Xiaoguangong

Chapter 300 Don't Hurt Your Peace

The Shangyu defenders hurriedly wanted to close the city gates to resist Xu Huang's attack, but Xu Huang was well prepared this time, and their performance on the way to the march was somewhat benevolent and righteous, resulting in a large number of Ma Chaojun The soldiers were unwilling to be their enemies, and they all demanded to open the city gate and surrender.

After all, the name of the emperor of the Han Dynasty is still very useful these days. Even Ma Chao also claims to be General Zhengxi, so he must be cautious in front of the real master of the king.

After nearly two hours of assault, the defenders of Shanggui announced their surrender and opened the city gates to welcome Xu Huang and Guo Huai into the city. However, a large number of soldiers who had just been recruited outside the city put down their weapons early and begged Guo Huai to surrender.

Xu Huang and Guo Huai felt emotional in their hearts, and then began to reorganize Ma Chaojun's soldiers according to Yunshan's previous deployment.

Captives on the spot, replenishment on the spot, Cao Jun also had this idea before, but whoever is free is willing to join the army. In most cases, it takes coercion and threats to get someone willing to join the army, and then they have to rely on looting to distribute some benefits.

The soldiers captured this time were also anxious, for fear that Cao Jun, who had always had a bad reputation, would perfidiously kill them after entering the city, or would directly start robbing them as before.Unexpectedly, after the soldiers of Cao Jun entered the city, although they could not say that Qiu had committed no crimes, they could roughly control the military discipline, only occupied the important places in and outside the city to camp, and sealed off the arsenal and granaries. Other than that, there was no sign of looting .

When both Xu Huang and Guo Huai entered the city, they called the local rich old man and asked the people to testify and opened the granaries one by one.

It's not the autumn harvest season yet, and most of the grain stored in Shangyu is old grain from before. Xu Huang asked everyone to witness, and he roughly determined the amount of grain, and ordered people to quickly register and record the grain, ready to release the grain!
"Release food?" Everyone in Shangyu was dumbfounded.

Xu Huang and others came from afar, and they didn't know how long they would have to fight Ma Chao, but they were willing to distribute food to the people?

"General, is this ration distributed among all the people?"

"Otherwise?" Xu Huang had a straight face, with a bit of reluctance in his eyes.

If according to Xu Huang's previous temper, after breaking the city, he would kill all the people who dared to resist him before, and let the rest of them spare their lives, how could they continue to give up? They release food.

But Guo Huai said that the most critical part of Yunshan's previous deployment was to win the hearts of the local people, which was better than [-] elite soldiers.

Although Xu Huang was quite dissatisfied, he still had great trust in Yunshan, and he still decided to release the grain immediately despite all kinds of reluctance. Apart from leaving the necessary military supplies, he made a list of the other grains in the city and began to distribute them to the local people. people!
At first, the people in Shangyu thought there was something wrong with rumors, so they didn't dare to come to collect food for a while. Xu Huang and Guo Huai simply asked people to prepare a few cauldrons. Cook porridge and entertain the people who come and go.

The people in Shangbei were quite wary of Cao Jun at first, but they were completely relieved when they saw this scene. Smelling the tempting fragrance of wheat, they could no longer restrain their disbelieving expectations. Go to Cao Jun's barracks.

When they were under the rule of Cao Jun before, they were exploited and worked hard. They were only willing to help this family member when Ma Chao came.

But after Ma Chao’s arrival, not only did they not bring any change to them, except for not recruiting widows, Ma Chao’s army collected even more military supplies than Cao’s army, making everyone always struggling on the verge of life and death. Life is stuck.

This fragrant rice has surpassed everything, so many people who usually care about their status can't help but join the team begging for food.

"You are saved!"

"Folks, you are saved!"

"Ma Chao is a traitor, and our court is here to save you!"

"You're welcome, eat quickly!"

Not only was the food released, but the militiamen assigned to Guo Huai under Guan Ping also played a huge role. They didn't show a superior attitude to these people who were holding bowls and looked expectant. appearance.

They were ordinary farmers in Guanzhong before, so they naturally understand the helplessness and grievances in the hearts of these Liangzhou people. Another improvement.

"Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, the Heavenly Soldiers are completely different from the ones in the legend."

An old man was holding a bowl of wheat porridge in his hands, and he was trembling with tears in his eyes, but Guo Huai shook his head and said casually:
"Not all heavenly soldiers are like this, but General Yun is like this."

"what?"

Guo Huai did not deliberately lower his voice, on the contrary, he said quite proudly:
"General Yun Tanzhi of Yunshan and General Xu Huang and Xu Gongming are both benevolent and righteous people, only these two understand the righteousness and are willing to stand up for the people of the world.

The others... Hey, how can they compare to the two generals! "

Guo Huai's words were pushed and stepped on, with a strong taste of provocation, obviously intending to cause trouble on purpose.

But Xu Huang stood still with his arms folded, and a somewhat smug expression appeared on his face.

"That's right, the other generals can't control it, but I will guard Liangzhou for the emperor. In the Liangzhou area, I will be there, and I will practice benevolence and righteousness. If I violate the military order and wantonly kill innocent people, I will be my enemy.

Well, General Yun is guarding Yongzhou like this general, and he acts as a front and back for each other. Don't be afraid, fathers and villagers, we are all for your own good. "

Ever since Le Jin became the shepherd of Jingzhou, Xu Huang has been quite jealous in his heart, but he knows that this kind of opportunity is rare, so he can only keep complaining in his heart.

