Chapter 59 Chapter Fifty-eighth: Ma Meng Qi Raises an Army to Resent Cao A for Hiding His Beard and Abandoning His Robe

However, the person who offered advice was Chen Qun, the censor who served as the governor, with a long character.Cao asked, "What good strategy does Chen Changwen have?"Qun said: "Now Liu Bei and Sun Quan are disgraceful. If Liu Bei wants to take Xichuan, the prime minister can order the general to raise troops to join the Fei people and take Jiangnan, then Sun Quan will ask Liu Bei for help."If the intention is in Xichuan, there must be no intention to save the power; if the power is not saved, the army will be exhausted and the army will decline: the land in the east of the river must be owned by the prime minister.If Jiangdong is won, then Jingzhou can be leveled with one drum.Jingzhou Zhaoping, then Xu Tu Xichuan, the world is settled.Cao said: "The words of Changwen are exactly what I want."At that time, 300,000 soldiers went down to the south of the Yangtze River; they ordered Hefei and Zhang Liao to prepare food and grass for supply.

Sun Quan has been reported to Sun Quan for a long time.The right to gather people will discuss.Zhang Zhao said, "You can send people to Lu Zijing's place, and send a letter to Jingzhou urgently, so that Xuande can reject Cao with all his strength."Zijing is kind to Xuande, and he must obey his words; and Xuande is the leader of the Eastern Wu, and he is obliged to do so. If Xuande comes to help, Jiangnan will be safe.Quan followed his words and sent someone to tell Lu Su to seek help from Xuande.Su took the order, and followed him to repair the book and sent people to Xuande.After reading the meaning of the book, Xuande left an envoy in the library and sent someone to Nanjun to invite Kongming.When Kong Ming arrived in Jingzhou, Xuande finished reading Lu Su's book and Kong Ming.Kong Ming said: "You don't need to move the soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River, and you don't need to move the soldiers in Jingzhou, so Cao Cao dare not look directly at the southeast."Then he wrote back to Lu Su, teaching: sit back and relax: if there is any invasion by the northern soldiers, the emperor's uncle has his own strategy to retreat.The messenger went.Xuande asked: "Today, an army of 300,000 troops has been brought together to join Fei's crowd. What is the master's plan to retreat?"Kongming said: "The ones who worry about you all your life are the soldiers of Xiliang."Today Cao killed Ma Teng, and his son Ma Chao, seeing the people who ruled Xiliang, would gnash his teeth and rape the thief.My lord can write a book to marry Ma Chao, so that Chao Xing's troops can enter the customs, so why would Cao Cao have time to go to the south of the Yangtze River?Xuande was overjoyed. He wrote a book at that time and sent a group of confidantes to Xiliangzhou to vote.

But he said that Ma Chao was in Xiliangzhou, and felt a dream at night: he dreamed that he was lying on the snow, and a group of tigers came to bite him.Feeling frightened and puzzled in his heart, he gathered the generals under the tent and told them what happened in the dream.A person in the tent responded, "This dream is an ominous sign."Everyone regards him as the school lieutenant in front of the tent: his surname is Pang, his first name is De, and his style name is Lingming.Chao asked: What did Ling Ming see?De said: Meeting a tiger in the snow is a very evil dream.Could it be that the old general has something to do in Xuchang?Before he finished speaking, a man staggered in, cried and bowed to the ground and said: "Uncle and brother are dead!"It is Ma Dai who oversees it.Surprised why.Dai said: "uncle and servant Huang Kui murdered together. Unfortunately, they were all killed in the city."The second brother was also killed.Wei Dai pretends to be a merchant and escapes in the starry night.Chao heard the words and fell to the ground crying.The generals will be rescued.Chao gritted his teeth and hated the thief.Suddenly it was reported that Uncle Liu Huang of Jingzhou had sent someone to write a letter.Super dismantling it, the book briefly said:

Fu Nian's misfortune in the Han Dynasty, the thieves monopolized power, deceived the king and ignored them, and the people withered.Bei Xi and Ling Xianjun received the secret edict and vowed to punish the thief.Now that the first king was killed by Cao Cao, this general is not in the same world, and he is not the same as the sun and the moon.If you can lead the soldiers of Xiliang to the right of attacking Cao, prepare the people of Jingxiang to stop Cao before: then the rebels can be captured, the traitors can be destroyed, the humiliation can be rewarded, and the Han Dynasty can prosper.The book is not exhaustive, waiting for an answer.

