A group of cavalry galloped in the vast plains of Guanzhong, and in the queue, in addition to the tricolor flag that indicated it, there was also a general banner with the word "Captain Zhang", which was Zhang Ji.

After a day of repairing in Diaoyin, Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu went separately under the pass.

Although Zhang Xiu knew that this trip was dangerous, he still set off with five hundred people first, taking the atlas given by Fei Qian, and going to walk the mountain road that Zhao Yun had walked.

Let's not talk about anything else, first of all, Zhang Xiu wants to find the mountain road between the mountain roads, and secondly, on the mountain road, if the other party is on guard, then only two or three hundred troops are needed, you can fight a decent ambush battle, once you are ambushed, it is equivalent to a complete defeat, and there is even a danger of annihilation.

So Zhang Xiu behaved calmly, but Zhang Ji was still very worried, but Zhang Ji still endured it and didn't say anything. Zhang Xiu is Zhang Ji's family, strictly speaking, he is not a direct relative, but after such a long time, Zhang Ji also treats Zhang Xiu as his own child.

Galloping on the flat ground with the cavalry, watching the ground retreat quickly. This is Zhang Ji's favorite state, but he doesn't understand why Fei Qian gave a strange task, but no matter how strange the task is, it also needs to be completed......

On the head of Diaoyin City, Fei Qian looked at Guanzhong from afar, and his heart was constantly pondering. Flags fluttered overhead, beeping in the cold wind.

The weather is getting colder, and this year's winter is earlier and colder than last year's.

The cold north wind seems to be able to even blow through the iron armor and seep into the body, even if it is a fine fleece sweater, it can't resist the invasion of the cold wind.

If only there was cotton......

The denitrification process of chicken feathers and duck feathers is not enough, it is not impossible to wear chicken and duck down, but it must be turned over from time to time, and it is easy to have insects.

Everything is valuable, and Guanzhong is no exception.

The greatest value of this piece of land is a whole canal irrigation system built from the former Qin Dynasty, which has been very easy to use after hundreds of years, providing a steady stream of water supply to the land in Guanzhong, so that the entire Guanzhong has a large amount of fertile land.

It's just a pity that now is not the time for me to come forward and completely occupy Guanzhong......

However, just taking this opportunity to take a Zuo Fengyi and isolate Guanzhong and Hongnong must be carried out, otherwise waiting for Yang Biao and Zhao Wen to join forces and recover their recuperation for a few years, it will inevitably become a great threat to Fei Qian.

As for Jing Zhaoyin and Youfufeng, the best state is to let Chong Shao and Zhao Wen occupy one by themselves, and then these two people fight each other, giving Fei Qian a stable digestion of Yin Mountain and buying time.

Therefore, after Xu Shu learned that Fei Qian had such a decision, he did not wait for Fei Qian's arrival, but took the lead in taking more than 3,000 people to directly attack Tongguan......

Three thousand to five thousand is almost the maximum force that a good general can directly command. Further up, it is necessary to divide the troops, and the adjutant general is also needed to assist in command and command.

Many people have no concept of tens of thousands of people, but only exist in their minds, just like farmers and peasant women who plough the fields discuss how the emperor will live, and just speculate based on their own experience.

In fact, in ancient warfare, all kinds of rules and regulations were cumbersome......

Why in ancient wars, especially in the Three Kingdoms, there will always be a situation where the grain route is cut off, in fact, the simplest truth is that there are only a few routes that can be supplied through the baggage truck, either this one or that, anyway, the baggage vehicle is four wheels, how can it be impossible to have two more wings directly to the sky.

Moreover, in order to reserve grain and grass, the army will generally build a special transshipment base in the flank and rear of the forward position, knowing that this is a great weakness, but still have to continue to do so, the most fundamental reason is that if the grain and grass are not transported in large quantities at one time, and such a transfer base is not built on the front line, then the army may be hungry before the next batch of grain and grass arrives......

It is easy to say that once the thousand-level troops exceed 10,000 people, when fighting, the grain and grass alone will consume 18,000 stone a month, this is still a foot pawn, if it is a cavalry like Fei Qian, it is necessary to add forage and bean feed, then 10,000 cavalry, a month means that at least 60,000 stone of grain and grass will be consumed!

