Speaking of which, since the beginning of the Great War of Conquering Ukraine, Lu Xun has gained a lot of fame in the Pingxi Army because of his strange schemes. Ma Dai and Ma Xiu, two brothers, with the assistance of Bian Xi, who was hidden in the shadows, annihilated 40,000 Wusun troops in the Grand Canyon at the northern foot of Saarmin Mountain, and also captured more than 20,000 live mouths, which is also a great achievement.

In comparison, on the contrary, Ma Chao, who has always been favored by others, has not made any contributions until now, which makes the soldiers of the Yanqi Che Division Coalition who almost blindly worship Ma Chao very surprised.

"Jinma Chao" is now famous in the Western Regions, which is very loud. The young man is not only handsome, but also superb in martial arts, commanding tens of thousands of wolf-like cavalry at a young age. Long Kuia had already run to Guan Yu to get married, and he planned to marry at least one of his two daughters to Ma Chao as his wife, he didn't want others to rob him of the fast son-in-law of Chenglong.

When Ma Chao went out of the Tianshan Mountains from the north of the Jiaohe Fortress, he took 50,000 soldiers and horses, but he was blocked by 60,000 Wusun cavalry.

With Ma Chao's ability and the combat effectiveness of the Xiliang Army, although it is 10,000 fewer than the Wusun people in terms of numbers, it definitely has the strength to give it a go, but I don't know why Ma Chao became so cautious this time.

Others don't know the truth, but the Xiliang army still understands why Ma Chao retreated to the Jiaohe fortress and didn't drive straight into the Wusun Kingdom. First, because the Xiliang Army is now only an empty shelf, and 20,000 of the 30,000 jackals who came out of Liangzhou have now been taken away without a trace by the second and third brothers of the Ma family;

That's because of the 50,000 Xiliang troops now hiding in the Jiaohe fortress, only 10,000 were Han troops, and the remaining 40,000 soldiers and horses were all Yanqi and Cheshi soldiers, and among these 40,000 Hu people, 20,000 were reserve soldiers with little combat power, and they were originally only maintaining law and order in Yanqi County and Cheshi County, and did not undertake real combat missions.

If Ma Chao took advantage of the absence of his 20,000 descendants to command the troops mainly composed of Yanqi, Montenegro, and Cheshi soldiers to fight the Wusun people to the death, it would make people feel that he was not taking the lives of the soldiers of the non-descendant troops seriously, which would not only cause the practical problem of low morale, but also may cause the adverse consequences of the Hu-Han rift.

Ma Chao is not a stunned young man who likes to find someone to fight alone at every turn when he first debuts, not to mention that there is a simplified version of "Jia Xu" by his side, Tian Yu, who naturally will not do such a foolish thing.

The Xiliang cavalry and the Wusun cavalry must have a fierce head-on duel, otherwise it will not be enough to deter the arrogant and domineering Wusun people, but it is obviously not now. According to Ma Chao's temperament in the past, in fact, even if he only had 30,000 Xiliang cavalry, he would definitely have the courage to fight to the death with 60,000 Wusun cavalry, and he could guarantee the final victory, but this was not a good way.

30,000 Xiliang cavalry from Guannei, that is the sharp spear in the hands of the king of Pingxi to conquer the extreme west, in the absence of the Han cavalry to replenish the source of troops, these soldiers as seeds will be reduced for every batch sacrificed. If more than half of the men and horses were lost in a battle with the Wusun people, although a complete victory was achieved, but after this kind of battle was fought twice, I was afraid that there would not be many Han soldiers left in the Xiliang army, which was not the result that he Ma Chao wanted, let alone the situation that King Pingxi wanted to see.

After the news of the great victory in the Nameless Canyon came, Ma Chao and Tian Yu decided to temporarily revise the battle plan originally set by the headquarters after careful consideration. Of course, this kind of modification must be reported to Guan Yu first, and it will only be implemented after the approval of the Grand Governor.

The original plan set by the headquarters was for Ma Dai and Ma Xiu to lead 20,000 troops to counterattack Chigu City, and Ma Chao and Tian Yu's adjusted plan became to appoint 10,000 Kunlun Army infantry who stayed in Yanqi to secretly enter the nameless canyon and wait for an opportunity to attack Chigu City. The 20,000 cavalry led by Ma Dai and Ma Xiu quietly returned to the building, replacing the 20,000 reserve troops that were originally pretending to be regular, and they used them as bait to deceive the Wusun people near Jiaohe City, and then Ma Chao led the 50,000 regular army to launch a frontal decisive battle.

Ma Chao and Tian Yu's plan adjustment this time revealed two pieces of information to Guan Yu. The first is that they think it is necessary to defeat the Wusun people on the frontal battlefield for a while, especially with the cavalry warfare that the Wusun people are good at as a means of showing their strength; the second is that they have a full grasp of the 60,000 troops that take down the Wusun people, and once the 60,000 regular troops of the Wusun people are completely annihilated on the frontal battlefield, it is very likely that the Kangju and Dawan reinforcements who came to support will also be retained.

Sooner or later, the king of Pingxi will have a war with Kangju and Dawan, and if he can collect 80,000 reinforcements before this, it can not only weaken the military strength of the two countries, but also have the effect of knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger, which is very beneficial to stabilize the entire situation in the Western Regions in the future.

Attacking the Western Regions is not something that can be completed overnight, since it is conquered by force, it is more necessary to manage and rule after the conquest, otherwise it is equivalent to a bear blind man breaking buds.

After Guan Yu received the urgent report jointly sent by Ma Chao and Tian Yu, he immediately summoned his generals to discuss, and the final result was to approve Ma Chao and Tian Yu's latest battle plan. From this point, it can also be seen that the generals at all levels who have undergone the transformation of Zhao Xing's military thinking have the military quality of adapting to changes on the fly, rather than rigidly and mechanically carrying out various battle plans.

Burying the Wusun people alive in the nameless canyon can only be regarded as completing the first phase of the entire campaign to conquer Wusun, and then eliminating the main force of the other 60,000 people of the Wusun people at the smallest possible cost is the task of the second stage, and the task of the third stage is naturally to find a way to keep 80,000 Kangju and Dawan reinforcements and capture Chigu City.

In the process of actual operation, there is no strict time limit for the tasks of the second and third phases, if the conditions allow and the time is ripe, it is possible to take Chigu City first, or lure Kangju and Dawan reinforcements out of the Tianshan Mountains to fight a decisive battle with the Han army, after all, it is now two battlefields, plus a surprise army.

Ma Chao himself has ambitions and wants to eat all the most important troops of the Wusun people, could it be that Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Xu Rong, Xiao Ji and others who want to make contributions have no idea?

The answer is obviously not, since the news of the victory of the Nameless Valley came, these generals who also had ideas could not sit still, and they also came up with a lot of good ideas under the collective efforts, and now they have all asked Guan Yu to take the initiative to fight.