The battle in Yanzhou fell into a brief lull, but everyone knew that this was just a prelude to another big war, and once Yanzhou officially started the war, it would probably be an earth-shattering duel of large armies.

It is even possible that this is a battle in which the world will be decided by World War I.

Relatively speaking, the other battlefield, the Hedong Battlefield, is now really a truce.

Zhang Xi still led the troops under the city of Wenxian, and he didn't say that he would fight, nor did he say that he wouldn't fight, so he fought at both ends in three days, and confronted Xiahouba in Wen County.

The Qianghu rangers led by Ma Dai were raging in Hedong County for a while, and now they have begun to slowly withdraw from Hedong and return to Hanoi County to join Zhangxi.

It's not that Ma Dai is powerless to succeed, or that Sima Shi returned to Hedong in time to expel Ma Dai from Hedong County.

Qianghu rangers, they inherit the two characteristics of the Hu people.

One, it's speed.

The Qianghu rangers inherited the combat characteristics of the Beidihu people, and their cavalry was basically unarmored rangers, the purpose was to maintain the speed of thousands of miles of running, and even for logistics and supplies, these Qianghu rangers basically didn't care.

Because the combat characteristics of this gang are to go to one place and plunder one place, their logistical supplies do not need to be brought by themselves, and they completely rely on looting to support the war.

This is also one of the reasons why the Qianghu Rangers were able to make a long-distance raid into Hedong County and plunder everywhere, causing the entire Hedong County to jump with chickens and dogs.

And the other is the greed for money.

These Hu people have no concept of strategy and tactics at all, and they don't know what it means to take care of the overall situation.

When they entered Hedong this time, they regarded this place as a place that could be reasonably looted, not only looting grain, but more importantly, those gold and silver treasures, and these people did not let go of them.

And what's worse is that this place in the east of the river is really wide.

Not only the big families live here, but even the ordinary people are richer than the people in other places.

Such a rich place, where have these Xilianghu people seen it.

Think about it, these things are looting in Liangzhou, and they all think that Liangzhou, which is occupied by the Han people, is a rich place. This time, when I arrived in Hedong County, a truly rich place, could there be anything else in those two eyes?!

If it weren't for the fact that Ma Dai still had a little prestige among these Hu people, and the military prestige of the Han Dynasty was getting stronger and stronger, Ma Dai could still barely restrain this group of Qiang Hu You, so that they would not kill innocents indiscriminately, otherwise this time Hedong County, I'm afraid it would not be as simple as losing a little money, food, and property.

But even so, this raid by the Qianghu rangers also made the Hedong family have a lot of resentment and opinions against the Han.

There's no way, these Qianghu rangers are too greedy, and there are too many robbers. Some even went so far as to carry the looted money on their horses and fought on foot on their own.

In particular, the Qianghu rangers, who have no horses, fight on two legs in the plains, and their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of ordinary mountain bandits in Hedong County!!

Ma Dai saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly gathered his troops, and even intimidated and deceitful, and withdrew from Hedong County with this group of fools who had no tactical concept at all.

Otherwise, let these things keep robbing in Hedong County, I'm afraid they don't even know how they died.

Therefore, in fact, it was not Sima Shi who returned to the division in time to rescue and forced this group of Qianghu rangers to withdraw from Hedong by force, but this group of Qianghu rangers who had never seen the world grabbed everything when they saw it, and finally they couldn't grab it, so they took the initiative to withdraw from Hedong County.

But this did not prevent the Hedong family from holding Sima Shi high, and even the Hedong family also passed their relationship in the Great Wei Dynasty and gave Sima Shi a "Hedong victory".

Seriously, Cao Rong couldn't cry or laugh when he saw the sparse music handed over by the minister of Hedong.

Cao Ei was not a fool, and Sima Shi did not intend to treat Cao Ei as a fool, so the military report given by Sima Shi to the imperial court still truthfully described the development of the war situation.

It's really not that he Sima Shi is capable, it's Hedong County that the Shu thieves took the initiative to withdraw. Although Sima Shi didn't know what the reason was, it was really not his own credit.

Well, at least when Cao Rong saw this military report, he still had a good impression of Sima Shi with the performance of the Minister of Hedong.

However, Cao Ei's negligence of this Hedong minister really can't be dismissed directly.

The Hedong family has its own needs, and Cao Ei also has Cao Ei's own considerations.

The reason why the Hedong families asked for credit for Sima Shi in the court through their relationships was that Cao Rong actually knew the purpose.

