What can Xiahou Ba do, he is still waiting for Qin Lang to come over with him to hand over the defense.

Otherwise, what else can I do, Wen County doesn't want it?!

If Wen County does not defend it, then Chaoge in the east of Wen County will be directly exposed to the soldiers of Shu thieves, and once Chaoge is lost, it will be less than three hundred miles to the northeast, but Yecheng.

Therefore, no matter what Qin Lang thought, Xiahou Ba couldn't leave Wen County easily.

And Qin Lang. Qin Lang finally realized that if he continued to drag on like this, although he could suppress Zhang Xi in Mengjindu, it would not help the Yanzhou war.

Of course, the Yanzhou side can't win, the biggest blame is on Sima Yi, and Qin Lang has a lot of excuses to get rid of his responsibility.

However, the loss of Yanzhou is such a big thing, for Da Wei, it will definitely hurt the muscles and bones, and the vitality will be greatly damaged.

Qin Lang, as Cao Cao's righteous son, is also Cao Rong's confidant, all his future, glory and wealth are pinned on Dawei, and Dawei's vitality is greatly damaged, which does him no good.

Therefore, Qin Lang must lead his troops to break through the containment and threat of the Mengjin and Shu thieves as soon as possible, and rush to Wen County to hand over the defense to Xiahou Ba.

But, it's hard.

Qin Lang's first attempt ended in failure.

That was three days ago, Qin Lang opened the way with the Bingzhou cavalry of Bi Rail, and the Hedong County soldiers followed, trying to break through the Shu thieves in Beizhong City in this way.

But not long after Qin Lang sent troops from Heyang County, he came to report that Zhang Xi personally led 40,000 foot soldiers to leave Mengjindu and gallop to the aid of Beizhongcheng.

I have to say that the scouts and meticulous work of the two families are not inefficient in this Hanoi war.

But this was not unexpected by Qin Lang, and this was the reason why Qin Lang arranged the cavalry as the vanguard.

If Zhang Xi uses infantry to fight against the charge of the Bingzhou cavalry, it is purely looking for death, and if Zhang Xi uses the rangers to fight against the Bingzhou wolf cavalry, then Qin Lang will also tell Zhang Xi that what is the basis of the Great Wei to be able to beat Wuhuan in the north, and the White Wolf Mountain also killed Wuhuan Shan Yu in the first battle.

Cavalry, after all, is still the strongest cavalry in Han land.

Opening the way with cavalry, Qin Lang believed that he would not be afraid of any Shu thief's infantry or cavalry.

But what Qin Lang didn't expect was that Zhang Xi didn't want to play any head-to-head showdown with Qin Lang at all.

The Bingzhou cavalry opened the way, and Zhang Xi actually expected it, and as a means of response, Zhang Xi did send the Qianghu rangers led by Ma Dai, but the purpose was not a head-on duel, but flank harassment.

In a frontal cavalry duel, the Qianghu rangers of the alien race could not defeat Cao Wei's Bingzhou cavalry at all.

The rangers of the Qianghu alien race are not armoured, while the Bingzhou cavalry is full body leather armor, and the worst will also have light armor to protect the vital parts, and the two sides are not of the same grade in terms of ordnance and equipment.

And when it comes to morale, it's even less of a level.

During the four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, almost all of the alien cavalry in the north were pressed on the ground by the Han Dynasty, and occasionally they rose, but it was just because the court had no time to take care of it, and once the court was determined to clean up this group of alien races in the north, then these alien races had to pay at least a few as a price.

The shadow of four hundred years has led to the current alien race in the north, as soon as they see the Han cavalry, they are worried, and if they don't fight, their morale and fighting spirit will be three points weaker.

Therefore, if these Qianghu rangers are allowed to attack the Bingzhou cavalry head-on, Zhang Xi estimates that before the official battle, they will have to flee for thirty percent, and if the battle is slightly unfavorable, these Qianghu rangers will immediately collapse.

It's not okay to go head-to-head, but it's the old business of these Qianghu rangers to contain harassment. In the past 400 years, the alien races in the north have relied on these means to constantly encroach on the border of the Han Dynasty and gain living space.

Moreover, although the Qianghu rangers have too little ordnance and equipment, they are not as good as the Bingzhou cavalry, but at this time, they have become a major feature of the Qianghu rangers. Their horses are light and fast.

Harassment is the most suitable way to fight these alien rangers in the Northland.

If the Bingzhou cavalry could not stand this harassment and pursued these northern rangers in formation, then the infantry following them would lack protection, and the 40,000 infantry brought by Zhang Xi could cooperate with Zhang Yi in Beizhong City to encircle and annihilate the less than 20,000 infantry under Qin Lang.

If the Bingzhou cavalry is not harassed and is ridden and killed by the alien rangers in the north in a guerrilla way along the way, then the more than 100-mile journey from Heyang County to Wen County can also make the Bingzhou cavalry suffer a lot of losses.

Of course, the most important thing is that there is also a North Midtown in the middle.

The cavalry may be able to bypass Beizhong City and rely on the speed advantage to keep their supplies safe. But the infantry can't get around.

The infantry bypassed Beizhongcheng and headed for Wenxian, and the supply of grain routes was all under the control of Beizhongcheng.

