To the north of Chencang, more than 100 miles, on the north bank of Weishui, a military camp stands in it, the flag is monstrous, and the momentum is extraordinary.

The main account of the Chinese army.

A mighty middle-aged man kneeling on top of the top.

He is the chief general of Xiliang.

Jincheng Taishou, holding tens of thousands of Jincheng troops, ranked in the array of Xiliang princes, Han Sui, Han Wenyue.

Han Sui and Ma Teng are not Dong Zhuo's descendants.

They are all Xiliang warlords who developed after Dong Zhuo left Xiliang, and they have no loyalty to Dong Zhuo, it is just because of the current situation that they are forced to become a part of the Xiliang army.

Coupled with Dong Zhuo's strength, their forces couldn't stop it at all, so they reluctantly listened to Dong Zhuo's dispatch.

But this time, Han Sui really wanted to keep the battlefield on the Western Front.

Because Dong Zhuo promised him that as long as he could stabilize the battlefield on the Western Front, he would be the pastor of Liangzhou, and from now on, Liangzhou would be tempered by him, and Han Sui might not listen to this kind of promise to draw a big pie.

But Ma Teng's defeat made him see the hope of dominating Liangzhou alone, if Dong Zhuo really supported him, he might not be able to become a new resident of Liangzhou, so his burning mood made him move quickly.

Going south from Luoyang, in just a few days, he had already rushed to the battlefield on the Western Front.

Entering the battlefield, Han Sui's first mission was to recapture Chen Cang.

Chencang is the lifeblood of Chang'an.

Chen Cang can't be taken back, for Chang'an, it is an incalculable hidden danger, I can't say when this hidden danger will burst out, the entire Western Front battlefield will collapse, for this reason, he ordered the first fierce general under his command, led 8,000 troops, and stormed Chen Cang.

Unfortunately, it backfired.

In this battle, the Jincheng army failed to achieve its wish.

"Lord, the last general Yan Xing is incompetent and has failed to conquer Chen Cang!" A young military general, bowing his head down, pleaded guilty word by word.

"It's okay!"

Han Sui waved his hand and made him stand up.

Then he asked: "Why did it fail, could it be that Chen Cang's troops are very strong?" ”

"Lord, in fact, Chen Cang's troops are not many, but there are only more than three thousand, but the combat effectiveness is very strong, and they are all heavily armored soldiers, long-range bow and arrow design, they have not caused any casualties at all, forced attack, we have paid nearly four hundred casualties, and we can't set up a ladder!"

Yan Xing is the first military general in the Jincheng Army, the martial arts decision, fierce combat, in Xiliang, is a famous general.

Back then, Ma Chao and Pang De joined forces to compete with him, but they were almost defeated under him, it is conceivable that Yan Xing's martial arts are strong, which is not the most important.

Every military general has his own fighting style.

Yan Xing's combat style, that is, fierce.

On the battlefield, the charge is unparalleled.

Even he was frustrated under Chen Cangcheng, and Han Sui, as the lord, could already imagine how strong this defense was.

"With more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, you can't even occupy the city, and you can't even erect a ladder?" Han Sui was even more surprised.

He knew Yan Xing very well.

Even if he pays a greater battle loss, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, he will fight to the end, unless he can't see hope, he will withdraw.

"Lord, I feel that even if I fight for eight thousand erlangs, I can't take Chen Cang, Chen Cang City has thick walls, and there is a big scattered pass behind it, and now the big scattered pass and Chen Cang are in the hands of the enemy, and we have no gaps to kill them at all!"

Yan Xingdao: "Forcibly attacking, you may be able to break the city, but our army will lose at least more than half, I have calculated it, I think it is not cost-effective!" ”

The fierce generals on the battlefield are not necessarily reckless.

Every general has a general's prediction of the battlefield.

Yan Xing thought for a while and said to Han Sui: "Lord, if you can, I think that attacking Chencang is not good for us, you can give up Chencang, we Xiliang soldiers, for the siege battle, in fact, we don't have enough experience, insufficient equipment, and it's very difficult!" ”

This sentence is the truth.

Liangzhou wilderness, yellow sand monstrous, even if it is some cities, there are more adobe cities, there are few cities with high walls and thick walls, more are field battles, the two sides fight in mountain streams and plains and other places.

Therefore, most of the soldiers and horses from Xiliang are not good at attacking cities.

"But Chen Cang is very important to us!" Han Sui sighed and said: "Master Dong will take the initiative to put us back on the Western Front, it is nothing more than for the safety of Chang'an, his foundation is in Chang'an, if Chang'an has a mistake, I am afraid that he will go crazy, and then maybe we will drive it directly!" “

For Han Sui, Dong Zhuo is a figure who is a little jealous, a little respectful, and more awe-inspiring.

