Ma Chao listened to Lin Yuan's words, and said with great joy: "Since this Gaoping is in charge of the grain and grass of the Longshan defense line, there will be grain and grass in and out on weekdays, either Linjing will send grain to Gaoping, or Gaoping will send grain to the Longshan front."

Ma Dai immediately sent scouts to the vicinity of Gaoping to investigate, and if he saw grain and grass entering and leaving Gaoping, he would immediately report it. ”

Ma Dai smiled: "What, my brother plans to kill the Wei army's sharp qi first?" ”

Ma Chao nodded and said: "Yes, now that General Ling Bao has died in battle, our army's morale is damaged, and the Wei army's morale is high, so I don't want them to be happy." Rest well, we won't have much chance to close our eyes in the future. ”

"Hmm!" The two answered, took some dry food and water, walked to a cool place and sat down, and after eating the dry food, they lay down and closed their eyes to recuperate.

Gaoping is not far from Ma Chao's current resting place, only more than thirty miles, but the scouts did not come back soon, because Gaoping has no food and grass for the time being. It wasn't until two days later that the scout returned, bringing news to Ma Chao.

The scout reported to Ma Chaoyu: "General Qiyu, we saw that there was a grain transport team in Gaoping heading towards Longshan, about 2,000 people, and it had not been half an hour since we left the city. ”

Ma Dai was overjoyed and said: "After waiting for two days, I finally waited for this group of eight lambs." Gaoping is dozens of miles away from Longshan, and they can't go far with grain and grass, brother, let's chase it quickly. ”

"Don't be in a hurry!" Ma Chao waved his hand, took out the map and looked at it.

Ma Dai hurriedly said: "Brother, what are you still hesitating about?" ”

Ma Chao looked at the map for a while, and muttered: "All we brought are cavalry, do you know what the advantage of cavalry is?" ”

Ma Dai said without thinking: "It's speed!" ”

Ma Chao shook his head and said: "It's true that the speed is true, but to give full play to the speed, it is unexpected, we are ordered by His Majesty to come out to carry out this important task, we are most afraid that the enemy will know our location, if the enemy knows our position, it will be inconvenient."

The Hu people on the grassland, why is it so difficult to deal with, that is, we can't find their main force of soldiers and horses, we also have to do this, and give full play to the advantages of the cavalry, to the extent that they are elusive, so that the Wei army can't figure out where we are.

You see, if the Wei army was to deliver grain to Longshan, it would have passed through this road, and from here, there was a path that could be outflanked in front of them. We surrounded them, annihilated them all, burned their food and grass, and then quickly left.

These days the weather is hot and the land is dry, so that the brothers tie the hooves of the war horses to cloth, so that there is no trace of it. The Wei army will not be able to figure out our location, and when the time comes, the Wei army will be worried everywhere, and we are hiding in the shadows, and it will be much easier to succeed. ”

Ma Dai smiled: "Okay, brother, how do you fight!" ”

"The Wei army is a grain transport team, and it can't go far!" Ma Chao pointed to the map and said to Lin Yuan: "The Wei army only has two thousand people, the elite are all in Longshan, and the grain transportation team is mostly recruited people, let's deal with them with one or two thousand people, Ziwei, you lead five hundred heavy cavalry and outflank the Wei army from here." ”

"No!" Lin Yuan gave up his hand.

Ma Chao pointed to the map again and said to Ma Dai: "Ma Dai, you lead 3,000 cavalry here to clean up the traces we have stayed in these days, and then quietly go here to wait for us, remember to clean up the traces on the way." ”

Ma Dai looked at the map and groaned: "This is the direction to Linjing!" ”

Linjing is a stable place of governance, far away from Longshan, is the real meaning of the rear, Chang'an's grain and grass transported to the front, is first transported to Linjing, and then transported from Linjing to the three cities of Gaoping.

Ma Chao sneered: "If you want to intercept the grain road, you can go to Linjing where to intercept the grain, although we came to the rear of Longshan, but here is still the remnant of Longshan, there are too many mountains, and the advantages of the cavalry cannot be brought into play, only when we go to Linjing, can we give full play to our advantages." I dealt with Gaoping's grain transport team just to give the Wei army a dismount. ”

Ma Dai nodded and said, "Okay, I'll deal with the traces here, and I'll wait for you halfway." ”

Ma Chao told again: "Be smart on the road, don't be seen, if you are seen by the people, remember to buy it." ”

"This is located in a war zone, most of the people are gone, and only some landlords have built dock forts to live, so I try to avoid them."

Ma Chao explained to Ma Dai in detail, and then took 1,500 soldiers and horses to the direction of Longshan.

Gaoping is located behind Longshan, the terrain is relatively open, gradually go to Longshan, the terrain gradually becomes steep.

At this moment, a grain transport team of about 2,000 people marched towards the mountain road ahead, with the complex and rugged Longshan Road in front and a relatively wide plain in the rear.

The grain convoy turned an intersection, and suddenly the soldiers at the front were stunned.

I saw that on the road ahead, a cavalry queue was neatly blocking the road, just entering the mountain at this moment, the road was quite wide, there were five or six cavalry in a row, a total of hundreds of horsemen, just blocking the way into the mountain.

"Who are you?" The leader of the grain transportation team was a military marquis, and when he saw that there was suddenly an extra cavalry on the road, he stood up, because the Wei army did not have cavalry in Longshan, let alone such a scale.

It's just that Lin Yuan didn't use the banner of the Han army, and the military marquis didn't know whether this cavalry was friend or foe.

"Who do you say I am?" Lin Yuan snorted coldly, and urged the horse to stab the military marquis of the grain transportation team to death with one shot.

"It's the enemy, run!"

The main force responsible for transporting grain was all people's husbands, only a few dozen soldiers followed, and there was no combat effectiveness at all.

The heavy cavalry rode forward and beheaded all the people and soldiers wherever they went.

"Kill me!"

At this moment, Ma Chao also led his troops to arrive, outflanked the rear of the Wei army, first shot the people who ran over with arrows, and then killed the people with heavy cavalry, but in half an hour, more than 2,000 people, were all annihilated by the Han army, and none of them escaped.

Ma Chao turned over and dismounted, looked at the carts of grain and grass on the ground, and ordered: "Bring some grain and grass, and then burn the rest." ”

"No!" The soldier took the order.

In a few moments, the grain and grass burned, and the smoke and dust rose.

Lin Yuan looked at the burning grain and grass and said with a smile: "These grains and grass also have tens of thousands of stones, which is enough for thousands of soldiers and horses for a few days, and it is enough for the Wei army to feel distressed for a long time." ”

"In a few days, I want to make them more distressed!" Ma Chao sneered and ordered: "The defenders of Longshan have found the smoke and will come over soon, let's hurry up and join Ma Dai." ”

All the cavalry quickly mounted their horses, went to join Ma Dai, and then hurried to Linjing.