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After a moment, a young man hurried into the tent under the leadership of the guard and knelt down to salute, "The villain greets the prime minister."

The young man is Yang Fuzhi, the governor of Tianshui County, and his name is Yang Tao. He came to see Cao Cao on his father's order. Cao Cao smiled and waved his hand, "Yang Gong is exempted from gifts."

Yang Tao stood up, took out Yang Fu's letter and presented it to Cao Cao, "This is my father's letter to the Prime Minister."

In fact, Yang Fu and Cao Cao had been secretly interacting, so Cao Cao knew the situation in the city well. He took the letter and looked at it, and smiled and said, "It turns out that the food in the city is only enough, is Ma Chao not in a hurry?"

"Report to the Prime Minister, just as the villain left the city, Ma Chao was summoning the army to prepare to leave the city, so his father urgently ordered the villain to come and send a letter to the Prime Minister."

"Oh, is the horse going to run?"

Cao Cao suddenly became interested and asked again: "Is all the troops leaving the city?"

Yang Tao shook his head, "It's just Ma Chao and Ma Dai, Pang De still led his army to defend the city."

Cao Cao pondered for a moment and suddenly burst into laughter, "It turns out that the horse wants to rob me of food and grass, it's a good thing."

Cao Zhi next to him whispered: "Father, maybe Ma Chao is going to abandon the city and run away."

Cao Cao shook his head, "They don't have cavalry, so it's impossible to escape. My cavalry can catch up with them overnight. Ma Chao will not give up the city easily. If the food and grass are to be cut off, they will definitely go out to rob me of food."

Speaking of this, Cao Cao stood up and smiled coldly with his hands behind his back, "Then let them do it, I'm looking forward to it."

In the night, Ma Chao and Ma Dai led a thousand troops to ambush in a forest. A few dozen steps ahead was the official road leading to Cao's camp. According to his scouts, every night at about one update, there will always be a convoy of mule carriages delivering food passing by here and heading to Cao's camp.

Ma Dai whispered to Ma Chao: "Brother, the convoy is very important to us. Should you tell your brothers not to hurt the livestock?"

Ma Chao nodded, "Yes, go and give orders."

Ma Dai turned around and Ma Chao looked at Cao's camp more than ten miles away. He could vaguely see a little light. A strong murderous intent suddenly emerged in his eyes. He wanted to give him the great humiliation that Cao Cao brought him ten times.

At this time, not far from the official road, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang each led 10,000 people to surround the woods where Ma Chao was located from east to west. A young tooth general beside Zhang Liao whispered: "General, Ma Chao has many Qianghu under him. I can speak the words of Qiang people. You can pretend to be Ma Chao and ask Pang De for help and lead Pang De out of the city."

Zhang Liao was overjoyed and patted his shoulder heavily, "If this trick is done, I will report to the Prime Minister to reward you very much."

"I'll go first."

Zhang Liao immediately found dozens of people, pretended to be Qianghu with this general, and ran towards Jicheng...

On the official road, a convoy of about five mule carts was slowly coming along the official road with food and grass. The food and grass were covered with oil cloth and sparse cavalry guards on both sides.

The convoy was walking very slowly, and there was a big flag on the first big cart, with a big word written on it, but it was impossible to see clearly in the dark night.

The Ma Chao army in the woods stared at the convoy on the official road with all concentration, not realizing that they were surrounded. Seeing that the time was ripe, Ma Chao shouted, "Run up"

A shout erupted in the woods, and thousands of soldiers rushed out of the woods and rushed towards the grain convoy fifty steps away like a tide. The rushing army did not use bows and arrows, for fear of shooting the mules and horses that transported the grain to death, so that they could not move the food away.

The few cavalry guarding the food truck were panicked and hid behind the food. The soldiers were getting closer and closer, only ten steps...

Even though it was night, Ma Chao could clearly see the grain bags on the carriage, covered under a thick oil cloth. He seemed to see the neatly packed bags of grain, which was the source of his dream life and the foundation of his comeback. Ma Chao shouted excitedly: "Seize the grain."

But at this moment, the oil cloth on the grain truck suddenly opened, and there were not bags of grain below, but groups of crossbow soldiers half kneeling on the big truck. There were five people on each truck, each with a crossbow, and the strings were put on it, and they stood by their crossbow bows flat, and the cold crossbow arrows aimed at the rushing Ma Chao's army.

