In the spring of April, Ma Hua took 500 soldiers and Hu Xiya to the Ili River Valley with his caravan.

At the time of parting, Zuo Sanxiang instructed Ma Hua to ask Hu Xiya more about everything, and to listen to Hu Xiya's words for major matters.

"Remember, it's not for you to discuss with Boss Hu, but to listen to him, in Yili, you must respect the bereaved families of the Anxi Protectorate and restrain your subordinates. After our people go, we have to build a military camp by ourselves, and don't always occupy other people's houses! Mr. Hu also has some seeds to bring over and cultivate the land with them! ”

Ma Hua nodded again and again, "Remember, Zuo Shuai, I listen to Boss Hu's arrangements for all these things, and there is only one thing, that is, if there is a war, you have to listen to me on the battlefield!" ”

Zuo Sanxiang slapped his forehead, "Well, that's natural, but don't take the initiative to stir up trouble, the most important thing for us at present is to gain a firm foothold in Ili and lay a good foundation for the follow-up, you must know that tens of thousands of horses will be stationed there in the future!" ”

"Zuo Shuai has a long-term vision, Hu admires, so in this way, I will also establish a chamber of commerce there, and build a warehouse inn restaurant or something first!"

Ma Hua looked at Hu Xiya, who was serious, and said with a smile: "There are no guests to go, what is the use of you building an inn, warehouse, restaurant?" Isn't it that you Boss Hu misses those girls in the Central Plains too much, haha"

"Stupid, Boss Hu built the bird's nest first to attract the phoenix, if you wait until the guests come and then build a restaurant inn, is it too late? This is their merchant's soldiers and horses before the grain and grass are moved! Shopping malls are like battlefields! ”

Ma Hua smiled stupidly, "This, I thought Boss Hu missed the girl as much as I did!" ”

Hu Xiya smiled evilly, "I think you miss that Zeng girl, you have to remember the words of the big handsome, don't mess around, if you can't control your own guy and something happens, Zuo Shuai will definitely not be able to spare you!" ”

The left three-phase board raised his face, "Hmm! You didn't talk to me about it for so long, say! What happened between you and that girl? Remember, you must not mess around this time, you must be measured! ”

Ma Hua blushed and hesitated, "Zuo Shuai, don't listen to this Boss Hu's nonsense, that Zeng girl just fought with me, and then drank wine and ate meat together, she just wanted me to teach him martial arts in the army!" Not only her, but also the girls with her, I also taught! ”

"Fool! This time, if you want to teach, you will only teach Miss Zeng alone, what is the matter with you teaching everything? ”

Ma Hua was confused when he heard Zuo Sanxiang say this, "This, didn't Zuo Shuai say that you should be measured?" Why is it that as long as I teach Miss Zeng alone, I'm afraid of this."

"Ahem, you're such an idiot! Come on, Hu Xiya, you go over and teach him slowly! I'm so! ”

Hu Xiya continued to laugh evilly, "I can't teach this thing, let's let it be, I think that Miss Zeng is a heroine among women, and she may like a simple and honest man like Commander Ma!" Haha, if you really teach Commander Ma some means, it will be self-defeating! ”

"Come on, you go! Remember what I said, you must value harmony and give us a firm foothold in Yili! ”

A few days after they left, Mao Agui, one of the cronies sent to Gaochang, finally returned.

The clothes were ragged and embarrassed, and there was only one person who came back, and Zuo Sanxiang knew that something had happened to Gao Chang.

"Don't worry, take this brother down to rest first, take a bath, change clothes, and eat and drink well!"

Hearing Zuo Sanxiang's order, everyone was a little stunned, and the cronies who came back waved their hands again and again, "Zuo Shuai, the military situation is urgent"

Zuo Sanxiang grabbed the person who spoke, "Don't say it, no matter how urgent it is, we didn't have time to go to Gaochang just now, you go down to rest first." Hugh more words! ”

"Zuo Shuai, Tuoba Han is reversed, King Gaochang is also reversed, Gaochang is in chaos, they are all dead!" After saying this, the cronies fainted and fell to the ground

Several soldiers hurriedly carried the cronie out, and everyone immediately exploded.

"Zuo Shuai, Gaochang can't be lost, otherwise, how can we go back? How can the materials transferred by the imperial court come? Liu Jingchuan is most worried about the back road being cut off and the grass will be lost, but who is not worried.

