Ma Chao patted Pang De's shoulder, and admired in his heart that this person was really a wise general. Ma Chao said: "Not bad. Han Sui is waiting for the opportunity to move and strike later. At that time, the ten cities will be strictly guarded, and he will definitely choose one of them as the direction. ”

Zhang Xiu said: "But in addition to Chengji, Xianqin, Luoyang, and Longxian are the direction of our army, and Yuzhong and the warriors are two hundred miles away from Jicheng, if Han Sui wants to escape back to Jincheng, he will probably choose to attack Pingxiang, Didao, Baishi and Caohan." Therefore, the elder brother can only garrison the six cities with light troops, and gather heavy troops to defend the remaining four cities, so there is no need to divide the troops? ”

Hearing this, Zhang Ji smiled and touched Zhang Xiu's head lovingly, without explanation. Duan Xuan and Pang De also lowered their heads and chuckled.

Zhang Xiu saw that the four of them were laughing, and for some reason, he said, "Brother, what are they laughing at me?" ”

Ma Chao smiled and said, "How do you know that Han Sui will definitely not attack Chengji, Luoyang, Xianqin and Longxian?" What if his purpose was not to return to Jincheng at all, but to take a desperate risk to face our army in order to corrupt the rear of our army? At that point, he will be able to turn defeat into victory. Although the two cities of Yuzhong and Warriors are a little far away, they can escape back to Jincheng along the Yuzhong Basin, which is more convenient and fast.

And the use of troops is a surprise, do you think these places do not need to be heavily defended, how can Han Sui not know? This is also the reason why he has not acted rashly now, he does not want us to know whether his intention is to return to Jincheng or to attack my rear; Even if he returned to Jincheng, he didn't want us to know which city he was going to attack. ”

"Oh, I see, embroidery has been taught!" Zhang Xiu said seriously.

Ma Chao also touched Zhang Xiu's head and said, "So guess what strategy is most likely to be adopted after the formation of the ten-city encirclement of the Yellow River?" ”

Zhang Xiu lowered his head and thought about it seriously, then raised his head and said seriously: "In the foolish opinion of embroidery, Han Sui should use his voice to attack the west." ”

When Ma Chao heard this, his eyes lit up, but he still had to follow the temptation. Ma Chao asked knowingly: "Why?" He can completely use 30,000 desperate soldiers to fight to death, storm one of the cities, and then either return to Jincheng, or attack the base of our army! ”

Zhang Xiu shook his head firmly and said, "He won't." Han Sui only had 30,000 victorious soldiers, and if he insisted on storming the city, he would inevitably suffer heavy casualties. And it is easy to attract the siege of your main army, brother, and gather and annihilate it.

In order to make it difficult for his brother to know the direction of his siege, and also to confuse the defenders of the Ten Cities and make them lower their vigilance, he will inevitably use the strategy of attacking the east and west, so that the brother thinks that he will attack the city, but in fact, the focus of the attack has other plans. In this way, it is easier for him to break out. When the time comes, whether he returns to Jincheng or attacks my base, he can do whatever he wants, and the offensive and defensive situation will be completely changed. ”

After listening, Ma Chao was very satisfied. It seems that Zhang Xiu is about to become a completely different person from the mediocre people trapped in Nanyang, and maybe he will transform into a famous general.

Pang De and Duan Xuan also cast appreciative glances at Zhang Xiu, Ma Chao looked at Zhang Ji, and Zhang Ji's face was full of doting smiles.

Ma Chao smiled at Zhang Ji and said: "The general serves my Ma clan, and my father and son are already grateful. Now that I have sent such a virtuous nephew and a brother side by side with me, I really don't know how to thank the general. ”

Zhang Ji touched Zhang Xiu's head and said humbly: "It's all because of the young master's cultivation, how dare the last general take credit?" ”

Pang De said: "Young master, if Han Suicheng is so careful, it will be difficult for us to deal with it!" ”

Ma Chao, who was still happy for Zhang Xiu, heard this, and thought about it, the success rate of Han Sui's breakthrough was as high as nine tenths, and his success rate of finding Han Sui's breakthrough was only one-tenth; If Han Sui attacks the east and the west again, then the hope of successfully gathering and annihilating Han Sui's army will be even slimmer.

