Guan Yu felt that Xu Shu's plan to siege after optimizing the city was very feasible. In addition, the previous siege of the city was humiliated and lured the enemy, so he also fully demonstrated how cowardly Han Sui was, and he was not afraid that Han Sui would break through the field too early.

Guan Yu naturally made a decision and within two or three days he chose to let Ma Chao divide his troops north to Wuwei County, first seize Lingju County on the west bank of Langshui Source, and then camped in Lingju, transporting grain stations to establish a forward base to attack Guzang County, the capital of Wuwei County.

Guan Yu, Ma Chao and Li Su, on the front line, had a total of 47,000 troops. The initial allocation was as follows: 3,000 people were left to protect the grain transport passage from Lintao to Jincheng, and 200 large-sized grain trucks were divided into special transportation routes from Lintao to Jincheng.

Li Su built a total of 6700 caravans this time, so he could naturally divide up nearly 300 cars, taking the transportation route from Lintao to Lingju, and crossing Guan Yu to transport grain to Ma Chao. This part of the grain team, because the area to pass through, is more dangerous, requires 4,000 guards.

The mileage of this route is twice as far from Lintao to Jincheng, and the caravan from Lintao to Jincheng takes about seven days to walk, while the caravan from Lintao to Lingju takes fifteen days.

Finally, there are nearly 200 caravans, which are used as a backup for motors. If the situation is not urgent, transportation tasks can still be carried out. If Han Sui is found to be lured to take the bait, then decisively leave this part of the car in the camp for short-distance transportation, or be prepared to enter the battle.

After the 47,000 troops were divided into 7,000 people to protect food, the rest was for combat purposes.

Li Su led Dian Wei and Wang Ping to lead 5,000 people to garrison the steep part of Gaolan Mountain in the south of Jincheng City, thinking that the besieged troops on the south side of the city were

The "small troops plan to siege the enemy" discussed by Li Su and Guan Yu, the encirclement must be surrounded and cannot be relaxed. If it is too relaxed, it will be unsightly.

So, since there are people in the west and south of the city, Li Su of course left a safer camp on the south of the city to himself.

Picking a dangerous place on Gaolan Mountain will not only prevent the city from flooding even if Liujiaxia releases water and floods the city, but it will also ensure that even if tens of thousands of people attack the mountain, it will not be able to catch the mountain.

Moreover, Li Su would never make the low-level mistake of Ma Su's garrison on the mountain and forgetting the water draw passage. Every time he set up a camp on the mountain, the first thing he did was to dig a reservoir immediately, and to clean it up, and to pick up the location of mountain springs or mountain streams.

Guan Yu Xiang Ziao also prefers to fight tough battles, allowing him to personally serve as bait in the low-lying areas of the river valley in the west of the city. Guan Yu also felt it was very exciting and had more opportunities to make contributions.

At the same time, Guan Yu and Zhang Ren left only 5,000 people on the flat ground, and another 3,000 people were responsible for building and guarding the river dam in the Liujiaxia area to ensure that water could be released at any time.

The two places were separated by dozens of miles, more than a day of infantry marching with baggage (fifty miles), so Guan Yu built several simple beacon towers on Gaolan Mountain along the way, and they were also completed within ten days to ensure that the news could be reached as soon as possible when water was needed.

Guan Yu, Li Su, Wang Ping, and Zhang Ren only left 13,000 troops, which meant that the remaining 27,000 people were all taken away by Ma Chao and went to Lingju to stalemate with Guo Si.

The order Ma Chao received was to be as arrogant as possible. Don't worry that Guo Si would find that he had many elite soldiers, or even deliberately show off to Guo Si.

Now Han Sui and Guo Si are still nominally in a relationship (Han Sui surrenders to Guo Si). As long as Guo Si discovers that the in-depth Han army is huge, he will definitely send dead soldiers as secret envoys to try to break into Jincheng and ask Han Sui why he did not cut off the enemy's army's food route.

The reason why it was difficult to go around the city in ancient times and continue to fight behind the scenes is that it is because of the fear that the defenders in the city will suddenly come out and cut off the food route! If Ma Chao was not afraid of being cut off the food route, it means that Han Sui was too incompetent.

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About ten days after the plan began to be implemented, about halfway through June, everything on the battlefield in Jincheng was the same, and Han Sui was still so cowardly.

