Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 70 You Can Know This Formation
When Cao Yong came to the front of the back mountain, what he saw was a very dangerous scene.

Although the back mountain is not high, it is very steep, with cliffs tens of meters high on both sides, and there is only a small path in the middle that can be entered.

"No wonder they want to flee into this mountain. It turns out that this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It may not be easy to kill them."

Cao Yong looked at the scene in front of him and knew that it might not be easy to attack hard.But after thinking about it again, I think it's not a big deal, after all, there are so many of them.

When he attacked before, he only saw that Huangmenting's guarding force was only a few hundred people. Although he didn't know the combat effectiveness, it was impossible for this force to form a large defensive force.

So thinking of this, he said to the officers around him: "The enemy is only a few hundred people. Although they occupy a dangerous position, we don't have to be afraid, just charge directly to the top."

"only."

The officers got the order and immediately began to organize troops to attack according to the order.

Cao Yong himself has always taken the lead. This time he was in the second team. There were hundreds of death squads in front. They prepared shields and spears and began to march towards the mountains.

There used to be a lot of trees in the back mountain, but now they are almost cut down, so the field of vision is quite wide. After entering the mountain road, you can see a gate made of wooden fence not far away, and there are some barbed wire and horses blocking it outside. way to go.

In order to prevent pits and rolling stones from falling down, the soldiers did not dare to run and charge, but walked carefully along the mountain path, unaware that countless pairs of eyes were watching them from above their heads.

Several qionglongs were built on the cliffs above both sides of the mountain road. There are some fist-sized window holes above the qionglongs. It is impossible for people to get in through these holes, but arrows can be shot out, and spears can also be poked out. , can be called the defensive ability of the thorns on the turtle shell.

The death squads rushed out of the fence. They actually noticed the tall towers on both sides of their heads, but after all, they were tens of meters away from them, and they couldn't see the small holes on the towers, so they didn't know their function. Guard it.

"Fire arrows."

Following Deng Zhao and Shen Zhen's orders, clusters of arrows immediately rained down, and the sound of jingling shots hitting the shield, or puffing into the flesh could be heard endlessly.

"Ah ah ah ah."

"Not good, there is an ambush."

"Get out, get out."

Countless arrows fell down, shooting all over the already crowded mountain road.

Except for a few lucky ones, most of Cao Jun's soldiers were caught off guard and shot into hedgehogs.

Everyone panicked and fled, stumbling down the mountain.

Soon the mountain road was littered with corpses everywhere. Of the death squad of about 300 people, less than a hundred people ran out.

"It turns out that those tall towers are archery towers."

Cao Yong saw clearly from behind, gritted his teeth and said, "Let the soldiers go over with their shields on their heads."

Immediately the second team raised their shields above their heads and started charging up the hill.

This time the arrow really had no effect.

But soon there was a rolling stone and wood falling down from the top of his head, and Cao Jun jumped again, leaving a hundred or so corpses and ran away in a hurry.

Seeing that the offensive was not going well, Cao Yong dared not continue to move, and hesitated at the foot of the mountain.

At this moment, on the top platform of Qionglong above, Shen Chen took a big horn, which is the one that made the bullets fly into Huang Silang, and shouted loudly: "Just because you want to destroy my Huangmen Pavilion? Let Cao Ren Come!"

"hateful!"

Cao Yong was furious, he really wanted to set fire to the mountain, but all the trees in the mountain had been cut down, there was no way to set fire to it, and there was no other way, thinking of Cao Ren's death order, he gritted his teeth and said, "Kill, kill me. "

This time, I plan to use human lives to heap it.

At present, the officers at all levels issued orders, and the soldiers had no choice but to bite the bullet and charge forward one after another into the mountains. After paying close to more than 300 casualties, they finally reached the gate of the fence, and then used ladders to cross the fence and move the fence to the ground. Door removed.

After finally entering the back mountain, Cao Yong, who rushed in under the rain of arrows and rolling stones, was dumbfounded, because the valley of the back mountain was not what he imagined, and all the villagers of Huangmenting hid here, but TM of a wasteland.

The valley is not big, even less than two thousand square meters.There is nothing in the valley, only some cave dwellings and some coal ash remains on the left and right mountains. On the surrounding mountains, there are dozens of qionglongs.

"Do you recognize this formation?"

Shen Chen continued to destroy his mentality with a loudspeaker: "You are already surrounded, and those who surrender will not die."

Cao Yong pointed at Qionglong in Shen Chen's direction and gritted his teeth: "Destroy that archery tower."

The soldiers immediately rushed in the direction of Qionglong.

After entering the interior of the back mountain, it is much easier to go up the mountain, because the mountain is not vertically steep, but has a certain slope.

