Chapter 297
In their opinion, it is already worthy of Ma Chao if they don’t put any damages on the wrong side! It is impossible for them to help them take the blame for Ma Chao! Their relationship with Ma Chao is not that close yet! Although Ma Chao is extremely dissatisfied with this, he has no way to do it. After all, Ma Chao learned how to lead troops and improve his martial arts since childhood. And this kind of political and ideological work and the communication ability between colleagues is Ma Chao’s fatal weakness.
Looking at the army from Ma Chao's point of view: the soldiers who have been trained strictly should work hard for themselves. It is unimaginable that the army does not obey the command. It is even more incredible to say that they don't listen. But now all these messy things have caught up with Ma Chao, and Ma Chao's head has long been big. Such complex problems are too huge for Ma Chao's age. Even a young hero like Ma Chao, after all, not everyone thinks of Liu Bin like him. Although he looks young, his soul is an old fry with experience in later generations! Time travel and rebirth are hard to come by!
However, Ma Chao did not stand on his side for Yang Feng and Yu Du at this critical moment. Instead, he pushed all the blame to him. Ma Chao didn't complain much. Ma bad commented that Yang Feng Yu Du was already very interesting in handling this matter. After all, when the army was short of military rations, he came up with a disguised disarmament method, and Yang Feng and Yu Du still supported him. Now, although Yang Feng Yu Du has taken the position of the generals, he is helpless. Moreover, they can still deal with it at the right time.
Ma Chao thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't think of a solution. Ma Dai looked around for a long time and felt that this was not a solution. So he suggested to Ma Chao: "Brother, since the situation is unclear, why not invite Mr. Cheng to come and ask." Ma Chao was stunned for a moment, thinking in his heart: There is indeed no other better way. So Ma Chao nodded and said, "Okay. Please invite Mr. Cheng." Ma Dai took the order and went there.
Ma Dai, the Mr. Cheng who Ma Chao mentioned was not someone else. It was Cheng Gongying, the marching counselor in Ma Chao's army. Cheng Gongying was said to be an old man in Ma Chao's army and should have been valued by Ma Chao. However, because Cheng Gongying was a senior official of Han Sui's faction, Han Sui sent to assist Ma Chao. Moreover, Cheng Gongying had a close relationship with Yang Qiu, one of the eight generals of Han Sui's flag leader. Now, when Ma Chao was down and out, Han Sui not only did not help him, but also defected to him.
The Xiliang Army (Ma Chao always thought that the one who occupied the entire Liangzhou now was the former Xiliang Army! But he didn't know that the Xiliang Army had actually surrendered to the Youzhou Army! In other words, Han Sui actually surrendered to the Youzhou Army!) Therefore, Cheng Gongying's position in Ma Chao's mind is even less reliable than Yang Fengyu Du. However, although Ma Chao did not trust Cheng Gongying, no one could deny Cheng Gongying's wisdom and strategy throughout the army.
Not long after, Cheng Gongying came to Ma Chao's camp. Ma Chao invited Cheng Gongying to sit down and told Cheng Gongying the current situation. So he asked Cheng Gongying for advice. At this time, Cheng Gongying was also mixed with emotion. Ma Chao's attitude towards Cheng Gongying. How could Cheng Ying not see Cheng Gongying? Cheng Gongying was also extremely heartbroken. However, for Ma Chao's uncle Han Sui's sake, Cheng Gongying had to find a way to solve the problem at this critical moment. Cheng Gongying thought about it and suggested to Ma: "The way of commanding the army is important to military discipline, but also to the morale of the army. Now that the morale of the army is unstable, the military order of the major general cannot be carried out smoothly."
Ma Chao looked at Cheng Gongying impatiently. Ma Chexin said: You need to say this? Those gangsters don’t agree with me at all. I have known this for a long time, why am I thinking about disarmament? Let’s talk about the key points quickly. Cheng Gongying of course understood the meaning of Ma Chao’s eyes. Cheng Gongying had to say helplessly: “Now the major general’s morale is shaken, it is simply because Cao Cao sent pursuers to encircle and suppress the scattered soldiers and horses. Those scattered soldiers were afraid of being defeated by Cao Cao’s soldiers. That’s why they blamed them and caused the morale of our main force to shake them. As long as the major general eliminated the pursued troops, this problem naturally would not exist.”
