Liu Ze took Yangping Pass by himself, waved his army eastward, and came straight to Dingjun Mountain. Hearing that Dingjun Mountain was guarded by Hanzhong soldiers, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Yan Yan all asked for orders to fight, but Liu Ze did not agree, but only ordered the army to camp in the southwest of Dingjun Mountain, and did not rush to attack.

All the generals are puzzled, now our army is ten times larger than the enemy, it should be like a bamboo, all the way to the past, all hit this one, do you still have to step by step?

Liu Ze was not in a hurry, he had just received a secret report from Chang'an, Cao Cao had sent Xiahou Yuan to lead an army of 50,000 into Hanzhong to reinforce Zhang Lu. Liu Ze knew very well that Cao Cao's main target was not Han Sui and Ma Chao at this time, but against himself. Opening up a new front on the western road, from Hanzhong to Guanzhong, is his ultimate strategy, if Cao Cao can't see the stakes, then he is not Cao Cao, he captured Yizhou, Cao Cao took Guanzhong, the focus of the two sides is naturally Hanzhong. Maybe Ma Chao is not destroyed, Cao Cao is still worried about his back road, so he only sent Xiahou Yuan as the front to reinforce Hanzhong, if Xiahou Pan's war is unfavorable or Cao Cao cleans up Ma Chao, Cao Cao's army will definitely enter Hanzhong.

For Liu Ze, a quick victory in Hanzhong has become the key, before Cao Cao's army enters Hanzhong, take Hanzhong, leave no chance for Cao Cao, and put the main battlefield with Cao Cao in Guanzhong and Longxi, which is the most important problem for him to consider.

Since Liu Ze wants to fight quickly, but he is stuck at the foot of Dingjun Mountain, almost everyone is puzzled, isn't this a contradiction?

Liu Ze has his own considerations, his purpose is to take the entire Hanzhong, not one city and one place, Xiahou Yuan's reinforcements will arrive in Hanzhong at any time, at this time he led a large army to attack Nanzheng, isn't it just to force Xiahou Yuan to go to Nanzheng? Zhang Lu has been running Hanzhong for many years. The city walls of Nanzheng are strong, the trenches are deep and dangerous, and with the help of Xiahou Yuan, it is not easy for the Jing army to take Nanzheng lightly. This is exactly what the so-called desire to haste but not reach.

Now that he is staying at Dingjun Mountain and not fighting, Liu Ze just wants to give Xiahou Yuan an illusion that he is blocked in front of Dingjun Mountain. With Xiahou Yuan's arrogant character, he would definitely not sit on Nanzheng and choose to rescue Dingjun Mountain. If Xiahou Yuan's 50,000 troops stayed in Nanzheng to defend the city, it would be a headache for Liu Ze, but in the field battle, Liu Ze was confident that Xiahou Yuan would not have the slightest chance.

Sure enough, as Liu Ze expected, after Xiahou Yuan entered Hanzhong, he didn't even enter Nanzheng City, and directly led the army to Dingjun Mountain. Liu Ze immediately raised his account. Ordered Huang Zhong to lead the Eighth Army to ambush on the left side of Dingjun Mountain, and ordered Yan Yan to lead the Ninth Army to ambush on the right side of Dingjun Mountain. Zhao Yun led the First Army to besiege Dingjun Mountain, waited until the battle over there began, and took Dingjun Mountain in one fell swoop.

┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄

Nanzheng was only a hundred or ten miles away from Dingjun Mountain, and Xiahou Yuan rode a tall horse. Loudly scolding the somewhat slack-off soldiers, urging the army to move quickly.

The soldiers of the Cao army were all tired. It is no wonder that crossing the Qinling Mountains from Chencang Road was originally a difficult march, and the original seven-day journey, under the urging of Xiahou Yuan, only took five and a half days to reach Nanzheng. Originally, Cao Bing thought that he could take a breath now, but he didn't expect Xiahou Yuan to simply not enter Nanzheng City, and rushed to Dingjun Mountain non-stop. No one dared to be angry, and there was nowhere to vent their complaints. After all, the soldiers of the Cao army were not cast of iron and bronze, and their feet were naturally much slower.

Xiahou Yuan saw that the soldiers were tired, and he couldn't help but be angry, and he whipped it with a whip, scolding while beating, and the army was silent, so he had to grit his teeth and move forward.

When crossing the Han River, Yamen General Wang Ping said to Xiahou Yuan: "General Xiahou, after the Han River, more than 30 miles forward is Dingjun Mountain, Liu Ze has always used soldiers to haunt the ghost, the general must be careful to take precautions, there may be an ambush in front, it is better to set up a village by the Han River, and it is not too late to march after finding out the situation." Wang Ping is a native of Shuzhong Brazil, moved his family to the Central Plains in the early years, joined the army as a commoner, fought bravely in the Cao military camp and was repeatedly promoted, the official to the general of Yamen, this expedition to Hanzhong, Cao Cao with his familiarity with geography, Wang Ping as the township guide, to help Xiahou Yuan.

