Wei Yan's approach is quite a bit of the meaning of killing Ma Mingzhi when Manzhong persuaded Cao Ren to stick to Fancheng.

But. There is one point, Wei Yan is actually mistaken.

The man who was full of favor killed back then was his own horse, which represents the meaning that he would never abandon the soldiers and defend Fancheng with the soldiers to the end. Wei Yan wanted to kill all the war horses, in order to cut off the back road for this group of Liangzhou cavalry to break through and survive.

The meaning of the two is completely different, and the results are naturally different.

Manzhong did that at that time, it did inspire the morale of the defenders of Fancheng, although it was useless, an unreasonable bastard loaded a catapult on the boat, and finally smashed it and could only run away by paddling on the door panel, until now it has been Cao Pi, Cao Heng two generations of emperors stayed in Yecheng as a cool official to watch the house, basically cut off the possibility of leading the troops.

I have to say that full of pets is actually quite miserable.

Hawkers, don't mention this unlucky guy, let's go back to Wei Yan. Wei Yan ordered all the horses to be killed, but it aroused public outrage.

The reason is very simple, Wei Yan did this in every sense, asking for the lives of all the Liangzhou cavalry.

The relationship between cavalry and war horses is very close.

In these years, war horses are very scarce, causing the cavalry to have a strange feeling when treating their war horses - I can die, but my war horse can't be injured.

Now that Wei Yan wants to kill the war horses in the army, it is impossible for this group of Liangzhou cavalry to be indifferent.

Another one, and the most important point, the Liangzhou cavalry did regard the war horse as the last way to escape.

Once the battle situation is unfavorable and the enemy army really breaks through Tongguan, then these Liangzhou cavalry run on two legs, which is definitely not as fast as running on four legs. Now that someone is going to cut off their back road, the Liangzhou cavalry really dares to fight with Wei Yan.

Therefore, Wei Yan's military order immediately caused a lot of turmoil in the army, and even directly affected the morale and morale of the defenders.

Wei Yan quickly realized this, seeing that the army's heart was now in turmoil to this point, if he continued to insist on killing these war horses, I am afraid that he would not have to wait for a while for the Wei army to attack the city again, and now the army would have to fight among themselves.

In the end, this is not Wei Yan's own headquarters of soldiers and horses, and now his personal guards have lost only seventeen people, once the mutiny, Wei Yan is powerless to suppress it.

However, the military order has been issued, and Wei Yan can't just take back the military order, otherwise, in the more difficult battle to defend the city in the future, who can still trust him and obey his command?!

In desperation, Wei Yan could only make a compromise - killed the mount war horse that had followed him for ten years, and announced in public that he would live and die with Tongguan.

Lao Tzu will cut off my own if you continue to follow your back path, but you bastards, before Lao Tzu dies in battle, give me peace of mind to defend the city - this is probably the meaning of Wei Yan's killing of his own war horse.

A potential mutiny, temporarily quelled.

But this response made Wei Yan see that his current situation could not expect these Liangzhou soldiers to fight to the death, and he still needed to make all preparations after breaking the city.

Originally, Wei Yan didn't want to do this, but now Wei Yan secretly summoned his personal guards and asked them to prepare for the worst according to their own ideas.

Then, continue to defend the city, which can be dragged on for a day.

Just when Wei Yan himself had pessimistic thoughts about guarding Tongguan, the frontal battlefield of Tongguan changed again.

The reason for the change was that Cao Zhen was in the middle lane, and he couldn't withstand the wheel attack launched by Zhang Xi, so he transferred 1,000 reinforcements from his right flank, that is, Dai Ling's army, to support the middle lane.

There's no way, Cao Zhen can't transfer troops from the left flank, the pressure over there is also very great, just now he sent a thousand soldiers to stabilize the current situation, if he is transferred back to the left flank, it will definitely collapse directly.

Therefore, Cao Zhen could only transfer troops from Dai Ling's side.

But the problem is that Dai Ling himself is already very difficult to fight against 3,800 cavalry with 6,000 foot soldiers.

In the face of cavalry, the infantry can only be beaten passively and deployed on the spot, without the assistance of 2,000 archers, Dai Ling will not be able to hold out now.

Well, now that Cao Zhen is going to transfer a thousand people to the Chinese army to support. What can Dai Ling do, he can't say that he won't give it, right?!

Therefore, Dai Ling, who lacked a thousand people to arm, could only choose to temporarily shrink the formation and shorten the arming space to deal with the threat of Zhao Yun's cavalry.

But Dai Ling did this, which also gave Zhao Yun a chance.

Originally, Zhao Yun did not think about breaking through the defense line of the right flank of the Wei army set by Dai Ling, after all, Zhao Yun's combat mission was to contain and mobilize the distribution of Wei troops, so as to create conditions for the breakthrough of the middle and left flank.

After all, Zhao Yun led the cavalry, even if he broke through the defense line and entered Tongguan, at most, it would be the same as Wei Yan's sneak attack on Tongguan, letting the cavalry dismount and use it as infantry, wasting the combat effectiveness of the cavalry.

