The messenger quickly talked about the battle of Yinping and fought Xu Renjie and Ma Xianglin in detail. He said it in detail in detail. After listening carefully, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but sigh: "Xu Renjie's strategy is well used. He won strategically and successfully deceived the enemy to leave the garrisoned pass, but... our army lost in terms of martial arts..."

The two uncles and nephews next to him also heard the whole process of the battle. The two uncles and nephews couldn't help but look at each other, and were quite surprised. The two uncles and nephews also knew about the bravery of Wang Er. When they fought outside Tongguan, Cao Wenzhao could injure Wang Er in two or three moves on the horse's back, but after getting off the horse, he felt that his strength was not as strong as Wang Er, but his moves were clever.

If Cao Wenzhao had to fight Wang Erbu alone, it would not be so easy for him to defeat Wang Er. Unexpectedly, this rash man would lose to Xiao Ma Chao Ma Xianglin here, which really surprised them a bit.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw the two of them inquiring, he said, "Wang Er is not used to the terrain in Yinping Mountains. When he fights on that strange ground, his downward plate is unstable and his strength cannot be fully exerted."

Cao Wenzhao said oh, and he knew it in his heart, and said, "General, why don't you let our uncle and nephew go over and help, we may be able to take down Xiao Ma Chao."

Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "If you get off the horse and fight in a stairs, you may not be much better than Wang Er. If you can't ride a horse in the Yinping Mountains, you can't exert your abilities, and you may not be able to defeat Ma Xianglin."

Cao Wenzhao shook his head and smiled and said, "How can you know if you don't give it a try?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were tightly locked in Cao Wenzhao. Because he was covering his face, Zhu Yuanzhang could not see his expression, but he saw a sense of confidence in his eyes. It was obvious that Cao Wenzhao had the confidence to defeat Xiao Ma Chao, but he just didn't know where his confidence came from.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Cao Wenzhao was not a general who liked to speak loudly and was blindly arrogant. Since he showed such a look, there might be a solution, so he waved his hand and said, "Then it will be a problem for two generals, Cao, the two big and small."

Cao Wenzhao bowed deeply and said, "The name of the two Caos of the two Caos of the big and small. The last general dares not use them anymore. From now on, only the two Caos of the big and small will be called Da Cao, and he will be called Xiao Cao, and ask General Zhu to fulfill his wish."

When he said this, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded. He captured Cao the second and second little Cao, but he did not also arrest his family. Now there is a whole Cao family member in his hometown in Er Cao. Because Zhu Yuanzhang released the news that he killed the second and second Cao Cao. Therefore, the family of the second Cao Cao was well supported by the court and raised him. If the news that the second and second Cao Cao had been thieves at this time, the Cao family would probably suffer a great disaster and they had to change their names, which is reasonable.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Okay, big grass, small grass, now I'll ask you to rush to Yinping Ancient Road immediately to help the Grand Marshal's leader."

When the two Caos of the Big and Big, it was getting cold and drizzling in the mountains. Most of the Zhu soldiers were huddled in the tents, and they were all a little depressed, because the Zhu army had rarely had any defeat since their debut. This time they suffered a defeat here and had no face to see the elders of Guanzhong when they returned.

Wang Er's shoulder injury has not healed yet. He was sitting in his tent with a thick white cloth wrapped around his shoulder. Yingshanhong was sewing the hole on his shoulder that was stabbed by a white gun. Poor Yingshanhong was so thick that she was very poor in needlework. The hole had been sewn for several days, but it was still not sewn.

In the central army tent, Xu Renjie looked at the map with a sad face, and his two brows almost turned into one. After being defeated by Ma Xianglin a few days ago, Xu Renjie retreated for a full twenty miles, retreated to a small village where the Qiang people lived, and set up camp again. Then he didn't know what to do, and he kept track of his traces here.

The spy said that Brother Zhu Ba sent a team of people to reinforce him, but Xu Renjie didn't care. In his opinion, the generals in Zhu's army who could fight with Xiao Ma Chao in the mountains and forests and defeat his opponents did not exist at all, and no one could be sent to help him get out of the predicament.

