"Poof!"

A knife fell, and his neck was cracked in two by the sharp blade.

The human head was suddenly washed out by the splatters of arterial blood, and rolled on the ground several times before stopping.

Then Cao Hong's corpse, which was already leaning forward, fell softly and slammed into the ground, making a "bang" sound, causing dust to splash.

The blood from the crack in the neck suddenly flowed into the dirt and spread outward, converging into a stream, merging into the mud that had been moistened by the rain, and infecting the earth.

Shen Chen still maintained the posture of beheading, just like when he beheaded Cao Ren, the blood also sprayed on him, and the blood stained all over his body.

This is the smell of the blood of the enemy.

"The enemy will give the head!"

Because Shan Yi was injured, the bread was gone, and only his disciple Wu Dang was around.

Seeing this, Wu Dang raised the knife in his hand and shouted.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

When the Nanyang soldiers saw Shen Chen beheading the enemy's commander, they shouted enthusiastically.

Shen Chen indifferently looked at Cao Hong, who was covered in hair, and his head was dead, without a hint of revenge, only a pity.

It's a pity that I didn't play much.

"Take Cao Hong's head and sacrifice the flag, stick a bamboo pole on the flag, and attack the west camp of the Cao army!"

Shen Chen gave an order and continued to attack.

The battle began in the early afternoon and continued into the evening.

After the rain subsided, the flood level gradually decreased, after all, the rain in the past few days was enough for the ground to rise one or two feet deep.

The reason why the flood broke out was because Shen Chen's old trick was repeated, when he was in Yixian, he built dams everywhere in the Funiu Mountain and accumulated water flow, so that after the mountain flood broke the embankment, the water flow of the battlefield rose to a height of zhang.

However, the place where they fought belonged to the Yingchuan and Runan Plains, and the terrain did not allow water to be stored, causing the water to scatter and drain away, and soon the water level dropped, revealing Cao's army camp.

And it's getting dark.

The sky was too dark to be conducive to combat, so when night fell at the end of the day, the Nanyang army could only withdraw and leave first, and retreated to the headquarters camp.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhao Yan immediately gathered the scattered fugitives, transferred all the surviving soldiers on the eastern and central mountains to the western camp, and at the same time stepped up repairing the camps, hoarded bows and crossbows and other arrows, and mobilized all the 20,000 troops left behind in the rear and the troops in Kunyang.

At dawn the next day, the clouds dispersed and the rain stopped, and Shen Chen began a new round of offensive.

However, Zhao Yan, Deng Zhan, Jia Xin and others were still extremely well defended, and the western camp was not flooded like the eastern camp and the middle camp, and it could not be taken in a short time.

However, Cao Hong's death still dealt a serious blow to the morale of the army, even if Zhao Yan, Deng Zhan, Jia Xin and others continued to boost morale, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was still not high.

If it weren't for the muddy land caused by the flood, and the siege equipment couldn't come over, maybe Shen Chen would have been able to take down Henan's Cao army today.

Rao is like this, Shen Chen still put great pressure on Zhao Yan, especially after the incident of giving birth to a woman gradually spread among Cao Junjun, it made the morale of the army drop again.

The only good news was that Shen Chen raised 50,000 troops to the north, and Cao Hong's 100,000 troops did not come all, but brought 80,000, and left 20,000 people in Dingling, Yunxian and other places to escort grain and grass in the rear and prevent the grain road from being cut off.

In this way, coupled with the reinforcements such as Jia Xin sent by Cao Pi before, even if in yesterday's flood, the Cao army lost at least 30,000 horses and the main general Cao Hong, the guard force on the front line is still very sufficient, so Shen Chenyi is still in a situation of fighting less and more, and he can't take the pavilion for the time being.

The two sides began to stalemate again, and Shen Chen was not in a hurry. He was waiting for Zhang Xiu's news, just as Lu Meng asked the families of Guan Yu's soldiers on the front line to write letters to their families in history, as long as the letters from the soldiers' families were sent to the front line, see what else Zhao Yan could do.

