The Horse of the Three Kingdoms Treads the World

() After pacifying the captured people and settling them in the city to live with the soldiers in Guzang City who had been captured before, Ma Yue left with peace of mind.The reason why he put these people together is naturally to let them gradually change their views on their own family through communication, so that these people will finally agree with the Ma family, and maybe they will surrender to the Ma family.

However, Ma Yue's relaxed mood only lasted for less than half an hour, because when he returned to the command post and saw his father explain everything, he found that Ma Teng had a serious expression on his face. Facing a dusty man with a worried face.After taking a closer look, he recognized the identity of this person. He was one of the dozen or so scouts who were sent out to watch what happened to Guan Wu, and would rush back to report any changes.

This made Ma Yue immediately guess that something had happened to Guan Wu, and his expression couldn't help becoming solemn.He went forward and bowed to his father first: "Father, those captured people have settled down." Then, he turned his attention to the man: "Li Jia, is there something wrong with Guanwu County? ?”

"Master Hui, that's right!" Li Jia hurriedly explained to Ma Yue what he had just said to Ma Teng before: "The Qiang people trapped them for many days, and until five days ago, the defenders in the city seemed to be out of food. There was a big problem online, so it was convenient to go out of the city suddenly to break through at dawn."

"Oh? Did they finally understand their situation? Until this time, the soldiers' vigor was almost wiped out by time before they thought of breaking out. What about the result? They paid a heavy price?" Ma Yue Asked with ease.But in fact, he was quite regretful about this in his heart. Although his Ma family and Dong Zhuo's old troops had reached such a point, he still had a good impression of those ordinary Xiliang sergeants. Very unpleasant.

Ma Teng also saw some clues from Ma Yue's words, and felt relieved.Based on what he knew about his son, it was impossible for Ma Yue to interrupt others to express his own opinions at certain critical moments. The reason why he spoke like this was to cover up some bad emotions in his heart.And he was slightly uncomfortable with Ma Yue's scheming against those Xiliang people, and felt that everyone was also from Liangzhou, so there was really no need to do so, especially because it would cost the lives of many innocent people.But now, after seeing his son behave like this, Ma Teng realized that Ma Yue was not all scheming, but also cared for the Xiliang sergeant, which made him feel relieved.

Li Jia didn't notice the complex emotions of the two father and son, but just followed Ma Yue's question and said, "It's fine if we just pay some price, this time they suffered a big loss! We are hiding in the distant forest Li could clearly see that when they rushed out of the city at dawn, countless ambush soldiers suddenly appeared in the quiet Qiang camp, cutting the army that had entered the camp into two sections at once, and then Divide and surround and kill..." Speaking of this, he seemed to remember the amazing scene he saw that day, and shivered uncontrollably.

"What?" This time, even Ma Yue would be greatly surprised, and couldn't help shouting: "Is everything you said true?"

"It's true. We saw them fall into the siege of the enemy with our own eyes, and then there was a bitter battle... Obviously, they were completely defenseless that the Qiang people would prepare to lay a trap and ambush them. After falling into it, despite their efforts Fighting, but after all, it was too late to prevent, both command and battle were passive, and the casualties were naturally huge..." Li Jia sighed again: "We just watched them fight with the Qiang people like this. Together, but unable to do anything, I really feel uneasy."

"The result? Did they break out of the encirclement in the end?" Ma Yue asked again.

"Some of the troops were able to escape after several times of charging and killing many people. Some of the troops retreated back to the city to defend to the death. The rest were either captured or killed." Li Jia's expression became more serious. Painful: "Although my subordinates did not step forward to see clearly, judging from the number of troops who retreated and escaped, about [-] troops died or were captured in this battle. Our Xiliang army suffered casualties Extremely tragic!"

"Ah!" Even though Ma Yue was already mentally prepared, knowing that Niu Fu and the others would lose this battle, even though he was behind all of this, it could even be said that their mistakes today were caused by him, Ma Yue.Although he knew that in this way, the Ma family would no longer have strong enemies in Xiliang, but when he heard the number of casualties, Ma Yue was still shocked, and his mood became extremely depressed and complicated.He also never imagined that things would go so badly. Tens of thousands of brave Xiliang soldiers were ambushed and killed by the Qiang people. This was really hard for him to accept.

