The Infinite Heavens Run Away

Chapter 271 Chapter 7.27 Liangzhou Chaos and Ma Yunlu’s Rebellion
Chapter 7 I forged the soul of Han in the Three Kingdoms
7.27 Liangzhou chaos, Ma family Yunlu

November [-]th, the fourth year of Zhongping, the imperial palace in the capital.

"My dear friends, this is a victory memorial sent by the governor of Bingzhou. Also arriving is the application of Deng Feng, the governor of Bingzhou and Pingbei general, to come to Beijing to report on his duties. There is also a war memorial from Huangfu Aiqing, the general of Liangzhou's counter-rebellion. "

Above the court, Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong handed the bamboo slip to Zhang Rang with a very ugly expression and asked him to pass it on to the previous senior officials, as if he was not getting a victory but a defeat.

Considering that most of the people behind him could not see the memorial, he added, "Zhang Rang, please briefly introduce the war."

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Zhang Rang quickly bowed and agreed, "My lords, this counter-insurgency was completed by the Bingzhou Army alone. According to the original plan, they should first go to the capital to pay orders, and then collect military pay and supplies before setting off to counter the rebellion. .

But in fact, the Bingzhou army set out directly from Yanmen, crossed the grassland, and attacked Jincheng, the home of the Qiang people, and completely annihilated the garrison of the camp outside Jincheng.

The Qiang rebels who were still trying to attack eastward were shocked and hurriedly returned to prepare to destroy the Bingzhou army. Unexpectedly, they encountered an ambush waiting for work outside Tianshui City, and the main force was basically wiped out. "

In fact, what Zhang Rang said was indeed very "simple", and the real situation is much more complicated.

On that day, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Huang Zhong, Shi A, and Xu Shu led their troops and set out with only half a month of dry food. All of them, including mounted crossbowmen, had one person and two horses, crossed the grassland and went straight to Jincheng. The attack was completed in less than 10 days.

After another two days of repairing in a hidden place, they attacked the Qiang camp outside Jincheng at night. First, the cavalry charged and set fire to the camp with fire charges. After seeing the chaos in the camp, the crossbowmen covered the camp in batches and finished.

The main battle was completed in less than an hour, and the aftermath lasted until dawn the next day.

In this battle, none of the Qiang rebels' [-] fine cavalry and [-] second-line troops were left in the camp. The captured war horses were enough for each of the state troops to get one more, and there was still some left.

The next night, Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong personally led the troops and pretended to be defeated soldiers in the camp and threw down the gate of Jincheng. There were not many defenders inside, with less than 3000 people in total and no defense. They were all annihilated by the Bingzhou Army in one go. Go to Jincheng.

Throughout the battle, the Bingzhou Army suffered very few casualties. The final count was that about a thousand people were killed, and most of the casualties were cavalry. The crossbowmen suffered less than 5 casualties.More than [-] Qiang people were killed, and all the Qiang people's savings stored in Jincheng were confiscated.

Immediately afterwards, a group of elite Qiang soldiers who were deliberately let go ran to the front line to report the news. Guo Guo, Ma Teng, Han Sui and others were frightened. Even though they knew it was difficult, they decided to return to fight, at least to recapture Jincheng. Tianshui was ambushed by the Bingzhou Army who had been in ambush for two days.

Due to the battle in Jincheng, Zhao Yun left behind about 2000 cavalry, all wounded soldiers who were not suitable to continue fighting, and less than 14000 crossbowmen when he set out. The remaining 5000 elite cavalry and 60000 crossbowmen fully ambushed the main Qiang force of about [-] people.

First, the crossbowmen used uninterrupted three-stage crossbow fire to block the Qiang rebels from the front. The cavalry that had been ambushing on both wings took advantage of the chaos to attack. They did not forget to carry out two rounds of powerful crossbow cavalry in the middle, which was completely disrupted. The fate of the Qiang people is also doomed.

In this battle, the Bingzhou Army killed more than 4 Qiang rebels, and more than [-] prisoners were all beheaded after discussion by several generals of the Bingzhou Army.

Guo Guo, the leader of the Qiang rebels, was beheaded by Zhao Yun on the spot. Han Sui was shot dead by Huang Zhong with a strong bow while escaping. Only Ma Teng escaped with less than 3000 elite soldiers under the cover of a pair of sons and daughters.

