63. Several heroes in Liangzhou

When we saw his father's blue face, the horse's inner mood was extremely complicated.

There is anger, panic, and a hysterical impulse.

The anger started with seeing Ponde. Then he turned to look at Ma Dai, who lowered his head in shame and fear.

I was panicked because I was like a tiger falling into a trap. I was obviously trying my best to pounce, but I was completely lost. I was still not sure and crashed into the trap set for me.

As for the final impulse, Ma couldn't explain it clearly. Perhaps it was the impulse in his heart when he was young when he heard Ma Teng talk about the story of Ban Dingyuan pacifying the Western Regions.

Ma Teng stopped two feet away. He looked at the horse with a complicated expression, his thick lips tightly pursed, and did not immediately give an order.

He was waiting, and as for what he was waiting for, it might be an explanation from Ma.

Unfortunately, besides the whistling sound of the wind, the horse that stopped his body looked at the soldiers surrounded by soldiers. His cold face was covered with a layer of haze, but he didn't say a word and refused to speak for a long time.

"Take it!"

Ma Yi, who was beside Ma Teng, could no longer hold back when he saw that Ma Teng had not taken action. He waved his hand anxiously and ordered the soldiers around him to come forward to get people.

"I see who dares to come!"

The sword in the horse's hand was unsheathed, and a cold shadow passed through the air. The soldiers wearing armor and holding spears were intimidated by his power. They stopped one after another, and no one dared to step forward for the moment.

After all, it is Ma Mengqi, the bravest army leader!

Even if there is no heavy armor spear and no good horse, as long as the horse can still stand, he still has weapons in his hand, and the soldiers armed with armor have a sense of fear in their hearts and dare not approach too much.

"Rebellious son!"

When Ma Teng, who was burly, saw the scene where the horse still wanted to resist, the anger accumulated in his chest could no longer be suppressed. He angrily scolded in public. He had been fighting for many years and was still agile. He rushed towards the horse with his big strode forward, raised his kick, and kicked it straight into the horse's stomach.

Ma could have avoided this kick, but because it was Ma Teng, he hesitated for a moment and did not dodge it.

Then, in the next moment, this heavy kick kicked the horse in the stomach, and the powerful force kicked the horse out directly. The flying horse fell to the ground hard, stirring up a faint dust.

Ma Teng's full strength kick was very heavy!

The severe pain spread from his stomach all over his body. The dizzy horse's throat turned sweet and blood spilled out of the corner of his mouth, but he still struggled to get up, but the long-awaited soldiers had already surged up, and he was pressed to the ground with all his hands and feet.

Even the horse's personal guards were quickly disarmed in front of countless spears and fell to the ground in panic.

Ma Dai was not arrested. He hesitated for a moment, but walked to the side where his uncle Ma Teng was.

"Brother, look, you see, the former Chief Pang sent someone to report, but you don't believe it, now it's fine, the evidence is conclusive, but Meng Qi rushed into the camp and was really hard to say what he wanted to do. But now, even the envoy of Hedong was alarmed. If this matter is not handled well, I'm afraid that the surrender is a matter of surrender-"

Ma Yi said a few more words without missing the opportunity, and it was not until Ma Teng's sharp eyes swept to him that he closed his mouth in disappointment.

"I will deal with this matter and will not mislead everyone's future!"

Ma Teng left just this sentence, then turned around and left with the sergeant who was escorting Ma and others.

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The next day, Ma Teng met with two Hedong envoys, Wei Ji and Zhao Hong.

As an explanation of the incident in the army last night, some soldiers rushed to another account. Ma Teng chopped the heads of the ten personal guards of Ma Na to win the trust of Yu Wei Ji and Zhao Hong.

Then, Ma Teng had also decided that in order to express his loyalty to surrender to the court, he would send his eldest son Ma to Hedong Camp as a proton, and would then send two military academies, Pang De and Ma Dai, to lead one thousand cavalry and two thousand infantry as friendly forces to assist Yan Xing in resisting the invasion of Han Sui's army.

As for the other people, he personally led them to surrender to the court within two days.

This promise Ma Teng made was full of sincerity, whether it was his eldest son or more than one-third of his troops.

Wei Ji and Zhao Hong got the exact promise of Ma Teng's surrender and were overjoyed. They knew that this time they both fulfilled their mission and made great contributions, and each took a big step forward in their long-term future.

On the same day, Wei Ji and Zhao Hong took Ma Teng's envoy, as well as the "escorted" Ma, Pang De and Ma Dai, two Xiliang Military Academy and the troops they led, to the camp of Hedong's troops.

On the third day, Ma Teng, who received a confirmation from Hedong, ordered the entire army to burn the camp to show that he had no hesitation. Then he led the army out of the valley entrance and rushed to the Hedong camp to surrender to Yan Xing.

At this point, the military battles in Fengyi County finally stopped in a relatively peaceful way.

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Fufeng County, Wugong City, on the thick rammed earth wall.

The news of Ma Teng surrendering to the court has not yet reached Han Sui's army so soon. However, Li Pian, who is a general under Han Sui, is now holding the hard walls and looking at the camps of his own soldiers outside the city, frowning tightly.

For some reason, the closer he got to Guanzhong, the stronger the uneasiness in his heart became.

The land in front of me is a good place, but it is on this land that the blood of the heroic and cool people has been shed.

