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The rebellion in Jinyang lasted only one night, and when the day was about to dawn and the officers and soldiers went out to start a large-scale counterinsurgency operation, they were surprised to find that all the traitors were gone. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It was as if all the ghosts had done the same thing last night when there had been a lot of noise and all the arcades that had been set on fire, and when it was dawn, the troublemakers were turned into smoke and dispersed by the wind.

When the news was reported to the palace, Wu Yi and Huang Quan were very surprised, and in order to ensure safety, Huang Quan still led his troops to continue to search and arrest from house to house, busy from morning to afternoon, but never found any suspicious characters.

Just when Huang Quan was wondering, his cronies Pegasus came and told him a very shocking news: Ma Tan, the general of Suiyuan, suddenly led his troops to break into Jinyang and occupied the east gate at this time.

'Ma Yan, isn't he still in Anxiang, how could he suddenly appear in Jinyang! ’

Huang Quan was taken aback, and hurriedly led the army to the east gate, and when he arrived, the front line of the east gate had been firmly held by Ma Yan's soldiers and horses.

Ma Tanjun's actions made Huang Quan suspicious, so he led the army to line up at the east gate, and ordered the army at the east gate to quickly retreat outside the city, but the new army took Huang Quan's words as a fart and ignored them.

Huang Quan was angry, so he ordered Ma Jian to come to see him.

After a while, the opposing cavalry was like a wave, and the horse in the center rode out, stopped at the place five steps in front of the formation, bowed on the horse, and said with a smile: "I don't know what is important for General Zuo to summon the last general?" ”

Huang Quan stepped forward immediately and asked sharply: "Ma Youchang, Your Majesty ordered you to return to Hebei, not only did you openly disobey the holy order, but also led your troops straight to the place where the royal car was, what are your intentions?" ”

Ma Jian looked indifferent and explained calmly: "General Zuo has misunderstood, how dare the last general disobey the holy order." It's just that when the last general was about to turn back to Hebei, he suddenly got a call for help from Jinyang, saying that there was a rebellion in the city, and His Majesty was in danger, so the last general led a light cavalry to rush to quell the rebellion overnight. ”

Ma Jian led the army on the grounds of counterinsurgency, on the grounds that it was invulnerable, and Huang Quan could no longer provoke any more thorns.

However, Huang Quan is not a fool, thinking that Anxiang is hundreds of miles away from Jinyang, even if someone went to move the rescue troops at the beginning of the rebellion last night, it would take at least a day or two to go back and forth, but Ma Jian took less than half a day to rush to Jinyang, could it be that his army grew wings.

Thinking of this loophole, Huang Quan suddenly became suspicious, so he sarcastically said: "General Ma, the rebellion only happened last night, and you rushed to Jinyang in the afternoon, you are really fast enough." ”

There was obvious irony in Huang Quan's tone, and Ma Yanyan couldn't hear it, but at the moment, he was General Zuo, with a respected status, and he was just a small character who acted on orders, so why bother with a momentary unhappiness.

So, Ma Tan's expression became more and more kind, and he said seriously: "Your Majesty is in trouble, the country is in danger, Ma Tan is anxious when he hears it, so he naturally doesn't dare to delay without permission, so he hurried to the horse overnight, the left general, the last general is not late." ”

Knowing that Ma Jian was quibbling, Huang Quan was inconvenient to expose it, so he had to sneer: "General Ma's loyalty to the country is really touching." It's just that you are still one step late, the traitor has been extinguished by me, and now Jinyang is fine, so you can quickly set off and return to Hebei. ”

Huang Quan wanted to take Ma Jian away, Ma Jian had already expected it, and immediately said: "Your Majesty's safety is the most important, although the traitor rebellion has been extinguished, most of the traitors have not been hunted and killed, the last general thinks it is prudent, the last general should stay for a few more days, until he is sure that Jinyang is not worried." ”

Is this kid trying to deliberately make excuses and stay on top? ’

Huang Quan was puzzled, so he frowned and said: "Now that the rebellion has been extinguished, how can you be afraid of a few fish that have slipped through the net, it is enough to have a general, you should quickly return to Hebei according to the edict, the front line needs your soldiers and horses." ”

Before the words fell, a horse suddenly galloped towards him and shouted: "General Zuo, there is a sudden fire in the north of the city, and it seems that there are traitors in rebellion." ”

Without saying a word, another horse galloped forward, and also exclaimed: "There is a fire in the west of the city, and the thieves are clamoring to attack the palace." ”

At the same time, there was chaos in two places at the same time, which couldn't help but surprise Huang Quan.

At this time, Ma Jian was secretly a little proud, and hurriedly said: "General Zuo, it seems that the anti-thief forces are still numerous, we can't underestimate it, let's not say much, let's quickly send troops to quell the rebellion." ”

Ma Jian didn't say much to Huang Quan, turned around and returned to the formation, and Zhang Luo mobilized troops and horses to rush to the scene of the rebellion.

Huang Quan had no choice but to temporarily put aside the idea of taking Ma Jian away, and led the army to hurry away.

At the head of the city, watching Huang Quan and his thousands of soldiers and horses retreat from afar, Ma Jian secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to the left and right: "Quickly go and send an order to the rear army, order them to speed up the march, and be sure to rush to Jinyang tomorrow morning." ”

It turned out that everything that happened in Jinyang City was just a "conspiracy" planned by Ma Tan.

Since it is necessary to lead the army back to Jinyang without authorization without an "edict", then there must be a reasonable and sufficient reason.

