Just when Dong Zhuo was desperate, a roar and the sound of horses' hooves erupted on the riverbank. Dong Zhuo thought that more Xiliang Iron Cavalry was coming, but he was surprised to find that after the sound of horses' hooves, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, who was ambushing Dong Zhuo's troops, broke the siege of Dong Zhuo's troops one after another, retreated back in an orderly manner, and then headed to the east.

Dong Zhuo didn't understand what was wrong with Xiliang Tieqi, the only thing he understood was that no matter what happened, he had to quickly lead the remnants of the defeated generals to escape, and the farther away the better. The remnants of Dong Zhuo's cavalry had a strong desire to survive, and without waiting for Dong Zhuo's order, they rushed out of the riverbed and went up to the north bank of Weishui.

Dong Zhuo went up to the shore and took a look, only to know that it was Li Ru and Dong Min who led two thousand horsemen, who were being chased by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

Dong Zhuo hurriedly ordered Dong Min to lead his troops to retreat to him and flee north together.

Ma Chao was a little annoyed. Originally, his plan to lure the enemy deeper had already worked. Dong Zhuo's troops, who were ambushed by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, have been killed half, as long as the ambush continues, it will not take an hour to destroy all of Dong Zhuo's cavalry, so that Dong Zhuo has no soldiers available, and there will be no later "Dong Zhuo enters Beijing".

Who knew that at this time, he didn't know where a cavalry came out, wanting to take advantage of the fact that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was concentrating on attacking Dong Zhuo's troops and sneak attack the back of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. Fortunately, Ma Dai's knights found out in time and warned in time, so they didn't let the more than 2,000 riders succeed. Ma Chao was furious, so he transferred away from all the iron horsemen, trying to catch up with the two thousand horsemen who had done bad things to him.

As soon as he was transferred, Ma Chao regretted it, because he unlocked the ambush circle, allowing Dong Zhuo to lead the remnants of the defeated army to escape. The two thousand horsemen joined Dong Zhuo and fled north.

Ma Chao remembered that his more important task was to intercept Huangfu Song, anyway, this ambush could already make Dong Zhuo lose most of it, so he no longer paid attention to Dong Zhuo who fled, united the whole army, and marched towards Chen Cangcheng.

After dozens of miles of double roads, Ma Chao led his troops to Chencang City, but found that there was no Huangfu Song Department on the vast plain west of Chencang City. Ma Chao has been leading his troops to chase to the battlefield, but he has not found the Huangfu Song Department.

Could it be that Huangfu Song, with divine help, actually led a group of remnants of the defeated army and hid in the camp? Ma Chao led the army to the official army camp, but found that the official army camp had been empty.

Could it be that Huangfu Song rushed back before he rushed back, and led his troops to take the lead in hiding in Chencang City, fifty miles away?

Ma Chao led the army to Chencang City again, but found that Chencang City, like the big camp, was also unmanned.

Ma Chao understood at this time, it turned out that Huangfu Song had expected that after driving Dong Zhuo away, he would definitely lead the army back. And Huangfu Song expected that the camp was not as strong as the city. The morale of the officers and soldiers was low, and in the face of the attack of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, the large battalion would definitely not be able to hold it.

Huangfu Song also expected that the distance between Chen Cangcheng and Chen Cangcheng was too far, and no matter how the officers and troops dominated by infantry treked, they would not be as fast as the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and if they wanted to escape to Chen Cangcheng, they would definitely be driven back on the way and he led the Iron Cavalry to intercept them; Therefore, Huangfu Song must have chosen other cities as the direction of escape.

The closest and relatively strong and tall city to Chencang City is in Yongxian County, which is about 100 miles north of Chencang. But if you retreat to Yongxian County and hold on, it will make way for the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to open the way to Chang'an City and Hangu Pass. The two most important places in the entire Sanfu are Chang'an City and Hangu Pass. Chang'an City is the heart of Guanzhong, and Hangu Pass is the gateway of Guanzhong. As long as Chang'an City and Hangu Pass are captured, it is equivalent to guarding the three assistants in the pass, and they are tightly pinched in the palm of their hands.

Therefore, in order to preserve the entire Sanfu, in order to protect Chang'an City and Hangu Pass, Huangfu Song had to retreat east along Weishui. And along the Weishui to the east, the nearest and relatively large city is Yixian. Yixian, Ma Chao is also well-known, because in history, Dong Zhuo built Yiwu there. Yiwu is to Dong Zhuo what the wolf's den is to Hitler.

Ma Chaogang wanted to integrate all the iron cavalry, endure the fatigue of his body, and continue to pursue the Huangfu Song Department who fled to Yixian County to expand the results of the battle. However, the lieutenants Yi Jianji and Zhi Yuanduo, who had led their troops into the official army camp and Chen Cangcheng on his orders, all came back to report that there were a large number of military rations hoarded in the camp and Chen Cangcheng. Among them, there are 650,000 stones in the camp, and there are 2 million stones in the city of Chencang.

As soon as he heard this good news, Ma Chao's eyes straightened! Xiliang is so vast, and the grain is only hundreds of thousands of stones. And the official army is only in Daying and Chencang City, there are five times as much grain as Liangzhou! Ma Chao couldn't help but sigh, this official army is really a big family!

Ma Chao was busy and personally went to inspect the treasury of Chen Cangcheng, and after seeing the mountains of grain, the fatigue of the day of fighting was immediately swept away!

Ma Chao thought, now, there will be no more hunger worries in Liangzhou!

So Ma Chao was immediately carried away by the food, thinking that the soldiers would be tired from a day of bloody fighting anyway, so he simply didn't go after Huangfu Song.

Ma Teng came, and after discussing with Ma Chao, he also decided to transport this batch of grain back to Liangzhou as soon as possible. Otherwise, if it is stored here in Chencang, in case the battle situation changes, the military rations will be taken back by the officers and soldiers.

But to be transported back to Liangzhou, Ma Teng made a difficulty. He does have a lot of vehicles needed to transport grain, but some time ago, because he had just dismissed the reserve army and the people, there was no one else here except Sergeant Xiliang. It will take more than ten or twenty days to recruit the servants to come.

They wanted to transport grain back to Liangzhou, but they lacked the manpower needed to transport it. Ma Teng and Ma Chao both made difficulties, and they couldn't think of a good way for a while.

At this time, Cheng Gongying, who had been silent, stood up and made a suggestion that there were many displaced people who had migrated from Nanyang in the entire Sanfu, and it was estimated that there were 160,000 people in Youfufeng. Cheng Gongying persuaded Ma Teng to encourage these displaced people to come to transport grain, promising that as long as the displaced people transported grain, or go to Liangzhou with the grain transportation team, the Assassin Mansion would settle down for them, and they would be included in the uniform field system, and the land would be given orally.

And Liangzhou, which has been devastated by war for a long time, is sparsely populated. When Ma Chao did not recover Hexi, Liangzhou had a population of only 1.85 million. After the recovery of Hexi, because Han Sui took away the population of Dunhuang County, the population of Hexi was added, and the population of Liangzhou was only 2.2 million. Jizhou, which has an area of only one-sixth of Liangzhou, has a population of 6 million or hundreds of thousands. The sparse population of Liangzhou can be seen.

While the population is sparse, half of the acres of land controlled by the Thorn Mansion are still uncultivated. If the acres are not cultivated, within a few years, they will be overgrown with barren grass and become wasteland, causing great waste.