Yang Feng did not expect Ma Yue, led Bai Bo's 17,000 troops out of the northeast of the river, and the effective combat power of these 17,000 people was only 4,000.

Among the white wave thieves, there are also Cao Cao and Xun Yu, who specially asked for help in the war.

After Yang Feng, Huangfu Song and Niu Fu supervised the 3,000 elite soldiers subordinate to Dong Zhuo and the 6,000 elite soldiers drawn from the Fufeng Army.

At the same time, the edict to lead the counties along the Great Wall in the north to increase the garrison has also been issued, and it is necessary to always guard against the counterattack of the Xianbei people.

After that, there were more than 30,000 people who were requisitioned, and more than 20,000 troops went out to fight on a long line, and the daily cost of resources was too huge, as long as they fought abroad for more than two months, the finances of the Han Dynasty would be exposed to make ends meet.

It can be seen how Ma Yue tried his best in the court to support Xiao Liu Xie's permission to send troops this time.

Prior to this, Ma Yue and Cheng Li, Guan Yu, Pei brothers, Xun Yu, Cao Cao, Cui Jun and others had a secret talk, for the final summary of the troops, if the army out of the pass to win, Ma Yue and Xiao Liu Xie will sit firmly, if not win, I am afraid that Xiao Liu Xie's reign will be difficult to support the Han Dynasty to fight abroad.

The brief intersection of his youth left a deep impression on him, although he was a man of cloth, he had the ambition of the world, and he was a man who stood up to the sky. If Bai Bo could not be suppressed, Ma Yue would not be willing to send troops to Yang Feng. On the one hand, he was unwilling, and on the other hand, Yang Feng had a life-saving grace for Guan Yu, and he couldn't let Guan Yu have a grudge against him.

Therefore, it is necessary to come up with a proper way to let Yang Feng attack Xianbei, and the Niu Fu Overseer Army is undoubtedly the most appropriate choice.

The land under Xianbei's control was in fact the richest horse farm, with Shuofang County on the top and Beidi County below, plus the land occupied by Xianbei, collectively known as Hetao, was the richest land along the Yellow River and was well irrigated. If the Han Dynasty can win this land battle, move the poor people of Guandong and prisoners from all over the country to garrison the border, enough people to carry out military garrisons like the north, and connect the entire Hetao area after construction and development, tuntian and horse breeding, after Xun Yu's planning, the taxes of the northland, Shuofang, Yunzhong, Dingxiang, and Shangjun can be tripled again after three years, and the horses available for the Han army to ride will also be tens of thousands more.

These taxes and armaments were enough to support the counties along the Great Wall to assemble a cavalry and archery Han army comparable to Xianbei, and five years later they were able to attack Xianbei for the second time and seize the grasslands of Youyi and the north.

Obviously, if this battle is defeated, there is a high probability that the Han will lose the greatest possibility of driving Xianbei north within twenty years.

Therefore, everyone is very concerned about this battle, and Huangfu Song, Cao Cao, and Xun Yu all took the initiative to invite Ying to fight Xianbei. The armaments, grain and grass allocated to the Han army were personally inspected by Yan Xing, the captain of Changshui, and the escorts along the way were also guarded by the lieutenants of the Xiyuan Army.

It's foolproof.

The Han army went on the expedition, Ma Yue stayed in the general's mansion for more than ten days, did not participate in the court meeting, hung a map of the world in his bedroom, there were often guards at the door, and most of the people who entered and exited the general's mansion were military attaches and capable ministers, and the capable staff all ate and lived in the mansion, as if he became the second largest general after He Jin.

He no longer needs to worry about money, not to mention that he carries three 2,000-stone official positions in the Auxiliary General, Guangluxun, and Jiashizhong, he is a liehou, a marquis of Meiyang County, and the taxes of 4,000 households in Meiyang County are enough for him to live a luxurious life.

But he had more to worry about.

The power of the Jizhou Black Mountain Army became larger and larger, and Ma Yue tried to respond according to the impression of surrender, but the envoy sent by Han Fu on behalf of the imperial court was killed by the thieves. If you want to attack and strangle but face the 700-mile Taihang Mountains, what will you do to suppress it? The relationship between Youzhou Mu Liu Yu and his subordinate Gongsun Zan was also messy, so he sent an envoy to mediate the relationship between the two, and Liaodong Taishou Gongsun Du also hoped to increase the garrison force with the three northern counties of Youzhou, so as to march east to open up Pingzhou.

