Su Shuang, originally regarded as a Zhongshan person, originally the ancestor was also a small scholar who was attached to Zhao during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but after the fall of Zhao Guobie, he also became a slave of the country, and later after the fall of the Qin Dynasty, he turned over and made a living from commerce and trade, mainly selling horses and livestock back and forth in Hudi, and later migrated to Guanzhong.

The dock fort of the Su family is not big or small, there are about more than 500 people, which can be regarded as medium-sized. The location of the Wubao is located between Mangshui and Luogushui, which is also a good location, so it was lucky not to be affected in several conflicts.

As a result, it was the Yellow Turban Rebellion, then the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, and now the Xiliang Rebellion. During this period, there were also some horses and livestock that were sold a little quieter, but almost all of them encountered a chaotic army, and it was good to lower the price and force the sale to buy and sell, and some even held a big knife to the neck and forcibly extorted it......

Later, Su Shuang simply took the old and young Ding Zhuang in the dock fort, closed the door, and guarded the small valley between the mangshui, thinking about getting through this turbulent world like this first.

In the current chaotic situation in Guanzhong, it is natural that there can be no good days of leisure, but Su Shuang took his own dock fort, and it can be regarded as thirty or fifty sons who followed him to the north and south, struggling to survive in the small world.

Because Su Shuang's reputation in this area is also quite good, some homeless people even attached themselves to it, stationed and stayed by Mangshui, built a nest or grass hut, and hunted by Mangshui to survive.

On weekdays, Su Shuang saw that these homeless people were somewhat embarrassed, and sometimes those grains and grass would come out, boil a few pots of gruel, mixed with some river mussels, fish and shrimp and other things in the mangshui, which could be regarded as hanging their lives for these homeless, and a day would be counted as a day, and unconsciously, there were more and more homeless people gathered on the edge of the mangshui, from a few hundred people to two or three thousand people......

It's not that no one persuaded Su Shuang, just pull a flag and say that these homeless people can be co-opted, and then one can protect themselves, and on the other hand, they can also take advantage of the current situation, maybe they can also mix up a future or something.

However, Su Shuang thought about it and still did not make such a decision. One is that Su Shuang was originally just a businessman, and he didn't know much about the military formation, and on the other hand, Su Shuang also felt that even if he really pulled out the banner, no one might admit it, let alone be on the top line.

Besides, looking at these homeless people every day, all of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, barely supporting their lives, even if they are pulled out, how much effect can they have?

Looking at the soldiers and horses who came and went during this time, Su Shuang was terrified every day, those armor-clad soldiers with helmets and armor, running to the east for a while, and running to the west for a while, that kind of murderous look, made Su Shuang feel that once the fight started, how many moments he could support this dock fort was really uncertain.

At the time when the Xiliang soldiers had the advantage, Su Shuang did not have the idea of moving closer to Xiliang, but he tried to send people out, but not long after he went out, the Xiliang soldiers fell into an embattled situation, it is said that someone also sent cavalry to kill one of Xiliang's marquis, and it seemed that he was about to collapse in a blink of an eye.

The soldiers who came and went near Chang'an rushed around, not only blocking the road, but also capturing a few of the people sent by Su Shuang to inquire about the news to act as people's husbands, and the rest of the people had to flee back with a roll. Fortunately, the soldiers and horses in these aspects did not take Su Shuang's manpower seriously, so in addition to asking for some grain and grass and other things, they did not have time to find any trouble in Su Shuangwu Fort.

So the road to Xiliang seems to be impassable now, but the soldiers around Guanzhong do not seem to have dissipated, and the military intelligence scouts coming and going every few days, and the escort teams of large cars and small cars are endless, and it seems that they will fight for a long time......

Every day Su Shuang can only nest in the dock fort dry staring, even if you want to migrate now, it seems to be too late, the location of the dock fort is good, but now it has also become an obstacle, on one side is Mangshui, on the other side is Luogu water, and the south is the Qinling Taibai Mountain area, it is not convenient to go anywhere, and there are some horses hidden in their own valley, if this shows a little sign out, how can those generals be vegetarians, not only can they not go, but even their lives have to be put in.

