The Shangqi defenders hurriedly wanted to close the city gate to resist Xu Huang's attack, but Xu Huang was well prepared this time, and their performance on the march was quite a bit of a benevolent and righteous army, resulting in a large number of Ma Chao's soldiers who were unwilling to be enemies with them, and asked to open the city gate and surrender.

After all, the name of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty is still very effective in these years, and even Ma Chao is a self-proclaimed general of Zhengxi, so he must be afraid in front of the real king.

After nearly two hours of assault battle, the Shangqi defenders announced their surrender and opened the city gate to welcome Xu Huang and Guo Huai into the city, while a large number of newly recruited soldiers outside the city laid down their arms early and surrendered to Guo Huai.

Xu Huang and Guo Huai sighed in their hearts, and immediately began to reorganize the soldiers of Ma Chao's army according to the previous deployment of Yunshan.

Capture on the spot, replenish on the spot, Cao Jun also had this idea before, but who is so idle and willing to join the army, in most cases, it takes coercion and threats to make people willing to join the army, and then they have to rely on looting to distribute some benefits.

The soldiers who were captured this time were also uneasy, for fear that the Cao army, which had always had a bad reputation, would treacherously kill them after entering the city, or directly rob them as before. Unexpectedly, after the Cao soldiers entered the city, although they could not say that Qiu did not commit any crimes, they could also roughly control military discipline, only occupy the important places in the city and outside the city and camp, and block the arsenal and granary, and there was no sign of letting go of the plunder.

When Xu Huang and Guo Huai entered the city, they called the local wealthy elders and asked the people to witness and open the granaries one by one.

It is not yet the autumn harvest season, most of the stored grain in Shangqi is the old grain before, Xu Huang asked everyone to witness, roughly determined the amount of grain, and made people quickly register and prepare to release grain!

"Grain?" Everyone in Shangqi was dumbfounded.

Xu Huang and others came from afar, and they didn't know how long they would have to fight with Ma Chao, but they were willing to distribute food to the people?

"General, is this grain for all the people?"

"Or else?" Xu Huang grimaced, his eyes showing a little reluctance.

If according to Xu Huang's previous temper, after this broken city, he would have to kill all the people who dared to resist him before, and the rest of the people would spare their lives, how could they continue to give them food.

But Guo Huai said that the most critical part of Yunshan's deployment before was to win the hearts and minds of the local people, which was better than 100,000 elite soldiers.

Although Xu Huang was quite dissatisfied, he still had great trust in Yunshan, and he still decided to release the grain immediately, in addition to leaving the necessary military supplies, he made a book of other stocks of grain in the city one by one, and began to distribute them to the local people!

At first, the people of Shangtai thought that there was some deviation from the false rumors, and they did not dare to come to receive food for a while, Xu Huang and Guo Huai simply asked people to prepare a few cauldrons, and the two personally led the troops to get the water of the Wei River, and asked people to cook porridge and cook to entertain the people who came and went.

The people of Shangtai were still quite wary of Cao Jun, but seeing this scene, they were completely relieved, smelling the tempting fragrance of wheat, they could no longer restrain the expectation of disbelief, and hurriedly took their own pottery bowls to help the old and the young to Cao Jun's military camp.

Previously, when they were under Cao Jun's rule, they were exploited and toiled, and they were willing to help this family member when Ma Chao arrived.

But after Ma Chao's arrival, not only did it not bring them any changes, except that he did not levy widows, Ma Chaojun levied even more military supplies than Cao Jun, so that everyone was always struggling on the verge of life and death.

This fragrant rice grain has surpassed everything, so that many people who usually care about their status can't help but join the team to ask for food.

"You are saved!"

"Folks, you are saved!"

"Ma Chao is a traitor, our court is here to save you!"

"You're welcome, hurry up and eat!"

Not only the grain, but also the militia distributed to Guo Huai under Guan Ping also played a huge role, and they did not have a condescending posture in the face of these people holding bowls and looking forward to them, but they all looked like they were shouting and asking for warmth.

They were all ordinary farmers in Guanzhong before, and naturally understood the helplessness and grievances in the hearts of these Liangzhou people, not only did they not ridicule these hard-working people who came to beg for a living, which made everyone hurry up, but also changed their impression of this imperial army.

"I can't imagine it, I can't imagine that the heavenly soldiers are completely different from the legends."

An old man held a bowl of wheat porridge in his hand, and said beautiful words with tears in his eyes, but Guo Huai shook his head and said casually:

"Not all Heavenly Soldiers are like this, it's General Yun like this."

"Huh?"

Guo Huai did not deliberately lower his voice, on the contrary, he also said quite proudly:

"General Yunshan Yuntan and General Xu Huang and Xu Gongming are both benevolent and righteous people, only these two people understand righteousness and are willing to stand up for the people of the world.

What about the others...... Hey, what a better than two generals! ”

Guo Huai's words were pulled and stepped on, with a strong smell of provocation, and it was obvious that he was deliberately trying to make trouble.

But Xu Huang held his arms and didn't move, and his face showed a little smugness.

"Yes, other people can't control it, but Ben will shepherd Liangzhou for the Son of Heaven, in the Liangzhou area, there are Ben generals, and they will be benevolent and righteous, if they violate the military order and wantonly kill innocents, they will be enemies of Ben General.

