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On the official road south of Long County, a cavalry was urging his horse to run fast. On both sides were large green fields. The tall and majestic Longshan Mountains were rolling and rolling in the distance. The forest at the foot of the mountain was dense, like a green belt lingering among the mountains. Goshawks were hovering over the forest. There were dozens of farmhouses at the foot of the mountain, with curling white smoke rising.

It was already noon, and there were still ten miles away from Long County. The cavalry did not stop the horses to rest, but instead accelerated the speed. This was the messenger sent by Xu Huang to deliver a message to Zang Ba. Xu Huang wanted to tell Zang Ba that there were probably thousands of cavalrymen who were walking around behind Long County and asked Zang Ba to be careful.

The letter was urgent and could not be delayed for a moment. The cavalry waved their whip and speeded up their horses again. A gurgling stream appeared in front of them. There was a small bridge on the stream. The bridge deck was quite narrow. A team of merchants came across the opposite side. More than a dozen mules were loaded with goods. Several merchants were riding on donkeys and were slowly walking towards this side. The cavalry couldn't help but slow down their horses.

"Flash out"

The cavalry roared, rushed up the small bridge, waved the whip and whipped at several merchants, but at this moment, a young merchant suddenly rushed up, pounced the soldiers down the small bridge, rolled into the small river, and the other merchants jumped off the small bridge, held the cavalry and tied them up.

"You bastards, dare to rob the officers and soldiers, don't want to survive, please let me go?"

Before the cavalry could react, they cursed. A businessman raised his hand and slapped him in the face, and said coldly: "I blinded your dog's eyes, I really think we are businessmen."

He tore open the cavalry's clothes, took out a tart bag from his close-fitting inner bag, and took out a command arrow and a letter. It was the handwritten letter Xu Huang gave to Zang Ba. The merchant looked at it, immediately put away the letter, and ordered: "Take him away."

The cavalry then reacted, and his face was pale and his head lowered. He knew that he had encountered an enemy.

Several merchants took him through the fields and came to a lush forest. There were thousands of cavalry in the forest, which were the thousand cavalry led by Ma Dai. The merchants were naturally disguised as scouts of the Han army. Ma Dai knew that Xu Huang would send a letter to Zang Ba, so he specially sent someone to intercept the messenger.

Several scouts took Cao Bing to Ma Dai to kneel down in front of Ma Dai. The messenger kowtowed and begged for mercy. Ma Dai took the letter and looked carefully, and nodded. Xu Huang was worthy of being a famous general. He was clearly running towards Chang'an, but he still guessed that he was going to Longxian and ordered Zang Ba to strictly guard Longxian and not to act rashly.

However, they did not escape Jia Xu's plan. Jia Xu knew that there was no pigeon letter established between Chen Cang and Long County, so Xu Huang would definitely send someone to deliver the letter, so he specially arranged a brilliant plan.

Ma Dai interrogated the messenger a few more words, then found Ma Liang who was with him, handed Xu Huang's letter to him and said with a smile: "Ji Chang looked at this letter, can you imitate it?"

Ma Liang has a very good brushwork skills and is good at imitating handwriting. He is known as a master. He opened the letter and looked at it, and smiled and said, "Don't worry, there is no problem."

Ma Liang immediately took out a scroll of silk, imitated Xu Huang's handwriting and wrote another letter. He wrote as if he had a flying stroke. Ma Liang himself was proud of it, and he was so perfect. He blew the letter and handed it to Ma Dai and smiled and said, "I don't care about the rest, General Ma himself arranged it."

Ma Dai was overjoyed, "With this letter from Mr., great things can be saved."

Ma Dai found another capable soldier, carefully ordered him, and explained it clearly. The soldier only bowed and rode on the messenger's horse and rushed towards Longxian.

Zang Ba had been waiting for a whole day. He was quite worried about the situation of Jieting, but if Long County's worries were not resolved, he would not be able to go west with confidence. Zang Ba knew that Xu Huang would definitely have news, so he waited patiently. In the afternoon, Zang Ba inspected the south city head as usual. At this time, a soldier shouted: "General, the soldiers are here to send a message."

Zang Ba held the city and looked at it, and saw a cavalry running towards the city gate. Zang Ba was overjoyed. He finally waited for Xu Huang's news, "open the city and let people in." Zang Ba immediately ordered.

The city gate opened, and the letter-sending soldiers urged the horses to enter the city. Soon, a soldier led the letter-sending soldiers to Zang Ba. The letter-sending soldiers knelt down on one knee to salute, "I gave General Xu the order to send letters to General Zang, and I was anxious."

"Where is the letter?" Zang Ba asked anxiously.

The sending army took out an oil bag from its close-fitting pocket, took out the command arrow and the letter roll, and presented it to Zang Ba with both hands. Zang Ba took the command arrow and looked at it, and then hurriedly opened Xu Huang's letter. It was indeed Xu Huang's handwritten letter. The letter said that Liu Jing led tens of thousands of troops to set up a camp west of Chencang, which may be a trick to attack the west. The real target of the Han army should be Jieting. He was very worried that Jieting would be in a mistake, so he ordered Zang Ba to lead the army to aid Jieting immediately. He would send scouts to supervise the Han army in Long County. If the Han army showed signs of going north, he would immediately send troops to increase defenses in Long County so that Zang Ba would not have to worry.

