Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Lost Fish

Zhang Fei captured the city of the eldest son, did not even enter the city, turned around and led the army to rush to Huguan. Huguan is the southern passage from Bingzhou to Jizhou, and taking Huguan will cut off the connection between Bingzhou and Jizhou, even if Cao Wei wants to ask for aid and annexation, he can't attack it.

Ren Xian, the general of Huguan, heard that Zhang Fei had arrived in person, and was shocked, and saw that the emergency report was issued, the reinforcements had not arrived for a long time, and it was difficult for him to defend the city alone. However, the ferocity of the Han army was completely unexpected by him, and after only two days, he had already suffered most of the casualties, so he had to abandon the city and flee. Zhang Fei did not chase either, and ordered Guan Xing to guard Huguan to block the Wei army in Jizhou. He emphasized: "The topography of Bingzhou is like a basin, there are only a few gaps leading to the outside, and if we plug this gap, the fish will not be able to escape." Guan Xing thought so. Zhang Fei said, and led his army to continue north, rushing to Xiangyuan and Tongbi counties.

At this time, Xinbi hurriedly reorganized his army and went south to save Shangdang. It is more than 100 miles away from the Han army.

The Wei army marched to Ne County, and was suddenly attacked by the Huns. Simbi never expected that he would suddenly become elbows and armpits, and he was caught off guard. I saw the Huns riding horses and waving their swords, swarming out of the Wushan, their faces were painted, their chests were ornamented, their arms were bare, they were holding scimitars, and they were roaring loudly, and they were as hideous as evil ghosts. The Wei army, which was about to rescue the party, was in a hurry, panting and puffing from exhaustion, and a team lined up in a long line on the road, like centipedes, at this time suddenly encountered such a fierce team, and was scattered in formation when it landed, divided into several sections, and it was difficult to care about the head and tail, and let it be slaughtered. The Huns spared the archers and pikemen and attacked the Wei army, who were armed with short weapons. Where the scimitar swung, the head of the person rolled, and the blood flowed like a river. The Wei army was physically exhausted, caught off guard, and the weapons could not hurt the enemy, and many people's weapons were placed on the car and had not been removed, facing the Xiongnu with bare hands, which turned into a one-sided massacre.

Simbi was shocked. Drink the order to close the team, but for a time where to close, only to see the Huns rampage, its momentum only a mad bull broke into the garden, seeing the flowers and rain flying, miserable, but no one can stop it. Among those Huns, there was one first. With a white feather on his head and a gold ring in his ear, he looks a little familiar. When Xin Bi looked closely, it was Touman, a Hun warrior who had been banished home by him a few months earlier. Simbi couldn't help but regret it.

This Nie County was originally one of the places where Emperor Cao Cao of Wei let the Huns recuperate. In order to divide the Xiongnu, Cao Cao divided the Xiongnu into five divisions and lived together with the Han Chinese. During the time of Liang Xi, Liang Xi specifically aimed at the unruly temperament of the Xiongnu. The capable generals of the Xiongnu departments were transferred to the scene, and the Xiongnu were subdivided and strictly managed, and the management was like a household, and the Xiongnu had no power to resist at all, and were gradually assimilated by the Han people. However, Xinbi let the tiger return to the mountain this time, coupled with the internal strife and external worries in the state, no one took care of these Huns. They were seduced by the Li brothers and had long been turned against each other. This dispatch of troops to block the attack was planned a few months ago when Ji Han had not yet sent troops. With a calculating heart or not, there are main offenders, and a fresh army against the tired army, and the Wei army was defeated when he landed.

Xinbi was in command, and suddenly the Huns recognized his Chinese army and pounced on him. It would be good for Simpi to give advice in the tent. But between the swords and guns dancing in front of the army and the exchange of bows and arrows, his mind has long been blank. Suddenly, the Huns rushed over like a fierce god, and they had already changed color, and their souls were not possessed.

