"I heard that General Han returned to Jincheng?" Xia Mou looked at Ma Chao and made a few gurgling sounds in his throat, like a mouthful of thick phlegm crawling up and down in it. He coughed, cleared his throat, and then
He said, "Why didn't my nephew come with me? Jincheng is of great importance, but there is no room for failure..."
Ma Chao smiled and ignored Xia Mou's topic about Jincheng, and said: "General Xia, haha... do you think that the Zhong family has no ability to make trouble now, so... haha, I wish for uncle X to leave.
, I wish I could leave too, and leave these Qiang people behind just to collect them in my hands?"
"This..." Xia Mou shook his head decisively and said, "My dear nephew, how can you think like this? I have been an official for many years. I don't seek glory, wealth or power, but I want the peace of my hometown and the prosperity of my people... This time with the species
The fight between the clans is also to cut off the disputes and reunite the people, so that the people can rest and live... What happened in Jincheng was unexpected... What's more, General Han is also a friend, so how could I covet the wealth of a friend?
Have you ruined your reputation? My dear nephew, you are worrying too much!"
Ma Chao laughed, without comment, and then said: "Okay, then please ask General Xia to arrange the money and food. I will transport it away immediately without disturbing General Xia's purity!"
Ma Chao didn't believe even a single word of Xia Mou's words.
When I caught those Qiang people with unclean hands and feet before, if they were wrongly accused, most of them would jump and scream, and they wouldn't speak much. They would say over and over again that they were not me and that they had wronged me. But if those who were really wronged were
However, it is often a long speech, because these people who are doing anything may have thought a lot before doing anything, including the excuses they used to excuse themselves.
In this way, isn't the Xia Mou in front of him very similar to those tampering guys?
Xia Mou seemed to have spoken too much at once and felt a little uncomfortable. He snorted twice in his throat, as if thick phlegm was coming up again, but this time it didn't go down so smoothly. He coughed for a long time and then coughed again.
After panting for a long time, he said: "Ahem...ah, my dear nephew, what did you say just now?"
"Grain and grass!" Ma Chao glanced at Xia Mou and said only two words stiffly.
"Ah, food and grass, easy to talk about...easy to talk about...small things, small things, should be, should be..." Xia Mou said with a smile, and then ordered, "Come here, um, go to the back camp to check,
Allocate some food and grass to General Ma..."
The guard outside Xia Mou's tent responded, and then turned back not long after and reported: "General, there is no more food and grass in the rear camp!"
"What?!" Xia Mou slapped the table, Qiqing blushed, "How come there is no food left?!"
"This... General Qi, the Baima Qiang and Qingyi Qiang just transported a batch of food a few days ago," the guard reported, "yesterday the Yak Qiang also pulled three carts away, which is the last remaining grain... Therefore...
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Xia Mou angrily slapped the table and said: "Damn guys, since there is no more food left, why don't you report it in advance! Prepare in advance! General Ma is here to collect food and grass temporarily. Do you have to give you guys a slap?"
If you can’t greet me? Come, pull me down and punish me heavily!”
The guard remained silent and was dragged away by several soldiers who rushed in without saying a word.
Xia Mou breathed heavily, and there was a gurgling sound in his throat. Then he stopped and said with a smile: "General Ma, if not, I will immediately send someone to bring more food and grass from other places... as soon as the food and grass arrive...
, I will send someone to inform the young general, how about that?"
Xia Mou had no intention of giving Ma Chao food and grass, and his current behavior was just a show.
As soon as Han Sui left, Xia Mou blamed Ma Chao.
Without food and grass, how can you, Ma Chao, survive the Qiang people?
The reason is very simple. Ma Chao is good-looking. Well, the above one is not important. What is important is that Ma Chao is young. Being young means that he does not have much experience and is easy to train. Well, it seems that something weird has sneaked in. Forget it. No matter.
Anyway, Xia Mou thinks that as long as he holds Ma Chao, he can make it round if he wants to, or he can make it grow if he wants to...
But what Xia Mou didn't expect was that although young people were inexperienced, they were motivated.
Ma Chao was silent for a while, stood up, grinned and cupped his hands and said, "That's fine, I'll bother General Xia this way..."
"Haha, it's easy to talk...it's easy to talk..." Xia Mou smiled and shouted with some pride, "Come here, send the horse to the young general..."
Before he finished speaking, Ma Chao leaned forward with a "whisper", and with a flash of lightning, he pulled out the sword of Xia Mou's guard with a clang, then chopped down the unlucky guard with a single slash, and immediately jumped like a tiger,
He rushed to Xia Mou!
"Bold... bold, bold!" After Xia Mou experienced a brief panic, his many years of military service quickly forced him to calm down and shouted loudly, trying to delay time and weaken Ma Chao's murderous intention.