Therefore, after discussing with Zhao Yun, Zhang Xi still felt that Zhao Yun should play the role of feint attack and containment, and the main breakthrough direction was still placed on the infantry on the left side of the middle road and Tongguan.

But. Wei Yan took the initiative to go out of the city to fight.

Wei Yan took the initiative to go out of the city to fight, in fact, the symbolic meaning is obvious. But if Wei Yan could rely on the Tongguan wall to hold on to the Wei army's attack, there was really no need for him to risk going out of the city to burn the siege equipment.

After all, Wei Yan had such a small number of troops in his hands, and it was not enough to defend the city, so how could he take the initiative to go out of the city to fight at the risk of a large number of battle losses.

Zhao Yun believed that Wei Yan was not the kind of person who made brainless decisions for the sake of recklessness, and Wei Yan chose to take the initiative to go out of the city to fight, there was only one possibility - these siege equipment outside the city had a great threat to the defense of the city.

Combined with today's siege battle, even if Zhao Yun is far away, he can still see the Wei army constantly climbing the city wall. This shows that Wei Yan is very likely to be unable to withstand the city wall, so he had to risk going out of the city and choosing to burn the siege equipment of the Wei army.

In other words, Tongguan could be at risk of losing at any time.

And if Tongguan is lost, then it is not a question of who will attack and who will contain it.

Zhao Yun made a decision in an instant, and he began to take the initiative to attack the junction of Dai Ling's army and Cao Zhen's army.

Zhao Yun did this, which frightened Dai Ling - it was in this part yesterday that Zhao Yun found an entry point, and led the troops to directly assault Cao Zhen's Chinese army.

Of course, Dai Ling couldn't let Zhao Yun's old tricks succeed, so he immediately gathered his forces and deployed them horizontally in the direction of Cao Zhen's Chinese army.

And Dai Ling's deployment will naturally lead to the reduction of the defensive area, and Dai Ling himself has been transferred another thousand people, and the defensive area is even narrower.

As a result, on the other side of Dai Lingjun's side, there was a gap in the defensive area.

As soon as Zhao Yun saw that the enemy army had moved the road, he immediately did not hesitate, and directly divided the troops, and more than 2,000 cavalry continued to attack the junction of the Chinese army of Dai Ling and Cao Zhen, containing Dai Ling's soldiers, while he personally led a thousand cavalry to the flank in the opposite direction, trying to bypass the defense area of Dai Ling's army, and from the exposed gap, drill into the main battlefield in front of Tongguan.

Zhao Yun suddenly changed formation, and Dai Ling's face suddenly changed greatly.

It's not that Dai Ling saw through Zhao Yun's combat intentions, on the contrary, Dai Ling understood Zhao Yun's combat intentions wrong Dai Ling thought that Zhao Yun was trying to bypass his own defense range, drill into the Wei army, and launch a backstab attack on Cao Zhen's Chinese army from the inside.

Cao Zhen's Chinese army, plus the reinforcements he sent in the past, is now only more than 3,000 people, and he will face the siege of seven or eight thousand Shu thieves head-on, and if there is another thousand cavalry behind him. The whole battle will collapse in no time.

Therefore, while Dai Ling continued to face the threat of more than 2,000 cavalry in front of him, he had to grit his teeth and divide his troops into 800 people, so that they could quickly intercept these 1,000 cavalry. They are not required to block it, but as long as they can delay a little time, it is enough to give Wang Chang time to react.

At the same time, Dai Ling hurriedly asked Wang Chang behind him for help, asking them to try their best to block the breakthrough of this thousand cavalry and protect General Cao's back.

Dai Ling did his best, really did his best. If Cao Zhen didn't transfer the thousand foot soldiers in his hand, that gap in the flank of the battlefield would not have been possible at all.

But in the same way, when this gap appeared and was caught by Zhao Yun, it was impossible for the interception troops sent by Dai Ling to completely block the breakthrough of this cavalry, at most it was just to bite the tail of this cavalry and delay their attack speed.

Even if Zhao Yun's cavalry needed to go around half a circle to drill through this gap in the battlefield, the speed of the cavalry was much faster than that of the infantry.

In this way, Zhao Yun rushed into the main battlefield from the gap in the Wei army's defense before the soldiers sent by Dai Ling were in place, and then rushed in the direction of Tongguan, advancing quickly.

At the same time, Wang Chang, who received Dai Ling's warning, also hurriedly dispatched the 3,000 reserves he held in his hand, ready to deploy in the direction behind General Cao Zhen.

But, soon, Wang Chang found that it seemed that something was not quite right. How did this cavalry come in the direction of Tongguan?!

If you want to attack General Cao Zhen, you should go in the direction of the left flank of Tongguan, right?!

But then, Wang Chang was shocked, and suddenly understood the intention of this cavalry, and immediately ordered the 3,000 foot soldiers in his hand to go to the front of the Tongguan battlefield to set up a defensive line, even if all the 3,000 people fought out, they could not let this cavalry rush into Tongguan and increase the defensive strength of Tongguan.

Tongguan is the real core of this battle.

(End of chapter)