"Huh. It was I who underestimated Zhao Zilong. If I had listened to your and other opinions, rushed to Yongshou, and combined the strength of the two armies, the current Xiliang army would have attacked half of the cities and counties of Xinping! ”

Ma Chao finally suppressed his anger, and after changing color again and again, he sighed and blamed himself.

"Brother, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers. Xinping has a maximum of 30,000 troops, and the only good general is Zhao Zilong. Zhao Zilong was guarding Sanshui, so the pressure on his father's army to attack Yongshou far exceeded that of Sanshui. And there is Pang Lingming next to his father, and Yongshou is likely to have been captured by his father at this time! I will rush to this time and join my father's army in time, so that I will not be able to capture Yilu again in many days.

After that, the Xiliang army came to besiege Sanshui again, and then the army had no worries about soldiers' food, and the elder brother and Pang Lingming joined forces, even if Zhao Zilong had great ability, how could he be able to stop the two peerless generals! At this point, the three waters will be broken. I also hope that my brother will make a decision and decide on the withdrawal of troops as soon as possible! ”

Ma Xiu first comforted Ma Chao, and then analyzed with him, Ma Chao listened, and his tense face relaxed. Ma Chao's face was certain, and he said with a bow.

"What the second brother said is reasonable. The order went down, and ordered all the troops to pack up and retreat at night at the first watch tonight! ”

"The last general will wait for the order!"

Ma Xiu and Ma Tie's faces were happy, and they were ordered to retreat immediately, and the two walked out of the account, each making notices and arrangements, no problem.

Little by little, time passed, and soon night fell. A group of civilian scouts secretly surveyed outside the Ma army camp, and one of the scouts in the team saw that the Ma army was moving a lot, and there were signs that he wanted to withdraw the army, so he asked the generals in the team if they wanted to return to the city to report to them. The scout captain said with a smile that the scout was nervous and didn't pay attention to it.

As the hours passed, the night became more and more heavy, and it was more and more at night. A series of noisy sounds suddenly sounded in the Ma military camp, and among the noisy sounds, there were footsteps, the sound of soldiers shaking, the sound of flags shaking, and so on.

"Not good! This Xiliang army is really going to retreat! ”

The scout general of the Wen Army changed color on the spot when he heard this, and exclaimed in surprise.

"Ahh General Zhao arranged for the soldiers and horses in the city to come to the sneak attack, if he led the army to come, but found that the horse army camp had been empty, once the blame came down, you and I would all have to be beheaded! ”

A scout's face was full of horror, and then he continued.

"This has nothing to do with me, I told the general earlier that the Xiliang army has signs of withdrawal. It's just that the general turned a deaf ear. ”

First, the scout who first discovered the vision of the horse army hurriedly cleared it up. The scout general suddenly looked cold, he was originally a bandit, and later heard that he was a soldier under Wen Han, with a rich salary and extremely high salary, and the promotion system was based on talent and military merit, so he joined the army under Wen Han. However, as the old saying goes, the nature of the clouds and mountains is easy to change. This scout general, seeing that he had committed a big crime, was likely to be beheaded, and suddenly the thief spirit rose again, suddenly attacked, took out the steel knife at his waist, and slashed at the scout suddenly. As soon as the blade passed, the scout's head flew up, and warm blood spilled onto the faces of the scouts around him.

The scout general's sudden death caused the scouts in his team to change their faces.

"Lao Tzu's life is very precious, this thief bird officer and soldier Lao Tzu will not do it! Whoever wants to live and live happily will fall into the grass with Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu guarantees that you will follow Lao Tzu, and in the future, you will eat fragrant and drink spicy food, and Lao Tzu will take you to taste it all! ”

The scout general said with a cold face. This scout general is quite forceful, and the scouts in the team are usually afraid of him, but this desertion is a serious crime, and if he is caught, he will definitely die. None of the scouts in the team dared to speak, and when the scout general saw it, he snorted coldly, turned his horse's head and left.

"Hmph, the twisted melon is not sweet, and Lao Tzu will not force you to wait. You have committed a great crime, and with General Zhao's character, he will definitely punish you and others severely! It's up to you to decide whether you're dead or alive. Lao Tzu goes! ”

As soon as the scout commander slapped his horse, he took the road away. After a few scouts watched for a while, they followed, or because of a threat to their lives, the entire scout team finally left with the scout general and became deserters.

The Ma army has begun to retreat, and at this time in Sanshui Zhao Yun still did not know, to the third watch, Zhao Yun rushed to lead the army to the Ma army camp, just arrived at the camp gate, Zhao Yun saw that the camp was empty and messy, not even a horse army soldier ghost was gone, suddenly his face changed greatly, and immediately ordered the soldiers to find the scout general who was responsible for surveying the Ma army camp tonight to question. But the soldiers told him that the scout had not returned to the city since they left the city in the evening, and that there was no report of the army having just set out.

"Bastard!! Incompetent people are bad for the overall situation!! ”

When Zhao Yun heard this, he immediately guessed that this scout general must have been careless and derelict in his duties and absconded for fear of crime. Although Zhao Yun was angry, he couldn't care about it any more, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to chase after him.

It is said that Ma Chao led the army to retreat, and the army rushed to the outside of Luomapo. Ma Chao's heart suddenly jumped, and he called a soldier from Xinping and asked what was here. The Xinping soldier told Ma Chao that this is the slope of the horse in the twenty miles of Sanshui, the terrain here is bumpy, and there are hills and slopes everywhere, if you ride a horse, it is very easy to fall off the horse, so it is named the slope of the horse.

