Chapter 81: Zhang Lu's Death
During this time, there were rumors in Longdu that King Liang was going to attack Zhang Lu. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In the streets and alleys, this kind of news is like a wing, and it is transmitted very quickly.
For a while, the people, gentry, warriors, and businessmen of the entire Liangzhou were chatting about this matter.
Zhang Lu is the 'King of Hanzhong'!
This person has been operating in Hanzhong for more than 20 years, and as early as the time of Yizhou or Liu Yan, he relied on the sect to become the actual controller of the prosperous city of Hanzhong, and decisively joined the camp of King Liang when the world changed greatly.
Even if Hanzhong later belonged to the rule of the Liang State, King Liang did not have the slightest intention of interfering with Zhang Lu or even the entire Hanzhong.
If the CCP rebels today, wars are in full swing everywhere...... How could King Liang do something to Zhang Lu at this time?
Can't figure it out...... I can't figure it out!
Not only the officials and people of Liangzhou couldn't figure it out, but even the high-ranking officials and nobles of Liangguo, and even King Liang himself couldn't figure it out!
When Ma Yue knew that the news was going to be spread on the streets and alleys, the first thought in his mind was - someone was going to stumble on himself!
This is not clear, someone is stirring up the relationship between the old Ma family and the old Zhang family.
Speaking of which, Zhang Lu has also been prosperous in Hanzhong in recent years, although it has been divided into the hinterland of Liangguo and some soldiers and horses have been dispersed, but Ma Yue, who is in charge of the teaching power, has never had a good way to row it out.
After all, the Heavenly Master Dao has been continuing for decades, and even if it is the Old Liang King, it is not so easy to dissolve this organization without forcing him to rebel.
On the surface, you say that you will scatter, and people will be transformed into secretly pondering something, won't it be more of a headache?
In this way, the Heavenly Master Dao in the territory of Liang Kingdom has become a difficult bone to gnaw.
Ma Yue didn't want to move Zhang Lu's position, but he didn't want to cause a bigger conflict with Zhang Tianshi, and he didn't want Zhang Lu to take the Heavenly Master Dao wherever he went, like an infectious disease.
Just stay in Hanzhong!
The whole people in Hanzhong now believe in religion, and Zhang Lu only increases his influence, and cannot expand like other places. If you change places, Liangguo has two Hanzhong at once, then it's hard to say.
In the current situation, it is obvious that someone is trying to make a fuss about this.
Ma Yue scoffed at this rumor.
First of all, except for the murder of Li Zhan back then, King Liang of Tama has never set a precedent for attacking his confidants and important ministers, and has been trying his best to develop the military and economic strength of Liang State, and strive to make the people live a good life without worrying about food and clothing in the chaotic situation in the world.
The unparalleled prestige of the old Liang King also comes from here.
There are still thousands of people who follow him who can't eat a bite of hot soup and rice, where does he, the leader, have time to fight with his subordinates?
When Ma Yue knew the news, he sent a message to Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, telling him to be careful about his own safety and not to let the villain have a chance.
In today's uncertain external situation, internal and external troubles are unavoidable.
The only thing he could do was be careful, careful, careful.
Although even if he doesn't make mistakes, people with a heart will create opportunities, but he can't let himself be helpless!
At the same time, Ma Yue also asked his brother Ma to vacate the mountain and personally dispatch 20,000 Liangwang troops to garrison Wudu County, which borders Liangzhou and Yizhou Hanzhong, in case of contingencies.
On the other hand, it is natural that the two brothers Ma Chao and Ma Tie, who are in charge of the military power in the Gyeonggi region, strictly guard against it, and at the same time select trustworthy generals such as Yang Feng, Peng Shi, Peng Tuo, Cheng Yin, Cheng Yi, Yang Qiu and others to supervise the soldiers and horses and sit in all directions.
This is a situation where the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings, Liangguo has never been so nervous in more than ten years since the beginning of the country.
Now Ma Er has led his troops to aid Tongguan, if Tongguan is lost, he will fight a counterattack in Sanfu, but Sanfu has no danger to rely on, if the war really burns to Sanfu, it is very likely that the external Liangguo army will leave a part of the break, and the large army will almost immediately save the vital force and transfer to the interior of Longguan.
Longguan is a pass that the Central Plains people can't break, but there is one point, before the Eastern Han Dynasty weakened the national strength of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the old Liang people didn't fight Longguan for hundreds of years!
The terrain of Longguan is too weird, if the people of the Central Plains want to capture this pass, they must first climb thousands of feet above sea level in less than fifty miles. What's more, as soon as the old cool man guarding the pass rolls the wood, he can roll out more than ten miles on the spot, and he will be killed if he smashes it.
But there is one point, if the people of Liangzhou want to attack under the blockade of the enemy, it is not very possible.
It's okay to go down the pass with lightly armed foot soldiers, cavalry, baggage, and siege equipment...... It is very difficult for these things to adjust their direction or even slow down on the way down the mountain, and once they are sniped by the enemy, no matter how well-organized the troops are, they will not be able to withstand the indiscriminate impact of heavy weapons from within.
For a long time, the closure of Liangzhou to the Central Plains was mostly due to the huge topography changes of this half-hundred-mile land.
If the Central Plains changes, the people of Liangzhou will withdraw to Guanwai...... Ma Yue may not have a chance to enter the customs in his life!
The enemy obviously grasped this point, and wanted to grab the pigtail of the old Liang King and beat him to death.
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Change is happening faster than people think.
In the second half of the year when Ma Zong led his troops to Tongguan, that is, half a month after the Liang Kingdom reported that the old Liang King was going to do something to Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, Hanzhong Taishou and Wudoumi taught Zhang Tianshi to die on the bed in his mansion.
