Yu returned to Guzang, Chonghua wanted to be called the king of Liang, but he refused to accept the edict, so that Shen Meng, who was close to him, said privately: "The lord Yi Shi is a loyal minister of Jin, and now he is not as good as Xianbei, why not?" The imperial court named Murong Hao as the king of Yan, and the lord was the general, how could he praise the loyal and virtuous! Mingtai should move the river to the right, and persuade the state lord to be the king of Liang. The ministers are envoys, and they are dedicated to the society. Gui said: "My son lost his words! The kings of the past three generations are also, and the nobles of the lords are more than the dukes; and the decline of Zhou, Wu and Chu were known as kings, and the princes were not wrong, and they were covered with barbarians; By making Qi and Lu kings, wouldn't the princes attack them from all sides! Han Gaozu enshrined Han and Peng as kings, and they were all destroyed. The saint is loyal to the noble duke, so the lord and the duke, let the uncle, the favor is extremely honorable, how can it be compared! And I have heard that there are big and small merits, and there are heavy and light rewards. Now your father succeeded the world and became the king, if the people on the right side of the handsome river, Dongping Hu, Xuan, repair the mausoleum, welcome the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang, how can it be added? "Chonghua is stopped. The king of Ming and the king of Wudu Di had a bad relationship at the beginning, confronted the military and Xingguan, and attacked each other.

---- Introduction

Yang Xu came out of Nanzheng, was blown by the cold wind, and immediately sobered up, knowing that he had drunk too much, and said something that he wanted to say but should not say. Yang Xu saw the dejected entourage and the Liangzhou army who were eyeing the "escort" behind, and he didn't know what to do? Is this Liangzhou Assassin Shi Zenghua making too much of a fuss, isn't it just asking for a job? That's what the big guys do, I recruited you to provoke you? Just for this you bombed me out of the winter, and even swallowed the gift from the previous court, it was too dark.

But Yang Xu and the others didn't dare to say much, and the hands of the Liangzhou Army sergeants behind them were pressed on the waist knife. But how do you explain it when you go back? Yang Xu rode on the horse and thought about it, let's go back first.

So Yang Xu and his entourage had no choice but to run back to Wudu in a gloomy manner and explain the situation to Yang Chu and ask for guilt.

When Yang Chu heard this, he immediately became angry. According to the usual practice, he went to Jiankang on the table, and then the Jin family would reward the official position according to the requirements of the "implicit penmanship" on the table, which is the "unspoken rule" of the "foreign vassals" now, and it is already an open secret. It's just that Yang Xu said it with a big mouth for a while, and you don't have to react so much! It's not that I want your official position, what's in the way of you?

Yang Chu was even more distressed by the pile of "offering" gifts. In order to win over the relationship with the Jin family, Yang Chu made a bloody investment, but he was "sent" and sent out, but he didn't get a single hair.

So Yang Chu decided to go to Nan Zheng and find this neighbor to have a good theory. The folks in the big hometown don't need to make such a fuss. But the news from Wuxingguan suddenly made Yang Chu angry, it seems that this Liangzhou assassin is not making a big fuss, but making a big fuss.

According to the rumors, the history of Liangzhou thorns spread everywhere, denouncing the chief of Wudu for not thinking about the grace of heaven and disobeying the king, according to the counties of Qinzhou, claiming to be the king. In the text, the history of Liangzhou thorn counts all kinds of bad deeds in the history of the old Yang family. During the Jian'an period at the end of the Han Dynasty, Yang Teng, the ancestor of the Yang family, followed Ma Chao, Han Sui, and Yang Qiu of Liangzhou, together with the chief of Xingguo, Agui, rebelled against the Xuchang court (Cao Cao Wei regime), and then the army was defeated and fled into Shu Han. Emperor Taizu Wu (Cao Cao) of the former Wei Dynasty gave mercy to the rest of the ministry and only moved Fufeng and Tianshui. And Yang Teng didn't think about heaven's grace, and continued to follow Shu Han to fight against "China".