In the middle of the crisis, suddenly a general flashed behind Xin Bi and shouted: "Touman, stop!" ”

Tou Man's charge suddenly stopped, and the person in front of him was the son of Liang Xi, the assassin of the late and state, Liang Shi, the Marquis of Shenmen Pavilion. Seeing the son of the old master, Touman's face changed several times, and finally saluted: "Junhou, for the sake of the old marquis, today Touman retreats and does not fight with the prince." However, the road ahead is bumpy and dangerous, so the villain persuaded the prince to leave and merge with the state. With a wave of his hand, the Huns roared again and again, like a whirlwind sweeping across the earth, turning around the foot of the mountain and disappearing.

Liang Shi sighed: "Although this person is a Huns, he is very smart, reads and writes, and is still trained by my father's hand. Liang Shi didn't understand why Touman didn't let him go back to Jinyang, but let him leave Bingzhou, could it be that Bingzhou really couldn't hold it?

Xin Bi stood behind Liang Shi, listening to him stabbing himself mercilessly, he couldn't help but feel ashamed and annoyed, and secretly suffocated.

After this delay, Zhang Fei had calmly taken the two counties, and the Ji Han army was killing all over the mountains, and the two armies launched a fierce battle beside the water in Wuxiang. Zhang Fei immediately speared and roared, moving the four fields. Ji Han shouted correspondingly, and his momentum was like a rainbow. Swords and guns are like lightning, arrows are flying like rain, and blood is stained red with Wuxiang water.

Zhang Fei is 59 years old this year, and the Chinese say that he is 60 years old, which is the year of the flower armor. Although in ancient times, this age was considered old, but compared to Huang Hansheng who fought in Changsha, and compared to Lao Lian Po, who resisted Qin, Zhang Feidu was a few years younger. (Why does it say that Zhao Yun is over 70 years old in the romance?) Could it be that Zhao Yun is more than ten years older than Zhang Fei? 555, destroyed the good image of the young man in my heart) He is strong and healthy, and his spirit is not lost to the youth, and when he is old, he has experienced a lot of things, the stronger he is, the clearer his mind, and he has given birth to great wisdom from great courage. When the Weinan War, tens of thousands of Cao Weinan Road Army smuggled across Wuguan and attacked Lantian, Zhang Fei took hundreds of bluffing ambushes to kill halfway, a loud roar, shaking the earth, making Xiahou Shang frightened, retreating dozens of miles, ensuring the victory of the Weinan War. As soon as the two armies came into contact, Zhang Fei saw that the situation of the Wei army was not right, this army was neither well trained nor morale, and it was obviously not the elite of Cao Wei, but the county soldiers of the state. Originally, although the national soldiers of Bingzhou County were not as good as Cao Wei's army, they were also considered to be strong and brave, but since Xinbi eliminated the alien race, their strength has been greatly reduced. Zhang Fei saw the situation, he did not guard the position of the commander, waved his spear, the three armies shouted together, and the whole army rushed out of the platform, and the tide rushed towards the Wei army. The Wei army was defeated, and in less than an hour, the front army collapsed.

It's a pity that before Xinbi could use his clever tricks, he was embraced by the routed army and retreated ten miles in a row. Xin Bi had to sigh: "When the hero of Yangqiao is still there!" Emperor Wu's million-strong army can't be controlled yet, what can I do? "Waiting for the army to be reorganized. Zhang Bao had already rushed over from the flank, and the spear waved, the Wei army was killed and wounded, and he fought a bloody way, and he rushed straight to the Xinbi army. Xin Bi was only thirty steps away from Zhang Bao, and he saw Zhang Bao's leopard's eyes wide open, his beard and halberd, and his majestic roar. It turned out that he only felt that the Huns were already mighty. Compared with Zhang's father and son, it is like a mountain dog meeting a lion, which cannot be compared. Fortunately, his own soldiers desperately stopped him and saved Xinbi from escaping. Xin Bi looked back at Zhang Baodi's direction and lamented: "How can there be another Zhang Yide!" Suddenly, he cried loudly: "It's a pity that the king of Wei, Cao Zhang, is dead, and my Great Wei Dynasty has such fierce generals to resist it?" ”

Zhang's father and son were like two fierce tigers, rushing and killing, pushing the Wei army from Niexian County all the way to Qi County. Xin Bi couldn't resist it, and led the remnants to flee back to Jinyang.