"Zuo Shuai, take everyone back!"

"We all have the same mind as Zuo Shuai, we must recover Gaochang!"

"Yes, Zuo Shuai, let's leave immediately, let's fight back!"

Zuo Sanxiang smiled: "You know my mind? ”

After a pause, when everyone looked at him, Zuo Sanxiang continued, "When you encounter this situation, you can't say what others say, you have to think about it, and you have to calm down first." Gaochang is very important, but now that we have the support of the Ili River Valley, spring sowing has been completed, and there is no need to worry about supplies. And what happened to Gao Chang will have to wait for the brother to wake up and slowly understand. In fact, Ben Shuai has already made the worst plan, that is, the Gaochang National Rebellion will cut off our back road. But even so, what is there? Let's call back! Everyone go back to the camp to gather the people, and Ben Shuai will convene you again tonight! ”

Seeing that Zuo Sanxiang was so confident, everyone dispersed, and each returned to the army to pack up the grain and baggage.

"General, are we going back?" The soldiers of the Xiangrui battalion asked Wang Xiaoming

"It's possible, but I can't guarantee it, let's clean it up first!"

As soon as they heard that there was hope of returning home, the soldiers packed their bags and transported grain and grass much more efficiently than usual.

The soldier who was carried down was carefully cared for by the military doctors, and finally woke up after taking medicine and lying down for a long time, and everyone helped him take a bath and change clothes, and then drank two bowls of porridge before going to see Zuo Sanxiang.

"Don't worry, you speak slowly, tell all the details of your trip to the big guys"

Zuo Sanxiang has always been very careful in verifying intelligence, especially this kind of person who only ran back, he had to be suspicious.

"I Mao Agui was ordered by Zuo Shuai that day, and the brothers went to Gaochang together, and the way to go was smooth, passing by the area of Fuguibao, a new city has been built, and the guards of the fairy village are still the same. However, they are all people left behind by our Western Army, so they are still reliable, which is why I was able to escape back. It was the ninth day of the lunar month in Gaochang, and the city of Gaochang was still good at that time. We met with Commander Tuoba Han and told him about our confrontation with the Wet Poison Man in Luntai, and asked him to recruit soldiers and horses to raise food and grass and bring them back in early February. Tuoba Han also agreed at that time, and also sent people to recruit troops and food. But who knew that on Chinese New Year's Eve, first the Gaochang palace caught fire, Tuoba Han took people to fight the fire, and the people of Gaochang besieged Tuoba Han from all sides, saying that Tuoba Han plotted to kill Ju Yongwen, the king of Gaochang, and then a scuffle, and there were people everywhere in the city. We had to draw our swords to help Tuoba Han quell the rebellion, just after suppressing the rebellion of the Gaochang people, when accepting the surrender of some ministers of the Gaochang State, Tuoba Han went to help several old officials to get up, but they were hugged together and stabbed with daggers. Then the Gaochang people continued to rebel, and we were quickly dispersed because we were too close to the surrender. I saw that the general trend had gone, so I escaped from Gaochang City with more than a dozen brothers, and was chased and killed by Gaochang people along the way, and when I escaped to the fairy village, I was the only one left. ”

"Slow, what you said is different from your experience when you came back later, since you arrived at the fairy village and met your own people, you shouldn't come back so embarrassed!"

Mao Agui knelt down and tore off the clothes on his body, his body was full of scars, "I was suspected of being a spy by my own people in the fairy village, and I was tortured for half a month before I was willing to let me go, and they never believed what I said!" Then I went to the castle of Fugui, and I was also bombed out, and no one believed me. I don't understand what's going on either! If Zuo Shuai and the generals suspect me, I request that I be executed immediately and that my innocence be restored! ”

Zuo Sanxiang glanced at him, "Take it down, take care of it, don't let him die!" ”

"Zuo Shuai, this,"

"Zuo Shuai, this person is your personal soldier, there should be no fake!"

"Soldiers, the matter of life and death, there can be no luck, and he can't believe it because he is my personal soldier and has followed me for many years. There are many doubts in what he said, and I will not doubt his loyalty, but I will doubt his judgment and position! ”

It's not good for everyone to intercede for this Mao Agui, but in fact, there is no need to intercede, after all, Zuo Sanxiang just asked people to take care of him, and he didn't mean to kill him.

