Cao Xiu led the victorious soldiers and horses back to the camp in Ji County, and Cao Ren had already returned from Longxi County and personally welcomed Cao Xiu.

Cao Xiu reported the battle situation, and Cao Ren was overjoyed and praised: "Wen Lie broke Ma Chao's argument, and now he has defeated the Qiang thief soldiers, and his great achievements make us and other veterans ashamed!" ”

Cao Xiu didn't even dare to say it! Turning his face, Cao Ren said with a heavy heart: "Originally, Wen Lie, when you returned from a great victory, I wanted to hold a banquet with you to celebrate, but your Uncle Xiahou was defeated!" Let's do the reward in secret! ”

Cao Xiu was pleasantly surprised: "It turns out that the general can't come back after picking up Uncle Xiahou!" ”

Cao Ren sighed: "Which is me!" Your Uncle Xiahou came back by himself! Led two pro-soldiers back! ”

Cao Xiu was shocked and said: "Is it possible to make the whole army ......!" Cao Ren nodded silently!

Cao Xiu couldn't help but say: "How can this be! General Xiahou and General Cao Hong are both famous generals! ”

Cao Ren said thoughtlessly: "It seems that Cao Hong is all at fault, but after a closer look, I realized that Xiahou Yuan was almost a big deal as a general!" ”

Cao Xiu didn't understand and didn't dare to ask, there was silence in the big tent, and Cao Xiu's joy of victory faded a lot!

Xue Qiao reported in the account: "General, the generals have captured Huang Xian, what should I do?" Cao Ren straightened up and said, "I'll interrogate myself later!" Xue Qiao retired.

Cao Ren said to Cao Xiu: "You go and see your Uncle Xiahou!" ”

Cao Xiu left the big tent to visit Xiahou Yuan, and Xiahou Yuan was decadent since he came back! All day in a daze!

After Cao Xiu entered the account, Xiahou Yuan already knew the news of Cao Xiu's victory, and he was his own junior, so he got up to talk to Cao Xiu.

Cao Xiu paid careful attention to his words and cared about Xiahou Yuan's body!

After leaving the account, Cao Hong probed his brain to greet Cao Xiu.

After Cao Xiu passed, Cao Hong asked, "Did your Uncle Xiahou talk about me?" ”

Cao Xiuqi said: "No, the main thing is that I am out of breath and want me to fight!" I care about my uncle's body! ”

Cao Hong said disappointedly: "Is it! ”

Cao Xiu said bluntly: "Uncle, when it comes to this, I want to ask what you have done!" Tell me the truth, I'm your nephew! Own family! ”

Cao Hong just said that he had revealed his flaws in the division of troops!

Cao Xiu was a little puzzled when he heard that he had been thinking for a long time, and comforted: "Uncle, if you want me to say that you don't have to blame yourself too much!" If it were me, I might not have attacked Taoyang! Capture the thief and capture the king! It's hard to say who will be in this matter! ”

Cao Hong said frustratedly: "Uncle, I have been on the battlefield for a long time, and this battle has been planted!" Alas! It's a pity that I didn't listen to Yang Fu's words! ”

Cao Xiu mentioned the past and said: "When Weishui Ma Chao chased the first king, the first king was in danger and almost unexpected!" His subordinates set cattle to lure Ma Chao soldiers! It stands to reason that cattle are cheap, how can they be as important as the first king! But the thieves just went to rob the cattle and not attack the first king! These things are not clear! Uncle divided the troops, maybe Ma Chaoqi is not exhausted! ”

Cao Hong was in a better mood. Cao Xiu continued: "I was thinking just now, uncle, you can still attack Uncle Xiahou's soldiers and horses from other places!" For example, Taoyang, Huang Quan marched from there, and Ma Chao can too! ”

Cao Hong was stunned and said: "You mean that without my wonderful talent, I will lose!" ”

Cao Xiu whispered: "Uncle, be quiet!" Think about it, there are more than 20,000 horses, there are thousands of cavalry in Taoyang, plus Huang Quan's 5,000 is twice as large as Uncle Xiahou, and they are attacking in turn! From Longxi County to Uncle Xiahou, the Qiang cavalry only needs to stop you for three days. It is difficult for Uncle Xiahou to defeat Ma Chao, but even if the army is defeated, if you go south to respond, you will not be wiped out!

