Three Kingdoms, I'm really not a general!

Chapter 191: Formation Killing!

Xing Daorong chopped Xiahou Yuan's long sword with one axe, and the axe kept moving, chopping continuously like a storm.

How could Xiahou Yuan block Xing Daorong's attack without a weapon?
I cried out “Alas” in my heart, knowing that my day was over.

He subconsciously turned around to leave, but was caught up by Xing Daorong's Di Lu.

"die!"

With a loud shout, Xing Daorong swung his axe forward, and Xiahou Yuan could no longer hide.

Looking back, I saw a huge axe coming down from the air.

For a moment, Xiahou Yuan seemed to see his entire life experience.

He started an uprising in Chenliu, became the governor of Yingchuan, fought the Battle of Guandu, captured Changxi, killed Liu Yun, the King of Jinan, wiped out Lei Xu, and marched to Guanyou.
Like a revolving lantern, all the events that had happened since he joined the army flashed before his eyes at once.

When he regained consciousness, the breath of death had already rushed towards his face!

"Wow!"

Suddenly Xiahou Yuan's world became completely quiet.
Xiahou Yuan was chopped into two halves by Xing Daorong!

The moment Xing Daorong killed Xiahou Yuan, time seemed to freeze.

All Cao's soldiers were stunned.

The head coach was actually killed!
What else is there to fight for?

Morale was already low, and now it completely collapsed.

If Hao Zhao had not tried hard to gather the remaining soldiers, this grain-robbing battle would have really turned into a war of annihilation.

It was tragic enough to be beaten like this, but what Hao Zhao was more afraid of was that Qishan Town had been lost.

He immediately gathered the remaining troops and headed towards Qishan Town.

As soon as we arrived at the town, we saw that the whole city was filled with Liu Bei's flags.

Seeing that Zhang Gong, who stayed behind, was unable to defend the city, he had to retreat again.

If Qishan was lost, the entire Tianshui and Fufeng would be under the attack of the Shu army.

Going further is Chang'an City.

It goes without saying what the situation would be if Liu Bei captured the capital of the Liu family's ancestors.

Everyone knew that Cao Cao would never allow this to happen, but it was beyond his control.

...

Without going into details about what happened afterwards, it is said that when Xing Daorong killed Xiahou Yuan, all his family members were shocked on the spot.

Ma Chao was the first to come running over and said, "Zi Yu! You killed Xiahou Yuan directly instead of leaving him for me to kill."

Everyone knows that the Cao family and the Xiahou family are now inseparable, and there is no difference between killing the Xiahou family and killing the Cao family.

Killing a member of the Xiahou family with his own hands would not be much different from killing a member of the Cao family, so naturally Ma Chao wanted to do it himself.

Xing Daorong was quite understanding about this and didn't feel that the other party had any intention of stealing the credit.

He just smiled and said, "The battlefield is changing rapidly, I really can't be careless. Next time if there is a chance, I will ask Meng Qi to do it himself."

Ma Chao was just talking. At the moment, he was filled with joy and excitement. He smiled and said, "Hahaha! It's a deal. Next time you have the chance, you can order me to come!"

Xing Daorong naturally nodded in response.

Huo Jun on the side was obviously a little too excited, and shouted: "It is said that everyone in our army wants to follow General Xing to fight the enemy. After this battle, I also want to follow General Xing."

There is no truth in what you say.

It sounds like he is somewhat disdainful of other generals after all.

But at the moment, Ma Chao, Pang De and Zhou Tai were all Xing Daorong's die-hard fans, and no one heard anything strange.

They all just laughed and said, "Haha, I think General Huo wants to make a contribution. He will make great contributions by following General Xing!"

Huo Jun had the same idea to some extent. Kill Xiahou Yuan in battle!
What a majestic and meritorious service this is!
Let’s talk about the greatest military achievement in Liu Bei’s entire army. Which one can compare to this one?

Speaking of which, Huo Jun was not very old, but he died very early, even earlier than Liu Bei in history.

Moreover, this guy died of illness. His physical problems made it difficult to save him.

