Sun Ce was woken up by Guo Jia in the middle of the night. Chen Deng ran away and abandoned the city.

Sun Ce sat for a long time, patted his forehead, and said with a wry smile: "Just left?" This person can really afford to take it, put it down, just leave, and don't even say hello. He won't save Zhou Xin? ”

Guo Jia wrapped his clothes tightly. "Zhou Xin is afraid that he will also run away, the army will not be able to escape, one or two people will leave by night, and Gan Ning will not be able to find it. General, the problem now is not Zhou Xin, he is a scholar and is of little use, but Chen Deng is a trouble. This person has the ambition of a hero, and has the connections of the family, and has made great progress in several battles in a row, if he is allowed to escape into the hinterland of Yangzhou, it will be very unfavorable to us. ”

Sun Ce raised his head and looked through the tent door, and it was dark outside the tent, and it was the middle of the night. Guo Jia is right, Chen Deng has made rapid progress, he ambushed Ma Chao last time, and escaped overnight this time, although he was a little embarrassed, he made a decision immediately, and after a few years of training, he is definitely a ruthless character. Such a person should be eliminated as soon as possible, and he cannot be given a chance. But how could he run away without preparation, and chased after him in the middle of the night, and nine times out of ten he would suffer his losses.

He suddenly remembered something. "Where is Ma Chao? Is he on duty today? ”

Guo Jia smiled bitterly and nodded. "He's going to chase Chen Deng."

"Why don't you stop him!"

"Who can stop him? Last time he was ambushed by Chen Deng, he has been waiting for revenge, and he took the initiative to patrol every day, and when he heard that Chen Deng was out of the city, he immediately caught up with him. Pound tried to stop him, but he beat him. ”

"This shaft just hasn't had enough of it." Sun Ce circled back and forth in the camp, constantly patting his forehead hard. "Feng Xiao, you shouldn't have arranged for him to go on patrol."

Guo Jia didn't speak. He knew that Sun Ce said the same. He also knows Ma Chao's temper, if he really wants to screw it up, no one can persuade him. Last time, he was ambushed by Chen Deng and broke seventeen people, and he was ashamed and humiliated, holding his breath, and he had to take revenge on Chen Deng. Sun Ce himself also said that he promised well in person, but he forgot about it as soon as he turned around.

"What can I do?" Sun Ce was also a little helpless.

"Go after it."

Sun Ce glanced at Guo Jia and was a little surprised. Generally speaking, Guo Jia doesn't approve of him taking risks, how can he persuade him to chase it today? Just because of Ma Chao? This is not like Guo Jia's temper.

Guo Jia said with a smile: "General, when Chen Deng went out of the city, it was probably the beginning of the ugly time, and now it is the end of the ugly time, and when you catch up with them, it should be before dawn." With Ma Chao exploring the way ahead, even if Chen Deng had an ambush, it is now exposed. Chen Deng's purpose is to preserve his strength, he will not be entangled for too long, and after repelling Ma Chao, he will quickly retreat. At this time, if the general catches up again, he may not be prepared. As long as the general is careful, there will be no major danger. If Chen Deng can be killed in this way, except for one trouble, it is worth taking a little risk. ”

Sun Ce understood. This strategy has been used by Jia Xu, and it looks mysterious, but it is actually a speculation on people's hearts. He immediately summoned Yi Cong's foot cavalry, and called Shang Yan Xing, a total of 600 foot cavalry, and chased in the direction of Shicheng.

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Twenty miles east of Shicheng, Ma Chao shouted loudly, rode his horse back and forth, and the spear in his hand ran like the wind, assassinating and flying enemies one by one. People borrow horsepower, horses help people, every blow is full of power, no one can stop it.

But there were too many people on the other side, killing one, and then two, killing two, and four more appeared, and I don't know how many people there were in the dark. In addition to the large number of people, what is more troublesome is those dark arrows, which are roaring one after another, and they cannot be prevented. He's a little better, he has fine armor and armor, and there is gold silk brocade armor in it, even if he takes two arrows, it's not a big deal, and the knights under his command are in trouble, ordinary armor can't stop the close-range shooting of crossbow arrows, although it may not be killed on the spot, but falling off the horse or losing combat effectiveness also means death.

And, of course, poisoned arrows. In just a short period of time, he had already changed two war horses, both of which were shot by poisoned arrows, although they were only one or two arrows, but they quickly convulsed and died. The other party was obviously well prepared, not only with unprotected war horses as the main target, but also with plenty of poisoned arrows.

"Puff" two muffled sounds, and the war horse under the crotch suddenly lost its front hooves. Ma Chao knew that it was not good, so he immediately jumped up and jumped off the horse. "Despicable brute, suffer death!" He roared, spear stabbing through an opponent, landing on both feet, sitting on his horse, and with both arms exerting himself, he picked up his opponent and threw him out. Without waiting for the man to land, he rushed to the next opponent. Two sword and shield men blocked his path and slashed at him at the same time. Ma Chao stopped abruptly, and the spear swung left and right, smashing the shield and stabbing one person with one spear. The sword and shield held the spear in his hand, screamed in pain, threw the sword and shield, hugged the spear, and held on. Ma Chao couldn't draw his spear at once, and another sword and shield hand had already rushed in front of him. He simply abandoned the spear, met it, reached out and pinched the opponent's wrist, and flew up with a kick that hit him in the heart. The sword and shield hand took two steps back, and the war knife in his hand was also taken away by Ma Chao, and before he could stand firm, Ma Chao rushed forward and slashed at his neck.

"Dang!" The long knife was broken in two.

"What a broken knife!" Ma Chao scolded loudly, and a punch was blasted out, smashing into the face of the sword and shield hand, and half of his face was smashed by him. He drew the long knife from his waist, slashed the face of the shield man with a backhand, and swung a spear with his sword.

"Major General, get on your horse." Pang De rushed over, jumped off the horse, raised a spear in his left hand, danced a knife in his right hand, rushed to Ma Chao, the spear bayonet slashed, and in a blink of an eye, he knocked down the two opponents.

Ma Chao grabbed the horse's mane, jumped on the horse's back, rode his horse past the fallen sword and shield hand, drew his spear, rushed back to Pound's side, and stabbed down two spearmen who wanted to sneak attack Pound one after another.

"Ling Ming, what about Chen Deng?"

"I haven't seen him all the time, maybe he ran away."

"Chase!" Ma Chao looked up, but found that there was no way to chase at all, there were torches in all directions, and people were running away, who knew which direction was Chen Deng? As soon as he was stunned, he was hit by an arrow, and he screamed angrily, and drew a short spear from his leather bag and threw it out.

There was a scream in the darkness, and the spear of the archer, who had just been glad that he had succeeded in the sneak attack, fell to the ground.

Ma Chao took off the horned bow hanging on his waist, pulled out the arrow nailed to the cuirass, and took a little aim, and shot down a spearman who rushed over, then took the arrow, wound it, and released the arrow, and kept waving his hand, shooting several arrows in a row, and the arrows hit, none of them missed. The enemy was frightened by his archery skills, and no one dared to go any further, turning and running, but he could not outrun his arrows, and was shot to the ground one after another.

The shouting and killing gradually subsided, Ma Chao looked around, but he couldn't be happy. There were hundreds of corpses lying on the ground within a radius of three or four hundred steps, most of them were enemies who ambushed them, but his subordinates also suffered heavy losses, less than thirty people were still standing, even fewer war horses, and the losses were even heavier than last time, but Chen Deng was nowhere to be seen, and he couldn't even see a shadow. He didn't even see Chen Deng at all.

"Chen Deng, I must kill you-" Ma Chao raised his arms and roared.