Chapter 353: The Liangzhou Incident
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"Forget it, you can delay it again and again, why do you want the state pastor to get married, you can't let a few of them be wronged!" Li Yi said lightly.
As soon as these words came out, Jia Xu nodded, and was just about to speak, when a person broke in.
"Okay, you kid, you still have to drag it out, watch me kill you." Cai Yong rushed in, took a book and threw it over.
Frightened, Li Yi hurriedly dodged, but when he looked at the cover of the book, he stopped abruptly.
"Boom." The thin book smashed on Li Yi's head.
Li Yi was not angry at all, but looked at Cai Yong with a smile, and held the book in his arms, the very light book was like a heavy treasure, and was hugged very tightly by Li Yi.
"Hello father-in-law, it's really sunny today!" Li Yi said flatteringly.
"Hmph, it's snowing outside today." Cai Yong's voice sounded, which made Li Yi very embarrassed.
Not only Li Yi, but Jia Xu also doesn't know what to do, who made Mr. Cai Yong too senior, and after a while, he will be Li Yi's father-in-law, or Li Yi's teacher of all the low-level officials in Liaoxi County, and the dean who teaches them to become talents.
Although Mr. Cai Yong has no pursuits or ambitions, as soon as he speaks, even Li Yi has a headache, especially one sentence. Those low-level officials are absolutely obedient, and they are much more powerful than Li Yi.
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Teacher, teach and preach to solve doubts. It is the fifth teacher of Confucianism, and occupies a great position in the heart of Confucianism, only after relatives, especially in the face of the teacher, it is like a biological parent.
"This, that, me, she" looked at the angry Cai Yong and Li Yi couldn't say anything, and the originally good eloquence was now stammering.
"Okay, I heard what you just said, hmph, count it as your excuse, give you two years, not a year, you must become a state pastor, and then marry my daughter, otherwise I want you to look good." Cai Yong looked at Li Yi's performance, snorted, and left after speaking.
Li Yi and Jia Xu looked at each other, crying and laughing.
"The old gentleman is really, really unwilling to suffer." It took a long time for Jia Xu to say such words
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, the New Year has arrived, and this year's New Year has an extraordinary definition, that is, the player's first unique New Year, all the players are gathered in the north, especially Youzhou, because the snow here is so beautiful.
Except for some people who hate snow, they basically came to Youzhou, while watching the snow scene, while spending the New Year, so that the whole Youzhou is warm, but also injected new vitality into Youzhou, Gongsun Chan is to open the door of convenience, sell some Youzhou specialties, of course, some war horses are also sold as specialties.
In just one month of the first month, Gongsun Zhan's profit was 730 million taels of gold, which was worth half a year's taxes. Le's Gongsun Zhan couldn't close his mouth, and the army of foot soldiers was also trained, which was too easy compared to cavalry foot soldiers.
Today's Gongsun Chan has 100 million foot soldiers, 5 million white horse righteous servants, and 20 million cavalry, these soldiers have spent the last bit of money of Gongsun Zhan, and in the end they have to sell some remote towns to fill the shortfall, otherwise the army's food and salary will be difficult.
In this regard, Gongsun Zhan could only lament: "Money, money, I have some ore in Youzhou, but the most profitable thing is the horses, but you can't sell too much, otherwise it will be cheaper Yuan Shao and others, and it won't work." ”
Youzhou is not without money, but those money are fixed assets, especially horses, Youzhou is rich in horses, and horses are docile, easier to tame than the horses of Liangzhou, easier to train cavalry, is the best mount, there is no one, of course, and Liangzhou also have good mounts, but compared with Youzhou, it is too much worse.
Gongsun Zhan's conscription has ended, and he is also ready for the big war, just waiting for the spring of March, and the snow will melt and it will be the beginning of the big war.
As for Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, at the end of the first month, they published a document on the conquest of Gongsun Zhan, claiming that Gongsun Chan was a prisoner and killed Liu Yu of Youzhou as a courtier.
The army of the two had already been assembled, this time Yuan Shao was the supporting role, and Cao Cao was the protagonist, so Cao Cao had to attack Ma Teng on a snowy day.
At the end of the first month, it is the time when the cold wind is biting, the snow has just melted away, and the wind blows it, which can make people's bones freeze, and in this kind of weather, the common people are hiding in their homes, raising the stove to keep warm, and generally will not go out.
But Longcheng, Liangzhou Prefecture, was full of war, and even those three-foot ice layers were melted away by the heat wave.
"Kill, kill Ma Teng, rush me." Cao Hong roared angrily and began to charge again.
This is Cao Hong's thirtieth charge, since the sneak attack on Liangzhou on a snowy day, it has been like a bamboo, until Longcheng is blocked, and this is Ma Teng's base camp, the defense is too tight, in addition to the city wall of Longcheng 100 zhang high, it makes the attack difficult, especially Cao Cao is not allowed to suffer too many casualties, so that Cao Hong is tied.
Not only Cao Hong, Ma Teng and others are the same, the New Year was good, and the generals also went back to rest, only their Ma clan people stayed in Longcheng, and the other generals were far away, and they couldn't arrive for a while, and in addition to the heavy snow, the speed of rushing was even slower.
