Thinking of this, Ma Yu suddenly had a bold idea in his heart. Maybe he can use the first battle to repel the offensive of Jinmachao and become a famous general in the world!

Ma Yu threw away the letter and said, "You wait and listen, return the same way immediately, I want you to bring the letter to Zhang Heng." ”

Ma Yu immediately wrote a letter and handed it to the scouts. The scouts received the letter and immediately went out of the city. Watching the scouts leave with the letter, Ma Toy's face showed a smile after the conspiracy succeeded.

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The two thousand horsemen sent out by Ma Dai to lie dormant between Leyun City and Lufu City were occupying a small forest and hiberning in the woods.

Thinking that the enemy army did not arrive so quickly, the ambushers just rested in the woods in boredom.

Suddenly, there was a sound of horses' hooves from the direction of Lechuan City, and the ambush soldiers at the end of the woods saw it, and a few horses rushed from the official road. The ambush soldiers thought that they were scouts sent by Ma Dai to contact them, but when they got closer, they saw that their armor was completely different from that of the Xiliang army.

The ambush soldiers thought that this must be a scout sent by Ma Play to ask for help, so they immediately arranged more than a dozen tripwire ropes on the official road in the woods.

When the scouts came to Lechuan City, Ma Dai had not sent an ambush yet, and the ambush soldiers had not yet lurked here, so the ambushes were defenseless and rushed directly into the woods.

As soon as the enemy scouts approached, the ambushers immediately tightened the ends of the ropes. The legs of the scouts' horses tripped over the horses, and they fell to the ground with a wail. The scouts were also thrown forward by their horses and fell heavily to the ground.

The scouts realized that they had encountered an enemy and quickly got up from the ground. But before they could stand up, the ambushers immediately surrounded the scouts with their spears in hand. The scouts looked at the countless shiny and sharp spear heads close to their necks, and naturally did not dare to move.

The ambushers then escorted the scouts back and handed them over to Ma Dai for disposal. Ma Dai first took the letter, and the letter explained to Zhang Heng, saying that there was a low-lying small salt pond twenty miles west of Lechuan City, which was very close to Ma Dai's camp. When Ma Dai first arrived, he didn't know that Zhang Heng had arrived, nor did he know that there was a salt pond. Ma Play let Zhang Heng lead the troops to lie dormant in the salt pond, and when he arrived, he will raid Ma Dai's tribe, and at the same time raise the fire as a number, and Ma Play will also lead the crowd out of the city, and will attack Ma Dai's tribe together with Zhang Heng.

After reading the letter, Ma Dai thought about it.

Several scouts were tied with their hands behind their backs, kneeling in front of Ma Dai, feeling terrified. They were just strong men captured by Han Sui to fill the army, and they didn't want to serve Han Sui at all, let alone lose their lives because of Han Sui, but they wanted to surrender the general in front of them, I heard that he was the brother of the Shenweitian general Jin Ma Chao, and everyone in the scouts wanted to surrender, maybe they could give land in the future. But at this time, he was captured, and he probably just wanted to be beheaded outside the gate. Thinking of this, the scouts were all desperate.

Ma Dai looked at the scouts, realized that his plan depended on their help, and waved his hand to order the soldiers to untie their ropes and fetch food.

The scouts were flattered, and Ma Dai smiled and said, "You are the new pawn recruited by Han Sui, right?" ”

The scouts looked at the food and drink in front of them, and did not dare to put down their chopsticks easily, and said, "Yes." ”

Ma Dai smiled and said: "Don't be nervous, you must be hungry when you are rushing, you can eat as much as you like." ”

The scouts still cringed a little, and Ma Dai gestured twice with his eyes before taking a few tentative bites.

Ma Dai smiled and said: "My Ma clan raised troops in Hexi this time, just to conquer Han Sui, only to punish the evil, not others. You and others are ordinary people in Hexi, and the army is Han Sui's wings, and it is also out of compulsion, so I naturally will not pursue it. ”

The scouts said one after another: "General Xie, General Xie!" ”

Ma Dai said: "If you are used by me, I will be rewarded." ”

A scout said: "General, in fact, we have always wanted to surrender to the general, and I hope that the general will take him in." ”

"Yes, yes, I was originally forcibly recruited by Han Sui, and I didn't want to die for Han Sui!"

"We have admired General Shenwei Tian for a long time, and I don't want to be attached to thieves like Han Sui."

Scouts, you and I said a word, and Ma Dai was even more satisfied.

Ma Dai nodded and said, "Okay, then I will accept your surrender." But I want you to do something for me. ”

"General just give orders!"

Ma Dai wandered behind his back and said, "I want you to go back immediately now, continue to pretend to be the same, send back the letter of Ma Yao, and send it to Zhang Heng, just don't reveal that I have read this letter, after the matter is completed, I will have a heavy reward." ”

When the scouts heard this, they all rejoiced and said, "Yes, I'll wait until now!" ”

With that, the scouts took the letter and still ran towards Zhang Hengqu.

Ma Dai said: "The order is that the whole army should build a simple camp ten miles away from Lechuan City, and there is no need to set up a wall that is too high, just set up a camp tent in the camp." Then they gathered grass and grease and filled the tents. After nightfall, the whole army brought all the horses and weapons and secretly went out of the camp. ”

"Yes!"

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Ma Yu anxiously waited for the night to fall, wishing that time would pass quickly, and it would go straight to midnight, which was the time of the night attack that he and Zhang Heng had agreed on. However, Ma Yu was still more optimistic, because he saw that Ma Dai had actually set up camp ten miles below the city of Leyun, and his camp happened to be close to the salt pond where Zhang Heng was scheduled to ambush. Ma Play is looking forward to the arrival of midnight even more.

The person who is looking forward to the arrival of midnight more than horse play is Ma Dai. Ma Dai had already taken advantage of the darkness of the night, while ordering the sergeants to set up a tent in the camp, and put a few straw men on the wall, which looked like real guards from a distance;

On the other hand, he ordered his ten thousand horsemen to be wrapped in horses and hooves, and quietly withdrew the whole army from the camp, which was empty and empty, only thousands of empty tents filled with dry grass and trees and drenched with mutton fat, and dozens of decent straw men on the wall.

This camp is the burial place he arranged for Zhang Heng and Ma to play. However, Ma Dai led his troops to the east of Lechuan City, waiting for the arrival of midnight.

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After getting the letter from Ma Play, Zhang Heng was impressed by the strange plot of Ma Play, and without saying a word, he led 7,000 horsemen to quietly enter the salt pond in the west of Lechuan City. The salt pond is a bit lower than the surrounding terrain and is a great hiding spot. And what made Zhang Heng even more ecstatic was that he found out that Ma Dai had actually arranged the camp next to the salt pond.

In the middle of the night, Zhang Heng finally couldn't stay in the salty salt pond, the greedy war horse always licked the salt pool, and finally there was no water in the salt pool, the war horse was always thirsty and always neighing.