Chapter 167: Letter from Home (Part II)
After a while, Beigong Feng took the little baby to the bed and sat down, sighed in a low voice, and said: "Yanyu, Yanyu, your conscienceless father is only caring about wandering outside, I'm afraid I have forgotten you and my mother and daughter, otherwise how could you not even teach people to pass the letter to the family and report safety?" β
When the two Hu people and maidservants who were serving on the left and right heard this, they couldn't help but show a little sadness and appeased them one after another. At this time, Wang Yi's voice suddenly sounded outside. Beigong Feng's face suddenly turned happy, as if he knew that there would be good news, and taught the two maids to open the door, and then they could go down to rest. These two maidservants are all members of Beigong Feng's clan, and since they obeyed her, they obediently promised that they went to open the door, and when they saw Wang Yi, they were busy saluting, so they withdrew from the room.
"Sister, it's snowing hard this night, why don't you bring anyone?" Beigong Feng covered the futon for the sleeping little Yanyu, and then greeted him, seeing Wang Yi coming alone, a delicate and small face, a little red from the cold, and couldn't help but say in a hurry.
"Hehe, I just went to the second uncle's trip, and it is inconvenient to take my subordinates. I'll go see Xiaoyanyu first. Wang Yi smiled lightly, and then rushed to the bedside, and saw that the little guy was sleeping soundly and very well-behaved, and he liked it very much, and he looked at it for a while before he reluctantly looked away and cast a look at Beigong Feng. Beigong Feng understood, so he walked to the table on the side and poured two cups of hot tea.
After a while, the two of them sat down. After Wang Yi drank half a cup of tea, he felt a lot warmer, so he took out the family letter and laughed in a low voice: "Na, this is the family letter to you from your father-in-law who you were thinking about day and night." β
When Beigong Feng looked at the letter, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she couldn't wait to snatch the letter, but she was already an adult mother, and she was no longer the Beigong Feng who was not afraid of heaven and earth back then, and her temperament was also much more restrained, and she was busy saying: "It's better for my sister to read it first." β
"Hehe, looking at your anxious appearance, it is really far from the Beigong Feng who didn't let the women in Huangsha City shave her eyebrows back then." Wang Yi was obedient and couldn't help but make fun of it.
Beigong Feng couldn't help but blush, and said with a little anger: "Sister, don't make fun of me, it's not that conscienceless bastard, teaching people to bother to be so sad!" β
"You, this mouth doesn't have a word of sincerity." When the king heard this, he shook his head with a smile, and then opened the letter. After reading it, Wang Yi still looked the same, and then handed the letter to Beigong Feng.
Beigong Feng's heart was already in a hurry, and he was busy taking it and watching it. The letter is full of greetings, although the words are ordinary, but they convey Ma Zongheng's strong feelings of longing. What made Beigong Feng quite reassuring was that Ma Zongheng explained in the letter that it would be one year soon, three years at the latest, and Guan Zhongding would be turbulent again, even if he had his own opportunity to wash away his name, he would definitely try his best to meet them when the time came.
After reading it, Beigong Feng finally smiled, but he began to look forward to the day he met Ma Zongheng, and when he thought of the surprised face he saw when he saw Xiao Yanyu and learned that he suddenly became a father, he couldn't help but laugh happily.
A month later, the cold winter finally passed, and as the weather gradually warmed up, the snow melted, and the earth began to come to life. Before you know it, it's early spring.
However, it is said that after Ma Zongheng incorporated a group of Black Mountain thieves, the number of troops under his command also reached more than 4,000. However, Ma Zongheng knew that with these troops, he would not be able to set off much of a storm in the future. So, he incorporated the Black Mountain thieves into Zhang Liao's troops, and made Gao Ran a deputy general, so he took advantage of the early spring to warm up and began to train the soldiers, preparing to wait for the ice and snow to melt, and continue to go deep into the hinterland of Yanzhou to recover the thieves.
On the other side, Dongjun Taishou Qiaomao also learned that in the northwest of Yanzhou and the border with Hanoi, there was an army and soldiers who were exterminating thieves. However, Qiao Mao was happy, but soon found out the clues. First of all, the Battle of Jiguan a year ago, Hanoi was in turmoil, and Dong Zhuo became the ruler of Luoyang, the situation was turbulent, how could anyone send troops to Yanzhou to conquer the thieves. Later, Qiao Mao learned that Ma Zongheng, the vanguard general under He Jin, and Zhang Liao, the general under Ding Yuan, had defected in the army and ambushed Ding Yuan, and then heard that the officers and soldiers were brave and extraordinary, but within more than ten days, they wiped out the thieves in the area controlled by the black mountain thief Zhang Mang, not only killed Zhang Mang, but even put his lair to death, which was more sure of what he thought, and thought that the officers and soldiers were eight or nine out of ten were the deployment of Ma Zongheng and Zhang Liao.
So Qiao Mao consulted with a few henchmen and strategists under his command, thinking that the black mountain thieves such as Poison, Bai Huan, and Zhenggu were rampant, and they had a large number of troops, and not long ago, they besieged Dongjun with tens of thousands of thieves. I am also afraid that when the ice and snow melt, these thieves will come back again, and they intend to recruit Ma Zongheng and let him lead his troops to help.
However, today's Ma Zongheng is a traitor after all, although Qiao Mao has heard a lot of rumors about him, and he doesn't feel that he is like such a vicious jackal, but he doesn't dare to guarantee what his temperament is.
