The Yellow River tumbled, the boats rose and fell with the waves, and the Han flags hoisted high, hunting in the howling southeast wind.

In summer, the southeast wind blows in the Guanzhong area, and it is hot and rainy.

But today it was a good day, the temperature was not particularly high, there was no rain, the sun was blazing and blushing, and it was warm and soaked in the heart and spleen.

Pound stood on top of a warship, looking in the direction of Leishou Mountain to the east.

He was slightly older than Ma Chao, slightly younger than Guan Yu, and now in his sixties, with a gray beard, temples and hair showing an old rat gray.

However, his face does not look like an old man in his sixties, except that his skin is slightly darker, and his spirit and resolute face are more like a middle-aged general in his forties.

At this moment, he held the big knife that killed Zhu Ling in his right hand, and the bandage was still wrapped around his left arm, and he looked into the distance with a deep gaze, quietly waiting for the arrival of war.

When the fleet passed a mountain beam, through the trees on the bank of the river, you could see the position of the Han army's camp in the distance.

"General!"

Ren Shen next to him pointed to the east bank and said: "It's the camp of the Grand Duke, it seems to be on fire." ”

Although Leishou Mountain guards the main road, in fact, there is a distance of about four or five kilometers between the mountain and the Yellow River, which is almost the section from the hometown scenic spot of Yang Guifei in Yongji City, Shanxi Province to the Yellow River in the later generations.

Both the Han and Cao armies relied on Leishou Mountain and set up camp along the Yellow River, which was still a kilometer away from the banks of the Yellow River.

So although Pound's fleet had arrived at the battlefield, it was actually far away.

At this moment, Pound stood on the ship and looked out, and saw that the rear camp of the Han army rolled up billowing dust, with yellow-brown dust, black smoke, and more importantly, the horse's hooves were like thunder, which spread to the bank of the Yellow River and fell into his ears.

"The rear camp of the Grand Governor was attacked, and sure enough, as the Governor expected, the Cao army bypassed their cavalry from Nakajo Mountain, and did not want to hit Pusaka at all, but wanted to flank the Grand Governor's main village."

Another general, Deng Tong, turned his head and said to Pang De: "General, I'm afraid that there is danger on the side of the Metropolitan Governor now, should we immediately rush to the shore to help them?" ”

Pound hesitated slightly, and was about to nod in agreement.

Ren Shen said: "General, the Governor of Dadu said before that he wants us to take Cao's army camp directly, if we rush to the aid of this village now, there will only be General Ma's team in the rear, if Cao Zhen comes to help, I am afraid that he may not be able to exterminate them." ”

"You mean, give up the aid of the Metropolitan Governor and go straight to Cao's army?"

Pound frowned.

Because Shen Chen didn't know when Cao's cavalry would come, he just made arrangements in advance and ordered Pang De and Ma Dai to attack at the same time.

It's just that he didn't expect Cao Jun to arrive first so soon, resulting in the lack of defense of his rear battalion and his loss.

In fact, Shen Chen was not afraid of Cao Jun's attack, after all, he was the defender.

Even if the camp is attacked, the front, middle and rear three battalions will give up the rear camp and switch to the middle camp defense, Zhao Yun and Pang De can rush to help at any time, and they will definitely be able to hold it.

And Cao Zhen's side is different.

As an attacker, he is pouring out of the nest, and the entire camp is terrific with only a few thousand people defending, and maybe even most of the people are in the front camp, and there are few personnel in the rear and middle camps, and it is definitely not a big problem for Ma Dai to easily break through the Cao camp.

So when they made the deployment, Shen Chen had already given them an attack plan, asking them to reconnoiter the situation of the Cao army first, and if the Cao army launched an offensive, they would directly raid it.

As a result, Cao Zhen's whole army attacked in the morning, when Ma Dai was still on the west bank of the river and was preparing to cross the river, and Pang De was on Pusaka's boat, and the scouts quickly rode fast horses and took fast boats to pass the news to them.

Although Sun Li and Zhou Sheng had made a long journey around Zhongtiao Mountain, they went straight to the Han army camp and did not need to wait for Cao Zhen to send them a signal, so they came an hour or two earlier than the Han army.

And Cao Jun came first and moved first, and Pang De arrived later, so he had to consider whether to deploy according to the original plan and go directly to Cao Ying, or go to the front line to help Shen Chen stabilize the situation.

Ren Shen looked at the battlefield from afar and said: "If the general goes to rescue the Metropolitan Governor, then Cao Zhen will return to the aid and return to the village, and the Metropolitan Governor's plan will fail." Relying on General Ma alone, I am afraid it will be difficult to completely destroy Cao Ying. And General Ma still needs to defend Huayin, and there is only one chance. ”

Deng Tong frowned and said: "But if we don't rescue the Grand Governor, if the Cao army continues to storm our camp and the main village can't hold on, wouldn't it be a big sin for us to wait?" Compared with Cao Jun, the safety of the Metropolitan Governor is more important. ”

"Hmm."

