The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 434 433 Liangzhou Rebellion (20)

Han Sui was dead, and Han Cheng was also dead. The four generals Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, Liang Xing, and Zhang Heng were sharpening their knives in the area of ​​Jicheng, ready to make a move.

The news of the deaths of Han Sui and Han Cheng's father and son, somehow, spread in Liangzhou. In just two days, the whole Liangzhou knew the news.

On the third day, Hou Xuan, Ma Wan, Cheng Yin, and Li Chen also brought their respective armies to the foot of Jicheng. Set up camp in a corner outside.

The eight people are all Han Sui's former subordinates, and everyone is rebellious. When Han Sui was around, there were still ways to suppress them. When Han Sui died, the nature of these people was exposed, and they all wanted to replace Han Sui Then the location.

But the eight people had their own ghosts and disagreed with each other, so they fought, and even started a fight in the area of ​​Jicheng. Eight people, eight soldiers and horses, killed each other, and the surroundings of Jicheng suddenly fell into a purgatory on earth.

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In the depths of Longshan Mountain at the junction of Anding County and Hanyang County, Ma Chao gathered elite troops to gather here secretly, and constantly sent scouts to inquire about news.

In the past few days, news has been floating towards Ma Chao like snowflakes. Eight generals, Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, Liang Xing, Zhang Heng, Hou Xuan, Ma Wan, Cheng Yin, and Li Chen, have launched a shopping spree in the area of ​​Jicheng. After a day of fighting, the last eight people evolved into two factions. Hou Xuan, Ma Wan, Cheng Yin, and Li Chen formed an alliance to deal with the attacks of Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, Liang Xing, and Zhang Heng. In just one day, the area around Jicheng City has become a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, and the people in the city have also been affected, dead and injured, but no one can escape this catastrophe.

On the second day, Hou Xuan, Ma Wan, Cheng Yin, and Li Chen launched a counterattack against Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, Liang Xing, and Zhang Heng. Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, Liang Xing, and Zhang Heng fought back ten li.

Not to be outdone, Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, Liang Xing, Zhang Heng and others fabricated rumors that Hou Xuan wanted to usurp power and killed Han Sui and Han Cheng, so they sent people to mobilize troops, who were originally hidden in Hanyang County and Anding The [-] troops on the border of the county all listened to Yang Qiu's slander, believed it to be true, and led the army to kill them. Instead, Hou Xuan, Ma Wan, Cheng Yin, and Li Chen fled in embarrassment.

Later, Hou Xuan, Ma Wan, Cheng Yin, and Li Chen regrouped an army to fight to the death with Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, Liang Xing, and Zhang Heng. In just a few days, tens of thousands of people died around Jicheng.

When the news reached Ma Chao's ears, Ma Chao couldn't sit still any longer, and immediately mobilized his troops, with Pang De, Ma Dai, Ma Gang and all other troops, taking advantage of Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, Liang Xing, Zhang Heng, When Hou Xuan, Ma Wan, Cheng Yin, Li Chen and others were playing inextricably, suddenly from behind Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, Liang Xing, Zhang Heng, Hou Xuan, Ma Wan, Cheng Yin, Li Chen and others To kill them, the troops were divided into four groups. Ma Chao, Pang De, Ma Dai, and Ma Gang each led an army, and attacked from four different directions at the same time.

Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, Liang Xing, Zhang Heng, Hou Xuan, Ma Wan, Cheng Yin, Li Chen and others fought for several days, and they were already exhausted, and many of their generals were injured, and their subordinates were even more exhausted. The casualties were heavy.Suddenly, they were flanked by Ma Chao's front, rear, left, and right. Unprepared, they were killed, and finally scattered and retreated with the remnant army.

Ma Chao ordered the pursuit. Pound beheaded Ma Wan while chasing and killing the enemy. Ma Dai beheaded Zhang Heng. Ma Gang killed Li Chen. More than 2 people died.Only Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, and Hou Xuan are currently at large.

Hou Xuan fled to Wuwei, Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi fled to Longxi, Ma Chao couldn't catch up, so he had to withdraw his troops temporarily.

Poor Han Sui has painstakingly managed Liangzhou for more than ten years, and recruited eight strong generals and an army of 15 by various means. More than 7 people have died in Jicheng in the past few days, and most of them are elite soldiers who have fought many battles.Although Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, and Hou Xuan were on the run, they were all severely wounded, and the rest were remnants of defeated generals, who were no longer strong enough to contend with Ma Chao.

And Ma Chao sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight. After this battle, he killed [-] enemies and captured [-] prisoners. He became the most powerful separatist in Liangzhou in one fell swoop.

However, the area around Jicheng was devastated by the war, and the damage was very serious. The people in the city also became the victims of the eight generals of Han Sui's subordinates. The formerly prosperous Jicheng suddenly became a pile of ruins.

In the next few days, Ma Chao has been cleaning the battlefield, or burying or burning the corpses. It took a whole three days to clean up the purgatory site.

However, there are many grave mounds around Jicheng, and the atmosphere is too dark, and the city has become a ruin, and it is impossible to live in it.

