Now that he had decided to escape from Guzang City, Ma Dai did not hesitate and directly asked his soldiers to notify Ma Teng's family records, asking them to clean up and leave in an hour.

But before leaving, Ma Dai and Pang De had one more thing to solve, that is, Han Sui's army was less than a day's journey from Guzang City.

At this time, if they escaped directly, Han Sui's army would surely catch up with them soon. After all, Ma Dai and the others needed to take Ma Teng's family papers with them. With these people around, Ma Dai and the others would not be able to run fast at all.

Therefore, Ma Dai and the others need to find someone to cut off the rear.

Moreover, it is now obvious that the Ma family is already in a weak position, and the Ma family army cannot be monolithic. Therefore, Ma Dai discussed with Pang De and this time only took the Ma family's trusted soldiers to escape.

As for those neutral factions, or those who have doubts in their hearts and do not want to leave with Ma Dai and the others, let them stay in Guzang.

But the premise is that these people can help Ma Dai and the others delay for three days.

After three days, these people can surrender to Han Sui's army.

After hearing Ma Dai's words, Pang De also felt that this was feasible. So Pang De took the initiative to go to the military camp and summoned all the captains.

Soon, all the captains in Guzang City arrived at the main tent, waiting for Pound's arrangements.

When these captains heard that Pound and Ma Dai were preparing to abandon the city and leave, the expressions on their faces were all very reluctant.

Seeing this, Pound felt in his heart that these people were all white-eyed wolves. When Ma Teng was still here, he was very considerate of his subordinates. Logically speaking, these people would fight to the end for Ma Teng.

But now, when they heard that he and Ma Dai were going to abandon the city, everyone looked embarrassed. However, Pang De quickly adjusted his mentality.

After all, he had long expected that not many of these captains would be willing to leave their homes with defeated generals like them.

"Since you are not willing to follow me out of Guzang, I would like to ask you to consider my lord's kindness to you and hold off Han Sui's army for three days on behalf of my lord's family."

"After three days, you can surrender to Han Sui. I and my young master will never criticize you, how about that?" Pang De lowered his posture and said kindly to the dozen or so captains.

When the captains heard Pang De's words, they thought that Ma Teng had treated them well before. Although Ma Teng was dead now, the kindness still existed.

People like myself would be very sorry for Ma Teng if they could not accompany Pang De to escort the lord's family papers away.

If they refuse to agree to this matter, they themselves will feel that it is too much.

Besides, they were only asked to defend for three days. There were still 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers in the city, so there was no way they could defend it for three days. And Pound didn't say that they could only defend to the death, right?

He agreed on his own side, and then tried to push the envelope with Han Sui, first saying that he was ready to surrender, but the soldiers in the city needed to be appeased, so it was okay to postpone it for two or three days.

No matter what they did, as long as it lasted three days, they would have repaid Ma Teng's kindness to them.

Thinking of this, the captains looked at each other, and then said to Pang De: "Respecting the general's order, I will definitely guard Guzang for three days."

Pound also breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that many captains finally agreed.

Then after asking again, he took his own soldiers and left the camp, completely handing over the camp's city defense to the other captains.

After Pound returned to Ma Teng's mansion, Ma Dai had prepared everything. Pound said nothing and directly asked Ma Dai to take a thousand Ma Teng's loyal soldiers to set off first.

As for himself, he led two thousand soldiers to cut off the rear. Moreover, Pound also told Ma Dai that no matter what happened in the rear, Ma Dai could not send troops back to support.

As long as they can take Ma Teng's family papers and run to the Hetao area within three days, they can be considered safe.

Pang De felt that no matter how courageous Han Sui was, he would not dare to pursue them deep into the Hetao area.

If you knew, the Hetao area had just been recovered by the emperor not long ago, and the Hetao area was full of Han soldiers.

Han Sui had just entered the Hetao at this time, which would inevitably arouse the emperor's resentment, and might even directly trigger a fight between the emperor's army and Han Sui.

Pang De estimated that with Han Sui's character, he would never directly send troops to pursue him into the Hetao before Wuwei County was calmed down.

Ma Dai heard Pound's words and knew that what Pound said was true. At this time, nothing was as important as protecting his uncle's family papers.

After the discussion was completed, Ma Dai took Ma Teng's family papers and took a step down, while Pang De also called all the soldiers behind him together.

"Everyone, you all know the current situation. We have only one mission, which is to protect the lord's family documents and successfully enter Luoyang."

"So, this time, we must not get entangled with the enemy. If we can run, we will run. If we cannot run, we will block the pursuers, so as to buy General Ma Dai more time."

"This time, I will not order you to rest. Those who fall behind will fight to the death!"

"If you fall behind, I won't wait. If I fall behind, you don't need to rescue me. Our mission is only one, which is to cover General Ma Dai. Do you understand?"

Pound held his broadsword in one hand and the horse's reins in the other. He looked at the two thousand soldiers in front of him and said in a deep voice.

"Here!" These soldiers also knew their mission, and they also understood the danger of this trip.

If Guzang City cannot be defended and Han Sui's army pursues them, then these two thousand men and horses will face ten or twenty times the enemy.

Under such circumstances, let alone blocking him, it would be good if he could just run away.

And when it really comes to that situation, their mission is to stay and stop the enemy, and the consequences can be imagined. But even so, none of these soldiers flinched, because they are all die-hard loyalists of the Ma family.

For Ma Teng and the Ma family, they are willing to sacrifice their lives.

Seeing everyone's reaction, Pang De nodded with satisfaction, then waved his hand to everyone before leaving Guzang City.

Watching Pound leading his men away, the captains who watched him leave all had an indescribable feeling in their hearts.

"Captain Wang, what should we do now?" A captain looked at the oldest principal next to him and asked.

"What should we do? What else can we do? Arrange people to prepare to defend the city." Captain Wang sighed.

"My lord has taken me for a long time. Now that my lord is in trouble, we can't fight to the death for him, but we can still share some of the worries."

"Furthermore, General Pang also said that we only need to guard for three days, so we must guard these three days no matter what, just as repaying our lord's kindness."
Chapter completed!