"General Ma, you must know..."
"I don't want to know!" Ma Chao, who was at the end of his second year in middle school. When no one could control him, his hands and feet were often faster than his brain, and he only said this after a knife passed directly across Xia Mou's neck.
Xia Mou covered his neck with one hand, seemingly trying to seal the wound in vain. Blood spurted out, making a hissing sound like a snake in his trachea. His eyelids that seemed to be unable to open completely finally opened.
Yuanyuan, with a face full of horror and disbelief, raised his finger slightly and pointed at Ma Chao, as if begging or cursing, and finally shook twice and fell to the ground.
Ma Chao chopped down several of Xia Mou's guards in the tent who were trying to get close to him for revenge, then stepped on Xia Mou's body, knocked off Xia Mou's helmet, grabbed Xia Mou's gray hair, and raised the knife.
Luo, beheaded Xia Mou's head.
The blood that had not yet dried up splashed everywhere, also splashing on Ma Chao's body and fair face, and a few drops of blood happened to land on Ma Chao's mouth.
Ma Chao stuck out his tongue, licked it subconsciously, and then spit it out, "It stinks!" Immediately, he never looked at Xia Mou's body again, just holding the blood-stained sword in one hand and grabbing it with the other.
Xia Mou walked out of the tent without closing his eyes.
Outside the camp, Xia Mou's guards and the people brought by Ma Chao were already fighting together. Ma Chao didn't waste any time. He raised Xia Mou's head high and shouted: "The old thief wants to annex the troops and cause harm."
The virtuous man has been punished!"
There was a "boom", just like a ladle of cold water was suddenly poured into a hot oil pan, and the entire Xia Mou camp suddenly exploded...
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Han Sui didn't know what kind of monsters Ma Chao would unleash as soon as he left. In his heart, the foundation of Jincheng came first.
Han Sui is not young anymore, so his way of thinking and focus are naturally different from those of young people. This is normal.
In the Han Dynasty, ordinary people would die silently due to various problems on average when they were forty or fifty years old. Those who could live to sixty years old were considered to have a long life. If they lived to seventy years old,
Basically, the name Xiangrui has been given...
Even in later generations, if the braid country invites an old man over seventy years old to have a meal, it will be regarded as national auspiciousness and gold.
Therefore, the focus of Han Sui's current behavior has changed from the entrepreneurial mindset to the entrepreneurial mindset, which is reasonable. After all, no one can do like Liu Bei, who still has no ambition to start a business in his forties or fifties.
Attenuated by half a point, of course, Liu Bei did start many businesses in the first half of his life, but in the end only "creation" was left and no "business" was left.
Jincheng has a foundation, a family, and more importantly, Han Sui's children. How can the heir of the family be allowed to lose?
Therefore, Han Sui was quite anxious and hurried on his way.
If you want to go from Guanzhong to Longyou, you have to cross the Longshan Mountains, which runs almost north to south. And this Longshan Mountains can connect the east and west. Since ancient times, there have only been five passages.
The first is Wating Road; the second is Jitou Road; the third is Fanxu Road; the fourth is Guanlong Ancient Road, also known as Longdi Road; and the fifth is Chencang Ancient Plank Road along the Weishui River Valley.
Wating Road and Jitou Road are located in the north, at the northern end of Longshan. For Han Sui, it was impossible to leave the near for the far and make a big circle before returning home. Therefore, basically speaking, these two mountain roads were not the best march.
the way.
The Chencang Ancient Road existed as early as the Pre-Qin Dynasty, but this road is not a pure mountain road, but mostly a plank road. As for the so-called plank road, it is inevitably difficult for people to pass it, let alone for horses. Although
I don’t know if Han Xin, Han Sui’s ancestor, used it when he attacked Guanzhong, but it is now in disrepair. It is difficult to pass without large-scale repairs. Therefore, it is difficult for Han Sui to command a large number of people like this.
For a cavalryman to walk on the ancient Chencang Road and be a pioneer in road construction, he really does not have the time, nor is he full of fearless revolutionary consciousness.
And Guanlong Road is also Longdi Road.
Logically speaking, this road should be the straightest, that is, the nearest one, but the problem is that this road is because of the Han Dynasty's gradually abandoning policy towards the Western Regions and the years of Western Qiang campaigns. This road can allow the cavalry to
A passage that is too convenient for travel is extremely dangerous for most of the Guanzhong area, which is in a defensive state. Therefore, this mountain road has been gradually abandoned, intentionally or unintentionally.
More than ten years have passed, and the Guanlong Road, covered by weeds and collapsed mud and rocks, has become a road only used by small-scale merchants or infantry. If you want to carry out large-scale marches, you can only
It is a detour to Fanxu Road, which is slightly north of Guanlong Road.
