Zhang Yang looked down from the high city wall with a gloomy face, and dozens of corpses of Ma Jiajun soldiers lay at the foot of the city. The equipment on these war dead is not bad, with leather armor to protect them, and their weapons also have spears and shields. However, Zhang Yang still frowned: the clothes of these soldiers were very different from those of the Central Plains, and they were tied to their knees and elbows, and they only protected the vital parts of their bodies. Moreover, he has a thick beard, a deep face and a high nose, and he knows the art of war.

Zhang Yang had never seen these troops. What's even more strange is that Ma Chao doesn't seem to feel sorry for this combat force at all, and in a day and a night, this army launched more than a dozen attacks back and forth. Every time, Huaixian is a little stretched, but it is superficial, like a cat playing with a mouse.

Zhang Yang looked up and looked into the distance again, the camp of the Ma army covered the sky and the ground, waving flags, and the momentum was huge. Huaixian County was surrounded by the Ma Family Legion on all sides for a while, and firmly controlled the Quartet Passage of Huaixian County, calm and awe-inspiring. swallowed the arrogance of Huai County, overflowing with words.

What can Zhang Yang do about these? The scouts who should have been sent for help had already been sent before the siege of the Ma family, and he, the Hanoi Taishou, had less than 20,000 combatable soldiers in his hands, and there were only more than 50,000 residents in Huai County. At this time, the Ma family army surrounding the county seat was full of 100,000 people. In addition, I heard that there are still 300,000 troops stationed in Wen County, and they can reach Huai County in the evening.

With the power of the Ma family's army, as long as he pushes lightly, he can knock down this city. As soon as Huaixian County fell, Ma Chao's army could be spread out on the north bank of the Yellow River, gathering into an irresistible defensive line and fighting Yuan Gong in the vast plains. But the strange thing is that Ma Chao on the opposite side seems to be absent-minded, except for the intention of testing the defenders' will to resist yesterday, the main force has been holding still.

Zhang Yang shook his head, his expression suddenly moved, and the sound of a majestic horn sounded in his ears. The entire Ma family military camp was like a sleepy dragon awakened, and after a flip filled with smoke and dust, several columns of squares slowly walked out of the camp with neat steps. Looking at the city from the top of the city, the Ma family army seems to be the nesting ants, and they can't see the edge.

When this situation was like this yesterday, Zhang Yang's heart had been hanging in the air, causing him to not close his eyes at all last night, and seeing such a military situation at this time, he felt that he was really a little unable to resist: "The whole army is ready to defeat the invading enemy, and the Yuan family's army can come to help on the same day!" ”

Fortunately, Huaixian County is not an isolated city, and there are still peripheral trial and matching armies to look forward to. Sadly, the army of the trial has not moved for a long time, and Zhang Yang does not know if the Yuan family has given up Huaixian County, and wants to fight to the death with the Ma family on the good front of Wuzhi.

"Kill!"

Zhang Yang saw Ma Chao's right hand swaying lightly in the distance, casually, as if he was throwing down a few copper plates. However, it was such an action that the two thousand aliens from yesterday rushed up with a shout again.......

Zhang Yang no longer had a trace of crankiness, he shouted loudly to boost the morale of the soldiers at the head of the city, and finally spoke: "Pass my order and mobilize the people in the city to defend the city!" ”

At the same time, Ma Chao straddled the Chitu horse, and felt quite a lot in his heart: since Lu Bu handed over Chitu to Ma Chao, he did not fit in with other war horses for many days, until after the contact in March, Chitu seemed to understand Lu Bu's intentions. began to gradually accept Ma Chao's new owner, yesterday's test ride, Chitu was a little resistant at first, but then the brilliance in his eyes flowed, and he acquiesced to the identity of Ma Chao's new owner.

Of course, such a result is that the elephant dragon Xiaohei bit the red rabbit fiercely. Ma Chao carefully wanted to promote the good horse family, but because of the intervention of his third party, the two horses completely fell into the Cold War period.

"Yan Liang should also be in Huai County soon, right?" Ma Chao stroked the red mane of the red rabbit lightly, and asked Yang Xiu beside him.

