But the person who offered advice was Chen Qun, the censor of the Censor, whose courtesy name was Changwen. Cao asked, "What good strategies does Chen Changwen have?" Qun said, "Now Liu Bei and Sun Quan have formed a lip and teeth. If Liu Bei wants to take Xichuan, the prime minister can order the general to raise troops, join forces with the people of Fei and take Jiangnan directly, then Sun Quan will ask for help from Liu Bei; if Bei is in Xichuan, he will have no intention to save power; if the power is not saved, his strength will be weak, and the land of Jiangdong will be obtained by the prime minister. If Jiangdong is obtained, Jingzhou can be calmed; Jingzhou will be calmed, and then the world will be settled. After Jingzhou is calm, then the world will be settled." Cao said, "Changwen's words are exactly my intention." He immediately raised a large army of 300,000 and went straight to Jiangnan. He ordered Fei and Zhang Liao to prepare food and grass for supply.

There was a detailed report from Sun Quan. Quan gathered the generals to discuss. Zhang Zhao said, "You can send someone to Lu Zijing's place, and the tutor urgently sent a letter to Jingzhou, so that Xuande could work together to reject Cao. Zijing had kindness to Xuande, and his words would follow. Moreover, Xuande was the son-in-law of the Eastern Wu, and he was also obliged to do so. If Xuande came to help, there would be no trouble in Jiangnan." Quan followed his words and sent someone to Lu Su to ask for help from Xuande. Su received the order, and then compiled a book and sent someone to send Xuande. Xuande read the meaning of the book, left the envoy in the museum, and sent someone to Nanjun to ask Kong Ming. Kongming arrived in Jingzhou, and Xuande was the general Lu.

After reading Su Shu and Kong Ming, Kong Ming said, "We don't move the troops in Jiangnan, nor do we need to move the troops in Jingzhou, so that Cao Cao dare not look directly at the southeast." He replied to Lu Su, and taught him to rest assured. If only the northern soldiers invaded, the emperor's uncle would have a plan to retreat. The envoy left. Xuande asked, "Now Cao has raised 300,000 troops, and joined forces with the people of Fei and rushed in. What kind of trick can he retreat?" Kong Ming said, "What Cao has been thinking about in his life is the soldiers of Xiliang. Now Cao kills Ma Teng, and his son Ma Chao is in charge of the people of Xiliang. He must cut his teeth and Cao thieves.

The lord can write a book, and then join Ma Chao and send Chao to enter the pass, so how can Cao go to the south of the Yangtze River?" Xuande was overjoyed and wrote a book immediately. He sent a confidant to surrender directly to Xiliangzhou.

But Ma Chao was in Xiliangzhou and felt a dream at night: I dreamed that I was lying on the snowy ground, and a group of tigers came to bite me. I was frightened and confused. I gathered in the tent to assist me and told me about the things in the dream. A person under the tent responded and said, "This dream is an ominous sign." Everyone looked at him, and his confidant lieutenant in front of the tent, with his surname Pang, his name was De, and his courtesy name was Lingming. Chao asked, "What did Lingming see?" De said, "I met a tiger in the snow, and the dream was very evil. Could it be that the old general was in Xuchang?" Before he finished speaking, he staggered in and cried and bowed to the ground and said, "My uncle and brother are both dead!" Chao looked at him, and it was Ma Dai. Chao asked in shock what it was. Dai said, "Uncle and the minister Huang Kui plotted to kill Cao together, but unfortunately they leaked the matter.

He was beheaded in the market, and his second brother was also killed. Wei Dai pretended to be a merchant and left Xingye. Chao cried and fell to the ground when he heard this. All the generals rescued him. Chao gritted his teeth and hated Cao's thieves. Suddenly, he reported that Liu Huangshu of Jingzhou sent someone to come with a letter. Chao demoted him to see it. The letter said: "I misunderstood the Han Dynasty, the thieves were tyrants, and the tyrants were deceased. Bei used to receive a secret edict with his ancestors and swear to kill this thief. Now he ordered his ancestors to be harmed by Cao, and this general is different from the heaven and earth, and is different from the hatred of the sun and the moon. If he could lead the troops of Xiliang to attack Cao's right, he should raise the people of Jingxiang to stop Cao's predecessors: Then the rebel Cao can be captured, the treacherous party can be destroyed, the hatred and humiliation can be avenged, and the Han Dynasty can be prospered. The letter does not say enough, and I will wait for the reply immediately."

