I am Li Shimin of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 136 Fishing in troubled waters
"Chao'er, you are too impulsive. Before the matter is clear, don't use weapons rashly, otherwise there will be no room for turning things around." Ma Teng taught him a lesson.

"Father, don't you understand? Zhao Yun's attack this time was extremely precise in both the time and location of the attack. Only Han Sui has been to our barracks, and he is the only one who is very familiar with our army's deployment and combat habits. Who would have leaked it?"

"Furthermore, if I were Zhang Liao, I would definitely adopt the strategy of 'encircling the camp and fighting for aid'. When Han Sui's army leaves the camp, the army hiding in the dark will definitely be able to wait for the opportunity to attack. Surrounded by all directions, how can Han Sui have no casualties?" Ma Chao suppressed his anger and said.

"Hiss..." Ma Teng felt that his son's analysis was very reasonable. Han Sui naturally knew the layout of his barracks very well. At the same time, we were all Xiliang separatist princes, and their combat habits were very similar. If it is him, it is not impossible.

"Father, what should we do next?" Ma Chao asked worriedly.

"Hey, let's... think about it for our father." Ma Teng replied in a dejected manner.

In fact, from the bottom of his heart, Ma Teng felt that the recent incidents were quite strange. Although they looked reasonable, they seemed to smell a hint of conspiracy, but there was a lack of evidence. how to behave.

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After Han Sui led the army back to the camp, he burst into a rage and cursed angrily, "Ma Shoucheng, who has no eyes, and Ma Chao, who is brave like a man, can't understand such an obvious counter-plan. They are also trying to dominate Xiliang and shock the world. It's ridiculous, extremely ridiculous!"

After venting, Han Sui leaned on the throne wearily, and asked with a sense of loss, "Yanming, tell me what good suggestions you have."

Han Sui has always relied on his resourceful son-in-law, and when encountering really difficult things, he will consult his opinion, and every time Yan Xing can give good advice.

"General, in my son-in-law's humble opinion, Ma Teng, Ma Chao and his son have always been at odds with us, and there was a gap, so they were deceived by this kind of fluffy trick. In my opinion, Zhang Liao must have someone behind him. Let our army and Ma Teng turn against each other, it is better for us to retreat and retreat to Jincheng County first."

Seeing that Han Sui did not interrupt, Yan Xing continued: "After a long time, this countermeasure will naturally fail. Seeing that there is no opportunity to take advantage of it, Zhang Liao must send troops to attack Tianshui, and Ma Teng will naturally wake up. I will ask my father-in-law to send troops to rescue, so that the current crisis can be resolved, Ma Teng's strength can be weakened, and Xiliang can be defended in the end, killing three birds with one stone."

"Well... Yanming's words are quite to my liking. Since Ma Teng suspects that Zhang Liao and I are in collusion, then I will withdraw to Jincheng County. Anyway, this is your territory, so you should guard it first. Hmph! Sooner or later, you will beg me." my day."

Han Sui finally decided to withdraw his troops in three days. After all, it was not an easy task for tens of thousands of troops to pull out their camps and retreat. Sufficient arrangements had to be made, and Ma Teng had to be informed.

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This move is to retreat as an advance, it is really clever, it directly made Tian Feng and Xi Zhicai's second move aborted.Yan Xing thought very clearly that this was a three-party game, without Han Sui, Zhang Liao's play would naturally be completely unplayable.

But precisely because this is a game between the three parties, no matter who breaks the balance rashly, it will inevitably be questioned by the other two parties.

After getting the abnormal information from the scouts in Han Sui's camp, Zhang Liao and others immediately realized that Han Sui was going to run away after everyone's analysis.

"Two military advisers, if this Han Sui really withdraws to Jincheng first, I am afraid that the plan of alienation will fail, and it will be even more difficult to pacify Xiliang." Zhang Liao said worriedly.

The sudden change did not make everyone at a loss. Ever-changing is the normal state of the battlefield, so Tian Feng and Xi Zhicai were very calm, calm, thinking hard and studying countermeasures.

It wasn't long before Xi Zhicai stood up and said, "General Zhang, I'm afraid our plan has to be advanced. For the current plan, we can only throw stones and ask for directions, and adapt to the situation."

"Report...report..." Just as everyone was still discussing countermeasures, there were bursts of voices begging for an interview outside the door.

Zhang Liao and the others were instantly happy and frowning. Before they reached the door of the big tent, Zhang Liao shouted, "Hurry up, bring people in."

A burly guard rushed into the big tent, and said with some excitement: "Report... General Zhengxi, the imperial edict sent by the general has arrived." He said and handed over a brocade box.

Zhang Liao opened the brocade box carefully, and there were two imperial orders drawn up in the name of the emperor, and the seal of the emperor was stamped inside, which was genuine.

It's just that the content of the two edicts is completely different.

"Haha, everything is ready now, but Dongfeng is the only one. Lieutenant Ma Lie, is Ma Jue ready?" Zhang Liao asked an inconspicuous general in the big tent.

"Reporting to General Zhengxi, Ma Jue has already taken refuge with us, and has promised to be our internal response. He will never turn back temporarily. Please rest assured, General." Ma Lie said respectfully.

This person is Ma Lie, who is in charge of Xiliang's intelligence and detective operations in the Baiqi Division. He was originally one of the first soldiers to join Li Shimin's command. Baiqisi works.

"Oh, how can Captain Ma be so sure?" Zhang Liao asked suspiciously.

"In fact, this person has a special identity. I have already found out his details. Under my threat, he often exchanged some information with me. However, his attitude was ambiguous before and he didn't want to completely fall to our army. Now the five thousand horses led by him have been arrested. We ambushed and suffered heavy losses. If the letter he wrote to me before was spread, Ma Teng might think that he was colluding with us inside and outside, and he would not survive, haha." Ma Lie explained mysteriously.

"Haha, the general admires Captain Ma's ghostly tricks. If this strategy is successful, I will definitely ask the general for your credit." After Zhang Liao heard the words, he completely let go of his worries.

"Since this is the case, then we will act according to plan." Xi Zhicai said excitedly.

Zhang Liao, Tian Feng and others also agreed very much, and acted immediately without delay.

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Not long after, a team of hundreds of people set off from Zhang Liao's camp, detoured through Longshan Mountain, and went straight to Ma Teng's camp. The leader was Ma Jue, a general in Ma Teng's army.

Ma Jue is also a ruthless character. Knowing that he has completely boarded Ma Lie's thief ship, he can only go one way to the dark, so he simply fell to the Bingzhou Army, willingly acting as a traitor, and he was the one who followed him back to Ma Teng's barracks His personal guard, who has known everything for so many years, will definitely not betray.

Day and night along the Longshan Trail to the Ma Teng Camp...

(End of this chapter)