After Zhang Wei and Ma Zhong were promoted by leapfrogging, they led the army out of Wancheng together, and set off in the direction of Xuchang through Bowang and Yecheng.

People from all over the country are also vying to greet them, and some people joke that during the Xiangfan War two years ago, General Guan had already arrived in Jiaxian with other troops, but Sun Quan attacked Jingzhou, and General Guan was forced to withdraw his troops.

Ma Zhong laughed: "The general will lead the army to arrive later, this time he will definitely take Xuchang and then recover Luoyang, and Jiangdong was defeated two years ago and suffered heavy losses, and the Han army has also recovered Jiangxia, the gateway to Jingzhou, and cut off the road of Jiangdong's sneak attack, and there is no need to worry about the future." ”

Guan Yu's army really arrived in Xiangcheng within two days, and after everyone marched together to Yingyang, Zhang Wei and Ma Zhong led the army to the east, passing through Linying and passing through Runan, and then to Chen County.

Arriving in Chen County, the two of them jointly took the county seat and divided the troops again, Ma Zhong will lead the army to the east, and Zhang Wei will go north from here.

The lonely army is deep, the future is dangerous, Ma Zhong said goodbye to Zhang Wei: "Now most of the enemies are concentrating on Luoyang, I am going east, it is estimated that the pressure is not too great, and you will also be under the interception of the enemy's heavy army. ”

Zhang Wei returned the salute and persuaded Ma Zhong to take care: "You are going, but you are getting farther and farther away from the army, you are really isolated, and after a long time, the Jiangdong forces are likely to take advantage of the chaos to go north to add chaos, which can be said to be a real heavy responsibility, but you are worried about me?" You should be more careful, but don't be too eager to make meritorious contributions, and march too quickly. ”

"Oh? Ha ha! Ma Zhong smiled heartily, "Doesn't it mean that the distance I am going to take is the place where His Majesty the Emperor used to govern benevolently, and the people's foundation is very good?" ”

Zhang Wei hurriedly shook his head and said: "Although this is the boundary of Yuzhou now, His Majesty the Emperor has been in Yuzhou for many years, but only in Xiaopei, in fact, he is busy for Xuzhou." From here to the east, you have to enter the county, which is Cao Pi's hometown. On the eve of the usurpation, they had just returned to the county to inspect the grace. You have to go to the ancestral grave now, be careful that people are desperate to chase you! ”

"Huh, huh?" Ma Zhong slapped his head, as if he was really confused, "Okay, forget it, we don't have to be polite to each other, let's take care of ourselves." Everyone worked together to do their best for the revival of the Han family. ”

Zhang Wei was serious: "I'm going, but there are still troops to meet the troops." Don't forget, in addition to me, Pingbei, we also have a general who has already set off to conquer the north. ”

"Yes, yes, I haven't forgotten." Ma Zhong smiled and nodded repeatedly, "I heard that he went straight to Yecheng." That Yecheng is still another base camp of Cao Wei, where people have already built palaces, and their dependents and various clan forces are still there, and there are also heavy troops to defend, that is the real lair of the people, but it is not comparable to Qianjun. You have to be careful. By the way, you and General Zhengbei have cooperated many times under Da Sima and have performed miraculous feats, and I hope that this time you can also cooperate tacitly and achieve better results. ”

Tacit understanding? Zhang Wei pouted a little helplessly, Wei Yan's guy, although the war is okay, but the merit is even more powerful, he has always asked others to cooperate with him, but he never thought of cooperating with others, but forget it, the big war is coming, I don't want to say anything bad about people behind my back, this time I went to Yecheng, if I want to succeed, I really need to fight with him in two ways to be possible.

The two marched separately, and Zhang Wei's troops avoided the Chenliu territory and headed northeast into the Liang state.

Along the way, he constantly sent small detachments to various places to respond or instigate the officials and people to raise troops to cut the land and oppose Cao.

"General, do you have to keep dividing your troops?" Sima Deng Tong saw that there were not many people in the team, and now they are getting fewer and fewer, and he couldn't help but have some thoughts.

