The vast grassland, boundless.

Whether it's playing a mouse being chased by a cat, or playing a cat that plays a banter mouse. This grassland can be regarded as an impeccable venue.

Three days later, Yan Xing no longer had the same leisurely and proud look as he had at the beginning, and had already begun to let his subordinates start to divide their troops.

These three days were the three days that Yan Xing was hit hard. Ma Chao's 5,000 elite horsemen, before they met Yan Xing, were one person and two horses. Obviously, they had expected that the Qiang would retaliate, and they had prepared a rogue posture for escape in advance. In the next three days, Ma Chao sometimes divided his troops to disrupt Yan Xing's judgment, sometimes harassed in small groups in the middle of the night, and sometimes put on a posture of decisive battle, but turned around and fled when Yan Xing launched a charge.

The only siege was when Ma Chao was chasing the horse's hoof prints by Yan Xing when he was on the first march after the rain.

At that time, Yan Xing's tens of millions of troops had actually completely surrounded Ma Chao's troops, and the east, west, and south were clamoring to cover up, while the north deliberately did not move. According to Yan Xing's many years of experience, Ma Chao, who was only fifteen years old, definitely broke through to the north, but Ma Chao seemed to see through Yan Xing's plan at a glance, and he was stunned to lead five thousand iron horsemen to fight a bloody way from the relatively fragile Heishui Qiang Division and escape to ascend to heaven. That time, Yan Xing couldn't wait to cut off the head of the leader of the Black Water Qiang!

The next few times, as the weather gradually cleared, the trail was no longer easy to trace. Ma Chao seems to have gradually become smart and bold, not only is his whereabouts becoming more and more elusive, but he has even harassed and provoked Yan Xing's army more than once.

Ma Chao is like a mouse who has eaten an aphrodisiac, bites the cat when he gets the opportunity, and then immediately flees thousands of miles before the cat reacts, making the cat angry but helpless.

Finally, today, Yan Xing has given up his plan to kill Ma Chao with a large army of military horses, and plans to divide his troops to intercept Ma Chao. Of course, Yan Xing's division of troops was also very cautious, and he divided his troops into four teams, each of which had more than four times the number of Ma Chao. In Yan Xing's opinion, no matter how cunning Ma Chao is, as long as he is entangled by one of them, and then the three troops are quickly outflanked from everywhere, it will definitely make Ma Chao unable to escape!

"The three leaders, Ma Chao is as cunning as a fox, and there are many tribes on the grassland that protect Ma Chao. Our troops are divided into four routes, remember not to fight alone, always keep in touch with the horses, and once you find the traces of Ma Chao, immediately notify the other three to come and besiege and kill! ”

"No!" In the past three days, Yan Xing was not completely without gains, at least, after these three days, the leaders of the three Qiang tribes fully recognized Yan Xing's military talents. At this time, Yan Xing ordered down, and none of the three of them rebelled.

At this time, Ma Chao, who was hundreds of miles away, was also not easy.

The previous heavy rain made Ma Chao have no way to eliminate his tracks, although Ma Chao successfully broke through that time, but also lost more than 1,000 people, and then Yan Xing, who was embarrassed and angry, forced and doubled day and night, making Ma Chao tired. If it weren't for Ma Chao inheriting the cavalry skills of the Xiliang Zhijin in history, coupled with his courage and carefulness, he would 'advance and retreat, I will chase the enemy when he retreats, the enemy will be stationed in me to disturb, and the enemy will be tired and I will fight!' The essence of guerrilla warfare in 16 characters has been fully interpreted, and I am afraid that I have long since died in the siege of the army.

But even so, Ma Chao can't hold on to such a war of attrition, not to mention that Yan Xing has a home advantage, which can be easily supplied. Let's just say that this gap in numbers makes Ma Chao unable to see the possibility of winning at all.

Therefore, when the scouts reported the news ahead, Ma Chao felt a little loose in his heart.

