Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 478

The Yellow River was surging and rolling, and the boats rose and fell with the waves. The flag of the Han army was hoisted high, and it was hunting in the howling southeast wind.

In summer, the Guanzhong area blows southeast wind, and it is hot and rainy.

But today is a good weather, the temperature is not particularly high, and there is no rain, the sun is scorching and warm, warmly shining down, soaking into the heart and spleen.

Pound was standing on a warship, overlooking the direction of Leishou Mountain in the east.

He was slightly older than Ma Chao and slightly younger than Guan Yu. He was in his sixties now, with a gray and white beard, and his temples and hair were an old mouse-gray color.

However, his face did not look like an old man in his sixties, except for his slightly darker skin, his energetic and resolute face was more like a middle-aged general in his forties.

At this moment, he held the big knife that killed Zhu Ling in his right hand, and the bandage was still wrapped around his left arm. He looked into the distance with deep eyes, quietly waiting for the arrival of the war.

When the fleet passed a mountain ridge, through the trees on the bank of the river, the Han army's camp could be seen from a distance.

"General!"

Ren Shen pointed to the east bank and said, "It's the commander's camp. It seems to be on fire."

Although Leishou Mountain guards the main road, in fact there is still a distance of about four or five kilometers between the mountain and the Yellow River, which is almost the section from the scenic spot of the hometown of Concubine Yang Guifei in Yongji City, Shanxi Province to the Yellow River.

Both the Han army and the Cao army relied on Leishou Mountain and set up camp along the Yellow River, which was still one kilometer away from the bank of the Yellow River.

Therefore, although Pound's fleet has arrived at the battlefield, it is actually far away.

At this moment, Pang De stood on the ship and watched, and he saw billowing dust and smoke from the rear camp of the Han army. There was yellow-brown dust and black smoke. in his ears.

"The Commander's rear camp was attacked. As the Commander expected, Cao Jun surrounded their cavalry from Zhongtiao Mountain. They didn't intend to hit Puban at all, but wanted to attack the Commander's own stronghold."

Another general, Deng Tong, turned his head and said to Pang De: "General, I am afraid that the governor's side is in danger now. Shall we go to the shore immediately to help them?"

Pound hesitated for a moment, and was about to nod his head in agreement.

Ren Shen said: "General, the governor said before that we should go directly to Cao Jun's camp. If we rush to help our camp now, there will only be General Ma's team behind. If Cao Zhen returns to help, I'm afraid we may not be able to wipe them out."

"You mean, give up rushing to help the governor and go straight to Cao Jun?"

Pound frowned.

Because Shen Chen didn't know when Cao Jun's cavalry would arrive, he just made arrangements in advance and ordered Pang De and Ma Dai to attack at the same time.

It's just that he didn't expect that Cao Jun would arrive first so soon, which caused his rear battalion's defense power to be insufficient and fell.

In fact, Shen Chen was never afraid of Cao Jun's attack, after all, he was the defender.

Even if the camp is attacked, the three battalions in the front, middle and rear will at worst abandon the rear camp and switch to the middle camp for defense. Zhao Yun and Pound can rush to help at any time, and they will definitely be able to defend.

But Cao Zhen's side is different.

As the attacker, he was out in full force, and the entire camp was so great that there were only a few thousand people defending it. Maybe most of them were in the front camp, and there were only a few people in the rear and middle camps. Ma Dai must have no problem breaking through Cao camp easily.

So when making the deployment, Shen Chen had already given them an attack plan, asking them to investigate Cao Jun's situation first, and if Cao Jun launched an offensive, they would directly attack.

As a result, Cao Zhen's entire army attacked in the morning. At that time, Ma Dai was still preparing to cross the river on the west bank of the river, and Pang De was on Puban's boat. The Han army arrived in the afternoon.

Although Sun Li and Zhou Sheng made a long trek around Zhongtiao Mountain, they went straight to the Han army camp and did not need to wait for Cao Zhen to send them a signal, so they arrived one or two hours earlier than the Han army.

However, Cao Jun came first and moved first, and Pound arrived later, so he had to consider whether to deploy according to the original plan and go directly to Cao Ying, or go to the front line to help Shen Chen stabilize the situation.

Ren Shen looked at the battlefield from a distance and said: "If the general goes to rescue the governor, then Cao Zhen returns to his aid and returns to the village, and the governor's plan will be in vain. It may be difficult to completely destroy Cao's camp with General Ma alone. And Ma The general still needs to defend Huayin, this is the only chance."

Deng Tong frowned and said, "But if we don't rescue the governor, if Cao Jun continues to attack our camp and the main camp can't hold on, wouldn't it be a great crime for us to wait? Compared with Cao Jun, the safety of the governor is more important .”

