listened to Deng Ai's plan. Gongsun Yuan nodded, his heart settled down a little, and Deng Ai continued: "Lord, the honor guard of Liu Adou is nothing more than Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, and now Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong have not come, and the marshal Wei Yan, who led the troops, is a greedy and reckless person; pioneer Jiang Wei, an opportunistic man; Deputy Marshal Guo Huai, the person who defected in battle; As for Na Ma Qiu, it's just a brave man, so there's nothing to worry about. Ai is willing to lead the troops to resist the enemy! ”

"Okay, Shizai said it well!" Seeing that Deng Ai was so confident, he degraded a cadre of generals to be worthless, and Gongsun Yuan also increased his confidence.

……

Wei Yan led the army, through Guzhu, over Jieshi, in early May, into Liaoshui, while Deng Ai led the troops to resist Wei Yan, according to the Liaoshui encirclement for more than 20 miles. The strong wall was built high to block Wei Yan.

Facing Deng Ai's iron bucket-like defense on the opposite bank, Wei Yan did not dare to forcibly cross the river, for fear of being attacked by someone half-crossing. The army had to be stationed temporarily.

Deng Ai Barracks.

Although Deng Ai confined Wei Yan to the other side of the Liaoshui, Deng Ai was still not happy, and in his heart, Deng Ai always felt an inexplicable danger.

"Something is wrong, it seems that something is missing, what is missing?" Deng Ai stared at the map in front of him, silently pondering. The humble atmosphere next to him didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of disturbing Deng Ai.

"That's right, I remember! North of the Great Wall, I forgot about North of the Great Wall! Deng Ai suddenly exclaimed.

"General, what do you remember?" Next to him, Bei Yan hurriedly asked.

Deng Ai pointed to the map and said, "Look, if Wei Yan goes north out of the Great Wall, and then goes through the grassland to attack my Xiangping, it will be useless for me to wait to build a high barrier in Liaoshui!" ”

"General, I don't think so! Then Wei Yan didn't dare to go out of the Great Wall, you must know that outside the Great Wall is the territory of the Wusun people, and with those Wusun people constantly attacking, Wei Yan will not be able to go outside the Great Wall. Beyan said with certainty.

"I don't know about others, but Wei Yan is indeed bold! Wei Yan is a good use of strange soldiers, when he went to the Meridian Valley to attack Chang'an, this is basically a matter of no return if he is unsuccessful, Wei Yan dares to do it, can the Wusun people on the grassland scare Wei Yan? Deng Ai's voice changed. Then he asked: "Beiyan, do you know the Great Khan of Liaoxi Karasuma?" ”

"The last will know."

"Very good, you immediately set off to see Karasuma Khan, let him pay close attention to the situation on the Great Wall, and once a Han army leaves the Great Wall, immediately send troops to attack and disturb it!" Deng Ai said.

Bei Yan hesitated for a moment, looked embarrassed, and then said, "General, I'm afraid this is a little difficult!" Although I know the Great Khan of Liaoxi Karasuma, I don't know each other well, so I'm afraid I can't ask him to send troops. ”

"The alien race on the grassland is the most important, you just say that I am willing to give him grain, grass and salt, in exchange for him to send troops, you can handle the specific amount yourself, don't go too far. In this way, it is enough for the Karasuma people in Liaoxi to send troops! ”

"The last will obey! The last general went to Liaoxi in person and met Karasuma Khan. ”

……

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's June.

The two sides on Liaoshui are still holding each other, although Wei Yan tried his best to force Deng Ai to fight, but he didn't expect Deng Ai to be very calm. No matter how provocative Wei Yan was, he refused to fight. Then Wei Yan tentatively crossed the river several times, but all of them were unsuccessful. The war has moved towards a stalemate.

However, in comparison, the Han army suffered a lot. As the attacking side, the supply line of the Han army is longer than that of the Liaodong army, and there are more Han soldiers, and the consumption of grain and grass is also more, so the pressure on the logistics supply line of the long-term war is very great.

Wei Yan knew that the Han army would not be able to consume the Liaodong army, and if it continued like this, he was afraid that he would be forced to retreat, so Wei Yan racked his brains every day for the matter of crossing the river, but he was still at a loss.

Inside the camp, Wei Yan gently wiped the sword in his hand.

"I didn't expect a mere Deng Ai to be so difficult to deal with, but he is a hairy boy in his thirties, but he is more inkblot than those old men in their seventies and eighties!" Wei Yan sighed lightly.

Ma Qiu walked in from outside, just in time to see Wei Yan sighing. Ma Qiu guessed a little, and he understood that Wei Yan was worried about not being able to cross the Liaoshui.

"By the way, the prime minister said, if you are in trouble, you will open a tip!" Thinking of this, Ma Qiu hurriedly took out the bag that was stored close to him from his arms.

"Hey, Tips!" Wei Yan saw the bag at a glance, and then his eyes lit up, and he stepped forward and snatched the bag over, and at the same time said with words in his mouth: "Good boy, you dare to hide your secrets." The prime minister has a clever plan, why didn't he take it out earlier. ”

Wei Yan has been working with the Liu family for decades, and Wei Yan has only followed Liu Bei more than a year later than Zhuge Liang. And Zhuge Liang had better pretend to be profound, and he had nothing to do with some tricks. But Zhuge Liang's tips are the same every time, and Wei Yan can recognize them at a glance after years of experience working with Zhuge Liang, this is Zhuge Liang's tips.