It is said that before his death, the Heavenly Master was about to preach the autopsy, but he didn't want to fall for the thieves' tricks and die at this juncture!
Zhang Lu was poisoned!
This news is like a bomb, one stone stirs up a thousand waves!
Even when Ma Teng had not yet gained a firm foothold in Wudu County, Zhang Lu's younger brother Zhang Wei and Zhang Gong raised troops in Hanzhong and insisted on counterattacking Longdu to avenge his brother.
If it's just this little-known Zhang Wei who raised troops, it wouldn't be a big deal, but the bad thing is that Zhang Lu has seven sons, these seven sons are named Zhang Fu, Zhang Guang, Zhang Yong, Zhang Sheng, Zhang Yi, Zhang Ju, Zhang Mengde, Zhang Lu died, and the seven sons followed their uncle to rebel!
The appeal of the seven sons is much greater than that of Zhang Wei, the younger brother of the Heavenly Master.
However, the eight people of the Zhang family, if you want to say that the law is naturally transcendent, there are really not many political wisdom.
actually listened to some crazy words from crazy people in the fields, and when Zhang Lu had not yet come out of the funeral, he erected a banner, recruited troops and horses, and vowed to compete with King Liang.
In their heads, my Heavenly Master has never done anything wrong to your Lao Liang King, and even if you call yourself the king or the emperor, our Lao Zhang family doesn't care so much about you, and supports you as always, is this not okay? Do you have to get rid of my Zhang family to be happy?
Do you really think Hanzhong was kneaded by you at will?
All of a sudden, 100,000 ghost pawns and sacrificial wine from all directions set up anti-flags to follow Bazhang, and the soldiers pointed to Longdu!
The most interesting thing is that one of Zhang Lu's younger brothers, none of his seven sons can inherit Zhang Lu's Taoism, and the successor is Zhang Lu's only daughter, Zhang Qiying!
Zhang Qiying is twenty-eight years old, she is obsessed with Taoism, and she is cultivated by her mother's art of rejuvenating her face, and she is unparalleled in her talent and appearance, but in the end, what kind of family and country affairs can a sixteen-year-old girl understand?
And such a strange woman who believed in Taoism in the troubled times actually carried the banner of opposing the regime of King Liang, and was enshrined by 100,000 ghost soldiers and Bafang sacrificial wine to lead the army to Longdu?
This thing, big hair.
At the same time, the war in the east also made a slight progress, Yuzhou Mu Ma Dai launched a counterattack against the Yanzhou Mu Cao Ang who invaded Yuzhou, personally led the soldiers and horses to cut off the back road in the direction of Chenliu County of the Yanzhou Army, and beheaded the grain officer Xiahou Lan in one day, broke his own grain and grass camp, burned the granary, and captured Xiahou Shang.
On the other side, the Yanzhou army attacked Chen County, and Luo Jun, the prime minister of Chen State, showed weakness to the enemy, and even used the means of fake communication with the enemy army, and opened the west gate to let the enemy army enter the city at night.
However, when the enemy army entered the city for more than a thousand, the city gate was suddenly closed, Chen Guo has always had the tradition of preparing strong crossbow carts and crossbows and heavy soldiers, and shot fiercely above the urn city, killing the enemy army without leaving a piece of armor, and the former general of the Yanzhou army, Dian Wei, protected the eldest son Cao Ang, and smashed open the city gate with a big sword, and walked many ways, but all the elites of his subordinates died in Chen County.
That's not all, Cao Ang, who had just escaped from Chen County, was angry and vowed to storm the city to capture Luo Jun, but the Liangguo general Wang Shuang led his troops to break in, and two thousand Liangguo iron horsemen broke into the enemy formation under the cover of torches and gongs and drums made by three thousand foot soldiers, and cut the enemy army into several sections and scattered in the countryside.
In this battle, there are a lot of gains!
At the time of the outbreak of the Battle of Chen, Yuzhou's Tanma had already sent the text to various places, and even Jiangdong received a message, saying that the Yanzhou army was too deceitful and invaded Yuzhou, so Ma Dai insisted on fighting Cao Ang to the death. However, in order to avoid dragging the world into an unprovoked war and avoid the situation expanding again, I hope that the princes and giants will not participate in the war.
Ma Dai's words are obvious, if you participate in the war, the Liang Kingdom behind him will give him strong military support, and then it will not be a war between two young state pastors.
That's a big war that will bring disaster to the world!
Having said that, how could Cao Cao not help Cao Ang when he saw Cao Ang's army defeated? For a time, the situation in Tongguan became very tense, and the two sides looked like they were fighting each other without saying a word. On the other hand, Yanzhou hurriedly dispatched Xu Chu, Cao Hong and others to join the battlefield and pursue Ma Dai's army.
It's just that Guan Yu of Jizhou did not sit idly by, even if the war with Liu He in the north was still in full swing, he still offered the Wanning Department that had been planted north of Hanoi to approach southward, striving to cut off the connection between the imperial court and Yanzhou, and creating a posture for Ma Dai to face the lone army...... Xu Chu don't want to go back, Yanzhou has a total of 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers and horses, all of which have been transferred to the Yuzhou battlefield on the southern front, so as to ensure that Wanning does not follow the rules to invade your state.
These things are all indefinite!
And in the distant Longdu, King Liang's brows that had been frowning for several days after receiving the news of Zhang Lu's death finally unfolded.
A grand wedding of the nobles of the Liang Kingdom is being held, the brother of the King of Liang, the eldest son of the general of the Liang Kingdom, Ma Tengyan, the general of the Liang Kingdom, and Yang Xiang, the only daughter of Yang Feng, the Marquis of Fengting of the Liang Kingdom, tied the knot today, and the marriage of the upper nobles of the Liang Kingdom has attracted the attention of the world.