At this time, the spy came in and reported: "Grand Marshal, the team sent by the general to reinforce us has arrived, and there are only about fifty people. The two leaders are still covered in faces and are unwilling to tell us their identities, saying that they will only talk after meeting you."

Xu Renjie felt a little surprised: In addition to himself, are there any masked generals in Zhu's army? It seems that there is no one!

Once he became curious, he wanted to see who was here. Xu Renjie ordered the soldiers to invite people to come. He saw two men wearing straw raincoats walking into the tent, taking off their straw raincoats, taking off their straw hats, wearing purple robes inside, and wearing black facial scarves on their faces.

Xu Renjieqi said: "What are you?"

"Cao Wenzhao, Cao transformed into Jiao's uncle and nephew!" Cao Wenzhao quickly introduced himself: "But in the future, he will change his name to Da Cao, Xiao Cao!"

Hearing that the two masters of the two families came, Xu Renjie couldn't help but be respectful. People with strength and noble character would always make the people around him respect him. Xu Renjie said shyly: "Are you two... unwilling to help us? Why..."

Cao Wenzhao shook his head: "Now is not the time to talk about this, so let's see how to break through the trouble in front of him."

Xu Renjie was not a mother-in-law, so he quickly cheered up and explained the current situation in detail to Cao Wenzhao. Since the last battle, Ma Xianglin discovered that Zhu Jun did not take the Tujia village, so he had planned to retreat to Motianling and defend it in danger. But after thinking about it carefully, he felt that even if he didn't rely on Motianling, he could still defeat Zhu Jun. Why do you have to go back? It would be better to guard several nearby Tujia villages at the foot of the mountain, so that he could help the Tujia residents here at any time.

So the Bai Gan soldiers did not return to the Motianling Mountains, but instead stationed on the hill where they fought last time. Next to the barrack was a Tujia village. The soldiers actually became neighbors with the villagers. Every night, campfires would be lit in the barracks. The people in the village actually ran into the barracks and danced a small waving dance with the Tujia soldiers...

This is really obvious that he looks down on Xu Renjie. The Tujia people now regard it as a guest here to relax. It is not like coming to fight, but Xu Renjie still has no choice but to do anything to others.

If you fight hard, you can't fight. If you play a surprise attack, there are only people who attack Zhu's army on their territory, but there are no Zhu's army who attacked him? The nearby terrain is far from being able to get through the white-rod soldiers, and only a crushing defeat is possible when playing conspiracy. It is not feasible to play the family card. The corn that Xu Renjie sent was sent by Ma Xianglin and was sent back unmovably. He didn't even have the interest to taste it. It is obvious that he would not deal with the thieves.

Xu Renjie is really going crazy.

After listening to Xu Renjie's introduction, Cao Wenzhao laughed and whispered: "Ma Xianglin, this kid, is still of this kind of virtue... To put it nicely, it is called "a skilled and brave." To put it badly, it is just that he doesn't know how to live or die, and he is too arrogant."

Xu Renjie felt amazement in his heart: "General Cao, have you dealt with Ma Xianglin?"

Cao Wenzhao nodded and sighed: "The generals who fought the Tartars together in Liaodong have said a few words to each other. Everyone was still young at that time, and they were filled with anger and swearing to fight Jiannu back to the mountains... Who would have thought that more than ten years have passed, and those people are old and dead, and the Tartars are still lively."

He couldn't help but feel a little sad, remembering the past ten years ago. In the first year of Tianqi (1621), seventeen years ago, the Battle of Hunhe broke out. Sichuan soldiers, Qi's army, and Liaodong border troops joined forces to fight the Tartars in Hunhe. Before the war, officers from all departments gathered together to drink oaths. At that time, Ma Xianglin was still a young man who had just come to his prime, and Cao Wenzhao was still in his prime. His official position was not big. He was just a guerrilla general and a high-spirited general Qi Jin. Although the three of them met for the first time, they all saw a sense of heroism from each other and felt good about each other. But they sat together and drank wine and laughed at the killing of the Tartars...

Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, Qi Jin died, Ma Xianglin lost one eye, and Cao Wenzhao was also killed by the Tartars and retreated. Although the battle was brave and was called "the first bloody battle since the Liao Zuo used troops", it was a very shame for the military officers of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Cao Wenzhao could not forget this shameful battle, and he also forgot the unique temper of Ma Xianglin among the few friends he had met at that time. After all, he was from the Tujia ethnic minority in the southwest, and was very different from ordinary Han people. Relatively speaking, Han people were more round, and they used more brains when encountering problems and fewer hands and feet. When encountering key major events, they like to think about it first, weigh the pros and cons before taking action.

But Ma Xianglin has some typical characteristics of ethnic minorities, that is, he takes action before using his brain. When encountering major events, he first follows his intuition to do things, rather than weighing the pros and cons first.

Cao Wenzhao didn't hate this kind of person, and even liked to be friends with him. However, when he met this kind of person on the battlefield, he was very easy to deal with because he was too provoked.

According to what Xu Renjie said, Zhu Jun just used the small threat of burning down the Tujia village, so he sowed Ma Xianglin down the mountain and abandoned his defenses and neglected him. It can be seen that this guy is still so impulsive over the years.

Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but say to Xu Renjie: "Master Marshal, if you don't mind that I stole your credit, can you hand over this Ma Xianglin to me to deal with?"

When Xu Renjie heard this, he was overjoyed. He knew how powerful Cao Wenzhao was. It was great that this guy was willing to help him deal with Ma Xianglin. As for robbing merits, he didn't care at all. First, he only liked to fight and not plot merits. Second, he had a very stable position in the Zhu army. After following Brother Zhu for ten years, was he still afraid that a latecomer would surpass him? What are you worried about being robbed for merits? He quickly said, "Then it will be a blessing for General Cao."

Cao Wenzhao quickly said, "It's the big grass! Remember, it's the big grass!"

Xu Renjie shrugged: "I know, the leader of the big grass!"

The next day, the mountain rain stopped, and after the wind gently caressed the wind and the fragrance of the soil, there were still some water droplets hanging on the leaves and branches. Ma Xianglin sat outside the Tujia village in a pretty good mood. Seeing several Tujia people busying on the mountainside with baskets on their backs, he heard the scouts of his white-rod soldiers coming back to report: "The thief army has moved and is coming to us."

Ma Xianglin laughed: "After they were defeated by me last time, they were silenced for so many days. Now they have been brave enough to find them again? This time they beat them up with a bun."

Several deputy generals around him couldn't help but smile.

They really didn't take the Zhu army seriously. Since the Zhu army had been defeated once a few days ago, the result will be the same when we come again. There will be no change. Moreover, in the last battle, the Zhu army occupied the top of the hill, and the Baigang soldiers attacked from the bottom up. This time, the Baigang soldiers occupied the top of the hill. If the Zhu army came, they would be condescending this time, and there was no reason to be defeated.

Ma Xianglin summoned the soldiers and asked the people in the village to temporarily avoid going up the mountain. When he was rectifying, the soldiers of Zhu's army began to appear in the northeast direction, and the army of 8,000 people were still there, but the difference from the last time was that Xu Renjie took with him Wang Er and Yingshanhong. This time he brought with him two men with a mask.

If it were another thief army, Ma Xianglin was too lazy to pay attention to it, but the thief army did not burn the Tujia village, which shocked Ma Xianglin quite a lot. Therefore, this time I saw Xu Renjie's attitude was much better, and I just shouted loudly: "Oh, are you here to lose again?"

Xu Renjie remained silent.

Ma Xianglin frowned and said, "Because you didn't burn my Tujia village last time, I didn't pursue you... I don't want to kill you now. You bring your people with you, where to come from, where to go, and stop trying to pass through the Yinping Ancient Road... We Sichuan do not welcome thieves."