After reading it, Ma Chao immediately shook his tears and returned the letter. He sent the envoy to return first. Then he got up the Xiliang army and was about to advance. Suddenly, the prefect of Xiliang, Han Sui, sent someone to invite Ma Chao to see him. Chao arrived at Sui Mansion and then sent Cao Cao to express his letter. The inside said: "If you capture Ma Chao to Xudu, you will be appointed as the Marquis of Xiliang." Chao bowed to the ground and said: "I will bind my brothers and go to Xuchang to save my uncle from the work of the sword and halberd." Han Sui helped him up and said: "I am a brother with your father, how can you bear to harm you? If you raise an army, I will help you." Ma Chao thanked him.

Han Sui then pushed Cao's envoy out and killed him, and then ordered eight troops under his command and marched together. Those eight troops were elected, Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Zhang Heng, Liang Xing, Cheng Yi, Ma Wan, and Yang Qiu. The eight generals followed Han Sui and joined Ma Chao's subordinates Pang De and Ma Dai, and formed a total of 200,000 troops to Chang'an.

Zhong Yao, the governor of Chang'an County, flew to report to Cao Cao; while leading the army to resist the enemy, he set up his formation in the wild. Ma Dai, the vanguard in the front of Xiliangzhou, led 15,000 troops, which were vast and vast, coming all over the mountains and fields. Zhong Yao came out to answer. Dai sent a sword to fight with Yao. If it was not the same, Yao was defeated and ran away. Dai carried the sword to come. Ma Chao and Han Sui led the army to the capital and surrounded Chang'an. Zhong Yao guarded the city. Chang'an was the place where the capital was built in the Western Han Dynasty. The city was strong and the trenches were dangerous and deep, and it was urgent to attack. After surrounding for ten days, it could not be broken. Pang De made a plan and said, "The soil in Chang'an City is hard, water and alkali, and it is not very good."

It is worthy of food, and there is no firewood. Now, the army and the people are famined for ten days. It is better to collect the army for the time being. This is the only way to Chang'an. "Ma Chao said, "This plan is wonderful!" He immediately sent the flag of "Ling" to all the troops, and he taught them to retreat. Ma Chao personally cut off the rear. The troops gradually retreated. When Zhong Yao climbed the city to see the next day, the army retreated, but he was afraid that there would be a plan. He sent a whistle to the siege and attack, and he was relieved. Even if the soldiers and civilians went out of the city to collect firewood and get water, they opened the city gates and let people go in and out. On the fifth day, people reported that Ma Chao's troops arrived again, and the soldiers and civilians rushed into the city, but Zhong Yao still closed the city and stood firm again.

But Zhong Yao's younger brother Zhong Jin was guarding the west gate. He was about three o'clock in the morning and a fire broke out in the city gate. When Zhong Jin came to rescue him, a man turned around the edge of the city, raised his sword and rode his horse and shouted, "Pang De is here!" Zhong Jin was caught off guard and was killed by Pang De, killing the scattered military academy, cutting the locks, and letting Ma Chao enter the city. Zhong Yao abandoned the city from the east gate. Ma Chao and Han Sui got the city and rewarded the three armies.

Zhong Yao retreated to Tongguan and reported to Cao Cao. Cao knew that he had lost Chang'an and did not dare to reconsider the southern expedition, so he called Cao Hong. Xu Huang shared the matter: "Take 10,000 troops first and guard Tongguan for Zhong Yao. If you lose the pass within ten days, you will behead them; if you do not do the work of you and the two of you outside ten days. Then I will lead the army and then arrive." The two of them took the general order and went on a night. Cao Ren advised, "Hong is impatient, and I am afraid of making a mistake." Cao said: "You and I will escort food and grass, and then take them back."

However, Cao Hong, Xu Huang went to Tongguan and stood guard for Zhong Yao, and did not go out to fight. Ma Chao led his troops to the gate and cursed Cao Cao's three generations. Cao Hong was furious and wanted to raise his troops to fight. Xu Huang advised, "This is Ma Chao who wants to incite the general to fight, and must not fight with him. When the Prime Minister's army comes, there must be a main painting." Ma Chao's army came to curse day and night. As long as Cao Hong fought, Xu Huang blocked it hard. On the ninth day, when looking at the gate, the Xiliang army abandoned the horse and sat on the grass in front of the gate; most of them were tired, so they slept on the ground. Cao Hong then taught the horses and lit up three thousand soldiers to kill Xiaguan. The Xiliang soldiers abandoned their horses and threw their swords and left. Hong Yi chased after him. At that time, Xu Huang was watching the food trucks at the gate. When he heard that Cao Hong was fighting at the gate, he was shocked and led his troops to come and shouted Cao Hong back to the horse. Suddenly, the shouts from behind were shocked, and Ma Dai led the army to kill him.

