Survival Three Kingdoms

Chapter 541
The starting team of Zhang Liao and Zhu Ling was not noticed by the Xiliang people, but the movement of Cao Cao's army was immediately discovered by Ma Dai and reported to Ma Chao.

Instead of being surprised, Ma Chao was overjoyed, and hurried to see Han Sui: "Father Cao, the bandit Cao was defeated, and I heard that our army can no longer hold back. I just got the news that his troops are preparing to cross the Yellow River north. I guess he must be going to the east of the Rao River." Go to Hexi, turn around to my rear and cut off my way back."

"Meng Qi is so happy, could it be that he has a good plan?"

"Cao Cao mobilized his troops to trek long distances, so it would be difficult to transfer food and grass. I just need to lead a group of people to cross the Weishui River to the north and occupy the land on the west of the river, making it impossible for them to cross the river. It is already October, and within a month there will be insufficient food and grass. Retire, that's my uncle leading all the troops out of Tongguan to attack Cao's rear camp, and Cao's army will be defeated! The Cao thief can be captured!"

Ma Chao saw it very thoroughly, and it can be said to hit the nail on the head: Cao Cao's grain and grass transfers were all transported from Luoyang to Tongguan via Hangu Pass, and if Cao Cao crossed the river, he would have to go through another round of twists and turns.Ma Chao's defense of Hexi will only make Cao Cao in a dilemma. When Han Sui is exhausted and retreats, if Han Sui invades Hangu Pass, then Cao Cao can only retreat to Bingzhou in the northeast, and the doors of Luoyang and Xudu on the east line will be wide open.

Everyone in Cao's army thought that Ma Chao was useful but not scheming, but they didn't know that Ma Chao was not only scheming, but also scheming.According to Zhou Cang, Ma Chao is somewhat similar to Lu Bu, with IQ but no EQ, but they just can't understand some things.

Han Sui pondered for a long time. "What Meng Qi said is not a good strategy. All my ministries have been preparing to send troops since May. This year's harvest is all gone. The Guanzhong road is far away. It takes a lot of manpower to transport food and grass. Most of them rely on local collection. Winter is coming soon, and our army will also There is a risk of cutting off the cooking. There is a saying in the art of war: attack them halfway across the river. Why don't you send troops to attack Cao Cao while he is planning to cross the river?"

"According to the words of the adoptive father." Ma Chao hesitated for a moment, feeling that what Han Sui said was not unreasonable, and the disadvantages of not taking down Chang'an began to appear. "It's just that Hexi must be on guard."

"I sent Liang Xing to lead 5000 troops. As long as Pubanjin is guarded, the Cao bandits will not be able to enter Hexi!"

Ma Chao immediately returned to the camp and gathered [-] soldiers and horses. With Pang De as the vanguard, he left the pass and rushed to the south bank of the Yellow River.

Cao Cao's army had already started to cross the river, and all the generals urged Cao Cao to go first, but Cao Cao insisted on not following: as long as he was still on the south bank, he would attract Ma Han's attention and buy more time for the army.Therefore, not only did he not cross the river first, but he also set up a big banner and swaggered on the bed to show his existence.

Perhaps with the foundation of the drill in Jingzhou, perhaps Cao Cao made sufficient preparations. The boats on the river kept transporting soldiers back and forth.

"Report, Ma Chao's army is coming from within the pass, and the distance is less than [-] miles."

"Don't worry about him, hurry up and cross the river!"

"Report, it's already ten miles away!"

"Already five miles!"

"The matter is urgent, please board the ship quickly," Xu Chu said anxiously.

Cao Cao sat still on the bed, "How many people have not crossed the river?"

"There are less than [-] people."

Cao Cao saw that there were only a thousand Chinese soldiers around him, and Xu Chu's hundred warriors.Pointing to the Chinese army, he said, "Go and block it for a while."

Thousands of well-armored Chinese soldiers who are fearless and fearless to death were defeated in less than half a stick of effort by Xiliang people with spears, bows and arrows.

The situation was critical, so Xu Chu couldn't help saying that he carried Cao Cao on his back and ran to the river, followed closely by a hundred tiger warriors. When Xu Chu and a tiger warrior boarded a small boat with Cao Cao, all the hundred tiger warriors had died in battle.These are all loyal and brave men who were selected by Xu Chu and trained by himself. On weekdays, each of them is enough to be worth a hundred, but under the siege of Xiliang iron cavalry and pikemen, they were beheaded without showing their abilities at all.

