Ma Tan had better prepare for a long time and plan a big job in Nanyang.

However, because he was required to be present in the previous series of battles, if he died in the battle, he would not be able to fight. Therefore, from attacking Baye County to defending Kunyang and other battles, Ma Jian fought very conservatively.

That is, a series of conservative measures such as personally ascending in Kunyang, dividing troops in the father city, and personally going to the city to fight when they were guarded. This is still too challenging for Ma Jian now.

Now Ma Jian has a bigger appetite, and if he wants to die, he will die vigorously.

And this time he confronted Wang Ling in Runan, so that Ma Jian found an opportunity.

At present, although Ma Jian has delayed long enough, it has been two months since the capture of Kunyang. However, because Cao Wei's Wancheng defenders were politically passable, and the internal heroes were also inclined to Cao Wei, the Han army was unable to capture this place for a long time.

In this way, Ma Jian will have to continue to stall for time until Wancheng is captured. But looking at it now, in half a month at most, Wang Ling can rest assured that he will return to Dingling to attack Kunyang.

At that time, with Wang Ping's strength of less than 10,000 troops, facing the frontal siege of 100,000 troops, it is estimated that he will not be able to resist for long.

So at this time, the only way is for Ma Jian to stand up and stop Wang Ling in Runan.

So don't look at the extremely high risk of Ma Tan's arrangement, this is the only hope that the Han army can win. In the face of Cao Wei's counterattack, it is impossible for the weak to win without taking risks.

Zhang He also sees this very clearly, and also understands Ma Yan's character well. What the old horse decided to do, ten cows couldn't pull it back, and it was useless to persuade him.

"Stay safe, I'm waiting for you to come back and invite me for a drink." Zhang He patted Ma Yan's shoulder, and said the last sentence expressionlessly.

"Perhaps...... Wait for me to come back. Ma Jian smiled and nodded, and waved his hand to set a flag.

"Oh yes, help me hold this."

"What's that?"

"Just written military order ......"

"Fuck off!"

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After a few days of resting in Wuyin, Ma Yan's part basically rested. Subsequently, Ma Tan led more than 7,000 infantry, and nearly 3,000 cavalry came out from the Wuyin narrow road again and entered Runan.

At this time, Wang Ling had been guarding Xia Cai for several days, and he was gradually thinking about it.

Ma Tan had 10,000 men in his hands, and if he really wanted to keep him at that time, he would definitely suffer huge losses when the whole army was dispatched. But now after the war, when counted, most of the losses were trampled on each other, but there were not many losses in the battle with the Shu army.

This is a long-planned siege, this is clearly an empty city plan of deceit!

Ma Jian was scaring him from beginning to end, and he didn't really want to fight him at all! The funny thing is that he was so frightened by the other side that he immediately scattered and fled.

Thousands of people died by trampling on each other, and counting the missing and captured, a total of 5,000 soldiers disappeared directly into the battle sequence of the Wei army.

And after just a few days of delay, Qin Lang and Cao Shuang are estimated to be finished. In this regard, Wang Ling's blood pressure was a little higher, and he didn't know what to do next.

At this moment, the Han army has blocked the small gate to the south of Nanyang, the narrow road of Wuyin, and it will definitely not be able to enter it if it is hard hit. Moreover, Ma Jian was dancing in Yin, and Wang Ling did not dare to return to Dingling, after all, once he left, the entire Runan would never have peace.

If the Shu army is allowed to unite with the Eastern Wu in Huainan, the southeast is estimated to be completely finished.

Therefore, Wang Ling is neither advancing nor retreating, it is a dilemma.

But fortunately, Ma Jian helped him and quickly told him what to do.

In just a few days, the scouts came quickly, and Ma Tan led thousands of soldiers of the Shu army out of Wuyin. At this moment, the cavalry of the 3,000 Han army has been waving the banner of "Han Zhengbei General Horse", and has come straight to Ancheng from Wuyin, and the vanguard has crossed Rushui.

In the southern part of Runan, tens of thousands of bandits from Guishan rebelled against Runan, which seemed to have a tendency to respond to the southward movement of the Shu army.

This time around, Wang Ling knew what to do, quickly divided his troops to defend Xia Cai, and then personally led the main force south to defend Ancheng. At this time, the whole of Huainan was extremely important, but if Ma Tan was allowed to build a city in Runan, it would be extremely unfavorable to the situation.

You must know that Lu Xun's Wu army has crossed the Lujiang River and entered Anfeng County. This also caused Wang Ling not only to keep an eye on Ma Yan, but also to guard against Lu Xun, who was about to hit the back of his ass.

The pressure on the southern front is increasing......

However, Wang Ling led 30,000 soldiers and horses to the south by water, galloping all the way to Ancheng. But when he was about to arrive in Ancheng, Wang Ling received new information.

After Ma Tan crossed Rushui with 3,000 cavalry, he turned around again and went north again with the Wei army. At the same time, the main force of the Han army of nearly 8,000 soldiers went out of Wuyin and went north from Wufang, and the troops were directly designated in Yingxian County.

Wang Ling suddenly understood that he had been transferred away from the mountain!

Ma Tan's target is not Runan at all, this thing just wants to trick me into going south, and then take advantage of the gap to go north!

The cunning and cunning Ma Jian once again played with the honest man Wang Ling in the palm of his hand.

After Wang Ling reacted, he quickly led the troops to return north again, but it was already a little late.

There were not many Wei troops left in Xia Cai, and he did not dare to go out of the city in the face of the Shu army with Ma Tan in charge. As a result, the Shu army was able to pass through Xia Cai unimpeded, and attacked Dingying County, two hundred miles north of Xia Cai.

Dingying County is the location of the garrison that Ma Jian carefully selected and finally decided.

It was located north of Runan, just stuck on the waterway network of the Wei army's return to Dingling. Moreover, this is one of the few places on the Runan Plain that has topography that can be relied on.

The rest of the place is a flat river, although suitable for 3,000 cavalry, but the infantry is too difficult to hold. In particular, Ma Jian still needs to divide his troops into multiple ways, so the difficulty will increase a lot.

The most important thing is that Dingying is not far from Yingchuan, and Ma Jian is stationed here, so it is impossible for the Wei army to dare to attack Kunyang with confidence. Therefore, even if the Eastern Wu army was defeated in Hefei, Wang Ling would not dare to rashly go north to attack Kunyang before he could deal with Ma Tan.

Therefore, Dingying is the most ideal place for Ma Jian to guard.

After Wang Ling returned to Xia Cai with his troops in a hurry, he quickly learned of Ma Yan's latest moves.

"Dingying? Ma Jian is stationed here, does he want to go north to threaten Yingchuan? Wang Ling was a little nervous, looking at the series of movements of the Shu army, his brain was already a little unable to keep up at the moment.

Ma Jian moved too fast, and Wang Ling, who was already in his sixties, was already a little confused.

However, judging from the map, the location of Ma Tan's garrison is too close to Xudu. That position was both a grain pass and a necessary way for the army to return north, and could not be occupied by the enemy under any circumstances.

So without the slightest hesitation, Wang Ling made the decision to send troops and prepared to go north to attack the Shu army in Dingying.

(End of chapter)