Ma Chao said, "According to the soldiers who fled back, the pursuit of Cao soldiers is endless. Therefore, I have sent horses to observe the pursuers. However, there are only 50,000 troops to pursue them. With such forces, we can defeat our three groups of troops in succession. This shows how low our garbage troops are. And Cao Cao is entrenched in the four states, and it is impossible for us to only have 50,000 troops. If we counter-in-chief eliminate the pursuers, it will be delayed. We are surrounded by Cao Cao's soldiers. Wouldn't we die without a place to die?" Cheng Gongying understood Ma Chao's thoughts. Ma Chao finally dumped the old, weak, sick and disabled new recruits. Of course, Ma Chao did not want these garbage to come back to drag him down.
Cheng Gongying laughed and said, "Major General, this is okay. Since the pursuit of only 50,000 troops, of course there are no need for all our troops to be dispatched. The scattered troops are now four. Their forces are combined, and there will be more than 200,000. As long as the major general sends another general, leads some of the troops and horses to cooperate with them. With more attacks, you will win a complete victory. Even if they delay their trip, they are surrounded by Cao Cao's army. Haven't the major general's crisis and burdens been solved?"
When Ma Chao heard this, he realized that this was also a solution. Letting those garbage take revenge can not only solve the current predicament, but also letting those garbage act as the troops behind the palace. It is indeed a good idea. Ma Chao's idea must immediately send someone to invite Yang Feng Yu Bu to discuss. After Yang Feng and Yu Bu learned about it, although he was dissatisfied with Ma Chao's plan to use his troops as scapegoats. However, Yang Feng and Yu Bu also wanted to arrive in Qingzhou one day earlier and connect with Youzhou troops. He obtained the support of Youzhou. So Yang Feng Yu Bu also gritted his teeth and agreed.
Yang Feng Yu Du was embarrassed, and even Ma Chao saw it this time. So Ma Chao was even more grateful to Yang Feng, Yu Du was loyal to him. After the matter was decided, Ma Chao sent Ma Dai to represent him and lead the 5,000 soldiers in his troops to cooperate with the generals to fight against the attack. But Ma Chao secretly told Ma Dai to save his life first. Under Yang Feng and Yu Du's order, generals such as Che Bao Wang Biao also felt that it would be more than rich to get Cao Ren with more than 200,000 troops and horses. Ma Chao did not participate and just ended up being quiet. Moreover, after the victory, there was no need to distribute the benefits seized to Ma Chao.
So Ma Chao continued to move forward, and Ma Dai led the four generals of Che Bao, Wang Biao, Wu Kui and Jiao Ting to block Cao Ren. However, although Ma Dai was nominally the leader of these four generals, Ma Dai fully understood Ma Chao's intentions. Therefore, Ma Dai was extremely flattering to these four generals and completely delegated power to let the four generals play their own way. Poor the four generals. Under Ma Dai's sweet words, he also regarded Ma Dai as a good person. He felt that Ma Dai looked down on him and was a good little guy. He was all ready to show off his skills.
What a pity Cao Ren does? Cao Ren scattered so many places to explore horses. Did they all just eat? This pieced together army was still forty miles away from Cao Ren's team. Cao Ren received the news. When Cao Ren heard this, he thought to himself: What? Two hundred thousand troops are getting! This is a big meal! Cao Ren is so happy. It's a big fish. Cao Ren immediately sent an order: "The whole army retreats."
The evacuation of Cao Ren's troops was not a big retreat. If it were the case with Che Bao, Wang Biao and other mobs. With such a forty-mile interval, it would be impossible to catch up with Cao Ren. Cao Ren retreated just to move the position of the Ying Pan so as to avoid being surrounded by 200,000 troops. So when Ma Dai and Wang Biao and Che Bao and the others caught up with Cao Ren, Cao Ren had already set up the Ying Pan in Laolonggou again.
