After capturing Hanzhong on October 25, Liu Wei and Ma Wei went out in all directions to attack the city, and all the surrounding cities such as Chenggu, Chuxian, and Baoxian were taken.

The resistance encountered during the attack was very weak, after all, the Hanzhong garrison had been basically defeated before this, and some of these remote small counties did not have two or three hundred soldiers, and they had no will to resist in the face of the elite of the Sichuan army and the elite of the Zhennan army.

The important areas of Hanzhong Province were quickly captured, and even a large number of military rations hoarded in Hanzhong were also included in the bag, Liu Wei and Ma Wei quickly arranged the army to occupy various military points, and then began to organize themselves, arrange the army to garrison, and at the same time connect Sichuan, Yunnan and Burma headquarters to consolidate the grain route.

After Yunnan was taken, Deng Zilong was unwilling to be lonely, he didn't want to stay in Yunnan to guard the rear, and then in the end, when the big thing was successful, he could only make a small credit, so after Yunnan was roughly pacified in mid-September, he couldn't help but ask to lead troops north to Sichuan to assist in the attack, Sun Li couldn't stop him, and after asking Xiao Ruxun, Xiao Ruxun allowed Deng Zilong to go north.

So Deng Zilong took 20,000 soldiers and horses north to Sichuan, and began to consolidate the results of Liu Wei and Ma Wei along the way, and by the way, he picked up the leaks, which can be regarded as a little credit, but he was not satisfied, and kept following Liu Wei and Ma Wei.

By the time he arrived in Chengdu on 17 October, Chengdu had already been taken, and Liu Chengsi, who had been temporarily appointed by Tan Xisi as the commander-in-chief of Sichuan, received Deng Zilong and informed him that Deng Zilong Ma Wei and Liu Wei had gone north to attack Hanzhong.

Deng Zilong was very unhappy, left his deputy general to guard Chengdu, and then forcibly took Liu Chengsi as a guide and went all the way north.

When Deng Zilong was in a hurry, Liu Wei and Ma Wei were gathering in Hanzhong to discuss the next move.

Although Xiao Ruxun gave them the task of guarding Hanzhong and pinning down the northwestern army, the two agreed that they had not enjoyed fighting after occupying Sichuan, and the local officials and troops in Sichuan did not fight with them at all, and surrendered or simply avoided the war after a few blows, and they were very dissatisfied.

And all the way has been victorious, the progress has been rapid, and they are now bursting with self-confidence and want to make big news.

Blindly defending and waiting for the enemy to fight is not their consistent style at all, whether it is Liu Dadao or Ma Jiajiang, they don't like to defend, they invariably thought of the option of continuing to attack and make contributions, but how to fight, whether to really fight, the two have not completely decided.

Liu Wei tended to take the initiative, while Ma Wei was hesitant.

"The marshal told us to stick to Hanzhong and not go north, just contain the soldiers and horses of the four towns in the northwest, but I always feel that this is not good, let's fight all the way smoothly when the soldiers are sharp, it is the time when morale is full, at this time do not continue to fight, but to stop, isn't it a waste of morale?"

Liu Wei is a resolute main battle faction.

Ma Wei had some doubts about this.

"That's right, but the marshal's order is an order, don't let us continue to fight north, it's also the soldiers and horses of the four towns, if the soldiers and horses of the four towns are really mobilized, there are 100,000 people, we only have a total of 40,000 soldiers and horses, it's not easy to fight!"

Liu Wei shook his head again and again.

"How many Sichuan soldiers are more than 100,000, but they have not been taken down by us?"

Ma Wei hurriedly shook his head and said: "Most of the Sichuan soldiers are local garrisons, the soldiers and horses of the four towns fight with the northern captives all the year round, the elite soldiers and horses are not the same, if you really want to fight, they may not be worse than us, we do not have an advantage in terms of troops, and we cannot jump to conclusions." ”

Liu Wei pointed to Guyuan Town on the map and said, "Do you have to wait for Li Wen, the trilateral governor of Guyuan, to mobilize troops and horses to come south to attack us?" It is precisely because we have few soldiers and horses that we can't show cowardice, and we must take the initiative to attack, and in turn deter Li Wen, otherwise when they are overwhelmed, we will passively respond to the battle? You're going to make sure those surrendering juniors don't take the opportunity to get up and make trouble behind our backs? ”

Ma Wei suddenly felt that what Liu Wei said made sense.

It is precisely because the Zhennan Army has been in full swing since the Northern Expedition that it has deterred those officials and the army, because it is so strong, they dare not resist and dare not do right, but once they show their cowardice, once they are defeated even once, it may cause instability in the rear.

They have not yet established a solid rule at the local level, Sichuan is not yet their rear, not even Yunnan, but most people are just waiting and seeing, and once they come to a conclusion, the situation may be reversed again.

This is probably the reason why the Zhennan Army must continue to attack north and not stop.

It is necessary to continue to build a strong and invincible image in order to consolidate the existing foundation.

And more importantly, there is another reason that Liu Wei said.

"Brother Ma, are you really willing to just wait for the big handsome to take down the Jingshi and then go directly to the Jingshi? Are you going to stop there? If you think about it, there is no doubt that the people who are following Dashuai now will definitely have the greatest meritorious service, and when they arrive in the capital, they will be the first to be rewarded.

They followed the big marshal so they had the greatest success, and we stopped here and didn't move forward, and we didn't go to the big marshal, and when the reward was given, they definitely didn't grab as much, and then we missed the great opportunity in vain! If we take the northwest and Guanzhong, and then take the initiative to lead the troops to Beijing to meet with the commander, what a credit will it be? ”

Makes sense......

Ma Wei, as the chief general of one of the four major battalions of the Zhennan Army, was valued by Xiao Ruxun and was able to command a team of men and horses to be responsible for a side of the battlefield alone, he himself thought that his ability was definitely not bad, otherwise Xiao Ruxun would not value him so much.

But if he didn't arrive when he captured the meritorious generals of the Jingshi Dafeng, and he didn't get the first sip of soup, maybe he would be squeezed down by those who came later.

He didn't want to encounter such a thing.

Stop it?

Ma Wei thought for a while, and felt that he couldn't stop.

Not only can they not stop, but the army can't stop either, so that the soldiers of the Zhennan Army can continue to maintain a strong will to fight, in case they stop and go on the defensive, then their good morale and will to fight will be wasted.

So the two directly wrote a letter to Xiao Ruxun and began to discuss how to attack next.

Then the two of them stared at each other.

How to fight?

At present, there are five ways to attack Guanzhong from Hanzhong.

Either take Qishan, or take the Chencang Ancient Road to Lianyun Plank Road, or take the Bao Slope Road, or try to take Luogu or Meridian Valley.

It's not easy.

Well, indeed, it was not at all easy to attack Longyou and Guanzhong from Hanzhong.

Since ancient times, there have been too many wars in this area, and the strategies and tactics that should be used have been almost used, and the battle examples are easy to come by, and it is not difficult to predict at all, so compared to playing tricks, in fact, strength is more important.

After thinking about it, Liu Wei and Ma Wei felt that it seemed not a good choice for them to take the initiative to attack, because they predicted that Li Wen might quickly attack Hanzhong to recover Sichuan in the future, for no other reason, for the sake of food.