Chapter 255 Ma Teng ran away
It took only half an hour before the Ma Teng army camp was defeated. Except for the eight thousand people who escaped, the remaining 20,000 people were wiped out, of which more than 16,000 were captured.
Zhao Yun left 10,000 people to gather prisoners and clear the camp, and he led about 20,000 cavalry to chase west.
As soon as Zhao Yun left, Han Suicai led tens of thousands of people to come late. The reason why Han Suicai arrived so late was because he wanted to get a bargain and preserve his strength. However, what Han Suicai did not expect was that when he arrived, everything was over.
Han Sui couldn't help feeling a little nervous.
Zhao Yun led a large army to chase westward, and soon arrived at the ambush where Li Lang set up. At this time, the battle here was over. The hills were covered with the bodies of soldiers from both sides, most of which were from the Xiliang Army.
"General, the last general has a mission!" Li Lang knelt in front of Zhao Yun on one knee, looking ashamed.
"General Li doesn't have to blame himself! I will take people to chase him now, and you will clean up the battlefield here." Zhao Yun did not want to delay any more and ordered urgently.
"yes."
Zhao Yun led 20,000 cavalry to chase after him and arrived at a river at dawn. The river was not big, but the water flowed very fast, rushing from southwest to northeast. At this time, more than a thousand Xiliang troops were waiting anxiously by the river. When the Northern Expedition Army came, the Xiliang troops suddenly became panicked.
Without saying a word, Zhao Yun led the cavalry to surround him.
"The surrendered ones will not be killed!" Zhao Yun shouted coldly, and the tiger roared the iron cavalry into an arc line and pressed over.
The Xiliang army was panicked and didn't know what to do for a moment.
Finally, one of them put down his weapons first, and then the Xiliang army put down their weapons one after another.
Before Zhao Yun rode his horse to the surrendered army, the Xiliang army looked at Zhao Yun with horror. The Xiliang army who had put down their weapons did not know how this Northern Expedition Army would treat them.
"Who among you has the highest position?" Zhao Yun glanced at the surrendered army and asked.
The surrendered soldiers couldn't help but look at one person. Seeing this, the man knew that he could not hide it, so he had to go out to Zhao Yun and clasp his fists and said, "I am the general of the governor of Ma."
Zhao Yun looked at the other party and asked, "Where is Ma Tengren?"
Cheng Yi did not dare to hide it and quickly replied, "Mr. Governor has crossed the river before." As he said that, he pointed to the river behind him.
Zhao Yun glanced at the turbulent river, frowned slightly, and asked in confusion: "How did your governors pass?" The reason why Zhao Yun asked this is because the river is very fast and deep, and he cannot wade across the river, nor can he cross it by boat.
"This is the dock, and there are ropes between the two sides. Just hold the rope and you can cross the river."
Zhao Yun looked closely and found that there were indeed several ropes fixed on the shore.
Immediately ordered the generals to go all over to search for the ships, and then ordered people to take the prisoners down.
Zhao Yun was immediately on the river bank, with nearly 20,000 cavalrymen from the Tiger Roar Camp neatly arranged behind him.
As the sky gradually dawned, the people who searched for the ship finally returned, but they brought a bad news, "The general has not found the ship."
Zhao Yun frowned slightly and asked, "How could there be no ships?" No wonder Zhao Yun asked this question, because even though Ma Teng took away all the ships at the wharf, the fishermen around him always had ships.
The minister explained: "This section of the river is turbulent and is not suitable for fishing, so there are no fishermen around."
Zhao Yun frowned and came to the riverside. Looking at the turbulent river water, he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.
For a while, there was no way to cross the river, so Zhao Yun ordered 15,000 cavalry to divide into five teams to station along the river bank, and he led the remaining 5,000 people to escort the prisoners back to Longyou first.
When Zhao Yun returned to Longyou, it was already noon. At this time, the battlefield had basically been cleaned. Entering the city, Zhao Yun asked his generals to lead a brigade to find a place to station, and he brought dozens of personal soldiers to the official office.
