A group of people arrived in Liangzhou by water, and then rushed from Liangzhou to the Western Regions. The tens of thousands of people, coupled with the logistics, food, grass and luggage, etc., blocked all the roads from Liangzhou to the Western Regions, and the local officials in Liangzhou
They began to get busy. On the one hand, they could not delay the march of the army, so they had to expel merchants and pedestrians on the road in advance.
On the other hand, they still have to open a feasible road for merchants and people to get out. However, carriages and the like will not be able to travel in the past few days. There is no passable position on the Chi Road, so they can only wait for the army to pass.
, before you can hit the road.
Huang Zhong led the most elite knights to open the way at the front, and Dong Zhuo used him as the vanguard general to control the center.
"Dong Gong...General Sun's place..."
Cao Cao rode behind Dong Zhuo and said with some confusion.
He felt that now that the army was setting out, it should not go directly to the Western Regions, but should go to support Sun Jian. Sun Jian still had tens of thousands of elite southern troops in his hands to help Sun Jian deal with the Qiang people outside the Great Wall.
Dong Zhuo was riding a tall horse, wearing armor, and looked majestic. He didn't even look back at Cao Cao, and said directly: "They are just Qiang people outside the Great Wall. There are tens of thousands of Southern troops under Sun Jian. Do they still need our help? The main purpose now is still
We should go to the Western Region, search and destroy the enemies along the way..."
"Enemies, how did Mr. Dong know that there were enemies?"
"Without enemies, how could the merchant traveler not return?"
Cao Cao shook his head and said: "We don't know anything about the situation there... We don't even know why the merchant brigade failed to return. These tens of thousands of troops set out to the Western Regions. Does Mr. Dong know where the Western Regions are?
What's the situation? Before I came, I read through the records of the Western Regions. Most of the places there are deserted and without a human being. Tens of thousands of us enter the Western Regions. I don't know how much food, grass and baggage will be consumed..."
"We have food, grass and baggage. We have the governor of Liangzhou, and the chief historian of the Western Regions is here to think of a solution. What does it have to do with you and me?!"
"Dong Gong... Could this Liangzhou, the Western Region, be the territory of my Han Dynasty? It took decades of governance to reach where it is now. Doesn't Dong Zhuo's behavior like this consume the decades of accumulation in both places?"
"This has nothing to do with me. Your Majesty's order is for me to search for merchants and defeat the bandits. I am a hussar general, not the governor of Liangzhou, or the protector of both regions..." Dong Zhuo said coldly.
"Dong Gong, even so, we should wait for Colonel Gongsun to return..."
"Okay, I am the general, it is not your turn to teach me how to fight!!" Dong Zhuo angrily interrupted Cao Cao's words and walked away. Cao Cao watched him leave helplessly, not knowing why in his heart.
Dong Zhuo's thoughts, this guy almost went crazy thinking about the post of Taiwei. He wanted to monopolize all the military achievements this time, at least, he didn't want to give part of it to Sun Jian.
If he goes to support Sun Jian first, the Qiang people outside the wall will soon be destroyed. At that time, Sun Jian will definitely send troops together, and Dong Zhuo will not be able to get all the credit. Therefore, he would rather not take the credit for rescuing Sun Jian than let him
Sun Jian joined in. This guy, alas, Cao Cao frowned and didn't know what to say. He lowered his head and pondered.
As he was walking, someone suddenly laughed next to him.
Cao Cao felt a little angry, so he turned around. Next to him was a school captain, tall and strong, but he looked at him and smiled.
Cao Cao recognized this person and asked displeasedly: "Hua Xiaowei? Why are you laughing?"
"General Cao, don't be angry, don't be angry, I think you are still very powerful!"
"oh?"
"Dong Gong has a bad temper, but he treats his soldiers very kindly. It took me three full years to make him hate him in every possible way, and he would beat and scold me every time I saw him... Gong Cao wouldn't
I really admire you for making Dong Gong hate him so much in half a month!" Hua Xiong didn't have the slightest hint of ridicule on his face, he said this very seriously.
Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed and said: "Therefore, the captain can only be the captain, but I can be the deputy commander!"
Hua Xiong was also overjoyed, and his senses about Cao Cao immediately improved. This guy looked dark and thin, but unexpectedly he was actually a heroic man. He started chatting with Cao Cao, and they were very happy. The soldiers around him were a little confused.
Even Guan Yu, who was in the rear, was at a loss for a moment when he rode forward. Cao Cao, who had made countless enemies in the temple and implemented the New Deal and was famous all over the world, actually talked so happily with this fool?
What on earth are they talking about?
Guan Yu was a little curious, so he moved a little closer, pretending to be inspecting the soldiers.
I saw Hua Xiong pointing at the temple and said: "This New Deal is good, but what you did is wrong. How can the New Deal be implemented like this!"
"I would like to hear Duke Hua's teachings."
"Let me tell you, when you implemented the New Deal, didn't you just want the wealthy people to pay more? I understand this. I also came from a poor background. When I was a child, I worked for the powerful to herd cattle and plow the fields every day, and my own land was long gone.
If you don’t pay taxes, you will sell them to the powerful. It’s easier to have no land. At least you don’t have to pay agricultural taxes. If you farm the land for them, you can barely have enough to eat..."
"You don't know how rich they are. Just look at me. I have been fighting for decades and have been through life and death. I only have more than ten acres of land. Look at Yuan Xiaowei, ah, Gu Sikong, he is just like me.