Zhang Wei nodded and asked Deng Tong: "Divide the troops?" We are now raising all our troops to Luoyang, but on the whole there are still fewer soldiers and horses than others, why do we still divide our troops? ”

Without waiting for Deng Tong to answer, he automatically relieved his doubts: "Cao Piwancheng and Guanzhong lost, and he also mobilized all his forces to Luoyang to prepare for a decisive battle with us. And the emperor and the great Sima asked us to divide our troops to the east and north, which seemed to be our own division of troops, but in fact they were forcing Cao Wei to divide our troops. You think, he transferred all the soldiers and horses from other places to Luoyang, but many of them were temporarily transferred from various counties. When those people are nostalgic for their homeland, when they hear that their hometown will be attacked, will they not be in a hurry to go back to protect themselves? ”

"Attack its weakness, let the enemy run for his life, this is a good way, but there are too few people for us, now separated from General Anton, his 5,000 men and horses will continue to be divided, and there are only 3,000 people left around General Pingbei, and then if you want to capture the enemy's heavy city, I'm afraid it's impossible." Deng Tong still regretted it.

"Heli? So why not gather them all together and organize them into one army? Now the dignified General Pingbei, there are only more than 3,000 people around him, and if he goes forward, it seems that it is difficult to win when he encounters a strong enemy, right? Deng Tong was a little worried.

"Dignified General Pingbei? More than 3,000 people? Zhang Wei didn't seem to take this matter to heart, "Why do I think that I, General Pingbei, have hit a big luck and picked it up for nothing?" ”

"How could the general think that? Didn't the emperor say it, just because when you repelled the Jiangdong people and horses, you killed several enemy generals in a row, and you should have reused it a long time ago, not to mention that the troops went out of the military pass and attacked the rear of Cao Wei's army, causing the Wei army to be completely defeated and retreated. Deng Tong felt that Zhang Wei was too modest.

"Don't talk about that." Zhang Wei shook his head, "I mean, His Majesty the Emperor appointed me as a Pingbei general, mainly for the purpose of going deep behind enemy lines this time, so as to facilitate the rebellion of the senior officials of the Wei side and increase the confidence of the anti-Cao officials in various places. ”

"Oh?" Deng Tong seemed to understand, "What does the general mean is that the higher the rank of officials, the higher the level of officials, the more important His Majesty the Emperor attaches to them?" ”

Zhang Wei chuckled, "But isn't it? At the very least, when people are obedient, they will also feel that it is easier to get by on the face, right? ”

Deng Tong also smiled: "At the same time, I think that with the guarantee of our General Pingbei, the future will be better." However, the general still doesn't need to be too modest, according to what the emperor said, you, the general of Pingbei, can be sealed a long time ago. ”

Zhang Wei didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, and asked Deng Tong: "After talking about ease, you have to recognize the current difficulties." Have you ever thought about why Da Sima knew us best, why did he insist on letting us go deep behind enemy lines? ”

"Because we have always been the first to go behind enemy lines!" Deng Tong replied crisply, with a proud face.

Zhang Wei had a grim face: "When I was a flying army, during my training over the years, in addition to practicing to climb over mountains and cross dangers, the most important thing is to preset various dangers in advance, requiring every sergeant to have the psychological quality of not panicking and actively getting out of danger when he is alone in danger." This time, although the terrain has become flat, as long as everyone is in danger and actively responds, there is always a way to survive in the face of strong enemies. ”

Deng Tong also became serious: "In this eastern terrain, it is not easy for the army to travel thousands of miles quietly. ”

Zhang Wei nodded: "So, we must reduce the size of the team again, and we have to divide the troops again." ”

"Still points?" Deng Tong had to worry, "If you divide it again, you will really become a straggler." ”

Zhang Wei's eyes were firm and he looked into the distance: "We must use the least number of troops to make trouble for the enemy in the greatest range." ”

Deng Tong thought about it, but still couldn't help but say: "If you divide it again, I'm afraid that people will think that our army doesn't exist at all." ”

"No, no, no." Zhang Wei said with relief, "Don't forget, there are a lot of people from all over the world who have responded to His Majesty the Han Emperor now. We continue to divide our forces and unite with them, and the total team will only get bigger and bigger. The enemy will not think that we do not exist, but that we are everywhere! ”

After speaking, he patted Deng Tong on the shoulder again: "Of course, this team only accounts for less than half of the flying army, and the remaining more than 2,000 people will all be handed over to you." In this way, the army is still in great fanfare, and the small detachments attack everywhere and support each other, so that the enemy can not see the situation clearly and is at a loss. ”