Chapter 469 Zhang Ren single-handedly challenged Ma Mengqi
The news that Ma Chao led 20,000 iron cavalry to Hanzhong County soon reached the ears of Zhang Ren, a fierce general in Yizhou. Originally, Zhang Ren had mobilized 50,000 soldiers and horses, built various new siege equipment, and was preparing to launch a battle to attack Hanzhong County. When he heard that Ma Chao, the super general of Liangzhou, Shenweitian, had led his troops to Fufeng County and intended to form an alliance with Zhang Lu, he ordered to stop the suspension of the attack on Hanzhong County. He reported the information to Liu Zhang, the pastor of Yizhou, in time and let Liu Zhang decide.
At this time, Zhang Ren, the new super general, is not afraid of Ma Chao, the first fierce general in Xiliang. Isn't the newborn calf not afraid of tigers? As for Ma Chao's 20,000 fierce iron cavalry, Zhang Ren is not afraid: because the terrain of Yizhou is mostly mountainous and basins, and only the open plains near Chengdu. In such a combat environment, the advantages of the cavalry cannot be fully brought into full play; in such a combat environment, Xiliang generals who like to rampage in an open place are not the opponents of Yizhou soldiers at all!
Therefore, even if Zhang Ren's mentality towards Ma Chao is very contradictory: on the one hand, he is afraid, and on the other hand, he is extremely eager to fight against Ma Chao! Due to the isolation of Hanzhong County, Yizhou could not understand the real situation of Cao Cao and Ma Chao's battle in Fufeng County in a timely and smooth manner. If Zhang Ren knew that Ma Chao was one against two, and finally easily defeated Zhang Xiu and Xu Huang, he would not have the idea of fighting Ma Chao alone... As the saying goes, the ignorant are fearless!
The understanding and familiarity of Zhang Renyi, getting rid of his own fever is the enemy. When Zhang Ren slowed down the pace of attack, Zhang Lu also knew that these were all the benefits of Ma Chao's arrival! However, so far, there is no truth about the battle between Ma Chao and Cao Cao in Fufeng County, and Cao Cao's true attitude towards Ma Chao. In just a few days, Zhang Lu had trouble sleeping and eating, and he was like a year: He was afraid that Ma Chao, who was grumpy, left Hanzhong County in anger, but he went to Fufeng County to inquire about the news and had not returned...
At this time, Zhang Lu was afraid that Ma Chao would continue to stay in Hanzhong County, and he was also afraid that Ma Chao would be treated coldly. In anger, he left angrily. Just when Zhang Ludu was about to go crazy, he went to Fufeng County to inquire about the news and returned to Hanzhong County. In the secret room, Zhang Lu interrupted the detailed report from time to time, asking this and that for a while. His uncle Ren Qiang frowned when he saw Zhang Lu's disorderly inquiry.
Originally, the problem could have been explained clearly in half an hour, but under Zhang Lu's disorderly inquiry, an hour later, the inquiry was very difficult to say the information. When he left the secret room in a sweat, Ren Qiang took a long breath and said to Zhang Lu, "Lu'er, I always had a doubt in my heart: why did Ma Chao lead 100,000 brave and good soldiers of Xiliang lose Fufeng County so quickly? After a detailed report, I finally understood that it was the result of Liangzhou Mu Han Sui secretly colluding with Cao Cao, and attacking Ma Chao back and forth with Cao Cao..."
When Zhang Lu heard the words, he looked at Ren Qiang with a blank face. His expression reflected that he really didn't pay attention to this detail. At this time, his consciousness is to think about whether to form an alliance with Ma Chao after all...
When he opened his mouth and asked Ren Qiang about whether to cooperate with Ma Chao or not, Ren Qiang glanced at him and said slowly, "Lu'er, Ma Chao's martial arts skills are higher than the legendary. Unexpectedly, Zhang Xiu and Xu Huang, who have good combat effectiveness, were seriously injured... According to the old man's recommendation Test, if Ma Chao is not waiting for the arrival of the reinforcements Han Sui, he can also defeat the tiger in a thousand moves! Luer, at this time, Ma Chao has lost his place to stand. He sincerely defected to you. At the same time, Cao Cao only identified Ma Chao's side as an 'anti-thief' in the name of Emperor Xian, and there was no sign of sending troops to chase Ma Chao's side. In this way, we can form an alliance with Ma Chao's side in a low-key way and use his power to relieve me. Fang's urgent need..."
When Zhang Lu heard Ren Qiang's statement about his alliance with Ma Chao, he did not think about it, but just nodded vigorously. Now I agree with Ren Qiang's suggestion.
When Zhang Lu's face showed joy, Ren Qiang's mood suddenly turned gray. As a practitioner, Ren Qiang is a ominous omen. But he, who is not proficient in divination and celestial phenomena, can't infer where this ominous omen comes from...
In the evening of the last day of Zhang Luyue and Ma Chao's appointment to meet, Zhang Lu finally ended his short retreat and held a grand ceremony to invite important people from Ma Chao to Hanzhong County. At the banquet, Zhang Lu insisted on kneeling on the main seat side by side with Ma Chao. After that, the two sides made a covenant in a pleasant and relaxed atmosphere.
Under Zhang Lu's attentive and meticulous hospitality, the previous unpleasant haze of Ma Chao's side also drifted away.
