The battle in Jincheng lasted for a day and did not stop, Ma Chao's offensive was fierce, although Han Sui barely held it, but at the end of the day, he lost thousands of people, although Ma Chao lost more, at least more than three times the manpower, but the first day can play this ratio, the second day is not necessarily, there is a difference between two thousand people defending the city and three thousand people guarding the city.

The worst thing is that for one day, Han Sui's soldiers and horses deployed in various places did not react, and he did not even see the shadow of a support army.

It stands to reason that Zhiyang is near the left, Cheng Yin has 8,000 garrisons here, the two sides are less than fifty miles apart, and when they see the beacon fire, they can arrive in half a day, but this battle was fought from morning to evening, and the Zhiyang reinforcements did not even see a shadow.

The same is true for several other roads.

If there is one person who betrays him, Han Sui does not doubt it, he never believes in loyalty, but it is impossible for everyone to betray, but everyone did not come to help, and the only explanation is that he was blocked.

In this Xiliang land, Han Sui couldn't think of a second person who could send troops to block his own army, except for Ma Teng, but such a careful action, he cut off his way in advance without knowing it at all, which was definitely not something Ma Teng could do.

But now, it's useless to think about it.

It's late at night, Han Sui pays attention to health on weekdays, and usually has already fallen asleep at this time, but tonight, Han Sui didn't, sitting in his study, silently closing his eyes, thinking about the current situation, Ma Teng now seems to have completely voted for Ye Zhao, this fight is quite methodical, first cut off the reinforcements, and then let Ma Chao lead the elite to attack Jincheng, as long as he Han Sui dies, then Ma Teng or Ye Zhao, as long as he throws an olive branch, those subordinates who are loyal to him will definitely surrender without hesitation.

This may be the reason why Ye Zhao chose Ma Teng instead of himself, Ye Zhao does not need an army that is not under his control, compared to Ma Teng, he is obviously not so easy to control.

Thinking of this, Han Sui smiled bitterly and shook his head, but there was nothing he could do.

"Father-in-law." Yan walked in, hugged his fist at Han Sui and said, "The night patrol has been settled." ”

"Night Patrol?" Han Sui shook his head and said, "Prepare to break through." ”

"Breakout?" Yan Xing looked at Han Sui in amazement and said: "Although Ma Chao is arrogant, our army doesn't have to be afraid of him, the victory is not scored, why do you want to break through?" ”

"Ma Chao is a brave man, don't be afraid." Han Sui shook his head and said: "But behind him, it's the Tai Lieutenant, the Tai Lieutenant is going to do something to us now, Ma Teng and his son are just pawns, even if they are defeated, do you think we can stop the 100,000 troops in Guanzhong?" ”

"But I heard that the Taiwei is now fighting in the state and is not in Chang'an, and Hetao also has to be garrisoned, so how many soldiers and horses are there in Chang'an?" Yan Xing wondered.

"So, they spurred the horses to attack." Han Sui sneered: "Without spending a single soldier, let me ask the two warlords to fight each other, this is a battle with no winner, whether Ma Teng defeated me in the end, or I defeated Ma Teng, the final winner, but only Ye Zhao, instead of fighting hard here, and then let Ye Zhao cheapen, it is better to give up the Xiliang foundation and find another place!" Whether Ma Teng surrenders or fights with Ye Zhao, it has nothing to do with me. ”

Yan Xing suddenly looked at Han Tunnel: "Then when will you break through?" ”

"Wait a minute, although Ma Teng is powerful, but the elite gather here, there shouldn't be many troops in other places to intercept, Cheng Yin, Yang Qiu and Liang Xing should be able to kill them, there should be news tomorrow, just with these horses in our city, even if they break through, it will be difficult to find another foundation, and we must gather some more soldiers and horses." Han Sui said with a smile.

"Father-in-law, have you ever thought about where we will go after we break through?" Yan Xing looked at Han Sui and said.

"Although the Central Plains is big, but there is no place for me, the Zhang Ye guard is my henchman, we will go to Zhangye this time, and then ask the court to protect the Western Regions, before we have some friendship with many countries in the Western Regions, to the Western Regions to gain a foothold, although not as prosperous as the Central Plains, but it is better than sending people under the fence." Han Sui said with a smile.

He had already thought about the way out, since he was called the Nine Songs of the Yellow River, the way of the three caves of the cunning rabbit, how could he not know?

It's just that now Ma Chao led the army to raid, which caught him a little off guard, and if he wanted to leave at this time, he had to defeat Ma Chao first.

"What my father-in-law said is very true." Yan Xing smiled and nodded, "Then I'll go and prepare." ”

"Go, just for these two days!" Han Sui nodded, the defenders of Jincheng will be able to hold it for two days at most, and I am afraid that they will not be able to hold it for a long time.

"Whoa!"

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Outside Jincheng, Ma Chaoda Camp.

"Brother, this Han Sui's soldiers and horses are so strong." In the tent, Ma Tie sat opposite Ma Chao a little depressed and said: "The city wall of this golden city is not high, it stands to reason that even if the city cannot be broken today, it can also make Han Sui suffer heavy losses, but Han Sui does not know where to get so many armor and weapons, and the equipment far exceeds that of our army!" On the contrary, our army suffered a lot of losses. ”

"I heard my father say that for more than a year, Han Sui has used Chang'an to trade with the Western Regions, and has gained a lot of benefits from the people of the Western Regions!" Ma Chao sneered: "Just the Dawan good horse, I heard that I got six horses from the Western Regions. ”

Dawan good horses are rare, even if there is no shortage of horses here in Xiliang, but in the Ma Teng army, there are only three, and Han Sui has as many as eight, this alone is enough to make people blush, not to mention excellent equipment, gold and silver and other things.

