When Cao Yong came to the back mountain, he saw a very dangerous scene.

Although the back mountain is not high, the mountain is very steep, with cliffs tens of meters high on both sides, and only a small path in the middle can be entered.

"No wonder they want to flee into this mountain, it turns out that this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it may not be easy to kill it."

Cao Yong looked at the scene in front of him and knew that it might not be easy to attack hard. But after thinking about it for a while, I felt that it was not a big deal, after all, there were many of them.

When he attacked before, he only saw that the guard force of the Yellow Gate Pavilion was only a few hundred people, although he didn't know what the combat effectiveness was, but this strength could not form much of a defensive force at all.

So thinking of this, he said to the officers around him: "The enemy is only a few hundred people, although it occupies a dangerous position, but we should not be afraid, just charge up directly." ”

"Yui."

The officers received the order and immediately began to organize the offensive of the troops according to the order.

Cao Yong himself has always been the first to take the lead, and this time he was in the second team, with hundreds of death squads in front of him, ready with shields and spears, and began to march towards the mountains.

There used to be a lot of trees in the back mountain, but now they have been cut down almost completely, so the view is quite open, and when you enter the mountain road, you can see that there is only a gate made of wooden fence at the end of the road, and there are some thistles and horses blocking the way.

In order to prevent pits and rolling stones from falling down, the soldiers did not dare to run and charge, but cautiously walked along the mountain road inside, but they did not know that above their heads, countless pairs of eyes were watching them.

Several cages were built on the cliffs above both sides of the mountain road, and there were some fist-sized window holes above the cages, which could not be penetrated by people, but arrows could be shot out, and spears could also be poked out, which can be called the defense ability of the long thorns on the turtle shell.

The death squads rushed to the outside of the fence, and they actually noticed the tall towers on both sides of their heads, but after all, they were dozens of meters away, and they couldn't see the small holes in the towers, so they didn't know what they did, and they didn't guard against them.

"Shoot the arrows."

With the order of Deng Zhao and Shen Zhen, suddenly the arrows fell like raindrops, clanging and shooting on the shield, or the sound of shooting into the flesh with a pop.

"Ahhhh

"Not good, there is an ambush."

"Withdraw, withdraw."

Countless arrows rained down, shooting all over the already crowded mountain road.

Except for a few lucky ones, most of the Cao soldiers were caught off guard and shot into hedgehogs.

The crowd fled in panic and stumbled down the hill.

Soon the mountain road was full of corpses, and the death squads of about 300 people ran out.

"It turns out those towers are arrow towers."

Cao Yong saw it clearly in the rear, gritted his teeth and said, "Let the soldiers raise their heads and shields." ”

At that moment, the second team held their shields above their heads and began to rush up the mountain.

This time the arrows really didn't have much effect.

But soon the top of his head was smashed down, and Cao Jun jumped again, leaving more than 100 corpses and running away.

Seeing that the offensive was not going well, Cao Yong did not dare to continue his actions and hesitated at the foot of the mountain.

At this moment, on the top platform of the Qiong cage above, Shen Chen took a big horn, that is, the one that Huang Shilang took when the bullet flew away, and shouted loudly: "Just by waiting for you, you also want to destroy my Huangmen Pavilion?" Let Cao Ren come! ”

"Damn!"

Cao Yong was furious, he wanted to set fire to the mountain, but the trees in the mountain were all cut down, and he couldn't set fire at all, and there was no other way, thinking of Cao Ren's death order, he gritted his teeth and said: "Kill, kill me." ”

This time, I'm going to pile it up with human lives.

At that moment, the officers at all levels gave the order, and the soldiers had to rush forward one after another into the mountains, and after paying nearly 300 casualties, they finally killed the outside of the fence gate, and then used a ladder to cross the fence and dismantle the fence gate.

After finally entering the back mountain, Cao Yong, including Cao Yong, who rushed in in with a rain of arrows and rolling stones, was dumbfounded, because the back mountain valley was not what he imagined at all, all the villagers of Huangmen Pavilion were hiding here, but a wasteland in TM.

The valley is not large, not even less than two thousand square meters. There is nothing in the valley, only some caves and some coal ash residues on the left and right mountains, and on the mountains on all sides, there are dozens of Qiong cages.

"Do you know this?"

Shen Chen took the loudspeaker and continued to destroy his mentality: "You have been surrounded, and those who surrender will not die." ”

Cao Yong pointed to the Qiong cage in Shen Chen's direction and gritted his teeth and said, "Destroy that arrow tower." ”

The soldiers immediately rushed in the direction of the cage.

Once inside the back mountain, it is much easier to ascend the mountain, because the mountain is not vertically steep, but has a certain slope.

The soldiers immediately climbed dozens of meters down the hill and came to the bottom of the cage.

