Mi Han

The changes of the Wei army in Wancheng were quickly detected by the spies of the Han army, and they were sent to Guan Yu's desk shortly after.

Whether it was Zhu Shuo leading the army to the south, or Wancheng's messengers constantly going to various places, every move of the Wei army fell into Guan Yu's eyes.

The cavalry troops in the Han army are precious, and the dozens of teams of Qing cavalry sent by Guan Yu before were not just for spreading news.

When the footprints of the dozens of teams of Qingqi spread all over Nanyang County, they also acted as scouts.

When Guan Yu learned of all Cao Pi's actions, he immediately summoned all the generals currently in the camp to discuss the matter.

Under Liao Hua's summoning, many generals who were always in a state of combat readiness came to Guan Yu's big tent one after another.

After the generals arrived, they took their seats in their own order, waiting for Guan Yu's next instruction.

But just after all the generals were seated, a heavyweight came late.

This person is Ma Chao, the Hussar General of the Han Dynasty who is only below Guan Yu in the army.

Ma Chao's Hussar General is a rank higher than Zhang Fei's Chariot General.

It's just that when this heavyweight came, all the generals who were talking and laughing with each other fell silent.

All the generals watched this mighty general enter the big tent with suspicious eyes.

The suspicious eyes of the generals did not hide at all.

At present, as long as there are loyal people in the entire big tent, they don't have a good impression of Ma Chao.

No matter how great his reputation is, how high his status is.

Of course Ma Chao also knows what kind of impression he is in the eyes of everyone, but he has gotten used to it over the years.

Just because he knew that, after he came to the big camp some time ago, he took Ma Dai and his followers to find another place to camp far away, not to be next to the tents of the Han generals.

That's why he came late today.

After Ma Chao brought Ma Dai into the big tent, Ma Dai found a seat to sit down according to his status, while Ma Chao went straight to a seat and sat down.

The place where Ma Chao was seated happened to be next to Mi Yang.

According to the order of top and bottom, Ma Chao should be sitting closest to Guan Yu, and there is Zhang Fei between Mi Yang and Ma Chao.

But I couldn't bear the good personal relationship between Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei didn't like Ma Chao's behavior.

So as soon as he entered the big tent, he immediately walked to Guan Yu's side and sat down.

Obviously, Zhang Fei didn't want to sit with Ma Chao.

But this is also normal. If Liu Bei expressed goodwill towards Ma Chao for the sake of the overall situation, then Zhang Fei, who has a jealous personality, definitely does not want to be with Ma Chao.

Zhang Fei didn't take out his spear and fight Ma Chao for hundreds of rounds, because he was already considering the overall situation.

Mi Yang looked at Ma Chao, who was in the shape of a tiger, came to sit beside him with vigorous steps.

Leaving Ma Chao's personal qualities aside, if we only talk about his personal bravery, whether in history or in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Ma Chao is fully worthy of the word "Shenwei".

In Mi Yang's eyes, Ma Chao, in terms of personal appearance, is actually more like a scholar than a crown jewel.

But Ma Chao's figure is very majestic. When he walks around, he is like a tiger ready to go, ready to choose and eat.

The most rare thing is that Ma Chao's sturdy figure does not contradict his crown-like appearance. On the contrary, after the two are mixed together, they form a very special sense of beauty.

Ma Chao's skin is in line with the mainstream aesthetics of the world, masculine and heroic.

So there are only wrong names and no wrong nicknames. The reputation of Jin Ma Chao is just right for this person in front of him.

But when Ma Chao took a seat beside Mi Yang, Zhang Fei, who was sitting next to Guan Yu, looked at Ma Chao with disdain.

At first, when Ma Chao had just surrendered to Liu Bei, Guan Yu wrote a letter to ask Zhuge Liang who could compare Ma Chao's talents because Ma Chao was not an old friend when he heard about it.

Zhuge Liang knew that Guan Yu wanted to be competitive, so he wrote back to Guan Yu and said: "Ma Chao can be compared with Yide, but not you."

Guan Yu was very happy when he saw the letter and showed it to all the guests.

After this happened, Guan Yu was happy, but Zhang Fei was quite unhappy.

There are even some grievances.

Thinking about Zhang Fei's life of loyalty and loyalty to the world, Zhuge Liang actually said that Ma Chao is the same person as him, which of course will make the third master feel bad.

It's just that Zhang Fei also knew that Zhuge Liang was trying to appease Ma Chao and Guan Yu.

In addition, Zhuge Liang only said that Ma Chao's abilities were similar to his, but he didn't mention his moral character, so Zhang Fei didn't get angry at that time.

