King of Liao at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 671

"Father!" With a soft call, Matthew got up slowly, patted the dust on his body, and said in a calm voice: "My child makes it clear that this statement is reasonable. How many times have our army attacked the Qiang and Hu people, but none of them has reported back?" Viet Ji?"

"How stupid!" Ma Teng shook his head, and said with a light smile, "You two don't even think about it. In case Yueji finds out about this, I waited all the way here in a hurry, day and night. And the Qianghu people Speed, how can it compare to me?"

"This..." As soon as Ma Teng said, Pound hesitated again. Although Ma Teng treated him very well, he was only a young general after all, and he was incomparable with Matthew and Ma Tie. Pound did not continue. To explain, people are like this, just like Pound, with his own status, I think it's better not to talk too much...

Ma Teng patted Pang De's shoulder, and said with great reassurance: "Okay! Don't think about anything else, take a good rest, and when the three generals Liang, Cheng, and Yang come back, I will set off!"

"En!" Pound nodded slowly, and even though he had doubts in his heart, he didn't show it anymore. He glanced at Pound and his sons Ma Xiu, Ma Tie, Ma Teng and turned to the lieutenant general, sighing secretly in his heart, "It's strange." How can it be not strange? Even if God helps us, there are such good things in the world. If we really want things to come true, how can the Han Dynasty come to such a situation? However, regardless of whether this matter is Qiang Hu's trick or not, we can only There is still a ray of hope for advancing soldiers, on the contrary, I am afraid that there are many threats behind him, why not fight him once, because you are old, if you don't fight once, you may not have a chance. This opportunity is once in a thousand years, maybe it will be this once in my life, I, Ma Shoucheng, must seize this opportunity!"

Pang De saw the strangeness, and Ma Teng, who has been fighting for many years, is not the same, but what about the strangeness?In the face of your own strength, whether it is you Qianghu people or Zhang Xiu, your strategies will not work at all, isn't it just not giving yourself food?Since you have given yourself a chance to get to this point, if you don't go on, you will be too sorry for the audience! "We must win!" Ma Teng kept thinking silently in his heart. At the beginning, he lost the land of Qiang Hu. Ma Teng might still want to win the territory from Liu He and take advantage of it, but the longer it takes, Ma Teng's thinking also changed, he just wanted to take advantage of the chaos in the world and the melee in the Central Plains to rise up the Northwest!Your Liu family is king, why can't I, Ma Teng!Even if I can't do it myself, I will look back at my sons, and I will lay down a world for them. Isn't your Liu family another good ancestor?My horse family can too!
At night, Ma Teng's army arrived at a water source, and Ma Wan and the two general candidates had already been waiting here. The two generals Ma and Hou asked in a deep voice, "How about the movement on the bank of the Yellow River that can be explored?"

The horse play and the candidate looked at each other, nodded with fists clasped and said: "The last general has fulfilled his mission, he has already found out, and has already deployed a lot of scout horses along the coast!"

"Hmm!" Ma Teng nodded, beckoning the generals to go to the remote place, and whispered to Ma Wan and the candidate on the way: "I'm afraid Yue Ji already knows that our army is approaching the Yellow River!"

Ma Wan and the candidate looked at each other, seeing the surprise in each other's eyes, they said in unison: "How does my lord know?"

The conversation between the two fell silent, and Liang Xing, a general under Ma Teng's tent, interrupted and said, "You two don't know, the lord sent you flying horses to investigate Yueji's movements during the day, and sent me, Cheng Yin, and Yang Qiu to look for the Qianghu people nearby. , but we searched hard until sunset, for a whole day, but we found nothing!"

"That's what I'm most worried about!" Ma Teng interjected, then heaved a long sigh, and said with a sigh: "Ah... the food I got from the Qianghu village three days ago still needs half a day. And this half-day ration is the last ration I'm waiting for. If I can't cross the Yellow River and seize a city for supplies, I'm waiting... We have an army of [-], but we can only die!" However, Ma Wan and the candidates listened After Ma Teng's words, there was a strange look on his face.

"My lord!" Licking his lips, Ma Wan clasped his fists and said hesitantly: "The last general captured a Qianghu army scout during this trip. I know something, but I don't know whether I should say it or not.
"Say!" Ma Teng frowned and shouted in a low voice: "It's already in such a situation, why are you still hesitating?! Good news and bad news, come with me!"

"No!" Ma Wan clasped his fists in response, and said in a low voice, "My lord, the general learned the news from the scout that Yueji almost moved all the barbarian tribes near the Yellow River to the west in order to guard against us! "

"So what?" Ma Teng shook his head and sighed heavily, "I thought of these things a long time ago!"