"Let me see what the prime minister has in mind." Wei Yan opened the bag and looked at it carefully.

"Good plan, the prime minister really thought it through!" Wei Yan sighed lightly.

"Marshal, what is the prime minister's plan?" Ma Qiu asked.

"Here, see for yourself!" Wei Yan handed over the clever plan, and after Ma Qiu took it, he immediately looked down.

"Ah, out of the Great Wall, go to the grassland, and then go south to raid Xiangping!" Ma Qiu snorted softly.

"yes, that's the plan. I've thought about this before, but I'm worried that I'll be intercepted by the Karasuma people. Or the prime minister has thought about it, let you lead your cavalry to take the first step, go to the grassland to sweep the Karasuma people near the Great Wall, and our army will follow, so that my army can be safe! Wei Yanle said hehehe.

……

In order to paralyze Sima Yi, Wei Yan decided to adopt the strategy of attacking the east and the west, and first put up multiple flags on the southern front. Feint siege to attract Deng Ai's attention, and divide the army out of the Great Wall, along the grassland to the east, and then to the south, straight to Xiangping, attack Deng Ai must be saved, once Deng Ai destroys Xiangping, the rest of the army can smoothly cross the Liao River.

Of course, there must be a necessary condition for all this, that is, Ma Qiu can limit the cavalry of the Karasuma people, so that they do not dare to attack the Han army.

Ma Qiu led the cavalry out of the Great Wall first. After many years, Ma Qiu's Liangzhou cavalry returned to the prairie.

The cavalry that followed Ma and his son to attack Wusun back then, those who were injured had already returned to the field, either as a magistrate or as a rich man, and those who stayed with Ma Qiu were the elite of the elite, and they could all be on their own.

Although the newly recruited cavalry is not as good as the old batch of cavalry, but under the systematic training, the combat effectiveness has not decreased much, but the number has increased a lot.

Compared with the Western Regions prairie, the climate of the Western Liaoning Grassland is much harsher, and the weather is much colder, the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty is still a green shade, and the Western Grassland is covered in heavy snow for three or four months a year, and the Western Regions Grassland will have snow for one or two months at most. Fortunately, it is still June, which is the hottest summer, which makes the Liangzhou cavalry, whether it is a man or a war horse, not feel uncomfortable with the climate.

On the other hand, under the persuasion and heavy promises of the Great Wall, the Great Khan of Karasuma also kept an eye on the movements of the Great Wall, and when Ma Qiu left the Great Wall, the Great Khan of Karasuma immediately led his troops in a hurry, preparing to intercept Ma Qiu.

……

For more than 100 years, this Liaoxi grassland has always been the world of Karasuma, even in the most powerful period of the Xianbei people in the past, they did not come to occupy this Liaoxi grassland.

This is not because the Xianbei people dare not come, but because the Xianbei people have more abundant grasslands, and they don't want this grassland in western Liaoning at all.

In the past year, Cao Cao's Northern Expedition, although the Karasuma was greatly injured, but in recent years, Karasuma has slowly recovered. There were many Karasuma people who died during Cao Cao's Northern Expedition, which also created a large number of idle grasslands, and the Karasuma people did not have to fight for grassland, but slowly recovered.

However, the coast of Liaodong was still under the control of Gongsun Yuan, and before that, it was not the Wei State. It was still a great Han dynasty, and they only sold a small amount of salt to the Karasuma people, and if they didn't eat salt, they wouldn't have the strength to fight, so solving the problem of salt became the heavy responsibility of Karasuma Great Khan.

Now, Deng Ai promised to sell salt to the Karasuma people, which made Karasuma Khan feel that it was worth sending troops this time.

Both sides are cavalry, and they are both rushing towards each other, and when the two sides are combined, the distance of hundreds of miles will be gone for half a day, and even the lightly armed spies will not be much faster than the army.

"Da ......" A horse rushed over in the distance, and King Karasuma raised his eyes to see that it was the spy he had sent out.

"Where is the Han army?" Karasuma Khan asked.

"Great Khan, the Han army is coming towards us, all cavalry! It's only about half an hour away! The spy said hurriedly.

"All cavalry!" Karasuma Khan frowned in surprise, then asked, "Who is the leader of the troops?" ”

"It's Ma Qiu, the great general of Han Fuyuan! I think that's what is written on the banner of the Han army. ”

"What, it's the butcher!" Karasuma Khan exclaimed.

In the past, Ma and his son killed hundreds of thousands of Wusun people in the Wusun grassland, and they all killed men, women, and children, and the river was dyed red. People always like to exaggerate when spreading this kind of thing, so after the news spread across the Mongolian steppe to Liaoxi, it became that Ma and his son killed millions of Wusun people, and the cavalry under Ma was invulnerable, and they took pleasure in eating human flesh raw. This makes the entire prairie, when they hear the name of "General Fuyuan", they will be frightened.

"Great Khan, what should we do?" Hearing Ma Qiu's name, the voice of a general next to him trembled a little.

"What to do? What else can I do? Withdraw my troops immediately! Karasuma King shouted.

"But the Great Khan, fleeing without a fight, this is not the work of our warriors on the steppe!"

"We're not running away, we're retreating strategically! The butcher of the Ma family is very powerful, and if he is entangled with us, it will definitely end up in an endless end. Just look at the fate of the Wusun people, we don't need to get along with that butcher! ”