Chapter 224: Cheng Lian is seriously injured
Zhang Xiang took care of Tai Shici's mother from the perspective of long-term interests, and whether it will blossom and bear fruit will be proved by time, and the situation has changed dramatically after Tai Shici left.
Yuan Shao got the Qingzhou tiger lying in the north and moved, Cao Cao's father Cao Song died in Xuzhou, Cao Cao invaded Xuzhou and slaughtered, Liu Bei rose up to resist instead of Tao Qian to become Xuzhou pastor, all when everyone thought that Cao Cao was going to take Xuzhou.
LĂź Bu suddenly invaded Yanzhou, and Cao Cao's henchman Chen Gong rebelled, Yanzhou was in danger, Cao Cao led the army and was forced to return to the division, Liu Bei took advantage of the situation to regain the lost territory without a single soldier, and became the unworthy Xuzhou pastor.
In the direction of Yongzhou, Guo Yan and Li Dao are fighting at any time, and beacon fires are burning in various parts of the north, only Zhang Xiang's side seems to be relatively quiet, but he has his own suffering, but outsiders don't know.
The undercurrent in the direction of Yongzhou is turbulent, and Zhang Xiang has the identity of Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, and Dong Zhuo's other son-in-law Niu Fu is also in Bingzhou, Dong Zhuo is a hero in the hearts of Liangzhou people, so Liangzhou soldiers also have a lot of refuge.
Among these soldiers are also Guo Yan and Li Dao's subordinates, these two people gradually discovered this and began to woo Zhang Xiang, Li Dao and Zhang Xiang have a relatively better relationship, after all, the two sides have cooperated several times.
So Li Wei wanted to tie up Zhang Xiang by his relationship, but Guo Yan was completely different, Guo Yan once helped Dong Zhuo dig up the imperial tomb, so he was worth a lot of money.
After Guo Yan gained power, his net worth also became his capital for his rapid rise, at the beginning Guo Yan's power was far inferior to Li Wei, but it developed very quickly and is now equal to Li Wei's power.
So Guo Yan wants to help Zhang Xiang by relying on interests, of course Zhang Xiang is more inclined to Guo Xiang, after all, Guo Yan is very practical here, and Zhang Xiang is also a person who sees money, but unfortunately Zhang Xiang attaches more importance to power.
Whether it is Li Dao or Guo Yan's family, it is not in line with Zhang Xiang's power interests, but if the two don't help each other, they won't get anything, and Zhang Xiang is not afraid of offending the two, so Zhang Xiang chose to take the benefits of both parties.
But only in and out, and the appearance of eating is very ugly, there is no such thing in the world as only taking advantage of and not suffering, of course others want to get a return for raising you, at the beginning Li Dao Guo Yan did not bother Zhang Xiang.
Zhang Xiang is also at ease here, after all, the two parties are secretly doing this kind of thing with Zhang Xiang, so they would not have thought that Zhang Xiang married a second husband and received the bride price money from both parties.
Guo Yan united Zhang Xiang with practical things, so Guo Yan lost the most during this time, after all, Zhang Xiang spoke continuously, Zhang Xiang's greed made Guo Yan think of Dong Zhuo, and he also understood that it was no wonder that Zhang Xiang could become Dong Zhuo's son-in-law.
Guo Yan was the first to ask Zhang Xiang for a return, of course Zhang Xiang agreed, Guo Yan asked Zhang Xiang to do something very simple, that is, to kill Li Dao's relatives, Li Dao has been actively collecting soldiers and horses recently.
In case of Guo Yan, Li Wei's Li family is also a big family in Liangzhou, so his relatives also sent a team of soldiers and horses to assist Li Wei, the big family in Liangzhou is different from other states and counties, and there are a large number of private soldiers in the clan.
It can be said that every big clan has always been elite, Li Dao has a brave and treacherous personality, and is good at using soldiers and eloquent, but Dong Zhuo's subordinates are also full of talents, and the reason why Li Dao can only rank below Lu Bu.
