Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 387
Before Ma Chao led the troops to leave Jicheng, he ordered Liang Kuan and Zhao Qu to guard the city. After Ma Chao left, the two immediately led troops to surround Ma Chao's mansion, and captured Ma Chao's family, old and young, waiting for their execution.

When Ma Chao's army arrived, Jiang Xu and Yang Fu led their troops out. In the circle of two formations, Yang Fu and Jiang Xu came out in white robes, and cursed at Ma Chao, "You are a traitor to the emperor!"

Ma Chao was furious, rushed over, the two armies fought, how did Jiang Xu and Yang Fu resist Ma Chao, they were defeated and left, Ma Chao drove his troops to come, and when there was a shout behind him, Yin Feng and Zhao Ang came to kill him.

Ma Chao immediately turned around and attacked twice, unable to look at each other from the head to the tail. While fighting, he stabbed diagonally and suddenly a large army of horses came to kill him.

It turned out that Yu Wencheng arrived with his army and was leading the army to defeat Ma Chao. How could Ma Chao block the three-way army and horses, and was defeated and ran back.

In Xuchang City, an urgent military report was placed on Li Song's desk, and Li Song laughed out loud after reading it!Sima Yi, Yang Xiu and the others hurriedly asked, "Why is Duke Tang laughing so loudly?"

Li Song glanced at the crowd and said with a smile on his face, "I just got a military newspaper, guess where it came from."

Yang Xiu said: "Now that the north is flat, only the south and west are not safe. Since Jiangdong in the south lost two counties, it also gained Jiaozhou, which temporarily blocked the progress of our army. In this case, it should not be from the south."

Since Sun Quan sent Bu Zhi to capture Jiaozhou and appointed him as the governor of Jiaozhou, Li Song unexpectedly supported Sun Quan against the army he sent. Fortunately, the navy of Soochow was completely wiped out, otherwise it would be even more troublesome.

"Since it's not the south, only the west. Recently, I heard that Ma Chao invaded Liangzhou and captured Jicheng, the governor of Liangzhou. The governor Wei Kang was killed."

"Presumably it must be the military newspaper from the west. Seeing Duke Tang smiling happily, he must have defeated Ma Chao, but I don't know whether to capture him alive or kill him."

After listening to Yang Xiu's explanation, he also felt that what Yang Xiu said was reasonable. Li Song smiled and said, "Dezu is right! It is the military newspaper in the west, and Yu Wencheng wrote to say that Ma Chao has been defeated and Liangzhou has been recovered."

"Congratulations Tang Gong! Take back Xiliang!" Everyone hurriedly congratulated!Then they asked what happened, they were really curious.

Li Song then told everyone the content of the intelligence sent by Yu Wencheng. It turned out that Ma Chao was defeated after being besieged by soldiers from the three routes. He walked all night until after dawn. shoot down.

Liang Kuan and Zhao Qu stood on the city wall and cursed at Ma Chao; they chopped off Ma Chao's wife, Yang Shi, from the city wall, and left the body behind; In order to throw him to the city, Ma Chao was so angry that he almost fell off his horse.

Behind him, Yu Wencheng led his troops to chase. Seeing the momentum, Ma Chao didn't want to fight, and fought with Pang De and others to fight.

He bumped into Jiang Xu and Yang Fu in the front and killed him for a while; rushed past, bumped into Yin Feng and Zhao Ang, and killed him for a while; He was captured alive, and finally managed to escape under Pang De's desperate fight. He ran all night, around four o'clock, and went to the base of Licheng.

Chao started killing from the south gate of the city, washed all the people in the city, went to Jiang Xu's house, took out his old mother, who had no fear, pointed at Ma Chao and cursed, Chao was furious, took his own sword and killed him, Yin Feng and Zhao Ang's family, old and young , were all killed by Ma Chao.

Ang's wife, Wang, was spared because she was in the army. The next day, Yu Wencheng's army arrived, and Ma Chao abandoned the city to fight out. He fled westward and fled to Zhang Lu in Hanzhong.

