Wei Ping was ordered to leave, and Ma Chao also went to the school field to order 10,000 tiger troops, and then prepared to take Cui An and Chen to march out of Luoyang to Wancheng.

"Meng Qi, take care, wait for your victorious return for my brother!" Cao Cao said with a smile.

"Thank you Brother Mengde, the little brother will live up to expectations!"

"Meng Qi, I won't say more, my Ma family is all good!" Ma Riyan said to Ma Chao.

"Please rest assured, uncle, the little nephew will never embarrass my Ma family!"

"Uncle believes in you!" Ma Riyan nodded.

Ma Chao wanted to lead his troops to Wancheng to quell the rebellion, and he didn't know when he would return, so Cao Cao and Ma Riyan came to see him off at the city gate today.

"Brother Meng De, uncle, I'm going now, please go back!"

Ma Chao bowed his hand to the two, and then got on the horse and led the troops away.

After a few days of marching, Ma Chao's army finally came to a place forty-five miles away from Wancheng. Previously, the Malay newspaper said that Zhang Mancheng was already ready to face Ma Chao, so he had already finished camping thirty-five miles ahead. So Ma Chao asked the whole army to camp here, and stopped advancing for the time being.

Zhang Mancheng said, "Report to the commander, the enemy army has set up camp thirty-five miles in front of me!" ”

"Probe!" Zhang Mancheng waved his hand and said.

"No!" The detective horse went out of the tent and went to find out the information again.

Thirty-five miles, Zhang Man Chengxin said, this Ma Chao Ma Mengqi is really cautious. Think about it, there is really not too much information about Ma Chao in Taiping Dao, I only know that Lu Dao is a native of Fufeng Maoling, eighteen years old this year, and now his home is in Longxi. Famous in the exchange conference of Yingchuan Academy, he was the Taishou of Dunhuang, and then he became Mr. Liu Wei in Luoyang, the captain of the city gate, and now the right middle general, there are only so many.

Although there is very little information, Zhang Mancheng knows that since Liu Hong can let him deal with him, then this person definitely has some ability, so don't look at Ma Chao as young, but definitely not to be underestimated.

After a long time, the Tanma came again to report, "Report to the commander, the enemy army has advanced five miles, and set up camp thirty miles away from our army!" ”

"Probe!"

"No!"

Advancing five miles was too normal in Zhang Mancheng's opinion, and he knew that this was just the other party's way of slowly approaching his troops. Originally, at the beginning, Zhang Mancheng was ready to take advantage of the Han army to come from afar, gain an unstable foothold, and rob the camp at night. But immediately he himself denied this, because Zhang Mancheng was eighty percent sure that Ma Chao would inevitably take precautions against the robbery of the camp, so it was only himself who could not afford to suffer. And he couldn't gamble the lives of his brethren because of that 20% chance, and he would be a sinner.

As Zhang Mancheng expected, in Ma Chao's account, Ma Chao said to Chen Zhi: "Uncle Zhi, order the whole army to strengthen the guard at night to prevent the enemy from robbing the camp!" ”

Although Ma Chao doesn't know much about Zhang Mancheng, and the information on Dahan's side does not have some explanation of this person's character and ability. However, in Ma Chao's opinion, no one should be underestimated, even if it is in the yellow scarf, then you must be cautious. And after tonight, I may be able to have a simple understanding of Zhang Mancheng.

If Zhang Mancheng really dares to come at night, then there are two possibilities, one is that this person underestimates the enemy and feels that he may have no defense, so he comes. The second is that the person is bold or ignorant and fearless, because he knows that he may be on guard, but he still dares to come to rob the camp, generally speaking, these are the two situations. As for whether it is the former or the latter, then there will naturally be an answer after the camp.

If he doesn't come, then there are two possibilities. One possibility is that he feels defenseless, but Zhang Mancheng is too timid to come, this is basically impossible. The second is that he thinks that he may be on guard, so he will not come if he is careful. The former is naturally not a cause for concern, while the latter is indeed not so easy to deal with.

"No!"

Chen Zhi took the order and left, he also thought so. Now Ma Chao is the right middle general, and Chen Zhi and Cui An, as Ma Chao's subordinates, naturally also entered the army to serve.

In this way, on the first day of Ma Chao's army in Wancheng, except for the Han army advancing five miles, neither side did anything, and it has been calm, and everyone is safe.

On the second day, "Report to the commander that the enemy has advanced five miles further and encamped twenty-five miles from our army!" ”

"Let's go down, and explore again!"

Zhang Mancheng said in his heart that the Han army advanced another five miles early this morning, and he was quite diligent in getting up early.

"No!"

However, Zhang Mancheng still felt that the speed of Ma Chao's advancement was too slow, and he still wanted to have a battle between the two sides when they were close, but at this speed, when would the two armies be able to face each other, after all, there were still twenty-five miles apart, and he felt that it was still far away.

"Sun Xia!"

"The subordinates are here!"

"Pass on my military order, and the whole army will advance ten miles and set up camp!"

"No! Subordinates understand! ”

"Report to the commander, the enemy army has advanced another five miles, and now it is still ten miles away from our army!"

"I know the way, go down!"

"No!"

