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After a while, a young man hurried into the big tent led by the guards, knelt down and saluted, "The villain pays homage to the prime minister!"

This young man is the son of Yang Fu, the prime minister of Tianshui County. His name is Yang Tao. He came to see Cao Cao at his father's order. Cao Cao waved his hand with a smile, "Excuse me, Mr. Yang!"

Yang Tao got up, took out Yang Fu's letter and presented it to Cao Cao, "This is a letter from my father to the prime minister!"

In fact, Yang Fu and Cao Cao had been in secret contact for a long time, so Cao Cao knew the situation in the city well. He took the letter and looked at it, and said with a smile, "It turns out that the food in the city is only enough for three days. Isn't Ma Chao in a hurry?"

"Reporting to the prime minister, when the villain left the city, Ma Chao was also gathering troops to prepare to leave the city, so my father hurriedly ordered the villain to deliver a letter to the prime minister."

"Oh? Is the horse going to run?"

Cao Cao immediately became interested, and asked again: "Are all the troops leaving the city?"

Yang Tao shook his head, "It's just Ma Chao and Ma Dai, Pang De is still leading the army to defend the city."

Cao Cao pondered for a moment, then suddenly burst out laughing, "It turns out that the horse wants to rob me of food and grass, that's a good thing!" [

Cao Zhi next to him whispered, "Father, maybe Ma Chao is going to abandon the city and run away?"

Cao Cao shook his head, "They don't have cavalry, so it's not easy for them to escape. My iron cavalry can catch up with them overnight. Ma Chao will not give up the city easily. The food and grass will be cut off. They must go out to rob me of food."

Speaking of this, Cao Cao stood up and smiled coldly, "Then let them come! I'm looking forward to it."

In the night, Ma Chao and Ma Dai led [-] troops to ambush in a forest. The official road leading to Cao Ying was dozens of steps ahead. Liang's mule caravan passed by here and headed for Cao Ying.

Ma Dai whispered to Ma Chao: "Brother, the convoy is very important to us, do you want to tell the brothers not to hurt the livestock?"

Ma Chao nodded, "Okay, you go and order!"

Ma Dai turned around and went down. Ma Chao stared at Cao Ying, which was more than ten miles away, and could vaguely see a light. Suddenly, a strong murderous intent appeared in his eyes. He wanted to pay back ten times the shame and humiliation Cao Cao brought to him. .

At this time, not far from the official road, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang led 1 people each, and surrounded the woods where Ma Chao was from the east and west. A young tooth general beside Zhang Liao whispered: "General, Ma Chao There are many Qiang and Hu under my command, I can speak the language of the Qiang people, and I can pretend to be Ma Chao's subordinates and go ask Pang De for help, and lead Pang De out of the city."

Zhang Liao was overjoyed, and patted his shoulder heavily, "This is a great plan! If it works, I will report to the Prime Minister to reward you."

"The last general will go first."

Zhang Liao immediately found dozens of people, pretended to be Qianghu together with this Yajiang, and ran towards Jicheng

On the official road, a convoy of about five hundred mule carts loaded with grain and grass was slowly coming along the official road. The grain and grass were covered with tarpaulins, and there were sparse cavalry guards on both sides.

The convoy was walking very slowly. On the first cart was a large flag with a large word for "grain" written on it, but it was not clear in the dark.

Ma Chao's army in the woods was engrossed in staring at the convoy on the official road, completely unaware that they were surrounded. Seeing that the time was ripe, Ma Chao shouted, "Go up!"

Shouts broke out in the woods. Thousands of soldiers rushed out of the woods and rushed towards the grain convoy fifty paces away like a tide. Move food. [

The few cavalry guarding the grain truck panicked and hid behind the grain and grass. The soldiers ran closer and closer, only thirty steps away

Even though it was night, Ma Chao could still clearly see the grain bales on the carriage, covered under the thick tarpaulin, he seemed to see neatly stacked bales of grain, which was the source of life he dreamed of, and the foundation for his comeback. Ma Chao shouted excitedly: "Take the food!"

But at this moment, the oilcloth on the grain cart was lifted suddenly, and there were not bags of grain underneath, but groups of half-kneeling crossbowmen on the cart. There were five people on each cart, and each of them had three cards. The crossbows were stringed and placed beside them. They flat-ended the crossbows, and the cold crossbows were aimed at the rushing Ma Chao army.

There is no need to wait for the order, the order to shoot is the order to shoot when the tarpaulin is lifted, only a sound of 'click!Click! The sound of the crossbow machine crashing, the dense crossbow arrows roared and fired at Ma Chao's army thirty steps away. He dialed the arrow and kept retreating.

