Chapter 355: Fraudulent Death
Of the three forces, the strongest actual strength is naturally the Pangguo, which occupies a favorable south of the Pangjiang River, not to mention, and also has 30,000 excellent iron cavalry and more than 100,000 infantry. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Silk Kingdom is the second, with the same number of infantry as the Pan Kingdom, although it has the least land, but it is all rich in plains, and the national strength is the strongest.
The strength of Dongshu is the largest among the three major forces, the infantry has reached more than 200,000, and the territory is also the largest.
Therefore, the internal forces are intricately intertwined, almost scattered, with more than 200,000 infantry, but the actual combat effectiveness is the worst.
And although the territory occupied is the largest, there is no danger to defend, and there is no rich water conservancy land in the jurisdiction.
It's just that because of the orthodox name of the royal family, the Pangguo and the Silk Kingdom are jealous of each other, so naturally they can't take the initiative to crusade against Dongshu.
The entire Shu Kingdom now seems to be a three-legged stand, but the Pan State and the Silk Kingdom are opponents of each other, and they do not regard the scattered Dongshu as an opponent, but they can contain the real opponent.
The predecessor of the Silk State was known as a think tank, and there were many strategists under it, so naturally there was no shortage of people who were good at lobbying, and they constantly went to Dongshu to lobby, intending to unite and destroy the strongest Pang State first.
Although Dongshu is a plate of scattered sand, King Tu is not an ordinary person, how can he not see the situation of the entire Shu Kingdom.
Tuwang can also be regarded as a person with great ambitions, and has been trying to integrate all the forces in the country and integrate them into an iron plate, and then the real strength is the first, and it will be more certain to win the world.
It's just that it was very easy to integrate those small forces at the beginning, and they didn't experience any bloody battles, and it was really difficult to integrate them at this time.
What's more, how could the Silk Kingdom give Dongshu time to integrate the domestic forces, and after some planning by many strategists, it designed a sneak attack on the Nancheng of the Pangguo Kingdom.
Nancheng is north of the Panjiang River and is one of the few cities on the north bank of the Pangguo, but it is the most important pioneer city and one of the sharp knives attacking the Pao.
The Pangjiang River is a natural hazard in the Pangjiang State, and all the south of the Pangjiang River is the territory of the Pangjiang State, and Lu Zhan personally sits in Xiacheng, so there is basically no worries.
Therefore, Ran Jin took most of his troops and stationed them in several cities north of the Pangjiang River to fight a decisive battle with the other two countries.
Even if Lu Zhan had a rebellious heart, or if there were other changes, Ran Jin was actually not worried, because most of the troops were in his hands, and there were thousands of sailors, as long as he killed back, there would be no one to stop him south of the Pangjiang River.
With these guarantees, Ran Jin took most of his troops without worries, stationed in several cities north of the Pengjiang River, and confronted the other two countries, as long as there was an opportunity, he would pounce on it and destroy the Silk Kingdom first.
Since Ran Jin is in several cities north of the Pangjiang River, his most important advisor, Huangshi Zhenren, is naturally also in these cities.
Ran Jin almost obeyed the words of Huangshi Zhenren and called him his father-in-law, and the relationship between the two was also very deep.
It is precisely in response to this point that many strategists in the country of Silk want to separate their father and son, and all kinds of strategies have been devotive, but in the end they have not succeeded.
In this way, it is enough to show that the relationship between the two is very deep, and the general factors are inseparable at all.
So after some planning, many strategists of the Silk Kingdom came up with another trick, that is, the Silk Kingdom deliberately exposed its flaws and lured Ran Jin to personally send troops to attack.
Ran Jin received a secret report that Long Qian, the first general of the Silk Kingdom to guard Xiancheng, led most of the troops of Xiancheng to prepare for a sneak attack on the capital of Dongshu.
Capture the king of Tu in one fell swoop, and then you can combine the forces of the Silk Kingdom and Dongshu to attack the Pan Kingdom.
When Ran Jin learned of the strategic intention of the Silk Kingdom and wanted to take the initiative, of course he would ask Huangshi Zhenren's opinion, and finally concluded that he must stay in Nancheng on the north bank of the Pangjiang River to prevent another sneak attack, and at the same time, it is taboo for soldiers to go deep alone.
But of course, it was not appropriate to let the enemy grow, and finally decided to send his most powerful general, Ma Chuan, to lead 10,000 iron cavalry, to attack the flawed Xiancheng, and the order was to retreat immediately after the battle, and absolutely not to be entangled.
After Ma Chuan received the order, he naturally did not dare to slack off, and immediately led 10,000 elite iron horsemen to attack the more important Xiancheng of the Silk Kingdom.
Xiancheng is extremely important to the country of Pao, not only the throat of the place, but also a large city of grain production, one of the seven veritable granaries of the country of Pao.
