A bright moon hung high in the air, dyeing the walls of Guzang into a dazzling silver, and the bright stars in the sky, like jewels, shimmered slightly, dotting the dark night sky. []

In the south of Guzang City, the soldiers who kept vigil looked cautiously into the distance, although the night was long, but the defenders of Guzang City still did not dare to slack off.

In the distance, Cherrigi led his subordinates to the two generals of Oh He and Burn Ge and was rushing to Guzang City.

The number of Qiang people is not very large, but the Qiang people in the back each carry two scarecrows. In the back were five or six hundred carts, all loaded with scarecrows.

"You guys listen to me, when you arrive in Guzang City, attack the southwest of Guzang with all your might, and at the same time shout to me hard, how loud and loud." Cherrigi spoke.

"King, if you attack the city, you will attack the city, why. To bring so many scarecrows? Oh He asked.

"This is all General Deng Ai's strategy, you just do it."

"But the king, the terrain of the southwest corner was original. It is not easy to attack, and the reinforcements from the west and south gates can arrive at any time to reinforce, and this southwest corner is the most difficult to fight, why do we want to attack here? ”

"This is also General Deng Ai's plan, you also do it for me!"

The Qiang people came to the place close to Guzang City, and Cheriji gave an order, and the Qiang soldiers set up a formation, and the Qiang people behind began to stick the scarecrow on the ground, and after a while, a fan-shaped formation appeared in front of Guzang City, the front of this formation was a real person, and the back were all scarecrows. Standing in the southwest corner of Guzang City and looking down, the west and south sides are full of Qiang soldiers, and you can't see the edge at a glance.

It was night, and Cherrigi was on his way to the . There are more torches in the front where the real soldiers are shot, and there are no torches in the back where the straw men are shot. This made it impossible for the soldiers in the city to distinguish at all, and the people behind were all straw men.

And because this time the place where Cherrigi came was southwest of Guzang City. Corner, the defenders of the city will feel that the west and south gates are all enemies, and there is a feeling of being surrounded.

The horse climbed the tower and looked into the distance as far as the eye could see. The Qiang people trembled slightly in their hearts. Attacking the city at night is a taboo for soldiers, and this time the place chosen by Cherrigi turned out to be the southwest corner of Guzang City, the southwest corner of the contact area is relatively small, which is not conducive to the placement of cloud ladders, and the attacking troops are not easy to deploy, and the reinforcements from the west and south can be reinforced at any time, it can be said that the southwest corner of Guzang City is the easiest place to defend in the whole Guzang.

"Cherrigi was thinking. Is it? actually attacked the southwest corner, did he want to send troops in vain? Ma muttered.

"Yes, brother, look at Cherrigie's posture, with so many people coming out, there must be sixty or seventy thousand people here!" Ma Dai pointed ahead and spoke.

"Sixty or seventy thousand?" Looking ahead, he couldn't see the marginal Qiang soldiers, and said with an excuse: "There are so many of us alone, and now is the night, and we can't see the dark places in the distance, maybe there are more Qiang soldiers." ”

"Hehehe, if these Qiang people really attack the southwest of this city, they will feel better. As long as there are five or six hundred people here, even his 100,000 troops will not be able to break it! This time, Cherrigi dared to attack with all his might, and he would often suffer for a while. Ma Dai said.

"Attacking with all your might?" The horse was slightly stunned, and suddenly, a bold plan flashed through the horse's mind.

"Ma Dai, you go to reorganize the army immediately, we are ready to break through." Ma said suddenly.

"Breakout? Brother, you said to break through? ”

"Yes, what Deng Ai said today, you also heard it, that Zhuge Liang intended to harm me, and now we can't wait for reinforcements, so now we must break through as soon as possible and return to Yongzhou. If you look at the front, there are so many Qiang people, which means that the main force of Cherrigi is here, and it is the right time to break through now, and it will not be pursued by the main force of the Qiang people. ”

"Then this Gu Zangcheng just gave up?" Ma Dai asked, with a hint of unwillingness in his tone. After all, he has been guarding Guzang City for so long, and now he is still a little reluctant to give up Ma Dai.

"What can you do if you don't give up Guzang, if you give up a Guzang city, he can take it back one day, it's better than losing his life." The horse spoke.

"Brother, you said that we will give up this Guzang City and return to Chang'an, will it be criticized!"

"You don't have to worry about this, we have resisted the Qiang and Di coalition forces in this Guzang City for a year, and when we arrive in Chang'an, I will see who dares to criticize us, if anyone dares to talk nonsense, I will arrest him in this Guzang City and give it a try!" At this time, the horse finally regained his original domineering.

……

Instead of rushing to attack the city, Cherrigi left his army in place.

"King, everyone is here, let's attack the city!" Oh He spoke.

"What time is it?" Cherrigi asked.

"It's almost ugly."

"Wait, General Deng Ai said to wait until three o'clock to attack the city. When the time comes, Ma Zi will give us this Guzang City. Cherrigi spoke.

"The horse will give us Guzang City?" Oh Ho's eyes widened and he asked incredulously.

