Ma Chao retained a complete memory of later generations, and naturally knew that Dong Zhuo's hometown was Lintao, Longxi. But since he competed for Liangzhou with Han Sui, he has been busy with the battle, how can he think of that stubble?

Now Ma Chao didn't know that Sanfu had arranged 100,000 male soldiers, and he was leading 50,000 horsemen to gallop in the night. The darkness of the night sky obscured the formation of this great army, and if anyone could see the iron horsemen at this time, but could hear the thunderous hooves of horses, they would surely think that the sky was thundering, or that there was an earthquake.

After chasing three hundred miles, Ma Chao saw that he was a little panting, and thought that the ordinary soldiers were probably very tired, so he ordered his troops to rest for a while, drink some water, and eat some dry food.

Ma Chao also got off Xiaobai, sat cross-legged on the ground, and shared a few pieces of beef jerky with the generals. Ma Chao asked, "How far is it from Caohan City?" ”

Pang De stuffed the beef strips into his mouth, and said vaguely: "Young master, our army has already crossed the Weishui, seeing that the Weishui flow is small and the river channel is not wide, it should be in the upper reaches of Weishui." ”

Ma Chao was a little more determined, the upper reaches of Weishui were only a few dozen miles away from Caohan City.

However, Ma Chao was a little worried, and said, "How long ago did the scouts send out?" Why haven't you come back yet? ”

Zhang Xiu shook the shriveled leather bag, lifted the skin bag high, and then poured a few mouthfuls of water from the skin bag, moistened the dry mouth, and then stuffed the skin bag again and tied it with some disappointment. He said: "I was just sent out the hour ago, and I should come back at this time." ”

Ma Chao untied a full leather bag hanging on the saddle sheath, threw it into Zhang Xiu's arms, and said, "I'm not thirsty, you're still young, drink more." ”

"Brother Xie." Zhang Xiu didn't refuse, he knew that Ma Chao didn't like to come to the void, so he picked up the skin and drank happily. Pang De and Duan Xuan both looked at him with envy.

Ma Chao really didn't lie, he was also a little surprised that his body was so powerful, galloping hundreds of miles, and he was not thirsty or hungry. Just a few sips of water and a few beef jerky can keep you refreshed.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves sounded from a distance, and Ma Chao immediately stood up, presumably this was the scout coming back.

Sure enough, after a pair of slogans, it was confirmed that it was his scout. The scout said: "Lord, I was ordered to be the forerunner to investigate the movements of Han Suijun, and I really let me wait to find out!" ”

"Where is Han Suijun?" Ma Chao said excitedly, thinking that he was finally going to eliminate Han Sui. As soon as they heard this, all the generals also stood up, and their spirits were hundredfold.

"The Lord God calculates, Han Suijun is twenty miles south of Caohan. As the lord predicted, he sent a partial division to pretend to be the main force, and really deceived General Ma Dai out of Caohan City! ”

Ma Chao was so excited, so excited that he didn't know where to put his hands, so he had to rub his hands.

Ma Chao said: "Is there anything else!" ”

"General Ma Dai has already led his troops to chase down the rebels. When I came back to report, I had already seen Han Suijun preparing to act. ”

Before Ma Chao could react, Pang De said, "Young master, it's no longer too late!" ”

Ma Chao said happily: "Okay! Order the whole army to set off, and the second and third sons will go with me to give Han Sui a funeral! ”

"Whew!" The generals and soldiers screamed with joy and stopped resting.

Ma Chao is still at the forefront.

There are two flowers, one on each branch. On this side, it is Han Sui.

Liang Xing led 8,000 horsemen to rush through from a place five miles below the city of Caohan, and it didn't take long for Han Sui to see that in the night, Ma Dai led thousands of horsemen to open the city gate and chased in the direction of Liang Xing's escape.