Therefore, Qiao Mao secretly sent his henchmen to Bingzhou to ask his friend Zhang Yang about the situation in Jiguan.
said that Zhang Yang's reply letter came this day. Qiao Mao saw what Zhang Yangxin said above, and said that there were many doubts at the beginning, although he and Ma Zongheng were not familiar with each other, but because Zhang Liao had joined the government under him, he dared to guarantee that Zhang Liao was not a treacherous traitor. On the contrary, Ding Gong's righteous son, Lu Bu, was unruly, self-reliant, arrogant, and arrogant. When Duke Ding died, all his guards were killed, and only LΓΌ, Ma, and Zhang were present. Just based on Lu Bu's words, it can never be trusted. But because Lu Bu's blood edict was in hand at that time, and there was a deployment in secret as an internal response, everyone was angry and only cared about revenge. But at that time, Dong Zhuo had already grasped the power and regretted it. Looking at Dong Zhuo after he entered Luoyang, he had no king, went to the palace with a sword, coerced the ministers, and stayed in the harem at night, even more than Wang Mang in the past. And Lu Bu is even more like a shadow, aiding and abusive, and won Dong Zhuo's favor. Seeing all this, I even suspect that the rebellion in Keiguan was a conspiracy between Dong and Lu!
Finally, Zhang Yang explained that although he is now trusted by Dong Zhuo, he is recommended by him to be the driver of the merger state, and temporarily lead the merger of the state, but he is a vain snake. Ma and Zhang are both heroes, and they are afraid that they will be slandered, but because the soldiers of the state all hate them, they dare not accept them, and persuade Qiao Mao, and Ma and Zhang, to say that the rebellion in Yanzhou will be solved.
After seeing it, Qiao Mao was overjoyed, so he immediately ordered someone to prepare the frame, and only took dozens of riders to go to the Niutou Mountain cottage where the Ma Zongheng troops were based.
However, he said that it was noon, the weather was mild, and there was still a lot of snow on Niutou Mountain, but this did not affect the training of the soldiers. Due to the lack of space on the wall, Ma Zongheng only let the crossbowmen practice in the camp in the village, and the infantry and cavalry had to practice on the flat ground under the mountain.
But I saw that at the foot of Niutou Mountain, the infantry teams of each team practiced in formation, and together with the cheers of the generals, they either stabbed their guns, or swung their knives, or raised their shields. A shout erupted violently, shaking the heavens and the earth.
Look at it again, in the other corner, the cavalry is divided into small teams, facing each other in pairs, with the shouts of the generals, riding horses and stepping on the snow, each holding up a wooden spear and a wooden knife, rushing to kill. Suddenly, there were bursts of horses, the clashing of various wooden objects, and the neighing of soldiers.
Each cavalry squad, after each of them rushed to kill, with a burst of gold, quickly gathered, but the soldiers also gathered in front of the team, each with a solemn and solemn expression. This is a daily routine, as long as this burst of gold sounds, it means that several of their commanders are about to start an offensive.
But in a moment, more than 1,000 cavalrymen were divided into ten units, led by each chief, and then led by a hundred generals or Yamen generals, and separated ten men and horses.
On the other side, on a high slope covered with snow on the opposite side, I saw three generals, all of whom were majestic and majestic. The person on the left is a white-robed and yellow-robed horse, and the person on the right is red-faced and red-robed, and the person in the middle is wearing black armor, his hair is fluttering, and his whole body is bursting out with a terrifying momentum that seems to swallow the heavens and the earth. The weapons in each of the three of them are made of wood, which seems to be blunt and bladeless, but when they are caught in the hands of these three people, they seem to have infinite power!
The black-armored general in the middle was Ma Zonghengye, and I saw him grinning and shouting with an unparalleled domineering: "Wen Yuan, Red Devil!" If these ten horsemen are destroyed today, how much time will it take!? β
"Usually it takes time for eight incense sticks, but today I am in a good state, and I can take six incense sticks in time! Lord, let me rush ahead later!! When Pound heard this, his heart was shocked, and a pair of lion eyes shone brightly, and he shouted.
"If I'm in front, four pillars of incense will do!" Zhang Liao on the left had a cold face, and he was even more direct, and shouted loudly.
"Hahaha~~!! Then if I have more time than three incense sticks, won't I lose face!? Wei Fei put three sticks of incense~!! Wen Yuan, Red Devil, you two have to follow closely~~!! β
Suddenly, Ma Zongheng laughed loudly, and as soon as the words fell, Zhang Liao and Pang De all changed their expressions, and before they could react, they only heard a horse roar suddenly, the snow rose, and Ma Zongheng had already galloped and rushed away, rushing towards the ten cavalry units below.
On the other side, on a high ground opposite the mountain of Niutou Mountain, I saw Qiao Mao wearing a mink coat, white hair and long beard, and a resolute and handsome face. At this moment, he was training with dozens of soldiers, looking at the majestic soldiers and horses of various units at the foot of Niutou Mountain. However, all of their eyes quickly focused on the place where the cavalry was training. Faintly on the high ground, I saw three soldiers rushing out on horseback, and they wanted to fight thousands of horsemen with the strength of three people, and all of them suddenly changed color, all of them were unbelievably terrifying.
"Hahahaha~~!! Whoever dares to show mercy to Lao Tzu's subordinates, Lao Tzu will let him get out of Lao Tzu's army~~!! The horses roared like laughter, and between the lightning and flint, they suddenly slaughtered in front of the first cavalry team. At this time, the first part of the cavalry had just started, and they were overwhelmed by the overwhelming momentum of horses, and several of his soldiers were slashed by him, and with his ghostly power, they all flew off their horses.
As soon as the gap broke, the horse frantically entered, and the surrounding wooden knives and wooden spears flew and slashed over. Ma Zongheng used his ghost-like agility and the explosive power of the gods Shura, first dodged the oncoming attack, and then quickly counterattacked, and then a group of people turned on their backs, screaming and screaming in pain, and the invincible Ma Zongheng suddenly broke through the frontal interception one after another.