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Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, and Cheng Yin hurriedly surrounded them.

"Ziwei ......" Han Sui trembled his lips and shouted with difficulty, "Ziwei ......"

"My lord, he just left, leading his army to stop the enemy in the rear." Yang Qiu whispered, "The pursuers are right behind us. ”

Han Sui shouted again: "Meng Qi...... Meng Qi ......"

"He was wounded and lying in the carriage behind." Cheng Yin said, "I'll immediately send someone to carry him over." ”

Han Sui shook his head weakly and said, "No need, I don't have much time to wake up, it's too late." I don't know if I can wake up this time, if I can't wake up, Xiliang will be handed over to Meng Qi. ”

Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, and Cheng Yin looked at each other with extremely shocked expressions.

Cheng Yi exclaimed, "Lord, why is this? ”

Yang Qiu patted Cheng Yi lightly and motioned for him not to ask. Han Sui's mental state is very bad now, and now is not the time to twist him and ask this.

"After this battle, our vitality was greatly damaged, and we were no longer able to defend the western frontier, so we could only rely on the strength of Hebei to resist the invasion of the Qiang people." Han Sui looked at Yang Qiu and the others, his voice getting quieter and quieter, "If I can survive, everything is easy to say." But if I die, Ziwei will definitely swear to die, and sooner or later the western frontier will become a pasture for the Qiang people. You must help Meng Qi, and you must help him defend the western frontier. ”

Speaking of this, Han Sui glanced at them, a relaxed smile appeared on his face, and then closed his eyes again.

………………

Fengyi County, Guanzhong, Gaoling City.

Early in the morning, the Xiliang army withdrew into Gaoling City to rest.

Although the Western Liang Army finally escaped from the encirclement of the Northern Frontier Army, in the process of breaking through, Han Sui was seriously injured and has been in a coma to this day.

Han Yi urgently convened the generals of Xiliang to discuss the matter.

Yang Qiu didn't see Ma Chao in the lobby, and sighed secretly in his heart.

Han Sui's serious injuries and coma made the situation in Western Xinjiang very complicated.

In the past, all kinds of contradictions in Western Xinjiang were forcibly suppressed by Han Sui with his personal prestige and intelligence. But now that he is seriously injured and unconscious, he cannot be a director, and all the contradictions in Western Xinjiang are immediately exposed.

Moreover, with the defeat of Zheng Baiqu, the Western Xinjiang Army fell into an unprecedented existential crisis, and these contradictions could be intensified and erupted at any time.

As Han Sui expected, the young Han Yi not only did not do his best to unite the generals of the various departments in Xiliang and boost the morale of the army at this critical juncture, so as to ensure that the army in Xijiang could withdraw safely, completely, and quickly to Xiliang, but instead made the contradiction between himself and Ma Chao public, deliberately creating and intensifying the contradiction.

There is a reason why Han Yi couldn't wait to ride Ma Chao when he was seriously injured and his strength was lost. Han Yi was not worried that Ma Chao would dominate Xiliang, but that Ma Chao would cause trouble in Xiliang.

Ma Chao now has no army, and the main force of the Xiliang Army, in addition to Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, and Cheng Yin, who are the subordinates of the older generation of Xiliang warriors, other armies such as Zhang Ji, Liang Qing, Chen Yan, and Jiang Jian all obey Han Yi's military orders, after all, they are all Han Sui's disciples and protégés.

Ma Chao does not have an army does not mean that Ma Chao has no strength, as long as Ma Chao returns to Western Xinjiang and Longxi, with his relationship with the Qiang people and his prestige among the Qiang people, he can rely on the help of the Qiang people to rebuild an army in a short period of time.

Whether Ma Chao has the ambition to dominate Xiliang, Han Yi doesn't know, but Han Yi knows that his father has promised to hand over Xijiang to Ma Chao. If Ma Chao regains his strength and launches infighting and competes with himself for the western frontier, the western frontier is bound to be in chaos.

Therefore, Han Yi believed that if the Western Liang Army could safely withdraw to Western Xinjiang, the biggest enemy would not be the Hebei army in Guanzhong, but Ma Chao and the Qiang tribes outside the Saiwai. Solving Ma Chao first can completely remove a huge hidden danger.

Yang Qiu couldn't help but want to test Han Yi, he asked softly, "Why didn't Meng Qi come?" ”

"He's injured and can't move for the time being." Han Yi said lightly, "He has a very close relationship with many generals of the Northern Frontier Army, especially Zhang Liao, if he wants to surrender and leaks our secrets, we will definitely be wiped out and buried in Guanzhong." ”

Yang Qiu's expression was suddenly cold, and he said solemnly: "Meng Qi's army is finished, and his general Pang Rou also died at the hands of the Northern Xinjiang Army, and he has a deep enmity with the Northern Xinjiang Army, how can he surrender?" ”

"How do you know he's not going to surrender?" Han Yi sneered, "Ma Chao, like his father, is a ruthless and capricious villain. Is it true that Ma Teng betrayed my father and took refuge with Yuan Shao? After Yuan Shao killed Ma Teng, my father helped him send troops to take revenge, and he actually took revenge, not only assassinating my father, but also provoking internal strife in Xiliang, sending troops to attack us, and vainly trying to dominate Western Xinjiang, is it a fact? Doesn't these bloody facts still show that Ma Chao is a person? I don't want to repeat my father's mistakes, and I don't want to return to Xijiang and fight with him bloodily and bury Xijiang in vain. ”

Yang Qiu was stunned for a long time and didn't speak for a long time.

