Although Jia Xu did not know Zhuge Liang, because Xu Shu spread Zhuge Liang so amazingly that Liu Bei did not enter Xiangyang City. In his opinion, this was Zhuge Liang's plan to set up an ambush in Xiangyang City.

Fortunately, Jia Xu didn't expect a plan to work. He had already regarded Zhuge Liang as a evenly matched opponent, and his subsequent plans became more cautious.

With Jia Xu's ability and the increasingly clear situation, it is not difficult to make Liu Bei's next move. He spent a lot of effort in advance to secretly move the 800 tiger and leopard cavalry to Changbanpo.

Sure enough, Liu Bei avoided the first day of the lunar month, but could not escape the fifteenth! The tiger and leopard cavalry launched an attack in the middle of the night in Changbanpo, killing Liu Bei's army.

But man's calculations are not as good as God's calculations. Although sneak attacks caused great damage to Liu Bei's army, most of them were ordinary people and ordinary soldiers for no reason, and all the slightly more important figures were missing.

After Jia Xu made up his plan, he did not follow him, but followed Xiahou Dun to Wancheng, preparing to deal with the changes in Xiliang, which was his familiar hometown.

Jia Xu left quietly, mainly because he didn't want to be greedy for merit, but he didn't want to take the blame! He was also very impressed by Liu Bei's super powerful escape ability, and felt that this Changbanpo ambush might not be able to knock him down!

As expected, even under the raid of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, Liu Bei escaped unscathed and jumped out of the encirclement of Cao's army overnight, leaving behind ordinary soldiers and ordinary people.

Zhang Fei blocked Changbanqiao alone. Seeing Cao's army retreating, he was bluffing and naturally did not dare to pursue him. Looking at Cao Cao's dark army, even Zhang Fei was a little nervous and couldn't help but feel relieved.

Zhang Fei quickly called back the more than twenty riders in the woods, removed the ponytail branches, and ordered the bridge to be broken. Then he returned to his horse and wanted to leave, but saw a man and a rider coming towards him.

Zhang Fei looked closely and found that he was Ma Su, a close friend who had been separated for a long time.

He was overjoyed and rode over and asked, "When will Youchang come here? I miss my brother!"

When Ma Su saw Zhang Fei's happy expression and tired expression, he felt a little apologized, because he knew that Liu Bei would be defeated in Changbanpo, but he still couldn't tell them in advance, because Ma Su himself could not be sure.

Although it could not be disclosed in advance, Ma Su still made preparations in advance.

When he started training cavalry and pitching guns, he was already preparing for what he was doing today. After careful consideration, he decided to make this response.

Not everyone can learn to throw a gun. In addition to throwing enough distance, it also requires good accuracy.

There are not many private soldiers of the Ma Su family who can throw guns twenty feet away, almost half of them, but if they need to add accurate heads, only 20%.

If you use a gun to break the cavalry, if you don’t have a correct head, and if you can’t form a large scale, it will have no effect at all!

The two instructors Gong Li and Tian Shi knew from their usual chat that Ma Su would use his gun to break the cavalry, but the number of gunmen was too small. They also looked forward to the gunmen they trained to fight with the cavalry.

Gong Li thought of the partners they were hunting together, and discussed with Tian Shiyi and proposed to Ma Su that he would go back to the tribe to recruit some gunmen.

Ma Su was naturally overjoyed and brought a letter to the third brother, Ma Shuchang, to collect the recruitment fee.

Gong Li and Tian Shi recruited hundreds of accurate gunners in his tribe with generous treatment that Uncle Ma often gave him. In this way, there were more than a thousand gunners, which could play a certain role.

Ma Su was preparing to join Liu Bei's group at the most difficult time after Cao Cao's southern expedition. This timely help should be reused by Liu Bei.

Therefore, he was very careful about the movements in Jingzhou. In addition to asking the fourth brother Ma Liang to provide information at any time, he also sent several scouts to inquire and pass on the news in Xiangyang.

After receiving the news of Liu Biao's death, Ma Su thought about it over and over again, thinking that the family's safety was the first priority in the chaos. He left most of the private soldiers to protect the family's safety.

The army he took away was the more than 100 elite cavalry and more than 1,000 gunmen, who went to Xiangyang to prepare to meet with Liu Bei.

But because Ma Su was already vague about the war, he did not expect that Liu Bei's voluntary retreat was so fast that when his scout arrived in Xiangyang, Liu Bei had been walking to Jiangling for several days.

It was not difficult to chase after Liu Bei knew that Liu Bei was taking the people with him, but Cao Cao's army was already chasing him urgently, with scouts everywhere, and Ma Su's troops could not march.

Ma Su knew that once Cao Cao discovered his small army, he could only take two ways to surrender and be killed, so he could only think of another way.

Fortunately, Ma Su is no longer a talk on paper. When he is training private soldiers, he often trains in the wild and often goes out to inspect the terrain on the spot. He knows that there is another road leading to Changbanpo.

Although the journey is much longer, this road is relatively remote and should not be discovered by Cao Cao. Moreover, because Ma Su's army is well-trained, it is not difficult to march on this road.

Ma Su made a quick decision and led the army to take a small road to Changbanpo, which was quite smooth.

There is still a fork in this road to Jiangling, which is more than a hundred miles closer than the detour from Changbanpo, but Ma Su did not dare to take a shortcut to Jiangling and Liu Bei.

Because in his memory in his dream, Liu Bei was unable to retreat to Jiangling after retreating in Changbanpo.

With just over a thousand men, his troops were founded in Wuming and wanted to conquer Jiangling, who was heavily guarded with abundant food and military resources, was a joke!

If Cao Cao or Liu Bei led his troops there, they could be decided by a decree because of their prestige and status.

Ma Su led his army to Changbanpo without hesitation, and happened to meet Zhang Fei asking his subordinates to drag the branches to carry out a suspicious plan.

He saw that the opportunity was rare and did not alarm everyone. He commanded the troops to ambush on a key road by the Dangyang River.

After greeting Zhang Fei, Ma Su asked Zhang Fei to retreat first, and he wanted to break the rear instead of Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei saw only Ma Su and did not know his ambush, so he naturally disagreed with Ma Su's severance and told the story of the broken bridge. The implication was that Cao Cao would not be able to catch up for a while.

Ma Su said, "Isn't General Zhang a trick to lure the enemy? After Cao Cao saw you broken the bridge, he thought you were guilty and would soon build a bridge across the river and chase him without any scruples, just in time for an ambush!"

Zhang Fei shook his head and said, "I am really afraid that he will catch up, so I broke the bridge to stop it. Although it may not work, it can still gain some time. If I have a thousand elite soldiers, I can hit him a beautiful ambush, but I only have more than twenty cavalry, so I have the will but not enough strength!"

Ma Su said: "I came to join General Zhang this time, but it was not a single horse. I brought most of the soldiers of the family, and there were more than 1,000 infantry and cavalry. Seeing General Zhang alone stop Cao Cao's army by himself, I was ready to ambush."
Chapter completed!