Chapter 192: Drawing Salary from the Bottom of the Cauldron

Liu Xie's sense of revenge is very heavy, calling for kitchen springs and humbling but not knowing this, always thinking that the emperor of the Han Dynasty is still the same as in the past, as long as he is soft and admits his mistakes, he can be safe. Because of this misunderstanding, the Huns paid the price of blood.

Ma Chao was born in the northwest, and most of the Fubo troops under his command were selected from the elite of the Ma family's army, and the Han and Qiang people in the northwest lived together. If you are not tough, you will be bullied, so you naturally need to be tough.

When Liu Xie conquered the Central Plains, due to the military discipline in charge, Ma Chao's Fubo army did not dare to defy the law, and could only hold back the tyranny in his heart, but this time he sent troops and took revenge on the Hu people, Liu Xie let go of the military discipline of the Fubo army, except for the ** military discipline is not allowed to be violated, the rest of the military discipline was temporarily put aside, and Liu Xie's request to Ma Chao was one, to completely destroy the Huns. Seeing people killing, seeing villages burning villages, in a word, the army does not leave an inch of grass everywhere.

Ma Chao was like a wild horse, leading the red-eyed Fubo army all the way north, and all the Huns encountered along the way were all killed, so that there was no one to report to Huchuquan. By the time Hu Chuquan learned that the Han army was attacking and hurriedly met the battle, Ma Chao's Fubo army had already killed near Hu Chuquan's camp, and the scouts who reported to Hu Chuquan were almost the front and back.

The Hu people are known as the people on horseback, even women and children, on horseback, they can also bend bows and shoot arrows. In the face of the Huns' hasty response, Ma Chao did not hesitate at all, and rushed into the enemy formation first, and the Fubo army immediately began to attack the Huns' camp in accordance with their usual combat habits.

The Han cavalry swarmed into the Huns' camp like a tide, scattered the assault, and did not give the Huns a chance to assemble a counterattack. Although Hu Chuquan shouted loudly and wanted to gather people to resist the Han army, his action unexpectedly attracted Ma Chao's attention. Previously, due to differences of opinion, Liu Bao took the Huns who were unwilling to make peace with the Han army to help Kebineng, which led to the lack of brave people in the Hun camp at this time, Ma Chao was a first-class general, invincible in the Hun camp, and there was no one under him.

For those ordinary Huns, Ma Chao disdains to kill, as long as he doesn't block his way, he generally ignores it, and correspondingly, the generals among the Huns who are favored by Ma Chao are unlucky, and Ma Chao picks those people to kill. As for how to tell the difference, it's very simple, whoever is surrounded by people must be the leader of the gang.

Hu Chuquan is the single Yu of the Huns, and there must be a lot of people around him, plus Hu Chuquan rode on a horse and shouted loudly, which naturally attracted Ma Chao.

Seeing that the brave Han general went straight to his side to kill, Hu Chuquan even panicked, and wanted to escape, but he knew his identity at this time must not flee without a fight, at present the Huns' will to resist still exists, once they escaped, it will inevitably cause an avalanche-like rout, and then the Han army will take advantage of the situation to cover up, and they will become the sinners of the Huns.

Just when Hu Chuquan was in a dilemma, Ma Chao had already rushed to a distance of only twenty horses from Hu Chuquan, and the Huns surrounding Huchuquan urged their horses to intercept in order to protect Hu Chuquan, but how could their martial arts resist Ma Chao.

Those who can stand under the banner of the Hun King must be noble, and if they can't keep it, they are the Huns who are single in Huchuquan. And the best way to reflect the general's ability is to cut the general before the battle and capture the enemy chieftain alive.

Hu Chuquan had already seen clearly what Ma Chao looked like when he rushed over, fear finally overcame responsibility, Hu Chuquan was scared, turned around and ran. And his move, on behalf of the Wang Qi beside him, also moved, but in this way, it was tantamount to confirming Ma Chao's previous guess, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he didn't want to let go of Hu Chuquan.

"Quick, I fled with my shouting for Kitchen Spring." Ma Dai, who had been following Ma Chao closely, saw this and immediately ordered left and right. Since Ma Chao was ordered to form the Fubo Army, in order to support his son's career, Ma Teng sent all the generals in the original Ma family army such as Ma Dai and Ma Xiu to Ma Chao, and Ma Dai compared to Ma Chao, except for the martial arts slightly inferior, the performance in other aspects is better than Ma Chao. It can be said that Ma Chao is the banner of the Fubo Army, and Ma Dai is the standard-bearer of the flag.

