When Cao Yong came to the back mountain, he saw a very dangerous scene.
Although the back mountain is not high, it is very steep, with cliffs tens of meters high on both sides. There is only a trail in the middle that can be entered.
"No wonder they want to escape into this mountain. It turns out that this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It may not be easy to break in."
Cao Yong looked at the scene in front of him and knew that it would not be easy to attack hard. But after thinking about it, he felt that it was not a big deal, after all, there were many of them.
When he attacked before, he only saw Huangmenting's guard strength, which was only a few hundred people. Although he didn't know what the combat effectiveness was, it was impossible for this small amount of force to form a large defensive force.
So thinking of this, he said to the officers around him: "The enemy only has a few hundred people. Although they occupy a dangerous terrain, we don't need to be afraid. We can just charge directly up there."
"only."
The officers received the order and immediately began to organize the troops to attack according to the order.
Cao Yong himself has always taken the lead. This time he was in the second team. There were hundreds of death squads in front. They prepared their shields and spears and began to march towards the mountains.
There were originally a lot of trees in the back mountain, but now they have been chopped down, so the view is still wide. After entering the mountain road, you can see a gate made of wooden fence at the end not far away, with some iron caltrops and horses blocking the outside.
way out.
In order to prevent pits and rolling stones from falling down, the soldiers did not dare to run and charge. Instead, they carefully walked along the mountain road inside. Little did they know that countless pairs of eyes were watching them above their heads.
Several cages were built on the cliffs on both sides of the mountain road. There are some fist-sized window holes above the cages. It is impossible for people to get in through these holes, but arrows can be shot out and spears can be thrust out.
, can be called the defensive ability of the thorns on the turtle shell.
The suicide squads rushed outside the fence. They actually noticed the tall towers on both sides of their heads, but after all, they were dozens of meters away from them, and they couldn't see the tiny holes in the towers, so they didn't know their function.
Guard against the top.
"Fire the arrow."
Following Deng Zhao and Shen Zhen's orders, arrows fell down like raindrops, and the sound of jingling arrows hitting the shield, or popping into the flesh, was endless.
"Ahhhhh."
"No, there's an ambush."
"Retreat, retreat quickly."
Countless arrows fell down, shooting all over the already crowded mountain road.
Except for a few lucky ones, most of Cao's soldiers were caught off guard and were shot into hedgehogs.
Everyone panicked and ran away, stumbling down the mountain.
Soon the mountain road became littered with corpses everywhere. Of the approximately 300 people in the death squad, only less than 100 people escaped.
"It turns out those high towers are arrow towers."
Cao Yong saw it clearly from behind and gritted his teeth and said: "Let the soldiers go over with shields on their heads."
Immediately, the second team raised their shields above their heads and began to charge up the mountain.
The arrows really had no effect this time.
But soon there were rolling stones and trees overhead, and Cao's army was furious again, leaving behind hundreds of corpses and hurried away.
Seeing that the offensive was not going well, Cao Yong did not dare to continue the action and hesitated at the foot of the mountain.
At this time, on the top platform of the Qiong cage above, Shen Chen took a big speaker, which was the one that Huang Silang held to make the bullets fly, and shouted loudly: "You guys want to destroy me, Huangmen Pavilion? Let Cao Ren
Come!"
"hateful!"
Cao Yong was furious. He wanted to set fire to the mountain, but all the trees in the mountain had been cut down, so there was no way to set fire. There was no other way. Thinking of Cao Ren's death order, he gritted his teeth and said: "Kill, kill me." "
This time I plan to sacrifice my life.
At that moment, officers at all levels issued orders, and the soldiers had no choice but to rush forward and charge into the mountains. After suffering nearly 300 casualties, they finally reached the gate of the fence, and then used ladders to cross the fence. Fence gate removal.
After finally entering the back mountain, Cao Yong, including Cao Yong who rushed in despite the rain of arrows and rolling stones, was dumbfounded, because the back mountain valley was not what he imagined at all. All the villagers from Huangmenting were hiding here, but TM a wasteland.
The valley is not big, even less than 2,000 square meters. There is nothing in the valley. There are only some cave dwellings and some coal ash residues on the left and right mountains. On the surrounding mountains, there are dozens of cages.
"Can you recognize this formation?"
Shen Chen continued to destroy his mentality with a loudspeaker: "You have been surrounded, and those who surrender will avoid death."
Cao Yong pointed at Qiong Long in the direction of Shen Chen and gritted his teeth and said, "Destroy the arrow tower."
The soldiers immediately rushed in the direction of Qiong Lung.
After entering the back mountain, it is much easier to go up the mountain, because the mountain is not vertically steep, but has a certain slope.
