After staying in this area for a while, Zhang Liao ordered the whole army to start deployment.

Don't set up any defense, just set up the crossbow, and then gather all the crossbowmen and spearmen together to block the front.

This was also done to attract the Xiliang iron cavalry to attack. If the bed crossbow was brought out at the beginning, I am afraid that the Xiliang army would not be able to easily fall into the trap.

Liannu is not a secret thing in Qi State, even Bed Nu is known to them.

But they don't know that Qi's bed crossbows are no longer the single-shooting mode of the past.

Instead, it can be modified to fire in bursts, or it can fire all three arrows at once.

Moreover, Qi's tactics are also simple, placing an inverted triangle in the valley.

It stands to reason that to meet the large-scale cavalry raid, it should indeed be arranged in a triangle.However, it should be a regular triangle.The equilateral triangle has a very strong tearing ability.

When the cavalry is charging, after a period of time, cooperate with the soldiers on the side to resist the cavalry more effectively.

Instead, an inverted triangle.

But there are more soldiers in the front and fewer soldiers in the rear.The area in contact with the cavalry will be very large.As soon as the Xiliang cavalry charged, they would fall down one row after another.

Difficult to defend for sure.

But how could Zhang Liao, Li Jing and others not understand this truth.

They did this to maximize the power of the bed crossbow.Because it was doomed from the beginning that this valley was the place where the Xiliang army was buried.

Chapter 1021

In Cangsong City in the south of Guzang, the coalition army of 30 troops is being dispersed into many small teams, moving southward and heading towards Lingju.

There are too many armies, and there are many factions among each other, which makes the marching speed gradually slow.

Because of this, Ma Chao changed his original plan of marching madly, but advanced slowly.

A river with a width of less than ten meters, it took more than an hour for the [-] troops to barely cross the river and reach the other side.

"Slightly below the formation, take a short rest before going out." Wearing a silver armor, Ma Chao sat astride a Xiliang army horse, holding a long spear, rode the horse in front, and roared with a wave of the long spear.

"Woooooo."

Following Ma Chao's order, the sound of the horn pierced the sky.

The originally scattered cavalry units were quickly mobilized, and it was not long before hundreds of thousands of troops lined up neatly, exuding the evil spirit that the cavalry that dominates the northwest should have.

"King Liang, we are not far from Lingju now, should we send spies to investigate the situation?"

Liu Bobo next to Ma Chao reminded.

"That's right, brother, the Qi people are full of tricks, if we accidentally fall into one of their tricks, I'm afraid..." Ma Dai who was beside him also hurriedly persuaded.

"What kind of trick, my army is 30, even if the Qi army has traps, what can they do to us? Besides, here is a flat plain, we can tell if there are any traps at a glance. I think you are all scared out of your wits by the Qi army. " Ma Chao replied very bluntly.

Ma Dai couldn't say much for a while, so he could only follow Ma Chao's arrangement.

"King Liang, if Lingju falls, for us, we will lose important dangerous areas, not to mention the loss of food. If we don't advance quickly, the Qi army may be the first to attack us once they gain a foothold." Liu Bob continued.

Ma Chao glanced at Liu Bobo, and said with a smile: "The general is overthinking. Ma Lai is an elder of my father's generation. He has been in the army all year round and has rich experience. Even if the city is lost, it is the result of a bloody battle. There will be heavy casualties, and the morale of the army will be frustrated. As long as we launch an attack, we will definitely be able to defeat them."

Several people heard this, and felt that it seemed to make sense.

But they don't know that reality will soon hit their faces.

But at this moment, an army appeared ahead.Judging from the attire, it was definitely Xiliang's army, but it couldn't tell what kind of army it was.

Disorganized, flustered, and without any flags to mark their identity, this army is definitely a defeated army in the actual sense.

In the entire east, apart from Lingju's garrison, there is no other army.

Slap in the face, this is a slap in the face.

Just now, Ma Chao was still swearing that Ma Lai would stick to the city until the last moment.But at this moment, the defeated army on the front line came.

Isn't this a slap in the face?

Ma Chao was full of blood, and suddenly he was slapped in the face in front of so many people, and his face suddenly became very gloomy.

"It may be that there are too many vanguards in the Qi army, and General Marais was defeated, so he withdrew." Seeing Ma Chao's behavior, Liu Bobo could only comfort him.

"Yes, there must be tens of thousands of people, otherwise I would not be able to reach such a situation with thousands of elites." Ma Chao said with a slightly better complexion, nodding.

The defeated army on the opposite side was indeed Marley who had fled.

Ever since he came out of Lingju, Malai has been running away, running all the way, and came here.

The soldiers were tired and hungry, and naturally they were disorganized and looked particularly embarrassed.

But everything seems to be safe.When Ma Lai saw the big banner with the word "cool", he immediately felt relieved, knowing that the reinforcements had fallen.

There are so many cavalry, even if the Qi army really kills them, so what?Not enough for their teeth.

Thinking of this, Marley took courage, and the expression on his face regained some dignity.Pulling the reins, he steered the horse to the front of the army.

Seeing him coming, Ma Chao and others also came up to meet him.

"King Liang." After approaching, Ma Lai got off his horse and greeted him.

"Uncle, no courtesy."

Ma Chao and the others also got off their horses, and immediately, Ma Chao stepped forward to help Ma Lai, and asked, "Uncle, what happened to Lingju, why did you lose it before I led the army to reinforce it?"

"The Qi army is fierce." Ma Lai said with a wry smile.As he said that, Marai couldn't help but recall the scene of the bloody battle against the Qi army on the city. He really didn't want to recall that kind of situation.

"What do you mean, the Qi army has a large number? There are tens of thousands. Don't they have 5, but [-]?"

"No, they really only have 2 people. We really couldn't resist, we persisted for an hour, and lost it." Marley smiled wryly and shook his head.If there were really 5 people in Qi, he would have run away without saying a word.

But Qi's army only had [-], which made him feel very humiliated.

"What?" Ma Chao suddenly lost his voice.

Ling Ju was lost as he expected.

But throwing it away so quickly was far beyond Ma Chao's expectations.Moreover, after Ma Lai was defeated, he still had the face to come back. This is the real slap in the face, and it will completely embarrass the Ma family in Xiliang.

Ma Chao's face turned red. If Guan Yu was still alive, he probably would have fought hard.

After a moment of silence, Ma Chao said to Ma Lai word by word with a gloomy face, "Do you know, uncle, what kind of crime is it to leave one's duty without authorization?"

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