"Back to the lord, you can approach the battlefield in the afternoon. It seems that tomorrow should be the day of the decisive battle in Huaixian. Yang Xiu glanced at the memo and replied.

After hearing the news, Chao didn't say anything more, just sighed like this, and said a little off topic: "Twenty-two army, when will it be able to kill it all.......

Large-scale legion decisive battles, the end of the Han Dynasty was not without it. However, the trigger event is very low, and it is not until the time is ripe for revenge or when the time is ripe for that kind of decisive battle. Under normal circumstances, the two sides are defending their own fronts, entangled with each other and attacking, and they cannot win or lose at all for less than a year and a half.

When Xingyang was ashamed of the first war, Gao Gan was forced to fight out of desperation. But after the defeat, the two families tried their best to avoid this kind of large-scale hard defense. First, it is really not technical. Second, it is also because of the simplest truth, it is a pity to lose all the money.

Both families have inexhaustible troops in each other's hands, so they will naturally proceed in an orderly manner. Especially for Yuan Jun, after their defeat, they already knew that the combat strength of the Yuan Jiajun was not at the same level as the Ma Jiajun, so they naturally did not dare to act rashly. In addition, they are still fighting at home, and they can rely on strict defense to consume Ma Chao's military rations, and when the Ma family's army is exhausted, they will fight again.

Therefore, Ma Chao knew that even if Yan Liangzhen came to the rescue of Huai County this time, he would only make a false shot, come to see if the fighter could be used, and at the same time use such a move to let Hanoi Taishou Zhang Yang exhaust the last trace of vitality in Hanoi County, and drag it until the Ma family's army was consumed. After all, the Ma family's 100,000-strong army besieged a small city, and Yan Liang had no power to return to heaven at all.

But for Ma Chao, he had to calculate Yan Liang's support army. Fighting away, the Ma family's food was not effectively guaranteed. Only by relying on the huge rule behind him, he continued to deliver military rations to the front line. Such a long and extremely costly war of attrition was not Ma Chao's original intention. Therefore, he wanted to seize only any opportunity to swallow the Yuan family's vital force, so that the balance of victory gradually tilted in favor of Ma Chao.

At present, it seems that everything is going quite smoothly: the main force of the high-level cadres was defeated, the grain and grass of the Yuan family were raided, and Huaixian also blurted out. As long as the Ma family wins a few more battles, when Yuan Shao's main force really wants to face off with the Ma family, Ma Chao will shrink the defense line, deploy heavy troops in Huai County, and retreat to Chang'an: really give Cao Cao a day job, Ma Chao is not that kind of fool.

War, sometimes a step back, is the biggest offensive. At least, when it comes to paying a heavy price, Ma Chao would rather withdraw from the puzzle, play some tricks behind the scenes, slowly bury the nails, and wait for the other party to make a major mistake, and then strike a thunderous blow!

He is the enemy of the Yuan family, the Cao family, and even the entire Han family, and what he needs is this kind of relaxed wisdom. As for the enmity of Duanmu Ruoyu and the generals of the Ma family, it really needs to be planned and then moved.

This is Ma Chao's thinking after calming down in the past two days.

"Dezu, how many reinforcements did you say Yan Liang could bring this time?" Ma Chao looked at the Parthian Empire mercenaries who had retreated in front of him, and waved his hand slightly, signaling another wave of squads to attack again: There are no troops sent there, and Ma Chao can't directly go all out to capture the bait of Huaixian. But at the same time, it is necessary to create the illusion that the Ma family's army is attacking each other urgently, so the only way to sacrifice these alien cannon fodder troops who are working for money - who let this 30,000 army pay the full amount in advance, they squandered it to the fullest, and they should pay it back with their lives.

"My subordinates are short-sighted, but if I am Yan Liang, the 20,000 pro-unification army under my command is enough to give Zhang Yang hope. If it is more, I am afraid it will be distressing. ”

Ma Chao nodded, the expectation in his heart was also this number. But thinking of the Ma family army that had been ambushed on the road from Wuzhi to Huai County in advance, Ma Chao couldn't help but sigh: "It's too little....... 30,000 Ma family troops under the surprise attack are enough to swallow 50,000 Yuan family troops." Why is it so annoying to judge that person? ”