As the sun began to set, the oppressive atmosphere spread on the battlefield, and the Cao soldiers could not hold back their nervous and irritable mood, and the formation was no longer as strict as it was at the beginning. Cao Cao's confidant general, Cao Hong, galloped back and forth several times between the formations, hoping that Cao Cao would allow his soldiers to sit down and rest. Cao Cao refused several of Cao Hong's requests, and when the sun rose and Cao Cao was dizzy, he ordered all his troops to sit down and rest, and ordered the scout riders to break away from the battle formation and travel ten miles outward to be prepared.

For two hours in the morning, there was no trace of the Liangzhou army, as if the Liangzhou army that had flaunted its might had fled. But Cao Cao knew that Ma Chao would not miss this opportunity, and he must be staring at their military formation like a poisonous snake not far away, waiting for them to relax, and then fiercely open his mouth full of poisonous fangs and bite them.

In the afternoon, after the hottest time, even if Cao Jun's subordinates sat on the ground, they could not bear this boring waiting. Even if I knew in my heart that they were still in danger, standing for two hours and sitting down for two hours would have drained their morale. People's energy is limited, and physical strength is also limited, many people are in the military formation, and some soldiers even sit on the ground and squint and doz...... Not to mention, the warm sunlight shining on the eyelids is a warm red, which is really comfortable!

Cao Cao was anxious in his eyes, but he couldn't stop the soldiers from resting. Even he himself was caught in a terrible struggle, and Cao Cao's reason told him that the most important thing he should do now was to withdraw his troops, and withdraw them before the Liangzhou army approached ten miles away from him for a while and a half, even if it was at the cost of a further decline in the morale of the army, at least to preserve the army.

But at present, he is already in a state of being difficult to ride a tiger, it is easy to withdraw the army, and the morale brought about by the withdrawal of the army is low, and the next time he sends troops out of the city, the soldiers will not be able to maintain strong morale and a decisive mentality.

Besides, Cao Cao still has a very terrible mentality in his heart: What if the Liangzhou army comes back at a moment? Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Time slipped away in this 'wait a minute, wait a minute', and Cao Cao kept missing the best time to withdraw his troops.

Every moment is the best time for Cao's army to withdraw at the moment.

Just when Cao Cao finally couldn't hold back and planned to withdraw the army, more than a dozen small black shadows suddenly appeared on the hillside in the distance, galloping back and forth with flags, although Cao Cao couldn't see the handwriting on those flags clearly, but just a single eye, it made him cold and fried, "Liangzhou people!" ”

Appearing here at this time, who else can there be besides the people of Liangzhou!

The huge military formation was startled by a few vague black shadows on the hillside in the distance, and the soldiers of Cao stood crookedly, some fell asleep and were awakened by fright and suddenly shouted, some were frightened and could not see the front in the formation, thinking that the Liangzhou army was approaching, and there were also indispensable people who fell to the ground because of their legs numbness after sitting for too long, and they were in a mess.

Cao Cao's face was ugly, and the unbearable performance of the soldiers under his command only accounted for a small part, and most of them were that he couldn't see what the Liangzhou army wanted to do. The hillside where the cavalry appeared was about ten miles away, and it could be reached in a few moments at the speed of the Liangzhou cavalry, and the most suitable tactic for the Liangzhou cavalry was to take this opportunity to attack when the Cao army was in turmoil just now, so as to cause an even greater riot.

But the Liangzhou soldiers didn't make any moves, and even those few black shadows disappeared without a trace.

What does the Liangzhou Army want to do?

Fortunately, the scouts of the Cao army did not make Cao Cao wait for too long, and after a while, several horsemen ran back to the formation from all directions, each wounded and obviously they had encountered a tragic battle, and a scout fell down in front of Cao Cao's car through the heavy formation, and said: "General, there are a large number of Yan troops in the east, not the Liangzhou army, and thousands of Yan cavalry are in formation under the banner of horses, fifteen miles apart. ”

Yan Jun? How could there be a Yan army here?

Before Cao Cao could react, the scouts in the north also returned, hugged their fists and said: "General, there are thousands of Liangzhou foot riders in the north, more than ten miles apart, and they are forming a formation. ”

"South, general, there are also in the south, Liangzhou has thousands of horses, more than ten miles apart, and they have formed a formation and are running towards us!"

Cao Cao's eyes widened in astonishment, what were these Liangzhou troops thinking? Even if the soldiers and horses on three sides are counted together, they only look at the crowd, and there is still an estimate, do you really want to take a joint encirclement posture for yourself?

With such a few people, who can be surrounded!

Three army formations of thousands of people, if they want to encircle the huge army of 15,000, it means that their soldiers and horses need to be connected in any direction, the same width as them, and at the same width of the battlefield, the Liangzhou army's formation is much weaker, and what can they use to fight hard with Cao's army?

With a slight stab, the formation will be pierced!

Enemy generals don't even know this, do they?

"Order the Chinese army, prepare to support the front army, and inform the rear army that once the formation of the two wings changes, let them join the army on both wings, and be sure to resist the impact of the Liangzhou cavalry!"

With Cao Cao's order, all the generals in Cao's army received Cao Cao's order and prepared to defend it to the death. Although the war has been going on for more than ten years, the significance of cavalry on the battlefield has become more and more significant, and the cavalry of all princes is generally equipped with chest and face armor to increase the impact of cavalry, but in the really hard military formation, the cavalry formation still cannot occupy an absolute advantage, as long as the infantry in the formation can resist the initial impact of the cavalry, and retain the cavalry to prevent them from exerting their strong athletic ability, the next short-handed combat will inevitably turn into a one-sided state.

Because the cavalry is generally much looser than the infantry, the distance between the two cavalry is enough to be guarded by a group of foot soldiers, even if two are injured and two are killed, one foot soldier will be left to kill them.

At the same time, Ma Chao on the other side of the hill also received a report from the scouts, informing them that Cao's army had set up a formation, and that the front was thick enough on three sides to cope with the attack of their cavalry protruding on three sides.

Ma Chao was very satisfied with this, and said to the herald rider: "In this case, the rest of the matter will be handed over to the leaders of the various departments, Ah Tie, you take the men and horses to stay here, and order the left wing cavalry to make a posture of attacking the enemy army to attract the attention of the Cao army, and after half an hour, no matter what the situation is, you lead the chariot soldiers to rush to the front of the enemy army!" Then lead the headquarters from the rear of the right flank around the battlefield to join my army! ”

Ma Tie immediately received the order, Ma Chao then raised his spear and shouted, and more than 2,000 horsemen of the Ma family moved when they heard the sound and galloped away with Ma Chao to the right flank.

What remained in the Chinese army were 600 Ma cavalry led by Ma Tie and more than 1,000 cavalry drawn from various departments. Behind Ma Tie were four hundred donkey-drawn chariots, snorting uneasily.