At this time, Ma Chao only had Hu Chuquan in his eyes, and Ma Dai naturally acted as the commander who commanded the overall situation. Hearing Ma Dai's order, the soldiers on the left and right immediately shouted, and with the shouts of these people, the Huns who were still trying to resist saw that Wang Qiguo, who represented the identity of Hu Chuquan, was really fleeing to the rear, and their resistance suddenly decreased, and they could no longer take care of the Han army in front of them.

Defeat is like a mountain! The Huns lost their fighting spirit, but the Fubo army did not intend to let the Huns go. When Liu Xie came, he told them that this was a battle of revenge, and there was no need to have mercy, especially after witnessing the tragic situation of Shangdang City being ravaged by the Hu people, no one in the Fubo army felt pity for the Huns. If they are pitiful, then the Han compatriots who were slaughtered and humiliated by them before are even more pitiful.

Pursuit! Pursuit! Chase again!!

For the Huns who fled alone, the Fubo army did not pay attention to it, and the stragglers were brave, and they had their own time to deal with it in the future. The main task of the Fubo army was not to give the fleeing Huns the possibility of regrouping. In order to completely crush the will of the Huns to resist, Ma Dai divided the Fubo army into three teams according to the advice of the military advisor Fazheng, and pursued the Huns' brigade in batches.

Hu Chuquan is really able to run, but unfortunately he met Ma Chao, who had a tendon, and said that if he wants to catch you, then he will catch you. After discovering the big fish of Huchuquan, Ma Chao temporarily handed over the Fubo army to Ma Dai, and he continued to pursue with hundreds of guards, vowing to capture Huchuquan alive.

The Hu people are good at riding and shooting, but Ma Chao's Fubo army is also not ambiguous, and horse shooting is no stranger to them. And with the assistance of the stirrups, saddles, and horseshoe three treasures, the cavalry of the Fubo army was even stronger than the counterattack of the Huns.

Originally, there were nearly 1,000 Huns who fled with Hu Chuquan, but by the time Ma Chao caught up with Hu Chuquan, Hu Chuquan had become a lonely man, and those who had previously followed him either slipped away halfway or were shot by the pursuing Fubo army on the side of the road.

Hu Chuquan is the Shan Yu of the Huns, and his identity is comparable to Liu Xie, the son of the Han Dynasty, who is pampered and pampered on weekdays, and enjoys the treatment that others can't enjoy. But this fell back into Ma Chao's hands, and Huchuquan's good days were over. After being captured alive, Hu Chuquan asked Ma Chao to be tied with a rope and led back to the Hun camp in Hexi.

Ma Chaosheng captured Hu Chuquan alive, and the Fubo army was excited, and the exploits of the main general were also the glory of their Fubo army. Since the formation of the Fubo Army, this is the first time that such a great achievement has been made, and with this merit, the Fubo Army is also qualified to rank in the regular army of the imperial court.

"I didn't expect to catch it." Xiahou Yuan looked at Hu Chuquan, who was brought into the camp, and said to Yu Ban on the side. Yu Ban also nodded with some surprise: "Yes, I didn't expect to be able to catch it." ”

Since the two were temporarily "seconded" to Liu Xie's command, at first Xiahou Yuan and Yu Ban thought that they were at most serving as Ma Chao or Dian Wei's deputy generals, but they didn't expect Liu Xie to really rest assured of them, although the manpower allocated to them was not as good as the Fubo Army, but each person also had 5,000 men and horses, and they were fully equipped and treated the same as other soldiers and horses.

This time, Ma Chao raided the camp of Huchuquan, and Xiahou Yuan and Yu Ban joined forces to deal with the Youxian King Qubei, who was located not far from the camp of Huchuquan. After the attack on the Huchuquan camp, Qubei did not come for a long time, because he was ambushed by Xiahou Yuan and Yu Ban on the way to help with his troops, and he was too busy to take care of himself.

Ma Chao caught Huchuquan, and Xiahou Yuan and Yu Ban captured Qubei, two of the three major leaders of the Huns have fallen into the hands of the Han army, and the only remaining one is Liu Bao, the king of Zuoxian, who is still stupid at this time to follow Kebineng to besiege Shangdang, not knowing that his hometown has been called the Han army, and his relatives and subordinates have all fallen into the hands of the Han army.

