Before Ma Su could come up with a clever plan to break through Wu Pass, he encountered the problem of Liu Xiongming coming to instigate the troops. Just when he didn't know how to deal with it, a sudden enlightenment appeared in his mind and the plan came to mind!

He instantly thought of a good idea of ​​killing two birds with one stone, which is to pretend to agree to Liu Xiongming's recruitment first, and then follow him to Wuguan. When the army passes through Wuguan, it suddenly attacks and captures Wuguan.

During this period, it was not a secret that the various families had bet on multiple sides. It was reasonable that the Ma family in Jingzhou asked Ma Su to serve under Cao Cao and would not arouse Liu Xiongming's suspicion.

After Ma Su made up his mind, of course he needed the cooperation of his generals. He first discussed the feasibility of the plan with his confidants Xing Daorong, Fang Shan and He Yun, as well as some details, mainly to prepare some solutions.

After making up the plan, Ma Su summoned Zhong Yue, Fu Li, Zhang Zhuang and Yang Kui to discuss the military. He first informed the military situation in Tongguan, and then took out the letter that Zhong Yue gave him, and let the other people browse it, and then began to solicit their opinions.

Ma Su didn't want to force their children from aristocratic families to follow him. If they had a second heart, that would be an uncertain factor!

Therefore, Ma Su Kaicheng made an announcement to let them choose for themselves, and clearly told them that they could lead people to join Liu Xiongming!

Fu Li and the others exchanged glances, and they felt a little disappointed that Liu Xiongming would not look for them first. Since Zhong Yue did not accept Liu Xiongming's recruitment under such generous conditions, they naturally would not reduce their value by themselves. They used their hot faces to stick Liu Xiongming's cold butt, and swear together: Resolutely obey Ma Su's arrangements and never accept any of Liu Xiongming's conditions alone!

With their promises, Ma Su was not afraid that they would break their plans, so he told them out the original plan and made careful arrangements, just waiting for Liu Xiongming to arrive.

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After seeing Liu Xiongming away, Cao Cao only patrols the camp every day and never talks about the battle.

A few days later, Ma Chao, who had made and declared the customs, added tens of thousands of troops and horses, and all the generals looked worried. Cao Cao was overjoyed and set up a banquet in the tent to congratulate him, and invited the generals to attend.

Seeing Cao Cao taking the lead in destroying the ban on drinking in the army, all the generals were shocked and puzzled. According to convention, Cao Cao held a banquet, which was the one who wanted to advance!

Sure enough, before he started drinking, Cao Cao raised his glass and said to the generals:

"You guys must be laughing in my heart that I can't stick to it. I have no plans to break Ma Chao in my heart. Who of you has a good plan? You might as well let everyone take a closer look!"

Because Cao Cao was resourceful, he was in the middle of the generals and was used to waiting for Cao Cao to make his decisions, they just insisted on implementing it and charging into the battlefield!

This time, Cao Cao prohibited the war, so they naturally would not work hard to think about the strategy of advancing. Even all the generals, including Xiahou Yuan, did not consider the strategy of advancing. They all looked ashamed and bowed their heads without saying a word, and they were a little cold for a while.

After a long time, Xu Huang, who was sitting in the distance, stood up and said:

"Now the Prime Minister stationed heavy troops under the pass, and did not fight with Ma Chao, so he attracted the Xiliang army to station all the troops at the pass. From here to Hexi, Ma Chao and Han Sui would definitely not be prepared to intercept. If the Prime Minister secretly crossed Puyangjin with me, went to Hexi to intercept the thieves' return road, cut off their food and supplies, and the Prime Minister sent troops to attack Ma Chao from Hebei, then the Xiliang army would be difficult to take care of and would be in danger."

Xu Huang assisted Cao Hong in guarding Tongguan. Unexpectedly, Cao Hong was defeated by Ma Chao's arrogant soldiers and lost the pass. Although Cao Cao did not blame Xu Huang, he was always worried that he wanted to kill the enemy and make contributions and atone for his sins!

Therefore, when he saw Cao Cao prohibiting the generals from fighting, he thought about the strategy of defeating the enemy in his heart.

