The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 135 Battle at Yangping Pass ([-])
At the same time, accidents happened to the seven villages in front of Yangping Pass.

Suddenly, countless strange soldiers poured out in front of the pass, and it was actually Cao Jun who came to rob the camp!
They were divided into seven groups, led by Xia Houyuan, Xiahou Dun, Xu Chu, Xu Huang, Cao Hong, Cao Xiu and Zhang He.Although the number of each of them is not particularly large, about 2000 people, but like seven hungry wolves, they rushed towards the seven villages respectively.

Zhang Wei's first five battalions were the first to suffer.Zhang Wei originally saw that Cao Jun was retreating again, so he didn't send many people to defend at night, so that before Cao Jun entered the camp, the soldiers inside were scared into confusion.Zhang Wei had no intention of resisting at all, and fled desperately into Yangping Pass with his personal guards.

Deng Ai felt uneasy in the past two days. Zhao Yun's underestimation of the enemy made him full of worries, so he took his newly supplemented 1024 soldiers and camped outside Zhao Yun's main stronghold.Zhao Yun didn't say anything about it, just smiled.

At this time, Deng Ai was not asleep, and vaguely heard the sound of fighting in the distance, and immediately got up from the bed, and saw soldiers coming to report the news that Cao Jun had stolen the camp.

Deng Ai was shocked, and told all the soldiers to start to line up.But when the formation was only halfway through, there were already two cavalry in front of them.The number of each cavalry team was not many, about a thousand or so, one of them rushed to the left village of Zhao Yun's main village, and the other came to the main village.

Deng Ai sighed in his heart, knowing that the unprepared Zuozhai must be finished.But now is not the time to sigh with emotion, Deng Ai had no choice but to send the right-wing troops of the formation to stop the opponent's cavalry first.

And Deng Ai knew before that the enemy army was coming too fast this time, and Cao Jun might have arrived before the formation on his side was completed.But he was not a rigid person who didn't know how to adapt, so he simply placed the 24 members of the camp with the strongest combat effectiveness who had been serving as reserves at the front of the right wing, hoping that by virtue of their strength, they could delay the collapse of the formation.

At this time, Takano raised his arms and shouted, his extremely tall figure raised the mace that was several meters long in his hand, like a fierce god.The morale of the 600 soldiers of the right-wing formation behind him was also infected, and they all shouted, and rushed out to collide with the opposing army at the same time.

But the opponent is bound to win this time, and the offensive is more violent than ever before.Although the Yizhou army was fighting in front of the camp, but the opponent's general was so skilled in martial arts that he was simply invincible, and he didn't know why he was so powerful.This person charged forward again, putting strong pressure on Deng Ai's team.

Deng Ai had no choice but to move the central founder around obliquely to the right wing for support.The left-wing phalanx stepped forward to block the enemy's right wing, as long as it was not defeated.Because Deng Ai knew that as long as he could hold off the enemy for a while, Zhao Yun would be able to organize his troops to support him, and at least he would be able to achieve an undefeated and unwinnable result!

At this time, fire broke out in the left camp.Deng Ai knew that the enemy had rushed into the left camp, and the camp might have been bombed inside.Seeing this, the morale of Deng Ai's troops dropped rapidly.

Deng Ai was in a hurry, and was about to bring a dozen of his own guards forward to fight.In fact, although Deng Ai is quite clever, he has never been very good at martial arts, so he often avoids participating in battles in person on weekdays.But at this moment, if he doesn't step forward to boost morale, then he will definitely lose!
At this time, I heard someone shouting loudly from behind: "Shi Zai, don't step forward, I'll come."

Deng Ai turned his head to look, and saw that Zhao Yun finally charged out with his troops to support him.However, Zhao Yun didn't care about sending troops to rescue his Zuozhai right now, so he repelled the enemies in front of him first, and he could only let them resign themselves to their fate.

Zhao Yun rushed to the front of the formation and saw that the opponent's general was Xu Chu and Xu Zhongkang. He knew that Cao Cao knew that he was very skilled in martial arts, so he specially sent Xu Chu, the most skilled general in Cao's army, to rob his camp.Fortunately, Deng Ai was vigilant, set up a tent in front of his camp, and attacked in time to buy himself time to integrate the troops. Otherwise, even if he could defeat Xu Chu, the camp would definitely be lost.

