The scouts who rushed back from the west of the battlefield came to Cao Cao.
One of them knelt down and said, "Duke Wei, the troops of Huang Zhong, the subordinate of Liu Bei's subordinate general Huang Zhong, are about three or five thousand. Their army is equipped with many longbow and powerful crossbows, and there is also a large crossbow that can continuously fire iron arrows. All our scouts are shot and killed. It took a lot of time to explore them...so it is too late to report!"
"Well, go down!" Cao Cao waved.
"Li Dian, don't move. Zidan's troops have rested for a while and asked him to take another infantryman in the fifth battalion and take it up... and let Xu Ding take the first battalion of guards and tiger soldiers!"
When the scout and the messenger left, Cao Cao pressed his forehead and began to have a headache.
Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun are both here, and now Huang Zhong is here. Who else? How many troops did Liu Bei use? He really wants to fight to the decisive battle and really invested a lot of money? He really plans to take my life here?
A great victory that predicted the enemy's first and refreshing momentum gradually became a stupid battle without any skills, and a trend of developing into a quagmire strangle. With the huge human power in Hebei and Central Plains, Cao Cao was not afraid of consumption. But in this way, it seemed like he had tried his best to be a front-lift for others, which was not cost-effective!
Otherwise, just withdraw to Yanglingyi and continue to be in a stalemate with Liu Bei?
The journey from Hanzhong to Guanzhong is so long. If Liu Bei's army mobilized troops from Shuzhong, their food and fodder supply would sooner or later not be able to support it. If there is another stalemate for two or three months, or will it be impossible to win?
That is something to worry about in the future. Although the sky is dark now, it is still far from night. There is at least one more hour to fight in front of you, and you have to deal with it!
It's really annoying! This is all the trouble caused by Zihuan!
Cao Cao glared at Cao Pi fiercely, then asked again: "Who is the one responsible for advancing and defending this place after we leave Yangling County?"
Liu Ye replied: "There is currently a partial general He Mao in Yangling, who leads 6,000 troops. To the east of Baling, there are 15,000 troops under General Zhang He. When Hongmen Pavilion arrives at Xinfeng Camp, there are four generals, Wang Mo, Jiejiu, Gao Zuo, and Chang Diao. "
With such a huge number of troops and such strong logistical support capabilities, who else can I do today? Cao Cao calculated their distance and scheduling speed in his mind, and then asked: "They all know that I have fought with Liu Bei's team?"
"Yes, the military emergency reports never stopped every hour."
"Whether there are many soldiers and generals, how can Liu Bei compare to me! But these people are slowing down behind and miss the opportunity to fight in vain!" Cao Cao sneered repeatedly: "The situation is now stalemate, and everyone is about to fight together, so how can they delay... Send more military envoys to urge them to speed up their movements!"
The reason why these works remained behind was naturally necessary to stabilize the future. This is common sense for military use, and there was nothing to blame. At first, Duke Wei was confident that his army was strong enough to solve the problem, and he did not clearly order them to urge the army to come to aid within a specified period. But at this moment, Duke Wei suddenly demanded so much that he was afraid that he would no longer be sure to use his current forces to defeat Liu Bei, so he had to find a few unlucky guys who were responsible for the crime to come out so that he could severely punish him later.
Several subordinates met their eyes and immediately realized the intentions of Mr. Wei. The more they were all loyal and respectful, they all bowed down: "Yes."
Cao Cao looked at his subordinates with a stern face with a suspicion, and then asked, "What are the movements in the direction of Chang'an?"
In this battle of Guanzhong, both Cao and Liu used huge forces. Today, Cao and Liu personally led the elite troops from the northeast of Chang'an City to the northwest, and they swear not to withdraw their troops if they were unable to win. However, Chang'an City and its defenders, which were in the center of the battlefield, seemed to be the calmest part of the center of the storm, and Cao Cao did not mention it before.
At this time, he suddenly asked a question, and everyone was stunned.
It was Liu Ye who replied: "There is no movement. I heard that Liu Bei's army had pretended to have arrived in an attempt to make a profit, so the defenders did not dare to move rashly."
"Don't dare to move? I came here in person with a flag, only a Wei River, and they dare not move?" Cao Cao shook his head, knowing that Yan Xing was fine. The candidates, Cheng Yin, and Ma Wan were unreliable after all, and it was not easy to be able to hold Chang'an until this time.
