Xiahou Shang rushed down the mountain and saw Huang Zhong coming out of the battle. He rode his horse to meet him. The two horses intersected, and Huang Zhong still slashed with his sword.

This time Huang Zhong showed off his real skills and the same move, but because he used all his strength, he gave Xiahou Shang a completely different feeling. He felt that Huang Zhong was like a different person, and his move was powerful and irresistible.

Fortunately, although Xiahou Shang could not defeat Huang Zhong's courage, he had fought with Huang Zhong for so many days and was still familiar with Huang Zhong's moves and tricks. He could barely resist and retreat.

After all, the soldiers under his command were not their own troops. Seeing that the leader retreated, they also began to turn around and run to the mountain.

Huang Zhong rode his horse and chased slowly. When Xiahou Shang's army was in chaos, he led his troops to kill him. His soldiers shouted together and followed the defeated soldiers to kill him up the mountain.

Zhang He and Xiahou De were watching the battle on the mountain. Seeing that Xiahou Shang was defeated, they hurriedly led their troops to support him.

Suddenly, I heard the shouting behind the mountain. The fire in the grain camp soared into the sky, turning red from top to bottom, and it seemed that the granary was running out of water.

The fire was about to burn, and the food for the front-line soldiers was immediately cut off. Xiahou De was shocked and did not dare to let the food be lost. When he brought troops to put out the fire.

Before he could reach the granary, he met the veteran Yan Yan on the way. He took a knife and Xiahou De was caught off guard and was beheaded in the neck. He turned over and fell off the horse. He was almost unable to survive!

Huang Zhong and Xiahou Shang faced each other, and they were defeated by Jiao's military plan. During this period, Yan Yan was not idle either. He first sent spies to spy on military information and had already discovered Tiandang Mountain, a place where grain was stored.

Huang Zhong blocked Zhang He's retreat, and wanted to drive Zhang He and the others to Tiandang Mountain, so he could win in chaos.

Yan Yan personally asked someone to check the terrain and had already led his troops to ambush in a remote mountain place, and he had just waited for Huang Zhongjun to attack.

When Yan Yan saw Huang Zhong beating the drums and march, he led his troops into the grain camp, and fired together, setting fires, and flames flew into the mountains, but the grains and grass were not lit.

Yan Yan killed Xiahou De, and did not stop, and led the army from behind the mountain to attack.

Zhang He and Xiahou still don’t know how many enemy troops came. Although there were many troops on the mountain, because Xiahou De was dead, all the dragons were without leaders and all of them fled.

Zhang He and Xiahou Shang had only thousands of troops and horses in their headquarters, and could not take care of each other. They could not resist the fierce attacks of Huang Zhong and Yan Yan. They had to give up Tiandang Mountain, look at Dingjun Mountain and defect to Xiahou Yuan.

Huang Zhong and Yan Yan captured Tiandang Mountain and reached Yangping Pass without any obstacles, which was equivalent to tearing open Xiahou Yuan's defense line.

Because Jiameng Pass was originally short of troops, Huang Zhong did not divide his troops to garrison, but just set up a camp and slowly transported all the food and grass back to Jiameng Pass.

After Liu Bei pacified Brazilian County, the terrain from Wakou Pass to Nanzheng City was dangerous and the journey was difficult. Cao Hong was closely guarding the pass, and there was nothing he could do.

Huang Zhong quickly reported the victory. Liu Bei was very happy when he learned that Huang Zhong had torn open Xiahou Yuan's defense line. He gathered all the generals to celebrate. Fa Zheng said:

"Xiahou Yuan, Cao Hong guarded like an iron bucket. He wanted to wait for Cao Cao to come and fight with the lord himself. Huang Zhong conquered Tiandang Mountain, not only tore open Xiahou Yuan's defense line, but also cut off the connection between Cao Hong and Xiahou Yuan. It is a good opportunity to attack Yangping Pass!"

Liu Bei felt that Fa Zheng’s words were justified, so he ordered Zhang Fei to guard Brazil, Zhao Yun and Wei Yan as vanguards, and led 100,000 troops to Jiameng Pass to prepare for Hanzhong.

In the July of the autumn of the 23rd year of Jian'an, Liu Bei led a large army out of Jiameng Pass and lowered the camp. He summoned Huang Zhong and Yan Yan to the camp, rewarded him with great rewards, and prepared to attack Yangping Pass.

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Zhang He and Xiahou Shang were defeated and left. Huang Zhong and Yan Yan occupied the Tiandang Mountain camp and led the army to extinguish the fire in the camp and rescued food and grass, but did not lead the army to chase and kill.

