Cao Ren suggested: "You can first set up the village to stabilize the foundation before attacking." So Cao Cao ordered the soldiers to cut down trees, raise the grids, and divide them into three villages: Cao Ren from the left village, Xiahou Yuan from the right village, and Cao took the middle village to the first village.
On the second day, after a little rest, Cao Cao led the soldiers from the three villages to attack the pass, and happened to meet the soldiers from Xiliang, and both sides arranged formations. Cao Cao walked to the center of the formation and saw the soldiers from Xiliang, very brave.
, , the mighty and magnificent. When seeing Ma Chao's face as pink as plump, lips as red as red, waist as thin as wide, voice strong, white robe and silver armor, holding a spear in his hand, and at the center of the formation, next to Pang De and Ma
Dai, I don't think I can't be underestimated.
He said to Ma Chao: "You are the descendants of famous generals of the Han Dynasty. Why do you betray the court and rebellious?"
After hearing this, Ma Chao became even more angry and cursed: "Cao thief! You deceive the king and the emperor, and the crime is not to be punished! You frame my father and the revenge of killing my father is irreconcilable. I must bite off your flesh one by one!"
After saying that, he didn't give Cao Cao a chance to explain and killed him directly.
Yu Jin came out to fight behind Cao Cao, and the two horses intersected and fought for eight or nine rounds. Yu Jin could not defeat him and had to escape.
Zhang He came out to fight again, and fought for twenty rounds, but was no match, so he could only continue to escape. Li Tong came out to fight, and Ma Chao became more and more brave. In several rounds, he stabbed Li Tong to death by the horse, and Ma Chao would steal high
Gao Yangqiu, the soldiers of Xiliang rushed out together, and Cao's army was defeated. The Xiliang army charged very quickly and was very brave, and even the left and right generals could not resist it.
Ma Chao, Pang De, and Ma Dai led a hundred cavalry to advance directly towards the central army, preparing to capture Cao Cao directly. Cao Cao was among the chaos and heard the Xiliang army shouting: "The one wearing a red robe is Cao Cao!
"Cao Cao immediately took off his robe, and heard a soldier from Xiliang shouting, "The person with a beard is Cao Cao!" Cao Cao was very panicked and took out his sword to cut off his beard directly. A soldier from Xiliang witnessed this
The situation was told by Ma Chao that Cao Cao used a sword to separate his beard. Ma Chao said to everyone: "The one with a very short beard is Cao Cao!" After Cao Cao heard about it, he could only use a flag to surround his neck and escape secretly.
While Cao Cao was running away, a cavalry suddenly rushed over from behind. Looking back, he saw that the man was Ma Chao. Cao Cao was very surprised. After seeing it, he ran away directly, leaving only Cao Cao alone.
Ma Chao shouted: "Don't leave Cao Pie!"
Cao Cao was also very scared. After all, he saw Ma Chao's martial arts, and Ma Chao felt that he was about to catch up. He stabbed him with a shot from behind. Cao Cao walked around the tree. Ma Chao stabbed him with a shot because he used too much force and the gun was very sharp.
After pulling it out, Cao Cao had already run far away.
Ma Chao rode his horse and chased him. A general suddenly turned around near the hillside and shouted, "Don't hurt our lord! Cao Hong is here!" So he rode forward and blocked Ma Chao's way. Only then did Cao Cao have the chance to escape, Cao Hong and
Ma Chao fought for forty or fifty rounds, his sword skills were scattered and his strength could not keep up. Xiahou Yuan also arrived with more than a dozen cavalrymen.
Ma Chao was alone, afraid that there would be other Cao generals, so he could only turn his head and retreat, and Xiahou Yuan did not chase him.
Cao Cao returned to the camp, but fortunately Cao Ren guarded the camp to death, so he did not lose any extra troops.
After Cao Cao entered the camp, he sighed: "If I had killed Cao Hong at that time, I would have died under Ma Chao's gun today!" So he called Cao Hong and gave a lot of rewards. He cleaned up the defeated army and stood by the village.
, deep ditches and high bases, no soldiers are allowed to fight.
Ma Chao brought soldiers to the camp to insult Cao Cao every day. Cao Cao thought he could not hear it, and still ordered the soldiers to stick to it and behead him if there were any movement.
The generals suggested: "The soldiers and horses in Xiliang are good at using spears and can deal with them with bows and arrows."
Cao Cao said: "The initiative in the war lies in our hands, not in the thief. Although the thief has a spear, he cannot stab it in. Just watch it in the hard wall, and the thief will retreat."
After all the generals went down, they privately discussed: "Since the war, the Prime Minister must have taken the initiative. Now that he has lost to Ma Chao, how could he become so weak?"
After a few people, they made a detailed report and said, "Ma Chao added 20,000 troops to fight, all of which were Qiang tribes. However, Yu Yi took his troops and horses to leave Ma Chao's team, the reason is unknown!"
Cao Cao was very happy to hear that. The generals said: "Although Yu Yi left, Ma Chao has increased his strength after all. The Prime Minister was very happy after hearing this. Why?"
Cao Cao said, "I will tell you again when I win."
Three days later, I heard that the army was added to the locks. Cao Cao was even happier when he heard about it. He actually set up a banquet in the tent. The generals were unclear, so they could only laugh secretly.
Cao Cao had noticed this a long time ago and said, "You are mocking me for not defeating Ma Chao's strategy, so what good will you do?"
Xu Huang said, "Now the Prime Minister's troops are all here, and the bandits' troops are stationed on Tongguan. If there is an army sneaking through Puyangjin, cut off the retreat of the bandits' troops.
If the Prime Minister goes to Hebei to attack, and the bandit army cannot take care of both sides, then he will fall into a state of crisis."
Cao Cao said, "What you thought just now is exactly what I thought." So he asked Xu Huang to take four thousand elite soldiers and Zhu Ling to sneak attack Hexi, lying in the valley, and wait until the army crossed Hebei and attacked together.
Xu Huang and Zhu Ling took the order to leave, and secretly took four thousand soldiers and horses. Cao Cao ordered Cao Hong to prepare some ships in Puyangjin first, and let Cao Ren guard the camp. Cao Cao himself brought his troops across the Wei River.
This matter was quickly reported in detail. Ma Chao said: "Now Cao Cao is not going to attack Tongguan, so he sent people to prepare a ship. It is to cross Hebei and cut off our retreat. I should have a soldier with him with a soldier.
Go north along the river to block Cao Cao, so that he could not cross the river. Within twenty days, the food in Hedong was eaten, and Cao Cao would definitely be in trouble, and Cao Cao could capture him."
Han Sui said: "No need to do this. Have you ever heard of military tactics? The army crossed the river halfway, and the attack was the best at this time. After Cao's army crossed the river, you will hit the head-on on the south bank, and then Cao's army will die.
It's in the river."
Ma Chao bowed and said, "Uncle has a good idea!"
So he sent someone to inquire about the specific time when Cao Cao crossed the river. Cao Cao had already rectified his troops and divided them into three parts. The front part went to cross the river first. When the troops arrived at the mouth of the river, the sunlight had just appeared.
These ships crossing the river were all used by Sima Yi when he was tracking Yuyi. Some of them were ships crossing the river. Because of Le Jin, Sima Yi was driven back to Xudu by Cao Cao to reflect on it.