Chapter 446: Disrupting the army

The old man in black’s words were astonishing.

Ma Teng thought that if what Jia Xu said was true, and Dong Zhuo’s main force had all left, then instead of fighting with the feudal lords outside the city, Luoyang was equivalent to an empty city. With the strength of his Xiliang Iron Cavalry, breaking through Luoyang and saving the Son of Heaven would be very easy.

Ma Teng began to waver in his heart.

"Administrator Ma, Yuan Shao is currently using the banner of feudal lords colluding with Dong Zhuo to arrest them, but in fact, he just wants to claim all the credit for breaking Luoyang for himself."

"You, Administrator Ma, were born in Liangzhou and are more easily targeted by Yuan Shao."

"Why not abandon the army now and launch a surprise attack on Luoyang? Take the burden of saving the Son of Heaven upon yourself! By then, your merit will be higher than that of the alliance leader Yuan Shao!"

The old man in black was not only able to see through the hearts of the people but was also good at manipulating them.

His rhetoric was even more powerful than Xu You’s.

Yes, staying here, at most he could only follow the various feudal lords to Luoyang, and the merit of the enfeoffment would not be great. But if the surprise attack succeeded and he saved the Son of Heaven, then he, Ma Ma Shoucheng, would surely be red-hot in the eyes of the Son of Heaven. Not to mention, he could be as powerful and influential as Dong Zhuo was now.

In a moment, Ma Teng made up his mind and stared at the old man in black: "This Administrator believes you, old man. You lead the way. If we take Luoyang and save the Son of Heaven, I will appoint you as my strategist. Your status will be just below mine!"

"Very well! This old man will point the way for you, Administrator!"

Under the silver-tongued persuasion of the old man in black, the famous Xiliang general Ma Teng, whether defeated or victorious, issued a secret order for a surprise attack and withdrew his army from the coalition.

Ma Teng led the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to quietly leave the coalition camp, following the old man in black along the way toward the so-called small path to Luoyang, preparing to launch a strategic operation known as the "Surprise Attack on Luoyang."

Although he listened to the old man in black, Ma Teng was always prepared, keeping the old man in black by his side at all times. At the slightest sign of trouble, Ma Teng would have his head.

However, when they entered the small path, Ma Teng discovered in horror that thick fog suddenly rose on the path where there had been no fog, and his entire Xiliang army was lost within it.

Looking back, not only was the way they came unclear, but even the old man in black was nowhere to be found.

"Not good... I’ve been trapped!"

Only then did Ma Teng realize that he seemed to have fallen into an enemy trap.

And he did not know when.

The old man in black appeared again in Commandant Gongsun Zan’s army.

"General Commandant Gongsun, this old man is Jia Xu from Lingzhi, Liaoxi..."

He said the same words to Commandant Gongsun Zan.

The indifferent Commandant Gongsun Zan also wavered and led his White Horse Volunteers to leave the coalition army.

And Ma Teng’s Xiliang Iron Cavalry and Commandant Gongsun Zan’s White Horse Volunteers were the main combat forces on the two wings of the coalition army...

They were the archer units set up specifically to defend the rear and the main force set up to prevent enemy surprise attacks.

Once they left, it was like exposing a weakness to the enemy, losing their powerful mobile combat capability.

On the Luoyang city tower, Li Ru, although not versed in the art of human nature, was able to observe the timing, geographical advantages, and human factors, and observe the changes around him, easily deducing that the coalition had changed.

"Senior brother is worthy of being senior brother. The person who disrupts the heart is truly powerful. Now that the enemy’s formation is in chaos, let me, Li Ru, add another flame."

Li Ru deduced a certain hexagram and issued an order: "Pass the order down, command Xu Rong, Guo Si, Li Cui, Zhang Ji, and other generals to personally lead the million-strong Xiliang army, with all personnel mobilized, targeting the enemy’s rear units."

"Understood!"

A messenger who had always been loyal to Li Ru was ordered to rush to a certain camp in Luoyang.

When the messenger left, Li Ru walked toward the distance again and pinched a secret technique.

"Secret technique, Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission!"

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"Secret technique, Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission!"

"General Lu Lu Fengxian! Please continue to attack the coalition of feudal lords."

"Rumble!"

After the million-strong Xiliang army came out, everyone on the plains outside Luoyang trembled, but this strange phenomenon did not reach the ears of the feudal lords.

It turned out that the thick fog technique set up by Li Ru could not only block vision but also contained a sound-sealing formation that could completely isolate sound.

Under this powerful sealing formation, the Xiliang army quietly attacked the rear two wings of the coalition from both sides.

The rear archer units were suppressed by infinite long-range firepower as soon as they were intercepted.

Coupled with the lack of siege equipment.

Even if the coalition of feudal lords had the advantage of numbers, taking Luoyangcheng was still a bit of a pipe dream.

At this very moment, Lu Bu also received the Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission after Li Ru, the content of which was generally to have him join the million-strong Xiliang army and suppress the various feudal lords.

Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission was a high-level secret technique of strategists, which consumed a lot of physical strength and could not be easily used by anyone other than top-tier strategists.

The range was certainly not a thousand miles away, but for the distance between Luoyangcheng and the coalition of feudal lords, it was enough.

However.

Lu Bu naturally had his own thoughts.

After receiving the order, Lu Bu did not go to join the Xiliang armies attacking from both sides as Li Ru had said, but just looked at a certain group of people in the feudal lord’s camp, revealing a desire for battle.

For him, disrupting the feudal lord’s camp was already fulfilling the mission Li Ru had entrusted to him.

Next.

He had his own plans.

"Lu Lu Lingqi, come with me, follow your father to find Su Li!"

Lu Bu laughed wildly, and the divine horse Red Hare became a flame-like halo. One man and one horse were like a god of war in flames, charging into the enemy camp ahead like a hot knife through butter.

Lu Lu Lu Lingqi’s eyes flashed, and she also spurred her horse to follow.

The father and daughter broke through two groups of feudal lords in a row, their momentum greatly boosted.