Qiyun Mountain.

Ma Teng has been tossed recently, and he is a little anxious.

The elite soldiers and horses of the imperial court slaughtered one of the 36 Jusheng tribes at the foot of the mountain, and also made a willow tree Jingguan.

This made Ma Teng feel that the reinforcements from the imperial court must have come.

Next, they only need to come out of the nest, join forces with the imperial army, and attack Jincheng.

But just when he felt that this matter was nine out of ten, Han Sui's troops once again surrounded Qiyun Mountain.

But there was no news of the imperial army.

The grain and grass he brought with him was about to bottom out, and now even if he tightened his belt and saved some food, he would be able to eat for another four or five days at most. Moreover, Han Sui's troops were menacing this time, and they had even burned two mountains.

Melancholy, anxiety, and restlessness are not just the emotions of Ma Teng, the main general.

This is true throughout the army now.

"My lord, we can't go on like this anymore, the court is repeatedly difficult to rely on, and we can only rely on ourselves now." Ma Chao found Ma Teng again and put forward his own suggestion, "While there is still some food and the soldiers can still move, we should break out of the encirclement and leave this dead place." ”

"But with the strength of our army, we can't capture Jincheng." Ma Teng sighed.

"If we can't attack, we can not attack, go back to Longxian to regroup our troops and horses, and then make a comeback one day." Ma Chao said, "We can't put our hope on the imperial army anymore, they killed Ju Shengbu with a thunderous battle before, just to give us a little hope." ”

"If the boy guessed correctly, the imperial army must want to watch us fight with Han Sui and lose both, and then they will take advantage of it, and they don't treat us as allies at all!"

Ma Chao's words are also what Ma Teng has been struggling with in the past few days.

"The thieves are heavy, and this place is too close to Jincheng, if our army breaks out of the encirclement, it will definitely be intercepted by Jincheng's soldiers and horses." Ma Teng touched the texture of the vicissitudes of the elm tree beside him, paused and said, "Break through at night tonight and Benlong County!" ”

Ma Chao, who was just about to open his mouth to persuade again, heard this and responded in a deep voice.

After Ma Chao left, Ma Teng looked in the direction of Jincheng and muttered: "Do your best, delusional to finish the battle, it seems that I think too much." Well, let's think about it. ”

He was actually very unwilling.

But what if he is unwilling now, he still has to bow to the reality in front of him.

……

Ma Teng was doubting life and secretly scolding the court for being unjust.

But in a place only a few mountains away from him, Zhang Ji was also scolding his mother.

For a few days, he adhered to the arrangement that Xun Yu gave him, waiting for the opportunity to send troops.

But Ma Teng led the army to hide on Qiyun Mountain, just like dead, and he couldn't move.

The rebels of Jincheng attacked from the bottom of the mountain, and he threw stones and arrows down the mountain.

The enemy withdrew, and he withdrew.

This whole Zhang Ji is about to become an ant on a hot pot, and he feels anxious for Ma Teng.

In the past few days, he has sent countless outposts to secretly watch the battle situation in Qiyun Mountain.

While pinching his fingers to count Ma Teng's grain and grass.

Zhang Ji counted it I don't know how many times, but the answer was always the same.

Ma Teng, this old boy, is either about to run out of food, or has already run out of food.

Zhang Ji wondered, it had come to this point, he was still cowering on the mountain and didn't go out.

What do you want to do, do you want to die on Qiyun Mountain to deter the enemy?!

In the evening, when the orange sunset casts only the golden light on the top of the mountain.

Zhou Du, the lieutenant sent by Zhang Ji to ask Xun You for advice, came back.

Zhou is not dumb, but he talks less.

When he was a child, he was a servant of a squire's family, the kind that had been a slave for generations.

When he was four or five years old, he said the wrong thing, which caused his father to be filled in the well by the master's family.

His mother named him Zhou Duba.

Children from poor families don't pay so much attention to it, whether it is a word or a name, it can be called and have a certain meaning.

