The Wei army, which thought that they would be able to return home safely after retreating across the Yellow River, was hit hard again, and the psychological defense line finally collapsed on all fronts, and they no longer had the intention of resisting, so they scattered and fled.

Ma Chao and Wei Yan's troops were also scattered, chasing and fleeing the enemy everywhere, and even Ge Liang crossed the river, but he couldn't figure out where they were.

All the generals were anxious to ask if they wanted to take advantage of the situation and pursue the whole army.

Ge Liang shook his head, through interrogating the prisoners, he had already learned that this time the soldiers of Hedong County were pouring out, but they were all scattered, and it seemed unnecessary to send so many people to chase after them, and Cao Zhen and Sima Yi were both officials of Wei Guojing, and they would not stay in Hedong County.

He instructed the army to take good care of the captives and not to beat and scold them easily, these people are all good at farming, and they will still be in Hedong in the future.

Immediately, he arranged for Wang Ping to lead the army east to Tongguan to cheer for Deng Zhi and scare Jia Kui's army, which might be advancing westward.

After waiting for two or three hours, Ma Chao and Wei Yan also escorted a large number of prisoners back to the ferry.

Half of Ma Chao's men returned, and told Ge good news that the enemy had fled on all fronts, not even Pusaka Castle, and his men and horses had occupied it.

Wei Yan only brought back a small number of men and horses, and told Ge Liang that those men were still chasing the enemy, and that he had something to report before temporarily leaving the army.

Well, I know you all have something, Ma Chao is back in Guanzhong again, thinking about going back to his hometown to have a look, and what about you Wei Yan, I'm afraid that you are only thinking about your 4,000 foot soldiers, right?

"Congratulations to the two generals for their new achievements! The last time Tongguan was captured, it was the hussar general who arrived first, and the Zhenbei general captured the pass, and this time the enemy copied the rear road, it was the Zhenbei general who arrived first, and the hussar general captured the ferry and Pusaka City, right? Ge Liang deliberately pulled the topic first to calm down the grievances between the two of them.

Ma Chao was still upset, but he said: "This time to recover Yongliang, thanks to the guidance of Da Sima, let Ma Chao's cavalry give full play to their advantages, not entangled with the enemy's battles, and quickly go back and forth, disturbing the enemy to scatter and flee, suffering blows everywhere, so as to quickly retreat from Yongliang, and was almost completely annihilated in this Pubandu." ”

He said that he was grateful to Ge Liang, but the implication was inevitably that he had made the first contribution.

Then he sighed again: "Alas, it's a pity that the preparation is still insufficient in advance, and the cavalry is still too few, otherwise, there is no need to wait for Cao Zhen at this Pusaka ferry, and he can wipe them all out on his way back to Chang'an." ”

Wei Yan can hear it, isn't this still saying that I took up his 2,000 cavalry and ruined his good deeds? He immediately spoke: "This time, my Wudang Fei army sacrificed his life to attack and seize Tongguan before the enemy's reinforcements arrived, thus blocking the road for Cao Zhen and Sima Yi to directly join the enemy's reinforcements by land, and finally forced him to come to this Pusaka ferry, and was attacked by Bandu, so that the whole army was wiped out here." ”

Immediately, he also sighed: "Alas, it's good to have a horse!" I think that before I was on the Chencang Road, with 500 horsemen, I chased Zhang's army to the point of exhaustion, and made Zhang himself ......"

Speaking of this, I remembered that Zhang was finally shot to death by Ma Dai's people, Wei Yan hurriedly didn't talk about it for now, but wanted to complain to Ge Liang: "Of course I know that it is important to get to the Guanzhong cavalry, so every time I fought before, I paid special attention to capturing the war horses, but Da Sima, you are too partial, and you ...... my horses."

He wants to remind Ma Chao that many of your horses were obtained by me, and they were forcibly given to you by Da Sima! What do you mean that I have taken your cavalry, I am only asking for my horse back. If it weren't for the reluctance of your soldiers to give up their horses, and the fact that my foot soldiers hadn't caught up, I wouldn't have even wanted your men!

