Ma Teng originally started in the land of Longxi, Liangzhou, all the way into Guanzhong, and established the Hehe Liang Kingdom, and now Ma Chao's remnants have withdrawn from the land of Guanzhong, and it should have been the safest to return to Longxi.

After all, Longxi is their hometown, but next to Longxi is Jincheng.

Han Sui of the Jin State has now been beaten back to his original form by the Wei army, and even worse, although he escaped from Hedong under the protection of Cheng Gongying and Yan Xing, he could only collect less than 10,000 remnants.

When he returned to Jincheng, he was pursued twice by the Liang army, and the remaining soldiers and horses were less than 5,000, if it were not for the protection of the Qiang people, he would not have been able to return to Jincheng at all.

Now he is entrenched in the land of the Golden City, but he has survived.

But compared to Ma Chao preserving a certain strength of the Liang Kingdom, Han Sui can be the annihilation of the whole army, and now it is just a remnant, of course, he still has thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, and in addition to making friends with the Qiang people, he can also threaten Ma Chao's safety.

Therefore, Ma Chao did not return to Longxi, but retreated to Hanyang County.

With Hanyang as the center, the situation of the Dingding Liang army in Liangzhou, although he has withdrawn the troops, but the troops in his hands are not weak, all the way to withdraw the troops, all the way to collect the remnants of the army, the soldiers and horses have 50,000 elites, and quickly stabilized the four counties of Longxi, Wudu, Beidi, and Anding.

Liangzhou, Hanyang County, Ji County.

Ma Chao's burly and tall body sat in the county hall, his strong face was a little tired, and he was leaning on the armchair, closing his eyes to recuperate.

In the battle of retreating from Guanzhong, although he ambushed Cao Cao fiercely with the help of Li Ne, he was not comfortable in this battle, he was too tired to fight, and when he retreated, he was driven out of Guanzhong by the Wei army like a dog, and he felt uncomfortable.

"General. And the state came with a war report! ”

Meng Jian walked in and said softly.

"Read!"

"The Wei army has been defeated, Cao Hong led the remnants of the army, withdrew from Taiyuan, and finally entrenched in the party, and now the army of Wu is coming to the city. How we should decide, please let the general know! ”

This is an inquiry for horse play.

"Wu Jun?" Ma Chao suddenly opened his tiger eyes, and his eyes were cold.

"General, now the situation of our Liang country, the crisis is imminent, the heart of Wei to destroy Liang has been revealed, we must not offend Wu country!"

Meng Jian thought for a moment and suggested in a low voice, "We had an agreement with Li Nie before. Li Nie has the ability to turn over the rain, not to be offended, and the most important thing is that only with the help of the power of Wu State, the general can keep Liang Guo! ”

"I know!"

Ma Chao nodded, Li Nie is this person, he originally wanted to forcibly stay. But the battle of Baling was not over, so he sneaked away. Can you not offend, or do not offend.

Meng Jian was not wrong, now that the Wei army is eyeing Liangzhou, if he falls out with Wu again, it will be tantamount to suffering from the enemy.

If Wu and Wei are two behemoth powers, they will send troops to Liangzhou from Bingzhou and Guanzhong at the same time. Even if he Ma Chao has three heads and six arms, he can't bear it.

"But Wu Guo is not good at stubble!"

Ma Chaohu's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said coldly: "Wei forced us to withdraw from Guanzhong, and sooner or later we will enter Liangzhou, but Wu doesn't want to settle in Liangzhou." I'm afraid that the wolf will be lured into the house in the end! ”

"General, a wolf, we can't stop it, but if it's a wolf and a tiger, we may not be able to drive the wolf and chase the tiger!"

Meng Jian smiled and suggested: "Wu and Wei both want Liangzhou, it's better to let them have a fight!" ”

"Wu and Wei are both shrewd people, if you want to drive wolves and tigers, how easy is it!"

Ma Chao is not a person who is triumphant when he is hot, driving wolves and chasing tigers? If it is an ordinary force, it can be considered, but it is difficult for the two overlords of Wu and Wei to succeed with more or less shrewd people: "I'm afraid, before they fight, join forces to kill us, and at that time, a certain family will really be finished!" ”

"General, do we have any other choice now?" Meng Jian shrugged his shoulders and said lightly: "The general knows very well in his heart that if we let the Wei army sit firmly in Guanzhong, we will definitely not be their opponents, and sooner or later we will be beaten in by them!" ”

"You're right, after all, you have to use the State of Wu to have a chance to stop the State of Wei!"

When Ma Chao heard this, there was a look on his face, and finally he couldn't help sighing.

After this battle, Liangguo's vitality was greatly damaged, and the remaining troops were less than 100,000, and the most important thing was that Liangzhou could not afford to raise the soldiers and horses under his command at all, and his strength would only get weaker and weaker in the future.

In the face of the wolf-like Wei army, and the Wu army that is eyeing the tiger, they can't stop it, so it's better to let them in and fight and let them eat dogs.

"Pass a certain military order, let Ma Play lead the troops, withdraw from Taiyuan, as for Xihe County, let go of several county towns near Taiyuan in the east, but keep the county seat away from Shicheng, and the county will not give an inch, and let Ma Play and Zhang Heng lead the troops back, Yang Qiu will lead 20,000 troops, and suppress Xihe in Shangjun County!"

"No!" Meng Jian nodded.

"If you want to counterattack the attack, you must have a stable Liangzhou, Han Sui is already a lost dog, you can't stay!"

Ma Chao said categorically: "Gongwei, you quickly reorganize the army, and you want to destroy Han Sui!" ”

"Yes!"

