Due to Cao Zhen's accidental injuries and heavy casualties on the first day of fighting, the Wei army's actions were frustrated, so they had to temporarily stop the siege and instead rely on the large number of men and horses to besiege but not attack. Vertex updates are the fastest

Cao Zhen's left shoulder was swollen, and his left hand couldn't move. The military doctor came to see it and said that he had injured his bones, and it may have been a strong impact at that time, and the internal injuries were not light, so he had to recuperate.

Cao Zhen had no intention of recuperating, Cao Xiu had just returned from defeat, and he was seriously injured as soon as he went out to fight, if it spread to the court so quickly, he was afraid that it would cause panic and cause a lot of ominous rumors about Wei.

He even wanted to block the news from the army, thinking that it was unlikely, so he cheered up, put on a big hat, and inspected the battalions to show that he was only suffering a little skin injury, and that he did not itch or hurt, so as to calm the morale of the army and avoid panic.

It's just that he was plotted last night, he realized that he was careful all the way, and he still fell into the enemy's calculations, these guys are too cunning and terrible, and at the moment, he must find more resourceful people to give him advice, staff officers.

He urgently sent a message to Sima Yi, asking him to come up first and discuss future actions.

Sima Yi was still on duty in Jicheng, and when he heard the news, he hurried up to meet Cao Zhen.

Hearing what happened to Cao Zhen, Sima Yi was shocked.

He was already puzzled by the enemy's behavior, and he didn't even believe that Xiahou Ba had really driven Ma Chao away that day, but now that Cao Zhen had fallen for the enemy's plot, he immediately had a hunch that there must be a bigger trap waiting for them.

"General, you see, General Cao Xiu came to Longyou with 50,000 horses, but in just ten days, he was defeated and returned, and you, general, were unfavorable and were seriously injured at the beginning of the attack. In my opinion, it is best to stop the active attack on the enemy for the time being, hold the camp, wait for the enemy to make mistakes, and then seize the opportunity to attack. Sima Yi proposed.

Cao Zhen had to agree, if he attacked again, if he made any mistakes, he would be defeated worse than Cao Xiu, so let's be honest first, if you don't do it, you won't die.

"However, this is obviously the enemy invading our territory, but we only watched from the sidelines, the sergeants were not convinced, and the people of the world also saw our jokes, so they turned their hearts to Liu Bei." Cao Zhen was very unwilling.

Sima Yi was silent for a long time before he softly persuaded Cao Zhen: "General, you know, I came to help you this time, and I only brought 30,000 horses, and 10,000 of them were drawn from the original Chang'an garrison, that is, your original men and horses." Now the battle between the southern front and Liu Bei is also being fought inextricably, if there is another accident on the western front, the imperial court is afraid that it will be difficult to draw troops to support for a while, then it will be ......."

Cao Zhen jumped suddenly, yes, this is a serious consequence.

Sima Yi said again: "Actually, as long as we hold on to the camp, their Shu army will be held back by us; And as long as we maintain the encirclement of Shanghe and Jicheng, and let them be anxious, wouldn't it be better to take the initiative to attack us? Since ancient times, defensive warfare has been much easier to fight than offensive warfare. ”

Of course, Cao Zhen understands this truth, the problem is that the reality is so unreasonable now, it is obvious that the enemy is attacking our Longyou, and it has become that the enemy is on the defensive, and we have to attack.

"How long will it take to drag it out like this? It's been delayed for a long time, and it really damages the prestige of my Great Wei Kingdom. Cao Zhen hatefully punched his right hand on the case, but he immediately shook his left shoulder with a huge pain, took a breath of cold air, and sweated profusely.

Sima Yi hurriedly persuaded again: "The general is calm and don't be impatient, this is much better than losing the battle, right?" Besides, they came from afar, and after a long time, they transported grain from Hanzhong, the journey was difficult and long, and sooner or later they would not be able to hold on, and at that time, we would have a chance. ”

"Ahem! Haven't you heard that they have already bought grain at high prices everywhere, and almost bought all the surplus grain in Longyou Prefecture, and there is no need to transport grain, which is enough for them to last for several months! Cao Zhen squeezed out a sentence from his mouth with difficulty and reminded Sima Yi.

"Huh?" Sima Yi's eyes widened, "Even this was preempted by them?" ”

However, for the time being, it can only be like this, Cao Zhen left Fei Yao to lead more than 10,000 troops to surround Shang, and he led the remaining more than 30,000 people to Jicheng and Geliang to consume them, while Sima Yi was responsible for leading the army to Xianqin and other places, keeping an eye on the rest of Ma Chao's troops, and taking the opportunity to take other counties with weak defenses.

Sima Yi learned that Ma Chao did not come to Jicheng at all, but returned to Xianqin and wandered around the Changli area, so he resigned from Cao Zhen, returned to Luoyang, and led Xiahou Ba and other armies to conquer and suppress.

Sima Yi's luck seemed to be much better than Cao Zhen and Cao Xiu, not only did he get a little yang in vain, but he repelled Ma Chao who attacked at night, and when he chased after Xianqin, it turned out to be an empty city again.

Ma Chao has already joined Ma Dai and led the whole army of nearly 10,000 horses to Chengji.

This is really a brilliant result, all the way without bloodshed, even won two counties in a row, Ma Chao just fled in the wind.

The Wei army that followed him on the expedition was excited, and some people in private began to make fun of Cao Zhen for whether they were too stupid, and they were always beaten to the point of bleeding when dealing with such an enemy.

If it weren't for Xiahou Ba's presence, these words would almost have been put on the surface.