Compared with Chencang Road, this Fanxu Road is considered a small piece of meat. After Wang Mang, the world was in chaos, and heroes were vying for the throne. Kuai Xiao occupied Longyou, and Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu sent people to fight, but was blocked by Kuai Xiao.
At Longguan, they could not advance even an inch, and then returned in defeat.
Later, Emperor Guangwu's general She searched in many places, and finally discovered a new road, the Fanxu Road, and opened up the mountain forest. Taking this road, he directly attacked and captured Lueyang, an important town on the Guanlong Ancient Road, and Weixiao Da Da
He was so frightened that he besieged Lueyang with his army. At the same time, he sent his subordinates to block Longguan, Jitoushan, Fanxukou, and Wating. They tried to block all the key points of Longshan, but failed in the end.
Already...
So it is said that there are five passages, but in fact there is only one Fanxu Road, which can accommodate the army to pass quickly. As a cavalry commander who traveled many times between Xiliang and Guanzhong, Han Sui naturally knew this, so he led the army directly
Came along the Pansu Road.
Of course, near this Bansu Road, there is a place name that many people in later generations are familiar with, Street Pavilion.
To the east of the street pavilion is the Fanxu crossing, which has always been a key point of contention. In the earliest days of the street pavilion, there was a small town used to garrison troops. However, it was also because the focus of the Han Dynasty shifted from Chang'an to Luoyang.
Therefore, some of the original military defenses deployed around Guanzhong are no longer so important. Even Xiaoguan has been abandoned, not to mention the Xiaobing City on the Jieting side?
Therefore, this small town gradually became deserted, with only occasional traders or horse thieves visiting for a few days, treating it as a temporary stop.
Han Sui arrived at the entrance of Fanxu Road, grabbed his horses, sent out scouts, and headed into the mountain road to investigate.
Although he walked eagerly, Han Sui did not forget some basic movements, especially at such a key strategic location. Even the confused insect who was walking with his eyes closed before got here must open his eyes and look carefully, otherwise
The dense white bones covered by the yellow dust on the mountain road are enough to tell these latecomers what kind of fate those careless merchants or military personnel met.
Normally, there would be no ambush here, and no blind horse thief would dare to provoke a large army. Moreover, Han Sui had just led his troops from Longyou to Guanzhong, and they were all along the way.
It was safe and sound, nothing was found, but Han Sui still sent his men to investigate as a precaution.
The wind and sand were flying and stirring in the Fanxu Mountain Road, blocking all attempts to peek. The few advance scouts were like birds flying into the clouds and mist. After shaking for a few times, their figures disappeared into the yellow sand.
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The wind gradually became stronger, whistling, whirling through the mountain road, picking up the yellow dust on the ground, hugging it, and dancing happily towards the sky together, just like these yellow dust thought they could reach the sky.
At this moment, these winds let go, then whistled and turned away, leaving Huang Chen helplessly stretching out his hands and falling back to the ground again, falling to pieces...
Want to reach heaven?
Beautiful thought...
The sky can only be the territory of wind and cloud, and has nothing to do with yellow dust.
Just like Jincheng can only be Han Sui's territory, no one else can get involved. Anyone who dares to get involved without permission will be smashed to pieces by Han Sui!
In the yellow sand, several scouts came back and reported that everything inside and outside the mountain road was normal, and no signs of people or horses were found.
Han Sui nodded, then waved his hand, and with people shouting and neighing, he ordered the front troops to step onto the Fanxu Mountain Road and head west. Although the Fanxu Mountain Road has been expanded several times, it is still a mountain road after all, not like the Guanzhong Plain.
It is equally spacious, and there is an altitude difference of several hundred meters between Guanzhong and Longyou Plateau, so it is not possible for a group of people to rush in all at once, they can only march in parts.
Not long after Han Sui's headquarters entered the mountain road, he suddenly heard a thunderous sound of horse hooves, colliding back and forth between the mountain roads, and the excitement was so intense that Han Sui couldn't tell for a while whether the sound was coming from the east.
Still in the west!
The rumble of horse hooves resounded throughout the world. Han Sui was so startled that he reined in his horse and circled it several times. While he was trying to identify the source of the sound...
"It's not good! It's not good!"
A soldier ran over with a disgraced face and shouted in a panic, "General, soldiers and horses have come from nowhere and are attacking us!"
"What?!" Han Sui grabbed the soldiers with his hands and shouted, "Where are they? At the intersection or at the street pavilion? How many people are there?"
But they never thought that the soldiers pointed their fingers towards the way they came and shouted: "It's not a street pavilion, nor in front, but behind us!"