Ah, we enlisted in the army in the same year, but there are hundreds of hectares of land in his name, all over the states... How easy would it be if you want them to pay and hand over the land? Just give them a name.
ah!"
"The first-class and second-class families have a fixed amount of cultivated land. If it is exceeded, it will be confiscated directly. They only care about these useless things. If you give it to the first-class family, even if it is
If we take over their land, they won’t be angry, and they will happily say that they are the first class!!”
Listening to Hua Xiong's words, Cao Cao had mixed feelings in his heart. Something seemed to appear in his mind, but it was not clear.
"Stop talking nonsense!" Guan Yu angrily scolded Hua Xiong, who was pointing out the general situation, but suddenly stopped. Guan Yu looked at Cao Cao again, cupped his hands and said: "Mr. Cao, Hua Xiong is a fool, don't worry about it.
, if he has offended anything, I still hope Haihan..."
"How could it be possible? Hua Xiaowei is such a talented person!" Cao Cao said with emotion.
Guan Yu turned his head and looked at Hua Xiong. Hua Xiong was smirking and winking.
With Guan Yu's participation, Cao Cao did not continue to ask questions for the time being. The three of them were driving together and chatting. Hua Xiong asked with some confusion: "I heard that the military unit called Xiaoyong Camp was the one who went to the Western Regions to investigate the situation earlier.
?"
"Yes." Cao Cao nodded.
"Why set up such a military brigade? I heard that they don't know how to fight, they only know how to march and flee, they have no fighting ability..."
Cao Cao smiled and said: "Captain Hua, do you know which army has made the most contributions over the years?"
"I don't know!"
"It's the Yongyong Camp."
"That's not even their captain, Gongsun Zan. This guy is actually good at fighting."
Cao Cao shook his head and said solemnly: "That's not entirely true. Although the Xiaoyong Camp is not good at fighting, they have their own abilities. Over the years, they have been running around in Hezhou and made countless meritorious deeds. These Dongyao people were captured by Goguryeo.
People have been hunted as prey for nearly a hundred years, which makes them very agile. They are the most agile scouts of the Han Dynasty. They are very good at tracking, escaping, searching, and rounding up."
"In Hezhou, no thieves can escape them, and no army can catch up with them. From its establishment to the present, no one of them has been captured alive by the enemy... A large army needs the best eyes and ears who can detect
Everything in the four directions is clear at the palm of your hand..."
Hua Xiong has been marching for many years, but Cao Cao only said a few words before he understood. He laughed and said: "With this army here, we can know all the information about the other party, where they are going, where the food and supplies are, but
The enemy knows nothing about us..."
"exactly!"
The three of them laughed.
"Hua Xiaowei, what do you think of the official education system?"
............
At this moment, in the endless desert, Gongsun Zan looked at the wheel not far away, holding a dagger in his hand, and fell into deep thought.
"Captain, there was a battle here!"
"Well... it's our business traveler? Who is the enemy?" Gongsun Zan was a little confused. He looked at Chen Yao aside and asked: "Look again, is this left by our business traveler?" Chen Yao exited.
He picked up the camel, stepped forward, looked at the wheels carefully, and then looked at the camel. He nodded and said, "It's ours... I even rode this camel..."
Chen Yao looked at the camel's incomplete left ear and said solemnly.
Gongsun Zan nodded, looked at Mireyi on the other side, and asked, "Are there any thieves or bandits here?"
"Indeed there is..." He paused and continued: "This was originally a no-man's land. In the distance, there was an area. Although it was surrounded by desert, there was still drinking water and one could survive... There was originally
It is uninhabited, but the surrounding countries of Liule, Qiemo, Qiuci, Ruoqiang and other countries exiled their criminals here... and it became a gathering place for bandits..."
"How many of them are there?"
"Probably, there are about a thousand people."
Gongsun Zan frowned and thought, if they attack by surprise, will they be able to destroy the merchants?
Gongsun Zan looked at the Dongyi people around him and shouted: "Brothers, search around for a while and see if you can find anything else!!"
"Here you go!"
Everyone dispersed and searched carefully around. Gongsun Zan stayed here and continued to think. Chen Yao on the side said helplessly: "Xiao Lieutenant, you can't find it if you look for it like this. It's windy here and everything will be lost."
It’s covered, it’s all a fluke to find these, how could it be possible...”
"Captain!" someone shouted, interrupting him, and he pulled out a long knife from the sand.
Chen Yao widened his eyes in confusion, looked at Gongsun Zan, and then at the soldiers over there.
Gongsun Zan laughed and was not in a hurry to look at those things. He asked the soldiers to continue searching. He squinted his eyes and said: "I think back then, when the Goguryeo people were hunting us, we hid in the mountains and forests and searched everywhere. When there was nothing, Under such circumstances, he can still survive for several years..." Gongsun Zan sighed with emotion, and Chen Yao on the side nodded.
"The captain is from Dongyi?"
"I'm not."
Before Chen Yao could react, the soldiers rushed over one by one and put the things in their arms in front of Gongsun Zan. There were swords, goods, and even some soldiers found copper coins. Chen Yao was confused, how did you get there? The copper coins were found in the sand? Are you sure you didn't put them in there yourself?
Gongsun Zan carefully looked through the supplies and showed them to Mireyi who was standing aside.
Mireyi held the long knife, looked at it for a moment, shook his head and said, "These are not from the Western Regions. We all use curved knives here, not this kind. I have never seen such a knife..." .”
"I have seen!"
Chen Yao on the side looked at Gongsun Zan and said: