Ma Chao didn't expect at all that he thought he was attacked by the army Chencang City, but in the end it turned out to be such a result, fighting hard for more than half a month, losing more than 10,000 people, but he never succeeded in capturing Chencang City, and what made him feel bitter the most was that now he couldn't find an idea even if he was looking for someone, Zhong Xuan was captured, and the young people in Hanyang were captured, beaten, and repulsed, and the rest were all silent, and they were thrown in Hanyang.

"Is my Ma Chao so useless? 50,000 troops can't capture a Chencang city? What else do I say about raiding the world? Ma Chao smiled bitterly and gradually lost confidence.

And at this moment, he only heard a burst of cheers from Chen Cang City, Ma Chao's heart was even more nervous, he thought that the other party had come to the rescue, and hurriedly led the army to flee back to Hanyang, reinforcing the city defense and preparing to defend it.

Ma Chao is guarding a military important place, this place is called Longguan, this is one of the only roads from Longyou to Guanzhong, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, in fact, at the beginning Zhong Xuan's strategy is to let Ma Chao send people to hold Longguan, and then lead the main force to take Wuwei, but Ma Chao thinks that he has been powerful Chen Cang before, and now Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu are incompetent, and they can easily occupy Chen Cang, so they insist on fighting Chen Cang, Zhong Xuan also thinks that he can use the strategy of attacking the east and the west, and attract Pei Qing's army by attacking Chen Cang, Then he led the main force to attack Wuwei, which had a better chance of winning, but he didn't expect that just attacking Chen Cang would bring such a big trouble to Ma Chao, and Ma Chao had only one way to defend Longguan for now.

However, surprisingly, no one launched an attack on Longguan in the following days, and Ma Chao was still happy in his heart at first, but after a few days, his heart slowly became worried, even he knew that this was probably not a good sign.

As a result, it turned out that Ma Chao's worries were not unreasonable, because at this time Ma Chao got the news, Pei Qing's Wuwei Taishou Cheng Gongying led five thousand cavalry to advance lightly, marched rapidly for three days and nights, and came to Jincheng, at this time Jincheng actually had seven thousand soldiers and horses led by Liang Xing, the general under Ma Chao, although it seemed that there were many people, but most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, and had no real combat power, and when he saw the resourceful Cheng Gongying leading the army to arrive, Liang Xing's heart was even more cold, He knew that he was not Cheng Gongying's opponent, and he still felt a little guilty about betraying Han Sui before, so he didn't dare to go out of the city to meet the enemy at all, just retreated in the city, and he didn't actively deploy defenses, he just drank every day to relieve his boredom, and at the same time secretly prepared to escape.

And then there was a worse thing, just when Jincheng County Zhiyunwu City was besieged by Cheng Gongying, there was a turmoil between Linqiang and Xiping Pavilion in the west of Jincheng County, the leader of this turmoil is the local famous Koji family, the Koji surname comes from the late Western Han Dynasty Shangshu Ling Ju Tan, because to avoid the disaster rate of his son Ju Tan to Xiping, and at the same time changed the surname of Ju to Koji, since then it has taken root in the local area, after nearly two hundred years, in these two hundred years, the descendants of the Koji family in order to be able to survive in the Qiang settlement, Not only did they use means to win over the local Qiang, but they also established a strong armed force to protect their property and personal safety, so the Koji clan were all brave and good at fighting, and actually controlled the western part of Jincheng.

It is precisely because of the important position of the Koji family in Jincheng, especially in the western part of Jincheng, that both Han Sui and Ma Teng tried their best to woo them, even Ma Chao, although he was young, he also knew the importance of winning over the Koji clan and co-opted them with a lot of money, but he didn't expect the Koji family to rebel, and the rebellion of the Koji family suddenly made the situation in the entire Jincheng County even worse, Liang Xing was even more unintentional about defending the city, and finally hesitated again and again, Liang Xing actually packed up the things of gold and jade, On the night of getting the news, he quietly slipped away with his family and soldiers.

Early the next morning, the leaderless soldiers of the city saw that they had lost their main general, so they naturally had no intention of fighting, and fled in all directions, and some of them opened the city gate and surrendered to Cheng Gongying.

So Cheng Gongying captured Jincheng very easily, and not long after, the people of the Koji clan arrived at the foot of Yunwu City and surrendered to Cheng Gongying.

Cheng Gongying had already gotten the news in advance that the Xiping Koji clan of Jincheng County would raise troops to respond, because Cheng Gongying knew the news that Koji Yi had surrendered to Pei Qing, and he also knew that this Koji had arrived in Xiping alone, so he must have persuaded his clan to raise troops to respond, and it turned out that Koji still had a considerable say among his clansmen, and he really persuaded his clansmen to rise up and surrender.

Although Koji Yi is just a first-class general, Cheng Gongying knows that he will be promoted soon after his meritorious service this time, and they are all colleagues, so he naturally does not dare to slack off, he saw that the Koji family came to surrender, so he was naturally very warm and cordial to them, and tried to help them as much as possible.

The news of Cheng Gongying's capture of Jincheng County quickly reached Ma Chao's ears, Ma Chao felt unbelievable after hearing the news, he really didn't expect Pei Qing's revenge to come so quickly, let alone that his painstaking defense now had no effect, until then Ma Chao came to his senses, no wonder Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew did not attack Longguan, it turned out that they had already known that Pei Qing had ordered an attack on Jincheng County, and formed a situation of attacking them before and after, since this is the case, Why did they spend manpower and material resources to attack Longguan, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack?

"This Pei Qing is really cunning enough, so I am facing the situation of being attacked on my back, how can I fight against Pei Qing's powerful power with just one Hanyang, one Longxi, and one Wudu?"

Ma Chao couldn't help but smile bitterly, he had no choice but to withdraw his troops and return to Longxi, if he really couldn't do it, he could only run to the Qiang tribe to avoid the disaster.

However, at this moment, Ma Chao heard a shocking news again, there were people in Hanyang County who had rebelled, and those rebels were the officials from Ji County who he had sent people to closely monitor before. The rebellion was started by Jiang Yu, Zhao Ang, Liang Kuan, Zhao Qu, Yin Feng and others, they led the villagers to rush into the prison to rescue Jiang Xu and Zhao Ang, a pair of cousins, and then handed over the command to these two people, Jiang Xu and Yang Fu were not polite, they led the villagers to storm the government, and instigated Bai to attack, took advantage of the chaos to kill the Ji County guard Zhang Heng, directly occupied the entire Ji County, and elected Jiang Xu to temporarily replace the position of Hanyang Taishou.

At this time, Jiang Xu naturally couldn't shirk it, so he took office angrily, and at the same time announced that Hanyang County would surrender to Pei Qing.

"This Pei Qing, I really didn't expect his revenge to be so ruthless, so fast, and occupy my Hanyang County, alas, I originally wanted to go to Longxi to hold on, but now it seems that there is no need, in case there is a rebellion after getting there, wouldn't I even have a foothold? I'd better go to Wudu, after I get there, I only need to occupy the Sanguan to defend myself, if it doesn't work, I will rely on Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, I will join forces with Zhang Lu to fight against Pei Qing, and maybe there is a possibility of self-preservation. ”

After Ma Chao made up his mind, he sighed, led his soldiers to evacuate Longguan, and went directly to Wudu.