"Jiang Wei surrendered?" The most shocked by this news is probably Jiang Wei's direct subordinate Sima Zun. www.biquge.info As Jiang Wei's boss and the person who single-handedly promoted Jiang Wei, he clearly knows Jiang Wei's ability. “…… This person is not a talent of a hundred miles, and now he belongs to the Tang Army, so it is advisable to pay more attention to the governor! As soon as he received such news, Ma Zun seemed to be more concerned about the overall situation, but immediately wrote a report on this matter and handed it directly to Tanma, asking them to report the situation to the top - he had an intuition that Jiang Wei would become the biggest threat to his side in the future.

"This ...... It's a real headache. Jiang Wei's surrender left me with no available people. After taking care of the overall situation, Ma Zun had a headache for the small situation in front of him. As the Taishou of Tianshui County, he is also responsible for defending the land, and because he has a family in Chang'an, it seems unlikely that he will surrender for his life, unless he doesn't want the lives of his wife and children. "They're all hard-working people, I think I'll have to die here! This is where I belong......" Although he had already realized in his heart, he could not help but feel a little desolate when it came to the end.

The strength of the city has been reduced by half, although he also forcibly recruited a group of strong men to enlist in the army after Jiang Wei left, but it is obvious that the level of this group of newcomers is not comparable to the group of people who were taken away by Jiang Wei, and the strength of the entire city defense has still decreased. As for the matter of dealing with the attack of the Tang army with his current strength, Ma Zun did not hold out any hope. He had only heard of the use of tens of thousands of elites to defend the attacks of hundreds of thousands of rabble, but he had never heard of tens of thousands of rabble guarding hundreds of thousands of elite attacks. “…… And we're a rabble now. This is a fact, and Ma Zun has always had no choice but to admit it.

"Jiang Wei has already surrendered, and because of his surrender, we can't help but fall into a desperate situation. The city is broken, and I must be going to Huangquan. So far, I will not hide from you that in the layout of the Governor, we people are used to consume the enemy. Therefore I must die, and as for the situation in which you are present, see for yourselves. If you want to stay, you will stay, if you want to leave, I will not stop you, nor will I laugh at you. After all, it's a real matter of life and death. Ma Zun said very calmly. He didn't want to push everyone too much, because he knew that in the future battle, he and all the people left behind would fall into a bitter battle, and the hardships were unimaginable at the moment. Judging from the current situation, some of these people under his command must be greedy for life and afraid of death, and they will change on the spot. As far as their character is concerned, rather than leaving it to explode at that time and make their defense of the city dangerous, it is better to clear all these unsettling things now.

"Only by making one's own people simple, can we get that chance as one." Ma Zun thought like this, but he didn't have any idea in his heart about whether he could keep it, he knew these people who were willing to stay and work with him: "That's a group of people who died with him." ”

As for Ma Zun's own calculations, everyone didn't know at all. They listened to Ma Zun's account of the current troublesome situation, and thought of the extremely deep city of their own guards, and they couldn't help but beat drums in their hearts. "Isn't this the so-called luring the snake out of the hole?" They thought so, but they didn't dare to react.

There was silence for a long time, and there was still no one to speak. Ma Zun glanced at them calmly, as if he knew what they were afraid of, and spoke again: "When the matter comes, you don't have to have so many scruples. If I had the heart to fix you, then I wouldn't have picked such a time. If I move you now, I'll only live a few days longer than you. You know, my family is still in Jingzhao, and there is no way I can escape back. ”

"That's right...... But first! "No, it's better for you to come first...... Hearing Ma Zun show a certain sincerity like this, everyone also understood that what he said was a fact, and they immediately became active in their hearts, and they all exchanged eyebrows between each other. Maybe it's also a headache for them to see who is the first to come out. Isn't there such a saying: "The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will urge it." ”

After a long time of flirting like this, there is finally a person who can't help but care about his relatives. He made some decisions in his heart, and stood up with some fear at the moment, his movements were very cringe, but his tone was very firm and said to Ma Zunyan: "Lord Taishou, can you allow our family to let us out before we finally make a statement?" We still have scruples right now. ”

This is what everyone has always wanted to say but has not dared to say. As soon as the man said these words, everyone looked at the man with admiration: "You kid has courage." ”

Whether he has the courage or not, the person in front of him has completely let go of his mind, although his body is still trembling, but his eyes are extremely firm, under the gaze of everyone, he did not even flinch a little, just looked at Ma Zun calmly, quietly waiting for his suddenly kind-hearted "fox" Taishou answer.

