Chapter 177 The Northwest

On the plain where shouts of killing sounds were everywhere, countless Cao soldiers trampled on each other. Many Cao soldiers did not die under Huang Zhong's sword, Ma Chao's gun, or the charge of more than a thousand cavalrymen. Instead, they died at the feet of their own robes.

After a long period of killing, although some Cao soldiers thought of killing Huang Zhong first and then turning back to deal with the cavalry, when these soldiers wanted to kill Huang Zhong, they saw a young general waving an iron-ridge snake spear, leading more than a hundred cavalry to Huang Zhong's side, and then killing all the Cao soldiers near him.

I saw the young man wearing a white robe, silver armor, and a burly figure. He danced a snake spear in his hand as if he had lived. As long as one spear goes down, at least one Cao soldier will fall down.

With his right hand closed, he turned his spear and killed another Cao soldier. The young general turned his head and said to Huang Zhong standing next to him: "Don't be surprised, the young general, too."

Huang Zhong looked up and did not recognize the person until then.

But it was Zhang Bao, the son of Zhang Fei. But when he saw the iron-ridge snake spear in his hand, the many Cao soldiers on both sides were unable to get close to him, he couldn't help but sigh, "The real tiger father has no dog son!" Then he said, "Zhang Bao is here, so why is his father Zhang Fei also close to him?"

As Huang Zhong thought, Zhang Bao killed Cao Bing and said immediately, "My father is leading the brigade to come here, I think it's coming in a moment.

"Then he said to Huang Zhong: "I'll ask the old general to get on the horse, and the young general will protect the old general and fight out here first."

After saying that, a cavalry jumped off the horse and helped Huang Zhong onto the war horse. The man rode with others and was protected by his left and right robes and killed them together.

At the same time, Ma Chao led most of the cavalry to kill several pairs of soldiers back and forth among the Cao soldiers. The Cao soldiers had long since been killed into a mess and fled to the distance.

In fact, in terms of combat power, although the more than a thousand cavalry brought by Ma Chao is strong, he is also the most powerful general of the world as an arrow. But if it is said that he can kill back and forth several times among the troops, it is like entering a state of no one, it would be too exaggerated.

The reason why Cao's army was defeated so quickly was that when the two sides had just fought, the chief general of Cao's army was killed by Ma Chao. The Cao army, who had lost the chief general, was in an unfavorable situation.

The formation was not intact, the soldiers were unsuspecting, etc., because of these reasons, the Cao army was completely defeated after being attacked by Ma Chao several times.

However, Cao's army had many soldiers after all, and although more than a thousand soldiers were fighting back and forth without any obstacles. However, it was not so easy to wipe out the enemy's entire army.

Moreover, after the long-distance raid, there were several charges. Not to mention the war horses, the knights on the horse were extremely tired. Especially Ma Chao, who was an arrowhead, was sweating at this time, and although he looked murderous, he could not hide his tired look.

Looking back, he was really tired. Ma Chao was first surrounded by Cheng Gongying's Sixteen Villages for a long time. He never had any conflicts in a row. Then, although Huang Zhongzhi helped him break out of the siege, he then ran away for days.

Then there was another big battle. If it were an ordinary person, he would have fallen down long ago.

Ma Chao looked around the cavalry. Seeing that they were all tired, the horses under their crotch became wet as if they had just been fished out of the water, he immediately ordered: "All the soldiers, please withdraw from here with me." After that, he ran towards the direction when he came first.

After receiving orders from behind, they all followed him and turned around.

More than a thousand cavalry rushed out of the battlefield with Ma Chao and joined the same place with more than a hundred cavalry led by Zhang Bao. After Ma Chao saw Huang Zhong, he hurriedly said: "The old general is best, and it is best if he has nothing to do!"

Huang Zhong sat on the horse and suddenly saw Ma Chao. He was surprised. Then he realized that Ma Chao must have encountered reinforcements. He hurriedly led his troops to rescue him, so he was here.

However, when Huang Zhong saw that Ma Chao was fine, he was very happy and said immediately: "General Ma was fine, it's best. Unfortunately, I have thousands of soldiers in my army, and I have all been here this time."