Unless Qin Lang could rely on the grain stocks in Wen County to ensure supply, otherwise, it would be impossible for Qin Lang to easily give up this supply channel connecting Heyang County and Wen County.

This is also where Zhang Xi's confidence lies in containing Qin Lang and Xiahouba on the flank. North Midtown is stuck on this supply line.

Therefore, when Qin Lang's cavalry had not yet arrived in Beizhong City, they were harassed and pinned down by the rangers led by Ma Dai, Qin Lang really hesitated for a long time before issuing an order for the cavalry to take the initiative to attack.

As soon as he saw that the Wei cavalry began to assemble, he immediately ordered the Qianghu rangers to begin to disperse and retreat, and evacuated in the direction of the northern part of Hanoi County.

These Qianghu alien races, let them face off against the Bingzhou cavalry head-on, and they can't kill them, but as soon as they hear about retreating, and they are scattered and retreating, it is called a fast.

Qin Lang saw that the Qianghu cavalry chose to retreat, and he didn't want to be troubled. Cavalry is only a threat when it is formed, and once dispersed, it will take some time to regroup.

But no matter what, they can no longer threaten their own state cavalry.

Originally, Qin Lang really didn't plan to let his own cavalry chase him, and he felt that there was no need for this. But if you look carefully at the direction of the retreat of these cavalry, although they are scattered, they are basically heading towards the north.

In the northern part of Hanoi County, there are no particularly important towns or military forts. There is an official road.

An official road that can bypass Wen County and march into Chaoge.

When Qin Lang saw that this group of Qianghu cavalry retreated to the north so neatly, he couldn't help but wonder if this was a plan by the Shu thieves to cross the sea.

Let yourself mistakenly think that this group of Qianghu cavalry is fleeing for their lives and not caring about their whereabouts, in fact, this group of Qianghu cavalry has regrouped in the north of Hanoi County, bypassing Wen County or even Chaoge, and directly attacking Yecheng?!

What is the emptiness of Yecheng now, others don't know, but Qin Lang is still very clear.

Therefore, regardless of whether the cavalry can attack the city or not, and whether the purpose of this group of Qianghu rangers is Yecheng or not, Qin Lang cannot let this group of Qianghu rangers leave.

Even if these Qianghu rangers can't really conquer Yecheng, if they replicate what they did in Hedong County in Jizhou, then Qin Lang has ten heads that are not enough to cut off. Even Cao Rong may not be able to keep him.

Hedong, once the Hebei family unites to kill one person, then Cao Rong has no way.

Therefore, Qin Lang had to let the Bingzhou cavalry follow and pursue, not only to protect the safety of Yecheng, but also for the sake of his own life.

But on the second day after the Bingzhou cavalry was ordered to pursue the Qianghu rangers, when the Hedong soldiers led by Qin Lang had just arrived fifty miles west of Beizhong City, the 40,000 Han soldiers led by Zhang Xi had already arrived in Beizhong City.

Moreover, Zhangxi is directly on the west side of Beizhong City. This posture, at first glance, is not to defend the city, but to decide the victory or defeat with Qin Lang.

Qin Lang couldn't help but be intimidated.

He only has 18,000 soldiers, and Zhang Xi's side, there are 40,000 troops, and he still fights in the field, fighting combat experience and tactical command ability, not to mention his Qin Lang's instigation, even if Sima Yi comes, he has to be instigated.

After Qin Lang received the report of the reconnaissance cavalry, he hesitated slightly, and then ordered the whole army to retreat and withdraw to Heyang County.

But before Qin Lang could withdraw his troops and return to Heyang City, Bi Rail and Dai Ling, who had gone around from the north, also returned to Heyang County with the Bingzhou cavalry.

It turned out that the Qianghu rangers did not assemble in the north of Hanoi County, they simply dispersed and retreated, and then divided their troops to the south, returned to Beizhong City, and joined the main force of Zhangxi.

Qin Lang's belief that the sneak attack on Yecheng only existed in Qin Lang's imagination.

Bi Liang also complained a lot about this, thinking that Qin Lang had consumed the horse's physical strength of the cavalry in vain, which reduced the combat effectiveness of the cavalry in disguise.

Dai Ling didn't dare to speak to Bi Rail, but Qin Lang would not be used to this Bi Rail's really relationship, Qin Lang was much harder than Bi Rail's relationship.

Qin Lang reprimanded Bi Liang on the spot, and then asked him to strictly abide by the military order and continue to reorganize the armament station.

Of course, this is just Qin Lang's means of standing up, not that Qin Lang is ready to fight for the second time. He has a lot to think about.

Qin Lang's first attempt to march ended in failure, and at the same time, it also made Qin Lang realize that the cavalry opened the way, but it was not as easy as he thought.

Yes, this time the Qianghu rangers of the Shu thieves did not go to Yecheng to sneak attack, but it doesn't mean that they can't sneak attack Yecheng. Whether to go or not and whether to do it or not are completely two different concepts.

And as Zhang Xi led his troops to break through to Beizhong City, Qin Lang's second idea of opening up the passage by storming Beizhong City also came to naught.

So. How can we avoid Zhang Xi, march into Wen County, and join Xiahouba?!

Qin Lang is really starting to have a headache now.

(End of chapter)