Since the Han Dynasty took in the Southern Xiongnu who were willing to surrender, after more than 100 years of recuperation, there are not one million Huns living in Bingzhou, but also seven or eight hundred thousand. Ma Chao led the Fubo army to kill along the way, although he killed a lot of Huns, but at this time more Huns were captured.

What to do with these captives? That's a problem. It is unrealistic to kill them all, and Fa Zheng, the military teacher of the army, does not approve of Ma Chao doing this. Fortunately, Xiahou Yuan had an idea for Ma Chao at this time, the Xiongnu had captured a lot of Han people before, and unlike the Xianbei people, there were many Han young and strong men among the Han captured by the Huns, and these people could be organized to take care of the captives.

In order to prevent the Huns from resisting, Ma Chao detained the young and strong among the Huns in one place, and took care of those war horses and weapons in a centralized manner, and lost the war horses and weapons that could be used to resist.

At this time, Yu Ban also came up with an idea to make the treatment of the Huns even worse. Originally, in order to prevent the Huns from resisting, Ma Chao ordered the Huns to reduce their meals, but as soon as the idea of Yu Ban came out, the thick porridge became thin porridge. How thin? It can be used as a mirror, and it is a meal a day, a bowl of a meal.

The Huns, who couldn't eat enough, were completely eliminated now, and they couldn't do anything if they didn't have the strength. After seeing the remarkable effect, Ma Chao handed over the task of guarding the Xiongnu captives to Yu Ban, and he led the Fubo army and Xiahou Yuan's troops to meet Liu Bao, who rushed back after getting the news.

Liu Bao was originally working how to break through the Shangdang and capture the Han emperor, but he didn't want the news of the attack in the rear to be like a bolt from the sky, and Liu Bao was stunned. After Liu Bao came back to his senses, he immediately asked Kebineng to resign, preparing to lead the army to recapture his people.

Kebineng also knew that Liu Bao could not stay at this time, even if Liu Bao was willing to stay, those Huns under Liu Bao's command who learned that their relatives were captured would not continue to stay in Shangdang, so he simply gave Liu Bao a lot of grain and grass, so that he could return to the army to help, as for the manpower, Kebineng himself was not enough, so naturally he could only be sorry.

Liu Bao didn't care about Ke Bineng's attitude, without the clansmen, he was a rootless wanderer, as the son of the previous Xiongnu Shan Yu, Liu Bao is very promising to become the Xiongnu Shan Yu after Hu Chuquan, but if there is no Hun people, then he Liu Bao will be whose Shan Yu. At this time, many of the families under his command fell into the hands of the Han people, and for the safety of their families, these people didn't know what drastic things they would do.

Liu Bao, who was eager to save people, took his men and horses into the trap carefully selected by Fa Zheng for him, ambushed the soldiers in all directions, Liu Bao's people and horses were suddenly in chaos, watching his men and horses scatter and flee into an army, Liu Bao was terrified, and what made him even more frightened was that a member of the Han general was like no one in the chaotic army, and went straight to kill himself.

After judging that he was not the opponent of the enemy general, Liu Bao didn't say a word, turned his head and ran, and when he ran, his men and horses naturally lost their backbone, and it was difficult to give birth to a heart of resistance. It's just that for them, the Huns, Ma Chao has nothing polite to say. After capturing Hu Chuquan, after interrogation, Ma Chao already knew that the Huns who were following Liu Bao at this time were all Huns who did not obey the king, and there was no need to have illusions about these people, one word, kill.

Liu Bao's choice to escape was so fast that before the arrangements made by Fa Zheng in advance were completed, he asked Liu Bao to rush out of the ambush circle with people. Ma Chao wanted to chase after him, but was preempted by Xiahou Yuan, and Ma Chao had to turn around and clean up the Huns trapped in the ambush circle when he saw this.

Regarding Liu Xie's "secondment" of Xiahou Yuan and Yu Ban, not only Ma Chao expressed his incomprehension, but even Fa Zheng was puzzled, and he couldn't guess what kind of medicine Liu Xie was selling in this gourd. Not only Xiahou Yuan followed Yu Ban, but Cao Ang, Cao Zhang, Xiahou Heng, and Xu Ding, the four people who were the best in the second generation of the Cao family, also served for Liu Xie in the Han army at this time. Cao Ang and Cao Zhang were left by Liu Xie's side, while Xiahou Heng and Xu Ding were taken outside Yanmen Pass by Xu Huang and Zhang Liao respectively.