"What did the Overseers say?" Zhang Ji asked.

Zhou's mute face was a little honest, and he said in a muffled voice: "The Overseer is still the same as before, Ma Teng doesn't move, we don't move!" ”

Zhang Ji sneered depressedly, "Damn it, the Overseer must be making a fool this time." ”

"Ma Teng's dog thing is obviously going to die on Qiyun Mountain, and he is not ready to send troops at all, what is the point of us waiting? As for the enemy army at the foot of Qiyun Mountain, labor and management can kill them in two rounds. ”

"What kind of conspiracy and tricks, and delay the effort."

In the past few days, this is the third time that Zhang Ji has sent someone to ask Xun You for advice.

But this is always the answer.

If the horses are nested, they will have to nest.

This situation is a great torture for a person who is in acute.

After scolding for a while, Zhang Ji sat down without temper, "Wait." ”

He scolded sharply, but he didn't have the courage to disobey.

As a general who has just seen a great future, Zhang Ji is very careful in this matter.

"Go and bring my beauty over, I'll continue carving!" Zhang Ji said weakly, "Damn, as a general, labor and management are so boring that they are so bored that they carve beauties, it's really embarrassing!" ”

Zhou smiled innocently and moved the wooden stake that Zhang Ji had carved most of the half.

This wooden beauty has a slender waist and a plump body.

The only fly in the ointment is that the face is a little ugly.

Big and small eyes, high nose bridge, eyebrows like two maggots lying on it.

Every time Zhou Du saw it, he always felt that his general carved this face according to his face.

Anyway, how awkward it looks.

Zhang Ji looked at Mu Meiren for a moment and drew his horizontal knife.

"The knife of labor and management killing people is used in such a place, I am ashamed to say it!" Zhang Ji let out another long sigh.

Zhou Dumb: ......

The days in the mountains are too boring, and under the leadership of Zhang Ji, everyone is playing this now.

All sorts of messy things carved a lot.

The mountains are now about to become a forest of ghosts.

Without the tools at hand, the wood could not be sawn off, so the soldiers carved directly on the trunk.

Twilight falls.

There was not a single fire in the dark valley.

In order to hide his traces, Zhang Ji strictly ordered that the soldiers were not allowed to light fires.

Eat dried meat when you are hungry, drink raw water when you are thirsty, and sleep the ground for the bed and the sky for the quilt.

In fact, the days are not hard at all, and they are probably the only ones who use dried meat as long-term military food when marching and fighting.

And probably just this time.

Under normal circumstances, they don't deserve such luxury.

Zhang Ji held the wooden beauty that was almost completed in his hand, lying under the cliff and falling asleep.

"General."

A soft cry came to my ears.

Zhang Ji suddenly opened his eyes, and the horizontal knife that he had been holding in his hand was immediately raised.

"Who?!" He asked.

The night was too dark for him to see the people around him.

“卑职周哑巴，马腾出兵了，倾巢而出，已突破了栖云山下叛军的包围，正沿着大河的方向南下。” Zhou said dumbly.

Zhang Ji instantly sobered up, "Then what are you still doing in a daze?" Let all these bunnies get me up, light torches, and kill the thieves! ”

"Whoa!"

Zhang Ji quickly got up, straightened out the armor that he had loosened in a panic, and kicked the wooden beauty he had carved for several days to the side, "The knife of labor and management is used to kill!" ”

将士们迅速聚集在了一起，久违的火光，也在这片山谷里亮了起来。

Zhang Ji suddenly calmed down from the excitement just now.

"When Ma Teng sends troops, I send troops, he attacks the front, and I attack the side." He muttered a word, but he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

The current situation is that Ma Teng ran away with people.

So how should he fight?

"No matter, there is no need to do what he said, now Ma Teng is running in front, and the enemy is chasing behind, even if he attacks the front, I attack the side." Zhang Ji quickly convinced himself.

"All armies are there, let's go!"