The soldiers immediately climbed tens of meters along the hillside and came to the bottom of Qionglong.

But there is no place to go in or go up in Qionglong. You must know that the arrow towers at that time had stairs. Buildings like Qionglong that enter from the ground, except for the Qiang people in the northwest, no one knows what it is at all. .

Many Cao soldiers circled around the Qionglong, but the Huangmenting soldiers hiding in the Qionglong were not soft at all. After they approached, they immediately shot arrows down without any money, and their spears stabbed out without any life.

Cao Jun's soldiers were caught off guard, and immediately suffered heavy casualties.It can be said that 2000 people have been killed and injured 800 people on this road from outside the mountain to inside the mountain, but the shadow of the enemy has not been seen yet.

"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw!"

Until this time, no matter how stupid Cao Yong was, he understood that this was not a place he could capture, so he quickly issued a retreat order.

The soldiers threw away their helmets and armor, and fled in a panic under the baptism of arrows.

Even Shen Chen shot two arrows, but his arm strength was not as good as that of an adult after all. Although he was right, he didn't kill the Cao soldier, and let him escape with an arrow stuck in his shoulder.

While regretting, he suddenly noticed that on the Qionglong not far away, his father Shen Zhen bent his bow and set an arrow, holding his breath and concentrating.

His arrow aimed at Cao Yong who was fleeing towards the mountain below.

"Buzz!"

"call out!"

First there was the sound of bowstrings, and then there was a swoosh, and the long arrow, like a shooting star, tore through the void and sank into the back of Cao Yong's neck.

Lieutenant General Cao Ren, who died in the hands of Pound in the Battle of Weinan in 14 AD 211 years later, fell to the ground with a muffled sound.

The surrounding guards quickly lifted his body up, and under the cover of the shield and surrounding soldiers, he fled out of the back mountain in a hurry and ran towards the manor.

"We won."

"Win!"

"Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

After seeing Cao Jun's soldiers almost leaving nearly a thousand corpses and fleeing from the back mountain, the soldiers of Huangmenting cheered enthusiastically.

You must know that none of them died in this battle, and nearly half of the soldiers of the Cao army who invaded were killed or injured. This kind of record is astonishing.

And all of this is because of that child's command.

For a while, Shen Chen's prestige rose again, and all the soldiers and villagers in Huangmenting worshiped him as a god.

At the same time, Cao Yong's officers fled the manor with the remaining soldiers and horses, heading west.

Cao Ren was actually not far away. More than 20 minutes ago, he had received a message from someone sent by Cao Yong, saying that he had captured the manor.

Right now he is lying in ambush in the forest near Bishui to the southwest of Huangmen Pavilion, Huyang is on the south bank of Bishui, if Gan Ning comes to help, he will definitely pass by here, and then he will surely fall into his ambush.

At this moment, a fast horse came over suddenly, the scout's face was covered with sweat, he got off the horse anxiously, knelt down on one knee and said, "General, Cao Sima died in battle."

"what?"

Cao Ren was shocked and said, "What's going on?"

The scout said: "After the Huangmenting manor was breached, they fled into the back mountain. The back mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is only one mountain road to enter. There are arrow towers built on the top of the surrounding mountains. Cao Sima stormed in and was shot by arrows. Shot and died."

"hateful!"

Cao Ren was furious. He not only lost a lieutenant, but also lost a brother.

The scout said again: "Then Shen Chen clamored for the general to punish him himself."

Cao Ren's eyes turned red immediately, and he raised his head to look in the direction of Huyang, where a team of scouts came back.

Soon the scouts came to his side, Cao Ren asked, "How?"

The scout replied: "No movement."

"It seems that the guard of Huyang doesn't care about Huang Menting's death at all."

Director Chunyu said: "General, let's break through Huyang directly, let's go back and destroy Huangmen Pavilion."

"No."

Cao Ren thought about it and said: "Cao Yong died in battle, and the morale of the army must be unstable. It is too rash to attack Huyang now. We must first break the Huangmen Pavilion to boost the morale of the army."

In the final analysis, no matter how easy to defend and difficult to attack, Huangmen Pavilion is just a mountain top. If Cao Yong can kill it, so can he.

And what about Huyang?

It is a city, and there are four or five thousand defenders inside.

Originally, Cao Ren's soldiers and horses were only 5000 people in one school. Compared with Gan Ning, the number of people was not much advantage, and it was still a siege battle, which was very difficult to fight.

That's why he chose the tactic of encircling the spot and attacking Huangmen Pavilion to force Gan Ning to come to the rescue.

