Zhangye County, southern foothills of Yanzhi Mountain, Shandan Ranch.
This war horse ranch built by Husband General Huo Qubing himself is now only white and desolate with snow.
Ma Dai was riding his horse slowly, watching the Xiliang cavalry soldiers settling their horses.
These horses include stallions returned by Zhangye Haoyou, as well as fine horses collected by Haoyou or Qianghu tribes who were responsible for joining the Wei conquest after the Han army entered the Hexi Corridor. Recreate the magnificent scene of thousands of horses galloping in Shandan Ranch.
, or in the future, the Han Dynasty swept Guanzhong with thousands of horses, and they relied on these horses as the basis for reproduction.
This is also the reason why the Madai tribe came to station here.
First, the regulations of counties and counties were rough, and it was impossible to recruit all the ranch officials and herdsmen at the moment. The only option was to let Xiliang cavalry, who were familiar with the nature of war horses, take care of them in addition to guarding.
On the other hand, the generals of the Han Dynasty fought alone on horseback, with no one on the right side of the cavalry.
Since he plans to expand the cavalry, he should personally supervise everything from recruiting, training to practicing battles.
Using the official position of General Zhenxi to guard a ranch and train new soldiers seems to be overkill.
However, after the Battle of Lingju, Ma Dai specifically asked Fei Yi to add a sentence to the statement forwarded to the Prime Minister - if Hexi is restored, Prime Minister Xu Dai will be asked to garrison Shandan to be the commander of the country.
The reason can be understood by everyone.
Ma Jiajun, who once dominated Yongliang for a while, has long since declined, and he is also old. It is reasonable to hope that he can regain the power of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in his lifetime.
When people pass by, they leave their names; when geese pass by, they leave their voices.
The more obscure reason is that after he followed Ma Chao into Shu, he acted cautiously, never made friends with others or worked alone, and was not greedy for power or position. He also knew that he was burdened by the reputation of the Ma family in the past, and that he would be in trouble.
The troops stationed in Longyou took the initiative to ask for orders to avoid it.
Therefore, Fei Yi, who was riding beside him, had a look of helplessness on his face.
He came all the way to Shandan Ranch to ask Ma Dai to dissuade Zheng Pu from taking action.
The story begins with Ma Dai and Jiang Wei chasing Ke Wu's tribe from the northern foot of Longshou Mountain.
At that time, Ma and Jiang, who learned the news too late, did not catch up with Ke Wu before they entered Jiuquan County.
But before leaving, Jiang Wei looked for Zheng Pu to write a letter to Pang Chong, and Yang Feng's two letters came to fruition.
Pang Qiao, who was sent a letter first, learned that Xuanwei was being massacred all over the city. He immediately grew his beard and hair. Regardless of the differences between Han and Wei and his old age, he personally led the Han envoys to find Yang Feng. Because the Han army wanted to recommend several rangers.
His son was a matter of ears and eyes, and it was hard to find him after he had been managing the herdsmen for many years. But for Yang Feng, who had become famous in the counties as a knight-errant at a young age, and could make the Qiang and Hu tribes send more than a thousand cavalry to march with him based on his personal reputation, it was just a wave of his hand.
Talk about things.
Yang Feng was also not what he expected.
After Pang Qiao recounted the whole story, he was filled with righteous indignation and shouted: "The lowly Qiang people in Jincheng actually killed the common people in Hexi Province. Could it be that they deceived me, who have no righteous people in Hexi Province, and no one dares to die!"
Out of righteous indignation and the concept of the secluded Hexi region, he not only asked his close rangers to spread the matter and inquire about the whereabouts of the Kewu tribe, but also personally drove horses to visit the Qiang and Hu tribes with whom he had a sworn friendship, and gathered nearly a thousand horsemen to join the Han army.
Attack the Kowu tribe.
This is also the reason why Huanghua people rebelled against their relatives and separated themselves from relatives, and Jiuquan County changed its banner one after another.
The man from Hexi, who had always had a clear sense of grudges, used Huang Hua to recruit Ke Wu to Jiuquan County as an excuse, and concluded that the massacre of the city was the result of a conspiracy between the two.
The Kewu tribe, which was placed in Huishui County by Huang Hua and had an unstable foothold, was inevitably destroyed.
