The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 453 Chapter 452 West Wind (19)

Ma Chao had traveled westward once before. Thanks to the results of his last trip westward, he was very familiar with the area in the west of Liangzhou. He led the army to Liqian City first. After the horse thieves stopped being a problem, their business also plummeted, and no caravans were willing to pay high prices to hire them.

When the Liqian people were depressed, Ma Chao came and directly expressed his position to the leader of the Liqian people. He asked all the Liqian people to join his subordinates and serve as soldiers with him. Military pay, even their families will be properly arranged.But there is only one condition. From then on, Liqian people will only obey orders from Ma Chao, and swear that they will never betray them.

The people in Liqian considered it again and again, and finally agreed to Ma Chao. From then on, they officially became Ma Chao's subordinates.

Ma Chao did not stay in Liqian City for a long time, but went directly westward with the Liqian people who were used to fighting. When they arrived at Heli Mountain, Jiang Chao, the leader of the horse bandits who had surrendered to Ma Chao, also joined Ma Chao's army. , and provided horses for the Liqian people who had no horses.

The group continued to march westward in a mighty way, and soon arrived in Dunhuang. Ma Chao sent someone to inform Gai Shun, hoping that Gai Shun could join his army and contribute to driving away the Xianbei people.

Gai Shun from Guangzhi County heard that Ma Chao was leading the army, and he was extremely excited. Coupled with his admiration for Ma Chao, he immediately agreed to join Ma Chao's army and was willing to be driven by Ma Chao.

After Ma Chao arrived in Guangzhi County, he rested for two days, and then sent people to Dunhuang to get in touch with Suo Guang, preparing to cooperate with the inside and outside, and wipe out all the Xianbei people outside Dunhuang in one fell swoop.

Yang Fu became the messenger sent by Ma Chao to Dunhuang to contact Suo Guang. Taking Ma Chao's instructions, Yang Fu disguised himself as a merchant and sneaked into Dunhuang City. After meeting with Suo Guang, Yang Fu directly stated the importance of this military operation .

Suo Guang condescended to be under the Xianbei people for more than a year, and secretly trained an army, waiting for such a day.Now such a day finally came, so Suo Guang discussed with Yang Fu and worked out a plan that combined internal and external.

Yang Fu then quickly returned to Guangzhi County, and went back to report everything to Ma Chao.

Suo Guang's strategy is very simple, let Ma Chao dress up as a caravan and enter Dunhuang City in batches, and then he is responsible for arranging everything.

In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Suo Guang prepared to hold a grand dinner in Dunhuang one day later, inviting the Xianbei people to the city for the banquet, drunk these Xianbei people with fine wine, and beheaded all the leaders of the Xianbei people. At that time, Ma Chao led the army. He first invited several leaders of the Xianbei people into the city to drink and have fun, and then beheaded these Xianbei people during the banquet.

After Ma Chao heard this, he decisively agreed with Suo Guang's plan, ordered his subordinates to remove their armor, hid all the armor and weapons in the carriage, pretended to be a caravan, and asked the Liqian people to protect them and sneak into Dunhuang City.

In the early morning of the next day, Ma Chao started to arrange for thousands of people to enter Dunhuang City in caravans divided into dozens of batches.

In the evening, all of Ma Chao's subordinates had arrived in Dunhuang City, and they were secretly hiding in various important places in Dunhuang City, quietly waiting for the night's action.

Suo Guang had sent out an invitation a long time ago, and the Xianbei people who were traveling abroad had long wanted to enter Dunhuang City to enjoy themselves, but because of the agreement with Suo Guang, they never had the opportunity to enter the city.

This time Suo Guang issued an invitation, hoping that all the Xianbei cavalry outside Dunhuang City would come to the city to express his gratitude to the Xianbei people for guarding Dunhuang City.

The Xianbei people didn't know what it was, and they all entered Dunhuang City happily. However, they didn't know that they stepped into the gate of hell. After tonight, they would never see the sun of tomorrow again.

About [-] Xianbei people entered the city of Dunhuang one after another. Suo Guang set up a grand bonfire party in the square in front of the Taishou's mansion, and invited dancers from the Western Regions to perform some dances for these Xianbei people. In addition, good food and wine are used to entertain Xianbei people without hesitation. Xianbei people enjoy this kind of treatment very much. They eat meat and drink heavily, and they are all happy.

Suo Guang even sat with several leaders of the Xianbei people, and each leader sat with two dancers, who kept persuading the leaders to drink. The leaders were fascinated by these dancers, unconsciously , They were all drunk and unconscious.

At midnight, the dinner party had come to an end, the leader of Xianbei had already been lying drunk in the hall, and fell asleep, and the square outside the prefect's mansion was also full of thunderous snoring.

At this time, groups of black shadows quietly rushed out from all directions of the prefect's mansion, holding a gleaming sharp blade in their hands, walked carefully to the middle of the crowd, and directly pierced the hearts of these Xianbei people with their sharp blades. Or cut off the heads of these Xianbei people.

For a moment, the air was filled with the pungent smell of blood, mixed with the smell of alcohol, permeating the entire square in front of the Prefect's Mansion.In a short while, the square in front of the prefect's mansion was already filled with blood, and those Xianbei people all died in their sleep.

