In the middle of the night, the golden city is full of swords.

Yan Xing walked into the government office surrounded by a group of personal soldiers.

"Gentlemen, Ma Teng can't leave Jincheng alive!" He walked in the door, and he didn't even see anyone inside.

Li Shen was sitting there drinking sobering soup, and he was drinking and dancing with several generals as the scouts brought the news of Ma Teng's escape into the city.

Hearing the news, where is he still in the mood to drink again.

On the one hand, he ordered someone to boil the sobering soup, and on the other hand, he hurriedly sent someone to inform Yan Xing and the generals in the city.

"That's what the old man meant, the lord is just fighting with the imperial army in Longxian, if we let Ma Teng back, wouldn't it seem that we are very incompetent?" Li Shen said.

"Then don't talk nonsense, Ma Teng is heading south along the south bank of the Great River. Our army went out by land and water, pursuing down the river on the one hand, and by land on the other, galloping to the aid of General Liang Xing. Ma Teng has been fighting with the lord for many years, and this old horseman is also a fierce general, and his sons are all brave and unworthy of the enemy. Yan Xing said.

"Good!" Li Shen dried the decanting soup in the bowl, wiped his mouth, and said, "The old man personally led the soldiers and horses to the waterway. ”

"Then send troops." Yan Xing's jaw was bowed.

Without further ado, the strategy was set.

In fact, there is nothing to arrange the troops, there is only one important thing.

Leave Ma Teng and his sons in Jincheng forever.

In the middle of the night, the drums of war sounded like thunder.

The generals of Jincheng, who did not steam steamed buns and fought for breath, fought out of the city in a mighty way, and the soldiers pursued Ma Teng in multiple ways.

……

"It's been a lively day!"

Zhang Liao stood on the top of the dark mountain, and sighed in his mouth, "How do you say that, it's better to come early than to come by coincidence, we arrived today, just to have a meal, sleep, and then the big battle will get up, and the timing is just right." ”

"Looking at the formation, Jincheng is out of the army!"

Xiahou Yuan counted the number of soldiers and horses killed from the south of Jincheng and said, "There are six branches, and the land and water are all out. ”

"It seems that Ma Teng rushed down alive from Qiyun Mountain, so that these rebels in Jincheng couldn't sit still at all."

"Which path do you choose?" He looked at Zhang Liao and asked.

"You wait a minute." Zhang Liao said as he reached into his arms and took out a tightly sealed codex.

“tui!” A mouthful of spit ran on his fingers, Zhang Liao leaned in front of the torch and carefully opened the codex.

"Tired of its teachers...... Attack its unpreparedness, surprise it, concentrate superior forces, and destroy its vitality, we should fight like this! ”

Xiahou Yuan: ???

"Don't understand?" Zhang Liao looked at Xiahou Yuan's eyes as if he was a little dazed, so he asked.

Xiahou Yuan glanced at the codex in Zhang Liao's hand and asked, "Where did this military book in your hand come from?" If you read military books while fighting, you should be the first person in the past. ”

"Thanks to the compliment, if I can go down in history in this way, it should be considered a beautiful story." Zhang Liao didn't think so, and even felt that this was a compliment.

He raised the codex in his hand, which had been rewrapped in cowhide, and said, "This is the general point of use given by our overseers, and the types of battles we may encounter in Liangzhou are all above. Isn't it thoughtful enough? Hahaha! ”

Xiahou Yuan chuckled, "It's really intimate enough, but you don't necessarily need it when you see it." ”

"Rat-eyed, don't you look down on me?" Zhang Liao snorted disdainfully, "Our army is now a tiger wolf hiding in the shadows, and the enemy army doesn't know that there is still a large army hiding by their side to keep an eye on them, so when is the most appropriate time for us to do it?" ”

"Of course it's when they're at their weakest!"

Xiahou Yuan nodded, there was nothing wrong with this.