"Ah."

Pound nodded slightly, he thought it made sense.

Defeating Cao Jun is a great achievement, but the problem is that if Shen Chen suffers any loss, it will be a big mistake.

So the rescue of Shen Chen must be more stable and not commit any crimes.

But just as they were about to dock and quickly support the main battlefield, a fast horse galloped up and shouted to the ship: "The governor has an order to attack Cao Ying immediately."

"what?"

Pang De was dumbfounded, and looked at the fierce battle in the distance. At this moment, Cao Jun was attacking the middle camp of the Han army, and the main force of Cao Jun was fighting in the front camp.

Although just looking at the front battalion, the Han army seems to be able to defend at present, but who can say for sure when fighting?

If he followed the order to raid Cao Jun's camp, and the direction of the Han army's main camp was suddenly breached, and Shen Chen was killed in the chaos, wouldn't he be making a big mistake?
Even if Liu Chan didn't kill him, Zhuge Liang would have to kill him.

Pound hesitated for a moment, and shouted to the orderly below: "Is it true that the commander-in-chief doesn't want to rush for help?"

The orderly shouted: "I don't know, this is the order of the governor."

After finishing speaking, he turned his horse's head and left, and he was going back to the battlefield again.

Hearing this order, Pang De thought for a while, and said to Ren Shen and Deng Tong: "The governor probably thinks that the enemy cannot break through his camp, so let's follow his order to attack Cao Ying. But we can't just do nothing. , where is Deng Tong?"

"The end is here."

Deng Tong took the lead and said.

Pound said: "You take 3000 people and raid the left flank of Cao's army from the side to relieve the pressure on the governor's side."

"only."

It should be Deng Tong's hand.

Then the fleet began to divert on the banks of the Yellow River.

Some of them leaned towards the shore, ready to disembark, while the other continued to go south.

At this moment on the distant battlefield, Cao Zhen anxiously looked towards the direction of the Yellow River and his camp.

He had already sent several generals to lead more than ten thousand troops back to defend, but now the Han army in the direction of the Yellow River obviously wanted to join the battle without stopping the boat, but went straight to his barracks.

There are 2 people on Pound's side, and 1 people on Ma Dai's side. He only sends 1 people back to defend, and he will definitely not be able to defend against the opponent's offensive.

His camp is about to be ruined!
"Captain."

General Gao Jian said anxiously: "Mingjin withdraws troops, if we continue to attack, our stronghold may not be able to defend."

Cao Zhen's expression changed, and finally he gritted his teeth and said, "Send the order and continue to attack."

Continue to attack?

Gao Jian looked very anxious, and persuaded: "Great governor."

Cao Zhen looked at him ferociously and said, "Do you think I don't know? But if you withdraw your troops now, Sun Li and the others will be wiped out, and I will never have a chance to defeat Shen Chen. If that happens, Xu Huang will definitely die, and Hedong will surrender." Give in, Bingzhou has no defenses, and the Han army can go straight to Luoyang!"

This is the fundamental crux of the matter.

Once they choose to retreat, it means that the raid failed. Sun Li and the others went deep alone, and they must be gone. And Xu Huang was trapped in the isolated city. There was not much food and grass in the city, so naturally they couldn't last long.

Cao Zhen can only retreat to Tongguan, then the entire Hedong County will fall into the hands of the Han army, and Bingzhou will be empty, and they can kill them at any time.

If Bingzhou falls, not to mention Luoyang, even the hinterland of Cao Wei in Hebei may face the front of the Han army, so to some extent, Cao Zhen is already on the verge of riding a tiger, and there is no way to choose Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

Shen Chen obviously also guessed his psychology, so he asked Pang De and Ma Dai to go straight to Cao Ying. The purpose of doing so was to force Cao Zhen to fight him desperately, so that Cao Zhen felt that there was hope that he could break his camp.

Otherwise, if Pang De came to help the Han army's stronghold, Cao Zhen chose to withdraw his troops back to the camp knowing that there was no hope of defeating Shen Chen, then Shen Chen would probably have defeated Xu Huang, occupied Hedong, and threatened Bingzhou, and could not continue. Then expand the advantage.

So Shen Chen decided to fight, and continued to fight against Cao Zhen.

If Cao Zhen broke through the Han camp before Pound Ma Dai broke Cao Ying, he would win.If it can't be broken, when Pound Ma Dai rushes to help, the tens of thousands of Cao's troops, including Cao Zhen himself, will have to explain here.

Then after that, not only Hedong Bingzhou, but also Tongguan, Shen Chen didn't need to take a detour from Bingzhou to Luoyang, but could directly march from Tongguan to the city of Luoyang.