The road connection in Yizhou was cut off, and the road was blocked by the Qinling Mountains, and Liu Yan's old slippery head deliberately sent people to rob and kill the envoy to explore the horse, and suddenly not only Yizhou, but also the road to Jiaozhou was not passed. It is equivalent to losing Erzhou all at once, but he can only swallow his anger.

It was the season when Ma was thin and yellow, otherwise Ma Yue would not dare to make a decision to attack Xianbei, Han Sui of Liangzhou made trouble again, crossed Yuzhong to attack the county, and his brother Ma Teng and his predecessor Gai Xun were also waiting for him to take the idea, thinking about sending Cai Yong and Liang Hu and others back to Luoyang, and the conquest of Liangzhou was inevitable.

Only 30,000 people were requisitioned, and now they have to send supplies to Liangzhou again, otherwise their hometown is gone, what else will he talk about changing the world?

Han Sui can still exchange materials with the merchants who crossed the desert in Jiuquan and Dunhuang, which is much freer than the Han army in Liangzhou, Ma Teng and they can only exchange a little material with the smuggler Jia and the defenders of the checkpoint who risked killing their heads in Longguan, and if this continues, the wealth accumulated in the early years will be gone in less than two years, and the taxes in Liangzhou will not be able to make ends meet at all, which is difficult.

When Ma Yue once again tried his best to dispel public opinion in the court and proposed to open Longguan to resume support for Liangzhou, he was met with more opposition than a war.

Ma Yue has the heart to kill.

But he didn't dare to be arrogant, the rumors in the market are powerful, the prophecies are simple, and the trough takes the world. The more he scolded him by name, the more he had the ambition to rebel, and the rumors could not be seen or touched, but they were more feared than thousands of troops.

Another court discussion broke up unhappily, the bell and drum instruments in the house were smashed by Ma Yue, and he wrote a letter of apology sent to Liangzhou, and he insisted on trying, but I am afraid that it will not have a good effect.

"Get out of here!" There was a loud shout in the house, Ma Yue frowned and pushed open the door, and saw that the guard at the door was kicked on the ground by a fat foot and turned over several grunts, and Dong Zhuo, who was wearing a helmet and armor, strode over with a bloody soldier.

"Brother Zhong, what's wrong?"

"Tell the auxiliary general yourself! , these grandchildren. Dong Zhuo shouted loudly, and his fat hand pressed the back of the soldier's neck to the ground and said, "Xuanyuan Pass is defeated!" ”

"What? Xuanyuan Pass? Ma Yue frowned, but he still remained reserved, sat in the courtyard pavilion and waved his hand and said: "Brother Zhong sit down first, don't worry, let this brother say slowly, what is the change in Wang Kuang Baoxin of Xuanyuan Pass?" ”

Dong Zhuo angrily punched on the pavilion pillar, hammering the wooden pavilion pillar into a fist mark, looking down to see that the bearded pawn was trembling and didn't dare to speak, and said angrily: "Don't say that Lao Tzu put you on a spear and hung it on the city gate to blow a cool breeze!" ”

"The general is angry, angry, the villain from Xuanyuan Pass, under the command of Fan Junhou, yesterday, yesterday the defenders out of the pass, one night to break through the Duan Junhou camp, Li Junhou led the army to rescue, halfway was ambushed by the bow and crossbow and suffered heavy casualties, gathered the soldiers and horses all the way to Hou's Wu, the joint Fan army Hou Hebing was in the Songshan Mountain and fought again, defeated again, Duan Junhou was beheaded in the formation, Li Junhou led the remnants of the army to retreat to Henan Yin with 600, sent a villain to report for help, please send the general to send troops!"

Duan Junhou is Dong Zhuo's subordinate and Duan Ying's descendant, Duan Xuan.