"You go on." He looked at Zhang Liao with a scrutinizing gaze and said.

Zhang Liao chuckled lightly, and then said: "The enemy army is coming out by land and water, and their purpose is to intercept and destroy Ma Teng. As long as Ma Teng keeps running, they won't stop. This is the exhaustion of their teachers, they don't need us to do anything at all, they will run tired themselves. ”

"The enemy army is divided into six routes, some people are in front and some people are behind, and there will always be people who sneak and slip behind. And at that time, it is when we are taken by surprise and attacked by surprise. ”

"Gather the superiority of troops, like a python swallowing chickens, one bite at a time, end the battle in the shortest possible time, and then continue to hide the tracks. Staring at the marginal, backward enemy troops, destroy them one by one. ”

"Do you understand now?" Zhang Liao squeezed his eyes at Xiahou Yuan and smiled, "We can't be like a reckless man, just rush down now, not only will we not be able to kill many enemies, but it will also expose us to the enemy's sight, which is very likely to attract a large encirclement of the enemy." ”

"In the face of an enemy three times my size, I am not sure that I will get out, and I will talk about the results of the battle. If there is, it must be an irreproducible accident. ”

Zhang Liao's analysis, Xiahou Yuan agreed very much, and even admired it a little.

But the frivolous squeezing of his eyes just now made Xiahou Yuan feel offended.

"Then stop talking nonsense and keep up." Xiahou Yuan said.

Zhang Liao laughed, ordered the army to pull out, and followed the Jincheng rebels.

A large number of scouts scattered across the hazy wilderness of the moonlight to make way for the army.

While keeping an eye on the trail of the Jincheng rebels, they were responsible for choosing the nearest route for the army.

The Jincheng rebels chased Ma Teng and walked the river valley plain on the south bank of the Great River.

The combined forces of Zhang Liao and Xiahou Yuan walked through the mountains on the edge of the plain.

……

This moonlit late night is indeed a bit lively.

Not only Xiahou Yuan, Zhang Ji, and Zhang Liao's three troops gathered outside Jincheng.

Even Xun You, who had been dispatching troops and horses outside, also appeared.

He arrived in the evening with only 500 cavalry with him as his own guard.

But now he is facing a rather embarrassing matter.

The battle had happened so suddenly, the night was too dark, and he didn't know where his troops were now.

"Overseer, General Zhang Ji has appeared, and now he has joined forces with Ma Teng, and is fighting and retreating." The scout came in the dark, his body wet, as if he had just walked through a mud pit.

Xun You handed the thin blanket he was sleeping on from the horse to the scout, "Cover it, it's cold, don't catch a cold." ”

The corners of the scout's mouth froze in moments, "Overseer, I don't need to, I just took a bath in the mud pit." This humble man is as strong as a calf, not in the way, running wildly in the night, and it is inevitable to fall on his head. ”

The scout insisted on not using it, and Xun You didn't force it.

"Let's go, let's follow." He said, "Zhang Ji is too anxious, I'm afraid that I will lose the battle." ”

He watched with his own eyes as one enemy army after another rushed out of Jincheng, although he couldn't accurately calculate how many soldiers and horses there were, but just looking at their size, I am afraid that they were more than three times the combined army of Zhang Ji and Ma Teng.

Triple the enemy, invincible!

An enemy three times more than 10,000 people is not simply one fight three.

Even if Zhang Ji's subordinates can fight well and everyone is brave, the threefold enemy will still drag them to death.

在冀州，荀攸曾好几次面对过同样的情况。

Less is more, and it does exist.

But the commander of the army cannot gamble on that small possibility.

"Hurry up!" Xun Yu urged.

His orders could not be delivered to Zhang Ji now, which made him a little anxious.

The wet scout rushed to the front of the queue with his torch held alof, "I'm familiar with this road, follow my torches and let go of the horsepower." ”

"Keep up!" Xun Yu decisively ordered.

