Chapter 380: Playing tricks to catch turtles in the urn
Ma Chao took three thousand cavalrymen and set off from the Zi family, crossed Jiexiu, crossed Qi County, and ran to Yangyi in one breath, which was only eighty miles away from Jinyang City, the capital of Bingzhou.
Zhang Liao has been quietly following Ma Chao for three days. Seeing this guy making a lot of trouble, he could hardly suppress his anger and was about to throw Zhao Xing's advice aside and teach Ma Chao a lesson, a naughty young man who didn't know how to be tall and thick.
Guo Jia, who was standing aside, kept dissuading Zhang Liao, and from time to time he wanted to bring his wife Zhao Yu to divert Zhang Liao's attention. Seeing some big clans incited by the rumors released by Ma Chao, they began to make trouble, Guo Jia suggested that Zhang Liao could close the net. With the help of Ma Chao's unintentional actions, it is necessary to simply clean up a group of internal dissidents with dissent, but they must master a certain degree and cannot turn into a large-scale liquidation movement. Zhao Xing understood this in his heart, and Guo Jia was also very clear about it.
Zhang Liao was waiting for Guo Jia to say "You can do it". Since Guo Jia had nodded, the rest was to see how Jin Ma Chao was crying by Zhang Wenyuan. Zhang Liao ordered people to take out a large-scale marching map, carefully observe the terrain of Yangyi area, and then placed the place where Ma Chao besieged was placed on the halfway of Yangyi's way through Yuci to Jinyang City.
Guo Jia and Zhao Yu then took 10,000 Dragon Cavalry, chose a shortcut on the bowstring and went directly to set up an ambush outside Yuci City, while Zhang Liao took the remaining 10,000 Dragon Cavalry to follow Ma Chao. Zhang Liao's mission was to block Ma Chao's retreat, and at the same time blocked the seven thousand Pang De's seven thousand cavalry who were catching up from behind and Ma Chao's three thousand cavalry. Guo Jia and Zhao Yu's mission was to dig a big hole and put Ma Chao's three thousand cavalry into his pocket without leaving any left.
Maintaining friendly relations with Ma Teng is an insurmountable red line for this action, but this does not prevent Zhang Liao from collecting some interest from Ma Chao. Zhang Liao seems to have decided to make up for these three thousand Western Liang cavalry.
It’s no wonder that Zhang Liao is a guy who plucks his hair by the geese. In fact, he is also planning for Bingzhou for a long time. Even if the danger in Bingzhou can be properly resolved this time, the losses of each army are not low. After the surrounding enemy forces evacuate, Bingzhou will be in a period of weakness for a period of time and is unable to attack the surrounding forces. Although the number of three thousand cavalry is not large, no matter how small the mosquitoes are, they are still meat. It is better to eat one bite than to catch nothing.
Ma Chao stopped in Yangyi for a while, proudly received funding from some local tyrants, and as Zhang Liao predicted, he was heading towards Jinyang City. This time, Ma Chao planned to go around Qinshui and Fenshui in Taiyuan County. Although he did not fight with others, he could be considered a serious loss of Zhao Xing's face. This child was all because his father Ma Teng was too tight and he always talked about Zhao Xing. As a result, Ma Chao regarded Zhao Xing as the first mountain in his life that he needed to cross.
In fact, Zhao Xing is not as simple as a mountain. Compared with Ma Chao's current strength, even if it is not a Everest, it is still a towering Kunlun. If you want to surpass Zhao Xing, Ma Chao probably has no hope.
Ma Chao took advantage of others in front and patted his butt and left. But the rich families who dared to emerge were in great trouble. The Shadow Team members secretly recorded these guys who had complaints or even hatred towards Zhao Xing and the General's Mansion of Zhenbei, waiting for Zhang Liao to catch up.
Zhang Liao was also not vague. According to Guo Jia's idea, these wealthy families were divided into three categories: the first category belongs to those that must be removed, and the family property must be confiscated and the Bingzhou was driven out. Of course, such people belong to a very small number and are very dangerous. They may have already raised private soldiers in the family; the second category belongs to severe punishment, and they are confiscated and the general property must be kept in Bingzhou for three years. If they repent and think about their mistakes, they will remain in Bingzhou in the future. If they resist to the end, they will be handled according to the first category; the third category belongs to a slight blow, and after paying a deposit, they can return the peace of the whole family and the whole family.
For Zhang Liao, dealing with these big clans at will is just a slight effort. He neither cared about others saying that he was a vampire, nor was he afraid that others would call him a bandit. In his opinion, these aristocratic families and large clans, who enjoyed the good policies and treatment of Bingzhou, still wanted to overthrow Zhao Xing and oppose Bingzhou, they would have to be punished. If Zhao Xing had not been willing to commit more murder, Zhang Liao would not mind killing a few monkeys for all the chickens in Bingzhou to see.
Some families and aristocratic families who thought Bingzhou would soon change, were greeted by Zhang Liao, who was like collecting debts, from door to door to door shortly after Ma Chao left. The ending was self-evident. Some spent money to settle things and did not dare to have other ideas by Zhang Liao. Some of them were expelled from Bingzhou and were so miserable that they cried and cried. Zhang Liao was very clear about those who didn't want to leave, and they sent them to the mines and the north as laborers. They could come back after ten years of work!
Pang De, who wiped Ma Chao's butt all the way, gradually discovered the seriousness of the situation. When he saw many merchants and families watching his team with serious anger, and some families moved out with their families with a worried look on their faces, Pang De knew that Ma Chao had caused trouble this time. So he quickly urged his subordinates to hurry up and want to catch up with Ma Chao as soon as possible to avoid an even more unpredictable situation.
On this day, Ma Chao arrived at a place less than twenty miles from Yuci County. The originally flat terrain changed here. Two relatively steep mounds just blocked the cavalry's way, leaving only a gully in the middle to pass through. Ma Chao galloped all the way, never encountering ambush or resistance, and his vigilance had decreased a lot. The three thousand cavalry under his command had not experienced too many cruel battles, so he was also confused and did not know the danger at all.
Ma Chao continued to carry forward the style of taking the lead, riding on a strong white horse, rushing into the deep ditch with murderous aura, and the three thousand cavalry followed in a row. Seeing the steep earth slopes on both sides of the ditch, Ma Chao suddenly felt something was wrong in his heart, but he could not see any clues. He had to hold the tiger-headed turtle spear in secret, hoping to walk out of this valley earlier.
Ma Chao, who was sweating in his heart, finally walked out of the valley safely and smoothly. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he suddenly heard a loud noise from the mountain behind him. When he looked back, he found that the entrance of the valley he had just passed had now collapsed, and three thousand cavalrymen were trapped in the valley by a rolling earth wall.
In fact, what Ma Chao didn't know was that in the section of the deep valley where he had just led his army to, the earth slopes on both sides were also blown down. The rolling loess had blocked the retreat of the three thousand cavalrymen. What is catching a turtle in a jar? This is the best answer.
Guo Jiacai was not interested in letting his wife Zhao Yu take the brothers of the Dragon Cavalry to decide the winner with Ma Chao's three thousand cavalrymen with one sword and one shot. In this way, both sides will inevitably suffer casualties, and it is not guaranteed that all three thousand cavalry will be left behind. Use a small plan, use the terrain conditions to block the two ends of the deep valley with the help of the terrain, and then starve the three thousand cavalrymen in the valley for two or three days. It would be strange to see that they don't give in!
The question is, Ma Chao ran out! Did Guo Jia mean it? The answer is yes.
Chapter completed!