"Hehe, it seems that if you don't make a guarantee, you really don't believe in my sincerity." Regarding the man's question and everyone's reaction, Ma Zunjun looked at it one by one, he smiled slightly bitterly, but replied very quickly: "Since you want me to make such a guarantee, you will agree, then what if I agree?" You know, I really don't want to lie to you about this. Ma Zun said and directly patted the desk in front of him and stood up: "Someone!" He called out loudly, and when the soldiers who had been guarding outside came in, he quickly ordered: "Open the city gates wide, and let all those who are unwilling to guard Ji County with me go out." There are only the dead here, and we don't need anyone else. ”

"Huh......" Everyone couldn't help but gasp when they heard this: their own Taishou has reached such a point, do you think it's true? For this, their hearts were more active, and after further communication with their eyes, another person stood up as the first: "My lord, I want to leave." ”

"Leave? That's good. You can get out of here. Ma Zun still kept his promise, and he didn't embarrass these timid people, just said this lightly and let him out. He used his own practical actions to show the fact that he really wants to let those who want to go go and let those who want to stay stay - everything is voluntary, and everyone can act with their true ideas.

Since everything is true, then there is obviously a second if there is a first. Although Ma Zun had already made some mental preparations in advance, seeing that he was so eager to say to himself, Che kept scolding his subordinates, and leaving one after another at this critical juncture related to life and death, Ma Zun's expression slowly changed. He felt that he had been abandoned, and that he had obviously abandoned his own subordinates who did not usually treat them "thinly". "Sure enough, I know people, I know faces, I don't know my heart! If I can really survive and really sit in this position, then I will definitely give these people who abandoned me today a good look. In his heart, Ma Zun secretly swore an oath. He is not Taizu Cao Cao, so naturally he does not have the measure of understanding that those people have to be afraid when they are dying. As people left one after another, his original strong composure was distorted, and a decision to take revenge spread in his heart. If he could really not die in the next battle.

People were leaving one after another, so the meeting had to be extended a lot. Ma Zun, who originally planned to solve this problem in half an hour, had to spend nearly an hour to solve this problem in the end. This is obviously a very test of patience, although Ma Zun finally passed such a test, his face that was obviously a little more stinky than the first one directly showed that he was in an unhappy mood at the moment.

All the people who should have left are gone, and there are only a dozen people left in the end, which may be considered a big misfortune. However, there is still a great fortune in this great misfortune, when everyone is gone, the most important people under his command are still left: Gong Cao Liang Xu, Lord Bo Yin Xian, Lord Ji Liang Qian and others, but they are the most important group of officials in the entire Tianshui County. This was fortunate for Ma Zun, as they were not only important cronies of his subordinates, but also had great influence in the local area because they were Tianshui natives. Ma Zun believes that if they are there, then his death situation will be completed very well.

This is indeed something to be happy about, but Ma Zun still has some doubts about this, and looked at the remaining officials, who are mostly Tianshui locals, Ma Zun opened his mouth and asked them: "Why don't you all leave?" ”

"Because we all want to defend Ji County. We are all locals of Tianshui, and it is our responsibility not to let the local people suffer from military disasters......" Yin Xian opened his mouth lightly.

"Our home is in Tianshui, and our country is Great Wei, how can we just give up all this and surrender?" Gong Cao Liangxu is such a statement.

"I didn't think about it that much, I just thought that Don was our enemy!" This is the answer of the Lord Liang Qian.

"You ......" Ma Zun was a little moved, and his eyes were slightly red: "It would be nice if Boyo thought like you." Alas, I'm sorry for Boyo. At least, it was a dereliction of duty for Boyo's mother to have a misfortune in the county, and I did not prevent it in the slightest! ”

"Adults don't have to be sentimental about that. Actually, can't adults see that this incident of Boyo's mother is actually a ghost made by Li Tang's spies! I think Boyo's mother is now in the Tang Army, and Boyo's surrender has nothing to do with such a thing. Although Ma Zun, the fox Taishou, who understood these things, had long understood it clearly, but at this moment, his own Taishou made such a clear appearance that he didn't understand anything, but Yin Xian also said such comforting words according to his meaning.

