"I heard that General Han has returned to Jincheng?" Xia Mu looked at Ma Chao, and rolled a few times in his throat, as if a mouthful of thick phlegm was climbing up and down in it, coughed, cleared his throat, and then said, "Why didn't the virtuous nephew follow?" Jincheng has a lot at stake, but there is no room for error......"

Ma Chao smiled, ignored Xia Mu's topic about Jincheng, and said, "General Xia, haha...... Do you think that the seed clan has no ability to toss now, so ...... Haha, I can't ask for an uncle to leave, I can't wait for me to leave, and then leave these Qiang people just in my hands? ”

"This ......," Xia Mu said with a resolute shake of his head, "Virtuous nephew, how can you think like that?" A certain official has been an official for many years, not seeking glory and wealth, and high power, but seeking peace in his hometown and prosperity for the people...... This time the fight with the seed clan is also to stop the dispute and reunify it, so that the people can recuperate...... The matter of Jincheng was also unexpected...... What's more, General Han can be regarded as a friend, how could a certain person be greedy for friends and money, and ruin his reputation? Virtuous nephew, I'm too worried! ”

Ma Chao snorted, noncommittal, and then said: "Okay, then please ask General Xia to arrange money and food, and transport it away immediately, so as not to disturb General Xia's purity!" ”

Xia Mu's words, Ma Chao didn't believe half a sentence.

When I caught those Qiang people with unclean hands and feet before, if they were wronged, most of them were jumping and shouting, and they didn't say much, and it was not me who wronged me, and if they really did it, they often talked at length, because these people who used their hands and feet were afraid that they had already thought a lot before they started their hands and feet, including those who excused themselves.

In this way, isn't Xia Mu in front of him very similar to those guys who do their hands and feet?

Xia Mu seemed to have said too many words at once before, and he was a little uncomfortable, and his throat snorted twice, as if thick phlegm was surging up again, but this time it didn't go so smoothly, coughing for a long time, and wheezing for half a sound, before he said, "Ahem...... Ah, virtuous nephew, what did you say? ”

"Grain and grass!" Ma Chao glanced at Xia Mu, and only threw out two words.

"Ah, grain and grass, it's easy to say...... Say...... Small things, small things, should be, should be......" Xia Mu said with a smile, and then ordered, "Come on, well, go to the back camp to check and allocate some grain and grass for General Ma Xiao......"

The guards outside Xia Mu's tent answered, and then turned back not long after, and reported: "General Qiyu, there is no extra grain and grass in the back camp!" ”

"What?!" Xia Mu slapped the table case, and his face was full of emotion, "How can there be no food in stock?!" ”

"This ...... General Qiyu, some time ago, Baimaqiang and Qingyi Qiang only transported a batch," the guard reported, "Yesterday, the yak Qiang also pulled three carts away, which is the last surplus grain...... Hence ......"

Xia Mu slapped the table again and again angrily, and said, "Damn guy, since there is no surplus food, why don't you report it in advance!" Prepare in advance! General Ma Xiao came here to extract grain and grass temporarily, do you still want to say hello to you guys? Come on, pull it down, and punish it heavily! ”

The guards were silent, and were dragged away without saying a word by the soldiers who rushed in.

Xia Mu breathed heavily, gurgling in his throat, then stopped, and said with a smile: "General Ma, otherwise, I will immediately send someone to other places to fetch some grain and grass...... As soon as the grain and grass arrived, a certain person sent someone to inform the little general, how about it? ”

Xia Mu didn't plan to give Ma Chao food and grass, and his current behaviors were just performances.

As soon as Han Sui left, Xia Mu calculated it on Ma Chao's head.

There is no grain and grass, see how you Ma Chao can hold the Qiang people?

The reason is very simple, Ma Chao is good-looking, well, the above article is not important, the important thing is that Ma Chao is young, young means that he doesn't have much experience, good training, well, there seems to be something weird mixed in, forget it, no matter, anyway, Xia Mu thinks that as long as Ma Chao is pinched, it is not that if you want to rub it into a circle, you will rub it into a circle, and if you want to rub it into a circle, you will rub it into a circle......

But what Xia Mu didn't expect was that the young man, although he was inexperienced, had momentum.

Ma Chao was silent for a while, stood up, grinned and arched his hands, and said, "It's okay, so it bothers General Xia......

"Haha, that's easy to say...... It's easy to say......" Xia Mu smiled and shouted a little proudly, "Come on, send General Ma ......"

Before the words fell, I saw Ma Chao leaning out with a "whew", and pulled out the war knife of Xia Mou's guard with a bang, and then cut down this unlucky guard with a knife, and then rushed to Xia Mou's front with a tiger jump!