Han Sui was so excited that he spat into the palm of his hand in order to grasp the hilt of the knife. Cheng Gongying also said happily: "The lord is not to be ado, there are only more than a thousand or even hundreds of soldiers and horses in the city of Caohan at most, and it is too easy for our army to take it in one go!" ”

Han Sui nodded and ordered, "Blow the horn!" Yan Xing, you lead an army of 5,000 horsemen, you must capture Caohan! ”

Yan Xingdao: "Oh! ”

Originally, Han Sui wanted to beat the drum and sing gold, but since the baggage was in the hands of the people, I am afraid that it will all be handed over to Ma Chao now. Han Sui had no choice but to pick up the horn that the Qiang people were accustomed to.

The whimpering horn blew, and Yan Xing ordered a few troops and led his troops to kill in Caohan City. The five thousand horsemen in charge of the siege were clustered around a carriage with a thick log hoarded on it. Since there were no craftsmen, no axes for logging, and no time to build equipment, Han Sui asked his subordinates to cut down a tree and use it as a battering ram. The ladder car is a high-level precision instrument, and Han Sui didn't have time to build it, but he just built more than a dozen ladders.

Han Sui saw that after the horn sounded, drums immediately sounded on the city of Caohan, and the defenders went up the city wall in an orderly manner. When Yan Xingbu rushed to a very close distance under the city wall, the defenders released arrows. He found that although the defenders were very calm, and fired arrows down methodically with their bows and crossbows, the arrows were sparse.

Yan Xing ordered his troops to shoot arrows as well, and the absolute numerical superiority compensated for the height superiority, and more than a dozen of the defenders were immediately shot down and fell off the city wall.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yan Xing ordered his subordinates to lift the log and slam it against the gate of the city. The gates were strong, and they didn't shake it for a long time. He set up a ladder and climbed the city wall with a knife in his mouth. The defenders resisted stubbornly, and although Yan Xing had many troops, he could not go up the city wall. But Han Sui was not in a hurry, he thought that Ma Dai and Ma Chao had been led away, and he now had time to attack the city.

The sparse defenders poured gold juice and stones downward, immediately causing Yan Xing's troops to wail. But Han Sui was not distressed, it was just dozens of people.

The log struck the gate for nearly half an hour, and the gate of the city did not loosen much. But there was progress on the ladder. The defenders gradually became exhausted, and gradually the rebel soldiers successfully jumped onto the city wall and engaged in a desperate struggle with the defenders.

Han Sui was relieved, thinking that he would soon be able to break through the city and march from the north gate to Jincheng after entering the city.

But at this moment, there was a sudden "boom" sound. Yang Qiu looked up at the night sky, although the moonlight and stars were not very bright, he did not see dense dark clouds.

Yang Qiu was puzzled and said, "It's strange, this celestial phenomenon doesn't look like it's going to rain, why did it suddenly thunder?" ”

Han Sui also looked at the sky, through the thin layer of clouds, he could still vaguely see the shape of the moon, it didn't look like it was going to rain.

Cheng Gongying shouted: "Not good! It's an enemy attack, an enemy attack! ”

Han Sui reacted and was shocked: it turned out that they had mistaken the sound of horses' hooves as rumbling thunder.

Yang Qiu also exclaimed: "Impossible, didn't Ma Chao go to chase Liang Xing?" How did it suddenly appear here? ”

Han Sui said angrily: "No matter what, quickly lead the troops to intercept Ma Chao!" ”

Cheng Gongying said: "Don't be surprised, but on the one hand, you can arrange soldiers and horses to block Ma Chao, and on the other hand, you will invest all your troops to capture Caohan!" ”

"Just do as Bo Ying says! Yang Qiu, you lead 5,000 horsemen to resist Ma Chao and buy time for the old man to attack the city! ”

Yang Qiu was stunned and said, "Me? ”

"Go!" Han Sui was so angry that he whipped Yang Qiu's mount.

"Yes, yes!" Yang Qiu left with trepidation.