When Cao Hong and Xu Huang walked back quickly, a drum sounded, and the two armies behind the mountain intercepted: Ma Chao on the left and Pang De on the right, killing for a while. Cao Hong could not resist, and most of the Zhe army broke out of the encirclement and ran to the pass. Xiliang soldiers then rushed over, and Hong and others left. Pang De chased through Tongguan, ran into Cao Ren's army and horses, and saved Cao Hong and others' army. Ma Chao responded to Pang De's approach to the pass.

Cao Hong lost Tongguan and ran to Cao Cao. Cao said, "I have to give you ten days, how can I lose Tongguan in nine days?" Hong said, "The soldiers of Xiliang insulted in all kinds of ways. Because they saw that the army was lazy, they took advantage of the situation and did not want to be trapped in the thief and traitors." Cao said, "Hong is young and violent, Xu Huang, you must know what happened!" Huang said, "I will not follow the advice. On that day, Huang put on a food truck at the gate. He knew that the young general had already gone down to the gate. Huang was afraid that he would make mistakes, so he hurried away, and he had already been trapped in the thief and traitors." Cao was furious and beheaded Cao Hong. All the officials reported to be dismissed. Cao Hong accepted the crime and retreated.

Cao advanced to the army and knocked straight on Tongguan. Cao Ren said, "You can go down the village first, and then break the gate before it is too late." Cao ordered the trees to be cut down, and the grids were set up, and divided into three villages: Cao Ren, the left village, Xiahou Yuan, the right village, and Cao himself lived in the middle village. The next day, Cao led the generals and soldiers of the three villages to the pass and ran to the pass. He met the Xiliang army and horses. Each side set up a formation. Cao came out of the gate to see the soldiers of Xiliang. Everyone was brave and heroic. He saw Ma Chao's face as pink as a plump and lips were like a lie.

He rubbed red, with thin waist and wide waist, strong voice, white robe and silver armor, holding a spear in his hand, and immediately fronted the formation; the upper head Pang De and the lower head Ma Dai. Cao secretly praised himself and said to Chao, "You are a descendant of a famous general in the Han Dynasty, why are you going to be against him?" Chao gritted his teeth and cursed: "Fuck! I apologize for you, you are not punished for your crimes! I will share the same grudge against you! I will capture your flesh alive and eat your flesh!" After that, he rushed over with his gun. Yu Jin came out to greet him.

The horses fought, and the battle was together, and Yu Jin was defeated and left. Zhang He went out to welcome him, and he was defeated and left twenty rounds. Li Tong went out to welcome him, and Chao fought with great force. After several rounds, he stabbed Li Tong with one shot. Chao looked at the next move, and the Xiliang soldiers rushed over. Cao's soldiers were defeated. The Xiliang soldiers came to be powerful, and the left and right generals could not stand it. Ma Chao, Pang De, and Ma Dai led more than a hundred cavalry and went straight into the central army to capture Cao Cao. Cao was in the chaos, and only the Western Liang army shouted:

"It's Cao Cao who wears a red robe!" Cao immediately took off his red robe. He heard it again, "The long beard is Cao Cao!" Cao panicked, and the sword he wore to cut his beard. Someone in the army told Ma Chao that Cao Cao had cut off his beard, and Chao asked him to call him: "The short beard is Cao Cao!" Cao heard that, he pulled the corner of the flag and fled. Later generations wrote a poem saying: "When the Tongguan battle was defeated, Wang Feng fled, Meng De took off his brocade robe in panic. He should be frightened by cutting his beard with a sword, and Ma Chao's price was too high."

While Cao Cao was walking, a horse came from behind and looked back. It was Ma Chao. Cao was shocked. The left and right generals rushed to Chao and each escaped their lives, and only took Cao Cao away. Chao shouted loudly, "Don't go!" Cao was so shocked that his horse whip fell to the ground. He caught up. Ma Chao rushed from behind. Cao walked around the tree, and Chao shot him on the tree with one shot. When he was quickly pulled out, Cao had already walked away. Chao rode his horse and turned around the hillside and shouted, "Don't hurt my master! Cao Hong is here!" He rode his horse and stopped Ma Chao. Cao was desperate to escape. Hong and Ma Chao fought for forty or fifty rounds, and gradually his sword skills were scattered and his strength was not increased. Xiahou Yuan led dozens of cavalry to follow him. Ma Chao was alone, afraid that he was counted, so he drove his horse back, and Xiahou Yuan did not come to drive him.

