Unlike Zhang Wei's rapid dispersion, Ma Zhong and his subordinates have been steadily advancing after the breakup.

Zhang Wei was to disrupt the deployment of the Wei army around Luoyang and cooperate with the army to successfully take Luoyang, and he was going to the border between Xuzhou and Yangzhou, which was far away from Luoyang, to contact the people who responded to the Han and anti-Wei people everywhere, only 5,000 men and horses, and it was not the time to attack the city and plunder the land everywhere for the time being. As long as you find a place to set your foothold, declare Ji Han's presence in the Xuyang area, and give the people who respond from all over the world a place to belong.

Heading east from Chenjun, it is adjacent to the boundary of Chenjun.

Although this is the original place of the Cao family and the Xiahou family, those who are close to them, or those who have some ability, have already moved to Yecheng and Luoyang, and the clan members who remain don't know how many generations they have to count before they can stand it.

Cao Pi can't take care of this place now, and has already sent most of the county soldiers to Luoyang to defend, and the remaining troops naturally dare not go out to fight Ma Zhong easily, so they can only hope to hold on to the city and not let people enter the city, and the enemy will naturally retreat after a long time.

People outside the city rushed to the city: "Run, go into the city and hide!" Liu Bei's men are coming over to rob the young woman again! The last time the woman from the Xiahou family went out of the city to chop wood, but she was caught by Zhang Fei who sneaked over, everyone has to remember it for a long time! ”

There are also some people who don't care: "Didn't you hear that the woman of the Xiahou family is the main room of General Ji Han's chariot cavalry?" Wow! Isn't that also full of glory? Wow! I heard that it was their General Anton who came this time, isn't it also a big official? Isn't it as big as a general? Will you come to rob me? ”

"Phew! Don't take a mirror to look at, Xiahou's family is a famous family! Someone next to them advised them to respect themselves, "Poor women like you, if you are taken away, you can only be a cow, a horse, a slave and a maid!" ”

They were still not convinced: "What happened to the poor family? Didn't you say that Liu Bei was very good to ordinary people? Wouldn't it be good for us poor people to come? ”

They had heard that when Cao Cao was young, he was rampant in the countryside, and ordinary people couldn't hide.

However, Ma Zhong did not come to rob his wife, nor did he flee over because of the defeat of Xuzhou and the separation of Liu Bei like Zhang Fei back then, but led the army to slowly drive from the road in a dignified and neat manner, and did not launch an attack, so he bypassed outside the city and continued eastward.

The road was still very smooth, the small counties along the way were all guarded by the city, and there was no army to come out to fight in the field, they successfully arrived in Xiaqiu County, and they were stationed there.

Xiaqiu County is a county under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou Xiapi State, next to Yuzhou's Qian County, and a little further south, is Huainan County of Yangzhou, there is a little bit of three regardless of the taste of the territory, there is no defensive force at all, more importantly, someone in Xiaqiu has secretly contacted Ji Han before, in the county as an internal response, Ma Zhong arrived, did not make much effort to take down the county.

In fact, it's not that no one wants to take care of it, Yuzhou's troops are mainly gathered in Xuchang to help Cao Ren, Xuzhou Assassin Shi Zangba is on the way back, Yangzhou Assassin Shi Wenhui wants to stop Ma Zhong and his party, but he can't take care of it if he wants to, because most of the people and horses originally stationed in Yangzhou to guard against Sun Quan have also been transferred to Xuchang and Luoyang, and Sun Quan's men and horses in the south are killing in the north.

When Guan Yu besieged Fancheng two years ago, Sun Quan surrendered to Cao Cao and attacked Jingzhou from behind, although he was defeated by Ge Liang's ambush in advance, but after all, he solved Cao Cao's predicament, and now the situation is more critical than back then.

Sun Quan really wanted to avenge Jingzhou's revenge, but the fiasco back then, Jiangdong's vitality was greatly damaged, and people's hearts were fluctuating. What if I fall into an ambush again?