Zhao Yun immediately yelled at Xu Chu: "Xu Zhongkang, Zhao Zilong led the army, you don't have to retreat!"

Xu Chu sneered, and before Prime Minister Cao sent him to rob Zhao Yun's camp, he reminded himself that he must try his best to entangle Zhao Yun and not let him go to support elsewhere.Now that Zhao Yun came to him in person to call for a fight, he didn't have to bother to find someone!

After Xu Chu hacked a Yizhou soldier to death with a knife, he rode his horse towards Zhao Yun. The two of them started fighting with what they had learned in their lives, and they fought together.

After more than a hundred rounds of battle between Zhao Yun and Xu Chu, Xu Chu has few soldiers and has already shown that he is exhausted.But suddenly a group of soldiers and horses rushed over from the front, and the leading general had only one eye, and his appearance was very mighty. This person must be Xiahou Dun.

Xiahoudun saw that Xu Chu was already fighting with Zhao Yun, and shouted: "Zhao Yun boy, don't be mad, and general Xiahoudun is here."

Deng Ai's heart was already full of undercurrents.He guessed that Cao Cao wanted to win the battle, and killed Zhao Yun, a tiger general, at Yangping Pass. Otherwise, after their troops broke through the camp, they should immediately occupy the camp instead of leaving the camp and taking people to continue. Come and fight.After Deng Ai thought about it carefully, he stopped watching the battle, but turned his horse and ran to Yangping Pass for help.

When Deng Ai came to Guanxia, ​​he saw a group of people rushing out of the city gate, and the first one was General Pang De.Deng Ai was overjoyed. Knowing that Pang De sent troops to support Zhao Yun, he didn't step forward to respond, so he ran towards Zuozhai with his personal guards.

For all the defeated Yizhou Army and Hanzhong Army encountered along the way, Deng Ai didn't care who the opponent belonged to, and commanded his personal guards to restrain them all.Anyone who disobeys will be killed immediately.Under such intimidation, after half an hour, Deng Ai had gathered nearly 2000 troops, and then led the army back to support Zhao Yun.

When he arrived, he couldn't help being frightened by the situation in front of him.I saw that the various armies had fought in a scuffle, and it was completely impossible to tell who was who.

What's even more frightening is that Pound, Wei Yan and Zhao Yun were surrounded by Cao Jun's six generals: Xiahouyuan, Xiahoudun, Xu Chu, Xu Huang, Cao Hong and Zhang Yun. The two sides were fighting together, and the situation was precarious.

It turned out that Wei Yan led the defeated soldiers back to the main village, and immediately joined the fight after seeing Zhao Yun trapped, which made the battle situation appear again.

Deng Ai knew in his heart that although Zhao Yun was brave, Pang De was injured, and Wei Yanxin was the defeated general, so the combined strength of the three of them would definitely not be able to defeat him.

Deng Ai tried his best to calm himself down, and wanted to command the troops to try to break through the siege of Cao Bing and rescue the three generals Zhao Yun.But at the moment of giving the order, Deng Ai suddenly had a question in his heart: Why are there only six generals of Cao Jun here, shouldn't there be seven troops who robbed the camp?

Then, Deng Ai exclaimed that it was terrible, and shouted to Zhao Yun loudly: "Zhao, General Zhao support first, Yangping Pass is critical, I will go back as soon as I go!" Then, he sent most of his troops to rescue Zhao Yun, and he took With two or 300 people desperately rushing to Yangping Pass.

When Deng Ai arrived at the pass, he saw a group of defeated Hanzhong soldiers ahead, numbering about 2000, negotiating with Zhang Wei who had fled into Yangping Pass.

Deng Ai's heart moved, and he asked one of his personal guards to shout to Zhang Wei who had closed it for him: "This general is Deng Ai under General Zhao Yun's account, and these people are Cao Jun pretending to be. General Zhang must not switch the switch!"

Zhang Wei recognized Deng Ai, he couldn't help being horrified when he heard this, and immediately ordered to shoot arrows, and the arrows rained down on the city.