Cao Cao returned to the camp, but Cao Ren died and established the camp. Therefore, he did not break his army and horses. Cao entered the tent and sighed, "If I kill Cao Hong, I will die today at Ma Chao!" He then called Cao Hong and gave him a reward. He packed up the defeated army and stood guard at the camp. He was deep and high, and was not allowed to fight. Chao led his troops to insult the battle in front of the camp every day. Cao ordered the soldiers to hold on, and be killed if they were moving in a mess. The generals said, "The soldiers of Xiliang will use spears and be selected to welcome them." Cao said, "War or not, both are from me, not from the bandits. Although the thief has a spear, how can they stab? Just look at it with a strong wall, and the bandits will retreat." All the generals discussed in private: "The Prime Minister is here to fight, and he is the first in his body; now he is defeated by Ma Chao, why is he so weak?"

A few days later, he reported in detail: "Ma Chao added 20,000 new troops to assist in the battle, and it was the Qiang tribe." Cao was very happy when he heard this.

The generals said, "Ma Chao added troops, and the Prime Minister was happy. Why?" Cao said, "When I won, I will tell you." Three days later, he issued a declaration and added troops. Cao was very happy and held a banquet in the tent to congratulate him. All the generals laughed secretly. Cao said, "You are laughing at me for not having any plans to defeat Ma Chao. What good strategies do you have?" Xu Huangjin said, "Now the Prime Minister is here, and all the thieves are stationed at the gate. If you go to Hexi, you will have no preparations. If you get an army to cross Puyangjin secretly and cut off the thieves' return road first, the Prime Minister will attack him from Hebei. If the thieves do not correspond, they will be in danger."

Cao said, "Mr. Ming's words are exactly what I want." He then taught Xu Huang to lead four thousand elite troops and attack Hexi with Zhu Ling. He hid in the valley, "When I cross Hebei and attack him at the same time." Xu Huang and Zhu Ling took the order and led the four thousand troops to secretly go. Cao ordered Cao Hong to arrange boats and rafts in Puyangjin first. He left Cao Ren to guard the village, and Cao led his troops to cross the Wei River. He had already reported to Ma Chao in detail. "Chao said, "Now Cao does not attack Tongguan, but he has sent people to prepare boats and rafts. If he wants to cross Hebei, he will definitely stop me. I will lead a

The army followed the river and refused to cross the bank. Cao's troops could not cross the river. If there were no more than twenty days, the food in Hedong was gone, and Cao's troops would be in chaos. But he followed Henan and attacked him. Cao could be captured." Han Sui said, "No need to do this. Didn't you hear that the military strategy says: 'A half-cross can be attacked,' When Cao's troops reached halfway, you attacked him on the south bank, and Cao's troops died in Henei. Chao said, "My uncle's words are very good." Even if someone asked when Cao Cao crossed the river, he said that Cao Cao had finished his troops and stopped his troops in three places. He crossed the Wei River before, and when his troops arrived at the mouth of the river, Sunlight was at the beginning of the day

Get up. Cao first launched elite troops across the north bank and founded a camp. Cao led a hundred guards to sit on the south bank with his sword and watched the army cross the river. Suddenly, people reported: "The white-robed general is here behind him!" Everyone recognized that it was Ma Chao. He hugged and got off the boat. The army on the riverside fought to get on the boat, and the noise continued. Cao still sat without moving, pressed the sword finger to make an appointment to stop making trouble. He heard people shouting that the horse was neighing, and swarming in. A general on the boat jumped on the shore and shouted: "The thief is here! Please get off the boat!" Cao looked at him and Xu Chu was also saying: "

What's the harm to the thief?" Looking back, Ma Chao was unable to leave more than a hundred steps. When Xu Chu dragged Cao off the boat, the boat was more than one meter away from the shore. Chu Fucao jumped onto the boat. All the soldiers followed him went into the water, grabbed the edge of the boat, and tried to get on the boat to escape. The young general of the boat overturned, Chu cut his sword, and broke his hands around the boat, and fell into the water. He hurriedly looked at the boat down the water and rode it. Xu Chu stood on the tip and hurriedly supported it with a wooden pole. Cao was at the foot of Xu Chu. Ma Chao rushed to the river bank and saw that the boat was flowing halfway through the river, so he picked up a bow and arrow, and ordered the general to shoot around the river.

The arrows were as fast as the rain. Chu was afraid that Cao Cao would hurt Cao Cao, so he raised his horse's saddle with his left hand to cover it. Ma Chao was shot, and the people who drove the boat on the boat fell into the water. Dozens of people in the boat were shot down. The boat was unstable and rotated in the rapid water. Xu Chu was so powerful that he shook his legs and used the rudder to hold the boat with his pole and the other hand to cover Cao Cao. At that time, Ding Fei, the magistrate of Weinan County, was on the Nanshan Mountain. Seeing that Ma Chao was chasing Cao Cao very quickly, he was afraid that he would hurt Cao Cao's life, so he drove the cattle and horses in the village outside and spread the mountain.

