Late at night.

The Jizhou camp in the east of Meiji City was dead silent, and only the scouts guarding the lookout post still searched the darkness around them with vigilant eyes.

There was a large bush of dense artemisia grass three miles east of the camp, and suddenly there was a ghostly rustling sound in the grass, and clusters of black images came out of the grass like ghosts, and the faint starlight shone on these black shadows, reflecting a dark ghostly light, which was the hideousness of iron armor, and it was actually an army.

That's right, this is indeed an army, the Liangzhou Army in Meiji City.

At the beginning, the horse butcher burned Han Sui and Pan Feng's 100,000 troops in Meiji City, Guo Tu personally participated in this battle, so when rebuilding Meiji City, this guy fully considered the possibility of the city being surrounded on all sides, and reserved a secret passage for escape underground.

"Urgent gathering!" A muffled voice rang out leisurely, "Brothers, hurry up. ”

The soldiers who came out of the grass quickly began to assemble in formation, and under the faint starry countenance, this army was about five or six hundred people, and set up a battle formation, and in front of the formation stood a tall and strong Liangzhou colonel.

Night raids should be mainly harassed, and they must not be mistaken in battle.

Under the night sky, five or six hundred men and horses approached the quiet Jizhou camp like a ghost, and although the scouts on the lookout post widened their eyes, they could not find this army from the endless darkness at all, until a cold wolf's tooth arrow swept through the air, coldly shot through his throat, and then collapsed on the tower without a snort.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

Under the quiet night sky, an overwhelming shout suddenly sounded, and Yuan Shao, who was sleeping, was awakened from his sleep by this shout, and rushed out of the camp tent with his armor on, but he saw that the fire in the camp was red, and the camp tent near the east side had been lit with a raging fire.

"What's going on?" Yuan Shao asked anxiously, "Where did the shouting and killing sound come from?" ”

"Lord, someone is stealing the camp!"

"Stealing camps?" Yuan Shao's heart sank, and he said sharply, "What's going on?" ”

In less than a moment, Tian Feng, Xun Chen, Gao Gan and other strategists rushed to Yuan Shao's big tent, Yuan Shao urgently ordered Han Meng and Zhang He to lead the army to rescue the attacked Chun Yuqiong camp, while waiting for news accompanied by Tian Feng and Xun Chen.

At dawn, the turmoil in the Jizhou camp gradually subsided, and Jiang Qi, Han Meng, and Zhang He escorted the embarrassed Chun Yuqiong to Yuan Shao's Chinese army tent.

"Lord!" As soon as he entered the big tent, Chun Yuqiong roared excitedly, "It's Gongsun Zhan's people who came to steal the camp!" ”

"!" Yuan Shao frowned and scolded, "The Jizhou Army and the Youzhou Army are now allies, how could Gongsun Zhan's people come to attack our army." ”

"It's really Gongsun Zhan's person." Chun Yuqiong hurriedly said, "Although the last general did not catch the thieves who stole the camp, he still found a lot of clues, including two sabers abandoned by the thieves, and the rockets that the thieves fired into my camp, all of which are the standard of the Youzhou Army, doesn't this explain the problem?" ”

As he spoke, Chun Yuqiong waved his hand, and some soldiers had already presented the sabers and arrows he said, Yuan Shao, Tian Feng and others stepped forward to take a closer look, and found that they were indeed weapons and arrows used by Youzhou soldiers, Yuan Shao's face changed a little, but Tian Feng frowned and pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "Lord, I'm just afraid that there is fraud in it." ”

"Oh?" Yuan Shao said, "How can there be fraud? ”

Tian Feng said: "If Gongsun Chan wants to be unfavorable to the lord, he will not sneak attack General Chunyu's camp, but should go straight to the lord's camp!" Moreover, if Gongsun Chan wants to be unfavorable to the lord, the best time is when he fights Ma Teng in the clouds, but he finally reneges on his covenant with the horse butcher. ”

Xun Chen said: "Yes, I think what Yuan Hao said is extremely reasonable. ”

