Chapter 842: Changed Hexagram Again?
Seeing several Cao soldiers at the head of the city being cut to the ground, from the cold light of the swords and guns, Li Dian saw a very uncoordinated person.
It was a young general in a brocade robe, with a face like a crown of jade, eyebrows like distant mountains, and eyes like stars, looking at him with pity at this time. In the midst of the blood and fire, his brocade robe did not seem to be stained with the slightest stain. He stood on the city wall, his figure was as tall and majestic as the horse-shaped banner, and his clothes fluttered in the wind, as if he were the eternal ruler of a city.
"Ma Chao? Ma Mengqi?! Li Dian roared again, he looked at Ma Chao's figure, and his eyes gradually became confused: This is impossible, Ma Chao himself was not still on the battlefield a hundred miles away before, why did he suddenly return to Lihu City? Moreover, how could he still have soldiers to easily capture this Lihu City, which was holding the throat of Puyang City?!
The soldiers Gan Ning and the single brought to attract and ambush Li Dian were the 3,000 veterans under Lu Bu who had been on the battlefield. Later, the small group of strange soldiers who ambushed Li Dian halfway were the shadows of Ma Chao's less than 200 people.
As for capturing this Lihu City, Ma Chao used only the two thousand recruits who had hardly been on the battlefield. And the reason why he dared to do this was because he knew that under the surprise victory, the defects of recruits who were not good at fighting were already negligible.
In the days before the confrontation with Li Dian, Ma Chao either built siege equipment or built ships. However, at the same time, it seems that in order to prevent Li Dian's sneak attack, Ma Chao also asked his soldiers to dig trenches. But when digging trenches, Ma Chao also dug a lot of big pits near the battlefield.
Subsequently, when they pretended to detour last night, Ma Chao and the two thousand county soldiers hid in the big pit in advance. The pit is covered with oilcloth, and the cloth is covered with loess. The spies under Li Dian who came to check only noticed that the camp was empty, but they did not notice the hidden soldier cave nearby. After Li Dian sent out his troops, Ma Chao took advantage of the negligence and emptiness of the soldiers defending the city from Fox City, and immediately began to attack the city, but the lax defenders were easily defeated by Ma Chao........
When Ma Chao's eyes saw Li Dian, the few remaining Cao Jun were quickly killed. And the 2,000 county soldiers, after seeing the blood, have faded away from cowardice and youthfulness, and have been replaced by crazy and bloodthirsty souls, which can be used to go out of the city to fight Li Dian.
However, Ma Chao looked down at the city and did not satisfy the bloodthirsty requests of those county soldiers. Because he knew that after a night of killing and tyranny, although the county soldiers at this time seemed to be brave, they were actually in a state of paranoia and madness, and it was difficult to order and prohibit them, and then complete a perfect pursuit battle.
What's more, Ma Chao still has to keep Li Dian to complete his next plan.
"Li Dian, go back and tell the two brothers Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan, let them stay in Puyang City honestly, and see how I can use these 5,000 soldiers and horses to capture Puyang City, which is heavily guarded by his troops!" Ma Chao's majestic voice and confident and monstrous momentum slowly entered Li Dian's formation with the morning breeze, making the entire military array seem to tremble faintly.
And after hearing Ma Chao's undoubtedly arrogant and provocative words, Li Dian did not have the slightest excuse. And the soldiers behind him did not have half a bit of anger. The only thing that there is is a panic and uneasy fear - I don't know when, Gan Ning and Shan Qu have already led less than 3,000 soldiers back to Lihu City, and faintly surrounded Li Dian's army that had been shattered.
"Ma Chao, Ma Mengqi ........" Li Dian raised his head, his face was instantly haggard like a centenarian, and his whole eyes were dim: "You are like a ghost and cunning like a fox, today, I am defeated in your hands, let you dispose of it........ it's just these brothers under me......."