The soldiers immediately climbed dozens of meters along the hillside and came to the bottom of the Qiong Cage.
But there is no place to enter or go up in Qiong Long. You know, the arrow towers at that time all had stairs. Buildings like Qiong Long that can be entered from the ground. At present, except for the northwest Qiang people, no one knows what it is. .
Many soldiers of Cao's army circled around the Qiong cage, but the soldiers of Huangmenting who were hiding in the Qiong cage showed no mercy. When they came closer, they immediately shot arrows down and thrust their spears out desperately.
The soldiers of Cao's army were caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties. It can be said that from the outside of the mountain to the inside of the mountain, 2,000 people had been killed and 700 or 800 people had been injured, but the enemy had not yet been seen.
"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw!"
Until this time, no matter how stupid Cao Yong was, he understood that this was not a place he could capture, and quickly issued a retreat order.
The soldiers abandoned their helmets and armor and fled in panic amid the baptism of arrows.
Even Shen Chen shot two arrows, but his arm strength was not as good as that of an adult after all. Although the shot was accurate, he did not kill the Cao soldier. He escaped with the arrow stuck in his shoulder.
While he was feeling regretful, he suddenly noticed his father, Shen Zhen, bending his bow and setting an arrow on the cage not far away, holding his breath and concentrating on it.
His arrow was aimed at Cao Yong, who was fleeing toward the mountain below.
"Buzz!"
"call out!"
First there was the sound of a bowstring, and then there was a hiss, and the long arrow tore through the void like a meteor and pierced the back of Cao Yong's neck.
Lieutenant General Cao Ren, who died fourteen years later in 211 AD at the hands of Pound in the Battle of Weinan, fell to the ground with a muffled sound.
The surrounding guards quickly picked up his body, and under the cover of shields and surrounding soldiers, they hurriedly escaped from the back hill and ran toward the manor.
After seeing Cao's soldiers leaving nearly a thousand corpses and escaping from the back mountain, the Huangmenting soldiers cheered warmly.
You must know that not one of them died in this battle, but nearly half of the invading soldiers of Cao's army were killed or wounded. This kind of performance is shocking.
And all of this is because of that child's command.
For a time, Shen Chen's prestige soared again, and all the soldiers and villagers in Huangmenting worshiped him as a god.
At the same time, Cao Yong's officers escaped from the manor with the remaining troops and headed west.
Cao Ren was actually not that far away. More than 20 minutes ago, he received news from someone sent by Cao Yong that the manor had been captured.
At this moment, he was ambushing in the forest near Bishui, southwest of Huangmen Pavilion. Huyang was on the south bank of Bishui. If Gan Ning came to help, he would definitely pass by here, and he would be ambushed by him.
At this moment, a fast horse suddenly came over. The scout's face was covered with sweat. He turned over anxiously and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and said: "General, Cao Sima died in the battle."
"What?"
Cao Ren was shocked and said: "What's going on?"
The scout said: "After the Huangmenting Manor was breached, they fled into the back mountain. The back mountain was easy to defend and difficult to attack. There was only one mountain road to enter. There were arrow towers built on the top of the surrounding mountains. Cao Sima stormed in and was shot by arrows. Shot to death."
"hateful!"
Cao Ren was furious. He not only lost a lieutenant, but also a clan brother.
The scout added: "Then Shen Chen still clamored for the general to conquer him personally."
Cao Ren's eyes suddenly turned red. He raised his head and looked in the direction of Huyang. A group of scouts was returning.
Soon the scout came to him, and Cao Ren asked: "How?"
The scout replied: "No movement."
"It seems that the Huyang guard doesn't care about Huangmenting's life or death at all."
Director Chunyu on the side said: "General, let's attack Huyang directly, and then go back and destroy Huangmenting."
"No."
Cao Ren thought: "Cao Yong died in battle, and the morale of the army must be unstable. It is too reckless to attack Huyang now. Huangmen Pavilion must be destroyed first to boost the morale of the army."
In the final analysis, no matter how easy it is to defend and difficult to attack, Huangmen Pavilion is just a hilltop. If Cao Yong can attack it, so can he.
And what about Huyang?
It is a city, and there are four to five thousand defenders inside.
Originally, Cao Ren's troops were only 5,000 men per school. Compared with Gan Ning, the number of troops was not much advantage, and it was still a siege, which was very difficult to fight.
That's why he chose the tactic of encirclement and reinforcements, hoping to force Gan Ning to come to the rescue by attacking Huangmen Pavilion.
As a result, he never expected that Cao Yong, whom he sent, failed in the first battle. Not only did he suffer heavy casualties, but he also lost his own life. The morale of the army was unstable. If he continued to attack Huyang, it would be tantamount to seeking death.
