In July, the setting sun in Xiliang is like blood.

Accompanied by the cool breeze gradually blowing outside Yumen Pass, the sunset shines on the top of Guzang City, causing the city walls that were already stained with blood and the land near the base of the wall to add a strange red color, which makes the living people dare not face it.

Dong Zhuo's army, who had been struggling to attack Guzang City for a day, was finally impressed by the tenacity and unyielding of the defenders on the city. He had to stop this suicide-style siege of life. Finally, he returned to his respective camps for rest like a retreating tide.

At night, after preliminary statistics, Dong Zhuo's 30,000 infantrymen who captured the city lost 8,000 in the city in one day. According to Li Ru's analysis, Ma Teng's army, who guarded the city, could not bear much, and at least four thousand soldiers' lives were paid.

Eight thousand to four thousand, it seems to be a bit of a loss, but after all, one side is siegeing the city and the other side is defending the city. It is also very difficult for the siege to achieve such a battle result. If the Ma Teng army guarding the city is as perverted as the Crouching Tiger Army, and can expand the war loss ratio to more than one to six, then Dong Zhuo can turn around and escape to Didao.

Ma Teng at the top of the city had a pale face. Looking at the corpses of his own or his own soldiers who had died in the city or the enemy, it was difficult for a long time. Han Sui had reported his losses. On the first day of defending the city, he lost more than 4,300 veterans.

Can such a high loss not make Ma Teng feel sad? You should know that in the entire Guzang City, together with the technical guidance troops sent by Zhao Xing and the guards of Guo Jia, there are only more than 18,000 people, and nearly 30% of them are lost in a day. If this battle continues like this, even if he wins a miserable victory in the end, how can he deal with the Qiang people who are eyeing him around?

In the dark night, Ma Teng stood at the top of the city, with only one wish left in his heart, which was to hope that his eldest son Ma Chao would arrive in Guzang with reinforcements as soon as possible and end this damn war as soon as possible!

In the quiet night, there are many people like Ma Teng. As the saying goes, "No one knows a son than a father", and no one knows a father or son. At this moment, Ma Chaojun, who did not march during the whole day, even the closest Pu Ji City did not enter, took advantage of the night to quietly approach the closest city of Shici City, the closest city to Guzang City.

Ma Chao, who grew up in Wuwei, is familiar with the terrain and roads in the Guzang area as if he was playing hide-and-seek in the Huqiang Mausoleum Mansion. Even though he was marching at night, he was not worried about losing his direction. Especially after entering the Huhu Martial Arts Hall to study and train, Ma Chao was able to use the portable military "Sinantian" developed by the Huhu Equipment Academy to guide the direction, and combined with the sophisticated military map, it was like walking in broad daylight.

Ma Chao secretly admired Zhao Xing again and again in his heart. He originally thought that Zhao Xing's troops had been trained for a longer time, the soldiers' pursuit of battles was higher, and the troops were well-equipped, but after a detour along the way, he completely felt that Zhao Xing's troops had completely left other forces behind for a long distance.

Ma Chao even believed that Zhao Xing's army should not have appeared in this era, but should have appeared for hundreds or thousands of years in the future. Not to mention the various logistics supply items used to ensure long-distance marching of cavalry units, such as: compressed dry food and bean cakes, sleeping bags, windproof lights, personal first aid kits, assembled field command centers, combined field cooking utensils, and military doctors with the army to prevent epidemics...

Just a large-scale military map used to command operations, "Marching Essence", "Camping must be known", "Field Safety Manual", telescope, Si Nanzheng and other items that have never been seen may change the fate of an army. All of these things appeared within Zhao Xing's army, and they are even accelerating creation and replacement. Ma Chao sometimes even thought that if he had so many advantages that others did not have, and the general could not win a battle, he could really use a piece of tofu to kill him and count the ball.

Just as he was thinking about it, the team members who were responsible for reconnaissance of the enemy turned around and reported: "Report to the Major General, there are Shici City ten miles ahead. There are a small number of troops in the city, and after investigation, they belong to Dong Zhuo's unit."

"Pick up the military map!" Ma Chao said calmly. Then, the combat staff beside him immediately took out the military map and placed it on a folded small square table.

Ma Chao took advantage of the faint light of the windproof light and held a "two-leg rule" specifically used to measure the straight-line distance between the two places on the map, and carefully gestured the distance between Guzang City and Yanci City and the distance between Guzang City and himself at this time.

"This place is about fifty miles away from Guzang, and now it is midnight. The army marchs at night at fifteen miles per hour, so it can reach the city of Guzang before two minutes. If we consider that Dong Zhuo's army needs to have breakfast and is most likely to launch an attack from Si to Wu, our army arrives at the battlefield at noon and launches the attack at noon, then we can continue to march until Yin, rest for an hour and a half at fifteen miles away from Guzang City, and then start camping at Si and slowly accelerate to reach Guzang City, which is the best attack state for people and horses..." Ma Chao muttered while looking at the map.

Oh my God, what did Ma Chao learn in the Crouching Tiger Martial Arts Hall? This child said something, how many people could understand it? What Ma Chao muttered was the basic combat command term for middle-level command officers!

Zhao Xing left a shocking statement in the classroom of the Wohu Martial Arts Hall - "The uneducated army is a stupid army!" Now it seems that Ma Chao has thoroughly understood and understood Zhao Xing's words, otherwise he would not have been so professional and calm.

After calculation and analysis, Ma Chao said to his personal soldiers around him: "Please invite Commander Hu to discuss matters!" Soon, Hu Cheer came to the vicinity of Ma Chao's military camp.

"Teacher Hu, after I calculated that I will fight Dong Zhuo's army tomorrow at noon. I plan to rest at Yin and enter the battlefield at three o'clock and launch a surprise attack on Dong Zhuo's army!" Ma Chao told Hu Cheer about his plan.

After observing the map for a while, Hu Cheer nodded and said, "This arrangement is very good. Everything should be deployed according to the plan of the Major General!"

Seeing that Hu Cheer also affirmed his opinion, Ma Chao couldn't help but feel a little happy and proud. After all, it was not easy to make Hu Cheer, Zhao Xing, who had ten years of combat experience, nodded and said yes.

In fact, Hu Cheer led an elite troops of 10,000 Dingyuan Army to expedition to Xiliang. With such an important military operation, combat staff and shadow team members were naturally conducting military analysis and combat plans at any time along the way. Just when Ma Chao stopped the team to plan, Hu Cheer had already come up with a plan similar to Ma Chao, but in order not to attack the young man Zhao Xing focused on training, Hu Cheer pretended not to know.

When it is really critical, such as when the war is over and Guzang City needs to be controlled, look at who will Hu Cheer be vague with!
Chapter completed!