In the middle of the night, Sun Ce quietly left Ding's house with his subordinates.

I rested at Ding's house for half the night, had a full meal, took a hot bath, and rested for two hours, but I didn't have time to sleep well. First, Sun Ce was not at ease with the Ding family, and secondly, Sun Jian was in trouble.

Yuan Tan went crazy, attacked for two days and one night in a row, Sun Jian couldn't support it, he lost three big battalions in one day, how big the loss was, whether he had the confidence to hold on, and how long he could hold on, Sun Ce didn't have any bottom in his heart, he had to rush to see. He wasn't worried about Sun Jian's big losses—which might not be a bad thing—but he couldn't watch Sun Jian die. With Sun Jian's character, this danger always exists. Leading the way can certainly boost morale, but the death rate is too high.

Unconsciously, the first month has passed, and now it is the tenth day of the first month of February, and the bright moon is not full, but you can see the gray and white road clearly. Sun Cezi set off at the turn of the ugly, took advantage of the moonlight to hurry, arrived at the Wutang Pavilion, the crescent moon just set, and it was dark between heaven and earth.

Scouts lurking nearby arrived to pick them up and report the latest situation.

Yuan Tan didn't attack tonight, but he wasn't idle either. He ordered people to transform the three large battalions he had conquered, built two camp fences around Sun Jian's only two remaining camps, dug a camp trench, and trapped Sun Jian inside. Now that the project is basically completed, only the west side can be accessed, and Yuan Tan's camp is there. As for Sun Jian's situation, the scouts were not clear, there were Yuan troops on all sides, and they couldn't get in at all.

Sun Ce looked at the schematic diagram drawn by the scout and rubbed his face, which was stiffened by the night wind. "According to this, Yuan Jun has not rested for two days and two nights?"

"Yes, but there are many of them, and they can take turns to rest, and the situation should be much better than that of General Zhengdong."

Sun Ce didn't say anything more. Even if you can take turns to rest, no one can sleep peacefully when the fight is raging outside. Besides, Yuan Tan is attacking, Sun Jian is defending, and attacking and defending will inevitably have to pay a greater price, Yuan Tan's situation may be a little better than Sun Jian, but it is not much better. If you take into account that Yuan Tan led the county soldiers, and Sun Jian led the elite who had fought for many years, and the difference in the relationship between the officers and soldiers brought about by the different backgrounds of the two sides, maybe Yuan Tan's subordinates were more tired than Sun Jian's subordinates.

Of course, whether it is elite or not, if you don't get a good night's sleep for two nights in a row, most people will feel tired. Sun Ce himself deeply understands this. The night before yesterday, I chatted with Man Pet all night, and yesterday I took a nap on horseback during the day, and took a hot bath at night, and took a nap while the Ding family was preparing, he still felt tired and his mental state was not as good as others.

"Are there scouts?"

"Yes, I've paid attention, and there are about three teams of ten riders in this direction." The scout laughed, with a hint of disdain. "But at this time, I guess they all found a place to sleep, and I didn't see them as soon as the time passed."

Sun Ce thought about it carefully, called Ma Chao, and told him his plan to attack the camp. After listening to Sun Ce's analysis, Ma Chao blinked his eyes a few times. "General, you can really calculate, and attacking a battalion can be counted so finely, admire, admire."

Sun Ce also smiled. "Meng Qi, you are much calmer than before, you can actually listen to me."

Ma Chao laughed and touched his nose. "General, this time you won't charge into battle by yourself, will you? If you want me to say, this rush is not quite the same as the competition, it is very important to play on the spot, and it is good for people who go into battle for the first time to play their skills to achieve three achievements. If you take me with you last time, I guarantee that Wen Chou won't be able to escape, and he will be killed on the spot. ”

"Okay, let you charge this time."

"Really?" Ma Chao's eyes suddenly widened.

"Of course it's true, when did I lie to you." Sun Ce said with a smile: "I also want to see how powerful your Ma Mengqi charge is and how big a wave you can stir up." ”

Ma Chao slapped his chest, full of spirit. "General, just look at it, if I don't screw off Yuan Tan's kid's head as a tiger, I won't go back to Xiliang, and I will be your personal guard for a lifetime."

Guo Yuan, who was standing on the side, said in a strange manner: "It turns out that you have always wanted to go back to Xiliang, no wonder you can't work hard." ”

"I ......" Ma Chao was speechless, kicking with his flying feet, Guo Yuan had already prepared, twisted his waist, and flashed aside. Ma Chao said: "General, you are good at everything, but the people around you are too mixed, there are both real heroes and heroes, and there are also unsuccessful families, and the cheap billets who come out of the thieves' den ......"

Guo Yuan and Xie Guanglong squatted aside and laughed. Sun Ce waved his hand, interrupted Ma Chao, and pointed to the torch on the ox cart. "See no, those are for you. This killing is not the point, you find a way to find Yuan Tan's baggage camp for me and set it on fire. ”

Ma Chao grew up in the barracks since he was a child, and of course he knows how to find a baggage camp. The baggage battalion is usually in the center of the camp, adjacent to the camp of the Chinese army, because there are many materials in and out, so the road is wider than the general camp. In order to facilitate transportation, it is either built on the side of the road or near the water, at least there will be a road that is directly connected.

But he was disappointed. "Don't kill Yuan Tan?"

"If you can kill, you can kill, if you can't kill, even if you can't kill, don't force it. You really burned down his baggage camp, and even if he didn't die, he only had half a life left. ”

Ma Chao thought about it and reluctantly agreed.

Sun Ce arranged the task properly and let the soldiers rest for a while. pinched the right time, and took advantage of the thickest night to march towards Yuan Tan's camp. Ma Chao took a hundred Xiliang knights in front of him, and rushed to Yuan Tan's camp, and Sun Ce led Bai Yushi to follow behind, with more than thirty ox carts borrowed from the Ding family. The ox cart was loaded with cooked rice and meat, as well as some salt and medicine. He also borrowed thousands of spare arrows from the Ding family, although it was a drop in the bucket, and it was better than nothing.

Twenty miles is only half an hour for the cavalry, and this is the result of deliberately controlling the speed, not only to ensure that he can reach the battlefield as quickly as possible, but also not to consume too much horsepower, but also to control Yuan Tan's reaction time to the shortest, so that he has no time to deal with it. In order to grasp this time, Sun Ce was like Xu Yue solving the equation, calculating and calculating.

When Ma Chao rushed to Yuan Tan's camp, the sun had just appeared on the horizon in the east, the sky was white, and the camp was exposed, but he couldn't see the figure clearly, only a little torch. The rapid and piercing sound of the gong sounded, and the soldiers only knew that there was a situation, but they had not yet figured out what the situation was, and many people rushed out of the tents, but they had not had time to line up.

Ma Chao raised his eyebrows and secretly praised Sun Ce's choice of timing to the peak. There was chaos in Yuan Tan's camp, and it was a good opportunity for an assault. While jumping from the galloping horse to the back of the war horse, he raised the spear in his hand and shouted: "Blow the trumpet, charge with me." ”

The commander raised the horn in his hand, and carried the breath of the dantian, whining and blowing, and the thick horn sound came far away in the night, even the rapid sound of the gong could not be concealed.

Pound and others changed horses one after another. These elite knights from Xiliang were skilled in horsemanship, and they could complete the transfer on the galloping war horse, they tied the reins of the horse preparation horse to the saddle of the war horse, freed their hands, picked up their spears, drew their war knives, opened their horned bows, raised their shields, and galloped away with Ma Chao towards Yuan Tan's camp.