For Cao Cao outside the city, Ma Teng hated and feared, hated that Cao Cao came to attack just after the New Year, this is not to give him a way to live, but he is afraid that Cao Cao will be killed, because in the New Year, all the Ma clan people are in Longcheng, once the city is broken, it is really a clean mess.
"Damn, Cao Cao, I swear to you." Ma Teng's face was pale, standing on the head of Longcheng, and glaring at Cao Cao's soldiers who were attacking the city.
He repelled Cao Hong, who had killed him several times, and fought with Cao Hong several times, but he didn't know the winner, if it weren't for Cao Hong's worry that the loss would be too great, Longcheng would have been broken.
"Father, I'm here to help you." Ma Chao, who was only thirteen years old, ran over, shouting as he ran.
Because his shouting was so loud that some of the ice and snow on the edge of the city wall fell because of the shouting, and the soldiers in front were injured and stoned to death.
"Okay, but Meng Qi will get back for me."
With an angry roar, the waves of anger hit Ma Chao's face, Ma Chao's face was red, very good-looking, he was already handsome, he was scolded by his father and shivered from the cold, but he just didn't want to go back.
"Father, I am the eldest son of the Ma clan, and now that the Ma clan is in crisis, I have the responsibility to fight, please let me fight!" Ma Chao shouted stubbornly.
However, his voice lost the confidence it had at the beginning, and he seemed a little scared, afraid of his father, Ma Teng, who was like a demon god among the Qiang people.
"Ling Ming took Meng Qi back, closed the door, and didn't let him come out!" Looking at his son who came running, a warm smile appeared on Ma Teng's face, but he became cold again for a moment.
After a while, the sturdy Pound took Ma Chao away, and placed Ma Chao Pound You came back again and fought side by side with Ma Teng.
"Ling Ming, maybe I will die, once the city is broken, take Meng Qi away, you must let Meng Qi become an adult, his potential is endless, it is the hope of my Ma clan's rise, I can't let his good future be ruined, I beg you!" After Ma Teng finished speaking, he knelt directly to Pound.
Frightened, Pang De's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly helped Ma Teng up.
"Lord, no, I came back as soon as you came, and it was you who taught me martial arts, I swear, I will definitely protect the safety of the eldest young master!" Pound solemnly swore an oath.
However, his oath is only to face Ma Chao, and it is useless for Ma Teng's other heirs, although there are several of them with good potential, but it is not worth mentioning compared to Ma Chao, and now Ma Chao, who is only thirteen years old, can defeat a third-rate historical general, which is enough to see how strong his potential is.
"Very good, the family is responsible" Ma Teng was about to praise a few words, when suddenly someone ran over.
"Lord, Cao Cao has withdrawn, he has withdrawn, we are safe! It's safe! The soldier roared incoherently, making Ma Teng's mind dizzy.
Cao Cao retreated? Give up the low-hanging fruit and state? Am I dreaming? With a hint of doubt, he looked outside the city, where Cao Cao's army was slowly retreating, and some of the wood used to build the camp had been taken away, it could be seen that Cao Cao had been preparing to retreat for a long time, otherwise it would not be so fast!
But why did Cao Cao withdraw his troops? Is there an accident in the state? Or is there not enough food and grass? This mystery gave Ma Teng a headache.
However, Ma Teng knows one thing, that is, the Ma clan is safe, and he will not be wiped out, and as for Cao Cao's second visit, he will definitely not let him be so arrogant.
"Pass my order, and expand the army in the state, expand the army and expand the army crazily." Ma Teng gave the order in an instant.
Unfortunately, before the order arrived, several bad news were brought.
First, the Qiang tribe that came to support was attacked by Cao Cao and the whole army was annihilated.
The general Ma Teng who came to support was also killed by Xu Chu and others, and the soldiers were scattered, and many of them fled to the mountains to become robbers, which caused great harm to the security of Liangzhou.
Cao Cao was even more ruthless, and swept away the ores and other materials that Liangzhou had hoarded for many years, and those ores accounted for forty percent of the total amount of Liangzhou, which greatly reduced the potential of Liangzhou and plundered the money.
In the face of Cao Cao's various vices, Ma Teng had no choice but to endure and take revenge after taking care of the chaos in Liangzhou.
Just the death of the general and the lack of soldiers are enough for Ma Teng to work for half a year, not to mention the ores that are ready to be sold for money, which are the capital of Ma Teng's rise, which were all robbed by Cao Cao.
Ma Teng is not as good as Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others, even Gongsun Zan is much inferior, who makes Liangzhou rich in ore war horses, but there are very few good fields, many of them are horse fields, in order to domesticate war horses, a lot of grain fields are turned into horse fields, so that Liangzhou's grain can only be bought, fortunately, Liu Zhang of Yizhou has grain, which can be bought.
But there are only a few generals, all of whom are loyal to Ma's, and there are other generals, but Ma Teng doesn't dare to use them, and he doesn't want to use them
In this way, at the end of February, Ma Teng was still busy with the affairs of Liangzhou, and Cao Cao finally got rid of his hand and prepared for a big battle.