Xiahou Yuan looked down on Wang Ping very much, and said with a cold smile: "The art of war is cloudy, one drum of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion, our army's morale is now booming, we should go straight to the foot of the Dingjun Mountain, fight to the death with Liu Ze, win with one drum, camp here, morale drops, why fight?" "Xiahou Yuan opened his mouth and closed his mouth about the art of war, which is clearly to bully Wang Ping for not being illiterate, although Wang Ping was brave in battle, but he was born in a slight cold since he was a child, and he couldn't read a few words in Douda, and he was often despised by those senior generals who were familiar with military books and were born in the world.

Wang Ping ignored Xiahou Yuan's ridicule and said: "General Xiahou, the road leading to Dingjun Mountain is very familiar, the mountain is dangerous and dense, it is the easiest place to set up an ambush, if the Jing army sets up an ambush here, our army will suffer an accident, I hope the general will think twice before acting." ”

Xiahou Yuan's face changed suddenly, and he shouted: "Enough! King Wei asked you to come to lead the way, not to let you point fingers and interfere in military affairs! You haven't read all the big characters yet, are you qualified to teach Ben Du how to fight? ”

Wang Ping said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "The last general will not dare." The last general just reminded him with kind words, hoping that the general would be cautious and not lose the trust of King Wei. ”

"Shut up!" Xiahou Yuan couldn't hold back any longer, his face was blue and white for a while, Wang Ping, a small Yamen general, dared to question his order, and he also brought out Cao Cao, who could not bear it. "Come on, take Wang Ping down for me, bewitch the people, confuse the army's heart, and push it out to behead the public! If anyone disobeys the military order, he will be severely punished! ”

Adjutant General Han Hao comforted: "Kill the general before the battle, it is not good for the army, the general can write down Wang Ping's mistakes first, and then deal with it after the battle." The pioneer Xiahou Shang also interceded for Wang Ping.

Xiahou Yuan said stupidly: "If it weren't for the intercession of the generals, you would not be punished for the crime of neglecting the army's morale today." Although the death penalty is exempted, the living crime cannot be escaped, and someone will give Wang Ping a heavy punishment to me with a hundred military sticks, in order to pay respect! ”

The executioner took Wang Ping down and beat him with a hundred military sticks, so that the skin and flesh were open and the flesh was blurred, but Wang Ping was stunned and did not say a word. Xiahou Yuan's anger did not subside, and Wang Ping was punished to go to the baggage camp to escort grain and grass. Then Xiahou Yuan ordered the camp to set up the village and advance to Dingjun Mountain.

Wang Ping was punished, and the troops were even more afraid, and they didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, so they had to march in a hurry according to the order.

When he arrived at Micang Mountain, he was not far away from Dingjun Mountain, but seeing that the mountain here was treacherous and densely wooded, the leading pioneer Xiahou Shang only felt that the murderous aura in front of him was like a thorn in his back, and he did not dare to move forward. Xiahou Yuan led a large team of men and horses to catch up, and when he saw that Xiahou was still hesitant to enter, he said angrily: "Could it be that you want to learn from Wang Ping?" ”

Although Xiahou Shang is Xiahou Yuan's nephew, he knows that Xiahou Yuan has a temper, which is the six relatives who do not recognize it, and he is afraid at the moment, so he has to lead the army to advance carefully from the thorns.

Just after a ravine, I heard the sound of killing all over the mountain, pouring out countless soldiers and horses, Xiahou Shang was panicked, and was about to return to the horse, a feather arrow passed through his chest, and Xiahou Shang fell directly from the horse to the ground.

It was Huang Zhong who shot the arrow, he lay on the left side of the Micang Mountain, and waited for Xiahou Shang to lead Cao Bing into the ambush circle, and killed the horse, Huang Zhong's archery skills were first-class in the Three Kingdoms era, even if they were separated from a long distance, they could shoot Xiahou Shang with an arrow. Huang Zhong shot Xiahou Shang and led the army out from the left side, and Yan Yan led the army out from the right side of Micang Mountain, trapping Xiahou Yuan's large army in the core.

Xiahou Yuan was shocked when he saw this, but he didn't panic too much after being good at fighting for a long time, and immediately ordered to form a formation to meet the enemy.

But at this moment, Cao Jun's rear team suddenly rose with thick smoke and flames, and Cao Jun was stunned. The place where the fire caught fire was the baggage camp of the Cao army, and the fire that rushed to the sky represented that the grain and grass of the baggage camp had been syrupled, and if there was no food, the army's heart was broken, and the baggage camp was lost, and the Cao army's heart was in turmoil. (To be continued......)