? Early in the morning of the next day, Ma Chao led a 10,000 troops to rest and rest on the road again. This time their destination was Wudu Xiabian.

When the cavalry arrived at the Wangyuan area of ​​Hanyang County, Tian Yu, the new military advisor of the Western Liang Army, was already waiting here. Ma Chao did not pretentiously with Tian Yu, so he directly pulled Tian Yu and continued to march. Within two days, he arrived at Jieting Town in Wudu County.

Jieting is only more than forty miles away from Xiabian City, and the cavalry will arrive in half a day. Ma Chao followed Tian Yu's advice and left the troops in Jieting, and sent a reconnaissance team of dozens of people to rush down to see if he could contact the Second Division, which was guarding the city.

The reconnaissance team approached Xiabian City at the third update. When they were still some distance from the city wall, the team discovered an abnormal situation and stopped moving forward. After repeated verification, the team members unanimously believed that Xiabian City had been besieged and the troops outside the city were definitely not friendly forces. In order to avoid exposing their identities, these team members immediately returned along the original path and reported to Ma Chao the information about the discovery of a large number of enemy troops outside the city in the early morning.

Ma Chao immediately asked someone to wake up Tian Yu, Murong Ping, Duan Wei, Tianchou and others, and temporarily gathered to discuss matters and reported the amazing feelings discovered by the reconnaissance team to everyone.

"This is the case. I wonder what you have to think?" Ma Chao asked.

Military advisor Tian Yu said calmly: "Our army should not immediately attack now. We should continue to send reconnaissance troops to grasp the specific number and trends of the enemy troops besieged in the city, understand the situation of the defending troops, and then make a decision!"

Duan Wei commented: "It's dawn soon. Our army should immediately find a hidden place to block the road leading to Xiabian in Jieting Town to avoid exposing itself, resulting in the failure to achieve the effect of raiding the enemy."

Tian Chou carefully observed the marching map, and then said in a deep voice: "Xiabian City is located between Hechi and Shanglu. Since the enemy dares to siege the city, he is afraid that Hechi and Shanglu are in danger. Our army should quickly contact Longxi and Hanyang behind us to avoid going deeper alone and cutting off the logistics supply by the enemy."

Murong Ping said very simply: "The last person will ask to take people to reconnaissance in person!"

After listening to the words of the military advisor and several division commanders, Ma Chao was secretly happy even though the war was about to come. He just asked about it, but in fact he was trying to find out what everyone wanted. As a result, everyone's answers were not only very decisive, but also had some merits. Obviously, they were all experts who knew soldiers and knew how to fight. With these good generals in the Xiliang Army, they would not have to worry about not being able to achieve results in the future, so Ma Chao was secretly happy.

Ma Chao said: "The suggestions made just now are worthy. Murong Ping, I will send you to lead a reconnaissance team to reconnaissance the enemy situation immediately; Tian Chou, order you to temporarily serve the military's logistics supply to the army, and immediately contact the friendly troops of Hanyang County and Longxi County to request logistics support; Duan Wei, order you to find a place in Jieting area that is convenient for the army to hide..."

The three newly appointed division commanders each received their orders, and only he and Tian Yu were left in Ma Chao's tent.

Ma Chao asked Tian Yu hesitantly: "Brother Guorang, do you think I will send someone to urgently summon the 10,000 cavalry led by General Pang. Can it play a role in turning the situation around the war?"

Although Tian Yu had the word Yu in his name, he never hesitated when doing things. He immediately shook his head and said, "Meng Qi was a little eager to win. I can understand your mood, but now he recruited General Pang and his troops in Jincheng, which is not desirable. There are three reasons: First, the 10,000 soldiers led by General Pang. Now, because the general's father passed away, the morale of the army is still unstable, so it is difficult to take on important tasks; second, Jincheng is still three days away from Xiabian. If you wait for their arrival, you may miss the opportunity to fight. Third, although the Xiliang Army has a group of 20,000, the 10,000 soldiers led by General Pang are obviously different from the 10,000 elite soldiers you brought from Crouching Tiger. If you rashly join the same place, you may be counterproductive."

Ma Chao felt that Tian Yu's analysis was reasonable, so he nodded and said, "Thank you, Brother Guozhang, for reminding me, so he ordered General Pang to lead 10,000 troops from his headquarters to the training regiment in Gaoping City. It is estimated that the 10,000 infantry led by General Gaoshun should be able to reach Gaoping in a few days, so he just wanted to help with the training."