In our dynasty, Yang Feilong, the ancestor of the Yang family, was given the title of the imperial court, and he pretended to be the general of the west, and Enzhun led his troops to live in Luoyang. In the sixth year of Emperor Hui Yuankang, the Xiongnu, Lu Shuihu, Yong, and Qin Erzhou were in rebellion, and the Di people Qi Wannian was called the puppet emperor. Yang Feilong's nephew Ling Hu Maosou (Yang Maosou) did not think about the emperor's favor and did not want to serve the country, but took advantage of the chaos to call himself the general of the auxiliary country, the king of Youxian, and cut the two counties of Qinzhou. The wolf's ambition has been around for a long time. Now that Cheng Han bowed his head, Qiu Chi did not want to return, but threatened the imperial court, and stood on his own without rewarding. How is such an act different from a plot to commit rebellion? Such a chaotic minister and thief, everyone will be punished.

After reading this copy of the Liangzhou Thorn Shi Wen, Yang Chu was so angry that his face turned blue, trembling all over, and he couldn't say a word. It seems that the writing of Nanping genius Che Yin is not bad, and it has some effect.

It was easy to wait for Yang Chu to come back to his senses, and the herald soldiers from Wuxing Pass dared to continue to report: "Liangzhou gathered more than 10,000 troops, gathered under Yangping Pass, blocked the road, wantonly insulted, and provoked to seek war. Wuxingguan did not dare to slack off, closed the door tightly, and asked the king to send reinforcements early. ”

As soon as the words fell, only Yang Chu's roar was heard in the entire Wudu Qiuchi Mansion. He was like a completely rampaging lion, with his hair upside down, dancing his hands, and yelling, venting his anger at Liangzhou Thorn Shi Zeng Hua, and vowing to chop Zeng Hua into pieces and feed them to the dogs. But Zeng Hua, who is far away in Nanzheng, doesn't care, anyway, he has been cursed by Li Shi like this, and he is not afraid of itching if there are more lice.

Soon, a series of orders were sent out from the Qiuchi Mansion, and the troops near Wudu were urgently recruited, together with the troops stationed on the front line of Qishan to defend Northern Zhao, a total of 10,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry, and quickly moved towards Wuxing Pass. Qiu Chi Guo had a total of less than 25,000 troops, and he had to defend the Zhao State in the north, Yang Chu still mobilized most of Ma Dong to fight with Liangzhou, and it seemed that Zeng Hua was very angry with him.

Zeng Hua of Nanzheng did not show weakness, moved the Yangwei general Mao Muzhi as the general of Zhenbei, moved to Fu County, and moved from Weiyang General Liu Jin, who led the 6,000 elites of the First Army and 1,000 Hanzhong soldiers to show off their might in front of Wuxing Pass. Then move the Weiyuan general Che Yin to fake Hanzhong Taishou, instead of Mao Muzhi to sit in Hanzhong Nanzheng. Zeng Hua sent Mao Muzhi, who was good at military strategy, to Fu County as the "former enemy commander-in-chief", and replaced his Hanzhong Taishou with Che Yin, who was more resourceful and resourceful and internal affairs, and seemed to have good intentions. Coupled with the First Army and the urgently recruited soldiers of the Hanzhong Zhichong Prefecture, they had a taste of drawing swords and crossbows and murderous spirits, which scared the Wuxing guards on the opposite side.

Then the general Zhang Qu of Wu Yi was transferred to Jinshou to lead the Second Army to move to Jinshou to threaten Yinping County in the south of Qiuchi, and authorized Jinshou Taishou Zhang Shou to command the soldiers of Jinshou Zhichong Mansion to cooperate with Zhang Qu's actions. Xu Dang, the general of Wulie, led the Left Wing Army of the Third Army Corps to move to Chenggu to defend the north of Hanzhong for Zhang Qu, and the Right Wing Army continued to garrison Xicheng.

Not only that, Zeng Hua also began to suppress Qiu Chi from public opinion.