Fei Qian also wanted to directly brush up on a 100,000 and 200,000 troops, and then go from north to south, without thinking about the supply of grain and grass, without considering the loss of equipment, and directly push all the way over to finish the matter......

But it is obviously impossible.

On the battlefield, this is the case, the so-called army pressure is actually a small battle that forms a huge structural system, and the so-called big scene of 100,200,000 at every turn, in fact, is a joke in most cases.

In the battle of Julu, Xiang Yu tens of thousands of people wiped out Zhang Han's 400,000 army.

In the Battle of Chibi, the camp in front of Cao's army caught fire, and more than 200,000 troops behind it collapsed on their own.

Liu Bei's Yiling is also.

Zhu Rong of the Northern Wei Dynasty destroyed Ge Rong's army of hundreds of thousands, also relying on sneak attacks.

In the Tumubao Change, more than 200,000 people of the Ming army were taken by tens of thousands of Wara cavalry......

There are many soldiers, which is sometimes not a good thing.

Fei Qian's current strength is not much, but as long as these soldiers appear in the most critical position on the battlefield, compared with the ordinary foot soldiers in Guanzhong, who are mainly recruited by the Chang'an Forbidden Army and temporarily, it is like the difference between a steel knife and a slap, although it may hurt, and the slap is the most red, but the steel knife will kill people!

Fei Qian stood silently on the city wall, looking into the distance, as if looking at the land in Guanzhong, wondering where his steel knife was going to be pierced.

Now we are waiting for news from the front.

It's like two people fighting, only when the opponent gets up, more flaws are revealed, and only then do you know that those are real and those are pretended to be before......

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The county seat of Suyi.

Zhao Wen, who was also standing on the city wall to inspect the city defense, frowned and was a little worried.

Although Zhao Wen has sent a large number of soldiers and mobilized the people in the city to cut and dig in the surrounding areas, the accumulation of these materials is still very slow without many tools at hand.

But no matter what, after all, Su Yi was still obtained, which made Zhao Wen's heart feel a little more relaxed.

At least he was stationed at Suyi, and it was not easy for General Zhengxi to march into Chang'an. When the army marched in, the important thing was the safety of the supply line, and Suyi was stuck on the supply line of the official road from Diaoyin to Chang'an......

For Guanzhong, Zhao Wen was more worried about the intervention of the general Fei Qian.

Chong Shao, an old and frail guy, Zhao Wen still doesn't pay attention to it. If Zhao Wen hadn't had to get a tacit understanding with a few Guan sergeant clans first, he would have found an opportunity to do it a long time ago.

The money and food for sending troops this time are naturally provided by these scholars, otherwise the people who collected three melons and two dates in the cultivated land near Chang'an, what is the good feeling?

With support, naturally there will be something in return, Zhao Wen promised these scholars that in the future, after he takes control of Guanzhong, he will sell some land to these scholars, of course, this price is naturally half sold and half given away......

Anyway, these are also the lands of those who escaped from Guanzhong, and they can be regarded as borderless lands, so if they are given to these scholars, Zhao Wen doesn't have to pay out of his own pocket, so why not?

The premise is that Fidive does not interfere.

Zhao Wen still remembered that when Xiliang and Li Guo occupied Chaogang, it was because of Fei Qian's cavalry that suddenly appeared in Guanzhong, which changed the whole situation in an instant......

For the cavalry under Fei Qian, Zhao Wen was really envious, jealous and hateful, and he felt anything.

As soon as Xiliang soldiers left, Guanzhong's legs were shortened.

No way.

The cavalry was too difficult to raise.

Even if Zhao Wen has a heart, but the source of the war horse is a huge problem, the surrounding warriors have contributed some, and Zhao Wen can make up more than a thousand, but these riders ......

Let's just make do with it.

In the past two days, Zhao Wen sent the only cavalry scouts on hand to go far away, in order to find out Fei Qian's movements this morning.

Therefore, at this time, Zhao Wen was looking forward to learning about the movements of Fei Qian's army earlier, and at the same time he was worried that if Fei Qian's troops were too strong, he would be able to hold on to it, and wait for the support of Xia Mu or Yang Biao......

Just as Zhao Wen was thinking about it, suddenly several horsemen rushed from the north!

Zhao Wen looked at it, and his heart couldn't help but jump suddenly, because he saw that on the left shoulder of one of them, a white feather arrow was tremblingly inserted, and the blood was already stained red!