"No, the lord is wrong!" Ma Wan shook his head, and said in a concentrated voice, "Qianghu takes heaven and earth as their home, tends sheep and sheep, and rarely plows the fields. Nowadays, tribes like Yueji who migrate Hu people, even those who The low-level Hu people dare not speak out, but I also heard that the cattle and sheep, flattery, and a small amount of rice grains of those tribes were all confiscated by Yueji, and the tribes of the Hu people were integrated by Yueji. Settled in one place! Or exiled, or reduced to slavery!"

"Hmph!" Ma Teng snorted angrily, and cursed: "Yueji is so cruel. In order to make our army lose food and grass, he has harmed so many barbarian people. It is estimated that after this battle, Yueji He is already rich as hell!"

"Yes!" Ma Wan suddenly laughed and said, "My lord, a large number of cattle and sheep have entered Yue Ji's private pocket, but the population is easy to migrate, but those cattle, sheep, carts and horses can..."

Ma Teng showed some joy on his face, and murmured: "You mean..."

Before the words fell, Ma Xiu who was beside him laughed and said bluntly: "General Ma, why didn't you just tell the place where Yue Ji hoarded these things?" When the generals heard this, they all looked at Ma Wan in surprise.

"Ah? Uh!" Ma Wan was taken aback for a moment, looked at Ma Xiu and said shyly, "Young General is really a smart person, ha ha!"

"You said it!" Liang Xing and other generals were very anxious about food and forage in their hearts, but now they are still unhurried when they see Ma Wan. .

Originally, I wanted to show off, but now it seems that I have committed public outrage.Ma Wan thought it was a pity in his heart, and said rather unwillingly: "Most of the cattle and sheep flattery collected by Yue Ji are stored in his own army, but because our army is in the middle now, we searched north of our army. The cattle and sheep that came have not had time to be transported away! They are all hidden in one place! It is very close to this place!"

The rest of the generals Wen Qian looked ecstatic, among them Yang Qiu asked suspiciously, "This matter...is it true?"

"I personally tortured, how could it be false?" Ma Wan said with a curled lip.

"My lord!" Liang Xing cupped his fists at Ma Teng and said in a low voice, "Why don't we rush here quickly, take the food and grass, take advantage of our army's urgent needs, and wait until the brothers are full, and then cross the Yellow River and attack Bingzhou !"

"Hmm..." I saw Ma Teng's surprised expression on his face, but he gave a light answer but he was noncommittal. He took a deep breath, looked at Ma Wan and said in a calm voice, "Where is the Qianghu army scout, bring him here , I personally questioned. This matter concerns the lives of [-] of my soldiers, and it is of great importance, but I am not allowed to be careless!"

"This..." Ma Teng said this, but Ma Wan showed a bit of embarrassment on his face. After hesitating for a moment, he said in a low voice with some embarrassment: "The man couldn't stand the torture, and he bled too much after telling the truth." , life and death are unknown. In the end, it will be a burden to carry this person, so I just cut..." Ma Teng opened his mouth, stunned.

"My lord!" Seeing Ma Teng's behavior, Ma Wan hurriedly said, "I will dare to guarantee the end of this matter with my head!"

"You don't need to be like this, General Ma." The candidate interjected to persuade him, and then he cupped his fists and said to Ma Teng, "My lord, the last general also encountered some abnormalities at this moment. He is probably a scout of the Qianghu army, but he didn't catch it like General Ma Wan did." Well, even if Yueji is a man of gods, he can't know the route of our army, so even if our army has already transported the population and food away before our army arrives, it won't be so fast, let alone Yueji's elite Walking in the south, and our army is in the middle, the grain and grass in the north cannot be transported under our noses. In the past few days, our scouts have often been sent to search places ten or twenty miles away. Although we have encountered some Qiang The Hu people's food transport troops are very small in number, and the scattered tribes of the Qiang and Hu people are like stars in the sky. There are so many cattle and sheep on the grassland, but we rarely see them like this, it must be Yueji I have already found a hidden place to hide! It is very likely that it is the place General Ma Wan said!"

"Well, it makes sense!" Ma Teng nodded, tapped his forehead with his fingers, and asked hesitantly: "However, if that's the case, wouldn't it be time for us to miss the time to cross the Yellow River? Ambush, what should I do?"

"This..." The generals also felt a little troubled. Although they were not afraid of the Qianghu army, they were different now. What should they do if they were tricked by the Qianghu people instead?

Cheng Yin slapped his thigh and said angrily, "Hmph! My lord, what can the Qianghu people do in an ambush? We are still afraid that he will fail. As long as we are prepared, how can the Qianghu people defeat our Xiliang army? Besides, After fighting against the Qiang and Hu people for so many years, they don't even know what an ambush is, and we are the only ones who ambush him, so how can they ambush us!"

"Yeah!" Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Okay!" Ma Teng also said heavily, the beard on his chin was a little flying, and he said angrily: "Since we have decided to fight once, then fight to the end, and anger the cattle and sheep that Yueji collected, and supplement my Army rations! When the soldiers recover their spirits, enter Bingzhou!"

(End of this chapter)