Chapter 1057 Lack of Time

"Zhang Liao's 20,000 troops were trapped in Anyi, and Li Chi's 3,000 elites were destroyed. Zhang Liao invited 10,000 reinforcements to attack the city?" Ma Chao angrily threw the information in his hand on the desk and repeated the content of the military newspaper in disbelief.

In fact, after receiving three-point good news in a row, I suddenly received Zhang Liao's request for reinforcements, which was really frustrating. At present, Pound's army has retaken Hanoi County, and has set up a battle of suspected soldiers in the countryside of Gongxian County to confuse Yuan Shao; Zhao Yun's army**, which is as powerful as a broken bamboo, has recovered Xihe County. After the whole army is completed, it can return to Jinyang to meet; and Tian Yu has done a beautiful job. A banquet to talk about the situation in northern Xinjiang, making Zhao, the governor of Bingzhou, the governor of Bingzhou He felt his love for the people's loyalty and courage, and returned the city of Taiyuan to the Ma family.

In addition, there was a military newspaper earlier, saying that Zhangyan was ready to cooperate with the Ma army and attack Leping in the future. With such a victory, Zhang Liao actually came to a military newspaper asking for reinforcements, which really made Ma Chao a little stuffy - but it was just stuffy. Moreover, this depression is not to blame Zhang Liao.

"Who is the guard of Hedong Shoucheng County?" After breathing, Ma Chao picked up the military newspaper and read it carefully.

Xun You's face was not as vivid as Ma Chao. After listening to Ma Chao's inquiry, he stepped forward and said, "Han Hao and Han Yuan Si."

"Han Hao? He is not Cao..." When Ma Chao said this, he immediately stopped talking, but a doubt arose in his mind.

Han Hao has been a general of Cao Wei in history. At first, he followed Wang Kuang, the governor of Hanoi County, and later, when Cao Cao welcomed the emperor, he accepted Han Hao as the deputy general of Xiahou Dun. This person is loyal, brave and resourceful, and intelligent. Tong Tian Yu is generally a general who guarded the frontier fortress in the later period of Cao Wei.

At this time, he is slightly stronger than Tian Yu. This person also has a political vision and is one of Cao Cao's advocates. The most famous thing that left him in history was that Xiahou Dun was held hostage by several rebellious soldiers. Han Hao used Thunderbolt to solve the incident and scare the rebellious soldiers, which was praised by Cao Cao. And because of his words of intimidating the rebels, Cao Cao made the method of 'all hostages should be attacked together and do not care about the quality' as a principle of promulgating the whole army. Although this method is rude, it eliminates many problems.

This is also one of Ma Jiajun's military regulations. It's completely inspired by Ma Chao from Han Hao. However, even though Han Hao is not vulgar, there are still many doubts about the battle of Xieliang.

"Gunda, the military newspaper said that when Li Chi attacked Xie Liang, he was attacked without warning. In this way, the attacker had long seen through the intention of the Ma family and ambushed on the canyon in advance. Ma Chao's beautiful eyebrows frowned tightly. He didn't believe that Han Hao would have such a strategic vision to see through Zhang Liao's thoughts.

"Lord, this matter can still be explained. What is important at the moment is this..." Xun You spread out his hand at this time and exposed a steel nail crossbow. Seeing that Ma Chao was puzzled, Xun You added, "This was brought back by Li Chi at the risk of his death. It was shot by the Yuan family who sneaked in the canyon."

"What?!" Instead of frowning, Ma Chao suddenly stood up. He took the steel crossbow in Xun You's hand and looked extremely gloomy: "This is really not the steel crossbow of our Ma family, which shows that our Ma family's arsenal has been stolen, but Yuan Shao has developed a strong crossbow similar to Yuanrong here... Fortunately, this strong crossbow can't be shot continuously.

"Why are you so sure?" Xun You is curious that these things look the same in the eyes of a layman like him.

"You don't know that when I developed the Yuanrong crossbow, I stayed with Zheng Hun all day. This bow arc must match the length of the arrow, otherwise the accuracy will become very poor. The Ma family's steel nail crossbows are all one foot and three inches long, and this crossbow is one foot and five inches long. At the same time, because of the weight and the edges of the tail, it can't shoot continuously at the same time, but it is certain that this crossbow arrow is much more powerful than our Ma Jiayuan Rong crossbow.

