Let's say that when Ma Chao and Sun Ce took the Longyou group to ride and attack the Hetao in the east, Lu Xun also commanded the Chu army and the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition, and clashed with the Wei army in the Yanjin and Baima areas!

Because Ma Chao did not surrender, the state of Chu only provided food and grass, as well as some high-quality swords, guns, armor and other cold weapons, light armor, and true qi bullets and crossbows and artillery.

Only a few hundred people led by Sun Ce have these ......

Weapons and light armor are indeed a big improvement for Qiang cavalry, but they are not a "generational change".

What's more, in Sun Ce's view, direct replacement may not be good - the era of true qi and firearms is very different from cold weapons in terms of tactics and even strategy.

Although the training cost of the True Qi Bullet Crossbow is very low, it is far simpler than the bow and arrow, but this refers to the "low training cost" of the grassroots Ji Zao soldiers, and it is not simple in terms of tactical command, especially it is completely different from the previous strategic conception and tactical command, and the Privy Council of the Chu Army has specially trained it for this purpose......

Ma Chao himself doesn't understand, let alone the Qiang cavalry officer who is the main force in the Liang army, what can he understand?

However, even if it is a cold weapon eliminated by the Chu State, it is also a great equipment upgrade for the original Qiang Cavalry!

For this reason, Sun Ce specially let his personal guard company and an artillery company on the battlefield show the combat methods of the Chu State when facing the enemy, which can be regarded as a "reminder" to Ma Chao and the Qiang people.

lest they open their minds and think that if the per capita equipment has a little more iron content, they will be able to blow up their wings with the Chu State......

Ma Chao quickly pacified some of the civil strife caused by the mutiny in Longyou, and abolished Han Sui's Lianghou, who was offered up after his father Ma Teng was named "Liang Gong", and called himself "King Yongliang", commanded Xiliang, and prepared to attack Hetao to the east.

Although Ma Teng was abolished and could only be supported at home, Ma Xiu and Ma Tie still supported the eldest brother...... Straight and angry, Ma Teng jumped to his feet.

As for Pang De and the others, they are Ma Chao's henchmen and friends, not to mention their positions, the main ones who were chaotic in Longyou before were Yan Xing under Han Sui.

However, he was still defeated by Ma Chao, and he had already fled eastward, thinking that he would either take refuge in Wei or Yuan Tan......

It is said that the Xiongnu in Hetao were stronger than the Qiang in Xiliang, and most of the Qiang people in Hetao were also enslaved by the Xiongnu.

Previously, when Zhang Fei was in the rear, the Great Khan who bravely killed the Huns called Chuquan, although it was a big demoralization of the Huns who were attached to the Wei army, but it helped Wei and Yuan Tan instead!

When Hu Chuquan was alive, he could barely cooperate with the Wei State, as for Yuan Tan...... It was nominally allied with the Xiongnu, but in fact it was sheltered in Huchuquan.

However, as soon as Hu Chuquan died, Wei immediately incorporated Hu Chuquan's subordinates and the elite of the Xiongnu who went south.

Yuan Tan is also in Hetao, and has surrendered the Xiongnu in chaos, and now several major tribes in Hetao have worshiped Yuan Tan!

This is also why Lu Xun's resentment towards Zhang Fei became a little heavier after learning about this incident - it was not the right time for Hu Chuquan to die.

But fortunately, before Hu Chuquan did take away a lot of elites, although it was originally prepared, from the Hetao surprise army to cause trouble in Xiliang, so it is not a nest, but after all, it is not more powerful than before.

Just because they were surrendered by Yuan Tan, the Hetao Huns, who were originally scattered and had upright tactics, were also a little more threatening.

And from the perspective of Zhuqiang, it is also divided into many ethnic groups internally, and it is not that as soon as the Qiang cavalry of Xiliang comes, the Qiang cavalry of Hetao welcomes their compatriots and gives a counterattack to the evil Huns...... Instead, he was still coerced by the Huns to fight with the Liang army!