However, it was said that the Yanmen was closed, and Cao Yu and Cao Zhao were attacking the city against Ji Han, and suddenly heard that the party had been lost, and Jinyang was in danger. And the state is in turmoil, the yard and the house are on fire, what's the use of looking at the gate yourself? At the moment, the remaining personnel were guarding the barrier and leading the army back to rescue Jinyang. Cao Yu and Cao Zhaocai left Yanmen for less than five days. Wei Yan used his superior forces to successfully storm the fortress and occupy the entire territory of Yanmen. Then led the army south, like the wind and fire, broke through Guangwu and Yuanping two counties, blocked the Lucheng Road, cut off Cao Wei's road from the north road to Jizhou, and the army approached Taiyuan.

At this time, Cao Yu met Xinbi in Jinyang. Speaking of the situation at this time, they are all at a loss.

Seeing that the two of them couldn't say anything, Cao Zhao stepped forward and said, "There is only one plan feasible at the moment." ”

Cao Yu and Xin Bi both asked, "What's the plan?" ”

Cao Zhao said: "Thirty-six plans, go for the top plan." ”

Xin Bi was furious: "As a disciple of the Zong clan, how can you abandon your defense lightly and disturb the hearts of our army?" ”

Cao Zhao sneered: "At the moment, only one of Taiyuan County is still in my hands, and the rest of the counties. None of them are guaranteed. We have been fighting for many years, and there have been many casualties. Morale has plummeted. The battle of Bingzhou took place for more than a month, and the DPRK and China did not send a single soldier to help. From Luoyang Baguan, to Tianjing Pass, and then to Huguan, all of them are controlled by Ji Han, and now the merger of the state has become a dead place, what I am worried about is not whether to give up and merge the state, but whether we can leave safely now! ”

As soon as these words came out, Cao Yu Xinbi was surprised, the two looked at each other for a long time, and Xinbi said: "I have the responsibility of defending the land for the history of the merger of the state, and I am fully responsible for the loss of the merger of the state." The prince and the general left, General Cao was right, and the state was poor, and there were many Hu tribes, and Luoyang was lost, and the state was isolated in the enemy's territory, and it had become an enclave. There are three roads to the east of the state, now the pot pass has been broken, it is difficult to travel in the county, only the middle road is still in my hands, the prince and the general take all the people and horses to the east, pass the Ai into the Changshan country, there is a way out, otherwise, Ji Han will cut off this road, and its momentum is only like catching it in the urn...... That, we're all trapped in the state. ”

Although Cao Yu listened to his analogy indecently, but the truth was like this, he also sighed. He also took pity on Xinbi, persuaded him, and let him go with him, but Xinbi just refused, so Cao Yu and Cao Zhao led the army east alone and went to Shangai. Cao Zhao's analysis proved to be extremely appropriate and accurate. If they take one step late, they will not be able to walk. Originally, Zhang Fei and Wei Yanfeige passed the book, and they had already set a strategy for collecting nets and fishing, but where the nets had not been collected, the fish noticed it first.

At this time, Li Yu sent the iron horse to gallop in the starry night and rushed straight to Cao Yu's camp in Yu County, but he was in the air and Cao Yu left. Li Yu was reluctant to lead the army to chase after his rear army, wanting to entangle Cao Jun and prevent him from escaping. Xin Bi gathered government soldiers from Jinyang and joined forces with Cao's rear army to block the iron cavalry. Li Yu's army went deep alone, and he did not dare to advance lightly, so he had to retreat. Cao Yu led the army to Shangai with great difficulty, the front army and the middle army passed, and the rear army was being chased by Zhang Bao, who was leading the army.