Xu Huang is both civil and military, and is familiar with military books. He is not a person who is unscheming! He pondered for several days and really came up with a plan. The so-called "heroes have similar views" really coincides with the plan in Cao Cao's mind.

After listening to Xu Huang's suggestion, Cao Cao immediately looked at him with admiration and said happily:

"The words of Gongming are exactly what I want." Then a banquet was held and gathered with the generals.

After the banquet, Cao Cao taught Xu Huang to stay and allocated four thousand elite soldiers to him and Zhu Ling to quietly lead the troops across the river and into Hexi, and lie in a valley.

Before leaving, Cao Cao told Xu Huang that when he set up a large army to cross the river and go to Hebei to start a war with the Xiliang army, he could send troops to attack the Xiliang army from front to back.

Xu Huang was very happy to have the opportunity to make contributions! He took the order and led the four thousand troops to secretly go.

Cao Cao had made up his mind and was ready to cross the Wei River to fight Ma Chao in Hebei.

Cao Cao removed Cao Hong from his position as a pretext. In order to make Cao Hong redeem his sins and restore his official position, Cao Cao first taught Cao Hong to lead thousands of troops and arrange boats and rafts at the Puyangjin Ferry to prepare for march.

Cao Hong was ready, Cao Cao left Cao Ren to lead thousands of troops to guard the camp at the gate. He set up a large army to go to Hedong and personally led the troops across the Wei River.

When Cao Cao's troops moved, he had already made detailed reports to Ma Chao.

Ma Chao, Han Sui and others gathered together to discuss solutions.

Ma Chao suddenly remembered the day when they sent troops to Tongguan. When they parted with Ma Su, they talked about several hours, and happened to discuss how to deal with this situation.

Ma Chao wants to have prestige in the Western Liang army because of his high martial arts skills and invincibleness! He gives people a brave but not a resourceful image!

Ma Chao had long wanted to dress himself up as a Confucian general who was both wise and brave. Now that Ma Su's existing strategy, he naturally would not miss the opportunity to perform, so he said first:

"Cao Cao was afraid of casualties and did not dare to attack Tongguan's natural chassis, so he had to lead his troops to Hedong. He asked him to prepare a boat and raft, because he wanted to cross the Wei River to fight our army to decisively. He must have sent troops to Hexi to block our retreat. I want to lead the troops personally to patrol the north bank and prevent Cao Cao from crossing the river. Cao Cao's troops could not cross the river. In less than 20 days, the food in Hedong would be exhausted. Cao Cao had to transport grain from Henan. At that time, we led the army to attack Henan, occupy important roads, rob grain, and break Cao Cao's food and grass. Cao's army would be in chaos. We would advance in the chaos and would definitely defeat Cao Cao, approach the Central Plains, obtain military rations on the spot, and then fight with Cao Cao."

In Xiliang for decades, Han Sui was known for his wisdom.

This time he took the lead in attacking Cao Cao, but did not completely defeat Cao Cao. He just wanted Cao Cao to retreat and continue to dominate Xiliang. He rejected the strategy proposed by Ma Chao without thinking!

Han Sui didn't want to match Ma Chao, so he let him steal his limelight, so he spoke up and retorted:

"You must not do this! Even as Meng Qi expected, Cao Cao's food and grass can only support more than 20 days, but our army can only support about one month. Moreover, our army has no supply of food and grass, so we must leave ten days of food and grass to calmly retreat to settle the food. Therefore, we need to fight quickly, instead of consuming Cao Cao's food and grass! Cao Cao's decisive battle across the river is a good opportunity! Isn't it said that the military strategy says: 'The army can be attacked halfway through,' When Cao Cao's troops are halfway through, you will lead the troops to attack on the south bank, and I will intercept the return road on the north bank, and Cao Cao's army will be driven into the river, and there will be heavy casualties!"

Although Ma Chao is familiar with military books, he relies on extraordinary courage and always relies on extraordinary force to defeat the enemy. He is also skeptical about Ma Su's pre-set strategy. He heard Han Sui say it right away, and immediately changed his mind and said to Han Sui:

"Uncle has a very good plan, I'll wait for Cao Cao to cross the river before attacking!"
Chapter completed!