Cao Cao led an army of 100,000 troops, set out from Chang'an, and spent thirteen days entering Hanzhong, where he joined the Yangping guards Zhang He, Xu Huang, Guo Huai, and Du Xian, and fought a decisive battle with Liu Bei.

One thing to say, Boss Cao's level of leading troops is absolutely top, and the 100,000-strong army marched more than 600 miles in thirteen days, some of which are steep and tortuous mountain roads, and the army can still maintain its combat effectiveness. At the level of this leader, it is the top existence in the Three Kingdoms.

But Lao Liu on the other side is not in vain.

Although he entered Hanzhong, he hid on Dingjun Mountain and did not come down, occupying a favorable location, and sat back and watched you Cao Cao lead the troops to meet with the Yangping guards.

Seriously, Boss Cao hoped that Liu Bei would go down the mountain and fight him in a decisive battle on the Hanzhong Plain. My cavalry beats your infantry, or on the plains, and if I don't win, I'll find a stone and kill me.

Liu Bei obviously also knew Cao Cao's plans, so he was stationed on the mountain, I just didn't go down, you have the ability to let the cavalry attack up the mountain. See that I don't shoot you with a bow and arrows.

Both sides wanted to give full play to their greatest advantages and suppress their own disadvantages, so Boss Cao and Lao Liu started a confrontation at the foot of the Dingjun Mountain in Hanzhong.

Cao Cao is not Xiahou Yuan, and he will not run to repair the antlers by himself, so they are fighting with each other.

Cao Cao knew that the mountain road in Yizhou was difficult, and Liu Bei's supply of grain and grass would definitely be more difficult, and if it dragged on for a long time, Liu Bei would have to retreat.

And Liu Bei also knew that Cao Cao came from Chang'an, with an army of 100,000, plus the guards of Yangping Pass, nearly 120,000 people of grain and grass supply can not be supplied only by the grain stock of Yangping Pass, Hanzhong has been fighting for the past two years, and there is not much grain and grass savings, so the supply of grain, grass and ordnance of these 120,000 people needs to be transported through Chang'an, and the grain and grass supply line is very long.

Liu Bei was also waiting, waiting for Cao Cao to be unable to support the supply of grain and grass, so he withdrew from the army.

Both sides are gambling, betting that their opponents' food and grass will run out faster than their own.

Of course, since both sides know that the other's lifeline is food and grass, it is naturally impossible to do nothing.

Cao Cao once sent Xu Huang to lead elite troops to attack from Yangping Pass, bypassing Wei Yan, who was defending Liu Beijun frontally, and attacking Gao Xiang and Huang Quan's garrisoned Micang Mountain Grain Road.

However, Xu Huang did defeat Gao Xiang, but it was definitely not an accident that Gao Xiang was valued by Liu Bei.

Although Gao Xiang was defeated by Xu Huang on the frontal battlefield, he was not defeated by Xu Huang, he packed up the remnants of the army and still stuck to the grain road on the rice warehouse, desperately dragging Xu Huang.

And Xu Huang bypassed Wei Yan to attack, and after a long delay, Wei Yan reacted and led the troops to kill, that is, Xu Huang was facing the dilemma of being attacked from both sides.

What's more, Gao Xiang still has the granary garrison led by Huang Quan behind him, and it is not that there are no reinforcements.

Therefore, after Xu Huang was unable to completely defeat Gao Xiang in a short period of time, he decided to evacuate quickly, not giving Wei Yan a chance to surround him, and retreated to Yangping Pass.

Here, Cao Cao took the lead and failed to break Liu Beijun's grain route, and Liu Beijun also made a move afterwards and attacked Cao Cao's grain route.

Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun found that Cao's army's grain route was not strictly guarded, so Huang Zhong suggested that he lead his troops to attack Cao's army's grain and grass, and Zhao Yun led his troops as a response.

But Cao Cao, a person who has been accustomed to cutting off other people's grain routes all his life, how can he not take precautions against his own grain routes. Huang Zhong crashed into the encirclement set up by Cao Cao, and he couldn't get out of the hard battle.