Whether it is a troubled time now, Su Shuang is not very sure, but what he can confirm is that everyone is living a very hard time in this situation.

Although in this dock fort, Su Shuang is above everyone, and there is no need to worry about food and clothing, but as time passes, how long will this situation last, and everyone has no bottom in their hearts, just in case, they have all started a life of half food and half wild vegetables, not to mention the enjoyment of other big fish and meat......

After all, everyone knows in their hearts that food is king. No matter how difficult it is, as long as you have food and grass, you can get through it to some extent. What kind of prince and grandson, what high-ranking officials, I don't know how many have fallen in the troubled times, this kind of thing, Su Shuang has not seen it before.

How long will these days last, Su Shuang doesn't know.

However, on this day, the surging Xiliang soldiers told Su Shuang the answer.

Ma Chao did not directly send troops to directly attack this dock fort, but let his men ride their horses along Mangshui to drive out all the homeless people who were hiding in the ground nests or grass huts, like cattle and sheep constantly rolling forward, causing more and more homeless people to subconsciously collapse, and only know how to keep running along the flow of people.

And more than a dozen personal guards around Ma Chao were guarding both sides, slashing all the homeless people who came over without heads and brains to the ground.

Ma Chao was not even interested in waving his spear at these ragged homeless people, he had only heard that there was a dock fort in this place, and there were some horses hidden in the valley behind the dock fort......

Since Ma Teng rushed to Xinfeng with a large number of war horses, Han Sui has been relatively short of war horses here, so when he got the news, Ma Chao rushed over with his men non-stop.

Although Han Sui said that Ma Chao needs to pay attention, it is different from before, after all, there is a mutual peace agreement, whether it is attacking the county town or plundering the surrounding areas, it will be regarded as a breach of the contract, so it is equivalent to losing the name of faith, which will inevitably be criticized in the future......

But after Ma Chao heard that there were horses, he blocked all of Han Sui's words.

War horses are not the same as grain and grass, and even belong to scarce resources under certain circumstances, if they are taken away by the Guanzhong people, then it is equivalent to increasing the strength of the Guanzhong people, and if it falls into their own hands, the people who had to become foot soldiers because the war horses were taken away can be turned into cavalry again, so that the gap between the two and the other, Ma Chao is revengeful, and some follow-up troubles, or moral problems are all put aside.

Anyway, grab it first!

Originally, I thought that there would be at least some casualties in the attack on Wubao Fort, but I didn't expect that there would be a large number of homeless people gathered by the Mangshui River, so these homeless people became a natural help.

These desperately crying homeless people screamed, ran, and some even stepped on the air with one foot, falling on the waterside depression and rolling all over the mud, but the Xiliang soldiers who were slowly advancing were not much wielding knives and guns to slash and kill.

It's not that these Xiliang soldiers are soft-hearted, but they need the outcasts to storm the dock fort, but if anyone is dizzy, they are so merciful, and whoever is unlucky and blocks in front of their horses will be trampled into the mud mercilessly, and they will not be half distracted.

The goal of the Xiliang soldiers is to drive all these homeless people up, and then completely disintegrate and collapse, and then driven by fear, they will obey the orders of the Xiliang soldiers and drive like cattle and sheep to fill the trenches and traps of the dock fort.

In fact, there are not many Xiliang troops in front of them, and they are not dense with each other, even if there are cavalry galloping back and forth on the periphery, if these homeless people are calm enough and have the guts, it is not an impossible task to run out of the gaps of Xiliang's soldiers.

It's just that when people are dominated by a lot of strong redundancy, the memory capacity required by the rational system is often insufficient.

