It was just after noon, but it was too late to review the official documents yesterday, and Zhuge Liang was a little sleepy.

He held his chin with one hand and his eyes were about to close slowly. The white feather fan in his other hand fell to the ground, making a slight sound. He was alarmed by the slight sound, and quickly picked up the feather fan and subconsciously brushed it.

The wind brought by the feather fan blew the lights on the table. As the light and shadows were shaken, a few wisps of smoke drifted, and the mountains, rivers, roads and passes in the map in front of him also wavered.

From Chengdu to Hanzhong, and then along the Wei River to the east, to Chang'an, the capital of the Han Dynasty, which Zhuge Liang saw many times in his dream. The small characters written in detail on the map seemed to be transformed into living, like soldiers running and fighting, and the civilians who were struggling to transport them, lined up in many queues and striving forward.

According to the division of labor between the two military advisors and generals, after Pang Tong followed the King of Hanzhong to the front line, he was in charge of military affairs, as well as food, fodder, weapons, reserve forces and other matters, and could directly urge the county magistrates in various places. However, Pang Tong was too far away, and he could not grasp many specific situations in time, and he could not respond in time, so logistics affairs were increasingly transferred to Zhuge Liang.

This was not difficult for Zhuge Liang. He was skilled in common affairs, and he also made early arrangements in terms of personnel: a large number of military ordinances were placed in Fu County, and the new Fu County Ma Zhi was He Zhi; the grain and fodder were from Hanzhong, and the subsequent materials used to supplement Hanzhong were transferred in Mianzhu, and the magistrate of Mianzhu was Ma Su; the people of each county gathered in Shu County, and the prefect of Shu County after Fazheng was Yang Hong promoted by Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang relied on these right-hand men to specifically handle the allocation, shipment and distribution of materials; while the two deputy officers of the military advisor General Ma Liang and Xi Zhen summarized and reviewed the data from top to bottom, and directly controlled the production departments of military supplies such as car officials and iron officials around Chengdu.

But in addition to this, there are thousands of matters to maintain the operation of the huge regime. All the money is exported, business, planning, calculations, persuading farmers, epidemic prevention, and even building bridges and roads. Nothing can be relaxed. They all turn into vast documents and books that enter the mountains and continue to be collected on Zhuge Liang's desk.

After Ma Su, who had cooperated well with him, left, the new Shu Zuo always felt that it was not neat enough, so Zhuge Liang simply put the map that marked the situation in Guanzhong at the bottom of the case and looked at it while handling official duties. He picked up his pen from time to time and added two comments to the map according to the latest battle situation.

In the past month, the Cao army, King of Hanzhong and Ma Chao's coalition forces, which were originally confronting each other in the east and west, suddenly set their sights on and offensive and defended each other fiercely along the mountains and rivers between Chang'an and Tongguan.

According to the military newspaper, this is because the King of Hanzhong was moved by Ma Chao and decided to maintain a siege and attack aid, to maximize the killing of Cao's army, and to eliminate the war potential accumulated by Cao's army over the years.

But Zhuge Liang thought that this was the case. Although Ma Chao was cunning, he had little view of the overall situation. When making military and political decisions, his opinions were often robbed by the ignorant Qiang and Hu. Ma Chao spoke all over his body and was not able to convince the King of Hanzhong.

This is undoubtedly done by Pang Tong.

When Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong jointly deduced the situation in Guanzhong, both of them were sure that Ma Chao would affect the situation at a critical moment. However, they never thought that Pang Tong and others would push Ma Chao to influence the King of Hanzhong through Ma Chao.

Zhuge Liang was not very clear about Pang Tong's specific approach, but he knew this old friend very well.

Pang Tong seemed arrogant and always had a strong attitude in his behavior. In fact, once he became attentive, he was very good at interpersonal communication. During his tenure as Gongcao in Nanjun, he recommended him from many sources, rated the scholars of Jingxiang, and won him a reputation of being kind and diligent in raising himself.

