Han Sui didn't say anything, he hadn't fought against Guo Peng, it was hard to say that Ma Chao would definitely not be able to rush Guo Peng, although Guo Peng's record was brilliant.

But in the current situation, it's really a problem not to be positive, and you can't just return to Liangzhou, right?

The combat effectiveness of the Liangzhou army is as strong, although Guo Zifeng is good at using soldiers, no one dares to say that he is victorious in a hundred battles, so no matter what, he must fight him well and try the depth.

So Han Sui nodded and promised to let Ma Chao be the vanguard, fight with the Wei army, try the depth, if you can't beat it, you will immediately collect the troops back, don't be tough, Ma Chao can't lose.

Ma Chao nodded, and led his subordinate General Pang De to pick up 3,000 cavalry and rushed to the front, wanting to take the lead in challenging Guo Peng.

Guo Peng stood on a hill, climbed high and looked into the distance, saw an army coming towards him from afar, and realized that this was the vanguard of the other party, and came to challenge.

So Guo Peng ordered Yan Liang, the general of Wei Guodangkou, and Gao Lan, the general of Wei Guoyi, to lead 3,000 cavalry to meet the opponent's vanguard army.

After being appointed, Yan Liang and Gao Ran were overjoyed, thinking that this was an opportunity to show themselves, they immediately ordered three thousand cavalry to go into battle.

The vanguard of the Wei army and Ma Chao's army clashed on the plain.

Ma Chao naively thought that Guo Peng would come in person, but found out that it was a military general surnamed Yan and Gao, and he was immediately very dissatisfied.

"Guo Zifeng came to fight uninvited, is he underestimating me? Good! Look at me to kill these two people first, let Guo Zifeng open his eyes! ”

Ma Chao immediately ordered the army to rush forward and start a confrontation with the Wei cavalry.

The two sides still follow the old routine, first using mounted shooting to clash.

Ma Chaoman thought that there were a lot of Qiang people and miscellaneous people of various ethnic groups on horseback on his side, who were good at riding and archery, and would outperform the cavalry of the Wei army, but found that the cavalry of the Wei army was much better at riding and shooting than he thought.

The two sides clashed with cavalry and archery, and they clashed back and forth several times, regardless of victory or defeat.

The knights on the Wei army's side were even more sophisticated than the Liangzhou cavalry, so the battle damage was obviously smaller than that of the Liangzhou cavalry, but the Liangzhou cavalry fell a large piece after a rain of arrows.

Ma Chao felt that he couldn't continue like this, and he couldn't continue to play cavalry and archery, so he took the initiative to move forward and ordered the army to draw his sword and pick up his spear and prepare for a short encounter.

Yan Liang and Gao Ran also immediately led the team to prepare for a short encounter.

Ma Chao thought that the bloody battle was about to begin, but when he rushed to the front, the Wei army threw an axe or smashed the Liangzhou cavalry on his back.

Ma Chao, who led the team to rush ahead, narrowly dodged a blow, and before he could scold, the Wei cavalry charging with spears had already rushed to the front.

The swear words full of swear words were forcibly swallowed by Ma Chao, and the Liangzhou cavalry and the Wei cavalry began to face to face.

And after the confrontation, Ma Chao realized that he was still wrong, the Wei cavalry was far more warlike than he imagined, and the equipment was also superior to the Liangzhou cavalry.

Often he can't kill people with a single sword, but the Wei cavalry can directly cut off half of the Liangzhou soldiers with a single sword.

Ma Chao felt that this style of painting was too different from what he imagined, although he fought desperately, holding a long knife to slash left and right, and personally led his own personal team to charge into battle, unstoppable, but still could not stop the one-sided battle.

Seeing that his side was about to be unable to hold on, how could Ma Chao endure it, and when he saw that the general flag of the Wei army was not far away, his heart was crossed, and he called his subordinate general Pang De, and the two of them led the personal guard cavalry to charge into battle, directly taking Yan Liang and Gao Ran.

Yan Liang and Gao Ran were fighting hard under the escort of the personal cavalry, and suddenly saw two battle flags coming this way, one horse and one pang, realizing that it was the vanguard of the other party, the two looked at each other, nodded, pulled out the ring head knife and charged side by side.