Therefore, when the henchmen of the Ma Tanmi faction infiltrated Jinyang, they shouted everywhere and set fire to it at night, creating a false impression of rebellion. And in the name of counterinsurgency, Ma Jian can rush to Jinyang in a grand manner.

In order to enter Jinyang with lightning speed, Ma Tan ordered 20,000 infantry troops to follow, and he personally led more than 1,000 cavalry to rush to the starry night, and with the cooperation of the guards of the Jingzhou group at the east gate, they successfully entered Jinyang and occupied the foothold of the east gate.

Although Ma Jian found a high-sounding reason for himself, he could temporarily "lai" in Jinyang and not leave, but obviously, judging from Huang Quan's performance today, this person probably has doubts about his actions, and there are still four or five thousand soldiers in Jinyang City, if at this time, Huang Quan and others suddenly tear their faces and send troops to attack, their thousand men and horses may not be able to resist.

At that time, once they were expelled from the city, Huang Quan and the others could rely on Jinyang City to defend until Ma Chao led the Zhengyou army to arrive, at that time, the Qin Yi group had soldiers and emperors in their hands, even if Fang Shao led the army to arrive, it would be useless.

However, it was said that Huang Quan did not take Ma Jian away, and when he led the army to the scene of the rebellion, he did not catch the shadow of half of the traitors, at this time, Huang Quan had already begun to realize that this series of "so-called" rebellion incidents was very likely to be related to Ma Tan's sudden arrival.

Thinking of this section, Huang Quan hurried into the palace to see Wu Yi, and after meeting, he told Ma Jian about his sudden arrival and his own worries.

After Wu Yi heard this, his expression became alert, "Ma Tan is a close confidant of Fang Zhongzheng and Zhuge Kongming, this person led his troops suddenly, most of them were ordered by Fang Zhongzheng, it seems that he has some suspicions." ”

Huang Quan's expression changed, and he said hurriedly: "That is the case, then let me lead the army to expel Ma Jian from the city, let's defend the city, even if Fang Shao leads the army on the front line to kill, as long as we wait until Meng Qi's soldiers and horses arrive, then the big thing can be done." ”

Wu Yi fell into deep thought, his mind was flying, weighing the interests and disadvantages of all parties, and after a while, he said: "If you tear your face with him at this time, it will just give him an excuse to raise 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack us, and this is not the time to turn his face." ”

Huang Quan frowned and said, "Then in your opinion, what should I do." ”

Wu Yi said: "Your Majesty is here with us, and Ma Jian doesn't dare to act rashly, I wonder if he suddenly came to Jinyang, just to get to Fang Zhongzheng and return to the army." Let's send a secret letter to Mencius Du of Jingcheng, if Fang Zhongzheng leads the army to the west, he will be ordered to guard the city and not let him enter the pass. After Meng Qi's army arrived, if Ma Tan was obedient, it would be easy to break it again. ”

"Well, this is also safe, Mencius is filial piety until handover, and he has his guard over the well, and it is expected that even if it is the middle of the square, there is nothing to be done."

Huang Quan agreed with Wu Yi's plan, and that night, a secret book came out of Jinyang and went straight to Xiongguan Jingcheng in the east of Bingzhou.

When the situation in Jinyang changed, Fang Shao had already led the army back to the north.

Worried about the final conflict with Ma Chao's soldiers and horses, Fang Shao decided to bring all the seventy or eighty thousand troops on the front line to Jinyang, considering that after the withdrawal, there were only 50,000 soldiers and horses left in Jizhou in the north, and it was obviously not enough to defend such a wide area with 50,000 soldiers and horses, so Fang Shao could only shrink the defense line to the border area of Youji in the north, and give up the several counties of Jizhou that he had captured before.

However, before that, Fang Shao had ordered the more than 200,000 people in the abandoned county to move north, and what was left for the Wei State was nothing more than an empty city where people went to the empty building.

On the second day after Wu Yi's intensive delivery arrived at Jingcheng, Fang Shao's army also drove to a place more than thirty miles away from Jingcheng.

At this time, Wei Yan, Wang Ping, Jiang Wei, Deng Ai, Wang Jun, Guan Xing and others all gathered in Fang Shao's account, and a group of generals of the Jingzhou Group discussed how to cross the well.

"I heard that this Mencius is an old friend of Fa Xiaozhi Sima, and this person was involved in the incident that welcomed His Majesty into Shu that year. This person is one of the cores of Guan Longshi, and he must not let us pass the test easily, Da Sima, in my opinion, we don't have to think too much, it is better to raid Jingcheng and take advantage of his unpreparedness to take this pass. ”

Jiang Wei proposed a more radical plan, but Fang Shao did not approve of it.

Fang Shao turned his gaze to Wei Yan and said with a smile, "Wen Chang, what do you think?" ”

Wei Yan was silent for a long time, and said unhurriedly: "Jing Cheng Xiongguan, the strong attack may not be able to go down for a while. I think that we might as well salute first and then soldier, but we can first write a letter to Zidu, explain the stakes, and ask him to open and let us in, if he doesn't obey, it's not too late to attack. ”

Jiang Wei objected: "Mencius is the nuclear human heart of the Guanlongshi people, to such a point, how can he let us into the customs." ”

Wei Yan stroked his beard and smiled, with a confident face: "I have worked together with Meng Zidu in the three eastern counties for many years, and I know this person's surname best. As long as there are enough interests, he is a core member of the Guan Longshi people today, and he can become their mortal enemy tomorrow. ”

(To be continued)