Ma Chao in real history was only twelve or thirteen years old at this time, but in this hodgepodge world he was already an adult warrior.

Not only that, there is also a female general, Ma Chao's sister Ma Yunlu, who has never been mentioned in either real history or "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but only appears in the novel "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

After two major victories, the Bingzhou Army ended up in exactly the same way. No prisoners were left alive. All the Qiang rebels were beheaded and then built in Jingguan. The terrifying fighting power made the entire northern and western nomads tremble.

After wiping out the main force of [-] Qiang rebels, the Bingzhou army did not even say hello to the other Han armies. Under the leadership of the generals, they escorted the mountain-like captures back to Bingzhou from the grassland. The entire war lasted only one day. A little more than a month.

Until Deng Feng's victory memorial entered the capital, the Han army generals Huangfu Song and Zhang Wen, who were originally on the counter-rebellion front line, did not understand the war ahead. By the time they did, more than half a month had passed.

Huangfu Song, who knew the strength of the Bingzhou Army very well, did not dare to play tricks, so he hurriedly wrote the memorial and submitted the information without any modifications.

Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty had actually received the victory memorial from the Bingzhou Army a long time ago, but he had no choice but to wait since the memorial from the frontline counter-rebellion army had not arrived.

Now Huangfu Song's memorial arrived, but it was more than half a month later than Deng Feng's. After comparing the two sides, it would be strange if Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was in a good mood.

Time went back more than a month, and the state government was merged into Jinyang and the governor's office.

"Hahaha, okay, Zilong is indeed full of courage!" Deng Feng laughed and helped up the five civil and military personnel who had returned from the battle and all knelt down to pay respects. He returned to the lobby before continuing to speak, "Yuan Zhi , we won’t lose much in countering the rebellion this time, right?”

"Replying to the lord, it is still within the plan. In this battle, we lost more than 2800 cavalry and more than 1100 crossbowmen. Thanks to the 300 medical soldiers specially arranged by the lord, otherwise the number would have doubled.

The total number of Qiang rebels annihilated exceeds [-], and the detailed data of various materials seized are still being compiled. According to our rough estimate at the time of transportation, the food and grass were enough to feed the entire Bingzhou army for half a year, and the gold, silver, jewelry, copper coins, and silk were at least equivalent to two Bingzhou soldiers. Annual income. "

"Okay!" Deng Feng slapped the table and stood up, "You don't have to worry about awarding rewards. After Yuanzhi's report document arrived at me, Feng Xiao sent the victory memorial to the capital as quickly as possible. The losses tripled, and there was no mention of seizures.”

Everyone around couldn't help laughing.

"Lord, even if we win this time, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get any substantial reward." Guo Jia waited until everyone calmed down again before speaking.

"It doesn't matter, the imperial court won't reward me, and the rewards must be distributed first. All the soldiers who participated in the war will receive half a year's military pay. Those who should be promoted will be promoted, those who should be reused will be reused, and the brothers who died in the battle will be given double pensions.

Anyway, there are a lot of seizures this time, and we cannot let our bleeding brothers shed any more tears. "On this point, Deng Feng is very straightforward.

"My lord is merciful!" All the subordinates, both civil and military, bowed and saluted.

"Okay, war statistics are not a matter of one or two days. It takes longer to replenish personnel. Gongtai, this time I plan to increase the number of cavalry to 36000, reduce the number of infantry to 10000, and increase the number of crossbowmen by another 3000.

Relevant personnel recruitment and equipment replenishment will require you to work hard. "What Deng Feng values ​​more is strength.

"Yes, lord!" Chen Gong immediately saluted and agreed.

"We can talk about the war separately, but there is one more question. Zilong, what's going on with Miss Ma?" Deng Feng's words made the hall that had been quiet for a while filled with laughter again, and each one was laughing louder than the other. Loud.

"It seems to be called Ma Yunlu, right? They've all come by themselves, how are you going to arrange it?"

"Lord, this Yun——" Zhao Yun, who had always been so heroic, suddenly became speechless.

"My lord, Zilong originally knocked someone off his horse on the battlefield, but he didn't kill him ruthlessly when he found out she was a girl. Unexpectedly, girl Ma asked Zilong to marry her, and even brought a message from his father.

