Ma Chao got Pang De's clever plan, so he ordered all departments to retreat. After Ma Chao personally broke off, the military horses of the various departments gradually retreated. When Dong Zhao went to the city the next day to see, he saw that the troops and horses outside the city had retreated. He was deeply afraid of the plan, so he sent a scout horse to search, and saw that Ma Chao's soldiers and horses were really far away, so he was relieved.

Chang'an was besieged for many days, and the soldiers and civilians had no firewood and no food. As soon as Ma Chao's soldiers and horses retreated, the people wanted to go out of the city to fetch firewood and water, and Dong Zhao asked people to open the city gate and let people in and out. There was nothing for several days, until the fifth day, when Ma came to report, Ma Chaobing arrived again, the army and civilians rushed into the city, and Dong Zhao closed the city again and held on.

The person guarding the west gate of Chang'an is Ren Jun, the general of the Diannong Zhonglang who is in charge of Tuntian in Sili. About three watches that night, a fire broke out in Ximenli. Ren Jun saw that there was a fire in the city, and hurriedly led people to rescue him, and suddenly a person rushed out of the city wall and raised his knife and shouted: "Pound is here!" ”

Ren Jun was caught off guard, and was beheaded by Pang De under his horse, and a sergeant under Pang De came to kill and disperse the defenders of Ximen. After Pang De defeated Cao's army, he cut off the lock and let Ma Chao and Han Sui's military horses enter the city. It turned out that Ma Chao withdrew a few days ago, but Pang De did not leave, but led the people of the headquarters to disguise themselves as people and scatter among the mountains and forests. Later, when Dong Zhao opened the city and the people were chopping firewood and transporting grain, they stole into the city to lay an ambush, so they set fire to open the city gate.

Dong Zhao learned that the west gate had been lost, and he knew that Ma Chao's army was unstoppable, so he led his troops to abandon the city from the east gate. Ma Chao and Han Sui won the city and rewarded the three armies.

As soon as Chang'an was lost, Dong Zhao had no danger to defend, and he did not dare to fight with Xiliang Iron Cavalry, so he had to retreat to Tongguan and report to Cao Cao. After Cao Cao killed Ma Teng in Xuchang, he discussed with the generals to enter Xiliang. At that time, Xun Yu offered a plan to divide Ma Chao and Han Sui, and Cao Cao's soldiers and horses did not move for the time being, but waited for Han Sui's reply. Unexpectedly, Han Sui's reply didn't wait, but Ma Chao's soldiers and horses arrived first.

When Cao Cao first heard the report, he didn't take Ma Chao seriously. After all, Ma Teng is dead, and Ma Tie and Ma Xiu have not shown anything extraordinary. Cao Cao thought that Ma Chao was not to be feared like Ma Tie and Ma Xiu. But at this time, when he heard that Chang'an was broken, Cao Cao suddenly became anxious, and gathered the generals and said: "I thought that Ma Teng's death was within reach, and I didn't want Ma Teng to have a son who was so better than his father." Gongren is not good at military affairs, Zilian and Mancheng listen to the order, and the two of you will lead 10,000 horses first to guard Tongguan for Gongren. If you lose the pass within ten days, you will be killed! Ten days away, I will not do anything to the two of you. Our army then arrived. ”

Cao Hong and Li Dian received the order, set off on a starry night, and went to Tongguan to replace Dong Zhao. Cao Ren knew his brother's temperament well, so he said to Cao Cao: "Zilian is impatient, I'm afraid of mistakes." ”

Cao Cao said: "It's not difficult to keep the pass for ten days with Zilian's talent, and there is also Mancheng to help, so there is no need to worry about it." There is a way that the soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved, and you help me escort the grain and grass to Tongguan, and I will raise troops to respond. Cao Ren heard the words and left.

Cao Hong and Li Dian came to Tongguan to replace Dong Zhao, and saw that there were many cavalry in Ma Chao's army, so they still stuck to the pass and did not fight. Ma Chao also knew that his soldiers and horses were not good at attacking the dangerous pass of Jiancheng, so he led the troops to the pass and scolded the three generations of Cao Cao's ancestors, wanting to provoke the generals to fight.

Ma Chao's scolding vocabulary was not rich in words originally, but later he learned a lot of scolding patterns from Nan Ye, Tai Shici and others.

Cao Hong and Cao Cao were close to each other, listening to the scolding of the eight generations of Ma Chao's ancestors in the city, and did not say anything about the greetings of the women of his family, and did not let go of the ancestors with him, so he was naturally angry, so he wanted to raise troops to fight in the pass.

