Soon, Cheng Yin, the candidate, Yang Qiu, and Li Kan led their generals to Longxi County to join Zhang Fei.

Of course, the process of leading their troops to Longxi County to join Zhang Fei was not very smooth.

After all, although the leaders of these Xiliang rebels were originally well-known local tycoons in Liangzhou, the strength of their family alone was not enough to support them to become warlords.

Even small groups of rebel warlords have a lot of supporters behind them.

Therefore, the quality of these small rebel armies is more complicated, their troops are actually not completely under their own orders, and many rebel generals in the army are actually controlled by the powerful people in Liangzhou.

Therefore, when these people wanted to entangle the soldiers and horses under their command and go to Longxi County to join Zhang Fei, only some of the generals and soldiers were willing to go to Longxi with them.

And the other part of the soldiers and horses who had a very secret relationship with the powerful in the west of Liangzhou, or could not be separated, these people immediately called for soldiers and horses, and created the rebellion of these warlord leaders who wanted to defect to Zhang Fei.

Cheng Yin, candidates, Yang Qiu, Li Kan and others did not dare to stay for a long time, after the internal strife broke out in their various departments, the four of them immediately expelled those who rebelled, and then led the entire remaining soldiers and horses to hurry towards Longxi County.

Of course, the process of expulsion was not so smooth, and there was bloodshed among the troops.

After Han Sui learned about this, he couldn't help but be furious, he immediately led 20,000 elite soldiers, and borrowed Ma Chao and other fierce generals from Ma Teng, and chased after Cheng Yin and others from the rear.

It was not that Han Sui was carried away by anger, but he knew that this incident had a great impact on the rebels.

Once these rebel leaders who betrayed him escaped to Zhang Fei safely and successfully, Han Sui's prestige plummeted.

When the time comes, the other small rebel leaders who are attached to him Han Sui will see that those rebel leaders who defected and returned to the imperial court are doing so well.

At the same time, after they betrayed them, Han Sui didn't do anything to them, so it was very likely to drive other people to have different intentions.

After all, there is no loss, no cost of defection, and everyone will want to give it a try.

Therefore, for these four bastards who dared to rebel, Han Sui must make them pay the price.

He wanted all to see what would be the result of daring to rebel against him.

Only by giving these four people the most severe punishment will everyone know how miserable the fate of betraying him Han Sui is, so that they can set an example.

However, what Han Sui could think of, Zhang Fei could also think of.

After following Liu Jian for so many years, and training in Youzhou border county for so many years, if he can't even think of this thing, or can't do it, then Zhang Fei is not qualified to be the general of the Liangzhou Construction Corps!

Zhang Fei quickly organized his soldiers and generals to ambush on the main road to Longxi County!

Han Sui was in a hurry to destroy the rebels from the Four Directions, so he was a little anxious about the speed of his troops, and he didn't even estimate that Zhang Fei would design an ambush for him.

In this way, on the high slope of loess north of Xiangwu, Zhang Fei and Xu Rong conducted a perfect ambush on Han Sui's army.

In this ambush, Zhang Fei used 5,000 elite crossbow machines that Liu Jian transferred to him from Hebei, and these crossbow machines are the latest crossbow machines newly produced in Hebei recently!

Hebei's crossbow machine can be said to be the biggest nemesis of cavalry, especially in this kind of ambush warfare, the damage to the opponent is even greater.

In this battle, almost half of Han Sui's 20,000 elite soldiers were slaughtered by Zhang Fei, and the number of lost soldiers exceeded 10,000.

For Han Sui, the fiasco commanded by him was the first time in his life!

The arrows released by the crossbow machine in Hebei were like covering the sky and the sun, and after several rounds of shooting, Han Sui's cavalry brigade was basically collapsed.

And at this time, Zhang Fei personally led the cavalry he brought from Youzhou to make a surprise attack!

The scattered Liangzhou rebel cavalry, which had already been shot by a strong crossbow, could only be beaten passively in the face of the sudden Youzhou cavalry.

They don't have a formation to defend themselves against each other.

Zhang Fei took the lead and led this elite cavalry to rush around in the opponent's battle array.

Han Sui himself could no longer withstand the pressure of this huge attack, and led his troops to retreat to the rear.

But among the rebels that Han Sui borrowed from Ma Teng, there was one general who couldn't stand it.2

This general is Ma Chao.

Ma Chao led a cavalry of his personal guards to kill Zhang Fei's flank in the chaos, and with his own bravery and sharpness, he used the spear in his hand to continuously fly several knights under Zhang Fei's command.

Ma Chao's brave performance soon attracted the attention of Zhang Fei and other Youzhou cavalry.

