Jagged hegemony of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 617

"Meng Qi! What are you doing!"

Pound didn't know Cao Zhang, and Cao Zhang was wearing his own armor, not Cao Jun's armor, and the two of them didn't look like they were fighting, but they looked like they were competing for strength.

"Brother Ling Ming, help me quickly! I feel like I have lost all feeling in my hands!"

Ma Chao said to Pound.

"okay!"

Originally, Cao Zhang on the other side wanted to loosen the chain, but like Ma Chao on the other side, he had no feeling in his hands and arms, and he couldn't loosen the chain even if he wanted to.

Just when Cao Zhang thought that he had to die here today, he suddenly heard the voice of "Ding! Bang!" Immediately afterwards, he felt a lightness in his hand, and then fell off the horse.

Ma Chao on the other side was no exception and also fell off his horse.

It turned out that Pang De didn't know who Cao Zhang was, and Cao Jun on the opposite side was in a hurry, so he didn't have time to ask Ma Chao, so he swung his big knife and cut off one of Feizhuo's claws, and the three claws became After two boxes of claws, they couldn't catch them anymore, so Ma Chao and Cao Zhang lost their strength and fell to the ground.

After Ma Chao fell to the ground, he turned his head and saw that Cao Zhang had also fallen to the ground. He looked at Pound in astonishment and asked, "Why didn't you kill this son!"

Pang De was full of doubts, but instead asked Ma Chao: "Who is this?"

Ma Chao hurriedly shouted: "Quickly kill this man, this is Cao Zhang, the son of Cao Cao!"

"what?"

Pound was taken aback, and then wanted to kill Cao Zhang with a knife, but Cao Jun had arrived at this time, how could he kill Cao Zhang again, Pound could only help Ma Chao mount his horse, and retreat towards the Xiliang Army's camp.

At the same time, the rushing Cao Jun also came to Cao Zhang's side. Cao Zhang took a closer look and found that it was none other than his uncle, Cao Chun, the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry.

Cao Zhang said to Cao Chun: "Uncle Zihe, it is Xiliang Ma Chao who is running away ahead. If he can be killed, the Xiliang army will surely retreat!"

"it is good!"

Cao Chun ordered several tiger and leopard riders to stay here to take care of Cao Zhang, and then led the tiger and leopard riders to chase after Ma Chao in the direction where Ma Chao left.

After chasing for less than five miles, they happened to meet Ma Dai who was leading an army to help. A bloody battle broke out between the tiger and leopard cavalry and Xiliang soldiers. He ordered the soldiers to retreat to Hangu Pass, and stationed in Hangu Pass, waiting for Cao Cao's arrival.

Ten days later, Cao Cao personally led the army to Hangu Pass.

As soon as Cao Cao entered Hangu Pass, after seeing Xia Houyuan and other defeated generals in Hangu Pass, he did not blame him, but laughed out loud.

"Hahahaha, Ziwen is worthy of being my Huang Xuer, who was able to fight that Ma Meng for hundreds of rounds regardless of the outcome!"

Cao Cao looked at Cao Zhang approvingly, with a smile on his face.

But Xia Houyuan, who was sitting beside him, couldn't sit still, stood up with a dark face, knelt down to Cao Cao, and said, "My lord, it's not good for the last general to guard Chang'an, which caused Chang'an to fall, and I hope the lord will punish him! "

Cao Cao looked up at Xia Houyuan, and said: "Although you are responsible for losing Chang'an, no one here can defend it, because it is a sneak attack, but I must punish you, but not because of your loss." Chang'an, do you know why?"

Xia Houyuan was confused by Cao Cao, thinking that losing Chang'an was the biggest mistake, why didn't he punish me for Chang'an!

Seeing that Xia Houyuan couldn't answer, Cao Cao said, "I'm punishing you because you tried to take Chang'an back after you lost the long press. What a stupid thing it is. In the end, you lost your troops and lost Tongguan. This is the reason why I punish you! Someone, drag Xia Houyuan down and beat you with forty army sticks!"

As soon as Cao Cao finished speaking, two soldiers came in from outside the door and stepped forward to fight Xia Houyuan.

"slow!"

At this moment, Xi Zhicai stood up, walked up to Cao Cao, and said, "My lord, General Miaocai lost Chang'an, and it's human nature to want to regain it. What's more, now that Ma Teng's army has not retreated, The battle is imminent, so let’s write down this army stick for now, and it won’t be too late to fight after Ma Teng is repelled!"

Cao Zhang also said: "Yes, father, when the Xiliang army attacked Hangu Pass, Uncle Miaocai helped me a lot in resisting the Xiliang army. Father, please give Uncle Miaocai a chance to make up for it!"

After Cao Zhang finished speaking, all the generals in the room saluted Cao Cao: "My lord, please give General Xiahou a chance to make up for his mistakes!"

Only then did Cao Cao say: "Xia Houyuan, for the sake of the generals, I will spare you this time. If there is another time, I will punish you for both crimes!"

Xiahou Dun hurriedly replied, "Thank you, my lord!"

On the other hand, Cao Cao waved his hand, signaling Xia Houyuan to retreat, and then said: "This time I went south, I was almost able to take down Soochow and wiped out Sun Ce, but Ma Teng took advantage of my south expedition to attack Chang'an. Forced me to withdraw my troops, this time I will make Ma Teng pay the price!"

After Cao Cao finished speaking, his face was so gloomy that water dripped out. This made everyone angry. The bamboo basket fetched water in vain, and a lot of soldiers, horses, food and grass were spent, but in the end they returned in vain. Those with good psychological quality and those with poor psychological quality will probably go crazy with anger.

After a pause, Cao Cao said again: "Now that Ma Teng's troops are approaching the pass, and our army has returned from the south after a long journey, it is a bit sleepy. Ma Teng is waiting for work and has the upper hand. Do you have a strategy to defeat the enemy?"

All the generals under Cao Cao's command said that they would go to war and take back Chang'an, but they couldn't think of a plan for them.

But there were only two people present who just waited there quietly without speaking. One was Cao Cao's chief adviser, Xi Zhicai, and the other was Sima Yi who helped Cao Zhang defend the city in Hangu Pass.

Xi Zhicai also noticed Sima Yi's calmness, so he cast his eyes on Sima Yi, and Sima Yi felt that someone was looking at him, so he raised his head, and when he saw Xi Zhicai looking at him, he smiled at Xi Zhicai , then lowered his head again.

When Xi Zhi saw Sima Yi like this, he frowned slightly, as if thinking of something.

At this moment, Cao Cao clapped his hands and said, "Okay, don't talk about it anymore, who will tell you your opinion!"

Xu Huang took the lead in answering: "My lord, Tongguan can only be taken by force. If my lord can hold back Ma Teng's army, I will eventually detour to Shouyang Mountain, cross the river from there, and then attack Tongguan."

Cao Cao looked at Xu Huang and asked, "If I support Ma Teng, how many days can you take back Tongguan?"

Xu Huang replied: "Ten days!"

Cao Cao asked again: "Then how sure are you of taking back Tongguan?"

Xu Huang replied again: "Fifty percent!"

"Hahahaha!"

Cao Cao laughed after hearing Xu Huang finish speaking.

Xu Huang hurriedly asked, "Why are you laughing, my lord?"

(End of this chapter)