Zeng Hua officially wrote to the imperial court to denounce Qiu Chi Yang Chu for "moral corruption, incorruptibility and shame, not thinking about the emperor's grace, plotting against the ministers, clearly being a vassal minister, but actually a traitor!" For this kind of person, even a petty official who keeps horses is exalting him. Therefore, it is strongly requested that the imperial court make a clear edict to the world and expose this scum to the world. ”

In addition to the signatures of General Zeng Huana Zhenbei and Liangzhou Assassin History, there are also the joint signatures of Mao Muzhi, Che Yin, Zhang Shou, Gan Rui and other Liangzhou officials. When the court received this table, it was confused, and it didn't know how Qiu Chi Yang Chu offended Zeng Hua and caused him to be so angry. The court thought about it, and it was not a way to delay, so it had to send someone down to investigate and mediate.

Not long after Zeng Hua was on the table, the name of Yang Teng, the ancestor of Yang Chu, was fortunate to become a supporting role in the Legend of the Three Kingdoms, a supporting role of great treachery and evil. He looked like a traitor with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, jumping up and down, following the butts of the anti-thieves Ma Chao, Han Sui, and Yang Qiu in Liangzhou, colluding with the chief of Xingguo Agui, fanning the flames, spreading rumors, and causing trouble, lest the world be chaotic. However, after the defeat, Yang Teng not only abandoned his comrades, but also ignored his subordinates and relatives, and only fled into Shu Han and went to add the ass of the Liu family of Shu Han. (In the Legend of the Three Kingdoms, it is more biased towards Cao Wei.) Because if Cao Wei is not Zhengshuo, then the Jin family that inherited Cao Wei's regime is even more doubtful. ）

After the propaganda of "official storyteller", the name of Yang Teng, a native of Qiu Chidi, stinks in Liangzhou, not only makes the people of Liangzhou unable to raise their heads, but even those surnamed Yang feel that they have no face to see people.

In the end, taking advantage of this enthusiasm, Qiu Chi's Yang family was quickly publicized as Yang Chu, who started from the old generation and has been bad until now, are all chaotic ministers and thieves who eat people's food and don't pull people's. If Yang Chu came to Liangzhou at this time, he would not be so angry that he vomited blood and died, but he would also be drowned by the people of Liangzhou who knew his identity.

When public opinion rose in Liangzhou and the people clamored to condemn Yang Chu, Zeng Hua, the "initiator", secretly concentrated six teams of 600 Mo Daomen from the three legions in South Zhengnan, divided them into two tuns, left and right, and directly under his own jurisdiction.

Then, Zeng Hua held a martial arts competition in the hands of these six hundred Mo swordsmen and selected two winners. In the end, Duan Huan, Duan Yuanqing, and Zhao Fu, Zhao Changjun, who were displaced from Beidi County in Yongzhou, stood out.

Duan Yuanqing is seven feet two inches tall (the reader himself calculates against the previous formula), majestic and majestic, with long arms and heavy strength, good at shooting bravely, he likes to carry a strong bow and a Mo knife into battle, and the far one shoots sharply with a bow, all of which are missed; Those who are close sweep with knives, and those who block are broken. One husband is invincible.

Zhao Changjun is seven feet tall, tall and thin but infinitely powerful, a 100-pound Mo knife dances like a straw, is good at fighting and killing, and likes to go into battle with a Mo knife and a horizontal knife. Within one zhang, the Mo knife is like a giant python stirring up water, and it is more like a tiger sweeping its tail; snatched closely, the horizontal knife is like a poisonous snake spitting letters, and it is more like a vicious wolf devouring food. Thousands of troops can't get close to him.

When Zeng Hua saw these two people, there were only stars in his eyes. This is simply a murder weapon in the world, a meat grinder on the battlefield. With these two brave buddies opening the way in front, plus the six hundred unstoppable and sweeping Mo swordsmen in the back, it is not a matter of killing gods and killing Buddhas when they see Buddhas. Immediately worship the two of them as the left and right Mo knife generals, and temporarily lead the left and right Mo knife hands. Since then, all those who have left and right Mo sword generals are all brave champions of the three armies, and those who are appointed feel honored.