But Zhang Fei kept this incident in his heart all the time, and he was always striving to compete with Ma Chao one day.

Zhang Fei looked at Ma Chao with fighting intent, and Ma Chao, who had keen senses, of course felt it.

It's just that he knew that Zhang Fei's identity was beyond his comparability, so he pretended not to see Zhang Fei's gaze, and deliberately turned his head to the other side.

Guan Yu, who was sitting next to him, could clearly see Zhang Fei's movements, but he could understand Zhang Fei's thoughts.

If Zhuge Liang hadn't said that, he would have challenged Ma Chao long ago.

It's just that today he gathered all the generals to discuss the next step of the army, so after Guan Yu gave Zhang Fei a warning with his eyes, he opened his mouth to tell the information he received.

And when the gathered generals of the Han army learned the news that the Wei army had finally made a move, excitement appeared on everyone's face.

The tortoise turns into a rabbit and begins to move.

Seeing the excitement on the faces of the generals after hearing the news, Guan Yu nodded in satisfaction.

As a coach, the most important thing for him is not to offer advice, but to play a good role as a leader.

The first function of being a leader is to judge whether the military spirit is available.

In his narration just now, the generals of the Han army already knew that the Wei army currently outside Yancheng had [-] people, and their strength was comparable to them.

Coupled with the news of the continuous dispatch of messengers from Wancheng, it can be inferred that more and more Wei troops will gather outside Yancheng.

But even so, there was no fear on the faces of the generals of the Han army, which shows that the generals' morale is still very high.

This kind of military spirit made Guan Yu have greater confidence in the next decisive battle.

It's just that Guan Yu, as the commander-in-chief, can't just sit back and watch the enemy army gather so recklessly.

Ever since, Guan Yu issued an order to the generals:
"From tomorrow onwards, our army will retreat from outside Fancheng and slowly retreat all the way to Hanshui."

After Guan Yu's order was issued, some of the generals of the Han army in the big tent began to look puzzled on their faces.

Now that Wei Jun has already started to take action, why do they have to withdraw now?

But after careful thinking, the generals understood Guan Yu's intentions.

Guan Yu had three intentions. The first intention was that Guan Yu was worried that when he fought the Wei army in the future, the Wei army in Fancheng would attack them back and forth.

Although Fancheng is currently surrounded by the Han army, Guan Yu's original purpose was to encircle and fight for reinforcements, so he never launched an attack on Fancheng.

The Wei army in Fancheng had not experienced the battle of defending the city, so it was not damaged.

In this case, once their army starts to fight against the Wei army in the next day, and the Wei army in Fancheng takes advantage of this opportunity to surprise them from behind, then that would be very dangerous.

A wall without soldiers guarding it is just a dead thing.

And if they choose to withdraw from the siege of Fancheng, the [-] Han army can shrink the line of defense and let their backs be handed over to friendly troops with water control power.

The second intention of Guan Yu's move was that once the news of his withdrawal from the siege of Fancheng reached Cao Pi's ears, Cao Pi would think that the Han army was afraid and wanted to escape.

As soon as Cao Pi had this idea, he would issue another edict to urge Zhang Liao to attack them.

In this case, it is tantamount to invisibly deciphering Cao Pi's method of summoning good generals from all over the place.

The purpose of Guan Yu's reinforcements was to eat the [-] Wei army in Zhang Liao's hands. He didn't want to single out the whole Wei with the [-] Han troops in his hands.

Even if Guan Yu has this ability, the big man currently does not have the national strength to support Guan Yu to eat Cao Wei's entire field army.

As for whether Cao Pi would order Zhang Liao to advance quickly after hearing that the Han army intended to retreat, the answer is yes.

Cao Pi raised his army because of anger, so he certainly couldn't stand the humiliation of the Han army, and he could retreat safely.

If so, there is no way to wash away the shame he suffered this time.

But Guan Yu's third intention is more obscure.

Once the Han army withdraws from Fancheng, it means that Cao Xiu in Fancheng will be free.

Originally the commander of the [-] Han army was Zhang Liao, but once Cao Xiu, the general of Zhennan and a relative of the Cao clan, came out of Fancheng, would the commander of the [-] Wei army still be Zhang Liao?
You must know that Cao Xiu is not the second-generation trash like Cao Tai.

Although Cao Xiu is the second generation in name, the time he actually followed Cao Cao was not much shorter than that of Cao Ren, Cao Hong and other generations.

And the most important thing is that Cao Xiu has military achievements in him. When Cao Cao was alive, he relied heavily on Cao Xiu.

What's more, it has been an unspoken rule in the Wei army for many years to use the Cao clan to rule over generals with different surnames.

And changing generals before the battle is a big taboo for military strategists.