Tian Yu continued: "Meng Qi may think that the current 10,000 troops are a bit too small, because you have not yet truly experienced the terrifying combat power of the first-class troops of the Jin Dynasty. I can assert that as long as we make good use of the ten thousand elite cavalry in our hands, not to mention defeating the enemy invading Wudu, even if we attack Nanzheng, Hanzhong and capture Sima Yi alive, it is not necessarily difficult."

"Okay, I'll be full of courage with my bold words from my country brother!" Ma Chao suddenly felt passionate and said loudly.

Not long after Murong Ping took the reconnaissance team out of Jieting, he asked the team members to take off the military uniforms of the Jin** team, temporarily bought some clothes from the farmers' homes in nearby villages and put them on, dressed them up as horse-raising shepherds nearby, and then he went downstairs to the city. Murong Ping himself was even more courageous. He rode his horse and circled the city far away for a while, and looked at the number of enemy troops surrounding Xiabian City carefully.

It turned out that the army that came to besiege this time was not the 30,000 troops led by Sima Yi, but the 20,000 Yizhou soldiers who were directly sent from Guanghan County in southern Yizhou. They were led by Zhang Ren, the governor of Xichuan soldiers and horses. After passing Baishui Pass, they headed north along the Western Han River and finally arrived at Xiabian City in Wudu County.

As for Sima Yi's troops, they naturally would not stay honestly in Nanzheng, Hanzhong. Shortly after Zhao Hu was assassinated, they entered Ju County, the easternmost part of Wudu County, and then took down Hechi City in the northeast of Xiabian. They are now lying in an unknown place, waiting for reinforcements sent by Liang Kingdom.

Murong Ping reconnaissance all the way, but did not see Sima Yi's troops. That was because Sima Yi did not expect that the reinforcements sent by the Liang Kingdom were so fast, so he had only time to ambush the troops between the road from Shanglu City to Xiabian City, and did not place the main force in the direction of Jieting.

After the reconnaissance, Murong Ping immediately took the team members back to Jieting. He took very hidden measures when he retreated all the way. Some people kept leaving the team and heading towards other directions to interfere with the local reconnaissance troops that might follow. Murong Ping himself left the reconnaissance team and headed west to Shanglucheng for reconnaissance.

When Murong Ping passed a canyon, he felt that the place was extremely steep and there was a terrifying and strange atmosphere in the valley, but he didn't know that he was passing under Sima Yi's nose.

The general Chen Shi asked Sima Yi for instructions: "Young master, do you want to shoot this provocateur down?"

Sima Yi shook his head and replied thoughtfully: "No need, let him go, I want to see who this horse will attract next."

Sima Yi only thought that Murong Ping sneaked out of Xiabian City and went to Shanglu City to ask for help, so he happened to take the trick and simply let him pass. However, Sima Yi was so suspicious that there was a large army hidden in Shanglu City, but Zhao Hu and Han Wei, who had already woken up, joined forces to act in a play, which temporarily blocked Sima Yi.

It turned out that Han Wei should have led 4,000 infantry to be stationed in the fortress outside Xiabian City. When Zhao Hu was assassinated, he assembled all the troops into Xiabian City and threw an empty fortress to Zhang Ren who led his army north. After Zhang Ren and Sima Yi joined forces, he once tentatively attacked Xiabian City, but was beaten back by Han Wei's regiment commander with only 2,000 infantry. Now Zhang Ren and Sima Yi couldn't figure out how many troops were hidden in Xiabian City and where Han Wei was.

Sima Yi speculated that Han Wei brought some of his troops to Shanglu City, so he was ambushed in the middle of the road, intending to ask Zhang Ren to continue besieging Xiabian City, and then lure Han Wei, who was stationed in Shanglu City, to lead his army to rescue him, and ambush Han Wei halfway.

According to the intelligence analysis that the Yizhou Army had mastered with the Jin ** team last time, Sima Yi felt that the best way to deal with the heavy infantry of Jin State was to annihilate them in the movement; as for the heavy cavalry of Jin State, the best way to deal with the heavy cavalry of Jin State was to rely on the terrain and cities to fight the war of attrition with them. It has to be said that Sima Yi's countermeasures really grasped the weakness of the Jin ** team, and the Jin State's army will suffer many losses in the future.

Murong Ping ran to Shanglu City in one breath and found that the city had not been occupied by the Yizhou army. So he continued to flow upstream along the Western Han River to Wudu Dao upstream, and did not turn around and pass through the valley where Sima Yi was ambushing again, and just escaped a disaster.

Sima Yi didn't know that Ma Chao was coming, Ma Chao didn't know where Sima Yi was hiding. An encounter that might have happened turned into a "hide and seek" between each other, and he didn't know what the battle situation would happen next. ~
Chapter completed!