There are three major horse-producing areas in China, namely Liangzhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou. Youzhou horses are flexible and strong, and the state horses are durable and burly, and Liangzhou horses are as fast as the wind, each with its own strengths. Ma Chao's Liangzhou horses have not had much left since they came out of Shudi, and now they have died a lot after a long time, and they are desperately in need of horses to replenish.

And not long ago, Xun Gang took Jiangling with a strategy, incorporated Cao Cao's tiger and leopard horses, and got a lot of horses. In order to show his gratitude to Ma Chao, Xun Gang allowed Ma Chao to select five thousand horses from this pile of horses to replenish his army.

Horses are supernatural but disrespectful, but since they are to form an army, the color of the horses is the most similar; He had heard of Youzhou Gongsun Zhan's white horse flying horse, and he killed Xianbei and urinated, so he chose 5,000 black horses of the opposite color.

At that time, Xun Gang also laughed and said: "Dark horse and dark horse, it's a good sign!" ”

Ma Chao didn't understand what the black horse meant, but when his brother Gan Ning, who had a different surname, saw a bunch of black horses slowly walking towards Xiangyang, he made a suggestion to Ma Chao: "My Jinfan army still has bells tied around their waists, and the business road is all frightened; Now that you have these five thousand dark horses, why don't you make an excellent sign for them? ”

Ma Chao thought that he was called Jin Ma Chao, and his soldiers and horses naturally could not be looked down upon by others, so he asked Pang De Ma Dai what was the best decoration to use. The two said a lot that didn't suit him, until Xun Gang walked over and heard about it, and suggested: "Why don't you decorate it with white feathers and call it 'Bai Lingjun'?" ”

"Wonderful, wonderful!"

With two wonderful sounds, the processing plant in Xiangyang City began to operate again, and five thousand pairs of white feather scarves were made in a few days, and they were put on the necks of the five thousand black horses. Ma Chao believes that these white hairs will one day turn into red hairs.

When these white feathers turned into red feathers, he renamed the army "Red Leader...... It's the same as the Young Pioneers.

Now is the time to test the soldiers and horses, and it is getting late at night, but Ma Chao did not sleep, but asked Pang De and Ma Dai to order five hundred soldiers, ready to test the enemy. If these bandits have no backup, they will definitely be defeated; If there had been an ambush earlier, the loss of these five hundred soldiers and horses would not be too great, and even Ma Chao was confident that he would still be able to kill them without leaving a piece of armor.

"Five hundred soldiers and horses is too little, no matter how you say it, you have to bring a thousand!" Although Pang De did not prevent Ma from being tempted, there were tens of thousands of people in others, and five hundred was too few.

Ma Chao retorted: "Haven't you heard that Zhang Liao broke 10,000 horses in the Northland?" It's just a little thief, as soon as my soldiers and horses enter the enemy camp, they will be scared to the core! ”

Pang De didn't comply, and said stubbornly: "If Meng Qi wants to bring 500 people, I will lead 3,000 people to respond outside the city!" ”

Ma Chao did not refuse, and Pound had nothing to say when he saw this, so he could only hope that Ma Chao could return safely; In other words, how did the temptation of the enemy army, which was clearly promised, become a sneak attack on the enemy army?

Time was running out, Ma Chao quickly ordered 500 troops, all of them rode on white feathered black horses, holding long lances and being extremely brave; Ma Chao nodded with satisfaction, put on the long-lost lion helmet, and rushed out of the West Gate with Ma Dai as the previous god of war.

It was dark at night, and twenty miles outside the city was Meng Shu's camp, and the guards were extremely loose, and the soldiers guarding the city gate all looked like they had not woken up, as if they were about to fall asleep against the doorpost. This is not that Meng Shu set up an ambush circle, but that the bandits are loose, and this is all the same.

With an army of this level, if it weren't for the danger of occupying mountains and rivers, Liu Bei would have slaughtered them a long time ago! Now that Izukawa has come to this plain, it is tantamount to exposing their weaknesses to Ma Chao.

But he heard the horses' hooves rolling, and the rumble was like thunder, as if even the deaf could hear it. The soldiers guarding the gate woke up instantly, and they looked to the east in confusion, there was no light in the night, what was hidden?

"Whoosh!"

A sudden sound of breaking wind rang out, striking one of them in the neck so hard that it pinned him to the wall, struggled for a moment, and then fell silent. Seeing this, the other person was instantly frightened, reflexively shrunk his neck down, and another arrow hit his hat Sakura innocently.