It was with his family power that Guo Yan understood this very well, so he asked Zhang Xiang to intercept and kill Li Wei's relatives on the border of Yongzhou, of course, Guo Yan didn't believe Zhang Xiang very much.
also sent a team of soldiers and horses to ambush, Zhang Xiang was just for the purpose of flanking the attack, Zhang Xiang could not refuse, otherwise the benefits would not come, Zhang Xiang also sent troops to scrape Guo Yan's stroke.
Many of the things sent by Guo Yan have not been seen by Zhang Xiang, many of them should be extremely precious funeral goods, Zhang Xiang only knew the value of these funeral goods when he came to Ye Shan, and several of them were extremely precious and priceless.
Of course, Zhang Xiang will not offend a local tyrant like Guo Yan, Zhang Xiang's treasury is empty just after the drought, and thieves can return empty-handed, so Zhang Xiang urgently needs to replenish.
However, as soon as Zhang Xiang received the gift, he told Li Wei about the matter, and Li Wei's idea coincided with Guo Yan's, and he decided to ambush Guo Yan's ambush soldiers on the border of Yongzhou.
And also asked Zhang Xiang to help, of course Zhang Xiang also stretched out his hand as usual, but Li Wei was much more stingy than Guo Yan, but he gave Zhang Xiang a Xiaohou name, fief Shang County, but this fief is also in name.
Shang County is in Yongzhou, which belongs to the same county as Chang'an City, Zhang Xiang can't get any benefits, Zhang Xiang is really not interested in these nominal things at all, but Zhang Xiang still pretends to be flattered.
promised Li Wei to encircle and suppress Guo Yan's ambush soldiers, but Zhang Xiang turned around again and found his ally Han Sui in Liangzhou, and decided to unite with Han Sui to eat Li Dao and Guo Yan's two troops and horses.
Li Dao and Guo Yan would never have thought that Zhang Xiang was such a shameless person, and finally united with outsiders to eat the dishes of the two families, Han Sui was also very optimistic about this cooperation with Zhang Xiang.
Zhang Xiang has also been in the limelight in recent years, and his strength has risen sharply, and Han Sui also wants to unite Zhang Xiang's forces, although the two have always been allies, but there has been no movement on Zhang Xiang's side since the last alliance.
Han Sui thought that Zhang Xiang had forgotten about this? Unexpectedly, Zhang Xiang suddenly found him, and asked him to make a gift with weapons, grain and grass, in fact, Zhang Xiang also borrowed flowers to offer Buddha, and borrowed Li Dao Guo Yan's flowers to offer to Han Sui.
Han Sui naturally didn't know this, he only knew that Zhang Xiang was very generous this time, so Han Sui was also willing to help, not only that, but Han Sui also said that Ma Teng was moved to join the war, although Ma Teng and Han Sui have always been at odds with each other.
But for many years, the two have been at peace with each other, and this time the soldiers and horses attacking Li Dao Guo Yan, Han Sui can't forget Ma Teng, Ma Teng is a standard royalist, with the revival of the Han dynasty as his own responsibility.
This made Han Sui look down on him all the time, it was ridiculous for a Han-Hu hybrid son to have such an idea, but this time after all, the location of the battle was on the border of Yongzhou, so in order to insure, Han Sui united Ma Teng.
Ma Teng has long been unaccustomed to Li Dao Guo Yan, Han Sui wants to make a move, he can't ask for it, Zhang Xiang still has some eyeliner here in Liangzhou, Ma Teng's troops greatly exceeded Zhang Xiang's expectations, but it is a favorable aspect of development for Zhang Xiang.
As soon as Li Dao's relatives approached the border of Yongzhou, Zhang Xiang's soldiers and horses attacked, but this time it was just acting, Zhang Xiang had already hit Li Dao on the road, and he first attacked Yin Guo Yan's soldiers and hooked them.
Guo Yan's soldiers and horses were really fooled, and the leader of this army was Guo Yan's nephew Guo Da, and he was still scolding the people and horses of Bingzhou for rashly attacking, which caught him off guard and could only be forced to kill.