The generals who had already received the news were already waiting at the door.
"General." The generals saluted together.
Zhao Yun nodded and walked into the official office first, and the generals followed immediately.
Entering the lobby, Zhao Yun sat down in the coach's position...
, all the generals were divided into the right place.
After glanced at the hall, Zhao Yun saw two strange faces. One of them was wearing nomadic cowhide armor, with a rough face and a little excited in his eyes; the other was wearing a general armor in a typical Han army style, with a fair face and a kind look, showing nervousness in his expression.
Zhao Yun knew it in his mind, so he clasped his fists at the two and said, "Are you General Li Wenhou and General Han Sui?"
Upon hearing this, the two of them immediately went out to Zhao Yun to salute and said, "It is Mr. Li Wen (Han Sui) below, pay homage to the general."
Zhao Yun smiled and said, "The two generals don't have to be too polite! To be honest, the battle can go so smoothly, all thanks to the two generals' strong help!"
Li Wenhou hurriedly said to himself: "The general is too rewarded! As a subordinate of the general, it is natural to do business for the general!"
Han Sui, who was standing beside him, quickly humiliated himself, and at the same time, he couldn't help but feel suspicious, what does Li Wenhou mean?
Zhao Yun saw Han Sui's face showing confusion, so he asked, "What are General Han thinking?"
Han Sui came back to his senses and quickly replied: "I didn't think about anything, I just don't understand when General Li will become the general's command!"
"So that's it!" Zhao Yun smiled and then said, "I don't know much about this matter very well. Let General Li tell the whole story himself. General Li."
"Yes." Li Wenhou responded respectfully, and then said the whole story.
It turned out that Li Wenhou and Beigong Boyu had already taken over to Chen Chu on that day, but Chen Chu did not let the two join the Northern Expedition Army immediately, but instead ordered them to lead their soldiers to pretend to break through the siege and go to Jincheng, where Han Sui was entrenched at that time. Except for a few generals including him and others, the rest of the soldiers were not aware of this.
After the army arrived in Jincheng, it naturally surrendered to Han Sui. Han Sui did not doubt that he was still happy that his strength was increased!
Afterwards, Li Wenhou and Beigong Boyu seemed to be very diligent in assisting Han Sui, and Han Sui quickly expanded his army to an army of 100,000 with the help of their influence among the Qiang people.
Afterwards, Han Sui, who thought the time was ripe, continued to provoke Ma Teng, which finally led to the two families fighting each other.
When Han Sui was fighting with Ma Chao's army, Jia Xu secretly sent Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou of Jincheng to order them to contact Ma Teng, and expressed his willingness to seize Jincheng with internal and external forces. Of course, in order to gain Ma Teng's trust, Jia Xu also asked the two to make some greedy requests to Ma Teng.
Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou immediately did as Jia Xu's wishes. Not long after, Ma Teng indeed led his army to attack Jincheng. With Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou as inner supporters, Jincheng was quickly captured.
Then, Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou lurked in Ma Teng's army again until another order was issued.
With the assistance of Beigong Boyu, the Northern Army captured Longxi and Jincheng at almost no cost. After that, the Iron Cavalry of the Tiger Roar Camp killed Ma Teng's army with the assistance of Li Wenhou.
After listening to Li Wenhou’s narration, Han Sui couldn’t help but sweat coldly and said to himself: What a terrible method and scheming!
At this time, Zhao Yun asked Han Sui, "What are the doubts about General Han being here first?"
Han Sui quickly clasped his fists and said, "No more."
Zhao Yun thought for a moment, then said to Han Sui with a serious look: "This plan does indeed include General Han, but this is forced by the situation, so please don't take this matter to heart. In the future, General Han will be the general in the Northern Expedition Army like us. We must do our best to be the lord, the Northern Expedition Army, and the people of the world!"
Han Sui quickly knelt down, clasped his fists and said, "I have made up my promise to be loyal to the general to death, and I will never dare to have two intentions!" Han Sui's expression seemed a little panicked.
Chapter completed!