Ma Chao looked at this helpless siege battle, and his heart was extremely angry.

He saw that the individual abilities of his soldiers were quite good. While protecting the body, the shield can also carry a sack of sand. And it can also run off the moat unscathed, throwing the sand down. And when they came back, they all ran backwards and slowly ran back with shields to protect their bodies......

But the problem lies in the fact that these county soldiers are too strong in their personal ability, and they have no awareness of cooperating with each other in formation, and they are all in charge of their own affairs.

Ma Chao remembered that he had watched a movie before he crossed over, was it called "Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" or "Eight Hundred Warriors"? The round shield in the hands of the Spartan soldier can be arranged into a round shield array, like a turtle shell, tight in front and back, left and back. Inside, however, the javelinmen are always on standby, moving steadily...... If these people can use the shields in their hands to form an airtight formation, then even those crossbowmen on the city wall of Longxi County aim and shoot, they can't hurt the lives of these soldiers. Moreover, the people in the camp are responsible for filling the sand, and the efficiency will be several times higher.

Thinking about it, Ma Chao strengthened his determination in his heart to train the soldiers' formations and cooperate with the training: only those who knew the formations such as Qimen Dunjia in the Shenbu Gate were arranged to be responsible for the formation teaching in the military training hall. There is also Na You Chu, although he is in charge of the Hanqiang Trade Office and the county affairs of Beidi County, and he can't come to Fufeng to teach him personally, he also has to write a book on formation so that middle-level non-commissioned officers can learn and train......

After thinking about it, Ma Chao also felt that this siege battle was really boring, so he planned to collect his troops and come back for dinner. But just when the Ma family had not yet made money, there was a new movement in Longxi County.

After seeing that the ugly brother's sword and shield hands were already a little exhausted, the suspension bridge at the head of Longxi County suddenly shook, creaking and slowly falling, Ma Chao was a little dumbfounded, before he could react, the drawbridge had already fallen with a bang, the city gate was wide open, under the guidance of more than 100 cavalry, the cavalry of Longxi County launched a counterattack, and the sword and shield soldiers who were originally tired of filling the river under the city were caught off guard, and because there was no formation cover, they were cut down on their backs and suffered heavy casualties.

Ma Chao's brain was blank for a while, and his chest was suddenly extremely irritable, he was heartbroken by the thousands of soldiers under the city, and secondly, he was annoyed that his own army was beaten very passively under the cover of absolute firepower!

In particular, these moves of the soldiers of Longxi County are not peerless nirvana, but the bad thing is that he didn't prepare anything in advance, and he doesn't seem to have much to deal with when he is like this: before the attack, send some pikemen to be protected by sword and shield hands and be responsible for filling the river. At this time, when the cavalry rushed out, those pikemen could also resist it. But at the moment, the ugly brother's subordinates are all sword and shield bearers, dealing with the cavalry, and under the collision of the war horse, he has no power to fight back at all.

Ma Chao hurriedly called Jin and ordered Brother Chou's troops to withdraw. At the same time, the ballistas were ordered to suppress the fire on the city wall, so as not to let the mountain-destroying crossbows of Longxi County take advantage of it.

When the cavalry commander of Longxi County tried to rely on the advantages of the troops to outflank the ugly brother from both wings, Pang De, who had been arranged in advance in the rear, also reacted immediately: Just kidding, doing this in front of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry that dominates the world, is it really a dead man for the Ma family's army? Pang De took the lead in leading the front into the battlefield and met the Longxi cavalry from the two flanks of the ugly brother.

I have to say that the combat power of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is indeed better than that of the Longxi Cavalry, and the Javelin was thrown first, which caught the Longxi Cavalry by surprise. Then Yuan Rong's crossbow was powerful, and before he charged in front of the enemy, he beat the number and arrogance of the Longxi cavalry. In particular, Pang De's force value is very high, and he first seconded the commander of the cavalry, and then led his subordinates to crush the past with a wooden breakthrough of one zhang and three feet, which made the soldiers of Longxi County rush and collapse.