Zhang He and Xiahou were able to escape successfully, and led the army to Dingjun Mountain and reported to Xiahou Yuan:

"Tiandang Mountain has been lost, and Xiahou De has been defeated. I heard that Liu Bei personally led 100,000 troops out of Jiameng Pass and came to capture Yangping Pass. General should prepare early."

The troops under Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong did not have 100,000 troops, nor were they afraid of Liu Bei's attack, but he was still responsible for the heavy responsibility of guarding Hanzhong.

If Cao Cao wanted to plot against Xichuan, he had to defend Hanzhong. Xiahou Yuan did not dare to entrust him. He quickly sent an envoy to report to Cao Cao, asking for reinforcements to come and support him."

When Cao Cao received a letter of help from Xiahou Yuan, he was shocked and gathered all civil and military officials to discuss the matter of soldiers to rescue Hanzhong.

Many civil officials suggested that the King of Wei had ascended the throne and that the Xuchang Rebellion had just passed and that the chaos was corrected. The King of Wei should be in charge of Yecheng and could send a general to lead a large army to Hanzhong for rescue.

Cao Cao was very interested and was ready to select the commander of the army.

But the Chief Secretary Liu Ye said:

"If Hanzhong is lost, the king will always lose the opportunity to capture Xichuan. Hanzhong corresponds to Jingzhou at the beginning and end and can attack the Central Plains at any time. Since Liu Bei came to attack Hanzhong in person this time, the king should stop working hard and must fight in person before he can win and take advantage of the opportunity to capture Xichuan."

Cao Cao remembered that Sima Yi and Liu Ye both advised him to attack Xichuan in one go, but he gave up because he didn't want to fight on both sides. He also felt a little regretful when he thought about it, and said to Liu Ye:

"I regretted that I didn't use your words at that time, so I decided to conquer Hanzhong and follow the trend to capture Xichuan!"

Cao Cao had already decided, but he did not delay. He hurriedly sent an order to raise an army of 400,000 to personally conquer Liu Bei.

Cao Cao's troops were divided into three groups, and the front vanguard Xiahou Dun, Cao led the central army and the three armies successively set off.

Cao Cao wanted to show the power of the King of Wei, but this time the formation was quite large, riding a white horse, a golden saddle, a jade belt, a brocade garment; a warrior held a big red silk-pin golden umbrella, a golden gourd, a silver axe on the left and right, a spear, a spear, a sun, moon, dragon and phoenix flag. There were tens of thousands of people accompanying the tiger guards, and the team was brilliant and extremely majestic.

After the army passed Tongguan, Cao Cao immediately saw a forest that was extremely lush and asked his servants nearby:

“Where is this?”

The closest servant quickly inquired and came back and said to Cao Cao:

"This place is called Lantian. The villa between the forests is owned by Cai Yong. Now his daughter Cai Yan lives here with her husband Dong Si."

Cao Cao was more than twenty years younger than Cai Yong. Cai Yong had passed away for more than ten years. He was already over sixty years old and nostalgic.

At that time, Cao Cao and Cai Yong were kind to each other. His daughter Cai Yan was a talented woman. She married Wei Zhongdao from Hedong. After she was widowed, she was captured by the Xiongnu in the north and gave birth to two sons in the north. She wrote "Eighteen Beats of Hu Zi" and flowed into the Central Plains.

Cao Cao admired Cai Yan's talent very much and felt sad that Cai Yong had no descendants, so he sent an envoy to redeem her with gold, silver and jade, and remarried Dong Si.

Now that he arrived in front of the village, he remembered Cai Yong's affairs and ordered the army and horses to go first. He personally led more than a hundred cavalry nearby to dismount at the village gate.

Dong Si was appointed as the military commander in another place, and only Cai Yan was at home. When he heard that Cao Cao was coming, Cai Yan hurried out to greet him and greet him as a junior.

Cao Cao was in the hall and occasionally saw an inscription and picture scroll hanging between the walls. He stood up and looked at it. He saw the eight words "Yellow silk young woman, grandson mortar" written on it, and he did not understand the meaning.

Cao Cao asked Cai Yan who wrote it, and Cai Yan replied:

"This is the monument of Cao E. My father Yong once went to see it. It was already late, so he secretly touched the inscription with his hand and read it. He wrote the eight characters on the back of the big books. Later generations engraved stones and engraved these eight characters."

Cao Cao asked:

"You know what it means?"

Cai Yan replied in a hurry:

"Although my ancestors left their pens, I collected this inscription to miss my father. My father has passed away, and I don't know what it means."

Cao Cao was self-conceived, but he was not convinced. Looking back at the advice of the men:

"Who can you know what it means?"

Everyone could not answer, only the master Yang Xiu knew it, and explained it as: "Excellent and wonderful words".
Chapter completed!