The axe cut the mountain, the Han and Cao armies continued to fight, and the Cao army began to gain the upper hand by relying on the large number of people. Huang Quan hesitated when he saw this situation, and now that he invested his troops, Xiahou Yuan would wait until he was exhausted and invested his thousand cavalry, and he would be completely defeated.

No, Xiahou Yuan needs to invest his troops first before he can move.

Huang Quan said to Zong Wei, who joined the army: "Beat the drum and order the soldiers in the formation to slowly retreat to the mountain!" ”

Zong Wei was stunned. Huang Quan urged: "Hurry up! ”

Then he shouted: "Soldiers! Draw the bowstring and get ready to release the arrows! ”

Drums sounded, and the warring Han army began to look for an opportunity to retreat. Seeing this situation, Xiahou Yuan expected that Huang Quan wanted to stalemate with himself after withdrawing, in that case, it would all depend on whether the 3,000 Han troops under the mountain could kill the mountain and protect the Han army on the mountain.

Xiahou Yuan wanted to eliminate the Han army as much as possible, including the current army. Xiahou Yuan ordered: "Send five hundred cavalry to attack the flank and intercept the retreating Han army!" ”

Cao's army acted quickly, and when Huang Quan saw it, he sent five hundred cavalry to block it.

Xiahou Yuan was overjoyed and led the remaining cavalry to attack from the other side. Huang Quan ordered: "Beat the drum and march, stop retreating!" Zong Wei immediately executed, but the retreat just now made the originally inferior Han army even more disadvantaged, and the Cao army itself was an elite division, and the strength was twice that of the Han cavalry, so the advantage was even more obvious.

Xiahou Yuan rushed to the flank to attack, and Huang Quan knew that Xiahou Yuan was forcing himself to move. Gritting his teeth, Huang Quan made up his mind to fight, and divided two hundred people to whisper to Zong Wei: "Zong joins the army, you immediately lead two hundred people to seal the paths into the mountains everywhere, leaving two trails." Send someone to guard us and answer us! ”

Zong Wei promised: "Don't worry, I'll do a good job!" ”

Huang Quan continued: "Originally, I planned to use the Cao army to know the integrity of our army's cavalry, if the Cao army comes, there will be a flank attack on the mountain and down the mountain."

After all, the miscalculation, the Cao army's strength is far superior to our army, it seems that I can only cause casualties to the Cao army as much as possible and cooperate with the next action.

Zong joined the army, prepared dry food, and scattered ropes behind the ridge. There is also a good look at the local Qiang people, don't be afraid of him and run away. We are counting on them to lead the way. ”

Zong Wei Zhengse said: "Obey the order of the assassination history!" ”

Huang Quan held a spear in his hand and said: "I want to lead the army to charge, you take advantage of the chaos to retreat!" After speaking, he ordered the three armies to start attacking, and Xiahou Yuan quickly cooperated. The two armies began to engage in battle.

Huang Quan and Xiahou Yuan fought together, and the two finally fought face to face after holding each other for so long. The two are generals against generals, guns against guns.

As soon as Xiahou Yuan fought, he understood that his martial arts had the upper hand. Huang Quan also knew that he was not Xiahou Yuan's opponent. However, he can't retreat, once he doesn't entangle Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan uses his martial arts to break through the formation, it will be unstoppable, and he will lose faster.

Huang Quan used all his strength to resist Xiahou Yuan's offensive, Xiahou Yuan's eyes were red at this time, he wanted to kill Huang Quan, and his obsession supported him: at least kill Huang Quan, these days of waiting are worth it, and his own danger is worth it.

On the battlefield, the situation of the Han cavalry was like Huang Quan, the left flank was quite good, and the middle was close to collapse, and the Cao army successfully surrounded the Han cavalry.

Under the death battle of the Han cavalry under the mountain, more than 1,000 Han cavalry finally killed at the bottom of the mountain, Zhao Ang continued to transfer troops all the way, but because of a poor move at the beginning, he failed to completely surround the Han army after all, and the two seals did not have time to consolidate, and they were broken by the Han army, compared to Zhao Ang's loss was greater than that of Xiahou Yuan.

The Han army fought non-stop up the mountain, feeling that hope was ahead, and Zhao Ang followed.

The Han cavalry suddenly intervened from behind, causing confusion in the formation of the Cao army surrounding the Han army. The surrounded Han army took the opportunity to attack twice, the Cao army paused for a while, and the Han army took advantage of the situation to kill all the people on the mountain.