But Ma Chao ran along the waves and launched a surprise attack, successfully capturing Lingju County.

This result is not surprising, because Guo Si and Jia Xu were not prepared for it at all, Ma Chao would bypass Han Sui so quickly to attack Lingju, and Guo Si would not be able to divide heavy troops into every county outside Guzang.

Even if there is defense, because Guo Si's subordinates are now in short supply of talents, there is only one general, Wu Xi, who has served as a general of the Central Army, a lieutenant-level officer, and other elite elites in the direct line.

Therefore, the guards assigned to Lingju County were not fully alert at all, and they did not expect the enemy to appear. They were deceived by Ma Chao in disguise and sneak attacked the city gate.

Within two days after Ma Chao entered the city, the first convoy of 300 caravans he brought with the army unloaded a large number of supplies, mainly not grain, and seventy or eighty of them were machines, such as wooden pedal lathes of the car. Therefore, Ma Chao could organize large-scale military production in the small town on the front line by closing the door.

This is also what Li Su had planned long ago. After all, the consumables such as guns, arrows and other consumables needed for large-scale operations of the troops were also very heavy. Find a front-line city to use fast-producing machines to use local wood to produce consumables in large quantities. The capacity of transporting a truckload of machines is enough to create ten trucks and twenty trucks of consumables.

After Guo Si reacted, he immediately called Jia Xu and wanted to ask for countermeasures.

"How could Ma Chao suddenly appear in Lingju? This place is still 400 miles away from Jincheng! Before Jincheng was besieged at the end of last month, the scouts reported that Guan Yu and Ma Chao's troops were only 30,000 to 40,000, and it would take Jincheng at least several months.

After that, we have been probing every few days, but we have never heard of Han Sui's death in battle and Jincheng's loss. This time the scout was a few days late. It was probably intercepted by Ma Chao on the way, but Jincheng would not fall. How could Han Sui keep Ma Chao's food route?"

Although Jia Xu is still very good at understanding people's hearts, he has been much haggard in the past two years and seems to have grown much older. He currently lacks intelligence and just touches his beard and speculates it with common sense:

"The most orthodox possibility of Ma Chao's advancement is that he didn't lead many troops, but he just came to a surprise attack to seize a forward base and attack Guzang's springboard. There were more than 30,000 enemy troops, and the main force should be still on Guan Yu's side. Under Jincheng City, Han Suicai was unable to go out of the city to fight in the field.

To confirm whether this situation is true, we can only ask General Guo to lead his troops to fight Ma Chao and go to Lingju to take the stance of attacking the city, see if Ma Chao dares to go out of the city to fight with us, and to confirm how many troops Ma Chao has.

Ling Ju was too caught off guard. We didn't even know the enemy situation, and we didn't know which side was the lord and which side was the feint. However, in order to avoid being plotted, we should not be too involved. This provocation of Ma Chao was just to recognize the truth and the truth, and there was no need to really make up our minds to fight to the death.

Li Su has always had a strange plan. Maybe he used the main force to transfer to Ma Chao and left the partial master to Guan Yu, but it was actually weak, deliberately making us think that Ma Chao was weak and lured us to fight Ma Chao in a field."

Jia Xu's worries are not unreasonable, because if Guo Si invested too much to test Ma Chao, he would be caught by Ma Chao a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight a decisive battle on the Gobi grassland between Lingju and Guzang.

If Ma Chao has an overpowering combat power and sufficient troops, he will seriously damage Guo Si's main force in the field battle, then it will be much easier to attack Guzang County and even other Western Regions cities later. After all, killing an elite enemy soldier in the field battle is much easier than killing the same number in the siege.

Maybe this is Li Su's trick!

"Wenhe's words are reasonable. This is just to find out the truth and not to give Ma Chao a chance to take advantage of the situation and fight to the decisive battle." Guo Si agreed deeply, then slapped the table and asked the messenger to call his general Wu Xi.

Guo Si ordered: "Wu Xi, you should bring five thousand Xiliang light cavalry, mainly fast horse riding and shooting, and set up camp thirty miles outside Lingju County, and then go forward to challenge to see how many cavalry Ma Chao sent out of the city to fight. If there are very few, you can cover up and kill, but Ma Chao is brave, you are not his opponent, so you must not fight with him.

