Chapter 1309

Tongguan.

Bai Xiaowen received information from Camille. Ma Chao asked Han Sui to send more troops. In addition, he sent messengers to Xiliang to ask Qiang troops to help the war.

There is a senior insider, which is to save worry and effort.

Bai Xiaowen examined the geographical map of mountains and rivers. After investigating the terrain, he decided to let Cao Ren guard the pass. He led 50000 troops to detour north and sneak across the Weishui River from pubanjin at night.

It's early spring.

Spring comes late in the north. The Weihe River has not thawed. The ice can barely carry the army across, but it can not be used as a battlefield for fierce war.

After crossing pubanjin, Feng Yijun is in front, which is also the right wing of the three auxiliary places.

If we can have a foothold in the west of the Weihe River, we can form an attack with the defenders of Tongguan!

Ma Chao's Xiliang army must also devote energy to the flanks, making it more difficult to attack Tongguan.

However, the intelligence work of the Xiliang army is not bad. Bai Xiaowen led the army to cross the night and was detected by the Xiliang army in advance.

Ma Chao cheered up and said, "this is the destruction of Yuan Xi by heaven. I want to mention the army and go to pubanjin to block the attack in person!"

Pound said: "Yuan's army has recently increased 40000 troops, which is huge. Although Yuan Xi has raised tens of thousands of troops to cross the river, there are nearly 100000 people and horses in Tongguan. Moreover, Yuan Xi is crafty. If all our troops go out and the enemy troops in Tongguan attack and occupy our camp, we can only retreat to Chang'an."

Ma Chao nodded and said, "it's a pity that uncle and Qiang soldiers haven't arrived yet! In that case, Pangde and my brother are guarding the camp. I personally lead five thousand elite riders to harass Yuan Xi. We must not let him build a camp! When the reinforcements arrive, we can take advantage of the situation to break the enemy."

It can be seen here that the Xiliang army has no short board of counselors.

If Ma Chao can be decisive and try his best to stop Bai Xiaowen from crossing the river, he will certainly let Bai Xiaowen lose the battle.

However, Ma Chao was worried about the safety of the camp and left a large group of people to guard against the "unnecessary" Cao army attacking the camp! With only 5000 cavalry, it can only play a role of harassment and can't stop Bai Xiaowen from crossing the river.

Of course, this is also Bai Xiaowen's plan to suspect soldiers, which made Ma Chao and pound mistakenly think that there are tens of thousands of troops in Tongguan. In fact, there are only more than 10000 people under Cao Ren in Tongguan now, and they have no ability to threaten Ma Chao camp.

During the battle of pubanjin, Bai Xiaowen paid a high price for crossing the river.

Because in crossing the river, the leading troops must withstand the enemy's attack, otherwise the front team will retreat, which is bound to disrupt the formation of the rear team and trample on each other, which is most likely to lead to rout.

Ma Chao is also powerful, and the Lord's attack array is a magic skill to destroy the enemy's array. Yu Jian's big shield soldiers were defeated because of their insufficient number, fell into the Weihe River and stained the ice with blood.

In addition, the ice layer in the Weihe River is already very thin. In the case of the army's confusion, there are many people who break the ice layer under their feet and fall into the Weihe River. Although with the quality of soldiers in the spirit world, they won't die after soaking in the cold Weihe River overnight, they will disrupt the formation and can't fight in the end.

However, even if he paid a great price, Bai Xiaowen still successfully crossed the Weihe River.

Zhang Liao and Xu Huang defeated Ma Chao, and Zhang Xiu and other generals rushed through the chaotic army, winning time and valuable space for subsequent troops to cross the river.

Ma Chao saw that the horsepower of the 5000 iron cavalry was exhausted, so he withdrew his troops and returned to the camp. Xiliang cavalry really came and went at will. Yuan Jun could only watch Ma Chao go.

But after Ma Chao returned to the stronghold, he discussed with Pound: "on the West Bank of Weishui River, the sand is soft and it is difficult to build a stronghold. Our army will rest its horsepower. When the cavalry go out again tomorrow, we will be able to break yuan's army again."

If the infantry did not rely on the camp and pass defense, they would almost be lambs to be slaughtered in the face of cavalry.

In the unimpeded camp, Ma Chao can even lead an iron horse to pierce yuan Jun's formation, and then turn back to charge again!

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On Bai Xiaowen's side, after crossing the river, he relied on the Weishui River to prepare to build a camp.

Under the excavation, the sand was indeed loose and could not camp. All the generals looked worried.

Bai Xiaowen invited a person out with a smile: "it all depends on the Taoist priest to set up camp this time."

That man is Ge Xuan.

All the generals are skeptical and have a little expectation when they see the monks around the Lord.

Ge Xuan looked confused: "young master, I'm not a general. How can I know the way to camp?"

General: meow meow?

Bai Xiaowen said with a smile, "did the Taoist priest forget what I asked you before?"

Ge Xuan said, "the childe just said to ask for the north wind for ten days and the new snow for one night. If this is the case, I have already done it. - but what does this have to do with camping?"

Bai Xiaowen said, "the sand is soft and it's difficult to build camps. But if you water it with ice water, you can build it and freeze it in the severe cold. You can build an ice city overnight. What do you think?"

The generals were skeptical.

Bai Xiaowen then ordered the sergeant to dig the earth and water the ice water. After midnight, sure enough, the north wind rose, the weather suddenly turned cold, and snowflakes floated.

As Bai Xiaowen said, the soft sand is as hard as iron after being watered with ice water and frozen by the cold. Tens of thousands of troops worked together, and a camp made of frozen soil was built in less than two hours.

Everyone was amazed at Bai Xiaowen's plan. Even Xun you said, "the great Sima's wisdom is really given by heaven. I can't do it."

Bai Xiaowen was brazen and accepted it calmly.

In fact, this method of moving soil, watering and building a city is the method of Lou GUI adopted by Cao Cao in the romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is not the initiative of Bai Xiaowen.

If it is used here, Ge Xuan's ability to change the time of day is also needed. Otherwise, the weather in early spring is not so cold, and it is still impossible to build an ice city.

Ge Xuan didn't have the ability to go against the sky.

However, after reading the Taiping Sutra, his Taoist ability has been improved, so he can pray for the north wind for ten days and snow for one night.

In the early morning of the next day, a tanma informed Ma Chao that Yuan Jun's camp had been built.

Ma Chao didn't believe it. He personally led the troops to watch. Sure enough, he saw a strong city. He was surprised and looked back on Pound and said, "is it possible that Yuan Xi has the help of ghosts and gods? Otherwise, how can he build a camp of this scale overnight?"

Pound said with a worried face, "now the enemy has successfully established a foothold in the west of the Weishui river. If we don't break this camp earlier, I'm afraid our army will be attacked."

Ma Chao nodded in agreement, but he was still worried about the garrison attacking the camp at Tongguan. After weighing, he left 20000 troops and ordered Ma Dai to guard the camp; He and pound mentioned the remaining 50000 Xiliang troops and horses to attack the camp just built by Bai Xiaowen.

Xun Youxian's plan of "ambushing on all sides" said: "Lord, you can send a general to cheat defeat and lead the enemy to attack our camp. In addition, you can ambush four-way soldiers and horses and take their back. If you attack back and forth, Ma Chao will be defeated."