Zhang Fei led his army to raid Hechi and killed 7,000 defenders at the cost of 3,000 casualties.
After the war, the whole city was desolate, and the soldiers finished their meal and began to move food.
Because Hechi is located on the Chencang strategic road and the city wall is dilapidated, it does not have the conditions for defense. Zhang Fei's purpose of attacking Hechi was to grab grain.
Cao Hong marched to regain Wudu this time, and all the supplies mobilized from Guanzhong were transported to Hechi for transfer. After Zhang Fei occupied Hechi, he ordered his soldiers to take as much as possible, because he didn't know when the next supply would be.
During the confrontation between Cao Hong and Zhang Fei, they kept fighting. Zhang Ji and others miscalculated how long the battle would take, and the food they raised could last an army of 50,000 men for half a year.
"General, there is too much food in Hechi and we can't carry it anymore. What do you think we should do?" Lei Ding, the leader of the Di tribe, came to ask for instructions.
Zhang Fei looked at Ma Chao and smiled slightly, "If you can't carry it, just don't take it. Is there any need to ask me about this?"
"Just leave it to Cao Cao for nothing?" Lei Ding scratched his head and looked confused.
"Confused, what happened to the food you raised?" Zhang Fei asked with a frown.
Lei Ding's eyes widened: "General, you mean it was burned? What a pity, right?"
"It's not ours, why is Chief Lei so sorry?" Zhang Fei was speechless.
"I can spare it." Lei Ding nodded.
Zhang Fei's army had enough to eat and drink, and took a brief rest in Hechi for two hours, and finally headed to the southern valley with the looted food.
The grain and grass that could not be taken away were burned by a fire. When Ma Chao walked out of the river pond, he raised his head and looked back. The head of his enemy Yang Fu was still hanging on the city gate, and two crows were circling and crowing on the Tiancheng Tower.
Ma Chao and Yang Fu had a deep hatred. They originally thought they would take revenge in a cruel way, but when they got to that point, they chose to give each other happiness.
Zhang Fei grabbed the reins and leaned forward to comfort him: "The enemies will be dealt with one by one. This Yang Fu is just the beginning. Let's leave quickly. Cao Hong's pursuers should be coming soon."
"General Zhang, I, Ma Chao, owe you a favor."
"What's the favor? I don't like Yang Fu either."
Ma Chao burst out laughing after hearing this, and rode forward with Zhang Fei. After a few steps, he couldn't help but ask: "There is no news about General Wu. How should we go next? Return to Yizhou by the original route?"
Zhang Fei was also thinking recently. He was really unwilling to go back to Yizhou in despair. At the moment when he burned down the grain and grass in Hechi, he suddenly had a new idea.
"Didn't Meng Qi want to repay my favor? How about we stay in Wudu and deal with Cao Hong?" Zhang Fei Zhuma put forward an idea.
"Continue to stay in Wudu? You have to find a place to stay, right? The city is too small to defend..." Ma Chao was a little confused.
Zhang Fei said with a smile: "If Hechi is attacked, Cao Hong will definitely send people to rescue him. We can go back the same way and attack Xia Bian. If we can't defeat him, we will worry about it."
Ma Chaoxin said what kind of strategy is this? There are less than 10,000 soldiers alive now, how can it be possible to break through Ben Castle? He initially thought Zhang Fei was joking with him, but when he saw the firm look in his eyes, he realized that Zhang Fei was serious.
Seeing that Ma Chao didn't answer, Zhang Fei asked playfully: "Is Meng Qi scared? If you want to repay the favor, it's okay now."
"General Zhang is not afraid, so what do I have to be afraid of?" Ma Chao's words were sonorous.
"That's right." Zhang Fei laughed.
Because Zhang Fei's army did not stay in Hechi for too long, when Cao Xiu came with the tiger and leopard cavalry to support them, they had already disappeared. What was left to them were the thousands of innocent souls in Hechi and the grain that was burned to ashes like hills.
