"I have few soldiers, but Han Sui is outnumbered. Before the Han Sui rebels rested, they must first attack Liangzhou, pull out a city, and think they would defend it. In this way, I can advance and attack the rebels who are tired of the old soldiers of the division; You can retreat and defend, and the worst can also protect the rich and rich Sanfu from being poisoned by traitors. Ma Chao said calmly.

Since the crossing, he has quickly completed the transformation of his identity; Once the identity transformation is completed, Ma Chao's speed of thinking, analyzing, and solving problems is greatly accelerated. Like thinking about strategies and strategies, Ma Chao feels that it is much easier than writing a thesis.

Pound and Ma Dai both said: "Brother (Major General) is wise. ”

Pang De said: "Major General, although Longxian is the gateway to Liangzhou, there is still a dangerous place on the road to Longxian, which must be taken seriously. ”

Ma Chao walked to a huge cowhide map, which depicted the realm of Liangzhou and Sanfu, as well as many cities. Ma Chao looked at the map and saw that there were no other cities marked on the road from Chen Cang to Longxian, so he turned his head and asked Pang Dedao: "Ling Ming, where is the dangerous place you said?" ”

Pound said: "This place is called 'Street Spring Pavilion', also known as 'Street Pavilion'. When here. The street pavilion is close to the mountain road, and the terrain is dangerous: there is a south mountain in the south, and there is a river in the north. If Han Suicheng can take it and hold on and set up camp at the foot of Nanshan Mountain and beside the river, he will refuse our army to stay outside Liangzhou; And if the street pavilion is for me, if I get it, I can enter the counties of Liangzhou. Pound pointed his finger at the northeast corner of Longxian not far from the map.

Street kiosk? Ma Chao raised his interest. The loss of the street pavilion is the cause of Zhuge Liang's tears. That battle also made Zhang He's name move to the sea, forcing Zhuge Liang to withdraw from the three counties and flee back to Yizhou.

Ma Chao didn't expect that the battle of the Street Pavilion Ma Tan and Zhang He had not yet started, but he was about to start a battle in the Street Pavilion. At this time, Ma Chao calmed down and thought deeply: if Han Sui took down the street pavilion, he would be firmly blocked from Liangzhou; Han Sui was able to rest and recuperate, and after recuperating his strength, he would come east to the land of Sanfu with a thunderous momentum. In this way, the offensive and defensive momentum reversed, which was very unfavorable to him.

Pang De said: "The street pavilion is related to whether our army can directly enter Xiliang, and the last general asked the major general to allocate 3,000 cavalry to occupy the street pavilion first." ”

Ma Chao said: "Okay, the general will divide you into three thousand horses, and he will definitely take the street pavilion." Then he took the arrows and threw them on the ground.

"Whoa!" Pound picked up the arrow from the ground, made a salute, and immediately went to fetch the three thousand parts.

Ma Chao heard the sound of horses' hooves soon outside the tent, and secretly thought that this Pang De was really a strong general, and it didn't take long to immediately complete the operation of mobilizing the army. Ma Chao also secretly rejoiced that although his subordinates only had Ma Dai and Pang De at the moment, they were fortunate to be brave and resourceful and could take on heavy responsibilities.

Ma Chao said to Ma Dai again: "Where did my father march?" ”

Ma Dai said: "Yesterday, the meteor Malay reported that my father had broken through Gaoping City, which was two hundred miles northwest of our army. ”

Ma Chao thought about it, his father Ma Teng echoed him from afar, and he couldn't afford to lose. And Ma Teng has always loved him, Ma Chao can't let Ma Teng fall into danger. Ma Chao said: "Send a meteor horse again to remind my father to be careful of Han Wenyue's sneak attack." When I take the street pavilion and attack Longxian again, I can persuade my father to pretend to attack Han Sui's Yuzhong and disperse the rebels for me. ”

Ma Dai said: "Oh." ”

Ma Chao said: "Sleep peacefully tonight, pull out the camp early tomorrow morning, meet Pang De, and then attack Longxian with the whole army." ”

"Whoa!" The crowd agreed with a bang, and they all dispersed.

