and the hinterland of the state. Zhang Liao and Guo Jia carefully calculated, not only successfully fetted down Pang De, but also left Ma Chao and three thousand Xiliang cavalry, which can be surrendered without a fight.

Just when Zhang Liao and Guo Jia began to calculate Pang De and Ma Chao, Xu Shu, who had already quietly returned to the Zhongyang area, was staring closely at Yan Yan's movements. According to Zhao Xing's secret order, the last time Xu Shu arrested Cao Hong, it can be described as a great achievement, and this time we must make persistent efforts to correctly arrest a group of Shu soldiers and Shu generals. Of course, the more you catch, the greater the credit.

What needs to be noted is Zhao Xing's wording, he has been emphasizing "grasping", not "killing". To be honest, this requirement is a bit high, that is, it is possible for a master like Xu Shu to be both civil and military. If it was just for the sake of killing people, a surprise attack or a salvo of thunder could easily kill many Shu soldiers, but Zhao Xing didn't seem to want this result. Since Zhao Xing asked Xu Shu to capture some Shu army soldiers, he had his own plans. Xu Shu also vaguely guessed Zhao Xing's intentions, so he immediately began to arrange this "arrest" operation.

Yan Yan, who was patrolling the right flank of Lu Zhijun's flank, has been getting more and more worried recently. A few days ago, Pang De received an order to raid the hinterland of Bingzhou with 10,000 horses, and now only his 10,000 infantry are stationed in this area near Zhongyang. Although the Shu army has not directly participated in the war, it has some grasp of the internal battle situation of the coalition army.

A few days ago, Cao Cao's subordinate Xiahou Dun 10,000 Taishan soldiers were raided by the Xiong Zhen army in Bingzhou, and less than 5,000 escaped back, and even Cao Cao's younger brother Cao Hong was also captured, which sounded the alarm for Yan Yan. Yan Yan often used this incident to remind his subordinates Wu Lan, Lei Tong, Meng Da and Zhang Yi and other lieutenant generals, and warned them not to take it lightly, maybe one day Xiong Zhen's army would target his own 10,000 people.

Yan Yan's intuition and judgment are undoubtedly accurate, but they are limited to that. Now that the right to serve is in the hands of Xu Shu, no one knows when the mysterious Xiong Zhenjun will suddenly come out and bite someone. What Yan Yan could not understand was that the reason why the Bingzhou army was able to rely on its inferior forces to meet the enemy attacking from all sides was that the most important point was the timely and accurate transmission of intelligence information. In today's terms, the right to control information is undoubtedly the first condition for a military force to win, and a unit with two eyes and a black eye will always be beaten.

For example, this time, in fact, the Xiong Zhen Army and the Dragoon Army have begun to link. Ma Chao on Yuci's side had just led three thousand cavalry to obediently surrender and handed over the weapons and armor on his body, and a transport team immediately transported the weapons and armor of the Xiliang cavalry and the emblem banner to Xu Shu's army. When Pang De returns to Zhongyang with 7,000 cavalry, Yan Yan will find that when the Xiliang cavalry goes, there are 10,000 when they go, and when they come back, they will still have 10,000!

There were 3,000 light and heavy cavalry in Xiong Zhen's army, and this time they were uniformly disguised as Xiliang cavalry, ready to follow Pang De to fish in troubled waters. Of course, since Xu Shu is ready to catch a few big fish, the remaining 7,000 soldiers of the rest of the army will also make corresponding preparations and ambushes.

Guo Jia was able to easily and smoothly catch Ma Chao and the three thousand Xiliang cavalry, because both sides knew in their hearts that the other party would not make a fatal move, but they were just tossing it for the sake of face. But Xiong Zhenjun and Shu Jun did not have such a good relationship, and they really wanted to exchange the smallest casualties for the greatest benefit, not only to plan carefully, but also to complete the raid as quickly as possible. Otherwise, once Lu Zhi, who was besieging Lishi, found out, he might not know who would be the fish that was caught.

After eight days of leading his army deep into the hinterland of Bingzhou, Pound finally returned to the garrison with an army of 10,000. Looking at the expressions on the faces of these soldiers, all of them were oily and smooth, and they were holding them on their shoulders and backs, obviously they had gotten a lot of good things from Bingzhou. But this is too outrageous, isn't it? 10,000 people when he went, and 10,000 people when he came back, could it be that Zhao Xing looked at this Pang De smoothly? Although Yan Yan had doubts in his stomach, as a friendly soldier, he could only put his doubts in his stomach and wait for Lu Zhi to deal with Pang De.

