In the wind and snow encounter, in the end, because Zhao Ang was killed by Ma Chao, Li Dao's 30,000 troops and horses were all defeated.

In fact, when the two armies met, Zhao Ang was timid for a moment and ordered the army to retreat three miles to form a formation, which was already doomed to their defeat.

Of course, even if Zhao Ang made a quick decision, and at the same time waved the army and Ma Chaojun-for-tat, if he attacked and fought against each other, Zhao Ang was also doomed to failure. Ma Chao's current strength has more than 20,000 people, which is not much different from the number of horses in Zhao Angjun's army, the most important thing is Ma Chao's martial bravery, as well as the bravery of his generals Pang De and others.

Zhao Ang died, Ma Chaojun rushed over, and in the wind and snow, it was not conducive to the escape of those sergeants, and most of them chose to surrender.

Ma Chao led the army to chase and kill those routs for about an hour, then ordered the sergeants to stop the pursuit, immediately sent people to clean up the battlefield, escorted the captured enemy soldiers back to Jicheng, and at the same time sent fast horses to report to Liu Yi.

After dealing with these affairs, Ma Chao led the army to directly approach a few miles west of Tianshui City, and then set up camp to face each other with the military horses of Tianshui City.

Ma Chao led the army to Tianshui City in the evening, and he let people settle down a military camp overnight. Early the next morning, he asked Pang De to lead the army to fight, but Li Dao did not dare to face the battle, but just closed the door and hung up the battle exemption card.

Li Wei didn't dare to fight, which was already expected by Ma Chao, so Ma Chao did not forcibly attack the city for the time being, but ordered someone to build siege equipment and put on a posture of preparing to forcibly attack Tianshui City.

Ma Chao knew that Wang Yi had sneaked into Tianshui City. He had to wait and see if Wang Yi would be able to join forces with him to take Tianshui City.

One more day later, Leo and Ma Teng. Then he led a group of 40,000 or 50,000 military horses to join Ma Chao, so that in the west of Tianshui City, there were already more than 70,000 military horses. The number of troops is already slightly larger than that of Li Dao's defenders in Tianshui City.

Naturally, it is no longer a question of who has more troops, Li Dao is no longer a fierce general under Dong Zhuo's tent, and his sharpness has long been worn out over the years. Even if Ma Chao's 20,000 men and horses were killed under his city, he didn't dare to lead the army to meet it, so. The number of troops, for Li Dao, is the same, what he can do now. Just rely on the Tianshui city wall to hold on. Keeping it for a while is a moment.

Now that Liu Yi and Ma Teng have led the army, they have officially indicated that Li Wei's demise has entered the countdown time.

It depends on how Liu Yi captures Tianshui City.

But is Li Dao really willing to sit still?

In other words, Li Dao is now, or is really a village with no way out, and the willows and flowers are bright. When he didn't dare to fight, and he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to defend it for long, an uninvited guest came to his house, which lifted his spirits.

The people who came to meet him. It was Zhong Xuan.

Speaking of Zhong Xuan, in the history of the Three Kingdoms. Or it's not a top-notch strategist, and in terms of fame, it doesn't seem to be too big. However, if we talk about his influence on later generations, it is also quite contributing.

Zhong Xuan, the character is often the same. Yingchuan Changshe is not the most conspicuous one among the strategists of Yingchuan Ruyun in the Three Kingdoms era. But he was a famous calligrapher and politician.

The main reason is that he is quite accomplished in calligraphy, and is the founder of regular script (small Kai), and is respected by later generations as the "originator of regular script".

On the political zhì, he successively served as Shang Shulang, Huangmen Shilang, and was deeply used by Cao Cao, and was named the Marquis of Dongwu Pavilion for his meritorious service in helping to dedicate the emperor to the east. Historically, he was also a lieutenant of Sili, guarding Guanzhong, and a former military division. The Wei State was established, and he was appointed Dali and promoted to Xiangguo. Cao Pi called the emperor, he moved to the lieutenant, into the noble township, and then as the captain, transferred to the Pingyang township, and Hua Xin, Wang Lang as the three dukes, to the Ming Emperor succession, he moved to the Taifu, into the Dingling Marquis. His life, in politics, can be said to be a sesame blossoming high, and his life has been steadily rising, until the peak of life power above 10,000 people under one person.

It can be said that from the time of the original Emperor Ling, he went through the Young Emperor, Emperor Xian to Cao Wei, then to Cao Pi usurping the Han Dynasty as the emperor, and then to the Ming Emperor, which can be described as a veritable veteran of the Five Dynasties and the Six Dynasties. Among them, I don't know how many changes have passed, but he is still thriving, and if he does not have a certain amount of political wisdom, he is unlikely to have such achievements.

Or, in Liu Yi's mind, Zhong Miao is not as famous as Xi Zhicai, Jia Xu and other military advisors, and Liu Yi doesn't pay too much attention to him. However, in the hearts of Li Dao and others, he is a great talent with a lot of wealth and prosperity.

Wouldn't he be pleasantly surprised that such a famous man and such a great strategist took the initiative to come to see him?

