Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 293 Plan to Take Fancheng (1)

"Pass down my general order! Hou became the vanguard, Wei Xu stayed behind in Fancheng, and I will go to Xinye personally to capture Cao Ang and other thieves." Yu Wencheng said.

"I don't know how many soldiers and horses the general plans to keep to guard Fancheng?" Guan Sheng asked.

"Leave two thousand soldiers and horses for Wei Xu!" Yu Wencheng said. In his opinion, if he didn't need someone to prepare a celebration banquet, he wouldn't have left a single soldier to guard him. It's not a piece of cake to deal with Cao Ang, a nobody.

"What? I'm afraid it's wrong to keep only two thousand soldiers and horses. In my opinion, it's not right to leave only [-] soldiers and horses. It's probably not right to leave only Wei Xu alone. It's better to let Song Xian also stay." Guan Sheng said that he did not expect Yu Wencheng to be so arrogant.

"Huh! General Guan is timid, he is just an unknown person! I don't know how many famous generals under the golden-winged gilt Tangxia of ​​Yuwen Chengdu have hated it. General Guan's bravery in beheading Yan Liang with a white horse in the past made me admire. I never thought that I would be so timid now, so disappointing, no need to say more! You can send troops to break through Xinye and capture Cao Ang alive." After Yu Wencheng finished speaking, he walked out without thinking, gathered all his soldiers and horses, and became a marquis. pioneer.

However, Yu Wencheng felt that it was embarrassing to lose his soldiers and horses at the hands of unknown soldiers, so he mobilized his own soldiers and crossed the river in the starry night, intending to set foot on Xinye and capture Cao Ang and others alive.

Let’s talk about Cao Ang returning to the county after winning the victory. After seeing Zhuge Liang, he smiled and said, “Thanks to the strategist’s strategy, this battle was able to win a complete victory. Thousands of soldiers were surrendered, and two enemy generals were killed. What a joy!”

Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "Yu Wencheng is all stationed in Fancheng, now knowing that the second general was punished and defeated at the hands of the lord, an unknown soldier, he must be very angry and feel very humiliated. I'm sure he will lead the troops in person, so we have to guard against it." .”

Cao Ang said: "Then what should we do?"

Zhuge Liang said: "That depends on what the Lord wants, whether to abandon the city or meet the enemy."

"It goes without saying, of course we are meeting the enemy. Even Yu Wencheng dares to come. I, Cao Ang, will definitely make him end up with Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang."

"However, since Yu Wencheng came here, he must be stronger than our army. I don't know if the military division has a good strategy to fight the enemy." Cao Ang said.

"My lord, you must never underestimate the enemy. Yu Wencheng is a rare and fierce general under Li Song's command, not comparable to Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang."

"If Yu Wencheng is coming, he will definitely lead all the troops. Fancheng is empty, so the lord can take the opportunity to seize it." Zhuge Liang said.

"Oh! What should we do! Please let the military adviser tell you something." Seeing Zhuge Liang's confident look, Cao Ang knew that he had a plan, so he hurriedly asked for a plan.

Zhuge Liang whispered so and so.Cao Ang was overjoyed after hearing this, and went down immediately to make preparations.

When everything was ready, the spies came to report suddenly: "My lord, the military advisor, Yu Wencheng led the army across the river and came towards us."

Cao Ang and Zhuge Liang glanced at each other, Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan lightly and said, "Sure enough, as I expected, this Yu Wencheng has really come."

Cao Ang and Zhuge Liang went out to meet the enemy.When the two battles were against each other, Cao Ang called out to Huang Xuer Cao Zhang, who was beside him, to call for a fight. Cao Zhang rode out, holding a long-handled sword, pointing at Yu Wencheng's army, and shouted loudly: "I am Cao Zhang, the captain of Jingzhou guerrilla general Cao Ang. Yes! But someone dares to fight me."

"I don't know what it is. It turns out that it is a yellow beard who dares to shout in front of our army, General Guan Sheng! I ordered you to go and kill him, bring his head back, boost morale, beat the drum! Let's fight! "Yu Wencheng said with disdain on his face.

