The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 428 The Battle of Hanzhong
Hanzhong now not only has Zhang Lu's soldiers and horses, but also several groups of troops sent by Cao Pi have all gathered together.

The total force is now about 30. Even Cao Pi knows the importance of Hanzhong. Of course, he will not give up this gateway easily.

With heavy troops stationed, coupled with Zhang Lu's management in the past few years, it can be said that Hanzhong now exists like a fortified wall.

Even Zhuge Liang is helpless if he wants to break through such a place.

However, Dongfang Sheng must capture Hanzhong, otherwise Yizhou will be handed over to others. Although Zhuge Liang can stop the Wei army for a while now, it will not be able to stop it for too long.

Now guarding Hanzhong turned out to be Dongfang Sheng's best friend Xiahou Dun when he worked under Cao Cao's command.

Being able to put Xiahou Dun in such an important position shows that Cao Pi trusts him very much.

Of course, there is also a character from the Eight Tiger Riders with Xiahou Dun, and that is Cao Ren.

These two generals are one of the most powerful generals under Cao Cao's command, and their ability and loyalty can be completely assured, so Cao Pi put them two in Hanzhong.

For these two generals, Dongfang Sheng also knew very well. Xiahou Dun was upright and would never favoritism, and he was clean and honest. He only knew that he was loyal to the Cao family, and at the same time, he had a slightly violent personality.

However, Cao Ren's behavior was a bit dissolute, but he was very strict in governing the army.

It is obviously not feasible to deal with them in the same way as Yu Jin and Cao Hong.

In the end, Dongfang Sheng and Zhuge Liang came up with a way to use the Wei army under Yujin's command to pretend to be remnants living in Yizhou, and then sneaked into Xiahoudun's barracks and lurked in it temporarily.

After discussing with Yu Jin, Dongfang Sheng and Yu Jin patted his chest and agreed. After carefully selecting some soldiers, Yu Jin asked them to change into some ragged clothes and went directly to Xiahou Dun's camp.

At the same time, Dongfang Sheng also began to reorganize the army and prepare to attack Hanzhong.

Dongfang Sheng's current troop composition consists of Suwei battalion plus Yujin's surrendered soldiers, as well as Yizhou local soldiers. The full force is about 15, which is only a little more than half of Cao Wei in Hanzhong.

It sounds like a one-to-two comparison of troops, but in fact the gap is quite large. After all, the combat effectiveness of an army is not just compared to the number of people, but also to the degree of fit and overall strength.

However, Dongfang Sheng did not mean to combine all the troops. He gave Yu Jin the right to attack Hanzhong freely. At the same time, he only gathered local soldiers from Yizhou, and only selected elite soldiers. Didn't want to.

The Battle of Hanzhong is about to start, and everyone is eagerly waiting for the result of this war.

This battle may determine the rise and fall between Cao Wei and Dongfang Sheng.

Cao Pi even sent an additional [-] troops to Hanzhong, led by Cao Zhen of the Eight Tiger Cavalry.

Who is Cao Zhen?He is the commander of Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry, and Cao Cao treats him like his own son. In history, Cao Pi was named a general shortly after he ascended the throne, which is the pinnacle of a general.

Similarly, Cao Zhen is also a guy with real talents and real learning, and his ability to march and fight is very good.

As a result, the strength of Hanzhong will soon surge to 40, which is definitely not good news for Dongfang Sheng.

For this reason, Dongfang Sheng launched an attack in advance.

Xiahou Dun didn't fight immediately, but let Zhang Lu play forward. This has two advantages, one can preserve the strength of Wei Jun, and the other can test whether Zhang Lu is really surrendering, and at the same time, it can make Zhang Lu make up his mind not to attack. Two-hearted.

But Zhang Lu is also determined to rebel, so naturally he won't play tricks.

Naturally, Dongfang Sheng didn't have a good impression of Zhang Lu, a [-]-year-old boy, and he attacked fiercely when he came up.

Even if Zhang Lu bewitched the soldiers, some of them collapsed under Dongfang Sheng's various firearm attacks.

Dongfang Sheng brought up almost all the things invented by Ma Jun, such as armored vehicles, home-made explosives, enhanced thunderbolt vehicles, etc.

As soon as these things came up, they taught Zhang Lu's soldiers a harsh lesson, and at the same time completely shattered the meaningless hearts of Zhang Lu's soldiers, making them fearful.

Once a person has a heart of fear, he will no longer rush up to ignore his body without fear of death. This is what Dongfang Sheng wants. For these brainwashed guys, the best way is to use strong It is much easier to deal with fear of them with the use of force, which makes them fearful.

Dongfang Sheng didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue. After all, Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren were likely to ambush on the road, Zhang Lu was really defeated, but if he pursued, he might be caught in an ambush and be reversed.

In the first contact, Dongfang won a small victory to end the game.

But this is just the beginning, and there are still tough battles to be fought.

Xia Houdun frowned after listening to Zhang Lu's report. The strength shown by Dongfang Sheng was far from being as weak as they had been informed.

As veterans on the battlefield, Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren naturally wouldn't be as impulsive as brats. It would be foolish to get back on the field immediately after suffering a little loss.

The approach of Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren was to stick to the city and avoid fighting.

The reason why they made such a decision was because they knew that Cao Zhen's [-] reinforcements were on the way, and Dongfang Sheng would definitely be more anxious than them. Can.

Xiahoudun's move was very effective. Dongfang Sheng ordered a fierce attack after several trials failed, but the result was only loss of soldiers and generals, and all they got was the recovery of cities in several counties.

Xiahoudun and the others could afford it, but Dongfang Sheng couldn't.

Cao Zhen led [-] soldiers and horses to help Hanzhong, and Dongfang Sheng also knew that if Cao Zhen's soldiers and horses joined Xiahou Dun and the others, the difficulty of breaking Hanzhong would be even more difficult than reaching the sky.

If you want to reduce the difficulty, then you can only capture Hanzhong as soon as possible before Cao Zhen arrives.

For this reason, Dongfang Sheng was very troubled. He could have dispatched soldiers from Jingzhou or Liangzhou, but now Liangzhou is still in chaos. This is the remnant of Han Sui's rebellion. Soldiers and horses.

Needless to say in Jingzhou, although Cai Mao and Kuai Yue suppressed the rebellion, they were unable to mobilize troops for a while.

Without the support of soldiers and horses, it is definitely not an easy task to quickly break through Hanzhong and defeat Wei Jun, who has twice as many troops as himself.

Because the opponent's general is not an idiot, and the soldiers under the opponent's command are not a group of sheep grazing, but veterans who have experienced battles.

For a while, the battle of Hanzhong fell into a stalemate, and Dongfang Sheng was obviously at a disadvantage.

(End of this chapter)