Zhao Angjun arrived and intercepted part of the Han army, but unexpectedly, some Han troops finally broke out of the siege.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses fought in the Axe Mountain. Xiahou Yuan and Huang Quan paid attention to the movements of their own army, and Xiahou Yuan couldn't understand why Zhao Ang didn't stop the Han cavalry, and he was really annoyed.

Huang Quan saw that hundreds of cavalry had broken through, but most of them were still entangled, and he expected that they would soon be surrounded again.

Seeing that nothing could be done, Huang Quan suddenly turned from defense to offense, and stabbed out to Xiahou Yuan's heart, Xiahou Yuan was overjoyed, twisted his body, and stabbed Huang Quan in the abdomen with a shot, he still wanted to catch it alive.

Unexpectedly, Huang Quan shook a shot, and actually abandoned the gun and left, blending into the crowd, Xiahou Yuan hurriedly retracted his strength, reacted quickly, shouted, and stabbed out a shot again, hitting Huang Quan in the back.

Then the chaotic crowd made Xiahou Yuan lose his target Huang Quan, Xiahou Yuan was unwilling, he knew that this shot was pierced into the flesh but it was not fatal.

Xiahou Yuan chased along the direction of Huang Quan's escape, stabbing to death several people along the way to block the Han army, but he couldn't find Huang Quan's figure, and after a while, a piercing sound of gold sounded on the mountain, and the Han army began to try its best to break through.

As the sky brightened, most of the Han army was completely annihilated, and only three to five hundred people with martial arts or good luck fled back to the mountains.

Xiahou Yuan then pursued, but unexpectedly, the Han army dropped the rocks and blocked the path. Xiahou Yuan was annoyed that he failed to kill Huang Quan, and then transferred Fei Yao to lead the infantry to forcibly attack the mountain, which was already covered with huge stones that rejected horses and sealed the entrance.

Cao had a large number of troops, and soon opened a road, and then they searched the entire mountain range without finding any trace of the Han army, only to find the remaining grain and grass that had been burned and hundreds of abandoned war horses in the back. On one side of the steep side, a net of ropes stretched underneath, and the ropes were still on fire.

After receiving Fei Yaoyu's report, Xiahou Yuan said fiercely: "Huang Quan actually ran away, there are so many subordinates on the battlefield, he ran away first, he is not worthy of being the assassin of Liangzhou!" ”

Zhao Ang said in a worried tone: "We have been tricked into the general." Huang Quan has been fully prepared for a long time! It's hard for us to kill Huang Quan no matter what! Huang Quan exposed his flaws, and there must be treacherous schemes.

The reserves and retreats on the mountain have been chosen! Now it can be said that the annihilation of 5,000 Han cavalry can be said to be a great result! ”

Xiahou Yuan said with some panic in his heart: "Yes, leave as soon as possible, and order to sit down and rest and set off immediately!" By the way, how many casualties were killed or injured in the first battle last night? ”

Zhao Ang said decadently: "There are less than three thousand." Most of them were lost from me, they could not be arranged, the Han army twice broke out of my encirclement, and our army suffered heavy casualties! ”

Xiahou Yuan encouraged: "This battle is a big victory, but Huang Quan was deceived and failed to take precautions, it is too big!" Zhao Ang then gave the order to pack up and retreat.

Xiahou Yuan retreated in the direction of Qishan with his whole army. Fei Yao hurriedly came to ask for orders: "General, the last general's headquarters is infantry, which will delay the cavalry's journey, and the last general wants to retreat from the mountains to Qishan."

Therefore, please search for Huang Quan. If it is found, it will be of great benefit to our army. Even if you can't find it, you will be able to climb over the mountains and forests and return! ”

When Xiahou Yuan heard this, he thought for a while and said, "Reasonable! Since you have this heart, then bring more grain and grass. The search lasted no more than five days. ”

Xiahou Yuan sighed for a moment and said, "Forget it, forget it!" Can't find it! Huang Quan won't be so stupid. The lives of 3,000 elite soldiers are not worth the risk! ”

Fei Yao hugged his fists and said: "General, the last general will only chase for three days and return!" ”

Xiahou Yuan looked at Fei Yao's firm eyes, and said loosely: "Okay, three days, it can't be more!" Be careful not to be attacked by the local Qiang when retreating! They help the thief, but they don't help me! Fei Yao was overjoyed and thanked.

