A big war hindered Guo Jia's journey to the east, the three families camped in the field to rest, after the war, Ma Teng Han Sui only had six or seven thousand soldiers and horses, heavy losses, Guo Jia 30,000 Taiping army folded more than 2,000 archers and Xu Chu commanded more than 3,000 sword and shield soldiers, compared to the big Hun 40,000 soldiers and horses, this casualty is acceptable.

As for the remnants of the thousands of Huns who had lost their commander, they could only flee towards Pingyang County in the northeast of the river, but on the way they might also encounter Yan Yan sniping from the Tongguan station.

After camping in the village, the three families were safe, and the Taiping Army was busy dealing with the bodies of the fallen soldiers.

Ma Teng borrowed wine in the tent to dispel his sorrows, and after his strength dropped greatly, he was bitter for everyone, and when he complained to Ma Chao Pang De and other generals, he lamented that his strength was not good, and he led an army of 25,000 to come, and now there are six or seven thousand remnants left, and they can't complain about others, because they are not strong enough.

Han Sui paced back and forth in the tent with a gloomy face, full of resentment, resentment in his heart was Guo Jia and the Huns, as well as Li Dao Guo Yan, resentment of Li Dao Guo Yan and the Huns It makes sense, why should he also have a grudge against Guo Jia? Because Guo Jia took the land of Sanfu, the entire Guanzhong would fall into Guo Jia's hands sooner or later, plus he lost nearly 30,000 soldiers, and Guo Jia lost less than 6,000, in terms of strength, Guo Jia is undoubtedly a warlord who has the absolute upper hand in Kansai.

Reluctating Guo Jia for this reason is nothing more than being jealous of Guo Jia and jealous of Guo Jia.

Why did Guo Jiayin Ling fly and attack Li Dao, and Guo Yan's losses were only hundreds? Why did he and Ma Teng also attack Li Dao and Guo Yan but lost a lot? Why did the other party suddenly attack after they met with the Xiongnu? Why did he and Ma Teng's team happen to make meat shields for the Taiping army in front? and so on too many seemingly coincidental things, Han Sui couldn't figure it out, he couldn't figure it out, he couldn't find a reason to really resent Guo Jia, and now, it's just unreasonable.

Due to the serious loss of troops, it was useless for them to lead the army to meet the Son of Heaven, so Ma Teng and Han Sui ordered the generals to return to Liangzhou with the remnants of the army, and it was enough for each of them to bring 500 soldiers and horses with Guo Jia to meet the Son of Heaven.

The facts are obvious, Guo Jia wants to harm them, even if they bring all the soldiers and horses, they can't stop it, if Zhang Ji has a large army coming, their little soldiers and horses may not be able to affect the battle situation, let Guo Jia think about these things.

Guo Jia arranged the next deployment in the tent, and was still ready to meet the Son of Heaven.

In fact, he didn't want to see the Son of Heaven, but if he didn't go now, it would be incompatible with the courtesy, after all, he sent troops in the name of King Qin's rescue, and he couldn't leave the Son of Heaven alone if he couldn't finish the battle.

The camp is well organized, and next to Guo Jiashuai's tent is the camp where Jia Xu and Guo Ye rested.

This is the first time Guo Ye has seen such a bloody scene, his chest and abdomen are stagnant, his qi and blood are not smooth, he can't eat, he just keeps drinking water to suppress the urge to gag.

Lying on the bed with a pale face, Guo Ye looked at Jia Xu who was sitting on the edge of the bed and asked, "Sir, is the war in Guanzhong over?" ”

Taking a towel soaked in warm water to wipe Guo Ye's face, Jia Xu said with a gentle expression: "Yes, it's all over." Eldest son, this time your father sent troops to Guanzhong, from beginning to end, you have to keep a fact in mind, the details and process, and slowly scrutinize it when you grow up. Before sending troops to Guanzhong, Li Dao Guo Yan had 50,000 remnants, Han Sui Ma Teng had 60,000 soldiers and horses, King Zuo Xian had 50,000 soldiers and horses, and your father led an army of more than 80,000 to go on the expedition. Now that the war is over, Li Dao and Guo Yan's entire army has been annihilated, the Xiongnu are only thousands of dying remnants, Han Sui and Ma Teng add up to less than 15,000 remnants, and your father has lost less than 10,000 soldiers, this fact, you must always remember that you will benefit a lot from seeing and understanding the general strategy contained in this Guanzhong expedition. ”

Guo Ye will not understand the deceit and wisdom behind this war for a while, and even Jia Xu has not been able to guess everything, because he is just a bystander, there is no detailed intelligence source, and he can see through seven points, which is already very popular.