However, Zhang Fei did not take Ma Chao as his main goal, he still led the cavalry under his command, mainly to attack Han Sui's military formation and attack the living forces in the enemy army.

As for Ma Chao's harassment on the side, Zhang Fei just sent the generals under his command to block Ma Chao and not let him affect the progress of his main army.

However, although the Youzhou cavalry under Zhang Fei is all elite, it is not so easy to stop Ma Chao.

After all, Ma Chao is too fierce, and the guards around him are also elite knights in Ma Teng's army, these people are crazy to fight people, even the cavalry under Zhang Fei is a little powerless.

Just when Ma Chao was fighting bravely to kill the enemy, he saw that the vanguard of Zhang Fei's troops suddenly changed, and Zhang Fei himself held the Zhangba snake spear in his hand and suddenly rushed towards Ma Chao's location.

Zhang Fei's return gun was a little unexpected, and Ma Chao was very surprised.

He immediately adjusted his state and led his troops to fight Zhang Fei.

When it comes to youth and vigor, the current Ma Chao is indeed far more than Zhang Fei, but now Zhang Fei is in the prime of life, whether it is bravery, insight or courage, he is at the best peak moment!

Ma Chao fought against Zhang Fei at this age, but after all, he still looked a little immature.

Especially in terms of military experience, it is far from being enough compared to Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei is a famous general of the Han Dynasty, Ma Chao is very eager to compete with Zhang Fei, when he led his troops to fight with Zhang Fei, the cavalry of both sides are galloping on horseback, galloping back and forth on the Loess Plain.

Ma Chao shouted at Zhang Fei who was not far away, wanting to fight him.

In the face of Ma Chao's provocation, Zhang Fei was unmoved, he just rode his horse while ordering the sergeants under the defenders to carry out guerrilla attacks on Ma Chao's troops.

And Zhang Fei himself was charging and killing the enemy on his own, and in the face of Ma Chao's shouting and invitation, he didn't seem to hear it, and he didn't care about fighting with the other party at all.

Ma Chao was so angry when he saw that Zhang Fei despised him so much, so he rushed towards Zhang Fei's place even more fiercely. But he didn't expect that this would fall into Zhang Fei's strategy.

Zhang Fei had heard of Ma Chao's name from Lu Bu a long time ago, and knew that Ma Teng's son was very brave and good at fighting, even if he fought with Lu Bu for a long time, he did not fall behind.

For such a fierce general, Zhang Fei's original intention was to compare himself with him, but now Zhang Fei has a great responsibility, he is alone in the military mission of the entire Liangzhou, and it is impossible for him to fight to the death with a hairy young man in Liangzhou.

He just deliberately provoked Ma Chao's anger and made the other party more and more reckless, so that Zhang Fei could find an opportunity at any time and give the other party a heavy blow.

Ma Chao is too young, and his personality is also reckless, and his military experience is far inferior to Zhang Fei, so he suffers a big loss in this regard.

Soon, Ma Chao's sprint speed became faster and faster, and because he was too annoyed, the distance between him and the guards beside him gradually widened a little, and it was this distance that allowed Zhang Fei to find a full opportunity!

He suddenly ordered the avant-garde around him to take out the short crossbow around him and shoot at Ma Chao, who had broken away.

Where did Ma Chao think that Zhang Fei would actually use this kind of routine!

And the knights of the Hebei army hid short crossbows very deeply, at the beginning, Ma Chao didn't see that they actually had short crossbows, he thought at first that these Hebei cavalry were only good at archery at most.

How could they have thought that there was such a sharp weapon hidden around them!

In fact, this is because Ma Chao's combat experience is not enough, or his combat experience with the Hebei Army is not enough!

The craftsman manufacturing art of the Hebei Army was among the top in the Han Dynasty, and even the craftsmanship dedicated to the imperial court could not be compared with the weapons manufacturing of Hebei.

The soldiers and cavalry of Hebei have a large number of portable weapons and a variety of means of attack.

This matter is not a secret among the many enemies in Hebei, but the number of times Ma Chao has fought with the Hebei army is too small.

He doesn't have enough experience to deal with such an emergency!

Today, Zhang Fei taught Ma Chao a lesson!

The arrows fired by those short crossbows were different from ordinary arrows, which were both tricky and difficult to dodge.

Ma Chao's speed was too fast, and soon he was hit by an arrow in the right chest, but fortunately, the armor on his body was very thick, and the arrow did not hit his vital point, so it failed to take his life.

After Ma Chao was hit by an arrow, he roared and fell to the ground.

After the guards behind him saw it, they hurriedly galloped up, and before Zhang Fei and the others could react, they rescued Ma Chao from the yellow earth!

As soon as Ma Chao fell, the attacking morale of the army led by him was naturally discharged, and they could not continue to compete with Zhang Fei, so they could only retreat in a hurry.