As a result, he never expected that Cao Yong, whom he sent, would lose the first battle. Not only did he suffer heavy casualties, but he also lost his own life. The morale of the army was unstable.

Therefore, under such circumstances, Cao Ren could only consider that the army should destroy Huangmenting first, and if people from Huyang were willing to come out of the city to rescue him, he would have 4000 troops left, and he would not mind fighting Gan Ning in the wild.

But if Gan Ning didn't come, Cao Ren might have to consider going back to Xinye to rest for a while after eliminating Huangmenting, and then attack Huyang after adjusting the morale of the army.

"But what if Gan Ning suddenly leads an army to help when we attack Huangmen Pavilion?"

Zhai Yuan said with some worry.

However, Cao Ren sneered and said, "Liu Biao's army is nothing more than a mob. Zhang Ji has only [-] people, so he defeated his [-] army. Are we still afraid of him? Let the scouts investigate, and the rest follow me." Go to Huangmen Pavilion."

When all the soldiers heard it, they cheered up and said, "Wei."

In fact, if an ordinary person encounters his partial division and returns in a big defeat, he may choose to withdraw his troops because he is worried that the enemy may attack from both sides.

But Cao Ren still felt that Liu Biao didn't practice martial arts. They had investigated that when Zhang Xiu came to Nanyang, he defeated Liu Biao's 2 troops. If Zhang Ji hadn't been shot to death by Liu Ya, perhaps Zhang Ji would never have united with Liu Biao.

Therefore, under such circumstances, he believed that his 5000 elites would win a big battle with Gan Ning's [-] men in the wild, so he didn't take Gan Ning seriously at all.

The main reason is that he has never heard of Gan Ning.

Later, Gan Ning was one of Jiang Biao's tiger ministers in Soochow, but at this time he was just a new middle-level general under Liu Biao's command.

Historically, he was a low-level officer under Liu Zhang, and he was still a low-level officer under Liu Biao. He was promoted to captain only last year because of Deng Hong's recommendation, so in Cao Ren's view, he was just an unknown person, and he must not belong to him. opponent.

But he didn't know that Gan Ning himself had eight hundred elite sailors as his team, and after he was promoted to captain, he eliminated the old and weak from the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army who surrendered, and selected the strong and strong, and he has been training soldiers for more than a year now.

This army was very different from Liu Biao's other troops in spirit, at least much better than the soldiers under Zhang Yun's command, and not much better than Wenpin's soldiers.

So Cao Ren will soon know how much surprise this army will bring him.

After giving the order, Cao Ren immediately chose to go east.

The mighty army came to the Huangmen Pavilion like wolves and tigers. This time, there was almost no obstacle, and they entered the manor.

Since the manor was connected to the back mountain, Cao Ren did not set fire to the manor, because that would block their way to attack the back mountain, unless they did not want to attack the Huangmen Pavilion and would do so when they withdrew their troops.

Therefore, under the leadership of Cao Yong's remnant soldiers, he came all the way to the foot of the back mountain.From a distance, I saw the Huangmenting soldiers cleaning up the corpses and rolling stones on the mountain road. Seeing them making a comeback, these soldiers left the corpses and rolling stones and ran into the mountain.

"Chase!"

Cao Ren's eyes lit up, this is an opportunity, because the opponent is still cleaning the battlefield, there must be no time to get in position, so he should take this opportunity to launch an attack.

At that moment, Cao Jun's soldiers rushed towards the mountain path like sea waves, and countless arrows rained down immediately.

The narrow mountain road, and the previous corpses and rolling stones and trees covered many obstacles, which caused great obstacles to Cao Jun's advance, but after the main force arrived, they finally came in despite the rain of arrows.

In fact, the main reason is that Huangmenting's arrow reserves have been consumed a lot. After all, they are not as powerful as Cao Cao, who can get millions of arrows. There are only more than 1 arrows in Ting, and three or four thousand arrows were shot when fighting Cao Yong, so naturally we have to save them.

Therefore, when the arrow rain's offensive decreased, Cao Ren only paid a mere 200 casualties before rushing into the back mountain.

Then.

Then he looked at the scene surrounded by countless cages in the valley, just like Cao Yong, he was dumbfounded.

Where the hell is this?
There was no one inside at all, where did everyone go?

"Who is under the mountain, can you recognize this formation?"

Shen Chen continued to shout with a loudspeaker on the qionglong. He didn't know that Cao Ren was coming.

Cao Ren trembled all over, then turned his head and looked at Qionglong in the distance.

He would never forget that childlike voice as long as he lived.

"Shen Chen!"

Cao Ren squeezed out two words between his teeth, and roared angrily, "Yeah Cao Ren is here!"

(End of this chapter)