The Yanzhou army, which had high morale, marched all the way and rushed into Sizhou with their heads covered without dodging. In Zhongmu and Xingyang, it was turned upside down.

First, the Montenegrin army was besieging Zhongmu County and was caught by the Yanzhou army.

Cao Cao would not be afraid of these single Black Mountain Army, who had experienced several battles and formed a plate of miscellaneous fish, and the eight thousand Yanzhou troops were in formation at the moment. Yan Liang, the general who retreated to Yanzhou for help, led the cavalry on the left flank, Xiahoudun commanded the right flank, and Cao Mengde's side had just arranged the offensive route of the whole army. As soon as the horn sounded, the arrogant Le Jin had already led the foot soldiers with a machete into the enemy's siege position, and they were fighting in close combat!

Cao Cao deployed in the back, while following the front army, while sitting on a war horse and looking down on the front army's front, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Although Le Jin is dark and short, he is definitely a good hand at killing. I saw that his person was holding a ring knife and constantly raising and falling, and as the Le Dwarf jumped up and down, the Black Mountain military formation was like a heavy blow, leaving a thorny and bloody path behind him. What kind of generals you follow, you will develop what kind of temperament your sergeants will develop. Just like a warrior like Lejin who is strong in martial arts and dares to fight, the already high morale of the Yanzhou army is even more powerful, and the soldiers who usually have low eyebrows and pleasing eyes have become extremely brutal.

In less than a stick of incense, the Montenegrin army front collapsed, and nearly a thousand men and horses were killed in a short engagement, and they had to slowly retreat westward.

Cao Cao seized this opportunity, waved his halberd and pointed at the front of the retreating Black Mountain Army and shouted: "Charge on the left flank, volley in the middle!" The right flank pursued, the whole army pressed up, rushed! ”

At this moment, the war drums on the head of Zhongmu City suddenly sounded, the west gate was wide open, and a group of Han troops defending the city rushed with the Yanzhou army to pursue the Montenegrin army. Yan Liang commanded the cavalry to kill halfway, although there were only six hundred horsemen, but each of them was brave, and immediately intercepted a piece of men and horses in the retreating Black Mountain army formation. Then the right flank of Governor Xiahoudun pursued in the rear, slashing and killing the panicked Montenegrin army along the way, until the blood flowed.

Another battle was won easily, Cao Cao took a good time to enter Zhongmu, only to learn that it was not the Han army defending the city that rushed out of the city with the army to kill, but a ragtag army mixed with the local wealthy family soldiers and the defenders.

The leader of the motley army, named Ren Jun. Zhongmu Ling had previously supervised the battle in the city, and his name was Yang Yuan.

The county provided food for the Yanzhou army to express their gratitude, and during the dinner, Yang Yuan and Ren Jun decided to join Cao Cao's army and accompany the Montenegrin army in the west.

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"Sun Qing, think about it again, go and persuade Zhang Yan to withdraw the army." In Yuyuan Pass, Ma Yue entered the camp guarding the prisoners for the third time to persuade Sun Qing. "You don't care about personal life and death, but I still have more than 400 of your brothers in my hands. If you talk to the Montenegrin Army for me, you can all go back to Zhang Yan and let him take you back to your hometown, and you must want to return to your hometown too. Who wouldn't? I went to Jizhou, which is fertile and has developed roads...... The gardenias everywhere in Zhao are about to bloom. ”

No matter what Ma Yue said, Sun Qing always looked like he didn't get in, which made Ma Yue feel powerless and angry.

He hoped to leave the seeds for the Montenegrin army to blossom and bear fruit in Jizhou, so that his power could be further expanded. In the past, because Jizhou's millions of black mountains were blocked in the Taihang Mountains, he never thought about the pacification of the land in Jizhou, because he knew too well how much the leader of the Black Mountain Army hated himself.

But now it's different, Boss Yuan, the wronged leader of the Black Mountain Army who jumped the pole, jumped out, and diverted Zhang Yan's hatred for himself.