At this time, Zhao Yun's highlight moment came. There is one thing to say, this 94 version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is really not good, just a few people surround it, is this looking down on Huang Zhong, or looking down on Zhao Yun? !

Zhao Yun in history, but only led a dozen cavalry, first broke through the defense of the outer soldiers of the Cao army, broke into the formation to meet Huang Zhong, and then found that his deputy general Zhang Zhu was surrounded, and then broke into the siege again, rescued Zhang Zhu, and finally in the face of the pressure of the Cao army's soldiers, opened the gate of the village to do a suspicious plan, and finally retreated with a bow and crossbow, scaring off the attack of the Cao army.

Cao Ren completed the first half of the things in Nanjun, and was "shocked" by Chen Jiao, Zhao Yun completed the whole process, and Liu Bei praised Zhao Yun for being "full of courage".

co-authored Cao Ren to fight all his life, and even a bodyguard can't compare to who is this Hanqi?!

Hawkers, speaking of Cao Ren. Now Cao Ren is quite angry.

The relationship between the Xiahou family and the Cao family was originally very close.

No matter whose child Cao Cao is, and whether Cao Cao is powerful or not, the Cao family and the Xiahou family have always been two big families with a fairly good relationship, and they have always had an in-law relationship with each other.

Coupled with so many years of getting along, Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan's friendship is also quite deep.

Now that Xiahou Yuan was beheaded in Dingjun Mountain, Cao Ren was incompetent and furious when he learned about it, and slaughtered the city in Wancheng.

Originally, Cao Ren wanted to go to Hanzhong with Cao Cao to find Liu Bei to take revenge.

However, Wancheng Houyin rebelled, and Guan Yu attacked Xiangfan again, and now he occupies Xiangfan, causing Cao Ren to be unable to follow Cao Cao north.

Therefore, Cao Ren also hated Guan Yu of Xiangfan.

On the one hand, Guan Yu is Liu Bei's second brother, Liu Bei killed Xiahou Yuan, and Cao Ren now also wants to kill Guan Yu very much, so that Liu Bei can also try the taste of losing his brother.

On the other hand, if it weren't for Guan Yu having nothing to do to fight Xiangfan, wouldn't he Cao Ren be sent to Wancheng to take revenge with Cao Cao?!

Therefore, after Cao Ren put down the rebellion of Houyin in Wancheng, after a little rest, he led 20,000 soldiers and rushed towards Xiangfan.

This is also because Cao Ren was carried away by anger, otherwise he would not have done such a heartless thing.

Xiangfan has a total of more than 50,000 defenders, even if you remove the soldiers, there are more than 30,000 soldiers who can fight, he Cao Ren led a mere 20,000 people, what can he do?!

Not to mention, of Cao Ren's 20,000 soldiers, 8,000 were cavalry troops, and only 12,000 were foot soldiers.

In fact, Cao Cao's original arrangement was to let Cao Ren wait in Wancheng for a period of time, and wait for the 50,000 Xuzhou soldiers led by Zhang Liao and Zang Ba to arrive, and then send troops to conquer Xiangfan after the two sides converge.

But before the Xuzhou soldiers led by Zhang Liao and Zang Ba arrived in Luoyang, Cao Ren set off with his troops.

Cao Ren took 8,000 cavalry as the vanguard, led 2,000 foot soldiers, a total of 10,000 people, and set off for Fancheng first, and Xiahou Shang led the remaining 10,000 foot soldiers as the rear army to follow as soon as possible.

As for the reinforcements of Zhang Liao and Zang Ba, Cao Ren kept sending military orders to urge them to rush to Fancheng as soon as possible to join and attack Fancheng together.

One thing to say, at this time, Cao Ren had lost the most basic calmness of a general, and the decisions he made were not reasonable.

But Cao Ren also knew that he couldn't attack the city with the cavalry, although he could move quickly with the cavalry, but if he really wanted to defeat Guan Yu, or even kill Guan Yu, he had to let Guan Yu go out of the city to face the battle, and use the cavalry's advantage in the field to defeat Guan Yu.

But so be it. The defender of Fancheng is Zhang Xi, a ghost who is afraid of death.