Well, General Yun guards Yongzhou like a general, and is the face of each other, all of you are kind and fearless, and we are all for your good. ”

Since Le Jin became the pastor of Jingzhou, Xu Huang has always been quite jealous in his heart, but he knows that this kind of opportunity is hard to come by, and he can only spit sour water in his heart.

But looking at the awe-inspiring and grateful eyes of the people around him, the enterprising spirit that Xu Huang had been suppressing in his heart finally slowly sprouted.

What is Lejin, what he can do, I Xu Huang can also do, and I can do better, he is just lucky, he was the first to discover Tanzhi, which is why he has today's status.

I, Xu Huang, is different......

Looking at the hot land of Liangzhou in front of him, Xu Huang's heart became more and more excited.

Liangzhou leads directly to the Western Regions, far away from the Central Plains, it takes a lot of money to conquer here, Yunshan has a good relationship with himself, and he is the pastor of Yongzhou, and the imperial court must first cross the land of Yunshan if he wants to conquer himself.

Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu in the south are not afraid, even if Liu Bei is in charge in the future, Xu Huang is confident that the good relationship between himself and Guan Yu has room for maneuver, and Liu Bei will not be able to take the lead in attacking him.

In this way, as long as you occupy this place and continue to worship the Son of Heaven on the surface, such a vast world can be allowed to gallop by yourself.

Isn't this better than Lejin mixing in this part of Jingzhou?

Years of consistent persistence made Xu Huang still feel a little embarrassed and fearful in his heart, but he thought about it, but he was loyal to the Duke of Cao who was ready to save the Han, not the King of Wei who betrayed the Han later, I have always been the most loyal courtier of the Han, what's wrong with this?

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Ma Chao didn't know that there was a fire in his backyard for the time being.

Because now something has made him scorched.

Chang Diao, who broke into Liangzhou, actually attacked Xingguo and succeeded, looting there, and then fled.

Xingguo is just a small city by the water, more like a dirt bag, and it is not a dangerous place.

But it is the hometown of King Agui, there are 70,000 or 80,000 people, everyone can fight well, even women can ride horses and open bows, and they are important supporters of Ma Chaojun. The Di people are not only good at fighting and riding horses, but also one of the few tribes in Xirong who are good at farming, they choose to cultivate the country near the water, and keep in touch with the Qiang people of the same origin.

Agui is known for his ferocity among the Di people and has great prestige, no matter who comes to Liangzhou, he must first win over Agui and win Agui's support.

But Chang Diao is good, he obviously doesn't have many soldiers and horses, and he broke into Liangzhou and is isolated, normal people should win over the surrounding tribes, at least live in peace with them, so as not to attack all the surrounding Xirong together. But Chang Diao's brain circuit is indeed different from others, he heard that the Di people are good at farming, and they are supporters of Ma Chao, so he speculates that Xingguo must have a large amount of military rations.

So Chang Diao gave an order and led the army to raid Xingguo, easily taking away a large amount of grain and grass.

Agui heard that his hometown was robbed, and he didn't believe it, but in the past few days, people have been fleeing back to report the news, saying that Chang Diao has done all kinds of evil in Xingguo, killing and looting, and all the things that can be snatched are snatched, and all the things that cannot be robbed are burned, and the water of Changli River is dyed red.

Ah Guiqi's seven orifices were smoking, and he immediately shouted, regardless of the fact that he dispatched an army to prepare to completely exterminate Chang Diao!

In order to make it difficult for Chang Diao to escape, Agui also called friends and asked the surrounding Qianghu tribes to join the war.

The Qiang people heard that Agui was actually robbed, and they also shared the same hatred, and in just a few days, Agui gathered more than 20,000 Qiang people, searching around under the scorching sun.

"When I catch Chang Diao, I will definitely cramp and peel it to relieve the hatred in my heart! I'm going to kill him, I'm going to kill him!" ”

Of course, Ma Chao knew what would happen if he offended this group of Qianghu in Liangzhou, Chang Diao was so tyrannical, if he could catch him cramping and peeling his skin, it would also be a good thing for Ma Chao.

But the previous battles with Chang Diao made Ma Chao secretly vigilant in his heart, he was afraid that Ah Gui would lose, so he quickly led the army to catch up with Ah Gui, and asked him to be careful of Chang Diao's conspiracy and tricks, it was best to stay for a while, find out where Chang Diao was and then eliminate it in one fell swoop.

Ma Chao is kind-hearted, but Agui is angry now, listening to Ma Chao persuade himself to be careful, he sneered at the moment and sneered:

"My family was slaughtered by Chang Diao, if they stay here, how can they settle their spirits in heaven? Meng Qixiu wants to save people by himself, get out of the way quickly! ”

His words were clearly mocking Ma Chao's lack of reaction after hearing that his family had been killed, Ma Chao was immediately furious, and pointed a spear at Agui's face and said:

"What do you say? Say it again! ”

Ah Gui was taken aback, and then he realized that he had lost his words, and hurriedly said:

"Yes, it's me who lost my word, it's me who lost my word, I ......"

Ma Chao's face turned pale, and he sneered: "I have good intentions to help you and others draw strategies, why are you mocking me?" Could it be that the iron spear in my hand is not good? ”

Ah Gui gritted his teeth, and also raised the iron spear in his hand to point at Ma Chao, and said in a trembling voice:

"Meng Qi, let's not hurt the harmony, if you have to fight with me, I am not afraid of you!"

Ma Chao stared at Agui's face and said hatefully:

"Okay, don't hurt the peace, you go to catch Chang Diao yourself, and I won't accompany you!"

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