The Shu army had just set up a camp along the site of the Great Wall of King Wuling of Zhao, and the horse was reported to Yuan Shao's army to kill. Yu Ban ordered someone to return Shan Fu on the one hand, and arranged the method of responding to the enemy on the other hand, Ma Chao, who had long been eager to try, immediately asked to lead the department to meet Yu Ban.

According to the intelligence, the enemy is mainly infantry, the number of cavalry is only more than 1,000, although Ma Chao's 5th cavalry division is only 7,500 people, but it is all cavalry, even if he loses the battle, he can also use the rapid mobility of the cavalry to withdraw from the battlefield, so Yu Ban agreed to let Ma Chao lead his troops to meet the battle. To explain, Ma Chao is the deputy commander of the Fifth Field Corps, and Yu Ban, who is also the deputy commander of the regiment, has no subordinate relationship, and Yu Ban belongs to the away battle, it stands to reason that Yu Ban, who has just arrived, should obey Ma Chao's orders, but any army must pay attention to seniority, although he is also the deputy commander, but Yu Ban is an old man who has followed Liu Zhang for many years, and his qualifications are there! Another point, in terms of military rank, Yu Ban is also pressing Ma Chao, at this time Yu Ban has been promoted to the rank of major general, but Ma Chao is still a brigadier general, so Shan Fu clearly ordered Ma Chao to obey Yu Ban's command when he sent them to the Great Wall to defend them.

After Ma Chao said goodbye, he led the Fifth Cavalry Division over the ruins of the Great Wall and searched in the northeast direction.

Less than ten miles away, the two armies saw each other.

Yan Liang saw that the other party was all cavalry, and if he let the other party ride his horse to charge and kill, it would be very unfavorable to him, so he led a thousand cavalry to meet Ma Chao, and squeezed Ma Chao with words, intending to start this battle in the way of fighting generals. Where did Yan Liang, who is proud of his martial arts, put Ma Chao, an "unknown young general", in his eyes? In his opinion, as long as the other party agrees, then he will take his head with a knife to deter the enemy, and then wave his army to attack, and the enemy army will inevitably be vulnerable and flee in despair.

The young and vigorous Ma Chao was naturally humiliated and agreed to fight with Yan Liang. As a result, Yan Liang, who was careless about the enemy, was picked off the horse by Ma Chao with a shot, and was immediately cut off his head, but he didn't expect Yan Liang to escape the misfortune of Guan Erye's severed head, but in the end, he achieved the name of Jin Ma Chao's martial arts.

Yuan Jun on the other side just opened his mouth to cheer for his own general, and in a blink of an eye, he saw that the general of the three armies of Yongguan had his head cut off, the words of encouragement were not spoken, and he forgot to close his mouth for a while, and 20,000 people opened their mouths like that and looked at the bloody head in Ma Chao's hand in disbelief.

Ma Chao held Yan Liang's head in one hand, raised a gun in the other hand and pointed to the sky, shouting: "Kill ......"

The officers and men of the Fifth Cavalry Division, who were also extremely shocked, did not come back to their senses for a while, and Ma Chao had to give another order, and the 7,500 men of the Fifth Cavalry Division woke up from the shock and rushed towards the enemy formation with a roar and shouting.

When the rumbling horses' hooves drove over, Yuan Shaojun came to his senses, and he didn't know who shouted, "Mom, General Yan is dead, if you want to live and run away......"

In just one sentence, it seems to express the hearts of 20,000 people, and there is no need to do any "mobilization", except for Yan Liang's personal soldiers, the others immediately turned back in place, and then ran to the Yin Pavilion crying and shouting, and kept weapons, flags, and armor while fleeing...... Anyway, throw away everything that would affect their escape.

Ma Chao tied Yan Liang's head to the saddle, leaving two thousand people to deal with Yan Liang's cavalry, and the others followed him around the battlefield and began to harvest the lives of deserters.

In the face of the fleeing enemy troops, Ma Chao experienced the same experience as after Huaxiong broke through the county three days earlier, and he commanded the officers and men of the Fifth Cavalry Division to follow the fleeing enemy unhurriedly and kill the enemy troops who fell behind one by one.

The number of fleeing enemies is about 17,800, because Yan Liang's death is too shocking, their seven souls and seven spirits have already followed Yan Liang to ascend to heaven, and no one thought that instead of being slaughtered like a pig, it is better to fight with the enemy, and they just want to run faster and surpass the person in front of them, so that they will still be safe for the time being......

Ma Chao was naturally happy to see this, so he chose to follow behind the fleeing enemy unhurriedly, oppressing the enemy while giving the enemy a faint hope, so that the enemy could not resist......

Ma Chao understood that the number of enemies was 17,800, three times his own, and if the persecution was too much, making the enemy feel that there was no hope of escape and fighting the trapped beasts, things would inevitably become very tricky! In this case, he thought of a story that is said to have come out of Liu Zhang's mouth - boiled frogs in warm water (not to say much about this story, everyone wastes time, I believe everyone has heard this story), although he did not personally experiment whether this story is true or not, because he knows that it is not important whether the story is true or not, the important thing is to understand the truth that this story wants to express!

Obviously, Ma Chao understood and used it, and the effect was very good, he led the army to chase and flee the enemy for nearly fifty miles all the way, and cut off nearly half of the enemy! At this time, the rout army also encountered Zhang He, who heard that Yan Liang was defeated and the chasing army was coming, so he immediately ordered to line up on the spot and build a defensive line.

Ma Chao arrived in an instant, but seeing that the opponent was outnumbered and in a neat formation, he knew that a strong attack would not bring much benefit, so he led the army to retreat.

Zhang He's department was also dominated by infantry, and he could only watch the murderous Shu army swagger away.

Yan Liang had 2,000 personal soldiers, 1,000 horses and 1,000 infantry troops, and a small number fled with the army, and most of them chose to stay and fight to the death with the Shu army. Their courage is admirable, but the death of the main general, the flight of their comrades made them feel fear, powerlessness and deep frustration, in front of the momentum of the elite of the Shu Kingdom, barely parried for half an hour, then defeated, except for more than 300 people put down their weapons, none of the others were spared, all died in the yellow earth.

In this battle, Yuan Shao's army left more than 5,000 corpses on the way to escape in less than 50 miles, and in the whole battle, Yuan Shao lost more than 7,000 men and horses, and more importantly, he lost a member of the general, and the loss of the Shu army can be said to be very small, with only more than 700 dead and wounded, including 390 killed in battle, including seven who died in the pursuit of the enemy.

Ma Chao led the army back to the Great Wall and ordered someone to give Yan Liang's head to Shan Fu. Shan Fu was overjoyed, and the herald commended Ma Chao. Then, considering that Yan Liang was Yuan Shao's favorite general, and now that he was beheaded by Ma Chao, he would inevitably retaliate, and the Great Wall was unusable, if he wanted to block Yuan Shao's revenge, he was afraid that he would only rely on Yu Ban, Ma Chao and Zhao Yun very reluctantly, so he ordered the 9th Cavalry Division and the 17th Infantry Division that had just arrived to go to the Great Wall to assist Yu Ban and others in resisting Yuan Shao.

After Ma Chao retreated, Zhang He knew that it was impossible to recover the troops in his hands to recover Yuanxian, so he led his troops to collect the corpses of those who died in battle (it should be said that they were killed, because they were all killed when they were facing the enemy with their butts) along the way, and led the army back to the Yin Pavilion.