Cao Xiu and Cao Hong were devastated when they saw Yang Fu being killed. Cao Hong gnashed his teeth and cursed: "Zhang Fei is a common man, Ma Chao is a kid, I will definitely kill you."
"Zhang Fei and Ma Chao are like bandits now. General Xiahou is stationed at Yangping Pass. Zhang Fei should attack Ju County and then escape over the mountains to Yizhou." Cao Xiu analyzed.
"We must not let that black guy succeed. We must rush to Ju County to provide support." Cao Hong urged.
"Wei." Cao Xiu nodded.
Cao Hong and Cao Xiu led the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the regular cavalry to advance first. They did not choose to follow Zhang Fei's route into the mountains, but walked southeast to the Jialing River Valley and marched quickly along the Chencang Road in the valley to Ju County.
The two led their troops to rush to Ju County day and night, but they did not see the people they wanted to see at all. At this time, Zhang Fei went up the Shuojiang River in the valley of Zuoxishui.
Cao Xiu waited for two days and felt something was wrong, because even if Zhang Fei was mostly infantry, they should have been within the surveillance range of the tiger and leopard cavalry scouts, but there was no trace of Zhang Fei's army on either the Chencang Avenue or the mountain paths.
"Did Zhang Fei go somewhere else?" Cao Xiu frowned.
"Zhang Fei should still be wandering around in the mountains. Wen Lie, don't be suspicious. Let's wait in Ju County for a few days." Cao Hong shook his head.
"Do you think he will go back and seize the defense?" Cao Xiu asked hypothetically.
Cao Hong frowned and smiled bitterly: "A fool can't do such a thing, can he? There are still 20,000 garrison troops in Xiabian. Zidan can easily hold it no matter how bad he is, but the number of people Zhang Fei brings is getting smaller and smaller, and the more he goes to Wu, The longer you go inside, the harder it will be to escape."
"I hope so." Cao Xiu nodded.
Zhang Fei walked north along the Zuoxi River. After marching for more than ten days, he suddenly appeared outside Xiabian City.
Zhang Fei asked people to put on the clothes and flags of Cao's soldiers captured in Hechi. These people pretended to be defeated soldiers and went to ask the city to open the door. Several "old actors" burst into tears under the city: "Open the city gate quickly, General Cao has been hit by Zhang Fei." Ambush, now at stake..."
The city defense general Cao Cao was shocked when he heard the news. While he sent someone to report to Cao Zhen, he personally opened the city gate to welcome the "defeated army" into the city.
The soldiers in disguise wanted to seize control of the city gate. It was their first time to do this business of making money from the city. The soldiers with poor psychological quality were impatient and showed many flaws when they opened the city. Soon, things started to unfold below the city gate. There was a fierce battle. Zhang Fei and Ma Chao, who were ambushing in the distance, saw that the situation was not right and immediately led their troops to pursue them.
The location under the city gate was relatively small, and the attack surface was not large. The soldiers on both sides were crowded together, and the scene seemed very stalemate.
Seeing that Zhang Fei's plan to capture the city failed, he immediately ordered the front army to withdraw from the city gate. Cao Zhen received the information and led his army as soon as possible.
Zhang Fei and Ma Chao led their troops and fought and fled. Cao Zhen chased for a distance for fear of an ambush, so he decisively led his troops back to Xiabian City.
After counting the number of people after the encounter, Zhang Fei was upset to find that another two thousand people had been lost.
Ma Chao came over to comfort him: "Actually, it's not a bad thing that he failed to enter the city. Cao Hong left more soldiers and horses in Xiabian than he thought. If he really wanted to completely control Xiabian, he would lose many people. Even if he occupied Xiabian at that time, he wouldn't be able to defend it. live."
"Meng Qi is right, I still don't have the brains of a military advisor or others." Zhang Fei said with a wry smile on his face.
Ma Chao was noncommittal and continued to ask: "Now that the sneak attack has failed, where should we go next? If we go into the mountain again, we will starve to death..."
