The setting sun is like blood. When the real blood spreads over the earth, the setting sun is also dim.
From Pang De's arrest to Cao Hong's army's defeat, blood had already covered the earth in a short time. When Cao Hong's army fled back to Luyang City with all his heart, the blood also dyed the Luyang City red
Moat water.
In order to escape from the city, people are crowded, and people are trampled on. In order to be able to escape from the city, these remnants of Cao Hong did not need Ma Chao's troops to take action. They killed each other in front of the city gate, and killed countless people, and the rest were also on the suspension bridge.
Above, there were a pile of them in the city gate.
This crowding was broken. When Cao Hong was defeated, Che Wei, the general who stayed in Luyang, was planning to point the army out of the city to pick up Cao Hong and block Ma Chao's army. But at this moment, the city gate was completely blocked and he wanted to go out.
Those who couldn't get out, those who wanted to get in could not get in. And those remaining soldiers who were sandwiched between the city gate and wanted to escape their lives even fought against Che Wei's remaining troops. They dispersed Che Wei's formation and waited for Che Wei's ranks.
After finding Cao Hong and others in the chaos, Che Wei realized that the chaos is definitely not the time to go out of the city to compete with Ma Chao, but at this time, Che Wei could not even close the city gate.
Moreover, due to the chaos of Cao Hong's troops and the troops were wasting too much time at the city gate, Ma Chao's troops caught up.
Although Ma Chao was a little crazy at this time, Ma Dai, Pang De and the others were not confused at all. How could this pie fall from the sky be easily let go of?
Ma Dai quickly organized his subordinates to take the opportunity to attack the city. Pang De rushed to the near the suspension bridge, took the knife and cut off the rope on the suspension bridge. He rushed to Luyang City with one horse, occupied the city gate, and shouted at his subordinates.
The soldiers entered the city to fight.
The general Che Wei, who stayed in Luyang, saw that Ma Chao's troops were unstoppable. In the irreversible situation, he protected Cao Hong, Xu Huang and others, and fled from Dongcheng with the remaining defeated generals.
Cao Cao's Luyang City was actually occupied by Ma Chao by a devil.
When Cao Cao learned the news, Cao Cao was shocked. This was impossible! Ma Chao, an unknown young man. His cousin Cao Hong is a brave and invincible general, and he has many generals under his command. How could he be defeated by Ma Chao? Besides,
According to the report of the Dissertation, Ma Chao's troops were not large, only more than 30,000; and Ma Chao did not carry much food and grass. Even if Cao Hong could not defeat Ma Chao, he only relied on the 50,000 troops he gave Cao Hong and Lu
Yang's 20,000 defenders were more than twice that of Ma Chao's troops. Luyang City itself was also high and thick. It was defended by the city, so how could Ma Chao take over the city? Cao Cao couldn't think of it.
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Indeed! From the perspective of military deployment alone, Cao Hong's troops are definitely more people than Ma Chao's troops. Cao Hong just went out of the city to fight Ma Chao's troops, so he would definitely be stronger than Ma Chao's troops. Cao Hong's own deployment was also good, and he did not give his all.
When he attacked Ma Chao, he only used most of his troops to fight Ma Chao. Some of the troops in Luyang City remained behind. Cao Hong's layout generally prevented Luyang City from being attacked.
But! It is said that: A soldier will be a clump. Because Ma Chao's reputation was not yet obvious at this time, Cao Cao, Cao Hong and others did not take Ma Chao seriously. Moreover, Cao Hong was careless about his fight, which caused him to be the result of Cao Hong's careless fight.
The main generals under Cao Hong were injured and killed one after another, and Cao Hong's command system was completely out of control. In the chaos, he was successfully attacked by Ma Dai, Pang De and others. That was not new at all.
At this time, Cao Cao was like an ant on a hot pan. Although Cao Cao felt that Cao Hong's failure was incredible, no matter what, Cao Hong's failure and Luyang's failure have become an unchangeable fact. Cao Cao had no time to think about the reasons.
Waiting for a messy thing, Cao Hong's failure caused too much damage to Cao Cao, which completely disrupted Cao Cao's strategic deployment.
Although Cao Cao had a lot of troops at the beginning, he had more than 500,000 soldiers. However, in the battle of Xuzhou, the rebellion of Liu Bei and Chen Gong, and the attack of Liu Ming's troops, this allowed Cao Cao's troops to quickly complete the simplification.
The army and the strategic plan of large-scale layoffs. Although this allowed Cao Cao to get rid of the problem of insufficient military rations, Cao Cao, who had a land span of three states, was confused about insufficient military strength. Xuzhou, which was temporarily Cao Cao's granary, but the people of Xuzhou and Xuzhou
The prominent family has a great grudge against Cao Cao. When Cao Cao returned to Yanzhou, he couldn't take care of so much, but now he calmed down. In order to prevent people with ulterior motives from causing trouble in Xuzhou, Cao Cao had to set aside 100,000 in Xuzhou at all times
Only in this way can the people and prominent families in Xuzhou be stationed, and there will be no chaos. Cao Cao's Yanzhou is the foundation of Cao Cao and is even more important. However, in order to alleviate the pressure on military rations, Cao Cao copied the Yanzhou in Yanzhou not long ago.
