Just as the incident at Hulao Pass had just ended, another battle broke out between Ma Chao and Cao Cao on the frontal battlefield in Guandu.
The bitter and hot air seemed to have stagnated, and the fiery face was waiting for the wind sadly. The sun shone fiercely on the earth in the dark blue sky. On the battlefield that had turned into a bloody swamp, Ma Chao took the lead.
The ghost cavalry with their direct troops is chasing the defeated Wei army.
On the left is Ma Chao's general Suo Xu, and on the right is Qian Hu. The two of them each led more than two thousand cavalry to cooperate with Ma Chao in fighting. They chased forward vigorously, vowing to catch up with the disgusting Cao Mengde, and then cut him down with one blow.
his head.
"Thief Cao, please leave!"
Cao Cao, escorted by the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry led by Cao Chun and Cao Xiu, galloped quickly, while Xu Chu waited for an opportunity behind to resist Ma Chao's pursuit.
This is already the sixth battle between Ma Chao and Cao Cao. In just a few days, gunpowder smoke has filled the entire Guandu battlefield. Ghost cavalry wearing white cloaks and white helmets can often be seen walking around the Guandu battlefield.
There was a conflict, and the Wei army was killed and fell into disgrace.
Since Ma Chao led 30,000 ghost cavalry to attack the Yan Army's camp and forced back the Yan Army's 100,000 troops, Ma Chao became even more arrogant. First, he asked Zhang Xiu and Wang Shuang to escort Liu Bian back to Hulao Pass, and then invited
His father, Ma Teng, watched the battle and only used his own skills
The ghost cavalry went to deal with Cao Cao's infantry and cavalry. In the first confrontation, the ghost cavalry's practice of throwing weapons before the battle immediately caused Cao Cao to suffer a big loss. His troops could not withstand Ma Chao's sharp edge. In order to reduce casualties, they had to
Defeat and run away.
Later, there were four more battles of different scales between the two men. Basically, Ma Chao took the offensive and Cao Cao took the defensive. Twice, Cao Cao used clever tricks to defeat Ma Chao, but Ma Chao was not injured.
This time Ma Chao had to launch another attack and attacked Cao Cao's camp, forcing Cao Cao to retreat.
Ma Chao held up the Dihuo Xuanlu Spear and rode a white horse from Dawan. He chased Cao Cao triumphantly, as if he was chasing his own prey. He liked this feeling of conquest. However, between him and Cao Cao,
In the meantime, there would always be a familiar figure looming, and that figure also made him hate it very much. He wanted to kill it but couldn't, and wanted to put it away but couldn't get rid of it. It was like a piece of dog-skin plaster, sticking tightly to his body.
"If Xu Chu doesn't die, we can't capture Cao Cao. Six times in a row. At the most critical moment, Xu Chu suddenly came out and killed him. This damn fat man is really outrageous!" Ma Chao looked at the person sandwiched between him and Cao Cao.
Xu Chu couldn't help but cursed.
Cao Cao was galloping among the retreating crowd, and when he saw Ma Chao and other ghost cavalry closely following him, not only did he not feel the slightest hint of danger, but there was a faint smile on his lips.
After running for almost five miles, Cao Cao and others suddenly got into a forest.
When Ma Chao saw it, he sneered and said, "Cao Ah Man, do you think I can't do anything to you if you run into the woods?"
He saw the last cavalryman of the Wei army hiding in the woods. He was still some distance away from the woods, so he immediately ordered: "Chase him! Whoever kills Cao Cao's head will be rewarded with thousands of gold and be made a marquis of ten thousand households!"
Stimulated by the huge economic benefits, Ma Chao's men all rushed into the woods. For a while, the speed of the horses actually surpassed Ma Chao. Although they are not good horses from Dawan, these Xiliang horses have excellent endurance.
, plus Ma Chao
I just had a battle with Xu Chu today. The horses under me were exhausted so much that the Xiliang horse overtook the Dawan horse. Most of the ghost cavalry rushing in front surpassed Ma Chao and headed towards the famous diamond in the woods.
Dreaming about killing Cao Cao and getting a reward.
"Thief, your mother!" Ma Chao cursed in his heart after seeing this, "Why didn't I see you guys so crazy when we charged just now? When I heard that there was a reward, you ran faster than anyone else..."
"Your Majesty, don't chase the poor enemy. The enemy did not go to the plains, but hid in the woods. There must be something fishy. Please, Your Majesty, order to stop immediately and stop chasing. I am afraid it is Cao Cao's treacherous plan." Seeing this, Suo Xu hurriedly shouted.
Got up.
Ma Chao now trusts Suo Xu quite a lot. If Suo Xu hadn't reminded him in time the first two times, he might have suffered a bigger loss. Now when he heard Suo Xu's cry, he was a little frightened. After all, this guy Cao Cao treated him very badly.
In other words, he was a cunning and cunning person who often ambushed him halfway and attacked from behind, which sometimes made him dizzy.
"All troops stop advancing!" Ma Chao shouted with fear. The ghost cavalry who were running in excitement hurriedly reined in their horses and stopped in the open space far away from the forest. They all looked at Ma Chao with strange eyes.
, waiting for the next command.
As a precaution, Ma Chao sent ten cavalry into the forest to have a look. After the cavalry saw it, they came back and said that Cao Cao was still in the forest. He took a look at the huge forest and thought that if he wanted to go around in a roundabout way, he would be afraid.
The time to capture Cao Cao was wasted, but he did not dare to attack rashly, and was hesitating.
