Chapter 337 Ma Zheng rode alone in Yecheng

Yecheng.

Shen Pei, Feng Ji excitedly entered the General's Mansion and said to Yuan Shang: "Lord, good news."

"Oh?" Yuan Shang, who was restless, stood up and asked, "What good news?"

Shen Pei said: "General Yuan Xi's Qingzhou soldiers have arrived in the east of Yecheng."

Feng Ji said: "The Bingzhou Army of the High General has also passed Huguan, and it is only two days away from Yecheng."

"Is that true?" Yuan Shang was overjoyed when he heard this, "Where is the Butcher's Mobei Iron Cavalry?"

Feng Ji said: "Tian Yu just condemned the Malay newspaper that the Iron Cavalry in Mobei has passed Zhongshan Kingdom and is still five days away from Yecheng."

"That's great!" Yuan Shang said, "So Yuan Xi, can the two armies of Gao Gan arrive in Yecheng before the Mobei Iron Cavalry?"

"That's true." Shen Pei said, "Yecheng originally had 20,000 defenders. Now, with General Yuan Xi's 30,000 Qingzhou soldiers and General Gao Gan's 20,000 Bingzhou soldiers, there are 70,000 troops stationed in the city. Compared with the tens of thousands of Mobei cavalry of Ma Butcher's tens of thousands of Iron Cavalry in Mobei, our army can defend itself in a strong city. The enemy does not have more than three times the advantage of military strength, so it is difficult to break through the strong Yecheng."

"Wow... Yecheng is worry-free." Yuan Shang sighed a long sigh, and said to Shen Pei, Feng Ji and the others, "Finally south, Yuan Tu can go out to the east gate to welcome Yuan Xi's army."

"Please, please, lord."

Shen Pei, when Ji Su gave in, Yuan Shang shook his sleeves and walked first.

East Gate of Yecheng.

Yuan Shang was surrounded by Shen Pei, Feng Ji and a group of Hebei civil servants and generals, and then climbed the door stairs.

Yuan Shang raised his eyes with his hands on the tent and saw a shallow yellow line slowly squirming in the distant sky to the east. As time went by, the yellow line was slowly extending to the wings and was getting thicker and thicker. In less than a meal, the Qingzhou soldiers wearing bronze armor appeared in the sight of Yuan Shang and others.

Shen Pei said excitedly: "Lord, it is General Yuan Xi's Qingzhou army that has arrived!"

Yuan Shang nodded, and was about to lead a group of civil servants and generals to greet him, a minor official next to him suddenly screamed: "Look at me, lord! North!"

"Um?"

Yuan Shang, Shen Pei, Feng Ji and others turned to the north and saw a faint smoke and dust rising from the distant horizon in the north. Because it was far apart, it would be difficult to find it without careful debate.

Shen Pei said: "It seems to be smoke and dust!"

Feng Ji said: "It should be wind and sand, unlike it."

"No, it's a cavalry!" Suddenly, the junior high school shouted in horror, "It's a cavalry!"

"Ah? Cavalry! Could it be the Mobei Iron Cavalry?" Yuan Shang was suddenly surprised. When he turned around quickly, Yuan Xi's Qingzhou army was at least a thousand steps away from the east gate of Yecheng, so he shouted, "Open the city gate quickly and welcome the Qingzhou army into the city, hurry!"

"Lord, no!" Shen Pei urgently advised, "If the Iron Cavalry of Mobei is really the Iron Cavalry of Mobei, it is too late to open the city gate to welcome the Qingzhou Army into the city. Maybe the Iron Cavalry of Mobei may take advantage of the chaos to seize the city gate. Now, General Yuan Xi's Qingzhou soldiers should be ordered to line up in the east of the city and support each other with Yecheng, which is the best strategy!"

"Nonsense!" Yuan Shang said furiously, "Yuan Xi and Gu Yi's mother are connected by flesh and blood. How can Gu not save him when he dies? Come, put down the suspension bridge, open the city gate, and welcome the Qingzhou army into the city, hurry!"

Shen Pei looked miserable and turned around and exchanged glances with Feng Ji. Both of them shook their heads in dismay.

At Yuan Shang's order, the hanging suspension bridge slowly descended, and the closed city gate slowly opened.

Five miles north of Yecheng, on the Hebei Plain in Guangmao.

Thirty thousand iron cavalry in the desert rolled over the barren land like locusts. Ma Zheng had golden armor and silver spear, and his battle robe was like snow, riding a horse in front of the cavalry formation. Zhao Yun suddenly rode his horse to the front and pointed his finger at Ma Zheng and said, "Young Master, look ahead!"

