Chapter nine hundred and seventeen the oriole is behind
At this moment, the man who led his troops to attack from the rear was none other than Jinling General Huang Zhong.
Zhao Yun and Tai Shici now accompanied Ma Teng and Han Sui to pacify the counties in Guanzhong. In this way, among the main force of the pottery merchants, Huang Zhong was the leader of all the generals.
It's just that while Tao Shang sent Ma Chao and Xu Chu as the vanguard, he did not issue a military order at the main camp to order Huang Zhong to respond.
Then why does this old man appear here again?
Facing the attack from the rear, the generals of Cao's army had nothing to worry about. They immediately rearranged their offensive strategies and launched an effective counterattack against the enemy.
Xia Houyuan ordered Yan Xingdao: "You stay here and deal with it carefully. Don't let Ma Chao and Xu Chu rush out in chaos. I will lead my troops and turn around to take a look!"
Yan Xing did not dare to neglect, and immediately raised his hands and said: "No!"
Xia Houyuan immediately led his troops and rushed back.
Pang De also went with him, but before he could pick up Huang Zhong's troops, Xia Houyuan got news again, saying that Qu Yi, Xu Huang, Ji Ling, Zhang He, and Gao Lan were sent from another direction to kill the generals.
Come over here and have already fought with our own peripheral soldiers.
Everyone was shocked when they heard this.
Xia Houyuan didn't have much to worry about at this moment, and immediately arranged for the other Cao generals, led by Pang De, Dian Wei, Li Dian, Yue Jin, Yu Jin and others, to go to the side to fight against the generals of the Jinling Army respectively, while Xia Houyuan himself went straight to
Follow Huang Zhong and leave.
Without Zhao Yun and Tai Shici, Huang Zhong seemed to have become the number one master of the Jinling Army.
The two parties were fighting, and Huang Zhong waved the sword in his hand unhurriedly. Wherever he went, although there were not so many strong moves, those who were confronting him felt that their whole body was full of pressure.
In this way, Huang Zhong took the lead, and soon he was in front of Xia Houyuan.
Xia Houyuan met Huang Zhong and shouted: "Huang Zhong is a traitor, how dare you be so arrogant? I will not spare you today!"
Huang Zhong looked intently, and with the light of the torch in the hands of the soldiers behind him, he saw clearly that it was Xia Houyuan, and then he laughed loudly: "Who do I think I am? It turns out that I am a thief like you. You are just a defeated general. How can you dare to speak bravely?"
Xia Houyuan yelled angrily: "Which one of your subordinates is defeated? Don't talk nonsense, old thief!"
People like to save face, especially men, especially men with status.
What kind of person is Xiahou Yuan? After all, he is also an important general in Cao Cao's army, and he is also a trusted and beloved general under Cao Cao. He is often favored, not to mention, and since the death of Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren, he has become the number one general in the clan.
Everyone is coaxing him, how can he be looked down upon by others?
At that moment, they saw Xia Houyuan raising his gun and riding his horse, heading straight towards Huang Zhong to kill him.
Huang Zhong smiled and fought with Xia Houyuan. The two competed back and forth on the battlefield, fighting in single combat.
With Xia Houyuan's ability, even if he couldn't win against Huang Zhong, he would still have no problem fighting for dozens of rounds.
But in this situation, Xia Houyuan is clearly in trouble.
Because he was extremely angry now, he lost some of his usual skills when making moves. He just attacked Huang Zhong blindly, and his calmness value was greatly reduced.
Twenty rounds later, Huang Zhong found a flaw in Xia Houyuan's, roared, and swiped his sword, directly injuring Xia Houyuan's left arm.
Xia Houyuan screamed in pain, and the spear in his hand fell to the dust. He hurriedly reined in his horse and fled towards the rear.
Huang Zhong was not in a hurry, but chased Xia Houyuan leisurely.
At this time in the valley, Xu Chu and Ma Chao heard the sounds outside and couldn't help but be curious.
Xu Chu turned his head in confusion and asked Ma Chao: "Brother Xian, why are there such loud shouts of killing outside? Could it be that our reinforcements are coming to save us?"
Ma Chao shook his head and said: "I don't know very well, but logically it shouldn't be possible... When we came, the Prime Minister only said that you and I would be the vanguard, but he didn't say that he would send troops to support us."
Xu Chu thought about it carefully and said: "If this is the case, it means that this is a plan by the other party to lure us out! It must be Cao Jun's trick, hey, we can't be fooled."
Ma Chao narrowed his eyes and thought carefully for a while, then suddenly clapped his hands and said, "Brother, Gao Jian, this must be a trick set by Cao Jun for us!"
Xu Chu snorted and said: "Brother, I am not bragging to you because of my brother. I have followed the Prime Minister and fought for many years. Over the years, I have seen so many conspiracies and tricks. I have seen many more shocking tricks than this.
Yes! This is a small scene today."
Ma Chao bowed his head to Xu Chuyi and said, "Brother is still awesome!"
Xu Chu laughed and said, "That's natural!"
"We're not going out. After we finish our performance later, we can go out and kill them by surprise!"
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At the same time, outside the valley, the battle between Cao's army and Jinling's army became increasingly fierce.
While Ji Ling fought bravely with Cao's army, he asked Zhang He next to him doubtfully: "General Zhang, why don't General Xu and Ma Chao in the valley come out? Didn't they hear the sound of fighting outside the valley?"
Zhang He smiled slightly, shook his head slightly, and said: "I can't say for sure about this. I guess they two must have some ideas... Let's ignore them and quickly obey the Prime Minister's order and defeat the enemy.
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Ji Ling was puzzled and just continued to charge with Zhang He.
Tao Shang's arrangements for this group were extremely tight, and he was sure to win. He estimated that Cao Cao would strike preemptively and use ruthless moves against his own front vanguard. After defeating him for a while, he would secure Hanzhong.
Therefore, after discussing with Guo Jia, he decided to use Ma Chao and Xu Chu as the vanguard, and arranged for the army to follow. It would be better if they won, but if they lost, they would be able to catch the cicadas and the oriole behind.
The current situation is proceeding according to the second route.
Cheng Yu and Xun You were also in the army, but they were protected by Cao Chun, the general of Cao's army.
The Jinling army was very powerful, and it was not long before they completely suppressed Cao's army. With the eyes of Xun You and Cheng Yu, they could naturally see that this matter would not be easy to handle.
"Withdraw to Yangping Pass!" Xun You made up his mind and ordered Cao Jun's general Huang Shao: "Hurry up and send people to inform all the ministries to evacuate to Yangping Pass quickly. If it is delayed for a long time, there may be some problems."
Cheng Yu looked around anxiously and said: "There are so many soldiers in Jinling now, I'm afraid it won't be that easy to retreat."
At this moment, a cry of killing came from the southeast corner.
However, Yan Yan, the general from Shu, and Guan Yu, Liu Bei's subordinate, led their troops and charged over.
The two men fought together to open up a bloody road and opened a way for Cao's army to retreat.
When Xun You saw this situation, the stone in his heart fell.
Fortunately, our allies are not stupid, otherwise today's battle would be really difficult to fight.
Guan Yu ran up to Xun You with his sword in hand and said, "We are afraid that you will make mistakes in the front, so we have come to help you."
"Thank you, thank you!" Xun You bowed his hands to Guan Yu and said, "Please help me, general, to lead our army to retreat to Yangping Pass quickly. Tao Jun has been prepared for it. This battle seems to be a bit difficult to fight."