Seeing that Li Dao's army was retreating, Ma Chao did not chase after him, but sent his fastest second brother Ma Xiu to lead the Ranger Brigade to stay behind and cover the retreat of the 1,000 sergeants who had previously carried out the ambush mission.

How could Ma Chao have time to catch up with Li Dao, he had to quickly return to Hanzhong City to defend against Huang Zhongjun's attack; Why Huang Zhong came to fight Hanzhong hasn't figured it out yet, Ma Chao only felt panicked, Huang Zhong is much more difficult to deal with than Li Dao! In 196 AD, Huang Zhong's data in the Three Kingdoms 11 was: 93 in force, 60 in intelligence, 52 in politics, 75 in charisma, 86 in command, and slightly higher than Pang De in terms of comprehensive ability, which is undoubtedly the strongest enemy encountered by Ma Chao after crossing over!

Huang Zhong in history has not been reused by Liu Biao, and even before the Battle of Chibi, he did not show his face much, Ma Chao only remembered that he accompanied Liu Biao's nephew Liu Pan to guard Changsha County, until Liu Bei's expedition to Jingzhou, he gradually showed his strength, and Guan Yu fought for hundreds of rounds without falling behind, which aroused Liu Bei's love for talent, painstakingly persuaded him to surrender, and finally followed Liu Bei to attack Yizhou and began to make repeated military exploits and became famous all over the world.

Ma Chao had the impression that Huang Zhong, Wei Yan and others were not reused by Liu Biao because the power in Jingzhou was held by various scholars; Liu Biao himself is a celebrity, known as one of the "Eight Horses", riding into Jingzhou alone, so that Jingzhou Shilin was moved by it and quickly took refuge; And Liu Biao's wife, Cai, is also a local scholar in Jingzhou, the family is strong, and the clan's children Cai Mao and others have certain abilities, they support Liu Biao's youngest son Liu Cong, and they have a lot of power. In Jingzhou at that time, Liu Biao could not even be the master of the prince, which caused the chaos in Jingzhou after his death, which is enough to show that Liu Biao is not a positive and enterprising hero in troubled times, he just wants to keep Jingzhou to see the world, not to mention that people like Gan Ning, Wei Yan, and Huang Zhong are all local poor families, Liu Biao has some "celebrities" and looks down on people with low social status and real talents, so Liu Biao does not dare to use it, and does not want to reuse these powerful and unfamous generals.

So why is Huang Zhong reused by Liu Biao now? It's just reused, and it's also used to beat Ma Chao, who was so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood.

Ma Chao can't figure out these problems in a short time, if Huang Zhong didn't cross over, it was the influence of the "butterfly effect", it was Ma Chao's crossing that moved the trajectory of history! However, at present, the top priority is to defeat or at least repel Huang Zhong's army with all the strength of Hanzhong, so as to maintain the tranquility of Hanzhong City and ensure the long-term peace and stability of Hanzhong City!

Here Ma Chao was hurrying to Hanzhong City, and Li Daojun also retreated to the infantry battalion, and said to the military advisor Jia Xu embarrassedly:

"As expected, Ma Chao really broke it himself, and our army was defeated! I have no face to see the military advisor, and I regret that I shouldn't have listened to the words of the military advisor at the beginning! ”

"Knowing that mistakes can be corrected, good is great! At this time, the big handsome should pursue the remnants of Ma Chao at speed, and he will definitely win! Li Wei said puzzledly: "I just didn't listen to your advice before I fell to this point, and now our army has been defeated by Ma Chao twice, our army has suffered heavy casualties, morale is low, and there are no three out of ten combat strength, why do you want to chase again?" ”

Jia Xu said: "At this time, at that time, soldiers, treacherous ways, now the situation has changed, and the marshal hurry up to chase and make a profit." ”

This time, Li Wei followed Jia Xu's advice, so he collected stragglers and pursued again.

At this time, the troops outside Yangping Pass were only left with Ma Xiu's 1,000 rangers and 1,000 infantry who carried out ambush missions, and they were not good at frontal combat, where was Li Dao's 7000 Xiliang cavalry's opponent, and soon, the infantry was caught up by Li Dao's army, and Ma Xiu could only flee in a hurry after a little resistance.

The 1,000 infantry of Ma Chao's army were wiped out, and Ma Huw's rangers also lost two or three hundred, after Ma Chao received the news, he was very distressed, this was the first defeat that Ma Chao encountered after crossing... Li Wei has no such insight, it must be Jia Xu's idea, Jia Xu is really powerful! Ma Chao once again came up with the idea of looking for a top strategist, or with Ma Chao's triangular cat kung fu, he really couldn't play a strategist with an intelligence of more than 90... It's a pity that the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was an era of paying attention to fame, the family occupied half of the country, Ma Chao did not break out of a fame, just by virtue of his image of Xiliang Wufu, it was impossible to recruit scholars, and it was not easy to recruit military advisors with intelligence of more than 90!

Let's say that Li Wei was happy after the victory, but he was also afraid that Ma Chao's army would still have an ambush, so he didn't dare to attack Yangping Pass again, so after cleaning up the battlefield, he returned to Jia Xu and asked Jia Xu for advice:

"The military advisor is really a god and a man, and he is clever, and he has no last resort, and he is convinced! Please ask the military advisor to explain the confusion, what is going on? ”

"This reason is actually very simple, although the marshal is good at using soldiers, but our army has suffered a new defeat, the defeated army has lowered the morale of our army, and the Ma Chao army is strong and strong, the morale is high, and has the strongest heavy cavalry in the world. Although Ma Chao's army has just withdrawn, Ma Chao will inevitably be in the rear in person, and our army will pursue rashly, so naturally it can't compare to them, so I expect the commander to be defeated. And the reason why Ma Chao has to withdraw before he has time to sweep the battlefield must be that something happened in the rear, so after breaking the chasing soldiers of the marshal, he will definitely retreat with all his might, leaving only a small number of sergeants to break the queen, although the soldiers he left are powerful, but the number is far less than our army, so I know that the marshal can win with defeated soldiers. ”

Li Wei was greatly impressed after hearing this, so he adopted Jia Xu's opinion, no longer rushed, but moved forward step by step. At the same time, he ordered Xizuo to closely reconnoiter Hanzhong City to see what had happened to Hanzhong City.

At this time, Ma Chao had quickly returned to Hanzhong City, but fortunately, Huang Zhong's army had not yet attacked, and Ma Chao still had time to arrange offensive and defensive military affairs. Facing the embarrassment of the enemy on his abdomen and back, Ma Chao felt unprecedented pressure, so he ordered Pang De to lead the troops back to help, leaving a small number of sergeants to guard the Heavenly Sword Pavilion.

This is a big battle related to the life and death of Hanzhong City, and Ma Chao must gather all his combat strength to resist it together.

Obviously, Li Dao's army suffered major defeats one after another, morale was low, and there was Yangping Pass in the east to defend, so there was nothing to worry about in a short time, and it was worth paying attention to Huang Zhong's 10,000 crossbowmen. Huang Zhong's special skill is the "Bow God", especially good at archers, and the advantage of archers is long-range attacks, and there is a powerful archer, which is enough to be worth double the elite infantry. It's time to meet Huang Zhong for a while.

Ma Chao crossed over, what he was looking forward to was to be able to play with the heroes of the world and experience the feeling of surging blood, so as to come here in vain, if the heroes have become dogs, like many brainless novels in the previous life, the protagonist's domineering spirit is emanated, and all kinds of generals and strategists have come to vote, Ma Chao will feel boring and no challenge. Isn't life all about growing up in challenges and hard work?