"Alas...... Is that really the case? Then there must be a lot of spies from the Tang Army in the city. That's not a good thing. Liang Xu, I'll leave this matter to you. Right now, the Tang army is still entangled with Lord Guo Huai in Qishan, and I'm afraid it will take a few days for you to reach us. This is our chance, and I hope you can take care of everything before Tang Jun comes here. Ma Zun said this according to Yin Xian's meaning. Right now, there are a lot fewer people available to him, especially Jiang Wei, a capable military general who surrendered to Li Tang, so he had to helplessly hand over such an important matter to Liang Xu. Because among the last remaining people, only Liang Xu still has some talent in this military field.

"I understand......" Liang Xu nodded calmly, still the honest appearance that Ma Zun was familiar with. He is also a smart person, and naturally understands what to do to best meet the requirements of his boss - and his rough appearance, he naturally pretends to be an honest appearance and hides his original intelligence and the city. It can be said that now in the eyes of Ma Zun, he has become the most trusted person in Ma Zun because of all this. As for Jiang Wei, he used to be Ma Zun's most important person. Reuse and trust are completely different here.

"Yin Xian's logistics arrangements will be handed over to you to be responsible, and we must reorganize our city defense materials here." Ma Zun began to arrange the tasks of each person one by one: "As for Liang Qian, I will now let you concurrently serve as Jiang Wei's Zhonglang General, and be fully responsible for the city defense of Ji County." ”

"No!" Yin Xian and Liang Qian roared, and they both received their orders. They all put on a sincere and loyal appearance at this moment, although this appearance will be somewhat different from their usual performance, but at this moment, this kind of performance can most impress Ma Zun, the boss. They are not stupid, they all know that they should do it in such a moment.

"Good, good." Seeing that everyone could maintain such momentum after going through such a thing, Ma Zun nodded with a smile. With a wave of his hand, he ended the meeting on how he would "die" and let his cronies do their own thing. Because of his instinctive trust in these people who were willing to live and die with him, he did not doubt or observe them too much, because he did not know that at the moment when he waved his hand and bowed his head, a strange look circulated among the three people he trusted the most—as a smart person, none of them really wanted to die.

Time passed little by little. Because of the Tang Army's strong intelligence blockade capabilities, Ma Zun was not very clear about the battle situation in the south. He didn't get the news about the Battle of Qishan until the Tang Army's brigade was only a hundred miles away from him. As he expected, Guo Huai failed in Qishan: with the defeat of Xixian, Guo Huai's grain and grass were completely cut off, and the army of 50,000 was starved for three days in starvation. In the end, Guo Huai had no choice, so he was forced to surrender Ma Dai for the lives of tens of thousands of brothers, and was transferred to Jingzhou after Ma Dai asked Li Sheng. As for Guo Huai's army, it was divided as the soldiers and horses who had rectified Longxi in the past, and it was changed according to the principle of voluntariness. Of course, such a change did not reduce the strength of the Tang Army, on the contrary, after such a change, the momentum of the Tang Army has increased a lot, and the strength of the troops has also increased, and now the Tang Army has nearly 300,000 troops.

In this way, two days after learning the news, the army of the Tang Army once again surrounded the regiments of Jixian County. This time, they made adjustments in the layout of their forces, the artillery originally distributed in four was concentrated in the south gate, and most of the troops were further concentrated, the south gate was arranged with 70,000 troops, while the other places were 30,000 to 40,000, as for the rest of the unified as a reserve.

"Looks like they're putting on a good stance. Concentrate all the firepower to attack a little, and wait for a little breakthrough to quickly expand in depth, this is really a very simple tactic. Ma Zun smiled bitterly. The opponent's tactics are very simple and easy to be seen through, but even so, in the face of absolute strength, he can't talk about any contingency methods.

"Do you think we can hold this place?" Liang Xu put on a stupid look and asked such a question stupidly in Ma Zun's ear.

"Shou? How to hold it. We can cope with the attack of their 300,000-strong army, but we can't cope with the bombardment of their 1,000 guns. Ma Zun said gloomily, but there was a lot of bitterness in his words: "We can't hold the city." The fall of Ji County is a matter of time. ”

"So ......?" Seeing that Ma Zun was so pessimistic about things, Liang Xu couldn't help but continue.