When Long Qian learned the news of Ma Chuan's raid, he must have led his troops back to help, otherwise he would lose the granary and throat of Xiancheng.
Ma Chuan marched all the way and soon arrived at Xiancheng, but according to the vanguard, Xiancheng was in a battle at this time.
Ma Chuan felt strange, but he didn't dare to weaken his strength by two forces, because he was alone.
So without doing anything, Ma Chuan led 10,000 iron horsemen to kill directly to Xiancheng, but found that the entire Xiancheng was a purgatory, with corpses all over the field, rivers of blood, and ten rooms and nine emptiness.
Ma Chuan saw countless women, children, and children brutally murdered, and he quickly understood that someone was slaughtering the city.
Eventually, someone came to report that a group of people wearing the uniforms of the Pangguo army were fleeing to the north of Xiancheng, where the mountains were high and dense, but it was a very suitable place for ambush.
Although Ma Chuan was angry with the city slaughterer, he did not pursue it again.
He vaguely felt that it was not good, and when he came to the rich city of Xiancheng, it was an empty city, and the civilians were slaughtered, and he felt that he had been tricked.
Ma Chuan did not wait long, and immediately withdrew with all his troops.
After returning to the country safely, Ma Chuan did not ease down, and although he did not encounter direct danger during this trip, he felt that he had been tricked.
Sure enough, within a few days, a shocking news spread.
Ma Chuan, the general of the Pangguo Kingdom, raided the city, not only looted the food and money in the city, but also ordered the slaughter of the city, turning the entire rich city into a dead city.
Doing such an angry thing naturally caused Ma Chuan's prestige and reputation to be greatly damaged, and it also affected the reputation of the country.
Through the intelligence of his subordinates, Ma Chuan finally learned that this was a conspiracy of the Silk Kingdom.
When this game was laid out, the most ideal result was naturally to attract Ran Jin to go in person.
If Ran Jin continued to pursue to the north of Xiancheng, there would indeed be an ambush in the mountains and dense forests, and it was Long Qian, the number one general of the Silk Kingdom, who was waiting there.
However, Ran Jin listened to Huangshi Zhenren's opinion, was not fooled, and sent Ma Chuan there.
This is actually expected by many strategists in the country of Pakistan, this result is worse than the first one, although the effect is worse, but it will also greatly damage the strength of the country.
Based on the understanding of Ma Chuan by the advisors of the Silk Kingdom, Ma Chuan is a jealous and hateful person, and he should continue to pursue the city slaughterer in anger.
But where did he think that in the face of the major rights and wrongs, Ma Chuan was much calmer than these people imagined, and he retreated directly, not continuing the pursuit at all, and the ambush was naturally useless.
Even so, there is a last resort to this plan of many strategists in the country of Pao, as long as the country sends people there, they will be tricked.
That is, in order to win, they did everything they could, and all of Long Qian's subordinates pretended to be the army of the Pangguo Kingdom, and slaughtered the city first, leaving only a small number of live mouths, and used them to spread the news.
When Ma Chuan learned all this, he was first angry, and it was a trivial matter that he was put in danger.
He didn't blame too much about what the country did, and if he wanted to achieve some strategic goals, he could use any method, as long as it was not publicly known.
Ma Chuan was angry about the war itself, which was a cruel test, and he secretly determined to end this chaos as soon as possible and give the entire Shu Kingdom a stability.
However, Ma Chuan knew that he was more dangerous now.
Although Ran Jin knew that the slaughter of the people who sacrificed the city was done by Long Qian, the general of the Silk Kingdom, Ma Chuan is now a pivotal person in the Pang Kingdom, and there is even a tendency to overshadow the master.
It is very likely that Ran Jin will take the opportunity to get rid of Ma Chuan in order to prevent future troubles.
Ma Chuan thought about it for a long time, his current state of mind was almost sharpened, even if he wanted to give Shu a stable state, he didn't need to stay in the Peng country, otherwise he would be really dangerous.
Ma Chuan finally decided to cheat to death, and he took the initiative to fight with the country of Silk before Ran Jin was in trouble, and finally disappeared in that war.
This caused a big shock in the entire Shu Kingdom, among the three forces.
Due to the departure of Ma Chuan and the rumors of the slaughter of the city, the situation of the entire Pangguo is changing, and the position that was originally overwhelming has been shaken.
The Silk Kingdom took the opportunity to unite with Dongshu and prepared to launch a large-scale attack on the Pan State, first defeating the overwhelming Pang State.
The Kingdom of Silk and Dongshu are gathering troops to the Kingdom of Pang, making final preparations for war.
After Ma Chuan's death, he naturally did not leave Shu Kingdom, nor did he try to find a way to restore his cultivation, his state of mind was still one chance to break through, and he decided to do something that he thought was very righteous, that is, to get rid of Long Qian, the first general of the Silk Kingdom.
