Chapter 595: The Return of Hexi (Part II)

Shao Long looked outside, thinking in his heart how much money this kid could make. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info After a while, I saw Zhang Jun come out, and bowed his hand and said: "It's been too long to wait, it's like this, my mother wants me to take someone to Zhangye to visit my father with you." Shao Long was a little surprised when he heard this, and then said: "The smoke of the war ahead is very dangerous, I don't recommend you to go, but if you have to go, I won't stop you." ”

Zhang Jun nodded when he heard this: "Thank you Taishou for reminding me, but my father is in danger now, and the son of man should go to the rescue, and this difficulty and danger can't stop me." Shao Long looked at his subordinates and then said, "Well, in that case, you can quickly pack up and let me go." So Zhang Jun came out of the city with 2,000 men and horses, and went east with Shao Long's more than 200 men. Along the way, Shao Long had a sad face, he really didn't expect Zhang Jun to set off with a large army, and the original plan to set up an ambush to intercept and rob halfway fell through.

He racked his brains to make a plan and then tried to do it, when everyone came to Jinchang, he deliberately sent people to intimidate He Jiulian, Zhang Jun asked: "Why don't we hurry to Zhangye, don't mess with him if this He Jiulian can not provoke." Shao Long deliberately said with embarrassment: "I was originally ordered to come out to him for help, and if I don't complete the mission, I'm afraid that I will be laughed at." Zhang Jun was dissatisfied: "This He Jiulian has always been a sinister and cunning despicable person, how can he be willing to contribute money and food to help us fight the official army?" Taishou is afraid that the bamboo basket will be empty. ”

Shao Long smiled: "If that's the case, I'm not afraid, aren't you and I still have some subordinates?" Let's take the opportunity to go into the city and take him down, and my brother Jinchang is ours. Zhang Jun was surprised and said: "Taishou can't help but underestimate this He Jiulian, he is not an ignorant person." Besides, we are only afraid that the city of Zhangye will already be destroyed by the smoke of gunsmoke, so we still don't want to provoke this He Jiulian, let's go to Zhangye first. ”

Shao Long said nonchalantly: "Hey nephew, don't worry, I still know a little about this He Jiulian, let's beat him here is to beat the rabbit, by the way, don't worry about him not being able to jump into any big waves." Zhang Jun also wanted to argue a few words, he might not be able to take this city if he didn't have enough manpower, how did he know that He Jiulian had already opened the city gate to welcome them in. This is called inviting you into the urn.

Shao Long's original intention was to hope that Zhang Jun and He Jiulian would be on fire in the city, and he would take advantage of the fisherman, but unfortunately he was smart and confused for a while, and as soon as he entered the city, he Jiulian's ambush soldiers were defeated and lost, Zhang Jun's two thousand men and horses struggled to support, but the defeat was decided, and it was a matter of time before he was killed. Khotan finally arrived at Shache, but he did not die.

He Jiulian merged Zhang Jun's men and horses, and captured Zhang Jun himself alive and locked him in the city. He Batsheng's army went all the way to Xilian Kelianjie, Jiuquan had long been a borderless land, and the city was already in chaos at the moment, with countless murders, arsons, and looting. He Batsheng asked Dou Luguang to lead Li Yuan, Yang Kan and Sun Fengzhen and other young generals all the way to Jinchang. When passing by Jiuquan, let Yang Kan stay and garrison to appease the people, collect weapons, and picket bandits.

Zhang Jun also followed Dou Luguang's army all the way west to the city of Jinchang, the people in this city have his enemies, this city is also the dream place he has always coveted, and now the soldiers are in the city, but they are not people. In the face of an army of 60,000 or 70,000 people under the city, at this moment, He Jiulian's men gathered a total of 5,000 people, and it was impossible for him to resist such an offensive at all.

When Zhang Jun saw that his own son had been arrested, he naturally beat his chest and scolded He Jiulian for being a sinister villain. So the two sides agreed on a time to open the city and surrender, Dou Luguang led the army into the city of Jinchang, and escorted He Jiulian to the camp of Zhangye He Basheng headquarters according to the emperor's order. After He Jiulian was sent away, Jinchang was temporarily garrisoned by Li Yuan, and Dou Luguang continued to lead the army west to Dunhuang City.

The whole Dunhuang city is in chaos, many people are fighting for their lives, the streets are full of robbers and arsonists, because a large number of defenders have been transferred away by Zhang Jun and his son, at this moment the entire Dunhuang City is out of a state of no one to defend, only dozens of families in Zhang's house barely supported. Zhang Jun came to the city and shouted loudly to open the city gate, and the old soldier guarding the gate saw that it was the father and son of the assassin who had come back together, and hurriedly opened the city gate to let the officers and soldiers enter the city.

He Batsheng received a flying pigeon from Gao Huan thousands of miles away, don't ask me why the news between them is so fast, Gao Huan is a future young man from the modern era, naturally knows the importance of information transmission, he has done a lot of simplification and optimization of his spy system when he conquered the Western Wei Dynasty a long time ago, so the general transmission of news is very fast, and the transmission of news thousands of miles away has been reduced from about ten days to only three days, and it only takes six to seven days to go back and forth.

Gao Huan has been paying close attention to the war in the Hexi Corridor and keeping in touch with He Batsheng every day, so basically he is very clear about the progress of the war in front of him three days later, and he has his own ideas about how to manage the Hexi Corridor Gao Huan, he will no longer let Zhang Jun, Ma Furong, He Jiulian and other local snakes stay in the local area, he wants He Batsheng to send these people and their families back to Yecheng, and appoint Li Yuan as the governor of Hexi, Yang Jian as his deputy, and transfer Xu Ming to serve as their patrol envoy.

This arrangement lies in the fact that Gao Huan knows that these two people are the sons of heaven in later generations, and putting them together is because the two tigers will be injured when they fight, and Hexi is a barren land, even if Yang Jian and Li Yuan have the ability, it will be difficult to set off any storms there, and their own dynasty can ensure that the successor is worry-free. If these two people can use their talents to turn Hexi into a new Nanniwan, he Gao Huan is happy to see it, why not give them a chance?

Gao Huan sat on the dragon chair, at this moment on the square in front of Yonglong Palace kneeling He Jiulian, Zhang Jun and Ma Furong and their families, Yang Kan first made a judgment on He Jiulian according to the emperor's wishes, approved Yousi's impeachment and designation of him, sentenced him to behead and punish his family, and his wife was demoted to a commoner. Ma Furong was dismissed from his post and stayed in the capital to stay in custody. Zhang Jun surrendered to Cheng before and after to support meritorious service, because he was not punished because of the merits and demerits, and transferred him from Guazhou to Zhongshu Provincial Official. After the verdict, He Jiulian shouted that he could be pushed out of the vegetable market and wiped away.

Ma Furong has been the emperor of the soil for decades, and he is enough to live at the feet of the Son of Heaven at this moment, although there is no freedom, but it is also in line with the wishes of his later years. Ma An continued to stay by his side as a housekeeper, while Ma Hansheng was very disappointed, his original intention was to continue his career with the emperor as an official and a half-official, but unfortunately he found nothing after many inquiries. (To be continued.) )