Just when Cao Rong received the battle report from Si Li, the situation of Si Li had a new change.

This change was caused by Wei Yan's division in Hongnong County.

Yang Bing chose to "welcome the king" to help the Han say that the Hongnong family and the Hongnong counties were descended, but it took time after all.

Even if it is just to accept the appointment of the Han again, the county magistrates will still remain in office, which also requires sending people out to announce the handover, and it cannot be decided by the local family alone.

The procedure still has to go through a bit.

Therefore, in Hongnong, Pang Tong and Wei Yan still stayed for a while, not for a long time, about ten days.

Another one, Tongguan behind Hongnong County is also a problem that needs to be solved, where is it, and Cao Wei's Hongnong Taishou Wang Chang, and the 10,000 Tongguan guards under his command.

Wang Chang is not a figure that Yang Bing can persuade to surrender by virtue of the prestige of Hongnong Yang, if Wang Chang could be persuaded to surrender so easily, when the battle of Tongguan was so fierce, he would have surrendered a long time ago, how could he have turned the tide later.

Therefore, for Wang Chang, whether it is Wei Yan or Pang Tong, they don't think that this is a figure who can be easily persuaded to surrender.

In the direction of Tongguan, there is still a fight.

As for Wang Chang, after learning that Hongnong County behind him had surrendered without a fight, he also fell into a panic for a while.

There is no way, Hongnong's entire county has been surrendered, and he is stationed in Tongguan, so he has lost any defensive significance.

Tongguan's grain, grass and ordnance need to rely on Hongnong to maintain supplies, although there is no need to be too anxious for the time being, Tongguan has hoarded some grain, grass and ordnance, but these grains and grass will always be eaten up one day.

When there are no supplies, who would want to go into battle hungry.

Again, Wang Chang still has some strategic vision, and he can see clearly what the situation in Luoyang is like once Hongnong is lost.

Hongnong can march to Luoyang at any time, but at this time, Sima Yi who stayed in Luoyang is still in Yingchuan County, and the situation of the entire division will be completely eroded.

In this case, he Wang Chang stubbornly guarded a Tong Pass and did not come out, which made no sense at all.

Therefore, after thinking about it again, Wang Chang still decided to leave a thousand soldiers just in case, and he took 9,000 troops to attack Hongnong's Shu thieves.

In fact, if it weren't for the perspective of just in case, Wang Chang wouldn't even want to leave these thousand soldiers.

Attacking Hongnong Shu thieves is a hammer deal.

If you win, you will recapture Hongnong, stabilize the situation west of Luoyang, and then return to defend Tongguan. In a short period of time, the Shu thief did not have time to react at all.

Losing that Tongguan has no point in sticking to it at all, and losing it is just a matter of time.

Wang Chang actually understands very well that the focus is not on whether he can hold Tongguan, but on whether he can regain Hongnong.

Therefore, Wang Chang set off from Tongguan with the determination to decide the outcome of the first battle.

And then as he walked, he felt that something was wrong.

This speed of marching is inevitably too smooth.

marched all the way, did not encounter any resistance at all, Huxian, the closest to Tongguan, just like a few days ago "Welcome Wang Shi", also welcomed Wang Chang and led troops into the city, you county commanders and families, can you have a little face? !

Can you change the door back and forth like this?!

Anyway, Wang Chang is getting more and more frightened, and he always feels that there is something wrong here. I can't figure out that the Shu thief is deliberately luring himself to advance to the army, and then find an opportunity to ambush himself.

Wang Chang was suspicious, he didn't dare to advance in the direction of Hongnong County, and immediately turned around, and if it was really impossible to march to Lushi County in the southeast, he would kill through the entire Hongnong County and retreat into Henan to defend it.

But before Wang Chang arrived in Lushi County, Wang Chang suddenly got a report from the scouts in front, and a large force of troops under the banner of Shu thieves suddenly appeared near Hongnong and Shaanxi County, and they were rapidly assembling and heading to Lushi County, with a strength of no less than 10,000 people.

Looking at this meaning, it is to intercept the forward route of Wang Chang's department.

Wang Chang pondered for a while, and felt that this matter was a bit strange.

Yes, after occupying Hongnong, the Shu thieves not only have a relatively stable logistics grain and grass supply base, but also can quickly recruit and expand the army with the help of the local clans, but it is not easy for 10,000 people to gather in the direction of Lushi County all of a sudden.

Therefore, under a rough judgment, Wang Chang believed that this was the elite main force of the Shu thieves, and the goal was to block his passage to Luoyang and prevent himself from reinforcing Luoyang.

But there is one point, Wang Chang can't understand very well if the Shu thieves deploy elite troops to Lushi County to intercept themselves, then what should Hongnong and Shaanxi County do all the way?!

You must know that the best and most critical avenue from Hongnong County to Luoyang is the road from Hongnong County to Shaanxi County.

But now that the Shu thieves have dispatched their troops to Lushi County to encircle and suppress themselves, how should that road be guarded? !

Just rely on these Hongnong families to guard them with private soldiers?!

The commander of the Shu thief, isn't his heart a little too big?!

If he turned around the direction of the attack again at this time and attacked Hongnong County, wouldn't he have directly blocked the logistics supply line for the Shu thieves to attack Luoyang?!

Since the commander of the Shu thieves can have the ability to go south from Pubanjin, and easily occupy a strategic advantage by persuading Hongnong County to surrender, how can he be such an unwise person?!

Therefore, there must be one way to be virtual and the other to be real.