But looking at the awed and grateful eyes of the people around him, the enterprising spirit that has been suppressed in Xu Huang's heart finally sprouted slowly.

What is Le Jin? I, Xu Huang, can do what he can do, and I can do it even better. He is just lucky, he discovered Tanzhi first, and that's why he has the status he has today.

I, Xu Huang, are different...

Looking at the hot land of Liangzhou in front of him, Xu Huang's heart became more and more excited.

Liangzhou is directly connected to the Western Regions, and it is far away from the Central Plains. It would take a lot of money to conquest this place. Yunshan has a good relationship with him, and he is the shepherd of Yongzhou. If the imperial court wants to conquest his land, he must first cross Yunshan.

Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu in the south are nothing to be afraid of. Even if Liu Bei is replaced as the head in the future, Xu Huang is confident that there is room for maneuver in the good relationship between himself and Guan Yu, and it is impossible for Liu Bei to attack him first.

In other words, as long as you occupy this place and continue to respect the Son of Heaven on the surface, you can let yourself gallop in such a vast world.

Isn't this better than Le Jin doing well in Jingzhou?
Years of consistent persistence made Xu Huang feel a little embarrassed and fearful, but he thought about it again, the one he was loyal to was Cao Gong who was going to save the big man, not Wei Wang who later betrayed the big man, I was always the most loyal subject of the big man , what's wrong with this?

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Ma Chao is not yet aware of the fire in his backyard.

Because now something has messed him up.

Chang Diao, who broke into Liangzhou, actually succeeded in attacking Xingguo, looted there wantonly, and then left.

Xingguo is just a small town by the water, it's more like a dirt bag, and it's not a dangerous place in the first place.

But there is the hometown of Agui, the king of Di, and there are [-] to [-] troops. Everyone is good at fighting, and even women can ride horses and draw bows. They are important supporters of Ma Chaojun.Di people are not only good at fighting and riding horses, but also one of the few tribes in Xirong who are good at farming. They choose Xingguo near the water to farm, and keep in touch with the Qiang people of the same origin. It can be said that they want money, people, and food. .

Among the Di people, Agui is famous for being fierce and has great prestige. No matter who comes to Liangzhou, he has to win over Agui first and win Agui's support.

But Chang Diao is good, he obviously doesn't have many soldiers and horses, and he is alone in Liangzhou. Normal people should win over the surrounding tribes, at least get along with them peacefully, lest all the Xirong around them attack together and be unable to fly.But Chang Diao's brain circuit is indeed different from that of other people. He heard that the Di people are good at farming and are also Ma Chao's supporters. He speculates that Xingguo must have a lot of military rations.

So Chang Diao gave an order and led his army to raid Xingguo, easily taking away a large amount of food and grass.

Ah Gui heard that his hometown was robbed. He didn't believe it at first, but in the past few days, people have been escaping and reporting, saying that Chang Diao did all kinds of crimes in Xingguo, killing, burning, looting, and everything that could be stolen was stolen, and everything that could not be stolen was burned. The water in Changli River was dyed red.

Ah Guiqi's seven orifices were filled with smoke, and he immediately yelled and dispatched an army to wipe out Chang Diao completely!

In order to make it difficult for Chang Diao to escape, Agui also called friends and asked the surrounding Qianghu tribes to join the battle.

When the Qiang people heard that Agui had been robbed, they all shared the same hatred. In just a few days, Agui gathered more than 2 Qiang people and searched around under the scorching sun.

"When Chang Diao is caught, I will definitely have his tendons and skin peeled off, so as to relieve the hatred in my heart! I must kill him, I must kill him!"

Of course Ma Chao knew what would happen if he offended this group of Qiang Hu in Liangzhou. Chang Diao was so cruel, if he could be caught and skinned, it would be a good thing for Ma Chao.

But the previous few battles with Chang Diao made Ma Chao secretly vigilant. He was afraid that Agui would make a mistake, so he hurriedly led his army to catch up with Agui, and told him to be careful of Chang Diao's tricks. It was best to stop for a while and find out Chang Diao's location was wiped out again.

Ma Chao was kind, but Agui was angry now. Hearing Ma Chao's advice to be careful, he sneered and said mockingly:
"My family was slaughtered by Chang Diao, if they stay here, how can they stabilize their spirits in the sky? Meng Qixiu wants to judge others by himself, get out of the way quickly!"

His words were clearly mocking Ma Chao for not responding when he heard that his family had been killed. Ma Chao was furious immediately, pointing his spear at Agui's face and saying:
"What did you say? Say it again!"

Agui was taken aback, only then did he realize that he had made a slip of the tongue, and hurriedly said:

"Yes, it was my slip of the tongue, it was my slip of the tongue, I..."

Ma Chao's face was livid, and he sneered, "I'm kind enough to help you out, why are you mocking me? Could it be that the iron spear in my hand is not good?"

Agui gritted his teeth, and pointed at Ma Chao with the iron spear in his hand, and said in a trembling voice:

"Meng Qi, let's not hurt our peace, if you have to fight with me, I'm not afraid of you!"

Ma Chao stared at Agui's face, and said bitterly:
"Okay, don't hurt your peace, go and catch Chang Diao by yourself, I won't accompany you!"

(End of this chapter)