Han Meng said: "Then how do you explain these weapons and arrows?" ”

Xun Chen said: "It may also be the Liangzhou Army's plan to blame." ”

"Blame?" Zhang He said disapprerovingly, "More than 100,000 troops surrounded Meiji City like iron barrels, and there are charcoal burning belts outside the city, even an ant can't climb out, in this case, even if the Liangzhou army has the intention to blame, how to let the army out of the city?" Could it be that it flew out of the sky? ”

Xun Chen said: "Maybe the reinforcements from the horse butcher have arrived." ”

Zhang He said unhappily: "Mr. Xun Chen, please don't casually doubt the ability of our army's scout rangers, this general can tell you with certainty that there is absolutely no Liangzhou army within a radius of a hundred miles!" The Liangzhou army closest to Meiji was three hundred miles away, and that was Fang Yue's army in Bisondu. ”

"Yes." Han Meng also chimed in, "If there are dozens of annihilators hiding outside the city to make trouble, it is not impossible, but now there are at least a thousand enemy troops who have come to steal the camp!" The enemy army of 1,000 men was infested in the open grassland, and if General Zhang He's scout rangers could not find it, then there would be no need to fight this battle. ”

"Yes!" Chun Yuqiong gritted her teeth and said, "It's Gongsun Zhan's person, it must be!" ”

"It's impossible." Xun Chen shook his head and said, "It's impossible for Gongsun Chan to do such a stupid thing. ”

Chun Yuqiong said angrily: "Mr. Xun Chen, what do you mean by this? Are you suspecting that General Ben fabricated false testimony and framed Gongsun Chan's dog thief? ”

Xun Chen said coldly: "I didn't say that. ”

"Alright." Yuan Shao frowned and said, "Whatever kind of noise, shut up to General Ben." ”

In the end, the civil officials and military generals under Yuan Shao's command quarreled for a long time without a result, and Tian Feng, as a military advisor, could not explain the strangeness, Yuan Shao was worried, so he quietly adjusted the arrangement of the Jizhou soldiers and strengthened the vigilance of the Youzhou army in the south of the city.

Who knew that five days later, in the middle of the night, the Jizhou camp was attacked again!

The enemy did not break through the camp, but only released a few rows of rockets outside the camp, and as a result, more than a dozen tents were burned, as well as a few carts of baggage, and dozens of Jizhou soldiers were killed or wounded.

What's more serious is that Jiang Qi found a firewood knife outside the camp that only the Montenegrin army has, and that night it happened to be Jiang Qi's younger brother Jiang Zheng to patrol the night, and the unlucky Jiang Zheng was shot by the enemy army who stole the camp with an arrow, Jiang Qi was furious, and without Yuan Shao's permission, he lit up 3,000 elite soldiers and went straight to the Montenegrin camp, killing Zhang Yan's Montenegrin camp upside down.

By the time Yuan Shao heard the news and sent someone to stop it, at least 3,000 Black Mountain soldiers had already become unjust souls who had died of grievances.

Afterwards, although Yuan Shao explained in every possible way, and also scolded Jiang Qi with eighty military sticks in public, Zhang Yan had a mustard in his heart, and soon made adjustments to the layout of the Black Mountain Army, strengthening the defense of the Jizhou Army, and almost at the same time, Gongsun Zhan's Youzhou Army also strengthened the vigilance against the Jizhou Army.

In just a few days, subtle changes have taken place in the relationship between the Jizhou Army, the Youzhou Army, and the Montenegrin Army.

……

Hebei.

Juyi's 8,000 first camps rode fast horses, lightly armed and rushed back to Hebei from Hetao, after more than 10 days of rapid marching, Kankan rushed to Changshan County, the army did not have time to rest and received an urgent report that Wei County stayed in Fengji, Yecheng was attacked, Xiliang Xiao Ma Chao led 20,000 Xiliang iron cavalry is attacking Wei County.

