Clean it from head to toe, and the wound is treated by the military doctor, applied medicine, and had a good meal, followed by a little drinking, and had a nap. The released soldiers were resurrected from their blood, and they screamed and wanted to take revenge.

The battle between Xuanhan was too cowardly, and no matter how shameful he was, he had to earn back.

Deng Zhan struck while the iron was hot and immediately deployed a battle to attack Yanzipo. Taking Yanzipo down, he really cut off Cao Ang's control over Micang Road in order to support the army into Ba and prevent reinforcements from the direction of Dangqu, which had a great impact.

Xu Qiang and others tried their best to fight. Deng Zhan agreed to their request, but divided the work according to the severity of the injury. Those who were less injured or recovered well and did not affect the action were arranged in the first echelon, and those who were more injured and could not be in the third echelon. The second echelon of the main force was held by others.

The battle went on very fiercely.

The guards of Yanzipo were the troops brought by Cao Ang from Yanzhou. He followed Cao Ang for many years, was loyal, had rich combat experience, and had terrain. Under Pan Zhang's command, he fought very tenaciously. Deng Zhan launched more than ten consecutive attacks, losing 34 people, but failed.

When he learned that Deng Zhan was attacking Yanzipo, Cao Ang immediately ordered the Wu army attacking Lianhua Lake, intending to retake Lianhua Lake and solve the problem of elbows and armpits on the side of the bed.

The two sides fought fiercely on two battlefields more than twenty miles apart, and neither of them was willing to give up, nor did they dare to give up.

When Li Yan learned that Deng Zhan's troops were blocked from attacking Yanzipo, he immediately gave up his attack on Xuanshang City and led his troops around the northern slope of Fenghuangling and rushed to Yanzipo to help. Under the repeated attacks of Deng Zhan and Li Yan, Pan Zhang's troops suffered heavy casualties and gradually could not support them, so he sent people to ask for help from Cao Cao and Cao Ang.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Cao Ang left a small number of troops to garrison Fenghuang Ridge, and personally led the main force to attack and attack the Wu army's position on the shore of Lianhua Lake.

The Shu army attacked from above and had an absolute advantage in military strength. The Wu army fought hard, and casualties surged. Deng Zhan immediately ordered the abandonment of Lianhua Lake, shrink the defense line to the east side of Yanzi slope, set up a formation below the slope, use the terrain to block Cao Ang, and at the same time concentrated its forces to attack Yanzi slope.

When Deng Zhan and Cao Ang were fighting fiercely at Yanzipo, Huang Zhong and Cao Cao also acted in the same way.

Huang Zhong gave up Gunlongpo and led his troops to retreat. He set up camp in Qidaoyan, leaving two thousand people to defend. He personally led the main force to Yanzipo, first regaining the Lotus Lake camp, cutting off Cao Ang's connection with Fenghuangling, and then encircled Cao Ang behind him and attacked Cao Ang with Deng Zhan.

Cao Cao was worried about Cao Ang's safety and launched an active attack, but was blocked by Qidaoyan and could not move forward. He also wanted to learn from Huang Zhong and sent guerrillas to infiltrate the Yanzipo area to respond to Cao Ang. He then found that the individual combat capabilities of the two sides were very different. The guerrillas of the Shu army could not get close to Yanzipo at all, but were defeated by the Wu army one after another, causing heavy losses.

In desperation, Cao Cao sent someone to order Cao Ang to break through and retreat to Dangqu.

After repeated weighing, Cao Ang refused Cao Cao's order and ordered Pan Zhang to give up Yanzipo and retreat to Dangqu. He went south first, pretending to rush to Qidaoyan to meet Cao Cao. Then he killed one of them, seized a gap between the various units of the Wu army, and fought back to Fenghuang Ridge.

Huang Zhong's scout intercepted several messengers sent by Cao Cao. He knew that Cao Cao ordered Cao Ang to retreat, so he arranged most of his troops on the south side. Unexpectedly, Cao Ang would return to Phoenix Ridge. After one negligence, Cao Ang succeeded in assault.

Huang Zhong was furious and immediately ordered to surround Fenghuang Ridge.

Losing Cao Ang's reinforcements, Pan Zhang lost all his troops and had to give up Yanzipo, travel west to the river valley upstream of the canal water, detour for more than 300 miles, return to Dangqu, and report to Cao Cao.

After nearly half a month of repeated struggles, the battle between Yanzipo ended with the Wu army paying more than 2,000 casualties.

Cao Ang lost nearly 3,000 people and the injured were all over the camp. After half a month of battle, facing Huang Zhong, Deng Zhan and others' repeated attacks, Cao Ang fought extremely tenaciously. Although he was defeated, he finally played a move in front of Huang Zhong and returned to Fenghuang Ridge, which also allowed Huang Zhong and others to see his military ability and dare not take it lightly. While resting, they deployed the next stage of the battle to capture Xuanhan and Fenghuang Ridge.

At this time, Huang Zhong and others remembered Cao Cao's commentary "The Art of War" sent by His Majesty the Emperor before. Cao Ang's performance was simply a living example. If it weren't for the military strength and the equipment were obvious, it would be possible that who would have the last laugh in this battle.

Huang Zhong and others took out the book pressed under the box and placed it on the desk to read it at any time. The generals without books tried every means, either arranged for people to copy it, or gathered together to discuss every now and then.

In order to facilitate the learning of the generals under his command, Huang Zhong wrote a letter to His Majesty the Emperor. While reporting on the military situation, he requested the allocation of fifty "The Art of War" of Sun Tzu.

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Cao Ang was trapped in Fenghuang Ridge, and Cao Cao was in a dilemma.

The autumn harvest has arrived, and Sun Ce’s personal expedition will soon begin, but he is trapped in Brazil and cannot move, which is very unfavorable for him.

Cao Cao, Chen Gong, Xin Ping and others repeatedly discussed countermeasures, and finally Chen Gong made a suggestion.

Use both soft and hard, and prepare both hands.

The soft one is to send envoys to surrender again, make partial changes to the conditions, no longer insist on retaining the title of King Shu, and considering the title of marquis, but requesting to retain a fief for the eldest son of the emperor, and beg to make partial adjustments to the new policy according to the special circumstances of Yizhou to ensure the interests of the Yizhou tribe.

On the one hand, this is to get the support of the old ministers of the old dynasty. For four hundred years, there were many old people left behind, and some of them were still in high positions and had considerable influence. On the other hand, it is to seek support from the Yizhou tribe, hoping to tie the Yizhou tribe firmly to the chariot of Shu.

The hard-working method is to concentrate troops and gain time. Cuan Xi was appointed as the governor of the Southern Central and was fully responsible for the military and political affairs of the Southern Central. Gao Ding, Yong Kai, Zhu Bao and others each had a county under their jurisdiction. Cao Ren led the main force to retreat to Ba County and prepare to fight against the main force of the Wu army.

The situation is not good, and Yizhou may lose all its contentment. The two evils are the least, and he has to give up the mountainous areas in southern Yizhou, concentrate his troops, and stick to the plains in northern Yizhou. Promoting the Nanzhong tribes such as Cuan Xi on the front line also sets obstacles for Sun Ce. Judging from Sun Ce's attitude that he would rather fight in person than give in to the Bashu tribes, the possibility of his concession to the Nanzhong tribes is very small. Even if he gets Nanzhong, he will be deeply trapped, and at least he will be unable to advance north in a short period of time.

In this way, Shu can buy at least one or two years.

After repeated weighing, Cao Cao accepted Chen Gong's plan.
Chapter completed!