Chapter 243: A Swarm of Worms
Chang Diao was not wrong about one thing at all.
Ma Chao and Han Sui are all battle-hardened old guys, although they were frightened by Zhao Yan's toughness before, but gradually they also came back to their senses.
Cao's army obviously had an absolute advantage, and they could obviously start crossing the river to attack without any consultation with themselves.
But Cao's army is now clearly on the defensive.
Prime Minister Cao Cheng has never been a person who cherishes his troops, the weather is cold, and every day he stays, the consumption of grain and grass will make people's livers tremble and skyrocket.
Cao Cao couldn't have come thousands of miles away just to confront the Guanzhong coalition forces that had obviously been hit hard in Weishui.
Then he might as well come back in the spring next year......
After a few days of stalemate, Ma Dai angrily reported that a large number of Cao's troops had crossed eastward from the Yellow River, and there were obvious signs of retreat.
Ma Chao was overjoyed and immediately asked to cross Weishui to launch an attack, striving to use the relatively closed area formed by Weishui and the Yellow River to deal a heavy blow to Cao's troops in the palace.
But after defeating Ma Chao many times before, his prestige has been seriously damaged, and he tried his best to describe the bright prospects after crossing the river to the generals of the Lian army, but this time the generals of the coalition army all Wang Ba generally said that they would not give Ma Chao face, but set their eyes on Han Sui with a brush.
Han Sui pondered for a moment, shook his head and said:
"Cao thief has always been scheming, this time...... I don't know if it's his trick. ”
Ma Chao was angry and anxious, and said loudly:
"I am willing to personally lead an army across the river to explore the reality of Cao Jun, and I must not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
"If you want to go to Meng Qi, go by yourself." Han Sui expressed great dissatisfaction with Ma Chao's brainless behavior.
He had suffered setbacks one after another before, and he had already moved the idea of retreating to Liangzhou, and he would never use troops rashly.
If this is Cao Cao's trick, crossing the river rashly is to send him to death. If Cao Cao really retreats, it means that something must have gone wrong in Cao Cao's rear, and it will be difficult to manage these people in Guanzhong for a while.
As we all know, when Cao Cao had no time to manage Guanzhong, Han Sui's biggest enemies had always been Ma Teng's father and son, and he was even more reluctant to risk his troops to prevent being swallowed up by Ma Chao.
Hmph, if Cao Cao really ran away, I will immediately go to Chang'an City and say that it will descend to Yunshan Mountain.
Ma Mengqi has courage and no strategy, this battle has lost the morale of the army, it is the time when I completely eliminate and annex it in one go, and sit on one side to achieve great things.
At that time, I will be stronger than Sun Liu, why is the lord of the world not me?
A pure martial artist like Ma Chao didn't understand Han Sui's mind at all, he knew that the strategic position of the Weibei area was extremely important, and if he could hurt Cao Jun, he would definitely be able to restore his previous reputation and status.
He doesn't have much ambition, but honor is his life.
Now that Cao's army is obviously retreating, Ma Chao needs to regain everything that belongs to him in a battle.
But he didn't realize at all that the losses and losses caused by his blind command had seriously affected the will to fight of the army sergeant clan.
Hearing that they were going to cross the river again, they each subconsciously felt that something was wrong, and Fenfen begged the generals not to participate in the battle.
Pang De knew that Ma Chao was now on top, and he couldn't pull back the ten cows he decided, so he could only find Ma Dai to discuss countermeasures with him.
Ma Dai was not known for his resourcefulness, and the two were in a dilemma, and after a long time, Ma Dai had no choice but to pat his head.
"I, well, I'll go."
"Huh?"
"I desperately encountered an ambush, trying to go to the other side to catch a few soldiers of the Cao army and come back to investigate a little.
If the Cao thieves have really retreated, then I will fight with my life to cross the river and kill the sharp spirit of these thieves.
If the thief hadn't retreated, it would have been only my Ma Dai who had been damaged. ”
Pound's eyes widened and he nodded slowly:
"It's fine."
At this point, Pound couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness.
He became famous at a young age, and has been fighting with Ma Chao's army, and once made great contributions to Yuan Shang's war, and the name of Pang De gradually became known to people in the world.
Pound also aspires to establish a meritorious career, but to achieve meritorious deeds, he needs to follow the master. He originally thought that Ma Chao became famous at a young age, won the trust of Qianghu, and could do something great in the future.
But Ma is more impatient and conceited, brave and unscrupulous, and it is definitely a good hand to rush and fight, but it seems that the upper limit of this person can only be a fierce general who kills the enemy in battle.
Ma Dai took advantage of the night to cross the river, Cao Jun because someone is really not very good at commanding the army, only arranged a small number of camps by the river, most of the guards are around the vicinity of the formation, Ma Dai easily completed the landing, and even crossed the war horses, with the war horses, Ma Dai immediately fought highly, originally only wanted to catch a few Cao soldiers He began to try to attack several strongholds.
The Cao army was caught off guard, and could only call for reinforcements again and again, and Ma Dai calmly commanded the cavalry to defeat the few Cao cavalry one by one, and soon occupied the north of Weishui.
Ma Chao was overjoyed, and immediately crossed a large number of soldiers across Weishui, and when Han Sui woke up, both sides of Weishui were already Ma Chao's soldiers.
"Tell Han Dudu that if he doesn't want to come, don't come, and see that I don't leave any armor left behind the armor they killed."
