After making up his mind, Liu Chongjing immediately took action.

For a general who is bent on delaying time, if he needs to, he can find a suitable reason for delaying for even an hour or two, not to mention that Liu Chongjing needs to delay for only a quarter of an hour.

He first shouted at the commander of one of the battalions on the grounds that the officers and men under his command were not in good armor; Then he ordered to send people to inform the reinforcements and sailors coming from Yuezhou, so that they could be prepared......

After explaining a series of things, although the delay was not much.

However, on the march, he again mentioned the need to be vigilant in case the enemy attacked by surprise; and to save physical strength, lest the soldiers become exhausted after rushing to the camp of Ma Ye, and instead of rescuing their allies, they will trap themselves.

With these reasons, he easily achieved his goal without arousing anyone's suspicion.

After all, the reasons he put forward are also relatively sufficient.

Since the Chu army was able to make a detour to attack Ma Ye's department, it was equally likely to launch a surprise attack on them, so it was necessary to be cautious.

Only Chen Fen understood Liu Chongjing's purpose in his heart.

In this hurry, when they were about to approach the Ma Ye camp, they encountered a large group of Wu army on the way, and from their mouths, Liu Chongjing learned that the camp had been lost!

"Where is General Ma? What about General Ma? Liu Chongjing asked anxiously, his face full of anxiety.

Everyone didn't doubt him, they just thought that he was normal and cared about Ma Ye's safety.

General Ma saw that he could not resist, and the general's reinforcements were delayed, he knew that the camp could not continue to hold, so he led his troops to break through, but was scattered by the enemy on the way. I don't know where General Ma is now. The routs replied.

Liu Chongjing's expression was uncertain, but after all, he had been trained for many years, even if he was more anxious in his heart, but his face was not revealed.

After a moment of silence, he then asked, "How many enemy troops are there?" What about the casualties in the camp? ”

Although the messenger sent by Ma Ye had reported the strength of the enemy army before, the news was not necessarily accurate in a hurry at that time.

Now that Liu Chongjing is planning to do a big job, he naturally has to understand the reality of the enemy army.

Regardless of whether Ma Ye lives or dies, if he wants to be promoted, it is impossible without enough credit.

"General Qiyu, the enemy army is not very strong, probably only four or five thousand people, if it weren't for their sudden surprise attack from the rear of our army, they would not have been able to break through our army's camp!" An officer-like rout replied.

"Yes, although the enemy has more troops than ours and has taken advantage of surprise attacks, they are not good at fighting. If it weren't for the fact that they had a huge advantage in the first place, they would not have been able to defeat our army! The other answered.

"Although our army was inferior, everyone fought bravely to kill the enemy, causing many casualties among the enemy troops. If the general is willing to counterattack back, he is willing to kill back with the general! ”

"Yes, I'm willing to go back with the general!" One by one, the many routs screamed.

They did fight a little aggrieved in the previous battle.

Although Ma Ye divided his command into two, he himself commanded 3,000 people, and Liu Chongjing commanded the remaining 2,000 people.

The enemy army had nearly 5,000 people, far more troops than Ma Ye's troops, and it was convenient to sneak attack, but in the end, the Chu army did not take much advantage.

The reason for this may be that the Chu army has been fighting all year round and has suffered great losses, which has made the Chu army short of soldiers, uneven in good and bad, and its combat effectiveness is not as good as before.

Or maybe the Chu army took too far of a detour, and as a result, the soldiers were exhausted, so the combat strength was greatly reduced.

Whatever the reason, in short, although the enemy army can defeat Ma Ye, it has also reached the end of its own strong crossbow.

Although Liu Chongjing only led 1,500 people to come at this time, he was a fresh force with plenty of energy, and with the addition of these routs, if he fought hard, he would not have a chance to win.

If he can defeat the enemy army in one fell swoop and reverse the general trend of the enemy and us in the case of Ma Ye's defeat, then even if Ma Ye survives, he has this great merit and has more chances of promotion in the future.

Thinking of this, Liu Chongjing's heart suddenly became a little excited.

"Although I don't have a deep friendship with General Ma, General Ma is the general's boss; Now that the boss is in trouble, how can I, as a subordinate, sit idly by? He shouted to the people.

"What's more, there must be still our troops in the camp who have not been able to break through. Brothers, come with me, crush the enemy army, and rescue the besieged brothers! Liu Chongjing agitated loudly.

"Brothers, go back with Ben!"

"Kill!" Many soldiers responded loudly.

Seeing that everyone's morale was high, Liu Chongjing felt more relieved, and immediately led his troops to launch a counterattack on the camp that had just been captured by the enemy.

Inside the camp.

"Array to meet the enemy, hurry up and line up to meet the enemy!" Li Tang, the leading general of the Chu army, roared loudly.

Officers at all levels were also trying to drive away their troops, trying to regain the somewhat disorganized and exhausted soldiers.