After such a series of in-depth analysis, Wang Chang overturned his initial judgment, believing that the Shu thief army that had just been assembled and came to Lushi County was not necessarily the main force of the Shu thief elite who invaded Luoyang this time.

It's just a suspicious soldier who came up and bluffed to scare his retreat.

The real main force of the Shu thieves, it is still possible to assemble in Hongnong and Shaanxi County, or simply to put it simply, they have already set off to Mianchi, Xin'an and other places through the avenue, and even marched into Hangu Pass.

Therefore, at this time, what Wang Chang has to do is to break this suspicious army as soon as possible, and then lead the troops to the north to occupy Hongnong or Shaanxi County, and cut off the logistics supply channel of the Shu thieves.

After Wang Chang made his own judgment, he immediately led the troops to turn around and bumped into the suspicious Shu thieves who were coming from the direction of Lushi County.

Then he hit his head directly and broke the blood flow.

Coming from the direction of Lushi County was really the elite of the 7,000 Northern Army led by Wei Yan, and the vanguard was Wang Shuang, a fierce general under Wei Yan.

There is no way, all of Wang Chang's predictions have been calculated by Pang Tong.

After Pang Tong learned that Wang Chang did not march along the road of Huxian, Hongnong County, and Shaanxi County, but immediately turned to Lushi County in the southeast after passing Huxian County, he immediately judged that this leading general was not the kind of brave general who could only rush and fight.

Coupled with the information he got before, after learning about the deeds of Wang Chang, the general of Tongguan, Pang Tong had enough knowledge and understanding of Wang Chang.

Wang Chang is a general who fights with his brains, and dealing with this kind of wise general is actually very easy to solve, but it is also difficult to solve.

It's easy to solve because this kind of general will use his brain to fight, and when he realizes that something is wrong, he will immediately make adjustments, and as long as you guess his train of thought and set up an ambush according to his idea, then he will take the initiative to get into the trap you have set.

It is difficult to solve the problem because you may be able to guess the momentary thoughts of this kind of wise general, but it is impossible to be right every time, and even after the enemy sees through your plan, you may encounter the enemy's counter-killing.

Therefore, at this time, it is necessary to have enough understanding of the enemy army, enough confidence in their own strategy, and enough courage.

This is an action to see the opponent's hole cards first, and once one side fails to detect the enemy's real decisive means in time, it is basically equivalent to a certain defeat.

Obviously, Pang Tong is very confident in his strategy, and he also has a certain understanding of Wang Chang, plus now that the Hongnong family is on the side of the Han Dynasty under the leadership of Yang Bing, Pang Tong can know Wang Chang's marching route well through the eyes of the family, and at the same time formulate a suitable routine to attract Wang Chang to drill into the trap himself.

So strictly speaking, the person who really fights away is Wang Chang.

Pang Tong occupied the geographical advantages and people, but Wang Chang's side did not even occupy the sky. Wang Chang has none.

On Wang Chang's side, his first mistake was a miscalculation of the actual commander of the Han army.

Wang Chang thought that his opponent this time was Wei Yan, but he didn't expect that it was Mr. Feng Yan who was setting up a trap for him. misjudged the enemy commander and made a response, which naturally was not correct.

The second mistake was not Wang Chang's problem, but the combat strength of the Tongguan garrison led by Wang Chang.

The Tongguan garrison led by Wang Chang was a newly recruited soldier after the second expansion of the Sili County Army after the last war, and its combat effectiveness was not very strong. After all, he went to guard Tongguan, Sima Yi didn't care about the field ability of this army at all, relying on the defense of Tongguan's wall, it didn't matter if the field ability was slightly weaker.

And the opponent that Wang Chang has to face is the most elite northern army of the Han Dynasty. Combat power is not a level.

The third mistake was Wang Chang's natural reaction after misjudging the opponent, Wang Chang also thought that the Shu thieves in front of him were just a rabble recruited temporarily, as long as he concentrated a little impact, he could directly break through the opponent's defense line and defeat the opponent.

Therefore, in the process of attacking, Wang Chang chose the tactic of concentrating on attacking the enemy's forwards.

And it just so happened that Wei Yan's elite Northern Army, Wang Shuang, who served as the vanguard, was best at concentrating a little bit to assault the enemy army.

Needle tip to wheat mang. It's a pity that this side is a real needlepoint, but the opposite side is not Maimang, but the thread.

Under the impact of Wang Shuang's personal troops, Wang Chang's troops were directly broken through the front army.

Although Wang Chang tried his best to adjust his formation after realizing that he had made a mistake, blocking Wang Shuang's breakthrough, the problem was that Wang Shuang did not come alone, and behind him, he was still followed by the main force led by Wei Yan.

Under the continuous impact of Wang Shuang and Wei Yan, Wang Chang finally couldn't maintain his own front and had to choose to withdraw his troops.

It is said that it is a withdrawal of troops, but in fact, in this case, it is just a more decent way of saying that it is a rout.

Wang Chang, under the protection of his own guards, did not let Wei Yan and others catch him and escaped from the battlefield. But the problem is that of the 9,000 soldiers he brought, less than 2,000 escaped with him.

In this case, what else can Wang Chang do?!

Two thousand defeated soldiers are not enough to threaten any city in Hongnong County, and it is even possible to encounter the encirclement and suppression of the army of Shu thieves at any time, so it is better to retreat.

Therefore, Wang Chang could only lead the defeated army and retreat back to Tongguan.

Today's hope lies in Luoyang, Sima Yi can defeat the Shu thieves and recapture Hongnong, so that Wang Chang will not be trapped in Tongguan.

For the rest, he, Wang Chang, has tried his best, and he really can't help anything.

(End of chapter)