"A horse cannot be used alone."

This was Yan Xing's sigh of regret after hearing that Ma Chao attacked the armor soldier and was shot by the sergeant with the intention of escaping, and Ma Yunlu left tears in pain, and she also realized why Gan Ling and the others said that she shouldn't come here.

Ma Chao is dead, but his head will still be cut off by the Ming Law, and together with the heads of other rebel Hu chiefs, they will be passed on to the border county, which is terrifying.

It's just that Yan Xing then ordered Zhang Ji to finally send someone to stitch up Ma Chao's body and bury it in Wuwei with the rites of a concubine.

Since he loves the land of Liangzhou, let him stay here permanently.

In just a few months, the intricate forces of Liangzhou: Lu Shuihu, Xi Ding Ling, Ma Chao, Han Sui, Li Piao, Song Jian, etc. were successively wiped out by Yan Xing's soldiers and horses.

Especially Li Biao's death, which made him regret it even more.

Speaking of which, they were originally about three brothers, but after the Battle of Chencang, they never got together again.

Among the three at the beginning, Li Biao was arrogant, Yan Xing was deep, Zhao Hong was smart, and his talents had their own merits. But after the Battle of Chencang, Yan Xing and Zhao Hong became prisoners of the subordinates, but Li Biao returned to Liangdi unharmed, his reputation grew, and he also married Han Sui's beloved daughter, becoming a potential heir to the largest force in Liangdi.

According to the original trend, it seems that Li Piaocai is like a chosen one, his heroic spirit, his martial arts are strong, and his evil turns into good fortune, all of which are unique in ten thousand.

But now, he's dead.

This made Yan Xing sigh, the three brothers outside Chen Cang City, what remained in the end was not loyalty to friendship, not dedication to faithfulness, but the profound calculation of deceit in troubled times, and the life and death of each for his master.

And this may be the real cruelty in the troubled times.

···

The Hexi rebellion was decided, and Yan Xing led his army back to Chang'an.

On the way, he received another letter from Luoyang to the Yu Yu Army.

In the autumn and August, Cao Cao personally conquered Xuzhou, and Qingzhou Yuan Tan, who had originally made it clear to help Liu Bei and Chang Xuan, suddenly turned his face and did not send a soldier to rescue Xuzhou, resulting in Xuzhou being isolated, Liu Bei was defeated and fled, Chang Xuan surrendered, Cao Cao successfully quelled the rebellion in Xuzhou, with Dong Zhao as the pastor of Xuzhou, and then led the army back to Xudu.

At the end of the same month, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Hong, Le Jin and other Cao troops took the lead and appeared in the east of Xingyang, Yuyi Pass, and Liangxian.

Previously, Yan Xing had received a letter from Yuan Shao to attack Bingzhou and Hanoi's Yulu army in Hexi, and now coupled with the urgent report of Cao's army invading Henan, the situation in Guandong and other places can be described as full of beacons and precarious.

Originally, the game between Yuan and Cao in Xuzhou changed in a blink of an eye, and it became an alliance of Yuan and Cao with the betrayal of Liu Bei in Xuzhou as a bargaining chip.

Although Yan Xing had also learned from the secret report from the school affairs lurking in Hebei that the Yuan and Cao families might have a plan to jointly crusade against him again, he did not expect that this trend would change so quickly that he would not have time to respond effectively.

Focusing on the soldiers in the Kanto region, and then thinking of the plan revealed by Ma Chao before his death, Rao is Yan Xing has experienced a hundred battles, and he can't help but feel palpitations and sweat.

If he hadn't ended the war in Hexi and Longxi in time, he was afraid that he would have fallen into an embarrassing situation of enemies on all sides.

Yan Xing, who had mixed feelings in his heart, could only choke bitterness, block the news all the way, and step up the march back to Chang'an.

In September, Yan Xing returned to Chang'an.

But bad news from Kanto also followed.

Yuan Shao's troops and horses broke through the defense line laid by Cao Yuan according to the mountain danger, and Cao Yuan followed the advice of Xu Shu, who joined the army, saved his troops, and retreated to Jinyang City; And Xu Huang is isolated in the party and has fallen into a bitter battle; Hanoi's Lu Yi led his troops to fight against the Hebei general Yan Liang, abandoned the Gonggong, Ji and other cities, and was retreating to shoot dogs.

On the Henan side, the guard general Zhai Hao witnessed the Cao army marching in many ways, and knew that it was better to concentrate the elite soldiers and horses to break through the road first and frustrate the enemy's morale.

However, the soldiers and horses of the Lejin Institute were sharp, and they suddenly encountered the enemy army in the suburbs, although they were scattered, under the encouragement of the main general Lejin, Cao Jun also bravely launched a counterattack.

As a result, the soldiers and horses on both sides were in a fierce battle, Zhai Hao, who was the first soldier, was stabbed under the horse by the long-haired Cao who came later, and the Yan army lost its main general, and its morale declined, and it was defeated by the Cao army commanded by Le Jin in one fell swoop, and the three thousand Yan army infantry lost more than half, and fled back to Luoyang in defeat.

The Cao army became more and more courageous, and the soldiers and horses of the various units drove through the pass and prepared to besiege Luoyang, and it is said that Cao Cao himself also personally led the army to the front line.

Seeing the frequent rumors of defeats in the Kanto, Yan Zhu, Du Ji, Sima Lang and some other ministers and county guards who were guarding the Guanxi were worried, and proposed that Yuan Cao join forces, which was difficult to fight, so it was better to increase the troops of Kuihan and Hejin and stick to the suggestions of Guanzhong.