Dong Zhuo can kill from Xiliang and become the indispensable Taishi in the court today, and he is admired by countless warlords from Xiliang, but the people of Xiliang lack the discipline of morality and etiquette, and they are wild, and the people killed by the law of the jungle are one thing, and it is instinct to kill them instead.

But Dong Zhuo's brutality is also famous.

So for most people, for Dong Zhuo, they are both respectful and afraid, there is no benefit, most of them are disobedient to the yin, and with the benefits, they can't do things well, and they are afraid of being settled after the autumn.

"Then we can only attack!"

"Assault?"

Han Sui stood up, paced back and forth, thought and thought, and then came to a low voice: "If you storm Chen Cang, how many troops will be needed?" ”

"Fifteen thousand or more, there is hope!"

Yan Xingdao.

"Report!" At this time, the voice of a scout came in from outside.

"Come in!"

"Report to the lord, the traces of the enemy army found in Longguan Road are heading towards the pass, and troops have been sent into Chencang!" The scout said.

"Longguan Dao?"

Han Sui became frightened: "The herdsman army has entered the customs? ”

"Entering the customs at this time?"

Yan Xing was also taken aback.

"Damn it!"

Han Sui paced back and forth, thinking that the herdsmen would not dare to enter the customs easily, so he took over the task of guarding the western front, but now the herdsmen blatantly entered the customs, which made him feel cramped.

"Now Chen Cang can't take care of it!" Han Sui said.

"Then I'll immediately withdraw Chen Cang's soldiers and horses!"

"Hmm"

Han Sui nodded, what defense on the Western Front, what safety of Chang'an, is not as important as his own soldiers and horses, in the troubled times, having soldiers is the king, he can't exchange his own soldiers and horses for the gains and losses of a city and a place.

"Someone!"

"In!"

"Immediately send the news of the entry of the pastoral army back to the imperial court!"

"Yes!"

"In addition, pass on my military order, gather all departments, and put our troops on the Weishui North Line as much as possible, along Chang'an, overlapping and overlapping, and pull the depth into it, no matter how fierce the pastoral army is, the troops must be concentrated!"

"No!"

The herald quickly went down to give the order.

………………………………

A few days later.

Mu Jing, escorted by his own soldiers, entered Chencang.

It's like from Hanzhong, along Wudu, into Liangzhou, and then a small circle, and then back here, from Chencang Road, south to Hanzhong, that is a very simple thing.

"The last general, Chen Sheng, plead guilty to the lord!"

Chen Sheng bowed his head and knelt down to plead guilty.

Because he couldn't look at Chen Cang's Xiliang Army, he was very ashamed, you know, he was staring at Xiliang Army, and he could still let Xiliang Army escape under his nose, and it would take a few days before he was shocked.

Fortunately, in this battle, there was no main force that caused great casualties, otherwise even if Mu Jing didn't punish him, he would feel guilty and couldn't stay in the herding system.

"This is not a crime of war!"

Mu Jing said lightly: "But as the chief general, there is a sense of dereliction of duty, now I am the marquis of Ming, responsible for the thirty military battles, and deduct the military salary for three months, do you have any opinions?" ”

"Subordinates receive guilt!"

"Get up!"

"No!"

"Although this thing is not done properly, but Seon knows that it is not a blessing!" Mu Jing still attaches great importance to Chen Sheng, the captain of Modao, and he was still a little worried about the formation of the Modao battalion and the promotion of him to the line of fire, but it turned out afterwards that Chen Sheng was worthy of his trust, he patted Chen Sheng on the shoulder: "Although I can't look down on the Xiliang Army, let the main battlefield be rude, and fail to annihilate Ma Teng's soldiers, but we suppressed Chen Cang, which can be regarded as making up for the merits, but in the future, we need to be more vigilant, if this is someone else, it is not a crime, and you are the main general, and you can't recognize the enemy's intentions, it is a crime!" ”

"Yes!"

Chen Sheng nodded.

"What is the current situation in Chencang?" Mu Jing entered the city, went to the main hall, and asked Chen Sheng in a low voice.

"A few days ago, the Xiliang Army once launched an attack on Chencang, the attack was very fierce, but the duration was not very long, but in two or three days, the hundreds of corpses left behind, the troops were withdrawn, I put the scouts, has been placed more than thirty miles away, there is no trace!"

Chen Sheng said: "The soldiers of the Modao Battalion, the combat is acceptable, the agility is insufficient, and I don't dare to put the scouts too far, for fear that I won't be able to take them back, and I haven't figured out the specific situation of the Xiliang Army!" ”

Mu Jing heard this, nodded, and did not blame, after all, the Modao Battalion did have some gaps in this regard, and the main force of the Modao Battalion was to fight head-on on the battlefield, and there was no problem with defense and offense.

But the sneak attack will be a little worse, and the agility will be insufficient.

On the battlefield on the plains, even if it is a cavalry, they can fight with it, this is the absolute advantage, in order to maintain this advantage of the Modao battalion, the others can be appropriately weakened, and the soldiers are also ordinary people, and it is impossible to cover everything.