Even though he had 5,000 line-control tribesmen under his command, he was caught off guard and was first attacked and defeated by Jiang Wei and Yang Feng's cavalry, and then was surrounded by Ma Dai's troops and captured all the women and children. As a result, their morale collapsed and they all dismounted.
drop.
The dispute between Zheng Pu and Fei Yi was over how to deal with these prisoners.
At that time, after receiving a letter from Jiang Wei, Zheng Pu concluded that all the women and children of the Kewu tribe would be demoted to official slaves and taken to Bashu for disposal. Their fate was to be bought by powerful rightists as slaves or coolies.
Fei Yi had nothing to say about this.
However, Zheng Pu also ordered Jiang Wei to escort all the young men of the Kewu tribe to Xuanwei County, and to detach Sima Liu Zhu from the Qiang guard camp to take the corpses of those members of the Kewu tribe who were killed in battle to the north of Longshou Mountain.
Lu Yun returned.
Fei Yi could guess what Zheng Pu wanted to do without asking.
He tried to dissuade Zheng Pu from doing this on the grounds that "it is unlucky to kill prisoners" and "the Han Dynasty has never killed prisoners since the beginning of the first emperor." In desperation, he even said, "This action is harmful to one's moral character!"
Heir, why bother?", "Zijin will be the mainstay of the imperial court in the future, why bother to lose his reputation because of a mere Qiang tribe?" and other words came out.
Yes, Fei Yi was not pitying Kewu's tribe.
Rather, he felt that the killing of prisoners was not the first of its kind because he was not familiar with the good governance of the late emperor Liu Bei.
And it is not good for Zheng Pu’s personal reputation.
However, Zheng Pu was unmoved. He just bowed and thanked Fei Yi for his kindness, and then rushed to Xuanwei County with his followers.
Fei Yi was helpless about this.
Zheng Pu is in control of the tiger talisman, and it is his duty to deal with prisoners of war, and he has no right to stop it.
And as soon as the order was issued, Jiang Wei, who was following the order, had to follow the order and send the prisoners as soon as possible, even if he had some understanding. Calculating the time, Fei Yi wanted to write a letter and go to Longyou to ask the prime minister to stop him, but it was too late.
What made him even more helpless was that Zhuge Qiao, who could persuade Zheng Pu together, had already rushed to Dunhuang County.
Because the imperial court commended the Zhang family in Dunhuang for their merits and appointed official positions, it took time to travel back and forth. As the son of the prime minister, Zhuge Qiao entered Dunhuang County, which was the best comfort to the Zhang family.
Therefore, when Zheng Pu rushed to Xuanwei County, Fei Yi also drove his horse to Shandan Ranch.
Ma Dai has the highest official position among the generals in Hexi and is also the oldest. If he can dissuade Zheng Pu with words, he may be able to delay time until he can wait for the letter asking for instructions from the prime minister.
"Wen Wei's words are wrong."
Faced with Fei Yi's request, Ma Dai not only did not agree, but instead persuaded, "When the former general pretended to be Zi Jin's tiger talisman, he specifically told us to obey orders and execute those who disobey them! Now Zi Jin has done nothing beyond the rules.
What can we predict? In my opinion, if we kill those who kill the city, we can show the power of our great Han Dynasty and deter the rest of the Qiang and Hu tribes from doing it again. Why not? Wen Wei should not dissuade him and let everyone do their own thing.
It’s my job to make a living and appease the counties.”
Well.
Fei Yi was speechless after listening.
He actually forgot that when Yongliang was in chaos in the past, Ma Dai was also among them, and he had long been accustomed to the various tribes retaliating and killing each other.
Naturally, he had no choice but to return from Ma Dai's words, and no longer had any intention of discouraging Zheng Pu.
There is no other way, it is already unstoppable.
The capital is a high hill; the observer is a tower.
When the ancients killed thieves and laid out the corpses of a victorious battle, they would build a temple as a place to hide the corpses.
In the middle of the first month of the thirteenth year of Jianxing (AD 235), in Xuanwei City, Wuwei County, Zheng Pu killed all the prisoners of the Kewu tribe, piled up their corpses and sealed them with earth, and built a capital temple.
A stele was erected to record the whole story, and the stele was inscribed in the name of "Hanzhong Protector Zheng Pu".
He said: "Those who kill the people will be killed no matter how far away they are!"