The implication is that Yan Xing is to withdraw his troops and horses and give up Kanto.

In their opinion, this can avoid the doom of being attacked by the Yuan Cao family and annihilating the forces in a battle, and then relying on the solid strength of Cuihan to concentrate their forces to resist the enemy, and in the future, maybe the Yuan Cao family will turn their faces again in order to compete for Sanhe and other places, and the opportunity for Yan Xing's side will come again.

Some people even privately discussed the hussar general's decision-making mistakes, pointing out that Yan Xing should have listened to the theory of strictly teaching the old man to seek the country, guarding the existing prefectures and counties such as Sanhe and Guanxi, and patiently accumulating strength, instead of rashly sending troops to merge the states to rescue Gongsun Zhan.

Although the Yan army won the Battle of Bingzhou and captured Taiyuan, Shangdang, Yanmen and other places, it also caused a sharp deterioration in the relationship between his side and Yuan Shao, and made Cao Cao more and more jealous of the strong soldiers and horses in Guanxi, which caused the dilemma of today's Kwantung Prefecture being attacked by Yuan Cao's two families.

Yan Xing scoffed at this, if he hadn't rescued Gongsun Chan and sent troops to merge the state, and when Yuan Shao successfully pacified Gongsun Chan and turned around to beat him, then these people would have to sigh about the indecision of the hussar generals and the enemy's life afterwards.

Nowadays, the Yuan and Cao families are menacing, but according to Yan Xing's character, he will never sit still, he insists on his opinion, and he must personally lead a large army to rescue the Kwantung Prefecture.

And the generals and colonels in the army obviously supported and supported Yan Xing's decision.

It's just that on the choice of saving the state first or saving Henan first, the lieutenant generals and colonels also have different opinions.

Yan Xing had to make the right choice.

In the face of the joint attack of a strong enemy, he did not dare to carelessly divide the enemy to rescue, so although Zhai Hao unfortunately died on the battlefield, his vision was not wrong, Yan Xing was also like him, he must make good use of the Kansai soldiers and horses under his command, concentrate troops, and carry out various defeats to resolve the dilemma that Kanto has fallen into.

Moreover, the first battle must be won in order to achieve the effect of boosting morale and deterring the enemy.

So, should the opponent of this first battle choose Yuan Shao or Cao Cao?

···

While intensively preparing for the eastward military march of the army, the Hussar General's Office also made several important arrangements related to personnel and diplomatic relations in light of the current situation.

One of them is to send Xi Zhicai to Jingzhou.

Liu Biao of Jingxiang has put down the rebellion in Jingnan, although there is still a war with Zhang Jin of Jiaozhou, but Jiaozhou is outnumbered, and he is not Liu Biao's opponent at all, and Sun Ce of Jiangdong is newly mourned, the young lord succeeds to the throne, and he is unable to take care of it, Jiangxia, Changsha and other places have temporarily lifted the border troubles, Yan Xing believes that Liu Biao will be interested in forming an alliance to recapture Nanyang County.

Of course, the envoy to Jing Xiang, with Xun You's fame and talent, may be more suitable than the ill drama Zhicai, but the Yingchuan Xun clan has clansmen in the Yuan and Cao families, and at this time of life and death, Yan Xing thought about it before and after, and decided to send his henchmen and advisers to play Zhicai.

Xi Zhicai also knew that he was ordered to be in danger, but the soldier died for his confidant, so he generously accepted the order, dressed lightly, and had already taken Lantian to prepare to go out of Wuguan to Xiangyang.

The second is to appease people's hearts and arrest traitors.

Even though the Hussar General's Mansion blocked the news of the emergency in Kanto, after a long time, there were still many rumors that spread to the streets and alleys of Chang'an City.

While refuting rumors and appeasing people's hearts, the General's Mansion also dispatched a large number of officials and school officials to arrest traitors who spread rumors and harbored evil intentions.

In the past, there were travelers from Yanzhou, and later there were Hebei secrets who colluded with Ma Chao, just like the school affairs sent by Yan Xing to Yecheng and Xudu, in order to obtain information and plot against the enemy generals, the Yuan and Cao families also did everything they could, and constantly sent pedestrians to infiltrate the territory of Yan Xing.

Yan Xing didn't want to lead his army east to rescue the Kwantung Prefecture, and there would be another rebellion under the rule of Kansai in which the civil and military forces were rebelled against by the Yuan and Cao families.

As a result, under the leadership of Dong Dai, the school affairs that poured out of the nest quickly cracked a major case of secretly colluding with Yuan Shao in Hebei.

Looking at the name of the leader on the list, Yan Xing's eyelids jumped, and he was silent for a while, and he immediately sent someone to Ma Mansion to summon Ma Teng.

When he saw Ma Teng in the hall again, Yan Xing was surprised to find that the haggard old man who looked like he had sunken eyes and had little time before he set out on the expedition was still alive and well at this time after three or four months.

"Shou Chenggong, it seems that you are suffering from heart disease!"

Yan Xing sneered, looked at Ma Teng who was trembling and sat down, and said.

Ma Teng's body shook when he heard this, and his originally slightly curved body instantly became even more rickety.

"The general laughed, the old godson has no way, which caused him to make a big mistake, the family is unfortunate, grief-stricken, and now he is terminally ill, and his days are numbered."

"Time is running out, hehe, I'm afraid that what Shou Chenggong thinks in his heart is to be able to live longer than the younger generation of Lone!"