Without waiting for the order, the oil cloth was lifted and the order of shooting was to be fired. Only a crackling crossbow was heard. The dense crossbow arrows roared at Ma Chao's army ten steps away. The soldiers rushing over were caught off guard and were shot down a large area. Even Ma Chao's helmet was shot by an arrow. He called the arrow and kept retreating.

The soldiers rushed up were in chaos. As the second round of dense arrows shot, Ma Chao's army suffered more casualties, and the soldiers turned around and ran into the woods.

At this time, everyone understood that they were fooled, without food, but Cao's ambush. The fear of falling into an ambush caused the army's fighting spirit and morale to collapse quickly.

Suddenly shouting killing sounds on both sides of the woods shook the sky, as if there were enemies from all directions. Ma Dai rushed over and shouted to Ma Chao: "Brother, we are surrounded, and Cao's army is everywhere."

Ma Chao's face was extremely pale, and he clenched his fists, as if fire was spurting out of his eyes. He suddenly turned his head and stared at the food and said coldly: "There is a gap that can be rushed out."

He shouted, "When you want to live, follow me."

He turned his horse's head and waved his spear to kill the grain cart. He realized that there must be no ambush on the other side of the grain cart. Unfortunately, the dense arrows made the soldiers unwilling to turn back. Only Ma Dai led more than one of Ma Chao's personal guards and cavalry to follow Ma Chao closely. They killed a bloody man and ran towards the dark south. There were indeed no ambush on the Cao army on that side.

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After Ma Chao left the city, Pang De kept standing on the city wall and looking worriedly at the east. He knew that Cao Cao was extremely cunning and was famous for robbing the enemy's food route. Will Cao Cao give them this opportunity?

But it was pitch black outside. Except for the lights in Cao's military camp, you could not see anything else. Pang De secretly regretted it. He had known that he would have persuaded Ma Chao not to rob the grain.

At this moment, the sparse sound of horse hooves came from the dark night. Pang De quickly walked to the city wall and stared nervously outside the city.

Soon, more than a dozen black shadows appeared outside the city, one of whom was riding a horse and was running under the city gate. The defenders saw clearly that there were more than a dozen Qiang and Hu soldiers, and many of them were injured. They only heard the person shouting: "General Pang can be here."

It is the Qianghu language, which is the common language in Ma Chao's army. Pang De held the battlement and asked, "I am Pang De, who are you?"

"Weizhi is a subordinate of General Ma. I will tell General Pang that General Ma was ambushed and surrounded by Cao's army. The situation is critical."

Pang De was shocked and hurriedly said, "You come to the city to report."

He shouted in Qianghu language for the soldiers: "We are going back to our hometown and don't want to die in a foreign land. We just told General Pang by the way, please take care of the general."

The soldiers refused to enter the city and turned around and fled northwest. Ponder hurriedly shouted: "Where are you surrounded?"

"On the official road east of Cao's army" the cry of deserters came from afar, and they disappeared.

Pang De was so angry that he punched the battlement hard and cursed: "These bastards"

At this time, the county magistrate Yang Fu hurried forward and said, "General Pang, I guess this matter is true. Cao Cao is extremely cunning. The governor must have been trapped. I am willing to lead troops to rescue."

Pang De sighed, "You are an official, how can you lead troops to save you and guard the city? I will lead the army to rescue you."

Pound turned around and shouted: "The army quickly gathered and followed me out of the city."

A quarter of an hour later, Pang De led two thousand soldiers out of the city gate and headed northeast of Cao's camp. Yang Fu looked at them and couldn't help but sneer.

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Pang De led his army to run less than ten miles and met Ma Chao and Ma Dai. Only more than ten subordinates were left behind.

Ma Chao breathed a sigh of relief from the support of the new force, but he was also a little surprised that there were soldiers who escaped from the siege and rushed back to Jicheng before him. No matter how he thought about it, he felt it was impossible, which made him puzzled.

At this time, Ma Dai felt that the pursuers had arrived and hurriedly urged: "Brother, let's go back to the city first."

Ma Chao nodded and turned around and said, "Go back to Jicheng quickly."

The army rushed towards Jicheng quickly. Half an hour later, Ma Chao led his army to the city, raised his head and shouted: "Open the door quickly in the city."

The fire suddenly rose on the top of the city, and Yang Fu shouted in the fire: "Ma Chao, I have surrendered to the Prime Minister, you go."

Ma Chao was shocked and urged Ma to come forward and sternly: "Yang Fu, I treat you very well, why do you betray me?"

"snort"

Yang Fu snorted heavily and sneered: "What's the point of being thin? Wei Shou loves the people, but you killed his whole family, seized the people's food, indulged soldiers insulting their wives and daughters. Jicheng's surname wished that he could peel your skin and eat your meat. I, Yang Fu, endured humiliation and was waiting for this day."

