Survival Three Kingdoms

Chapter 845 Attacking Liangzhou
Ma Dai traveled all the way west, Liangzhou's troops were not many and no one dared to stop him.Only a month or so after Ma Dai passed, Kunta and Sugai entered Liangzhou. The Wei army only regarded them as cross-border locusts and let the Xianbei loot them. Unexpectedly, more and more Xianbei flooded in after that. They realized that something was wrong, but the Xianbei people seemed to have no intention of staying here. After looting, they went from Wuwei to Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Dunhuang and continued westward. Yang Fu, the governor of Liangzhou, also met with Liwei. Liwei admitted that it was just Borrowing the road, preparing to go to the Western Regions to meet up with his younger brother Pigu.

Yang Fu watched the Tuoba brigade passing through the border in fear, and then he was relieved, and sent someone to inform Cao Zhen.

No one thought that after Liwei's team, there would be Han army cavalry trailing behind, with Desert Khan and Guanqiu Jian as guides, and Liwei's luggage as support, Qu'a marched extremely fast, and Liwei had almost passed five days. It has arrived in Wuwei.

Guanqiu Jian's father, Guan Qiuxing, was originally the prefect of Wuwei. After Guan Qiuxing's death, his second son, Guan Qiuxiu, was the prefect.Guanqiu Jian waved at the bottom of the city, and Guan Qiuxiu, who had only 5000 people, opened the city gate and surrendered, and Guzang City, an important town in the northwest, fell into the hands of Qu'a.

Guan Qiuxiu said that there were only [-] troops in Liangzhou, mainly in Jincheng and Xiping, and there were not many people in Zhangye, Jiuquan and other places. Moreover, Cao Cao's senior generals such as Yan Xing and Zhao Yan who stayed in Jincheng and Xiping had all died. Zhonglang transferred Guo Xiu to Hanzhong, so now besides Yang Fu is the general Jiang Xu.Jiang Xu, styled Boyi, was born in Ji County, Tianshui County. He and Yang Fu were cousins, and Yang Fu's aunt was Jiang Xu's own mother.

Qu A was taken aback. "Jiang Wei, courtesy name Boyue, is also from Ji County, Tianshui. I don't know how he is related to Jiang Xu."

"The two are of the same family, Jiang Xu and Jiang Wei's father Jiang Jiong are of the same generation."

"Usable time?" Qu'a immediately became interested.

Guan Qiuxiu shook his head straight, "Yang Fu is as strategic as Zhang Ji, governor of Yongzhou. He defeated Ma Chao with Jiang Xu back then, so it's hard to say."

Qu A nodded. The people Cao Cao valued were naturally not easy, and it was even more difficult to defeat Ma Chao, even if Ma Chao had already fallen by then.

"Can you persuade the guards of Zhangye and Jiuquan to surrender?"

"This matter is simple. The prefects of these counties have a lot of contacts with me. The general has occupied Wuwei and cut it off from the mainland. The only option is to surrender."

Qu'a was overjoyed, and even though he ordered Guan Qiuxiu to persuade him to surrender, Desert Khan also left.

"The last general is willing to lead the army to attack Jincheng." Guanqiu Jian asked Ying to say.

"You know this place well. I will personally lead the army to attack Jincheng. Jiang Xu will definitely raise the Xiping army to rescue him. You and Ma Tie will lead five thousand cavalry to intercept and kill him." Qu'a waved his hand.

On December [-]th, Qu'a and Lu Qiling led an army to attack Jincheng. The governor Yang Fu urgently asked Yang Xu and Cao Zhen for help, and personally went to the city to guard against death.

On the eighteenth night of December, Yang Fu stood in the wind, looking out of the city with emotions.There are only nearly [-] people outside the city. Unfortunately, last time Xu Zhi took thousands of horses away, otherwise they would have been able to fight the Han army.The westward migration of the Tuoba tribe is all a cover. Liwei is fighting for the Han army. If he can force Liwei away, how powerful the Han army should be. The situation in Yongzhou may make Liangzhou even more dangerous.Can't wait for Cao Zhen's reinforcements, the only way to rescue Yongzhou is to find a way to defeat the incoming enemy.

"My lord, a group of troops from outside the city has come, and our reinforcements have arrived."

The reinforcements came from the direction of the southwest west city, it seems that Jiang Xu arrived.