But the situation is such a situation, Ma Chao didn't expect that the encirclement had been determined, thinking that the victory was decided, who knew that Han Sui could still have such a great possibility to escape. For a while, Ma Chao couldn't think of a way to deal with it.

Just when the five of them were thinking about it, someone suddenly came to report that Han Suijun dispatched more than 1,000 elite horsemen to wipe out the dozens of scouts of Ma Chaojun's staring at the enemy.

Ma Chao regretted it at this time, and he was still one step later than Han Sui.

Duan Xuan exclaimed: "It's really worthy of the Yellow River!" He had long planned to choose the city to attack, so that we would not know where it would break through, so he would send elite cavalry to kill our scouts! The intention is to make our army not know where it is, let alone guess his intentions! ”

Pang De said calmly: "If the last general guessed correctly, Han Sui would have already fled from the camp at this moment, and our army would not know where it was going, and even less know which city its breakthrough was in." ”

Zhang Xiu hurriedly said: "Then send more scouts to chase after you!" ”

Ma Chao shook his head and said, "How could Han Sui not know? He will definitely leave the thousand horsemen not far from our military camp, and our army scouts will surely fall into the hands of the enemy. ”

"Then, then leave some soldiers and horses to garrison the city on the encirclement, and chase after it with the main force!" Zhang Xiu said eagerly.

"How can the main force move as fast as a thousand horses? When our main army was annihilated, Han Sui would be nowhere to be found. At that time, it will be even more difficult for the scouts to find out where Han Suijun is. Pound sighed.

When Zhang Xiu heard this, she sighed in frustration.

Ma Chao thought for a moment and said, "Okay, since this is already the case, there is no need to be depressed anymore." Things have not gone bad to that extent, after all, our army is far superior to Han Sui's army, he is still in our encirclement, and it is not yet known who will win and who will lose. ”

The fourth general regained some confidence, and Ma Chao said again: "The places where our army is based, Xianqin, Chengji, Luoyang, and Longxian are not so easy to attack; And even if Han Suicheng can return to Jincheng, he will give Hanyang County, Tianshui County and Wudu County to him. I can take the land of the three counties without blood; With the addition of the existing Longxi County, Anding County and Beidi County, it is half of Liangzhou, so why not? ”

As soon as they heard this, the four generals became happy. Pang De said with a smile: "On that day, our army will take the opportunity to attack Han Sui's rebellious army, and Cheng Gongying once used the six counties of Hedong as bait. Who would have thought that the young master would soon be able to win the six counties of Hedong! ”

"Yes! The worst result is just to let Han Sui escape and get half of Xiliang, anyway, the young master is the winner. ”

Ma Chao said: "The matter is still undecided, don't be rash." ”

"Yui." Four generals.

Ma Chao said: "No matter how Han Sui plans to change his power, the two armies will fight each other, and after all, they must rely on strength. Keep urging the soldiers to drill. It's not too late to do anything else tomorrow. ”

"Yui." Four generals.

Duan Xuan said: "Lord, what about Ju Yi? ”

"Juyi?" Ma Chao patted his head, if it weren't for Duan Xuan's mouthful, he really wouldn't have thought of Ju Yi, the Ju Yi who was imprisoned by him.

"Will he be released if he repents or not?"

Ma Chao asked, "Don't you already go into the woods and get close to the confinement room and disturb him?" ”

"The young master has an order, how dare the last general?"

Ma Chao said: "Then how do you know that he has repented? ”

Duan Xuan said: "The last general heard from the sergeant who brought him food that Ju Yi was shouting frantically in the confinement room, as if he couldn't stand it anymore. ”