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After the autumn harvest, while the army had enough food, Han Sui sent an envoy to say Ma Teng: "Since the two families have agreed to join forces to the east, it is advisable to go early!" ”

Ma Teng was forced to start a war with Deng Ji by his nephews, but he had offended Deng Ji and the queen, and Han Sui's personal enmity was in front, if this battle was lost, I am afraid that it would be difficult to find a place in the world, and the matter has come to this point, and there will be no hesitation, not leaving a little way for himself to retreat, and under his rule, he wantonly looted the strong, and with an army of 30,000, he poured out of the nest and joined Han Sui with Wuwei.

Although Han Sui had many soldiers and horses, his family business was as big as Ma Teng's desperate gamble, leaving his eldest son and his subordinate Tian Leyang Kui to lead 10,000 elite horsemen to stay in Jincheng, and leading the strategist Cheng Gong Yingjian Yan Xing, etc., also led more than 30,000 people to join Ma Teng.

The two righteous brothers tore their faces before, fought several times, Ma Teng and his wife's hatred, and now although they are reluctant to join forces to attack Deng Ji, it is impossible to really release their previous suspicions. After the meeting, Ma Teng sent his eldest son Ma to replace him after several discussions, and his family only complained of illness in the army. Han Sui also ordered the army to beware of Ma Teng's troubles.

Before the war started, they were already in good shape, and the two of them would win, and there would be a good fight in the end.

The rest of Yang Qiucheng, Yima, etc., who were dependent on Han Sui's subordinates, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Wuwei and other places wanted to pick up cheap Haoqiang with the army, and the Xiliang coalition army was ready to cross the river.

In addition, there are still troops from various Qiang units in response.

There are more and more forces of the alliance that have come to converge, and the north bank of the Yellow River is covered with flags and people neighing horses, and the camp stretches for more than ten miles.

In the end, Yang Qiu and more than ten other vassals Haoqiang and Qiang Di had more than 70,000 troops, which was more than the combined forces of Han Sui and Ma Teng.

Xiliang Duoma, 130,000 troops, and more than 80,000 cavalry, has completely lost the cavalry advantage of the Sizhou army.

At the end of August, Han Sui Ma Teng led 130,000 troops, known as 200,000 iron horsemen, and crossed the river to the south with great momentum.

The army crossed the Yellow River. Han Sui sent Yang Qiu and other Haoqiang and Qiang Yi as the vanguard, and divided their troops to conquer the counties on the south bank, but everywhere they went, they were all empty and uninhabited, and all the counties and towns in Longxi and Hanyang counties that might be attacked were soldiers. Moved away.

Before the two counties, many wealthy families were forced by Deng Ji's strength. had to swallow his anger and obediently split the clan into a group of households and incorporate them into the fourth-class people. Wait for Deng Ji to order the wall to clear the wilderness. When the relocated households took refuge in Sanfu, many of the original big families fled and hid, and now they heard that the Xiliang army crossed the river, and 6 continued to be attached to it.

From the population of these wealthy people who defected, Han Suifang learned that Deng Ji moved the people of the two counties, leaving only the Weilie Army to guard Ji County, and the Huya Army and the Xiao Cavalry Army, which had only arrived in Sanfu for a long time, were stationed in Youfufeng.

Lao Han then lay on the soft couch and said to Cheng Gongying with a smile: "Tian Feng and Jia Xu are all good at planning!" Our army is strong, and we only worry about it and cut off food by trickery. Therefore, they delayed until the rear of the autumn to send out the army, and now the army has enough food, and it is useless to clear the wilderness, what plan do they have to do? ”

Cheng Gongying groaned: "What the Lord said is very true, but we should also prevent the army from advancing lightly, and Deng Ji will destroy my grain after sending a partial division to attack!" ”

Han Suijaw: "Don't worry! Wait for the war to begin. I will make Yan Yanming supervise the grain after the palace! ”

The Xiliang cavalry army was different from Deng Ji's army: in every battle, the soldiers carried more dry food on their horses, and took the whole army and horses with special pack horses for half a month's rations. Fighting at home or in close proximity is swift, and he never worries about being cut off. The Xiliang cavalry came from afar, and the battle took a long time, although the horses were all carrying dry food, they could not last for a few days, and the rear camp grain and straw must be prepared sufficiently.