"Big ...... Daring, daring! After Xia Mu experienced a short period of panic, he quickly calmed down after many years of military career, and shouted loudly, trying to delay time on the one hand, and weaken and dispel Ma Chao's killing intent on the other, "General Ma, you have to know ......"

"I don't want to know!" Ma Chao, who was at the end of the second middle school, often had his hands and feet faster than his brain when no one could control him, and he only picked up this sentence after a knife swept straight through Xia Mu's neck.

Xia Mu covered his neck with one hand, as if he wanted to seal the wound in vain, blood gushed out, forming a snake-like hiss sound in the trachea, and the eyelids that were originally Lada seemed to never be fully opened were finally rounded, full of horror and disbelief, slightly raised his finger and pointed at Ma Chao, as if begging, as if cursing, and finally shook twice and fell to the ground.

Ma Chao cut down several Xia Mou's guards who were trying to take revenge in close quarters, and then stepped on Xia Mou's corpse, knocked off Xia Mou's helmet, grabbed Xia Mou's gray hair, and cut off Xia Mou's head.

The blood that had not yet dried up splashed everywhere, and it also splashed on Ma Chao's body and fair face, and a few drops of blood happened to splash on Ma Chao's mouth.

Ma Chao stretched out his tongue, licked it subconsciously, and then spit it out, "Stinky to death!" Immediately, he didn't look at Xia Mu's corpse again, just holding the blood-stained war knife in one hand, and grabbing Xia Mu's head with the other hand that didn't close his eyes, and went out of the big tent.

Outside the camp tent, Xia Mou's guards and the people brought by Ma Chao were already fighting together, and Ma Chao didn't talk nonsense, raised Xia Mou's head high, and shouted: "The old thief wants to annex the soldiers and horses and harm the virtuous, and he is already ambushed!" ”

With a "boom", it was like a scoop of cold water suddenly poured into a hot oil pot, and the entire Xia Mu camp suddenly exploded......

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Han Sui didn't know what kind of demon moth Ma Chao would be able to toss out as soon as he left, in his heart, the foundation of Jincheng was the first.

Han Sui is not too young, and his natural way of thinking and focus are different from those of young people, which is normal.

In the Han Dynasty, ordinary people would die silently at the age of forty or fifty because of various problems on average, and if they could live to be sixty years old, it was already called high life, and if they reached the age of seventy, basically the name of Xiangrui was pressed......

Even in later generations, when the braided country invites an old man over 70 years old to have a meal, it is regarded as the country's auspicious paste.

Therefore, the focus of Han Sui's current behavior has changed from the entrepreneurial mode of thinking to the business-keeping, which is a reasonable thing, after all, no one can do it like Liu Bei, the ambition of entrepreneurship at the age of forty or fifty has not been attenuated by half a point, of course, Liu Bei did start a business many times in the first half of his life, but in the end only "creation" remained, and there was no "industry" left.

Jincheng has a foundation, a family, and more importantly, Han Sui's children, the heirs of the family, how can there be any mistakes?

Therefore, Han Sui was quite anxious, and he was in a hurry.

If you want to go from Guanzhong to Longyou, you have to cross the Longshan Mountain Range, which is almost north-south. And this Longshan mountain range, which can communicate the east and west directions, has only five passages since ancient times.

One is Wating Road; the second is the chicken head road; the third is Fansu Road; the fourth is the Guanlong Ancient Road, which is also the Longdi Road; The fifth is the Chencang ancient plank road along the Weishui River Valley.

Wating Road and Jitou Road are located in the north, at the north end of Longshan, for Han Sui, it is impossible to go near and far, go around a big circle and then go home, so basically, these two mountain roads are not the best way to march.

The Chencang Ancient Road was there as early as the pre-Qin period, but this road is not a pure mountain road, but mostly a plank road. And the so-called plank road, just people to pass, are inevitably a little difficult, not to mention the horse, although I don't know if it is Han Sui's ancestor, Han Xin, used it when attacking Guanzhong, but now it is in disrepair, if it is not repaired on a large scale, it is difficult to pass, so for a person like Han Sui who commands a large number of cavalry, he does not have this time to take the ancient road of Chencang and be the pioneer of road construction, and he does not have the consciousness of fearless revolution.

And Guanlong Road, that is, Yuandi Road.

Logically speaking, this road should be the straightest, that is, the most recent one, but the problem is that this road is because of the Han Dynasty's gradual abandonment of the Western Regions policy and the Xiqiang campaign for many years, a passage that can make the cavalry too convenient to travel is extremely dangerous for most of the Guanzhong areas that are in a defensive state, so this mountain road is gradually abandoned intentionally and unintentionally.