After Ma Chao read it, he waved his tears and returned to the book. The envoys returned first, and then they set up Xiliang's army horses.Just as he was about to advance, Han Sui, the prefect of Xiliang, sent someone to invite Ma Chao to see him.When he reached Suifu, he sent Cao Cao's letter to show it.Nei Yun: If Ma Chao is captured and sent to Xudu, you will be granted the title of Marquis of Xiliang.Chaobai fell to the ground and said: "Uncle, please bind my two brothers and send them to Xuchang, so that uncle will not have to work with Geji."Han Sui lifted him up and said, "Your father and I have become brothers, how can I bear to harm you?"If you raise troops, I will help you.Thanks Ma Chao.Han Sui then pushed out the envoy and beheaded him. Then he ordered his eight army horses and marched together.The eight?Nai Hou Xuan, Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Zhang Heng, Liang Xing, Cheng Yi, Ma Wan, and Yang Qiuye.The eight generals followed Han Sui, together with Ma Chao's men Pang De and Ma Dai, a total of 200,000 soldiers, and rushed 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 deployed in the field.Ma Dai, the pioneer in the front of Xiliang Prefecture, led an army of 15,000, mighty and mighty, all over the mountains and plains.Zhong Yao went out to answer.Dai made a sword and fought Yao.If they don't agree, Yao is defeated and runs away.Dai came with a knife.Ma Chao and Han Sui led their troops to surround Chang'an.Zhong Yao went to the city to guard.Chang'an was the capital of the Western Han Dynasty. The city wall was strong and the trenches were deep and dangerous, so they couldn't be attacked urgently.Surrounded for ten days in a row, but could not break through.Pang De made a plan and said: The soil in Chang'an City is hard and watery, it is unbearable to eat, and there is no firewood.Today's 10-day siege, the army and the people are famine, it is better to withdraw the army for the time being.As long as this is the case, Chang'an is at your fingertips.Ma Chao said: This plan is great!The time difference caused the word flag to be passed on to all the ministries, and Ma Chao personally cut off the rear.All the troops and horses gradually retreated.When Zhong Yao went to the city to see the next day, all the troops had retreated, fearing that there was a plan.It is only when people are sentry to spy that they go far away, so they can rest assured; even if the soldiers and civilians are ordered to go out of the city to collect firewood and water, open the gates of the city wide, and let people in and out.On the fifth day, it was reported that Ma Chao's soldiers had arrived again, and the soldiers and civilians rushed into the city, but Zhong Yao still closed the city and stood firm.

But Zhong Yao's younger brother, Zhong Jin, is guarding the west gate.About three o'clock, a fire broke out in the city gate.When Zhong Jin came to rescue him urgently, a man turned around from the edge of the city, raised his knife and galloped his horse, shouting loudly: Pang De is here!Zhong Jin was caught off guard, and was chopped off by Pang De's horse. He killed the military academy, cut off the lock, and let Ma Chao and Han Sui's army and horses enter the city.Zhong Yao left the city from the east gate.Ma Chao and Han Sui won the city and rewarded the three armies.Zhong Yao retreated to Tongguan and reported to Cao Cao.Knowing that he lost Chang'an, he dared not reconsider the Southern Expedition.So he called Cao Hong and Xu Huang to pay: first take 10,000 horses and guard Tongguan for Zhong Yao.If you lose the pass within ten days, you will be cut off; after ten days, don't do anything about the two of you.Our army then arrived.After receiving the general order, the two of them will go in the starry night.Cao Ren remonstrated, saying: "Hong is impatient, and I am sincerely afraid of making mistakes."Cao said, "you and I escort the food and grass, and then we will meet you."

But Cao Hong and Xu Huang went to Tongguan to defend the pass for Zhong Yao and did not fight.Ma Chao led the army to Guanxia and condemned Cao Cao's three generations.Cao Hong was furious and wanted to send troops to the pass to fight.Xu Huang remonstrated, "This is Ma Chao's plan to provoke the general to fight, and he must not fight."When the prime minister's army comes, there must be a master painting.Ma Chaojun came and scolded him day and night.Cao Hong only needs to fight.Xu Huang tried hard to block it.On the ninth day, when they closed the pass to watch, the Xiliang army abandoned their horses and sat on the grass in front of the pass; most of them were sleepy, so they slept on the ground.Cao Hong then taught him how to prepare horses, and ordered three thousand soldiers to kill them.Xiliang soldiers abandoned their horses and left.Hong meanders to catch up.At that time, Xu Huang was closing the gate to watch the grain and grass. When he heard that Cao Hong was going to fight in the pass, he was shocked.When Cao Hong and Xu Huang hurried back, a drum sounded, and the two armies behind the mountain intercepted: Ma Chao on the left and Pang De on the right, fighting for a while.Unable to resist, Cao Hong lost most of his army, broke through the siege, and rushed to the pass.Xiliang soldiers came later, and Hong and others abandoned the pass and left.Pound chased through Tongguan, ran into Cao Ren's army horse, and rescued Cao Hong and other troops.Ma Chao responded to Pound's pass.Cao Hong lost Tongguan and rushed to see Cao Cao.Cao said: "Ten days are limited with you, how can you lose Tongguan in nine days?"Hong said: Xiliang soldiers are insulting in every possible way.Seeing that the other army was slack, they took advantage of the momentum and rushed away, not wanting to be tricked by the thieves.Cao said: Hong is young and violent, Xu Huang, you need to know something!Huang said, "I'm tired of admonitions and I can't follow."On the same day, Huang closed the grain cart, and when he knew it, the little general had already left the gate.Fearing that he might lose something, Huang hurried away, only to be caught by a thief.Cao was furious and beheaded Cao Hong.The officials excused.Cao Hong pleaded guilty and retired.