Han Sui is the commander-in-chief, Yang Qiu and other departments are dependent on Han Sui, leading troops and horses to obey orders, naturally they can't be treated badly, in addition, they are also responsible for paying for the Qiang Yi food that the various departments come to help, the Chinese army has a lot of food, if you enter Ji County, you must stay in the general to take care of it.

Yan Ming is Yan Xing's character, although he is young, he is now the first brave among Han Sui's generals. When he was fighting with Ma Tengjun the year before last, Yan Xing stabbed the horse in the neck with a broken spear handle, and almost put the horse to death at that time. And Yan Xing is brave and brave, not to mention, he is plain and steady and wise, and he is even reused by Han Sui.

"Yan Ming supervises the grain, there should be no worries, but he should also inform the Ma Teng Department, and Xiao Yi should beware of the Sizhou army and horses robbing the grain!"

The two families have a previous suspicion, the army has its own accounts, of course, the military food is also separated, if one army collapses in wartime, it may lead to a big collapse of the other, at this time it is time to work together, can not let Deng Ji find a chance to turn the tables, after Cheng Gongying spoke, Han Sui nodded in agreement.

As a strategist, Cheng Gongying needs to consider more: "In addition, the lord still needs to order all the departments to make four arrangements, and Deng Ji's four armies are all ridden, so it is necessary to strictly prevent the attack and harassment of the division!" ”

Han Sui agreed.

Han Sui sent someone to inform him that Ma Teng agreed to it, and secretly said that Gongying's plan was not bad, but unfortunately there was no outstanding strategist under his command.

Judging from the information obtained, Deng Ji's posture was clearly determined by the first army to defend Ji County, the honor guard county town was strong, resisting the Xiliang army, and then the Huya Xiao cavalry hidden behind was the odd army to win. It's just that he went to Pingchuan in Ji County, his own soldiers were strong and strong, and Deng Ji really shouldn't have a chance of winning in addition to the food.

If it weren't for worrying about Zhang Liaowei's army attacking and seizing military rations in the rear, he would have ignored Ji County and directly bypassed the land of Sanfu, I heard that Sizhou was under the rule of Deng Ji, and now it is densely populated.

Han Sui's military rations were guarded by the strong general Yan Xing, and Ma Teng did not dare to slack off, so he sent the number one general Pang De to supervise the grain.

However, as long as Deng Ji's tricks are not hit, the army of more than 100,000 is several times larger than the enemy, and the dignified advance can also crush the Sizhou soldiers, so the two old brothers are guarding the rear with generals, and as for the front battle, first wait for Yang Qiucheng to play with horses and other heroes and Qiang's 70,000 military horses.

Since the two counties have been captured and cannot be captured, and when they are properly arranged, Han Sui recruited back the Haoqiang and Qiangdi, and still used them as the vanguard, and went straight to Ji County, and a few days later, the forward army surrounded the Ji County into a flood.

It's just that if you can defeat Deng Ji in a battle and win the land of Sizhou, who is the main one, the two Han and Ma families will inevitably have a good fight, for the future, Han Sui led the army to the county seat of Qidao, and Ma Tengjun went to Xianqin County, and they all stopped to see how the forward battle situation was.

The two counties are adjacent to Ji County, and the distance between the county seats is only 200 miles, so even if there is something, there is time to respond.

The Xiliang army came to attack, and the people of the two counties of Hanyang in Longxi Province, both abandoned Deng Ji and changed to Beitou, and there were also poor men from poor households who did not want to avoid Sanfu with the old and young, and wanted to sell a handful of strength to help the soldiers resist. In addition, there are thousands of errand soldiers in more than 20 counties left behind, all of whom are retired and only selected at this age.

