The fall of Nanshan does not mean that Wang Hou is stable, when Zhuge Liang Street Pavilion was in battle, this was the territory of Wei, although the Tianshui people rebelled, but there were still many Wei troops to control the road and provide support, Zhang He's 50,000 cavalry could directly kill the Hou Kong Ming who exploded Zhuge Liang near Longxi City, but Wang Hou did not lay a single territory in Longshang.

Did he pay the price for giving up Weishui, or did he have to move step by step like a kowtow worm through the rugged loess hills to Yicheng, the capital of Liangzhou.

And this is also Ma Chao's opportunity!

In fact, the Loess Plateau is really not like the impression of later generations full of loess, desolate and desolate, on the dry land, the wrinkled old farmers are hard to cultivate a few acres of wasteland, especially when it has not been over-developed at this time, the loess slope is covered with green straw shrubs, lush and half a person high, and from time to time there are wild rabbits jumping in it.

However, there was a peaceful and melodious natural atmosphere, and the Liaodong army below could not feel it, the herds of cattle in the middle were carrying grain, and the Goguryeo people and Buyeo people escorted on both sides watched vigilantly with spears left and right, and their nerves were tense to the extreme.

But even if you are so vigilant, you still haven't been exempted! Suddenly, in the grass on the mountain, a throwing spear with a whistling wind, buzzed out, and was still watching left and right, and the Liaodong infantry like a meerkat had time to let out a desperate scream, and in the tragic sound of poofing, the whole person was pierced by a long and hard thing, and the blood of Liaodong was vividly sprinkled on this dry land.

"Attack!"

The mournful shouts were accompanied by the desolate horn of the horns, and the living conscripted cloth light infantry immediately raised the wooden shields hanging on their horses, and trembled and deep into the spears, while the two wings of the long grain transport team, the Xianbei riders who were quickly guarding from the guard, rushed over with the reins of their horses, and the raindrops of steel-tipped arrows crackled and fell into the bushes where the attack had been made.

It's really unlucky that even people and animals are unlucky, in the dense rain of arrows, a rabbit escaped in a panic, but did not run out of a few meters, poof, in the sound of flesh and blood breaking, the rabbit with an arrow in the middle of the skull was nailed to the ground by the tail of the arrow, not far away, a few people who sneaked up on the attack also ran away, but how can people run past the arrow, crackling in the rain, running behind the bare thigh of the person also suddenly burst out of an arrow shaft, the legs and feet were weak, and the person fell directly to the ground.

Full of fear, the man who was hit by the arrow stretched out his hand to his companion in despair, but the rain of arrows that spread immediately followed had crackled and nailed over, from his feet to his head, crackling and nailing his entire body, like an insect specimen with a tack, cruelly nailed to the ground, forever maintaining this posture of falling to the ground and reaching out.

However, the attack of the Di people was still successful, and just when the grain transport team was all attracted and focused on their heads, more than a dozen people suddenly appeared behind them, among the originally silent bushes on the side of the road.

Ba Ba, who was still stunned, looked at the excitement, and suddenly, the omens infantry who were driving the Qiang cattle herd on this side whimpered and were strangled from behind, and the sharp stone blades clicked through, and when the large army guarding the food turned around, they only saw a few levies who were still not dead holding their bloody throats, and the backs of the Di people who had snatched the grain bags and had already rushed into the mountains.

People are not machines, and the fear of dying on the spot at any time and anywhere made the whole team tremble, and it took more than ten minutes for the officer in charge of supervising it to stabilize the army and continue to transport grain and grass forward.

On this road, it encountered four more attacks, and the transport team could be regarded as smoothly transporting grain and grass to the front line, leaving the street pavilion, and going deep into the 110-mile advance camp on Longshang.

As soon as they entered the camp, the earthen wall built by sealing the mountain road with loess, every levy soldier who carried food arrived here alive as if they were relieved, and this time they picked up a small life from the hands of death.

In the southwest, a large number of conscripted steppe light cavalry were also greatly relieved to get back to the barracks, and some of the teams, even horses were shot by the long arrows and javelins of the Qiang people or Di people, and they returned with bloody wounds, which was particularly terrifying.

This is washed out by flowing water, and the rugged loess slopes of Longzhong are really not their home field! In one day, patrolling within a radius of dozens of miles, looking for the enemy's decisive battle, the cavalry did not know how many ambushes they had hit, the towering dirt slopes, the low-lying terraces, I don't know where they could be attacked, even if the fierce and aggressive Xianbei people on weekdays, in this kind of fragmented ambush and anti-ambush battle, they still looked tense as if they were about to collapse.

The Chinese army, on a map, densely covered with contour lines and large and small red crosses, but a series of red arrows, Ma Chao's main force of the Xiliang cavalry still appears on Wang Hou's map all the time.

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Listening to the report of the frightened Xianbei tribal general, Wang Hou quietly used a red pen to wave the red arrow of the main force of the Xiliang Army to the west.

But at this time, the tent curtain was suddenly opened, his face was full of anger, and Cao Zhang looked impatient again, and bared his teeth and bared his teeth and broke in from the outside.

"I said brother-in-law! How long do we have to go around with the Xiliang thieves in these loess slopes! ”

"More than 400 people have escaped from this battalion! Chengji is in the west, Xingguo is in the south, my army is in hand, several times more than Ma Chao, not quickly going south to capture the important land of Longnan, but here is a waste of time with thieves, isn't this falling into the hands of horse thieves? For years, can't you see this clearly? ”

Don't say, what Cao Zhang said this time is not wrong at all, Ma Chao has few soldiers, he has no strength to confront Wang Hou head-on, so his main way of fighting is to harass along the way, destroy Wang Hou's army's grain route, and obstruct his march, the slower the Liaodong army marches, the more beneficial it is for him, once the food is consumed, Wang Hou can only retreat, and he falls into Ma Chao's pursuit time.

However, Wang Hou was really like being kicked in the head by a donkey this time, and he set up a battalion after only marching forty miles every day, and it took two days to build this marching camp, and then constantly sent scattered horsemen to sweep nearby, playing hide and seek with the Liang army.

In the rear, the grain from Jingyuan is also transported to the various military camps one after another like checkers, and along the way, a huge amount of grain is wasted on road transportation, and every day's time can really be calculated with gold.

However, it really made the emperor not anxious and the eunuch was in a hurry, Cao Zhang was so anxious that his mouth was blistered, but Wang Hou still looked unfathomable, and slapped him indifferently.

"The general has his own plan, and General Cao can take care of his own affairs!"

"You!"

was about to explode in anger, watching Wang Hou turn his head back to the map again, ignoring himself, the corners of his mouth twitched, Cao Zhang broke his sleeves in annoyance, and turned around and walked out of the tent in a dull manner.

But at this moment, in the evening night, a large firework exploded more than ten miles away, and the sky was already dark at this time, and the entire military camp was clearly visible.

Angry again, Cao Zhang once again got back into the tent of the Chinese army, and then bared his teeth and shouted there.

"The military situation is so urgent, do you still have the heart to set off fireworks? And put a horse shape! You're incorrigible! ”

"Fireworks? Your horse blew up? ”

Who knew that Wang Hou, who heard this, was so excited that he didn't even care about the map report, and hurriedly pushed Cao Zhang away and rushed out of the tent.

Unfortunately he couldn't see it, and there was still silence in the sky, but there were soldiers whispering everywhere.

Cao Zhanggang came out in a daze, but saw that Wang Hou was already pulling the collar of the soldiers around him like a madman, and he also bared his teeth and roared excitedly.

"Drums! Gather! Overnight march! ”