Zang Ba nodded. What he wanted was Xu Huang's promise to the defense of Long County. Xu Huang's judgment was the same as himself. The real purpose of the Han army was Jieting. Zang Ba asked the sending soldiers a few more words, and immediately called Zhao Wei to the trusted general and told him: "I will lead the army to assist Jieting. You can lead a thousand troops to strictly guard Long County, and you must not slacken."

"The last one will obey the order"

Zang Ba said again: "General Xu will send reinforcements to them in the past two days, give them the good military camp, and arrange the meals so that others will not feel dissatisfied."

"Please rest assured, General, they will arrange their food, accommodation and treatment."

Zang Ba arranged Long County and immediately ordered the army to gather. Half an hour later, Zang Ba led 4,000 troops to leave Long County and rushed towards Jieting.

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As night fell, a bright moon passed through the thin clouds. The moonlight was bright and dark, pouring on the land of Long County, and a light silver gray color was added to the tall and solid Long County walls. On the top of the city, Cao soldiers were patrolling back and forth, and the sentries on the tower looked at the movement outside the city with caution.

At this time, a sentry suddenly discovered an army coming from the official road to the south. He couldn't see clearly. The sentry immediately leaned over and shouted at the top of the city: "Tell General Zhao quickly, an army is coming from the south."

The soldiers patrolling the city also found an army outside the city. Someone immediately ran to report to the guard general Zhao Wei. Zhao Wei was resting in the south city tower. After hearing the report, he immediately walked out of the city tower and visited outside the city. Soon, a Cao army appeared under the city, with about a thousand people, more than one of them rode horses in front and infantry behind.

"Who is coming down from the city?" Zhao Wei asked loudly.

A general came forward and clasped his fists and said, "The city is General Zhao Wei. He is dismounting and is here to reinforce Longxian under the order of General Xu. There are orders and general Xu's orders here."

Zhao Wei received the instructions from Zang Ba before leaving. He knew that reinforcements would arrive in the next two days to reinforce the defense of Long County. He immediately ordered people to put down the basket. A soldier in the city put the order arrow and Xu Huang's handwriting into the basket. The basket pulled it up. Zhao Wei looked at the order arrow, and the order arrow was correct. He opened the order again and approached the torch and looked at it. It was indeed Xu Huang's handwriting. He ordered the tooth general Ma Ping to lead thousands of troops to reinforce Long County. However, Zhao Wei had never heard of who Ma Ping.

But Zhao Wei also knew that Chen Cang's army was quite mixed, including the defeated army in Longxi, the deployment of Xu Huang, the deployment of Xiahou Dun, the garrison in the central government, and even the county soldiers recruited by Zhong Yao in the past. Therefore, Zhao Wei did not doubt much and asked again: "Who is General Ma, and he is so stupid, and he has never seen a general."

Ma Ping smiled at the city, "I am the Hebei Army. I joined Cao's army a few years ago and have been following General Cao Ren. It is normal for General Zhao to not know me."

Zhao Wei suddenly realized that it was the rebellious surrendered army in Hebei and called himself the Hebei army. In fact, it was not the same as Yuan Shao's Hebei army. It was a mob, which had always been looked down upon by the Cao army. Zhao Wei was the former Xuzhou army of Lu Bu and had a high status in Cao's army. He was even more disgusted with this mob surrendered army.

Zhao Wei was filled with contempt and secretly curled his lips. The first-time high-end food and accommodation that he had originally planned was immediately reduced to waiting. Why should I give them the best camp and station them in Xiying? Thinking of this, Zhao Weiling said: "Let them come in with the city."

He found another military marquis and ordered: "Carry up the Xiying a little, let them go to Xiying to station, and give them some grain and rice to cook by themselves."

Xiying was vacant for many years and was quite dilapidated. It was not a way to entertain guests. However, Zhao Wei had an order, and the military marquis dared not disobey. He immediately ran to Xiying to prepare. At this time, the city gate opened and the Thousand Cao troops began to line up into the city.

Zhao Wei walked down the city wall and stood in the corridor and stared coldly at the low-ranking Cao army. However, the soldiers of this army were tall, with big arms and round waists, brave and powerful, and the team was neat and murderous. They looked very elite, not like the legendary mobs.

Especially many war horses are very strong, with long and powerful limbs and neat fur. They are obviously a horse. The powerful aura brought by more than one cavalrymen, even the most powerful tiger and leopard cavalry of Cao's army seems to be inferior to that of one cavalry. Just one cavalryman is like a thousand troops.

Zhao Wei began to wonder, is this really the Hebei army from the past two years, it is much stronger than his soldiers. At this time, he unexpectedly discovered that the Cao army had white cloth wrapped around the left arm, which was clearly a sign. He began to feel suspicious and felt something was wrong. He immediately ordered: "Stop, don't go into the city again."

As soon as he finished speaking, a general rushed over on a horse and shouted, "I am not Ma Ping, I am Ma Dai, the Han army."

He swung his sword to slash Zhao Wei. Zhao Wei was shocked and it was too late to dodge. He was slashed into two pieces by Ma Dai. The sudden change shocked Cao's army. When they witnessed the general being killed, they realized that there was a chaos and turned around to run. At this time, the Han soldiers raised crossbows together to shoot, and dense arrows shot Cao's soldiers to the ground.

Ma Dai shouted, "Follow me to the city."

He urged his horse to jump into the corridor and rushed to the top of the city with more than a thousand soldiers. The defenders on the city were even more frightened and fled in all directions. Ma Dai controlled the city gate hub and ordered loudly: "The whole army entered the city, the surrendered ones should be exempted from death, and the resisters should be killed regardless."
Chapter completed!