The fall of Nanshan does not mean that Wang Hou is stable. During the Battle of Zhuge Liang's Jieting, this was the territory of the Wei Kingdom. Although the Di people in Tianshui rebelled, there were many Wei troops controlling the roads and providing support. Zhang He's 50,000 cavalry could directly rush to Kong Ming, the descendant of Zhuge Liang, who exploded Zhuge Liang near Longxi City, but Wang Hou did not capture a single territory in Longshang.

He paid the price to give up the Wei River, but he had to move step by step between the rugged loess hills to the Yicheng, the capital of Liangzhou, like a kowtow worm.

And this is also Ma Chao’s opportunity!

In fact, the Loess Plateau is not like the loess sky full of loess, desolate and desolate. On the dry land, wrinkled old farmers worked hard to reclaim several acres of wasteland. Especially when it was not overdeveloped at this time, the loess slopes were covered with green straw shrubs, lush and green, and more than half a person tall, and hares were jumping inside from time to time.

But there was a peaceful and melodious atmosphere of nature. The Liaodong Army below could not feel it. There were so many cattle in the middle carrying food. The Goguryeo people and Fuyu people escorted on both sides were watching with spears on both sides, and their nerves were extremely tense.

But even so alert, I still couldn't help but tilt! Suddenly, a gun was thrown out in the grass on the mountain with a howling wind. While watching from the left and right, the Liaodong infantry, like a mongoose, had time to let out a scream of despair. In the tragic sound of the puff, the whole person was penetrated by a long and hard thing, and the blood from Liaodong was brightly scattered on this dry land.

"Di people attack!"

The shrill shouts accompanied by the desolate ox-horned military horns. The living recruiting light infantry immediately raised the wooden shield hanging on the horse, and tremblingly went outward to the depths. The long grain transport team's wings, the Xianbei riders who were escorting quickly rushed over with the reins of the horse. The rain-like steel-headed arrows fell into the bushes at the place where the attack was launched.

Even people and animals were in trouble. In the dense rain of arrows, a rabbit escaped in panic, but did not run a few meters. With the sound of flesh and blood rupture, the rabbit with an arrow hit the ground with an arrow tail flapping. Not far away, the few Di people attacked were running away. But how could a person run over the arrow? In the crackling rain, the Di people running behind him suddenly appeared on the bare thighs. When his legs and feet were weak, the man fell to the ground.

Full of fear, the Di people who were caught in the arrow reached out to their companions in despair, but the spreading rain of arrows had already nailed over, from feet to head, nailed his entire body, like an insect specimen with a big head, cruelly nailed to the ground, maintaining the posture of falling to the ground forever.

However, the attack of the Di people was still successful. Just as the grain transport team was attracted and focused their attention on their heads, behind them, more than a dozen people suddenly emerged from the originally silent shrubs on the side of the Tao.

He was still stunned and staring at the fun. Suddenly, the infantrymen who were driving the Qiang cattle on this side were sobbing and strangled their necks from behind. The sharp stone blades struck by. When the large army guarding the food turned around, they only saw a few recruits who were not dead with bloody throats, as well as the backs of Di people who had snatched the food bags and were leaping into the mountains.

Humans are not machines. The fear of dying on the spot anytime and anywhere makes the entire team tremble. It took more than ten minutes for the officers responsible for supervision to stabilize the army again and continue to transport food and grass forward.

On this road, four more attacks were encountered, and the transportation team successfully transported the food and grass to the front line, left Jieting, and went deep into the camp 110 miles deep in Longshan.

As soon as he entered the camp, the earthen walls built with loess on the mountain roads, every recruiting soldier who transported food breathed a sigh of relief and arrived here alive. Now he saved his life from the God of Death.

It was not only these grain transport teams that breathed a sigh of relief. In the southwest, a large number of grassland light cavalry recruited were also relieved and tired. Some of them, even horses, were shot by the long arrows of the Qiang or Di people, and returned with bloody wounds, which was particularly terrifying.

The loess high slopes washed out by flowing water, and the rugged loess slopes in Longzhong are really not their home ground! In one day, the cavalry patrolled within a radius of dozens of miles and looked for the enemy's decisive battles were hit by many ambushings. The towering earth slopes and low-lying platforms were attacked. Even the fierce and combative Xianbei people on weekdays still looked tense in this fragmented ambush and anti-ambush battle.

On a map, the central army was densely covered with contour lines and red forks of all sizes. However, a series of red arrows, Ma Chao's main force of Xiliang cavalry still appeared on Wang Hou's map all the time.

"So, Ma Chao retreated twenty miles westward and retreated to Lueyang!"

Listening to the report of the frightened Xianbei tribe general, Wang Hou quietly used a red pen to sway the red arrow of the main force of the Xiliang Army to the west a little further.

However, at this time, the curtain of the tent was suddenly lifted open, full of anger, and Cao Zhang looked impatient again and grinned and rushed in from outside.

"I said brother-in-law! How long should we go around the Xiliang bandits in these loess slopes?"

"There are more than 400 people in the camp today! Cheng Ji is in the west and Xingguo is in the south. Our army is in the hands of Ma Chao several times that of Ma Chao. If you don't go south quickly to capture the important land of Longnan, but you are wasting time here with the thieves. Isn't this falling into the horse thief's trap? For many years, can't you even see clearly?"

Not to mention, what Cao Zhang said this time is right. Ma Chao has few soldiers. He has no strength to fight head-on with Wang Hou, so his main way of fighting is to harass Wang Hou's army along the way, destroy Wang Hou's food route, and obstruct his advance. The slower the Liaodong army marched, the more beneficial it is to him. Once the food is consumed, Wang Hou had to retreat, and he fell into Ma Chao's pursuit time again.

However, Wang Hou was really like a donkey kicked in the head this time. He only marched for forty miles a day and set up a battalion. He had to spend two days building this camp, and then he continued to send scattered cavalry to sweep nearby, playing hide-and-seek with the Liang army.

Behind the rear, the grain from Jingyuan was transported to various military camps one by one like checkers. Along the way, huge amounts of food were wasted on road transportation. Every day could be calculated with gold. It made Cao Zhang, a deputy general who had no soldiers, was anxious!

However, the emperor was really not anxious. The eunuch was so anxious that he was so anxious that he had a big blister in his mouth, but Wang Hou still looked unfathomable and waved his slap indifferently.

"I have a plan, so General Cao can take charge of his own affairs!"

"you!"

He was so angry that he was about to explode. Seeing Wang Hou turning his head back to the map, ignoring himself, the corners of his mouth twitched. Cao Zhang threw his sleeves in anger and turned around dullly and left the tent again.

But at this moment, in the evening night, a large firework exploded more than ten miles away. At this time, the sky was already dark, and it was clear that the entire military camp was clearly visible.

He was so angry that Cao Zhang once again got back to the central army tent, then grinned and shouted there.

"The military situation is so urgent, do you still have the heart to set off fireworks? You are also in a horse shape! You are hopeless!"

"Fireworks? Your horse exploded?"

Who knew that Wang Hou was so excited that he ignored the map report and hurriedly pushed Cao Zhang away and rushed out of the tent.

Unfortunately, he couldn't see it anymore, and the sky was still silent, but soldiers were whispering there everywhere.

Cao Zhanggang followed him out in confusion, but saw that Wang Hou was already pulling the collar of the personal soldiers next to him like a madman, and also grinned and shouted excitedly.
Chapter completed!