Lu Bu: My wife comes from two thousand years later

This battle to break the formation made Ma Chao quite depressed. Since he joined his father in the rebellion at the age of twelve, he had experienced many battles in Liang Province, but he had never seen such a difficult military formation. You move, he moves; you divide your troops, he divides his formation. It has both offensive and defensive capabilities while also maintaining a solid formation at all times.

If it were just that, it would be fine. The key point is that when facing enemies that are many times larger than them, these soldiers are not panicked at all. It is as if they are being controlled by the same person. Their movements are neat and coordinated, with tacit understanding and no flaws.

There were also those cavalrymen on the left and right who would rush over from time to time to raid the formation, like the autumn wind, sweeping past and then leaving, circling around and coming back. We didn't have many war horses, so we couldn't chase them even if we wanted to.

As the sun rose higher and higher, more and more soldiers from Liang Province were thrown into the battlefield. As the corpses piled up in front of the formation, a gap was finally opened in the numerical disadvantage of the Bingzhou army. Ma Chao exhaled fiercely, gripped his silver spear tightly, and rode his horse forward to charge.

Although the Liangzhou soldiers suffered heavy casualties, their morale was still very high even though their retreat was cut off. After opening a gap, the soldiers rushed forward one after another to gradually widen the gap. After a while, the two sides were completely engaged in a melee.

Ma Chao had been feeling depressed for two days, and now he finally had the chance to show his skills. He wanted to use all his strength to slaughter all the Bingzhou soldiers in an instant.

He stabbed bloody holes in the soldiers one by one, and streaks of blood spread under the horse's hooves. Ma Chao killed with great pleasure, and the Liangzhou army also pushed the Bingzhou army step by step towards the camp.

"Hey! How dare you, little boy, hurt my soldiers!"

Just as Ma Chao stabbed a Bingzhou soldier in the chest with his spear and was about to charge into the camp in one go, a rough scolding sounded beside him.

He looked in the direction of the sound and saw a burly man holding a shining sword, his eyes wide open, riding a horse towards him. Judging from the horse he was riding and the armor on his body, his status should be not low, at least at the level of a vanguard general.

Ma Chao was invincible in Liang Province and believed himself to be invincible. He smiled contemptuously and thought that killing a general was much more satisfying than killing ordinary soldiers.

Ma Chao pulled the tip of his spear from the soldier's chest, shook the spear shaft, and rushed towards the strong man, laughing arrogantly, "Fatty, tell me your name. If your grandfather Ma is in a good mood, he can leave your body intact."

"Fat man?"

Xu Chu looked at his own size, then compared it to Ma Chao's, and a look of understanding came over him. He pointed his sword and sneered, "Boy, have you grown your hair yet? You dare to call yourself a master? Today I will teach you how to respect the elders."

As he spoke, the broadsword, wrapped in a whistling cold wind, slashed towards Ma Chao diagonally. Ma Chao leaned back slightly and pointed the tip of his spear at the blade. With a crisp sound, Xu Chu's sword was deflected.

Ma Chao immediately turned from defense to offense, swung his spear around quickly, and stabbed at Xu Chu's face.

Xu Chu drew his sword back to block, "Wow! You're quite skilled!"

He still had a smile on his face, but he was very alert in his heart. Amo had indeed not lied to him. This kid was not easy to deal with.

Ma Chao's strength and endurance were not as good as Xu Chu's, but he was more flexible than Xu Chu. Xu Chu obviously had more fighting experience and skills. The two fought back and forth for nearly a hundred rounds, but still could not defeat the other.

However, Ma Chao began to get a little anxious at this time, because he felt that his strength could obviously not keep up with the speed. On the other hand, every blow from this strong man was still very powerful.

Unable to defeat the opponent at the beginning, the more the fight went on, the more difficult it would be. Ma Chao realized that he was no match for this person and began to prepare to retreat.

Xu Chu noticed that the boy's attacks were getting slower and slower, and thought he was trying to escape, so he deliberately exposed a flaw. Ma Chao's competitive nature was aroused again, and the movement to turn his horse's head stopped. The long spear stabbed towards Xu Chu's side. Xu Chu put all his strength into his arms, and taking advantage of the gap when Xu Chu drew his spear, he shouted and slammed the blade of his knife towards Xu Chu's back.

At the moment when the tip of Ma Chao's spear pierced Xu Chu's waist, Xu Chu's broadsword also hit Ma Chao's back. Ma Chao was hit by a huge force, and the strength in his hands was instantly lost. His spear fell to the ground, and then he fell forward and fell off his horse.

Xu Chu rode forward, picked up the half-dead Ma Chao and laid him horizontally on his horse's back, preparing to return to the camp. The nearby Liangzhou soldiers saw that their general was captured, and rushed forward to surround Xu Chu. Xu Chu slashed left and right with his sword, knocking down more than a dozen people in succession, and fought his way out of the melee and returned to the camp.