Cao Jinbing went straight to Tongguan, Cao Ren said: "You can set down the gate first, and then beat the pass before it's too late."Cao ordered to cut down trees, erect fences, and divide them into three villages: Cao Ren in the left village, Xiahouyuan in the right village, and Cao himself in the middle village.The next day, Cao led the generals and schools from Sanzhai to rush to the pass, just in time to meet Xiliang army horses.Formation on both sides.Cao Cao rode out under the banner of the gate, and saw that Xiliang's soldiers were all brave and strong, and all of them were heroes. He also saw that Ma Chao was born with a face like powder, humiliation like vermilion; Spears, immediately in front of the battle; the first head is Pound, and the lower head is Ma Dai.Cao secretly marveled, and called himself Chao Chao, saying: You are the descendant of a famous general in the Han Dynasty, why did you turn your back on you?Chao gritted his teeth and cursed: Fuck thief!Deceiving the emperor is a crime that cannot be punished!Harm my father and brother, we will be sworn to death together!I should catch your flesh alive!After all, shoot straight to kill.Cao Cao went out behind the ban to meet him.The two horses fought, and the fight was about nine times, and they were defeated in the ban.Zhang He went out to meet him, and he was also defeated in twenty rounds.Li Tong went out to meet him, and fought with great strength. During the counting, he shot Li Tong under his horse.Chao looked back with his gun and made a move, and the soldiers from Xiliang rushed over together.Cao Bing was defeated.The soldiers from Xiliang came so fiercely that the left and right generals couldn't resist them.Ma Chao, Pang De, and Ma Dai led more than a hundred riders into the central army to capture Cao Cao.Cao Cao was in the chaos, only to hear the Xiliang army yelling: Cao Cao is wearing the red robe!Cao immediately took off the red robe in a hurry.He heard shouting again: Cao Cao is the one with the long beard!Frightened, Cao cut off his beard with his saber.Someone in the army told Ma Chao about Cao Cao's beard cutting, and Chao ordered people to take it: Cao Cao had the short beard!After hearing this, he pulled the corner of the flag and wrapped his neck and fled.There is a poem from later generations that says:

Tongguan was defeated and fled, and Meng De took off his brocade robe in panic.It should be frightening to cut the mustache with the sword, and the price of Ma Chao is sky-high. As Cao Cao was walking, a horse behind him rushed up. Looking back, it was Ma Chao.Fuck shocked.Seeing Chao came, the left and right generals ran for their lives, leaving Cao Cao alone.Chao sternly shouted: "Cao Cao, don't go!"Fuck was so startled that the whip fell to the ground.Look to catch up, Ma Chao is coming from behind with a gun.Fuck walked around the tree, and stuck a spear on the tree; when he pulled it out quickly, Fuck was already far away.The super-longitudinal horse came, turned around on the side of the hillside, and shouted: Don't hurt my lord!Cao Hong is here!Lun Dao galloped his horse and stopped Ma Chao.Fuck it and get away.Hong and Ma Chao fought for forty or fifty times, and gradually their saber skills became disorganized and their strength weakened.Xia Houyuan led dozens of horsemen to follow.Ma Chao was alone, afraid of being counted, so he steered his horse back.Xia Houyuan didn't come to catch up either.