If General Zilong agrees, Ma Teng is willing to surrender to the general. "It was Xu Shu, the military advisor who accompanied the army, who was kind enough to report the situation properly.

"Who is Ma Teng? He dares to kidnap me? He doesn't think I care about his little things, right?" Deng Feng snorted disdainfully and turned to look at Zhao Yun, "Zilong doesn't need to feel any pressure. I don't like marriage myself, and I won't make it a condition for the marriage of my subordinates. If you want to marry this Ma girl, just marry her, and if you don't want to, just drive her away. Don't think too much. A mere Ma Teng, how can I compare to my son? Dragon!"

"You don't think that my father will really use me as a condition, do you? That's just me scaring Brother Zhao!" As soon as Deng Feng finished speaking, an arrogant female voice came from the door, and then there were the cheers and shouts of the guards in front of the door. The sound of weapons clashing.

It can be heard that the guards are completely crushed. From time to time, someone will fall to the ground with a muffled groan, but the person who came here obviously kept their hands. From Deng Feng's perception, the guards who fell to the ground were just knocked down and temporarily lost their fighting power , but not life-threatening.

On the contrary, the fighting ability of the girl who came was not much worse than Zhao Yun before he practiced Deng Feng's secret manual.

"Let her in!" Deng Feng greeted the door with a smile on his face, and soon a very outstanding female general entered the lobby.

This girl looks to be about seventeen or eighteen years old, but she is extremely tall, nearly 1.8 meters tall, less than half a head shorter than Zhao Yun, and her figure is even more devilish, with an "S-shaped" shape without any moisture.

Wearing a well-fitting bright red battle robe with soft armor, combat boots on the feet, a scabbard hanging on the left side, and a standard eight-sided Han sword in the right hand, without a helmet, the exposed figure is no worse than Xiao Zhao or Xiao Longnu. What a wonderful face.

"General Zhao, I have changed my mind. You must marry this girl back home, otherwise you will be considered as disobeying military orders!" Deng Feng suddenly looked at Zhao Yun and said seriously, but then he showed a strange smile again.

"But if you don't beat her eight times a day, I will count you as disobeying the military order. Hohoho, I am the master and I have the final say!"

The laughter in the lobby almost broke the roof.

"You - you are not a good person!" When he heard that Deng Feng told Zhao Yun to marry her, Ma Yunlu showed a look of surprise, and his cheeks turned red due to shyness. As a result, Deng Feng immediately threw her into the trap with his next words. The snow was so thick that she was so angry that she swung her sword.

"Yunlu!" Zhao Yun quickly stepped forward and hugged her. The female general who was wielding a sword just now immediately turned into a little girl. Her body seemed to have no bones and she fell limp in Zhao Yun's arms. The sword in her hand also "clanged" "It fell to the ground with a sound.

"Oh -" There were strange screams in the lobby, which made Ma Yunlu hide his head into Zhao Yun's arms in shame, but the blush on his face extended to his neck.

"Ghost girl, why can't you react at this time? Why don't you tell Mrs. Zhao to go and rest in the back!" Deng Feng looked at Xiao Zhao with a deliberately angry expression, "What if I'm embarrassed to death? What am I going to do to compensate? Give it to Zilong!"

"Yes, young master!" Xiao Zhao took the order with his fists solemnly, but he immediately stepped forward with a smile and pulled Ma Yunlu away, who was almost dying of embarrassment.

"Lord, Yun——" Zhao Yun, who had always been a cold-faced man, suddenly lost his sense of proportion and was so embarrassed that he didn't even know where to put his hands.

"Okay, Zilong, you don't have to think too much, just rest assured that you can marry her home. There are three things that are unfilial and have no descendants. You can't eat it all and refuse to accept it?" Girl, Deng Feng really approves of it.

Not only that, with Deng Feng's eyesight, he could naturally see that Ma Yunlu's eyebrows were spread out and his face was glowing. It was obvious that the two of them couldn't hold back and accidentally got angry.

"As for Ma Teng, I believe there must be his spies behind Miss Ma, and the Ma family counselor in charge of negotiations will be here soon."

"Thank you, Lord!" Zhao Yun was overjoyed and knelt down to salute happily.

The reason why Deng Feng so happily agreed to the marriage of Zhao Yun and Ma Yunlu is actually not simply "adult beauty".

