Survival Three Kingdoms

Chapter 49

Zhang Wen was very happy. Although Zhou Shen's army was almost wiped out, the credit for repelling Han Sui and driving him back to Xiliang was enough for Zhang Wen to explain to the court. Zhou Shen carried it himself, and Zhou Shen alone was responsible for the report to the court.

Someone has to bear the responsibility, and the following is the issue of rewards.The rewards of the big people need the court's will, and the rewards of the small people can be decided by Zhang Wen.After consulting Tao Qian, Zhou Cang was appointed Sima of the other department.Tao Qian is not the governor now, and the director is useless. It may be for this reason that Tao Qian agreed, or Tao Qian wanted to promote Zhou Cang.

Zhou Cang entertained Niu Fu in private, both to get closer and to inquire about news.Zhou Cang was not very clear about the official position of Sima in Biebu, so he took advantage of the opportunity to ask Niu Fu.Niu Fu said that according to the usual practice, Sima of other tribes can lead a battalion of soldiers and horses. The battalion of soldiers and horses can be as many as a few hundred, as many as two or three thousand, and at most six thousand, but neither Zhang Wen nor Tao Qian When mentioning this matter, Niu Fu suggested that Zhou Cang recruit some people himself, as long as there are not too many people, they have the right to serve as personal soldiers, and the adults will not interfere.

After a few glasses of wine, Niu Fu said that the local old people can endure hardships and fight bravely, so they might as well recruit old soldiers, and Zhou Cang thanked him endlessly.He drank a lot, and Niu Fu talked more, and he revealed it to Zhou Cang proudly. Since he was the one who recommended Zhou Cangxian's strategy last time, his status was also improved. There was a joke before that he relied on Dong Zhuo's son-in-law to get ahead. Converge a lot.Zhou Cang asked Niu Fu about Jia Xu again. Niu Fu thought about it for a long time and shook his head to express that he didn't know, which made Zhou Cang despise him. It's difficult for Niu Fu to be a leader if he doesn't know such a great person.

Zhou Cang used Jiu Jin to ask Niu Fu why Dong Zhuo was more lenient towards him, but he was a little arrogant towards Zhang Wen, Tao Qian and others.Niu Fu laughed loudly, and said in a low voice, "Guo Wei doesn't know something. My father-in-law's heart, some people think he is vulgar, some people think he is arrogant, arrogant and rude. In fact, he is also polite to those who are really talented and capable. Treat each other, but he doesn't like red tape, and he doesn't care about people who put on airs. If you treat him politely, he will treat you politely, and if you treat him lightly, he will return double, even for Shangguan."

Zhou Cang gave a thumbs up, he has personality.

If you are not in charge of a family, you don’t know the cost of firewood and rice. Zhou Cang deeply understands how much it costs to raise an army and recruit recruits. You always have to pay some settling expenses to attract people. They also need to spend money, weapons, armors, uniforms, and military tents are necessary. If you don’t pay soldiers, you can’t lack rewards. It’s a bottomless pit to spend money. Zhang Wenwen and Tao Qian won’t pay Zhou Cang for these things.

Fortunately, Zhou Cang still had money on hand. After sending Niu Fu away, he and Zhang Jai recruited old soldiers, set the number at 500, and finally recruited a battalion of soldiers after careful selection.These old soldiers really didn't look very strong, but they were extremely capable and full of tenacity.On the surface, there is no publicity, and even a little dullness. Under this dullness, there is indifference, indifference to life, whether it is to the enemy or to oneself.

Zhang Jaw was very happy. He compared these soldiers to weeds in the dry land and old bamboos in the wind and snow.Zhou Cang was very eager to give this camp a name. Gao Shun had the trap camp, Ju Yi had the first camp, Gongsun Zan had the white horse followers, Cao Cao had the tiger and leopard riders, and Liu Bei had the white scorpion soldiers, but reason still convinced Zhou Cang to call him the old man first. Bing, command Zhang Jaw.