"Young master, five miles ahead, to the east is our road back to Han, and to the west, is the camp of the Huangyangqiang tribe. In a radius of 100 miles, no trace of the enemy has been found. The scout hadn't quoted a drop of water for more than half a day, and there was already a lot of blistering on his chapped lips. However, although his expression was tired and haggard, his eyes still flashed with an indestructible battle intent.

"Well, that's good, there's some water here, you can drink it first." Ma Chao reached out and untied his sheepskin bag and handed it to the scout.

"Young master, I'm not thirsty......" The scout didn't take Ma Chao's water bladder, and obviously lied and replied.

"If I let you drink it, you can drink it, and this time in the negotiation with the Tieqiang Alliance, it is all thanks to you to find out your whereabouts in advance regardless of life and death. If you don't drink water, how can you be our eyes! Ma Chao feigned anger, and when he said these words hoarsely, his throat hurt like a knife. After all, he hadn't drunk water in two days.

The scout took the water bladder, and after only taking a small sip, he handed the water bladder to Ma Chao: "Young master, you can also drink some to moisten your throat." ”

Ma Chao clearly saw that the scout's eyes flashed with a kind of 'death for the confidant' without regret. Under the feeling of emotion, Ma Chao also took a small sip of water, and slowly let the coolness slowly slide into his throat before discussing with Pang De beside him: "Ling Ming, according to your opinion, how should we choose?" ”

"Young master, at this moment, there is no trace of the enemy in a radius of a hundred miles, which means that the enemy will not catch up with us for at least a day. At this time, it is time to return to Han and go straight to Fufeng. Pound was also tired at this time, and his face was also sculpted again by the wind on the grassland in the past few days, which made Pound more cold and resolute. At this time, when he heard Ma Chao's question, he expressed his opinion without the slightest hesitation.

"And what if I decide to march west?" A sly smile appeared on Ma Chao's face, and he asked rhetorically.

"The West? The West is the Huangyangqiang tribe! Pang De was immediately shocked by Ma Chao's question, and shouted despite the pain in his throat.

"You all think going north is a dead end?" Ma Chao asked again.

"Hmm." Pound nodded back.

"That's right!" Ma Chao clapped his palms together and said he: "I expect Yan Xing to think the same, there is no trace of Yan Xing within a radius of 100 miles, so it doesn't mean that Yan Xing is not waiting for us on the Handi Avenue 100 miles away!" ”

"Pound."

"Yes."

"Order you to lead 2,000 people to go straight to the Huangyangqiang tribe to ambush, and when our army attacks and kills the Huangyangqiang tribe, lead the army to cover the killing."

"No!" Pound still doesn't understand Ma Chao's intentions at this time? I only feel that my young master is really a military wizard, and he dares to take the wrong way with such a sword!

"The rest of the people, wait for me, go west with me, and rest on the spot before dark."

It's a big gamble!

Ma Chao gambled, that is, Yan Xing was smart enough and ruthless enough!

Through the fighting in the past few days, Ma Chao has deeply understood Yan Xing's skills, and gradually understood some of Yan Xing's personality traits.

At the beginning, Yan Xing set up a plan to encircle three and lack one, and it can be seen that Yan Xing is a very scheming general. At this time, although Yan Xing couldn't figure out his position, he would be waiting for the rabbit on the road back to Han Land. And if Ma Chao chooses to move eastward, not to mention ironclad, he will definitely let Yan Xing wait for work. Let's just say that I escaped back to Fufeng by luck, so what should I do after that? Let Yan Xing lead 70,000 troops to Fufeng County?

No, that's definitely not the result that Ma Chao wants!

Since he has captured Fufeng County, he must ensure that Fufeng County is far away from the war from now on, so that the people of Fufeng County believe that the Xiliang Ma family has the ability to protect Fufeng County from being poisoned by the war, so as to win the hearts of the people of Fufeng County, and then to carry out their development plans step by step.

Therefore, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, I prefer to go to the tiger mountains. is Ma Chao's only choice!