After January, Liangzhou-Longxi County

Pang Tong, Zhang Liao, Dong Yue, Xu Rong, Tian Yu, Yang Ang, and even Lian Wei Chi Yanyan, Li Wenhou and other important figures from the three northern counties gathered together, all with solemn faces.

Seeing that the people were almost there, Pang Tong nodded to Zhang Liao beside him, who understood, and immediately spoke: "Zidu (Hou Cheng's character), you can tell me about the specific situation." ”

Hou Cheng got up, clenched his fists and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have received the latest news, Liangzhou has frequently mobilized troops and horses in this month, and after scouting and probing, I learned that a large number of Xiongnu are secretly stationed in Yongliang Erzhou!" Looking at its scale, it is at least more than 100,000. ”

There was an uproar in the hearing room.

"Since the Xiongnu Shan Yu Luan Tiqiang Qu and the 'Right Virtuous King Xubu Gudu Marquis' were killed, the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Luan Tihu Chuquan directly surrendered to Cao Cao, the strength of the Xiongnu is not as good as before, how can there be such a scale of troops!" Li Wenhou blurted out.

"The Xiongnu have always been dominated by cavalry, and their field combat power is strong, but they are not good at attacking cities, and they are not good at attacking cities with the city defense of Wudu, Xining and other places, even if they cannot fight, but self-protection is not a problem." Yang Ang spoke.

For all the ethnic groups living in the northwest all the year round, the Xiongnu are like a nightmare engraved in the soul, which makes people mention the color change! Even though the current Western Regions Protectorate is unprecedentedly powerful, after all, it has been a long time since it has been accumulated, and Li Wenhou and the others still have a trace of fear in their hearts.

"Don't panic, at this time and that time, with the current strength of my Western Regions Protectorate, coupled with the ability of all the generals here, and Shi Yuan's strategy, what are we afraid of?" Yu Chi Yan Yan Yan Feng was afraid of the cold, and opened her mouth coldly.

"What the master mother said is..."If others speak, Pang Tong can still close his eyes and listen, but for Yu Chi Yanyan, he does not dare to slack off at all.

Hearing this, Yu Chi Yanyan's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and the red glow on her face flashed, and then she said unhappily.

"The concubine is attending this meeting as the protector of the Western Regions, not the princess Hongnong, so Shiyuan doesn't have to be treated specially."

"What the master mother taught me—" Pang Tong coughed lightly twice and said respectfully.

Hearing this, everyone present also had a burst of slander in their hearts, although the truth was like this, but who dared to really ignore the identity of Yu Chi Yanyan.

I only heard Pang Tong continue: "This is a handwritten letter from Wuwei Taishou Pang De, everyone can see it at a glance. ”

Then, he handed the letter to the side and ordered him to read it.

According to Pang De's words, Ma Chao, Ma Dai, Lou Gui and others led 5,000 cavalry to the north overnight, far out of the fortress, and there has been no news since then.

After a period of time, the Xiongnu entered Liangzhou one after another, and Pang De wanted to stop it, but the leader of the other party had a letter written by Ma Chao himself as a certificate, and it was stamped with his personal seal!

Originally, Pang De thought that Ma Chao had been killed and the seal letter was seized, but when he checked with someone, he found that the letter was indeed written by Ma Chao himself.

With the passage of time, there were more and more Huns in Liangzhou, which made Pang De more and more uneasy, and he had to secretly contact Zhang Liao, ready to deal with emergencies at any time.

After listening to this, everyone also felt that this matter was very strange. They all showed thoughtful expressions.

"Wen Yuan, what do you think about this?" Pang Tong was the first to ask.

"Ma Chao is a person who has strong martial arts and has always been arrogant. It is likely that as Pound said, he has already been killed, and if it is said to imitate his handwriting, Lou Gui should be able to do it.

It seems that there is only one possibility, but if you think about it carefully, it is extremely unreasonable, why would the Xiongnu show all their strength so recklessly? And this does not have any benefit at all, but arouses our vigilance and Cao Cao's vigilance. ”

"What Wen Yuan said is exactly what I am worried about... But if you look at it from a different perspective, it may be much more reasonable. Pang Tong said unhurriedly.

"Oh? I want to hear about it! Yang Ang praised.

"Do you think that the behavior of the Huns now is a bit like... Sun Jian a few months ago? ”

A word woke up the person in the dream, and everyone could no longer be calm, and got up one after another.

Even the most taciturn Xu Rong blurted out: "Could it be that they are looking for...?!" ”

…

Liangzhou - Jiuquan County

In an abandoned village, a sturdy young man was lying on his back on the bed, unconscious, and if he looked closely, he saw at least dozens of wounds on his body, large and small, but fortunately, the bleeding had stopped after a simple bandaging at this moment.

Another young man sat by the window and took a nap, and when he looked closely, he saw that the two looked three points similar.

"Ahh water..."

A soft groan sounded, and the young man who was napping hurriedly got up and came to the bed, helped the other party up, took out the water bladder and fed it to the other party.

"Big brother, you're finally awake! It's scared to death! ”

The people who spoke were the current Liangzhou Thorn Shi Ma Chao and his brother Ma Dai.

Looking at the weak brother in front of him, Ma Dai's eyes were blurred, and his thoughts went back to a month ago...

On that day, Ma Dai was about to return to Liangzhou to inform Pang De and the others to prepare early, but he didn't expect that not far after he ran out, he saw smoke and dust billowing in front of him, and it was obvious that there were cavalry coming here.

In the end, Ma Dai led more than ten people to escape into the dense forest to avoid the encirclement of the enemy, but fortunately, this group of Huns did not seem to know the existence of Ma Dai and others, so they only annihilated all the Liangzhou army!

However, this group of Xiongnu was also cunning, in order to prevent the Liangzhou army from escaping and returning to report the news, they ambushed a large number of soldiers in the land of Liangzhou.

Ma Dai can only temporarily hide in the dense forest, two days passed, just when Ma Dai didn't know where to go, but suddenly heard a burst of shouting and killing in the distance, curious to come to the edge of the forest to look, but saw the leader of the person covered in blood, holding a broken tiger head Zhan golden gun, looking very miserable. This person is none other than the brother he thought he had died, Ma Chao and Ma Mengqi!

At this moment, he was fleeing to his side under the cover of more than 100 soldiers under his command.

At first, Ma Dai thought it was a hallucination, how could such a coincidence happen? However, when the other party got closer, Ma Dai had to believe it, and suddenly a wave of ecstasy surged into his heart. Taking advantage of the distance between the Huns in the rear, Ma Dai pulled his brother into the dense forest, and only then did he escape.

At this moment, there were only more than ten people left around, and gathering in one place not only had an obvious goal, but more importantly, the enemy still had no power to resist, Ma Dai made a quick decision, leaving only two soldiers to take care of the injured Ma Chao, and the rest of the people scattered and fled, striving to bring the news back to Liangzhou.

Sending everyone away, Ma Dai had the opportunity to check his brother's injury, at this moment Ma Chao had already fainted on the horse, and two soldiers helped him to lie down.

Carefully unfolded the jacket, as if pulling the wound, and the unconscious Ma Chao showed a painful expression from time to time.

As they opened their shirts, everyone finally saw Ma Chao's injuries clearly, and couldn't help but gasp, at this moment, Ma Chao had at least twenty or thirty wounds on his body, the most ruthless of which was a wound about half a meter long from his left shoulder to his right ribs.

Even now that he thinks about it, Ma Dai still feels afraid.

"Bozhan... Where are we? ”

After taking a few sips of water, Ma Chao weakly asked...