After some discussion with everyone, Sun Quan decided to take advantage of the chaos to develop north, on the one hand, he sent a letter to Liu Bei, saying that he would send troops to help the Han Emperor recover the Central Plains, and on the other hand, he agreed to Cao Pi's request, saying that he would send troops to help, but instead of going to Jingzhou, he would directly march north, and then move closer to Xuchang and Luoyang, and then the two families would join forces to deal with Liu Bei.

As soon as Sun Quan made a move, he surrounded Hefei, and saw that the enemy was really scarce, so he simply attacked only a part of the men and horses, and personally led the main force straight to Shouchun to surround Wen Hui.

Liu Bei has taken Wancheng and Jingzhou, if he takes Huainan County and Lujiang County, at least he will take all of Yangzhou, right?

Wen Hui saw that Shouchun was in a hurry, thinking that he could only temporarily abandon other small counties, and to concentrate all the scarce and scattered troops in Shouchun to defend.

Wen Hui was so angry that he sent a messenger to scold Ma Zhong, saying that you ran here to die, so that we can't resist Sun Quan with peace of mind, if Sun Quan takes advantage of Yangzhou and Xuzhou, then you are desperately besieging Xuchang and Luoyang there, aren't they all wedding clothes for others? It's stupid! If you force me to be in a hurry, we will surrender to Sun Quan directly, and when the time comes, his army will go west, and when you attack Xuchang urgently, you will be stabbed in the back, and see what you do!

Ma Zhong immediately replied, saying that it was rare for Lord Shi to know the situation well, but Sun Quan said that he was going to join forces with us, he suffered a big loss in the last sneak attack, did he want to jump into the pit again this time? But what the adults said makes sense, and we have to guard against it. Do you think that's good? simply the lord played the banner of the Han family on Shouchun City, and said that the lord had joined forces with Ji Han, so we would be a family. I happen to be nearby, I'll come out to testify to you!

It's a really good idea, and I've already made suggestions to officials in several nearby counties!

Then we asked Sun Quan to immediately withdraw the siege and retreat, if he did not retreat, it would mean that he was going to be the enemy of our two families, and then we would join forces to beat him away!

In the direction of Xuzhou, Sun Shao led 30,000 troops, and also took advantage of the weakness to kill Jiangbei, but learned that Ma Zhong had led his troops to Xiaqiu.

Hands stretched out so fast and so long? Sun Shao was stunned, and hurriedly sent a messenger to see Ma Zhong and ask how you came here with thousands of people?

"I tell you quietly. Don't make any noise. Ma Zhong looked mysterious, "Do you know that Zang Ba has also returned to Xuzhou?" ”

"Huh? No way? Isn't it dangerous for you to have such a small number of people? Envoy Wu felt troubled, "Then let's go fight Zang Ba together." ”

Ma Zhong shook his head: "Do you know that Zang Ba went north to return to Xuzhou from Xiaopei's side, but I came here from the south of Qianjun." You should know that His Majesty the Han Emperor used to govern in Xiaopei and Xuzhou for many years. So why don't we come to Xuzhou from Xiaopei? At the very least, the people over there miss the benevolent name of the current Han Emperor, and it is very easy for us to come from there and raise grain and grass along the road and expand the team. ”

"Why?" Envoy Wu felt that what Ma Zhong said was very reasonable.

"Hahaha!" Ma Zhong smiled at Wu's envoy, "Zang Ba was originally defending the surroundings of Luoyang for Cao Wei, but he came to Xuzhou almost at the same time with me, just because we wanted to talk about it alone." ”

Could it be that Zang Ba wants to raise Xuzhou to defect to Liu Bei? The envoy of Wu was stunned for a while, and then felt that something was wrong, if that was the case, Ma Zhong would at least go to occupy a larger city like Xiapi, how could he come to a small place like Xiaqiu?