Therefore, from a certain point of view, Cao Zhen was forced to put all his eggs in one basket, and Shen Chen was also putting all his eggs in one basket. It just depends on who can beat who today!
Soon, after Cao Zhen gave the death order, Cao Jun's attack became more fierce.

The soldiers of Cao Jun in the brigade launched a charge without fear of death.

Numerous Cao Jun rushed to the gate of the camp with their bows and crossbows and arrows carrying ladders, and began to climb up.

"Throw!"

The position of the camp where Deng Ai was located, he commanded from a high oar.

The soldiers on the wall in front of the village lifted the stones at their feet and carried them to the platform above. The people above took them and smashed them down.

They are not big rocks, only four or five kilograms, but throwing them down hard will still cause damage.

Stones continued to be thrown out, and this part of Cao's army was immediately repelled.

But it's not that they didn't do anything at all. The wall was built with stones and yellow mud and supported with wood. It was not easy to tear down in a short time.

But the gate of the village is made of wood, which can be cut through with an axe. Moreover, some of them rushed towards the gate of the village and launched continuous attacks. Around this place, the two sides fell into a fierce scramble.

Under the urging of Cao Zhen, many generals of the Cao army went into battle in person, holding shields and knives, and bravely rushed to the front of the Han army's camp.

But the distance is not very far, and the wall of the village is only two feet high, about four meters high. Many Cao soldiers rushed to the gate of the village, and were smashed by rolling stones and trees, and even lime and kerosene were splashed down. , howling and being dragged away.

"Hurry up, the crossbowman is suppressing."

Seeing that Cao Jun was going crazy outside, Deng Ai yelled again.

At present, the crossbows and arrows on the high oars inside the camp were all fired, suppressing the Cao army near the gate of the camp so that they could not lift their heads.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Han soldiers on the wall of the village once again organized defenses, stabbing down with spears and halberds, and throwing rolling stones, wood, and lime as if they didn't want money.

Today is a decisive battle, so don't think about saving supplies, just use them if you can.

So bows, crossbows, arrows, rolling stones, lime, kerosene, etc. were thrown out in massive quantities, and sometimes they were unlucky, and were hit by a sudden arrow when the soldiers of the Han army were throwing kerosene. , The ignited kerosene poured on the fence, making a mess.

Burning flames and smoke are everywhere, limestone is flying all over the sky, and the crossbows shooting at each other even block out the sky.If you stand on the battlefield and look up at the originally clear sky, you will see that the sky seems to be covered up.

Not only the camp on Deng Ai's side, but the entire Han army is undergoing cruel tests.

Jiang Wei was also commanding in front of the battle. Compared with Deng Ai, he belonged to the pro-formation. He stood on the fence, holding a shield in his left hand and a ring sword in his right. Still going up.

"Go to the two teams in the tower on the right, hurry up!"

"Move some more rocks."

"I'm out of arrows."

"Stupid, I have no arrows, throw me a bow and a knife!"

"Ah, I've been stabbed, come and help me."

"Hurry up!"

All kinds of noisy voices filled the entire battlefield.

More Cao Junbing held ring-shoulders, howling like wolves, and filed up like ants along the more than ten wooden ladders built on the wall of the village.

The roars, echoes, weapons blocking, and howling and humming on the wall almost never stopped.

From noon to the beginning of the day, throughout the afternoon, several camps of the Han army were under test at any time, and there was no end to the tragic fight.

The blood of soldiers from both sides was sprayed everywhere on the walls of the village that stretched for several miles from east to west. In many places, the yellow-brown rammed earth was completely soaked with blood, turning into a dark red.

At this moment, a loud bang suddenly came from the camp on the left side of Shen Chen's main camp, and a "bang" was heard, followed by a howling sound resounding through the sky, and someone shouted: "The camp is broken!"

The noisy voice over there quickly spread to Shen Chen's side. Shen Chen was still commanding the battle above the main battalion at this time. His main battalion had received the most attacks, but it stood still, and almost no Cao army had yet reached the wall.

Hearing something happened in the camp on the left, his face changed suddenly, and he looked over immediately.

I saw that there was General Lei Ding's camp over there, and Cao Jun used his car to crash into one of their fence walls. It was like a broken barrel effect, and a large number of Cao Jun rushed in like a tide.

Seeing this scene, Shen Chen said to the captain of the personal guard without hesitation: "Lead all the guards and follow me!"

After finishing speaking, he dismounted from the high oar, drew out the tiger gallbladder knife on his waist, and walked eastward like a tiger walking like a dragon.

(End of this chapter)