Chapter 521: Fierce Battle of Han Shui
Zhao Yun took all this into his eyes, and couldn't help asking: "Cao Cao is on the bank of the Hanshui River, setting up ten camps in a row, supporting left and right, and taking care of the front and back, can the old general have a strategy to break the enemy?"
Huang Zhong pointed to the mountains north of Cao Cao's camp and said: "There is a scout to report, Cao Cao's grain and grass has been hoarded in the Beishan camp, at this moment Cao Cao will be all the army in the Hanshui camp, the grain and grass camp in Beishan must be empty, I want to lead a group of soldiers and horses to raid Cao Cao's Beishan camp where he hoarded grain and grass." ”
Zhao Yun nodded and said, it is naturally a good idea to go to the rear of Cao Cao, who is heavily stationed in front of Cao Cao, but at the same time, this move is also dangerous, and there are countless risks.
Zhao Yun couldn't make up her mind in her heart, and asked, "Why don't we ask the lord?"
Huang Zhong said: "It's too late, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and if you miss the best combat opportunity, the gains outweigh the losses." ”
Zhao Yun nodded, with many years of experience in the battlefield, Zhao Yun naturally understood this truth: "Why don't I go, the old general guards the camp?"
Zhao Yun asked tentatively, as soon as the words fell, Huang Zhong refused: "You are still young, you still need people like you by the side of the lord, I am already old, I can only maximize my remaining value, let me do this kind of thing as going deep into the trap." ”
Zhao Yun listened to Huang Zhong's words, and couldn't help but feel sad, so he had to make a concession: "It's better to be like this, the old general can lead the army with confidence, let's go tomorrow at noon, if the old general doesn't come back at the time we agreed, how about I lead the army to meet the old general?"
Huang Zhong nodded, the two of them each took a step back, and took a compromise solution, Huang Zhong said: "This is very good!"
In the middle of the night, Huang Zhong prepared his army and horses, quietly crossed the Han River under the cover of the moonlight, chewed his head on the war horse, and went straight to Cao Cao's Beishan camp.
In the grass, Huang Zhong waved his hand, and the archers lit the arrows that were originally dipped in oil, and with an order, the archers at hand fired thousands of arrows and shot them into the camp.
In the camp of Beishan, all the grain and grass were hoarded, and when it caught fire, a raging fire was ignited in the camp, and the soldiers who had already fallen asleep in the camp were awakened from their sleep and became a pot of porridge.
Under Huang Zhong's command, in a short period of time, all the rockets were shot, and Huang Zhong waved the big knife in his hand and said angrily: "Kill me!"
The soldiers around him roared into the camp one by one, Huang Zhong cut the fence and rushed into the camp first, only to see that the camp was empty, only the pair of men and horses who rushed out before, but they were all old, weak, sick and disabled, seeing Huang Zhong rushing in, there was no resistance, holding his head, consciously squatting in a corner.
When Huang Zhong saw this, his heart sank, and he couldn't help but secretly say: "It's not good, it's a trick." ”
With a wave of the big knife in his hand, he said, "Withdraw." As soon as the words fell, I only heard the sound of shouting and killing outside the camp gate, and when I looked around, I saw that countless Cao troops had surrounded this place.
Countless torches, like a little star, illuminate the north mountain like day,
Countless tigers and leopards surrounded Cao Cao and came to the front of the formation.
It turned out that Cao Cao would be heavily armed with Hanshui, in order to invite the king into the urn, Cao Cao deliberately released the news that the grain and grass were in Beishan, and it was expected that Huang Zhong would definitely come to raid Beishan, and set up a net in Beishan to avenge Xiahou Yuan.
As the first general, carrying a "strong spear" in his hand, he rushed up and said angrily: "Huang Zhong, old man, return my brother's life." As he spoke, he urged the horse forward, and the fierce spear in his hand turned into a flood of spears, enveloping all the vital points around Huang Zhong's body.
Huang Zhong saw that it was Xiahoudun, and his heart was cold, the two of them could be said to be enemies when they saw each other, and their eyes were red, and where the gun fell, Huang Zhong only felt that the breath around his body was stagnant, and he knew that Xiahoudun's skills were not trivial. The "Heavenly Knife" in his hand is strict and strictly guards the door.
At this time, Xu Huang also led the army to kill up, and Xiahoudun fought Huang Zhong, Huang Zhong knew that he was old, if he fought hard, he could not beat Xu Huang who was fighting in any way, Xiahoudun and the two of them were in the move, trying their best to take the defensive, just to consume less strength, and hold on until noon, Zhao Yun would come to respond.
Huang Zhong has a long breath and rich experience in facing the enemy, although he is in the momentum of the flank, but his palm is not chaotic at all, sealing Xiahoudun's fierce spear, setting up Xu Huang's big axe, and occasionally taking advantage of the gap to fight back, slashing Xu Huang with a knife and kicking Xiahoudun. 、
Cao Cao at the bottom of the mountain vaguely saw it clearly, and couldn't help but be secretly surprised: "I heard that Huang Zhong is more than sixty years old, and he still has such skills, he really knows it, if he puts it when he is young, it will be repaid." ”
As he spoke, he ordered his soldiers to beat the war drums, and the sound of the war drums seemed to arouse the sleeping wolf nature in the soldiers' bodies, and the soldiers rushed towards the north mountain without hesitation.
Huang Zhong's soldiers were all personally trained by Zhuge Liang, seeing this scene, they were not in a hurry, each dominating the danger, and stubbornly resisting the offensive of Cao Cao's army by taking advantage of the surrounding barrier covers.
Under the efforts of all the soldiers, Xia Houdun and Xu Huang, who were originally ambushed on the side of the mountain, were slowly driven down the mountain, and the sound of shouting and killing resounded throughout the mountain.
After several killings, the sky was already dark, and the mountains and fields were already full of corpses, blood flowed like rivers, and from time to time a few crows rushed down in the air to peck at the corpses on the ground.
The soldiers of the Cao army under the mountain glared angrily at the mountain, only waiting for Cao Cao to give the order for a general attack again, and finally the war drums sounded again, and the soldiers roared and roared, rushing towards the top of the mountain.
On the mountain, under the command of Huang Zhong, the wood used to build the camp was dismantled, and he smashed it down the mountain, picked up the stones on the mountain, and threw it down the mountain.
All of a sudden, there was a terrible howl from the soldiers under the mountain.
When Cao Cao's soldiers climbed up, Huang Zhong ordered Cao Cao's army to be forced down the mountain with spears.
Huang Zhong saw that it was already noon, and shouted to the soldiers: "Brothers, hold on a little longer, our reinforcements will come soon." ”
Gradually, the bones under the North Mountain have piled up, Cao Cao saw it in his eyes, couldn't help but be angry, and came to supervise the battle in person with his sword.
The soldiers saw that Cao Cao personally came to supervise the battle, and the originally low morale instantly soared again, Cao Cao personally beat the drum to supervise the battle, and the generals took the lead bravely, and they wanted to make contributions in front of Cao Cao and take the lead in rushing ahead of the soldiers.
Huang Zhong saw that the morale of the soldiers under Cao Cao suddenly soared, and the available things on the mountain had been exhausted, so he pulled out the sword on his waist and said: "The eldest husband fought on the battlefield, and died without regrets. ”