Han counter current

But that's good, it's cheaper for him, he won so many spoils without any effort, and without losing many soldiers and horses.

"Report, General, we have captured a group of prisoners."

In the evening, just as Ma Dai led his army back to camp, he heard his subordinates report.There were indeed many routs in the nearby forest, and it was normal to capture some prisoners.

"You guys are generals of Cao Jun?"

Ma Dai was sitting on a horse, his whole body covered in armor, which made him look so heroic and indifferent.

"Hmph, Cao Cao is a traitor, how could we serve him."

"Oh, so you are Han Sui's subordinates?"

"Hey, Han Sui is a thief, and we have a life-and-death enmity, so what right do we have to listen to his orders?"

"Huh? Strange, then whose subordinates are you?"

Asked twice in a row, but was denied by the other party, Ma Dai was a little curious, and lifted his own ghost mask, Ma Dai stared at the prisoners, as if trying to find out something from the other party.

"Second, Second General, is that you? Second General, we, we are the old lord's personal soldiers, and we left after following the lord."

Seeing Ma Dai's face, more than a dozen prisoners burst into tears. It turned out that they were Ma Chao's subordinates. No wonder they disdained Cao Cao and Han Sui so much before.

"What, you mean, my elder brother is also nearby?"

After some exchanges between the two sides, Ma Dai learned that his elder brother also participated in the battle.Even after the war ended, he led more than 1000 elite troops under his command to pursue Han Sui.

"That's right, Second General, when we parted, my lord still had [-] cavalry, but we fought fiercely and couldn't rest, and we lost our source of food and grass.

The brothers died and scattered. In the end, the lord led us to build a cottage in the mountainous area south of Huaili.

The old, the weak, and the disabled in the army were placed there. This time, most of the young and strong people in the cottage came out, but Han Sui let Han Sui run away anyway. "

The leading soldier used to be Ma Teng's personal guard, and later became Ma Chao's personal guard. Seeing Ma Dai now again, he felt so happy.

"Let's not talk about that, where are the injured brothers, you lead the way immediately, go and take them all over and heal them well.

Come here, immediately bury the pot and cook food, take out medicines, and put out as many fires as you can save lives. Brothers have worked hard, it is my Ma family who treated you badly. "

After returning to Xiliang, Ma Dai was naturally relieved to get the news of Ma Chao so soon. However, he still had important responsibilities and could not catch up with Ma Chao for the time being.

After Cao Zhen and Cao Chun led [-] soldiers and horses to retreat to Guangwei, they immediately reinforced the city defenses. Soon, Ma Dai led his soldiers and horses to chase outside the city.

As time went by, more and more soldiers and horses arrived. Cao Zhen and the two of them could tell from the banners that the soldiers and horses of the Qiang nationality who arrived later were all nearby.

On the other side, a team of wounded soldiers dressed as Cao Jun was approaching Chang'an, because wounded soldiers had been delivered before, and this group of people had letters written by Cao Zhen and Cao Chun.

Therefore, the defenders in Chang'an did not doubt their identities, and allowed this group of people to sneak into Chang'an city smoothly.

As for Han Sui, after leading the remaining soldiers and horses to leave, he was quickly chased by Ma Chao, but Ma Chao's number was small and did not pose a threat to him, but slowed him down a lot.

However, this does not affect his return to Wuwei.

Chapter 476 Cao Jun divides troops 2

Xuzhou and Pengcheng have been besieged by Cao's army until now, and the food and grass in the city have been almost consumed. Similarly, Cao's army outside the city is not much better.

"Pengcheng cannot be defended. If we don't break through, the main force of our allied forces may be lost here."

In the hall, Yuan Tan looked at everyone coldly. Liu Bei and Zang Ba also knew that Pengcheng would not be able to survive. Due to the siege of Cao Jun, food from the outside world could not be transported in.

"Let's break through, while our army still has the strength to fight, and Cao's army has been besieged for a long time, and it is also very tired. Now is the best time for our army to break through."