"Gaochang's affairs should be over! Who is willing to lead troops to Gaochang to quell the rebellion? Zuo Sanxiang looked around and looked at everyone, at this time Ma Hua and Hu Xiya had already taken five hundred people to the Ili River Valley, and among the remaining people, only Fu Dingyuan and Liu Jingchuan were reliable, but he didn't want to send the two of them to the troubled waters of Gaochang.

"Wang is willing to take his warriors to quell the chaos!" Wang Xiaoming took the initiative to rush to Pinggaochang Rebellion this time, he didn't really want to worry about the three phases of Zuo, but wanted to return to the Central Plains as soon as possible.

The left three prime ministers did not hesitate: "Accurate!" I allow you three brothers to go to Gaochang together, remember, the emphasis is on stopping the chaos, attacking the heart, and killing less! ”

"Xie Zuoshuai, after I wait for the three brothers to level Gaochang, can I be stationed in Gaochang?"

"Exactly! Wait for the three brothers, and each of them will take two hundred and forty men. After quelling the chaos, 600 new troops were recruited on the spot, and the soldiers under Tuoba Han were recruited! Well, Ben Shuai will not send anyone to supervise you, you can do it yourself, learn the lessons of Tuoba Han and Yu Wanli, don't think that if you occupy Gaochang, you will be the lord of Gaochang, you must have the court in your heart, and you must have a sense of awe! Well, Fu Dingyuan and Liu Jingchuan took a hundred people to the fairy village to change their defenses and set off immediately! ”

Wang Xiaoming thanked the three of them again and again, got up and walked out of the mansion, and Liu Jingchuan and Fu Dingyuan stayed.

"Fu Dingyuan, I sent you to the fairy village to garrison, you are most familiar with it, and the locals also believe in you! You have to be careful in the fairy village, I don't send people to monitor the Wang brothers, not to believe them, but to send people is not conducive to quelling the chaos, and the three of them are together, outsiders can't get in! As long as they keep the fairy village, they don't dare to mess around! A month later, I will send Xiao Gongcao to Gaochang to serve as a supervisor! I want to come to the court's will, and it's almost here! ”

Wang Xiaoming's three brothers picked up 720 soldiers and took 2,000 people to Gaochang together, this time the three brothers made up their minds that they would not return to Luntai after defeating Gaochang, and sent people to the capital to report the victory, and then waited to recall the capital to be rewarded.

This trip went quite smoothly, Fuguibao and Fairy Village were indeed still in the hands of Liang Jun, and they told Wang Xiaoming that Gaochang was actually fine, because no one had come to attack Fairy Village until now.

Wang Xiaoming did not explain and refute them too much, and continued to march towards Gaochang with his men and horses.

When I arrived outside Gaochang City, I saw that the head of Gaochang City was no longer the banner of Liang State, but the original wolf head banner of Gaochang State was erected.

"It's bad, something really happened to Gaochang, and the banner of the Liang army is gone!"

"The combat strength of the five hundred people in the Tuoba Cold Zone is not bad, how can they be defeated

Earth? ”

"Tuoba Han was born as a chivalrous man in the rivers and lakes, and most of the people he brought were rangers in the past, and his personal skills were very powerful, but fighting was about both offense and defense and mutual cooperation. Their battalion has not been very cooperative. It is estimated that it was not completely annihilated, but scattered! ”

Wang Xiaoming shook his head, "In this Gaochang City, it was scattered, and the people facing it were all Gaochang people, and it was basically impossible to survive!" ”

Wang Xiaozhun looked at the Gaochang soldiers at the head of the city: "Then are we going to attack the city?" ”

"Of course it's going to be attacked! It's useless to outwit, only to fight! Fortunately, Zuo Shuai gave 2,000 people this time, and we camped outside this city, and then sent people to cut off the water source of Gaochang City! Surround Gaochang and wait for them to go out of the city to grab the water! ”

After besieging Gaochang for ten days, a white flag was erected on the city, and another cadre of officials came out with people to ask for surrender.

As soon as he remembered what Mao Agui said, Wang Xiaoming immediately arranged for Wang Xiaozhun and Wang Xiaokuang to take a hundred cavalry each to prepare to break into the city, and then let the rest of the soldiers wait for the Gaochang officials to shoot them all when they were thirty zhang away from Wang Xiaoming.

