Seeing that the battle did not have the desired effect, Ma Teng did not fight, and decisively led the army to retreat, Cheng Yun did not have any idea of pursuit, and entered Chang'an City with his soldiers.

Although Chang'an City is the place where Jingzhao Yin Gaixun should be responsible, Gaixun is very self-aware, and gave Chang'an to Zhang Wen, who has more military experience, to defend, and he also responded in the middle, and went to Huaili under the rule of Youfufeng.

Zhang Wen saw the battle between Cheng Yun and others and Ma Teng in the city, but he didn't come down to help, first because Zhang Wen had a total of 10,000 soldiers and horses, which was not enough to deal a big blow to Ma Teng, and secondly, because Zhang Wen's soldiers and horses were all infantry archers, and it was possible to rush out of the city gate by Ma Teng relying on the speed of cavalry, resulting in the loss of Luoyang.

Now that Cheng Yun and the others have finished fighting, Zhang Wen smiled and asked people to open the city gate, "Wen Ying, your subordinates are still so brave and good at fighting!" ”

The relationship between Cheng Yun and Zhang Wen is more complicated, Zhang Wen's wife Cai should be counted as Cai Yan's cousin, there is such a relationship, since Cheng Yun married Cai Yan, he no longer needs to call him Bo Shen Gong, just call him Bo Shen directly, I have to say that the family concept is strong in this era.

Cheng Yun smiled and saluted him, "Let's talk about the old things later, let the brothers settle down in the city first, and only after making a deal with Ma Shou did I know that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is really brave and extraordinary, not only the group of generals under my command are strong." ”

Zhang Wen laughed, "Otherwise, what do you think, I thought that back then, I fought against the Xiliang rebels with Yuan Peng, Yuan Gongxi, Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhongying and others, and I used all my strength and wisdom to barely maintain the majesty of our Han and force them back. There are capable people in Xiliang. ”

Cheng Yun rode a horse and stood at the gate of the city, and glanced at the smoke and dust of Ma Teng and the others retreating in the distance, "We have to find a way to deal with Ma Teng, otherwise we will always be in trouble in the west, you must know that Cao Cao and others in the east are entangled, and they will definitely not be able to distinguish the winner in a few years, and Ma Teng Han Sui in the west, now with a Zhu, is all determined to oppose the imperial court." ”

Zhang Wen groaned, "As far as I know, Ma Teng and Han Sui fell out, Xian Lingqiang, Hao Duoqiang, Bai Ma Qiang, etc. were all dealt with by Han Sui, these are Ma Teng's cronies, and many of the troops that Ma Teng is now carrying are soldiers from these tribes, I guess Ma Teng now knows the news, I don't know if there is any use value." ”

Cheng Yun breathed a sigh of relief, "This group of Qiang people is divided into so many tribes, there is cooperation and competition between each other, and some have generational grudges, otherwise they are all united, and we are now in the Han Dynasty, and it may be really difficult to resist." Let's sort out what we need to do now, Zhu Gongwei's army has also come to the north. ”

Zhang Wen motioned for Cheng Yun to enter the city to speak, "Zhu Gongwei's strength is there, but compared to our abundance of talents, they can be described as scarce talents. Zhang Meng, Handan Shang and others under his command are all disciples of Zhang Huan, and they still have two brushes, but they are like Wang Gui, Yin Xun, Hu Wuban and the like, but Erer. ”

Cheng Yun snorted, "Now if I'm not mistaken, there are only Zhao Bao, Zhang Mengpang and a Qiang general left on Zhu Gongwei's side, and there is one Hu Wuban in the rest?" The rest have been slaughtered by us, so don't pay any more attention. What about Ma Shoucheng? I just saw that Zhang Xiu had met an opponent there. ”

"There are also many strong people under Ma Teng's command, such as the fierce general Pang De Pang Lingming you mentioned." Zhang Wen also admired Pang De's demeanor very much, "The others are some Qiang generals, such as King Wu Ke, Oli, Che Ba'er, Yue Lun, etc., who are the warriors of the Qiang tribe under Ma Teng. ”

"As for the strategists," Zhang Wen coughed, "Maybe Ma Teng doesn't need it, maybe he is ready to rely on Zhu, anyway, there is no strategist under his command who can't carry a knife to the battlefield." ”

Cheng Yun's eyes rolled, "Since this is the case, then use a plan, whether it is a discord plan or something, crazy against Ma Teng, I don't believe that the two people who can't get along with Zhu Baganzi can really treat each other as henchmen so assured." ”