In the sixth year of Zhongping, Chen Cang fought. The members of Jincheng, who were assigned to the left by the kingdom, followed the elite cavalry of the Wang family father and son, and were destroyed. Even Li Pian's sworn brothers, Yan Xing and Zhao Hong of Jincheng, have no news since then, and their lives and death are unknown.

However, the Longxi families who were still captured by Han Sui preserved their strength intact. After briefly repelling the entanglement of pursuing the Han army, they successfully retreated into the city between Wei and Yu, and then retreated to Liangzhou along Longguan Road.

Li Pian, who successfully escaped from the defeat of tens of thousands of corpses, then destroyed the kingdom and returned to Longxi to make a smooth journey. He killed the generals and snatched the flags many times and broke the city first, making him a dazzling new star in the generals under Han Sui's command.

Although Han Sui's army suffered another defeat near the Ba River when he was seeking Guanzhong in the fifth year of Chuping, the biggest loss of that time was the Ma Teng army, who was in the brunt of the brunt. Han Sui's men and horses suffered a small loss, and even the troops under Li Pian were not greatly damaged.

Later, Ma Teng and Han Sui turned against each other and suddenly raised an army to attack Han Sui. In the midst of chaos, Li Pian and Cheng Gongying desperately protected Han Sui and escaped. This was why Han Sui led his army to counterattack Ma Teng, defeated Ma Teng's army, and killed Ma Teng's wife, children and family members.

After this battle, Li Pian, who had the background of the Li family in Longxi and was skilled in archery and horses, became Han Sui's most respected and trusted confidant general. Han Sui even married his daughter to Li Pian, making Li Pian his son-in-law.

If we compare it vertically, in the past ten years, Li Pian has gradually risen from a small surname from the Li family in Longxi to rely on the Han family in Jincheng, and has also become a son-in-law of the strongest force in Liangdi. It can be said that it has been smooth sailing and a smooth journey.

But if compared from a horizontal perspective, there are still things that make Li Pian feel uneasy.

Although Han Sui's power has increased in the past decade, from the third and second forces to the first power of Liangzhou, Han Sui has been unable to unify Liangzhou due to various constraints in nominal and strength.

Especially after the defeat of the Ba River in the fifth year of Chuping, the Chang'an court took the opportunity to appoint a new governor of Liangzhou, and the four counties across Hexi were Yongzhou, and appointed the governor of Yongzhou to take office.

This move may mean to stabilize Liangzhou, or to establish a strong military town in Longyou for the Chang'an court to check and balance the plans of the Xiliang army that dominated Guanzhong at that time. However, no matter what, the two new governors appointed by the court brought new constraints to Han Sui.

If, according to the idea of ​​Li Jue in power, Liangdi did not accept Wang Hua and took power as a hero. There were many heroes in Qiang and Hu, and all Han people in counties and counties were separatist. Wei Duan, who was a scholar, and Handan Shang was afraid that on his way to take office, he would be intercepted and killed by the powerful men who would separatist the counties and counties on his way to take office, and ended up with Jin Shang and Hushou who rushed to Guandong to take office.

However, Li Jue was still wrong. Not only were there unruly people in Liangdi who refused to accept Wang Hua and took power as a hero, but there were also many, so many that they would restrain each other, leaving behind loopholes that foreign officials could exploit.

In order to compete with the power of the Han family and the Wuwei Ma family from Jincheng, many major families of Jiang, Yan, Ren, Zhao from Hanyang County actively supported Wei Duan as the governor of Liangzhou. Wei Duan also took the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and enlisted the children of many major families into the prefecture. He successfully relied on the power of the Hanyang family and gained a firm foothold in Hanyang County.

The Handan Shang, who rushed to Wuwei County, was the son of the "Sanming of Liangzhou". With the reputation of his father and his own civil and military skills, the military forces fought fiercely, and his group successfully arrived in Guzang City.

Later, Handan Shang also borrowed the power of Yan, Wang and Pang from Wuwei County to successfully gain a foothold in Hexi.

In this way, the Liangzhou was divided into three forces except for the stability of the county and county that was unable to defend in the early years.

The Han family in Jincheng, who controlled the three counties of Jincheng, Longxi and Wudu. Wei Duan, the governor of Liangzhou, nominally controlled the richest Hanyang County and Nan'an County, which were divided from Hanyang County, and could also remotely control some counties and border towns in Wudu, Anding, and the northern part of the court.

The smallest power of Handan Shang and Zhang Meng combined civil and military affairs, nominally controlled the four counties of Hexi, and the fundamental control lies in the richest Wuwei County among the four counties of Hexi.

Of course, there are many separatist forces such as Song Jian, Huang Ang, and Yan Jun under the rule of these three forces, as well as Qiang and Di tribes like Qiang and Di, Lu Shuihu, who surrender and rebel.

Therefore, these three forces are loose alliances in which you have me and I have you.

As for Ma Teng, who was defeated by Han Sui, he left Longguan early under the exclusion of these three forces and went to the garrison between Weiyu to eat.

This is also the reason why Han Sui, after defeating Ma Teng, faced the Wei Duan and Handan Business Alliance, who were dependent on each other, but was unable to dominate Liangzhou for a long time.

The inability to unite Liangzhou and form a unified alliance between the various families will inevitably limit the growth of Han Sui's power. This time, Han Sui must leave a soldier in Liangzhou to prevent Wei Duan and Handan Shang, who have always tried to protect themselves.

This is the first thing that made Li Pian uneasy.
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