Ma Chao didn't plan to stay too much in Jicheng either. According to the report of the scouts, Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi led the remnant army and fled to Longxi, while Hou Xuan went to Wuwei. Dai and his two led a large army to Wuwei to attack Houxuan, while he himself led the most elite Majia army under his command to Longxi.

As for the surrendered soldiers, Ma Chao did not kill them, but asked Ma Gang to lock up all the surrendered soldiers. Those who were willing to surrender were given food, and those who were unwilling to surrender were left to starve.And Ma Chao also asked Ma Gang to temporarily camp on the bank of the Wei River east of Jicheng, waiting for the good news of his triumphant return.

Longxi is located in the upper reaches of the Wei River, with majestic mountains and rivers and charming scenery.Moreover, dragons and snakes are mixed in the territory of Longxi, and Hu and Han live together. There are Qiang people, Hu people, and a few Xiongnu and Xianbei people. But here, the number of Han people is not as large as that of Qiang people. Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi fled here , Afraid of being found by Ma Chao, so they hid in Tibet, still unable to figure out where they were hiding.

After Ma Chao led more than a thousand soldiers and horses to Longxi, he heard that the scouts had finished reporting, so he immediately sent scouts to contact the local Qiang people, hoping to use the power of the Qiang people to find Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi, and at the same time issued a big reward, whoever could Those who bring the heads of Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi to see him will be rewarded with a thousand gold.

Among the Qiang people's tribe, Ma Chao's prestige is extremely high. The Qiang people knew that Ma Chao was looking for Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi. They spread the word to ten and then to hundreds. It took only two days to find Yang Qiu. , Cheng Yi's hiding place.

It turned out that Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi knew that Ma Chao would use the Qiang people to find him, so they kept avoiding the habitat of the Qiang people, and hid in Baishi Mountain, where there are relatively few Qiang people.

But no matter how careful Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi are, the fox will still show its tail, and the Qiang people's tracking ability is very good, so it only took a very short time to find out Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi. people's hiding place.

However, the Qiang people did not attack Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi, mainly because Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi had thousands of soldiers and horses, and because they were hiding in the mountains, the Qiang people were afraid of their force and did not dare to attack rashly. , had to report to Ma Chao.

After Ma Chao got the news, he rushed his army to Baishi Mountain and asked the Qiang people about Baishi Mountain. When he learned that there was no river in the mountain and only a lake at the foot of the mountain was the only source of water, he So he asked the Qiang people to help him seal the mountains and water sources, and secretly opened a big net, waiting quietly for Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi to throw themselves into the net.

One day later, Ma Chao captured and detained all the soldiers sent by Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi to fetch water.

Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi learned that Ma Chao had reached the foot of the mountain and controlled the water source, so they dared not go down, and refused to let the soldiers go down the mountain to confront Ma Chao.

But at night, more and more soldiers couldn't help being thirsty, and secretly ran down the mountain to drink water. Of course, these soldiers were all captured alive by Ma Chao.

Ma Chao saw that the effect of waiting for a rabbit like this was too slow, so he let one person go on purpose, and told that person that if anyone could capture Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi alive and send them to him, he would reward him a lot.

After the man sneaked back to the mountain, he spread Ma Chao's words, and the soldiers quickly reached a consensus, that is to arrest Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi and send them to Ma Chao.

At night, although Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi were extremely thirsty, they could not bear to go down the mountain. In the second half of the night, when they were half asleep and half awake, they were suddenly tied up by their subordinates and beaten unconscious by a sap.

When Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi woke up again, they saw Ma Chao standing in front of them. They were terrified, and they even forgot the pain in their head.

"The two of you can run quite well, can you run farther if you have the ability?" Ma Chao stood proudly in front of Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi, and said with a smile.

Both Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi looked disappointed, at this moment Yang Qiu said: "Since I have been captured by you, if you want to kill or cut me up, I will listen to you!"

Cheng Yi hurriedly begged for mercy: "General Ma, as long as you don't kill me, I am willing to work for you. I will be loyal to you for the rest of my life, and I ask General Ma to spare my life!"

One was fearless in the face of danger and wanted to die, while the other was as cowardly as a mouse and hurriedly begged for mercy.Standing in front of these two people, Ma Chao weighed himself, he is now in need of talents, Yang Qiu is very talented, if he can use it, it is a good thing.Although Cheng Yi is greedy for life and afraid of death, he is good at martial arts, and he can be used in the charge.

Therefore, Ma Chao immediately ordered someone to untie Cheng Yi, directly expressing his willingness to surrender Cheng Yi, Cheng Yi was very grateful, and bowed to Ma Chao again and again.

Ma Chao walked up to Yang Qiu and asked, "Cheng Yi has surrendered, how about you?"

"I still say that, if you want to kill or cut, it's up to you!" Yang Qiu said.

Ma Chao said: "General Yang, I respect that you are a man. There is a saying, it seems that a soldier dies for his confidant. Han Sui is such a treacherous person, you are willing to drive him. Now that he is dead, you Do you also plan to die for this treacherous person?"

Yang Qiu remained silent.

Ma Chao said, "General Yang, think about it carefully! Is it worth dying for someone like Han Sui?"

(End of this chapter)