Zhang Wenwen and Tao Qian did not interfere with Zhou Cang's recruiting behavior, and Zhang Wen also generously allocated some obsolete weapons and military supplies. After Niu Fu knew about it, he also sent a lot of military supplies and horses under Dong Zhuo's order, so Zhou Cang's team was even more orderly, all dressed in black, leather armor, [-] swordsmen, [-] spearmen, [-] bowmen, [-] cavalrymen, Zhang Jaw drilled every day.

Another year passed in the blink of an eye, and after the four years of Zhongping, Xiliang's tyrants retreated and began to fight again.First, Han Sui killed Bian Zhang, Beigong Boyu and others, annexed the two men, with more than [-] troops, and marched to surround Longxi; then, Liangzhou Governor Geng Bi led his troops to attack Han Sui, but was bribed by Han Sui Killed by his subordinates, Geng Bi's Sima and Fufeng's Ma Teng gathered Geng Bi's soldiers and horses under the banner of revenge for Geng Bi, and separated one side, and Xiliang was gradually controlled by Han Sui and Ma Teng.Han Sui had a first-mover advantage. Ma Teng was born to a Qiang girl after Ma Yuan, the Fubo general under the former Emperor Guangwu, and was supported by the Qiang people.

During this year, while training old soldiers, Zhou Cang got closer to Dong Zhuo's generals, especially Niu Fu.Ganchi came back from Peiguo and reported that Duke Gan died of illness a few years ago. Before his death, he sent his clan to other places and gave him a warning not to be an official or marry a wealthy family for 30 years. He left the old house to Zhou Cang. Ganmei is there now. Living, Zhou Cang sighed after hearing this.

Regarding Jia Xu's way of surviving, Zhou Cang has always cast all his eyes on him. He sent Gan Chi and Chen Zhong to inquire.Zhou Cang felt that Jia Xu must have been looking for a place to hide, and only when there was no place to hide, he would sneak into the army and continue hiding.

Jia Xu could not be found, but Dian Wei brought a man, nine feet long, with a tiger body and wolf waist, leopard head and monkey arms, from Kansai. His surname was Hua and his name was Xiong.At the beginning, Zhou Cang looked at Dian Wei with admiration, thinking that Dian Wei also knew how to recruit talents, but after knowing the whole story, he couldn't laugh or cry.It turned out that one day Dian Wei went out for a walk with nothing to do, and met Hua Xiong on the road, just because the crowd looked at each other twice, so they started fighting. Hua Xiong had never beaten Dian Wei before, so he followed Dian Wei all the time. Dian Wei thought it was cumbersome, so he brought it to Zhou Cang.

Zhou Cang praised Dian Wei for a meal, and then selected [-] out of [-] cavalry and handed them over to Hua Xiong. They were called commandos, and Hua Xiong was called the captain.Hua Xiong heard that Zhou Cang's ancestors were also from Kansai, so he immediately regarded himself as a fellow villager.Zhou Cang also arranged for Dian Wei to do a difficult and insidious job, which was to continuously attack Hua Xiong and improve Hua Xiong's emergency response capabilities.Poor Hua Xiong is said to have been killed by Guan Erye who didn't follow the routine. Zhou Cang sometimes suspected that Cheng Yaojin had inherited certain traditions and developed the three axes, but the speed and strength were not enough. not enough.Zhou Cang did not say clearly, but just reminded to pay attention to the confrontation between the two armies, in order to prevent a surprise attack in a one-on-one match. Dian Wei slandered at this, and swore that he had never met such a shameless person.

As Tao Qian expected, driving the Qiang and Hu tribes out of Sanfu and guarding Chang'an and the imperial tomb would be considered as the completion of the strategic goal.The imperial court transferred Zhang Wen back to the capital again, and appointed Huangfu Song as general and Dong Zhuo as deputy again.

(End of this chapter)