The next morning, the army marched out and continued eastward.

Xu Chu was left by Guo Jia to clean up the mess, and then returned to Chang'an with more than 1,000 soldiers under his command to recuperate.

This time, Ma Teng and Han Sui added up to 1,000 soldiers, and they didn't dare to take the lead anymore, and they marched hand in hand with Guo Jia's troops.

Two days later, he arrived at Tongguan, Yan Yan led 10,000 foot soldiers to wait for a long time, and at the same time secretly conveyed to Guo Jia the news that he had killed the remnants of the Huns and returned victoriously.

After a short pause in Tongguan, he put on a light armor helmet and a white feather silver feather flying horse from Wuguan, and made a look of coming from Chang'an under the leadership of Gan Ning.

Wuguan is empty, someone must defend, Guo Jia asked Yan Yan to return to Wuguan with nearly 8,000 archers, the west of Wuguan is flat, the east is narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack, there are archers to resist the enemy from a distance, it is to play to the strengths.

Guo Jia personally commanded the 10,000 foot soldiers left by Yan Yan, Gan Ning led 9,000 Yinling flying horses, plus 5,000 tiger guards from Dian Wei, and then counted Ma Teng Han Sui's soldiers and horses, a total of 25,000 troops continued to march eastward, Zhang Liao and 10,000 crossbowmen were left by Guo Jia to guard Tongguan.

In the two days of resting in Tongguan, Guo Jia has already gotten the movement of the Son of Heaven.

When returning from Chang'an, the Son of Heaven was invited by Zhang Ji to Hongnong, walking halfway, Li Dao repented, Li Dao Guo Bi Zhang Ji, the tripartite reconciliation, the pursuit of the Son of Heaven, so the Son of Heaven turned the road to the north of Hongnong Hedong County, the Son of Heaven Yang Feng Dong Cheng only had thousands of troops, could not beat Li Dao Guo Yan Zhang Ji, the edict invited the Huns, Yang Feng was born in the white wave thief, and also invited the remnants of the white wave thief, and after repelling Li Dao Guo Yan together, the Son of Heaven fled to Anyi County, Hedong County.

Hearing that the Son of Heaven was in trouble, Zhang Yang, the Taishou of Hanoi County, first went to Luoyang to repair the burned palace, and then ran to Anyi to invite the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang.

Although Changle Palace is not back to be magnificent and luxurious, but after Zhang Yang repaired can barely live people, for the Son of Heaven who has lived on coarse bran and carrion in Chang'an for several years, there is such a palace to live, very satisfied, the Son of Heaven has nothing to reward Zhang Yang, so the palace is named "Yang An Palace".

Zhang Yang was meritorious, but in order to avoid suspicion, he returned to Hanoi County to guard himself after settling the Son of Heaven.

Luoyang is ruined and broken, after Dong Zhuo burned the city, plus the war swept and the looting of Li Dao, Guo Yan and Zhang Ji, thousands of miles of barrenness, and few traces.

The Son of Heaven and his entourage of civil and military officials could only dig the bark of wild vegetables and trees to survive.

The name of Tongguan was first seen in history, it was in the battle between Cao Ying and Ma Chao, but this pass has already been established, Tongguan is the east gate of Yongzhou that Cao Wei divided later, leading to the Hangu Pass in the east, the peach trees in the mountains and forests on both sides of the road are all over the place, also known as the peach blossom plug.

At this time, it is the spring when the flowers are blooming, the mountain flowers are blooming, go out of the Tongguan East, the peach blossoms in the mountains are blooming all over, the plum cherry blossoms are embellished, the fragrance of the flowers is intoxicating, and it makes people feel refreshed and happy.

