Xiaoguangong

Chapter 335 The Downtrodden Ma Chao

Guan Ping ordered Cheng Gongying to lead his troops back to Ji County to accept reorganization, otherwise he would betray Han Sui's will.

At the same time, Guan Ping also stated that he would start the Western Expedition immediately according to Han Sui's behest, and let Cheng Gongying cooperate to recover Jincheng as soon as possible and move Han Sui's coffin back.

Of course, Cheng Gongying did not believe that Han Sui would have such an awareness before his death. After all, Han Sui had come up with the strategy of crossing the river and changing his family. However, Guan Ping wanted to go west, and he was a little confused.

This doesn't take me too seriously.

Guan Ping still dares to go west with my army suppressing the border. Does this mean he doesn't want to live?I become Gongying, can't I beat Ji County?
While he was hesitating, someone came to report that Chang Diao on Xianqin's side had quietly withdrawn his troops, and there seemed to be signs of fleeing east of Sichuan after crossing Changli.

Cheng Gongying was taken aback, expressing that she couldn't believe it at all.

Guan Ping faces west, Chang Diao faces east, this... they don't want this Liangzhou anymore, they want to give me the whole county of Tianshui?
As a precaution, he called several soldiers who had passed the news.

Those soldiers were formerly under Yang Wanwan's command. After surrendering to Guan Ping, they were placed to stay behind. Seeing that Chang Diao was about to run away, they also escaped from their relatives to find Cheng Gongying, and told him the whole story.

Cheng Gongying scratched his head, saw Changlichuan on the map again, and immediately remembered Chang Diao's trick before.

"Hmph, repeating the old tricks, thinking that you won't be fooled in a certain meeting? It's a joke!"

The water flow in Changli River has decreased now, and it is difficult to use water attack unless it catches up with Xingguo Changdiao.

Cheng Gongying thought for a long time, thinking that Guan Ping's westward expedition could not pose any threat to him, but Chang Diao, who fled east, might cause him some troubles—in case he made a fuss about Changlichuan, it would greatly affect Cheng Gongying's future The deployment made Cheng Gongying unable to summon friendly troops to support them, and they could not even escape through Changli River when the battle was unfavorable.

Kecheng Gongying does not believe that Guan Ping will lead the crowd to leave.

If he attacked Chang Diao first, he would most likely be attacked fiercely by Guan Ping, and their troops crossing the river would have no room for maneuver.

"Report to General Guan that he doesn't need to worry about the Western Expedition.

The death of General Han is strange, and the brothers are not convinced, let's see the real story in Ji County! "

Cheng Gongying was convinced that Guan Ping would never plunder the south of the Weishui River to supplement the army rations. According to the plan, he began to publicize the murder of Han Sui to everyone, and mobilized all Liangzhou people to unite with him and prepare to attack Ji County.

News spread in this era was very slow. Before Han Sui died, he had sent people to the south to tell the story of his death. Many people had already contacted Cheng Gongying, expressing their willingness to expel outsiders and jointly occupy Liangzhou.

Cheng Gongying felt that the time was right, and led the army to cross the Wei River again and began to advance towards Ji County.

Under Han Sui's hard-working propaganda, there are many people who believe that the old man turned his head back at the last moment of his life, but was forced to death by Guan Ping. Many people from Liangzhou actively joined the army along the way, but Cheng Gongying politely refused, expressing their disapproval. Willing to kill more—the chief strategist of Han Sui was worried that Guan Ping would take the opportunity to add sand to his army, because that's what he did in Ji County.

When formulating this tactic with Han Sui at that time, the biggest trick was to choose Ji County.

It was impossible for Guan Ping's army not to guard Ji County after they crossed south, so Han Sui ambushed a large number of confidants and dead soldiers in the city.

These people had received a lot of rewards from Han Sui before, and they hid among those who sympathized with Han Sui. They followed the method of attacking and killing Yang Fu before and ambushed them. As long as Cheng Gongying started to attack the city, these people would wait for the opportunity to wreak havoc everywhere in the city. Setting fire and framing are the actions of Guan Pingjun.

If Guan Ping sends people to search for them from house to house, these people can continue to incite the people to say that Guan Ping wants to kill all the people in Liangzhou, and then drive Guan Ping into a desperate situation.

Everyone pays attention to the dead as the greatest, and the living can't compare with the dead.

Guan Ping's actions would be magnified and criticized arbitrarily if there was a slight problem with what he did, but Han Sui deliberately showed kindness before his death, and everyone remembered his last goodness first, which would make Guan Ping's situation even more difficult.

Cheng Gongying crossed the river to attack, so there was no intention of a decisive battle. He wanted to keep Guan Ping's main force in Ji County, forcing them to run out of food and grass and be forced to rob the surrounding counties and counties of food and grass.

Once Guan Ping does this, all the images he created before will collapse and destroy in an instant.

Just watch, let me see how you Guan Ping can stop me!

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Guan Ping's counselors can understand Han Sui and Cheng Gongying's calculations when they calm down.

Originally, the only candidates to stay in Ji County were Kuai Yue and Wenpin, but Chen Qun still expressed his willingness to stay. With his reputation, he could do something to stabilize the wealthy clan in the city and increase his bargaining chips against powerful enemies.

