The morale of Cao Jun's side was so low that he had to make plans to abandon Peiguo, and he was almost cornered. On the other side, Fuli City, which was only a hundred miles away, fell into celebration, which was a huge victory for the people of Liangzhou!

Since the Cao clan entered the Pei country, 13,000 soldiers have been lost in a month, which is worth celebrating, but what Ma Chao wants to celebrate is not this, but to celebrate that the Cao clan will no longer have the power to fight back in the next war.

"Brother, the Cao clan has no power to fight back, when will we take down Qi County?" The autumn is still very long, but Ma Tie can't help it, this battle Ma paid a lot of Liangzhou Qiang soldiers also paid a lot, they lost a lot of ordnance, "Capture Qi County, the generals are very greedy for Cao's soldiers!" ”

There is no way, what Ma Tie said is also the truth, although the Liangzhou cavalry is very fierce, but Liangzhou iron smelting is not outstanding. The best armor in the world has always been in the Nanyang and Henan Yin areas of the Central Plains in the past few decades. The Cao clan is close to the water in this regard, even if most of the Cao soldiers are equipped with the old ordnance accumulated during the period when they raised troops to fight against Dong and then dominate Yanzhou, they are still sturdy and durable, much better than the equipment of the Liangzhou army.

"Don't think about it, let's not attack Qi County, let Zhang Liao attack." Ma Chao smiled and drank, waved his hand and said his plan, so that the generals of Liangzhou who were gathered on the side looked at each other, and they couldn't figure out what he was thinking, so they heard Ma Chao continue: "Cao's army is poor, we are not good at attacking the city, and the heavy casualties in the attack on Qi County outweigh the losses, so it is better to trap him and let Zhang Liao go to the death." Go back and send someone to send the war report to the palace of King Zhao, and let King Zhao complete the matter of the armor, the Central Plains is not interesting, we will go back to Liangzhou. ”

Ma Chao has not asked Yanbei to allocate any ordnance until now, although he wanted to get some benefits from Yanbei earlier, but later General Fubo's title was given, and Ma Chao didn't want anything. What's more, if you want armor again at that time, it seems that you don't know the current affairs, but now it's different, although the Liangzhou Ma army has been fighting for less than a month, but the results are remarkable, and it is also the right thing to let the Yan clan transfer troops and armor at this time.

The Cao family used the old weapons and armor, and Ma Chao couldn't look down on it, so he wanted a new armor and a new knife made in Yuyang, Liaodong. What's more, even if he Ma Chao thinks very highly of himself, he also knows that he is Ma Mengqi and not a horse cannon, and he can't do the ability of cavalry on the city wall.

The most important thing is that Ma Chao thinks that there is no place for him in the Central Plains, and if he stays here, he will have to attack Jiangdong with Xu Huang and others...... The fool only attacked Jiangdong, and seventy or eighty percent of his men were landlubbers, and the Liangzhou cavalry who dominated the road got on a warship to fight a water war with the Yangzhou people?

It's better to go back to Liangzhou to clean up Song Jiandu than to fight with the Jiangdong people!

"The Yan clan's generals are gathered in the Central Plains, and the three places of Xuzhou, Yuzhou, and Jingzhou are entrenched, and there are miscellaneous generals everywhere, and the enemy is beaten like a rat holding his head, and he can't get any benefits." Ma Chao said very calmly about the situation in the Central Plains in his eyes, "Although King Zhao may not let Ma lead his troops back to Liangzhou, even if he can't return to Liangzhou, Hanzhong is much better than here, and it is a great achievement to conquer Chengdu." ”

In other words, Ma Chao took the snow mountain tour group for half the world before he finally reacted to the taste, and Yanbei's arrangement wiped out all his advantages. Their Liangzhou army does not have the slightest advantage in the Central Plains!

This is the difference between the Liangzhou army and other armies in the Central Plains, their territoriality is too strong, and the farther away from their hometown, the more they are constrained, just like another army under the northern part of Yan - Wuhuan Tucai.

Yanbei won the land of the Yan Dynasty in the early stage, and the Wuhuan Tucai made great contributions to it, but when the army spread to Henan, the figure of the Wuhuan Tucai in the army was much less, and it boiled down to the regionality of the Wuhuan Tucai.

In fact, this is also a common problem of all armies in this era, the farther away from home, the lower the combat effectiveness. This is not to say that brave soldiers leave their hometowns and become cowardly, but that they lack the ability to succeed. Just like Ma Chao's subordinates, more than 3,000 killed in battle is really more than 3,000 killed, and more than 10,000 troops are now not surplus to less than 7,000, Cao Jun can re-recruit troops in Peiguo, can Ma Chao?

Yes, but don't expect those Qiang leaders to recruit many soldiers in the Central Plains, if you want to replenish the new soldiers, you have to rely on the Liangzhou people, and they are Liangzhou people who can speak Chinese proficiently. Even so, if they did not resort to forced conscription, it would be difficult for them to dispel Xiang Yong's doubts...... Under Ma Chao, will they be able to return to their hometown in the future? What about their family members?

Ma Chao also has concerns, in the case of the language barrier between the Central Plains soldiers and the Liangzhou soldiers, how much strength can the military formation formed by them exert themselves?

In other words, leaving Liangzhou, the western part of Sizhou, and the northwest of Yizhou, the Liangzhou Ma army became a one-time army, just like the Wuhuan Turf cavalry army that left Youzhou, and its successor was powerless.

Ma Chao wants to give full play to his best ability, he has to return to the northwest, although he himself knows that Yanbei is a little jealous of him, and may not let him return to Liangzhou, but even if he can't go back to Liangzhou, he has to go to Yizhou Hanzhong and Bingzhou Yanmen, Ma Chao knows that there will always be a war there.

Autumn is coming, the air smells of stirring, and the northern prairie is at the intersection again...... The season of engagement.

Every year before the onset of winter, the wicked guests of the grassland will knock on the gate of Youji uninvited, hoping to go south to plunder the goods that will provide the people for the winter. Of course, even if they had enough food to prepare for the winter, they would still send troops south, which has long been a tradition.

There are many reasons for this, but the two most important ones are that the winter outside the city is cold and long, and the people in the country start preparing for winter in the summer, and now it is harvest time. If these two reasons happen to come together, how can there be no war?

In Ma Chao's opinion, the Xianbei people on the grassland are gathering troops and horses under the leadership of the leaders of the tribes to prepare for Koubian, and at this time, it is just right for him to go to the state, which is not much better than staying here.

The most important thing is that in Ma Chao's eyes, Cao Cao is already a turtle in the urn, there is Zhang Liao in the west, Ma Chao in the east, Yan's in the north, and Dajiang in the south.

It's not that Ma Chao is arrogant, and the Yanbei of Zhao Wanggong has a similar idea, just in the autumn, Yanbei sent Sun Zong from Zhao to the south as a lobbyist with gifts, intending to give Cao Cao a step, and took Zhao Guo's Shangshu order and the official seal letter of the Marquis of Zhao to Runan, intending to give Cao Cao a step down and surrender by chance.

How could he have thought that Zhang Liao was too anxious, so that Sun Zong went to Runan to pounce in the air, and then followed Sun Zong into Peiguo...... Hit the air again, and now it's a big deal.