Flyers flying all over the city. It disturbed the morale of the troops defending the city, and also made Yan Xing, the commander of the city defenders, restless.

In the face of the surging Jin army, Yan Xing knew that it would be difficult to resist the 8,000 people led by himself, Liang Xing, and the three candidates. Now Ma Chao led the army back to Xiliang, and kept shouting people outside the city, and distributed leaflets to the city, which not only shook the morale of the army in the city, but also made the people in the city begin to panic. In the long run, there is no need for Ma Chao to attack the city, but I am afraid that there will be a mutiny among the soldiers and a rebellion among the people in the city.

Yan Xing ordered people to gather the defenders in the city, and viciously warned the officers and non-commissioned officers at the bottom not to forget that everyone had a part in the ambush of Ma Teng in Xingxing Gorge, once Ma Chao broke through the attack, how could he spare anyone who had done black things to his father in the first place?

Although most of the soldiers in the city were originally bewitched by Liang Xinghe's candidates, they were ordered to ambush in Xingxing Gorge, and shot Ma Teng and his guards indiscriminately, but now that they have been reminded of the old things by Yan Xing, these soldiers still feel that there is a ghost in their hearts, so they no longer expect to be forgiven by Ma Chao when they join the Xiliang army, and they are ruthless and decide to resist to the end.

After waiting outside the city for three days, Ma Chao finally ordered the three armies to attack the city at the same time. As a satellite city on the periphery of Guzang, the attack on the city was just a warm-up before the official conquest of Han Sui, and even Tian Yu felt that there was no need to delay too much time under the city, as for how many soldiers in the city were willing to surrender, in fact, it did not make much sense to the 40,000 troops besieging the city.

According to the previous deployment, at the beginning of the siege battle, the 30,000 cavalry of the Xiliang Army and Huang Xuan's division rushed around the city and shot in a circle, sprinkling the rain of arrows on the city, and suppressing the defenders on the city could not show their heads. Gao Shun commanded 10,000 infantry to take the opportunity to push large siege equipment such as ironclad carts, carts, and wells to move closer to the city, and when the carts filled with explosives were sent into the city gate, everything was over.

Hearing a loud "boom", the east gate of the city was lifted into the air by a huge qilang, and a huge gap appeared in front of the besieging army after the smoke cleared. Ma Chao led the troops into the city first, but did not meet large-scale resistance, and many soldiers held leaflets that they had quietly picked up a few days ago, and knelt on the ground loudly and shouted, "General, spare your life!"

It didn't take long for the small city to be completely controlled, and Ma Chao ordered people to count the defenders in the city, and found that there were less than 2,000 people, and the main generals who defended the city, Yan Xing, Liang Xing, and the candidates, were nowhere to be found. Tian Yu found a few articulate officers for interrogation, and only then did he know that when the east gate was breached, Yan Xing, Liang Xing, and the candidates took advantage of the chaos to leave the west gate with six thousand cavalry and had fled to Guzang City. The two thousand soldiers who remained in the city were just Yan Xing who stayed behind to cover people's eyes and ears, intending to delay the actions of the Jin army.

Ma Chao heard that Yan Xing, the enemy who killed his father, had fled, and immediately prepared to lead 10,000 cavalry to pursue, but was hugged by Tian Yu. Tian Yu said to Ma Chao: "From the time of the time to Guzang, you must pass through the Xingxing Gorge on the way, Yan Xing is cunning and resourceful, it is difficult to guarantee that he did not deliberately put on the image of escape, and set up an ambush in the Xingxing Gorge to lure our army to be fooled!"

Ma Chao anxiously asked Tian Yu: "Then how should I deal with it?"

Tian Yu replied to Ma Chao with a calm face: "Meng Qi, don't forget that your father's murder is Han Sui, as long as Han Sui is still in Guzang, how can Yan Xing go away?"