Ma Chao was furious and ordered his subordinates to attack the city. Yang Fu's accomplices Zhao Ang, Yin Feng and other generals led their troops to shoot arrows downwards. The arrows were like rain, making Ma Chao's army unable to approach. At this moment, there was a loud drum sound behind him. Zhang Liao and Xu Huang led their troops to attack. Ma Chao had no choice but to lead his troops around the city and retreat southwest.

As soon as he escaped, drums suddenly sounded loudly on both sides of the woods, and fires rose everywhere. Tens of thousands of Cao's ambushed soldiers rushed out from both sides of the woods. In the fires, Cao Cao burst into laughter, "The horse is not dead yet."

Ma Chao was completely indifferent and turned to Ma Dai and Pang De and said, "If the two brothers want to surrender, I will not stop them, and I can only fight to the end."

Pang De said angrily: "What is the governor's words? We live and die together. The governor wants to fight to the death, how can we live alone?"

Ma Dai also advised: "Brother, don't be desperate. When fighting at night, Cao's army is also unfavorable, and there are not many troops. If we fight to the death, we may be able to break through."

Ma Chao nodded, "Zhao Yun can still break through alone among more than 100,000 troops. How can I, Ma Mengqi, fall behind?"

He waved his spear and shouted, "Brothers, break through with me."

"Kill"

Thousands of soldiers and Ma Chao rushed towards Cao's army. Cao Cao immediately ordered that those who captured Ma Chao alive would be granted the title of Marquis and rewarded the number of gold. Those who received Ma Chao would be promoted to two levels and rewarded the hardware.

Under the heavy reward, Cao's army came from all over the world, but Ma Chao, Pang De and Ma Dai people relied on their brave martial arts and the horse under their crotch to break out of the siege. The rest of the soldiers had no hope of breaking through and surrendered.

Cao Cao saw Ma Chao breaking through and leaving, and he felt very angry, but he had no choice but to let Cao Hong lead a thousand cavalry to chase Ma Chao. He immediately ordered: "Return to the army in Jicheng."

Cao's army returned to Jicheng. At this time, the gate of Jicheng opened. Yang Fu brought Zhao Ang, Yin Feng and others to greet him, knelt down and cried, "Ma Chao killed Shou, we have endured humiliation until now, and we finally hope that the Prime Minister will arrive."

Cao Cao comforted them a few words and appointed Yang Fu as the Marquis of Guannei and the Governor of Tianshui County. He also appointed Zhao Ang, Yin Feng and others as Sima of other departments, stationed in Jieting and other northern fortresses. Cao Cao asked again: "Ma Chao's family can be there."

"Report to the Prime Minister, Ma Chao's two sons have died in the chaos, and his wife committed suicide. Ma Chao hated Wei Shou for not being able to protect his wife and children, so he killed Wei Shou's entire family."

Cao Cao nodded, and this was also a report back and forth. At this time, Zhang Liao led the young general to step forward and said, "Report to the Prime Minister, it was this general who deceived Pang De's army and eventually wiped out Ma Chao's entire army."

Yajiang stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and said, "I will meet the Prime Minister in the end."

Cao Cao nodded, "What's your name? Where's the person?"

"Report to the Prime Minister, the last general's name is Wang Ping, a native of Ba County, Yizhou."

Cao Cao was stunned. He was actually from Ba County. He felt a little displeased and his tone became cold, "Since he is from Ba County, Yizhou, how could he be in my army?"

"The last general left his hometown five years ago and originally wanted to join Liu Zhang, but Liu Zhang refused to accept it. The last general had to go north to assist and surrender Zhong. He suppressed bandits in Longxi area for many years and promoted him to generals of the ranks."

"Well, you made a contribution this time, I should give you a great reward. Come and give you two golds to General Wang."

Wang Pingyidai, Zhao Ang, Yin Feng and others have not made much contribution, and they can all be granted Sima from other departments. They risked to deceive Pang De and attracted the main force of Cao's army in time. They actually only rewarded two golds. Why did the Prime Minister favor him and be inferior to him?

Although he was a little dissatisfied, he did not dare to say much, so he had to thank the champion and retreat. Zhang Liao next to him sighed secretly. He knew what the problem was that Wang Ping was born in Ba County, Yizhou, and he didn't need such a talented prime minister. It was a pity that he could only find another opportunity to plead for Wang Ping in the future.
Chapter completed!