At present, there are three generals in the Wei army, namely Cao Chun, Xiahou Rong and Hu Zun.

Among these three people, Hu Zun is unknown, although he has some ability, but killing him has little effect, and it is not a credit.

And Xiahou Rong, although he is from the Cao Wei clan, his current status is not high, and his martial arts are not weak, Lin Yuan is not sure that he can kill Xiahou Rong.

Cao Chun is different.

Cao Chun was a general in the Cao Cao era, Cao Ren's younger brother, Cao Cao's cousin, and was Cao Wei's important minister in the Cao Cao era.

Although Cao Chun's official position is not as high as Cao Zhen and Cao Xiu, it is also considered a high and powerful position, and he is the Wei general of Wei, which is similar to Zhao Yun's status in the Han Dynasty, and his status is second only to Cao Zhen in the Longshan army, and his prestige is even higher than Cao Zhen.

Moreover, Cao Chun is now old, six out of fifty, and his martial arts are not as good as before, so Lin Yuan chose to do something to Cao Chun.

If Cao Chun can be killed, he will definitely be able to greatly demoralize the Wei army.

Lin Yuan rode his horse straight to Cao Chun, the tiger-headed golden spear in his hand was waved, pieces of golden light were like sword energy, everywhere he went, there was no enemy, the Wei army fell off the horse one after another, seeing Lin Yuan so fierce, the Wei army was like a wave splitting, and did not dare to block Lin Yuan's way.

Not far from Cao Chun, a lamp suddenly jumped up, and Lin Yuan shouted: "Cao Chun will die for me!" ”

"General, retreat!" Hu Zun was horrified and hurriedly asked Cao Chun to retreat.

Cao Chun is also a fierce general, but unfortunately in his prime, he led the tiger and leopard to ride east and west, and was injured countless times, and fell ill in old age, and now his martial arts are not as good as before.

Seeing Lin Yuan calling his name, Cao Chun knew that Lin Yuan was going to take his own life, Cao Chun didn't dare to fight, and hurriedly pulled out his horse and left.

Lin Yuan jumped on his horse, went behind Cao Chun, and stabbed Cao Chun in the back with a gun in his hand, hitting him in the back of the heart.

"I'll kill you!" Seeing this, Xiahou Rong's eyes immediately turned red, and he stabbed at Lin Yuan with a gun in his hand, all these years in Chang'an, it has been Cao Chun who taught him martial arts and the art of war, he and Cao Chun are like father and son!

"Humph!" Lin Yuan snorted coldly, quickly withdrew his spear, and easily blocked Xiahou Rong's angry blow.

"General!" Here, the spear on Cao Chun's back was pulled out by Lin Yuan, turned over and fell off the horse, Hu Zun hurriedly dismounted to check Cao Chun's injury, and flipped Cao Chun over, but found that Cao Chun had only breathed out, and had no breath in.

And Xiahou Rong's foot battle was not Lin Yuan's opponent, but now that Lin Yuan was on the war horse, and it was still a light in a thousand miles, he couldn't fight Lin Yuan, but after a few rounds, he was forced back by Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan urged the war horse, pulled out the sword at his waist, and rushed towards Cao Chun on the ground.

Hu Zunzheng was holding Cao Chun, seeing that the sound of horses' hooves behind him was very urgent, and he was about to dodge but it was too late, he only felt a pain in his back, and his body rolled to the side, and he was immediately unconscious, but it was Hu Zun who ate Lin Yuan's sword, and was kicked away by a lamp for thousands of miles.

Walking to Cao Chun's side, a thousand miles of light suddenly stopped, Lin Yuan leaned over, raised the sword in his hand, cut off Cao Chun's head with a sword, and immediately lost the long sword, and lifted Cao Chun's head with a backhand copy and hung it in front of the horse.

"Uncle!" Xiahou Rong's eyes were cracked, and he rushed to Lin Yuan with a spear to kill.

Lin Yuan forced Xiahou Rong back with one shot, and then rode his horse out of the Wei army.

"Hugh away!" Xiahou Rong rode his horse to chase after him, but how could he catch up with Lin Yuan, seeing Lin Yuan going farther and farther away, but he couldn't do anything.

"Uncle!" Xiahou Rong led his troops back, looked at Cao Chun's headless corpse on the ground, turned over and fell off his horse weakly, crawled to Cao Chun's side with a rolling belt, hugged his corpse and cried bitterly.

However, it was said that Lin Yuan killed Cao Chun, and after breaking out of the encirclement, he followed the horseshoe prints on the ground and ran all the way to the east.

"I've seen the general!" Lin Yuan turned over and dismounted, and saluted Ma Chao.

"What are you?" Seeing that Lin Yuan was covered in blood, Ma Chao asked with a concerned expression.

"This is the blood of the thief army, who do you think this is, General?" Lin Yuan smiled, took Cao Chun's head from the horse, brushed away the scattered hair, and carried it in front of Ma Chao.

"Cao Chun!" Seeing that it was Cao Chun, Ma was shocked.

Ma Chao naturally knew Cao Chun, when Cao Cao fought against Ma Chao, Cao Chun, as the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry, often fought with Ma Chao, and Ma Chao even suffered a lot of losses in his hands.

Immediately, Ma Chao said excitedly: "Okay, you actually killed him, this Cao Chun is an important minister of Wei, and his status is not lower than Cao Zhen, as soon as Cao Chun dies, the Wei army in Longshan will be in chaos." ”

Ma Dai smiled: "Ziyu, you have made a great contribution this time, and you will invite me to drink when the time comes." ”

Since Ma Chao had joined Lin Yuan, there was no need to continue the march, and everyone stopped to rest.