Zang Ba has been battle-tested for a long time, how can he not see the situation in such a battle.Originally, they all thought that Cao Cao would collapse first.

After all, Cao Jun came from afar, and it was difficult to transport food, grass and luggage. In addition, some time ago, there was news from Bingzhou that troops and horses had been sent to fight deep into Yanzhou.

Most of Cao Jun's food, grass and transportation teams were looted, and even Chen Liu was captured for a time. At that time, Yuan Tan and the others thought that Cao Cao would retreat.

Who would have thought that Cao Jun's resilience was far beyond their imagination.For the Cao army outside the city, they also lack food and grass, but they are stronger than the allied forces inside the city.

Except for the soldier factor, the leading coaches of the two sides are not at the same level at all.Before the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao was short of food.

At that time, in order to alleviate the food crisis, Cao Cao did not hesitate to send troops to kill people to make meat jerky, and just survived the most difficult time. The days like this are nothing.

"Five days at most, Yuan Tan and the others will definitely not be able to hold on. My lord, let's make arrangements now. When the enemy breaks through, our army can completely wipe out the enemy army outside the city."

Inside the big tent, Guo Jia's face turned pale again.He has been physically and mentally exhausted since his expedition to Hebei.

Originally, he and Cao Cao planned to repeat the same trick and use the allied forces in Pengcheng to attract Chen Feng to lead the army to rescue them.

This is also one of the reasons why Cao Cao was not in a hurry to attack Pengcheng. Who knows, their calculations were wrong this time, and Chen Feng had no intention of sending troops at all.

"Feng Xiao, I always feel that that kid Chen Feng will definitely make a move. But if he doesn't make a move now, how can he resist our army's advance."

Up to now, Cao Cao is a little puzzled, Chen Feng is really calm, and he has not made a move until now. Could it be that his ambition is really to stick to Youzhou and stabilize the grassland?

To be honest, Cao Cao didn't believe that Chen Feng had only this kind of ambition, and neither did Guo Jia, so they planned to use Pengcheng to attract Chen Feng to go south.

"Perhaps, Xianbei really sent troops to threaten Hetao. Chen Feng, who can develop the barren western Liaoning into a rich place, naturally has the ability to turn Hetao into a granary.

In addition, he paid such a high price to win the Hetao, so he was naturally unwilling to lose it like this.Xianbei sent troops, so he couldn't help but pay attention to it. "

Up to now, Guo Jia also feels that only this explanation is reasonable, otherwise, why didn't the Youzhou army go south, and they didn't even mean to rescue them.

Zhang Xiu, who had stormed Cao Jun's camp before, even disappeared during this time, as if he had forgotten that there were friendly troops in Pengcheng.

"Take Pengcheng and wipe out the enemy army. I don't believe it. Without the Hebei Allied Army, he, Chen Feng, can still resist my soldiers."

The explanation of Xianbei sending troops can only be considered barely reasonable.In any case, as long as the Hebei Allied Forces are completely wiped out, the resistance to taking Hebei will be much smaller.

"Report, Chang'an urgent report,,,,,,"

A messenger hurried into the big camp, and then, led by Cao Cao's personal soldiers, broke into the big tent directly.

"Prime Minister, urgent report from Chang'an."

"Chang'an? Why, Han Sui, haven't you dealt with it yet? Hmph, with Zixiao and Zidan, plus [-] cavalry, it's enough to repel Han Sui."

Cao Cao was talking to himself while opening the battle report. When he saw the contents of the battle report, his face gradually turned red.

"Ah, what a thief, Chen Feng, you are so clever..."

In a rage, Cao Cao slammed the battle report on the ground, and then walked around in the big tent angrily.

"Oh, I knew that he was unwilling to be lonely, but I didn't expect that his goal was actually Chang'an."

After Guo Jia picked up the battle report and read it, he also shook his head with a wry smile.It was clearly written in the battle report that after repelling the Xiliang army, a large army suddenly attacked Chang'an.