In addition to speeding up the unification of Shu, making Shu completely stable and giving civilians a stable living environment.
There is another reason, that is, Long Qian, as a famous general, would actually carry out such an angry order as slaughtering and sacrificing the city, just to fight the country.
Ma Chuan wanted to get rid of Long Qian, so naturally he didn't personally kill Long Qian's camp and then kill him directly.
Because although he has some skills now, it is still a fool's dream to fight among thousands of troops and horses and take the head of the general.
Ma Chuan has been fighting in Shu for more than ten years, and he has always attacked head-on, and has never used conspiracy and trickery.
But this time, in order to deal with Long Qian, Ma Chuan decided to use it once, and he used his own way to treat his body.
In the hometown of Long Qianguo, there is an elderly lady.
Ma Chuan also heard that Long Qian was a famous filial son, so he decided to infiltrate the country of Bao, capture Long Qian's wife, and then implement his plan.
Ma Chuan actually doesn't need to wear a disguise, he just needs to take off his battle robe, put on his hair again, and become an ordinary old man.
He has been a general in the country for more than ten years, but he wears armor and helmet all the year round, rarely shows his white hair, plus he is brave and good at fighting, and his kung fu on the battlefield is more powerful than some young and strong generals.
Over time, in the rumors of both sides of the enemy, Ma Chuan is a burly and majestic middle-aged general.
Therefore, Ma Chuan's most obvious feature is that when he fights on the battlefield, there is a black and white bear sleeping on his shoulder, and even if the black and white bear falls into a deep sleep, it will firmly grasp something and it will take a lot of effort to take it off.
So when Ma Chuan went to the battlefield, the black and white bears slept on his shoulders and never left him.
To infiltrate the country of Silk, Ma Chuan naturally had to cover up the obvious feature of the black and white bear, and finally used a burden to put the black and white bear in it, and then went to the country of Silk on his back.
Along the way, Ma Chuan was extremely low-key, did not invite disasters or cause trouble, and he looked like a weak old man, so there was really no danger.
After more than ten days, Ma Chuan rushed to Long Qian's hometown and easily found his wife, an old lady in her seventies.
Long Qian, as a general of the Silk Kingdom, of course, has a very large family, not only lives in a big city, but also is a famous family, with a deep mansion and a large number of servants.
Fortunately, Ma Chuan was prepared, pretending to be a fortune teller, blending into Long Qian's mansion, and through words that could predict good fortune and bad luck, he won the trust of Long Qian's old lady, and directly invited him into Long Qian's mansion to meet.
As an opponent, Ma Chuan knows the natural dragon diving very well, and he will add some things to the old lady, and the old lady loves her son very much, so she naturally believes in him.
Ma Chuan successfully settled in the Dragon Mansion, and originally wanted to make up a good reason to trick the old lady out of the Dragon Mansion, but suddenly found that the guard force of the Dragon Mansion was not strong.
It's no wonder that the location of the Dragon Mansion is naturally the hinterland of the Silk Kingdom, which is in an absolutely safe zone, who would have thought that someone would sneak into the Dragon Mansion and take hostages as a threat.
Moreover, the weak protective force of the Dragon Mansion is also relative to masters like Ma Chuan, under normal circumstances, hostile forces will not send such masters, and the lone army will infiltrate the enemy country to capture hostages.
Because a master like Ma Chuan can be used on a frontal battlefield or to protect his own high-level officials, or even for more important target assassinations, they can be more effective.
In the dead of night, Ma Chuan sneaked directly into the old lady's residence, stunned her, and took her out of the Dragon Mansion, which was really unaware.
As soon as he got out of the Dragon Mansion, Ma Chuan dived in a secluded place in the city.
He can only bet on those subordinates in the Dragon Mansion, and he will not find out that the old lady is missing at night.
As a result, Ma Chuan expected correctly, there was nothing to do all night, and when it was dawn the next day, as soon as the city gate opened, Ma Chuan took the old lady out of the city smoothly.
Then he bought a carriage outside the city and slowly drove to the place where the three forces were ready to fight.
Ma Chuan was so calm and relaxed, he naturally decided that in the hinterland of the country now, there must not be many troops, and where to divide how many troops to find an old lady.
What's more, Long is on the front line, and he must have a lot of opponents, and local forces may not go all out to find his wife.
And the Tu King should know about this soon, except for secretly sending people to find it, he definitely doesn't dare to let Long Qian know, otherwise with Long Qian's temperament, it will definitely affect the battle ahead.
Ma Chuan hurried away in such a hurry, and sure enough, he did not encounter any pursuers and searches.
After the old lady woke up, Ma Chuan directly told her half-truths that he would take her to find Long Qian, saying that Long Qian missed her.
The old lady quickly believed Ma Chuan's words, ate well and slept well along the way.
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