Pang De looked around, in addition to Han Sui's three or four thousand people, there were at least 20,000 Qianghu people, and he didn't know how Han Sui encouraged so many Qianghu people to help him.

"Shoucheng, let's withdraw first, there are many of them, we can't fight hard with them, Zhang Yang is guarding the valley mouth, let's withdraw first, and after meeting with Zhang Liao and Hou Cheng, it's not too late to eliminate them."

Ma Teng also knew that what Pang De said was reasonable, "Okay, Ling Ming, you lead people to retreat first, and after I take a group to break up, let's cover alternately and retreat together!" ”

Alternate cover is a new tactic learned by Ma Teng, and Pound wants to grab the responsibility of this break with him, but Ma Teng drives him to the front.

The three regiments of the Central Army began to alternate cover and retreated to the valley mouth.

Han Sui saw that Ma Teng was about to withdraw, and laughed, "Ma Shoucheng, do you want to run?" It's not so cheap, the ambush that Lao Tzu worked so hard to set up can make you say you can go? Blow the horn and contact them! ”

Han Sui's subordinates blew the horn, three long and two short.

Seeing that he had other means, Ma Teng was also secretly frightened and accelerated his retreat.

As soon as I arrived at the mouth of the valley and met Zhang Yang, I saw that on the plateau outside the valley, the smoke and dust were filled, and the sound of horses' hooves was everywhere.

Outside the valley, large groups of cavalry appeared in all directions, and these cavalrymen were by no means different from the Han and Qiang people in terms of appearance and clothing.

The flags are also some strange characters, but Pang De's eyes are sharp, and he still saw a military flag with Chinese characters written in it, which reads "King Changshi of the Western Regions of the Great Han Dynasty".

"What? Are these Hu people cavalry from the Western Regions? The long history of the Western Regions should be Wang Meng, he actually colluded with Han Sui, raised an army, and led the Hu people's army to Liangzhou? ”

Ma Teng's arrow aimed at the army of the Western Regions Changshi Mansion, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

Since nearly 100 years ago, Ban Yong was stationed in the Western Regions, and the Eastern Han Dynasty re-established the Western Regions Changshi Mansion to take over the power and obligations of the former Western Regions Protectorate.

However, in recent years, the Eastern Han Dynasty has suffered domestic disasters, wars and turmoil, and its national strength has been declining, and it has carried out protracted wars with the Xiongnu, Xianbei and Qiang people.

The connection between this Western Regions Governor's Mansion and the Central Imperial Court was intermittent, and Ma Teng only knew that the current Western Regions Governor's name was Wang Meng, and he was appointed by Emperor Ling when he was alive.

In the past few years, he and Han Sui have rebelled in Liangzhou, and they have not heard of any movement in the Western Regions Changshi Mansion.

However, there are 30,000 or 40,000 cavalry in front of him, but the clothing is not uniform, most of these Western Regions countries have few small soldiers, and they can't take out so many men and horses alone, so they should be a multinational coalition formed together.

The weapons in their hands were also varied and varied, but in this way, Ma Teng and the others were completely surrounded by the cavalry of the Western Regions and Han Sui's people.

They combined were sixty or seventy thousand men, nearly ten times the size of Ma Teng's army, and they were not able to defeat the enemy.

Ma Teng looked around, and at a glance he saw that there was a hill outside the valley mouth, the mountain was not high, but it was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Then he pointed to Pang De and Zhang Yang to the hill, and the three of them reached an agreement and immediately rushed to the hill.

Han Sui also saw Ma Teng's intentions, and immediately ordered a loud attack to stop Ma Teng and the others.

The Central Army still gave full play to its own characteristics, suppressed the enemy's attack with longbows and crossbows, and ensured that all five regiments finally reached the hill.

Ma Teng's guess was right, those Western Regions cavalry with chaotic costumes and various weapons were the coalition forces gathered by the Western Regions Governor's Mansion.

