Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 497 Hua Xiong Gao Lun
The 14th year of Xiping, at the end of the year
A group of people arrived in Liangzhou by water, and then rushed from Liangzhou to the Western Regions. The mighty tens of thousands of people, together with logistics, food, grass and other supplies, blocked all the roads from Liangzhou to the Western Regions, and the local officials in Liangzhou They started to get busy. On the one hand, they couldn't delay the march of the army, so they had to expel merchants and pedestrians on the road in advance.

On the other hand, they have to open a feasible road for merchants and common people. However, horse-drawn carriages and the like cannot come and go in the past few days. , before you can go on the road.

Huang Zhong led the most elite knights to open the way in the front. Dong Zhuo took him as the vanguard general and took charge of the central army himself.

"Dong Gong, General Sun."

Cao Cao rode a horse and followed Dong Zhuo, and said with some doubts.

He felt that now that the main army was going out, they should not go directly to the Western Regions, but should go to support Sun Jian. Sun Jian still had tens of thousands of elite southern troops in his hands, helping Sun Jian deal with the Qiang people outside the Great Wall.

Dong Zhuo was riding a tall horse, wearing armor, and looked majestic. He didn't even look back at Cao Cao, and said directly: "There are only Qiang people outside the Great Wall. Sun Jian has tens of thousands of southern troops. Could it be that we need our help? The main purpose now is We should go to the Western Regions, search all the way, and destroy the enemy."

"Enemy, how did Dong Gong know that there is an enemy?"

"Without enemies, how could the merchant traveler not return?"

Cao Cao shook his head and said, "We don't know anything about the situation there. We don't even know why the merchants failed to return. These tens of thousands of troops are marching to the Western Regions. Mr. Dong knows what is in the Western Regions." The situation? Before I came here, I read the chronicles of the Western Regions. Most of the places there are barren and there are no people there. Tens of thousands of us have entered the Western Regions. I don’t know how much food, grass and supplies will be spent.”

"For food and supplies, I have the governor of Liangzhou and the governor of the Western Regions to figure out a way, what does it have to do with you and me?!"

"Dong Gong. Is this Liangzhou and the Western Regions the territory of my great Han? After decades of governance, this place has just reached its current state. Isn't Dong Zhuo's behavior exhausting the accumulation of decades in the two places?"

"This has nothing to do with me. Your Majesty's order is for me to search for merchants and defeat bandits. I am the general of Hussars, not the governor of Liangzhou, or the guardian of both regions," Dong Zhuo said coldly.

"Dong Gong, even so, we should wait for Captain Gongsun to return..."

"Okay, I'm the chief general, it's not your turn to teach me how to fight!!" Dong Zhuo angrily interrupted Cao Cao's words, and walked away. Cao Cao watched him leave helplessly, why didn't he understand in his heart Dong Zhuo's thoughts, this guy is thinking about the position of Taiwei, and he is almost crazy. He wants to monopolize all the military achievements this time. At least, he doesn't want to give up part of it to Sun Jian.

If we go to support Sun Jian first, those Qiang people outside the Great Wall will soon be wiped out. At that time, Sun Jian will certainly send troops together, and Dong Zhuo will not be able to get all the credit. Therefore, he would rather not rescue Sun Jian's credit than let Sun Jian joined in, this guy, alas, Cao Cao frowned, not knowing what to say, lowered his head, thinking.

As he was walking, suddenly someone beside him laughed.

Cao Cao was a little annoyed in his heart, and turned his head away. Beside him was a school lieutenant, burly and strong, but he smiled straight at him.

Cao Cao recognized this person, and asked displeasedly, "Lieutenant Hua? Why are you laughing?"

"General Cao, don't be angry, don't be angry, I think you are still very powerful!"

"Oh?"

"Dong Gong has a bit of a temper, but he is very kind to the soldiers under his command. It took three full years for someone like me to make him hate him in every possible way. When he saw him, he beat and scolded him. It has only been less than half a month since Cao Gong , can make Dong Gong hate him so much, I really admire it!" Hua Xiong didn't have the slightest hint of sarcasm on his face, he said this very seriously.

Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, but suddenly burst out laughing, and said: "So, the captain can only be the captain, but I can be the deputy commander!"

Hua Xiong was also overjoyed, and his sense of Cao Cao was immediately improved. This guy looked black, short and thin, but unexpectedly he was a bold man, so he chatted with Cao Cao, the conversation was very pleasant, and the soldiers around were a little confused. Even Guan Yu, who was in the rear, was at a loss for a moment when he rode his horse forward. Cao Cao, who had made countless enemies in the temple and implemented the New Deal, was so famous all over the world, how could he talk so happily with this stupid man? ?

What exactly are they talking about?

Guan Yu was a little curious, so he moved a little closer, pretending to be inspecting the soldiers.

I saw Hua Xiong pointing to the temple, he said: "This new policy is good, but what you did is wrong, how can the new policy be implemented like this!"

"I would like to listen to Hua Gong's teaching."

"I said, when you implemented the New Deal back then, you wanted the big families to pay more. I understand this. I also came from a poor background. When I was a child, I farmed for the powerful cattle every day. My land has long since disappeared. If you don’t pay taxes, you’ll sell them to the tyrants, and if you don’t have land, it’s easier, at least you don’t have to pay agricultural taxes, and you can barely eat enough if you plant land for them.”