But there is no place to go in or go up, you know, at that time, the arrow towers had stairs, and buildings like Qionglong that entered from the ground were not known to anyone at all except for the Qiang people in the northwest.

Many Cao soldiers circled around the Qionglong, but the Huangmenting soldiers hiding in the Qionglong were not relentless at all, and when they approached, they immediately shot arrows down without money, and spears stabbed out without life.

The soldiers of the Cao army were caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties. It can be said that along the way from outside the mountain to inside the mountain, there have been 2,000 people killed and wounded, and 7 or 800 people have been wounded, but the shadow of the enemy has not yet been seen.

"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw!"

Until this time, no matter how stupid Cao Yong was, he understood that this was not a place he could capture, and hurriedly gave the order to retreat.

The soldiers threw away their armor and fled in a hurry in the rain of arrows.

Even Shen Chen shot two arrows, but his arm strength was not as good as that of an adult after all, although he shot accurately, he didn't shoot the Cao soldier dead, and he let him escape with an arrow stuck in his shoulder.

Just as he was regretting, he suddenly noticed that on the opposite cage not far away, his father Shen Zhen bent his bow and arrows, holding his breath.

His arrows were aimed at Cao Yong, who was fleeing out of the mountain below.

"Buzz!"

"Whew!"

First the sound of the bowstring came, and then there was a thud, and the long arrow tore through the void like a meteor and sank into the back of Cao Yong's neck.

Fourteen years later, at the hands of Pang De in the Battle of Weinan, the lieutenant general Cao Ren, who died at the hands of Pang De in the Battle of Weinan, fell to the ground with a muffled voice.

The surrounding guards hurriedly lifted his body, and under the cover of the shield and the surrounding soldiers, he fled out of the back mountain in a hurry and ran in the direction of the manor.

"We won."

"Win!"

"Ho ho

After seeing that the soldiers of the Cao army had almost left nearly a thousand corpses and fled from the back mountains, the soldiers of Huangmenting let out enthusiastic cheers.

You must know that in this battle, none of them died, and nearly half of the Cao soldiers who came to attack were killed or wounded, which is a shocking achievement.

And all this is because of that child's command.

For a while, Shen Chen's prestige soared again, and all the soldiers and villagers in the Huangmen Pavilion worshipped him as a god.

At the same time, Cao Yong's officers fled from the manor with the remnants of their soldiers and horses and headed west.

Cao Ren was actually not far away, and more than twenty minutes ago, he received news from Cao Yong that he had captured the manor.

At this moment, he is ambushing in the forest in the area of Bishui in the southwest of Huangmen Pavilion, Huyang is on the south bank of Bishui, if Gan Ning comes to help, he will definitely pass through here, and he will be ambushed by him at that time.

At this time, suddenly a fast horse came, the scout's face was full of sweat, he anxiously turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and said, "General, Cao Sima is dead in battle." ”

"What?"

Cao Ren was shocked: "What's the matter? ”

The scout said: "After the Huangmenting Manor was breached, they fled into the back mountain, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there was only one mountain road to enter, and the surrounding mountain tops were built with arrow towers, Cao Sima attacked and was shot by arrows and died. ”

"Damn!"

Cao Ren was furious, and he not only lost a lieutenant general, but also a clan brother.

The scout said again: "Then Shen Chen also clamored for the general to go and ask him to go in person. ”

Cao Ren's eyes suddenly turned red, and he raised his head to look in the direction of Huyang, where a team of scouts was returning.

Soon the scout came to his side, and Cao Ren asked, "How?" ”

The scout replied, "No movement." ”

"It seems that the Huyang guard doesn't care about the life or death of the Huangmen Pavilion at all."

On the side, Chun Yudao said: "General, let's directly attack Huyang, and then go back and destroy Huangmen Pavilion." ”

"No."

Cao Ren pondered: "Cao Yong died in battle, the army's morale must be unstable, and now it is too reckless to attack Huyang, we must first break the Huangmen Pavilion to boost the army's morale." ”

In the final analysis, no matter how easy the Huangmen Pavilion is to defend and difficult to attack, it is just a mountain, Cao Yong can kill it, and so can he.

And what about Huyang?

It was a city, and there were four or five thousand defenders in it.

Originally, Cao Ren's soldiers and horses were only 5,000 people in a school, and compared with Gan Ning, the number of people was not cheap, and it was still a siege battle, which was very difficult to fight.

That's why he chose the tactic of encircling the point to send reinforcements, wanting to force Gan Ning to come to the rescue by attacking Huangmen Pavilion.

As a result, he never expected that Cao Yong, who he sent, lost the first battle, not only suffered heavy casualties, but also lost his own life, and the army's morale was unstable.

