Chapter 39: The Conquest of the Western Regions
The west wind under the Yuyuan Pass failed to bring the sand of Liangzhou, and a large earth pit was piled up on the loess.
Ma Yue didn't have time to dig more than 400 graves for these Yellow Turban remnants, and only erected a tablet with a wooden tablet.
The charging Yellow Turban warriors ran and brought up the sky, which made him unwilling to speak, and Ma Yue did not write any derogatory terms such as the Yellow Turban Yudang on the tablet, but simply wrote down - in the first three years of the Han Dynasty, the tomb of the defenders of Yuyuan Pass.
He didn't want these brave warriors to be disturbed in the future, and he didn't want anyone to ask about the origin of the wooden monument.
A hundred years later, the bones of these Yellow Turban warriors will rot along with the Yellow Turban on their heads, the loess on their bodies, and the wooden tablets on the ground...... Don't let others know who they are.
He didn't know what the name of the guard was, and if he wanted to, he might be able to let him know through Sun Qing. But he didn't want to ask, and none of the more than 400 Montenegrin troops in Liangzhou, which was ten times his size, fled, and they didn't stop charging to the blades of the armor covering army with their weapons high.
I hope that when they reach the foot of the Nine Springs, the momentum of the charge still cannot be stopped, so that the king of Hades is frightened, and the judge throws his pen.
The troops were stationed at the pass, and Ma Yue did not march north again.
Wounded soldiers need time to recuperate, the bodies of soldiers killed in battle need to be cremated, and the living need to be fed with food and grass. A sneak attack by Sun Qing at the foot of Songshan Mountain cut off Ma Yue's heart to attack the granary of Montenegro.
The way to defeat the morale of the enemy is not only strong force, but the more than 400 Montenegrin sergeants who are not afraid of life and death have also used their own blood and lives to hit the high morale of the armored sergeants.
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The war in the Central Plains is not mentioned for the time being, since Liangzhou Lord Ma Teng gathered Han Sui, Zhi Wudai, Pang De, Cheng Yi and other adults to supervise the army of 8,000 out of the customs, Liangzhou has once again entered a rare quiet time.
This peace was achieved for decades, and the people of Liangzhou enjoyed the life brought to them by Meiyanghou very much. The canals in all the counties of Liangzhou have been dug up, and although irrigation is still a little more difficult, it is much better than in the past, when they could only graze horses and sheep for the wealthy families.
Just two months after Ma vacated the pass, a hundred-person honor guard surrounded the Liangzhou general Ma out of Longguan and went all the way to Chang'an City.
Since Ma Yue set out in response to the edict, he played with Liangzhou Mu Ma Teng Gong as a partial general, although the imperial edict has not yet been promulgated...... But in Liangzhou, one acre and three points of land, as long as Ma Yue speaks, he will say that the person is Hou Ye, and it can't be faked.
Ma Yu didn't meet Ma Yue in person, but only met Liang Hu, Cai Yong and others in Shanglin Yuan, and then went to the Auxiliary General's Mansion.
He came to see Ma Qing.
In the mansion of the auxiliary general in Shanglin Yuan, Ma Yue was not there, and the elite soldiers and strong generals were all taken out, and the only ones who remained in the mansion were An Mu, Peng Tuo, Peng Shi and others.
"Stop here." Adjacent to the Fuguo Mansion, Ma Yu did not let his cavalry move forward, jumped off the horse and strode to the gate of the mansion, and said to the gatekeeper: "Please report to Madame, my subordinates play with horses, and ask to see the young general Ma Qing." ”
The sergeant guarding the door was a sturdy man, and his two pairs of blue eyes looked at each other, and he couldn't help but wonder in his heart. Since the completion of the Fuguo Mansion, there have been countless high-ranking officials and nobles who have visited, and it is rare to see a general with a smile and a kind face in front of him...... The partial general is also a general, and he is the biggest official position in the Liangzhou army, but this is called horse play, where does it look like a general?
With a smile on his face and no beard, he looked like he was young and young, his body was lean, he was wearing a gorgeous dress, he didn't have a piece of armor on his body, and he didn't even bring a weapon.
Can such a person be compared to the horse play general who burned Yan Shiwu and washed the horse bandit camp in blood?
Despite the suspicions, the guards still left one person to take care of them, and the other rushed into the mansion to report to the lady.
When Cai Yan heard that Ma was playing with Baifu, she also felt confused, Xiliang people are not like the Central Plains, and they pay attention to the delivery of famous thorns in advance when they visit. The generals under the command of the husband are more rude than the other, and they don't bother to submit the name assassin at all. But when he heard the name Ma Play, Cai Yan didn't dare to slack off, and got up and went out of the house to greet him in person.
Ma Yue said that in addition to his brother, the only thing he can trust in the Liangzhou army is Ma Play.
"Mrs. Lao Fu came to greet her, and it is guilty of playing with horses." Ma played with his hands, looked at the ground, and said: "The last general is about to go on an expedition in the near future, and the general is uneasy in his heart, and the general is fighting in the Central Plains, so he has to come to the mansion to disturb and ask to see the young general." ”
Ma Yu had no children, and he had never married a wife even when he was established, and there were several concubines in the family, but none of them were able to conceive children. Therefore, Ma Play treats Ma Yue's child well, Cai Yan's mother and son can't wait to hold Ma Qing in their arms every day when they are in Liangzhou, and at that time, the dignified captain of Hanyang was not bored at all by Ma Qing.
The generals of Zhangjiachuan did not expect that the murderous horse play treated the children so kindly.
Cai Yan didn't have the slightest intention of blaming the horse for playing, not to mention that she couldn't blame it. Regarding her status as a wife, others just respect Ma Yue and then respect her so much. Don't say this, it's that the horse plays and slacks Ma Yue, and the husband may not be angry. What's more, she is a woman, if she can't figure this out, Cai Yan will read so many books.