Pound nodded slightly, he felt that it made sense.

It is true that defeating Cao Jun is a great achievement, the problem is that if Shen Chen has any losses, it is a great fault.

Therefore, rescuing Shen Chen's side must be more stable and not commit any crimes.

But just as they were about to land and quickly support the main battlefield, a fast horse galloped up and shouted to the ship: "The Governor has an order, let you attack Cao Ying immediately." ”

"Huh?"

Pang De was dumbfounded, and looked at the white-hot battle situation in the distance, at this moment the Cao army was storming the middle camp of the Han army, and the main force of the Cao army was fighting in the front camp.

Although just looking at the front camp, the Han army seems to be able to defend it at present, but who can say for sure whether it will fight?

In case he went to raid the Cao army camp according to the order, and the direction of the main village of the Han army was suddenly breached, and Shen Chen was killed in the chaos, wouldn't he make a big mistake?

Even if Liu Chan didn't kill him, Zhuge Liang would have to kill him.

Pang De hesitated for a moment, and shouted to the heralds below: "Is it true that the Metropolitan Governor should not rush to help?" ”

The herald shouted, "I don't know, it's the order of the Grand Duke." ”

With that, he turned his horse and left, and he was going back to the battlefield again.

Hearing this order, Pang De thought for a while and said to Ren Shen Deng Tong: "The Governor of Dadu probably thinks that the enemy can't break through his camp, so let's follow his order to attack Cao's camp." But you can't do nothing, where is Deng Tong? ”

"The end will be."

Deng Tong commanded.

Pang De said: "You take 3,000 men to raid the left flank of Cao's army from the flank to relieve the pressure on the Metropolitan Governor's side." ”

"Yui."

Deng Tong should have given his hand.

Then the fleet began to diverge on the banks of the Yellow River.

Some of them leaned to the shore to disembark, while others continued south.

At this moment, on the battlefield in the distance, Cao Zhen anxiously looked at the direction of the Yellow River and his camp.

He had already sent several generals to lead about 10,000 men and horses back to defend, but now the Han army in the direction of the Yellow River obviously wanted to directly participate in the battle without stopping the boat, but went straight to his military camp.

There are 20,000 people on Pound's side, and there are 10,000 people on Ma Dai's side, and he only sends 10,000 people back to defend, and he definitely can't defend against the opponent's offensive.

Your own camp is about to be destroyed!

"The Grand Governor."

The general Gao Jian said anxiously: "Mingjin withdraw the troops, and if we continue to attack, I am afraid that our village will not be able to hold it." ”

Cao Zhen's face changed, and he finally gritted his teeth and said, "Pass the order and continue the attack." ”

Go on the offensive?

Gao Jian's face was anxious, and he persuaded: "The Metropolitan Governor." ”

Cao Zhen looked at him with a hideous face and said, "Do you think I don't know? But now withdraw the troops, Sun Li and they will be wiped out, and I will never have a chance to defeat Shen Chen, in that case, Xu Huang will definitely die, Hedong will give up, and the state will be undefended, and the Han army will be able to reach Luoyang directly! ”

This is the fundamental crux of the matter.

Once they choose to retreat, it means that this raid has failed, Sun Li and their lonely army is deep, it must be gone, and Xu Huang is trapped in the lonely city, there is not much food and grass in the city, so naturally it will not last long.

Cao Zhen can only retreat to Tongguan, then the entire Hedong County will fall into the hands of the Han army, and the state will be empty, and they can kill it at any time.

If Bingzhou falls, then let alone Luoyang, even the hinterland of Cao Wei in Hebei Province may face the advance of the Han army, so to a certain extent, Cao Zhen has already been difficult to ride a tiger, and there is no way to choose Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

Shen Chen's side obviously guessed his psychology, so he asked Pang De and Ma Dai to take Cao Ying directly, the purpose of which was to force Cao Zhen to fight with him, so that Cao Zhen felt that there was hope that he could break his camp.

Otherwise, if Pang De came to the aid of the Han army, Cao Zhen chose to withdraw his troops back to the camp when he knew that there was no hope of defeating Shen Chen, then Shen Chen would probably have broken the results of Xu Huang, according to Hedong, and threatened to merge the state, and could not continue to expand his advantage.

So Shen Chen simply fought hard and continued to attack Cao Zhen.

If Cao Zhen broke through the Han army camp before Pang De Ma Dai broke through Cao's camp, he would have won. If it can't be broken, when Pang De Ma Dai comes to help, these tens of thousands of Cao troops, including Cao Zhen himself, will have to be explained here.