"How many thieves are there, and who is the leader of the army, who can defeat the fierce generals under the command of Brother Zhong in a row, and slash Duan Xuan?" Ma Yue couldn't sit still, got up and waved to the servant who threw out the jade jue on his waist and said: "Enter the palace to invite General Guan, the Marquis of the Fourth Army of Huben, Captain Changshui and Captain Zhao Jin of the Upper Army to come to the house, I have something urgent." ”

Dong Zhuo said: "Guo Yan Huaxiong is also on the way over. ”

The servant received the order and went to the stable to get the horse, and the prostrated Dong sergeant hurriedly replied: "Three thousand foot riders, stationed in the Hou family, there is Changsha in the military array to guard the banner of Sun Jian, Li Junhou said that he was only afraid that he was waiting for reinforcements." ”

Changsha Taishou, Sun Jian!

This name made Ma Yue and Dong Zhuo look at each other, and after a few breaths, Ma Yue said: "I was going to order the Tiger Ben Army to fight, but I didn't expect Sun Jian to kill him...... " Ma Yue gasped and said: "Brother Zhong, I'm afraid that this is a vicious battle, and Sun Jianbing must not be called to the city!" ”

"Niu Fu led the army to the north, and he only had this bit of men and horses in his hands, and he couldn't stop Sun Jian." Dong Zhuo frowned and said, "San Lang, you transfer me another 3,000 soldiers and horses, and I will meet Sun Jian when I go out of the city!" ”

The nose snorted a long breath, and Ma Yue sat in the pavilion and bowed his head and groaned, without saying a word for a long time.

It's not that he can't trust Dong Zhuo, I'm really afraid that Dong Zhuo will make a mistake, if Dong Zhuo is defeated by Sun Jian, then he really has nothing, he never puts his personal life and death in the hands of others, it has always been like this, and this time is no exception! But he and Dong Zhuo couldn't go out of the imperial city at the same time, he was worried that if they didn't win, Sun Jian would be able to fight against Luoyang if he didn't win, but what if the Luoyang city gate was closed, or even the rebels in the city were attacked inside and outside the party?

"Brother Zhong, don't be in a hurry first, wait for the people to arrive, let's find a way, now you and I must calm down first, and we must not mess with ourselves."

Dong Zhuo could only nod, he knew that everyone together did not have enough experience in attacking the enemy in battle, but against Sun Jian? He really didn't know if the city generals on his side would be lower than the descendants of Sun Wu.

Time passed in silence between the two, and the first to arrive was Guan Yu with Cheng Li, Gan Ning, Peng Shi, and Zhu Ling, followed by Huaxiong Guo Yan, and finally Yan Xing outside the city.

"Changsha Taishou Sun Jian led the troops from Xuanyuan Pass to send 3,000 troops, last night defeated Li Dao Fan Chouduan Xuan, now the enemy army is stationed in the Hou family, according to Li Dao's prediction, they still have reinforcements, the biggest is Yuan Shu in Nanyang." Ma Yue didn't care about the surprise of the generals, and told all the news at once, looked directly at everyone and said: "Therefore, I plan to lead Guan Yu, Xu Huang, Yang Feng, Gan Ning, Hua Xiong, and Zhao Jin to lead the military academy captain to fight, Brother Zhong, there may also be rebels in the city, and the younger brother hopes that you can guard the imperial capital for me, Master Yanming, cooperate with Brother Zhong to defend the imperial city, and must leave a way for me to retreat." ”

The Changshui Army was reduced to only 500, and it was difficult to play a big role in the face of 3,000 or possibly more enemies, so it was better to lead the military academy and part of the Xiyuan Army to make up the number of 5,000, and if you have seen the army that has fought the rebellion in blood, there is still a few chances of victory.

"Yan Ming sent someone to play a secret meeting with Chang'an Ma, and asked him to quickly send the Liangzhou army to support." Seeing what Dong Zhuo wanted to say, Ma Yue immediately said: "Brother, you don't need to say much, if I can't come back, you can take all our brothers all the way back to Liangzhou." ”

"Someone, send the letter of invitation to the palace, and the upper cousin Ren Zhong brother is the captain of the school, Zhao Jin went to order troops, led the military department and Zhao Rong's department to assemble at the south gate of Luoyang, carry grain and grass to prepare ordnance, and prepare for the expedition!"

When Ma Yue took command of the expedition against an enemy that terrified him, and he was on what was likely to be the last of his life, he did not know it.

He didn't know that the beautiful girl in white clothes who was Shengxue in Longguan touched the Jiaowei piano with her fingertips, playing a tune that no one in Liangzhou understood and looked in the direction of Luoyang.

Wait for the cool people in your mind, and return with a horse.