Guo Yan smacked his lips, looked at the busy scene of horns and military horses outside the city, and said contemptuously:

"This is not the scene of the battle of Chencang, we are now strong and strong, food and grass are abundant, why fear the enemy like a tiger, Yizhou, Liangzhou coalition army snakes and rats, and not concentric people, if we are pressed by a large army, Ma Teng and Han Sui can be captured in a battle!"

In his opinion, the strength of his own side was equivalent to that of the Yiliang coalition army, but the armor and battle equipment, the weight of grain and grass, and the favorable location and people were all more advantageous than the Yiliang coalition army that hastily joined forces and traveled long distances.

If your own army presses up, opens a formation in the plains, and starts a big battle of 200,000 people, then your own side with strong armor will undoubtedly win.

After listening to Guo Yan's words, Li Wei looked at Fan Chou again, but unfortunately Fan Chou turned his face away this time and didn't want to make a sound.

His station, Youfufeng, has completely fallen, and after the defeat of his soldiers and horses, Fan Chou is even more angry and frustrated, although he still needs to unite Li Dao, Guo Yan and others to resist the long-distance Yiliang coalition army, but he does not want to serve as the forward soldiers and horses anymore, so that Li Dao and Guo Yan take the opportunity to weaken their own forces.

The city fell silent.

The two obvious nasolabial lines on Li Wei's face moved, and his joy and anger were invisible, and he snorted and said:

"Then the army will be strong, and after the other people and horses have arrived, they will fight to the death with the horses and Han thieves!"

When the people on the city wall heard this, their faces were different, but they did not say anything against it. Li Dao silently saw the changes in these people's faces in his eyes, and he was silent.

In the end, Li Dao also wanted to take the initiative to attack the tired Yiliang coalition army, but the 100,000 troops crossed Fengshui and took the initiative to attack Ma Teng and Han Sui's soldiers and horses, in addition to the advantages mentioned by Guo Yan, there were also many risks.

For example, Zhang Xiu, Duan Xuan, Gan Ling and other people who are still on the way to help, Fan Chou, who is angry because of the defeat of Youfufeng, and those in the government and the opposition who have died down and temporarily lurked after the leakage of Ma Yu, Chong Shao, and Liu Fan······

After all, it is the life and death of 100,000 horses, once defeated and blocked by Fengshui, even if you want to retreat into the city in time, it is impossible to hold on to the camp, and the glory and wealth obtained with difficulty will change hands overnight.

You still have to wait for a while, at least you have to free up your hands first, and after stabilizing your own interior, you can solve Ma Teng, Han Sui and others.

Li Wei's eyes flickered, and he thought secretly in his heart.

In this way, the confrontation between the Yiliang coalition army and Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou and others, due to many internal reasons, did not start a large-scale battle for a long time, and the armies of both sides kept their camps along Fengshui, while constantly sending scouts to cross Fengshui to spy on the enemy's military situation on the other bank.

When Gan Ling led the soldiers and horses of Xihe to Chang'an, it happened to coincide with this rare battle in the Kansai region.

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Ten days later, Fengshui went downstream.

After the flood season, the amount of water decreased, and more than a dozen horses crossed the river in groups along the shallows and waded onto the western shore.

"General Zhonglang, I'm waiting to cross the river like this, but do I have to go deeper?"

As a righteous servant of the Qiang people, Quan Qu Evil comforted the horse under his crotch who had just crossed the river, his body was wet, and he was impatiently shaking the droplets, and looked at Gan Ling worriedly and asked.

Shen Rui, who was holding a bow and arrows and was on guard, also turned his head to look at Ganling when he heard this, obviously they were a little uneasy about Ganling personally crossing the river and going deep into the dangerous place.

Gan Ling smiled and told the two:

"What are you worried about, we are the Qiang cavalry from Liangzhou at the moment, I am a Liangren, this Liangren's army, I have also been in it for a long time, I am familiar with the inside situation, what is there to worry about, let's sneak boldly."

Gan Ling smiled and appeased his righteous servants, he decided to find an opportunity to cross the river and come to the west bank to spy on the military situation of the Yiliang cavalry, it was not a pure adventure, he followed Yan Xing to stay in the Liangzhou coalition army for a short time, and he was very familiar with the situation of the Liangzhou coalition army.

Although the Liangzhou coalition army fought bravely, its military discipline was loose and its internal members were mixed. Unless they bumped into the elite team of Ma, Han and others, who could see the difference between them when they saw these rangers wearing Qiang costumes and being able to communicate the Qianghu language, there were hundreds of soldiers and horses of the Qianghu race in the Liangzhou coalition army, and they were mixed.

What's more, they also captured and killed two enemy rangers on the east bank, knowing the password of today's order between the Liangzhou coalition rangers, if it weren't for the two enemy rangers with injuries on their bodies, they were afraid that they would be easily exposed, Gan Ling even thought of using them as guides to spy on the location and defense layout of Ma Teng and Han Sui's camp.

These dozen horsemen, like other Qianghu cavalry, went in the direction of the camp of the Liangzhou army, and encountered the cavalry galloping by along the way, but they did not pay attention to them.

It was not until they approached the periphery of a camp with dense felt tents that Gan Ling signaled everyone to stop their advance, look for the hilly area with high terrain, leave horses at the bottom of the mountain, and lead people up the hill to look down on the whole camp from a high place.