It's just that...... Just when Shen Chen beheaded Cao Hong and attacked Cao Ying, the rear was already on fire.

At the beginning of June, Sun Quan officially raised troops, Sun Jiao quickly took the five counties of Jingnan, and then marched to Jiangling, Jiangling defenders were not many, and soon Sun Jiao also captured, and then divided more than 10,000 troops to garrison Yidao to prevent Liu Bei from reinforcing the army, and the other part took Xiakou directly.

At the same time, Lü Meng crossed the river in white clothes, galloped in the starry night, seized the Xiakou wharf, and burned the Jiangxia sailor ships on the wharf, so that Xiakou's yellow shot was almost in an embarrassing situation where there were no boats available.

Then the 16,000 people sent out by Huang Jie before were deceived by Sun Quan, went east from the Yangtze River, entered Anhui from the mouth of Anhui to the north, and when they arrived in Anhui County, they were attacked by Sun Quan and Zhang Liaojun and were trapped in the city of Anhui County.

In this way, coupled with Sun Quan's own personal leadership of the army to surround Xunyang, the entire Jingzhou changed overnight.

The strength of the Jiangxia Naval Division was weakened by the division of troops, Xiakou, Wanxian and Xunyang were surrounded at the same time, and Jingnan and Jiangling were lost, which meant that Jiangxia and Xiling were also about to be lost, and threatened Zhangling and Nanyang.

For a time, the whole Jingzhou was in turmoil, and Shen Chen still didn't know the situation in the rear, and he was still attacking Cao's army on the front line.

On Cao Jun's side, after Cao Hong's death, the news Pegasus reported to Yecheng, which shocked China for a while, and Cao Pi, who stayed in Yecheng, was shocked, and Kuaima sent someone to send a letter to Xiliang.

Meanwhile.

Xiliangyuan, Hanyang County, now Tianshui County, south of Lucheng, Qishan area.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei are still in a standoff.

From November last year, Cao Cao's troops went to Guanzhong, captured Xiliang, and now the confrontation in Qishan, the two sides have been fighting for eight months, and the confrontation in the Lucheng area alone has lasted for half a year.

Such a long battle made both sides tired, the soldiers' fighting spirit dropped badly, and Liu Beijun also had many deserters.

The main reason is that Liu Bei suffers from the fact that most of his subordinates are rabble.

In order to make up the numbers, a large number of Qiang and Di people from Wudu County were recruited, and these people came based on Ma Chao's reputation, and their combat effectiveness and loyalty were far inferior to the well-trained Han and Wei soldiers.

In Cao Cao's several attacks later, the Qiang people with low combat effectiveness bore the brunt, and were broken several barracks by Cao Cao's former army generals Zhang He, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Zhang, etc., losing troops and generals, and killing three middle-level generals such as Ren Kui, Fu Ban, and Xiang Cun.

As a result, the morale of the army plummeted, causing those Qiang people who were greedy for life and afraid of death to flee by thousands. If it weren't for Ma Chao forcibly suppressing Lei Ding, Dou Mao, Yang Ju, A Gui, Fu Jian and other Qiang leaders, I'm afraid they would have escaped long ago.

In particular, Liu Bei also suffered another loss, that is, the transportation of grain and grass was far away, and the number of people was far less than that of Cao Jun. After fighting for most of the year, the supply of grain and grass was already somewhat unavailable, which made Liu Bei exhausted.

In this case, he had to retreat to the next defense to rest.

After Cao Cao learned the news, he immediately pursued, divided the troops, and took Wujie directly from Tietangxia Road, Mumen Road, Yangxi Road, Hanxia Road, Longmen Path, Luogu Trail and other small roads.

Fortunately, Fa Zheng Jia Xu and others designed and arranged suspicious soldiers in many small roads, and left Zhang Fei and Wu Lan in Mumen Valley to garrison and set up ambushes to block the pursuers.

When the main force of Cao's army crossed Qishan and was about to enter the Wudu on all trails, they were basically ambushed by ambushes.

For this reason, the generals had to withdraw their troops and return and camp north of the turbid waters.