"So what? We can't hold the city anymore......! Ma Zun felt very strange about Liang Xu's continuation, and he thought that he had undoubtedly made things clear, "So ......?" What else could there be? He was a little confused. ”

"So...... I'm sorry...... My lord! The soft words sounded in Ma Zun's ears, it was Liang Xu's voice, Ma Zun never knew that Liang Xu, a person like three big and five thick, would say such soft words. Under normal circumstances, I was afraid that he would immediately have goosebumps, but at the moment he didn't. The pain in his chest had made him unable to speak anymore. He lowered his head, only to see a blade peeking through his chest, it was a sharp blade stabbed by Liang Xu from his back. It's very deadly. He was surprised by this. "Why?" He asked with difficulty. Although he was ready to die, that preparation was placed on the death of the war, and he was surprised that he would die on the betrayal of his subordinates.

"Your Excellency...... We don't want to die, and we want to live better! Yin Xian replied softly beside him. For this matter, he is not an executor, but he is a complete planner. It can be said that he mobilized the betrayal of the Liang Xu brothers.

"Original...... So......! In an instant, Ma Zun understood everything: because they didn't want to die, they didn't approve of Ma Zun's desperate struggle; Because they wanted to live better, they chose to betray and exchange their heads for their official positions. "This ...... It's a good idea, at least for you...... So! Ma Zun looked at them with a wry smile, but swallowed his last breath. He really has no dissatisfaction with the behavior of Yin Xian and the Liang brothers, because this is also a way to survive.

As a result, Ma Zun, who insisted on resisting, was killed by Yin Xian and the Liang brothers, and the others who killed Ma Zun chose to surrender after this, surrounded by ten thousand troops, before the Tang army launched a general attack. Of course, his surrender was carried out in the name of Tianshui Taishou. The so-called Tianshui Taishou also refers to Yin Xian - in the conspiracy meeting, the Liang brothers unanimously agreed to let Yin Xian serve as Tianshui Taishou and negotiate with Tang Jun. In their words, "Taishou is what the literati do, and among the rest of the people, Yin Xun is a literati." ”

Of course, this is also a reason, but Yin Xian still feels that this reason is somewhat far-fetched. He has always wondered if the Liang brothers are because they feel that they have to deal with so many things at the moment, so they give up the matter of being a taishou to themselves, or they are afraid of the so-called "wood shows in the forest, and the wind will destroy it", anyway, it is not a good intention. Of course, these things were only thought of by him now, and at the beginning of the meeting, he had to admit that he was blinded by the position of the Taishou, and happily agreed. That now seems to be a miscalculation. Yin Xian always felt that he only saw the scenery of the Taishou position at the beginning, but he forgot the trouble behind the scenery.

"Sure enough, one person counts the short, and the two count the long." Yin Xian smiled bitterly. If the trouble of dealing with these things is still bearable, the sarcastic gaze is very uncomfortable. Although Yin Xian himself knew that such a gaze was likely to be the other party's normal opinion, and it was likely that it was just his own psychology that was at fault, he still thought that he who had not done anything wrong should not bear such a point: "...... Could it be that under such a place of death, do I still have to die with Ma Zun? Thinking of this, Yin Xian smiled bitterly again - in recent times, it seems that wry smiles have become a routine, and they have always been expressed by people like Taishou.

"That's not going to work, I've got to do something to get people to take that look back!" Yin Xian thought like this, and had already made a decision in his heart. What kind of things can be done to satisfy everyone? That's very simple, and it's naturally a meritorious service. For a capitulator like himself, only through meritorious service can he gain a firm foothold in the new environment and gain the approval of others.

“…… To make meritorious service, you must make meritorious service. Yin Xian thought about it, but he had a headache again: he had already decided to make meritorious service, but what kind of meritorious service? This is indeed a question worth considering. Yin Xian thought for a long time, carefully pondered the combat mission of the Tang Army, connected his own experience and his current identity, and then grasped the tactics of the Wei Army, and he suddenly thought of a strategy for the Tang Army: failure is harmless, and success is beneficial.

"Boyo, how about you see that we have made the evil intentions of the Wei army public?" Yin Xian knew that Tang Jun admired Jiang Wei here, so he directly found Jiang Wei and mentioned this matter. He wanted to let Jiang Wei talk about this matter through the relationship between Jiang Wei and the other party, who he was more familiar with. This seems to be a certain risk, but he is familiar with Jiang Wei's personality, but he knows that such a risk is absolutely non-existent in Jiang Wei, and Jiang Wei is not a person who will rob others of their credit.

"Public? Why public? What's the use? Suddenly being mentioned by Yin Xian, Jiang Wei looked a little strange.