The standing four armies have only one school of archers, and the rest are halberd and strength soldiers, which are not conducive to defending the city, and the city walls are entrusted to the messengers and the strong.

The enemy army outside the city is large, the mighty general Zhang Liao wants to frustrate the opponent's sharp spirit first, and when the siege is immovable, when the siege equipment is put out, the two city gates in the northwest of Ji County suddenly open, Zhang Liao led the headquarters Sun Guan to lead the Guoyi School, each with two thousand horses, and suddenly killed.

The besieging armies did not expect that the defenders were only 10,000 people, and they did not block the city gate hole with civil engineering, and dared to fight and clash.

Zhang Liao led the headquarters school out of the West Gate, and the enemy in front of him outside was already panicked, and before he formed a formation, he was broken into by the iron horse, and suddenly entered the flock like a tiger. Zhang Liao rode a carp horse, and the prancing horse rushed to the front, with a long halberd in his hand, which made people unguardable, and a few breaths of kung fu overturned six or seven people on the ground.

To operate the siege equipment, the front is full of foot soldiers, and there is no first defense, General Wei Lie is in the front, and the whole school iron cavalry bravely advances, until the west gate is a mess.

Outside the West Gate, the army that was preparing to attack the city was a strong man from Jiuquan County, named Huang Hua, who saw that the soldiers of Sizhou were like tigers and wolves, and they were like no one's land, so they were immediately timid, and they led the army to retreat after a short time.

Another powerful Zhangye Junren and Luan, who came to pick up the cheap, held his own martial arts, led the army to fill in, and Luan was currently swinging a spear to stab Zhang Liao, Zhang Liao lightly sideways to avoid it, and stabbed it off the horse when he returned.

He Luan and the enemy general fell off their horses and died, more than 1,000 people scattered in a hurry, and the sergeants who saw it behind were all shocked, and they scattered and scattered, and the siege equipment was discarded everywhere.

When Cheng Yi, who presided over the attack on the West Gate, gathered the routed troops and then transferred the archers forward, Zhang Liao's army had destroyed the discarded equipment, and Shi Shiran went back to the city.

Sun Guan outside the north gate also made achievements, and led Guo Yi to break through the three men and horses battle formation, destroying all the equipment, and waiting for the back team Qiang Yi to come to the rescue, and then return to the city.

Zhang Liao and Sun Guan collected the army and returned to the city, not waiting for Yang Qiu and others to take a breath, not long after, Peng Kang and Liu Pi and the two schools were divided from the south gate and the east gate protruded, although the Zhuxi Liang army outside the city was prepared, most of the siege equipment was also destroyed.

Although there is only one lone army in Ji County, it fiercely defeats the tiger, and its power is difficult to commit!

If it is a field battle, it is still possible for the 70,000 troops outside the city to pile up and kill the 10,000 mighty army, but now it is a siege, and the morale has been taken, and the 70,000 army is a temporary combination of Yang Qiucheng and the Qiangqi tribes.

The thoughts of the various departments to break the city were extinguished, and tens of thousands of troops passed the buck to each other outside the city, so they really couldn't shirk the people who came forward to attack the city, and they refused to kill them.

Han Sui was still at ease in the Dao, waiting for the miscellaneous cards and Qiang Yi under his command to consume some Sizhou soldiers first, one day, there was a sudden ambush in Sizhou to return, before the Hedong Dangkou army recuperated, has set off to the west.

Only one army of Weilie will reach the Xiliang coalition army outside Ji County, and if Deng Ji has to add another army, the battle situation will be even more unfavorable. Yang Qiuchengyi and others refused to fight to the death, and Han Sui had no choice but to personally lead the army to supervise the battle, and sent an envoy to contact Ma Teng to march together.

In mid-September, Han Sui left Yan Xing to guard the road, and Ma Teng left Pang De to guard his relatives, and each led 20,000 troops to Ji County.