In addition, the Xiliang soldiers kept shouting, they could eat enough when they got down the dock fort, they could be free when they got off the dock fort, how to lay down the dock fort, how to talk about it, these homeless people gradually lost their ability to think, and they believed everything the Xiliang soldiers said blankly, and they forgot that they had also received help from the people in this dock fort by Mangshui before, and they also drank the rice porridge boiled in the dock fort......

Like a tidal wave, hundreds of people pushed and ran against each other, and the tide swelled, rolling in front and back, and rushed towards the dock fort that had released good intentions.

Behind the homeless, there are Xiliang soldiers, cavalry foot soldiers, surrounding a large circle, constantly squeezing the homeless people to the dock fort, whistling to each other, looking calm and moving smoothly.

Although the dock fort has some defensive measures, but after all, it is not as strong as the regular city, and even the strength of the fortress built by the soldiers, although it is more than enough to defend against some horse thieves and bandits in normal times, but under such a surging flow of people like the sky and the earth, the trenches and traps outside the dock fort are like paper paste.

The large crowd lost the ability to think, and only knew that the displaced people who were ahead of them filled in the trenches in front of them in a panic, and the people in front were nailed to the sharp stakes of the trenches or traps, and the blood was not yet exhausted, and the people were not completely dead, and there were many more people behind who trampled on the bodies of the previous people, and hit the earthen wall of the dock fort only to know that they cried and shouted, and stopped......

The so-called Ding Zhuang on the earthen wall of the dock fort was also pale, his hands were trembling, and he didn't know what he should do.

The earthen walls of the dock fort are not high.

Ma Chao carried a spear, sat on the back of the horse, looked at the dock fort, waved his hand casually, and Ma Dai behind him would understand, and rushed forward with the soldiers. To deal with this kind of dock fort, it is not enough to let Ma Chao do it himself.

To be honest, even at this moment, Ma Chao abandoned his horse and led his guards to climb the ladder to attack the dock fort, which is a matter of one or two moments, and according to Ma Dai's martial arts, it is enough, and now Ma Chao is thinking about the question of how to march after taking the horses behind the dock fort......

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At this moment, on the occasion of Mangshui, hundreds of homeless people were driven away to run and shout, struggling to survive, in Chang'an City, in the mansion of the Shao, a group of warblers and Yanyan, are surrounding the Shao, for him to change into a graceful and luxurious court dress inlaid with gold, with a jade belt and a ribbon, a diameter of about two feet, converted into centimeters, there are also more than 50 centimeters of round bronze mirror, after the craftsman fine grinding, the figure of the person is almost clearly recognizable, just in front of the Shao.

Several concubines knelt at the feet of the seed shao, sorting out the accessories on the seed shao. Some carefully hung the sac hook on the leather belt around their waist with a golden hook, some knelt on both sides and gently smoothed the folds on the court clothes, and one took the Jinxian crown from another servant girl's silver plate and put it on his head upright.

According to the normal word, the age of the seed shao, should be seen through something, let go, the most suitable for the family to play with grandchildren, enjoy the old age, but the seed of the shao is not, the age, the heart of power, not because of this attenuation of half a point, but more intense.

Jinxian's crown was put on properly, and he adjusted it slightly to the left and right, and then bowed his head slightly, and waved his hand to let all the concubines serving around him retreat.

In the bronze mirror, an old face is reflected.

Although he was well-dressed and graceful, he couldn't hide the old meaning that couldn't be concealed from his body.

Chong Shao watched silently, for a long time, and suddenly smiled lightly, revealing some self-deprecation. In this life, I stopped and walked on the road of official career, and when I was old, I walked to the top of 10,000 people under one person, but I never thought that even so, there are still people who want to rob and want to snatch!

In the bronze mirror, the hair has turned white.

The person in front of him is already old at the moment, and he can't withstand another storm anymore, and if he is ousted, he will never have a chance to climb up again......

The seed shao was fascinated by the bronze mirror for a long time, and finally slowly turned his head and looked eastward, from now on, until he died, he must firmly grasp this authority in his hands, and no one wants to snatch it away!

Don't think about it!