Meng Jian thought for a while, his eyes moved, and he arched his hand and said: "But the general, the most important thing now is not to recover Jincheng, the general must inherit the throne of King Liang in order to be justified." ”

"That's true!"

Ma Chao's eyes lit up, and he said: "But there is no conflict between recovering Jincheng and inheriting the throne of Liang, within three months, I want to take all of Liangzhou, and then ascend the throne in Ji County!" ”

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In September, the situation of war in the world seemed to have calmed down somewhat, with the end of the battle of Guanzhong, with the end of the battle for the state, the west began to be silent.

And in Jinling City, the atmosphere is as high as a wave.

The imperial examination is about to begin, and the students are looking forward to the stars and the moon, and finally waiting for such a day, a total of about 3,000 students will become candidates for the first imperial examination.

On September 9, the bronze bell on the stone mountain rang nine times in a row, the door of the examination room opened, and students walked into the examination room one by one for a three-day examination. It's officially started.

And on this day, in the palace, a small cabinet meeting was also held in a gloomy atmosphere.

Cabinet Hall.

Sun Quan was dressed in a dragon-patterned brocade robe, wearing a jade crown on his head, sitting cross-legged on top of the head, and his back was straight. Amber gaze swept over several cabinet ministers and ministers.

"How are you discussing the affairs of the state?"

The annexation of the state is not over, it is the most important thing to stabilize it, and when the military's affairs are over, it will naturally be the turn of the cabinet.

However, because of Li Nie's intervention, the Liang army surrendered Taiyuan, but the cabinet was obviously caught off guard.

"Your Majesty, this matter is still being discussed!"

Shoufu Zhang Zhao shook his head and replied in a deep voice.

"No one. Still can't find anyone? ”

The corners of Sun Quan's mouth outlined a sneer: "The cabinet, the ministry, and the household department, are actually doing this at a speed, and Lone Ke is a little dissatisfied!" ”

"The king, the state is very involved!"

Gu Yong, the secretary of the ministry, stood up and explained: "After all, the two generations of masters of Gao Gan and Ma Chao who have experienced the state are not well managed. Therefore, the officials of the annexed state are chaotic, and the officials need some time to rectify! ”

"The King. The economic recovery plan of the land of the state is related to the development of the land of the Hetao, and it will take time for the household department to come up with a plan! Zhou Yu added.

"Speaking of which, Lone's fault?"

"Don't dare!"

The ministers smiled slightly wryly and accused Sun Quan? They didn't mean it. But apparently Sun Quan misinterpreted this meaning.

"The king, the matter of merging states, from the county guard to the county order, there are many things that have to be changed, and the merger state is very poor. The people are in difficulty, and the household department also needs to mobilize grain and grass support, these things cannot be completed in one moment! ”

Zhang Zhao sighed and explained.

Sun Quan's amber eyes flashed with a hint of unhappiness: "Now that the Liang army has withdrawn from Taiyuan, Huang Zhong has reported three urgent reports a day, and the military aircraft department is in a hurry, so you have to quickly send officials and officials to restore the management of the state, you are only here to make plans now, why did you go earlier!" ”

"King, we thought that the annexation of the state would take another month or two, but they ended the war too quickly, so we were a little caught off guard!" Lu Su smiled slightly bitterly and explained in a low voice.

"Forget it!"

Sun Quan waved his hand: "You are all reasonable, but it is useless to be reasonable, just one word, ten days, within ten days, the officials and personnel sent to the state must be in place, otherwise, you will go on your own." ”

"No!"

Everyone was helpless, since this was a dead task from Sun Quanbu, they could only work overtime.

"By the way, Zhou Yu said a good sentence just now, the land of the Hetao, we must pay attention to it!"

Sun Quan remembered the place of the Hetao, and his eyes were bright: "If this development is good, maybe in the future, we will have an additional granary in the north, and with the support of a granary, we can stimulate the economic development of the north!" ”

The land of Hetao, also known as the Hetao Plain, has the saying of plugging the south of the Yangtze River, at the junction of Liangzhou and the northwest prairie.

It is rich in water, fertile land, and suitable for growing crops, and if developed, it will become the largest arable land in the Northland.

"King, if we develop the land of the Hetao, we have a lot of plans, the problem is that Liangzhou, as well as foreign races, Xianbei Huns, will not sit still, and the Hu people in the land of the Hetao will also fight the autumn wind!"

Zhou Yu was a little worried about this, he was afraid that Wu Guo would invest a lot of resources to develop the Hetao land, which would become a place for others to fight the autumn wind: "They may not let us run the Hetao land into a granary!" ”

"Humph!"

Sun Quan snorted coldly and said: "You really treat our wolf-like soldiers of Wu Kingdom as dead people, if we don't rob them, they should laugh secretly, the cultivated land we have cleared out of the wasteland, they want to come to pick peaches, and they will go directly to his hometown." ”

"My lord, I'm afraid that they don't want to fight us, but they come to make trouble from time to time!" Zhou Yu said: "It's very troublesome. ”

This is the old trick of the nomads, using guerrilla warfare to fight the autumn wind.

"This is a worry, but it is not impossible to prevent, Zhou Yu, you yourself and the Military Aircraft Department, after the Youzhou Battalion and the Northeast Battalion recovered the Karasuma clan, they have a certain foundation in the grassland.

Today's merger of states is a big mess, rats, ants, snakes and insects have come out, if the military aircraft department and the cabinet do not reach a consensus, it is not good to manage the merger of states! ”

Sun Quan reminded the way.

"Wechen understands!" Zhou Yu nodded.

"The Ministry will also communicate more with the Military Aircraft Pavilion in this regard!" Gu Yong added. (To be continued......)