Cao Cao arrived north of Chiting and received a battle report from the front, saying that there were ambushes on all trails, so he ordered the front-line soldiers to send scouts into the mountains to reconnoitre.

In the end, the number of ambushes on many trails was not very large, and only the wooden doorway had thousands of people and horses.

"Which of these roads is the widest?"

To the north of Chiting, Cao Cao rode a horse on the hill to look into the distance, at this time it was the end of May, the mountains and forests were green, lush, the southern mountains were stacked on top of each other, and there was a big mountain towering into the clouds.

The guide Yang Fu is a native of Tianshui, and replied: "King Wei, among the six roads in this martial capital, only the wooden door road is the most spacious. The rest are all small paths, and the roads can only be crossed by two people, and in some places only one person can cross them. ”

"No wonder Liu Bei wants to arrange elite soldiers in the wooden doorway."

Cao Cao nodded and said, "Order Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He to lead the army to storm Mumendao." ”

The attendant next to him asked curiously: "King Wei, although the wooden door road is spacious, it is said that the wooden gate valley where Zhang Fei and Wu Lan are stationed is extremely dangerous, why do you want to attack the wooden door road?" ”

Cao Cao shook his head and said: "You don't understand, since the rest of the trails are sheep intestine roads, it means that every section of the road behind is very dangerous, Liu Bei just set up suspicious soldiers, let us think that there are only hundreds of ambushes and attack, and after the attack, the main force of the army will enter those trails, and he will set up an ambush in the rear, I am afraid it will be difficult." ”

"I see."

Huan Jie was raised, and suddenly realized.

Although the other trails are not crowded with people, they can be difficult and dangerous to walk through.

Although there are a large number of people in the wooden doorway, but the dangerous place is also the wooden door valley, as long as the wooden door valley is laid, it is relatively easy to walk behind, and it is not easy to be ambushed, so it is obviously more advisable to storm the wooden doorway.

At that moment, the herald went to the front to convey the order, and Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He immediately led an army of 20,000 to enter the mountain from Mumen Road and take Mumen Valley directly.

The wooden doorway is located in the depths of Qishan, the east and west sides of the ancient road face each other, the wall stands thousands of miles, the empty valley line, like a natural portal. There is a branch of Qishan on the east side of the road, which is called Wangjialiang Mountain in later generations, and there is a branch of Qishan on the west side, which is called Spiral Cap Liang in later generations.

In the canyon, the thick mud river flows into the West Han River from north to south, and there is only a small road in the narrow part of the road. There is a rift valley about 30 zhang wide in the middle, this valley is the Mumen Valley, there is a general pass, the spirit of ten thousand people can not be opened.

In history, Zhang He was killed here.

Since the two high mountains are vertical cliffs, it is almost impossible to climb up the mountain to ambush, so at this time, Zhang Fei and Wu Lan camped in the middle of the road, like a mainstay, and immediately stopped in front of the road of Cao's army's attack.

After Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He arrived, they set up camp outside the valley first, and after a few days, they began to lead their troops to attack Mumen Valley.

Zhang Fei came out of the camp first, although he was fifty-four years old, his temples were gray, and he was getting older, but he still roared like thunder, and roared loudly: "Yanren Zhang Fei is here, who dares to fight me to the death." ”

"Yanren Zhang Fei is here, who dares to fight me to the death."

"Yanren Zhang Fei is here, who dares to fight me to the death."

"Yanren Zhang Fei is here, who dares to fight me to the death."

The valley was not big, it was extremely empty, with high mountains on both sides, and with the blessing of Zhang Fei's own lion roar, it suddenly echoed endlessly, and the ears of the Cao soldiers were buzzing.

Xiahou Yuan snorted coldly and said, "Zhang Fei must be trying to make a suspicious plan, don't pay attention to it, and attack directly." ”

"Attack!"

Zhang He gave an order, and the horns behind him beat drums.

Suddenly, Cao Jun in the rear rushed up, let out a wolf-like howl, and killed Zhang Fei's camp.