Xun You didn't say anything, and Ma Chao's heart was also quite heavy: the reason why the Ma family's army could sweep away other princes and iron horses was that the Ma family's equipment and weapons were in an absolutely overwhelming position in this era. Its investment in technology is the highest proportion of all princes, and the strategy of "strengthening science and technology" makes Ma Jiajun far surpass any opponent in technology.

However, the appearance of this crossbow and Cao Jun's Thunderbolt car made Ma Chao suddenly realize that this era has been familiarized by them in advance. Although this result had been expected, Ma Chao never thought that this day would come so soon.

There is not much technology he brought from later generations. And the wisdom of the ancients is unimaginable. Even every time he fought, Ma Chao tried his best to hide his new weapons. But today, it seems that the Ma family's dream of unifying the big man with more than 100,000 elite soldiers has begun to be dashed.

"Let Wei Yan lead 15,000 siege infantry to assist Zhang Liao, be sure to capture Anyi as soon as possible and bring Han Hao to see me." Ma Chao ordered that he allocated an extra 5,000 siege infantry, just to know whether Han Hao had reported this invention to Yuan Shao's whole army.

"Lord!" While Xun You was leaving the order, Brother Chou walked into the big tent with a strange look: "Lord, Cao Cao has really withdrawn his troops!"

"Really withdraw?" Although he was confused by the steel nail crossbow, after hearing the news of Brother Qing Chou, Ma Chao immediately came to the cowhide Fang Yutu and pointed to Wei Jun and asked, "Cao is fighting with Yuan Shao. How did Cao Cao escape?"

"Presumably, it should be a strong man with a broken wrist?" Xun You was also inseparable at this time. As soon as Ma Chao finished asking, he said the countermeasures he had thought about.

"That's right, it looks like this." Brother Chou took a look at Xun You and was not much surprised that Xun You could guess this. He explained, "Cao added 20,000 troops to the forbidden camp that day, and Yu Forbidden led 10,000 soldiers to lurk in the southern woods late at night..."

"10,000 soldiers and horses are a drop in the bucket for the 400,000 troops. Even if they want to make a surprise attack on the enemy, it won't help." Ma Chao frowned again. He couldn't figure out what Cao Cao was playing.

"The 10,000 troops did not move at all that night. At that time, Cao Cao's army withdrew, and 20,000 troops suddenly became abandoned. In less than half an hour, the camp was broken by the Yuan army. After that, the Yuan family attacked and successfully recovered Wei County and Yangping County. Later, when chasing Cao Cao's army at the Yellow River Ferry, Yu Ban's 10,000 troops came out lightly. Relying on being familiar with the camp outside Ye City, he attacked and harassed several times. On the front line, Zhang Xi first received the harassment report from the rear, and then fell into the ambush plan of Cao Cao. He was beaten to death, causing Cao's army to successfully cross the Yellow River and return to the official crossing.

"This is indeed Cao's consistent demeanor, fierce, forward, serial, and the last net." After hearing this, Ma Chao sighed and couldn't help asking Brother Chou, "In addition to losing 20,000 soldiers and letting Yuan Shao recapture the empty cities of Wei County and Yangping counties, is Yuan Shao's soldiers more damaged than Cao Cao?"

"Yes, this time, he unexpectedly burned three camps outside the city of Ye, killed thousands of people, and captured more than a dozen generals such as He Mao. In the battle of ambushe, more than 13,000 people of Yuan's army were killed, and no less than 30,000 were defeated.

After listening to this, Ma Chao couldn't help but feel cold again: in this Yuan Cao war, it seemed that Yuan Shao took back his homeland and drove Cao Cao back to the north of the Yellow River. But in fact, Cao Cao abandoned 20,000 soldiers and horses in exchange for the defeat of 50,000 troops of the Yuan army. Yuan Shao didn't get any benefits except for his false reputation. On the contrary, Cao Cao hid the sky and the sea, and his tricks emerged one after another, and his prestige was even higher. Ma Chao couldn't help thinking, did Yuan Jun, who was celebrating in Yecheng at this time, really win?

"Gongda, let Huang Zhong and Wei Yan both go to Anyi and bring 20,000 siege infantry." Ma Chao increased the weight again, and Leng Yi said, "Let the two of them tell Zhang Liao that we are not short of soldiers and horses now. What we lack is time..."