"Go out of the city and break the Han army!" Yang Fu personally led the army to fight out. According to Yang Fu's estimation, it is impossible for the Han army to have too many soldiers and horses in such a large-scale detour. The siege can be solved.

The Han army seemed to be in a panic, and it didn't take much for Yang Fu to connect with the reinforcements.

"Your Majesty Yang, please stay safe." Guan Qiujian ordered to light up the torches, and raised the iron spear in his hand, with a bloody head on the end of the gun. "Jiang Xu has already given the leadership, and when Yishan has not surrendered!"

Yang Fu was shocked, and cursed: "The thief who betrayed the master!" He ordered to retreat quickly.

He wanted to leave but couldn't. Qu'a and Lu Qiling came from the two wings, and Ma Tie also led the army to charge up. Kneel and surrender.

Jiang Xu had 8000 men under his command. Hearing that he was coming to the city for rescue, he was intercepted by Ma Tie on the way. Ma Tie overwhelmed the Wei army with two thousand black cavalry. Qiu Jian ordered thousands of people to exchange the clothes and armor of the Wei army to pretend to be reinforcements, but he was able to trick Yang Fu out of the city before he could imagine it.This can only be said to be Yang Fu's desperate gamble in a desperate situation.

It took Qu'a [-] days to cross the desert and grassland, and it took only half a month to occupy Liangzhou. Of course, there was Liwei's help, and the contribution of Guanqiu's family was indispensable; With an additional [-] surrendered soldiers, Qu'a has the confidence to defend Liangzhou and seek to expand the results of the battle.

After entering the city, Qu'a sent people to inquire about Zhang Jai's movements, and at the same time sent Ma Tie to mediate with the various tribes of the Qiang people, so as to prevent the Qiang people from causing trouble again.

Five days later, Guan Qiuxiu returned to Jincheng, saying that the two counties of Zhangye and Jiuquan were willing to surrender, and promised to persuade the general guarding Dunhuang.The three counties add up to only a few thousand soldiers and horses, and there is nothing to worry about even if they rebel. Qu'a is very interested in the results of Liwei's westward journey.

Tuoba Pigu swept across the Western Regions, and the small countries could only submit to his despotic power. After Ma Dai and Chen Shi arrived, they saw the savior, and they turned to and attached themselves to the gentle Ma Dai. Gu confronted several times, facing the Shu army trained by Zhuge Liang, Pigu suffered a small loss, and never dared to have a major conflict with Ma Dai, and the two armies were in a stalemate.

When Liwei enters the Western Regions, Pi Gu is extremely unwilling and unable to develop on both sides, and he has a plan: on the one hand, he sends people to contact Liwei to discuss with Ma Dai, and at the same time, he sends people to negotiate peace with Ma Dai to divide the Western Regions and discuss with Liwei.On the surface, Li Wei is ignorant and obedient to Pi Gu, only saying that the tribal journey needs to be recharged, delaying time, and secretly wooing Pi Gu's subordinates.Pi Gu was cruel and greedy by nature, extremely harsh on his subordinates, and Li Wei was gentle. After getting a large amount of money, he spent a lot of money, and soon four or five tribes were bought by Li Wei.The local small country regards Ma Dai as a life-saving straw, closely surrounds Ma Dai, and forms an alliance for self-defense. As a result, all three families are waiting and watching, hoping that the other two will make the first move.

The deadlock was soon broken by the return of Desert Khan.Desert Khan and Li Wei planned to come to Ma Dai's camp alone in the middle of the night.

Seeing Ma Dai and Chen Shi, Desert Khan did not explain why he came, but only told Ma Dai three news:

First, Yang Yi, Wang Ping, Guan Xing, Zhang Bao and others were dead, and the Shu army on the Long March was almost wiped out.Jiang Wei smuggled to Yinping and conspired with Liu Xun and Li Yan to murder Liu Chan. Now Liu Xun is the lord of Yizhou and is called King of Shu.

Hearing this, Ma Dai and Chen Shi looked at each other in blank dismay, secretly wishing they were lucky, if they had followed Yang Yi back then, it would have been a road of no return.Fortunately, Ma Dai said that Chen Shi was originally from Shu, and he felt that he might not be able to return to Shu in his lifetime.The two wondered again why Desert Khan told himself this. Isn't he afraid that he knows that there is no way out, so he will take root in the Western Regions?

(End of this chapter)