Cao Ren was obviously dazed, and he rushed to advance the army without mastering such a simple military intelligence, and when he arrived outside Fancheng, he personally led the troops to Fancheng, claiming that he wanted to fight Guan Yu in the field.

Zhang Xi was speechless for a while listening on the city tower, and then shouted to Cao Ren and said, The second master is still sitting in Xiangyang City, how can he take care of you.

You have to have the ability, swim across the Han River, find the second master to settle accounts, the Han River is so big, and there is no cover, just swim casually.

Or, do you perform a "man can ride a cloud horse in the sky" to show me?!

But if you can perform, I'll give Fan Cheng away. Really, definitely not kidding you.

made Cao Ren angry on the spot, and he really wanted to attack the city directly.

But anyway, although Cao Ren was angry, he was not overwhelmed by anger If the cavalry can attack the city, will he bring people to call for battle.

You can only order the infantry to fire arrows and shoot the soldiers at the head of the city, and if you can, it is better to shoot the lowly guard directly to death.

But Zhang Xi is so cowardly, he usually doesn't have to, he doesn't even go to the city wall, at most he looks at the battle situation on the city tower, even if he is on the city tower now, Zhang Xi is protected by seven or eight guards with shields, you expect to shoot him with arrows, that is too underestimate Zhang Xi's fear of death.

Not to mention letting Zhang Xi give up the advantage of city defense and go out of the city to fight a field battle with you, isn't that blind.

Anyway, Zhang Xi is a choice - stick to it.

Cao Ren was stimulated by Zhang Xi like this, and he was even more anxious.

first set up camp in the north of Fancheng, and then regardless of the demeanor of the general, he personally led the troops to the front of the battle every day, and scolded the wall of the north gate of Fancheng, scolding Zhang Xi for being a turtle with a shrunken head or something, Zhang Xi said that this level of scolding on the street does not even have half of the power of the book review area, and you still want me to break the defense? !

Feel free to scold.

I have to say that Cao Ren is really good in physical strength, and he was able to scold the city wall like this for three days.

In the end, he scolded until he felt bored, so the soldier continued to scold and went back to the camp to rest.

After this rest, Cao Ren finally regained some composure.

First of all, Cao Ren figured out that the defender of Fancheng was Zhang Xi, not Guan Yu and Zhang Xi, who were good at guarding it, and would not easily come out to fight with him.

In Cao Ren's eyes, when he was under the city of Nanjun, he made an appointment with Zhou Yu to fight, if it wasn't for this Zhang Xi who held Zhou Yu's main position, he might have won.

Later, Zhang Xi faced Xiahou Yuan's sudden dispatch to Badong County, and he also used a strategy to introduce Xiahou Yuan into the mountain road and set up an ambush, and then blocked Xiahou Yuan's way and held Badong County.

Therefore, in Cao Ren's opinion, Zhang Xi has not heard of any special ability in attack, but his defensive ability is really good.

In addition, this person is shameless, he has scolded to this extent, and he is about to greet his parents, and he can endure not fighting. You can't really rely on cavalry to attack the city, right?!

Therefore, Cao Ren felt that he was still honest, at least when the infantry led by Xiahou Shang arrived, he would build siege equipment and let the infantry attack the city.

Just when Cao Ren calmed down a little and made a correct judgment, Cao Ren suddenly received a message from Xizuo.

At the same time that Cao Ren led his troops to Fancheng and encircled Fancheng, Guan Yu also received the news that Fancheng was besieged, and personally led the navy to appear on the Han River, and was about to cross the Han River and go ashore to station.

Cao Ren was immediately overjoyed.

My cavalry can't climb the city wall, can't they beat this group of sailors under Guan Yu?!

Cao Ren immediately ordered his lieutenant Chang Diao to lead 2,000 foot soldiers to guard the camp, and he personally led 8,000 cavalry to rush to the north bank of the Han River in a state of group charge.

This time, Cao Ren must rush before Guan Yu sets up a camp, and use cavalry to completely defeat and defeat Guan Yu's army, and even better to behead Guan Yu in battle to avenge Xiahou Yuan.

(End of chapter)