The army marched westward according to the previous deployment, Xia Houba was the vanguard, and the rest of the people hurriedly investigated the cause of death of Yang Fu and Wei Kang, and spread the news as soon as possible——

Guan Ping personally stated that Cheng Gongying betrayed Han Sui, and he was the one who fanned the flames in the previous murders of Wei Kang and Yang Fu. This wolf is ambitious and ready to destroy the peace of Liangzhou. If anyone can get his head, no matter who Fenghou will never break his promise.

"Cheng Gongying has a lot of tricks, and he will definitely cross the river to attack. Why did the general choose to go west at this time?" Jiang Jiong asked rather puzzled.

Guan Ping shook his head and smiled wryly:
"In the current situation, whoever gets Ji County will be more passive.

Most of the grain and grass in Ji County were distributed to the soldiers and civilians, and the treasury did not accumulate much.

If you want the army to stay here, you must compete with the people for profit, which is not conducive to winning the hearts of the people.

I expected that although he would cross the river in a big way, he might not be able to attack the city with all his strength. I only left [-] soldiers in the city, and the rest followed me quickly to eat elsewhere. For local food and grass, our army can take Jincheng as long as it has a little supply, and there is no rush for a decisive battle with Cheng Gongying. "

Jiang Jiong nodded thoughtfully, and said:

"Humbleness has a foolish opinion, I don't know if I should say it?"

"How to say it inappropriately, please brother Yang teach me."

"How dare you teach the general? It's just... since the general will sooner or later have a decisive battle with Cheng Gongying, why don't you hurry up and recruit General Xu to rescue him?
General and General Xu join forces, Cheng Gongying is absolutely irresistible, and our army will win a complete victory in this battle! "

Guan Ping shook his head and said cautiously:

"Not yet, we have to be careful of Zhang Lucai!"

"How dare Zhang Lu come to Liangzhou? The general is worrying too much..."

"Zhang Lu doesn't dare, but Ma Chao might not. If Ma Chao comes, I hope he can have a good fight with Cheng Gongying."

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Only after Ma Chao joined Ma Dai did he realize that he had fallen for Yang Ang's trick.

His whole army was exhausted, even though Pang De and Yang Wan were joined together, the morale of the whole army was low, and they couldn't see where the future was.

The proud Ma Chao could only humbly pray to Yang Ang for Zhang Lu's protection, followed him and fled into Hanzhong in desperation, was appointed by Zhang Lu as the governor of Jijiu, and was demoted from a general to a subordinate of the prefect. Self-esteem can be described as devastating.

For a while, Ma Chao drank his sorrows day and night, vomiting blood from time to time increased day by day. He was once handsome and graceful, and now he is in a daze, like a walking dead. Even Ma Dai dare not stay with Ma Chao for a long time.

The Liangzhou soldiers under Ma Chao’s command heard Yang Ang say that Hanzhong is a paradise of kings and heaven on earth, so they were willing to come here. How could it be possible to eat meat every day, even if they handed over enough food to join the Five Dou Rice Sect, they still had to practice garrison according to the requirements-how is this any different from before?
In the past few days, the soldiers have found Ma Dai and Pang De one after another, demanding to fight back!

It is everyone's obsession to prefer to die in their homeland than to die in a foreign country.

Ma Dai and Pound also advised Ma Chao many times. Now that they have Zhang Lu to provide supplies, why not take the initiative to take back Liangzhou and gain a firm foothold?
"General, we just received news that Han Sui was forced to death by Yunshan.

Now Cheng Gongying is not willing to surrender, and is ready to turn against Yunshan.

Xu Huang was afraid of Cheng Gongying's front, and stayed back in Shanggui. Why don't our army attack and unite with Cheng Gongying, maybe there is a chance to retake Ji County! Ma Dai carefully told Ma Chao the news he had just received.

Hearing that Han Sui was dead, Ma Chao, who had been depressed all the time, showed a different look in his eyes.

He had known Han Sui for many years, had fought side by side and attacked each other before, and now when he first heard of Han Sui's death, Ma Chao felt an unspeakable sadness in his heart.

Han Sui is dead, what is the fate of these Liangzhou people?
He was silent for a while, Ma Dai said again:

"Although Cheng Gongying is deeply trusted by Han Sui, he still lacks foundation in Liangzhou.

On the contrary, the general is very capable, and everyone regards the general as the master of Liangzhou. I think that as long as he goes to Ji County, Cheng Gongying will definitely be willing to regard the general as the master and plan big things together in the future. "

Ma Chao nodded lightly, a glimmer of hope ignited in his heart again.

Horses like to run in the vast world, how can they live in Hanzhong?
The atmosphere here is very weird, Zhang Lu and his subordinate Wudoumi are full of unspeakable weirdness, depending on him, they will be swallowed sooner or later, so it is better to take advantage of the slight recovery of the current strength and find a way to fight back.

He mustered up his confidence, and sent someone to recruit Pound, and asked Pound to lead [-] soldiers and horses as an advance team to Liangzhou to meet with Cheng Gongying to discuss the alliance.

Ma Chao believes that Cheng Gongying needs his own name, and he needs Cheng Gongying's soldiers and resourcefulness. The two get what they need, and they should hit it off.

Unexpectedly, Pang De looked at Ma Chao with an expression like looking at a fool, and sighed speechlessly.

"General, no, Meng Qi, do you really think that Cheng Gongbohua will welcome me? If he occupies Liangzhou, he will definitely want us to die!"

Ma Chao was a little displeased, frowned and said:
"Why?"

Pound opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but shook his head slowly:

"Okay, no reason, I'll go and have a look, no matter what, I'll try my best."

(End of this chapter)