Ma Zheng controlled the reins with his right hand and put on a tent with his left hand and looked forward for a while, saying in a deep voice: "Is there an army entering the city?"

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!" Zhao Yun said frantically, "If our army takes advantage of the situation to launch a surprise attack, it will not only defeat the enemy troops that have not yet entered the city, but also take advantage of the chaos to seize the city gate. In this way, Yecheng is within reach!"

"Okay!" Ma Zheng shouted, "Zhao Yun obeyed the order!"

"The last one will be here!"

"Lead eight thousand iron cavalry to the east and launch a raid from behind the enemy!"

"Abide by the order!"

Ma Zheng said again: "Where is Xu Shao?"

Xu Shao rushed forward and responded sternly: "The last one is here."

"Lead two thousand iron cavalry to raid the city gate while the chaos!"

"The last general takes the order."

"Where is the management?"

Guan Qi rushed forward and responded with a loud bang: "The last one will be there."

"Lead a large group of cavalry to attack from the front and restrain the enemy troops outside the city!"

"Abide by the order!"

Guan Qi agreed and took the order and left.

At the east gate of Yecheng, the most unexpected thing happened.

The sudden attack of Mobei Iron Cavalry frightened the Qingzhou soldiers. The soldiers who were already close to the city gate found that the city gate had been opened and the suspension bridge had been lowered, and rushed towards the city gate one after another. Because the already loose formation of the long-distance marching became even more chaotic in an instant. When Yuan Xi saw the central army, he jumped so anxiously.

Yuan Shang's wrong decision finally brought a catastrophe to the Qingzhou army outside the city!

If Yuan Shang closed the city gates tightly and ordered Qingzhou soldiers to line up outside the city to resist the enemy, the Qingzhou soldiers might not be in such chaos. But now that the city gates are open, the psychology of the Qingzhou soldiers will immediately change subtly. If there is a choice, who would be willing to stay outside the city and wait for death? Of course, he would want to escape into the city as soon as possible and hide.

Yuan Xi tried his best, but he could only allow more than two thousand personal guards to barely set up defensive formations on the right wing of the army.

Tens of horses galloped and iron hooves were gathered. The large group of Mobei Iron Cavalry led by Guan Qi was like a huge wave, sweeping overwhelmingly. A wave of arrows rose from the Qingzhou army and landed in the Mobei Iron Cavalry formation with a sharp roar. Dozens of Mobei Iron Cavalry Cavalry fell down with a terrifying and sharp sound, and were trampled into meat mud by the sweeping iron hooves.

But compared with the entire huge cavalry formation, the casualties of these dozens of cavalry seemed minimal, just like a few small waves splashing in the vast ocean, which was not enough to change the overall situation.

After Qingzhou archers shot two arrows, the Mobei Iron Cavalry roaring forward had already reached the Qingzhou military formation. Seeing that the cavalry rushing forward were about to collide with the Qingzhou military's cold and sequel to the horse-resisting formation, Guan Qi suddenly raised his long sword and led to the left. The Mobei Iron Cavalry rolling forward pulled his horse heads one after another, cut by the Qingzhou military formation, and swept towards the east.

The next moment, a sharp spear had already risen from the Mobei cavalry formation and fell down towards the Qingzhou soldiers.

A tragic wailing sounded instantly throughout the sky, and hundreds of Qingzhou soldiers were already screaming and falling into the pool of blood. Almost at the same time, the fatal blow came from behind. The eight thousand iron cavalry led by Zhao Yun made a circle from the east, like a sharp bone-clearing knife, unstoppable cutting between the two thousand guards and the chaotic Qingzhou army.

A Hebei bow and arrow barely pulled out his long bow. When he was about to fire an arrow, a cavalry of Mobei came to him. A sharp saber slashed across the archer's neck. Blood light appeared and the head fell to the ground. With a "puff" sound, the bow string loosened, and the wolf-tooth arrow accumulated on the string flew out of the string, but it had lost its sight and shot lightly into the air.

The other two Hebei archers barely turned around and rode by like flying.

The two of them only saw a flash of silver light in front of them, and then they felt a chill of throat and lowered their eyes with difficulty. They saw the bright red blood splashing out from their throats like a fountain. Zhao Yun shot the throats of the two archers with one shot, and slapped the horses to take Yuan Xi in the central army. Yuan Xi saw it from afar, shouted, and hurriedly opened a bloody road from the chaotic army surrounded by hundreds of light cavalry and went to the south gate.

Zhao Yun urged the horse to dance with his spear and led dozens of iron cavalry into the chaos to get Yuan Xi.

Upstairs.

"Lord!" Shen Pei said to Yuan Shang urgently, "Give orders to release the thousand-jin gate!"