"Okay," Ma Chao waved his hand, and Gan Ning and Shan both understood their meaning at the same time and took the initiative to separate a road. Then, Ma Chao said loudly again: "I won't kill you, you can go!" ”
"Ma Chao, you are so ruthless!" Li Dian suddenly understood Ma Chao's intentions, and couldn't help but suddenly raise his head and scolded: "Not to mention that you have defeated our fighting spirit, you also want us to go back to Puyang City." We, the soldiers, after today, how can we not be afraid of your prestige, and in Puyang City, how can we not intentionally or unintentionally say that today's misery is white. As a result, the morale of the entire Puyang City may fall to the bottom! ”
"You used this trick ruthlessly!" Li Dian angrily threw down the spear in his hand, gritted his teeth again and said: "We didn't die at your hands today, after returning to Puyang, maybe we will die under the serious military law of the self-army........ I, I ......."
"Then you want to choose to fight me now?" was exposed by Li Dian's plan in his heart, Ma Chao was not moved at all, but smiled and sneered: "Three times with you, consider, fight or retreat?!" ”
"One!" Without waiting for Li Dian to agree or not, Ma Chao immediately shouted this.
"Two!" Gan Ning licked his lips and clenched the Yuanrong crossbow in his hand. And all Ma Chao's subordinates are already holding knives and arrows, like a group of wolves who have seen a delicious fat sheep........
"Three!" Ma Chao spoke categorically again, the corners of his mouth twitched, and his raised right hand reflected the rising sun, and he was about to split the light!
"General!" The guards beside Li Dian yelled, pushed Li Dian desperately, and shouted in fear: "We can't win, retreat!" ”
"Yes, General! After we returned to Puyang, we didn't say a word! ”
"General, withdraw the troops, in Puyang City, there are still our parents, wives and children! ……..”
Li Dian looked around miserably, and saw that his personal guards no longer had the heart to die, and he didn't know that he had completely lost. Thinking of Ma Chao's horror of seizing Fox City, he looked at Ma Chao for a long time, as if he wanted to imprint Ma Chao in his mind, and finally said miserably: "Ma Chao, I lost, in my lifetime, I hope I will never have to meet an opponent like you again........"
Ma Chao smiled, his right hand changed from splitting to swinging, as if it was still carrying a warm sunshine. However, the strange smile on the corner of his mouth is so ironic.
It's easy to kill a person, but it's hard to kill a person's heart.
And this, Ma Chao did.
After Xiahou Yuan and Cao Xiu, now it is Li Dian, and in the future, all the generals of the Cao family, after hearing his name Ma Mengqi, will not dare to take advantage of his edge, so there is only one Cao Cao, what is there to fear?
Li Dian left, and left at the pitiful time when Xiahou Yuan's reinforcements came to leave Fox City only an hour away. In the face of Xiahou Yuan, who stood proudly in the scorching sun on Lihu City, he no longer had the anger of hatred and madness, but with a kind of compassion that his worries came true, and he didn't even have the idea of attacking the city, so he quietly changed his itinerary and entered Puyang City.
Because any general with military knowledge knows that after leaving the fox, Ma Chao will definitely not let go of Puyang City!
Puyang City is almost the heart of the entire Yanzhou battlefield: when Lu Bu won Puyang, he made Cao Cao miserable. After the grain shortage withdrew from Puyang, Lu Bu ushered in the defeat of Dingtao........
However, just when Gan Ning, Shanqu, and Lu Qiling sat around with great interest, looking at Ma Chao with moving eyes, Ma Chao waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "You don't think that I will really go to Puyang City now, right?" ”
"My lord! (Husband!) The three of them widened their eyes at the same time and asked in disbelief, "You're not joking again, are you?" ”
"I'd like to make a joke, but ........" Ma Chao smiled bitterly again, with a serious look on his face, and said miserably: "Don't sit here, pack up your things, let's go back to Changyi to find Feng Xiangong........"
When Gan Ning, Shanqu, and Lu Qiling heard this, they glanced at each other, and they all saw a message from each other's eyes: It's changed again?!