Because Duke Xuande established a camp in the Public Security Bureau at that time, most of these scholars did not respond to Zhou Lang's recruitment, and used Feng Chu's warm praise to gilded their families, and they crossed the river to the left general's mansion. Duke Xuande was of course eager to seek talent and placed them all in important positions in various places in Jingnan. In Zhuge Liang's view, Zhou Lang incited the riots in Jingnan several times, and the responders from various counties one after another were probably related to the many support feelings that Pang Tong had formed during this period.

Later, Pang Tong was responsible for contacting Ma Chao, and went deep into Liangzhou several times. He also served as the host and received envoys sent by Ma Chao to Chengdu.

Given Ma Chao's roughness, General Anxi's Mansion had probably been infiltrated by the Cao and Liu families as if it were sieve. Zhuge Liang could almost conclude that Pang Tong also attracted people in it.

This person doesn't have to have a high status. As long as he can win basic trust, and then say a word at the right time and plays a small role in promoting it, Ma Chao is easily deceived.

Then, when Ma Chao kept fighting fiercely, fighting to the death, and fighting to the decisive battle, Pang Tong went to the King of Hanzhong to follow the flow. Zhuge Liang understood that the King of Hanzhong knew the status of Chang'an more than anyone else, so he was likely to agree to try it out again.

This test took nearly a month.

When the army confronts and fights, every decision affects the lives of millions of people. Cao's army will never abandon Guanzhong. Once the King of Hanzhong and Ma Chao's troops take the initiative, the scale of the war will inevitably continue to expand, just like a running horse, and no one can hold its reins.

At the end of January, Ma Chao took the lead in driving Shangyuan with his iron cavalry and launched a fierce attack on Linjin, and successively captured two ancient cities in Yuanli and Luoyin built by Wei Wenhou.

Ma Chao led his elite troops to take Puban. On this day, Cao Cao happened to inspect the Cao army camp west of Puban. As soon as he entered the camp, Ma Chao and others arrived. Cao Cao was still sitting on the Hu bed to show his calmness, and Ma Chao was approaching. Zhang He and others hurriedly surrounded Cao Cao and boarded the ship. Ma Chao set fire to Cao Cao's camp in Hexi, and then led his cavalry to chase him, and the arrow was as rained.

When the generals of Cao's camp saw that the army was defeated, they did not know where Cao Cao was. They heard that some people were frightened and were still anxious to see Cao Pi, the general of the Five-Secret Officer.

However, Cao Cao's light boat was passing through the water and soon returned to the base camp. He saw that Ma Chao's troops were dispersed while attacking the ferry along the river, and hurriedly ordered Xu Chu to lead the tiger and leopard cavalry to raid, and once attacked Ma Chao's main formation.

Ma Chao was only interested in fighting with Xu Chu, and his subordinates were killed by more than a thousand Qiang and Hu cavalry. When he remembered to withdraw his troops, he was already trapped in the siege of Cao's army and almost became a prisoner. Fortunately, Pang De, who was in the rear, noticed the actions of Cao's cavalry and led his army to support him quickly. Then he responded to Ma Chao and slowly retreated.

After this battle, Ma Chao retreated rapidly, and Cao Cao immediately sent 20,000 elite troops from the Wei River to emerge from the north and south, intending to cross Xinfeng, Gaolu and other places, and enter the plains where the Wei River, Jing River and Ba River converge, and set up formations to block the direct contact between the Hanzhong King's army and the Ma army.

However, when this army in Weinan was camped at night, it was attacked by the troops of the King of Hanzhong. Pang Tong had already sent troops to lurk, waiting for Cao's army to go west and cut off its way back and annihilated it in one fell swoop. He ordered Wei Yan to guard the continuous reeds on the Wei River and Zhang Ren ambushed in the mountains. When Cao's army was exhausted in the middle of the night, the two troops and horses fought hard.

The fierce battle lasted for two hours, and the formation of Cao's army could not be unfolded, and the soldiers were seriously injured. The next morning, the Cao army came forcibly with tens of thousands of main forces, not only rescued the troops, but also recaptured many strongholds in the mountains. Zhang Ren's troops were sandwiched between the east and west routes of the Cao army, and were completely wiped out. Zhang Ren abandoned his war horse and fled alone across the mountains and ridges.
Chapter completed!