Two days after Zhang Lu and Ma Chao officially formed an alliance, Zhang Ren, a fierce general from Yizhou, led an army of 80,000 troops to the south gate of Hanzhong County. Previously, after Zhang Ren reported the news that Xi Liang led Ma Chao's army to Hanzhong County to Liu Zhang, the pastor of Yizhou, after Liu Zhang called the state officials to discuss, he decided to order Zhang Ren to lead the army to attack Hanzhong County. Liu Zhang's mind is that even if Zhang Ren can't capture Hanzhong County as he wishes in the end, if Ma Chao also leads the army to participate in the war, then Liu Zhang's side can accept the fact that Zhang Lu, the governor of Hanzhong County, is allied with the rebels. In this way, Zhang Lu can't get rid of the relationship with the rebels...
80,000 troops, according to the convention, it is impossible to break through a county town, but in Yizhou, except for the state city of Chengdu, the wall of other cities is only seven or eight meters high. The height determines the thickness of the wall is also average, only two bricks thick. Such a wall, placed in the Central Plains, can only stop the harassment of wild animals. Therefore, Ma Chao's subordinates joked: If Zhang Lu annoys the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, 20,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry can really break through such a simple wall. I don't need a cloud car or rush car at all. The ladder is enough... With the seven- or eight-meter-high wall, Xiliang soldiers can easily climb with a stable rope.
At this time, if Ma Chao hadn't joined Zhang Lu's team and successive defeats, Zhang Lu's army would have suffered huge casualties - death and escape. Zhang Lu only had only 30,000 soldiers. If it hadn't been for Ma Chao's joining, close to the empty wall of Hanzhong County, and the equipment for guarding the city was insufficient, Zhang Lu's side would really not have been able to stop the attack of 80,000 people. On the one hand, the disparity in the number of soldiers between the two sides is that Zhang Lu's morale is far worse than that of Zhang Ren's...
With Ma Chao's timely joining, Zhang Lu is no longer so frightened in the face of the attack of Yizhou Army. He can rest assured. The reality is: Zhang Ren led 80,000 troops to enter the security area in the southern suburbs of Hanzhong County. Ma Chao led 20,000 Xiliang iron cavalry and more than 10,000 Han Shichao rushed out of the city and lined up in an open area to meet the enemy.
Only then did Zhang Renyi set up the formation, and Zhang Ren rushed to the center of the second army's confrontation. His eyes were like torches, and he looked at the enemy's formation with a look of staring at the world, and then shouted loudly, "Yizhou Zhang Ren is here. Who are you waiting for?!"
No wonder Zhang Ren is so arrogant, because he is young and vigorous, because he has not met an opponent in Yizhou since he became a super fierce general. Zhang Ren's arrogance and rampant angered Yang Qiu, Ma Dai and others. Unfortunately, their strength is limited, and they can only stare at Zhang Ren in the center of the battlefield with fire-breathing eyes.
Ma Chao turned his face and smiled at the main generals in front of the camps behind him, and then took a reins and raised his gun to urge the horse to rush to Zhang Ren's place. Ma Chao's mount, the black cloud, ran from still to gallop fast, but only a few breaths. Zhang Ren saw that the quality of Ma Chao's war horse was so high that he looked envious. At this time, Zhang Ren not only lacks a BMW, but also the general quality of armor and weapons.
So when he saw Ma Chao in silver-white armor and carrying a Sirius gun, he suddenly felt that he was humble: the mighty Ma Chao was like a god descending to the earth, and he was just a beggar... Zhang Rennian came here, and his high heart suddenly fell, but he turned to mind: mount. Armor and weapons are almost not a problem. The problem is that your martial arts skills should not be worse than those of the other party! ...In case you defeat the other party. Isn't everything of the other party their own booty? ... Zhang Ren thought of this, and the decadence in his heart was swept away in an instant.
On the way to the horse, Ma Chao caught the change in Zhang Ren's face. As a long-time warrior and a deep understanding of people, of course, he understood Zhang Ren's psychological changes. This shows that Zhang Ren is not a vicious person, which shows that Zhang Ren is in an important plastic stage, which determines Zhang Ren's future achievements.
Ma Chao looked at the simple-minded Zhang Ren and couldn't help thinking of his youth. He suppressed his smile and rushed to a hundred meters away from Zhang Ren, and then suddenly immediately: after the black cloud hissed, in the rapid running, the front hooves were suddenly raised, and the back kick supported the whole horse. When the black cloud's front hooves fell to the ground, the galloping state was over...
Ma Chao looked calmly at Zhang Ren, who was a hundred meters away, and said slowly, "General Zhang, Xiliang Ma Chao is here!"
Ma Chao and Ma seem very calm, but this calmness brings a lot of pressure to Zhang Ren. At the moment of collision with Ma Chao's eyes, Zhang Ren's heartbeat suddenly accelerated. At this time, Ma Chao was like a divine mansion, so that Zhang Ren could not dare to look directly at it.
Zhang Ren shook his head, and then gritted his teeth and said angrily to Ma Chao, "Ma Chao? If you don't stay in Xiliang, why do you go to Yizhou? Oh, I would have understood that you have been designated as a traitor by the court, and you can't stay in Xiliang... Ma Chao, I was going to kill you today and be loyal to the court!"
After Zhang Ren finished speaking, he urged Ma to raise his gun and rush to Ma Chao. In the face of Zhang Ren's accusations, Ma Chao shook his head with a smile; in the face of Zhang Ren's attack, Ma Chao also urged Ma to carry his gun and rush away!