Ma Yue's mind has been thinking about it for the past two days, if the Montenegrin Army returns to Jizhou, he will ask Zhang Yan to ask for a general to conquer the east. then banished Yuan Shao to Jizhou and asked him to hire a Jizhou pastor...... I freed up my hands to clean up Liu Yan, and turned around to serve the two people who were fighting in Jizhou.

Isn't it happy?

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a report from the Malay Survey, "Report to the general, there is a group of enemy troops from the north, and there are many people from heaven to earth. ”

"The Montenegrin Army is coming?" Just as he was about to enter the city, the guards on the south side of the pass came to report again, saying that the Montenegrin army was also coming from the south under the banner of "Zhou". "How can this be true? Gather all the generals and prepare to defend the city! ”

Ma Yue was not worried about the matter of defending the city, the first emperor Liu Hong divided the eight passes in order to surround Luoyang, the protection of the pass is first-class, if not broken from the inside, unless the defenders are too few, it is enough to take one as ten.

He didn't believe that the Montenegrin army, with a total strength of only 100,000 troops, could suddenly allocate 50,000 troops to besiege him!

But he was worried about food and grass, and worried that the Montenegrin army would only besiege and not attack...... His sergeant did not bring grain and grass into the pass, and the grain and grass in the pass were only enough to eat for three months, and once the internal and external attacks exceeded three months, he had only one way to defeat.

The generals scattered all over the Guannai, and when they heard the words, they all hurried to the head of the Guannan City, looking at the camps under the Guan, and they all looked unkind.

"My lord, the camp set up by the enemy army is very orderly, and the internal and external affairs are interlocked, and if you attack a camp, you will definitely be attacked by the left and right sides." Gan Ning frowned and asked, "Do you know who is the leader of this Black Mountain Army under the banner of Zhou?" ”

Ma Yue waved his hand, where would he rack his brains to remember a lowly little person in the Yellow Turban Yu Party? Staring at the successive camps set up ten miles under the soldiers, Ma Yue asked without looking back: "Xingba, if you give you two thousand soldiers, you may defend Guannan day and night?" ”

"Two thousand sergeants, it's not a big problem to defend the city in turn, please rest assured, your subordinates will not disgrace your prestige!" Gan Ning clenched the short sword at his waist in the arrogance on his face, "Just the Yellow Turban Yu Party, the city is here!" ”

Ma Yue patted Gan Ning's shoulder heavily, turned his head and walked towards the city, and called Ma Xiu Ma Tie to stop in the city and said: "You two assist Gan Xingba to defend the city, be sure to protect yourself and your soldiers, you will all be generals in the future, don't be rash." ”

Walked down the city tower, led Yan Xing and others to trot all the way to the north gate of Guanbei, and camped ten miles outside the same pass. Ma Yue frowned, Yan Xing pointed to the camp and said, "Lord, why is the camp of the thief surnamed Guan Wai Zhou exquisite, but the camp under the banner of Montenegro here is so unbearable?" It's a one-hit break. The lord gives the order, and tonight his subordinates will lead the crowd to disperse the enemy army. ”

Ma Yue waved his hand and shook his head. Although the Black Mountain camp in Guanbei was not set up carelessly, but at this moment, breaking through the camp had no effect, but would make the armored army fall into the encirclement of the enemy.

"At this moment, Guanzhong is full of black mountains, and our more than 4,000 combatants still have to carry hundreds of wounded and prisoners. If you enter Guanzhong, you will be gradually eroded, although Montenegro is weak, it can also kill us cleanly. Ma Yue frowned and said: "Yanming, you and Bozhan are guarding the north, only seeking to repel the enemy, and you must not go out to meet the battle, can you two understand?" ”

He also chose to carry a bow and crossbow to defend the city, and Ma Yue took Wang Shuang and Ma Chao down the city, but he still couldn't come up with a plan to solve the bad situation at this moment.