Li Dian dissuaded: "This is Ma Chao's desire to provoke the general to fight, and he must not be tricked." When the prime minister's army arrives, there will be a plan. ”

Cao Hong knew that what Li Dian said was reasonable, but he was still furious: "The thieves in the city are not scolding your ancestors, you can bear it, I can't bear it." ”

Li Dian can be called a wise general, shook his head and persuaded: "The general's words are wrong! The so-called lord worries about the humiliation of the ministers, and the lord humiliates the ministers to death, although Ma Chao did not scold me, my heart is like blood, and the anger is not lost to the general. I also want to go down to the city to fight to the death with the Ma Chao thief, but once I get into the plan, the defeat of the army is small, and what should I do if I lose the pass and break the prime minister's plan to break the enemy? ”

When Cao Hong heard this, he was temporarily angry. Ma Chao saw that the defenders did not come out, so he sent sergeants to take turns to scold day and night. Cao Hong endured it for a while, but he couldn't bear to be humiliated for many days, and he had to go out of the customs to fight, thanks to Li Dian blocking it to the death.

On the ninth day of guarding the pass, Cao Hong looked at the pass, and saw that the people and horses of Xiliang under the pass were tired of scolding, tied the horses aside, and the soldiers sat on the grass in front of the pass to rest. And many of them were needy, so they lay down on the ground.

Cao Hong endured for many days, and when he saw that the opportunity was rare, he ordered people to prepare horses, and did not notify Li Dian, and directly ordered 5,000 soldiers and horses to kill Xiaguan. When the Xiliang soldiers saw Cao Hong out of the customs, they all abandoned their horses and left. Seeing this, Cao Hong was even more in hot pursuit.

Li Dian was closing the gate to see the grain and grass, and suddenly heard the shouting and killing sound under the gate, and he knew that Cao Hong was fighting at the gate. Li Dian was shocked, hurriedly led his troops out of the customs, and then caught up with Cao Hong, shouting Cao Hong to return to the horse.

Without waiting for Cao Hong to collect the army, Li Dian suddenly shouted behind him and the killing sound was shocked, and Ma Dai led the army to kill. Cao Hong only knew about the plan at this time, and wanted to join forces with Li Dian to return to the customs. At this time, I heard a drum sound, and two troops and horses behind the mountain were killed, Ma Chao on the left and Pang De on the right, and the three armies were killed on three sides.

Cao Hong and Li Dian couldn't resist, most of the military horses were damaged, and they desperately broke out of the encirclement and rushed to the front of the pass. Without waiting for the two of them to lead all the troops into the pass, they heard a drum on the side of the pass, Han Sui led the troops to kill, and Ma Chao and the three of them also chased after him. Cao Hong and Li Dian had to abandon the pass and leave.

Ma Chao stayed in Han Sui to guard the pass, and led Pang De and Ma Dai to chase through Tongguan and killed countless Cao Jun. Seeing that he caught up with Cao Hong and Li Dian, he saw a group of men and horses behind the mountain, and countless military flags were erected on the mountain, all of which were Cao Jun's banners, and the handsome flag was a "Cao" character. Ma Chao did not expect that there were people and horses ambushing here, and mistakenly thought that Cao Cao's army was here, so he did not dare to chase after him anymore and collected his troops and returned to the pass.

Cao Hong and Li Dian escaped with their lives and stepped forward to greet the general, and it turned out to be Cao Ren who was escorting grain and grass. At this time, Cao Ren was also shocked into a cold sweat, if Ma Chao came to fight just now, he and these grain transporters were not opponents at all, and the grain and grass would be robbed by Ma Chao. It was precisely because Cao Ren knew that Ma Chao was powerful, so when he heard the sound of shouting and killing just now, he did not lead troops to respond, but planted a false flag on the mountain, so he ran away from Ma Chao with suspicion.

After Cao Ren rescued Cao Hong and Li Dian, he didn't have to go to Tongguan, and went back to the army directly to see Cao Cao, at this time Cao Cao's army was only a day's journey from Tongguan.

