Cao Zhen can't be blamed for slamming the door, Cao Zhen is based on normal military judgment, so he gave Wang Lang 5,000 soldiers and horses.

If it is a siege battle, in the face of an attack of 10,000 enemy troops, 5,000 people to defend the city is enough.

As for the cavalry, it could not be used to attack the city at all, and Cao Zhen did not believe that Zhang Xi would be stupid enough to let the cavalry dismount and fight at such a time, which was a pure waste of cavalry combat ability.

Moreover, Cao Zhen did not ask Wang Lang to block Zhang Xi for a long time, as long as he could block it for a few days, even if he couldn't do it, Cao Zhen allowed Wang Lang to retreat at any time, not to defend the city.

With such favorable combat conditions, giving Wang Lang 5,000 soldiers and horses is already preferential enough.

Again, Cao Zhen also needs to consider his own timing.

40,000 foot soldiers, 10,000 will be left with 30,000, even if they rush to Tongguan and converge Dai Ling and Wang Chang who were sent to Tongguan in advance, then only 40,000 soldiers and horses can be used to attack Tongguan.

Tongguan is Xiongguan in the end, although the defenders can't be too many, supporting thousands of people, but at this time Cao Zhen doesn't know if Luoyang will send people to attack Tongguan, he must ensure that he has enough superior forces to form a crushing advantage over Tongguan.

There is not much food and grass in the army, and some time is wasted on the march. If Tongguan cannot be broken within ten days, then the grain and grass will run out, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

Cao Zhen also had to take into account the worst outcome, ten times the difference in troops, it is no problem to break through a city in ten days, but to break through a Xiongguan. Cao Zhen hadn't tried, so he had to think about the worst-case scenario.

Allocate 5,000 troops to Wang Lang, on the one hand, out of the need to gain time for attack, and on the other hand, to block the Shu thieves, 5,000 troops are also necessary.

This is still an arrangement made by Cao Zhen considering that Wang Lang has been a high-ranking civilian official all the year round and has no combat experience.

As for why not let Han De Shouhua Yin Cao Zhen also need to leave a backhand.

Wang Chang and Dai Ling have already been sent out, Niu Jin doesn't know whether he is alive or dead now, there is a high probability that he is out of hand, if he doesn't even have the last partial general, then Cao Zhen can only go into battle by himself to charge into battle.

In addition, it was Wang Lang who took the initiative to ask for help, and Cao Zhen couldn't refute Wang Lang's face. In this way, Wang Lang was given 5,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Huayin, and he continued to return to Tongguan.

Wang Lang was depressed. If you want 10,000 people to garrison, you will give 5,000 people, isn't this asking for old life!!

Yes, Wang Lang actually knows that guarding a Huayin county seat, 5,000 people is enough, too many people are placed in the city, in fact, it is not necessary for defense.

But the problem is that the opponents are Zhang Xi and Zhao Yun.

The cavalry commanded by Zhao Yun can be ignored by Wang Lang for the time being, but the infantry led by Zhang Xi is an opponent that even Guo Huai and Cao Zhen dare not underestimate.

When the troops are enough, they can still fight for consumption, but now that the troops are insufficient, Wang Lang really has no confidence.

This is not a verbal fight between the two armies in front of the formation, but a real fight for life.

But now I can't help it.

The idea was made by him, and he took the initiative to defend the city, in this case, can Wang Lang say that he can't defend it or can't defend it?!

I had to catch the ducks on the shelves.

And Zhang Xi, after leading the troops to chase Huayin, also scratched his head a little.

In the process of pursuing along the way, Zhang Xi was most worried that Cao Zhen would leave troops in Huayin to deploy defenses.

After all, if you want to go to Tongguan, you have to pass through Huayin, and the traffic conditions in these years are so restricted.

The trail can be walked, but it is not possible to march on a large scale, and if you take the trail without a guide, there is a high probability that you will be taken directly into the mountains and you will not be able to get out.

For a large-scale march, you must take the big road, and if you want to take the big road, you must pass through the county seat of Huayin.

Of course, it's not true that there is no way to take Huayin County. In fact, you can bypass the city along the outside of the city wall, regardless of the Wei army in Huayin County, and continue to take the main road on the east side of Huayin County to pursue Cao Zhen.

But the problem is that when a large army fights, there must always be logistics supplies, your army can bypass the city to pursue Cao Zhen, and your logistics supply and grain transportation team can't bypass the Wei army in Huayin County.

The battle in front of you is inseparable, turn back to Huayin County and directly cut off your logistics supply line, is this to chase Cao Zhen or send him to death!

This is a taboo for soldiers, and it is also the reason why Wang Lang thinks that Zhang Xi will not make such a mistake and bypass Huayin County to pursue Cao Zhen.

But this time, what made Wang Lang a little stunned was that after Zhang Xi led the troops to Huayin County, he actually only stopped for a while, and did not even set up camp, and directly detoured from the south of Huayin County to the east.

Zhang Xi really took the risk of committing a taboo, bypassed the defenders in Huayin County, and continued to pursue Cao Zhen.

Wang Lang was confused, what kind of wild operation was this, and he didn't even want logistics? !

Wang Lang was thinking at that time, whether to immediately send troops to attack the flank of Zhang Xi's army, which was marching on a detour, but when he saw the 5,000 cavalry of Zhao Yun's army still outside Huayin County, Wang Lang understood why Zhang Xi dared to do this.

This kid actually used cavalry as a means of containment to contain the Wei army left behind in Huayin County, and made a detour to pursue General Cao Zhen.

If that's the case. Wang Lang was not worried.