Ma Teng's mind is not much different from his son's, but obviously he is better than his son in controlling his mind.So seeing Ma Yue's expression like this, he could only comfort him and said: "Yue'er, the matter is already like this, we don't have to worry about them anymore. What we have to do now is to make full preparations and take care of what they never did. Do well what you have done, drive out all the Qiang people who invaded Xiliang, and only then will you be worthy of those who died!"

After being told by his father, Ma Yue came back to his senses. After adjusting his mood, he nodded solemnly: "Father, what you said is right. Since they fail, it depends on our Ma family. As long as we can get the Qiang people If we defeat it in one fell swoop, there will never be anyone in Xiliang who can compete with us!"

Seeing that he had finished what he had to report, Li Jia wanted to leave after saluting.But as soon as he took a step, he was stopped by Ma Yue who had recovered: "Wait a minute. You just said that the reason why they lost so badly was because the Qiang people set up a plan in the barracks. Ambushes, when they get out of the city, they have already been ambushed?"

"Exactly...exactly!" Li Jia looked at Ma Yue with some puzzlement, not understanding why he would ask such a question suddenly.

Ma Yue didn't explain anything to him, but just waved his hand to tell him to back down.After he left, Ma Yue said to Ma Teng more solemnly: "Father, it seems that there is something strange about it. Why did the Qiang people expect them to break through at this time, and they made targeted arrangements early on?" After laying an ambush, this side is the biggest key to this battle."

Ma Teng is not a stupid person either. After being reminded by his son, he immediately thought of this, and said: "You mean, this is not a coincidence at all, but the Qiang people have already known their movements, so they made a good plan early." Prepare?"

"That's right, otherwise, how could they have such a coincidence that they set up traps when our troops sent out troops? They wouldn't always deploy a large number of troops in the camp to prevent the enemy from breaking through or attacking the city every day. Sneak attack? This is too unreasonable, and they can't do it for more than ten days. Then, there is only one possibility, that is, they have already learned through some means that Niu Fu and others will break through at dawn that day , and thus set up this ambush." ​​After Ma Yue calmed down, his mind became more careful, and his analysis was very reasonable.

Ma Teng also nodded frequently after hearing this: "That's right, from what you said, it's obvious what's strange. In your opinion, how did they know that Niu Fu and the others would break through at this time?"

"If I think about it, I just learned about it from our soldiers or generals. If it's a soldier, it's nothing to worry about. After all, there have been wars all day long, and it's normal for someone to be caught and asked about it. However, a small sergeant may not necessarily know the confidential matter of when to break out of the siege, and it is impossible for the Qiang people to easily deploy such an battle just because of the words of a small soldier. Therefore, the most likely thing is that they did it through A general found out about this matter, and this general, I am afraid that he has already taken refuge in the Qiang people in secret!" Speaking of this, Ma Yue's eyes flashed with murderous intent, thinking that because of someone's cowardice or greed, The decision resulted in the killing of so many people, he wished he could tear it into pieces!

Ma Teng's face was also pale at this time, and he had already figured out the cause and effect of all this.However, he still had a question, and couldn't help but ask: "Then who is the culprit who betrayed everyone? Has he already belonged to the Qiang camp, or has he returned to Guanwu City?"

"This child can't judge, after all, you know people, face, but heart." Ma Yue shook his head and said: "But as far as I think, this person will not be in Guanwu City now, because staying there will only lead to death. Besides surrendering to the Qiang people in the name of captives after the war, there is another way that he and the Qiang people want to go the most, and that is to join us in the name of a defeated general, and then use his identity to make us He was also defeated by the Qiang people!" Ma Yue guessed with his eyes narrowed.

Ma Teng also deeply believed in this, and couldn't help saying angrily: "If this person really dares to do this, I will kill him!"

"Father, please calm down. In fact, since we have guessed this person's thoughts, we have taken the initiative. I think we can use him to win this battle against the Qiang people. Originally, I still I am worried that our strength is not enough to completely defeat the Qiang people, but this time we have a great opportunity in front of us!" Ma Yue had his own opinion.

"What do you mean?" Ma Teng was startled, then nodded and said, "You're right, we'll use the plan, so we can use this insider to deal with the Qiang people!"

As soon as the father and son decided on a plan, a sergeant rushed over to report: "General, suddenly a lot of distressed robes came outside the city. They said they had retreated from the army in front. They hope we can take them in!"

"Come on, let's go and have a look!" Ma Teng immediately got up and said.