What Yan Yan didn't know was that he might be disappointed this time. Not only would Pang De not take the initiative to report to Lu Zhi about the situation of this trip, but the imperial envoy who was already on the road was about to arrive in Lishi, and Lu Zhi would not have the opportunity to give orders to Yan Yan in the future.

Pang De's 10,000 soldiers and horses were not far from Yan Yan's camp, but they were not combined. The main reason is that the two troops are not subordinate to each other, plus one is infantry and the other is cavalry, and the requirements for the camp are also different.

After the third watch that night that day, three thousand black-armored cavalry suddenly came out of the originally quiet Pang De camp, and their appearance was completely different from the Xiliang cavalry they saw during the day. Under the cover of night, they began to approach Yan Yan's camp. The special operations brigade responsible for blowing up the camp gate and blowing up the horse and deer firewood was already in position one step ahead, just waiting for the cavalry troops to come and launch a fatal blow.

Xu Shu, who was not far from Yan Yan's camp, explained to Dian Wei: "After Meng Xiao led the team to break into the enemy camp this time, he only had to arrest the enemy generals, and leave the rest of the matter to Hou Cheng, Xue Lan, Bian Xi and others!"

Dian Wei touched the back of his head, and said with a smile: "Hehe, I caught Cao Hong last time and left Xiahoudun, which made me very unhappy, and this time I have to arrest two or three of him no matter what!"

With a huge explosion sounded, panicked shouts came from the originally quiet Shu army camp, and the Shu soldiers who were awakened did not have time to put on their clothes and armor, so they saw that the fire was raging around the camp, and there was a shout of killing everywhere, so they hurriedly scattered to find a safe place to hide.

Yan Yan and several generals hurriedly rushed out, and happened to meet Zhang Yi who was on duty at night. Zhang Yi anxiously reported to Yan Yan: "Xiong Zhen's army suddenly attacked, and the camp gate has been blown up, and now the heavily armed infantry has entered the camp, please leave here with the soldiers quickly!"

Yan Yan was very annoyed when he heard that it was Xiong Zhen's army attacking the camp, so he wanted to take his own guards to intercept Xiong Zhen's army that rushed into the camp, but he was hugged by Wu Lan and Meng Da, and he dragged him to the reserved back camp gate. Zhang Yi and Lei Tong volunteered to stay to gather the stragglers and break off the retreating Shu army.

With the first wave of heavily armored foot soldiers rushing into the Shu army camp, Dian Wei saw Zhang Yi and Lei Tong in the distance nervously directing the Shu army to converge in front of the Chinese army tent by the light of the fire, and immediately rushed in the direction where the two were located. The three hundred special combat personnel behind Dian Wei were also like wolves following behind the head wolf, letting out a fierce shout of killing, and rushed forward around Dian Wei.

Zhang Yi, who was directing the soldiers to evacuate and gather, suddenly felt that someone was coming towards him, and hurriedly looked up, just in time to see Dian Wei carrying two halberds rushing towards him. Zhang Yi knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly picked up the long knife in his hand to block it, but he was beaten by Dian Wei's two halberds and flew the weapon, and before Zhang Yi could resist again, he was knocked on the skull by Dian Wei's halberd handle, and he immediately fainted.

Dian Wei stunned Zhang Yi and did not stop, but turned around and chased after Lei Tong not far away. Lei Tongfang saw that this black-faced man was from a ruthless background, and knew that he was no match for him, so he had begun to dodge left and right, wanting to escape from here as soon as possible, but he was still targeted by Dian Wei.

Seeing Lei Tong running wildly, he seemed to be about to escape. Dian Wei, who had been silent, shouted: "Oh, stay ahead, Grandpa Dian is here!"

The Shu army, which was already in a panic, suddenly heard Dian Wei's chilling shout, so they flashed to the side, just in time for Dian Wei to chase after Lei Tong in great strides.

As soon as Lei Tong saw that he could not get rid of the pursuit of the ugly man, he simply turned around and stabbed Dian Wei with a spear, but Dian Wei grabbed the spear by his arm and captured him alive with the back of his neck.