By mid-May, Cao Cao had completed his great purge in Xudu.

The whole month of chaos ended with large-scale killings of nearly 10,000 lives and the promotion of thousands of official positions. Cao Cao has always been good at this.

When he and his army continued to move south, the war between the Cao and Liu families really broke out again.

In this battle, the Cao family wanted to fight for the strength of their own side to replace the Han Dynasty and to achieve long-term stability in the frontiers. Cao Cao, the King of Wei, was old and he was almost determined to burn his boats. Although the Liu family was passively involved, its regime itself must pass a war to show the world its determination to revive the Han Dynasty and its qualification to continue the Han Dynasty.

The troubled times have been going on for decades, but there has never been two regimes with such strong strength and great potential to confront each other head-on.

For King Cao Cao of Wei and King Liu Bei of Hanzhong, this battle will reveal the final result of their rise in troubled times for decades, and it is also the greatest appreciation for the saying "Today's heroes are the only ones who are the Lord and Cao Er". Both of them know that this troubled times may continue, but the winner of this battle will surely have the qualification to end the troubled times.

If the dispute between Cao and Liu began with the Belt Edict incident, it had lasted for a full twenty years.

Twenty years ago, Cao Cao had only Yanzhou and Liu Bei had no size, while Yuan Shao and other heroes still existed. Twenty years later, the world was almost divided, and Cao and Liu all had hundreds of thousands of people. In the situation of the two families going all out, the fake Liang stallion who first provoked the war was simply insignificant.

Both Cao and Liu had the determination to advance the war. Therefore, the mobilization power of both sides gradually increased, reaching an unprecedented level.

Cao Gong Bao Ju of the Eight Prefectures, and in recent years, there have been major events to expand the coverage of his military and household system. It is generally believed that the Cao regime has long been deployed in Guanzhong, Jingxiang, Jianghuai and other frontlines, and the troops of the prefectures and counties, each with no less than 100,000. In addition, the main force of the central army stationed in Yecheng, Luoyang and even Xudu, he can gain an absolute advantage in military strength at any time.

In late April, the Cao army, who arrived around Xiangyang one after another, had nearly 100,000 troops.

After that, Cao Cao took the emperor to the army and claimed to be patrolling Jingxiang with 500,000 people and will ascend the throne in Nanyang. Jingzhou still cannot find out whether there are 500,000 people. It is because no spy who can convey information to the south can send reliable news.

No matter where they are or when they see them, they are like endless Cao's army!

The front of this large army was spread dozens of miles wide. It was early summer, and it was hot and rainy. In the plains of Zixudu, Ye County, Duyang, and Bowang, there were endless weeds, and there were military camps and the colorful fields opened up by Mincion, as if they were square rafts floating on the field.

On the field, hundreds of thousands of Cao army soldiers, infantrymen and strong men strode forward, trampling dozens of roads in unison on the grass. Including the Wuhuan people, Xianbei people, Wuwei armored cavalry, and cavalry teams of various military generals, tens of thousands of knights activate a large number of war horses, holding up thousands of flags of various colors across the plain, as if black giant dragons were scattering their scales, urging dark waves, one after another, one after another, which was amazing.

On the one hand, Cao Cao tried to defeat Guan Yu and Lei Yuan's troops under the command of King Hanzhong in Wanluo, and on the other hand, he caused storms in Hanzhong and Shuzhong. Generally speaking, the King of Hanzhong, who was at a disadvantage in the army, should gather troops and resist them one after another. When the deployment of Cao's army gradually became clear, he would choose a certain battlefield to take the initiative and then take action.

But this time, the King of Hanzhong responded quickly, acted fiercely, and his spirit were beyond everyone's imagination.

Although their troops were at a disadvantage in all battlefields, they did not concentrate their troops to attack one place, but boldly launched troops on many battlefields that stretched thousands of miles from west to east and launched an offensive!

The first thing to do is naturally the direction of Hanzhong.

Between the deep mountains and valleys of Hanzhong and Guanzhong, the elite Han army's troops rely on mountain rivers, plank roads and small camps hidden in the mountains in recent years, have been approaching the front of Cao's army with dozens to hundreds of people, and carry out tentative attacks and harassment.

In the battle of Guanzhong, Zhang Ren, the general who fought against the enemy, took on the task of facing the Cao army and lost most of his troops. However, his good combat was praised by Duke Xuande, so he later added troops and armour several times, and gave priority to Zhang Ren's troops, and vaguely regarded him as a representative of the military people in Yizhou.

This time, Zhang Ren led his troops from Fucheng to support Hanzhong, and then advanced north along Baoxie Valley many times. He often led dozens of people to the front of the formation, stepped on the shaking wooden boards on the plank road, and fought with the enemy as arrows and stones.

Because Zhang Ren treated the soldiers very well in daily life and had a high prestige in the army, his subordinates were fearless when they saw the commander general, and they were all excited. They abandoned life and death and fought with Cao's army to the death.

After a few days, the corpses fell from all over the boardwalk, cliff, and deep streams; and blood rushes, dyeing the blue-black mountains reddish-brown.

In the east of Hanzhong, within the scope of Fangling County, Wei Yan rushed and killed fiercely at any cost, and finally forced his retreat to the front of Cao's army and joined forces with the defenders in the west city of Fangling County.

On the night when the two armies gathered, Wei Yan and the garrison Li Fu patrol the city.

Seeing the Cao army camp outside the battlement occupying a vast land in the mountains, Wei Yan said: "Defending the city is not a skill, and the one who can win battles is a good man. If Captain Li has the courage, please follow me out of the city to attack the camp!"

Li Fu was exhausted in the fight, but when he saw Wei Yan's murderous aura rise, he did not dare to refuse. At that time, the two of them gathered more than a thousand elite soldiers in the headquarters, all wearing iron armor and holding big swords. At the third update, they followed the guide out of the west gate, rushed to the mountain road in the middle of the night, crossed the Han River at Anqiao, and then returned to the vicinity of Cao's camp.

The road along the way was difficult and dangerous. The Han soldiers walked with long ropes tied their waists, but there were still dozens of dead people who fell into the mountains. However, when they launched the attack, the Cao army was completely unprepared and even had time to sound the gong to warn. Thousands of soldiers rushed to the barracks in an instant, like a sudden mountain torrent in the night, and swallowed all the sleeping Cao army into the torrent.

Wei Yan took advantage of the victory and pursued it. He won several consecutive victories in three days, and was close to Shangyong.

At this time, Cao Zhen's unit, who besieged Shangyong City, had already broken into the city several times, almost putting the noose on Meng Da's neck, and also killed Meng Da's nephew, Deng Xian, who was the same name as the general under the command of the King of Hanzhong.

However, due to the arrival of Wei Yan's troops, Cao Zhen had to recruit troops and set up more than 20 miles of camps between Dushui and Zhushui, waiting for the battle.

The counterattack from the front line in Hanzhong is not only the same.

The tension in Yizhou began with the reckless behavior of the fake cold stallion Ma Chao. In the past two or three months, the Han army has always maintained great restraint against Ma Chao and has never transformed the confrontation between the two sides into battle.

However, since Duke Xuande chose to do his best, what can Ma Chao do to stay out of it?
Chapter completed!