Chapter 94: Tongguan fights against the enemy

Tongguan.

When Ma Chao led his army to the pass, the fierce offensive and defensive battle lasted for two days and two nights. Under the towering levels, there were thousands of corpses. The bloody smell emitted from the battlefield could be clearly heard within a few miles.

The natural barrier of Tongguan is as high as four meters high and the artificially built city walls make Tongguan a natural barrier that cannot be crossed. Above the level two meters wide, the level made of stone codes is solid and flat. Above the levels that last several miles long are densely packed with soldiers. They all have a firm expression, some holding shields, some holding crossbows, and solemnly staring at the enemy soldiers under the level.

Ma Chao stood solemnly on the wall of the gate, staring at the big flag raised in front of the enemy formation below the gate, because the flag was embroidered with a big word "Lu".

Ma Chao's sharp eyes gradually took back from the dazzling flag. Finally, he looked back at the generals behind him and said, "Lu Bu's 30,000 vanguard army is a stunning army of tigers and wolves. If we always defend this passively, although we can protect Tongguan, we will do nothing. If Dong Zhuo's army really crossed the Yellow River north, we will completely lose this opportunity, so I think we can't defend anymore. It's time to take the initiative to fight back."

When he heard Ma Chao expressing his intention to go to war, all the generals showed an excited expression on their faces. Pang De sucked his palm and said, "I have heard of Lu Bu's courage for a long time, De must know him for a while."

Ma Chao said solemnly: "Ling Ming, don't miss Lu Bu. If this person fights to the death, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to walk hundreds of dozen rounds under his hands."

Pang De was shocked, his face full of disbelief, and Zhao Yun also changed his expression. He knew clearly that Ma Chao's martial arts were just as good as him. If he could not defeat Lu Bu, then he would not be his opponent. Although the blow was quite a big deal, it aroused Zhao Yun's determination to fight.

Zhang Rui and Hu Chier have never seen the martial arts of the generals, so they naturally have no feelings, so they are more calm.

Jia Xu has actually been thinking about this issue. Now that he heard Ma Chao put forward a resolution, he couldn't help but think.

Of course, among the generals, except Ma Chao, they belong to Gao Shun and were the most familiar with Lu Bu. Therefore, he nodded very pertinently about Ma Chao's words.

"Ming Gong, Lu Bu is a man of no strategy, why not make such a arrangement?" Jia Xu thought for a moment, then stepped forward and offered a plan.

After hearing Jia Xu's plan, Ma Chao nodded in agreement and said, "Mr. Wenhe's words are very good. You can write a letter immediately. I will send someone out of the pass immediately and ask Lu Bu to fight tomorrow."

Lu Bu camp.

"Haha... Ma Chao, your death tomorrow is the day you will die." Lu Bu laughed disdainfully after reading the war book in his hand. After a while, he shouted: "I will order all battalions to have a good rest tonight. I will see me kill the generals and kill the enemy tomorrow."

In the middle of the night that day, when Lu Bu was sleeping, he suddenly heard a clamor outside the camp. In a frightened state, he hurriedly put on his clothes and rushed out of the tent, shouting: "What's the matter of beating the drum?"

General Song Xian shouted in panic: "General, look at the opposite side."

Lu Bu looked up and saw that the lights were brightly lit across the camp. Ma Chao and his horse actually set up the camp under his nose. In shock and anger, he couldn't help but shout: "What are the scouts outside the camp doing? Why did the enemy still not notice it when they came outside the camp?"

"General, at night, you ordered the troops to rest well, so..." The general Hou Cheng, seeing Lu Bu's angry, only half said, then swallowed it into his stomach.

Only then did Lu Bu realize that Ma Chao's plan was caught. He was angry and immediately shouted: "Gather the troops and capture the enemy camp for me."

It turned out that Ma Chao followed Jia Xu's plan and sent Feng Zhan Shu to paralyze Lu Bu. At night, he ordered Gao Shun, and Zhang Rui to lead 5,000 troops and quietly exit the pass. He secretly set up camp on the left and right sides of Lu Bu's camp, and piled up dirt mountains in the camp, built high oars on the dirt mountains, and then guarded the high oars with crossbow hands.

The clamor that Lu Bu heard just now was naturally the shocking signal sent by the two armies of Gao Shun and Zhang Rui when they built the fortifications.

At this moment, as soon as Lu Bu gathered his troops rushed out of the camp gate, Gao Shun stood inside Gaolu in the camp on the left and immediately shouted: "Beat the drum! Take the arrow!"

Zhang Rui from the camp on the right also shouted in a deep voice: "Beat the drum! Shoot the arrow!"

For a moment, in the vast night, only the sound of "swooshing" breaking the wind, and the feather arrows flying all over the sky fell in front of the Lu Bu camp gate like dense raindrops.

"ah……"

"Help...ah!"

"...Enemy attacks, hurry up, retreat quickly."

Under the dark night, the eight thousand soldiers led by Lu Bu were attacked by such a dense rain of arrows as soon as he left the camp. He was immediately in a panic. In front of the narrow camp, eight thousand soldiers were crowded together. In panic, countless people trampled on each other, rushed to escape, and died at the feet of war horses.

Lu Bu was blocked in the chaos and could not escape for a while. The feathered arrows flying from the night took away the lives of the soldiers beside him from time to time. In a frightened state, Lu Bu danced with Fang Tian Painting Ji and roared: "Do away from me!"

As his shouts fell, a soldier standing in front of him was split into two pieces by his halberd, and his death was extremely miserable, causing the panicked soldiers in front of Lu Bu to be surprisingly calmed down at this moment.

"Retreat! Retreat the camp quickly." Lu Bu shouted with a stare, and the personal soldiers guarding the left and right sides lined up and shouted in unison: "Does go, the blockers will kill!"

The panicked soldier had no time to avoid it and did not die under the rain of arrows, but became a ghost under his own sword. In the short half-mile journey in front of the camp, there were more than 2,000 corpses lying down, but only half of them died under the feather arrows. The other half was either trampled to death or killed by Lu Bu's personal soldiers.

After Lu Bu led his army to withdraw back to the camp, he immediately led his troops to a camp, retreated to a vast area twenty-five miles away, and re-established camp.

The next day, Ma Chao led three generals Zhao Yun, Pang De and Hu Chier, and led 5,000 stairs out of the pass to fight.

When Ma Chao was setting up his position outside Lu Bu Camp, he came to the front of the formation and shouted to the camp: "Lu Bu is traitor, can you dare to fight?"

Lu Bu was in the camp, worried that he could not take revenge. When he heard Ma Chao coming to fight, he ignored the opposition of the generals and immediately put on his horse and led four generals Hao Meng, Cao Xing, Cheng Lian, and Hou Cheng to lead three thousand iron cavalry to fight, leaving Song Xian and Wei Xu to lead troops to guard the camp.

When Lu Bu set up his formation, he rode his horse and waved his halberd and shouted: "My son, Ma Chao, I'm here!"
Chapter completed!