Therefore, in this case, Cao Ren can only think about destroying the Huangmen Pavilion with the army first, and if the people on the Huyang side are willing to go out of the city to come to the rescue, he has 4,000 men and horses left, and he doesn't mind fighting with Gan Ning in the wild.

But if Gan Ning doesn't come, then Cao Ren may have to consider going back to Xinye to rest first after eliminating Huangmen Pavilion, and wait until the morale of the army is adjusted before launching an attack on Huyang.

"But what if when we attack the Yellow Gate Pavilion, then Gan Ning suddenly leads the army to come to help?"

Zhai Yuan said with some concern.

However, Cao Ren sneered: "Liu Biao's army is just a rabble, Zhang Ji is only 10,000 people, and his 20,000 army is almost defeated, are we still afraid that he will not succeed?" Ordered the scouts to investigate, and the rest of the people followed me to the Yellow Gate Pavilion. ”

When the soldiers heard this, they cheered up and said, "Only." ”

In fact, if an ordinary person encounters a defeat of his own division, he may choose to withdraw his troops because he is worried that the enemy may be flanked left and right.

But Cao Ren still felt that Liu Biao did not practice martial arts, they had investigated at the beginning, and when Zhang Xiu came to Nanyang, Liu Biao was defeated by 20,000 people, if Zhang Ji was not killed by a stray arrow, maybe Zhang Ji would not have united with Liu Biao at all.

Therefore, in this case, he thought that his 5,000 elites and Gan Ning's 5,000 people would inevitably win a big victory in the field, so he didn't take Gan Ning seriously at all.

The main reason is that he has never heard of Gan Ning at all.

Gan Ning was one of Jiang Biao's ministers in Eastern Wu later, but at this time he was just a new middle-level general under Liu Biao.

Historically, he was a low-level officer under Liu Zhang, and he was still a low-level officer under Liu Biao, until last year because of Deng Hong's recommendation, he was promoted to captain, so in Cao Ren's view, he was just a nobody, and he must not be his opponent.

But he didn't know that Gan Ning himself had 800 elite sail thieves as the team, and later after being promoted to captain, he eliminated the old and weak from the surrendered Nanyang Yellow Turban Army, selected the strong, and now has been training soldiers for more than a year.

This army is very different from Liu Biao's other troops in terms of spirit, at least it is much stronger than the soldiers under Zhang Yun's command, and compared with the soldiers and horses hired by Wen, it is not far behind.

So Cao Ren will soon know how much of a surprise this force will bring him.

After giving the order, Cao Ren immediately chose to go east.

The army came to the Yellow Gate Pavilion like a wolf, and this time there was almost no obstruction, and it entered the manor.

Since the manor was connected to the back mountain, Cao Ren did not set fire to the manor, because that would block their way to attack the back mountain, unless they did not want to attack the Yellow Gate Pavilion and would do so when they withdrew their troops.

Therefore, under the leadership of Cao Yong's remnants, he came all the way to the bottom of the back mountain. From a distance, I saw the Huangmen Pavilion soldiers who were cleaning up the corpses and rolling stone and wood on the mountain road, and when they saw them coming back, these soldiers left the corpses and the rolling stone and wood, and ran to the mountain.

"Chase!"

Cao Ren's eyes lit up, this was an opportunity, because the opponent was still cleaning up the battlefield and definitely didn't have time to be in position, so he should take the opportunity to attack.

At that moment, the soldiers of the Cao army rushed towards the mountain road like waves, and suddenly countless arrows rained down.

The narrow mountain road, coupled with the previous corpses and rolling stone and wood covering, caused many obstacles, which caused a great obstacle to the march of Cao's army, but after the arrival of the main force, they finally killed them in the rain of arrows.

In fact, the main reason is that the arrow reserves of Huangmen Pavilion have been consumed a lot, after all, they do not have such a big power like Cao Cao, they can get millions of arrows, but it is a township pavilion force, at that time it was very expensive to make arrows, and the entire Huangmen Pavilion was only more than 10,000 arrows, and Cao Yong shot three or four thousand, so naturally they had to save money.

Therefore, when the arrow rain offensive decreased, Cao Ren only paid more than 200 casualties, and rushed into the back mountain.

And then.......

Then he looked at the scene in the valley surrounded by countless cages, and like Cao Yong, he was dumbfounded.

Where is this TM?

There is no one in there at all, where have all the people gone?

"Who is at the foot of the mountain, do you know this formation?"

Shen Chen continued to shout with a loudspeaker on the cage, he didn't know that Cao Ren was coming.

Cao Ren shuddered, then turned his head and looked at Qiong Cage in the distance.

He will never forget this childlike voice for the rest of his life.

"Shen Chen!"

Cao Ren squeezed out two words from between his teeth, and then roared angrily: "You Ye Ye Cao Ren is here!" ”