On the top of the city, Wang Ding and Jia Xu seemed to have been drinking tea and discussing Taoism, but their peripheral vision was focused on Ma Chao.
Jia Xu said: "There's no rush."
Ma Chao did not retreat directly, but hid in the shade.
On this hot day, there is no shadow near the city gate.
Ma Chao hid in the shade, but asked other Liangzhou soldiers to come to the city gate and continue to yell and curse.
As long as the people didn't leave, Wang Ding didn't care whether it was Ma Chao yelling at the city gate or these Liangzhou soldiers.
The weather is really hot, there is no shade in front of the city gate, and the same is true on the city wall.
Wang Ding asked someone to put up two umbrellas, while Jia Xu's boy was still standing aside, fanning him back and forth with a banana fan.
After a while, another soldier came up with a plate of cakes.
Wang Ding picked up a piece of pastry, walked to the edge of the city wall, and shouted to Ma Chao in the distance: "Meng Qi, are you tired? I have some pastries here, do you want to take a bite?"
Ma Chao had just scolded Wang Ding for two hours, but he didn't see any reaction from Wang Ding. Instead, he made himself angry, as if he was a fool.
At this moment, when I saw Wang Ding greeting me like a good friend, I was even more filled with smoke. Even if I stayed in the shade, my whole body seemed to be on fire.
So irritating.
It was Wang Ding who was clearly afraid of fighting and it was Wang Ding who was scolded, but why did the other party turn a deaf ear and still drink tea leisurely on the city wall?
Ma Chao felt really unbalanced.
"Damn Guanzhong people."
Wang Ding was still on the city wall, stuffing the pastry in his hand into his mouth, then raising the whole plate of pastry and shouting: "Meng Qi, why don't I throw the pastry down and you can catch it." Ma Chao gritted his teeth, rode his war horse, came to the city again, and roared: "Wang Ding, I don't want to eat your cakes. If you have the guts, open the city gate and fight me for three hundred rounds."
Wang Dingdao: "Brother Meng Qi seems to be very energetic, so I can rest assured."
After that, Wang Ding took the plate and sat under the umbrella again.
Ma Chao almost spit out a mouthful of blood, it was so annoying.
"Wang Ding, you are not a man, you are a woman." Ma Chao scolded angrily.
But how can these words hurt Wang Ding?
It’s not like Wang Ding has never heard of words even worse than what Ma Chao scolded.
Although the person Ma Chao was scolding was himself, Wang Ding really had the feeling that he was an outsider, as if he was looking down on the world. He had the sobriety of a bystander.
Even if Ma Chao was in the city and scolded him all day and night, he would not make Wang Ding's heart waver at all.
Jia Xuyun was calm. He thought he would comfort Wang Ding today, but he didn't expect Wang Ding to be like him and not take Ma Chao's abuse to heart at all.
Jia Xu could feel that Wang Ding was really not angry at all.
Up and down the city, two young men with an age difference of only one or two years showed completely different demeanor.
Wang Ding raised his head and glanced at the scorching sun in the sky. Just one glance and strong light forced him to lower his head quickly.
"It's almost noon." Jia Xu looked at the sky to the west.
Han Sui should be about to take action.
Ma Chao, who is under the city, has no idea that his lair is about to be stolen.
The Liangzhou soldiers were all brought by Ma Chao, and there were not many people left in the camp. Mainly because there were still 20,000 people in the camp with three days' rations.
Wang Ding said: "Let's take action."
He had already seen waves of thick smoke rising in the sky over Longshan, ten miles away.
Wang Ding pointed to the distance and shouted to the city: "Meng Qi, where is your camp?"
Ma Chao didn't understand why and cursed angrily: "Wang Ding, if you are still a man, come out and fight me."
Wang Ding said: "Meng Qi, look back first. There seems to be a fire over there."
Ma Chao looked back and saw thick smoke billowing in the sky.
He was shocked, that was indeed the direction of his camp.
"Retreat, retreat."
Ma Chao hurriedly retreated with his troops.
It was only then that Ma Chao began to retreat, and the city gate of Chencang opened.
Wang Ding took Fan Chou and killed him from the city.
He only had 4,000 infantry in his hands, and he headed towards the retreating Liangzhou army.
In addition to the cavalry, there are also 10,000 infantry among the 20,000 Liangzhou soldiers.
In panic, Ma Chao just led his cavalry and galloped away, but his 10,000 infantrymen fell behind and were overtaken by Wang Ding.
The generals have all run away, and the ten thousand foot soldiers are also running around. No one can stand up and direct the soldiers to fight.
Four thousand people chased and chopped down ten thousand people, shouting loudly: "Those who surrender will not be killed."
The young Ma Chao was brave and invincible in Liangzhou, but this was also the first time that he led his own troops into battle.
After seeing a fire in his camp, he panicked and retreated without any plan, giving Wang Ding such a good opportunity.
If Ma Chao had prepared a little, Wang Ding wouldn't have been able to be so relaxed.
After all, he only has 4,000 infantry in his hands now, and the others were taken away by Xu Huang and Han Sui.
Those civilians just stood on the city wall and pretended.
Wang Ding didn't dare to really take them out of the city to fight.
It's not that these civilian husbands are not loyal enough, but because these civilian husbands have not been trained.
The formation is not well organized. If we really want them to leave the city, the formation will probably be even more chaotic than the Liangzhou soldiers who are fleeing in panic at this moment.
"Surrender without killing."
Wang Ding rides a bay-red horse and holds a sword in his hand. Judging from the appearance, he is not inferior to Ma Chao at all.
He did not massacre these Liangzhou infantry.
From now on, all the roads in Hanzhong will be paved by these people. Every one missing is Wang Ding's loss.
These Liangzhou soldiers are also pieced together from various tribes.
Ma Chao ran away first, and they had no intention of fighting to the death.
Amid the shouts of the Han army, many people surrendered simply when they saw that they were being overtaken and could not escape.
They don't know that there is a saying that they can leave green hills without worrying about having firewood to burn them, as long as they don't want to die.
Of the ten thousand infantry, not many were killed by the Han army. Some of them escaped, but most of them chose to surrender in the end.
Wang Ding led 4,000 infantrymen and captured 6,300 prisoners.
And his own casualties are almost negligible.
The Liangzhou soldiers did not resist, they just ran away.
Let Cheng Yin take the prisoners back to the city and keep them under guard. Wang Dingze and Fan Chou continued to march towards Baoji Mountain.
This time he wanted to capture Ma Chao alive. Wang Ding did not want to miss this ambush in Baoji Mountain.
Xu Huang only brought 5,000 men, which was still behind the number of cavalry in Ma Chao's hands.
It is still unclear whether the ambush can be successful.
He wants to bring these thousands of infantry to support Xu Huang.
Wangding was still more than three miles away from Baoji Mountain, and he could already hear shouts of death coming from ahead.
One morning was enough for Xu Huang to prepare some simple tools to block the Ma Chao cavalry's retreat.
When Ma Chao rushed past Baoji Mountain, hemp ropes as thick as his arms suddenly emerged from the ground, tripping up the horses one after another.
In an instant, half of the ten thousand cavalry lost their horses.
Ma Chao's riding skills are very strong and his reaction is very fast. After seeing the horse-tripping rope, he controlled the horse under him, jumped high, and jumped over the two-foot-high rope.