Ma Chao said to the two: "We have destroyed hundreds of thousands of stone grain and grass in the Wei army, and now Cao Chun is also dead, and the Wei army's grain and grass are not enough to hold out until the new grain and grass are delivered."

The Longshan defense line will definitely be broken by our army, and after passing Longshan, it will be the Guanzhong Plain, a useful place for cavalry, and we can go to His Majesty's army to listen to it. ”

Ma Dai nodded, and ordered to the soldiers: "Pass the order, rest here for the night today, and set off early tomorrow morning to join Your Majesty." ”

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In the early morning of the next day, Ma Chao led his troops to Liu Chan's place.

And Xiahou Rong also returned to Jingyang City.

Knowing that Xiahou Rong had returned, Cao Zhen personally went out of the city to greet him.

But when he came to the gate of the city, he saw Xiahou Rong leading hundreds of cavalry back, and Cao Zhen saw this situation, and his heart suddenly sank to the bottom.

"What about your uncle? What about Hu Zun? Cao Zhen looked left and right, but he didn't see Cao Chun, Hu Zun, grabbed Xiahou Rong and asked.

"General!" At this time, Hu Zun's voice came from the back of the team.

Hu Zun was slashed by Lin Yuan, but he was injured but did not die.

Cao Zhen hurriedly walked to the rear, and saw Hu Zun lying on a simple stretcher, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then Cao Zhen noticed that there was a stretcher next to Hu Zun, the stretcher was covered with a white cloth, and the upper part of the white cloth could still see blood stains, this position was at the head!

Cao Zhenxin sank, walked to the side of the stretcher, looked at Hu Zun, and saw Hu Zun bow his head with a sad face.

Cao Zhen gritted his teeth and lifted the white cloth, only to see that under the white cloth, there was a headless corpse.

Seeing this headless corpse, Cao Zhen's face changed suddenly, and he was so frightened that he retreated again and again, and sat on the ground with his ass. He naturally recognized this as the battle armor that Cao Chun wore when he left.

"General......

Chen Tai, who followed Cao Zhen, Shi Bao hurriedly stepped forward to help Cao Zhen up.

Chen Tai looked at the headless corpse on the stretcher and asked Cao Zhen, "General, this is Cao ......"

"This must not be publicized!" Cao Zhen closed his eyes and held back the swollen tears in his eyes. He immediately took a deep breath and instructed Chen Tai: "You go and deal with this matter, and the others will follow me back to the city to discuss matters." ”

Cao Chun's prestige in the army is even greater than Cao Zhen's, now that Cao Chun is dead, Cao Zhen doesn't dare to say anything about it, and he doesn't even dare to preside over the funeral for Cao Chun, for fear that he can't stand the grief and lose his temper, so that Cao Chun's death in battle was known by the soldiers, so he handed over Cao Chun's matter to Chen Tai to deal with.

"No!"

When everyone returned to the mansion, Xiahou Rong fell to his knees with a thud: "General, the last general is incompetent, he lost grain and grass, and his uncle was killed, please punish the general." ”

Cao Zhen squinted his eyes and said: "Your uncle went to Linjing to transport grain, and he didn't die, you remembered it for me." ”

"No!"

Cao Zhen said in a deep voice: "You can tell me what happened." ”

Xiahou Rong explained: "The last general led the cavalry to Linjing, but he was still one step late, and 100,000 stones of grain and grass had been burned by Ma Chao, and this general knew it.

Later, I led my troops into Linjing, killed a lot of heroes, raised nearly 40,000 stone grain and grass, and when General Hu Zun arrived, they were transported to Longshan together. ”

Cao Zhen said angrily: "Thirteen thousand people, should be able to keep grain and grass, why is this? ”

"I thought of a way to make Ma Chao unable to attack, but Ma Chao and he are all cavalry, we can only walk thirty or forty miles a day to transport grain, this distance, Ma Chao's cavalry only needs to walk for an hour.

Therefore, Ma Chao went out day and night, our army transported grain during the day, Ma Chao rested during the day, and at night, Ma Chao easily caught up, and constantly harassed our army with the strategy of tired soldiers, and our soldiers were not allowed to rest for four days, so they ......"

Cao Zhenyi slapped the table and scolded: "Then you should send someone to inform me, and I can send someone to support you!" Why are you so confused? ”

Xiahou Rong said with a bitter face: "I sent it, but Ma Chao had already thought of this, and sent Lin Yuan to intercept my envoy in Qiufengling in advance, and I fled to Qiufengling after I was defeated, and my uncle was also ...... by Lin Yuan there."

After listening to Xiahou Rong's explanation, Cao Zhen was silent for a while.

To tell the truth, Xiahou Rong didn't have any problems at all, but Ma Chao was more experienced and spicy than Xiahou Rong, especially the move of sending Lin Yuan to be stationed in Qiufengling, which completely cut off the hope of the Longshan army.

Zhao Zhao sighed and said: "General, our army only has more than 10,000 stones of grain and grass, even if it is frugal, it can only last for four or five days, and it is not enough to support the arrival of grain and grass. ”

Cao Zhen gritted his teeth, and said with a face full of unwillingness: "But if you give up Longshan, the Shu army can drive straight into the Guanzhong Plain, and Chang'an is not dangerous to defend!" ”

If the general hesitates, when our army's food and grass are exhausted, the army's morale will be discouraged, and the Shu army will be defeated, and if the general has a mistake, I am afraid that Chang'an will have ......."

Shi Bao also persuaded: "These days, we are frugal, the soldiers have not eaten enough, there are already quite complaints, the military spirit is also a little unstable, now the remaining grain and grass, just enough for us to go to Linjing, if the general does not make a decision quickly, the big thing is over!" ”

"Please make a decision as soon as possible!" Other generals also persuaded him.