When Cao Cao returned to the stronghold, Cao Ren had secured the gates of the stronghold after his death, so he did not lose more troops.Cao entered the account and sighed, "If I killed Cao Hong, I would die at the hands of Ma Chao today!"So he called Cao Hong and rewarded him heavily.Clean up the defeated army and stick to the fence; deep ditches and high fortifications are not allowed to fight.Every day, Chao led troops to the stronghold to insult and fight, and taught the soldiers to stand firm by ordering them to beheaded like a rioter.The generals said: "The soldiers of Xiliang should use their long spears to meet them.Cao said: To fight or not to fight, it all depends on me, not on the thieves.Although the thief has a long spear, can An Neng stab it?The lords just look at it with a firm wall, and the thieves will retreat by themselves.All the generals discussed privately and said: "The prime minister came to fight and took the lead. Now he is defeated by Ma Chao, why is he so weak?"A few days later, a detailed report came: Ma Chao had added 20,000 fresh troops to help the battle, and they were from the Qiang tribe.Cao heard that he was overjoyed.The generals said: "Ma Chao added troops, the prime minister is happy instead, why?"Cao said: "When I win, I will tell you."Three days later, another military horse was added to the declaration.Cao was overjoyed again, so he held a banquet in the tent to congratulate him.All the generals laughed secretly.Cao said: "You guys laugh at me for not having any plan to defeat Ma Chao. What good strategy do you guys have?"Xu Huangjin said: "The prime minister's troops are here today, and all the thieves have seen Tunguan. If we go to Hexi, we must be unprepared; if an army crosses Pubanjin secretly, we will intercept the thieves' way back first, and the prime minister will attack them from the north. Correspondingly, it is bound to be dangerous.Cao said: Gongming's words are exactly what I want.So he taught Xu Huang to lead four thousand elite soldiers to attack Hexi with Zhu Ling, and lay down in the valley, waiting for me to cross Hebei and attack them at the same time.Xu Huang and Zhu Ling took the orders and led four thousand troops to go quietly first.Cao ordered to teach Cao Hong in Pubanjin first, and arrange boats and rafts.Cao Ren was left to guard the stronghold, and Cao himself led the troops to cross the Weihe River.Ma Chao has been reported to Ma Chao for a long time.Chao said: "If you don't attack Tongguan today, but make people prepare boats and rafts, if you want to cross Hebei, you will definitely stop my successor."I should lead an army to buckle the river and resist the north bank.Cao Bing is not allowed to cross, and within 20 days, the grain in the east of the river is exhausted, and Cao Bing will be in chaos, but he will attack along Henan, and Cao can be captured.Han Sui said: "It doesn't have to be like this."Don't you hear that there is a saying in the art of war: Soldiers can be attacked halfway through.When Cao Bing crossed halfway, you attacked him on the south bank, and Cao Bing died in Hanoi.Chao said: "Uncle's words are very kind."So let people find out when Cao Cao will cross the river.

