When Qin Lang led the army back to Heyang County, after learning the specific situation, he immediately imprisoned Sima Jin, the guard of Heyang County, in the Heyang County prison.

Pei Qian applauded at this.

Pei Qian wanted to do this for a long time, but before you, Qin Lang, found a bunch of reasons, that is, he insisted on letting this idiot guard Heyang. Now it's okay, let's reap the consequences.

And Qin Lang's reason for detaining Sima Jin this time is actually very straightforward - lying about the military situation.

In fact, there was nothing about the Shu thief cavalry attacking Heyang County at all, Sima Jin just received the news that Yi County was lost, and the Shu thief cavalry came to Heyang County along the official road, for fear that Qin Lang would not return to the army to rescue, resulting in the loss of Heyang County, so he said in the military newspaper that the Shu thieves were attacking Heyang County.

In Sima Jin's opinion, in fact, the Shu thieves came in the direction of Heyang County along the official road, and they must have attacked Heyang County.

Don't say that the cavalry can't attack the city, the cavalry is just not good at attacking the city, it doesn't mean that it can't really fight, otherwise how did Yixian lose it?!

Therefore, Sima Jin judged that the Shu thieves would definitely come to attack Heyang, and by the time Qin Lang led the troops back to help, the Shu thieves would definitely have almost attacked Heyang City. I'm really not lying.

But Sima Jin didn't expect that the cavalry of the Shu thieves suddenly turned a corner on the way, and they didn't come to Heyang County.

Sima Jin's little abacus didn't succeed, and now he has calculated himself in prison. But Qin Lang couldn't be happier now.

Since he has already returned to Heyang County, it is impossible for Qin Lang to say that regardless of the actual situation around him, he will continue to march towards my Wen County. It is always necessary to sort out the current battlefield information and analyze the battlefield situation before taking action.

At this time, Qin Lang finally got the latest and relatively comprehensive battlefield military report, he not only learned that the Bingzhou cavalry had entered Hanoi County, but also knew that Zhang Xi was now leading his troops to withdraw to the north bank of Mengjindu, and the siege of Wenxian was temporarily resolved.

In this way, at least from the bright side, Qin Lang can continue to lead the troops to Wen County, and after a careful analysis, Qin Lang found that he couldn't do this.

The movement of the cavalry of the Shu thieves, Qin Lang has basically mastered it now. It is true that they did not directly attack Heyang County along the official road, but after bypassing Heyang County, they once again occupied the main road of Qin Lang's eastward advance, Beizhongcheng.

Beizhong City, after being abandoned twice by Zhang Yi and Qin Lang, finally returned to the hands of the Han Dynasty and was occupied by Ma Dai.

And this order was really not given by Zhang Xi to Ma Dai, but after Ma Dai retreated to Beizhong City, he found that there was no one to guard it. Adhering to the idea of protecting the flanks of the army, he occupied it himself.

It was also at this time that the scouts sent by Zhang Xi finally found Ma Dai's whereabouts and contacted Ma Dai.

And when Zhang Xi learned that Ma Dai occupied Beizhong City, he suddenly keenly discovered that this place was still very important in the current situation, and sent Zhang Yi again to lead 5,000 foot soldiers to assist Ma Dai in guarding Beizhong City.

Actually, at the beginning, Zhang Xi wanted to go to the south bank of Mengjindu to transfer Liuyin to cross the river, and to guard the North Central City, but Zhang Yi repeatedly asked Zhang Xi for battle.

Zhang Yi was originally dissatisfied with the initiative to retreat, and felt that it was not that he could not hold Beizhong City at all, but that the military order could not be violated. At that time, Zhang Xi had already decided to withdraw his troops, and he couldn't contact Ma Dai, worried that Beizhong City would be attacked by the Bingzhou cavalry, and if Zhang Yi couldn't hold Beizhong City at that time, he wouldn't even have a chance to retreat, so Zhang Yi took the initiative to abandon it.

But now, Beizhong City is guarded by cavalry, and at the same time, it needs to be defended by infantry, how can Zhang Yi not want to be ashamed of his previous shame?!

And Zhang Xi's side, on the one hand, Zhang Yi's request for war is not easy to reject, for fear of hurting morale, and on the other hand. In fact, although the geographical location of Beizhong City is important, the main role is still containment, not to fight a decisive battle.

Therefore, Zhang Yi, who is relatively familiar with the urban defense and geographical environment of Beizhong City, is indeed more suitable than Liu Yin to some extent.

In this way, Zhang Yi returned to Beizhong City, undertook the defense of Beizhong City, and coordinated the entire Beizhong City battlefield.

And Zhang Yi and Ma Dai poked so much at Beizhong City, Qin Lang wanted to lead his soldiers to the east again, and it would be more troublesome.