Guo Jia, who was not in a hurry, looked at the scenery of spring peach blossoms on the mountain, and was in a good mood.

Only took more than 20,000 soldiers and horses to Luoyang to meet the Son of Heaven, Guo Jia's first thing was to send more scouts to investigate the situation in the Sili area, but he didn't expect that when the peach blossoms were in full bloom, there was another good news.

"My lord, Zhang Ji led the army to attack Jingzhou and died, and his nephew Zhang Xiu took over his soldiers and horses and occupied Nanyang Wancheng." Gan Ning, who got the report from his subordinates, came to Guo Jia's side as soon as possible.

Guo Jia, who was sitting in the chariot, chuckled: "It seems that I have tired the soldiers. ”

Zhang Ji was originally in Hongnong, but because the Son of Heaven was in trouble, he was afraid that the Huns would come to fight him, and he was short of food, so he waved his army to the south and borrowed grain from Liu Biao, how could Liu Biao give it to him? Zhang Ji then attacked Jingzhou, but as a result, stealing chickens and rice, he was killed, and his nephew Zhang Xiu took over and occupied Wancheng in Nanyang.

This time to Luoyang, there should be no more war, Guo Jia led more than 20,000 troops back and forth, it is indeed to make the soldiers suffer from the fatigue of carriage and horses, but even if Guo Jia wants to bring thousands of people to go, his subordinates will not agree, in case there is a mistake, it is too late to regret.

Gan Ning rode his horse to Guo Jia's chariot and asked in a low voice: "Lord, now that Hedong and Hongnong have no great enemies, why don't you let Wenyuan lead the army to occupy Hangu Pass?" In this way, you can take the pass. ”

Guanzhong and Sizhou are not two reading regions, Guanzhong is divided into Hangu Pass, Wuguan, Sanguan, Xiaoguan within the region, and Sizhou covers most of Guanzhong.

Guo Jia had already taken the land of Sanfu with Chang'an as the center, but at this time, he could not send troops to guard Hangu Pass and occupy the entire Guanzhong.

"Xingba, wait. The Son of Heaven is in Luoyang, if I send troops to occupy Hangu Pass, wouldn't I be condescending to deter the Son of Heaven? It will make the Son of Heaven feel uneasy, and at the same time give the people of the world an excuse to say that I forced the Son of Heaven out of the pass, when the Son of Heaven left Luoyang, we will send troops to take Hangu Pass. ”

Guo Jia said to Gan Ning casually.

Now, Guo Jia can take Hangu Pass, but he is not in a hurry, the people's livelihood in Sizhou is withering, and there is no coveting hero, Luoyang is in ruins, the Son of Heaven can't stay, and when the Son of Heaven is gone, Guo Jia will occupy Hangu Pass again, and this process will not be realized.

Gan Ning thought about it and suddenly realized.

Sooner or later, Hangu Pass will be Guo Jia's, but it can't be occupied at this time.

Three days later, Guo Jiahan Sui Ma Teng led the army out of Hangu Pass, and the troops came to Luoyang City.

The former Yanjing Imperial City, the glory is no more, from the outside, the dark fire traces on the city wall are one after another, there is no defender at the head of the city, Guo Jia sent people to investigate and then led the army into the city.

The city was a desolate sight, with ruined walls, overgrown weeds, and the dust raised by the breeze was depressing.

The house collapsed, the rubble of the remnants of the walls could be seen everywhere, and the gray and black color after the fire came into view, and the sighing Guo Jia led the army towards the palace.

Ma Teng Han Sui also realized that their thoughts were wrong.

What can the present Son of Heaven reward them?

Does the current Han family still have the strength to protect itself?

If Guo Jia kills the king, who can stop it?

In such a surviving Han family, they lost seventy or eighty percent of their soldiers and horses for a meritorious service that sounded like the best in the world!

Han Sui didn't know what he could ask for from the Son of Heaven? If you can justifiably be a Liangzhou pastor, maybe it's not bad, at least a soil emperor.

Ma Teng wanted to use Kuang Fu Han to glorify the lintel, but the closer the palace became, the more depressed Ma Teng's mood became.

(To be continued)