Xiahou Yuan pulled out three arrows and said: "Three arrows are well bred, does it mean three days?" Fei Yao agreed again.

Xiahou Yuan came to Qishan, regardless of the night's fighting, hurried with all his strength, and hurriedly marched. On the way, he joined Guo Huai, who had already retreated here in advance, and only 9,000 of the 15,000 cavalry were left at the time of the expedition.

After continuing the forced march. Xiahou Yuan chose a favorable terrain and simply camped and rested. That night, Xiahou Yuan agreed with Guo Huai, Zhao Ang, Wang Ling, Li Jun and others to stand guard separately, and the sentry post was tripled.

In the middle of the night, the sound of birds in the distance was particularly harsh. With the sound of a Cao sergeant, Zhao Ang, who was on duty, became sensitively alert.

He sent fifty men to inspect it, but it was not extinguished as the fire went away. Zhao Anggang breathed a sigh of relief, and the torches in the distance began to mess up, and then all went out.

Zhao Ang shouted: "It's not good, enemy attack!" Cao Jun hurriedly got up to face the battle, full of exhaustion, but there was no way.

Unexpectedly, the Han army did not light up the torches to attack the Cao army, but Xiahou Yuan was aware of their presence. The sound of horses' hooves was heard all night.

The sky was slightly bright, Xiahou Yuan looked into the distance and said, "Huang Quan still won, he dragged me back." I only won on the battlefield, he won on the whole picture! A day away! ”

Guo Huai took over and said, "Why did the general say this? Huang Quan is more like being smart but being mistaken by being smart. If he's so smart, he should save his strength and avoid head-to-head confrontation.

Tailgating harassment is enough to give us a headache! Huang Quan's calculations against our army were true, but he never imagined that he would be wiped out. The commander of the three armies of the generals, who has been in battle for a long time, what is he afraid of? Don't lose faith. Otherwise, the soldiers will be defeated! ”

Xiahou Yuan was woken up by Guo Huai's words: "I didn't get out of the decision-making mistake of being lured by Huang Quan for a while, so that's it!" ”

Xiahou Yuan shook his spirits, deployed cavalry, looked for open land, and prepared for battle.

After dawn, the Han army that Xiahou Yuan looked at was led by Ma Chao. What Xiahou Yuan didn't know was that Ma Chao had completed the four-day journey in two and a half days in order to block Xiahou Yuan as soon as possible, and the soldiers and horses were also tired divisions.

Xiahou Yuan guessed last night that Ma Chao was mobilizing troops to surround him, but in fact, Ma Chao let the Han army rest in batches.

After dawn, Xiahou Yuan, Guo Huai, Zhao Ang and others watched the formation of the Han army, the Han army had about 16,000 soldiers and horses, of which about 4,000 were wearing Qiang soldiers' clothes and armor, and the formation was far less neat than the rest of the Han cavalry. In addition, behind them were about a thousand Han troops.

Xiahou Yuan said confidently: "The ratio of forces is not abnormally disparity, this battle can be won!" ”

Guo Huai asked, "How is the general going to break the enemy?" ”

Xiahou Yuan touched his beard and said, "I wish to hear Boji's high opinion!" ”

Guo Huai replied: "The last general thinks that the army of Ma Chao will be the first. The thief army has Qiang cavalry, so you don't have to be too guarded. Most of the Qiang cavalry fought with the thief army to gain momentum, and if the thief army was defeated, they scattered in a hurry.

Break Ma Chao first, and the thief army will lose fear. Our army can be pinned down by two wings, and the general will lead the main force to meet Ma Chao in the front, and the last general will lead five hundred cavalry to deliberately surrender in the battle, and after the thief army accepts, the armor and weapons will be abandoned, so that the thief army will be relaxed, and then protrude in the formation, disturb the thief army, and break Ma Chao! The worst is a lose-lose situation! The cavalry of the thief army is not a combat force, which is beneficial to the next battle for Longyou! ”

Zhao Ang sighed: "If it is usually feasible! Now our army is a tired division, and it is difficult to hold the two wings! Once it can't hold on, then our army will inevitably be surrounded! It's better for our army not to engage in battle, find a favorable place to hold on to repair for the time being, and then fight! ”

Xiahou Yuan immediately refused: "I can't afford to drag it out!" We have no backup! Ma Chao has Qiang Di as a backup, although the Qiang Di cavalry is scattered, and there are many people, it will consume us! ”

Pointing at Han Jun and said, "How is this!" I led 3,000 soldiers and horses to fight Ma Chao head-on, Ma Chao saw that I would definitely not take care of others, and I resisted the main force of the thief army.

