Zhang Bao hurriedly wrote a report on what happened here, and reported it to Liu Hou in Xuchang in an expedited manner of 800 miles, and then convened a meeting of the General Staff and officers at all levels to discuss countermeasures.

The Hongjun's 800-mile expedited service was different from the previous days and nights on horseback to deliver messages, but now with the help of the signal system and some optical and electrical means, the speed of transmitting messages has been greatly accelerated. The means of optics have already been said that electricity is the telegraph.

Although the telegraph has not yet been able to achieve ultra-long-distance transmission, through the efforts of scientific researchers, this transmission distance is getting longer and longer. Now telegraph communication has been realized between some cities in the Central Plains, of course, there are countless transit stations to be established in the middle, and countless manpower and material resources are not to be said.

Therefore, it only takes two or three days to send the information back to Xuchang in a big circle from Guanzhong. The reason why it took so long was because the channel for information transmission needed to detour to the Hetao area, then enter the Central Plains, and then transmit it south all the way to Xuchang.

If Guanzhong is recovered in the future and the passage of the eastern front is opened, then this time may be within a day. Of course, if the telegraph line is laid in the future, the time of communication will no longer be measured in days, but in hours, minutes, and even seconds.

Two and a half days later, Liu Hou, who was far away in Xuchang, received Zhang Bao's latest battle report as scheduled. Liu Hou was not much surprised by the defeat of the Xianbei cavalry as mentioned earlier in the battle report. After all, both warring sides are cold weapon troops, and the strength of the two sides is not far apart, and in this case, the role that strategy can play is huge.

Liu Hou has more than 2,000 years of knowledge than the people of this era, and he has seen too many examples of using strategy to defeat the strong in cold weapon warfare, so he did not feel too surprised by the victory or defeat between these two forces with little difference in strength.

However, when he saw that the battle report said later that the opponent's main general was called Jiang Wei and the deputy general was called Liang Xu, he immediately felt a great shock. He doesn't know Liang Xu, Jiang Wei is famous, how can people who have read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" not know him?

This Jiang Wei is Zhuge Liang's successor! After Zhuge Liang's death, Shu relied on this person to support it. After Zhuge Liang's death, Jiang Wei attacked Wei 11 times, and fought with Cao Wei's famous generals Deng Ai, Chen Tai, and Guo Huai many times. Being able to rely on such a small territory and population of Shu, such barren resources and Wei and Wu for decades, it can be seen that this person's talent is definitely not weak.

And this person is still very loyal to Shu Han, after the fall of Shu Han, Jiang Wei still hopes to revive Shu Han with his own strength, pretending to surrender to the Wei general Zhong Hui, intending to use Zhong Hui to rebel against Cao Wei to achieve the desire to restore the Han family, but in the end Zhong Hui's rebellion failed, and Jiang Wei was also killed by Wei soldiers.

For such a talent, Liu Hou is determined to win, and he immediately replied to Zhang Bao with a letter, asking him to recruit Jiang Wei at all costs. It was still two and a half days later, Zhang Bao received a reply from Liu Hou.

Now five days have passed since Zhang Bao sent out the battle report, and in these five days, the Wei and Shu armies have confronted each other, and countless small battles have taken place. Of course, the result of the battle was that the Wei army was defeated and retreated, and there was no way to fight back.

As for why the Wei army was not completely routed, it was because of the caution of the 1st Division. Knowing that the opponent was a very strategic person, in order to avoid rushing into the middle of the ambush, the staff of the 1st Division decided to plan it slowly after deliberation.

Now that the Wei reinforcements in the three directions have been wiped out, and the information network throughout Guanzhong has not reported the appearance of new reinforcements, it can be speculated that this Western Front force is almost the last reinforcement of Wei.

Now Zhang Bao finally doesn't have to worry about a quick battle with others, he can slowly play with Jiang Wei's troops, and he doesn't have to worry about other troops coming over to form an encirclement of the first division.

As a result, the tactics formulated by the General Staff were all based on prudence, slowly depleting the enemy's vital forces. The Wei army had shown flaws or deliberately failed several times to lure the first division into pursuit, but the first division was not fooled, so that the trap laid by the Wei army in advance did not have any effect.

This is where the prudent policy formulated by the staff of the 1st Division came into play. When the two armies faced each other, the enemy was defeated, and under normal circumstances, the first division was to pursue, and this situation had been experienced too many times, and it was too normal for the enemy to be fired by a platoon of guns for several rounds and the whole army collapsed, and I didn't feel anything wrong at all before.

However, this time is different, since we know that the enemy will be very cunning, we must prevent fraud, in the past, it was better to kill mistakes than to let go, but now it is better to let go than make mistakes. The pursuit is right, but it is just to kill and injure some more enemies, but if the pursuit is wrong, it may suffer a lot of damage, so for this situation, the first division will give up the pursuit and fight steadily instead, and the army will slowly press up.

Therefore, these days, the 1st Division has been advancing slowly, and when it encounters obstacles, it calmly defeats them, and when the enemy escapes, it is based on the principle of poor pursuit and allows them to break and flee. When encountering dangerous terrain, a large number of scouts were sent to detect clearly, and then carefully passed through in batches.

In the past few days, the Wei army has also launched several sneak attacks, including night attacks, but without exception they were crushed by the First Division. The Hong army has always been very strict at night, and this time, since it is known that the enemy has a history of night attacks, it is more careful.

When the first division arrived at night, in addition to sending out regular scouts and alert forces, it also divided the Xianbei cavalry that had gathered back into three squads and took turns to go out to "hunt for food". That is to say, a third of the Xianbei cavalry cruised outside every night, and the other two shifts rested and were replaced by another shift the next day.

You must know that there are more than 20,000 and nearly 30,000 Xianbei cavalry gathered back, so there are nearly 10,000 horses in each class. These people gritted their teeth with bitter hatred for the Wei army, so when they were cruising outside, they almost killed the scouts of the Wei army.

The scouts of the Wei army basically couldn't leave the Wei camp, there was no way, there were too many Xianbei cavalry, and it was impossible for the Wei army to send tens of thousands of cavalry out as scouts. Now is the time when there are more people and fewer people are bullying, and the Xianbei cavalry usually forms a team of 500 or even 1,000 people to crush the Wei scouts with absolute strength.

Of course, these Xianbei cavalry have not suffered losses, the Wei army saw that the Xianbei cavalry was so rampant, and once set a trap to ambush the Xianbei cavalry. However, the Xianbei cavalry had too many people in each team this time, and they all carried fireworks flares.

As long as the Wei army can't kill these Xianbei cavalry in a short time, they will send out fireworks signal flares, as long as they support for a while, they will have to come to the rescue with a steady stream of reinforcements, and at that time, the Wei army will change from hunters to hunted people.

Therefore, after several attempts, the Wei army's losses outweighed the losses, so they had to abandon this tactic. Now the information asymmetry between the two armies has become asymmetrical again, but it turned out that when fighting with the Xianbei cavalry, it was the Wei army that had the battlefield information, and now in turn, the first division had fully mastered the battlefield information, and the Wei army had completely become blind and deaf.