Xu Renjie was still silent. However, a masked man walked out beside him, wearing a purple robe, and soft armor could be seen faintly under the robe. Before the man could speak, Ma Xianglin frowned. Although it was far apart, he felt a sense of aura from this person...the murderous aura... His murderous aura was different from that of Xu Renjie and Wang Er. Although Xu Renjie and Wang Er are considered veterans of a hundred battles, their murderous aura was obviously relatively obscure, or they knew how to restrain themselves, because the enemy of Zhu Jun was often the army of the Ming Dynasty. They were both Han people, and they would not act too ruthless, so the murderous aura on Xu Renjie and Wang Er seemed much softer.

But the person who came out now seemed to have the "whimper" feeling when the horn sounded, and the aura raised by bloody battles and killing enemies on the prairie. This aura was completely different from Xu Renjie and Wang Er, which made Ma Xianglin's blood boil for a moment...

"A general from the border army?" Ma Xianglin found this feeling in just a momentum. During the Battle of Hunhe, he felt this momentum from many generals of the Ming Dynasty, but more than half of those generals were buried on the grasslands in Liaodong...

This person is naturally Cao Wenzhao. After seventeen years, Cao Wenzhao saw Ma Xianglin again, and he saw that his face was much older than he was back then. In the past seventeen years, he changed a lot to a person. He was blinded by one eye. He was no longer the handsome and handsome little Ma Chao, but a murderous one-eyed horse. At that time, he was so heroic that he was no longer as arrogant as he was before after experiencing the blows of defeat, losing his wife, and so on. However, a stream of blood was still unconcealed from his body.

Cao Wenzhao thought of a word, and once he said it, he could make Ma Xianglin jump up and fight desperately. He just didn't know how different he was from seventeen years ago. Seventeen years ago, saying that must be useful, but now it may not be effective.

Of course, Ma Xianglin could not recognize Cao Wenzhao. After seventeen years, the other party was covered in a face again. If he could still recognize Cao Wenzhao, it would be really amazing. He just snorted angrily: "Cover your head and pretend to be a god. So what are you from the border army? Humph! What are you doing? Are you asking for a fight?"

Cao Wenzhao did not answer his words, but said the words he had prepared in advance. He said in a tone that looked down on Ma Xianglin very much: "Your martial arts are very poor at first glance. I will let you have two feet and stand still and defeat you."

"Bastard!" Ma Xianglin was furious and jumped up. His face, which was already black, was now red again, and it showed a purple color: "How dare you insult me?"

"I'm not interested in insulting a soft-footed shrimp." Cao Wenzhao said lightly: "If you have two feet standing still, you can fight you. Do you dare to answer? If you dare, come, if you don't dare, get out of here. Don't be a hero."

Without thinking, Ma Xianglin grabbed his silver-inlaided soldiers from the side, jumped up from the hill, retreated and rushed down the hill. The deputy generals of the white-pole soldiers behind him woke up at this time and jumped out together, hugged Ma Xianglin's waist, and shouted: "General, don't be trapped in the enemy's aggression plan."

Ma Xianglin was furious: "Of course I know it was a provocative plan, but so what? I rushed over and shot the big dick twice. I think he could have any conspiracy?"

A group of deputy generals quickly persuaded, "General...what is it that you are rushing over alone? There are thousands of people standing there. He said he was a single one with you, but in fact, two hundred swords and axe players were buried behind him. As soon as you go over, he asked those swords and axe players to rush up."

When Ma Xianglin heard this, he woke up: Yes, I rushed over, and there was no need to fight with me. If the arrows came over, I just yelled, but I still couldn't rush around.

Just as I thought of this, I suddenly saw the masked enemy general who was talking big and walked out of the bandit formation, and walked slowly onto the small hill between the two armies.

At this time, the two armies were more than one mile apart, and in the middle of the two armies, not to mention that the arrows of the Zhu army could not be shot, and the arrows of the Baiji soldier could not be shot so far. It can be said that it is impossible to be attacked at that position.
Chapter completed!