In the rear, Ma Teng was shocked and angry when he saw his son was injured and captured. Although this son often disobeyed him and he did not like him very much, he was his eldest son after all and had fought with him for many years. It would be a lie to say that he did not care about his son's life or death.

"General, what should we do? Should we continue fighting?" A deputy general beside Ma Teng asked.

"Let's see what the other party wants to do first?"

Ma Teng watched from afar the camp that was about to be breached, and did not give the order to stop the attack.

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As the sun was setting in the west, in the camp, the half-dead Ma Chao was brought to the platform. Xu Chu was afraid that he would suddenly attack and hurt others, so he tied his hands and feet with ropes.

Zhang Mo glanced at Ma Chao and said to Xu Chu, "Tell Ma Teng to retreat to the riverbank if he wants his son back."

"Okay!" Xu Chu responded and asked a soldier to pass on the message.

"Will Ma Teng agree? The Liangzhou soldiers have suffered heavy casualties today, and they're about to storm the camp. If they retreat, they'll have to start all over again tomorrow, and their morale will surely plummet. He probably won't agree," Gao Shun said, asking, "Should we send out the Black Mountain Army now?"

"I can still hold on, wait a minute!"

Zhang Mo watched the battle in front of the village and was extremely impressed by Gao Shun's ability to train soldiers. The fighting power of this group of soldiers was beyond her imagination.

When she mentioned this plan to Gao Shun before, this guy was hesitant. She thought it was really difficult. Even before the battle started in the morning, she thought it would take two days of hard fighting. However, judging from the battle situation today, as long as the 5,000 Black Mountain reinforcements appeared, the morale of these Liangzhou soldiers would be reduced to zero in an instant. There would be no need for any initial momentum and then decline and exhaustion.

This is like a person who falls into the abyss and uses all his strength to climb up. Just when he is about to reach the exit, someone comes up from above and pushes him back. Unless he is a person with a very strong will, it is really difficult to have the courage to climb again.

Zhang Mo walked up to Ma Chao, looked down at him, and asked, "Will your father care whether you live or die?"

Looking at her beautiful face, Ma Chao was stunned for a moment and snorted coldly, "It doesn't matter whether I care or not, I'm going to die anyway, it doesn't matter!"

"How could that be?" Zhang Mo pointed at several boats on the river. "If he retreats, you can still escape on the boat. Even if you can't make it back to the other side, you can still go downstream and have a chance of survival."

"You are such a cunning woman! No one would believe you. You clearly have a plan, but you are using me to threaten my father. Aren't you just trying to sow discord between me and him?"

"Not stupid!" Zhang Mo smiled but didn't say anything else.

Even if he knew that it was a deliberate provocation, as long as Ma Teng didn't care about Ma Chao's life or death, this guy would resent him in his heart. In history, this guy didn't even care about the lives of his father and brothers in order to rebel against Cao. For such a heartless person, it is most appropriate to sow discord between them.

Thinking of this, Zhang Mo suddenly felt that she was a bit too unkind. She knew very well that those who could become the princes of a region would never make the final choice of family affection when faced with the choice between interests and family affection, but she used this to test him again and again. Yuan Shang in the past and Ma Chao today were both abandoned by their fathers.

Can you blame your father? Without personal experience, Zhang Mo herself doesn't know.

The soldier who delivered the message came back quickly, and seeing the Liangzhou soldiers below who were still trying their best to break into the camp, he knew that Ma Teng did not agree.

Zhang Mo ordered, "The Black Mountain Army can march out now!"

"Yes!" Gao Shun responded and immediately sent someone to pass on the message.

"How should we deal with this kid?" Xu Chu asked.

Zhang Mo thought for a moment and said, "Lock him up first and let the military doctor check him out to make sure he doesn't die."

"Why not take this opportunity to recruit his father? Perhaps he's willing to surrender?" Xu Chu asked doubtfully, "You've always been fond of recruiting people to surrender. You recruited Qu Yi and Zhang Yan. Now recruiting Ma Teng will also be a good opportunity to capture Liang Province in the future, right?

Zhang Mo explained, "Ma and Han are deeply entrenched in Liang Province. Even if they surrender today, they will rebel later. Qu Yi was also forced into a desperate situation, but he has no foundation other than a group of followers, so he won't think of rebelling and going it alone. Zhang Yan may have territory and people, but his foundation has been dug up by us, so there's no way he can't surrender."

Xu Chu nodded, "I understand. Ma Teng has the foundation and strength to work on his own. Even if he's injured, he can still make a comeback. The only way to do that is to completely cripple him."