"It's the tribe of Wudu Shenwolf Qiang."

Gan Ling found a good position with mountains and rocks to cover, squatted down, glanced at the flag fluttering in the camp from a distance, and after recognizing that it was a wolf's head totem, he muttered a word.

In the camp of the Qiang people, the felt tents are messy, and during the continuous passage of people and horses and livestock, only one big tent is clean and smooth, and the felt tent next to it is also neat, with soldiers guarding it, and there are many human and animal dung in other places, which is chaotic.

Ganling does not look closely, from a distance, you can also see the camp of the Hao chief of the Wolf Qiang and his personal guards, and the other felt tents are the residences of the ordinary Qiang people of the Wolf Qiang tribe, they do not respect the law, and there is no strict law and discipline of the military camp, only choose the dense place of water and grass to camp as a temporary camp.

If it is a temporary camp for guerrilla warfare, once it is used as a garrison camp for a long time, a large number of people, horses, and livestock gather in one place, but there is no perfect sewage system, the whole camp will become stinky, and it will not be long before this Wolf Qiang tribe will abandon this camp and choose another place to camp.

Therefore, most of the Qiang camps did not erect fences, antlers, or fortifications, nor did they build horn towers, dig ditches, and only set aside a large open space for the assembly of men and horses, and only sent some cavalry as scouts.

"General Zhonglang, I'm afraid there isn't much food left in this tribe of Wolf Qiang, you see, many people have begun to slaughter the livestock they brought as rations."

Weather-beaten and his eyes as sharp as a falcon, he quickly noticed the Achilles heel of the Wolf Qiang tribe. He is the Zahu of Shangjun, the land of Shangjun has been abolished by the Han Empire, there is no monarch and minister between Qiang and Hu, there is no one for each other, and it is purely normal for tribes to fight between tribes for pasture land and water sources, and some tribes with several generations of blood feuds are fighting endlessly, he is a mature warrior and is very familiar with the fighting style of the Qiang and Hu people.

The battle of the nomadic tribe is often sent by the tribe lord to gather the scattered nomadic herdsmen, and then the prime of life men are all soldiers, straddle horses and hold bows, and follow the tribe lord and his relatives to go out together, their army is mostly in the enemy territory to eat the enemy, but there will still be a large number of livestock with them.

These animals were used as animal power to carry the spoils of war when the battle was won, and it was also a ration for the soldiers to feed their hunger when the enemy's territory was short of food and grass.

When marching, the galloping cavalry plus a large number of pack horses, cattle and sheep, donkeys and mules, the momentum is huge, can be used to confuse the enemy, in the defeat of the tribe, the tribe abandons the cattle and sheep in the road, but also can delay the pursuit of the enemy, in order to ensure the retreat of the team.

In a word, if the Qiang tribe was in a favorable situation, they would not have slaughtered their pack animals as rations, and Wu Lou Thorn had just seen that many soldiers who were participating in the wolf were already slaughtering their pack horses.

From this, Gan Ling can also conclude that the Ginseng Wolf Qiang, who came from a sudden profit and a long-distance attack, has begun to run out of food.

Unless they can capture a city like Chang'an, which built Taicang and has a large amount of grain storage, these 200,000 troops will face off here, and the people will eat and chew on horses, which is enough to eat up all the grain within a radius of hundreds of miles.

At that time, Ma Teng and Han Sui, who relied on the Qiang tribe, must retreat, not to mention the soldiers and horses in Yizhou, just from Hanzhong to Chang'an, there are thousands of miles away, coupled with the difficulty of Shu Road, Ganling does not believe that they can support longer than the Qiang people.

"Let's go!"

Gan Ling admired the viciousness of Wu Lou Thorn's gaze, he shook his hand, and several righteous servants who climbed the hill on foot immediately understood, and Gan Ling followed the original road with Gan Ling, went down the mountain and got on the horse, Gan Ling took advantage of the fact that the sky was still dark, and went to inspect several nearby enemy camps, and the situation he saw was similar to that of the tribe of the Wolf Qiang.

Seeing the sunset, Gan Ling was worried that at night, the number of scouts on the west bank would increase dramatically, and perhaps the night passwords would also change between the sentry horses, and although he was not able to spy deeply into the camps of Ma Teng and Han Sui, he also had a general grasp of the situation in the peripheral camps of the coalition army, so he no longer stayed, pretending to be the Qianghu cavalry who came out of the camp to investigate, preparing to return to the shallows downstream of the original road, cross the river and return to the opposite bank.

Along the way, there was a noticeable increase in the number of scout sentries sent from various camps, but they only interrogated the rangers coming from the east coast, and no one paid attention to the Ganling scout sentry that looked like they had been sent from a certain camp.

Gan Ling and the others came to the shoal, and at this time they happened to encounter a group of cavalry crossing the river from the east bank.

The shallows in the water were of different depths, and many horses could not be paralleled, so everyone could only endure at the water's edge and wait for this cavalry to come ashore.

There are more than 30 cavalry in this team, several knights are wounded, and there are a few unmanned war horses behind, led by a young general, the slanting sun hit him in the face, he patted the water stains on the horse casually, squinted at the group of Qiang riders in Ganling, smiled, and asked in the cool Qiang language:

"We are General Ma's battalion cavalry, are we brothers who went to spy on the other side?"