The only advantage of the Liang army is that the opponent's equipment is very poor - Yuan Tan is also very poor, and it is impossible for Wei to support Yuan Tan with any weapons.

As long as it is not a big win, it will have little impact on the dispute between Chu and Wei.

The real main battlefield, in the area of Yanjin and Baima, the Wei army defended the Yellow River, and the Chu army attacked from all sides......

The terrain here, the Wei army should be very familiar, after all, when Cao Cao went north, it was here that he fought Yuan Shao!

It's just that Cao Cao was depressed that when he was in the south, he was waiting for Yuan Shao to come over and counterattack, but now he is sitting in the north, but he still only has to defend it strictly.

Like Bai Tu in Xiangyang, Cao Cao was always ready to go to the front line in Yecheng.

For the state of Chu, as long as the former army can cross the Yellow River, it can turn to the full-scale northern expedition, and naturally Bai Tu will personally supervise the army.

For Wei, if Chu succeeds in crossing the river, it will have to make a choice, whether to fight a decisive battle with Chu, or temporarily avoid the edge - if the latter is chosen, the capital must be moved from Yecheng to Yijing, or even to Liaodong......

Cao Cao decided early on that once the Chu army went north, it would be convenient to use the land to fight a decisive battle with it, and never move north again.

In the plains, there is a bonus of cavalry, and the weakness of cold weapons can be smaller.

As for moving further north? Cao Cao no longer thinks about it!

Liaodong was originally returned to Wei not long ago, and in the past, wealthy families mostly plundered people in the seafood peninsula, which had a great impact on Liaodong.

When Cao Cao was seriously ill and Cao Zhi was in power, Liaodong was eroded into the base camp of a radical family - there was a suppression by the Gongsun clan before, and due to historical reasons, the influence of the local scholars in Liaodong was generally not strong, and it did not constitute any containment.

In the same way, the north bordering Wuhuan and Xianbei is also mostly like this, but only the Hebei area is what Cao Cao can really grasp.

Moving north will only make Wei's internal and external relations difficult and hasten its defeat!

Now Cao Cao can see that there are three points of "odds of winning", one is to recover Guanzhong, take the 800-mile Qinchuan as the foundation, and stabilize the position;

the second is that the south resists the strong Chu and takes advantage of the winter to forcibly use troops to suppress the internal disasters in the north;

The third is to gamble on the negligence and carelessness of the Chu State, and fight with him in Hebei and defeat him by a big victory - just like the victory over Yuan Shao in Baima.

Of course, there is another thing that is always being done, which is the "imitation" of the craftsman camp.

It's just that now it is barely possible to create a deteriorated version of the "earth cannon", and the true gas bullet crossbow is helpless, Ma Jun proposed to use gunpowder to drive the crossbow, however, ......

This needs to be stabbed with a stick for a long time, and it must be erected to be loaded with bullets, Cao Cao feels unreliable no matter how he looks at it!

It's a pity that Cao Cao didn't know that he was really driven by gunpowder, and it did start to develop in this way, but he thought that Ma Jun had taken the wrong path and didn't let him continue......

What's more, even if it continues, it's too late!

As for the three winning points, now this first point has been stopped by the Chu State - Guanzhong cannot be pacified for a while, and the second and third are ...... We still have to wait for the opportunity!

For the time being, the good generals of Wei are not bad, and the Yellow River defense line is full of Wei's strength, and there is hope that it will last until winter!

What the? The Yellow River freezes in winter?

Freezing does not mean that you can run horses and pass the army, even if you can pass the army, what can the Chu army do in such cold weather?

If the Chu army, which was dominated by southerners, really used its own shortcomings and attacked the strengths of the northerners, and used troops in the middle of winter, Cao Cao felt that it was ...... Maybe there's a chance to win another big one!