"It's okay, the general is light." Cai Yan beckoned Ma to play from afar, turned around and ordered the attendant to lead Ma Qing's grandmother to take the child out. Only then did he ask Ma Yu: "Since the general is looking for Qing'er, let's go, but Qing'er is still young, and the general should not make Qing'er suffer the wind." ”
Ma played with a forked hand and replied: "No, don't worry, madam." ”
Cai Yan returned to the mansion and sat down next to the loom to weave the cloth again, and the children's clothes were still comfortable to make by themselves after all. Through the window, he saw a horse dressed in brocade and satin sitting on a bluestone slab, tilting his head and slowly lifting the horse above his head, sometimes holding it in his arms and whispering. Shook his head helplessly, these generals of the husband's family who are good at charging into battle are very good to Ma Qing, but in two years, when the children can run and speak, they can't often be taken by these brutes...... Even Ma Yue personally taught the child, and Cai Yan felt that something was wrong.
She didn't want her son to be five or six years old and run around with a small saber on his chest all day...... When the child was born, the small bow made by Ma Yue himself is still hanging on the wall.
Cai Yan made up his mind in his heart, he wanted to put the child next to his father to teach him the number of books of etiquette, shoot them, and wait until his body grew up to learn again.
She didn't know that Ma Play was not a 10 out of 10 brute now, at most 80 percent. In the past two years, the Liangzhou army has stopped the campaign, and it is always Ma Yue's descendants who are active on the battlefield. The rest of the time is mostly spent enjoying the garrison of their own soldiers and horses, and there is much less time to lead troops and kill people with bows and horses.
Horses play in life, nothing more than dog and horse food. In the past two years, he has eaten all the delicacies collected from all over the world, whether it is the wolf in Jiuquan, the tiger in Zhangye, or the fish in the West Sea, they are all the delicacies on his plate. Before the war broke out in the Central Plains, he even asked Zhang Shiping's caravan to find fresh crabs from the East China Sea to satisfy his hunger in August. Later, he fell in love with the Book of Han.
The original intention of reading Hanshu was just to find the delicacies recorded in the book, but those biographies later made him fall in love, and during this time, he was reading the biography of Dingyuan Hou Banchao.
Thirty-six people set thirty-six countries, and the great achievements of the predecessors opened the door to a new world for horse play - he wanted to find a feudal marquis three thousand miles away.
Of course, the feudal marquis is just a joke for horse play. If he wants to be a marquis and go to ask Ma Yue, he will definitely be able to get a more or less marquis. But what he hoped more was to pacify the Western Regions, which was still nominally controlled by the Han Dynasty in this era, but in fact did not have much power, and even the subject states of the Western Regions paid tribute to the emperor of the Han Dynasty every year.
This is also the majestic blueprint left by Ma Yue to Liangzhou before sending troops, west to the Western Regions, east to the East China Sea, north to Wuyuan Yin Mountain, south to the vast sea of the powerful Eastern Han Dynasty dream.
"Qing'eryo, uncle is going to the Western Regions, you have many uncles, not one uncle is missing." Ma Yu sat on the bluestone paved ground in the courtyard of the Fuguo General's Mansion with his legs crossed, holding the little Ma Qing in his arms and dangling around, regardless of Ma Qing's already asleep, he muttered in a low voice: "When the uncle goes to the Western Regions to pacify those countries, marry a few princesses and come back to you as a concubine." ”
"But how far is this thing in the Western Regions?" From Hanyang County to the Western Regions, it is a 3,000-mile road, which has to pass through deserts, Gobi, wastelands, woodlands, grasslands, rivers and other terrains. And if you want to go farther to the country of Wusun, it will be more than 5,000 miles. "How far is 5,000 miles? Uncle has only walked thousands of miles in his life...... When Uncle comes back, you will be able to ride a horse and shoot arrows, I don't know if you remember Uncle. ”
The horse who is not more than thirty years old plays with an uncle, which is considered to be too much of his uncle's addiction, and he sat in the big courtyard chattering for two hours, and only returned the little horse back to the house when it was getting dark, and finally left Cai Yan with a delicate Xianbei small saber.
It was the most precious trophy of Ma Wan, which was obtained from fighting in Northern Xinjiang in the early years, and entrusted Cai Yan to give it to him when Ma Qing could hold it. At the end, he smiled and asked Cai Yan to tell Ma Qing more about himself, don't wait until he comes back and don't know him.
After all, the horse did not leave for dinner, and drove the horse out of the house to Chang'an. On the third day after leaving Sanglimwon, we returned to Hanyang.
He handed over his garrison and thousands of soldiers to Ma Zong, gathered troops across his horses, raised more than 2,000 people who dared to die, scattered all his wealth in exchange for the elite armor made by Zhangjiachuan, and took the guides and doctors who were familiar with the road, and went straight to Yumen Pass.
Before leaving, he left a letter to Ma Yue, and he took the soldiers and horses out of the Zhangye Desert in the second month of leaving Hanyang and walked to the land that Ma Yue had never been to. Here, he recruited men again, expanded his army to 3,000, and led horses and camels out of Yumen Pass.
The spring breeze is difficult to cross the Yumen Pass.
The desert blocks the horses that have nothing, but it is difficult to stop the horses that travel all over the world. Back then, they had nothing, and they only went to the Western Regions with one life, and now they have enough to deal with, not to mention that the resources of the entire Liangzhou are almost random for them, and it is easy for them to come by.
"Ma Junhao, Ma Play has conquered the Western Regions for you!"
Facing the endless Gobi, looking back at the indistinguishable Yumen Pass, Ma Yu said to himself.
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