The wilderness was full of cattle and horses. When the soldiers of Xiliang saw it, they turned around and fought for cattle and horses, but they had no intention of chasing them. Cao Cao was able to escape. As soon as they reached the north shore, they sank the boat and raft. When the generals heard that Cao Cao was fleeing in the river and came to rescue him, Cao had already landed. Xu Chu was covered with heavy armor and arrows were embedded in the armor. All the generals came to the wild camp and bowed to the ground and asked their worries. Cao laughed and said, "I am almost trapped by the little thieves today!" Chu said, "If someone hadn't slinged horses to herd cattle to lure thieves, the thieves would have worked hard to cross the river."

Cao asked, "Who is the one who lured the thief?" Someone who knew, replied, "Weinan County Magistrate Ding Fei." After a while, Fei came in to see him. Cao thanked him and said, "If it is not the good plan of the public, I will be captured by the thief." So he ordered him to be the lieutenant of the Dianjun, and Fei said, "Although the thief has left for a while, he will come back tomorrow.

We must reject it with good advice." Cao said, "I have prepared." So he called the generals to build a corridor along the river and temporarily as the foot of the camp. If the thief comes, they will hold troops outside the corridor and set up flags inside to suspect the soldiers. They dig trenches along the river and empty the earthen sheds, and the Henei tempted them with soldiers: "The bandits will fall when they come in a hurry, and the bandits will fall when they fall." But Ma Chao returned to Han Sui and said, "Almost caught Cao Cao! A general bravely carried Cao off the ship, and I don't know who." So he said, "I heard that Cao Cao chose a very strong man as a guard in front of the tent, named the Tiger Guard, and Xu Chu led him. Dian Wei is dead, and those who rescue Cao Cao now must be Xu Chu. This man is extremely brave and powerful, and everyone is called a tiger fool; if you encounter him, don't underestimate the enemy." Chao said, "I have also heard of his name for a long time." So he said, "Now Cao crosses the river and is about to attack me.

You can attack it quickly. You cannot ask him to establish a camp. If it is established, it will be difficult to eliminate it." Chao said, "I am foolish in my nephew's intention. I will only refuse to cross the north bank. I will not be able to cross the river. This is the best strategy." Then he said, "I am guarding the camp, and I will lead my army to follow the river to fight Cao, what?" Chao said, "Let Pang De be the vanguard and go with my uncle."

So Han Sui and Pang De led 50,000 troops to Weinan. Cao ordered the generals to lure them on both sides of the corridor. Pang De first led more than a thousand iron cavalry and came in conflict. Where the shouts started, the people and horses fell into the trap of the horse. Pang De jumped out of the pit, stood on the flat ground, killed several people, and walked out of the encirclement. Han Sui was trapped in Gaixin, and Pang De walked to rescue him. He was about to encounter Cao Yong, the general of Cao Ren, who was chopped down by Pang De and took his horse, and killed him to open a bloody road, rescued Han Sui, and sued the east.

He walked south and came from behind. Ma Chao led his army to respond, defeated Cao's army, and rescued most of the troops and horses. The battle was late at night. He planned to find a group of people and horses, and broke the generals Cheng Yin and Zhang Heng, and more than 200 people died in the pit. Chao discussed with Han Sui: "If the relocation is delayed for a long time, Cao set up a camp in Hebei, and it is difficult to retreat to the enemy; it is better to lead the light cavalry to rob the camp tonight." So he said, "We must divide the troops to rescue each other." So Chao was in the front and ordered Pang De and Ma Dai to respond to him, and then he left that night.

However, Cao Cao withdrew his troops and stationed in Weibei, and called the generals, "The bandits bullied me before they set up a shed, and they would come to rob the camp. You can scatter the ambushing troops and empty the army. When the cannons sounded, the ambushing troops would rise up and capture them in one drum." The generals followed the order, and the ambushing troops had finished. That night, Ma Chao first sent Cheng Yi to lead thirty cavalry to the outpost. Cheng Yi saw no one and went straight into the central army. When Cao's army saw the arrival of Xiliang troops, he fired the cannon. The ambushing troops from all sides came out, and only surrounded thirty cavalry. Cheng Yi was killed by Xiahou Yuan. However, Ma Chao had been swarming with Pang De and Ma Dai's soldiers from behind.
Chapter completed!