Besides, Zhao Yun and Tian Feng's army, Li You led 5,000 Flying Bear Army and 5,000 Brutal Bear Army as the vanguard. After leaving Urasaka, the army advanced rapidly and entered Fengyi without any obstacles. When Li You's army arrived at Fengyi, the city gates were wide open, and the soldiers guarding the city were careless and lazy. The army even ran away from the distance, and no one organized defense or resistance. Li You took Fengyi without any resistance, which made Li You very puzzled.

After the army completely controlled Fengyi City, we learned that after understanding it, Ma Teng's army in Xiliang had already captured Chang'an City two days ago. As for Fengyi? Ma Teng's army had not sent a large army to accept it, and the former soldiers guarding Zhang Ji were transferred away by Zhang Ji. The current Fengyi City is actually an empty city.

Li You immediately arranged defense, organized manpower to repair the city wall, improve the defense ability of the city wall, and sent a fast horse to report to Zhao Yun, the chief general of the army to go out. He led the vanguard army to stand by in Fengyi City, waiting for General Zhao Yun's next combat order. After all, the new situation broke the original combat plan. For safety reasons, he could only delay the speed of the army's advance.

After Zhao Yun and Tian Feng led a 70,000 army to Fengyi City, the entire situation was basically clear. The general situation was: Ma Teng and Han Sui from Xiliang had long admired Chang'an. When the army attacked Chang'an last time, Jia Xu used a trick to repel Ma Teng and Han Sui's 100,000 army. Now he received an envoy sent by Cao Cao and issued an order to transfer Yongzhou to Ma Teng's jurisdiction. This made Ma Teng and Han Sui even happier, and had the excuse to attack Chang'an again. They would miss this opportunity and immediately dispatched a large army to kill Chang'an City. Ma Chao, the son of Ma Teng, personally led a 100,000 army out of Wuwei and approached Chang'an. Han Sui led a 50,000 army out of Jincheng and advanced to Tianshui City in Qinzhou.

Zhang Ji in Chang'an City only had only a mere 50,000 troops, of which 20,000 were stationed in Hongnong City. Although some soldiers were recruited in Chang'an City, the total strength reached 50,000 to 60,000, but after all, the time was too short and the training was insufficient, so he was slightly stronger than ordinary people. There were only more than 30,000 soldiers who were truly combat-capable.

When Zhang Ji saw the two troops in Xiliang coming towards him, he knew that the amount of troops under his command could not be resisted. In order to ensure the safety of Chang'an, as long as he gave up Tianshui City and the surrounding areas, he would not be able to defend the city at all. After all, the disparity in troops was too great and there were too many defense places.

When Han Sui's 50,000 troops arrived in Tianshui City, it was basically an empty city. The defensive soldiers were transferred away by Zhang Ji, leaving only hundreds of soldiers to maintain order in the city. Han Sui took Tianshui City without any effort without losing one soldier and one foot, which made Han Sui laugh so hard that he couldn't close his mouth. The joy in his heart was really unspeakable.

Ma Chao led Pang De and Ma Dai led a 100,000 army to Chang'an City, but it was not as easy as Han Sui. He was ambushed by Zhang Ji on the way and lost thousands of soldiers and horses. Of course, the courage of Ma Chao and Pang De defeated Zhang Ji's army, which also caused Zhang Ji to lose thousands of soldiers and horses, scaring Zhang Ji to lead his troops back to Chang'an City, and using the tall walls of Chang'an City as a support, he wanted to safeguard the Chang'an City.

When Ma Chao led his army to the Chang'an city wall, he also launched several siege battles, but the Chang'an city wall was indeed tall and thick, with a city wall of more than six meters high. If there were no powerful siege equipment, if you wanted to easily capture Chang'an City, you would suffer heavy losses. Several attacks were all rushing to attack, and you dare not forcefully.

Although Zhang Ji in Chang'an City has few troops, there is still no big problem when defending the city. Although Ma Chao's 100,000 troops are all elite troops, siege the city is not their strength. They are very awesome in field battles. When sieging the city walls, they only have ladders, hitting wood and other things. If they forcefully attack the city, they will definitely pay three or four times the price than the defending the city side. If this is the case, even if Ma Chao captures Chang'an City, how many more can he have left in his 100,000 troops? This is also the reason why Ma Chao dares to attack easily. He is also thinking of other better ways to attack the city.

Zhang Ji was in Chang'an City, defending tightly. After repelling Ma Chao's several attacks, the horses he sent out reported that Big Bear from Bingzhou also sent Zhao Yun to lead the army out of Urasaka and support the city. This information made Zhang Ji very good-looking. He knew that even if he could withstand Ma Chao's attack, he could no longer withstand the attack of Zhao Yun's army. At the same time, Zhang Ji also received that Big Bear also sent General Gao Shun to lead the army to advance towards Sizhou. Can the 20,000 troops in his nephew Zhang Xiu defend the city of Hongnong? Now the troops in Zhang Ji's hands are already nervous. If he draws troops to support Hongnong, it is probably Chang'an and Hongnong can't defend it.