Zhao Ang led 2,000 deceitful forces to attack the Qiang cavalry on the left flank, and then suddenly turned to engage the thief army on the right flank and entangled the thief army on the right flank.

Guo Huai, you lead 4,000 soldiers and horses to directly attack the Qiang cavalry after Zhao Ang makes a move, remember to use our well-trained advantage to pull the Qiang soldiers, let them mess up, defeat them and drive them to the flank of Ma Chao's Chinese army, and disrupt the formation of the thief army! Guo Huai, whether you can quickly defeat the Qiang cavalry determines our life and death! ”

Guo Huai Zhengse said: "The general refuses to let go? ”

Xiahou Yuan sighed: "I'm not afraid of letting go, but if our whole army is wiped out here, Longyou's soldiers and horses will be discouraged, and the overall situation will be ruined!" According to what I said, even if the army does not succeed, it can break through separately! The generals are here, and there is still something to be done! ”

Guo Huai insisted: "We will not disgrace our mission!" ”

Xiahou Yuan rode out of the battle, inspected his soldiers and horses, and encouraged the soldiers of the Cao army: "Soldiers, you are all soldiers who have fought a hundred battles with me, and there are even soldiers who have followed me to the right of the tiger, 10,000 iron cavalry have fought for thousands of miles, and smashed 100,000 thieves.

Now the thief who was defeated back then is here again, and he wants revenge. It's a pity that I was unlucky to meet me Xiahou Yuan, just like back then, all you have to do is follow my speed, assault! Offensive! Never back!

The one in front of me is the thief who rebelled against the court and ignored his father and brother, who was beaten by me and fled alone, gathering the rabble who were lucky to be alive.

I, Xiahou Yuan, am looking forward to this day, I didn't go to Nama Chao's head last time, and I want to get what I want today! Cut off Ma Chao's head and hang it on the flagpole to ask for a reward from the Son of Heaven, thousands of gold and thousands of families are today, any of you are eligible to get, soldiers, follow me to completely defeat and annihilate them. Cao Jun was inspired by Xiahou Yuan and rushed towards Ma Chao with a shout.

Ma Chao had already seen that Cheng Ji saw that Xiahou Yuan was boosting morale and said to Ma Chao: "General, do you want to boost morale!" ”

Ma Chao snorted, and waited until Xiahou Yuan began to charge before saying: "It's to encourage you, the old man of Xiahou Yuan in the province really thinks he is very powerful!" General Cheng, prepare to charge and engage in battle! ”

Cheng Ji just agreed, but the reaction was not timely, and Ma Chao had already rushed out. Ma Chao held a strong attack and fired arrows in a row, killing more than ten charging Cao soldiers. Ma Chao came to meet Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan was overjoyed, and ordered to shoot arrows, and the rain of arrows shot at Ma Chao.

Ma Chao used his marksmanship to protect the men and horses, and then used equestrian skills to make an arrow fall off the horse, and hung one foot on the saddle to support the whole body. Xiahou Yuan was stunned, Ma Chao was killed by an arrow? That's impossible!

Xiahou Yuan ordered to continue to release arrows, and he also personally shot arrows at Ma Chao's horses, and at the moment when the bow and arrow were fired, Ma Chao suddenly got up and shot an arrow at himself.

Xiahou Yuan was shocked, threw his bow and held his gun, and finally intercepted this head-on arrow. Ma Chao approached Cao Jun on his horse, entered the formation, danced the silver spear, and killed in a blink of an eye, immediately with five more heads. Xiahou Yuan saw that all of them were captains, and there was also a partial general of Cao Jun.

Xiahou Yuan was furious and ordered to continue archery. It's a pity that there is no saddle in the Han Dynasty, the shooting rate is very low, and the horse is extraordinary, so it can't pose a threat. On the contrary, Ma Chao showed that he received the arrow with one hand and shot back, and Cao Jun was all shot down.

Ma Chao threw his head into the galloping Han army formation in front of the Han cavalry formation: "Cao Jun is not Erer, these leading soldiers are like cutting melons and vegetables, not to mention soldiers!" Soldiers, the head is instantly meritorious, gold and silver are killed! Kill! Kill! ”

The Han army collided with Cao Jun with Ma Chao's shouting. Ma Chao and Xiahou Yuan fought in the army, and finally faced each other, and the current scene is the same as when Xiahou Yuan and Huang Quan were at the beginning, but it became uncomfortable for Xiahou Yuan.