Xu Chu didn't care about his heartache, and immediately ordered the boatman to sail. After shaking the oar a few times, a stray arrow flew over, and the boatman fell down from the arrow.Xu Chu threw the body of the boatman into the river and rowed the oars himself.

Ma Chao looked at it clearly from the bank, bent his bow and set up an arrow and shot at Cao Cao. The tiger warrior held Cao Cao down, but he was shot into the river.Only Cao Cao and Xu Chu were left on the boat!
Xu Chu only found a saddle on the boat. He used the saddle in his left hand as an arrow for Cao Cao, and swayed the oar with his right.

Ma Chao laughed heartily on the shore: the boat did not go north at all, but flowed along the river.Immediately ordered to release arrows along the river, let's see how long you can last?

The generals who had already crossed the river didn't know the situation on the south bank, and they were anxious to see Cao Cao for a long time.On the south bank, there is only Ding Fei, the school captain, without crossing the river.

Ding Fei and Cao Cao were from the same village, and he was resourceful and talented, so he was appointed by Cao Cao as the captain of the Dianjun. Since the death of his brother-in-law Ren Jun, he has been in charge of supervising the transportation of grain and grass.Ding Fei and Cao Hong also have a common hobby: money.Cao Hong was at odds with Cao Pi because of his love of money, while Ding Fei was often impeached by Mao Jie and suppressed by Cao Cao several times.

Ding Fei saw Cao Cao was in a desperate situation from a distance, and wanted to rescue him, but his soldiers were not as many as cattle and sheep. Seeing the cattle and sheep, Ding Fei had an idea. He ordered his men to let go of the cattle, sheep, donkeys and mules, and drive them away. The direction of the Xiliang Army.

Xiliang's military discipline has been lax for a long time, and it is best to plunder. Seeing the ready-made cattle, sheep, donkeys and mules, which one is not jealous, and even forgot Ma Chao's general order and did not go to encircle and suppress Cao Cao, and they all threw themselves into the ranks of robbery. Ma Chao couldn't stop .Seeing that the plan had been accomplished, Ding Fei laughed and led the people back to Hangu.

Xu Chu was not threatened by the arrows, so he could finally row the oars with peace of mind and successfully reached the north bank.When the generals received Cao Cao, they saw that there were only two of them, with a saddle like a hedgehog, and they were all terrified.Cao Cao instead smiled and said, "Today I was almost trapped by a child again."

Ma Chao plundered wantonly, and he should have received it and returned with a full load.This battle was another big victory, and countless cattle and sheep were seized. The people of Xiliang all smiled happily, and today they have meat to eat.

Only Ma Chao was slightly worried. It would not be a good thing to run away from Cao Cao. I don't know what is going on with Liang Xing.He asked Pang De: "I think the person who rescued Cao Cao today was the general who fought against Bo Zhan that day. I don't know what the name of this general is?"

"This man is Cao Cao's confidant guard Xu Chu and Xu Zhongkang. Because of his bravery and wariness, he is called a tiger idiot, and his guards are called tiger warriors."

Ma Chao nodded and said nothing more.

Let's talk about Zhang Liao and Zhu Ling. When they arrived at Hedong, Zhu Ling thought that according to Cao Cao's instructions, they should cross the Yellow River west when the army was crossing north.Zhang Liao believed that speed is the most important thing in soldiers. Even if he was detected when he sent troops, Pu Banjin was hundreds of miles away from Tongguan, and the time for one round trip was enough for the army to arrive.

Although Zhu Ling felt that Zhang Liao was somewhat reasonable, he was Cao Cao's first general to surrender, but he was overwhelmed by Guan Yu, Zhang Xiu, and Zhang Jai successively, and his status continued to decline, so that he became Yu Jin's deputy.Does Zhu Ling feel that he is at odds with Zhang?Zhang Xiu was dead, and now that Zhang Jaw was gone, he was unwilling to be overwhelmed by Zhang Liao again, so he insisted on not obeying Cao Cao's military order, so the two had a dispute.

(End of this chapter)