Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, 195 A.D. has arrived, and all the officers and soldiers of the Eastern Army have made great progress under nearly a year of hard training, which is enough to fight with Zhang Lujun in Hanzhong! The well was also successfully built under the preparation of Ma Teng. Everything is ready, only food and grass are owed!

As the saying goes: before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first! As long as the grain and grass are collected, the Xiliang army can wave its army to the east and attack Hanzhong!

But where do you go to collect the grain and grass? Xiliang's production is backward, agriculture and commerce are not developed, even if there is enough money, it can't buy enough food! Grain must be imported from outside Xiliang!

Hanzhong is the granary of the northwest, but grain can never be purchased from Hanzhong. In these troubled times, once someone buys a large amount of grain in Hanzhong, it will definitely attract the attention of Zhang Lujun, and the difficulty of Qi Gong Hanzhong will also increase a hundred times, so the gain of buying grain in Hanzhong outweighs the loss!

If you can't go to Hanzhong, you can only go to Chang'an, Beijing! Ma Chao, who has crossed over, has flexible thinking and rich experience, and it is easy to think of a way to buy grain.

So Ma Chao called his younger sister Han Ying and younger sister Ma Yunluo, who were born into famous families and could disguise themselves as rich ladies from Tianshui to buy food in Chang'an! Who would beware of young and beautiful women in troubled times? It just so happens that they can also go to Chang'an to experience and experience, and they have a long experience! Ma Chaoji got to his heart and had an idea!

In these troubled times, food is precious, but there is something more precious than food, that is, war horses. There was a shortage of good horses in the Central Plains, so the cavalry was relatively backward. And Xiliang lacked everything, that is, there was no shortage of war horses, so Ma Chao asked his junior sister Han Ying and sister Ma Yunluo to bring a thousand war horses that had been eliminated from the cavalry camp, and Ma Xiu was escorted by the rangers, accompanied by his younger brother (that is, his current cousin) Ma Dai, and set off for Chang'an.

The speed of the rangers was fast, and under their escort, more than 1,000 people soon came to the outside of the capital division Chang'an. The army could not appear under the city of Chang'an in formation, which would cause panic in the capital, even if there were only a thousand cavalry. Fortunately, the Ranger Brigade led by Matthew was mainly trained to spy on intelligence and harass the enemy, and 800 of the 1,000 people were left to camp under the hidden mountain in the distance, and the remaining 200 people were reduced to pieces and entered Chang'an City.

At this time, Chang'an City was controlled by Li Dao, who was originally Dong Zhuo's general, brave and treacherous, good at using soldiers, and eloquent; Therefore, after Dong Zhuo's death, he was able to defeat all the princes and monopolize the Beijing Division, and he was in the limelight! It's a pity that Li Dao is not good at politics, and Chang'an City, under Li Dao's governance, is not peaceful and chaotic! And Li Wei's prestige is not enough to convince the public, there are many enemies, Chang'an City is stormy, and the fish and dragons are mixed.

The chaos in Chang'an also gave Han Ying and Ma Yunluo a better chance. A thousand war horses born in Xiliang are enough to cause a sensation. Han Ying and Ma Yunluo disguised themselves as wealthy merchants who sold horses in Tianshui, as long as they didn't need money for food, they exchanged horses for grain, and soon got a large amount of grain. In Chang'an City, war horses are far more precious than food! So much grain was transported out of Chang'an City, which also attracted the attention of the local bandits, but fortunately, Ma Xiu Ma Dai led 200 guards to appear in time and cut off their idea of snatching food.

Under the escort of the Ranger Brigade, Han Ying and Ma Yunluo finally bought enough food and embarked on the return journey. Han Ying happily said to Ma Xiu: "Quickly send a message to Brother Ma Chao, just say that we have successfully completed the task!" When we get to Tianshui, he will have to reward us, this time it will exhaust us! ”

After Ma Chao got the news, he finally put his mind at ease, the grain and grass were already available, and the time was ripe to attack Hanzhong! A big war is about to begin!