Over the years, Ma Teng and Ma Chao father and son have indeed done a lot of things that are sorry for Han Sui and sorry for Western Xinjiang, but now the situation is different. Now Han Sui is seriously injured and in a coma, I don't know if he can wake up, the Western Xinjiang Army is also seriously injured, and there is no one in the Western Xinjiang who can control the Western Xinjiang like Han Sui.

In today's precarious situation in Western Xinjiang, Han Sui's entrustment before he fell into a coma is very important, and he must have a deep meaning in letting Ma Chao succeed him as the commander of the Western Liang Army.

Yang Qiu set his eyes on Cheng Yi and Cheng Yin, their faces were gloomy, pretending not to know, and they didn't say a word.

Yang Qiu sighed gloomily, walked to the side and sat down, and stopped talking.

Although Han Sui entrusted the important task of assisting Ma Chao to stabilize Xiliang to the three old brothers, these three people, like other Xiliang generals, did not trust Ma Chao.

And now Ma Chao has no strength, once he says it, it will affect Han Yi's status, and Han Yi may find an excuse to kill Ma Chao. Once the long-suppressed contradiction of the Xiliang Army erupts, the army is very likely to collapse, so the three of them have not said Han Sui's instructions before he fell into a coma.

After Han Yi and the others discussed it a little, they found that the Xiliang Army had no way to return to the Western Xinjiang safely.

There was silence in the hall, and the atmosphere was oppressive and sad.

In the battle of Zheng Baiqu, the Xiliang army suffered heavy losses. Han Sui rushed to the battlefield with an army of 180,000, Gao Gan's 80,000 army was completely annihilated, and Xiliang's 100,000 army was nearly eighty percent lost, and now there are about 23,000 people left. If you add the 3,000 people from Zhang Ji and Jiang Jian who came from Chang'an City, the entire army is only more than 25,000 people.

"At present, there are still 2,000 men and horses of Zhang Meng in Chang'an City, and there are still 3,000 people in Huaili and Chencang cities." Yang Fu wrenched his fingers and said, "There are about 30,000 horses in the entire Guanzhong, and there are too many people and horses in the Northern Frontier Army, and we still haven't figured out how many Northern Frontier troops there are on the battlefield of Zheng Baiqu." However, conservative estimates put them at least 150,000 troops, that is, five times that of ours, and the possibility that we can safely withdraw to the western frontier is too small. ”

"Yesterday afternoon, the Northern Xinjiang Army not only surrounded Gao Gan on the right flank battlefield of Zheng Baiqu, but also wanted to annihilate us completely, and although we finally broke through, this did not affect the determination of the Northern Xinjiang Army to pursue and encircle us in Chang'an City." Yang Fu sighed, "Li Yi's ambition is too great, and his courage is too great, he wants to win the battle and completely occupy Guanzhong, so as to quickly encircle Luoyang with the Northern Frontier Army of the Central Plains and complete the preparations for attacking Luoyang." He did it, Zheng Baiqu's battle can be said to be flawless, if we fail to break through, he can even take advantage of the situation to occupy the western frontier and completely remove our threat to Guanzhong. ”

"Although we broke through and withdrew from the Zhengbaiqu battlefield, this place is still thousands of miles away from Xiliang, and Li Yirong still has enough troops and time to encircle and annihilate us in the area of Chang'an and Huaili." Zhang Ji said very frustratedly, "If the 30,000 army wants to safely withdraw to Xiliang, it must bring grain, grass and baggage, but our people are seriously insufficient, and the number of troops is also seriously insufficient, especially the number of cavalry, and the gap between it and the Northern Xinjiang Army is too big. In addition, the morale of the army was also extremely low, and the soldiers were physically and mentally exhausted. If we were surrounded by cavalry from the north on the way to retreat, we would inevitably collapse at the first touch. ”

Han Yi covered his face with his hands and lay on the desk, with a splitting headache and was at a loss.

After a long time, he looked up at Yang Fu and asked weakly, "Military Division, how many casualties have we had?" How many wounded soldiers will be able to fight again? ”

"The specific number is not clear at present, and we will carefully verify it when we withdraw to Chang'an." Yang Fu said, "Even if the lightly injured soldiers can return to the battlefield, they will need a period of rest and recuperation. Under the current circumstances, the danger of forcibly retreating is too great, and it is better to stay in Chang'an City for the time being. The army can rest and regain its strength while waiting for the tide of battle to change. ”

"The army can't stay in Chang'an City." Zhang Ji said excitedly, "There are too many cavalry in the Northern Frontier Army, and they will immediately take a shortcut to Fufeng County to cut off our retreat." The infantry army of the Northern Xinjiang Army will then also chase to Chang'an City. Gao Gan was already dead, and Yuan's army had no food and grass, so they either surrendered or collapsed, and they couldn't hold out for a day at all. We still retreated immediately, and Pegasus urgently reported to General Han Yan in Xiliang, asking him to bring reinforcements to meet him quickly. ”

"There are only 8,000 people left in Xiliang, and a large part of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and there is an extreme shortage of food and grass, plus the Qiang people are staring at Jincheng on the north bank of the Yellow River, and they must not be mobilized." Yang Qiu was shocked, and hurriedly waved his hand to persuade, "The army now has no strength to fight again, even if the grain and grass are discarded and retreat quickly, the soldiers will not be able to support it, it is better to defend Chang'an Xu Tu and his strategy." ”

"There are more than 1,000 miles to go home, and if you lose your grain and grass and don't want the Northern Xinjiang Army to fight, the soldiers themselves will scatter in a hurry." Cheng Yin patted the case hard and said loudly, "The only way to keep the army now is to defend Chang'an City and negotiate peace with the Northern Xinjiang Army quickly." ”

"Peace?" Liang Qing and some other Xiliang generals were like grasping a life-saving straw, and their eyes lit up. (To be continued.) )