Shangai County has been known as the east gate of Sanjin since ancient times, surrounded by mountains, and the altitude is more than 1,000 meters. Seven thousand villages in the southwest, with an altitude of 1,530 meters, is the highest peak in the county. The central part is loess hills, 800 to 1000 meters above sea level, due to the long-term flow of water cutting, ravines and ravines, the terrain is extremely fragmented. The territory is mostly mountainous, accounting for about 60% of the total area, followed by hills, and there are only small pieces of flat rivers near the county seat. The Niangziguan Valley is 350 meters above sea level, which is the lowest place in the territory. Taohe County is the largest river in the county, and its tributaries include Wen River, Nanchuan River, Yangsheng River and so on. Niangzi Pass was formerly known as Wei Ze Pass, in the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin's sister Princess Pingyang garrison was stationed here, and later generations called Niangzi Pass, known as the ninth pass of the Great Wall. Of course, the level doesn't have a name at this point, but the level has been around for a long time.

Zhang Bao's raid was a little late, or Cao Jun retreated a little early, if Zhang Bao really took the barrier before Cao Wei and defended according to the danger, this "net", then the Cao army trapped in Bingzhou really had no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the ground. Now that the fish have passed, the net has not yet risen, Zhang Bao can't help sighing.

But this is already a great blow to Cao Wei. At this time, the Wei army was in a state of back, and in the face of the Han army rushing over like a wolf, it fell into chaos for a while. At the critical moment, Cao Zhao waved his gun to catch up and led the army to fight Zhang Bao. Although Zhang Bao knew Cao Zhao's name, how could he put this little white face in his eyes, and with a strange scream, the whole army pounced, and he danced his spear like a wheel, and took Cao Zhao directly. Cao Zhao greeted each other with guns, spears and spears clashed, and there were loud noises, but he was unafraid of attacking with a move. Zhang Bao was stronger, shouted angrily, and pounced forward, the spear flashed, stirring up the air, and stabbed at Cao Zhao with a strong wind. This move is Zhang Bao's trick, and he has never missed a shot. The two horses were staggered, only to feel that the spearhead had brought something, Zhang Bao was overjoyed, and when he looked back, he only cut through the soft armor on Cao Zhao's shoulder, Zhang Bao laughed, laughed halfway through, but suddenly stopped the voice, it turned out that Cao Zhao's spear head was hanging Zhang Bao's half-width battle skirt. In this battle, it was evenly divided, and there was no winner or loser. Cao Zhao immediately stood in front of the formation alone, protecting the Wei army and slowly retreating. In the face of Zhang Bao, he didn't give in.

Seeing this, Zhang Bao couldn't help but feel pity, he raised his spear, stopped the Han army's charge, and nodded: "You, it's really good!" ”

Cao Zhao didn't answer, holding a gun in one hand, staring at Zhang Bao fixedly, waiting for him to attack again.

An adjutant general stepped forward and said to Zhang Bao: "General, I will transfer the strong bow battalion and shoot that General Wei to death." ”

Zhang Bao slowly turned his head and looked at the deputy general, suddenly rolled his strange eyes, and spit out a mouthful of phlegm on the deputy general's face: "How can a big hero die under the dark arrow, if I kill him, I will fight him with a real sword and a real gun, even if I die in his hands, I will not live up to my reputation!" ”

He lifted the horse forward: "Cao Zhao, the two armies are fighting today, and the killing is not very happy, now the victory or defeat of the Han and Wei armies has been decided, there is no need to fight again, I will let you go back, ten days later, I will wait for you here, regardless of victory or defeat, I will not give up." ”

Cao Zhao glanced at Zhang Bao with some surprise, nodded and said, "One word is a certainty!" ”

Zhang Bao turned the horse and left, and even stopped chasing and killing.