The north side is easy to fight, but it only increases the number of iniquities, and there is no benefit in the slightest. The south is the only way to get out of the pass, but it is strictly guarded by the Montenegrin army led by the Zhou surnamed Qu Shuai, and it is difficult to find an opportunity to break through...... Ma Yue returned to the big tent and frowned at the map of the Gyeonggi area.

Now that things are turning around for him, he can only hope for the other princes of King Qin...... But who can rely on those people?

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For ten days in a row, the Montenegrin army tightly surrounded the city, besieging but not attacking.

The fierce and fierce armored army has already developed their arrogant appearance in recent years, when has they been so aggrieved?

is in the city of Weinan surrounded by Yuan Shao's tens of thousands of troops, at least there is a chance to fight the enemy to the death, but in the face of a head-to-head confrontation, who is the armored army afraid of? Even the two armies of the north and the south, which are famous for their bravery, will not be their opponents, but the enemy army is besieging but not attacking, how depressed is it in their hearts?

The soldiers were depressed, and Ma Yue was even more anxious.

The generals often dominate the will of the soldiers, control the hearts of the whole army to think in one place, and force to one place in order to win all battles. But in the face of disadvantages, the soldiers can also influence the thoughts of the commander. The main battle is going to fight, and the soldiers don't want to fight, so it is easy to lose if the war is fought hard, and too many fronts collapse not because the enemy army is too strong, but more because the soldiers do not have a high will to fight.

Now the situation is just reversed, the main general does not want to fight, and the soldiers are shouting to go out of the city and fight the Montenegrin army.

Although Ma Yue thinks that there are no available fighters now, he can only create fighters to fight!

In the twilight, an idea of hiding people's ears and confusing the public quietly formed in Ma Yue's heart......

Zhou Cang suddenly found that since the roar and noise erupted in the pass three days ago, the defenders at the head of the city had become much smaller. At first, he was worried that it was Ma Yue's suspicious plan, but it was like this for three days in a row, and there was no longer an exciting shout of training soldiers and horses every day, just an ordinary change of guard at night, and the defenders at the head of the city were greatly replaced, and the number of defenders standing on the city every day was only 200.

Although Ma Yue planted many flags and put them on the city tower, it looked like a noisy flag hunter from a distance, but Zhou Cang knew...... Ma Yue, you can't hide it from me!

In the city pass, something must have happened!

So, that night, Zhou Cang, who was repeatedly excited in his heart, ordered the Montenegrin Qu Marshal Guo Daxian to supervise 500 Montenegrin troops with hooks and ropes to approach the city gate on the third watch day, and Pei Yuan Shaodu's 5,000 foot soldiers closed in concealment, and entered together after rushing open the city gate.

The moon is dark and the wind is high on the third watch, and the sky is beautiful, and it rains lightly.

Zhou Cang was so excited that he was dancing with his hands, the accuracy of the bow and crossbow on a rainy day would be much worse, their Black Mountain Army was a hard bow, and they had no advantage over the strong crossbow of the Shangliangzhou Army.

If the three Montenegrin armies are close to each other, the three Montenegrin armies can always fight to the death of a Liangzhou army, right?

Zhou Cang resolutely gave an order and ordered Guo Daxian to lead his troops to attack the city!

Columns of Montenegrin troops were hidden, slowly and cautiously approaching the city.

The defenders at the gate didn't seem to see any movement, but a defender who was standing in the shadows and kept an eye on the movement below quietly walked down the tower after spotting the dark shadow moving under the gate.

Under the city, a full 1,000 armored heavy horsemen were stationed on the streets of Guannei under the leadership of Gan Ning. The rain hit them with a crisp, small sound, dripping down their armor and onto the ground.

Gan Ning sat upright on his horse and held his head high, took a deep breath, covered with demon visor, and the battle axe in his hand shone in the bloodthirsty cold light under the torches of the city gate.