"You don't know how rich they are, just look at me. I have fought for decades, and I have been born and died, and I only have a dozen acres of land. Look at Captain Yuan, ah, it is Gu Sikong, he is just like me Ah, we joined the army in the same year, but there are hundreds of hectares of land under his name, and you want them to pay to hand over the land in every state, how easy it is, you set a list for them!"

"The first-class big clan, the second-class big clan, etc., each class has a fixed amount of cultivated land. If it exceeds, just confiscate it. They only care about these useless ones. If you give it to a first-class big clan, even if After taking their land, they won't be angry, and they will happily say that they are the first class!!"

Listening to Hua Xiong's words, Cao Cao had mixed feelings in his heart, and something seemed to emerge in his mind, but it was not clear.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Guan Yu scolded angrily, and Hua Xiong, who was pointing out the general trend, stopped abruptly. Guan Yu looked at Cao Cao again, cupped his hands and said, "Mr. Cao, Hua Xiong is a fool, don't worry about it , if he offends something, look at Haihan."

"How could it be, Captain Hua is a great talent!" Cao Cao said with emotion.

Guan Yu turned his head and looked at Hua Xiong, who was smiling silly and winking.

With Guan Yu's participation, Cao Cao did not continue to question for the time being. The three of them drove together and chatted. Hua Xiong asked with some doubts: "I heard that it was the army called the Xiaoyong Battalion who went to the Western Regions to investigate the situation earlier. ?”

"En." Cao Cao nodded.

"Why do you want to set up such an army? I heard that they don't know how to fight, they only know how to march, fleeing everywhere, and have no combat power."

Cao Cao smiled and said, "You know, Colonel Hua, which army has made the most contributions over the years?"

"I don't know!"

"It's the Valiant Camp."

"That's not their school lieutenant, Gongsun Zan, but this guy is good at fighting."

Cao Cao shook his head and said solemnly: "That's not exactly the case. Although the brave battalion is not good at fighting, they have their own skills. These years, they have traveled around in Hezhou and made countless achievements. These Dongyi people were captured by Goguryeo. Humans have been hunted and killed for nearly a hundred years, which keeps them from being very sensitive. They are the most agile scouts of the big man, tracking, fleeing, searching, and rounding up. They do a very good job."

"In Hezhou, there are no thieves who can hide from them, and no army can catch up with them. From its establishment to now, none of them has been captured alive by the enemy. A large army needs the best eyes and ears, which can detect all directions. in the palm of your hand”

Hua Xiong has been marching for many years, Cao Cao just said a few words, he understood, he laughed and said: "With this army, we can know all the news about each other, where they go, where the food and supplies are, but The enemy knows nothing about us."

"exactly!"

The three laughed.

"Lieutenant Hua, what do you think of the official school system?"

At this moment, in the endless desert, Gongsun Zan looked at the wheels not far away, holding a dagger in his hand, and fell into deep thought.

"Captain, there was a battle here!"

"En is our business traveler? Who is the enemy?" Gongsun Zan was a little puzzled. He looked at Chen Yao and asked, "Look again, is this left by our business traveler?" Chen Yao got off the camel , stepped forward, took a serious look at the wheels, and then at the camel. He nodded and said, "It's ours. I even rode this camel."

Chen Yao looked at the camel's mutilated left ear, and said solemnly.

Gongsun Zan nodded, looked at Mireyi on the other side, and asked, "Are there bandits here?"

"Indeed." He paused, and continued: "This place used to be an uninhabited land. In the distance, there is an area. Although the surrounding area is a desert, there is still drinking water. There is no human habitation in the place where people can survive, but , the surrounding Liule, Qiemo, Qiuci, Ruoqiang and other countries exiled the criminals in the territory and there became a gathering place for a group of bandits."

"How many are they?"

"Probably, around a thousand people."

Gongsun Zan frowned, thinking, if they made a surprise attack, would they have the ability to destroy merchants?

Gongsun Zan looked at the surrounding Dongyi people and shouted: "Brothers, search around for a while and see if you can find anything!!"

"Please!"

The crowd dispersed and searched carefully around, while Gongsun Zan stayed here and continued to think, while Chen Yao at the side said helplessly, "Lieutenant, you can't find it if you search like this. Being covered, it was a fluke to find these, how could it be possible?"

"Captain!" Someone shouted and interrupted him, only to see him pull out a long knife from the sand.

Chen Yao stared blankly, looked at Gongsun Zan, and then at the soldiers over there.

Gongsun Zan laughed, and was not in a hurry to look at those things. He told the soldiers to continue searching, squinted his eyes, and said, "I think back then, when the Goguryeo people hunted us down, we hid in the mountains and searched everywhere. Under such circumstances, he can still survive for several years." Gongsun Zan was a little emotional, and Chen Yao who was beside him nodded.

"The captain is from Dongyi?"

"I'm not."

Before Chen Yao could react, the soldiers arrived one by one and put the things in their arms in front of Gongsun Zan. There were swords, goods, and even some soldiers found copper coins. Chen Yao was stunned. Copper coins dug out of the sand? ?Are you sure you didn't put it in yourself? ?

Gongsun Zan looked through the supplies carefully, and then showed them to Mireyi who was at the side.

Mireyi held the long knife, looked at it for a moment, shook his head and said: "These are not from the Western Regions, we all use curved knives here, not this kind of knife, I have never seen such a knife before."

"I have seen!"

Chen Yao on the side looked at Gongsun Zan and said:

"This is used by Guishuang people."

(End of this chapter)