In the end, the two armies finally faced each other, and in the face of the Yellow Turban Army, which had many more people than his own side, Ma Chao was not afraid at all. It's just that there is still pressure, because as your first battle, you can only win and not lose. As for the previous Pingshanzhai bandits, those were just pediatrics, and there were only 1,000 people at most, but now that he has brought 10,000 people, the other party is several times his own, and this kind of battle is naturally not comparable to the previous ones.

"On the other side, it's Fufeng Ma Chao Ma Mengqi?" Zhang Mancheng said loudly to Ma Chao.

"Yes, it is the right middle general of the Han Dynasty, Fufeng Ma Chao Ma Mengqi!"

Ma Chao didn't have much courtesy when he saw Zhang Mancheng, so he said in his words that he was the right middle general of the Han Dynasty, which means that I am a Han officer and soldier, and you are a thief in the court.

Zhang Mancheng pursed his lips when he heard this, "It's good, Lao Zhang, I advise you to surrender early, look at your young age, don't delay your life!" After he finished speaking, he sighed, which meant that he really felt sorry for Ma Chao.

Ma Chao smiled when he heard this, "Zhang Mancheng, this is exactly what I was going to tell you, if you don't surrender early, I'm afraid you will regret it too late!" After saying that, Ma Chao shook his head, looking at it even more regrettable.

"Ma Mengqi, you only have 10,000 soldiers, and I have 100,000 people, with one against ten, do you think you have a chance of winning?" Zhang Mancheng said, looking at his appearance, he was extremely unbeaten, as if to say, even your little people want to fight with Lao Tzu?

"There are many soldiers, needless to say, let you see my elite today as a man!"

"Okay, I don't want to talk nonsense for a long time, come on, give it to me!"

Coming out of the yellow scarf on a horse, he looked like a small leader or something, only to hear him say: "Nanyang Zhang Daring, which of you dares to come alone?" ”

When Ma Chao saw it, this was called a big knife in Zhang Dada's hand, a war horse in his crotch, the knife was not a good knife, and the horse was naturally not a good horse, and he seemed to be wearing leather armor, "Fuda, you go!" ”

"No!"

Cui An led the horse forward, and Zhang Daring saw that someone came out of the battle, and said: "The person who came is famous, and Zhang Mou will not kill the unknown person under the knife!" ”

I don't know where I learned this from Zhang Daring, Ma Chaoxin said, this Zhang Daring is really worthy of his name, this person is not ordinarily bold, and there are probably few people who dare to speak like this in the face of Cui An.

Cui An smiled, "Remember, the name that killed you is Cui An Cui Fuda, remember me!" ”

After speaking, the horse and the halberd were waved to attack Zhang Daring, and Zhang Daring was not to be outdone, and he also slapped the horse and danced the knife to Cui An. Although Zhang Daring felt that the other party looked vicious, but appearance is one thing, whether he has the ability or not is another matter. This man is indeed bold, and he is not afraid of it at all. As a result, one round, just one round, as soon as the two handed each other, Cui An stabbed Zhang Daring to death with only one halberd.

I saw Zhang Daring's eyes wide, and he said to Cui An: "Okay, strong ......"

The corpse was planted on the horse, and several people from the Yellow Turban Army hurriedly came out to snatch Zhang Daring's body back. In fact, there is no need to do this at all, the battlefield is a battlefield, there is no way for you to die, and Cui An said that his brain is not good many times, but he will not snatch the corpse without a special reason.

Cui An stabbed Zhang Daring to death in one round, which greatly boosted the morale of the Han army, and the Yellow Turban Army was naturally demoralized. Zhang Mancheng saw that the fighting general would definitely not work, so it was better to do it with a real knife. Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and losing this battle is nothing. And don't look at the low morale at this time, but when the two sides fight, it is not necessarily who has the upper hand. But if you want to run away at this time, it will be bad, and it will only be a big defeat.

Zhang Mancheng just wanted the whole army to charge, but before he could say anything, he saw Ma Chao wave his hand and say loudly: "The whole army charges!" ”

The Han army and the Yellow Turban army fought in one place, and after a round of charges, Zhang Mancheng ordered: "The whole army retreats quickly!" ”

Ma Chao watched the Yellow Turban Army flee and didn't let the whole army pursue, because even if he pursued, it was useless, and it was useless to kill hundreds. There are too many Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Mancheng said before that there are 100,000, after Ma Chao's understanding of the time from Luoyang to Wancheng, even if it is less than 100,000, it is really not too much, so Ma Chao did not let the army do that useless thing.

In Ma Chao's tent, he reported to Malai, "Report to your lord, the Yellow Turban traitor has retreated ten miles to the rear soldiers!" ”

"Okay, I'm done!"

Zhang Mancheng was a soldier who advanced ten miles before, and now he is a soldier who has retreated ten miles, which is expected by Ma Chao.

At this time, Zhang Mancheng, who had already retreated for ten miles, was still relatively depressed, and the 100,000 people on his side had not yet beaten the 10,000 people. After a simple count just now, at least nearly 10,000 people were lost to our own side in a single charge just now. And it is estimated that the Han army will lose a few thousand people.

Zhang Mancheng was really right, after the results of Ma Chao's statistics, in the previous charge, his side was almost 2,000 killed, and nearly 1,000 wounded, and the Yellow Turban Army should have lost about 10,000 people.