As soon as Guo Da made a move, it was like a signal, Zhang Xiang's soldiers and horses and Li Wei's soldiers and horses turned together, but Zhang Xiang's soldiers and horses deliberately took a step slower, giving Guo Da a feeling of cooperation.
It was also at this time that the combined forces of Han Sui and Ma Teng were also killed, and Zhang Xiang's soldiers and horses immediately fled, and there was no chance for the soldiers and horses of the two sides to react, but the move of the people and horses of the state also reminded the two sides.
Han Sui and Ma Teng's two armies were too numerous, they were not opponents at all, and the people on both sides came out of Liangzhou, and there was no one who was powerful at all, and they could only be half a catty or eight taels in terms of combat power.
Guo Da also ordered the retreat of Li Wei's relatives to give the same order, but the direction of their retreat was different from the direction of the retreat of the people of Bingzhou, they were retreating to Yongzhou, and Zhang Xiang's soldiers and horses naturally withdrew to Bingzhou.
Han Sui Ma Teng's coalition army naturally attacked the soldiers and horses that retreated to Yongzhou, but there was also a small number of soldiers and horses chasing Zhang Xiang's soldiers and horses, and the banner was still a horse character, and Cheng Lian knew from a distance that it was Ma Teng's men and horses.
Cheng Lian has a barbaric aura on his body, so his style is also extremely wild, he decided to eat this Ma Teng's soldiers and horses, after all, Ma Teng is not an ally of the state, Cheng Lian took the lead in returning to the army to fight back.
Cheng Lian saw that the leader was a young general, and looked at a yellow-mouthed child on his lips, "Cheng Lian will die in this little doll!" "Ma Chao doesn't like people calling him that.
The leading general on Ma Teng's side is Ma Chao, Ma Chao is not very old, but in Xiliang, he is as famous as his father Ma Teng, but Cheng Lian doesn't know, Ma Chao's weapon is a tiger head Zhan golden gun.
Legend has it that this gun was passed down by his ancestral name Ma Yuan, Ma Yuan became famous for his marksmanship, Ma Teng also learned fifty percent of the fire throughout his life, and Ma Chao was already the same as him at a young age.
Cheng Lian was at a disadvantage as soon as he fought with Ma Chao, Ma Chao was a real martial idiot, very similar to Zhang Fei, the more he fought, the more excited he became, if it weren't for Cheng Lian's strength to compete with Ma Chao, Cheng Lian would have been defeated long ago.
However, in a few years, Ma Chao's body has grown, and Cheng Lian is not an opponent at all, but now Cheng Lian can still fight for dozens of rounds, but that's all, and finally Cheng Lian was swept under the horse by Ma Chao.
Ma Chao didn't kill Cheng Lian, thanks to Cheng Lian who reported the name of the state before the fight, otherwise Ma Chao would never show mercy, but even so Cheng Lian was seriously injured.
Ma Chao is not an absolute reckless man, Ma Yuan's descendants naturally want to learn literature and martial arts, but Ma Chao is more inclined to the latter, like his younger brother Ma Dai is equal to both, Ma Chao naturally has some insight.
He knew the weight of the state, his father Ma Teng attacked Yongzhou, he didn't want to provoke the enemy of the state, Cheng Lian fell and the state was defeated, and finally Cheng Lian was carried back, Zhang Xiang knew the news.
Zhang Xiang is also very concerned, but Zhang Xiang is not concerned about Cheng Lian's injury, but about how things are developing, whether Li Dao Guo Yan's people have any doubts, and the final result is that Zhang Xiang is very satisfied.
Cheng Lian did a good job, but it was only the last step that suffered a loss, Zhang Xiang didn't know that Ma Chao who injured Cheng Lian, otherwise Zhang Xiang might ask more, and Cheng Lian was transported back to Jinyang to recuperate.
Zhang Xiang ordered Ge Fang to heal on his behalf and show his attention, but Ma Teng Han Sui led his troops and horses to attack Yongzhou, and Li Dao and Guo Yan were forced to cooperate, which was completely different from the previous plan of Zhang Xiang and Han Sui. (To be continued.) )