Chapter 344

Luo Zheng was in Xichuan all winter, and he didn't even return to Guanzhong for the New Year.

Under the new Xichuan Dynasty, although the power of the Dongzhou Shi has been uprooted, the situation has not been completely stabilized, and many state and county governments are changing power, and the huge interests left by the Dongzhou Shi must also be redistributed.

There are many things that cannot be sorted out in a moment.

Jia Xu, Fa Zheng and others were also running to negotiate specific details with the Xichuan Shi clan.

Chengdu, Luo Zheng's official residence.

"Lord, Ma Chao is here."

Yan Xing hurriedly ran into the inner hall and bowed to Luo Zheng.

"Hmm, Ma Chao is here?"

Luo Zheng's spirits perked up, and he said in a deep voice: "Bring it up!" ”

"Yes!"

Yan Xing quickly took the order, turned around and ran out.

didn't have much effort, and several sturdy soldiers stabbed Ma Chao up. Those who were escorted up together were Ma Chao's younger brother Ma Tie, Ma Xiu, and his younger brother Ma Dai, except for Ma Chao, the rest were all colorless.

After Chengdu was broken a few years ago, Ma Chao originally wanted to lead the army into Xiqiang and then rise again.

As a result, Li Yan, the general of the department, learned that the Xichuan clan had taken refuge in Luo Zheng, how could he run with Ma Chao to Xiqiang to be a traitor, and immediately ordered the 8,000 Sichuan army to arrest Ma Chao and others, Ma Chao was not the main general for a long time, and he could not completely master the 8,000 soldiers and horses.

And Liu Zhang took Li Yan as his deputy general, even if he was also on guard against Ma Chao.

Ma Chao was caught off guard and was captured by Li Yan.

Luo Zheng had long wanted to meet Ma Chao, and only ordered Li Yan to escort Ma Chao to Chengdu a month ago.

Ma Chao's hair is exuding, although he is very wolf, but his heroic and fierce spirit has not diminished at all. If it weren't for the hands and feet tied. was restrained by several thugs, but I was afraid that I would have to break free at that time. Riots hurt people.

Xu Chu and Yan Xing didn't dare to be careless, and stood on Luo Zheng's side with a knife on the left and on the right. Tiger eyes Ma Chao.

Luo Zheng sat behind the case, raised his glass and drank, very calmly and indifferently.

Ma Chao's wolf-like gaze swept over Xu Chu and Yan Xing's two generals, and fell on Luo Zheng. The big waves are sweeping the sand, countless heroes have come to an end, even if Ma Chao's heart is higher than the sky, he is inevitably short of breath at this moment.

Luo Zheng was also looking at Ma Chao, "Ma Chao, are you willing to surrender?" ”

Ma Chao said: "May it fall!" ”

Ma Dai, Ma Xiu, Ma Tie and others heard the rumors. They all breathed a sigh of relief.

Luo Zheng didn't say anything more, held the wine bottle, stared at Ma Chao for a long time, and then suddenly said: "But how can General Ben see the unwillingness and ambition in your eyes, you are very unwilling, and you also want to build a foundation in this troubled era?" ”

Ma Chao's face changed miserably, and he hung his head and was silent.

Ma Dai, Ma Tie, and Ma Xiuge's faces also changed, and cold sweat leaked out of their foreheads.

Started in troubled times, and was alone in the world.

There is no shortage of ambitious people in this world. Ma Chao also has such ambitions.

Luo Zheng's impression of Ma Chao, because of the memory from later generations, has always thought that Ma Chao is a brave and good general, until he saw some other things in Ma Chao's eyes. Only then did I realize that I had been misled.

This is also an unwilling and ambitious person.

No wonder Ma Chao has been doing nothing after taking refuge in Liu Bei. Not for reuse.

Whoever it is, he doesn't dare to let such a scourge jump outside.

A few thoughts swirled in my head. Luo Zheng said with feeling: "There are too many ambitious people in this world, but they want to lay a foundation in troubled times." It's not enough to be ambitious, look at how many princes are left in the world now? Do you know why Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shu failed? Hmm, and Liu Biao is also dead, Ma Chao, do you know the reason? ”

Ma Chao reluctantly said: "I don't know! ”

Luo Zheng said: "Then let General Ben come to sue you, because they don't have the ability to match their ambitions, they have empty ambitions, and they don't have the ability to match their ambitions, and the final outcome will be the same as Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shu." The wheel of history is rolling forward, you might as well take a look at the dynasties, how many people can really laugh to the end, and how many ambitious people have turned into dust? ”

Ma Chao lowered his head and was silent, hiding the unwillingness in his eyes.

Luo Zheng said again: "Ma Chao, compared with Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shu, and Liu Biao, you are not even as good as them." Your ambition will only bring disaster to your Ma family, if you want to dominate the world, reincarnate in the next life, and start again! ”

Ma Chao said miserably: "Just ask for a life!" ”

Luo Zheng said coldly: "If you don't cut the grass and don't remove the roots, the spring breeze blows and grows." Since you are not willing to be subordinated to others, then you should be ready to incarnate into loess, why spare your life? Come on, pull it out and cut it. ”

"Yes!"