Mu Jing's eyes looked at Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao led his troops and entered Chencang first, although he did not enter the city and was stationed on the periphery, but in the past few days, there should be enough time for him to understand the surrounding enemy situation.

"Lord, the Xiliang Army on this line of troops is undoubtedly Han Sui's Jincheng Army, with a strength of between 30,000 and 40,000, and it should be partly elite and partly recruited by Guanzhong Qingzhuang!"

Zhang Liao stood up and replied: "Han Sui once thought about attacking Chencang, but he should have been a little wavering, so he didn't come up directly and put in the main force, when he wanted to increase the troops, our troops had already gone out of Longguan Road, which naturally alarmed him, and he didn't dare to invest more troops in Chencang, so most of the soldiers and horses had withdrawn, which was equivalent to giving up on recapturing Chencang!" ”

"At present, the main force of the Jincheng Army, on the northern line of Weishui, along the route of Chang'an City, arranges layers of camps and lengthens the strategic deployment in depth, the purpose is not to defeat us, it should be to delay us!"

In front of Mu Jing, Zhang Liao spread out a newly drawn map of the distribution of troops, pointed to the enemy camp drawn on it, and analyzed: "Although we are fierce, we can break a net, and if we break the overlapping net, we will inevitably fall into a bitter battle!" ”

"What a plan!"

Mu Jing said gloomily: "Use the depth to drag us, and use this terrain perfectly, and lay out the old road!" ”

"Now if we want to go straight to Chang'an, it's basically impossible!"

Zhang Liao said: "Unless we can tear through their defensive line in a short period of time, this will inevitably cost our troops, increase our casualties, and the gains outweigh the losses!" ”

"But do you still have the idea to attack Chang'an?"

"Detour!"

"How?"

"Two choices!"

Zhang Liao replied: "One is that we go north, support the wind from the right, spare the northern front, join the battle of Guanzhong, attack Hongnong from the abdomen, and deal a fatal blow to the Xiliang army!" ”

"That doesn't fit our strategic deployment!"

Mu Jing frowned.

"Then there is only one other way, send troops from the Meridian Road and the Xiegu Road to open a gap, and then we will take this place as soon as we are lightning fast, and it is possible to use this place as a springboard to directly attack Chang'an City!"

Zhang Liao pointed to a location and said in a deep voice.

"Gojohara?" Mu Jing glanced at Zhang Liao and proposed the location, and said.

"This is located on the south bank of Weishui, and the layout of the Xiliang Army must be much weaker, as long as they take here, their arrangement on the north bank of Weishui will basically fail!"

"It's a good idea, but it's too risky!"

Mu Jing shook his head: "If, I said that if this is a road paved for us by the enemy, and we obediently march according to their layout, then our troops will inevitably be ambushed in two ways, and if we want to retreat at that time, we will retreat, and then we will still want to capture Wuzhang Plain, then it will be even more wishful thinking!" ”

"Would anyone be that accurate?"

Huang Shao frowned.

"On the battlefield, it is better to believe in there than to believe in nothing!" Mu Jing said: "Now we have the upper hand, step by step, more stable, a little ambush, will inevitably turn the situation around, unfavorable to us!" ”

"And that can only go north?"

"This still needs to be considered!"

Mu Jing shook his head, a little hesitant.

Now it is to the north, or to the south from Hanzhong, it is not in line with the strategic deployment of the pastoral army to enter the customs, the purpose of the pastoral army is Chang'an, and at this time, the city of Chang'an is to force the strategic deployment of the Western Liang Army to break out.

However, once the time drags on for too long, it is not conducive to the deployment of the pastoral army into Guanzhong.

It's not nice to say, if you don't block here, the herdsmen may face the enemy on both sides, after all, the Qiang army has been on their backs, they can enter the street pavilion, they can cross the Longguan Road, and they may not attack the herdsmen from the belly.

"My lord, there is a messenger visiting!"

Jiang Wan hurriedly came and said in a low voice.

"Emissary?"

Mu Jing squinted: "Who to visit, me?" ”

Impossible, his whereabouts, if he is so easy to be grasped, he is not a Ming Marquis, not a hegemon.

"On the name post, it is to visit the chief general of the herding army!"

"In that case, Wen Yuan, go and meet!" Mu Jing said: "Look at who is coming, at this time, the people who come to visit my pastoral army have intentions!" ”

"No!"

Zhang Liao took the order and turned away.

………………

In the city of Chencang, the county government, the side hall.

A young man, kneeling on the deputy seat, an empty hall, he tasted tea alone, but there was no panic at all, he was very old, and he was thinking in his heart, how to be a good lobbyist.

"A certain Zhang Liao, the general of the Third Army of Jingping in the Minghou Mansion!"

Zhang Liao stepped in, and as soon as he came in, he was striking: "I don't know who is coming?" ”