Chapter 46: Ma Chao's Bravery
Chang'an City.
Upon learning that nearly 150,000 troops from Han Sui and Ma Teng had attacked, Li Wei, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, and Zhang Ji urgently gathered to discuss countermeasures.
Jia Xu strategically said: "The two armies of Han Sui and Ma Teng came from afar, with nearly 150,000 troops, and the four generals are now less than 120,000. In less than 100 days, when Han Sui and Ma Teng's soldiers are exhausted, they will definitely retreat, and then the four generals will lead troops to chase and kill, and they will definitely be able to defeat and kill Han Sui and Ma Teng. ”
Li Wei, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, and Zhang Ji looked at each other and nodded, and they all felt that Jia Xu's plan was very reasonable.
At this moment, Li Meng, who was also Dong Zhuo's old department, Wang Fang objected: "This is not a good plan, the princes only need to borrow the two of us with 10,000 elite soldiers, and the two of us can immediately behead Han Sui in front of the battle, and Ma Teng's head will be dedicated to the princes." ”
Jia Xu shook his head on the side and said, "If you fight this urgently, you will be defeated." ”
Li Meng, Wang Fang glanced at Jia Xu angrily and said: "What are you talking about, if the two of us lose, I am willing to behead you, if the two of us win, you should also lose the first rank and the two of me, can you!" ”
Jia Xu's face twitched, although he believed that Li Meng and Wang Fang would lose if he fought, but he would never do such a thing of gambling with each other, whoever wanted to do it, anyway, he was just a strategist, and if he didn't listen to his words, he would just do it.
Seeing that Jia Xu didn't speak, Li Wei and Guo Yan glanced at each other, but they greatly appreciated the courage of Li Meng and Wang Fang, so they said: "The two hundred miles west of Chang'an is quite steep, which can make Fan Chou and Zhang Ji two generals stationed here, wait for Li Meng and Wang Fang to lead troops to challenge Han Sui and Ma Teng, hoping that the two can cut off Han and Ma's heads!" ”
"The two of us take orders!" Li Meng and Wang Fang smiled provocatively at Jia Xu and then took the order.
Jia Xu secretly disdainful, and the two of them found their own way to die, but they couldn't help it.
Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, and Zhang Ji ordered a total of 15,000 soldiers and horses to Li Meng and Wang Fang, and then asked them to go to meet the army of Han Sui and Ma Teng.
Li Meng and Wang Fangqian set up camp about 280 miles away from Chang'an City.
The next day, the combined forces of Han Sui and Ma Teng arrived, and Li Meng and Wang Yi led the army to meet the attack and blocked the front of the coalition army.
"Wang Fang is here, Han Sui and Ma Teng came out to die!" Wang Fang went to battle first, pointing at Han Sui and Ma Teng, and threatened to let Han Sui and Ma Teng fight!
Of course, Han Sui and Ma Teng would not end up in person, Ma Teng pointed at Wang Fang and Li Meng behind him and scolded: "You and the other two are thieves against the country, and everyone will be punished." Who's going to capture the two? ”
At the end, ask the generals on your side.
"Father, Uncle Han, I'm here to capture these two!" I saw a young general leaping out of his horse, this young man's face was like a crown of jade, his eyes were like meteors, his tiger body was ape, his belly was wolf's waist, and he was holding a spear, which was quite imposing.
"My son Ma Chao is brave and invincible, and he will kill the king's thieves!" Ma Teng smiled confidently.
"Meng Qi is our No. 1 fierce general in Liangzhou, and Wang Fang and Li Meng are not his opponents together." Han Sui also smiled.
As the two spoke, Ma Chao had already jumped on his horse and rushed to the opposite side of Wang Fang.
Wang Fang bullied Ma Chao at a young age, and said with a sneer: "Yellow-haired child, dare to fight?" Don't be beaten by me and cry to find your mother. ”
Ma Chao was furious, and Pegasus rushed towards Wang Fang: "The thief dares to insult me and suffer death!" ”
Wang Fang also jumped forward, and the two horses met, and their weapons intersected.
Boom!
Wang Fang's face changed greatly, his mouth was numb, and he was shocked by Ma Chao's bravery, and at this time, Ma Chao returned to his horse and rushed towards him again, and he had to fight.