……

Along the banks of the great river in the middle of the night, the sound of horses' hooves came and went.

The bright moon, which was still shrouded in dark clouds just now, had completely rushed out at this moment.

The moon moves with the people, and the light spreads out the earth.

The sixteenth moon can barely be seen even if you don't light a torch.

Liang Xing led the army to bite Ma Teng's back tightly, and while chasing, he ordered the soldiers to scold angrily, shaking Ma Teng's military heart and making them nervous and panicked.

Ma Chao rushed to Ma Teng's side and shouted loudly: "My lord, I'll go to the queen!" ”

"Liang Xing bites too hard, and if he runs any longer, he will definitely be caught up. Our army is tired, and has traveled so far, and the enemy is waiting for work, and if we fight, we will definitely lose. ”

Ma Teng knew that what his son said was very practical, but he didn't want his son to be suspected.

"I'll go, you lead the army to the south!" 马腾喊道。

"Adult, don't waste time, the child will be fine." Ma Chao pointed his gun on the ground, turned the horse's head, and didn't allow Ma Teng to say anything more, so he rushed towards the back of the formation.

"You ......" Ma Teng opened his mouth, but Ma Chao was gone.

He clenched his fists with a sad expression and roared in a low voice, "The court misunderstood me!" ”

Ma Chao's guarantee is useless at all at this time.

Ma Teng knows very well that Ma Chao will be more than lucky.

Behind them was more than 10,000 steps to recuperate for many days, how could Ma Chao contain it with only a few thousand people?

At this time, Ma Chao, who rushed out without hesitation, had already intersected with the enemy's short-handed soldiers.

Only 2,000 men and horses rushed into the enemy's formation, and they were instantly overwhelmed.

But Ma Chao's strength was outstanding, and with only a spear, he forcibly tore a hole in the enemy's military formation.

He rushed left and right, as if he had entered a no-man's land.

From a distance, I saw the flames flying, and the enemy troops continued to fall from their horses.

Liang Xing was in the military formation at the moment, and when he saw this scene, he shouted sharply, "Catch the one in the white robe, and reward a thousand gold!" ”

Under the heavy reward, the surrounding soldiers quickly surrounded Ma Chao.

Countless spears, stabbing horses on the top and war horses on the bottom.

Ma Chao instantly seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, his martial arts skills were excellent, and he could directly pick the enemy out with one shot.

But when the surrounding enemy forces were outflanked by the three layers and the outer three layers, he began to lose his strength.

The war horse, which had been shot several times, was the first to be unable to bear it, and fell to the ground with a neigh.

Ma Chao hurriedly supported his body with a gun and rolled on the spot.

But his action made the surrounding enemy troops seize the opportunity.

In an instant, countless spears stabbed at him indiscriminately.

Although Ma Chao responded in time, he still received several blows on his body.

"How can I, Ma Mengqi, die at the hands of you waste." Ma Chao roared angrily, directly put aside the attack behind him, and slashed out towards the front.

The gun shot out like a dragon, and in an instant, more than a dozen corpses fell at his feet.

The surrounding enemy troops were also shocked by Ma Chao's bravery, and Qi Shushu took two steps back.

finally breathed a sigh of relief, but Ma Chao didn't dare to relax, and his life and death were still in the hands of the enemy at this moment.

Tightening the spear in his hand, Ma Chao raised his head to the sky and let out a long roar, and killed again.

Suddenly, there was a commotion among the enemy troops, and they ran in all directions.

Ma Chao was stunned.

The enemy army that had just surrounded him suddenly no one cared about him.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves surged.

A torrent of black armor appeared in front of him, holding a torch alof.

"That white-robed young general is Ma Chao?" Someone shouted and asked.

"It's a certain house! Are you still alive? Ma Chao looked at the court army that suddenly appeared, a little angry.

"You mouth, hahaha, eat less messy things in the future, just like Xiahou Yuan." One of the cavalry shouted, "If you are not dead, kill the enemy with me!" ”