Without Zhao Yun's cavalry to cover the flanks, Zhang Xi only led 10,000 foot soldiers to pursue Cao Zhen's main army, so the threat was much smaller.

Even if you don't count the 35,000 soldiers in Cao Zhen's hands, Cao Zhen has 8,000 cavalry to use.

Eight thousand cavalry, even if the army is uneven and its combat strength is worrying, it is still more than enough to contain 10,000 foot soldiers.

Being able to contain the cavalry under Zhao Yun can be regarded as completing General Cao Zhen's task for Wang Lang.

And the most important thing is that the cavalry can't attack the city!!

Wang Lang, who was originally worried that his troops were insufficient and might not be able to stop the enemy army from attacking the city, was now relaxed.

If you have the ability, you let the cavalry fly up the city wall!!

Wang Lang was relaxed, but it was only for one day.

Early the next morning, Wang Lang was stunned to find that the cavalry of Zhao Yun's subordinates, who had been camping outside the city yesterday, had set out early this morning and headed to the southeast to chase Zhang Xi's large army.

Wang Lang immediately wondered what the situation was?!

Could it be that Zhao Yun's cavalry was just to contain himself from going out of the city to pursue the foot soldiers, so he stayed outside Huayin County for a day?!

But what's the point?!

Your soldiers and horses have passed, but the logistics grain and grass transport team can't pass, right?!

In doing so, isn't it still directly exposing the logistics channel to the attack range of the Wei army in Huayin County?!

Or is it that the Shu thieves are sure that they will completely defeat the main army of General Cao Zhen in just one or two days?!

This. It's a bit too joking, isn't it?!

Wang Lang was hesitating whether to continue to stay in Huayin County and wait for the Shu thieves to attack the grain team after it arrived, or to leave Huayin County now and join General Cao Zhen.

After all, the grain and grass that General Cao Zhen left for himself was actually not very much, and it was only enough to use it for about fifteen days.

Just when Wang Lang was hesitating, Huayin County once again ushered in an army.

This army is not a small number, with a total of 20,000 troops.

It was the Liangzhou infantry led by Su Ze.

This is also the greatest confidence for Zhang Xi and Zhao Yun to dare to chase Cao Zhen directly.

Zhang Xi took the risk of sending troops to pursue Cao Zhen, although it was a risky action, but the biggest reliance was that the Liangzhou infantry led by Su Ze was only half a day to a day away from him.

If Cao Zhen really chose to counterattack the pursuers led by Zhang Xi, Zhang Xi was also completely sure that he would delay Cao Zhen's main army for half a day to a day, and give the Liangzhou infantry led by Su Ze time to rush to the battlefield to participate in the war.

Therefore, Su Ze, who was unlucky, had actually been marching all the way, and was constantly changing the destination of the march.

From the beginning, Zhao Yun ordered to meet in Chongquan County, and changed it to go to Linjin to participate in the war, but Su Ze had not yet led his troops to Linjin, and suddenly received a military order, saying that Zhang Xi had repelled Cao Zhen's army and was pursuing it with all his might, so that Su Ze could follow as soon as possible and advance in the direction of Tongguan.

Su Ze didn't have any complaints, after all, the march was fighting, and it was common for the situation ahead to change abruptly.

But the soldiers of the Liangzhou Legion had some complaints.

It's not that they complain about always changing the destination of the march, they complain about it. If you arrive at the battlefield any later, I'm afraid you won't even be able to drink the soup.

That place in Liangzhou is poor, it's really poor.

The people who came out of that place really didn't have much to care about their own bad life, after all, in Liangzhou, they not only had to face survival problems such as desolate land, but also faced the problem of restlessness of foreign races.

This thing, Liangzhou people have been tied to their heads on their belts since they were born.

Therefore, the people of Liangzhou are notoriously unruly in the Han Dynasty. There is no way, otherwise, it is very likely that you will not be able to survive in Liangzhou.

In the past, the imperial court did not care much about Liangzhou, and sat back and watched the people of Liangzhou fend for themselves, and the people of Liangzhou had no good way except to often rebel to attract the attention of the imperial court.

But now, the Han has regained control of Liangzhou, and in recent years, whether it is Xu Miao or Zhao Yun, they have established initial prestige and credibility in Liangzhou. Under the leadership of Zhao Yun, entering the customs and participating in the war, for the people of Liangzhou, it is not only to obtain martial arts, but more importantly, to obtain military merits.

The most terrible thing is that there are rumors in the army that if you get the merits in this battle, the fields you will get will be the land in Qinzhou at the most, and if the credit is greater, you may also be assigned to the fields in Guanzhong.

Especially in these years, if you can be a Guanzhong person, who wants to live in Liangzhou?!

In the past, I didn't have a chance, I didn't have my own land, and when I went to Guanzhong, I could only be a recluse for the family at most, and I didn't have a future.

But nowadays. If you slow down, the Gongtian of the Guanzhong Army will all become those cavalrymen!!

Look at people who are cavalrymen, I heard that this time they directly defeated Cao Wei's elite cavalry regiment, and everyone has at least two or three heads of military merit.

Look at your side again, along the way you are either marching or marching. Can you still catch the opportunity to fight?

Don't look back, you ran all the way from Liangzhou to Guanzhong, but you didn't get any credit.

The Liangzhou soldiers were quite dissatisfied with this. Zhao Yun sent someone to give an order, saying that there was a city ahead, and there were about 5,000 Wei troops in the city.

The Liangzhou soldiers were overjoyed.

But as soon as these soldiers were happy, Wang Lang and Su Ze were uncomfortable!!

(End of chapter)