When the Xiliang spear-intensive square formation abandoned the spear and used a short knife to fight against the Lu Bu army, the individual combat power of these elite Xiliang spear soldiers could not keep up with the Lu Bu army's garrison recruits. The Hu Ben's sword and shield heavy infantry small square formations rushed around the Xiliang army like small tanks.

The short sword in the hand of the spearmen cannot cause any damage to the heavy infantry behind the shield wall. On the contrary, the opponent stabs and kills them one by one with a short sword or a javelin used as a short spear. When the Hu Ben Mo Dao Warrior is in a state of fighting with a sword and shield, he prefers to fight alone. He waves a Mo Dao Warrior who is more than one meter long with a shield and slashes and kills them. Each Mo Dao Warrior can kill three or four Xiliang infantry in a moment.

The Western Liang Iron Cavalry located on both wings also suffered heavy losses. The surviving one turned his horse's head and ran down the slope. But the Tiger Shooters of the Lu Bu Army and the crossbowmen in the garrison were unwilling to let them go so easily. They chased the fleeing cavalry one by one. Especially the Tiger Shooters' arrows, they shot fast and accurate, and almost every arrow could penetrate into the back of a fleeing cavalry.

The signal of the Western Liang army's retreat was already ringing. In fact, before the gong was ringing, the Western Liang soldiers were all thinking of escaping the battlefield, but most of them were entangled by the other party and could not escape. Now, the Western Liang soldiers began to flee on a large scale regardless of the situation. Everyone thought in their hearts that as long as they ran faster than others, they would have more chances to survive. The already dense Western Liang soldiers suddenly crowded into groups and stepped on each other, while the killing of the Lu Bu army was still continuing.

"We are defeated! What we need to do now is to minimize the losses as much as possible," Ma Teng said with a sigh. Before he could finish his words, Ma Chao had already led dozens of personal soldiers to rush forward to the formation. He wanted to use his counterattack to win back his morale and let the soldiers of Xiliang withdraw from the battlefield as much as possible.

Most of the 50,000 Xiliang army had been killed and injured, and the rest had run westward in a daze. Lu Bu's army chased them and entered the narrow plains between the hills again. Ma Chao rushed over and used the silver spear in his hand to kill many Lu Bu's soldiers. A powerful general of Lu Bu's army also rushed into the formation with his personal soldiers and fought with Ma Chao.

The general was Xiahou Yuan, who waved his sword to slash at Ma Chao. The hundred elite cavalry guards who followed him also fought with Ma Chao's personal soldiers. After less than two rounds of battle, Li Meng also came with twenty personal soldiers. Ma Chao was not at a disadvantage in fighting the second generals, but his personal soldiers were killed by the second generals and guards. Ma Chao shot and drove away.

Xia and Li chased each other closely behind. Ma Chao quietly took off the crossbow, turned around and shot Li Meng's face, and shot him down. Then he wanted to turn the horse to kill Xiahou Yuan. At this time, Zang Ba, Hao Meng and other generals of Lu Bu arrived and surrounded him. Seeing this, Ma Chao knew that his fists could not match the hands, so he had to give up and continue to run towards the rear of the formation.

At this time, Han Sui had gathered his troops and fled westward. Ma Teng took over Ma Chao and fled westward. They ran for more than a hundred miles, and only stopped to count the troops after leaving the territory of Tianshui County. In this battle, Ma Han and his two suffered heavy losses, with a total strength of 50,000 people at this time.

Lu Bu counted the results of the battle, killed nearly 30,000 people at the enemy's head level, captured nearly 10,000 people, and the rest were dispersed, while he suffered only less than 2,000 casualties, which was a great victory. Lu Bu knew that after this battle, Mahan and Han from Xiliang were no longer able to invade Guanzhong in the east in a short time.

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On the old road in Liangzhou, a group of uneven and ragged military troops heading west in dejectedly. It was the retreating Ma Teng and Han Sui's troops. Ma Teng regretted this Eastern Expedition. He was originally in Liangzhou, so why did he have to come to Guanzhong to join in the fun?

At that time, Ma Chao also opposed it, but Han Sui encouraged him to say that this eastward expedition to fight against Lu Yi could establish prestige among the generals of Xiliang in Guanzhong, and secondly, to prevent Lu Bu from occupying Guanzhong and further westward to Liangzhou. Thirdly, he might take Guanzhong into actual possession, instead of just being the overlord of Yongliang, and then use this as the foundation to overlook the world. These words finally made him determined to go east to fight against Lu.

But Ma Teng didn't expect this to be the result. At the beginning, he thought that even if he was defeated, he would just withdraw back to Liangzhou. Now his elite troops have been completely lost and become weak. It has become a relatively difficult thing to defend Liangzhou.

Ma Teng, who was thinking a lot, suddenly heard the noise behind the team. He was shocked and said, "Maybe the enemy has caught up again?" Turning his head and seeing dozens of cavalry flying towards the team in the distance. The rear army had already begun to guard, and hundreds of cavalry of Xiliang had already met.

Ma Teng saw from a distance that the other party leader said a few words to a military marquis of his own. The military marquis rushed towards him, jumped off the horse, and knelt on one knee to report: "Report to the general, a small group of people claimed to be the lieutenant of the marquis sent by the court, and asked to see the general."

Zhong Yao squinted his eyes and looked at the two middle-aged uncles in front of him, then bowed and said, "I am the Sili-Captain Zhong Yao. Can you ask if you are the general Ma Teng, the Western Expedition, who is the powerful general of Yongliang, and the general of Zhenxi, Han Sui,?"

Ma Teng and Han Sui would not be too arrogant about this "official official". Seeing the other party say this, he quickly replied, "It's Ma Teng, this is my sworn brother Han Sui. I have met Zhong Sili here. I don't know what the hell is going to do when Sili goes west."

"Of course, I came for the matter of Lu Bu. The emperor specially ordered me to contact the generals of Yongliang with integrity and join forces to fight against the Lu bandits. Previously, Liang Xing and others had joined forces to resist Lu Bu in the north. Yao came to Liangzhou this time and invited the two to enter Guanzhong east to attack Lu." Zhong Yao said straight to the point.

Han Sui next to him smiled bitterly and said to Zhong Yao: "We just fought a big battle with Lu Bu. When we came out of Liangzhou, we brought 50,000 elite troops. This is all our family. Look at how many there are now." He said and pointed to the team.

Ma Teng continued to say, "Zhong Sili, our army had just fought with Lu Bu's army. Ma was defeated by him. Now there are only 10,000 soldiers. It is not easy to protect Liangzhou by this strength. How can we have the extra troops to enter Guanzhong? We went to Guanzhong, what should we do if we do this Liangzhou? Will we give it to Lu Bu?"

Zhong Yao looked at the army behind them and confirmed that what they said was true. He sighed and wanted to say goodbye, but he was unwilling to go for such a trip. After thinking about it, he said to Ma Teng: "Can the general borrow a army of two thousand people? Zhong Yao will go to meet the other generals of Guanzhong to fight against Lu Bu. In this way, the general's Liangzhou can also reduce a lot of pressure."

Next to him, Han Sui's face changed and he said with anger: "The court sent you out to Lianheng Guanzhong. Your lord Cao Cao didn't give you any soldiers? He thought about making money from nothing and doing business without money. He wanted to raise an army with us. You didn't have eyes to see that we were defeated just now..."
Chapter completed!