Seeing such a situation, Ma Teng did not jump like thunder, nor did he immediately withdraw his troops to respond, but gave Ma Chao an order with an indifferent expression: "Continue to attack the village!" ”

Ma Chao had no choice but to change a group of sergeants to continue to attack the Flame Army camp, while the Flame Army defended easily on the arrow tower on the wall of the camp without any pressure.

Ma Chao's three successive attacks were all repulsed, with a loss of four or five hundred people, Ma Teng gave the order to withdraw the army back to the camp, and the Ma family's army went quickly, and as the dust rose in the sky, the Ma family's army also disappeared into the dust.

On the wall, Chen Zhi looked at the distant back, and couldn't help but ask Qin Feng: "Lord, when it comes to arranging troops, why is our army afraid of the Xiliang Army in the field, why don't you directly fight with the Xiliang Army, and decide the outcome in a battle, even if the strength of the Xiliang Army is more than twice that of our army, why should our army be afraid of it?" ”

Qin Feng said with a smile: "Uncle Zhi, when our army first arrived here, it is not yet familiar with the terrain, and it is at a disadvantage in numbers, so it is not wise to fight it too early!" ”

"The two armies are facing each other, and we must attack the enemy's shortcomings with our army's strengths, Ma Shoucheng only has a month of grain and grass, and now more than ten days have passed, he will either fight with our army quickly, and our army will have a camp to defend, let him attack well, just consume his troops; Either he will divide his troops and go to the surrounding towns to raise food, this is our army's opportunity to weaken his strength, just in time to break each one! ”

"In the past few days, we have sent detective posts to step up the exploration of the terrain in the surrounding areas, and when we find out the nearby terrain, when Ma Shou will organize troops to raise food, it will be the time for Uncle Zhi to show off his skills with the cavalry!"

Hearing this, Chen Zhi was quite excited, and looked forward to this moment as soon as possible.

The next day, Ma Teng did not send out the whole army, only Ma Chao and Hou Xuan came to the outside of the Flame Army camp with 5,000 cavalry to call for battle.

"Qin Feng Pifu, do you have the courage to go out of the village and fight to the death with the grandfather of the Ru family?"

"You and the others are all eggless and cowardly, and there is no warrior in the camp, which is sad and lamentable!"

Ma Chao kept shouting and scolding with a big gun outside the camp, and thousands of cavalry behind him were clamoring and laughing.

The soldiers of the Flame Army on the city tower were so angry that they were smoking, but Qin Feng turned a deaf ear and lay asleep in the tent in the camp.

The Flame Army didn't come out to fight, and Ma Chao couldn't help it, in the absence of siege equipment, he attacked the village three times in a row yesterday, with a total of four or five hundred casualties, and each time it only lasted less than a moment before he fled back in embarrassment, Of course he wouldn't be stupid enough to let his soldiers die again, Even if he wanted to attack, he had to build siege equipment and attack again.

When the boring abuse outside the village was so boring that he couldn't even raise his interest, Ma Chao finally lost his temper and left with 5,000 people with Hou Xuan.

Qin Feng is not afraid of Ma Chao's strong martial arts, even if Guan Yu and Zhang Fei join forces, he is not afraid, let alone a single Ma Chao? In order to win this battle at the lowest cost, we must pay attention to strategy, not brutality, and if we fight hard with strength, even if we win, it will be a miserable victory.

Although the tragic victory is also a victory, but there are no benefits, but heavy losses, if there are no other enemies, it is just that, but now the Flame Army is surrounded by strong enemies, Cao Cao can't wait for Ma Teng and Qin Feng to fight to the death, not to mention the Yuan family in Hebei, Liu Biao and others in the south also have this mentality.

Ma Chao, let him jump for a few days first, and let him slack off when it's almost over.

Afternoon.

"Report-" A sergeant walked into the camp tent quickly and reported to Qin Feng: "Qi Qi Lord, General Hao Zhao, the general of Chen Cang, sent someone to see the lord!" ”

Qin Feng was looking at the sand table, this sand table covered too little area, and the spies were needed to continue to reconnoiter in order to expand the terrain area.

"Let him in!"

A messenger walked in and bowed to Qin Feng and said: "Lord, General Hao sent a villain to report to the lord, Captain Yang is not dead, yesterday afternoon on the river beach downstream was found by the herdsmen herding cattle and brought home to save him, this morning entrusted the herdsmen to go to Chencang City to report the news, and now Captain Yang has been recuperating in Chencang City!" ”

Qin Feng was overjoyed when he heard this, Yang Zheng this kid is really fateful, he has not yet Yang Zheng has been drowned in the river, the river is fierce these days, the water level is very high, and the flow speed is extremely fast, even if the water is good, he is afraid that he will lose his life after being washed away, what he didn't expect was that Yang Zheng would still be.

"Yang Zheng is still alive, great, he's injured? What is the injury? Qin Feng hurriedly asked.

The messenger replied: "Captain Yang was shot twice in the back when he was in Luoshui, but the wound was not deep, and it was fine, and after arriving in Chen Cangcheng, a military doctor treated his wound!" ”

"That's good, that's good, you tell Captain Yang that he can recuperate from his injuries with peace of mind, and he doesn't have to rush back to the camp!" Qin Feng commanded. 、

"No!"

The next day, Ma Chao came to provoke again, Qin Feng still ignored him, he tossed for more than an hour and then quickly retreated with his soldiers and horses due to the hot weather.

In the next few days, it rained for a day, followed by a few cloudy days, the temperature dropped a lot, the water level of the Huangshui River dropped a lot, and a large area of the river beach was exposed.

On this day, the scout reported: "My lord has been inspecting the enemy camp for the past two days, and we have found that the enemy army is grazing horses on the river beach, and this is the case every day, and the river beach for several miles is full of grazing war horses, there are as many as 10,000 horses!" ”

"Oh?" When Qin Feng heard this report, he had a little thought in his heart.

He personally went out of the camp to the river to investigate the situation, but he did not approach the riverbank where Ma Jiajun's grazing war horses were grazing, but only hid in a hidden position in the distance with a few scouts to observe.

After observation, there were enemy reconnaissance cavalry within a few miles of this vicinity, and the river beach where the enemy was grazing horses was too close to the camp, if he brought cavalry to sneak attack, he was afraid that he would be discovered by the enemy's sentinels several miles away, and before he could lead the cavalry to disperse those war horses, Ma Teng would come out with tens of thousands of horses.

The plan of the sneak attack to disperse the war horses of the Ma family army did not work, and there were no conditions for successful execution, so Qin Feng had to give up this idea.

But he was unwilling, so many war horses were grazing on the river beach, was there really no way to disperse them, so that the Ma family army would lose the main force of cavalry?

Qin Feng was lying in the grass, holding the grass roots in his mouth, and a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, remembering a big battle between Li Guangbi and An Qingxu across the river in the Anshi Rebellion, maybe it could be like this?

He turned his head and whispered to the sentry next to him, "How deep is the river here, have you ever explored it?" ”

The sentry said: "I haven't surveyed it, but looking at the surrounding terrain, the riverbed here should be high, the river has receded a lot in the past few days, the water level has dropped a lot, and the river should not be deep!" ”

Qin Feng thought for a while, "I'll go a few miles downstream to try the depth of the river!" ”

Several people quietly retreated.

It didn't take long for a few people to come to the four miles downstream of the Ma Jiajun Muma River Beach, Qin Feng found that the river flow here was not fast, the water flow was gentle, and people who could swim could rush over, and the river was not very wide.

He called a soldier who could swim and lead a mare across the river to graze on the other side of the river, and then another soldier brought a stallion in heat.