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Liangzhou, Hanyang County, Ji County, is like hell on earth.

Because Taishou Fu did not surrender to the death, it took ten days for the rebels led by Han Sui, Wang Guo, Li Wenhou and others to break the city. As soon as the fierce rebels rushed into Jicheng, they were the first to kill the hard-boiled Fu Bian, and then raised their butcher's knives against the people who helped Fu Bian defend the city, and more than 3,000 people were beheaded.

The entire city of Ji immediately became dead and lifeless. The inhabitants of the city hid in their homes and shivered too much to go out, because the streets were full of rebel soldiers. The thieves ran rampant in Jicheng, breaking into the doors at every turn, robbing the residents' goods and food, or forcibly robbing the people's women into the barracks, and committing adultery every day. If the people resisted, the thieves went on a killing spree.

The whole Jicheng is filled with a strong smell of blood, and the sound of crying and sobbing can be heard everywhere; Walking on the street, you don't have to go too far to see the corpses, some of which are hanging from trees on the side of the road, and some are lying on the cold bluestone slabs; If you are not careful, you will trip over the corpse and fall to the ground;

The dark red of the blood stain laid the basic color of the entire Jicheng, and the flocks of crows sniffed the smell of blood, hovering over Jicheng, and the sky was filled with sharp and strange crow calls, which made people frightened; The crows' sharp beaks peck at the carrion of the corpse, and the poor people who have been robbed of the grain will even compete with the crows for food, and the aroma of the meat after the corpse is cooked, like a ghost slowly wafting in the county of Jixian...... However, the people of Jicheng did not find it difficult to swallow. Eating the flesh of the dead is a common thing in Liangzhou.

In this piece of land in Liangzhou, there have been Qiang people in rebellion since Guangwu Zhongxing. Even now, the Liangzhou Rebellion has lasted intermittently for more than 100 years, and now it is not only the Qiang people, Di people, and Lu Shuihu people who are in turmoil, but even the local heroes in Liangzhou, such as Han Sui, Li Xiangru, Li Kan, Cheng Yin, and others, all have the anti-heart to make trouble and divide one side.

Liangzhou is not only the Qiang people in chaos, but everyone is actually in chaos. A hundred years of turmoil have caused barren fields and poor grain harvests. No matter how difficult life is, people have to live, so they have to eat human flesh; Cannibalism is also common......

There were no corpses around the Hanyang Taeshou Mansion, and there was a crowd of rebels guarding it, but it was more lifeless than the streets strewn with corpses.

In the main hall of the house, which originally belonged to Fu Bian's seat, stood the person who killed Fu Bian: a shriveled and thin little old man with gray hair; The people in the hall were divided into two teams, and they were all some vulgar and pickled generals, all of whom were heavy-haired and big-eyed.

That shriveled and thin little old man was Han Sui; There are two columns under the hall, there are generals Yan Xing, Wang Guo, Liang Xing, Hou Xuan, Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Zhang Heng, Cheng Yi, Ma Wan, Yang Qiu, Li Xiangru, Huang Yan and others. There was also a young scribe, named Cheng Gongying, who stood beside Han Sui.

Han Sui did not wear armor, but a scribe's dress; He turned his back to the crowd, facing a map hanging on the wall, his gray goatee rubbed by his long, thin fingers; The already small eyes are set off by the bags under the eyes, and they appear smaller, like two thin slits. But in those two thin cracks, two cold rays of light were projected, and the eyes of the yin owl kept focusing on the dots on the map that represented Chen Cangcheng. Han Sui kept staring at Chen Cangcheng, motionless, only his long, pointed nails slowly brushing his beard.

The generals all looked at Han Sui's somewhat rickety back, sitting upright, not daring to come out of the atmosphere, nor daring to move; The hall was so silent that only the rustle of Han Sui's beard and his slow and heavy breathing could be heard.