These bastards must be hoping to pick up Sima Shi in this way, and then guide the imperial court to realize the importance of Hedong, so that Sima Shi and his 30,000 foot soldiers can be left in Hedong County to garrison.

After all, the loss of the Hedong family this time is really not small.

In these years, the big families have more thoughts than one another, and no one will put a lot of money and food in the city, this is under the nose of the government, if you really want to investigate it, everyone's face will be very ugly.

Therefore, the Hedong family basically kept their money and grain secretly in their own manor outside the city.

In peacetime, of course, this is fine, but in wartime. Especially when encountering this kind of Qianghu cavalry who robs Lao Tzu when he has money, no matter what family you are, these Hedong families don't even have a place to reason.

Even if you resent the Han, it can only be a private resentment, and you can't come clearly, after all, the person who robbed the things is the Qianghu cavalry, and the Han who turned back didn't admit it, saying that the Qianghu alien race could not be restrained, and this Hedong family had no problem.

The Hedong family doesn't want to suffer such a dumb loss again.

As for Qin Lang, in this battle to defend Hedong, he showed the shortcomings of slow action and slow response, which was far less decisive than Sima Shi's decision, and although the immediate return to the army to rescue was not very effective, in the eyes of the Hedong family, at least Sima Shi, a child of the Hedong family, was more reliable than Qin Lang, an outsider.

Therefore, the Hedong family must have hoped that Sima Shi would stay and guard Hedong County, so that Qin Lang would get out of here.

One thing to say, this little bit of careful thinking, Cao Ei still sees it very clearly, from a military point of view, it is impossible for Cao Ei to let these Hedong families mess around.

is still waiting for Sima Shi to lead the troops to rescue Yanzhou, how can he stay in Hedong.

But from a political point of view, Cao Rong really can't ignore the voices of these Hedong families.

The Central Plains family is mostly headed by the Hedong family and the Yingchuan family.

But now, the Yingchuan family can basically be sure that it has collectively surrendered to the enemy, so the Central Plains family is left with only the Hedong family.

At this time, if the opinions put forward by the Hedong family are ignored, causing the Hedong family to embark on the old road of the Yingchuan family, then Yanzhou will not have to defend it.

The two pillars of the Central Plains family have directly turned against each other, so the families in the Yanzhou region can still be of the same mind as the Great Wei?!

It's impossible to think about.

Therefore, from a political point of view, Cao Rong must appease the Hedong family at this time and let them continue to stand on the side of the Great Wei.

Again, since the start of the battle of Yanzhou, Cao Rong has never received any good news, and the entire imperial court knows that his own army in Yanzhou and Hanoi has been constantly compressed by people, and now it can only barely support it.

Although it is still holding on, there is hardly any good news.

But now, there is finally a "Hedong victory", and it is the Hedong family who personally invited credit for Sima Shi, and they will definitely not dismantle the stage. And as long as these Hedong families don't dismantle the stage, then the Hebei family won't know the truth.

Therefore, in a sense, Cao Rong also needs such a "great victory in Hedong" to stabilize the morale of the army and the people.

After much thought, Cao Ei finally made his own choice.

The decree rewarded Sima Shi's "merits", recognized the existence of the "Hedong Great Victory", named Sima Shi as the general of Shu and the Marquis of Anping Pavilion, and also ordered Sima Shi to continue to hold on to Hedong to prevent the invasion of Shu thieves.

At the same time, Cao Rong issued an edict, on the grounds of the meritorious "Hedong victory", promoted Qin Lang to the central protection army, led 10,000 Bingzhou cavalry and 20,000 Hedong county soldiers, rushed to Hanoi County to fight, replaced Xiahou Ba stationed in Wen County, and let Xiahou Ba lead 20,000 Hanoi county soldiers to Yanzhou to support.

At least in Cao Rong's opinion, he did this to stabilize the Hedong family, and at the same time not delay the rescue of Yanzhou, but he just changed the commander of the reinforcements from Sima Shi to Xiahou Ba.

It's just that Cao Rong forgot a little. If you do this, it is tantamount to artificially creating a personnel change in Wen County, which will inevitably cause certain changes in the situation.

Originally, Zhang Xi still felt that Wen County, which was guarded by Xiahou Ba, was not easy to fight, so he simply didn't fight, and continued to grind foreign workers in Hanoi County, as long as he contained the enemy, but Cao Wei led the troops to change the defense on such a large scale, if Zhang Xi didn't seize the opportunity, wouldn't he be too sorry for himself? !

Okay, since you, Qin Lang, have come out of Hedong County, then, don't think about going anywhere.

(End of chapter)