Then after that, not only Hedong and Zhou, but also Tongguan, Shen Chen did not need to make a detour to take Luoyang from Bingzhou, but could directly march from Tongguan and kill under Luoyang City.

Therefore, from a certain point of view, Cao Zhen was forced to make a desperate bet, and Shen Chen was also desperate, depending on who could beat whom today!

Soon, after Cao Zhen gave the death order, Cao's army's attack became even more ferocious.

Sergeant Cao of the brigade launched a charge without fear of death.

Countless Cao soldiers rushed to the camp gate with bows and crossbows and arrows, carrying ladders, and began to climb upward.

"Throw!"

Deng Ai was in the position of the camp, and he stood on the high oar to command.

The soldiers in front of the wall lifted the stones at their feet and carried them to the upper platform, and the people above took them and threw them down.

It's not a big rock, it's only four or five kilograms, but throwing it hard still hurts.

Stones were constantly being thrown out, and this part of Cao's army was immediately repulsed.

But they didn't do anything at all, the wall was built with stone and yellow mud, and it was supported by wood, so it was not easy to tear it down in a short time.

But the walled gate is wooden, and it can be cut through with an axe, and there is also a part of the rushing car, aiming at the walled gate and constantly attacking, around here, the two sides fell into a fierce battle.

At the urging of Cao Zhen, many generals of the Cao army went into battle in person, holding shields and knives, and bravely rushed to the front of the Han army camp, wanting to kill and grab control of the wall with the Han army, but the crackling stones on it smashed out.

However, the distance is not very far, the wall of the village is only two zhang high, about four meters high, many Cao soldiers rushed to the gate of the wall, were smashed by the rolling stone sassage wood to the head broke the blood flow, and even lime oil was splashed down, wailing and being dragged away.

"Quick, crossbowmen suppress."

Deng Ai saw that Cao Jun outside was going crazy, and shouted again.

At present, the crossbow arrows on the high turret inside the camp were fired in unison, suppressing the Cao army near the gate of the village so that they could not raise their heads.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Han soldiers on the walled wall once again organized their defenses, stabbing them down with spears and halberds, and throwing stones and lime out as if they didn't want money.

Today is a decisive battle, don't think about leaving supplies, use them if you can.

So bows, crossbows, arrows, rolling stones, lime and oil, and so on were thrown out like a large number of things, and even sometimes with bad luck, when the Han soldiers threw the fire oil, they were hit by a sudden arrow, and the ignited fire oil was poured on the fence, making a burst of chickens and dogs jumping.

Everywhere there was billowing smoke of burning fire, lime flew all over the sky, and crossbows and crossbows fired at each other obscured the sky. If you look up from the battlefield in the originally clear sky, you will see as if the sky is obscured.

Not only the camp on Deng Ai's side, but the entire Han army is undergoing a cruel test.

Jiang Wei is also in command, compared to Deng Ai, he belongs to the pro-formation, standing on the fence, holding a shield in his left hand and a ring head knife in his right hand, the Cao army that fell in his hands has more than ten people, and the number is still increasing.

"Two teams on the right tower, quick!"

"Bring some more rocks."

"I'm out of arrows."

"Stupid, if you don't have any arrows, throw me a bow and a knife!"

"Ah, I've been stabbed, someone will pull me."

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

All kinds of noisy sounds filled the battlefield.

More Cao soldiers carried ring-headed knives, howling like wolves in their mouths, and rushed up like more than a dozen wooden ladder ants on the wall.

The roars, echoes, weapons blocking, and muffled snorts on the walls barely stopped.

From noon to the beginning of the day, for a whole afternoon, several camps of the Han army were being tested at any time, and there was no end in sight to the tragic fighting.

The walls stretched for miles from east to west, the blood of soldiers on both sides was splattered everywhere, and in many places the yellow-brown rammed earth was completely soaked with blood, turning a blackened crimson.

At this time, there was a sudden earth-shattering bang from the camp on the left side of Shen Chen's main camp, and a "bang" was heard, followed by the sound of ghosts crying wolves resounding in the sky, and someone shouted: "The camp is broken!" ”

The noise over there quickly reached Shen Chen's side, Shen Chen was still commanding the battle above the main camp at this time, his main camp was the most attacked, but it was not moving, and there was almost no Cao army on the wall.

When he heard that something had happened to the camp on the left, his face changed suddenly, and he immediately looked over.

I saw that there was the camp of the general Lei Ding, and Cao Jun used the rushing car to crash into one of their fence walls, and suddenly it was like a broken barrel effect, and a large number of Cao troops poured into it like a tide.

Seeing this scene, Shen Chen said to the captain of the guard without hesitation: "Lead all the guards, follow me!" ”

After saying that, he got off the high oar, pulled out the tiger guts knife at his waist, and walked eastward like a tiger.

(End of chapter)