Before they died, all the officials in Gaochang desperately threw daggers at the place where Wang Xiaoming was, but unfortunately the distance of thirty zhang could not hurt Wang Xiaoming wearing heavy armor at all.

Wang Xiaokuang and Wang Xiaozhun took the opportunity to rush into the city gate to clear the city gate defenders, and then the Liang army entered the city.

After entering the city, the Gaochang people picked up weapons and came out to besiege the Liang army, Wang Xiaoming wanted to kill them, but when he thought of Zuo Sanxiang's words, he asked his soldiers to just knock out the weapons in the hands of the Gaochang people and catch them.

"We're here to quell the chaos! I'm not here to kill you! Don't come and die in vain! ”

"You have killed our king, you have killed our officials, and we are inseparable from you!"

"We will avenge the king!"

"Even if we die, we will avenge the king!"

Wang Xiaoming knew that it was useless to talk more, so he asked Wang Xiaokuang to lead people to stay and continue to suppress the people in the city to seize the Gaochang army and militia weapons, and he took people to the Gaochang Palace.

Along the way, Wang Xiaoming asked Wang Xiaozhun to invite several patriarchs with big surnames in the city to the palace, and Wang Xiaozhun had to invite them with rope sacks.

At the gate of the palace, Wang Xiaoming asked his subordinates to untie the eight patriarchs.

Eight people glared at Wang Xiaoming, and they opened their mouths to scold, and Wang Xiaoming motioned for everyone to let them scold.

When the eight people were out of breath after scolding, Wang Xiaoming ordered someone to fetch water, and then began to say himself, "I said that you are also reasonable people, and in the past, General Tuoba Han allowed you to have your own army!" How could he murder your King Gaochang, isn't this against common sense? There must be some misunderstanding and conspiracy in this! Moreover, General Tuoba Han was murdered by your officials despite his extraordinary skills, which also proves that General Tuoba Han is not a person who is good at intrigue and trickery. Think about it, who has benefited in the past few months? If you figure out this layer, you will know who murdered Ju Yongwen, the king of Gaochang! ”

The people still did not believe and continued to curse.

"People are dead, there is no proof of death, you have a knife in your hand, you can say anything!"

"I'll prove what he says right!" A voice came from the crowd, and a person came out, and everyone was stunned.

This person is Ju Yongwen, the king of Gaochang, who escaped from the secret passage to a family in the city and hid in the palace that day when the palace was on fire and burned. And this family is the little girl's family called Zuo Sanxiang Demon King at the beginning, and she has a good impression of Liang Jun and Ju Yongwen, so she took Ju Yongwen in.

Ju Yongwen wanted to inform Tuoba Han, but he didn't have time, so he had to hide in the little girl's house.

And those officials who launched the rebellion only thought about getting rid of Ju Yongwen and Tuoba Han and collecting taxes in the city to bully men and women, and found several charred corpses in the palace and buried them as Ju Yongwen's corpses, without detailed investigation.

"I'm afraid you've put the savings of several generations into the hands of those officials during this time! In the name of avenging me, under the banner of restoring the country for Gaochang, what they actually did was to loot the people! Such a bunch of filthy guys, you still give them their lives! Isn't that stupid? The people of Gaochang, if you still recognize me as the king, please keep to yourself, and I will negotiate with the generals of Daliang with your savings and try my best to recover your losses! ”

The crowd immediately knelt down and shouted, "King Yingming!" The king is wise! ”

"The king is the one who really thinks about our people! We have to believe in the King! ”

Hearing the savings, Wang Xiaoming's eyes lit up, and he originally wanted to move them all away as trophies, but Ju Yongwen's words had already been exported, and if he didn't spit out some of them, I was afraid that something would change again.

However, this return of the people's savings cannot be too direct, otherwise the people will be too little, but there will be no favor.

Three days later, Liang Jun posted a list of texts, and one person from each household in Gaochang spent half a month reciting the "Book of Loyalty" and "The Book of Filial Piety". If they are unable to recite the full text, they will get back their savings in proportion to the recitation.

In this way, the Gaochang people who were still holding swords half a month ago have picked up books and gathered together to read, and after half a month, most people can memorize eight or nine without leaving ten, and they can basically get back half of their savings.

Although he only got back half of his savings, the people of Gaochang were ecstatic and grateful to Dade.