And the commander of the left guard battalion, Le Changshan, and the commander of the right guard battalion, Wei Xingguo, are all famous for their bravery.

The fourth year of Yonghe finally arrived, just after the Shangyuan Festival, Zhang Shou sent someone to escort a person, saying that it was very in line with the "requirements" of the military master.

It turned out that Zeng Hua sent a letter to the county guards under his subordinates in the middle of the year, asking them to secretly search for people who were familiar with the terrain and roads of Qiuchi, and immediately sent them secretly to Nanzheng after finding them. Zhang Shou is one of the few people who knows the reason why Zeng Hua is looking for someone, so he is also the most dedicated to finding someone.

"What's your name?" Zeng Hua looked carefully at the kneeling person in front of him. The man was about twenty-five or six years old, with long, messy hair that he was tied with a random wooden branch. Wearing a wide and large linen robe, this old and ill-fitting robe should not have been his, but Zhang Shou asked someone to temporarily change it for him.

There were a pair of very attentive eyes on his thin black face, and although the owner of the eyes tried to lower his head as much as possible to hide it, the sharp gaze that occasionally shot out of those eyes was still captured by Zeng Hua. The figure hidden in the old robe looked a little thin, but Zeng Hua could still feel a kind of strength ready to attack, like a captured wolf, very tame on the surface, but under the tame appearance there was a rebellious heart, just struggling to endure it.

This is not a simple person. When Zeng Hua took a closer look, especially after seeing the hidden temperament and those eyes on his body.

"Back to the adult, the little one is called Jiang Nan." Jiang Nan replied respectfully.

"According to Lord Jinshou Zhang, you are very familiar with the terrain and roads of Qiuchi Wudu." Zeng Hua asked nonchalantly.

"Back to the adults, the little ones know a little bit about it." Jiang Nan replied.

Knowing a little bit about it, Zeng Hua couldn't help laughing, "Have you heard?" I had a falling out with Yang Chu of Qiu Chi, and I was fighting in Wuxingguan. ”

"Back to my lord, I heard others talk about it on the way. Everyone said that this Qiu Chi Yang family was not a good thing. Jiang Nan continued to bow his head and replied respectfully.

"Then what do you think of Yang Chu?" Zeng Hua then asked.

Jiang Nan hesitated for a while, but still bowed his head and replied, "Back to my lord, the Yang family doesn't have a good thing." ”

"Haha, that's good if you think so too." Zeng Hua couldn't help laughing, "Then have you guessed the purpose of me calling you here?" ”

"Back to the adults, the little ones don't dare to guess!"

Zeng Hua paused for a moment, then suddenly continued to ask, "Why are you familiar with the terrain of Qiuchi Wudu?" ”

Seeing that Jiang Nan was still hesitating there, Zeng Hua encouraged: "Jiang Nan, don't worry, what do you say!" At least I'm not your enemy! You have to believe in a little. ”

"Back to the adult, the younger one is the fugitive slave of Yang Chu's younger brother Yang An's family." Jiang Nan gritted his teeth and replied. When he escaped from Wudu, he fled to Jinshou after a lot of hardships, and the people of the village who took him in knew that he had escaped from Qiuchi in the north when they saw him, so he prepared a case in the government and became a slave of the government. Anyway, the relationship between Cheng Han and Qiu Chi was not very good at that time, and the slave labor for white did not need to be used in vain. So Zhang Shou asked someone to find out about him as soon as he flipped through the file. Jiang Nan knew that the senior official in front of him must know his details, and he deliberately asked himself this just now, depending on whether he confessed or not.

"Can you now guess why I'm looking for you?" Zeng Hua suddenly turned around and asked the previous question again.

"Little delusional guess, adults want to find a path to Qiuchi Wudu." Jiang Nan said loudly.

Interesting, this man is very smart. Zeng Hua nodded, asked the servant to prepare a seat next to him, and asked Jiang Nan to kneel and talk. Jiang Nan didn't say a word, and knelt down to sit over, but still lowered his head.