Ma Chao, who has been holding his tail between his legs for the past few days, finally let out a long sigh of resentment in his chest, and the letter he left for Han Sui returned to his old arrogance.
He judged that Cao Jun hurriedly retreated and left behind the army to transport a large amount of grain for a while and a half, and it was not easy for camels and beasts to cross the river for a while, as long as he defeated Cao's army, his subordinates could wantonly plunder and quickly restore their morale and prestige.
Weibei is close to Qianghu's territory, as long as there are enough grabbies, Ma Chao can quickly recruit a large number of Qianghu soldiers and horses, and when the time comes, see who dares to look down on me Ma Chao?
All the generals in Guanzhong were stunned, they couldn't believe that Ma Chao crossed the river so smoothly, what was the general of Cao Jun doing, it was all dawn, not only did not organize the soldiers to seize the position of Weishui, but also gathered the soldiers and horses and prepared to escape together.
Good guys, and such a war?
Cao Jun was forced to leave a large number of soldiers and horses to retreat in an orderly manner because of the lack of ferries, the Yellow River was frozen in winter, and his own baggage was too much.
But Ma Chao's subordinates triumphantly reported that when they heard that Ma Chao's army had crossed the river, Cao's army actually began to retreat rapidly towards the Yellow River, completely abandoning the Weishui defense line-
But anyone knows the truth that Bandu can be attacked, before the cavalry of the Liangzhou Army has not landed, even if a wave of death squads is organized to fight to the death, it is better than letting the Western Liang Army cross all the war horses to surround and slaughter them.
"Okay, it turns out that the queen of the palace is Cao Ren!" Li Kan learned the news of the Cao army's guards from the captured Cao soldiers, and slapped his thigh in distress, feeling that this time it was really a big loss.
Although Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan were famous, they were simply synonymous with cowards in the eyes of the Guanzhong coalition army.
Before, they had a large army, and in order not to be surrounded, they easily gave up Chang'an. Now the rush to flee Weibei should also be a very reasonable explanation.
The horses that were exchanged back, Cheng Yi and the others felt that they had lost to their grandmother's house.
In the middle of winter, they came out and didn't grab anything, they were worried that the Cao army would be a strong defender, afraid of losing their own troops, and they were all waiting in the rear with the idea of not earning or losing.
But now that it has been confirmed that the general of Cao Jun is Cao Ren, who is as timid as a mouse, they immediately forgot their own little calculations before, and instead complained that it was Han Sui who prevented them from going out of the army.
"Governor Han, why don't you have a good talk with General Ma?
We raised troops this time to fight against the Cao thief for the people of Guanzhong, and it was just to discuss the military before, and there was a slight delay, and it was not explicitly said that it was not to send troops, it was General Ma who misunderstood! ”
"Yes, it's not that we're afraid of Ma Mengqi, but we're afraid that it's a critical battle, if we don't go to Mengqi, won't it hurt the harmony?"
"Yes, Governor Han still wrote a letter to persuade Meng Qi."
Han Sui was in sharp pain by the clowns of his subordinates who were jumping sideways from side to side.
How can you do great things with a group of insects?
Although he really wanted to cut down these people, Han Sui also knew that those soldiers under him were all raiders, and if they saw Ma Mengqi, they would not suffer much loss but return with a full load, so they would have to turn their faces against themselves.
In desperation, Han Sui had no choice but to write a letter to Ma Chao in person, admitting that he had misjudged the situation, and hoped that Ma Chao would allow the Guanzhong coalition army to cross the river together and fight Cao Thief together.
The opportunity to beat the water dogs, who in the world wants to miss it?
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Hao Zhao's brain hurts every day these days.
Chang Diao's marching formation can't be said to be completely inadequate, but he is not bad at leading four or five thousand people, and he can't command any more.
Not to mention anything else, there are as many as 40,000 soldiers and horses left behind them in the palace, if they choose to line up on the north bank of Weishui, and see Ma Chao crossing the river and immediately meet the attack, how can they not let Ma Dai's soldiers and horses of less than 300 people successfully cross the river, and have the courage to attack immediately.
The arrangement of the troops of Changdiao's division was already very stupid, and what was even more stupid was that after he heard that Ma Chao's army had come ashore, he completely ignored Zhuge Qian's request to recapture the Weishui defense line, and instead ordered the whole army to quickly retreat to the Yellow River and set up a camp there.
Well, it's commonly known as the backwater array......
Good guys, back then, the Marquis of Huaiyin lined up to fight to the death to boost morale, but now they are lining up to escape......
When you flee, the enemy will attack immediately, and the army left on the shore will surely be in disarray.
Cao Cao was worried that the rebels would get a large amount of military rations, cattle and horses would grow rapidly, so he left Chang Diao to guard, but now it is better......
This battle is still a fart, Hao Zhao can't swim at all, and even if he can swim, he doesn't have the confidence to swim through the cold and frozen Yellow River.
"The general advises the regular military division." Hao Zhao almost cried, "It's not a pity for me to die." But I don't want to die in the Yellow River like this, if the Chang military division is unwilling to take back his fate, I am willing to lead the headquarters to fight to the death and fight with Ma Chao. ”
Although Zhuge Qian is a loyal fan of Chang Diao, he still feels that Chang Diao is a bit too much this time.
He could clearly see the panic, panic, and hesitation on Chang Junshi's face.
Obviously, the Chang Junshi has panicked and is now starting to command blindly.
Concerning his own life, Zhuge Qian nodded quickly:
"Okay, I'll try my best to convince Chang Junshi."
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