……

"Little Pony, how about you and I go back and kill again?" Zhang Ji waved his torch and shouted at Ma Chao.

Ma Chao had no scruples about speaking and completely disrespected others, the more he looked at it, the more unhappy he became, and he shouted with anger in his tone, "If you dare, I will dare, it's terrible." ”

Zhang Ji laughed, "Okay, the foal is so bold." ”

"All the armies have it, let me cover up and kill, and let the thieves taste our return pistols!"

"Whoa!"

All the armies responded.

After fighting in Liang Xing's army for a round and rescuing Ma Chao, Zhang Ji realized that the enemy army was too large to completely repel him. So he chose to preserve his strength, followed closely behind Ma Teng's army, and fought and retreated.

Liang Xingzheng led the army to run wildly, shouting and chasing after him, and suddenly he found that the enemy army in front of him had turned a corner and killed them straight.

"It's just right, kill with me!" Liang Xing instantly came to the momentum, and rushed forward in the first place.

The distance between the two sides was already close, and the war horse went down with a few hooves, and it was less than a stone's throw away.

Zhang Ji held his eyes and took a closer look, "The person who took the lead seems to be still a general!" ”

"It's Liang Xing." Ma Chao shouted.

"I don't know, but whatever, let go of the arrows!" Zhang Ji took a sip and pinned the horizontal knife to the saddle and drew the crossbow.

All the troops followed in unison, and in an instant, thousands of arrows were fired in unison, falling into the rapidly rushing enemy army formation like a thunderous rainstorm.

Ma Chao: !!

Can you still fight like this?

He hadn't even noticed that the imperial army still had crossbows in their saddles.

Although Zhang Ji doesn't seem to be a good person.

But Ma Chao found that this imperial army was indeed well-trained.

With a knife in one hand and a torch in the other, they were able to quickly open their crossbows and bolt in a very short period of time, which would never have been possible without hundreds or thousands of trainings.

Moreover, during this period, the war horses were still galloping rapidly.

People who are not familiar with it will definitely be in a hurry and don't know what to do.

The knife must have been lost, and the horse had run crooked.

Liang Xing, who rushed first, plunged into the rain of arrows.

He was probably the most wretched of the eight generals, but he was shot as a hedgehog before he could see what was going on.

The torch that fell to the ground and had not yet been extinguished burned him and his horse into a fireball.

Liang Xing, who wanted to boost morale, buried his morale like this.

Under the dense rain of arrows, the cavalry in front of the front had already fallen on their backs, and their main general died in front of everyone's eyes, no matter how hard the captains and soldiers tried, they couldn't stop the soldiers who turned around and fled backwards.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Zhang Ji took the arrow again.

The crossbow arrows he deliberately hid once again showed a surprise to him.

Although Zhang Ji was born in Liangzhou, he always likes to hide a hole card when he acts, otherwise he will not be sure.

Most of the generals of the Xiyuan Army will like to use crossbow arrows to suppress the position first and destroy the enemy's prestige.

But Zhang Ji is just the opposite, the first battle is absolutely not necessary.

When the enemy's morale was high and they were ready to fight him to the death, his crossbow bolts came.

After three rounds of arrow rain, Liang Xing's troops had almost given up on rushing and killing, and they avoided Zhang Ji's charge in a mess.

"Little foal, if you don't send a message to your father, if you don't raise an army to cover up the killing, when will you wait?" Zhang Ji shouted.

"I don't need you to say much, I know." Ma Chao didn't like the way Zhang Ji spoke, but he still complied.

The army rushed forward vigorously, only to kill Liang Xing's troops and flee in embarrassment.

"Stop!"

Rushing out less than two miles, Zhang Ji suddenly ordered the whole army to stop charging.

"Don't chase after the poor at this time, they fled back to Jincheng in defeat, and they will make a comeback." Ma Chao stepped forward and said.

Zhang Ji pointed ahead, "Look." ”

"It's made a comeback!"