"The purpose of the disclosure is to disrupt the enemy's disposition and reduce the resistance encountered by our attack. You think that the enemy decided to use this kind of stubborn attrition, only the high-ranking officials such as the Taishou, the State Minister, and the Assassin Shi knew about it, and the county commanders below, most of the people who actually fought with you, they didn't know about this. The reason why they insisted on fighting was nothing more than because of the strict orders from above. As far as their true intentions are concerned, if they could be given a choice, they would definitely not choose this. Therefore, if we publicize that they are just outcasts, and secretly observe those who are wavering, and cooperate with our spies to rescue their families, I think we should be able to greatly reduce the pressure on the battlefield. Although this kind of pressure is not a big deal for our army, the constant fighting will greatly prolong the meeting time between us and His Majesty's army, which is not a good thing for us, so I think we still have to do things that can make things easier. Yin Xian explained to Jiang Wei.

"That is, I let them know, what they should know, and with great fanfare?" Jiang Wei's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood Yin Xian's intentions: "In this way, Cao Zhen and Zhong Xuan of Chang'an will be unlucky." I think there must be a lot of people who are dissatisfied with this strategy, and if it involves all kinds of those families, the entire court of Wei will be in chaos. Jiang Wei's vision was more far-reaching than Yin Xian, and he thought of the reaction of the forces behind these county orders after they made everything public on their side - although the county orders were only minor officials, this minor official was not just someone who could be a petty official, and if there was no family support behind it, I was afraid that it would be difficult. Since it is a family, there must be a family power, even if that family can't reach the sky with its hands and eyes, but it can make trouble in the local area, but it is enough for some people.

“…… Well, that's it, that's right! Yin Xian nodded affirmatively, "What do you see?" He looked at Jiang Wei expectantly.

"That's a good thing, I'm not going to stop there." Jiang Wei smiled and nodded in agreement: "Please stay for a while." I'm going to talk about this with my young man joining the army. As long as his side agrees, there will be no problem with General Ma Dai. ”

"Thank you very much." Yin Xian bowed to Jiang Wei and went like this. He didn't say anything more, because he knew that since Jiang Wei had agreed, he would definitely do things well.

After that, it's simpler. Everything was just as Yin Xun expected, and his proposal was approved. Ma Dai and Ma Jian received him the day after he met Jiang Wei, and then put the matter in his hands, asking him to find someone to write such an essay and publish it in his name. Due to the existence of Baiyi, a shadow son who had long been hidden in the entire Guanzhong land, Yin Xian had just handed over the text to Ma Tan and them, and three days later, this text spread throughout Guanzhong and outside.

For a time, almost all the county orders and defenders saw such a document, and their hearts couldn't help but panic: some of them believed it, so they tried to contact Baiyi and express their intention to surrender; Some of them were suspicious, and while preparing the troops and horses, they began to write the agreement on the sum of the city early; Some of them are broken jars and broken casually, and they don't pay attention to all kinds of ...... in the county They all believed most of this text and began to think about their future.

Under such circumstances, the Liangzhou Army, which had rested for five days in Ji County, began the Eastern Jin Dynasty. At first, because they didn't know what the situation was in front of them, they still arranged the actions of the entire army according to the regular way of combat marching, but when they drove to Shangtai County, which was closest to them, they found that the gate of the entire county town was wide open, and the Shangtai County Commander was kneeling to the side with a reluctant face, but there was not a single defender in the city.

"What's going on?" Ma Jian was a little strange, the news he knew from Jiang Wei was that the county order in Shangtai was a die-hard member of the Wei State, and his mind was full of those so-called "Mandate of Heaven in Great Wei" thoughts, and he should not surrender according to reason, but now this ......

Although he was a little puzzled in his heart, Ma Jian still asked people to help up the county order and lead the army into the city. Then when I asked about it, I realized that this Shangtai County Commander really wanted to resist to the end, but he was willing to do so, but his subordinates were very reluctant to do so, and they put his favorite young son to threaten him to surrender. He really couldn't do anything about such a threat. The only defenders he could rely on dispersed in a hurry when he decided to defend it. This made him a complete widow. In desperation, he could only agree like this - in this way, there was the above thing.

"Hehe, it seems that no one wants to be sent to death after all." Ma Jian sighed. He knew that the ploy offered by Jiang Wei and Yin Xian had already begun to play his role. It can be expected that the next battle will be easier for your side.