Ma Chao didn't say anything, but remembered that he also had thousands of elite soldiers. He was in a state of boredom. He only heard Huang Zhong say again: "I don't know what happened again after General Ma led his troops away.

How could he lead troops to save me personally?” Hearing this, Ma Chao told Huang Zhong about all the things that followed.

It turned out that after Ma Chao led his troops away, he was halfway through the road when he met Cao's soldiers. He was also tired of his troops and was trapped by Cao's soldiers and could not go out of conflict. Fortunately, Zhang Fei sent Zhang Bao and Ma Dai to lead the cavalry first. Seeing that Ma Chao was trapped, he led the troops to rescue him first.

At that time, Zhang Bao had two thousand cavalry at his hand. He discussed with Ma Dai and decided to lead one thousand each, break into the Cao army's formation on two sides, and then disrupt the Cao army's formation, so that Ma Chao's troops could rush out.

After discussing, the two men led their troops and horses around the semicircle before running into the side flank of Cao's army.

At that time, the chief general of Cao's army was Cui Liang, a side general under Cao Hong's tent. Originally, Cao Hong led his army to confront Huang Zhong and dragged him south of the Great Wall. Just wait for Han De's troops to arrive, he could attack him from both directions and kill Huang Zhong.

Unexpectedly, Huang Zhong abandoned the village at night to rescue Ma Chao, and then asked Lei Tong to lead his troops to cut off the rear. When Cao Hong led his troops to chase him, he was buried for a while by Lei Tong, which was delayed a lot of time.

But Lei Tong was no match for Cao Hong after all, and he was finally killed by him, and his soldiers were defeated by Cao's army.

After a while of delay, Cao Hong knew that he would not be able to win any credit when he rushed to Xijun again, so he decided to turn south and cut off Ma Chao and Huang Zhong's retreat.

Now, most of Cao Hong's troops were behind, and Cui Liang was ordered to lead a small number of troops to this place first. Unexpectedly, after a moment of arrival, he was defeated by Ma Chao. He was overjoyed and hurriedly commanded the soldiers to set up a formation. "If Ma Chao is killed, he will definitely be a general!"

Cui Liang sat upright on the horse, looking at Ma Chao who was surrounded by a lot, and was dreaming of a general in his heart. He didn't expect two teams of cavalry to suddenly kill from the south. Cui Liang was shocked and hurriedly ordered his left and right to meet the enemy.

However, all his soldiers focused on the surrounded Ma Chao army in the middle, and were anxiously unable to form a formation to deal with the impact of the two cavalrymen.

These two cavalrymen were like two sharp swords, spurting Cui Liang's troops into two long holes. Ma Dai and Zhang Bao were the tips of these two sharp swords, and no one could stop them wherever they passed.

Especially Ma Dai, where the big sword in his hand passed, blood rained and his silver armor almost turned red. Many Cao soldiers saw that they were brave and fled without fighting, but instead rushed their own formation even more chaotic.

Cui Liang saw that his army was in chaos. He knew that the defeat was settled and irreversible, so he wanted to lead his cavalry to escape. He did not want the left and right soldiers to block the way, and he could not conflict in a hurry, but was trapped in his own troops.

After delaying this moment, Ma Dai had already reached the back of his body. He didn't say much, but just shouted angrily. He took a knife and slashed it violently.

The light of the knife flashed, bringing out another bloody rain, and a big head fell along with the blood-red liquid.

Since Cui Liang died, there is no longer any suspense in the battle situation.

Without the command and dispatch of the chief general, Cao's soldiers immediately became a mess, and were surrounded and killed by Zhang Bao and Ma Dai. In addition, Ma Chao led his troops to echo in the middle, and soon all the thousands of Cao's soldiers were solved. The resistance area was killed at one point.

The surrendered the weapons and took care of them.

It was not until this time that Ma Chao saw his companion. He was very happy and said, "Thanks to my brother to lead troops to rescue him, otherwise he would have died here today!"