Ju Yi didn't dare to slack off, so he led the lead to the camp and went south to Wei County to rescue Yecheng.

Yecheng East Effect, Ma Super Battalion.

"Report~~" When Ma Chao was looking at the map, a small colonel suddenly stepped in, knelt on the ground and said quickly, "General, Changshan is urgent!" ”

Ma Chao didn't raise his head, and said quickly: "Speak!" ”

Xiao Xiao said: "General Yuan Shao Ju Yi, led 8,000 people to the camp and is heading south from Zhending (Changshan County). ”

"Hmm." Ma Chao nodded and asked, "Is there any change in the counties of Bohai, Hejian, Zhongshan, and Qinghe?" ”

The small colonel said: "All the counties are deep ditches and high bases, ready to hold on, and there is no change. ”

"Hahaha." Ma Chao laughed loudly, Huo Ran straightened his waist, and said loudly, "These gutless bandits know how to retreat into the city and hold on, and only Ju Yi dares to compete with Xiliang Iron Cavalry, but this Ju Yi is not an easy to match, this person is the number one general under Yuan Shao, who can fight well, and the first battalion under his command is the army of tigers and wolves, which should not be underestimated." ”

"The general's words are true." General Youya echoed, "In the first battle of the Xize Kingdom, tens of thousands of Youyan Iron Cavalry of Youzhou Assassin Shi Gongsun Zan couldn't help but go to the camp first with 8,000 infantry!" In the end, heavy rain fell, and Gongsun Zhan's Youyan cavalry was trapped in Zeguo and was defeated, and since then it has been in a slump, and Yuan Shao has become the hero of Hebei because of this battle. ”

"Hmm." Ma Chao nodded awe-inspiringly, and said in a condensed voice, "Ju Yi's first camp will never be much worse than General Gao Shun's trapped camp, and the trapped camp can kill the Xianbei Iron Cavalry without leaving a piece of armor, and the first camp will not be much worse!" In this world, there may be cavalry that can break through the defense of the first camp, but it will never be General Ben's Xiliang Iron Cavalry! ”

The tooth general said in a condensed voice: "General, so you say that our army wants to avoid war? ”

"Avoiding war?" The corners of Ma Chao's mouth suddenly bloomed with a sly smile, and he shook his head and said, "No, of course you can't avoid the war!" As long as Ju Yi's Xiandeng camp is defeated, Yuan Shao can't even withdraw his troops from Hetao! Therefore, in order to achieve the goal of encircling Wei and saving Zhao, Ju Yi's Xiandeng camp must be defeated. ”

"Defeat the first battalion?" The tooth general said awe-inspiringly, "I'm afraid it's not easy." ”

"Of course it's not easy." Ma Chao said coldly, "It may be invulnerable to go to the camp first, but Ju Yi has a fatal weakness!" ”

"Juyi's weakness?"

"Yes, Ju Yi, this person~~ belligerent!"

……

Luoyang, Cao Ying's temporary official residence.

Due to Zhang Ji's careful treatment, the epidemic on Cao Ying's body was completely controlled, and his body was getting better day by day. ”

"Huh?" Cao Ying was startled and said in a condensed voice, "Where is the horse butcher now?" ”

Cao Hong said: "Maybe in Baima, Hebei, maybe he has returned to Guanzhong, the specific whereabouts cannot be determined, but there is no doubt that the horse butcher will return to the north, because his eight thousand Xiliang iron horsemen have arrived in Hebei from the waterway, and they are now plundering people in Wei County, Qinghe, Dongjun, and the plains." ”

"This horse butcher!" Cao Ying frowned and shook his head, "I really can't change the surname of the Liukou in my life, and everywhere I go, it's a plunder, alas." ”

Cao Hong said: "But this time it seems to be a little different. ”

Cao Ying said: "What's different? ”

Cao Hong said: "Listen carefully in return, this time the horse butcher does not rob food or money, only robs the population, and the old, weak, sick and disabled do not rob, only rob healthy young men, women and children, I don't know what the horse butcher is going to do?" ”

