Seeing Lu Zhao rushing toward him, Zhu Rong let out a soft "hum" in his nostrils.

If he is not a third-rate general who has no confidence in himself, why would he single out "weak women" to fight?

Zhu Rong clamped his legs under the horse's belly, and when he was about to take action, he saw Meng Huo, who was next to him, already waving his golden-backed machete and approaching him: "Mother Xipi, are you bullying my wife? And in front of my boss!"

While talking, he was already fighting with Lu Zhao.

In less than ten rounds, Lu Zhao's strength was not as strong as Meng Huo's, so he started to run away.

On the other hand, Wu Tu Gu had long felt that his honesty was incompatible with the atmosphere of the military camp, so he also planned to learn from Meng Huo and change himself. So he rode up and shouted towards the road: "Mother Xipi, bully my daughter-in-law.

...Sister-in-law, in front of the labor and management!"

Before he finished speaking, Lu Zhao's horse's butt was slashed with a knife, cutting off half of the horse's butt.

Ma Er: Who the hell did I provoke?

"General, horse!" A deputy general of Cao's army gave up his horse to Lu Zhao and raised his spear on foot to stab the Wutu bone. However, the Wutu bone pulled the spear shaft over and broke it in half, and then slashed it with a knife.

, the deputy general was killed immediately.

Lu Zhao didn't have time to mourn the lieutenant general who sacrificed himself to save others, so he got on his horse and commanded the soldiers: "Quickly, retreat and join General Xu."

Lu Zhao was very knowledgeable about current affairs and believed that he was no match for these two monsters, so he might as well invite Xu Huang to come and challenge them.

Although these two monsters have great brute force, their moves don't seem to be very clever, and they should be difficult to defeat Xu Huang's big axe.

Seeing Lu Zhao withdrawing under the cover of Cao's army, Zhu Rong said: "If it weren't for you two, I would have stabbed him under the horse. Don't be so troublesome in the future."

But Xu Huang was able to resist Wang Ping from behind with ease. Unexpectedly, Zhao Yun took the opportunity to attack the mountain and stabbed Xu Huang in the back.

Although this version of Zhao Yun did not become famous throughout the world, he had fought against Xu Huang when he was in Xicheng. Xu Huang knew how powerful Zhao Yun was, and he was accidentally injured, so he ran away quickly.

Zhao Yun was about to catch up, but Cao's soldiers formed a formation and blocked Zhao Yun's way.

Zhao Yun rushed forward with his spear, and several Cao soldiers in the front row were swept by the cold light and fell to the ground bleeding.

Xu Huang walked not far when he bumped into a road coming from the east.

Xu Huang asked: "After I broke up for you, why did you come back?"

Lu Zhao said: "There is also a group of enemy troops coming from the east. The leader is a rough and savage general with great strength..."

"Okay, okay, the general you are talking about should be the Nanman. He has all the brute strength. Let me fight him." Xu Huang interrupted Lu Zhao's words and waved his army towards the east.

Lu Zhao then turned his horse's head and fought back with Xu Huang.

In fact, Tuhe Mountain is surrounded on three sides, and only by breaking out to the west can we ensure that nothing happens.

But Xu Huang, if Lu Zhao really withdraws to the west, there will be no hope of attacking Wuguan. Not only will they not be able to complete the tasks assigned by Cao Pi, the reinforcements from Hongnong will be weak and they will lose their lives.

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Meng Huo was chasing Lu Zhao. He never expected that this kid would dare to come back. At that time, his bad temper could not be restrained, so he rushed forward and stabbed him.

Zhu Rong shouted behind him: "My head!"

Meng Huo said: "Madam, don't worry, what's mine is yours!"

Wu Tu Gu next to him had goosebumps all over his body and was trembling all over.

Xu Huangxin said, if I kill the female general first, it will be like fighting them two against two. In this case, the chance of winning will be much greater.

So Xu Huang wielded his ax and went straight to Zhu Rong.

Zhu Rong used the horizontal standard to block it, and suddenly he thought: I'll go, it's such a heavy ax!

Meng Huo saw that the general of Cao's army had gone to Zhu Rong, and wanted to rescue him, but was entangled by Lu Zhao again. He was distracted at the moment, and when Lu Zhao stabbed his face with a spear, Meng Huo hesitated.

It was too late, but soon, a horseman from behind rushed forward and cut Lu Zhao off the horse with a knife from behind.

Meng Huo regarded him as Wang Ping!

Xu Huang saw that he had lost his way and knew that his side had no chance of winning, so he seized the road and left.

Its direction is still firmly heading west.

At this time, Zhao Yun, Wang Ping and Meng Huo's team joined together and pursued them for a while, completely occupying Tuhe Mountain before withdrawing their troops.

Li Qi and Pang Tong went up the mountain to ask about the situation of the battle, and the generals told them what they had seen.

Wang Ping said with emotion: "From Shi Huan, Xu Shang, Lu Jian to Lu Zhao, it seems that being Xu Huang's deputy general is really a high-risk profession. Fortunately, I am not Xu Huang's deputy general."

Li Qi: "Haha!"

Don't tell me, in the original history, you actually served as Xu Huang's lieutenant.

Pang Tong shook the small palm-sized fan in his hand and said, "There's something weird!"

Li Qi asked: "What does Mr. Shiyuan think is weird?"

Pang Tong said: "The safest evacuation direction should be to the west. Why did Xu Huang insist on heading north? Besides, Shang County is to the west of Tuhe Mountain. Shouldn't he return to Shang County to garrison for further defense?

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Wang Ping said: "The general also found it strange. When the general led his team to make a sneak attack on Shannan, Lu Zhao was spying on the situation in Shannan. Because the general's team was pretending to cross secretly, the general deliberately made a big noise.