The two thugs roared in response to the order, dragged Ma Chao and left.

Ma Chao's expression changed miserably, and he shouted: "Spare your life, and swear allegiance to the death!" ”

Ma Dai, Ma Xiu, and Ma Tie were even more frightened, their faces pale and colorless.

Luo Zheng didn't frown, and Ma Chao was quickly dragged out by the two executioners.

I heard a few shouts and curses outside, and soon stopped abruptly.

The two executioners came in with Ma Chaoren's head to resume their lives, Luo Zheng glanced at it, and the two executioners immediately retreated.

Yan Xing glanced at Ma Daige, who had collapsed to the ground, and asked, "Lord, do these three kills or not?" ”

Luo Zheng glanced at it and said expressionlessly: "Drag them all out and cut them off." ”

The blood feud has already been settled, how can these three scourges be left behind, and the calamities will be left behind.

can mix to this day, Luo Zheng is not a soft-hearted person for a long time.

Only, Ma Chao and Ma Dai have left a reputation in history, but now these characters who have left a strong mark in history have died in their own hands one by one, and even characters like Zhou Yu have been placed under house arrest in Chang'an by themselves and treated as pigs.

And more is a kind of number of people's figures, but also look at the pride of the present dynasty.

Xu Chu waved his hand, and Ma Dai, Ma Tie, and Ma Xiu Ge were all dragged out by the guards and beheaded.

Just when Luo Zheng entered Sichuan, in the winter of the sixth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao and Liu Bei were deadlocked in Xinye for more than a month, with the arrival of winter, Cao Cao had to retreat to Wancheng, and returned to Xuchang in November, leaving the general to guard Wancheng in the forbidden town.

And Liu Bei took this opportunity to use the banner of Qingjun's side. Return to Xiangyang. And Xiangyang's troops are empty, and there are only nearly 10,000 private soldiers of the Jingzhou warriors. When Liu Bei's army arrived, the Kuai and Huang clans didn't want to break the net. have changed their positions.

After Liu Bei's army entered the city, he immediately slaughtered the Cai and Zhang clans.

Because Liu Cong, the second son of Liu Biao, is from his wife Cai, and Cai is the sister of Cai Mao, a powerful man in Jingzhou, the Cai and Zhang clans can be said to be supporters of Liu Cong's insistence, unlike Kuai, Huang and other big clans, who can change their positions at any time.

Of course, Liu Bei wanted to make his own decisions, but the Jingzhou Shi clan did not agree.

After slaughtering the Cai and Zhang clans, they supported Liu Qi to succeed the prince of Chu and issued a proclamation to appease the people of Jingzhou.

After Liu Qi succeeded to the throne. Feeling Liu Bei's great grace, that is, worshiping Liu Bei as the general of Jingzhou, commanding the soldiers and horses of Jingzhou, and taking charge of the conquest inside and outside Jingzhou, it can be said that he has a monopoly on power, and even the heroes such as Kuai and Huang who have changed their positions have to look at Liu Bei's face.

In fact, Liu Bei held the power of the army, even if someone wanted to oppose it, he did not dare to oppose it.

As early as when he led his army north to Xinye to meet Cao's army, Liu Bei purged the 30,000-strong army. sent all the generals from the Jingzhou clan to charge into battle, and all died on the battlefield, and took the opportunity to win over and promote a group of henchmen.

If it weren't for this, how would Jingzhou Haoqiang look at his eyes and behave. I'm afraid that I have already seized the power of the army.

Although Liu Bei is not good at fighting, he is still perfect at playing this kind of hand, and there is a very resourceful Xu Shu as a staff officer. It really allowed him to seize the opportunity that could be used and grasp the power of Jingzhou.

Liu Qi is just an incompetent. has no foundation, and he has to rely on him as a royal family to manage everything.

And Li Dao at this time. It's almost to the point of exhaustion.

In the sixth year of Jian'an, Luoyang was in a big place, and there was no harvest of autumn grain, and when it came to winter, the people starved to death and froze to death.

Even if Li Wei wanted to collect grain and grass, he would not have had anything to collect, otherwise he would not have sent troops at Liu Biao's invitation. How could it have been expected by Cao Cao and Guo Jia, and set up an ambush to break Li Dao's 20,000 army in one fell swoop.

The soldiers did not have enough to eat, they could not feed their families, and almost every day soldiers fled.

In winter, the scale of the escape is even more terrifying, with hundreds or thousands of soldiers fleeing the barracks at night almost every day.

Even if the commanders and colonels saw it, they would pretend not to see it, and they couldn't manage it at all, and they didn't dare to manage it.

After a winter, Li Wei's 20,000 troops were broken by Cao Cao, coupled with a large number of soldiers fleeing the barracks, tens of thousands of troops were reduced by more than half, and there were less than 20,000 soldiers and horses left under his command, which were still struggling to support.

When the weather warms up, the people around Luoyang will have a harder time.

I don't even have seeds, so how can I farm the land, so I can only help the young ones to continue to escape.