Ma Chao and Pang De rushed to the front, the personal guard cavalry had already fought with Yan Liang Gaolan's personal guard cavalry, the battle between the two sides was very fierce, a burst of knives and axes chopped, killing blood splashed and stumps and broken arms flew around.

Ma Chao saw Yan Liang in well-dressed armor at a glance, and rushed forward as soon as his legs clamped the horse's belly, wielding a long knife to take Yan Liang directly.

Yan Liang saw Ma Chao rushing over with red eyes, so he swung his knife to meet him, and the two of them slammed their knives together, and then there was a crisp sound, and both of them shook open.

"What a lot of strength, boy!"

Yan Liang gritted his teeth and stared at Ma Chao, feeling that Ma Chao looked childish, but his strength turned out to be so great.

"The old thief has so much strength!"

Ma Chao looked at Yan Liang, who was almost forty years old, and felt that Yan Liang's strength was also very great, not like the strength that a guy who could be a grandfather could have, gritted his teeth, and continued to swing the knife, Yan Liang was not to be outdone, swung the knife forward, and the two of them collided again.

At the end of the first round, the two fought on par, Ma Chao was angry, and directly rode the horse to fight, Yan Liang rose to the challenge, waved the knife and Ma Chao to fight, the two no longer hedged, but slashed face to face.

On the other side, Gao Ran and Pang De also wielded knives and slashed and fought together, and the two of them were also playing chess against each other, if you don't let me, I won't let you, and the eyes of the fight are red.

The battle of the generals was so fierce, and the battle of the soldiers was quite fierce, but the battle between the soldiers was not evenly matched, but one-sided.

The well-trained and well-equipped Wei army had the upper hand and pressed Ma Chao's cavalry, and Ma Chao's Qianghu cavalry was killed in large numbers, and gradually there was a tendency to retreat.

Pound here shook Gao Liang with a knife, looked around and found that the battle situation was not good, and he was afraid that it would be dangerous to fight again, so he dropped Gao Ran and rode his horse to attack Yan Liang, and took Yan Liang with a knife, Yan Liang avoided it dangerously, and pulled the war horse back several steps before stabilizing his body.

"General! Can't fight anymore! Our army has already retreated! If you don't withdraw, it'll be too late! ”

Ma Chao was red-eyed, where could he listen to Pound's admonition, shouted "Give me a fight to the death", and continued to ride the horse to take Yan Liang, Yan Liang was furious, rushed up with red eyes and continued to fight with Ma Chao, Pound was anxious, and just about to step forward, Gao Ran rushed over with a spear in the back and stabbed forward.

Between the lightning and flint, Pound leaned forward, narrowly dodging the blow, and just got up in shock, Gao Ran swept sideways with a spear.

Pound quickly leaned forward again, clamped his legs between the horse's belly, and rushed out of the smoke to avoid Gao Lan's attack, and then pulled out his spear and held it in his hand, and rushed back in annoyance, wanting to fight Gao Ran to the death.

When the four generals were fighting, the battle finally came to an end, the Wei army's iron cavalry defeated Ma Chao's cavalry, Ma Chao's Qianghu cavalry began to retreat on a large scale, and the Wei army turned into pursuit.

Ma Chao and Pang De's personal guards snatched the two out of Yan Liang and Gao Ran's hands and fled together, Yan Liang and Gao Ran were unwilling to give up, led troops to pursue, and chased them out for five miles before they withdrew their troops back because of Han Sui's main force.

In the first battle, more than 1,000 cavalry were killed, more than 500 people were captured, and hundreds of horses were obtained.

And Ma Chao and Pang De's side were defeated and returned to Han Sui's home camp like a desperate person, Han Sui saw Ma Chao's defeat, and suddenly had a big head, because he realized that Guo Peng's army still maintained a strong will to fight and strong combat effectiveness.

Han Sui was very puzzled.

This march from the area of Luoyang to Chang'an, such a long road, there are still so many difficulties and obstacles on the road, to manage the problem of hundreds of thousands of people and livestock to eat, how did he do it?

How much grain does he have?

How many men and auxiliaries were mobilized?

Isn't that right?

Han Sui stood on the hill incomprehensibly and looked at the Wei army in the distance, and his heart beat a drum, feeling that this battle might not face Guo Peng's challenge, should not fight with it, and relying on the city wall to fight a defensive battle is the most important thing.

So Han Sui prepared to withdraw his troops.

But Ma Chao was not happy.

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