More than ten years later, the Guanlong Road, which was covered with weeds and collapsed mud and stones, became a road only for small-scale traders or foot soldiers, and if you want to carry out a large-scale march, you can only go around the Fansu Road, which is a little north of Guanlong Road.

This Fanshu Road, compared to Chen Cangdao, can be regarded as a small fresh meat. After Wang Mang that year, the world was in turmoil, the heroes were chasing the deer, Kui Huan was based on Longyou, Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu sent people to fight, but he was blocked by Kui Huan in Longguan, and he was not allowed to enter an inch, and then he was defeated and returned.

Later, Emperor Guangwu's subordinates came to the future, so they searched in many ways, and finally unearthed a new road, that is, Fansu Road, and opened up mountains and forests, took this road to directly attack and capture the important town of Luoyang on the ancient road of Guanlong, Kui Huan was shocked, and the army besieged Luoyang, and at the same time sent his subordinates to block Longguan, Jitou Mountain, Fanxukou, and Wating, trying to block the key entrance of Longshan, which could be blocked, but ultimately failed......

Therefore, there are five passages, but in fact, there is only one Fansu Road, which can accommodate the rapid passage of the army, Han Sui, as the cavalry commander who has traveled back and forth between Xiliang and Guanzhong for many times, naturally knows this, so he led the army straight to Fansu Road.

Of course, on the left side of this road, there is a place name that many people in later generations are familiar with, Street Pavilion.

The east side of the street pavilion is the Fansu crossing, which has always been the main point of contention, and the original street pavilion, there was a small city used to garrison troops at the earliest, but it is also because the center of gravity of the Han Dynasty shifted from Chang'an to Luoyang, so some of the original military defenses arranged around Guanzhong are no longer so important, even Xiao Pass has been abandoned, not to mention the small soldier city on the side of the street pavilion?

As a result, the town gradually became deserted, with only the occasional merchant or horse thief visiting for a few days as a temporary garrison.

Han Sui arrived at the Fansu Road crossing, grabbed the war horse, sent scouts, and went to reconnoiter in the mountain road.

Although he walked eagerly, Han Sui did not forget some basic actions, especially at such a critical location, even if it was a confused insect that was walking with his eyes closed before, he had to open his eyes and take a closer look when he arrived here, otherwise the white bones under the cover of the yellow dust of the mountain road were enough to tell these latecomers what kind of fate those careless merchants or soldiers had obtained.

Normally, there will be no ambush here, and there will be no blind horse thief who dares to provoke a large number of troops, and Han Sui has just come to Guanzhong from Longyou with men and horses before, and there is nothing to be done along the way, and nothing has been found, but Han Sui still sent his subordinates to investigate just in case.

The wind and sand fluttered and stirred in the Fansu Mountain Road, blocking all attempts to peep, and several advance scouts were like a few small birds flying into the clouds, and after a few shakes, their figures disappeared into the yellow sand.

The wind gradually became stronger, whistling, whirling through the mountain road, rolling up the yellow dust on the ground, hugging it, and dancing happily to the sky together......

Want to climb to the sky?

Think beautifully......

The sky can only be the territory of wind and clouds, and it has nothing to do with yellow dust.

Just like Jincheng can only be Han Sui's territory, no one else is allowed to touch it. Whoever dares to get involved without permission, Han Sui will let him be crushed!

In the yellow sand, several scouts returned, reporting that everything was normal inside and outside the mountain road, and no signs of people and horses were found.

Han Sui nodded, and then waved his hand, and in the midst of the shouting and neighing of horses, he ordered the soldiers and horses in front to step into the Fansu Mountain Road and march westward. Although the Fanxu Mountain Road has been expanded several times, it is still a mountain road after all, and it is not as spacious as the Guanzhong Plain, and from Guanzhong to the Longyou Plateau, there is an altitude difference of several hundred meters, so it is not that a group of people and horses can all pour into it, and it can only be a branch march.

Not long after Han Sui's headquarters entered the mountain road, he suddenly heard a thunderous sound of horses' hooves, colliding back and forth between the mountain roads, causing Han Sui to be unable to tell whether the sound was in the east or the west for a while!

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves resounded throughout the world, and Han Sui was shocked and strangled the war horse in place and circled around a few times, trying to distinguish the source of the sound......

"Oh no! Oh no! ”

A soldier ran over with a disgraced face and shouted with a disgraceful expression, "General, I don't know where the soldiers and horses are coming, they are attacking us!" ”

"What?!" Han Sui grabbed the soldiers with his hands and shouted, "Where? At the crossing or at the kiosk? How many people are there? ”

But it did not occur to them that the soldier pointed his finger at the way they came, and shouted, "Not the street pavilion, nor in front, but behind us!" ”

How could it be in the back?!