The soldiers rushing up were in chaos, and with the second round of intensive arrows, Ma Chao's army suffered more casualties, and the soldiers turned around and ran towards the woods.

At this time, everyone understood that they had been fooled and had no food, but Cao Jun's ambush. A sense of fear of being in an ambush caused the army's fighting spirit and morale to collapse rapidly.

There was a sudden shout of killing from both sides of the woods, as if there were enemy troops in all directions, Ma Dai galloped towards Ma Chao, and shouted to Ma Chao: "Brother, we are surrounded, Cao's army is on all sides!"

Ma Chao's face was extremely pale, he clenched his fists tightly, his eyes seemed to burst into flames, he turned his head and stared at the grain and grass, and said coldly: "There is a gap to rush out!"

He shouted, "Those who want to live follow me!"

He turned his horse's head, brandished his spear and charged at the grain cart. He realized that there must be no ambush on the other side of the grain cart. Unfortunately, the dense arrows made the soldiers unwilling to turn back. Only Ma Dai led Ma Chao's more than a hundred The cavalry of the personal guard followed Ma Chao closely. They opened a bloody road and rushed to the dark south. There was indeed no ambush by Cao Jun on that side.

After Ma Chao left the city, Pang De had been standing on the city wall and looking towards the east worriedly. He knew that Cao Cao was cunning, and he was famous for robbing the enemy's army. Would Cao Cao give them this chance?

But it was pitch black outside, except for a light in Cao's camp a few miles away, nothing else could be seen. Pang De secretly regretted that he should have persuaded Ma Chao not to rob food.

At this moment, there were sparse sounds of horseshoes in the dark night, and Pound walked quickly to the city wall, staring nervously at the outside of the city.

Soon, more than a dozen black figures appeared outside the city, and one of them was riding a horse and was running towards the city gate. The leader shouted, "Is General Pang here?"

It is Qianghu language, which is the common language in Ma Chao's army. Pound asked while leaning on the battlement, "I am Pound, who are you?"

"The humble position is General Ma's subordinate. Let me tell General Pang that General Ma has been ambushed and surrounded by Cao's army. The situation is critical!"

Pang De was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "You all come to the city to report!"

The leading soldier shouted in Qianghu language: "We are going back to our hometown, and we don't want to die in a foreign land. We just told General Pang by the way, please take care of the general!"

The soldiers refused to enter the city, turned their heads and fled to the northwest, and Pound hurriedly shouted: "Where are you surrounded?"

"On the official road to the east of Cao Jun!" The shouts of deserters came from a distance, and they disappeared.

Pound was so angry that he punched the battlements fiercely, and cursed: "These bastards!"

At this time, Yang Fu, the county magistrate, hurried forward and said: "General Pang, it is estimated that this matter is true. Cao Cao is cunning, and the governor must have fallen for it. I would like to lead the army to rescue!"

Pound sighed, "You are a civil servant, how can you lead the army to rescue? You guard the city well, and I will lead the army to rescue."

Pound turned his head and shouted: "The army quickly gathers, follow me out of the city!"

A quarter of an hour later, Pang De led two thousand soldiers out of the city gate and ran to the northeast of Cao Ying. Yang Fu watched them walk away and couldn't help but sneered.

Pang De led the army to run less than ten miles away and met Ma Chao and Ma Dai head-on, and there were only more than [-] men following them.

Ma Chao heaved a long sigh of relief with the support of the new force, but he was also a little surprised that some soldiers escaped from the siege and rushed back to Jicheng before him. Can't figure it out.

At this time, Ma Dai felt that the pursuers had arrived, and hurriedly urged: "Brother, let's go back to the city first!"

Ma Chao nodded, turned around and said, "Go back to Jicheng quickly."

The army rushed towards Jicheng at a high speed. After half an hour, Ma Chao led his army to the city, raised his head and shouted: "Open the gate quickly!"

The flames on the top of the city suddenly ignited, and Yang Fu shouted in the flames: "Ma Chao, I have surrendered to the Prime Minister, you can go!"

Ma Chao was shocked, and urged him to step forward and sternly said, "Yang Fu, I have treated you well, why did you betray me?"

"Humph!"

Yang Fu snorted heavily, and said with a sneer, "What do you mean by not being thin? Prefect Wei loves the people like a son, but you killed his whole family, robbed the people of their food, and indulged the soldiers to insult their wives and daughters. The people of Jicheng want to peel your skin and eat you." Your meat, I, Yang Fu, endured humiliation until now, just waiting for this day!"