Han Sui was really a bit of a tongue, he first wooed in Huangzhong, persuaded the Yueshi Hu and Xiqiang tribes, incited their hatred of the Han Dynasty government in the past, and connected them together.

Not far away, he personally ran to Liuzhong City, the residence of the Western Regions Governor's Mansion, and met with the current Western Regions Governor Wang Meng.

The court has had frequent changes in the past few years, and I am afraid that I have forgotten that there is a long history named Wang Meng in the Western Regions Changshi Mansion in the Western Regions.

The distance between Wang Meng and the Central Plains is too far, but the news is blocked, and he doesn't know the recent situation in the Central Plains at all.

Han Sui exaggerated the degree of chaos in the Central Plains, and boasted about Wang Meng's strength, making Wang Meng really think that the Central Plains region was already in chaos, and the warlords were fighting endlessly.

Wang Meng thought that he would be able to lead tens of thousands of cavalry from the Western Regions to enter Guanzhong Sanfu, occupy Chang'an, control the emperor and the imperial court, and divide one side.

Wang Meng relied on his contacts and coaxing in the Western Regions for many years, and even the threat of force, and finally organized a 40,000-strong alliance of 19 countries in the Western Regions.

The Western Regions region has a vast territory, and there are dozens of large and small countries established, except for a few large countries, most of them are a city-state or a country.

This time, several large countries in the Western Regions, Qiuzi, Khotan, Shule, Shanshan, and Yanqi, all sent large armies to participate in this nineteen-nation alliance, wanting to get a piece of the pie.

Yueshi Hu also sent 6,000 troops, and the Xiqiang tribes also made up 20,000 cavalry, adding up to 70,000 people.

They elected Han Sui as the commander of the coalition forces and besieged Ma Teng and others on a hill.

Ma Teng felt that it was a pity that his subordinates were all from cavalry, and although they inherited the mantle of the Bingzhou army, they did not have an engineer shovel with him.

They could only build a simple ring of defensive bunkers with stones and trees, slightly protected.

Han Sui has always known the whereabouts of Ma Teng and others, and in Jincheng and even in Longxi, he has deliberately released rumors to lure Ma Teng.

He knew that Ma Teng was eager for revenge, and he would definitely chase after him and never hesitate.

He set up an ambush in this Mucheng Valley early, just waiting for Ma Teng to come, and it worked.

However, he also knew that this time the Central Army was three divisions marching into Liangzhou together, and Ma Teng was only one of the routes, and it was not even full, only 10,000 people came.

He must annihilate Ma Teng's men and horses as soon as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to eat Ma Teng when other horses from the Central Army come to help.

Han Sui felt that as long as he got rid of Ma Teng, he would still be able to dominate the land of Liangzhou.

As for the Western Regions Alliance Army and Wang Meng, they found that the outside world was not as beautiful as they thought, and they were already scarred by then, and at the end of the strong crossbow, they couldn't set off much wind and waves.

Han Sui urged the armies to attack Ma Teng, and the Western Regions Coalition Army had not fought a major battle in recent years, let alone fought against a powerful army.

The Northern Xiongnu and the Western Xianbei, who had originally oppressed them, were beaten away by Lü Bu and fled to Central Asia.

A nomadic army and a privateer of slaves of the Han Chinese were overwhelmed and had no time to take care of themselves. There is no energy to bully the countries of the Western Regions again.

Therefore, the countries of the Western Regions have rarely lived a stable life for a few years, and this time Wang Meng gathered them together and described to them the beauty, wealth and civilization of the Central Plains, a flowery world.

He also emphasized that the inland princes of the Han Dynasty were fighting, and they could easily occupy Guanzhong Sanfu and take Chang'an directly.

When Wang Meng received Han Sui's order, he sent the cavalry of the two great powers of Khotan and Yanqi as the first wave to charge into battle.

The charge of the cavalry of the Western Regions was not organized at all, but just rushed forward in a swarm.

Guizi (qiuzi) Khotan (yutian) 鄯善 (shanshan), 焉耆 (yanqi) 月氏 (yuezhi)

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