After Zhang Ji led the army to Shangluo County, other teams of the Xiliang Army also came one after another, after Zhang Ji went to Chang'an to make peace, especially after hearing that Pei Qing raised troops, Li Ji and Guo Yan quickly reached an understanding, and each other took their daughters and nephews hostages to ensure that they would not attack each other again, unite as one, and break through the Kwantung coalition army.

In fact, Li Dao and Guo Yan originally agreed to exchange their sons as hostages with each other, but because Li Dao's wife loved her son very much and was unwilling to exchange protons, she later changed her name to use her nephew and daughter as protons.

After the two sides reached an understanding, Li Wei and Guo Yan remembered that they had helped them through the crisis and persuaded them to counterattack Chang'an's great strategist Jia Xu, so they invited Jia Xu into the barracks, ostensibly to ask Jia Xu for advice, but in fact they were forcing Jia Xu to think of a way for them, if Jia Xu did not do so, then they would ignore their past feelings and do something to Jia Xu.

Jia Xu knew that he was now a monk who ran away and couldn't run away from the temple, even if he was lucky enough to escape, his family would definitely be retaliated against by these people, so he had no choice but to give them an idea, let them make peace with Ma Teng and Han Sui, promise a high position, and ask Ma Teng and Han Sui to send troops, and at the same time, they should immediately gather troops and go to Shangluo in order to fight against Pei Qing.

"I also have no way, even if I have the heart to serve the man, but I have to first ensure my own safety as the basis, if my own life is gone, what do you talk about whether to repay or not? Now that I am being coerced by Li Dao Guo Yan, I am really helpless, and I have to cheer up and give advice to them, so I can't care about the previous agreement with you Pei Qing, if you are really offended, I will go to Cao Cao when the time comes. ”

Jia Xu seriously thought about his way out, and felt that there was no way out now, but to go all the way to the dark, hoping that Pei Qing could understand.

As soon as they heard Jia Xu's strategy, they immediately knew that it was feasible, and immediately clapped their hands and immediately arranged the deployment to contact Ma Teng and Han Sui, so they forced the Son of Heaven to issue an order, worship Ma Teng as the general of Zhengxi, Yongzhou Mu, Huaili Hou, Han Sui as the Zhenxi general, Liangzhou Mu, Yunwu Marquis, and persuade Han Sui and Ma Teng with the truth of cold lips and teeth, and ask them to send troops to resist Pei Qing.

At the same time, they also knew that although they had to fight against Pei Qing at this time, they could not relax their control over the imperial court, so they decided that Li Dao personally led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to stay in Chang'an, and during this period, under the pretext of tense situation, they ordered the closure of Chang'an City, and all personnel were only allowed to enter and not leave.

So in this case, in addition to Li Wei's more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, all the soldiers who could fight were all requisitioned to Chang'an, including Zhu Jun and the former Taiwei Huangfu Song, who had been removed from his official position and forcibly reinstated, Yang Ding, Yang Feng, Guo Yan, the generals of the Xiliang Army, Jia Xu and Li Wei's nephew Li Li, a total of 130,000 troops led by others successively marched to Shangluo, Ma Teng and Han Sui were bought by Li Wei's high-ranking officials on the one hand, and on the other hand, they were indeed affected by the truth that their lips were dead and cold, and they immediately agreed to raise troops. So in this case, they gathered a total of 100,000 people from all the departments of Xiliang and the Qiang cavalry, and went to Shangluo together to resist Pei Qing's attack, so a war of unprecedented scale began to kick off.

Pei Qing actually knows the movements of the Xiliang Army now, and he also knows that the most unfavorable situation has appeared now, both sides have gathered heavy troops, and it is not easy to win in this case, even if it can be won, it will definitely be a protracted war, once Cao Cao quells the rebellion in Yanzhou in the future, and thus leads the army to attack Chang'an, then he is really married.

Of course, Pei Qing would not blame Chen Zhi for failing to take advantage of the victory to pursue, because although Chen Zhi's Bai Yu army was strong, after all, half of the people were newly recruited soldiers, and it was absolutely no problem to win small-scale battles, but if it was a long-term continuous battle, the risk would be great, and the 7,000 troops were too small to resist the large-scale attack of the enemy.

And a more important problem is that the terrain here in Shangxian is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, especially for the attack of large-scale enemy forces, it is even more difficult to attack, and Shangluo is different, the terrain there is open, which is conducive to the attack of the large army, which is very unfavorable for Chen Zhi, who only has 7,000 defenders.

Therefore, based on the above reasons, Chen Zhi was actually right not to take advantage of the victory to pursue, which was the best choice in that situation at that time, but it also led to a problem, that is, it would be inconvenient to attack in the future, because the other party would gather heavy troops in the open area to guard against its own attack.

"If tens of thousands of troops are blocked here, we will be in trouble in this battle, and the result will only be in vain." Kong Rong, Zhou Gan, Fu Qian and others who participated in this battle were all worried, for fear that their efforts would be in vain, and they would not be able to obtain the reward from the imperial court, and they might even have to worry about their lives.

However, Pei Qing did not care about this, he ordered all the troops to set up camp step by step, and at the same time asked the officers and men of each army to dig several wide and deep trenches in front of their camp.

Although the commanders of the coalition army were suspicious, they could only do what Pei Qing requested, and their generals were also dissatisfied, but most of them remained silent, only Zhang Fei came to Pei Qing and said in a deep voice: "Alliance leader, you and our camp are not far from the Xiliang Army, and we have been here for several days, why haven't we led the army to launch an attack until now?" How is it possible to defeat the enemy in such a situation that you always tell us to be calm and just prepare for battle, especially digging wide and deep trenches here, which seems to me to be nothing more than preparing for a solid battle, and not at all planning to really fight the enemy? ”

However, Pei Qing said with a smile: "General Yide, don't be impatient, we are digging trenches now, just to prepare for the victory of the enemy army in the future, as the so-called careful sailing of the ship of ten thousand years, since we are fighting, we naturally have to win unexpectedly, defeat first, after all, we have more than 100,000 troops here, and I am also responsible for them, right?" ”

"Hehe, what a responsible alliance leader, but do you know that now that the enemy soldiers are gathering more and more, with so many men and horses on the other side, how easy is it to defeat them? I really don't know where you got your confidence? Zhang Fei's face was full of disbelief, and he sneered at Pei Qing, he is now losing more and more trust in Pei Qing, feeling that this guy is the idea of sticking to it, and the so-called King of Rising Troops is actually just a disguise, so it seems that this Pei Qing is no different from Yuan Shao at the beginning, so he said sarcastically: "Are you making excuses for yourself?" I really don't know what the difference is between you and Yuan Shao at the beginning? Thanks to you for writing poems to expose the original situation of the Kwantung Coalition Army's crusade against Dong Zhuo, we are grateful for our trust in you so much, but what I want to ask is, are you going to write poems to reflect on yourself in the near future? ”

However, Pei Qing said slowly: "If the scene of the crusade against Dong Zhuo is really repeated, I will not only prepare a satirical poem for myself, but also give up the position of the leader of the alliance to General Yide, so good?" Hehe, you want to be the overlord of Chu once, but unfortunately I'm not Song Yi, and I will still disappoint you after all. ”

"Oh? Really? Then I'll have to wait and see, I don't know when the leader of the Pei Great Alliance will attack? If our army can really win, I, Zhang Fei, am willing to take the blame on you! When Zhang Fei heard this, he suddenly became even more energetic, and said with a smile at Pei Qing.