"Can you tell me how you escaped from Qiu Chi Nan?" Zeng Hua asked someone to bring a cup of tea, and then continued to ask.

Jiang Nan saw the coffee table and teacups placed in front of him, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, twisted his body there twice, and quickly calmed down and calmly told his story.

"A few years ago, I became a slave of the Yang An family, working as a cow and a horse, and I had a very difficult life. Later, I heard that Yang An was going to use twenty slaves to bury his concubine who died suddenly, and he had already designated him as a slave. Anyway, it's a death, it's better to fight. So I escaped with four slaves. We did not take the Western Han River, where the eastern part of the country was concentrated, but went west from the east side of the Qiang tribe to the Konghan Valley, and then from there along the Baishui River (now the Bailong River), carefully avoiding the Baishui Qiang, and turning the Motianling to Jinshou. I was in a panic all the way, lacking food and clothing, and in the end, I was the only one of the five people left to Jinshou, and I was arrested as an official slave and stayed for two years. ”

Zeng Hua couldn't help but nod after hearing this, it seems that it is even more unbearable than when I fled south, but I still have two brothers Gan and Zhang and hundreds of people at that time. Look at this Jiang Nan, you know that God is not thin on me.

"And do you remember those roads?" Zeng Hua is most concerned about this.

Jiang Nan thought for a while, nodded affirmatively and replied, "Go back to the adult, the little one won't forget that part of the road." ”

Zeng Hua was relieved, he asked several people, but no one could go around like this, most of them went directly down to Jinshou County along the Western Han River, or went straight down to Jinshou County from Yinping County. It seems that Zhang Shou has found the right person this time.

"That's good, think about it, if I take 2,500 people along the road you walked, how long will it take to reach the city of Wudu (now south of Xihe County, Gansu, at the foot of Qiuchi Mountain)? Will not be discovered by others. ”

"Back to my lord. It is rare for passers-by to pass through the Motianling from Jinshou, and they should not be afraid of being discovered. The key is when you cross the white water. There are tens of thousands of Baishui Qiang herdsmen there, and you need to be careful to avoid them. However, there are mountains and mountains, and Baishui Qiang mainly gathers around the Baishui River Valley, so we can go around it from a distance. Jiang Nan replied while pondering. When we arrived at Konghan Valley, it was the territory of the Qiang tribes of Tangchang, and we could pass through their east and go directly to the city of Wudu. If it goes well, it will only take 10 days. ”

After speaking, Jiang Nan added: "It is now the middle of winter, and when it is cold in early spring, the snow on the mountain has not yet begun to melt, and there may be snow days." At this time, the Qiang tribes would not easily leave the camp. ”

After Zeng Hua listened, he looked at Jiang Nan silently, and saw that Jiang Nan's heart was furious, and he was a little uneasy to sit there on his knees. This son is not an ordinary person, ordinary people flee for their lives, and he not only escapes for his life, but also feels the scene on the road clearly. With such a tenacious and knowledgeable person, Zeng Hua felt that it was the first time he had met him. Be sure to ask him about his details, and then subdue him!

After a long while, Zeng Hua said leisurely: "Jiang Nan, I have even discussed with you such a confidential matter as the attack on Wudu. Can you tell me about your old bottom? It also gives me peace of mind! ”

When Jiang Nan heard this, he immediately bowed his head and kowtowed: "The little ones don't dare, the little ones don't dare, the little ones just follow the meaning of the adults." ”

Jiang Nan did feel a little aggrieved, he was induced by you to say those words, and now he knows "major military secrets", and he wants me to hand over the old man, aren't you fooling me!

Zeng Hua didn't make a sound, just knelt there, pressed his right hand on the coffee table, and his index finger tapped the table in a rhythmic manner, the sound shook Jiang Nan's heart trembling, and finally he couldn't help it, and kowtowed: "The little one is the son of Jiang Cong, the Qiang chief of Angcheng (now Aba)." ”