"What?" Cheng Gongying's heart was in his throat, and he was already sitting on the ground resting and eating dry food, so shocked that he threw away the dry food and stood up. The most feared thing happened that since Ma Chao caught up, it meant that Han Sui failed to stop him. When the rebels heard this, they were also frightened.

Cheng Yin restrained his horse in front of Cheng Gongying, and then dismounted. Cheng Gongying was so anxious that he didn't wait to stand firm, so he grabbed Cheng Yin's hand with one hand and asked, "What do you know?" ”

Cheng Yin suddenly called Cheng Gongying to pull it, and almost didn't fall. He said excitedly: "Sir, it's not good, Cheng oversaw the army behind, and the scouts of the rear army reported that thousands of soldiers and horses were chasing after our army, which can be described as fast, and they were about to catch up with our army." The scout also saw that it was Ma Chao who led the army. Our army must immediately prepare for war, otherwise Ma Chao will entangle our army, and the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

Although Cheng Gongying panicked, he also hurriedly calmed down, because Ma Chao only brought thousands of vanguard troops. After thinking about it, he looked at the terrain in front of him again, and quickly had a plan in his heart.

He said: "There is only an ambush for now." There is a mountain ridge on the road ahead, called Snake Ridge; There is a valley, called the Snake Valley, which is the only way to Ayang City. Therefore, the ridge runs from east to west, only five miles, and there are only two mountain passes in the east and west, which is named like a two-headed snake. When the horse comes, he will enter the valley of the snake. As soon as he entered the ridge, I sent 5,000 men to guard the snake ridge, so that he could not get out of the valley. Our army can go to take Ayang City without distraction. ”

"Strategist's clever plan!" All the generals were amazed, but Yan Xing was secretly worried. After nearly a month of experience, he has gradually turned his back on Han Sui, and he doesn't want Han Sui to succeed. But Cheng Gongying is scheming, and with only one mountain, he can trap Ma Chao. He was a little irritable.

Cheng Gongying urged the rebels to set off, leaving Cheng Yin to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to guard Snake Ridge. The rest of the soldiers and horses bypassed Snake Ridge, the nearest road to Ayang City, and took another longer road. This means another hour or two of delay, but Cheng Gongying is not worried. As long as Ma Chao is trapped, he succeeds.

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On this side, Ma Chao hurriedly led the troops to chase after him, and on the road, he could see the traces of Fang Caicheng's Gongying Department resting, such as leaving a lot of food, it seems that Chenggongying's department did not run far. But without the loss of Cheng Gongying, Ma Chao was even more anxious. After walking a little further, Ma Chao saw a mountain ridge in front of him, and when he asked the soldiers, he knew that this was the Snake Ridge, and there was a snake valley, which was the closest road to Ayang City. Because this snake ridge is in the vast loess plain, it is also very low, and it is not conducive to the ambush of a large number of soldiers and horses, because the snake valley is too small and too short, and it will definitely not be able to hide tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. So Ma Chao expected that Cheng Gongying should not be stupid enough to set up an ambush here.

So he generously led two thousand flying horsemen from the west exit and walked into the Snake Ridge. Seeing that he entered the valley and was about to leave the mountain from the east entrance, there was a shout of killing outside the valley, and Ma Chao was shocked, and when he saw it, rebels appeared in both sides of the Snake Valley, blocking him in the Snake Valley.

If you can't break through the enemy encirclement, then everything is lost. Ma Chao pondered. The surrounding soldiers also sensed that something was wrong and became a mess. The rebels stretched out their bows and arrows, pointed their swords and spears diagonally, and tightly guarded the east and west.

At this time, one of the rebels in Dongkou came out, and it was Cheng Yin, who was in charge of the broken rear. What is blocked here is the first general in Xiliang, Cheng Yin smiled like a flower.

Ma Chao looked at it coldly and didn't speak. Cheng Yin got carried away and said: "Jin Ma Chao, you also have today!" ”

"Cheng Yin, don't be too happy." Ma Chao was not interested in a mediocre person like Cheng Yin, he thought, even if Cheng Yin betrayed Han Sui and came to join him, he would not take him in, because he was too mediocre and couldn't get into his eyes.

"Hehe, Cheng Gongjun's clever plan, he knows that you will definitely fall for the trick and enter the dead end of Snake Valley. Unexpectedly, I actually asked Cheng Yin to trap you. ”

"Han Sui is not my opponent, and Cheng Gongying is even less worthy." Ma Chao sneered.

"Hmph, you're still talking about it when you're dying! If you have the ability, you will come out of the mountains! Cheng Xin shouted.

Ma Chao didn't think of a plan to escape for the time being, so he didn't say anything.

"Haha, there's nothing you can do, right? It turns out that the victorious Jinma Chao also has times when he is embarrassed? Hahaha! Cheng Yin smiled presumptuously.

Ma Chao was still silent, but Cheng Yin was even more arrogant because of this, shouting: "Brothers, make a noise!" ”

"Ho-ho-ho!" The rebels defending the eastern entrance immediately responded, raising their swords and shouting loudly.

The drum noise reverberated in the Snake Valley, making the two thousand flying riders a little panicked. Ma Chao calmly observed.

It was some time before the rebels stationed at the west entrance became noisy. Ma Chao was keenly aware of this, Cheng Yin gave an order, only the rebels stationed at the east entrance responded, but the rebels blocking the west entrance would not make a noise until the sound was transmitted from the east mouth to the west entrance, indicating that Cheng Yin had committed a big taboo: the troops were scattered.

And Ma Chao also noticed that the drum noise of the rebels was very low, which was due to the small number of people. Ma Chao smiled, Cheng Yin ordered the army to make noise, just so that he could judge how many of his troops there were, there should only be thousands of people.

Ma Chao really wants to thank Cheng Yin, if it weren't for him, Ma Chao would have been difficult to see the number of Cheng Yin's parts through the narrow west and east entrances.

Ma Chao thought to himself, since Cheng Yin did not have many soldiers and horses, it was divided into two parts, east and west, and they did not communicate with each other. If he could find a way to attract most of Cheng Yin's troops to a mountain pass, he would be able to easily escape from another mountain pass.

Ma Chao quickly had a plan. Ma Chao ordered the two thousand flying horses to be divided into two parts, one was sent to the east entrance, and a wall was built with earth and stones in front of Cheng Yin; the other went to the west entrance, lined up in front of Cheng Yin, and made a look of being ready to go; And he, too, was not idle, but ordered the remaining two hundred to go to the Snake Ridge to cut down trees and put them together into a long and wide plank.

Because they did not have any tools with them, the soldiers sent to the east entrance had to dig with their bare hands. But there were a thousand men, and they were soon built into a wall higher than the horse's head.

Cheng Yin was stunned, thinking to himself what Ma Chao meant? The east entrance is a wall, but the west entrance sends troops to advance?

Cheng Yin quickly figured it out, Ma Chao's intention was to break through from the west exit, so he sent troops to the east exit; In order to prevent him from leading his troops to attack from the east entrance, he doubled the earth wall in advance, wanting to use the wall to resist him.

Thinking about this clearly, Cheng Yin has a way to deal with it. Since Ma Chao wanted to break through from the west entrance, he led two thousand horsemen to support, leaving only five hundred horsemen at the east entrance. Because there is a wall built by Ma Chao himself at the east entrance, which can block him; Five hundred horsemen leaning against the wall can also block the horses.

Cheng Yin hurriedly led the 2,000 horsemen stationed at the east entrance to bypass the snake ridge and march towards the west entrance. But I didn't see a pair of smiling eyes, it was Ma Chao.