“…… Here it comes! Here it comes! Several scouts who rushed to the city rolled off their horses and shouted in embarrassment, "Baili, about Baili to the north, we have met the cavalry of Zhengxi!" One shot, the little black man died! The little black man died......"

"How many people are coming to the west?" Zhao Wen frowned, suppressed the anger, and said in a deep voice. Nima what a little black man, Lao Tzu doesn't care if your little black son dies, bringing back the news to Lao Tzu is the most important thing.

“…… So much, so much! Much more than us! "The guy who used to be a good horseman in the dock fort, but now he has just become a cavalry scout, shouted incoherently.

Zhao Wen's face was gloomy, if he wasn't worried about damaging morale, he would even have the heart to let people drag these useless guys down and cut them off.

Fortunately, not long after, the other cavalry scouts of the original Chang'an Forbidden Army brought the latest news, General Zhengxi's troops were out of Diaoyin, and about 800 cavalry were coming to Suyi!

"But the commander of the expedition to the west?" Zhao Wen hurriedly asked, "Have you seen the banner of General Zhengxi?" ”

"Returning to the envoy, I didn't see the banner of Zhengxi, I only saw the banner of 'Captain Zhang'......" the scout replied.

Hearing this, Zhao Wen breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably: "Come on, quickly pass the order, and let all the surrounding soldiers return to the city!" Pull the drawbridge and close the city gates! ”

The distance of a hundred miles is a matter of about an hour for the cavalry, and it is followed behind Zhao Wen's scouts, so it didn't take long for Zhao Wen to see the dust raised from the north, like a huge pillar of smoke, rolling over.

"All on alert! Archers in line! Zhao Wen shouted loudly, then looked left and right, and couldn't help shouting again, "Where are the arrows?" Why do you just move it up and do that? Aren't there more than 10,000 in the storehouses of the city? Hurry up! ”

10,000 arrows sounds like a lot, but in fact, when it comes to people's heads, there are only twenty or thirty arrows per person, and they can all be shot in an hour!

But it can only be used exquisitely, after all, although the arrow is a weapon to defend the city, but this thing, whether it is an arrow or an arrow shaft, is more troublesome to make, and there are some special requirements. Therefore, unless the generals who lead the army are really rough to a certain extent, or are forced to a desperate situation, generally speaking, they will not cut a piece of wood or cut bamboo at will, and use it as an arrow shaft.

Archers have been trained to shoot fixed-weight arrows, and if the center of gravity of the shoddy arrows is not higher, they will float after shooting, and it really depends on luck to shoot people......

Lack of lethality is one aspect, and the other aspect will also waste many opportunities to attack, after all, people's physical strength is limited, and every time you open a bow, it takes physical strength, if you can't give kill, it is equivalent to vain consumption, worthless.

"Returning to the envoy! There are plenty of arrows in the city! A military marquis reported, "In the warehouse, only the upper layers are newly made arrows, and the rest are old things from the early years, which are unbearable to use...... "If the arrows are not used, they will gradually rot, even if they are painted, they will not last for a few years, after all, the arrows are also made of iron, they will rust, and the arrow shaft has gaps, moisture and insects, which are fatal for the storage of arrows."

“…… Know, let's be on guard first......" Zhao Wen was angry, but he was helpless, seeing that the cavalry coming from the north was getting closer and closer, he couldn't care about anything else, so he could only take care of what was in front of him first.

In this era, cavalry has always been the king of the battlefield, and when the cavalry gathers together and rolls in, it is a great shock and deterrent for anyone.

The horses' hooves trampled on the earth, and hundreds of cavalry spread out a fan under the tricolor flag and the banner of "Captain Zhang", and slowly came. If you get closer, you can see the red cherry blossoms fluttering on these cavalry spears, the iron armor is shining, and the men and horses are spitting white gas, like a huge monster with teeth and claws to bring the breath of death.

At the head of Suyi City, the soldiers under Zhao Wen, when they saw this scene, they couldn't help but be a little commotion, and they gradually quieted down after the military marquis Qu Chang ran back and forth.

“…… This cavalry of the general of Zhengxi......" Zhao Wen stared tightly, muttering softly, I don't know if he really thought so, or if he was comforting himself, "...... It's really extraordinary...... But are you going to attack the city...... Hehe...... Can you still fly up? ”