Xing Daorong was just thinking about whether to ask Hua Tuo to care about Huo Jun's health. He shook his head, put aside these messy thoughts, and said to everyone: "I don't know what the situation is like with General Wu Yi. If we can occupy Qishan Town, we should go to Tianshui County without stopping."

Seeing Xing Daorong talking about serious matters, Ma Chao also hurriedly said, "It's not just Tianshui, it should be Nan'an, Tianshui, and Anding counties, all of which can be pacified."

Xing Daorong nodded and said, "Yes, the Guanzhong area is within our reach. We should take advantage of Cao Cao's army coming here to conquer Xiliang first."

Ma Chao said: "I am familiar with this, you can ask me and Ling Ming to go to the four places to persuade them to surrender."

Xing Daorong thought this was a natural thing to do.

Originally, these three counties had never resisted the Prime Minister's steps in history. Now that Liu Bei is obviously more powerful, naturally it will not be a problem.

But
The other side of Jieting must be brought into sight and guarded.

Jieting is indeed an important place.

The mountains are high and the valleys are deep, the terrain is dangerous, and it is also an important military pass and a place that military strategists must fight for. From here, we can attack Shu and retreat to defend Longyou at the same time.

In fact, Xing Daorong had always thought that Jieting was not an important place.

If Cao Cao can't take the land route, he can't take the water route either!
When fighting Tianshui, Cao Cao could clearly enter Tianshui from the Wei River Valley!

It was not until today's battle in Qishan Valley that Xing Daorong understood what was going on.

Once it rains, the road becomes completely unwalkable!

The road is rugged and difficult to travel on, and is unable to accommodate large troops.

Since the Wei army could not cross the Wei River valley to rescue Tianshui directly, they had to take a detour through Guanshan in the north.

This road was the only way and post road from Guanzhong to the Northwest until the Qing Dynasty.

There are two roads across the mountains, two north-south roads.

Lieliu City is in the north, called the North Road, while Lueyang is the South Road.

The south road is the main road, while the north road is the small road.

In the past, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, attacked Wei Xiang and passed through Lueyang twice.

After Liu Bei occupied the dangerous road of Qishan, if the Wei army wanted to support Liangzhou, it had to send troops from Luoyang, and to enter Liangzhou from the Guanzhong Plain, it had to pass Jieting.

When Zhuge Liang entered Xiliang, he knew very well that he must defend Jieting.

Cao Wei was also very clear that in order to pass Jieting, it had to use cavalry to rush to the rescue quickly and form a pincer attack on the attacking Shu Han army.

Therefore, Jieting became the node and the top priority in the entire battle.

If Ma Su could correctly understand Zhuge Liang's strategic intentions, station troops in the county, store food in advance, and dig wells, it would be very difficult for Zhang He's cavalry to break through the county in a short time and they would be caught in a dilemma.

However, a possibility was mentioned by later generations.

Jieting was a county town in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, called Jiequan County. Later, the county was abolished and changed to Jieting, abbreviated as Jieting. Since it was once a county, there must be a city, but it is obvious that Ma Su did not defend the city, or there was no city for him to defend at all!
Zhuge Liang had never been to Jieting County and did not know whether Jieting still had city walls after it was abolished as a county.

When Ma Su arrived at the scene, he found that the city was broken and could not be defended, so he was forced to go up the mountain.

The geographical location of Jieting is undoubtedly a transportation hub, but unlike other passes, Jieting is not a dangerous pass, but is most likely just a dilapidated county town.

There was another such blocking battle without a pass in modern history, which was the Battle of Tashan. Even though our army had deployed defenses in advance, the battle was extremely brutal.

Therefore, no one can really answer the question whether the loss of Jieting was entirely due to Ma Su.

but
Since Xing Daorong knew that Jieting was so important and more likely to be lost, he certainly could not repeat the same mistake.

Therefore, when sending the victory report to Liu Bei, a letter was also attached. In the entire letter, there was only one thing mentioned, which was Jieting!

(End of this chapter)