Chapter 205, carefully observe the temptation, and analyze the ambush of the cave according to reason

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Between the line of life and death, the black-faced young man hurriedly said: "As the saying goes: 'Saints don't use wisdom to despise vulgarity, and kings don't use people to talk nonsense', Ma Mengqi is a hero in the world, and he must know the truth of 'listening to it is clear, and partiality is dark'." Why don't you listen to me first, and when I'm done, you'll decide to kill me before it's too late. ”

Ma Chao frowned and looked at him condescendingly, without speaking, but there was obvious impatience in his eyes.

The black-faced young man pursed his lips as well, tilting his head and staring at him silently.

Ma Chao's body has a very strong coercion, murderous and almost breathless. Sunny's handsome face did not weaken this momentum, but invisibly added a bit of natural arrogance and domineering to him. He has been in a high position for a long time, and at the age of his early twenties, he has been sought after by tens of thousands of people, and the men worship his strength, and the women love his appearance and family background, and very few people dare to confront him with such an indifferent and senseless gaze.

Ma Chao felt a hint of surprise in his heart.

In fact, the black-faced youth was secretly clenching his fists, resisting the physical tremors caused by the piercing of the skin by the tip of the gun, and he was trying his best to restrain it.

After a few breaths, Ma Chao laughed, suddenly put away his gun, and the surrounding drum noise suddenly stopped, and the cavalry all looked at him in confusion. Ma Chao snorted and said, "Boy, don't chew words with me." When you hear it, if there is half a lie that confuses me, I will teach you to bloom on your neck. ”

The tip of the spear left his neck, and the black-faced young man secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and stretched out his hand to point forward: "General Ma, please look, the narrow road ahead is long, and there is no edge at a glance, I don't know how long it is." The Kip peaks on both sides are towering, the hills and ravines are dense, the rocks are craggy, the sand valley is unpredictable, and it is the easiest to set up ambushes. On such a road, the mounts were limp and difficult to walk, and the cavalry could only advance in a long formation, and it was difficult to care for each other. I can almost conclude that an ambush must have been set up somewhere ahead in a precarious and difficult place to defend, waiting for the general to come and throw himself into the net. ”

Ma Chao's long eyebrows were raised, and he said with a calm face: "Yesterday, I just defeated Cheng Gongying, and I made a surprise attack at night, and defeated Yan Xing in Yuanquan, and chased the defeated army all the way to this point.

Seeing that he was about to go crazy, the black-faced young man hurriedly said: "General Ma also said that yesterday, Liankeshatou and Yuanquan two towns, and pursued Yan Xing all the way and rushed here. As far as I know, Shatou and Yuanquan are separated by more than 100 miles, so it can be seen that you did not stop day and night yesterday, chasing and fighting fiercely, causing the enemy to flee in fear of the wind and not dare to attack the front. You chased here, naturally to kill Yan Xing and get rid of Han Sui's right-hand man, however, this way of galloping, I am afraid that it is already sleepy and lacking, and the consumption is extremely high. Moreover, this place is close to Dunhuang, which belongs to the hinterland of the desert, and the general is not familiar with the geography here, so it is inevitable that it will be used by people with intentions to set up an ambush and cause harm. ”

A different color flashed on Ma Chao's face, and his brows furrowed slightly.

Ma Tie said from the side: "What a sharp-toothed boy, I'm afraid that you are here to confuse the public and be alarmist because you are protecting the lord." You deceived everyone in order to delay Yan Xing's time?"

Ma Chao and Han Sui's righteous son Yan Xing have always been at odds and have always been old enemies. Although Ma Chao has extremely strong martial arts, he has fought with him many times, but he has not been able to distinguish the winner or loser, and sometimes he will be calculated by Yan Xing and suffer some small losses.

Nowadays, the two major warlords, Ma Teng and Han Sui, have become increasingly fierce due to the uneven division of interests in Liangzhou, and they have become mortal enemies due to the perennial melee. A few days ago, Han Sui's righteous son Yan Xing suddenly sent troops to loot Ma Teng's horse farm in Zhaowu County, broke the defenders, and took away more than 100 fat horses, which was tantamount to a provocation to bully the head and face.

Ma Chao had always hated this person, and when he heard the news, he was furious, and immediately led the elite cavalry to fight all the way from Shatou to Yuanquan, connecting the two towns, but Yan Xing fled. Ma Chao was willing to take a break, taking advantage of the high morale, taking advantage of the victory to pursue, along the Ming Ze (the Shule River basin of the Han Dynasty) to the northwest, until the deep hinterland.

Sure enough, as soon as Ma Tie mentioned chasing and killing Yan Xinglai, Ma Chao's face changed, he glanced at the young man, and said coldly: "Boy, there is no evidence, you said that there was an ambush ahead, and you still want me to withdraw my troops." ”

He chuckled, "I want to ask you, if there is really an ambush, why are these infantry commanders all the same, and they don't know it?