On the one hand, although the two have a deep relationship, you must know that Zhao Yunke has always been aloof and cold, and he has always been very careful about women.

Nowadays, he is also a well-known unparalleled warrior in the world, and he has already reached adulthood, not to mention that his position is also at the level of Zhonglang General, but he has very strict and simple life requirements. For such a high position, he only lives in a small courtyard with two entrances.

In addition to a few servants responsible for cooking or cleaning, there are only two maidservants in charge of the inner house. One of them is a little girl who also came from Zhaojiazhuang and was her childhood sweetheart. These two are the only ones who are considered to be in the house.

This is simply not a "sacrificing" issue among people of the same level. If he didn't really have needs, some people would probably start to doubt his sexual orientation.

On the other hand, Zhao Yun is not a person who pursues beauty. In the original work, he was later ordered to attack a big city, and the prefect Zhao Fan clearly agreed to surrender on the condition that Zhao Yun marry his widowed sister-in-law.

Moreover, both of them have the surname Zhao. Zhao Fan is willing to sworn sworn brother to Zhao Yun, considering him as his biological eldest brother. As for the widowed sister-in-law, it is clearly stated in the original work that she is a stunning beauty, and she is willing to remarry.

But Zhao Yun still refused, and in the end it took a big battle to capture the city.

Ma Yunlu and Deng Feng were not familiar with each other, but her arrogance could also be seen. However, when Zhao Yun was on his way back to Bingzhou, neither of them could hold back their anger. It can be seen from this that they recognized each other. Deng Feng would definitely not A fool would beat the mandarin duck in this situation.

Finally, it would be okay to say that Deng Feng didn't care about Ma Teng at all, but Deng Feng really had a lot of thoughts about Ma Chao, the son of a warlord in the late Han Dynasty.

If the Ma family can be recruited through Ma Yunlu's relationship, Ma Teng will definitely be idle by then. In turn, he can show his attitude by reusing Ma Chao. This is also in line with the consistent rules of feudal society.

Now that the prerequisites have been met, Deng Feng did not show any pretense and directly sent Guo Jia to personally take charge of the recruitment and surrender, and the conditions given were "semi-autonomous".

Anyway, the large grasslands in the northwest of Bingzhou are now sparsely populated. When the time comes, Ma Teng will be arranged to take the Qiang people under him to build a military horse farm, and then reuse Ma Chao, Ma Dai and Ma Yunlu. No one can say anything wrong anyway.

This also solved the problem of the source of military horses. They would not have to rely on seizures or smuggling through caravans.

The camera returns to the capital and the imperial palace.

"My dear friends, for such meritorious service, please discuss how to reward me?" As before, the translation of this sentence is "How can I refuse the reward without looking so ugly?"

"Your Majesty, why don't you make Governor Deng the Cavalry General, give him a mansion in the capital, and take charge of the military affairs of the Eastern Camp to show your Majesty's honor and favor?" Before the nameless bitch could finish his words, General He Jin forced him back with murderous eyes. Dongdaying is He Jin's territory.

"Your Majesty, this statement is inappropriate. Although Governor Deng has done a lot, he is a frontier army and is not suitable for entering the capital to take charge of the army." General He Jin's opinion, he is now a subordinate of the General's Mansion.

"Your Majesty is planning to re-establish a new army, and with Deng's talent as governor, he is the most suitable candidate."

This time, not only Zhang Rang, but also Han Ling Emperor's face turned a little dark.He wanted to form a new army, but mainly to counter He Jin's military power.If Deng Feng is put in charge, then with his current reputation, will the new army have anything to do with him?

"Your Majesty, this is inappropriate." The person who spoke this time was Zhao Zhong, the second-in-command of the "Ten Constant Attendants", or rather the attitude of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty.

After a lot of noise, the entire meeting quickly turned into a vegetable market, and I couldn't even make a decision all morning.

The only thing that all parties agreed on was that Deng Feng could go to Beijing to report on his work, but he was only allowed to bring his personal guards with him, and the number could not be too large. At the same time, a notice of reporting on his work was issued.

Finally, after ten days of nonsense, the court made a "unanimous" decision, and the issue of rewards would be discussed after Deng Feng went to Beijing to report on his work.

(End of this chapter)