Chapter 243 A group of insects
Chang Diao has nothing wrong with guessing.
Ma Chao and Han Sui are all old guys who have been through the battlefield for a long time. Although they were frightened by the toughness Zhao Yan had shown before, they gradually came to their senses.
The Cao army clearly had an absolute advantage, and they could not discuss with them any way, and then began to cross the river and launch an attack.
But Cao's army is obviously on the defensive position now.
Prime Minister Cao has never been a person who cherishes his troops. He is cold and freezing. Every time he stays for one more day, the consumption of food and grass will make people's liver tremble.
It’s impossible that Cao Cao came thousands of miles away, just to confront the Guanzhong Allied Forces, which had obviously been severely damaged in the Wei River.
Then he might as well come back in spring next year...
After a few days of stalemate, Ma Dai was furious and said that a large number of Cao's troops crossed the east from the Yellow River, and there were obvious signs of retreat.
Ma Chao was overjoyed and immediately asked to cross the Wei River to launch an attack, striving to use the relatively closed area formed by the Wei River and the Yellow River to attack Cao's troops behind the palace.
But after many previous prestige of defeating Ma Chao has been seriously damaged, he tried his best to describe the beautiful prospects after crossing the river to the generals of the coalition army. But this time, all the generals of the coalition army were all turtles and generally said that they would not give Ma Chao face no matter what, but turned their eyes to Han Sui.
Han Sui pondered for a moment, shook his head and said:
"Cao Thief has always been tricky, but this time... I don't know if it was his trick."
Ma Chao was angry and anxious and said loudly:
"I am willing to lead an army to cross the river and explore the reality of the Cao army. I must not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
"If you want to go to Meng Qi, just go by yourself." Han Sui expressed his dissatisfaction with Ma Chao's brainless behavior.
He had suffered consecutive setbacks before, and had already had the idea of retreating to Liangzhou, and would never use troops rashly.
If this was Cao Cao's trick, he would be dying after crossing the river rashly. If Cao Cao retreated, it would mean that something must have happened in Cao Cao's rear and it would be difficult to control the people in Guanzhong for a while.
As we all know, when Cao Cao had no time to manage Guanzhong, Han Sui's biggest enemy was always Ma Teng and his son, and he was even more unwilling to spend his troops to take risks in case of being annexed by Ma Chao.
Humph, if Cao Cao really ran away, I immediately went to Chang'an City to say that I would descend to Yunshan.
Ma Mengqi was brave but not scheming, and this battle had already lost all his morale. It was the time when I completely wiped out and annexed it and took charge of one side to achieve great things.
By then, I will be stronger than Sun and Liu. Why is the Lord of the World not me?
A pure warrior like Ma Chao did not understand Han Sui's thoughts at all. He knew that the strategic position in the Weibei area was extremely important. If he could hurt Cao's army, he would definitely be able to restore his previous reputation and status.
He doesn't have much ambitions, but honor is his life.
Now Cao's army is obviously retreating, and Ma Chao needs to take back everything he has in one battle.
But he was completely unaware that the damage caused by his previous blind command had seriously affected the fighting will of the gentry in the army.
I heard that I was going to cross the river again, but they each subconsciously felt something was wrong, and Fenfen begged the general not to join the war.
Pang De knew that Ma Chao was already at the forefront and even the ten cows he decided could not be brought back, so he could only find Ma Dai to discuss countermeasures with him.
Ma Dai was not known for his wisdom, and the two were in a dilemma. After a long time, Ma Dai slapped his forehead helplessly.
"I, Alas, I'll go there."
"Um?"
"I tried to encounter an ambush and tried to go to the other side to capture a few Cao's soldiers and come back to inquire for a while.
If Cao's thief really retreated, I would even cross the river and kill the thieves with all my life.
If the thief Cao did not retreat, the only one who was hurt was me, Ma Dai."
Pang De nodded slowly with his eyes widened:
“Okay.”
Having said this, Pang De couldn't help feeling sad again.
He became famous at a young age and had always followed Ma Chao's army to fight. He once made great contributions in Yuan Shang's war. The name of Pang De gradually became known to people all over the world.
Pang De also longed to build something, and he needed to follow the wise master. He originally thought that Ma Chao became famous at a young age and was deeply trusted by the Qiang and Hu, and could do something big in the future.
But Ma surpasses the impatient and conceited, brave but not scheming, and is definitely a good player, but it seems that this person's upper limit can only be a powerful general who is trapped in battle to kill the enemy.
Ma Dai took advantage of the night to cross the river. Because someone was indeed not good at commanding the army, Cao's army arranged a small number of camps by the river. Most of the guards surrounded the enemy. Ma Dai easily completed the landing and even crossed all the war horses. With the war horses, Ma Dai immediately fought for high success. He originally wanted to capture a few Cao's soldiers and began to try to attack several strongholds.
Cao's army was caught off guard and could only call for reinforcements. Ma Dai calmly commanded the cavalry and defeated the already few Cao's cavalry one by one, and soon occupied the north of the Wei River.
Ma Chao was very happy and immediately crossed the Wei River. When Han Sui woke up, Ma Chao's soldiers were already on both sides of the Wei River.
"Tell Governor Han that if he doesn't want to come, don't come, see if I kill them without leaving any armor."
