Pass, and they still returned with a feather, but now there are only 4,000 recruits in Luoyang City, which is not enough to defend the city, but you still have to go to attack Hangu Pass?" Isn't this looking for death? ”

"Because of this, the surprise attack on Hangu Pass has a chance to succeed!" Li Dian said coldly, "It's the so-called one time and another!" The art of war was unexpected, and the attack was unprepared, and the defenders of Hangu Pass thought that our army was not enough to defend the city, and it was impossible to take the initiative to attack, but our army did the opposite, and it would be able to be caught off guard! ”

Xiahou Lian shouted: "General Li Dian, you are gambling with the surnames of the soldiers of the three armies!" If you want to go, you go by yourself, and the last general will not want to accompany you to death. ”

Li Dian said: "In this way, please lead the general to stay in Luoyang, and the last general will only lead 2,000 men and horses to capture the pass." ”

After that, Li Dian didn't hesitate anymore, turned around and walked away.

"Crazy." Xiahou Lian looked at Li Dian's back and muttered, "This guy must be crazy, this general will not stay in Luoyang and wait for death." ”

……

In front of the water gate.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Zhang Bao led the Jiangxia thieves to catch up with Ma Yue's brigade and marched towards Guandu Port.

"Stop, stop the ship."

Jia Xu suddenly raised his right hand and motioned for Zhang Bao to stop the boat.

"Wenhe?" Ma Yue looked back at Jia Xu suspiciously, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"My lord, I can't go to Guandu Port anymore." Jia Xu said, "Since Cao Ying and Guo Jia asked Guan Yu to dig the Yellow River embankment, it is impossible to have no arrangements in Guandu Port. After all, there are less than a thousand cavalry left under the lord's command, and he is alone. ”

"Well, that makes sense." Ma Yue turned back to Zhang Bao and said, "Zhang Bao." ”

Zhang Bao hurriedly stepped forward and said quickly: "The last general." ”

Ma Yue said: "Take a dozen brothers and take a small boat (the Yellow River is an above-ground river, it is not a problem to carry a small boat from the plain to the river, if you want to get a big boat up, it will be difficult) to Guandu Port, and let General Gan Ning immediately lead the army to withdraw from Guandu Port and come to the river section of Bishuiguan to respond." ”

"Yes." Zhang Bao agreed, jumped into a small boat, and shouted to the dozen Jiangxia thieves on the boat, "Let's go, go to the Yellow River." ”

……

Hangu Pass, Wu Xi's official residence.

When Wu Xi was inspecting the wall, a junior colonel suddenly rushed up to the wall and said loudly: "General, good news, great news!" ”

Wu Xi stopped and asked, "What's the good news?" ”

The little colonel gasped twice and replied: "Just after the return of the horse, the lord dug the embankment of the Yellow River in Bishui Pass, and drowned Cao Ying's number one general Xiahoudun and eight thousand Cao Jun at once, and now the Cao army in Luoyang City has been blown up!" Xiahoudun's younger brother Xiahou Lian had a big quarrel with Li Dian, and led the army to Nanyang Chen Ji, and Li Dian ......"

Wu Xi hurriedly said: "What's wrong with Li Dian?" ”

Xiao Colonel said: "Li Dian also led the army to leave Luoyang, and it seems that he is going to Hedong to defect to Zhang Ji." ”

"Won't it?" Wu Xi said, "The tree is falling and scattered? Could it be ...... The lord's army has captured Xuchang and captured Cao Ying alive? ”

"I don't know." The little colonel shook his head and said, "The little one only knows that Luoyang has become an empty city, and if the general divides his troops to get it at this time, this credit is at his fingertips!" ”

Wu Xi's eyes showed a look of yearning, obviously this credit had a fatal temptation for him, but in the end, Wu Xi just shook his head and replied abruptly: "Forget it, there are only two thousand defenders in the pass, and the troops cannot be divided, not to mention that the lord had a strict order before he set out on the expedition, and the duty of this general is to guard Hangu Pass, not to attack Luoyang!" ”

The little colonel said hurriedly: "General, this opportunity is rare, what a pity to miss it." ”

Wu Xi's face sank, and he shouted, "What if this is Cao Jun's trick?" ”

The little colonel hurriedly said: "With the villain's familiarity with Luoyang City, if there is an ambush in the city, Cao Jun will not be able to detect it?" ”

"Alright." Wu Xihuo said, "Don't say it again." ”

……

Xuchang, Xiangfu.

When Guo Jia's figure walked into the south study, he couldn't help but stand up as calm as Cao Ying, and couldn't wait to ask, "Fengxiao, what's wrong?" ”

Guo Jia's face flashed with a hint of gloom, and he said miserably: "Lord, General Yuan Rang and 8,000 soldiers were all killed, and the Liangzhou rebels moved to the high ground due to timely news, and only drowned more than 3,000 cavalry, and the horse butcher, Jia Poison and some major generals all survived. ”

"Huh?"