There are two small hills in Laolonggou, and the mountain is only more than a hundred miles. There is a valley between the two mountains to pass through. Cao Ren blocked the camp here. These yellow turban leaders finally caught up with Cao Ren. Hula surrounded Cao Ren's camp at once. Not to mention Cao Ren was amused. Even Ma Dai scratched his head at this. Let's set the camp first and slow down before fighting! Unfortunately, no one could hear Ma Dai's persuasion. Ma Dai had to follow the four generals and come out to challenge Cao Ren to challenge the enemy.
Cao Ren was waiting for them, so naturally he was not vague. He immediately listed the formation. However, it seemed a little weaker in terms of the number of people. Wang Biao first came out to make a first skill. Cao Hong urged the horse to come out without saying a word. After the common name was finished, the two of them fought together. Wang Biao couldn't bear it after three meetings. He drove away and Cao Hong followed him after. Jiao Ting, who was watching the formation behind, hurriedly came out to respond. Not to mention that Jiao Ting was trained with Yu Du. His skills were much stronger than Wang Biao under Yang Feng, and he actually met Cao Hong ten times. However, Jiao Ting's kung fu ended here. Ten high-intensity sprints had completely overdrawn Jiao Ting's energy. When he was hitting his opponent at this horse, Jiao Ting's dodging movement was half a beat slower. Cao Hong's big sword floated over Jiao Ting's face.
Although Jiao Ting's face was avoided, the nose on the highest part of Jiao Ting's face did not escape. It was cut off by Cao Hong's big knife. Jiao Ting didn't even dare to go back and ran away. When Wu Kui and Che Bao saw this posture, he knew that he would give it to him for nothing. So he turned his eyes to Ma Dai. Of course, Ma Dai understood that although Ma Dai understood Ma Chao's intention, the two armies could not do it too obvious in front of the formation. Ma Dai had no choice but to urge him to go forward and face Cao Hong.
Ma Dai and Cao Hong fought, and this was really a good match for each other. After more than fifty rounds, there was no difference in the victory or defeat. The officers and soldiers watching the battle on both sides were all convinced by Ma Dai and Cao Hong's kung fu. But at this time, Jiao Ting had bandaged his nose and returned to the queue. Jiao Ting's nose was gone, so don't mention it. Jiao Ting lost his nose. He said to the other three generals in a strange voice and a strange tone: "Brothers, why do we have so many soldiers and horses to do with them? Let's fight together!"
The three generals thought about it and the same reason. Under the waving of the flag, the overwhelming Yellow Turban Army and horses rushed over like those who were attending a temple fair. When Cao Hong and Ma Dai in the middle of the battlefield saw this scene, they each had their own plans and all retreated to the formation with one move. Cao Ren also made the archers ready to shoot. When the Yellow Turban Army rushed to Cao Ren's camp, dense rain of arrows came towards him. The yellow Turban soldiers in the front row fell to the ground one after another. However, the Yellow Turban soldiers in the second row still rushed up fearlessly.
Although these Yellow Turban Army had no formation, they could not withstand many people! Moreover, the number of archers in the troops that Cao Ren pursued this time was not particularly large. There were only three thousand people. Before the death and injuries of the Yellow Turban soldiers reached 10,000, the Yellow Turban soldiers had already rushed to the edge of Cao Ren's camp and began to quickly demolish the camp. Cao Ren's troops had no choice but to fight and retreat slowly along the ravine between the two mountains. Wu Kui and other leaders were extremely happy about this, and they all urged their troops to pursue, intending to destroy Cao Ren's army in one fell swoop.
Cao Hong's camp was broken, and Cao Ren and Cao Hong's men retreated along the ravine behind the camp. The strong-motivated Yellow Turban soldiers rushed into the ravine, chasing Cao Ren's troops under the supervision of four generals including Wang Biao, Che Bao, Wu Kui, Jiao Ting, etc., and rushed into the ravine and chased Cao Ren's troops. So much so that the slow-moving carts among Cao Ren's troops were cut off, and the horse materials and hay piles on the cart were scattered all over the ground. Ma Dai, who was supervising the formation outside the ravine, could not say anything about this. Such a mob came from a long distance and did not even establish a camp. It was really incredible that Cao Hong's camp had broken through. Is it really so powerful that it was so powerful?