Ma Dai said, "It's not my brother's achievements. It's because Military Advisor Pang learned about the movements of his elder brother's army and noticed something strange, so he sent General Zhang to lead thousands of light troops to rescue him. After he asked General Huang for help, he rushed south.

Halfway through the way, he happened to meet General Zhang's troops. General Zhang learned about the situation. Then he sent two thousand cavalrymen to ask me to go first, and he led the infantry to arrive later. "Then he pointed to Zhang Bao beside him and said, "This is General Zhang's son, Zhang Bao is the same."

Ma Chao turned his head and looked at him. Seeing Zhang Bao's posture, he remembered that he was a talented person in the chaos. Seeing that Zhang Bao was very brave in killing the enemy with a spear, he praised him, "It's a real tiger!"

While he was talking, Ma Dai said again: "I originally asked General Huang to save his brother first. Why do I see his brother alone but not General Huang?"

Ma Chao heard this and hurriedly said, "Brother, I almost missed the old general's life! Hurry up and prepare the horses, and follow me to save the old general!"

Ma Daiqi said: "What's wrong with the old general?"

Ma Chao hurriedly said, "I met Cao's army on the way with the old general. In order to protect him, the old general led more than a thousand troops to resist the enemy. It must be dangerous at this time!" Then he briefly told Ma Dai about Huang Zhong.

After hearing this, Ma Dai hurriedly said, "This is the situation, but the situation is very urgent, but my brother is extremely tired. I asked me to go there this time." Ma Chao said, "The old general is in danger. It is because of a certain situation, and someone must go to save him in person. Don't say too much.

There can be more than a thousand soldiers and horses, and I should go quickly.”

Before he finished speaking, he heard Zhang Bao say, "I am willing to go with General Ma Chao!"

Upon hearing this, Ma Chao nodded, and then said to Ma Dai: "Now I and Zhang Bao's nephew will lead a thousand cavalry to protect the life of General Huang first. I can lead some of the troops here to guard the prisoners, and wait for most of General Zhang Fei to arrive.

When most of the troops arrive, come and rescue him." Ma Dai followed his words and then transferred 1,200 horses to Ma Chao and Zhang Bao, leading his troops and horses to stay in their original place.

Then, Ma Chao led his troops and horses to hurry up, and finally arrived here before Huang Zhong ran out of his strength. He first killed Han De and then killed Cao's soldiers, thus saving Huang Zhong's life.

After all this, Huang Zhong fell down and laughed: "Thanks to General Ma Chao to rescue him, otherwise I will be done!"

Ma Chao said, "Don't be polite, the veteran general. If it weren't for the veteran general's life to resist the enemy, how could Chao have a life?" Then, "The veteran general fought hard against Cao Bing. I think he is already tired, so be patient, wait until he meets with General Zhang and have a better rest.

"Huang Zhong did not answer, just nodded...

In the 215th year of AD, spring.

Cheng Gongying, the prefect of Wuwei in Xiliang, sent a retreat to lure the enemy, causing Ma Chao to go deeper alone, and finally sent the Sixteen Villages to siege him for several days under the city of Xijun.

Although Ma Chao led Huang Zhong to help escape from the siege, he encountered a series of ambush troops. Fortunately, Zhang Fei led his troops to arrive, saving the lives of the two generals, and then retreated to Longyou.

At the same time, Cao Hong's army went south to Longyou, set up a large village to confront Zhang Fei's troops. Then Cheng Gongying personally led the troops from Quanzhou of Xiliang to arrive and joined Cao Hong's troops, but the troops became more powerful.

In this way, Zhang Fei wanted to go north but suffered from lack of troops; Cao Hong wanted to continue to go south, but also suffered from the situation where several generals on the other side were in charge and could easily fight. At this point, the situation in the northwest was also in a deadlock.

At the same time, a group of soldiers and horses in Hanzhong had already emerged from the Xigu Valley. Wei Yan personally led the army to set up a large village at the entrance of the valley and refused to stop Chen Cang's troops. After receiving the urgent letter from Chang'an, he immediately asked Zhang Ren to lead Deng Zhi and the other generals Mi Fang to lead the troops to Chang'an quickly.
Chapter completed!