If there are many horses beyond the city, you must not fight. Turn around and run immediately, and use the speed advantage of the light cavalry and bow cavalry to open the distance. I will bring 15,000 main cavalry to support you dozens of miles behind you, and then we will return to Guzang together."

"No!" Wu Xi bowed and took the order. Then he went to the camp to trap the light cavalry and challenged Ma Chao to find out the truth.

"I will also follow General Guo to observe the truth. As long as Li Su is not in Ma Chao's army, Ma Chao's false and true should not deceive me." Jia Xu, who has always been self-protection, actually volunteered to watch the battle, which shows that he has realized that this matter is at stake.

Of course, with his survival, even if he follows Guo Si on the battlefield, he will definitely have countless elite soldiers around him to protect him, and he will not wear conspicuous armor. He will be the first to escape when he encounters danger.

One day later, on the Gobi grassland more than 30 miles northwest of Lingju County, at the source of Langshui River, Wu Xi led the Xiliang cavalry to challenge Ma Chao.

Among the 5,000 cavalry under his command, there were 10,000% of the 5,000 cavalry under his command. The remnants of Ma Teng's army, who were defeated and fled at the end of the year before yesterday, were later incorporated by Guo Si. He actually brought such cavalry to attack their former leader Ma Chao, which shows the chaos in the management of the Western Liang army.

Neither Wu Xi nor Guo Si realized that the young Ma Chao was already well-known among the Western Liang cavalry. Many cavalrymen who had followed Ma Teng had a little knowledge of Ma Chao's bravery.

As expected, Ma Chao did not disappoint Wu Xi, and directly left his 27,000 troops to defend the city. The remaining 20,000 people were sent out, all of which were cavalry teams, and they were in a mighty manner.

Before Wu Xi could even finish the words of scolding and challenging the formation, he saw the dust rolling behind Ma Chao, and more and more cavalrymen extending to the wings at the end of the horizon. He was so scared that he shivered slightly.

He originally brought five thousand people to explore the truth and reality. Ma Chao directly bets on the table. How could Wu Xi withstand this momentum?

"Retreat! Retreat quickly! General Cavalry will take us!" Wu Xi ran away without saying a word, five thousand light cavalry fled in panic.

"Catch the enemy with me!" Ma Chao's long spear move, and the cavalry behind him also replaced the bows and arrows, rushing and firing arrows.

Ma Chao's army took advantage of the chaotic time difference of Wu Xi's transformation into the formation and turned back, and shot two or three hundred cavalry under the rain. A small number of Wu Xi's rear troops were tragically caught up by Ma Chao because of the speed of the speed, and hundreds of them were lost.

There were even some Ma family army who were captured from Ma Teng's two years ago and were captured from the bandit cavalry. Seeing that Ma Chao was so powerful, he turned against him and stood back on the side of the strong. Ma Chao chased him for twenty or thirty miles, and the soldiers were still fighting and more than 500 cavalry more.

Wu Xijun was assassinated, shot and surrendered, and lost more than one thousand cavalry. Only then was Guo Si and Jia Xu responded, and he slowly retreated. He lost hundreds of cavalry harassed behind the palace before he retreated to Guzang.

Jia Xu took the scale of Ma Chaojun throughout the whole process, and he had no doubts at this moment.

Jia Xu sighed: "Ma Chao has no less than 20,000 cavalrymen alone. This must have brought all the main forces of the Han army in the Western Expedition. This is not the case with the soldiers he stayed in Lingju County to guard the city.

It seems that Guan Yu has really set up a camp in Jincheng, and he wants to rely on it to scare Han Sui. Li Su is sure that Han Sui is afraid of fighting like a rat, and he also takes advantage of Han Sui and our army not working together."

Guo Si was so angry that his teeth were itchy. Since Ma Chao was tens of thousands of elite troops, of course he could not fight with Ma Chao now. Even more, his fighting style was to cut off Ma Chao's food route and wait until Ma Chao was hungry and his army was disintegrated before harvesting.

He immediately sent a scout messenger to Jincheng to try to sneak into the city, scolding Han Sui for missing the opportunity to fight, but the main force of the enemy army left and dared not cut off the retreat.
Chapter completed!