Ma Dai, who was on the side, interjected at this time and asked: "Since we are worried that there are enemy troops in ambush in the Star Gorge, how can we pass through? If we can't pass the Star Gorge, how can we exterminate the traitor Han Sui?"

Tian Yu asked people to take out the marching map, pointed to another acropolis in the southwest of Guzang, Luanniao, and then said: "Let's go around to Luanniao from the east, take this city first, and then go to Guzang from Luanniao!"

Ma Chao pondered for a moment and asked: "If we make a detour to Luanniao City in the west, won't we give up Luanniao to Han Sui again? When we go to attack Guzang, Han Sui will lead his troops to flee from Luanniao to Luanniao, so won't we always have to go around in circles with Han Sui?"

Tian Yu seemed to have thought about this question for a long time, and immediately replied to Ma Chao and said: "If my guess is correct, there must be very few defenders stationed in Luanniao, as long as they see our army going to attack, the defenders in the city will definitely flee in the direction of Guzang!

Ma Chao understood Tian Yu's plan, so he asked with some surprise: "Does Guorang want to fight a counter-ambush outside Xingxing Gorge?"

Tian Yu nodded and replied: "That's right, our army is twice as strong as Han Sui, and we have 10,000 elite infantry who are good at attacking and defending the city, why bother chasing the enemy's ass and eating dust? We might as well set up a big pocket outside the Xingxing Gorge, and once Yan Xing, a slippery water snake, comes out of the canyon, we will send infantry to block the mouth of the valley and maneuver to annihilate the enemy on the plain between the city and the Xingxing Gorge!"

After the plan was decided, the 40,000 Jin troops who attacked the city took nearly 2,000 prisoners out of the city, and then strangely marched towards the southwest, rather than marching towards Guzang in the northwest. Along the way, Ma Dai, who was in charge of guarding the captives, deliberately created some gaps and opportunities, allowing many captives to escape. At night, Pang De led 10,000 cavalry to escort the remaining more than 1,000 captives to continue the march towards Luanniao, while Ma Chao, Hu Che'er and Gao Shun led 30,000 troops to turn around and withdraw in the direction of Luanzi.

In the middle of the night, the 10,000 infantry led by Gao Shun were divided into two parts, all the way to the mouth of the Star Canyon, and all the way back to the city of Xuci. The 20,000 cavalry led by Ma Chao and Hu Che'er disappeared into the cold wilderness, and they didn't know where they were hiding.

The Korean captives who escaped during the march fled all the way to Xingxing Gorge, and when they reached the valley, they were discovered by the secret sentry sent by Yan Xing, so they were brought to Yan Xing, who was ambushed at the top of the valley. Yan Xing asked how the captives had escaped, and the captives truthfully replied that they had escaped on the way to Luanniao with the Jin army. After Yan Xing listened, he finally knew that his plot to pretend to escape and ambush Ma Chao in Xingxing Gorge was discovered.

Since the plan has been seen through by Ma Chao, and Ma Chao took a detour with the army to attack Luanniao, Yan Xing, who had been hiding on the top of the canyon and blowing the cold wind all day, encouraged the candidate and Liang Xing to lead the army to recapture the Jin Dynasty together, and specially played the game of "hide and seek" with the Jin army between the Zhuangci and the Star Gorge.

According to Yan Xing's analysis, once the Jin army learned that the city had changed hands, they would either turn around and attack again in annoyance, or they would go directly to attack Guzang desperately, no matter which of these two situations occurred, they had a way to retreat.

If Ma Chao led his army to attack Guzeng again, Yan Xing fled to Xingxing Gorge, where he lay in ambush and waited for Ma Chao to fall into a trap; if Ma Chao led his army to attack Guzang City, Yan Xing would lead his troops to occupy Luanniao City, cutting off the back route of the Jin army. In short, Yan Xing just wanted to take advantage of the geographical advantage to play a guerrilla war trick with Ma Chao.

It's a pity that when Ma Chao and Tian Yu were in Wudu, they had already played guerrilla tactics to perfection......