Zhang Wen nodded, "I think so too, but it is a little difficult to implement, we can't figure out what Ma Shoucheng thinks now, he is the kind of person who is loyal to the monarch and patriotic?" Are there few loyal and patriotic people who were forced to die by him? But why did he respond to the call of Yuan Benchu and others? If you don't know what he wants, the success rate of using stratagems against him will be much lower. ”

The group walked to the mansion, Cheng Yun sighed, "This Chang'an is worthy of being the old capital, it is magnificent, this mansion is so good that I don't know where it is compared to my hussar general's mansion." ”

Zhang Wen shook his head, "Is it still worth talking about your Hussar Mansion?" In Luoyang, it is not a number one existence at all. ”

A few people sat down, and Cheng Yun first turned the topic back, "What can he Ma Teng think?" It's nothing but power and fame. If you want to press Ma Teng, it's very simple, let's play Ma Teng as the pastor of Liangzhou, take Zhu's position instead, and transfer Zhu to Bingzhou, how Zhu doesn't think about it, Ma Teng can basically determine the withdrawal of troops, plus Han Sui's threat, maybe Ma Teng and Han Sui are going to fight. ”

"However, the state pastor must be at the level of the three princes and nine kings to be able to serve as a minister," Zhang Wen hesitated, "He Ma Teng doesn't even have an official general name, he is a traitor, how can he be appointed as the Liangzhou pastor, this can't convince the public." ”

Xun You smiled, "Don't worry, Duke Boshen, the lord means to perform, not appoint, maybe this sincerity is not enough to make Ma Teng retreat, but he should."

will converge a lot, and become detached from Zhu. ”

Cheng Yun waved his hand and signaled Zhang Wen to be calm and calm, "If you want to talk about the state pastor, it really doesn't have to be the three princes and nine secretaries, during your time in Chang'an, Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian was appointed Xuzhou pastor because of his merits, and the future state pastor will probably be everywhere." Oh, by the way, there are some people who have begun to seal their own official positions, the most serious is Yuan Benchu and others, who do what official positions, and don't pay attention to the opinions of the court at all, anyway, whoever has soldiers has the confidence to speak, in Jizhou Yanzhou, the officials of our court are about to disappear. ”

Jia Xu has always been staring at the matter, "We will show Ma Teng to replace Zhu's position as the Liangzhou pastor, will there be anything different when this kind of news reaches Ma Teng?" No, this plan, to be honest, is for Zhu Gongwei to see. So I don't think it's appropriate, Zhu Gongwei won't be fooled. ”

Cheng Yun nodded, "I'll say it casually." I don't want Ma Teng to be able to return to Xiliang after this time, he wants to fish in the water in Xiliang, it's really difficult for us to help him, and he has great ambitions in his heart, and he doesn't know how to control them like Han Sui, let's find a way to keep them here. ”

Li Ru coughed, "Now they are all in the territory of our company's lieutenant department, and they haven't been able to take our Sanfu's governance office, so there must be a grain road, we have to keep trying the grain, force them to go back to the food road, and then find a chance to see if we can ambush it." ”

Zhang Wen's eyes lit up, "Yes, Zhu and the others will meet Ma Teng and want to eat Ma Teng's grain and grass, so they will definitely pay more attention to the grain road, if we have plans to rob the grain road, we might as well find a suitable place and ambush them." ”

Cheng Yun nodded, and immediately asked his scouts to explore the grain route of Ma Teng and others, Cheng Yu frowned, as if he had concerns, Cheng Yun asked him when he saw this, he shook his head, "If you want to take down Ma Teng's grain road, you must pass through Ma Teng's army, we can't pass through it, we can't pass through it, it's a big battle if we know it, what's the difference with directly attacking them?" ”

Xun You shook his head, "They won't be willing to be lonely and go on with us, I'm afraid that Zhu and Ma Teng will not be long after they meet, and they will find a way to find a chance to attack the city, and this is a good opportunity for us to bypass Chang'an and attack their grain route, but it's a bit dangerous to do so, in case they take down Chang'an or two other places after we leave the city, we will lose more than we gain." ”

Jia Xu smiled, "Drag it out, what are we anxious about now?" The north has nothing to do with us, Liu Biao and Yuan Shu in the south are very peaceful, and the east is a mess, but no one has the strength to fight against us, we just need to drag the northern army to come, so that we have an absolute advantage in numbers, how to fight, it doesn't depend on us? ”