As soon as Yang Zhao had set up the defenses, Cao Cao began to send troops.

Cao Cao took the troops of the three states under his rule, except for the necessary defensive arrangements, which needed to leave a part, and basically gathered the rest and assembled them in the camp outside the city of Xudu.

"I will personally lead the troops and storm the Tiger Prison Pass."

After Cao Cao inspected the soldiers and horses, he said to Xi Zhong behind him: "But the Tiger Prison Pass is just a feint, the real attack is the Yuan Yuan and Dagu, Zhicai goes to the Yuyuan Pass, the Gongtai goes to the Dagu Pass, each leading 50,000 troops to fight, on the fifth day after I came to the Tiger Prison, you will attack the second pass of Yuyuan and Dagu, you must break through the pass as soon as possible, and the troops will come to Luoyang City." ”

The strategy they have developed is also relatively simple.

Cao Cao personally went to the Tiger Prison and led the army to storm the Tiger Prison Pass.

However, the tiger prison is only a feint, and the real concentration of the main force to attack is placed in the two passes of Yuyuan and Dagu, as long as these two passes are lost, Cao's army can be killed in the south of Luoyang, and the troops will be in the city.

Luoyang's situation is critical, Yang Zhao must go back to defend, then they still have the confidence to take the tiger prison as well.

Luoyang is where Yang Zhao's current base camp is, and Cao Cao can guarantee that as long as Luoyang is in danger, Yang Zhao will definitely fall into passivity.

"If Yang Zhao had already taken precautions in Yuyuan and Dagu, he would retreat from Dagu Pass, concentrate all his forces, and storm Yuyuan Pass."

Cao Cao continued to instruct and said: "Calculate the time, Liu Bei is almost done, Yang Zhao is fighting on three fronts, and if he wants to defend the northern border, he must disperse his forces, and the number of soldiers defending each place will definitely not be very large, this is our advantage." ”

The specific methods of warfare were arrived at after their discussions.

The abundance of soldiers is their only advantage.

Since they did not have the advantage in terms of weapons, they were ready to use their numbers to break Yang Zhao's defense.

"Yes!"

Xi Zhong and Chen Gong received their orders at the same time.

Cao Cao said again: "Feng Xian, you follow me to the Tiger Prison Pass, you are the only brave general of my subordinates, you must attract Yang Zhao's attention in the Tiger Prison Pass." ”

"Yes!"

Lu Bu said loudly.

Thinking of the Tiger Prison Pass, he remembered some of the past again.

Back then, he was defeated by Yang Zhao and several others in the Tiger Prison Pass, and this time he wanted to really defeat Yang Zhao and get back his name as the number one brave general in the world.

"Let's go!"

Cao Cao shouted.

The army marched out, divided into three routes, and approached Luoyang.

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Meanwhile.

Liu Bei and others had already passed through the Golden Bull Road and entered Hanzhong.

Pang Tong did not lead Liu Bei and them out at the first time, but stopped in Hanzhong for a while, made some strategic deployments and arrangements, and determined how to enter Guanzhong.

"I plan to divide my troops into three routes, and fight out from Chencang, Baoxie and Meridian Valley respectively."

"Among them, the Bao ramp is the best to go, the location is relatively centered, it is the main road through the Qinling Mountains, and the lord can carry the main grain baggage and hit it out from the Bao ramp."

"If our plan can be successful, the Baochuan Road will be our main material transportation channel, you can go to the Meridian Valley in the east, and you can go to Chencang Road in the west, the distance between the two sides is not very far, and it is relatively convenient."

"Chen Cangdao is mainly to seize the Dasan Pass, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and requires Yuan Zhi and General Guan to personally lead the troops to attack."

"Meridian Valley Dao is one of our wonder soldiers."

"The advantage of Meridian Valley is that it can reach Chang'an, the core of Guanzhong, but this road is winding and difficult to walk, and the risk is extremely high."