Ma Chao was furious and ordered his men to attack the city. Yang Fu's accomplices Zhao Ang, Yin Feng and other generals led their troops to shoot arrows downward. It was Zhang Liao and Xu Huang who led the army to kill, Ma Chaonai had to lead the army around the city and retreat to the southwest.

Just less than three miles away, there was a loud drumming on both sides of the woods, and flames blazed everywhere. Tens of thousands of Cao's ambush soldiers rushed out from both sides of the woods.

All thoughts in Ma Chao's heart were hopeless, and he turned to Ma Dai and Pang De and said, "If the two brothers want to surrender, I will not stop them, I can only fight to the end!"

Pang De said angrily: "What is the governor saying? We live and die together, and the governor wants to fight to the death. How can we live alone?"

Ma Dai also persuaded: "Brother, don't be too desperate. Cao's army also has disadvantages in fighting at night, and there are not many troops. If we fight to the death, we may be able to break through."

Ma Chao nodded, "Zhao Yun was able to single-handedly break through the [-]-odd army, how can I, Ma Mengqi, lag behind?"

He waved his spear and shouted: "Brothers, break out with me!"

"Kill!"

Three thousand soldiers rushed towards Cao Jun with Ma Chao, and Cao Cao immediately ordered, "Whoever captures Ma Chao alive will be named Liehou and will be rewarded with a thousand gold. Whoever wins Ma Chao's head will be promoted to two ranks and rewarded with five hundred gold." '

Under the heavy reward, Cao Jun came from all around, but Ma Chao, Pang De, and Ma Dai, relying on their brave martial arts and crotch colts, forced a bloody road and rushed out of the encirclement. Looking out of the siege, one after another knelt down and surrendered.

When Cao Cao saw Ma Chao break through the siege, he felt great hatred, but he had no choice but to order Cao Hong to lead a thousand cavalry to chase after Ma Chao. He then ordered, "Return to Jicheng!"

Cao Jun returned to Jicheng, at this time, the gate of Jicheng opened, Yang Fu came out with Zhao Ang, Yin Feng and others, knelt down and cried: "Ma Chao killed the prefect, we have endured the humiliation until now, and finally look forward to the prime minister's arrival. "

Cao Cao comforted them with a few words, and made Yang Fu the Marquis of Guannei and the Prefect of Tianshui County. He also made Zhao Ang, Yin Feng and others Sima of other tribes, stationed in Jieting and other northern fortresses. Cao Cao asked again: "Ma Chao's family is here?"

"Reporting to the prime minister, Ma Chao's two sons had died in the rebellion, and his wife committed suicide. Ma Chao hated that prefect Wei could not protect his wife and children, so he killed prefect Wei's whole family."

Cao Cao nodded, this is tit for tat!At this time, Zhang Liao led the young Yajiang forward and said, "I want to report to the Prime Minister, it was this Yajiang who tricked Pang De's army out, and finally wiped out Ma Chao's entire army."

Ya Jiang knelt down on one knee and said, "The last general will see the prime minister!"

Cao Cao nodded, "What's your name, where are you from?"

"Reporting to the Prime Minister, the last general's name is Wang Ping, a native of Bajun, Yizhou."

Cao Cao was startled, he was actually from Berkshire, he felt a little displeased, and his tone became cold, "Since he is from Berkshire, Yizhou, why is he in my army?"

"The last general left his hometown five years ago. He originally went to join Liu Zhang, but Liu Zhang refused to take him in. The last general had to go north to Sanfu and join Lieutenant Zhong. He suppressed bandits in Longxi all the year round, and was promoted to the rank of tooth general after many years of hard work."

"Well! This time you have made a contribution, and I will reward you generously. Come here, reward the king and general with a hundred taels of gold!"

Wang Ping was in a daze, Zhao Ang, Yin Feng and others did not have much credit for being able to seal another Sima, and they took the risk to deceive Pang De, and in time attracted the main force of the Cao army, but they only rewarded one hundred taels of gold. thin this?

Although he was a little dissatisfied in his heart, he didn't dare to say more, so he could only thank the reward and retreat, while Zhang Liao sighed secretly, he knew where the problem was?It was Wang Ping who was born in Bajun, Yizhou. It is a pity that such a talented prime minister is not used. He can only find an opportunity to intercede for Wang Ping in the future.

Cao Cao's wish was fulfilled, and he was concerned about the situation in Guanzhong, so he immediately ordered: "The whole army rests for a day, and then returns to Guanzhong!"