But even so, in just a few breaths of time when the Longxi cavalry rushed out, they killed about 500 infantry of Brother Chou, plus the 500 people lost in Nan'an County before, the 2,000 infantry under Brother Chou had already lost one-half.

"Ding...... When ...... "Ma Chao is singing gold here, Longxi County is also starting to sing gold." In this battle, the two sides fought very hard, and they also had a tacit understanding, which can be regarded as pulling the curtain down on this tentative attack.

But in fact, this is just Ma Chao's wishful thinking. Just as Pang De and the ugly brother retreated, Ma Chao suddenly saw a riot behind him. From time to time, I heard the sound of people shouting and neighing, and then I saw the thick smoke rising into the sky.

"That's where a certain army's heavy grain and grass are!" Ma was in a hurry, and hurriedly ordered the entire Xiliang Iron Cavalry to be dispatched, and he also rushed to the rear of the formation first. As far as the eye can see, I saw that there were only about 500 Longxi cavalry who came out of nowhere, burning the grain and grass of the army!

Under the charge of 10,000 people, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves seemed to crush the ground, and the five hundred Longxi cavalry saw that they really provoked the Ma family's army, and immediately lost the torches and blood-stained spears and knives in their hands, and ran away in a smoke......

"Stop chasing, put out the fire!" Ma Chao suddenly ordered: He knew that this cavalry unit was probably ambushed nearby a long time ago. If you weren't afraid of being discovered for a long time, you wouldn't just get this little bit cheap.

In this battle, I lost for a while. At this time, Ma Chao sincerely felt that this war was really not so simple, and he couldn't just give the order to do it just because his head was hot. This time, I am lucky, and I am not stupid enough to go home. And if he threw all his troops into the battlefield after he was in a hurry, then this cavalry of only 500 men might really be able to burn all his grain and grass, make himself lose everything, and finally withdraw to Fufeng in embarrassment.

This battle has reached this point, and Ma Chao's heart has gradually cooled: if the county guard of Longxi County is a straw bag, he may still win; If the morale of the soldiers in Longxi County is low, they may also win; If Longxi City is not high and the walls are not thick, you can win! But the problem is that after this battle, Ma Chao clearly saw that the county guard of Longxi County is quite capable, in addition to the political strategy is not clear, he is quite good in terms of employing people, military literacy training and defending the city, and the quality and ability of the county soldiers under his command are no worse than Ma Jiajun. In addition, the terrain of Longxi County is dangerous and the city is high and the walls are thick, so I am afraid that I will not be able to capture Longxi County in a short period of time.

"Check, check for me! I really can't imagine that there are such a person in Longxi County! "At the military summary meeting in the tent, Ma Chao was furious: his slogan shouted 'Know yourself and know your enemy', but now, I don't even know who the county guard of Longxi County is!

He didn't get angry at these subordinates, to be honest, in today's battle, although he was defeated slightly, the level of his subordinates was normal.

Ma Chao was actually angry at himself at this time, hating himself for being impulsive, allowing more than 700 elite veterans to give their lives in vain in the tentative attack.

And after listening to Ma Chao's big drink, the ugly brother didn't respond positively, he frowned, as if he had been thinking about a question since he entered the door.

"Ugly brother, can't the shadow penetrate Longxi County at all?" Ma Chao saw that the ugly brother did not return his life, held back his anger, and asked the ugly brother.

"Huh? Definitely. If it is said that the deployment of troops and food and grass materials in Longxi County, the shadow may not be able to do anything. But if you only inquire about the resume of the county guard of Longxi County, there is no problem. Within a day, news could arrive. So-and-so was just thinking ......"

"What are you thinking?" Ma Chao wondered, this ugly brother is also using his brain to fight now, this is a good thing!

"Young master, we have carried fifty carts of sandbags, and most of them have been thrown down this afternoon. But I found that the moat in Longxi County barely reacted! ”

The ugly brother's words aroused the interest of everyone in the tent, and the eyes of Ma Chao, Jia Xu, Fa Zheng, and Yang Fu were even brighter: Isn't it stagnant water, but living water?