"Huh?" Guo Jia's face sank, and he said to Cao Ying, "Lord, the horse butcher is taking precautions, and he wants to take captive the young and strong people in Guandong to make up for the gap in the large loss of the young and strong population in Guanzhong." ”

"Hey." Cao Ying slammed the knot and said, "This horse butcher is really in front of everything in front of his own appearance. ”

Guo Jia was silent, with Cao Ying's current strength, even if he had the intention to stop the horse butcher's plunder, he couldn't send troops! In the battle of Hangu Pass, Cao Ying can be said to have poured out, and even Cao Chun's tiger and leopard cavalry were sent to the battlefield, but the result ended in a fiasco, and now Cao Jun's vitality has been greatly injured, and the situation is worse than that of the horse butcher!

Now, Cao Ying needs a respite more than the horse butcher, and now that the horse butcher has already applauded his hands if he doesn't come to attack Cao Ying, how dare he take the initiative to provoke the horse butcher? The only thing to be thankful for is that the horse butcher does not know Cao Ying's predicament yet, and will not launch a fatal blow to Cao Jun at this time.

Cao Ying said awe-inspiringly: "This phase regards the horse butcher as a lifelong rival, and the horse butcher must be the same, although the vitality of the Liangzhou army is greatly injured at the moment, but the horse butcher acts unexpectedly, and he can't help but prepare for the worst!" Wen Ruo (Xun Yu Biaozi) can be urgently ordered to step up the recruitment of new soldiers from various counties in Yanzhou, and then Wen Ze (Yu Ban Biaozi) can be ordered to speed up training to form an army as soon as possible. ”

In fact, Cao Ying also overestimated the strength of the horse butcher!

Although there are still tens of thousands of troops under Ma Yue, and they are all elite divisions that have experienced a hundred battles, they are all cavalry, only good at field battles and not good at attacking fortifications, and what is even worse is that after more than half a year of campaigning, the soldiers of Liangzhou generally have a sense of war weariness, and they all want to return to Guanzhong as soon as possible, and they don't want to fight anymore.

"Report~~" Cao Ying's voice fell, and Xiahoudun suddenly stepped into the tent and said loudly, "Meng De, Mr. Wen Ruo is in a hurry." ”

Cao Ying hurriedly said, "Hurry up and present it." ”

Xia Houdun strode forward to present the letter, Cao Ying unfolded it and read it at a glance, then let out a long breath, and said happily: "It's worthy of Wen Ruo, everything is planned for the prime minister, hahaha." ”

Xiahoudun said curiously: "Mengde, what did Mr. Wenruo say in the letter?" ”

Cao Ying was in a good mood and said happily: "Wen Ruo wrote that 30,000 recruits have been recruited from various counties in Yanzhou, and they are being trained by Sun Guan and Yin Li, and more than 100,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban thieves came out of Mount Tai to vote, and were placed in Tuntian, Jibei by Wen Ruo, and selected their young and strong to form a Qingzhou army of 20,000 people. ”

"It's good now." Xiahoudun admired and said, "It's really worthy of Mr. Wenruo, the arrangement is too thoughtful." ”

"Still." Cao Ying's words turned around, and then said, "Wen Ruo also said two pieces of news that were unfavorable to our army in the letter. ”

Xiahoudun said: "What news." ”

Cao Ying said: "The first news, the great Sima Yuan Shu actually appointed Sun Jian to be the assassin of Yuzhou without the permission of the Son of Heaven, this second news is that Yuan Shu's confidant and favorite general, Jiujiang Taishou Chen Ji has been appointed by Yuan Shu as the Nanyang Taishou, Yuan Shu's intention is obvious, it is to use Chen Ji and Sun Jian to contain the original appearance, it seems that Yuan Shu is determined to do the right thing with the original appearance this time." ”

Guo Jia persuaded: "Although Sun Jian was appointed by Yuan Shu as the assassin of Yuzhou, it is impossible to obtain the actual control of Yuzhou, as for Nanyang, one can check and balance the horse butcher in Guanzhong, and the other can buffer Liu Biao in Jingzhou. ”