He has conquered a lot of wealthy families. Although Cao Cao is expected to grow among the people of Yanzhou, other wealthy families in Yanzhou are very moved. Moreover, Zhang Xiu and Yuan Shu are on the side, Cao Cao has to be careful. In this way,
At least 100,000 troops were not missing or moving at all. At that time, Zhang He's 50,000 people could not stop Liu Ming at Guandu, which made Cao Cao have to send more heavy troops in Guandu. Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He
Gao Lan's soldiers were all ordered to be transferred there, and there were more than 100,000 soldiers and horses that could not move.
Cao Hong's 50,000 people were all the guards recruited by Cao Cao. Now that Cao Hong has failed, where can Cao Cao find people for a while? Cao Cao could not withdraw enough troops to replace Cao Hong and stop Ma Chao.
What does it feel like to put a hero in a penny? What does Cao Cao feel like now?
In desperation, Cao Cao ordered: "I ordered Cao Hong to stay on the spot for twenty-five days. After twenty-five days, if there were no reinforcements, he would withdraw with him and be punished. Within twenty-five days, he would lose again, and he would be fully committed.
All the generals of the camp will be executed! If the reinforcements arrive twenty-five days later, the previous crime will be exempted from the reward."
It would be a helpless move for Cao Cao to pass such an order. Cao Cao had to take advantage of these days to gather troops from the defenders in Yanzhou. If it really didn't work, Cao Cao could only accept his head and let Ma Chao come in to fight the local war.
.At that time, Cao Cao would not care about the losses caused to Cao Cao's mainland.
After Cao Hong led the defeated generals to escape to Zheng County, he sent a quick horse to send a war report to Cao Cao overnight. He kept recuperating in Zheng County and brought troops to wait for Cao Cao's support.
When Cao Hong received Cao Cao's reply, Cao Hong was also stunned. He stayed there for 25 days. What does this mean? Then, there will be no one to help Cao Hong during this period. And Xu Du was at the distance here and
It's not very far away. The 800-mile rush horse can arrive in one day. Even if the infantry walks, it will be almost done for seven days. However, Cao Cao lets himself stay alone for so long. What does this mean?
It is not a problem of the journey. The relationship between Cao Hong and Cao Cao also made Cao Hong firmly believe that Cao Cao would never ignore him. What else is there? Cao Hong, who has led the army for many years, certainly understood the problem. Cao Cao must be
He was in an embarrassing state of insufficient troops. Therefore, Cao Cao gave him such an order.
Cao Hong regrets this. Why did he accidentally let Ma Chao take Luyang over? Why did he cause trouble for his lord?
Cao Hong, who was full of regret, was truly red in his eyes this time. Cao Hong made up his mind that even if he died, his soul would keep Ma Chao's troops here.
Cao Hong ordered that the entire army prepare for war, and all men use everything to strengthen Zheng County. They must fight to the last person.
The determination of the chief general was always infected with the morale of the soldiers. Originally, Cao Hong's troops were a little depressed after suffering this crushing defeat. However, when Cao Hong's decisive order was issued, the so-called atmosphere of mourning soldiers would win appeared. Both the left and right died,
Why not die braver?
Che Wei said to Cao Hong with a guarantee: "General, don't worry. It is best to recover from your injuries. Even if the Prime Minister doesn't come to support us, we will never lose to Ma Chao and the others again. Ma Chao and the others are just more than 30,000 soldiers.
.We just accidentally let Ma Chao and the others gain the upper hand. Now Zheng County originally had 3,000 defenders, plus the more than 20,000 troops we brought out. There are already more than 30,000 troops.
God, our defeated troops will come back one after another. At that time, our troops will not be able to carry them, and there will be 50,000. Even if there are not 50,000, there will definitely be 40,000 soldiers. We have this
There are so many soldiers, as long as we don’t confront Ma Chao and the others head-on. With the city's persistence, it will definitely be foolproof. We can definitely defend this city. When the Prime Minister sends reinforcements, we will take revenge and will definitely be able to serve the general.
I'll get out of this anger!"
When Cao Hong heard this, he felt relieved and healed with peace of mind.
At this time, Ma Chao was already awake under the comfort and care of Ma Dai and others. Ma Chao, who woke up, felt incredible that he could actually take Luyang. Only more than 30,000 troops actually conquered the enemy.
It is incredible to have a major city guarded by several times the number of troops. Moreover, the significance of victory in this war is too great.
Originally, Ma Chao planned to use fraud to come to Cao Cao, so Ma Chao did not carry much military ration. If Cao Hong insisted on Luyang and Ma Chao did not even have enough military rations to return to Wuguan, let alone attack Luyang, or return it.
It will take not long to attack Dong Zhuo's Wu Pass, and Ma Chao's little troops will collapse due to shortage of food. Ma Chao, who was sandwiched between the two passes, had to escape.
But now, Ma Chao unexpectedly captured Luyang. There were a large amount of military rations hoarded by Cao Hong in Luyang City. Cao Hong's troops fled in a hurry, and it was impossible to take into account these military rations. Of course, all of these military rations were left to Ma Chao. Ma Chao had these military rations.
Supporting, Ma Chao's room for activities is of course much greater.
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