In the fifth round of the battle, Wang was stabbed to death by Ma Chao.
Li Meng was shocked and jumped out without thinking about it, but he was defeated by Ma Chao after only a few rounds of fighting with Ma Chao and was captured.
The two leading generals were killed and captured, and the 15,000 soldiers from Chang'an could be described as leaderless, and they fled without a fight.
"Kill!" Han Sui and Ma Teng ordered to rush and kill.
In less than half an hour, most of the 15,000 soldiers and horses were beheaded and captured, and less than 4,000 people scattered and fled, and the combined forces of Han Sui and Ma Teng won a great victory.
In Chang'an City, the defeat of Li Meng and Wang Fang made Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, and Zhang Ji all look gloomy.
"Apply Jia Xu's strategy to have a chance of winning." Only then did the four of them remember Jia Xu's strategy before, and finally decided to follow Jia Xu's strategy, fortify the wall and clear the wilderness, stick to it without fighting, and wait for Han Sui and Ma Teng's coalition army to run out of food.
Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, and Zhang Ji stuck to Chang'an City.
Han Sui and Ma Teng's nearly 150,000 allied troops surrounded the area of Chang'an City, unable to fight, and attacked the camp and suffered heavy casualties, and the two sides officially entered the stage of competition for grain and grass consumption.
Han Sui and Ma Teng came from afar, carrying limited grain and grass, not because they didn't want to collect grain on the spot, but unfortunately Li Wei and others had already prepared, and Han Sui and Ma Teng could hardly collect any excess grain and grass.
Earlier than Jia Xu's calculations, in less than two months, the grain and grass of the combined army of Han Sui and Ma Teng were exhausted.
Han Sui and Ma Teng had to discuss the matter of retiring from the army.
At this time, in the city, the original Neiying Ma Yu, Liu Fan, and Chong Shao were betrayed.
Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji and others were angry and killed Ma Yu, Liu Fan, and Chong Shao, and hung their heads in front of the camp to let Han Sui and Ma Teng know that their internal should have been leaked.
"Neiying is dead, and the grain and grass are exhausted, so I have to retreat." Sure enough, Han Sui and Ma Teng saw that Neiying was dead, and the grain and grass were exhausted, so they finally had to pull out the village and retreat.
"Haha, the time has come to defeat Han Sui and Ma Teng. Everyone and our whole army went out of the city to hunt down and kill Han and Ma against the army! Li Wei, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, and Zhang Ji were waiting for this opportunity, how could they let it go, and then the four of them led the army to chase and kill, and shouted all the way that Han Sui and Ma Teng ran out of food, disturbing the military spirit of Han Sui and Ma Teng's coalition army.
Sure enough, the military morale of the combined army of Han Sui and Ma Teng was turbulent, on the contrary, the morale of the army of Li Dao and the other four people was extremely strong.
The combined forces of Han Sui and Ma Teng were defeated, with casualties all over the field.
At Ma Teng's place, Ma Chao led thousands of elite soldiers to resist Zhang Ji and Li Ji's army, and he said to Ma Teng: "Father, you go first, and wait for the child to kill and retreat the pursuers." ”
"Be careful." Ma Teng knew the bravery of his son Ma Chao, and he was not verbose, and took the remnants of the army to flee first.
"Zhang Ji, Li Ji, I'm Ma Chao here, you wait to come forward and die." Ma Chao pointed his gun at Zhang Ji in front, and Li Wei's tens of thousands of troops were not afraid at all, and even the thousands of Xiliang elite soldiers who followed him also boosted their morale a lot.
"Yellow-haired child, rampant." Zhang Ji, Li Dao was furious, and Zhang Ji first raised a gun and killed Ma Chao.
The two fought, however, in less than thirty rounds, Zhang Ji was overwhelmed. Seeing the situation, Li Ji raised his knife to help Zhang Ji.
In the face of the siege of Zhang Ji and Li Dao, Ma Chao did not flinch and fought with the two alone.
Ma Chao was really extremely brave, in less than a hundred rounds, Zhang Ji and Li Dao were defeated and retreated, and there were many dangers, and even Li Dao was almost shot by Ma Chao, which frightened him to turn the horse back and flee.