Uncle, your main fault is a toss, and you lost your soldiers and horses in vain! It also delayed the time to support Uncle Xiahou! Why didn't Uncle Xiahou send 5,000 cavalry to monitor Huang Quan at the beginning, so that Huang Quan would also become inactive! Why bother to encircle and annihilate! Uncle was attracted to Liu Chan, and Uncle Xiahou was attracted to Huang Quan! ”

Cao Hong pondered for a long time and muttered: "It turns out that Zixiao said in the big tent that he didn't blame me for this!" I thought he was comforting me! ”

looked at Cao Xiu strangely and said, "You can actually see it!" The afterlife is terrifying! ”

Cao Xiu said instead: "This is the so-called paper talk!" Bystanders naturally have a thousand plans, but the authorities just can't see through it! ”

Cao Xiu said goodbye to Cao Hong to see Cao Ren, Cao Ren asked about Xiahou Yuan's situation with concern, and Cao Xiu explained briefly! Cao Ren sighed, the war was tense right now, and he didn't have too much energy to care about Xiahou Yuan! Cao Ren pressed this matter and went with Cao Xiu to interrogate Huang Xi!

Huang Xi was captured, and Cao Jun put him under house arrest!

Cao Ren greeted Huang and said, "General Huang is good!" ”

Huang Xi got straight to the point and said: "No need to say more! My whole family is in Chengdu, I will not surrender! I won't tell you what you want to ask! ”

Cao Ren stood up and said, "It is expected that General Huang will not surrender, and I don't plan to persuade the general to surrender!" I'm just asking the general a few questions that have nothing to do with the situation of the war! ”

Huang Xun said warily: "What? ”

Cao Ren smiled and said, "Our army Xiahou Yuan was defeated by your army, right!" I want to ask Zhao Ang and Guo Huai what happened to these people? It's not a big deal! ”

Huang Xun thought for a while and said: "Zhao Ang and Li Jun were killed, Wang Ling was killed in battle, and Guo Huai and Xiahou Rong were captured!" ”

Cao Ren nodded silently, and Cao Xiu was also a little sad! Huang Xun looked at the atmosphere and said, "Zhao Ang, Li Jun and Ma Chao have a grudge!" ”

Cao Ren said lightly: "I know, no need to elaborate!" General Huang, is Ma Chao in your entry into the Longyou soldiers? ”

Huang Xi said vigilantly: "Of course!" General Ma Chao's banner is hanging! ”

Cao Ren had already noticed something strange from the process of Cao's truce! said coldly: "General Huang, if Ma Chao is here, I'm sure Cao Wenlie may not be able to completely annihilate the front army of your army!" It's very simple, Ma Chao is brave and brave, and he is mostly a pioneer!

Wenlie fought a battle, and the former army did not see Ma Chao! After the defeat of the front army, the army retreated, Ma Chao is relying on his command ability, will he retreat without a fight? Where is Ma Chao? ”

Huang Xun said nervously: "No comment! ”

Cao Ren continued to ask: "You tell me that Ma Chao is not in the army, this has nothing to do with the battle situation, I have already guessed a rough idea!" Ma Chao is not here, right? Answer me the rest I don't ask! ”

Huang Xun was silent for a long time and said, "Yes!" ”

Cao Xiu was stunned, he hadn't thought about this problem! Cao Ren nodded and said, "Okay, General Huang, I won't ask you anything again!" You stay honest and don't worry about your life! ”

Cao Ren turned around and said to Cao Xiu: "How can the good situation be like this!" Ma Chao's rebellious thief has revived, let his kid unfold! Hateful! Cao Xiu said: "The general asked Ma Chao why he moved!" ”

Cao Ren said: "You can understand it by looking at the map!" Ma Chao must be the Wudu and Yinping soldiers and horses who went south to attack the king! Get through the connection between Qishan and Longyou, I am Ma Chao and will do the same! , Ma Chao has no reason not to see the stakes! ”

Cao Xiu exclaimed: "Let's hurry!" ”

Cao Ren said: "It's useless, I received a messenger sent by Fei Yao, Qishan Fort surrenders!" Qishan is equivalent to saying that it has been cut off, I sent hundreds of people to deliver the letter, but it should be too late, I hope the king can hold it! Yes, as long as it holds for five days, the Han army has no logistics, and there will be a shortage of food, so they will retreat without a fight, and take advantage of the situation to chase down the thief army! ”

Ma Chao, Pang Lin and others marched day and night, and quickly rushed south to Wudu and Yinping, two days away from the next debate.

Ma Chao said to Pang Lin: "Pang joins the army, let's break up here!" The road is almost forked in the road, and you will continue to march along the road for two days, and you will not reach the next debate! I expect that Cao's army will be garrisoned by soldiers and horses, and you must use the speed of cavalry to quickly break through the fortress set up by Cao's army! ”

Saying that, Ma Chao paused and said: "Pang joined the army, is there anything unclear about the terrain I told you on the road these days?" ”

Pang Lin said calmly: "There are two places where you can set up a camp at the next level, and at the current speed, you will reach Baishui Mountain in a day and a half, and then there is the river pool." After passing, you can arrive at the Wudu Zhi Office to argue!

