Pang De said: "Then what if Cheng Gongying listens to the letter and burns our army's grain first?" ”

When Ma Chao heard this, it was also true that if Cheng Gongying had already taken the tile pavilion and asked him to seize the more important street pavilion, in order to complete the war of attrition, he would definitely burn the grain in the tile pavilion. But Ma Chao and Ma Teng are both in Ayang City, and they don't have time to catch up with Cheng Gongying. It seems that the burning of the tile pavilion is inevitable.

In fact, Ma Chao did not lack enough military rations, he once attacked Han Sui's camp and obtained more than 700,000 stone of military rations and countless cattle and sheep from Han Sui, which could support him for four or five months. But the people of Liangzhou are experiencing war, and if there is no food, there will be a large-scale famine, so Ma Chao wants to wait for the war to end and distribute those military rations to the people to avoid famine. It is related to the people of Liangzhou, so this batch of military rations cannot be moved.

Ma Chao thought about it for a long time, but finally didn't come up with a remedy, and said: "I hope that when Cheng Gongying received the false letter, he was still on the way to Wating, and he did not occupy Wating." ”

Ma Teng also said: "So far, it can only be like this." ”

Ma Teng hurriedly took out the letter of surrender that Han Sui gave him before, and ordered someone to write a letter in imitation of Han Sui's handwriting on it, to the effect that Cheng Gongying did not have to go to the tile pavilion again, but to take the street pavilion that could completely block the back road of Ma Chao and Ma Teng once he took it.

This battle was related to the safety of the military rations and the back road, so Ma Chao sent Pang De to take 10,000 horsemen to set up an ambush in front of the street pavilion. He sent a few more scouts to change into Han Suijun's military uniform, pretending to be Han Sui's messenger, to deliver a letter to Cheng Gongying. All hopes are placed on Cheng Gongying's failure to take Wating before the messenger catches up.

At this moment, there was another "report" from outside the door, and a scout broke in. Ma Teng asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Back to the lord, a large army was found twenty miles outside Ayang City, and it was heading towards Ayang City, and the banner was Han Sui's." The scout said.

Ma Chao smiled, Han Sui's evasion of the real and the in-depth sneak attack did not succeed after all, after Cheng Gongying's department was defeated by him, it was meaningless for Han Sui to lead the army to chase after him. On the other hand, his troops did not suffer a big loss, but he received more than 20,000 troops, which was more powerful than Han Suilai. This is exactly the favorable situation.

Ma Chao and Ma Teng looked at each other and smiled, and Ma Chao said, "Han Sui is here to die." ”

Ma Teng said: "Chao'er, this battle will be commanded by you, and my father will also participate in the war, and I will listen to you." ”

"Yes." Ma Chao said resolutely.

Ma Teng and Ma Chao immediately led the army out of the city, because the surrender time of the 20,000 cavalry that had just surrendered was too short, and they didn't know their henchmen, Ma Chao still left 5,000 soldiers and horses to watch these people and led 50,000 cavalry to fight.

There are as many as 50,000 riders, and it takes too long to complete it from the city. When Ma Chao's army was out of the city, Han Sui had already led the army to Ayang City, and when he saw Ma Chao and Ma Teng leading the army out of the city, he knew in his heart that Cheng Gongying had been defeated and did not capture Ayang City. Otherwise, how could Ma Teng and Ma Chao come out of Ayang City?

Losing Cheng Gongying's part, Ma Chao was waiting for work again, Han Sui knew that this battle might be difficult to win, and he retreated in his heart. But from a distance, he saw Ayang City, among the ten thousand armies, and under the banner of the word "horse", Ma Chao was looking at him, Han Sui was so far away that he couldn't even see Ma Chao's facial features clearly, and he could still feel that Ma Chao seemed to be laughing at him.

Thinking of the humiliation and fiasco he had received in the past few days, Han Sui gritted his teeth. Determined to fight with Ma Chao this time. So he ordered his subordinates to play with Zhang Heng and him, and mobilized the army to set up a formation under Ayang City: the Chinese army was 40,000 horsemen, led by him; 10,000 horsemen on the left flank, led by horse play; 10,000 horsemen on the right flank, led by Zhang Heng.

Seeing Han Sui like this, Ma Chao had a plan in his heart, and said to Ma Teng, Duan Xuan, Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu: "Han Sui arranged it like this, because he wanted to advance with the Chinese army and smash the Chinese army in one fell swoop, so as to win." However, his two flanks are relatively weak, and our army can focus on the left flank of the horse play. ”

"So what to do?" Ma Teng asked.

"I mean, the Chinese army has 30,000 horsemen, and the left and right wings have 10,000 horsemen. After the war, I led the Chinese army with Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu, my father led the right wing, and Duan Xuan led the left wing. The two armies of our army, the Chinese army and the right flank, attacked Han Sui's left flank together, and tried to defeat his left flank with one blow, and then attack the middle army from his left flank, so that Han Sui could be defeated. ”

"What will we do then?" Duan Xuan asked.

Ma Chao said: "You lead the left wing to avoid its right flank and directly attack Han Sui's Chinese army, so as to buy me time to break through his left flank, and at the same time to block the onslaught of its middle army and right flank." Can it be done? ”

"The last general will definitely complete the task, please rest assured!" Duan Xuan clenched his fists and said.

"Good! Then go down and set it up! Arrange the most sophisticated troops in the Chinese army. Ma Chao said.

Then, together with Ma Teng, all the generals went down to arrange. It was just a moment, not long after Han Sui formed a formation, Ayang City's dismounted Chao Army also formed a formation, opposite Han Sui's army.

Han Sui saw that Ma Chao's formation was exactly the same as his, and a sneer appeared on his face. The reason why he arranged a strong formation of the Chinese army and the weak left and right wings was to lure Ma Chao to attack the seemingly weak left and right wings. Han Sui expected that Ma Chao would definitely adopt the tactic of attacking the left flank and then charging the Chinese army from the flank, so he arranged the most elite soldiers and horses of the whole army on the left flank.

Han Sui also expected that Ma Chao would definitely use the left flank to resist his middle army and right flank, buying time to break through the left flank. So Han Sui planned to make an exchange with Ma Chao: Ma Chao used the Chinese army and the right wing to attack his left flank, and he used the Chinese army and the right wing to attack Ma Chao's left flank. And his left flank is more sophisticated, and his combat power is stronger, which is not so easy to break; On the other hand, Ma Chao will definitely not arrange the elite on the left wing. Therefore, he can break through Ma Chao's left flank before Ma Chao breaks through his left flank, and then threaten Ma Chao's Chinese army and win a complete victory. It's actually a time difference, just to see who is faster.

However, Ma Chao was still in the dark, not knowing that the crisis was like a tide slowly flooding the reef, attacking him step by step.

But before the war, Ma Chao routinely had to talk to Han Sui.

Ma Chao beat his horse out of the battle, pointed at Han Sui with a horsewhip, and shouted: "Han Wenyue, you can come out of the battle quickly!" Ma ultrasonic fiercely, this shout, the rebels are a little commotion.

Han Sui slowly stepped out from the front of the formation and shouted, "What's the matter with the horse calling the old man?" ”

Ma Chao said: "Han Wenyue, Cheng Gongying has been broken by me, and his subordinates are visiting in Ayang City. Your plan to avoid the real and attack the false has failed. No matter how hard you struggle, this battle has already been lost. ”

"So what?" Han Sui said disdainfully.

Ma Chao said: "You surrender, I will not kill you if you have been prominent for a while." ”