Xiahou Yuan was still able to fight back at first, but he was completely suppressed later. Xiahou Yuan was unwilling to be so passive, concentrated his mental defense, and used words to stimulate Ma Chao's heart.

Xiahou Yuan didn't expect to defeat Ma Chao, he needed to delay until Guo Huai defeated the flanks. Xiahou Yuan said coldly: "Ma Chao, my defeated generals still dare to come to fight with me, I don't know whether I live or die!" Huang Quanjun was completely annihilated by me, and his own life and death are unknown, if you know each other, ....... ”

Xiahou Yuan didn't finish his words. Ma Chao said in a loud voice: "General Xiahou Province, save it!" Don't be pretentious anymore, you think it will be the same as before, but now it's a head-on fight, without any strategy, do you think you won? Where is Xu Chu? Do you have the skills of Xu Chu?

Since I came out of Di Dao, I have swept 14,000 soldiers and horses at Zhongti, 5,000 soldiers and horses at Yang Fu, and 7,000 soldiers and horses at Cao Hong. How many soldiers and horses do you think there are? ”

Xiahou Yuan scolded: "Nonsense! How can my Cao army be vulnerable! ”

Ma Chao had the upper hand in his hand, and his speech was even louder, while Xiahou Yuan was on the defensive, speaking intermittently.

Ma Chao said: "You know, I don't have to lie to you!" Originally, you honestly guarded Di Dao, and it was not so easy for me to fight, but I didn't think that you would divide the army into three parts, each of which was not as much as me, do you look down on me? Think I don't dare to fight? Your soldiers and horses are indeed elite, and I have lost tens of thousands of cavalry! But compared to the results, it's nothing! ”

Xiahou Yuan complained bitterly in his heart and secretly scolded Cao Hong for bad things. Ma Chao continued: "I led 20,000 soldiers and horses out of Didao, and there were 10,000 people left after the battle, and I see that your soldiers and horses also have 10,000 people, but unfortunately you don't face me head-on, but you want to defeat the Qiang cavalry on my flank, and then drive the defeated army to disturb me!" Is my Ma Chao so stupid?

Old thief, see clearly, the 4,000 people who did not move behind were Qiang cavalry. The flanks just changed clothes with them!

If you want to fight with me, I'm still afraid, after all, this is the only remaining Liangzhou cavalry, and now you divide your troops and want to entangle our army! I happen to be entangled in your two wings and besiege your Chinese army, you Xiahou Yuan is not as brave as me, and I have more troops, what do you rely on to fight me! Take your life! ”

Xiahou Yuan was shocked by Ma Chao's words. At a side glance, sure enough, Guo Huai and the Han army were inseparable, and the Han army showed no signs of defeat.

At first, Zhao Ang's trick did not have much effect, and the Han army saw that Cao's army did not fight and chose to stick to the same place. If it was the Qiang cavalry of the scattered tribes, they might have met the victory and blindly pursued regardless of the situation, leaking flaws to give Guo Huai an opportunity to take advantage of, but unfortunately this plan did not work in front of the well-trained Han army.

Guo Huai actually saw the clues, but so what, he couldn't retreat, he could only attack. Ma Chao stabbed Xiahou Yuan in the left rib with a bang, but fortunately, Xiahou Yuan twisted his body to reduce the damage to the wound, but unfortunately Ma Chao pressed forward step by step, and shot Xiahou Yuan in the shoulder three times in a row.

Xiahou Yuan's guards on the left and right stepped forward to pick up Ma Chao, and Xiahou Yuan walked away in the saddle. Ma Chao took the opportunity to slash and kill in the formation, and Cao Jun's formation began to be chaotic.

Xiahou Yuan looked at the two thousand cavalry of Wang Ling and Li Jun on standby, and became even more angry, because the bluffing tribal Qiang cavalry behind Ma Chao caused him to have to leave two thousand elite guards to prevent.

Zhang Xiu and Cheng Ji outflanked them, and Xiahou Yuan shouted: "Retreat to Wang Ling, don't be surrounded!" With the shouting, the Cao army in the middle began to retreat. Ma Chao saw the Cao army retreating, and attacked even more recklessly, tearing apart the Cao army.