"Well said, well said by the two generals!" Ge Liang hurriedly clapped his hands and interjected, "To fight a war, it is necessary to rely on all departments to help each other, and all branches of the army can communicate with each other." Like General Wei's Wudang Flying Army, you can use it specifically to cross dangerous places and attack cities, while the cavalry of the Hussar General should give full play to the advantage of acting quickly, boldly interspersed and rushed to the enemy's rear, disrupting the enemy's deployment, and plunging the enemy into chaos, so that the army can advance smoothly and annihilate the enemy. Well, this time the two generals cooperated quite tacitly, and I hope that there will be opportunities to make persistent efforts and create more brilliance in the future. ”

Alas, I wanted to take the question and set it for the two of them, but now it seems that this kind of thing is really difficult to do when you meet this kind of person.

Fortunately, Ma Chao stopped speaking when he saw Ge Liang talking like this. Wei Yan opened his mouth and said the right thing: "Da Sima, according to your previous words, then I will continue to march from here." Have all my men and horses crossed the river? ”

"It's coming, it's coming." Ge Liang asked Xu Shu to call the four thousand soldiers over and hand them to Wei Yan, "Look, there are quite a few of them. ”

Wei Yan was busy meeting with his subordinates, and asked Ge Liang again: "When will the army follow up when I go north?" Who will be there? ”

He lost 4,000 people in Hangu, and now Ma Chao's 2,000 cavalry can no longer be controlled by him, although he has made up 4,000, it is still only more than 7,000, and Wei Yan feels that the loss is too big. Annihilated Zhang's department, grabbed out of Chencang Road, captured Tongguan, and blocked the reinforcements sent by Cao Pi to Guanzhong, so much credit, and now let me lead the northern expedition, you have to add some men and horses to me, right? Besides, I am the general of Zhenbei and the governor of Hanzhong, if you don't come, many troops should be under my command.

Ge Liang shook his head: "The army will not follow up for the time being, and there will be no troops following you for the time being." Don't run too fast like you did in this attack. ”

"Why?" Wei Yan felt that this was impossible. You also said that it was too difficult to go straight to Luoyang from Hangu, and you didn't send people to go north with me, why did so many people stay in Guanzhong?

"Because you are the general of Zhenbei, no one else is either. Now the northern expedition, of course, you go. Ge Liang spoke, his eyes subconsciously glanced at the generals.

All the generals also looked confused, only Ma Chao turned his head and turned around to see the waves of the Yellow River.

Wei Yan hurriedly affirmed: "I am Zhenbei, this is to conquer the north!" ”

If there were no follow-up troops, he was afraid that he would not make much trouble.

Ge Liang saw everyone's confusion, and hurriedly explained to everyone: "We have just captured Guanlong, the battle is too fast, all the troops are tired, and the supplies need to be replenished. The front is already the Sili District, the terrain is dangerous, and Cao Pi must have mobilized a large army to defend Kyoto. I also want to enter Luoyang as soon as possible, but such a big battle needs to be carefully prepared, and the new service in the Guanlong area and the political affairs of various places also need to be well arranged, so I decided to temporarily stop the advance of the army, and then make arrangements after the enemy situation is found out and the supplies are prepared. ”

"We're not tired!" All the generals said that if they could directly enter Luoyang, they would be willing to die of exhaustion.

"I know you're not afraid of getting tired." Ge Liang himself is not tired, "It's just that in a big battle like attacking Luoyang, you still have to ask His Majesty the Han Emperor for the will, right?" Well, I don't know what happened to His Majesty the Emperor and the Great General on the Southern Front? ”

The generals came back to their senses, yes, for such a big matter, we still have to wait for the emperor to make up his mind first.

The capture of Guanlong this time was fast and smooth, no one expected it beforehand, and His Majesty the Han Emperor probably didn't expect it either. (To be continued.) )