In just one stick of incense, about [-] Xianbei people died quietly in the city of Dunhuang.

At this time, the prefect Suo Guang came out of the prefect's mansion, followed by several personal guards, holding a few bloody heads in his hands, and glanced at the mess in the square, finally showing a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

Overnight, all the Xianbei people were killed, and the horses they rode naturally became Ma Chao's possession.

However, Ma Chao and Suo Guang were not too happy about killing these Xianbei people, because in addition to the Xianbei people they killed, there were also two cavalry teams of Xianbei people stationed at Yumen Pass and Yang Pass. 3000 people, if they heard the news in Dunhuang City, they would definitely lead an army to attack Dunhuang City.At that time, the city of Dunhuang will be in flames of war.

For this reason, Suo Guang suggested to Ma Chao that he should act first, divide his troops into two groups, pretend to be Xianbei people, and rush to Yumen Pass and Yang Pass in the starry night.

Only in this way can the threat of the Xianbei people be eliminated to a minimum.Even if there is a fish that slipped through the net and went back to rescue the soldiers, Ma Teng's army had already arrived in Dunhuang, and the deployment and defense were ready. As long as they stood firm and did not fight, the Xianbei people would have nothing to do.

Ma Chao agreed with Suo Guang's suggestion, and divided his troops into two groups. He himself led one army, and Pound led the other. Ma Dai and Wang Shuang followed Pound's army to attack Yangguan, while he Then, together with Jiang Chao, Gai Shun, Yang Fu and others, they went to attack Yumen Pass. Suoguang and Liqian people stayed in Dunhuang City and temporarily closed the gate of Dunhuang City. All caravans must be strictly inspected before entering the city. Go out and wait for the news of Ma Chao's triumphant return and the arrival of Ma Teng's army.

So Ma Chao and Pound all changed into Xianbei clothes, and Suo Guang asked two people who were proficient in Xianbei to follow them respectively, as a way to earn money to open the city gate.

The two armies rushed to Yumen Pass and Yang Pass in the starry night and arrived in the afternoon of the next day. However, neither of the two armies launched an attack on Yumen Pass and Yang Pass.

After dark, in the middle of the night, Ma Chao and Pound estimated that the Xianbei people in the pass were asleep, so they led their troops to Yumen Pass and Yang Pass. After opening the city gates, Ma Chao and Pound immediately attacked Yumen Pass and Yang Pass. Yang Guan.

Faced with Ma Chao and Pound's sudden attack, the Xianbei people in Yumen Pass and Yangguan were all panicked. After some fighting, the Xianbei people in the city were unable to resist. Most of them were killed, and a very small part of them escaped outside the pass. Heading towards Dunhuang City.

However, the very small number of Xianbei people did not know that Dunhuang City had been occupied. When they arrived in Dunhuang City, Suo Guang put these people in the city, and then attacked the Xianbei people on the spot. Without knowing what was going on, he was shot and killed by random arrows.

So far, all the Xianbei people who occupied Dunhuang were killed, and no one escaped. Ma Teng led the army and arrived in Dunhuang two days later. Before he had time to rest, Ma Teng immediately deployed defenses and sent troops to garrison various important places in Dunhuang. Over the sky of Dunhuang, the long-lost "Han" banner floated again.

After occupying Dunhuang, Ma Chao asked Ma Teng to guard Dunhuang, and he took Pang De, Wang Shuang, Ma Dai, Yang Fu and others to Juyan, a vassal state of Zhangye.Ma Chao was worried that Zhang Yan's troops would be too small to win, so he wanted to occupy Juyan City, which is the closest city to Jiluo Mountain. The distance between the two places is about six or seven hundred miles. News of people fighting.

Ma Teng agreed with Ma Chao's opinion and asked Ma Chao to take away [-] cavalry. Ma Chao left Dunhuang with the most elite Ma's army and headed for Juyan City, which is a vassal state of Zhangye.

Ma Teng stayed in Dunhuang City with the assistance of Zhuge Liang and Suo Guang, and was fully responsible for the security defense here.

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The vast desert, the dead sea of ​​sand.

At a glance, there is monotonous yellow everywhere, not even a single tree. The vastness of the desert makes Zhang Yan and each of them feel tired, as if they will never go out.

The scorching sun hangs high in the sky, causing the desert to smoke.Zhang Yan and others set up the awning, but the sand was so hot that they couldn't stand or sit.For the first time, Zhang Yan felt the horror of the desert. The desert is vast, boundless, boundless, endless, and there is only sand in his eyes.

The cavalry team composed of 3000 people lost their motivation to advance in this vast desert. The heat was unbearable, and both men and horses were thirsty. Without a source of water, they are likely to die of thirst in this desert.

Zhang Yan and others set off from Guzang City and traveled north all the way, but they entered this desert. At first Zhang Yan thought they could go out, but Zhang Yan underestimated the area of ​​this desert, and now they are deeply trapped in it, leaving For several days, they still haven't seen the head, and the most important thing is that Zhang Yan and the others have reached the point of running out of water.

Could it be that they are really going to be buried in this desert?

(End of this chapter)