In fact, when Deng Ai said this, he just wanted to test the reactions of the people in front of him.Unexpectedly, there was a commotion among those defeated soldiers, and someone shouted: "The plot has been seen through, everyone retreat!" These people are really Cao Bing in disguise!
Those Cao troops turned around one after another, ready to attack Deng Ai's troops.But strangely, when Deng Ai saw the opponent retreating, not only did he not lead his troops to intercept him, but instead retreated to the side of the people who took the initiative, and watched the opponent leave safely from his side.

At this time, someone in Cao's army shouted to Deng Ai: "Cao Xiu, a general under Prime Minister Cao's account, remember you Deng Ai!"

Only then did Deng Ai know that this army was led by Cao Xiu.If he could capture or behead this "Cao Family Thousand Miles Horse" now, it would definitely be a great achievement.But although the temptation was great, Deng Ai finally resisted, and pretended to be relaxed and waved to the other party immediately, as if he was saying goodbye to his old friend.

In fact, Deng Ai had no choice but to do this. Although he only needed to intercept Cao Xiu's army for a while, the pass would naturally send troops to support him, and he would definitely be able to win the battle, but what about General Zhao Yun?It has already taken him some time to rush over. If reinforcements are not sent quickly now, if General Zhao Yun makes some mistakes, the result will be unbearable for the Yizhou Army!
After Cao Bing left, Deng Ai rushed into Yangping Pass and called out all the Yizhou troops inside to support Zhao Yun.After another bitter battle between the two sides, Deng Aicai rescued the three generals Zhao Yun, Wei Yan, and Pang De from the six generals of Cao Jun.

At this time, although Zhao Yun was injured, they were all minor injuries, but Wei Yan was seriously injured, and Pang De was even more injured!

However, the generals of both sides did not seem to have the intention of stopping the battle, but they just insisted on continuing to command the army to fight again.Reinforcements from both sides also arrived in a steady stream, and the two armies fought until the afternoon of this day.In the end, even Cao Cao personally brought troops to the front of the two sides.

Cao Cao saw that the first six villages at Yangping Pass had been burned to the ground, and now only Zhao Yun's main village remained unbroken. Even if Zhao Yun could hold this village, it would be useless for an isolated village, and he would give up automatically in the end.Moreover, the two armies suffered a lot of casualties in such a melee, so it is better to withdraw the troops.Cao Cao immediately ordered the three armies to withdraw slowly.

Seeing that Cao Jun was gradually retreating, Zhao Yun also regrouped his troops and began to retreat.

After retreating into Yangping Pass, Zhao Yun looked at the heavy casualties in front of him, closed the messy battlefield, and the smoldering Hanzhong Dazhai and his Zuozhai not far away. Victory in defeat, the use of troops is really unpredictable, we are no match! This thief is not dead, my lord wants to take over the world, it will be difficult!"

Then, as expected by Cao Cao, Zhao Yun decided to abandon the closed camp, put all the horses and wounded in Yangping Pass, and no longer took the initiative to fight.

In fact, the facts are like what Zhao Yun said with emotion, Cao Cao was indeed "winning in defeat" on purpose.

After Cao Cao heard Jia Xu's strategy that day, he made another calculation.

First, when he was out of the camp to investigate the enemy's situation, he was deliberately discovered by the spies of the Hanzhong Army. After he escaped from danger, he deliberately retreated and set up camp for 15 miles.Then, knowing that Cao Ren would be defeated, he deliberately asked him to send troops to rob the camp, out of arrogance to the enemy, so that the enemy began to be negligent, and both the Hanzhong Army and the Yizhou Army did this.

In the end, Cao Cao sent multiple troops to break through the camps of the two armies separately, and asked Cao Xiu to pretend to be the defeated army in Hanzhong to open the gate of Yangping Pass and capture Yangping Pass.I don't want to be seen through by Deng Ai halfway, and finally fall short, which makes people feel regretful.

This is also the reason why Cao Cao withdrew his troops so quickly when he saw the melee between the two sides and his own strength was superior.

However, Cao Cao only relied on this battle to break through the seven villages with seven armies, regain the lost food, grass and supplies, finally reversed the previous defeat in one fell swoop, and drove the Zhang Liu coalition army back to Yangping Pass. How grand is his courage!

(End of this chapter)