He hesitated for a while, took off the jade pendant around him and handed it to a personal general: "You take this item to call the door under Chang'an City. After seeing Zhong Yuanchang, give it to him. Just say that the chance of success or failure will be at this time, and the generals in Guanzhong cannot stay out of the matter! Let him use this as a basis and let Yan Xing send troops to help! Go!"
The dear general took the few cavalry and went there in a hurry.
Cao Cao continued to ask: "Is anyone staring at Ma Chao's movements?"
"These days, Ma Chao has been fighting along Puban, but he is not interested in the movements around Chang'an."
Cao Cao himself read the military newspaper every day and knew that Ma Chao was roughly on the front line of Tongguan, Weibei. At this time, he asked someone to ask for it, just to relieve himself. He nodded slightly and found that there was nothing to give, so he continued to stare at several fronts and looked around for a long time.
At this time, his subordinates could barely suppress Liu Bei's headquarters in the north, but when facing reinforcements in the west, they gradually tended to be overwhelmed. The number of reinforcements was actually not large, with three to five thousand people, but the armor and machinery were extremely exquisite, and they used crossbows to shoot around the sky and the ground, which was even more powerful.
Although there were crossbowmen in Cao's army who were shooting hard, the density of arrows was simply impossible to match Huang Zhong's troops.
Cao Cao saw a Cao army warrior with a spear and a short spear in his hands, and was covered with heavy armor. The warrior had extraordinary strength and was very flexible in his movements. He held a spear in one hand and stabbed it accurately and fiercely. He led a small team of people to the front of the military formation and killed several Huang Zhong's subordinates in succession.
The archers of Huang Zhong's subordinates all opened their bows and shot him, but he moved left and right to fight, avoiding several arrows in succession, and more than a dozen arrows hung on him, blocked by armor or cooked cowhide under the armor.
As a result, Huang Zhong immediately mobilized the crossbows to shoot in a concentrated manner, and heard the sound of the crossbow machine twitching. The next moment, dozens of cold iron arrows appeared on the warrior, and hedgehog was like a straw target, and he could not find a body without an arrow. The warrior stood still and then fell to the ground. His torso was supported by iron arrows, and he was several inches above the ground.
Xu Chu sighed sadly beside Cao Cao.
Cao Cao thought about it and felt that the warrior looked familiar. He thought he was the best among the tiger soldiers of the Guards. When these people first started in troubled times, they were enough to support a regime that occupied the prefectures and counties with their personal courage. But now they died in a moment, without even a decent result.
As Liu Bei's Bai Li soldiers were killed in large numbers, Cao Cao's guards had to fill the battlefield at this time.
These guards were selected from various troops, including officers such as Shimao and Dubo. Not only did they achieve excellent fighting will and skills, but they also contacted many generals and schoolmen during the process of guards in the central army, participated in various exercises, and gradually mastered the corresponding tactical command capabilities.
Very few common military officers in contemporary times can match them. Ordinary grassroots officers can unite their subordinates and fight tenaciously in the face of the battle. They are excellent at being able to charge first and inspire morale. However, once these tiger soldiers of the Guard are released as officers, they can all respond correctly according to the battlefield situation and command and change queues in complex environments.
This is the foundation that Cao Cao gathered for the Duchy of Wei. After Wei replaced the Han Dynasty, he could immediately expand the backbone of the strong soldiers! But now they began to die in large numbers!
Cao Cao couldn't help but look at the direction of Chang'an City again.
The military envoy holding the jade pendant with Duke Wei had already rushed over.
Previously, the Cao army's cavalry had captured the small village of Liu Bei's army that was used to arrow the three bridges of the Wei River. Li Dian also left hundreds of people to guard them there, so the army was running all the way without any obstacles.
Cao Cao remembered that there should be 20,000 people recorded in the vast and quaint city in the military list. Although it is common for the generals in Guanzhong to receive empty salary, they must maintain considerable strength if they can withstand several attacks from Liu Bei's troops.
Originally, Cao Cao led his troops to the edge of Chang'an City, with the intention of shocking the generals in Guanzhong with a great victory and avoiding them from being shaken.
Chapter completed!