Li Wei naturally knew about Ma Teng and Han Sui, the sworn brother, and knew that the reason why Ma Teng and Han Sui's brother were against each other was Zhong Xuan's handwriting, which was caused by him. Now that Ma Teng and Han Sui have turned against each other. Based on the principle that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, Li Dao knew that Zhong Xuan came to see him, there must be a reason, at least, it would never be a bad thing.

At Li Dao's mansion, Li Dao welcomed Zhong Xuan as a guest, and even wanted to give up his position to Zhong Xuan. It's just that Zhong Miao didn't.

After inviting Zhong Xuan to sit down, Li Dao walked in front of Zhong Xuan with a sincere attitude, and bowed deeply to Zhong Xuan: "Mr. Yuan Chang, Yaran (Li Daozi) has admired Mr. for a long time, and has always hoped to get Mr. 's teachings, but unfortunately, although he was an official in the same dynasty, Li has been busy with the military and has not been able to visit Mr. Now that I have to see Mr., it really makes Li ecstatic, haha, ecstatic, I don't know what Mr. Yuan Chang taught Li?" ”

When Dong Zhuo occupied Luoyang, Zhong Miao was a court official, and later Dong Zhuo coerced the emperor to move the capital, and Zhong Zhuo was also one of the many court officials who were held hostage by Dong Zhuo and moved to Chang'an.

In Chang'an, the two are also officials in the same dynasty, but the two have never had much intermingle.

Zhong Xuan, with an extraordinary appearance, should be over forty years old now, but he is not very conspicuous, he is a very personable middle-aged man.

He was dressed in green clothes, which made him more carefree.

"Hehe, it's rare to remember that he was an official in the same dynasty before, General Li is a prince, he doesn't dare to teach, don't be polite."

Zhong Xuan's lower forehead has a long thick black beard, and when he speaks, he strokes his long beard and has a hearty voice.

"Childish, to tell you the truth, your current situation is really incomprehensible, you may not know that your current army under Tianshui City is not Ma Chao, Ma Teng and his son are presiding over the overall situation, but Liu Yi himself is here, at this moment, Liu Yi should be in Ma Chao's army. Do you think there is any other way to defeat Liu Yi and solve your dilemma? Zhong Dao raised his hand and signaled, as if he was anti-guest, invited Li Dao back to his seat, and then bluntly said that he didn't look good at Li Dao.

"Alas, it's all my own fault, if a certain person is not greedy for temporary profits, and does not turn against Guo Yan, Niu Fu, Yang Fu, and Jiang Xu, there may still be a little chance now, but at this moment, Li sent a messenger to contact them. But there was no reply. Li Dao said with a look of remorse.

"Hehe......" Zhong Xuan waved his hand again, and said, "No, no, childish, you should be referring to the matter of cutting off Guo Yan's material channel, right?" Hehe, this is just a trivial matter, you do this, but Zhong thinks it's just right, at least, you can let these guys know the severity of things. Well, I mean, it doesn't matter if you cut off their material channels, after all, you finally have some affection with them, and if they hadn't gone too far, I believe you wouldn't have done so ruthlessly. Now, let them know that after such a thing, it may be possible to make them wake up that if Tianshui City is in your childish hands, it will definitely be better than in Liu Yi's hands. At the very least, they won't suffer a catastrophe. Do you think that's the truth? ”

"Uh, how did that turn out to be a good thing?" Li Dao has a few things that he doesn't know much about.

"Childish, if you say I'll say, you should know that Zhong and Cao Mengde have known each other for a long time, and what Zhong did in Xiliang was actually what Cao Cheng meant. Now, naïve has three options. Zhong Xuan said solemnly: "The first one, you are stubbornly defending Tianshui City, sitting and waiting to die, and in the end, what awaits you is only death." However, this is fine, you can be a prince of one party, and die a heroic death, just like Yuan Shu, even if he dies in the end, he once called the emperor, and he is worthy of this life. ”

Zhong Dao said this to save face for Li Dao, and did not directly point out that Li Dao had the ambition to be the king and hegemon in Tianshui. At the same time, it is also a very objective warning to Li Dao that now, if he still holds the mentality that he is a prince and is unwilling to bow to others, then there is only one possibility of death waiting for him.

"Well, Mr. Yuan Chang, if Li is really like Yuan Shu's straw bag, he would rather die than bow his head, and die with a false name, then Li will not ask Mr. for advice now." Li Wei could also understand what Zhong Xuan said, and he put on a teachable look and said: "Please rest assured Mr. Yuanchang, after all these years of changes, Li has long since lost the mentality of competing for power, and originally just wanted to defend Tianshui, the land of projectiles, and enjoy the rest of his life, but the New Han Army is fierce." ”

Li Dao is telling the truth, even if he has ambitions and wants to be the king and hegemon, he can only be powerful in this small land of Tianshui. He wants to expand his power, but over the years, he has been unable to move, and he will really be satisfied if he can keep his existing power territory. However, the reality is cruel, and judging from the current situation, it is unlikely that he will be able to hold Tianshui again.

"The second option, I advise you to give up Tianshui City immediately, while Ma Chaojun has not besieged Tianshui City now, how far can you escape. Either you will remain incognito from now on, or you will go to your former colleagues and take refuge in others. ”

Zhong Xuan squinted at Li Daodao. (To be continued......)