Ma Chao's mentality when he saw Cao Zi's banner was first shocked and then rejoiced, but when he came to Cao Cao, he was only frightened.

He doesn't have the intelligence ability of the Yan clan, the most powerful force in the world, like Ma Chao, and he has no way of understanding most of the deployments of the Yan clan, which occupies most of the world, and he won't know where it was Ma Chao who ran to Peiguo, but he also has more advantages, for example, his subordinates can speak Chinese.

With just a few words, he could know that the Yan army that appeared in Fuli was a Liangzhou army that his subordinates had never seen before. Liangzhou Army, a word that was once extremely familiar, is now very unfamiliar to Cao Cao. Since the Yan clan started in the north, including the land of Youji and the people of the Yan Dynasty, the people of Liangzhou seem to have faded out of the world, and the Liangzhou generals who stirred up the storm and ruled the court also died one by one at the hands of Yanbei, and the few remaining Liangzhou soldiers were all under the command of the Yan family.

But the physical characteristics of these Liangzhou people are completely different from those Liangzhou troops.

The Liangzhou army attached to the Yan clan is nothing more than the Huaxiong Department under the command of Qingxu Luyi, and the Nanyang Zhang Xiu Department under Jiang Jin's subordinates in the past, they are not many troops, and there are not many people, even if the two partial divisions are combined in one place, it is only worth more than 10,000 people, not to mention that Zhang Xiu is in full swing in Jingzhou, some time ago I heard that in order to capture Caiyang's subordinates, the Liangzhou cavalry was about to be killed by the Jingzhou army, how did they appear from their east?

Not that way.

From the mouths of the soldiers who escaped from the First Battle of Fuli, even if Cao Cao repeatedly asked cautiously and personally, the answers he got were not the same as the Huaxiong army he imagined.

The Liangzhou army used to be synonymous with the most fierce army in the world, most of them were brave warriors and brave generals, strong and strong, but Liangzhou was poor after all, and the Liangzhou army that entered the Central Plains was in addition to Dong Zhuo's collection of the elite of the imperial court and the huge arsenal of weapons when he was alive, and they were equipped with good armor, and when Li Dao and Guo Yan were in power, this army was weaker than a notch. There is no other reason, the armor and baggage can't keep up.

Judging from the situation of Zhang Xiu's department in the Yan army, Yanbei is equipped with unified armor, and even the color of the uniforms is mostly the same...... Cao Cao is very envious, among the princes who still exist in the world today, only Liu Biao of Jingzhou can be comparable to Yanbei, and only the two of them can equip the army with unified armor and uniform uniforms, not to mention that Yanbei still has a unified coat of arms.

In the past, Cao Cao was able to, since the loss of Yanzhou and then the loss of Chen Guoliang Guo, the baggage of Cao's army has been worse day by day, and those complete armor have naturally become a dream.

Maybe it won't be long before Liu Bei, who hid in Yizhou, also has such an ability. To be honest, this made Cao Cao both envious and jealous, and indignant!

It's infuriating!

However, this Liangzhou wine does not seem to have received the fine tradition of Yan's wealth at all.

From the mouths of the defeated soldiers who fled back from the battlefield, the short exchanges, fierce battles, and chaotic dreams outlined an army completely different from the Liangzhou soldiers of the Yan clan, and each soldier who fled back said one-sided words, such as long-haired wild horses, fur coats, rusty ring knives and terrifying spears that hit and died!

What kind of army is this?

These descriptions are very similar to the appearance of the high-flying and domineering Dong Zhuo and his Liangzhou army recklessly breaking into Luoyang many years ago, but that formidable army is long gone!

Cao Cao looked at the broken spear offered by his subordinates on the desk, and was silent for a long time.

The spearhead was black and smooth, reflecting the light and shadow of the candle flame in the room, light and sharp, and even with a sense of toughness. The spear shaft is unremarkable, but the problem lies in this black spearhead...... This is not iron, and the stone has no toughness.

This is a bone spear, a spear made of yak horns.

Cao Cao really didn't believe that Yanbei's army would have such an armament, this was not a weapon that the princes of Youzhou could take out, unless he recruited an army from the Xiliang Snow Mountain, and then sent that army to Xuzhou at a distance, and then outflanked Peiguo...... But is this possible?

If Yanbei knew Cao Cao's thoughts, he would definitely laugh and tell Cao Cao firmly: Maybe!

That's right, Yanbei recruited Ma Chao, Ma Chao took the Burning Dangqiang, Baimaqiang, and Shenwolf Qiang who settled on the Xiliang Snow Mountain to the Central Plains, and then was sent to Xuzhou by Yanbei to seek near and far, and was driven by the indignant Ma Chao from Xiapi to Peiguo and completed the unexpected encirclement of Cao Cao with Zhang Liao and others.

There's nothing wrong with that.

In any case, for Cao Cao, the most important thing at the moment is to send scouts to find out the situation of the Liangzhou army stationed in Fuli, the so-called knowing oneself and knowing that the other side will not be defeated in a hundred battles, and now he can't even see a fart when he looks at the broken spear, even if he has all kinds of talents.

Intelligence, he needs more intelligence.

Is this a coincidence?

The Liangzhou scouts and the Cao scouts collided again at the junction of the two counties at night, and there was no big army to fight, and the two unclear scouts started a bloody battle on the ridges, in the wheat fields, in the woods, and beside the official road.

Neither of them could find out the truth of the other, and they ran into scouts with the same mission before they could clearly understand the information of the other side, and some of them made it back to the city alive, while others fell forever on the side of the road, and no one knew when they would be freed.

This situation was sent to occupy Cao Cao's desk in Qi County the next day, which made him frown, and the scouts could not break through the defenses of these Liangzhou soldiers overnight, and they could not go deep into Fu Li to find out the truth and truth, not to mention that this kind of intelligence spy was too difficult for his subordinates' morale decaying soldiers.

As far as the scouts can see, most of the enemy troops are Liangzhou Qiangdi, their faces are different from those of the Central Plains, and their living habits are very different, even if they have the ability to blend in, they can't find the slightest intelligence, let alone ...... On the battlefield last night, they couldn't understand what the enemy was saying.

I'm afraid that even if you touch the enemy camp, the situation will be the same, the language barrier is more difficult than anything else, and there is no basis for bribery!

The same news was heard by Ma Chao, who got up to practice swords, but surprise suddenly appeared on his face. The ape's arms stretched down, clenched his fists and said with a smile: "In this way, what are you still cowering in, send an order to go down to the army and pull out the camp, don't care about Qi County, General Xu behind the message asked him to do a good job of guarding the grain road, and Ma took you to besiege Qi County!" ”

As soon as he knew that Cao Cao also sent out scouts, Ma Chao was happy.

He sent scouts because he wanted to know about Cao's deployment in Qi County, such as how many soldiers and horses were deployed to defend the camp, but Cao Cao's reason for sending scouts was definitely different from his...... Cao Cao, most of the time, wanted to know who he was and knew everything about him.

In other words, Cao Cao knew nothing about him.

Isn't this the best situation in war? At this time, there is no need to think about testing each other, jumping up and beating him all over the ground to find teeth!