And Zhang Fei relied on the advantage of the ambush and the morale of defeating Ma Chao to boost his morale, and continued to pursue deeply, fighting while driving Han Sui's army.

In this battle, Han Sui originally wanted to pursue Cheng Yin, Yang Qiu and other four people to establish Wei, but he didn't expect that Wei was not established, but in the end, more than 10,000 people and horses were lost, and Ma Teng's son Ma Chao was seriously injured, for the rebels in Liangzhou, this is enough to shake their military hearts!

Zhang Fei did not go too deep, after he expelled Han Sui, he collected the baggage and returned to Longxi County, he knew that it was not an overnight achievement to completely pacify Liangzhou, although the war was important, but the pacification work after the war was even more important.

After this war, Zhang Fei went back to collect the army of Cheng Yin, Yang Qiu, Candidate, and Li Kan, and at the same time appointed them as captains by the will of the imperial court, and rewarded them heavily, so that all the people in Liangzhou could see that as long as they were willing to surrender to the imperial court, even if they were rebels before, as long as they were sincerely obedient, they would have a good future and a good home.

Han Sui's soldiers and horses, as well as the situation of the candidates, Li Kan and the other four people, greatly hit the morale of the heroes in Liangzhou, and shook the determination of the Qiang people who supported the heroes.

The Qiang tribes in Liangzhou are not deeply bound to the powerful people in the counties of Liangzhou, they are also in order to survive better, so they help the local powerful against the Han court.

After all, the original imperial court was too far away from these Qiang tribes, and at the same time there was not enough protection for the local Qiang people, and the imperial court had not been ideal for Liangzhou's use of troops, which led to the local Qiang people always having a kind of resistance and contempt for the imperial court.

But with the arrival of Zhang Fei and Liu Biao, everything changed.

One of the tasks carried out by Zhang Fei and Liu Biao in the four eastern counties of Liangzhou is to give many preferential policies to the Qiang tribes, including farming, giving birth to children, etc., and the local government office will give subsidies to the Qiang people.

At the same time, as long as the Qiang people take the initiative to enter the origin of the Han nationality, Liu Biao's Liangzhou Thorn History Department will give them money and food subsidies.

This is also a strategy to expand the population of Liangzhou itself.

Zhang Fei and Liu Biao showed full friendship with the Qiang people, and Zhang Fei now won a big victory in Longxi County, which further boosted the prestige of the imperial court!

Therefore, many Qiang people who were originally swaying from side to side began to fall towards Zhang Fei and Liu Biao, which further fueled the arrogance of the Liangzhou Production and Construction Corps!

And Zhang Fei also took advantage of this shareholder trend and began to send people to Jincheng County to recruit local Qiang leaders and communicate with them secretly.

Jincheng County is the base camp of Han Sui and Ma Teng, if Jincheng County is taken, the rebels will basically be finished in Liangzhou.

At the same time, "On Yuan" has also been sent to Yuan Shao's hands, and now "On Yuan" has a great influence in the Han Dynasty.

Now the results of the public opinion offensive created by Liu Jian in various places have been spread to Yuan Shao's side.

Yuan Shao prepared a grand funeral for Liu Bian, the king of Hongnong, and the He family in Wancheng.

thought that it would deal a heavy blow to Liu Jian's momentum, but it turned out that everything he did was pediatric compared to what Liu Jian did, and it was useless.

Now the scholars in various places still have official and private schools, and they have great opinions on the fact that Yuan Shao sent troops to Hongnong County to seize the king of Hongnong and caused his death, coupled with the advent of "On Yuan", all the scholars are full of criticism of the evil deeds done by the Yuan family in the past.

In their opinion, the Yuan family has done a lot of shady things for several generations, and now it is normal for Yuan Shao to start this set of business again.

It seems that the death of King Hongnong is inseparable from Yuan Shao Bacheng.

There are also many rumors that Yuan Shao borrowed the death of King Hongnong to attack the prestige of the imperial court.

In short, in this war of pouring dirty water on each other, Yuan Shao completely lost to Liu Jian.

This blow is a big loss for Yuan Shao.

Public opinion about the death of King Hongnong hurt him greatly.

Of course, this matter is a double-edged sword.

King Hongnong also died because Liu Jian's army fought with Yuan Shao, so it is impossible for public opinion to point to Yuan Shao alone.

Of course, compared with Yuan Shao, Liu Jian was criticized by this wave of public opinion and his reputation was much less damaged.

After all, the person who suffered the most was still the Yuan family, and the death of King Hongnong made the internal instability of the Yuan Shao Group.

Although the war between the north and the south of the imperial court is still in progress, the overall situation is very unfavorable for Yuan Shao.

(End of chapter)