"But I'm worried." Cao Ying's eyes showed a worried look, and he said quietly, "In case Yuan Shu holds a grudge and does everything he can to make a mistake in the north of Yangzhou, the situation will not be good!" And what is even more worried about this is that if the horse butcher and Yuan Shu collude, the consequences will be even more unimaginable. ”

"Don't worry, my lord." A trace of coldness flashed in Guo Jia's eyes, and he said faintly, "Jia has a plan to resolve the threat of Yuan Shu, and make the Yuan family ruined, causing the world's scholars to scold!" ”

Cao Ying's face moved, and he hurriedly retreated, and then asked in a low voice, "What's the plan?" ”

Guo Jia smiled yinyin, lowered his voice and replied: "Without him, Yuxi Er." ”

"Jade Seal!?" Cao Ying pondered for a moment, and then suddenly lost his voice, "Good plan, really good plan!" ”

……

Hebei, Maocheng.

Maocheng is just a small county town at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, with a population of only a few thousand.

However, this small county town is destined to become a famous historical site, because two elite divisions are about to stage a shocking decisive battle here, that is, Ju Yi's Xiandeng Camp and Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry!

Ten days ago, Ma Chao ordered the deputy general to lead 10,000 iron horsemen to sneak into the Taihang Mountain in advance to hide, and he led the remaining 10,000 iron horsemen to play a chase with Ju Yi's first camp!

Ma Chao may not be as scheming as Jia Xu, but he has learned sixty percent of Jia Xu's ability to read people! Ju Yi was as Ma Chao expected, his surname was warlike, although there were only 8,000 men and horses in the first camp, and he was also an infantry on a war horse, but Ju Yi was not afraid of Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and he began to chase all the way from Yecheng, driving Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry to a wolf.

After ten days of pursuit, both armies were already sleepy and tired, and they could have entered the edge of the Taihang Mountain, where another 10,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry had been recuperating for a full ten days, and the moment of decisive battle had finally arrived! Ma Chao not only learned Jia Xu's reading of people, but also learned the cunning of the horse butcher, and lurked this 10,000 iron cavalry very well, until the end, Ju Yi didn't know that there was another Xiliang iron cavalry hidden in the dense forest outside Maocheng.

In fact, from the very beginning, Ju Yi's defeat was already doomed! Because this time, Ju Yi is no longer facing the fledgling Zhao Yun, let alone the stubborn Gongsun Zhan, but the Xiliang Jin Ma Chao carefully cultivated by the horse butcher and Jia Poison Shi! Although Ma Chao is young, he has already experienced a hundred battles and thrived in the process of conquering Mobei and the Western Regions.

The most important thing is that this time Ju Yi is leading the troops alone, and there is a lack of resourceful people like Tian Feng around him to give advice!

……

The horses neighed and the smoke was filled.

The 8,000 soldiers who first entered the camp were marching forward along the official road, and the scorching sun was hanging high in the sky, wantonly roasting the earth, and the whole earth seemed to be scorched, emitting a faint green smoke, and the scorching heat wave smoked the soldiers who first entered the camp to the point of breath.

"General~~." A general panted and rode his horse after him, and said to Ju Yi, "It's too hot this day, and many brothers have been dizzy from the heat, so why don't you stop and rest for a while before chasing?" ”

"No way!" Ju Yi said categorically, "Order the whole army to speed up the march!" We are hot, tired, and sleepy, Ma Chao's Xiliang Army is hotter than us, even more tired, and even sleepy! Tell the brothers, hold on, persistence is victory, as long as Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry is defeated, General Ben will definitely let the brothers do their best, but not now! ”

The general hesitated: "But~~"

"Nothing." Ju Yi said coldly, "Pass the order, and those who disobey the military order~~ will be decided!" ”

"Yes."

The general clenched his fists and rode away.

(To be continued)