Cao Cao saw Cao Hong and said angrily: "I ordered you to guard the pass for ten days, why did you lose the Tong Pass on the ninth day?" ”

Cao Hong bowed his head and was ashamed to defend: "The Xiliang soldiers have been insulting in every way for many days, but I have been forbearing. Later, when he saw that his army was slack, he took advantage of the situation to kill, but unexpectedly fell into the thief's trick. ”

Cao Cao looked at Li Dian again and said, "Zilian is young and irritable, Mancheng, you should dissuade him!" ”

Li Dian said aggrievedly: "The last general has repeatedly refused to obey. On that day, I counted the grain and grass at the pass, and when I knew that the little general had already gone down. The last general hurried away for fear of mistakes, and this was the thief's trick. ”

When Cao Cao heard this, he asked Cao Hong: "What Mancheng said is the truth?" ”

Cao Hong was also single, nodded and said: "Every sentence is true!" ”

Cao Cao said angrily: "The loss of this battle is not in Mancheng, it is all in you Cao Hong." Come on, push it out and cut it! ”

When the generals heard that Cao Cao was going to kill Cao Hong, they hurriedly stepped forward to persuade Cao Cao to calm his anger. Everyone said a basket of good words, and Cao Cao exempted Cao Hong from the death penalty, and ordered someone to pull down and severely punish fifty military sticks to set an example.

After punishing Cao Hong, Cao Cao ordered the march to Tongguan. Xun You admonished: "There are many cavalry soldiers in Ma Chao's army, and our army's foot soldiers are probably not opponents." It is better to set up camp first, set up more horses and thistles, and then beat the pass. Even if you are defeated, you can retreat to the camp. ”

Cao Cao thought it was safe to do this, so he ordered his soldiers to cut down trees, erect fences, and divide them into three villages. Cao Ren on the left, Xiahou Yuan on the right, Cao Cao and the generals are in the middle of the village.

The camp was set up, and Cao Cao led three battalions of soldiers and soldiers to kill Bentong Pass. Ma Chao heard that Cao Cao's soldiers were coming and did not guard the pass, so he directly led the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to set up a formation in front of the pass. It's not that Ma Chao abandoned the advantageous terrain of the pass, but that Xiliang Tieqi was not good at attacking the city and not good at guarding the pass. If they abandon their horses and defend the pass, it is not as efficient as charging in front of the battle on horseback.

After the two armies faced each other, Cao Cao looked at the Xiliang Iron Cavalry opposite from afar under the gate flag. I saw that these iron horsemen were bright and bright, everyone was brave and healthy, and they were all heroes. Looking at the face of the leader Ma Chaosheng, his lips are like Fu Fan, his lips are painted with Zhu, his waist is thin and his shoulders are wide, his voice is strong, he is in white robe and silver armor, and he is holding a golden gun. Not only is Ma Chao's image handsome and eye-catching, but also Pang De and Ma Dai behind Ma Chao are also heroic.

Cao Cao saw that the three generals on the opposite side were extraordinary, and he couldn't help but be secretly surprised, and he had a heart of love for talents and wanted to recruit them. So he stepped forward and said: "You are the descendant of a famous general of the Han Dynasty, why did you rebel against the court and send troops to attack?" ”

Ma Chao saw Cao Cao's eyes red, gritted his teeth and scolded: "the thief!" You apologize for your recklessness, and the crime cannot be punished! Harm my father and brother, don't share the hatred of the sky! I'll pick your dog's skin and eat your meat raw!" With that, the spear and Pegasus came straight to Cao Cao.

The generals behind Cao Cao saw that Ma Chao came to kill Cao Cao with a spear, how could he let him get his wish? Le Jin patted the horse and danced the knife out to greet him, and the two horses fought in one place. Now that Ma Chao is an adult, his marksmanship is even greater, and today he came with hatred, and the already fierce and strong Ma family gun has three more points of murderous spirit. The two fought for eight or nine times, and Le Jin couldn't resist and turned around and left.

Ma Chao was just about to chase Le Jin, and Cao Cao was killed in the array, making a Xuanhua axe directly split Ma Chao. Ma Chao's tiger head Zhan golden gun blocked the giant axe, and the sergeants of the two armies could only hear a loud sound of "dang chang~". Ma Chao secretly said in his heart: This person has a lot of strength! When I raised my eyes, I saw that the military general in front of him had a black face and a pair of cheeks and steel hair, which was somewhat similar to Zhang Fei.

The person who made the big axe was not a bystander, but Gao Lan, the general of Yuan Shao, who surrendered to Cao Cao during the Battle of Guandu. As one of the four pillars of Hebei Province, Gao Ran is also a brave person, and his pure strength is equal to Yan Liang and Wen Chou, but his martial arts are slightly inferior to Yan and Wen's two generals, but he also has a first-class level, and ordinary generals are by no means his opponents.