Zhang Fei was out of the camp alone, wanting to fight alone with the opposing generals, but he didn't expect that Xiahou Yuan didn't talk about martial arts, and actually sent a large army directly, so he could only flee back to the camp in a panic.

Fortunately, the camp was relatively well repaired and the fortifications were complete. Although the Cao army attacked hard, he finally repelled this wave of attack with a bow and crossbow.

But Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He were not in a hurry, and after the tentative attack, they began to press step by step, attacking the camp every day, which made Zhang Fei and Wu Lan's defense extremely stressful, and they had to send people back to defend for help.

For more than ten days, Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He took turns to attack, day and night. Anyway, Cao's army is far more numerous than Liu Bei's army, and he can attack in the front and rest in the rear to fight in rotation.

Zhang Fei and Wu Lan only had more than 4,000 people, and the defensive force was seriously insufficient, and finally Liu Beijun was exhausted and finally broke the camp at the end of May.

Thousands of soldiers were almost lost, Wu Lan was beheaded by Xiahou Yuan, only Zhang Fei and other horsemen fled back to Xia Wei, and Cao Cao won a great victory.

"Hahaha."

In the area of Chiting, in the camp of Cao Cao.

The scouts on the front line just reported that Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He did not fail in their mission, beheaded Liu Bei's senior general Wu Lan, and completely annihilated Liu Bei's army, and Zhang Fei fled in embarrassment.

Receiving this news, Cao Cao laughed, looked around, and said to those advisers under him: "Although Jingzhou has not yet arrived with a battle report, the widow expects that Sun Quan should have sent troops. However, before he took Jingzhou, the widow was afraid that he would take Hanzhong first. ”

"Congratulations to King Wei, congratulations to King Wei."

Below, Dong Zhao, Sima Yi, Jiang Ji, Liu Ye, Du Xi, Yang Fu, Huan Jie and others celebrated again and again, and bowed and said: "As soon as Mumen Valley is lost, Liu Bei will no longer be in danger to defend, and King Wei can take Wujie directly." ”

"Hmm."

Cao Cao nodded, stroked his beard and said, "After crossing Wu Street, it is the river pool." After the outnumbered people captured Hechi, they could attack Sanguan from the rear of Chencang Road to the northeast, and then attack Yang'ankou to the southeast to attack Yangping Pass. The widow remembers, there seems to be a small road between Chen Cang and Bao Slope? ”

Yang Fu said: "Yes, this road is called Lianyun Road, from the river pool to the southeast to the direction of the Bao Slope Road, you can go to the south valley mouth north of the Kei Valley, from the south valley mouth to the south only more than 40 miles, to Baozhong." ”

"What if the outnumbered soldiers are divided into two roads, all the way to Yangping Pass, all the way from Lianyun Road to Baochuan Road?"

Cao Cao asked again.

Yang Fu hesitated: "Lianyun Road is not easy to walk, more than 100 miles north of the Kei Valley is called Red Cliff, and Red Cliff is almost all mountain cliffs, connected by plank roads. Although Guan Yu was in Xieyu Pass at this time, if Liu Bei knew that the wooden door road was lost, he would order Guan Yu to withdraw to Keigu, if he burned the plank road, I am afraid it would be ......"

"Hahahahahahaha

Cao Cao burst out laughing.

The crowd was puzzled.

Dong Zhao wondered, "Why is King Wei laughing?" ”

"The widow laughs at Jia Xu without a plan, and the law is less wise. It is said that Shu Road is difficult, and it is not that it has been beaten down by a widow. Wouldn't it be better if Liu Bei wanted to burn the plank road? With one less way into the pass, there is less threat. ”

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Come to think of it, the Baochuan Road is impassable, so there is only Chen Cang Road to go, and Chen Cang Road is occupied by widows, so Liu Bei can only be beaten, and has no ability to send troops to harass Guanzhong, isn't Hanzhong easy to get for the widows?" ”

"Oh?"

Everyone thought about it and immediately understood the reason why Cao Cao was happy.

Although the Shu road is difficult, the Shu people can climb the mountains and mountains like walking on the flat ground, for them, taking the plank road is nothing.

