? Murong Ping went upstream along the Western Han Dynasty and reconnaissed Wudu Road in one breath. Then he went east to the Jieting where the army was hiding, preparing to report the reconnaissance results in the past two days to Ma Chao.

What Murong Ping did not expect was that when he rode into Jieting Town, he could not find any trace of the Xiliang army. When he asked the people in the town, no one knew about it. Just when Murong Ping was at a loss, he suddenly felt that someone had been hit by a stone on his back. So when he looked back, he saw Duan Wei, dressed as a farmer, winking at him, and then followed Duan Wei out of Jieting Town quietly, and walked around to a dense forest, and finally saw the commander Ma Chao and his troops.

Murong Ping told all the information he had detected along the way, and Tian Yu's face became more and more serious.

"You mean that the chief general who besieged Xiabian City is not the word Sima?" Tian Yu asked Murong Ping.

"It's true that the handsome flag is just the word Zhang, and I haven't seen the Sima family." Murong Ping said with great certainty.

"Can it be that Zhang Ren from Yizhou has left the Sichuan River?" Tian Yu said to himself, "Zhang Ren appeared under Xiabian City, so where has Sima Yi been?"

"How many enemy troops are there in the besieging Xiabiancheng?" Ma Chao asked.

"From the reconnaissance situation, there are at least 20,000 people." Murong Ping replied.

"Meng Qi, we are in trouble now. At first, we only thought that the siege of Xiabian City was the 30,000 troops led by Sima Yi. Now it seems that there are probably only a few soldiers and horses that the Yizhou army invaded Wudu. Zhang Ren and Sima Yi's troops combined are at least 50,000, and Sima Yi is still missing. This battle is probably difficult to fight." Tian Yu said with a somewhat ugly expression after analysis.

Ma Chao looked at the map without making a sound for a long time, and finally pointed his finger at Wududao to the west of Jieting Town, and then said: "Shanglu City, on the west of Xiabian City, has not yet fallen, and Xiabian City is surrounded. Then Hechi City to the east of Xiabian City is either under the siege of Sima Yi's army or has been taken down by him. Therefore, we must get stuck on Wududao to avoid Sima Yi and Zhang Ren from forming an encirclement of our army."

Tian Yu looked at the map near Wududao and nodded and said, "Wududao is guarding the upper reaches of the Western Han River. Not far behind him are Didao County in Longxi County and Xixian County in Hanyang County. If it is taken away by the Yizhou army, our army will inevitably be encircled and there is no way to lose. However, Shanglu City has not yet fallen, so we should not give in. Therefore, after occupying Wududao, the army will be divided into two routes, one way to the south and one way to stay in Wududao."

Ma Chao then ordered the army to set sail, leading 10,000 cavalry to rush to Wududao, leaving Duan Wei to lead his commander 3,000 troops to guard the city, and he took the remaining 7,000 main forces to continue down the Western Han River and heading to Shanglu City.

It was a coincidence that after Sima Yi let Murong Ping over, he waited for two days in the ambushed canyon, but he did not wait for Han Wei to rescue the army. Sima Yi only thought that the guards in Shanglu City were a calm person, so he carefully led a group of people out of the canyon and moved closer to Shanglu City. The main force was still left in the canyon by him. Sima Yi divided his troops like this, with the purpose of using himself as bait to lure the defenders stationed in Shanglu City out of the city to pursue, and then wipe out Han Wei's troops in the canyon.

Sima Yi didn't know that there were actually no regular troops stationed in Shanglu City. When he saw hundreds of defenders sparsely on the head of Shanglu City, he thought that the master guarding the city was playing a trick of trying to get, so he ordered Chen Shi to go and curse the master guarding the city first, hoping to scold the master guarding the city.

Chen Shi cursed under Shanglu City for half a day, and was very depressed to find that no one paid attention to him at all. Of course, no one would pay attention to him in the city. The brothers were looking at the thousands of troops suddenly appearing under the city, confused.

The county magistrate in Shanglu City met Murong Ping who came to reconnaissance two days ago. He had learned that Xiabian was surrounded. According to Murong Ping's suggestion, he gathered the 500 reserve soldiers who were originally responsible for public security in the city, blocked the four gates, and waited for the Xiliang army to come and take over the city.

The county magistrate was determined to surrender, but when he thought of Jin's way of handling officials surrendered without fighting, he was so worried. He would rather choose to live and die with the city, and at least he could get a good pension for his family after death. But if he chose not to surrender without fighting, he would have to live in the endless pursuit of Jin in the future.

Just as Sima Yi was about to attack the east gate of Shanglu City, Ma Chao led 7,000 Western Liang cavalry from the upper reaches of the Western Han River to outside the north gate of Shanglu City. The cavalry marched, covered with dust and could be seen several miles away, so it was naturally difficult to hide. So Sima Yi led the army to retreat eastward without waiting for Ma Chao to catch him.

Sima Yi thought to himself: "Fortunately he did not attack Shanglucheng rashly, otherwise the cavalry that suddenly appeared and captured the retreat of our army when the battle was lively. That would be really dangerous."

Sima Yi's army was placed not far outside Shanglu City, so naturally it did not escape the reconnaissance of the Western Liang Army. Ma Chao followed Tian Yu's advice and mainly occupied Shanglu City. He did not chase Sima Yi and went east, just avoiding the possibility of Sima Yi being ambushed in the nameless valley.

Sima Yi, who retreated to the canyon, immediately sent someone to go outside Shanglu City for reconnaissance. Only then did he learn that the cavalry he saw from afar today was actually the cavalry of Jin State, and the commander of the army was Ma Teng's eldest son Ma Chao. Until this time, Sima Yi still didn't know where Han Wei was.

Sima Yi retreated to the canyon area, and Ma Chao sent Murong Ping to reconnaissance. Not long after, Murong Ping returned to Shanglu City with a heavy sweat and reported his astonishing discovery to Ma Chao.

Last time Murong Ping was anxious to go to Shanglu City, so he just felt that the terrain of the canyon was steep. This time he watched Sima Yi lead his troops into the canyon with his own eyes, and then there was no trace. Murong Ping was not a fool, so he naturally knew the power of this. He probably didn't detect Sima Yi's trace last time, but he was afraid that he had already hidden in the canyon. If the Xiliang army did not know the depth and plunged into it this time, it would be really impossible to die without a burial place.

After listening to Murong Ping's report, Ma Chao was also secretly shocked. Fortunately, he followed Tian Yu's advice just now and did not rashly send troops to pursue Sima Yi.

Sima Yi and Ma Chao's army have not yet fought, but have fought wits and courage for several rounds. Now that the Xiliang army has entered Shanglu City, it has temporarily curbed the Yizhou army's march westward to north; and as long as the Yizhou army defends the canyon, they can be assured to siege Xiabian defenders and no longer worry about the Jin** team in Shanglu City coming to rescue.

For a moment, the situation in Wudu fell into a stalemate. ~
Chapter completed!