The general felt that Lu Zhao should have discovered us, but he just said that there were no enemies here, and then led his troops to leave."

Li Qidao: "Maybe Lu Zhao doesn't want to confront you head-on, but just wants to go back and report the military information to Xu Huang?"

Wang Ping said: "This possibility cannot be ruled out. But if the change of the general is a trick, you only need to send a small soldier to report the news to Xu Huang. The general will desperately resist the army going up the mountain to prevent the main force from being attacked from two sides."

Li Qi smiled and said: "Not everyone is as loyal and brave as General Wang."

Li Qi didn't know much about Lu Zhao. He only knew that Lu Zhao and Zhu Ling were monitoring Liu Bei. Later, he was sent back by Liu Bei and there seemed to be no relevant records.

There were a lot of generals like this throughout the Three Kingdoms era, and it was difficult for them to leave a deep impression on others.

Pang Tong said: "If we rule out the possibility that Lu Zhao is timid and afraid of death, then there is only one reason left."

Li Qi asked: "What's the reason?"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Pang Tong said: "Xu Huang does not seem to intend to fight with us at Tuhe Mountain. They may have been thinking of retreating from the beginning, and the direction of retreat is north."

Li Qi muttered to himself: "North? What is there in the north?"

To be precise, there are no important cities north of Tuhe Mountain.

The only possibility is that Xu Huang did not want to be blocked by Tu Heshan. He had only one goal, which was Wuguan.

If Luzhao had not been blocked by Meng Huo in the north of the mountain, and they were allowed to retreat like this, their remaining troops could still try to capture Wuguan.

The odds of winning are not high, it can be said that everyone depends on their own abilities.

However, after Xu Huang's army was besieged on three sides and suffered heavy losses, it was not consistent with common sense that he still wanted to go north.

Li Qi asked people to get a nearby topographic map. After looking at it for a while, Li Qi and Pang Tong pointed to a place on the map at the same time and shouted in unison: "Tongguan!"

Tongguan is located to the north of Tuhe Mountain and is the connecting pass between Chang'an, Hongnong and even Luoyang.

If Cao Jun had reinforcements coming, they would definitely have to pass through Tongguan.

Therefore, it is very likely that Xu Huang went to join the reinforcements coming from Tongguan and tried to capture Wuguan.

It seems that Li Qi can't rush further westward to Chang'an.

The terrain to the west of Wuguan is relatively flat, which means that it is much easier for Xu Huang to attack Wuguan from the west than for Li Qi to attack Wuguan from the east.

Huang Zhong might be able to defend Xu Huang alone, but he didn't know who was reinforcing Tongguan and how many troops he brought with him. All of this was unknown, and Li Qi did not dare to be careless.

Li Qi temporarily set up camp in Tuhe Mountain and sent spies to inquire about the situation from all sides.

Wang Ping said: "Cao Pi seems to have no enterprising spirit in Chang'an. His main purpose is to defend Chang'an and Xiwu. It can even be said that as long as Chang'an is defended, Xiwu is not the focus. Therefore, they are fighting with Mr. Kong Ming for several days.

After being unable to get any advantage for the first time, he retreated into the city and stopped fighting."

Li Qi smiled and said: "This is really Sima Yi's consistent style."

Pang Tong said: "We all believe that Cao Pi's purpose was never to march westward to Hanzhong or Liangzhou. He originally just wanted to defend Chang'an and trap us between Chang'an and Wuguan."

Li Qidao: "So, the defense of Wuguan is very important now. We should stay in Tuhe Mountain first and wait until Xu Huang's tribe and the new reinforcements from the Central Plains are annihilated before we consider marching westward to Chang'an."

At the same time, 20,000 reinforcements sent from the Central Plains direction have arrived at Tongguan, led by a general named Hao, named Zhao, and named Bodao.

This time Li Qi raised troops from Jingzhou to attack Chang'an, bringing a total of 40,000 troops with him. However, there were some losses and garrisons along the way, so Cao Jun decided that Li Qi could leave at most 10,000 troops at Wuguan, otherwise he would not be able to attack Chang'an.

Therefore, after Hao Zhao's 20,000 troops and Xu Huang's 10,000 troops joined forces, there would be a total of 30,000 troops, enough to conquer Wuguan from the west.

But when Hao Zhao saw that Xu Huang led less than 3,000 people, he immediately got the idea.

But Xu Huang is a general, and Hao Zhao is here to assist Xu Huang. His military status is still far behind Xu Huang. However, regarding the success rate of attacking Wuguan Pass, Hao Zhao still couldn't help but ask: "

Why does General Xu only have so few men?"

Xu Huang told the truth about the battle in Tuheshan, and Hao Zhao said: "Then should Li Qi go to Shang County now, or should he stay in Tuheshan?"

Xu Huang said: "It's unknown at the moment. We have to send someone to find out. If Li Qi still stays in Tuhe Mountain, I'm afraid it will be very difficult for us to attack Wuguan."

A few days later, the spies reported: "Li Qi's army is still camped at Tuhe Mountain and has not left. Moreover, Li Qi also sent Zhao Yun to camp at the northern end of Tuhe Mountain."

Hao Zhaodao: "Zhao Yun camped at the northern end of Tuhe Mountain, obviously to prevent us from attacking the mountain again. It seems that our plans are all under Li Qi's control."

Xu Huang said: "In this case, you and I don't have to hide our arms anymore. Why don't we show off our troops and horses, set up a stronghold thirty miles away from the northern end of Tuhe Mountain, and then discuss a strategy to defeat the enemy. At least in this way, we can also delay Li
To be continued...