"Then Deng Ai said, tonight the horse will definitely break through...... I have sent spies to the east gate to investigate. ”

"Hmph, king, how can you believe the words of that Han man, that Deng Ai, who looks less than thirty years old, how capable he is! I don't believe it, this horse will give us Guzang City! ”

As soon as Oh Ho's words fell, the spies sent out by Cherrigi in the distance returned.

"My lord, as soon as the east gate was opened, about five or six thousand men rushed out and went straight to the east." The scout spoke.

"Five or six thousand? It seems that this must be a horse breaking through, and the horse immediately ordered the siege! Cherrigi shouted.

After more than a year of attacking and defending, Guzang City has also lost a lot of people and horses, and now Ma chooses to break through, naturally taking away the most elite people, Ma's own Xiliang cavalry has 3,000 people, plus some elite soldiers, there are almost more than 5,000 people, so as soon as Cherrigi heard that there were five or six thousand people out of the city, he immediately thought that Ma had broken through.

"My lord, did you just let the horse go? There are only five or six thousand people around the horse, and now is a good opportunity to get rid of the horse, you give me a team of men, and I will go after him! "Oh Ho immediately asked for war.

"Hehehe, direction, the horse can't go, someone is waiting for him in front!"

……

"Stepping on ......"

Under the moonlight, more than 5,000 Liangzhou war horses carrying more than 5,000 knights galloped towards Yongzhou in the east.

"Ma Dai, have the Qiang people caught up?" Ma asked loudly.

"Brother, Cherrigi didn't catch up."

"Didn't catch up?" A hint of unease suddenly rose in Ma's heart.

The horse has been on the battlefield for a long time, and he is a native of Liangzhou, and he is well versed in cavalry tactics. Therefore, Ma also knew that in this case, if Cherrigi pursued, it would be very disadvantageous to himself, and Cherrigi, as the king of Qiang, was naturally familiar with cavalry tactics. Now Cherrigi does not send people to pursue, which makes the horse feel that there is a strangeness in it.

"Could it be that someone is blocking up ahead?" A flash of inspiration crossed the horse's mind, and then he shook his head and rejected the idea. When he was just in Guzang City, Ma had witnessed the black suppression of the Qiang army outside the city, although the specific number of people could not be distinguished in the night, but from the scale of the opponent's formation, the main force of the Qiang people should be outside Guzang City, even if there were Qiang people in front of him, the number would not be too much, with the Liangzhou cavalry under his command, a small number of Qiang people could not stop themselves at all.

Could it be that Cherrigi really gave up this good opportunity? Thinking of this, the horse shook his head again. In war, you live and die, and Cherrigi will never make such a mistake.

The further he went, the more uneasy he felt in his heart, and the sixth sense he had cultivated over the years of war kept telling him that there might be danger waiting for him.

"Stop!" The horse reined in with a loud shout.

When the people saw that the horses had stopped, they also stopped.

"Brother, what's wrong?" Ma Dai asked.

"Do you feel like something is wrong up ahead?" Ma asked suddenly.

Ma Dai looked ahead and said, "Brother, did you notice something?" ”

"Maybe I'm suspicious, but I always feel like something is wrong."

"Brother, why don't we take a detour and go south first!" Ma Dai said.

"Okay, let's go south first, let's take a detour!"

……

Just a few miles in front of the horse, Deng Ai and a large force of Qiang soldiers were lying in ambush here, waiting for the horse to arrive.

This is Deng Ai's backhand.

Deng Ai knew that although he did not say that he would move the horse to stand on his own today, he also succeeded in separating Ma and Zhuge Liang, Ma thought that there were no reinforcements, and he would inevitably choose to break through, but the Qiang army outside the city besieged the city, and the danger of breaking through was very great.

Therefore, Deng Ai deliberately let Cheriji go to Guzang at night, and also went to the southwest corner of the city, where the city defense was the most solid, to confuse Ma with straw men, so that Ma thought that the main forces of the Qiang people were there, and made Ma feel that this was a good opportunity to break through. In the night, Ma couldn't tell the difference between the grass man and the real person, so when Ma thought that the main force of the Qiang people was outside, he really chose to break through. As for Deng Ai, he led a large number of Qiang people to ambush on the road through which the horse must pass.

"Report ......" A Qiang scout came running and said, "General, the horses have suddenly stopped!" ”

"The horse stopped?" Deng Ai frowned slightly: "Could it be that he was revealed?" ”

Beside Deng Ai, General Qiang asked with his mouth: "General Deng Ai, the horse has stopped, what should we do?" ”

"Take a look first and wait and see what happens, so as not to startle the snake!"

"Report ......" As soon as Deng Ai's words fell, another scout ran over again.

"General, horses are going south!"

"The horse is going south! Has he already appeared in my ambush! Deng Ai was shocked, but after a while, a smile appeared on Deng Ai's face.

"It's worthy of a horse, I, Deng Ai, really underestimate you! But that's more fun! Deng Ai said, a cold light appeared in his eyes:

"Order, the whole army set off, pursue the horses!"