He snorted, turned his horse's head, and was about to pace away, not wanting to listen any more.

"It's not to help you," the black-faced young man frowned and shook his head, "but to save himself." ”

Ma Chao suddenly turned around and looked at him sharply, as if waiting for his explanation.

The black-faced young man clenched his fists, raised his head and said, "Didn't the general find out? Our team is actually an old and weak soldier with low combat effectiveness, not the strong soldier you are pursuing. We're just a team of dead ghosts. ”

Ma Tie was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Boy, who are you deceiving? You have bright armor and very good materials! Even the weapons are made of wrought iron, and I have never heard of any soldier's soldier who would give such a good armor blade to the remnants of the weak brigade!" He sneered, and then his hand touched the quiver again, and he had a strong murderous intent towards this black boy who was full of nonsense.

The black-faced young man glanced at the finger he stroked on the quiver, knowing that if Ma Chao didn't speak, he wouldn't dare to cross the crowd and kill people without permission. So he was not afraid to say: "Yes, all we are wearing are new armor, and the ones on those infantry commanders are still fine armor and tanned leather." But these things were all distributed yesterday. Everyone didn't know the reason, but they just felt warm and tenacious, and they were very happy. I was secretly surprised in my heart, but it was not until today, when I was ordered to march so far and saw those cavalrymen leaving us, that I suddenly understood that our remnants of the weak soldiers were actually bait soldiers disguised as elite soldiers, leading General Ma to the trap...... After entering the ambush, we will also be killed without distinguishing between the enemy and the enemy!"

"How could such a thing happen......"

"God, I said how to send us good things, it turned out that we were sent to death......"

"Yes, usually in the camp, we have always been underfed and clothed......

"Han Tianwang...... How can you be so ruthless?"

"Don't be stupid, our general is not Han Sui at all, but General Yan under his account!"

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There were shocking and sighing voices around, and the news soon spread far away, and all the prisoners were stunned.

These people have been in the barracks for a short or long time, young and old, generally low combat effectiveness, and have been doing some scattered chores such as feeding horses and preparing cooking.

The black-faced young man said again: "Infantry generals are also very precious in the army, and they should not be wasted easily. These commanders have no official positions in the army, and they are all newly promoted military assistants. In addition to holding the route map, they are afraid that they don't even know much about the formation of the Lingqi. ”

Ma Chao looked at those commanders, and sure enough, he saw that they were clumsy and their eyes were stunned, and they did not look like infantry captains, but more like ordinary soldiers.

The black-faced young man said: "Most of the people in this group are farmers and herdsmen from prefectures and counties, displaced people, and even some are pardoned slaves, none of whom voluntarily joined the army, but were forcibly escorted into the barracks. ”

The northwest is different from the conscription system practiced in Guanzhong. In addition to the Qiang, Hu and other ethnic minorities who advocate the strong, brave and warlike, and like to take the initiative to defect to the army, they are forcibly recruited from the common people in Longshang to collect the people's ointment. After the forcibly conscripted people entered the army, they were mixed with the exempted criminals, stateless refugees, and even slaves recruited under the "Seven Branches".

When the black-faced young man said this, he couldn't help but think of his experience of entering the camp, and his eyes dimmed slightly.

He is not an outsider, it is Qi Han who left Qiancui Lake that day and went to the northwest alone.

At that time, he almost died and entered the ground of Liangzhou, and fell ill at the foot of Heli Mountain. Fortunately, a nomadic Han Chinese passed by and saw him lying in a low-lying place, so they rescued him. This herdsman was very generous and heroic, and took care of him at any cost, and all the mare's milk and goat cheese and earthwork herbs at home were also taken out for him to eat, and after dozens of days, Qi Han picked up a life.

He was just in good health to go to the field, and he planned to stay in the herdsman's house and help do some work within his ability, but who knows, but he met Han Sui's army forced conscription, in order to repay the kindness, he replaced the herdsman's thirteen-year-old son and entered the army......

On the eve of his departure, he sat down with the old herdsman in front of the bonfire to say goodbye, and the old herdsman stared at his face for a long time by the light of the fire, and suddenly got up to fetch coke, and smeared soot and pine gum on his face, which was black and covered his face.

Although Qi Han was embarrassed in his heart, he obediently let him do it. He knew that there was a mixture of dragons and snakes in the army, and it was common to insult fellow soldiers of the same sex, especially the inferior sergeants, and more rude and arrogant people. His left hand is useless, so naturally the more low-key the better, and it is not a good thing to have such a good appearance.

When Ma Chao heard this, he already frowned and believed most of it.

But, as the black-faced boy said, wasn't he being calculated from the very beginning......? Ma Chao gritted his teeth and didn't want to think about it anymore.

He felt a fever in his face, inexplicably humiliated, and looked at the black-faced young man with a bit of resentment in his eyes.

This kid is really an eyesore!

As a heroic general, even if he dies in battle, he does not want to be called a fool who has been deceived, and he will be humiliated. 166 Reading Network