Three Kingdoms: I, Ma Su, Only Seek Death

Because Huguan is on the north bank of the Yellow River, there is heavy fog in the morning in December. But there was something strange about this day. It was almost three o'clock in the morning, and the thick fog still hadn't dissipated.

Such bad weather put a lot of pressure on the guard at Huguan who had just woken up. He was even more nervous when he discovered that he couldn't see below from the critical moment.

"In this dense fog, if the Shu army, led by Ma Di, makes a surprise attack, they probably won't be able to detect it even if they touch me!"

Looking at the heavy fog in the sky, the Hu Pass guard general took a breath of air and said to himself with a sad face.

He is also a general from Guanzhong and has very senior qualifications. Especially regarding Ma Su's terror, he had an extremely clear feeling.

Therefore, the general became very nervous after hearing that Ma Su had joined the bandits. Especially after seeing such a heavy fog, I felt alert as a conditioned reflex.

"No! You must be prepared!" The guard pondered for a moment and quickly made a decision.

"Come here!"

"Here! Sir!"

"Order all my troops to be on alert, load all crossbows, and beware of the arrival of the Shu army!"

"And because the heavy fog obscures your vision, any figure approaching the city, no matter whether it is a human or a ghost, must shoot the arrow first and then check! Don't worry about accidentally injuring friendly troops, I can take all the responsibilities!"

The guard at Hu Gate waved his hand and quickly issued a series of instructions. Then he hesitated and added again,

"By the way, let my personal guards go into battle to patrol, and at the same time keep an eye on the recruited rural soldiers. The loyalty of the local Shangdang family to Wei needs to be screened. Before this, I didn't trust these rural soldiers that much!"

"You know, when our Wei Dynasty was in Guanzhong, we suffered a big loss because of this!"

"Wei!" The figure next to him nodded and agreed, but he did not go down to deliver the order, but asked.

"But... the general is from Guanzhong? It seems that he knows the Shu army, especially Ma Su very well."

"That's natural. I was also a general under General Chen back then!" Speaking of this, the Huguan guard suddenly felt a little nostalgic.

"I am very familiar with Ma Su. I have noticed his bravery since the Battle of Chencang, and then in Houtao and Guanzhong, his bravery refreshed my knowledge over and over again!"

"So you must be extremely vigilant against any opponent at all times!"

"Oh? So the general's qualifications are really high! Why are you only in Huguan now?"

"Oh, do you think I think so? When I and General Chen were fighting in the north and south, my career was so smooth!"

"Until General Chen was hit by an arrow in the knee... Alas, I cried too much and refused to listen to this matter." The Huguan guard general was obviously talkative, and he became a little talkative in the face of his subordinates' inquiries.

"Hurry up and convey the order. Instruct all ministries to be vigilant and not to be careless... By the way, what's your name? I feel like you are familiar to me."

"Oh...my name is Ma Su, with the courtesy name Youchang." Ma Su, the man next to him, answered calmly after listening to his complaints for a long time.

"Okay, my name is Ma Su, um... very good..." the Huguan guard general nodded, and then continued to look at the heavy fog outside the city.

Then after a few seconds, he slowly took off his sword, threw it to the ground, then squatted on the ground with his head in his hands,

"I surrender……"

"Tsk... My assessment is that I am a little wary, but not much." Ma Di touched his chin, shook his head, stretched and commented,

"Since you know that the local soldiers cannot be trusted, why are you still so lax in your defenses after all this time? And even though you know that it's easy to get foggy in December, you still didn't get up until three o'clock in the morning."

"With your level and procrastination, it's normal to not move forward after Chen Tai's death."

"What General Ma said is true!"

"That's bullshit. Go to the prisoner of war camp yourself. I'm too lazy to capture you!" Ma Di rolled his eyes.

Although the Hu Gatekeeper is an old acquaintance, his level is obviously not that good. Ma Su's raid on the city head has been completed since the middle of the night yesterday. The general just woke up, and he deserved to be unable to make progress.

"Huguan was taken just like that... It was so smooth." Ma Su shook his head helplessly. When he saw that the Han flag was already flying above Huguan, he felt that the battle was boring.

Boring, no passion at all!

The troops Cao Wei deployed in Bingzhou were all rotten fish and shrimps, none of them could fight. It didn't take even half a month to take down the entire Shangdang County from top to bottom.

And ten of those days were wasted getting lost...

"That's all, let's wrap up the Bingzhou War as soon as possible and see if we still have time to go to Yecheng for a walk."

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In a sense, Cao Rui knows better than Chen Qun what the frontline should do.

No, it was just that the main force was not sent to Bingzhou. Ma Di basically passed through the entire Bingzhou theater in more than two months.

Among them, the one that persisted the longest was Pingyang County. The heavily defended Shangdang County was captured by Ma Su in less than half a month.

After surrendering in Changzi County, the governor's office, and taking over Huguan, the Wei army, which was still under the control of the Shangdang Party, was in chaos for a while.

Fortunately, most of the commanders of the Wei army were generals from Bingzhou and had rich experience in this matter. After hearing that the rear was lost, he immediately blocked the news and quickly led troops to evacuate eastward, along the Jingxing Road heading north to Hebei.

During this period, they encountered fierce pursuit by Deng Ai and Jiang Wei. However, after decisively dividing the troops and cutting off the rear, the main force of the Wei army successfully escaped into the Jingxing Road in Heishan.

In the end, 30,000 of the 60,000 Wei troops successfully evacuated, which was considered an extremely rare victory.

However, such a victory may not bring any good news to Cao Rui. And when they returned to Hebei and brought back the news that the Shu army had invaded Shangdang and that only the Taihang Mountains separated its army from Jizhou, the entire Cao Wei nation was shocked again!

"Chen Sikong, come and read to me what is written in this battle report!" Cao Rui's face turned pale with anger. He took the battle report sent from the front and wanted to kill Chen Qun.

"Who promised me that Shangdang is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and Ma Di will not be able to break it in a short time!"

"Who swore to me that as long as Guo Huai of Xudu launches an attack, everything will be fine!"

"Who is it! Tell me, Chen Sikong!"

At this time, the elderly Chen Qun was sweating profusely. Facing Cao Rui's questioning, he was speechless.

What kind of monster is this? Even if Chen Qun followed Wei Wu in sweeping the north, he had never been seen to be able to fight so quickly.

This makes Chen Qun, whose thinking is still in the previous era, unable to correctly judge the current situation.

"Your Majesty! It's no longer time to hold people accountable. We need to find a way to block a few Jingxing Roads. If Ma Su rushes out, it will be over!"