Xiahou Ba didn't have the heart to think about this, he just wanted to find Ma Chao as soon as possible and fight him to the death, at least to drive them out of Longyou and reproduce the glory of his father's tiger step back then.

He found Sima Yi and strongly requested to lead 10,000 horses to quickly pursue Ma Chao, not wanting to search forward so carefully.

Sima Yi still didn't dare to be careless, these places are full of Qianghu, and Ma Chao has a lot of prestige among these people, if he rashly goes deep alone, he will definitely suffer a big loss.

Xiahou Ba was anxious: "But, we are slowly catching up in the back, and people are running fast in front, not running farther and farther, when will we be able to catch up with them?" ”

He almost blurted out, what kind of Ma Chao has prestige here, won the hearts of the people, those people were still afraid of my father when they saw it!

My father relied on quick and decisive attacks to defeat Han Sui in Changli.

Sima Yi was urged several times, but finally couldn't hold it back.

Because he also had concerns, he didn't believe that Ma Chao would be afraid of them and choose to flee every time he took the initiative to abandon the county.

Since the Shu army was able to defeat the Wei army in Longshan, Shanghe and Jicheng, it was impossible to be afraid of him Sima Yi to the point of fleeing when he heard the wind, and before this, he Sima Yi had not led his troops to fight alone.

He Ma Chao is now a hussar general under Liu Bei, and it is impossible for him to act alone, but he has to go against their great Sima Zhuge Liang.

He must have been premeditated in doing so, and if he retreated all the way, he would definitely be taking him into a pit.

Although he persuaded Cao Zhen to dry up with the enemy, it didn't seem appropriate for Ma Chao's team.

Trapping the enemy in Shanghe Jicheng can prevent them from going further into chaos, and Ma Chao is making chaos everywhere in Longyou.

He also wanted to intercept him as soon as possible and interrupt their conspiracy, so as not to lead his army all the way and be led by him by the nose like this, and he would not be able to rest.

And he believes that Ma Chao was only instructed by others to do this, if he catches up and bites, the original strategy can no longer continue, and he can only go to war, with his Ma Chao's IQ and ability to adapt to danger, it will definitely not be as good as my Sima Yi, but my chances of winning are much greater.

As soon as he gritted his teeth, he agreed to Xiahou Ba's pursuit.

Xiahou Ba let out a sigh of relief, immediately became excited, and hurriedly ordered all the people and horses to chase after him overnight.

After Ma Chao left Luoyang and returned to Xianqin, he rested for a few days, and when Sima Yi was about to chase after him again, he asked the general to lead more than 3,000 foot soldiers, carrying grain and grass baggage, and set off for Chengji first, while he and Ma Dai led 6,000 cavalry to stay in Xianqin, until Sima Yi's army approached, they left without hurry.

In these days, Ma Dai was showing his relatives, and received the response of Xingguo, Changli and other Qiang and Dihu kings, and raised a lot of war horses, and even many Qianghu knights, asking to join their cavalry team directly.

Hearing the news that Xiahou Ba led a light army to chase after him, Ma Chao smiled and said to Ma Dai: "Da Sima is right, Xiahou Ba really has his father's strength." ”

Ma Dai smiled knowingly, and led five hundred cavalry to stay, waiting for Xiahou Ba.

Xiahou Ba's armies, coercing the momentum of the two cities, taking advantage of the power of the night attack of the Yang Breaking Horse and the Super Night, no longer put the enemy in their eyes, and they had long felt that Sima Yi had delayed their opportunity to make meritorious contributions, so the faster they chased, the longer the team became, and the front and back were more than 20 miles away.

The horses chased wildly, turned a corner, and saw a Shu army cavalry resting from a distance, and the sergeant was dismounting and sitting on the side of the road, untying the water bag and drinking to quench his thirst.

Haha, finally biting the enemy, the Wei cavalry was excited, shouting loudly and hugging up.

Ma Dai and the others hurriedly got on their horses and ran for their lives.

Xiahou Ba and Zhong Wei rode closely behind, taking advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, they must not give them time to breathe, and they must not be given a chance to meet in formation.

Chasing, chasing, chasing, chasing, and chasing out more than ten miles, seeing that the enemy seemed to be exhausted, began to scatter to the hills on both sides of the road, and the Wei army was even more excited.

This is the method used by the legendary enemy when he fought between Qishan and Cao Xiu, in fact, it is also the method used by Xiahou Yuan when he was in Guanyou, you Shu army, you still want to learn from us, now let the ancestor teach you, what is the real chase to the end!

The Wei army also began to divide its men and horses to pursue the fleeing enemy on both sides of the mountain, and for a time, on both sides of the road, all over the mountains, were full of iron hooves, and the ground shook the mountains.

It was really ten thousand horses galloping, just when the three thousand Wei horses were rushing to the mountain, on the mountain ridge, facing them, there were thousands of war horses pouring out.

Ma Chao led 6,000 iron horsemen, poured up the hill from behind the hillside, and immediately descended down the slope, rushing down the Wei army with a momentum of thousands of miles.

The Wei cavalry only felt that their eyes were blooming, and before they could react, they were stabbed in the chest by the enemy soldiers who quickly rushed in front of them, and fell down on their backs.

Before the body touched the ground, the spear immediately pointed downward, relying on the enemy's own gravity, it was withdrawn from the enemy's body, and in the blink of an eye, the man and the spear had already run more than a dozen steps away.

The Wei army did not expect that Ma Chao, who had abandoned the city and fled one after another, would suddenly launch such a fierce counterattack, seeing the enemy descending from a high place, like a torrent and waterfall gushing out of the broken end, unstoppable, immediately frightened, turned around and ran. (To be continued.) )