"Your Majesty, this opportunity must not be missed before it comes again. According to Cao Cao's two little plots before, if there is really an ambush, now that we are so close to the woods, thousands of arrows must be fired. But the wind is calm now, and it is
I thought we could pursue him." Qian Hu said eagerly.
Suo Xu hurriedly retorted: "No! Cao Cao is full of tricks. If he doesn't attack us at this time, it doesn't mean he won't ambush us in the woods, just in case..."
Qian Hu said: "I think you are frightened by Cao Cao. There are so many conspiracies and tricks. Your Majesty is invincible in the world. Cao Cao has been chased to death. What other tricks can you come up with? Your Majesty, attack, and then
If you hesitate, Cao Cao will run away and lose his head!"
Ma Chao felt that Qian Hu was right and immediately said: "The whole army obeys the order and moves forward!"
Suo Xu wanted to comfort him, but he didn't know that Ma Chao rushed into the woods with his people before he could speak, followed closely by Qian Hu. He originally wanted to leave some people to guard outside the woods, but the price offered by Ma Chao was too high.
It was so big that everyone squeezed their heads and hid in the woods for the sake of the Ten Thousand Households. In a short time, he was the only one left out of fifteen thousand ghost cavalry.
He looked around for a week and saw no unusual behavior around him. In desperation, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow in.
The woods were overgrown with thorns and thorns, making it unsuitable for the cavalry to walk. The more than 15,000 ghost cavalry had to disperse and walk slowly forward in the woods. Although they were not satisfied with the road conditions, they saw Cao Cao not far ahead.
I feel relieved.
Qian Hu saw that the horse was going too slowly, so he immediately jumped off the horse and advanced on foot. He ran forward quickly. When he saw Cao Cao and a group of soldiers not far ahead, getting closer and closer to him, his face changed.
Great joy emerged, and he thought to himself: "Marquis Wanhu is mine..."
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, and ran faster and faster without caring about anything. When he saw Cao Cao and others standing there motionless, as if they were being slaughtered, he relaxed his vigilance, and rushed over with his knife, first cutting them down.
The two soldiers' happy faces immediately showed expressions of extreme surprise, because what they chopped down was not a soldier at all, but a scarecrow wearing soldiers' clothes.
He looked around hurriedly and saw that all the people arranged in the dense forest, including Cao Cao, were just scarecrows wearing clothes. Moreover, at the same time, he smelled a pungent smell, and the combat boots under his feet also felt damp.
, he hurriedly looked down and found that he was standing in a large pit filled with fierce fire oil. The fierce fire oil had already submerged his ankles, and there was a chasm on the ground. The fierce fire oil was flowing towards him along the chasm.
come over.
"No! We've been tricked again!" Qian Hu immediately realized something and shouted hurriedly, "Your Majesty, retreat quickly, we have fallen into Cao Cao's trick again..."
As soon as he finished shouting, a fire arrow shot down from a tree over there. As soon as the fire oil touched the sparks, it immediately burned. The fire expanded rapidly and directly burned Qian Hu who was standing in the oil pit.
.
"ah……"
Qian Hu's body was on fire, and the scorching flames made his skin sizzle. The intense burning sensation made him suffer. He hurriedly jumped out of the oil pit and started rolling on the ground.
However, he didn't know that the ground was covered with flammable hay. The fire on Qian Hu's body quickly ignited the hay, and the oil pit also divided into many small streams, and the fierce fire began to quickly follow the ditch filled with fierce kerosene.
The ground spread out in all directions, and two flames on the ground were seen quickly opening towards the edge of the woods, and then converged on the path of the ghost cavalry, directly cutting off the return path.
At this time, in a large fire ring, eight walls of fire ignited from eight different directions on the ground, starting from all directions and converging towards the middle, and finally concentrated in the middle, forming a huge fireball, covering the huge fireball.
The forest was directly divided into eight parts.
The fire suddenly broke out, and all the horses under the ghost cavalry lost control. They began to buck angrily. Some soldiers who had not had time to grasp the reins were jolted off their horses. Many soldiers' bodies began to catch fire, and they suddenly fell into a panic.
In the middle, people were on their backs, and groans and screams of pain could be heard endlessly.
"Don't panic, don't panic, retreat, retreat!" Ma Chao couldn't help being surprised when he saw this situation. He didn't expect that he had entered a crematorium that had been set up by others. When he saw his subordinates panicking, he shouted loudly.
Got up.
However, the wall of fire blocked everything. Except for the soldiers following Ma Chao who calmed down for a while, the other soldiers in different fire circles were shouting continuously. With the neighing of horses, the whole forest seemed to explode.
Seems like.
"Your Majesty, come with me quickly!" Suo Xu squeezed out from the crowd and said to Ma Chao.
Ma Chao looked ashamed and regretted not listening to Suo Xu, and said: "Suo Xu, this king..."
Suo Xu directly interrupted Ma Chao and said: "Your Majesty, it is not suitable to stay here for a long time. I saw the Wei army from the edge surrounding this place. Whether the others can escape will be left to their own destiny, but I will definitely
If you want to rescue the king, please come with me quickly. I have extinguished the fire ring at the back with soil, and the soldiers behind have left."
Ma Chao was deeply moved. He relied on his superior martial arts skills. He had always been the one to save others. He never thought that he would be so depressed today that he would have to ask others to save him. Without saying a word, it was important to survive, and he and his men quickly followed Suo Xu towards the woods.