The first thing to carry out is a spy war, Ma Chao immediately ordered Ma Xiu on the way, and sent some scouts to Hanzhong City to spread rumors, saying that Liu Zhang in Shu wanted to send troops from Zitong to attack Hanzhong! Attract Zhang Lu's attention to the southwest direction and guard the Sword Pavilion! After all, for Zhang Lu, Liu Zhang's five cities in Bashu are far stronger and more threatening than Ma Tengjun's!

Everything is ready, Ma Chao can finally swear to the east! The cavalry brigades have also been trained, and after Ma Xiu returned to the city to rest, Ma Chao specially invited Ma Teng and Han Sui to participate in the pre-war military parade to review the results of this year's training!

The first thing to review was the heavy cavalry brigade that had been built at great expense. I only heard Ma Tie shouting: "Assault!" A rumbling sound suddenly sounded on the plain, followed by a torrent of steel with 500 heavy armor, the ground shook and the mountains shook, and the momentum was like a rainbow! I saw heavy armored cavalry armed to the teeth, waving their spears, and swept past in front of them, leaving only puffs of smoke and dust raised! After the charge reached the end, Ma Tie turned around and led the heavy cavalry brigade to charge back to the main formation again. How did Ma Teng and Han Sui see such a powerful cavalry charge, they were shocked and amazed at the same time, with such a powerful cavalry, why worry about the Hanzhong not to break!

Immediately afterwards, the archers led by Pang De appeared in front of everyone, only to see a group of 1,000 people in a group of 100 people, charging to the designated position in sections and ladders and raising their longbows, only to see a rain of arrows shot at the straw man in front, and the straw man was full of arrows in an instant. After a wave of attacks, the hundred-man squadron immediately turned their horses back and returned to the formation, continuing to prepare for the next wave of attacks! The thousand-man brigade, with 10 squadrons of 100 people, attacks in turns, constantly circulating, can attack 20 rounds without interruption. After a horse charge, the range of the bow increased considerably, enough to reach more than 200 meters. While the range has been greatly increased, there is also extraordinary accuracy; This cavalry archer is a nightmare for spearmen and halberders when they are trained, which greatly enhances the mobility and range of archers, and also solves the biggest shortcoming of archers' poor defense: archers attack sharply from a distance, but they can't be close, and once they are close, a Pu knife soldier can kill a lot of archers! But the archers have horses, and immediately turn around and retreat after shooting a wave, how can the infantry catch up, let alone get close!

Ma Teng and Han Sui were also eye-opening when they saw the excellent performance of the archers, and Ma Teng also said: "I said that how did you kid fool my huge general of ten thousand cavalry commanders into being a small thousand cavalry commanders, I was quite unhappy at that time, and wanted to find someone to ask for, or did your Uncle Wenyue stop me and let me wait a year to see what tricks your kid played!" But you kid did surprise me; Today, I am very satisfied, you have lived up to the expectations of me and your uncle, you must make persistent efforts, keep improving, and apply training to actual combat! ”

"Remember my father's teachings! Super must train hard and strive to win Hanzhong as soon as possible! ”

After seeing the amazing performance of the Heavy Cavalry Brigade and the Archer Cavalry Brigade, the performance of the Ranger Brigade and the 7000 ordinary cavalry seemed to be much more flat, but it was also unsatisfactory and achieved the expected goal!

After the parade, Ma Chao, Ma Teng, and Han Sui sat together and discussed the details of the attack on Hanzhong. In 195 AD, Ma Teng and Han Sui had already started an endless civil war, and now they are sitting together and laughing, and their relationship is very close, like a family. All this is because of Ma Chao who crossed over, and it was Ma Chao's crossing that changed history and shifted the track of history!

Ma Chao changed the history and trend of the Northwest, but at this time he did not have the ability to influence the Central Plains, and a major event happened as scheduled.