"Damn, I didn't expect that only three thousand Wu troops would be so difficult, the elite of the Wu army's forbidden army, it is really not an ordinary army!"

"If it weren't for the detour that was too far, it would have cost everyone a lot of effort, and it wouldn't have taken so much effort to destroy the enemy army!" Li Tang thought extremely unwillingly in his heart.

He really didn't expect that with nearly 5,000 troops in his hands and a surprise attack, the 3,000 people who defeated Ma Ye would only barely win.

Even if the enemy reinforcements had come a little earlier, he wouldn't have thought of gaining any advantage today.

As for now, Li Tang looked at the commander of the Wu army who was tied up and pressed to the ground, but he still scolded angrily, and he couldn't help but be happy.

Yes, his luck was obviously good, and he actually captured Ma Ye, the general of the Wu army, alive.

Although Ma Ye's rank is not high, he is just an ordinary commander in the Wu army, and he is still the kind of commander who has no future and no reputation, but no matter how he says, a commander can barely be regarded as a high-level general.

With this credit, even if he can't expand the results of the battle in the future, it will be a great achievement after he returns to the Chu State.

"Shut this man's mouth, and escort him to the enemy's line! If the enemy dares to attack, then use him to block the enemy's sword! He ordered loudly.

Although Ma Ye was pressed to the ground and was quickly gagged again, he heard what Li Tang had just said word for word, and suddenly became even more angry.

But no matter how angry he is, now that he has been captured by the Chu army, where can he resist?

It didn't take long for Ma Ye, who was tied up with all kinds of flowers, to be escorted to the front of the two armies, so that the Wu army, which was attacking with all its might, was stunned.

Ma Ye is their direct commander, even if he has been captured by the enemy now, no matter how bold they are, they don't dare to shoot casually, what if they are accidentally injured?

Ma Ye died at the hands of the enemy, and at that time, if the hero was killed by his own people, no one knew what the consequences would be.

"I was captured alive!" Among the Wu army, Liu Chongjing's expression moved, and he whispered to himself in surprise.

He was still thinking about Ma Ye just now, if he broke through, then where he was now, and why he didn't join him.

However, he did not expect that Ma Ye did not succeed in breaking through, but was captured by the enemy.

"Well, the Wu and Chu families are mortal enemies, and the generals of our army who were captured by the Chu army at the beginning, as long as they did not surrender immediately, were finally killed by Ma Yin's order. Since this Ma Ye has fallen into the hands of the Chu army, no matter whether he decides to surrender to the Chu army or refuses to surrender and is killed, he will not be my hindrance! ”

Thinking of this, Liu Chongjing was secretly happy in his heart.

What he wants is to be promoted and make a fortune, as for whether Ma Ye surrenders to the enemy army or is killed if he does not surrender, that is not his concern.

However, at the moment, the enemy army is a little troublesome to use Ma Ye as a shield, and he is already a little suspected of delaying time, if he directly orders Ma Ye to be shot at this time, then even if no one can say that he is not, he is afraid that his reputation will not be good.

After all, before Ma Ye made the substantive move of surrendering, he was a general of the Wu State, and he was also the boss who worked with Liu Chongjing for a period of time.

As soon as they were captured, he ordered them to be shot, which was too unkind.

So Liu Chongjing's eyes rolled and he immediately had an idea.

He walked to the front of the formation, and suddenly knelt down to Ma Ye, and kowtowed three times.

"General Ma, you must also know that if you can't defeat the enemy army today, then the enemy army will take the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, and then break through the interception of our army and kill directly under the city of Tanzhou. At that time, the entire operational plan of our army may fail. ”

"It's hard to have both loyalty and righteousness, and for the sake of the overall situation, I can only order to continue the attack. If General Ma unfortunately dies, Liu Chongjing swears here that he will kill all the Chu thieves in the future and avenge the general! ”

"Attack!"

"Attack!"

Liu Chongjing ordered loudly.

The soldiers of the Wu army were thrilled by his words, and their morale was immediately boosted, and the attack was even more fierce than before.

"Crazy, this group of Wu soldiers is a group of crazy people!" Li Tang cursed in a low voice.

"What are you doing? I'm really going to use him as a shield! Put him down! As soon as he turned around, he saw that the soldiers of the Chu army were really preparing to retreat Ma Ye to the front of the formation to block the arrows, and immediately hurriedly ordered.

What Liu Chongjing didn't expect was that now that the wind direction of Chu State had changed, Ma Yin had already made up his mind to ask our country to surrender in the near future.

In this case, even if he captured the generals of the Wu army, how could he directly kill them like before?

So Li Tang, who heard some rumors, naturally didn't dare to really block Ma Ye to use the shield.

Otherwise, if the two families make peace in the future, Wu Guoren will have to ask him for blame, but he is afraid that Ma Yin will take him out as a scapegoat for the sake of the overall situation.

"That's it, it is a great achievement to be able to capture a commander of the Wu army. Ben will retreat first! ”