Zhang Ji kept thinking with the information in his hand. He knew very well that if he wanted to defend Chang'an and Hongnong, the number of troops in his hands would be a fool and could not be done at all. If he gave up Hongnong City, would his nephew Zhang Xiu's army be killed into the city? He was likely to be knocked out by Ma Chao or Zhao Yun's army on the way, and the army could not enter the city.

By weighing the pros and cons, we know that Daxiong sent Zhao Yun to lead a large army to Chang'an, and that he would definitely win. He would not give up Chang'an City without taking down Chang'an City. Zhang Ji felt that he could only give up Chang'an City and let Ma Chao and Zhao Yun fight in Chang'an. Only in this way could Ma Chao and Zhao Yun lose their troops and weaken their strength. He retreated the army in Chang'an City to Hongnong City, and the seven or eighty thousand troops in his hands gathered to defend Hongnong City, that would be enough.

After Zhang Ji understood the interests, he did not hesitate much. He left hundreds of soldiers and horses in Chang'an City bluffing and acted as if he was defending the city. He quietly led the army to evacuate Chang'an City and headed straight for Tongguan.

The next day, Ma Chao led a large army to attack the city again. Seeing the flags on the city wall moving with the wind, the soldiers guarding the city were still alive, but they saw that there were many fewer soldiers on the city wall. I wonder what conspiracy Zhang Ji was doing, so Ma Chao did not dare to engage in it easily and sent soldiers to attack tentatively.

To Ma Chao's surprise, the soldiers under the tentative attacks climbed the city wall without any tough resistance, which made Ma Chao feel even more incomprehensible. He really didn't know what Zhang Ji was doing, and he thought it was a trap. He immediately notified the soldiers who started to take action to be cautious and figure out the situation first.

After a while, the soldiers who climbed the city wall reported that there were no Zhang Ji's troops in Chang'an City, and it was already an empty city. Ma Chao was speechless, how could this be possible? What a joke?

General Pang De next to him confirmed: "Young master, please order the siege quickly, why are you hesitating?"

After hearing this, Ma Chao woke up and immediately led a large army into the city. There were no soldiers in the city. Zhang Ji left behind the hundreds of soldiers in the city, when Ma Chao sieged the city, he had already escaped from the city. How could he wait to die?

In this way, Ma Chao occupied Chang'an City without bloodshed, just like a dream, making Ma Chao unable to adapt at once. This was too unthinkable. It was not until after completely controlling Chang'an City that Ma Chao woke up from his confusion and knew that he had occupied Chang'an City and that Chang'an City was really in his pocket.

Ma Chao in Chang'an City had not yet sat in the hot water, but he received General Zhao Yun, the subordinate of Big Bear, and led an army of 80,000 to attack Chang'an City. After hearing this, Ma Chao smiled and said, "Big Bear, this guy wants to come to take Chang'an City. It's too late now, and the little soldiers under Zhao Yun also want to come to Chang'an, just dream."

Pang De said: "Young Master, the Big Bear Army is not a joke. Its combat power is very strong. The Xianbei tribe and the Huns' Iron Cavalry on the northern prairie are all killed. Zhao Yun is also a very outstanding general under the Big Bear. He has made great military achievements over the years and is also one of the three poisonous wolves on the prairie. You should not be careless."

Ma Chao said: "Rest assured, now we have a tall and thick city wall like Chang'an as our hands, and we have nearly 100,000 troops defending us. Zhao Yun's little force to attack the city is not enough to fill the pit?"

Ma Dai said: "Brother, you shouldn't be careless. The Big Bear Army is a Changsheng army, and its soldiers' combat power is even higher than that of our soldiers. Zhao Yun is also a general under Big Bear. He has experienced countless battles and his reputation is achieved, not anything illusory."

Ma Chao thought for a while and said, "You are right. Big Bear is really difficult to deal with. We should act cautiously and do all kinds of defense work in the city. After Zhao Yun's army arrives in the city, we will fight him well. If it doesn't work, retreat to the city. Then Zhao Yun has no choice unless he is willing to lose his troops."

After reading the information, Tian Feng said: "Zilong, our army is still a little late. I really didn't expect that Zhang Ji was really smart. He could give up the big city of Chang'an. If he could withstand a few more days, Ma Chao wouldn't have the chance to occupy the city of Chang'an. Our idea at that time was a bit willing, and it was insufficient to estimate Zhang Ji."

Li You even cursed: "How could this bastard Zhang Ji give up Chang'an City?"

Zhang Yan said: "This is also Zhang Ji's best choice, otherwise his situation will be more difficult and dangerous. However, in this way, Ziming's army will be in trouble and there is not enough troops in his hands. He will encounter tenacious resistance at Hongnonghui."

Zhao Yun smiled and said, "This is not a big problem. If Ziming really does not have enough troops, it will not take long to reach Luoyang to increase troops from Jinyang. Let's consider the war in Chang'an first."

Tian Feng said: "I heard from my lord that Ma Chao is an amazing person. He is brave enough to find an opponent in the world. If Xiliang is known as the number one general, he should be at the same level as Zilong. The most rare thing is that he heard from my lord that this person is very good at leading troops, especially for commanding cavalry operations. In addition, Xiliang's troops are not ordinary people, and he has always been the best among my great Han cavalry. This time our army is afraid that we will encounter an opponent."
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