"Since Ma Chao was not captured, why is the prime minister so happy?" Gongcao Chang Lin asked in confusion. Ma Chao has already run away, so why should he be so happy?
"Although Ma Chao was not captured, Ma Chao's misfortune was settled. From then on, the west side has no worries! It will allow us to concentrate more on dealing with the south side," Li Song said.

Both the north and the west have settled down, and then we can concentrate more troops to deal with Soochow and Yizhou Liu Zhang, as well as Zhang Lu in Hanzhong. In the past, we had to fight on multiple fronts, so naturally the pressure was not small. Now, as long as we fight on two fronts, the pressure will naturally be less Lowered a lot.

Even Shi Huan, the chief minister in charge of money and food, couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. Over the years, to support the supply of food and grass for the army, how many times he woke up from his sleep, the headache was how to supply the food and grass in the first place .

"This time, Yang Fu and others contributed a lot to being able to put down the chaos of Ma Chao so quickly this time. When they and Yu Wencheng come together, I will reward them heavily, but how should I reward them?" Li Song asked.

In fact, he already had an idea in his mind. According to Cao Cao in history, it is best to confer titles to those who have made great contributions. The reason why he asked everyone was to see if there was a better way.

"Back to Duke Tang! You can make Yang Fu the Marquis of Guannei, and the rest will be rewarded according to their merits, and the Qiang people who helped Ma Chao will be severely punished." Sima Yi cupped his hands.

"Okay! Just follow Zhongda's words!" Li Song nodded and said, after discussing with everyone, they got up and left.

It happened to be October when Yang Fu and others came to Xuchang, and the weather had turned cold. The cold wind blowing was like a knife, and it hurt people's faces when it was blown. Everyone put on a piece of clothing, so they felt good. some.

"Greetings to Duke Tang!" Yang Fu and the others were led to Tiance Mansion, where Li Song worked, and everyone rushed to meet him.

"No courtesy! Come and give me a seat!" Li Song said, after everyone thanked him, he gave him a seat.

"You are all meritorious ministers. I have already presented myself to the emperor, and there are rewards!" After Li Song finished speaking, he winked at Xu Chu who was beside him.

Xu Chu stepped forward and read out the rewards to everyone: "...Yang Fu, who joined the army in Liangzhou, was granted the title of Marquis of Guannei, Jiang Xu and ten others were given the title of Marquis of Liehou, and the rest were promoted to three ranks in succession."

Everyone thanked, but Yang Fu refused to grant the reward, everyone was puzzled, Yang Fu's cousin Jiang Xu even pulled his stupid cousin, everyone worked so hard to defeat Ma Chao, is it just to avenge Wei Kang? In addition to this, isn't it just to make contributions and get rewards?But my cousin refused.

Li Song naturally understood what Yang Fu meant, and said with a smile: "Yishan, why did you refuse the imperial court's award to you? You must know that this is a recognition of your achievements."

Yang Fu declined and said: "I, Yang Fu, did not protect the lives of the state lords. After they died, I did not fulfill my filial piety. From a moral point of view, I should be deposed, and from a legal point of view, I should be killed."

"Now that Ma Chao has not been killed, but has fled to Hanzhong, I really have no right to accept the royal salary bestowed by the imperial court. I also ask Duke Tang to ask Your Majesty to take it back."

Li Song smiled and said: "You and the sages jointly created great achievements, and the people in the west still talk about it. As a good talk, Confucius thinks it is inappropriate for Zi Gong to resign and reward."

"It's commendable that you serve the country with all your heart. Jiang Xu's mother persuaded Jiang Xu to start the army as soon as possible. It is really a wise move, and Yang Chang's wife is no different. She is really talented! She is really talented! There is a good history to record loyalty, and I will never forget your righteousness. of."

After some persuasion by Li Song, Yang Fu accepted the reward.

(End of this chapter)