Chapter Eighty-Nine: Soldiers Open Jizhou
"Lord, does it matter?"
On the long march from Yanzhou Dongjun to Jizhou Guangzong, Ma Yue fell off the horse for the third time, and he smiled at the pain in his back, and stepped on Yan Xing's hands and stepped on the horse again.
Ten thousand armies marched, and flags covered the sky.
Ma Yue's men and horses were temporarily sandwiched between Huangfu Song's troops as other troops, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses marched at the same time, with a distance of more than ten miles from the beginning to the end.
Zhonglang sent Zhu Jun to Nanyang to quell the rebellion, and Huangfu Song received an edict from the imperial court to go north, and the army immediately went to the Jizhou battlefield after resting for three days in Dongjun, and the final time of the competition between the Han court and the Yellow Turban was coming.
Putting aside the cruelty of the war, the final competition was a grand event, in the eyes of Ma Yue.
Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, the three major Zhonglang of the Han Dynasty will not be said. Guo Dian, the old subordinate of the Huangfu Zhonglang General, and Fu Xie, who was recruited from Beidi County, are all heroes named Xizhou. Not to mention Cao Cao, the cavalry captain who is also from another department.
Most of the soldiers on the southern front came, and Zhonglang general Zhu Jun led the southerner Sun Jian to Nanyang to continue to pacify the remnants of the Yellow Turban on the battlefield on the southern front, and Huangfu Song went north to Jizhou with the power of victory.
Yan Xing held the reins and held the iron spear, looked back at the chariot under the command of General Zhonglang a few miles away, and said to Ma Yue: "Lord, I heard that you have an old relationship with Huangfu Zhonglang, why don't you explain that you are injured and are taking the chariot of General Lang...... It's better than a bump on horseback. ”
"It's okay, don't worry." Ma Yue frowned when he heard this, just now he was thinking about whether to let Yan Xing tie himself to the horse, he said, "Don't bother Huangfu Zhonglang, I can go." ”
Yan Xing nodded without saying anything when he heard this, hung the iron spear on the side of the horse and turned over, holding his own reins with one hand and Ma Yue's reins with the other, and walked on foot on the muddy ridges.
Ma Yue stretched out his arm and patted Yan Xing's shoulder, and nodded with a little gratitude, now is not the time to die to be hard-faced, the soldiers of the entire southern front are here, he doesn't know if he can climb up if he can get off the horse again.
Now the official title in his hand is not high enough, and Liu Hong is very kind to him, so he will allow him to use the false title of 2,000 stone as another department to pacify Dongjun, if he is now a genuine general with a miscellaneous number of 2,000 stones, according to the etiquette, he will be able to ride a single horse chariot in wartime.
"Maybe next time, if there is no accident in the battle of Gwangjong, the next expedition may be a full-fledged general." 'This time with the army to go out Ma Yue only led 1,500 cavalry, this is the regular military strength of the first battalion of the captain of Changshui, when he was wounded and returned to the Luonan River, Ma Yue took up the pen for Guan Yu to play the post of Sima of the other department, more than 2,000 foot cavalry are now under the command of Guan Yu, a few days ago has been with Cao Cao, who was escorting the baggage in Guanxian County, walked in front to explore the way for the army.
This is the most important decision Ma Yue has made since he walked out of Zhangshan.
This performance means that Guan Yu is not only a family general in Ma Yue's eyes, but a protégé who has been able to stand on his own and help each other.
As the representative of Sima, he led an army to pacify a county of traitors, this credit can be big or small, it depends on what Liu Hong and the ministers of the court and the central government think, if it is beneficial to them, it is the great merit of pacifying a county, which is enough to level the ground and raise a thousand stones. If it is harmful to them, before the edict arrives, the rabble that has gone to the head of the enemy with the elite will not be able to escape the responsibility of being reduced to the common people.
At that time, Ma Yue could not lead the army to the expedition, rather than miss the fighter plane to make the people of Dong'a go north to Jizhou, it was better to let his subordinates lead the army to the expedition, and the victory was meritorious, and the defeat was not to die without harm.
Such a mentality is very similar to Dong Zhuo. Ma Yue smiled self-deprecatingly, he understood that Liu Hong needed him, although he was not indispensable, but he clearly knew what conditions were needed to lead the troops in the chaos of the war.
First of all, the generals have enough loyalty to His Majesty, and have absolutely loyal courtiers to recommend, without too many complicated entanglements of interests, and finally the strategic and tactical ability to defeat the enemy.
And these four points, Ma Yue all conformed, although he was only reluctant to defeat the strategy and tactics of defeating the enemy.
He is not afraid of being deposed by Liu Hong because of his mistakes, even if he is demoted to a concubine, it is just a period of idleness, and he will always be reactivated.
It is precisely because of this that Ma Yue transferred the seal letter from Cheng Li to Guan Yu under the conditions at that time, and only Guan Yu was the most suitable for these people, and the others did not have the experience of leading the army independently, even if it was Guan Yu, Ma Yue did not have much confidence.
He has the energy, but he is not sure.
In both public and private, he knew that Guan Yu would never betray him. The Guan Yu beside him is not the righteous and loyal Guan Yunchang written in the books of later generations, Guan Yu beside him is the brave and brave young and powerful Guan Yu who was rescued by him. Several times of great grace in the body, not to mention that after Ma Yue handed him a guarantee, Ma Yue, the captain of Changshui, was Guan Yu's master, and there was no reason to betray him in public or private.
Ma Yue's purpose is simple and clear. Regardless of whether the world is chaotic or not, he needs to be stronger, whether it is the influence of the army or the reputation of the DPRK.
Playing Guan Yu, a book of ten thousand profits.
"Captain." In the sound of horses' hooves, a sentry rode his horse and said to Ma Yue: "Captain Changshui, Huangfu Zhonglang invites you to go to the meeting." ”
Ma Yue tilted his head, nodded, then patted Yan Xing, took the reins and controlled the horse, and paced towards Huangfu Song's cover.
He lost so much during his days in East County.
Seriously injured has been cultivated for more than a month, but still unable to speed the horse, a bloody battle vitality injury, both martial arts and body have a great regression, I am afraid that after the injury is good, the martial arts will also be difficult to recover to the peak, at that time the biggest damage was the arrow that hit the back, and now the biggest damage to him is a crossbow arrow that was pierced through the right arm by the Bu Ji guard within ten steps when attacking and killing Bu Ji.
Ma Yue understands that he has lost more than just the agility of his right arm. The scenery of Luobei in his eyes along the way is completely different from the appearance of mixing two months ago, Bu Ji is right, the lives of 30,000 people in Luobei have been ruined by themselves.
Everywhere I went, the people who had lived here for generations were now uprooted, the old houses were empty, the wheat fields that had been untended gradually withered and occupied by fluffy grass, and the wealth and beauty of the past were not one in ten.
The conquest of a county almost destroyed all Ma Yue's confidence.
Is this still the most powerful man in history? Those who offend me will be punished even if they are far away? The Huns were not destroyed, why did they become a big man?
The power of the country is declining, the people are hungry, and the plague is rampant.
Before riding the horse to the cover, Huangfu Song handed Ma Yue a roll of bamboo slips with an expressionless face, and Ma Yue didn't know how to pull it away and take a look, and then he knew the reason why Huangfu Song was expressionless.
A lot of information was recorded on the bamboo slips, but only three pieces of news attracted Ma Yue's attention, all of which were about the battlefield on the northern front.
"Lu Zhi was convicted and sent into Luo, Dong Zhuo was not recruited to prevent riots in the state, and Zhang Jiao was seriously ill."