Cao Ying was stunned when he heard this, and a heart-wrenching pain struck, and he suddenly sat back on the seat, and it took a long time for Cao Ying to come back to his senses, and he sobbed with his hands on the ground: "Yuan Rang, Yuan Rang, woo woo~~"

Guo Jia said gloomily: "Please mourn on the Lord's Day." ”

"What about Guandu Port?" Cao Ying Huo Ran straightened up and asked through gritted teeth, "Did Yu Ban and the Tibetan Ba ever intercept the horse butcher and his remnants?" ”

"Not either." Guo Jia sighed and said, "The horse butcher may have expected the arrangement of our army, and took the first step to order Gan Ning to withdraw from Guandu Port, and then took the horse butcher and the remnants of Xiliang on the big ship in the river section near Bishui Pass. ”

"Alas~~" Cao Yingjie sighed, "Such a good opportunity actually let the horse butcher run away again." ”

"Don't be discouraged." Guo Jia said, "As long as the horse butcher's surname remains the same, and he still likes to risk his life so much, then there will always be a time when he will be planted in the hands of our army." ”

Cao Ying gritted his teeth and said: "Yes, the last time I was in Sanjiangkou was once, this time it was again, as the saying goes, there are only three things, if there is a next time, it should be the horse butcher who is unlucky!" ”

"Lord!" Cao Ying's voice fell, and Liu Ye suddenly walked in hurriedly, and said hurriedly, "Oh no, something happened!" ”

"Ziyang?" Cao Ying hurriedly got up and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Childe~~" Liu Ye gasped twice, and said hurriedly, "Gongzi Ang took Gongzi An, Gongzi Min, and Major General Cao Xiu, Xiahou Nan, Xiahou De, Xiahou Shang, Xiahou Wei, Xiahou and surrounded General Guan Yu's official residence, General Cao Hong wanted to lead troops to stop it, but I don't know why he quarreled with General Guan Yu, and now he is directing soldiers to pile up firewood outside Guan Yu's residence, threatening to set fire!" ”

"Huh?" Cao Ying lost his voice and said, "Zixiu and Zilie are just nonsense!" Zilian is an elder, and he is also blindly involved, which is really unreasonable. ”

Guo Jia said softly: "Lord, this is not a trivial matter, General Guan Yu escorted the Son of Heaven to Xuchang, which is a great contribution to the imperial court." ”

"Let's go!" Cao Ying waved his sleeves and said loudly, "Feng Xiao went to Guan Yu's mansion with the prime minister. ”

……

On the official road from Hangu Pass to Luoyang, Wu Xizheng led 1,000 Liangzhou infantry to the east.

During the day, although Wu Xi severely reprimanded the school, but at night, the more Wu Xi thought about it, the more he felt that this was an opportunity. Regardless of whether the lord's army wins or loses in Yingchuan, if he can capture Luoyang City and Tiger Prison Xiongguan in one fell swoop on the premise of only 2,000 troops, this is definitely a great achievement.

Compared with this great achievement, the responsibility of sending troops without authorization is not worth mentioning! Wu Xi lay on the bed the more he thought about it, the more excited he became, and finally failed to resist this temptation, leaving 500 people to guard Hangu Pass for the deputy general, and he led 1,500 men and horses out of the pass overnight, and went straight to Luoyang.

The night sky is silent and the evening breeze is blowing.

Wu Xi, who couldn't wait to put on his wings and fly to Luoyang, didn't know that Li Dian's two thousand Cao troops had deceived the scouts of the Liangzhou army by hiding from the sky and crossing the sea, and at this time they had quietly hidden near Hangu Pass, and were hiding in the artemisia grass on both sides of the official road.

In the artemisia grass, a Cao Jun junior colonel quietly crawled to Li Dian's side, leaned into Li Dian's ear and asked, "General, do you want to fight?" ”

"Don't fight!" Li Dian shook his head calmly and said in a low voice, "Tell the whole army, don't act rashly, let them go!" ”

Xiao Xiao was puzzled: "Why? ”

Li Dian said: "General Ben has his own reasons. ”

Although the little colonel was puzzled, he still passed Li Dian's military order, and the two thousand Cao troops did not move, and watched the Liangzhou soldiers drive over from under their noses. It wasn't until the Liangzhou army went far away that Li Dian summoned more than a dozen Cao army generals and colonels, and ordered them again and again, and more than a dozen generals and colonels each took their orders.

It was about the second half of the night, the torches outside the Hangu Pass were suddenly bright, the sound of killing shook the sky, I don't know how many people were running back and forth outside the pass in the firelight, showing off their might, the deputy general guarding the pass was worried that the troops in the pass were too small, so he urgently ordered more than a dozen fast horses to go out of the pass at the same time, desperately breaking through the siege to report to Wu Xi.

When Tanma caught up with Wu Xi, the sky was already bright, and Wu Xi's department was just preparing to bury the pot and make rice.

Hearing that Hanguguan was attacked, Wu Xi was taken aback, but he made another mistake, he didn't even have time to breathe, and he didn't have time to eat breakfast, so he hurriedly led his men and horses to rush back, only to be waiting for Li Dian's ambush soldiers halfway!

In terms of quality, Wu Xi's Liangzhou army is a county soldier, and Li Dian's Cao army is a new soldier, half a catty to eight taels, but the problem is that Wu Xi's Liangzhou soldiers have been running all night, and now the grain of rice has not entered, they are tired and hungry, while Li Dian's Cao army has rested for half the night, and he has a full meal before dawn, full of energy.

Cao's army also occupies the advantage of troops and terrain, and the victory or defeat of this battle can be known regardless of whether it is asked.

In less than two hours, Wu Xi's 1,000-5 Liangzhou army was annihilated, and Wu Xi was also captured alive by Li Diansheng.

After the victory, Li Dian immediately ordered the 500 Cao army to replace the soldiers of the Liangzhou army, pretending to be Wu Xi's soldiers to deceive the door, and when he arrived outside the Hangu Pass, it was almost dusk, and the deputy general guarding the pass saw that Wu Xi was under the pass, and he did not suspect him, and hurriedly opened and closed to greet him. When the gate was wide open, five hundred Cao troops swarmed in, and Li Dian seized Hangu Pass without much effort.

After capturing Hangu Pass, Li Dian ordered the city wall to be repaired to prevent the frantic counterattack of the Liangzhou army in Guanzhong, and at the same time sent a horse to Luoyang and Xuchang to ask for reinforcements.

(To be continued)