But Cao Cao's soldiers were uncomfortable walking on the plank road.

Now if Cao ** Guan Yu has to destroy the Chiya plank road, it will be safe to praise Zhong, but Cao Cao can gather the main force and attack Yangping Pass.

Because of the four roads leading to Guanzhong in Hanzhong, Chencang Road is the best way to go on Kangzhuang Road, followed by Baochuan Road. And Fu Luo Road and Meridian Road, it is not too much to use ten thousand steep to pedestrians, at most a few people and horses pass, and the grain and grass baggage cannot pass at all.

Therefore, Cao Cao no longer needed to worry about the safety of Guanzhong in the rear, and attacked Hanzhong wholeheartedly. Judging from the current situation, Liu Beijun seems to be his opponent at all, and he will definitely be able to defeat him in one fell swoop.

Thinking of this, Sima Yi immediately bowed and said: "Congratulations to King Wei, congratulations to King Wei, after this battle, it will be difficult for Liu Bei to fight against King Wei, and even be destroyed." ”

"Hmm."

Cao Cao had a triumphant smile on his face, and then he suddenly thought of something, and laughed again: "Hahahahaha." ”

"Forehead ......"

This time, Liu Ye also asked curiously: "Why is King Wei laughing again?" ”

"The widow is an incompetent person who laughs at Shen Chen!"

Cao Cao said with a smile: "He had already sent troops in September last year, and Chen Du still had Neiying to help him, but he was blocked by Zilian in Taiting for nearly a year. Last month, Sun Quan came to write a letter, saying that Shen Chen and Zilian were in a fierce entanglement, and he planned to send troops immediately, but it was not good to say at this time, because the rear was attacked, and he had been attacked by Zilian and Sun Quan on both sides and was defeated. ”

Jiang Ji said: "If this is the case, why didn't the King of Wei send people south from Wuguan to support General Cao?" Although Sun Quan formed an alliance with the King of Wei, this person was by no means willing to give up just because of Jingzhou, and said that Nanyang would also be annexed for him, so in order to prevent this, he should still be careful. ”

"Hmm."

Cao Cao nodded thoughtfully: "Okay, the widow will be sent to help Xu Huang at that time." ”

After the matter was settled, Cao Cao was complacent.

He looked around, looked at the ministers in the audience, couldn't help but be very happy, and laughed: "Since I started the army, I have put down the thieves, destroyed the heroes, and eliminated the evil. Vow to sweep away the four seas, flatten the world, what has not been obtained, only Jing Yi raised his ears, now there are millions of lions, but also rely on the service of the public, why trouble Liu Bei is not extinguished, great success? ”

Saying that, Cao Cao paused, raised his wine glass, and said loudly: "Princess, come, drink." When the day of recovering Jingyi and the world is peaceful, you should share the wealth with the princes and enjoy the balance! ”

"Thank you, King Wei."

Everyone raised their wines and drank, and the banquet was full of laughter.

After Cao Cao drank the wine in one gulp, the smile on his face still bloomed, and he said happily: "Liu Beifa is not knowing the time of the day, and he hits the stone with an egg." Shen Chen Zhuge Liang, with the power of ants to shake Mount Tai is so stupid. Take the wine again, and the widow should not get drunk with the princes! Hahaha! ”

His smile was bright, and he was extremely happy.

As soon as the next argument is broken, it is Yangping Pass, and as soon as Yangping Pass is broken, Hanzhong will be in hand, and then Liu Bei will lose Jingzhou and Hanzhong, and see how long he can be rampant.

At this time, the messenger suddenly rushed in from outside, and said anxiously: "Report! ”

"What?"

Cao Cao took the wine glass of the attendant next to him and was about to drink it.

"Shen Chen built a dam in the upper reaches of the Li River, accumulating water flow, coinciding with the heavy rain in Nanyang a few days ago, the flash flood broke out, flooded the army, Shen Chen took a boat, broke through the military camp, killed General Cao Hong, and coerced Chen Du!"

"Bang!"

The wine glass in his hand fell to the ground, and the smile on Cao Cao's face also froze.