Ma Tie's eyes lit up when he heard this, the Dawan good horse in Ma Teng's army has long had a master, Ma Teng has one, Ma Chao has one, in addition, Ma Teng sent one in order to envelop the general Pang De, not even Ma Tie and Ma Xiu as sons, let alone others, if the city can be broken, how can the eight Dawan good horses say that they should also have their own one, right? For Ma Chao's snow-white Dawan good horse, Ma Tie has been greedy for a long time.

"Brother, when will we break the city?" Thinking that he might have a Dawan good horse, Ma Tie's heart couldn't stop being hot, and he couldn't wait to break through Jincheng and snatch those Dawan good horses.

"Two or three days." Ma Chao thought about it, if it weren't for those new equipment, he might be able to capture it today, but Han Sui's army equipment was renovated and strengthened, and the price of breaking the city would naturally be high.

"Tomorrow's little brother will personally supervise the battle!" Ma Tie bowed to Ma Chao excitedly and said, "Brother rests, junior brother leaves." ”

After speaking, he didn't wait for Ma Chao to react, turned around and left.

Looking at the back of Ma Tie leaving, Ma Chao sighed helplessly, and was about to go to rest, but saw a dusty soldier rushing over and was stopped by the guards outside the tent.

"What?" Ma went out of the camp, recognized the other party as Ma Teng's personal guard, waved his hand to let the personal guard leave, and looked at the other party.

"Eldest son, something happened!" Ma Teng's personal guard bowed down and said: "The lord led the army to attack Zhiyang today, and unfortunately hit the arrow!" ”

"How's the injury?" Ma Chao frowned and asked.

"The military medicine craftsman is treating, and the Lord Justice is in a coma!"

When Ma Chao heard this, his brows furrowed even deeper, as soon as Ma Teng fell, there would inevitably be chaos in the army, in order to prevent Cheng Yin from taking advantage of the situation, there must be a person with high enough prestige to deter the three armies.

This matter, naturally, only Ma Chao is suitable, but here Jincheng is about to break, and at this time, if he leaves, it will inevitably change.

"Pass on my military order, order Ma Tie to lead the troops, continue to attack Jincheng, and I will personally go to Zhiyang to see my father's injury." After thinking for a while, Ma Chao decided to let Ma Tie stay and defend the city, and go to Zhiyang to re-preside over the overall situation.

"Whoa!" The guards agreed and went to inform Ma Tie, and Ma Chao took the guards to rush to Zhiyang overnight.

"I'll lead the way?" When Ma Tie received the news, he was a little stunned, although he was the son of Ma Teng, it was the first time that he received his life alone.

"Yes, this is the order of the eldest prince." Several lieutenants said.

That's great!

After receiving the order, the depression in Ma Tie's heart was suddenly swept away, and the opportunity he had been waiting for finally came.

Early the next morning, Ma Tie led his soldiers and horses to attack Jincheng, intending to take Jincheng in the shortest possible time and let his father and brother see what he was capable of.

"It's strange, why is this Ma Chao's army attacking the city so weak today?" Han Sui heard the sound of fighting, came to the city, and watched the dense Ma Teng soldiers and horses rushing up one after another like an ant tide, but he didn't have the morale of yesterday, he was slightly stunned, and then reacted and smiled: "God gives me the opportunity to break the enemy!" ”

"Father-in-law, what do you mean by that?" Yan Xing was puzzled.

"What do you mean? Although Ma Chao is a reckless man, he is proficient in the art of war, if it were him, it would be impossible to attack so chaotically, and at this time, I am afraid that the army has already changed generals. Han Sui sneered: "There must be something wrong in several other places, so Ma Chao went to save it overnight." ”

Ma Chao and Ma Tie's level of leading troops is obviously not on the same line, yesterday there was Ma Chao, and the morale of the army was like a rainbow, but at this moment it was replaced by Ma Tie, which is a different situation, Ma Tie is not as good as the weak crown, but his martial arts skills are good, but it is only good, and on the battlefield, the consideration is the command and control of the troops, not personal bravery, in this regard, Ma Tie is obviously not worse than Ma Chao, so that as soon as the war started, Han Sui saw the flaw.

In fact, Ma Chao didn't expect Ma Tie to break the city, but he just hoped that Ma Tie would be able to make Han Sui seem dead, and when he came back, he would clean up Han Sui, who knew that Ma Tie was born a calf, and he followed Ma Chao to fight a few battles, and felt that he was not bad, so he personally went into battle and commanded the soldiers to attack the city, but he didn't know that he missed the stuffing at the beginning, so that Han Sui could see through it at a glance.

"Then ...... now," Yan Xing said with some uncertainty.

"Lure him into the city and kill him in the city!" Han Sui looked at Ma Tie, who was excitedly waving the command flag on the battlefield, and sneered: "It also makes that Ma Shoucheng's heart ache once!" ”