Therefore, under this situation, Cao Ren could only consider destroying Huangmen Pavilion with his army first. If people in Huyang were willing to come out of the city to rescue him, he had four thousand men left, and he would not mind fighting Gan Ning in the wild.
But if Gan Ning does not come, then Cao Ren may have to consider returning to Xinye to rest for a while after annihilating Huangmenting, and then launch an attack on Huyang after adjusting the morale of the army.
"But what if Gan Ning suddenly leads his army to come to our aid when we attack Huangmenting?"
Zhai Yuan said with some worry.
However, Cao Ren sneered and said: "Liu Biao's army is just a bunch of rabble. Zhang Ji has only 10,000 people, so he almost defeated his 20,000 army. Are we still afraid of him? Let the scouts investigate, and the rest of the people will follow me." Go to Huangmen Pavilion."
When the soldiers heard this, they cheered up and said, "Wei."
In fact, if an ordinary person encounters his own partial army being defeated, he may choose to withdraw his troops because he is worried that the enemy may attack from both sides.
But Cao Ren still felt that Liu Biao did not practice martial arts. They had investigated and found out that when Zhang Xiu came to Nanyang, he defeated Liu Biao's army of 20,000 men. If Zhang Ji had not been shot to death by a stray arrow, perhaps Zhang Ji would not have joined forces with Liu Biao at all.
Therefore, in this case, he believed that his 5,000 elite men would surely win a complete victory in a battle with Gan Ning's 5,000 men in the wild, so he did not take Gan Ning seriously at all.
Mainly because he had never heard of Gan Ning.
Gan Ning later became one of Jiang Biao's tiger ministers in Soochow, but at this time he was just a newly promoted middle-level general under Liu Biao.
Historically, he was a low-level officer under Liu Zhang, and he was still a low-level officer under Liu Biao. It was not until last year that he was promoted to captain because of Deng Hong's recommendation. Therefore, in Cao Ren's view, he was just an unknown person and must not be his.
opponent.
Little did they know that Gan Ning himself had eight hundred elite Jinfan thieves as his team. Later, after being promoted to captain, he eliminated the old and weak from the surrendered Nanyang Yellow Turban Army and selected the strongest ones. He has been training soldiers for more than a year now.
The spirit of this army is very different from Liu Biao's other troops. It is at least much stronger than Zhang Yun's soldiers, and it is not much better than Wenpin's troops.
So Cao Ren will soon know how much surprise this army will bring him.
After giving the order, Cao Ren immediately chose to go east.
The army came to Huangmen Pavilion like wolves and tigers in great strength. This time, there was almost no obstruction and entered the manor.
Since the manor was connected to the back mountain, Cao Ren did not set fire to the manor, because that would block their way to attack the back mountain. He would only do this unless he no longer wanted to attack Huangmenting and was withdrawing his troops.
Therefore, under the leadership of Cao Yong's remnant soldiers, he came all the way to the foot of the back mountain. From a distance, he saw the Huangmenting soldiers who were cleaning up corpses and rolling stones and trees on the mountain road. Seeing their comeback, these soldiers left their corpses and rolling stones and trees behind.
Mu, Saya ran to the mountains.
"Chase!"
Cao Ren's eyes lit up. This was an opportunity. Because his opponent was still cleaning the battlefield, he would definitely not have time to get into position, so he should take the opportunity to launch an attack.
At that moment, Cao Jun's soldiers surged towards the mountain road like waves, and countless arrows rained down.
The mountain road was narrow, and covered with corpses and rolling stones and trees, there were many obstacles, which caused great obstacles to Cao's army's advance. However, after the main force arrived, they finally fought their way in despite the rain of arrows.
In fact, the main reason is that Huangmenting's arrow reserves have been consumed a lot. After all, they are not as powerful as Cao Cao, who can get millions of arrows. They are just a local force. Making arrows was very expensive at that time. The entire Huangmen
Ting only had more than 10,000 arrows, and he shot three to four thousand to defeat Cao Yong. Naturally, he had to use them sparingly.
Therefore, when the arrow rain offensive was reduced, Cao Ren only suffered more than 200 casualties and rushed into the back mountain.
Then.
Then he looked at the scene in the valley surrounded by countless cages. Like Cao Yong, he was dumbfounded.
What the hell is this place?
There was no one inside at all. Where had everyone gone?
"Who is there at the bottom of the mountain? Can you recognize this formation?"
Shen Chen continued to shout with a loudspeaker on the cage. He didn't know that Cao Ren was coming.
Cao Ren shuddered, then turned around and looked at the Qiong Cage in the distance.
He would never forget this child-like voice for the rest of his life.
"Chen Chen!"
Cao Ren squeezed out two words from between his teeth, and then roared: "Yay, Cao Ren is here!"