Ma Chao had never expected that he was attacked by troops in Chencang City. In the end, he fought hard for more than half a month and lost more than 10,000 people, but he still couldn't capture Chencang City. What made him feel the most bitter was that even if he found someone to make an idea, Zhong Yao was captured. The young people in Hanyang were caught, beaten, and repelled. The rest were all silent and were thrown in Hanyang.

"Is it useless to me, Ma Chao, that? Even the 50,000 troops cannot capture a Chencang City? What else can I say to guide the world?" Ma Chao smiled bitterly and gradually lost confidence.

At this moment, there was only a burst of cheers coming from Chen Cang City, and Ma Chao was even more nervous. He thought it was the other party who came to rescue the troops, so he quickly led his army back to Hanyang, strengthened the city defense and prepared to defend the death.

The place Ma Chao guarded was also a military important place. This place is called Longguan. This is one of the necessary paths to Guanzhong from Longyou. The terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. In fact, at the beginning, Zhong Yao's strategy was to let Ma Chao send people to defend Longguan and then lead the main force to take Wuwei. However, Ma Chao believed that he had already made great contributions to Chen Cang before, and now Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu are both incompetent, so he can easily occupy Chen Cang, so he insisted on attacking Chen Cang. Zhong Yao also believed that he could use the strategy of fighting east and west, attracting Pei Qing's army by attacking Chen Cang, and then leading the main force to attack Wuwei, which would have a greater chance of winning. However, he did not expect that just attacking Chen Cang would bring such a big trouble to Ma Chao. For the current plan, Ma Chao had no choice but to defend Longguan.

However, it is surprising that no one launched an attack on Longguan in the following days. At the beginning, Ma Chao was still happy, but after a few days, he gradually became worried. Even he knew that this was probably not a good sign.

As a result, it turned out that Ma Chao's worries were not unreasonable, because at this time Ma Chao received news that the Wuwei prefect Cheng Gongying, under Pei Qing's command, led 5,000 cavalry to advance lightly, marched continuously for three days and nights to Jincheng. At this time, Jincheng actually had 7,000 soldiers led by Liang Xing, the general under Ma Chao. Although it seemed that there were many people, most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, and had no real combat power. When he saw the resourceful Cheng Gongying leading his army to arrive, Liang Xing felt even more disappointed. He knew that he was not the opponent of Cheng Gongying. In addition, he betrayed Han Sui before, and felt a little guilty, so he did not dare to go out of the city to meet the enemy. He just hurried in the city and did not actively deploy defenses. He just drank to relieve his boredom every day, and at the same time made plans to escape.

Then something worsened. Just when the capital of Yunwu City, Jincheng County was besieged by Cheng Gongying, a riot occurred between Linqiang and Xipingting in the western part of Jincheng County. The leader of this riot was from the famous local clan, the Qu family. The Qu family originated from the Shangshu Ling Ju Tan at the end of the Western Han Dynasty. Because he avoided the disaster, his son Ju Gu Yi ran to Xiping, and at the same time changed the Ju surname to the Qu surname. From then on, he took root in the local area and took nearly two hundred years. In these two hundred years, in order to survive in the Qiang settlement, the descendants of the Qu family not only took measures to win over the local Qiang people, but also established powerful armed forces to protect their property and personal safety. Therefore, all the children of the Qu family were brave and good at fighting, and actually controlled the western part of Jincheng.

It is precisely because of the important position of the Qu family in Jincheng, especially in the western part of Jincheng that both Han Sui and Ma Teng tried their best to win over them. Even Ma Chao, although he was young, knew the importance of winning over the Qu family and won them a lot of money. However, he did not expect that the Qu family would rebel. The rebellion of the Qu family immediately made the situation in the entire Jincheng County worse. Liang Xing was even more unwilling to defend the city. Finally, he hesitated again and again. Liang Xing actually packed up the goods of gold, pearls, jade and silk, and sneaked away with his family and his personal soldiers on the night he received the news.

The next morning, when the leaderless soldiers in the city guarding the city saw that they had lost their chief general, they naturally became even more unwilling to fight and fled in all directions. Some clever ones opened the city gate and surrendered to Cheng Gongying.

So Cheng Gongying captured Jincheng very easily. Not long after, the people of the Qu family arrived at Yunwu City and surrendered to Cheng Gongying.

Cheng Gongying had already received news in advance that the Qu family of Xiping in Jincheng County would raise an army to respond, because Cheng Gongying knew that Qu Yi had surrendered Pei Qing, and also knew that Qu Yi had arrived in Xiping alone. He must have persuaded his tribe members to rise up and respond. As a result, Qu Yi still had a considerable say in his tribe members, and he actually persuaded his tribe members to raise an army and surrender.

Although Qu Yi is just a general who is the first to become a Central Army General, Cheng Gongying knew that he would soon be promoted this time, and he was all colleagues, so he naturally did not dare to neglect him. When he saw the Qu family surrender, he was naturally very enthusiastic and kind to them and tried his best to help them.

The news that Cheng Gongying captured Jincheng County soon reached Ma Chao's ears. Ma Chao felt unbelievable after hearing the news. He really didn't expect Pei Qing's revenge to come so quickly, and he didn't expect that his hard-working defense would have no effect now. It was not until this time that Ma Chao realized that no wonder Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew did not attack Longguan. It turned out that they had known that Pei Qing had ordered an attack on Jincheng County and formed a front and back attack with them. Since this is the case, why should they spend manpower and material resources to attack Longguan, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack?

"This Pei Qing is really cunning. In this way, I am facing a situation of being attacked from both sides. How can I fight against Pei Qing's powerful power with just one Hanyang, one Longxi, and one Wu?"

Ma Chao couldn't help but smile bitterly. He had no choice but to withdraw his troops and return to Longxi. If it really didn't work, he could only run to the Qiang tribe to avoid disaster.

However, at this moment, Ma Chao heard another news that shocked him. Some people in Hanyang County were rebelled, and the rebels were the officials from Ji County whom he had sent people to closely monitor. The rebellion was caused by Jiang Jiong, Zhao Ang, Liang Kuan, Zhao Qu, Yin Feng and others. They led the villagers to rush into the prison to rescue Jiang Xu and Zhao Ang, the cousin, and then handed over the command to these two people. Jiang Xu and Yang Fu were not polite. They led the villagers to attack the government and incited Bai to launch an attack, killed Zhang Heng, the garrison general of Ji County, and directly occupied the entire Ji County, and elected Jiang Xu to temporarily serve as the prefect of Hanyang.

At this time, Jiang Xu naturally could not refuse, so he took office with mercy and announced that Hanyang County would surrender to Pei Qing.

"This Pei Qing, I really didn't expect that his revenge would be so cruel and fast, and I occupied my Hanyang County. Alas, I originally wanted to go to Longxi to defend, but now it seems that there is no need. If someone rebels after getting there, wouldn't I even have a foothold? I'd better go to Wudu. After I get there, I just need to occupy Sanguan to defend myself. If it really doesn't work, I will rely on Zhang Lu in Hanzhong. I will work with Zhang Lu to fight Pei Qing, and maybe there is a possibility of self-protection."
Chapter completed!