"Yang Zhao's shadow is pervasive, and he must have known for a long time that Sun Quan would join us and Cao Cao to send troops, then he would definitely fortify all the main roads in Guanzhong, but the Meridian Valley is difficult to walk, although it can reach Chang'an, I conclude that there will not be many troops to defend here."

"If we can pass through the Meridian Valley, we can also surprise the troops to attack Chang'an."

"I want General Zhang to lead his troops out of the Meridian Valley and attack Chang'an, and at the same time General Wu and General Wang will assist, what do you think?"

Pang Tong completely said his thoughts.

Guan Yu and Xu Shu said first: "Naturally, there is no problem. ”

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "I'm fine, see how I take Chang'an!" ”

Wu Lan and Wang Ping both nodded slightly.

Pang Tong's plan was very complete, and he said: "Together with the lord, I will fight out from the Bao Slope Road, ostensibly the main force, to attract the attention of the guards in the Guanzhong, and you break through and enter the Guanzhong as soon as possible, after General Zhang walked out of the Meridian Valley, he directly raided Chang'an and controlled the Tong Pass, and General Guan hit the Great Scattered Pass and killed the rear of the Bao Slope Road. ”

"Good!"

They said in unison.

Liu Bei thought for a while and asked, "Strategist, what if we can't break through?" ”

According to his understanding of Yang Zhao, his subordinates will definitely defend desperately, and it may not be easy to kill them.

"If we can't kill them, we can only drag Yang Zhao's troops and see the situation on Cao Cao's side."

Pang Tong analyzed: "If Cao Cao has the advantage, Yang Zhao must divide his troops from Guanzhong to go back to defend Sizhou, and our opportunity will come, if our two sides cannot have the advantage...... This time the coalition forces against Yang can only be said to have failed completely. ”

Zhang Fei said loudly: "Big brother, don't worry, we will definitely not fail!" ”

They are united in three ways, have the advantage of troops, and firearms, and the three lanes can raid at the same time, at least they can break through one of them, and they are still very confident.

"Yang Zhao already knows that we will cooperate with Sun Cao, so we will not be guarded."

"I'm afraid that inside Guanzhong, a large army has already been assembled and waiting for us to come out."

"It's better to be cautious."

Zhang Song reminded.

Pang Tong nodded and said: "Ziqiao is right, but the matter has come to this, this battle must be fought, and it can't be stopped halfway, let's go!" ”

After deciding on the strategy, they separated and went into three separate ways.

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Luoyang.

"Lord, Cao Cao has sent troops, and he personally led 80,000 people to the vicinity of Chenggao, preparing to directly attack the Tiger Prison Pass."

Yang Feng brought the news back.

Yang Zhao said: "Attack the Tiger Prison Pass first? What is the situation at the Otani Pass? ”

Yang Feng shook his head and said: "There is no movement in the south of Luoyang for the time being, I see that Cao Cao's momentum is to storm the Tiger Prison, and the army will advance to the Tiger Prison." ”

Yang Zhao pondered for a while, and according to his own understanding of Cao Cao, he shook his head and said, "Not necessarily! Cao Cao will not only have the means to attack the Tiger Pass, Dagu and other passes, you continue to stare at it, you can't relax, if you find any problems, immediately pass the news to the generals guarding the Pass, since Cao Mengde wants to start from the Tiger Pass first, then I will go to meet him for a while and send troops to the Tiger Pass. ”

The forces of Yang Zhao's subordinates were scattered everywhere, and the number was indeed far inferior to Cao Cao's tripartite alliance.

At this time, the number of soldiers who could be brought to the Tiger Prison Pass was only 20,000

Feng Ming had already led 5,000 people in advance and stationed them on the Tiger Prison Pass.

Yang Zhao brought another 20,000 people, a total of 25,000 people, ready to defend this pass, and fight Cao Cao to see what they wanted to do.