Yes, this time Zhang Yi brought only 5,000 infantry, but this time he had 20,000 more Qiang Hu cavalry to help.

The Qianghu cavalry can't do anything else, the suppression and deterrence effect on the infantry is still quite large, Qin Lang really didn't dare to attack Beizhong City with less than 20,000 county soldiers.

Therefore, Qin Lang had to wait in Heyang County until the Bingzhou cavalry led by Bi Rail and Dai Ling came over to converge, and then find a way to send troops to Wen County.

Moreover, even with the escort of the Bingzhou cavalry, Qin Lang could not be said to be foolproof.

Because Qin Lang could not guarantee that when he led his troops to attack Beizhong City, Zhang Xi, who was on the north bank of Mengjindu, would not move.

If Zhang Xi used the high mobility of the Qianghu cavalry to transfer away the Bingzhou cavalry, and suddenly led the main force of the Shu thief infantry to Beizhong City to fight with him, Qin Lang didn't think that he would have a chance of winning.

Even, even if Zhang Xi didn't want to fight a decisive battle and sent an additional 10,000 foot soldiers to Beizhong City to assist in the defense, everyone was also a combination of foot and cavalry, Qin Lang wanted to break through Beizhong City, I'm afraid it would not happen overnight.

And Xiahou Ba of Wen County, in this battle, he can't be counted on.

Xiahou Ba only has a total of more than 20,000 defenders, and it is already good for him to ensure that Wen County will not be lost, and it is impossible to take the risk to come to Beizhong City to help in the battle. Doing so will only create an opportunity for Zhang Xi to sneak attack Wen County.

Qin Lang had a headache when he thought of the current situation.

Zhang Xi's retreat was too strategic, and the seizure of Beizhong City again showed Zhang Xi's excellent determination.

Now Zhang Xi is equivalent to taking a total of more than 60,000 infantry cavalry coalition troops, sandwiched between Heyang County and Wen County, plus Beizhongcheng assisted in the flank direction of the north bank of Mengjindu, forming horns with each other, resulting in Qin Lang and Xiahou Ba even if they want to exchange news and jointly send troops, they will not be able to form a joint force in a short time.

And if Qin Lang wants to advance eastward, he must first cross the Beizhong City defended by Zhang Yi and Ma Dai, and at the same time, he must also beware of Zhang Xi, who is on the north bank of Mengjindu, for reinforcements at any time. Even with the help of the state cavalry, the difficulty is not ordinary.

And that's just the immediate dilemma. In the long run, Qin Lang found that the real trouble was still to come.

Taking a step back, even if Qin Lang successfully led his county soldiers, under the protection of the Bingzhou cavalry, entered Wen County and joined Xiahou Ba, what to do next would be a big trouble.

Qin Lang's purpose in coming to Hanoi County was to exchange defenses with Xiahou Ba, and then let Xiahou Ba lead the army to support Yanzhou, but the problem is that as we all know, cavalry can only be used as an auxiliary to defend the city, not as the main force to defend the city.

Therefore, if according to the original plan, Xiahou Ba would send 30,000 foot soldiers to Yanzhou to support, then Qin Lang would only have less than 8,000 foot soldiers and 20,000 cavalry left to face the more than 50,000 foot soldiers and 20,000 rangers of the Shu thieves.

No matter how weak the Qianghu ranger is, it is also a cavalry.

Not to mention anything else, if Zhang Xi sent Qianghu rangers to replicate the battle in Hedong County, looting and destroying everywhere, do you say that the 20,000 Bingzhou cavalry in my hands will attack or not?!

Let's attack, the infantry ratio of almost one to six can't hold Wen County at all.

Don't attack Hedong, the clans of the two counties of Hanoi have been plundered all over again, and these things must be full of resentment.

This grievance must have come to Dawei, and they didn't dare to vent any grievances against the army of Shu thieves.

Even if you take a step back, even if Qin Lang can withstand the pressure of the Hanoi family and let the Qianghu alien cavalry rage, he will not send troops to rescue, but if these Qianghu rangers bypass Wen County, go all the way north along the northern official road, and directly attack Yecheng, then what can be done? !

That's not the pressure that Qin Lang can withstand.

Yecheng was attacked, Qin Lang had to send out the Hezhou cavalry to rescue, and if necessary, even if the entire Hanoi County was sacrificed because of this, he had to save it.

Others don't know, Qin Lang still doesn't know that there are not many soldiers guarding Yecheng now.

Whether it is the 30,000 newly built forbidden troops guarding Yecheng or the reinforcements closest to Yecheng, they have all been withdrawn, and now Yecheng, there are only 5,000 foot guards in Chaoge.

It is estimated that the Shu thieves don't know this news yet, otherwise, I'm afraid that Zhang Xi would have led his troops north along the official road.

(End of chapter)