Finally, Wu Kui, Wang Biao and other four troops drove Cao Ren and Cao Hong's troops out of the ravine. However, due to the narrow exit, Cao Ren and Cao Hong's troops relied on the geography to firmly guard the last line of defense. Gradually, Wu Kui, Wang Biao and other four troops filled the ravine. Cao Hong, who had already retreated outside the ravine, smiled and said to Cao Ren: "Brother is almost done. It's time to start. How many soldiers can this small ravine be squeezed? Brother is still thinking about putting them all in? Then even if they kick them all flat, they can't squeeze in."
Cao Ren was amused when he heard this: Although his brother is simple-minded, he wants to do something but thinks about it. He speaks just because he is real. Cao Ren nodded, approving Cao Hong's opinion and sends the troops to ignite. With the launch of Cao Hong's rockets, the fire-burning objects that Cao Ren had scattered in the ravine in advance were ignited smoothly. The two lines of fire spread quickly to the entire ravine along the predetermined trajectory. The fire trucks scattered in the ravine were also ignited at once.
The fire suddenly started.
The crowded crowded in the ravine suddenly became flustered and all turned around and ran backwards. They tiptoed away from the fire. But the crowds were not so easy to run. They crowded and trampled on each other and couldn't escape, so they couldn't escape the spread of the sea of fire. Soon, except for the troops behind the troops who escaped from the ravine, the entire ravine had been blocked by the sea of fire. Screams kept coming in the sea of fire.
Ma Dai felt as if he was cut by a knife when he saw this scene. Ma Dai blamed himself: Since he felt that Cao Hong and his friends were suspicious of retreating, why didn’t he want to stop it? Ma Dai shouted loudly: “Shut the sand and soil quickly and press the fire down. Open a fire channel to rescue the people inside.” Ma Dai’s men were ordered and shoveled the sand and soil to press the fire. However, the weather was cold and the land was frozen, and this was not a desert area outside the frontier. Is this soil so easy to shovel? Moreover, everyone in the marching battles carried a knife and a gun, and who was fighting with a shovel? You know, the Yellow Turban Army is not the Youzhou Army. They don’t have engineering soldiers!
Therefore, although Ma Dai's heart was urging, it was not very effective. At this time, it was obvious that Wu Kui and Jiao Ting, these two people who had followed Yu Du for many years and had experienced many years of war, were rich in experience. Wu Kui and Jiao Ting missed the initial shock. Seeing that Ma Dai sent people to put out the fire was not very effective. He immediately sent an order: "Take off the clothes of those corpses, and then throw them all onto the fire." As the corpses were quickly thrown onto the fire, the flames could not keep up. A passage opened with corpses and blood gave the soldiers trapped in the sea of fire a glimmer of hope.
However, this passage is not enough to allow all the soldiers trapped inside to be safely released. The flames are still very serious when spreading and surviving. Ma Dai and the other four generals are very clear about this. This is just a matter of resignation. The 100,000 people rushing into the ravine mean that there is not much hope of survival. But life is always so full of drama. When the four generals including Ma Dai and Wu Kui hope that the trapped inside will not survive, the surging fire in the ravine melted the snow on both sides of the ravine. When the snow as the base melted, all the snow on the entire hillside collapsed.
Although the mountains are not big, the collapsed snow cannot be compared with the avalanche of the Daxue Mountains. However, covering the entire valley and forming a sea of snow more than a foot thick is still rich. So as the snowfall falls, the sea of fire in the sky is destroyed in a blink of an eye and turns into a vast sea of snow. However, during this period, more than 50,000 people have been buried in the sea of fire.
What a miracle!
Everyone who witnessed all these changes was stunned. Cao Ren and Cao Hong had nothing to say about this. They had to send additional troops to guard the exit of the valley.
However, after this baptism of the sea of fire, the Yellow Turban soldiers were no longer in the mood to fight. The fatigue of the long-distance pursuit completely broke out. Although Wu Kui and Jiao Ting were unwilling to accept it, they had to withdraw their troops to rest. They also knew that if they didn't take a break, these Yellow Turban soldiers might really collapse! To be continued...
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