In Ma Chao's heart, he was a little disdainful of Liu Feng, who was more than ten years younger than himself, but when Fa Zheng came tonight, how could Ma Chao not see Fa Zheng's loyalty to Liu Feng? is so dangerous, Fa Zheng actually came alone, Ma Chao naturally didn't believe that it was Liu Feng who forced Fa Zheng to come this time, judging from Fa Zheng's generous statement, this trip must have been planned by him personally, rather than taking Liu Feng's order to come as a lobbyist in desperation.

"What is this Liu Feng's ability to make so many brave generals in Jingzhou Yizhou bow down to him, and they are willing to take such a risk to come to ......"

Sending away Fa Zheng, Ma Chao thought silently in his study alone, holding the letter written by Liu Feng when Fa Zheng was leaving, Ma Chao took advantage of the time when there was no one around, opened the letter, skimmed it, and there was a hint of a smile on the back, put the letter into the brazier in the house, and saw the letter burned to ashes, and then said silently: "Although you have confidence, how can I descend to Yizhou like this?" At present, this battle will let you see the power of my Liangzhou Iron Cavalry. ”

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"Filial piety, have you ever been wronged?"

At this time, where Liu Feng and the others were staying, after worrying for half the night, Fa Zheng finally returned to Liu Feng's side. Because it was nearly two hours later than Liu Feng's previous estimate, Liu Feng was quite nervous in his heart, for fear that Fa Zheng's disagreement would annoy Ma Chao.

"Naturally, no, but I was afraid that Ma Chao Diver would follow him and discover the traces of the master, so I made a little detour in Guanzhong and returned here after confirming that no one was following."

Hearing that Fa Zheng was not injured, Liu Feng breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, "Can the letter be handed over to Ma Mengqi?" How did Ma Mengqi respond to what we said? ”

Liu Feng first cared about Fa Zheng, and then asked how Ma Chao was, so that Fa Zheng was very moved, and immediately gave Liu Feng a deep salute, and then sorted out his thoughts and replied: "Ma Chao is not a brave and unscrupulous person, he already knows in his heart that Zhang Lu is not the master, according to the Zheng view, Ma Chao is just convicted of Cao Cao, and he temporarily lived in Hanzhong in desperation, and now he is going to lobby for this time, Ma Chao is obviously a little tempted, but he betrayed Zhang Lu for no reason and surrendered to me, Ma Chao will naturally not agree, Therefore, only by teaching him to be sure in his heart that he was already benevolent to Zhang Lu, or if Zhang Lu surrendered to Cao Cao, Ma Chao had no choice but to join our army. In Ma Chao's heart, he really lacked a reason to throw himself at us. ”

"If it is really as filial piety said, then what Ma Chao lacks is just a reason, then we will give him a reason, and it is not impossible to ......"

In this way, after another three days, Cao Pi was still the same as in the past, to fight outside Yangping Pass, although Zhang Lu was still closed, but his heart was more and more anxious day by day, almost half of the sergeants were waiting in Yangping Pass, which really made Zhang Lu, who had not experienced the war for a long time, a little uncomfortable, lest one day when he was sleeping soundly Cao Pi used a strategy to break through, and then killed him between the beds.

Finally, Zhang Lu couldn't hold it back, and thought of Ma Chao's words before, so he summoned Ma Chao to the front alone, and asked in a low voice: "General Meng Qi has the courage of ten thousand people, and now since he is in our army, he should also make Cao Pi know the bravery of our army, otherwise if he does not retreat in January, we will always shrink like this, and the morale of the army will be completely lost, how can we resist it?" ”

As soon as Ma Chao saw Zhang Lusheng's desire to fight, he immediately said: "If Chao can lead a sergeant out of the customs, he will definitely be able to retreat Cao Pi!" ”

"In this case, if Cao Pi comes to fight again tomorrow, the general will personally lead 15,000 troops to rush and kill him, I personally lead the army to watch the battle under the city, if the general wins, I will lead the army to chase after the rear, how about it?"

"It's all at the disposal of the Lord!" At this time, Ma Chao just wanted Fa Zheng and Liu Feng, who were hiding in the shadows, to see what your strength was, as for Zhang Lu, he didn't care, even the fifteen thousand sergeants who were far from enough, Ma Chao didn't say anything to refute. When Zhang Lu heard this, he was naturally overjoyed in his heart.

What he was looking forward to at this time was that Ma Chao would succeed in one fell swoop, scare Cao Pi away, and return Hanzhong to a clear state. But he didn't know that the general trend of the Central Plains had reached such a level, and with his strength, he was no longer able to occupy such an important place as Hanzhong, and Qingming in Hanzhong would naturally never be under his rule again.

The next day, when Cao Pi went to fight outside the gate again, he saw that the gate was wide open, and under the smoke and dust, a silver-armored spear general should be the first to go out of the pass, and a cavalry behind him was full of momentum, which was the five thousand Liangzhou iron cavalry led by Ma Chao.

After Ma Chao passed the pass, he didn't answer, and directly turned into a horse and rode out, wanting to take Cao Pi in front of the battle, but since Cao Pi knew that Ma Chao was in Yangping Pass, he was naturally prepared, and he went back, and Xiahou Yuan caught Ma Chao in the formation and fought with him in one place.

If it comes to force, Xiahou Yuan is the most skilled fighter among the generals who followed Cao Pi this time, but this time against Ma Chao, after more than ten rounds of fighting, he was already a little weak, Cao Zhen saw this, and hurriedly waved his knife out of the battle, and Xiahou Yuan fought Ma Chao together, and the two of them worked together, only to barely resist Ma Chao.

After fighting like this for dozens of rounds, Ma Chao saw that he couldn't do anything, and then he sold a flaw and pulled the horse back, and when he arrived in the formation, Ma Chao saw Cao Pi watching the battle in his formation from afar, and his heart was full of anger, and he left the original intention of withdrawing the army behind him for a while, and with a wave of the handsome flag, together with 5,000 cavalry, 15,000 sergeants all rushed to Cao Pi's Chinese army.

Although Cao Pi didn't expect Ma Chao to rush to kill like this, he was prepared for this situation, and while slowly retreating, he gave several military orders to Xiahou Yuan on his side.

Ma Chao's iron cavalry was extremely fast, and it didn't take long to catch up with Cao Pi's rear army, and under a rush, he killed more than 100 people in Cao Pi's army.

At first sight, Ma Chao felt even more hatred in his heart, and for a while he only cared about leading the army to chase and kill, but forgot that under this rush, he was already nearly ten miles away from Yangping Pass.

After killing more than 500 people of Cao Pihou's army, Ma Chaofang realized that Cao's army was not counterattacking, and he felt a little strange in his heart, so he ordered the withdrawal of the army.

But at this time, if you want to withdraw the army, it is a little late, the cavalry in front has just turned the horse's head, Ma Chao only heard a shout of killing behind a hill on the right, and he suddenly felt bad in his heart, and then looked at it, Cao Hong had already led nearly 20,000 soldiers to kill from the right.

"The enemy army has ambushes, quickly withdraw to Yangping Pass!" Ma Chao felt remorse in his heart, but obviously, it was too late for this battle.