Ma Chao, who had been doing humans with his tails in the past few days, finally relaxed the resentment in his chest, and the letters left to Han Sui returned to his former arrogance.
He ruled that the Cao army retreated hastily and left behind the army could not transport a large amount of food for a while, and camel beasts and horses were not easy to cross the river. As long as he defeated Cao's army, his subordinates could plunder and quickly restore morale and reputation.
Weibei is already close to the territory of Qiang and Hu. As long as you grab enough, Ma Chao can quickly recruit a large number of Qiang and Hu soldiers. Then see who dares to look down on me, Ma Chao?
The generals in Guanzhong were stunned and could not believe that Ma Chao crossed the river so smoothly. What was the general behind Cao's army doing? It was dawn. Not only did they not organize soldiers to take back the positions of the Wei River, but they even had the attitude of gathering their troops and preparing to escape together.
Good guy, there are people who fight like this?
The Cao army was forced to leave a large number of troops to retreat in an orderly manner because there were few ferries and the Yellow River freezing in winter and there were too many supplies on its own.
But Ma Chao's men proudly returned that when they heard that Ma Chao's army had crossed the river, Cao's army began to retreat to the Yellow River quickly and completely gave up the Weishui defense line.
Anyone knows the reason why half-cross can be attacked. Before all the cavalry of the Liangzhou Army landed, even if they organized a wave of suicide squads to fight to the death, it would be better than letting the Western Liang army cross all the horses to surround them and massacre them.
"Okay, it turns out that it is Cao Ren behind the palace!" Li Kan learned about the Cao army's guard from the captured Cao army soldiers, and slapped his thighs in distress, feeling that this time he was really a big loss.
Although Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan were famous, they were simply synonymous with cowards in the eyes of the Guanzhong Allied Forces.
Before, they had a large army and easily gave up Chang'an in order not to be surrounded. Now they are in a hurry to escape from Weibei, which should be a very reasonable explanation.
Ma Wanchengyi and others who were replaced felt even more at the loss of their grandma's house.
In the middle of winter, they came out and didn't get anything. They were worried that the Cao army's guards were powerful and afraid of losing their troops. They were waiting and watching behind with the idea of not making a profit than losing money.
But now it has been confirmed that the general of Cao's army is Cao Ren, the timid guy. They immediately forgot their previous little plan, and instead complained that it was Han Sui who stopped them from leaving the army.
"Governor Han, why not have a good talk with General Ma?
This time we raised an army to fight against the Cao bandits in Guanzhong. We were just discussing military affairs before, and we were delayed a little, and we didn’t say it clearly that we would not send troops. It was General Ma who misunderstood!”
"Yes, we are not afraid of Ma Mengqi, but we are afraid of a critical battle. If we don't go to Mengqi, wouldn't it hurt the harmony?"
"Yes, Governor Han should write a letter to persuade Meng Qi."
Han Sui was so angry that his clowns were so angry that his head hurt.
How can you accomplish great things when you are with a group of insects?
Although he wanted to cut off all these people, Han Sui also knew that the soldiers under his command were all plundering. If they were allowed to see Ma Mengqi, they would have to turn against him without much loss but return with a full load.
In desperation, Han Sui had to write a letter to Ma Chao himself, admitting that he had misjudged the situation and hoped that Ma Chao could allow the Guanzhong Allied Forces to cross the river together and attack Cao thieves together.
Who in the world wants to miss the opportunity to hit a dog in the water?
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Hao Zhao's head hurts every day these days.
Chang Diao's marching formations cannot be said to be completely unaware of it, but he was not bad to lead four or five thousand people, and he could not command it even if there were more.
Not to mention anything else, there were as many as 40,000 soldiers behind the palace. If they chose to line up on the north bank of the Wei River, they would immediately hit the head-on when they saw Ma Chao crossing the river. They would never allow Ma Dai's troops with less than 300 men to successfully cross the river, and they would have the courage to launch an attack immediately.
The arrangement of the troops of Chang Diao branch was already very stupid. What's even more stupid is that after hearing that after Ma Chao's army came ashore, he completely ignored Zhuge Qian's request to retake the Weishui defense line, and instead ordered the entire army to quickly retreat to the Yellow River and establish a camp there.
Well, it is commonly known as the backwater array...
What a good guy, the Huaiyin Houliu Formation was to boost morale and fight to the death, but now they are to escape...
When you escape, the enemy will attack immediately, and the army that stays on the shore will definitely cause chaos.
Cao Cao was worried that the rebels would get a lot of military rations and the cattle and horses would grow rapidly, so he left Chang Diao to guard the guard, but now it's fine...
This battle is a big fuck. Hao Zhao can't swim at all. Even if he can swim, he doesn't have the confidence to swim through the cold and frozen Yellow River.
"General advises Military Advisor Chang." Hao Zhao said almost cryingly, "I'm not willing to die. But I don't want to die so cowardly in the Yellow River. If Military Advisor Chang is unwilling to take back Cheng's life, I would like to lead the headquarters to fight to the death and fight with Ma Chao."
Although Zhuge Qian is a loyal fan of Chang Diao, he still thinks Chang Diao is a bit too much this time.
He could clearly see the fear, panic and hesitation on Mr. Chang's face.
Obviously, Junshi Chang was already panicked and now he started to command blindly.
It was related to his own life, Zhuge Qian nodded quickly:
Chapter completed!