Yu Wencheng gave an order!The drummer in the army beat the drum vigorously. Seeing this, Guan Sheng couldn't help sighing in his heart, but he didn't dare to disobey Yuwen Chengdu's military order at will, and rode his horse towards Huang Xuer Cao Zhang to kill him.

When the two met, they didn't talk nonsense, they fought directly, and they fought for more than a dozen rounds. Guan Sheng and Cao Zhang were tied.

Guan Sheng returned to see Yuwen Chengdu and said: "The enemy's strength should not be underestimated, and the enemy should not be underestimated. In my opinion, it is better to go back to Fancheng."

Yu Wencheng was furious and said: "Before sending out troops, you slowed down our army's morale; now it's like this again, are you scared out of your wits? There is nothing to be afraid of if there are only ten thousand bandits!"

"If you are afraid, go to the back, so as not to be an eyesore in front of me." Yu Wencheng said, immediately let Guan Sheng lead the rear army, and personally led the troops to the front.

The next day, they marched with drums and formed a formation, which made Cao Ang say, "Do you know what formation I am forming?"

Zhuge Liang and Cao Ang went up to the top of the city to watch it. After watching it, Zhuge Liang said to Cao Ang: "This is the eight-door Golden Lock Formation. The eight doors are: Xiu, Sheng, Hurt, Du, Jing, Death, Surprise, and Open. It is like living If you enter through the doors of injury, surprise, or closure, you will be injured; if you enter through the gates of Du and the dead, you will die."

"It's so powerful! Then is there any way to break this formation?" Cao Xiu, who hadn't seen any tricks after watching for a long time, said in surprise after hearing what Zhuge Liang said.

"Although the eight gates are arranged neatly now, there is still a lack of a person in charge of the formation. If you enter through the Shengmen Gate at the southeast corner and exit through the Jingmen Gate in the west, the formation will be chaotic." Zhuge Liang pointed out the layout of the formation. Flaws, this Yu Wencheng is obviously a person who doesn't know how to set up formations. Although the large formations in front of him are well-arranged, it's a pity that they are mechanically copied and don't understand the reasoning.

Cao Ang immediately sent an order to teach the soldiers to hold the corners of the formation, and said to Cao Zhen: "Zidan ordered you to lead five hundred troops into the southeast and go west. Be careful!"

"Obey!" Cao Zhen clasped his fists and saluted, turned around and descended from the top of the wall, leaped on his horse with his guns out, led his troops towards the southeast corner, shouted and charged into the middle army.

Yu Wencheng rode his horse to meet him.Cao Zhen hurriedly threw away Yuwen Chengdu, and killed towards Ximen.

Seeing this, Yu Wencheng didn't chase after him. He sneered again and again. Song Xian didn't know why, so he asked: "General! The enemy has entered the battle, why don't we go after him?"

"He entered my eight-door lock golden formation, but it's hard to fly with his wings. It doesn't make any difference whether he chases or not! He must be decapitated." Yu Wencheng said disdainfully.

Song Xian suddenly realized after hearing this!The constant flattery, Yu Wencheng, who only boasted, felt like he was in heaven. Suddenly, there was chaos in the formation.

Yu Wencheng was shocked!Asked: "What happened? What happened?"

"General, look!" Song Xian kept going forward, and Yu Wencheng looked in the direction Song Xian pointed, only to see Cao Zhen turning from the west to the southeast corner, and Yu Wencheng's army was in chaos.

Cao Ang saw that Cao Zhen had broken the enemy's formation, so he immediately seized the opportunity and led the army to attack. The enemy was defeated. Yu Wencheng saw that the situation was over and had to order the withdrawal.

"Quick! Ming Jin retreats!" Seeing Cao Ang on the top of the wall, Zhuge Liang was going to chase the defeated enemy, Zhuge Liang hurriedly ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.

"Dang! Dang!" The soldiers hurriedly rang the gong hanging on the city, and the sound resounded through the sky. Cao Ang and others reined in their horses and retreated to the city.

(End of this chapter)