Zhang Ji saw that Li Dao had fled, how could he dare to fight Ma Chao again, and immediately turned his horse back to flee.
"Kill!" Ma Chao took advantage of the situation and led thousands of elite soldiers to chase Zhang Ji and Li Dao into the two tens of thousands of coalition troops, and actually killed and retreated two tens of thousands of coalition troops.
"Hahahaha, rats!" Ma Chao was covered in blood and laughed loudly.
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Ma Teng has the courage of the tiger Ma Chao here, killing and retreating Li Dao and Zhang Ji's army, but Han Sui does not have such brave generals as Ma Chao on his side, Han Sui was blocked and chased by Guo Yan and Fan Chou, almost in the realm of no way to enter the ground and no door to the sky, so he is not desperate.
Finally, near Chen Cang, Han Sui was intercepted by Fan Chou.
Seeing that Han Sui was desperate and was about to be captured, at this time, Han Sui suddenly thought of his friendship with Fan Chou, and he reined in and said to Fan Chou: "I am a fellow villager with Gong, and I have always had a friendship, so why do I need to kill them all now?" ”
Fan Chou really didn't want to kill Han Sui in his heart, so he couldn't help but hesitate.
Han Sui saw that there was a play, and immediately continued: "I led the troops to come this time because I was bewitched by Ma Teng, in fact, it was also to maintain the imperial court, not for Brother Fan, if Brother Fan is willing to let me go, I will repay Brother Fan's great kindness in the future." ”
Fan Chou thought that even if he killed Han Sui, it would be useless, but let all Liangzhou fall into the hands of Ma Teng, so he let Han Sui be a favor!
Fan Chou finally nodded and said with a smile: "I just hope that Brother Han will not forget my kindness to Brother Han today." ”
After that, Fan Chou led the army to retreat, and Han Sui breathed a sigh of relief, and finally saved his life and fled back to Xiliang.
Speaking of which, although it is the history of the Bingzhou assassination, the Bingzhou is not Han Sui's territory, Han Sui's foundation is still in Liangzhou, he and Ma Teng, the original Dong Zhuo, all belong to the Xiliang Group.
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Among the army that besieged Han Sui with Fan Chou, there was a general who was Li Wei's nephew, and after he returned, he informed Li Wei that Fan Chou had let Han Sui go.
"What? Fan Chou actually let Han Sui's thief's life privately! Li Dao was furious.
Anger at this matter is secondary, Li Dao wants to be in charge of the court alone and get more benefits, so he conspired with Guo Yan and set up a banquet to invite Fan Chou and Zhang Ji to the banquet.
Fan Chou and Zhang Ji didn't know that Li Wei and Guo Yan wanted to unload the mill and kill the donkey, and they were half drunk, Li Wei suddenly pointed at Fan Chou angrily and said: "Why did Fan Chou fornicate with Han Sui and wanted to rebel?" ”
"What do you say, I intend to rebel?" Fan Chou was shocked and woke up in an instant.
However, since Li Dao and Guo Yan designed this game, how can Fan Chou defend himself.
"Bang!" Dozens of swordsmen rushed in.
Before Fan Chou could explain, the knife and axe hand had already added a random knife, and he had no weapons in his hands and no armor on his body, so he was slashed by the knife in an instant.
"Ahh Fan Chou screamed, blood splattered on the spot.
Seeing Fan Chou's tragic death, Zhang Ji was also so frightened that he was drenched in cold sweat and knelt on the ground.
Li Dao and Guo Yan had a reason to kill Fan Chou, but there was no reason to kill Zhang Ji, otherwise the Xiliang generals under the command of several people might not be convinced, Li Wei helped Zhang Ji up and comforted: "Fan Chou secretly conspired with Han Sui to rebel, so he was killed, General Zhang is not wrong, why be afraid?" ”
Although Li Dao and Guo Yan did not kill Zhang Ji, they really frightened Zhang Ji.
Zhang Ji was afraid that one day he would end up like Fan Chou, so he quit Li Dao and Guo Yan after two days, and went to Hongnong Tun with his soldiers and horses, just to stay away from Chang'an and other places of right and wrong, Guanzhong completely became the territory of Li Dao and Guo Yan, which made the two of them so unhappy!
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