Hebei, the junction of Shenzhou and Yongning Army.

Escorted by a small group of cavalry, Ma Ping, the general officer of the pedestrian division next to the girder, was also sitting in a marching carriage, reminiscing about the recent gains and losses with a complicated mind.

He is a descendant of Liangzhou Ma Sui, one of the two horses who went through three dynasties during the period from Tianbao to Taixing; It can be regarded as a famous family in the Zhongxing era, and enjoy wealth and the times.

It's just that the Yiwei change initiated by the wise and foolish mad emperor has also become a watershed in the fate of most people; The descendants of the second horse in his position also made diametrically opposite choices.

As a descendant of Ma Rin, Ma Dujun, who was the left and right guards of the East Palace at that time, became one of the strange soldiers of the mad emperor. As Ma Quanxin, who served as the training envoy of the Tongzhou regiment after Ma Sui, he abandoned his post and absconded to other states as soon as possible after the incident, and defected to his old acquaintance in the northwest military town.

Therefore, Ma Rin's line was killed as a henchman of the Mad Emperor in the subsequent counter-offensive; The descendants of Ma Sui were in the middle of Emperor Chengguang of the Northern Tang Dynasty, and they were reinstated and transferred from the army to the official career.

Ma Ping, on the other hand, was used as a risk-sharing investment after Chengguang Zhongxing, and defected to the Southern Dynasty with his side children; It's just that, as one of the important representatives of Nantou people, although he received some kind of praise and courtesy behind the scenes at the beginning of the founding of the country, he has not improved since then and has always sunk in the middle and lower classes.

But at least one eunuch's official status and name were retained.

In Ma Ping's generation, he only ranked second in the Faculty of Arts, and dropped out to become a Tianzhang bachelor in the secretary province; However, under the leadership of the shogunate, the status of the so-called servant and the minister also lost the advantages and luster of the traditional Son of Heaven, and was reduced to an idle yamen who favored the literati.

In order to get ahead and get promoted, he gritted his teeth, and decided to put down his normal future and career, and threw himself into the Border Pedestrian Division, one of the major intelligence departments in Guangzhou, and became a line of integrity from the five grades, and then participated in many foreign affairs

His most proud achievement this time is that he single-handedly participated in the planning and co-optation of Hebei Xingtai? The incident of the change of banner of the governor Zhang Bangchang failed to make the Huaidong side, who had been in private contacts, aware of it. Although the gold content of Zhang Bangchang, the governor of Hebei Province, has shrunk a lot with the size of the territory and the population of the army, and he has already been separated from Luodu and is on the same page, invading each other for a long time; But in any case, this is a great achievement in persuading a country's enemy chieftain to surrender.

Although he also had to admit that the existence of Huaidong Town itself also put a lot of pressure and deterrence on Governor Zhang, so that he somewhat relied on the name of the dynasty to do that trick by force. But no matter how much effort and investment Huaizhen makes, being unjustified is their biggest weakness; Those big names in the dynasty will not easily sit back and watch this opportunity and credit, so it is no wonder that they can take advantage of the situation to achieve their goals.

Therefore, even if a considerable part of it is counted in the strategizing of some backers in the rear, the merits that can fall on him are only indispensable for a special promotion and the reward of being given a knighthood......

The carriage shook suddenly, and then, in a certain inertia, threw him involuntarily against the interior wall of the beautifully decorated carriage, and rolled down with the fixed tea set, splashing on his robe, leaving a large stain at once;

However, before he could question and interrogate him in a somewhat dazed voice, he heard one after another exclamations outside, as well as the whipping and kicking of the carriage as it began to accelerate. This was followed by an aggressive sound like raindrops, and a suppressed scream mixed with the period;

Then, he suddenly felt a chill on his face and felt something rushing down his sideburns, but it was a sharp arrow that came out through the carriage, faintly cutting some of his face, and making him tremble in horror and make his hands and feet cold.

Ma Ping's place is the place directly ruled by the governor of Zhang Dadu, and it is also the period when the other party's dominant power is at its peak, who has the courage to pinch his tiger whiskers and attack the banner to which he belongs; These cavalrymen who escorted him were under the banner of the governor's personal guards, and they carried out a deceptive thing in the name of escorting his relatives

Then, the coachman, who was nailed to the wall of the car, and the cavalry of the guards, who were shot and dropped in the middle of the battle, further intensified his awareness of this cruel situation.

Through the gap in the car board lifted by the rapid wind, Ma Ping, who was barely supporting his body by lying on the window, could also see the direction of the attacker; It was under the Lan Red Flag, which was obviously unique to the Northern Dynasties, and an enemy general with a white horse and a silver spear was leading his troops to chase and kill this small army; The opponent almost swords, bows and guns were thrown out at the same time, and it was easy to force the breakthrough and kill the guards who were extremely brave and tried to turn back and intercept on the spot.

Although he was sent by the oncoming arrows and took away a number of figures that followed the gallop closely, Li Guanghuarong, who had recovered his original full body, galloped lightly and shot again with his unmoved horse, almost unhurriedly according to the rhythm of his breathing, and knocked down the cavalry who were stubbornly accompanying the side of the carriage one by one.

An arrow that suddenly missed, but it was coincidentally and coincidentally shot at the center of the hub on the galloping carriage, with a few pieces of fragments that burst out in an instant, the carriage that was speeding away, also suddenly sank and deviated, and with a bang, the side was lifted high and flew up, smashed into a cavalry who was close to the gallop, and continued to roll several riders who could not dodge, all swept down and crushed the ground and slid out for a long distance, before slowly maintaining the attitude of rolling sideways, tattered and stopped.

At this time, the cavalry that accompanied them were also between the hesitation and confusion of suddenly turning and slowing down, and after being caught up again and slashed and stabbed most of them, they finally chose to give up all their efforts and fled in the smoke and dust with the figures of the last dozen horsemen.

In the distance, Lin Chong, who had been promoted to the lower general of the Cangzhou battalion, was also silently playing the role of supervising the battle and pressing the formation; Of course, they will never strike unless they have to, so as not to leave too many traces of firearms.

Of course, he also has some kind of responsibility for cleaning up the aftermath and cleaning up the hands and tails; After all, he used his net worth and life to guarantee the other party's opportunity to make a move this time, which also determines whether he can gain more trust and go further in Huaidong's system? Prospects and possibilities.

Compared with those retained personnel of the former Northern Army in the army who are satisfied with the status quo, he can faintly feel a certain extraordinary mind and courage in what he has seen and heard in the Huaidong system, which also means that he has more possibilities to avenge his family.

When Ma Ping, who had been smashed and bleeding, was found from the tattered carriage and carried out, there was only a certain confusion left in his heart, but it seemed that the side of the Grand Governor was not as stable and sincere as he imagined......

And on the coast of Huaidong, a fast ship against the trade winds also carried messengers from Jiangning, and arrived directly at Banqiao Town, the largest port in Mizhou, instead of Yuzhou Dagang in Haizhou.

At the same time, in the Dragon Bird Garden in Guangfu, Xin Jiaxuan also ushered in the long-awaited edict and permission, and finally ended the vacation period early, and went to the north to take office on the same day.