"What the hell does the lord want to do?" Fa Zheng said to himself. Now that the overall situation has been decided, he no longer needs to pay attention to it all the time, so he naturally has time to think about some problems.

"Hyozhi, what did you just say? The lord has a new order? It happened that Ma Chao came to hear it and hurriedly asked.

"What? Meng Qi, the overall situation has been decided? ”

"Bozhan is responsible for cleaning up the mess, and I don't need to step in. Filial piety, is there a new order from the lord? Ma Chao replied casually and asked again.

"Not yet."

"Then what did you mention about the lord?"

"It's not that I don't understand why the lord wants to use Xiahou Yuan and others this time, those people are not of the same mind as us, I don't know why the lord wants to use them?" Fa Zheng explained.

"Oh, you mean that. I said filial piety, you scholars just have a lot of hearts, what is there to think about, there must be a reason why the lord uses these people. ”

"I know that, but what's the point. Meng Qi, aren't you curious? ”

"I'm curious, but I can't think of it, so I don't want to, just do what the lord tells me." Ma Chao shrugged.

“…… You're really ...... It's really ......" Fa Zheng hesitated for a long time, and didn't know how to evaluate Ma Chao.

Seeing this, Ma Chao couldn't help but smile and said: "Xiaozhi, why bother so much, if you really don't understand, you just go and ask the lord directly." ”

"But what if the lord doesn't say it?"

"That means that the lord doesn't want you to know for the time being, so why do you have to get to the bottom of it."

“…… I can't sleep well without figuring this out. ”

"Oh, then I'm out of the way. Let go of your troubles, think about it, we have defeated the Huns according to the predetermined plan, what should we do next? Is it to return to the army to rescue the party or to rest on the spot? ”

"Hmm...... Sooner or later, the news of Liu Bao's defeat will reach Kebineng's ears, the Fubo army has fought repeatedly, and the physical consumption of the soldiers is huge, so it is better to give the soldiers a time to rest before the order of the lord and general arrives. ”

"But what if something goes wrong on the party's side?"

"Since the lord has not ordered anyone to send the news, it means that the party can still hold on. The Hu people are not good at attacking the city, and the lord has made sufficient preparations, even if there is really any problem, I believe that with Dian Wei, Pang De and others, it is still not a big problem to protect the lord from difficulties. ”

“…… How many days do you think it's appropriate for us to recuperate? ”

"Ten days, ten days later, the Fubo army will return to the party, but Meng Qi, you remember to send scouts to guard against Kebineng's surprise attack."

"Don't worry, even if I don't think of it, Bozhan will arrange it."

"You...... In my opinion, Bo Zhan is more suitable than you to be the chief general of the Fubo Army, while you are only suitable to be the vanguard. Fa Zheng said to Ma Chao helplessly.

"Haha...... Those who know me are filial piety, in fact, I think so too. Ma Chao laughed without mind.

……

Shangdang was still impregnable at this time, because it was not Liu Xie who was responsible for defending the city, but Hao Zhao, who was known as the iron wall general. Since agreeing with Pang Tong, Fa Zheng and others on the strategy against Kebineng, Hao Zhao was urgently transferred to Liu Xie's side, for defensive warfare, Liu Xie is not good at it, but Hao Zhao is an expert.

According to Hao Zhao's suggestion, when the Han army crossed the Yellow River, the army carried a large number of equipment needed to defend the city, and those equipment and materials were transported into Shangdang after the recovery of Shangdang, which played an important role.

Kebineng commanded his subordinates to take turns attacking the city these days, but in the face of Hao Zhao's impermeable defense, Kebineng could only look at the city and sigh. The Hu people are not good at attacking cities, not to mention the creation of siege equipment, in addition to the simple ladder that can be built from local materials, like the siege weapons used by the Han army, Kebineng will not do it even if there are materials.

It is not easy to rely on a simple ladder to defeat the Shangdang with Hao Zhao's defense. The failure of the siege again and again hit Kebineng's confidence, and the Han army went out of the city from time to time to provoke, which constantly hit the morale of the Xianbei people. Dian Wei, Pang De, Guan Ping, Cao Zhang, these current generals and future generals constantly remind the Xianbei people to re-understand the Han people by cutting them in front of the battle.

And what makes Kebineng and others feel even more worried is that the Huns were raided by the Han army, so is their home safe now?