"Enemy, the enemy is here with a large army!"

The man was running wildly in the camp with a white arrow on his head, looking quite funny, and some people just wanted to laugh, but they were instantly frightened by his words.

"The enemy is coming! The enemy army is coming! ”

They didn't care what the riot would bring to the army, and as soon as they had finished shouting, they rushed towards the camp gate, and then one by one disheveled soldiers flew out of the tents, some of them had lost their shoes, some of their hats had been used as shoes, they were not a well-trained army at all, and they did not even know where their weapons had fallen.

"The enemy is coming?"

Meng Shu ran out of the big tent in a panic, he hadn't read the war book, thinking that fighting was just two armies attacking each other during the day, who would have thought that there would be such a thing as a sneak attack? However, he didn't have time to accuse others at all, so he could only panic and command the army to meet the enemy.

"Don't panic, don't panic! The enemy army is not numerous, so don't be afraid! ”

Meng Shu tried his best to stabilize the morale of the army, but it did not have the slightest effect, before the person in Yuanmen shouted that "the army is coming", how could this make the soldiers believe what Meng Shu said?

In the chaos, Ma Chao's five hundred iron horsemen finally broke through the encirclement of the night, and the iron hooves trampled on Meng Shu's camp in an instant.

"Kill!"

With Ma Chao's order, five hundred soldiers instantly turned into dead soldiers who were not afraid of death and charged forward, and the horses' hooves and steel lances became their weapons; Meng Shu's army suffered heavy losses without knowing the number of enemies, and there were countless tramples on each other, and no one thought of resisting at all, only knew to flee.

"Don't be afraid, there aren't many of them! If you don't do it, you have no choice but to die! ”

Although Meng Shu didn't know how to inspire the army, his words did work, although these people were a rabble, but after all, there was a sense of resistance, although they could not form an effective collective resistance, but it could be regarded as stabilizing Ma Chao's offensive.

Meng Huo just breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly heard a sound of breaking wind, Ma Chao rushed towards him like a divine soldier descending from the sky, and a spear in his hand danced a few lives, shouting at Meng Shu: "Thief leader, take your life!" ”

Before, he saw Meng Shu constantly reorganizing the army, adhering to the prerequisite of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, Ma Chao rushed to him without fear of death, intending to end his life and directly win the war.

He seems to have forgotten that this time he came out just to be tempted, but it was because Ma Chao's fiery personality turned into a sneak attack.

Meng Yu is not a vegetarian after all, seeing Ma Chao rushing directly, he pulled out the brute knife on his waist to resist, and the sword burst out with sparks that were difficult to part with for a while, Ma Chao didn't expect such a sneak attack on this thief to be able to react quickly, and his martial arts were not lost to himself.

"Good fellow, two hits! Did you still take this trick? ”

Ma Chao's gun suddenly stopped, but in an instant it became as fast as a wind, straight to Meng Shu's throat, Meng Shu never thought that Ma Chao's marksmanship was so sharp, so frightened that he fell to the ground, only hurting his cheek.

Ma Chao failed to succeed in one blow and had to attack, but fortunately, Meng You led the army to arrive in time to repel Ma Chao; Ma Chao saw that the sneak attack had achieved results, the enemy army had gradually returned to the position, and if it continued like this, the whole army would be wiped out sooner or later, so he blew a whistle, and the entire Bailing army retreated in an extremely orderly manner.

"Want to go? Where to go! ”

Meng Yu was injured in the cheek and was extremely angry, and when he saw Ma Chao retreating, he wanted to chase after him, but Meng You couldn't stop him and could only follow Meng Shu hard-headed; After pursuing a distance of ten miles, suddenly heard a cannon on both sides, Pang De led the army to rush out of the dense forest, Ma Chao killed again, and Meng Shu was killed again without leaving a piece of armor, so he had to flee in a hurry.

"Poor Kou Mo Chase, I hope you understand this truth."

Ma Chao looked at Meng Shu who was fleeing and didn't dare to chase after him, who knows if Liu Bei was hiding in the mountains and forests? However, although he defeated Meng Shu this time, the same tactics did not have the slightest effect on Liu Bei, not to mention that Liu Bei still had a lot of strategists, but he was afraid of ......

"Ling Ming, hurry back to the city to discuss countermeasures!"

Dealing with Liu Bei, if there are no good tactics, defending Xiangyang will inevitably be a hard battle!