Feng Ji said: "If you don't put Qianjinzha City Gate, you will be lost!"

"Oh." Yuan Shang sighed in pain and waved his hand, "Order, put down the thousand-pound gate!"

"Quick!" Shen Pei reached out to wipe away the cold sweat from her forehead, and shouted to the little school beside her, "Put down the thousand-pound gate!"

"Gagaha...boom!"

The heavy Qianjin Gate fell down with a bang. The Qingzhou soldiers crowded in the city gate were immediately crushed to death. The Qingzhou soldiers blocked by Qianjin Gate outside the city gate immediately roared angrily. While slapped Qianjin Gate crazy with the weapons in their hands, they roared angrily: "Open the door, fuck open the city gate and let me go in..."

Up the gate tower, Yuan Shang turned a deaf ear to the Qingzhou soldiers under the city tower, closed his eyes in pain, and said to Shen Pei, Feng Ji: "Go back to home."

Guangzong.

The brigade of Mobei Iron Cavalry is slowly moving south.

In the central army, Li Su rode his horse to Ma Yue and said loudly: "Lord, please give me back. Zhang Yan's Heishan Army and Tian Yu's Youzhou Army have left Jixian and are advancing towards Hejian."

Ma Yue turned his head and looked at Jia Xu, and a cunning smile appeared on the corners of their mouths at the same time.

"Boqi." Pei Yuanshao said, "Once the Youzhou Army and the Heishan Army leave the city, it will be easy to break it!"

Li Su said: "Yuan Shao originally had hundreds of thousands of old subordinates, including only the old subordinates of Jizhou of the famous Hejian general Zhang He, Zhang Yan's Heishan Army and Tian Yu's Youzhou Army can barely be regarded as elite soldiers. Zhang He's old subordinates of Jizhou have surrendered to Cao Cao in the Battle of Guandu, and were later completely annihilated by our army in the Battle of Xuchang. Now only these two armies have the power to fight."

Zhou Cang said: "If Heishan Army and Youzhou Army arrive at Yecheng, it will be difficult to destroy it. Why not plan to do it as soon as possible?"

"No!" Ma Yue shook his hand and said, "Tian Yu, Zhang Yan would rather abandon Youzhou than raise an army to rescue Yecheng. It shows that both of them are loyal ministers, rather than snobs who hold troops and respect themselves in order to protect themselves. Neither the Heishan Army nor the Youzhou Army participated in the Battle of Guandu. They were the only elite troops left among Yuan Shao's old subordinates. Wouldn't it be a pity if two such armies were destroyed?"

Jia Xu said: "If the prince can force Yuan Shang to surrender without fighting, Heishan and Youzhou will be the lord's belongings!"

Yecheng, the General's Mansion.

"Lord, the news of General Yuan Xi's capture has been confirmed." Shen Pei glanced at Yuan Shang and said tremblingly: "I have just seen General Yuan Xi on the South Gate Tower. In addition, the enemy also shot a letter from outside the South Gate, which said..."

Yuan Shang looked gloomy and said coldly: "What did you say in the letter?"

Shen Pei said: "The letter says that General Yuan Xi's Qingzhou army has been defeated, General Yuan Xi's Bingzhou army has also retreated to Huguan, General Tian Yu's Youzhou army and General Zhang Yan's Heishan army are now trapped by a large group of Mobei cavalry and unable to move. The foreign aid in Yecheng has been extinguished, so the lord will not fight to avoid the jade and stones being burned."

"The battle between trapped beasts? Both jade and stones were burned?" Yuan Shang said tragically, "Apart from both jade and stones, do you have any other choice?"

As Yuan Shang finished speaking, Feng Ji suddenly entered the hall and said, "Lord, there is a Liang army envoy asking for a visit!"

"Envoyee of Liang Army? You must have been forcing me to surrender." Yuan Shang groaned and shouted to the captain of his personal soldiers behind him, "But do dozens of swords and axemen ambushing in the corridors on both sides. If Gu raised his right arm, all the ambushers would come out and chop them into meat paste!"

The personal captain took the order and left.

Feng Ji turned around and waved his hand and said loudly: "The Lord has an order, and I will send you a message to the Liang army envoy."

With the sound of footsteps, a handsome young man walked in, bowed to Yuan Shangqian, and said aloud: "I'm dismounting the horse, see the general."

"Ma...Ma Zheng!?" Yuan Shang was shocked when he heard this and said in a lost voice, "Are you Ma Zheng?"

Shen Pei and Feng Ji also looked at each other in shock. Although the two had never seen Ma Zheng, they were definitely familiar with the name Ma Zheng.
To be continued...