Even if Cao Pi could not change the general, would Cao Xiu, a member of the Cao family, be willing to be under Zhang Liao, a second general with a different surname?

Disagreement between generals and generals is also a taboo for military strategists.

This is Guan Yu's conspiracy, and this is also Guan Yu's upright way of using troops to advance by retreating.

Of course, there are only a few people in the big tent who can understand Guan Yu's third-level intentions.

With Guan Yu's current status and prestige, the orders he issued can convince everyone without too much explanation.

After giving this order, Guan Yu discussed a lot of things with the generals. After discussing all the things, Guan Yu asked the generals in the tent to follow the order one after another.

Before all the generals left, Guan Yu let Ma Chao and Mi Yang stay.

When Ma Chao heard Guan Yu's order, he didn't know what Guan Yu wanted to do.

It's just that Guan Yu's current prestige and prestige are higher than him, so facing Guan Yu's orders, Ma Chao can only follow orders.

In the current army of the great Han, apart from Liu Bei, I am afraid that only Guan Yu commanded Ma Chao.

As for Mi Yang, facing Guan Yu's order, of course, he would have no doubts.

It's just that after Ma Chao and Mi Yang stayed behind, apart from Guan Yu, there was a third party in this big tent.

That person was Zhang Fei.
Guan Yu didn't care what Zhang Fei was doing in the big tent. After all the generals left, Guan Yu got up first and walked in front of Ma Chao, and asked Ma Chao:

"I heard that Meng Qi brought three thousand warriors with him when he came here?"

Hearing Guan Yu's sudden question about him, Ma Chao's heart skipped a beat.

At the beginning of the Battle of Xiabian, Ma Chao mobilized more than [-] members of the Leiding Seven Division of the Di clan to respond to Liu Bei and restrain the vanguard main force of Cao's army.

Although the tens of thousands of Di warriors suffered heavy losses in the war, some remained.

Coupled with some Qiang people who follow Ma Chao, there are currently nearly [-] Qiang warriors around Ma Chao.

Three thousand Qiangdi warriors were willing to follow Ma Chao entirely because of his prestige as General Shenweitian.

These three thousand Qiangdi warriors have always been Ma Chao's private soldiers. After Liu Bei knew about this, he did not deprive him of this part of his military power.

This time going south, in order to protect himself, Ma Chao brought all the three thousand Qiangdi warriors in Mianyang together.

Because the purpose of carrying the Qiangdi warrior was impure, when Guan Yu asked about this matter, Ma Chao's face showed some panic.

Seeing this, Zhang Fei unconsciously put his hand on his saber.

Later, he found that Guan Yu was standing in front of Ma Chao, and he silently let go of his guard.

The reason why Ma Chao panicked was because he thought Guan Yu had doubts about him carrying three thousand Qiangdi warriors by his side.

After all, alien races are not welcome, let alone the alien race he leads.

In his panic, Ma Chao first replied to Guan Yu, "Exactly."

After answering these two words, Ma Chao wanted to continue clasping his fists to explain, but Guan Yu didn't give him this chance.

Guan Yu said to Ma Chao: "In the previous battle, our army defeated the enemy's cavalry army and captured many horses and cavalry armor. I will order people to send them to your camp in a while."

"With these, is Meng Qi confident that the three thousand Qiangdi warriors will become an invincible cavalry army in a short time?"

After Guan Yu finished speaking, Ma Chao knew what Guan Yu's real purpose was for asking him.

In fact, Guan Yu's attitude towards Ma Chao is similar to that of Zhang Fei, that is, there is absolutely no trust.

But Guan Yu didn't trust Ma Chao, but he trusted Liu Bei very much.

He knew that since Liu Bei would send Ma Chao to the front line, it meant that Liu Bei believed that Ma Chao was available, and Guan Yu believed in Liu Bei's eyes.

So Guan Yu didn't want to test Ma Chao at all, what he wanted now was to let Ma Chao play his role to the greatest extent.

And what Guan Yu said was the reason why he asked Liu Bei to summon Ma Chao to Fancheng.

Hearing what Guan Yu meant, Ma Chao felt instantly at ease.

When Guan Yu asked about his strengths, Ma Chao's face immediately showed arrogance, and he said to Guan Yu:
"Don't worry, General, within three days, Chao will definitely form an army of tiger and wolf cavalry."

In three days, a cavalry army like a wolf and a tiger was formed. If someone said so, anyone would think he was talking big.

But now Ma Chao said so, and his words gave people a sense of trust.

The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and the Wuhuan Famous Cavalry, were all defeated under the cavalry army led by Ma Chao.

It's a little late to get the phone, so it's not a big problem.