As soon as Ma Chao heard the name of Luomapo, his brows immediately furrowed, his surname was Ma, but it was called Luomapo here. This head is extremely ominous, Ma Chao thought for a while, and suddenly sent a team of scouts to inquire around.

"Brother, the army is retreating, why did it suddenly stop?"

Matthew was in command of the rear army, and when he saw that the army in front of him suddenly stopped, he hurriedly came to check on the situation. Ma Chao replied with a calm face.

"This place is called Luomapo, I see this name is ominous, and I suspect that there is an ambush, so I ordered the scouts to investigate first."

"Hahaha. My brother was really worried. This Zhao Zilong doesn't know about our withdrawal of troops, how can he !! ”

Ma Xiu was laughing, and there was a shout of killing, only to see countless figures faintly seen in the dark night rushing out of the falling horse slope, and most of the scouts sent by Ma Chao were killed and wounded, and only a few scouts rushed back with their horses.

"Ambush, there's an ambush!! Belch!!! ”

One of the horse scouts was opening his mouth and shouting, and suddenly a series of arrows broke through the void, and those horse scouts were shot off their horses one after another!

"There is really an ambush !!"

Matthew turned pale with fright on the spot, and screamed out of his voice. Ma Chao ignored him and hurriedly ordered the army to flee by detour. The ambush army of Luomapo chased all the way, but they were far away from Ma Chao's Xiliang army, and the strength was only more than 5,000 people, so they had to give up the pursuit in the end. Let the Xiliang army flee.

The reason why Ma Chao escaped was because the scout general was negligent, if the scout general reported Zhao Yun early, Zhao Yun led troops to attack the Ma army camp. The Xiliang army will inevitably flee in chaos, and at that time the soldiers of the Xiliang army only care about fleeing for their lives, how can they send scouts to investigate first, and wait for the deserters of the Xiliang army to fall off the slope in a hurry, and be ambushed, and they will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and finally wait for Zhao Yun's pursuers to come, and attack back and forth, maybe Ma Chao has extraordinary martial arts, and he will also hate this.

However, tonight's layout is carefully planned by Xilong, and there will be only one ambush place. Xi Long acted cautiously, once the layout was made, it would definitely be a series of killing moves, just like the layout of the Northland, Han Sui could be said to be ambushed one after another, and in the end, the soldiers and horses were almost exhausted, and he had no power to return to the sky!

However, everything can be predicted, and Xi Long cautiously believes that there may be a 20% to 30% chance that the enemy generals who will attack Sanshui at that time will be able to escape alive in Luomapo. Therefore, he was on the way to withdraw from the Sanshui border, and the Black Fire Forest set up an ambush all the way. Xi Long thought at that time that even if the enemy generals could escape from Luomapo, the remaining soldiers around him would never exceed 3,000, and they were all remnants of the defeated army, so when they fled into the Black Fire Forest, they would not be able to survive if they were ambushed again!

It is said that Ma Chao led the army to flee for a while, and when he saw that the pursuers in the rear did not come, he ordered the soldiers to stop and regroup.

"Brother is really like a god, if it weren't for your prudence, I'm afraid that the army will be hit hard at this time!"

Matthew gasped for a while, swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, and sighed with a bit of adoration. Ma Chao's face was still gloomy, the wave of ambush just now made him break out in a cold sweat, and he really couldn't understand why this Zhao Yun could not expect the prophet to know in advance that he would retreat tonight.

It will take at least a day for this wave of ambush troops to do a good job of ambush in Luomapo, even if there is a lot of movement in the camp tonight, and he is found out by the scouts of the Wen army, Zhao Yun does not have enough time to arrange this wave of ambush army!

Ma Chao was puzzled, how could he have expected that Han Sui and Ma Teng would join forces to attack Beidi and Xinping, and it was simply Wen Han who lured them to do it.

And Xilong's wisdom is extraordinary, and he has arranged for Zhao Yun to ambush under the wolf's tooth valley, and first seize the grain and grass of the enemy army that is attacking Sanshui, so that the enemy army is short of food and grass, and Zhao Zilong is guarding Sanshui, and the enemy army will not attack Sanshui, and the army must be in turmoil. Therefore, he ordered Zhao Yun to see the right time, sneak attack his camp, and force him to withdraw his troops and flee. Then set up two ambushes in the Luomapo and the Black Fire Forest, so that they will definitely be able to annihilate all the enemy troops attacking Sanshui!

This timing can be described as a coincidence, Zhao Yun saw that the morale of Ma Chao's army was low, and the two ambush troops had just finished the ambush, so he wanted to take advantage of tonight to sneak attack the Ma army camp. And Ma Chao saw that the battle situation was unfavorable and decided to withdraw the army.

The coincidence of these factors can only sigh that the battlefield is changing rapidly, which is really unpredictable.

Ma Chao's heart was beating wildly, and he suddenly felt that this land of three waters was full of strange killing opportunities, and after reorganizing the army, he led all the troops and horses to speed up the evacuation. Ma Chao led the army to fly, and when he was about to reach the Black Fire Forest, Ma Chao suddenly reined in the horses, and at this time a strange wind blew by, and the black fire forest was gusting with gusts, and the leaves in the dense forest swayed, like black flames under the rendering of the night. It is precisely because of this that the Black Fire Forest got its name.

Ma Chao squinted at the lion's eyes, and suddenly had a thrilling feeling, perhaps because the ambush just now made him nervous.