But he said that Cao Cao had finished reorganizing his army, so he stopped his army in three parts and crossed the Wei River.When the men and horses arrived at the mouth of the river, the sun began to rise.Cao first sent elite troops across the north bank and established camps.Cao Cao led his relatives to accompany a hundred generals in the guard army, and sat on the south bank with their swords pressed, watching the army cross the river.Suddenly someone reported: The white-robed general has arrived!Everyone recognized that it was Ma Chao, and they all got off the boat.There is a lot of noise from the riverside army fighting for boarding the boat.Cao still sits still and does not move, pressing the sword finger to make an appointment to stop making trouble.I could only hear people screaming and neighing, swarming in, one of the generals on the boat jumped ashore, shouting: "The thief is here!"Prime Minister please disembark!Cao sees it, but Xu Chuye.Cao still said in his mouth: "What's wrong with being a thief?"Looking back, Ma Chao couldn't get away from him for more than a hundred steps.When Xu Chu dragged Cao to get off the boat, the boat was more than a foot away from the shore, so Chu Chucao jumped aboard.All the accompanying soldiers went into the water, grabbed the side of the boat, and tried to get on the boat and escape for their lives.When the boat was about to capsize, Chu swung his knife and slashed wildly. The hands of the boat collapsed and fell into the water. He hurriedly threw the boat into the water.Xu Chu stood on the top of the tree and hurriedly propped it up with wooden poles.Cao crouched at Xu Chu's feet.When Ma Chao rushed to the river bank, he saw that the boat was already in the middle of the river, so he picked up his bow and set up an arrow, and ordered Xiao to shoot around the river, and the arrows rushed like rain.Chu was afraid of hurting Cao Cao, so he raised the saddle with his left hand to cover it.Ma Chao's arrows were not in vain, and the boatman on the boat fell into the water in response; dozens of people in the boat were shot down.The boat is unstable and spins in the fast water.Xu Chu exerted his supernatural power alone, and shook the rudder with his legs, punted the boat with one hand, and raised the saddle with the other to cover Cao Cao. At that time, Ding Fei, the magistrate of Weinan County, saw that Ma Chao was in a hurry to pursue him on Nanshan Mountain. He was afraid of hurting his life, so he drove all the cattle and horses in the village outside.Seeing this, the Xiliang soldiers turned around and fought for the cattle and horses, but had no intention of chasing them, so Cao Cao was able to escape.When they reached the north bank, they scuttled the raft.The generals heard that Cao Cao was fleeing in the river, and when they rushed to rescue him, Cao had already landed.Xu Chu's body was covered with heavy armor, and his arrows were embedded in the armor.All the generals Baocao went to the wild stronghold, and they all bowed to the ground to say hello.Cao laughed and said, "I've been trapped by little thieves today!"Chu said: "If someone hadn't set horses and herded cattle to lure the thieves, the thieves would have tried hard to cross the river."Cao asked, "Who is the one who lures the thieves?"A knowledgeable person replied: Ding Fei, the magistrate of Weinan County.After a while, Fei came to see.Cao Xie said: "If it wasn't for the good plan of the public, I would have been captured by the thief."Then he was ordered to be a lieutenant of Dianjun.Fei said: "Although the thief is gone for a while, he will come back tomorrow."It must be rejected with good policy.Cao said, "I'm ready."Then all the generals were called to build corridors along the river separately, temporarily serving as the foot of the village.If the thieves come, Chen Bing will stand outside the corridor and set up false flags inside, thinking that they are suspicious soldiers; he will also dig trenches along the river, and set up false barriers to cover the Hanoi, and lure them with soldiers; But Ma Chao went back to see Han Sui and said: "Cao Cao was almost caught!"One of the generals bravely took off the boat, but I don't know who it is.Then he said: "I heard that Cao Cao selected extremely strong and strong men to be the guards in front of the tent, called the Tiger Guards, led by the brave generals Dian Wei and Xu Chu."Dian Wei is dead, and whoever saves Cao Cao today must agree to Chu Ye.This person is so brave that everyone calls him a tiger idiot; if you encounter him, don't underestimate the enemy.Chao said: I have heard his name for a long time.Then he said: "Cao is crossing the river now. After he will attack me, he can attack him quickly. Don't let him start a camp."If a camp is set up, it will be difficult to eradicate it.Chao said: "It's the best policy to block the north bank because of my niece's stupidity, so that he cannot cross the river."Then he said: "My virtuous wife guards the stronghold, and I lead the army to follow the river to fight, how about it?"Chao said: Let Pang De be the vanguard and go with my uncle.So Han Sui and Pang De sent 50,000 troops to Weinan.Cao ordered the crowd to lure them on both sides of the corridor.Pang De first led more than a thousand iron cavalry, and the conflict came.At the sound of the shout, all the people and horses fell into the horse trap.Pang De jumped out of the pit, stood on the ground, killed several people at once, and cut out the encirclement on foot.Han Sui was trapped in Gaixin.When Pang De rescued him on foot, he met Cao Yong, a general of Cao Ren's department.Cao Bing came behind him, Ma Chao led the army to meet him and defeated Cao Bing.Rescued most of the army horses.Only return at sunset.Counting the men and horses, the generals Cheng Yin and Zhang Heng were defeated, and more than 200 people died in the pit.Chao and Han Sui negotiated: If you delay for a long time, Cao will set up a camp in Hebei, and it will be difficult to retreat the enemy; it is better to lead Qingqi to rob the camp tonight.Then he said: "We must divide our troops to rescue each other."So Chao himself was the front, and Pang De and Ma Dai were the rear, and they would go that night. But it is said that Cao Cao collected his troops and stationed in Weibei, and called the generals, saying: "The thieves deceived me and did not set up a fence, so they will come to rob the camp."You can scatter and ambush in all directions, leaving your army empty.When the trumpet sounded, all the ambush soldiers were set up, and they could be captured with one drum.According to the order, the generals have completed the ambush.That night, Ma Chao first asked Cheng Yi to lead thirty cavalry to the front to explore.When Cheng Yi saw that there was no horse, he went straight to the Chinese army.When Cao Jun saw Xiliang soldiers arriving, he sent out his call.Ambushes came out from all sides, and only thirty cavalry were surrounded.Cheng Yi was killed by Xia Houyuan.Ma Chao, however, split up with Pang De and Ma Dai from behind and swarmed in three directions.Exactly: Even if there are ambushes who can wait for the enemy, how can we be a good general and fight for the first place?It is unknown how the outcome will be, let's see the breakdown below.