Further on, there are more mountains and forests, and Cao Jun may set up strongholds in the mountains on both sides! Send scouts to pretend to be woodcutters! No more marching during the day, search on both sides while it is dark, and uproot them all! ”

Ma Chao nodded and said, "Pang joins the army and remembers it well!" Remember Pang joined the army, and all the messengers sent by Cao Jun must be stopped! ”

Pang Lin said: "Don't worry, general, I will follow the general's previous arrangement, a team of two people, wearing Cao Jun's clothes and armor, along the road!" Cao Jun's messenger doesn't know the truth and many people will come to talk and take the opportunity to kill him! ”

Ma Chao praised: "Pang joined the army and entered the debate,

I walked in front of me, and attacked to Yinping. I led 2,000 soldiers and horses, and the rest of the soldiers and horses joined the army to command! You don't have to bring two horses, they're all yours! Pang Lin agreed: "Okay, everything is up to General Ma!" But isn't there a shortage of generals! ”

Ma Chao said confidently: "You don't have to worry, calculate the distance, you should first engage the Cao army, attract the Cao army to besiege you, and then I will fight from the other side, and the resistance will be much smaller!" All the Di tribes in Yinping County will be used by me, and they are all my Ma Chao's soldiers and horses! Pang joined the army, and the two little generals met on the account! "Pang Lin, Guan Xing, and Zhang Bao bow goodbye!

Ma Chao rushed to Huzhong, and he had surrendered to the Cao army when he was in the middle of the river, but the Cao army did not have any troops, and only sent a military Sima to monitor here, and the county order was still the original Liu Bei's people! Ma Chao rushed to Yuzhong and sent scouts to pretend to be ordinary people to inquire about the news. The scout soon saw that the wall-top banner had changed! Return Ma Chao. Ma Chao immediately cut down trees nearby to build dozens of ladders!

In the middle of the night that day, Ma Chao quietly touched the city. Ma Chao waved his hand, and the Han army took the ladder and listened with bated breath, but the city wall did not move. Ma Chao waved his hand, hundreds of soldiers gathered with bows and crossbows aimed at the city wall, Ma Chao bit the short knife and climbed up the city wall! Stay away from the battlefield and relax your defenses.

Ma Chao successfully climbed to the top of the city. Kill the defenders, open the city gates, and go straight to the county mansion! Pulling out the county order, the county order didn't know what was going on, and shouted: "Zhu Sima spare his life!" ”

Ma Chaoqi said: "I am your grandfather Ma Chao!" Who is Zhu Sima! You are the king's official, why do you hang the banner of Cao Jun? ”

When I asked, I knew that Zhu Sima was Cao Junjun Sima! Ma Chao was furious, slapped the county order, and led everyone to find Zhu Sima!

When Zhu Sima heard the movement, he gathered Cao's army to resist and was killed!

After dawn, Ma Chao knew that the county order surrendered from the beginning to the end, Ma Chao released the main book who refused to surrender to the temporary director, imprisoned the county order and other surrendered people, prepared dry food, searched out the stamps used by Zhu Sima to communicate with Cao Jun, faked notes, and sent people to pretend to be the contact person to take the lead in the fortress set up by Cao Jun in a dangerous place!

At dawn, Ma Chao pretended to be an entourage and followed the pretending messenger to the front of the fortress, and took out the forged customs clearance certificate, Cao Jun didn't think much about it, who would have expected that the Han army would kill here! As soon as the door opened, Ma Chao pulled out a spear and killed several people! The Cao army was caught off guard, and at dawn the Cao army had not all risen, and the Han army behind led the cavalry to rush in! Cao Jun hurriedly warned that it was too late, Ma Chao picked up a sword and slashed, and everyone couldn't help it! The Han army entered the village, and most of the thousands of Cao troops were killed, and the rest ran away! Ma Chao ordered the Han army to be non-stop, and it must be completely defeated! Some of these Cao troops fled to the mountains on both sides, and Ma Chao commanded the arrows to shoot to death, and those who couldn't shoot were ignored. Cao Jun, who fled along the path, didn't have time to run to the next fortress and was killed by Ma Chao! Ma Chao rushed forward, and before the defeated soldiers rushed to return the letter, he repeated the old trick and deceived the second fortress!

The second fortress has nothing to do for more than a month, thinking that since the previous camp has been inspected, what are you worried about, open the gate! Ma Chao quickly broke through the second barrier and reached Yinping!

Ma Chao sent dozens of people to the mountains to contact the Di tribe and invited them to lead troops to help! In Yinping City, Cao General Zhu Zan was shocked to learn that the two fortresses had been breached.

Cao Zhen was just ordered to lead the army to the northwest yesterday and flank a Han cavalry that came in from Qishan! The defenders in the city are limited, and there is nothing to be done! I had to send someone to report to Cao Zhen!