The soldiers under Li Dao's command also continued to flee, some fled to the Central Plains, some fled to Nanyang, and most of them fled to Guanzhong. Because Guanzhong is the closest and belongs to the Xiliang Army, the Xiliang Army under Luo Zheng has a good life, and some news will naturally spread to Li Dao's army in Luoyang.

After all, the Kwantung Army and the Western Liang Army have been fighting fiercely for many years, and the hatred they have formed is not small, and they have not had a good life when they fled to the Central Plains.

Ji County, Hanyang Taishou official residence.

"Meet my uncle!"

Zhang Xiu entered the inner hall and bowed to Zhang Jina.

"Alas!"

Zhang Ji let out a long sigh, looked at his nephew who was covered with dust and scum, and was speechless.

Zhang Xiu crawled on the ground, didn't see his uncle make a sound, and didn't get up.

"Jinrong get up!"

After a while, Zhang Ji came back to his senses and hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu's face is full of wind and frost, and he has lost his former heroic appearance, but he has become much more mature.

Zhang Ji asked: "Are you good in Li Dao's army all these years?" ”

Zhang Xiu smiled bitterly: "Li Dao is still breathing, and he doesn't trust his little nephew, how good can he be!" ”

Zhang Ji sighed again and was speechless for a while.

In the battle of Huayin that year, Zhang Xiu was defeated by Gao Shun's army, and it was too late to escape back to Huayin, Gao Shun led the army to besiege the city, Zhang Liao also attacked Anyi, Gao Shun had to Xu Huang to lead the army to help, and then Zhang Ji had to open the city and surrender.

Zhang Xiu did not know about his uncle's surrender, and escaped from Hangu Pass and fled to Li Dao's army.

It wasn't until a large number of soldiers under Li Dao's command fled from the barracks that they couldn't get mixed up, so Zhang Xiu found an opportunity to get out and secretly fled to Liangzhou to see his uncle Zhang Ji.

Zhang Ji was silent for a long time before he said: "Jin Rong will stay in the house first, so that he can recuperate for a while, and wait for his uncle to repair a book to see if he can exonerate Jin Rong." Luo Zheng is quite tolerant, and he will not be embarrassed by Jinrong. ”

Zhang Xiu arched his hand and said: "It's all up to my uncle." ”

In February, the weather has just warmed up.

Yuan Shao couldn't wait to personally lead an army of 30,000 people, broke through Huguan, captured and killed Shangdang Taishou Zhangyang, and entered Bingzhou. There are many powerful and powerful states, and there is no unified force, how to resist Yuan Shao's soldiers, all of them are looking forward to the wind.

After Zhao Yun received the report, he was afraid that Yuan Shao would take advantage of the situation to cross the river and enter the loop, so he immediately mobilized troops and horses to Caisangjin.

Fortunately, although Yuan Shao was complacent, he was not carried away by the victory, knowing that Luo Zheng was not easy to mess with, and going south to the Central Plains was a fixed strategy that could not be changed.

When the news reached Xuchang, Cao Cao didn't care about attacking Jingzhou again.

Yuan Shao has already pacified Hebei, and if he does not come this year, he will inevitably go south next year at the latest.

If you don't actively prepare for war at this time, where will there be an attacker to fight Jingzhou.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Bei has the opportunity to take a breath and seize the time to win over the Jingzhou scholars and buy people's hearts. As for Jing Nan, he couldn't take care of it for the time being, so he just ordered Guan Yu to lead an army to defend Baling.

How could Sun Ce miss such a good opportunity, and sent troops to Jingnan in the spring, connecting the two counties of Guiyang and Lingling.

From the first year of the first peace of the princes to fight against Dong to Jian'an seven years, in just nearly ten years, the pattern of the world has undergone earth-shaking changes, many prominent princes in the process of continuous annexation, fell under the wheel of history, some people took advantage of the situation to rise, and finally stood on the big stage of history, and several of the most powerful princes competed.

For example, Luo Zheng, and then Sun Ce, who inherited his father's business.

Although Liu Bei has not yet entered Jingzhou, he has also begun to come out of the ground after several ups and downs.

But more people have withdrawn from the stage of history, such as Liu Biao, and Liu Zhang.

With the passage of time, the scale of the war has become more and more huge, from the first year of the first peace of the princes of thousands of soldiers and horses, at most 20,000 soldiers and horses, to the current 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses, the scale of the war continues to become huge, and various tactics and strategies are also changing, whether it is Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, or Luo Zheng and others, they are all eight immortals across the sea, showing their magical powers.

All kinds of conspiracies and military strategies emerge one after another.

As for the evolution of various tactics, they are constantly moving forward.

It is no exaggeration to say that war is a catalyst, although it has caused great damage to society, but it has also played a positive role in some aspects, such as weapons and armor, etc., in order to meet the needs of war and improve the combat effectiveness of the army, the princes are trying their best to improve the army equipment, and the forging skills have at least reached a big level.

The most prominent is Luo Zheng's Xiliang military group.

With the support of Luo Zheng, the scale and skills of handicraft production in Guanzhong are far better than those of the previous dynasty, and the grain is harvested year after year, and there are no hungry people in the cool land, which is far less than the Central Plains under Cao Cao's rule, where famine is everywhere. (To be continued......)