Youfufeng County, Huaili City.

On the night when the army was stationed, Li Li accompanied his family to move into the backyard of the county magistrate's mansion.

Do not avoid revenge on external responsibilities, and do not avoid relatives on internal abilities.

Nowadays, the prefect of Youfufeng County is Li Li's former rival, and his current father-in-law Ma Teng and Ma Shoucheng.

When the two prefectures of Yongliang were pacified three years ago, Li Li refused to blame Ma Teng's family for his past and asked Ma Teng to enjoy his old age in Hanyang with his wives and concubines. Until the end of last year, he made a detailed investigation and reported that Zhang Lu of Hanzhong was ready to move, as if he had done something wrong. At the right time, Li Li made a quick decision and decided to re-appoint Ma Teng as the prefect of Fufeng, stationed at the west gate of Jingzhao, stationed troops in Chencang, and resisted the Hanzhong troops' invasion of Chang'an.

In fact, Ma Teng is only in his forties now, and is just as old as a young and strong person. He is far from the level of unemployed retirement.

However, before pacifying Liangzhou, Ma Teng and Li Li were incompatible and fought each other in an irreconcilable manner. Therefore, when the Ma family army was wiped out, most generals suggested that Li Li execute Ma Teng to prevent future troubles. But at that time, both Ma Chao and Ma Yunluo had already taken effect, so they could not help but plead for his father Ma Teng, asking Li Li to let his father and the family go. It was in this situation that Li Li adopted a compromise method, allowing Ma Teng to settle in Jicheng with his wives and concubines to spend his old age in peace.

However, now that the war in Liangzhou has resurfaced, Youfufeng County, as the gateway to the Western Xinjiang of Jingzhao Sanfu, must have people with enough prestige to guard this place to ensure the security of Chang'an. As most of the people in Xiliang gathered on the front line of Hangu Pass to resist the princes of the Central Plains, it is said that in Liangzhou, it is impossible to ignore the prestige and intimidate the surrounding sluts, besides the late Jincheng Han Sui, Ma Teng is the best candidate.

After three years, Ma Teng still had an influence on the territory of Liangzhou that cannot be ignored, especially among the surrounding forces and many Qiang tribes. Ma Shoucheng's reputation was still very famous. At least, the Hanzhong Zhang Lu was very afraid of letting Ma Teng station in Fufeng County, so that the Hanzhong soldiers missed the best opportunity to capture Chencang Pass and attack Chang'an. All of this was caused by Ma Teng's sudden takeover as Fufeng Prefect.

Two months ago, Zhang Lu's brother, Hanzhong general Zhang Wei, led 30,000 troops to raid Chen Cang and attacked Chen Cang for three consecutive days. As he was about to break through the city gate, Ma Teng suddenly appeared at the top of the city, causing the originally low-spirited defenders to rise up in fighting spirit and fight to the death, causing the shaky Chen Cang Pass to survive the Hanzhong soldiers' strong attacks for a whole day and night. Zhang Wei, who led the attack to attack, was shocked and had no result. He had to withdraw his troops. Since then, Hanzhong soldiers have repeatedly attacked the city, but have never been able to advance, causing Chen Cang's offensive and defensive battles to fall into a stalemate, and continue to this day.

This is the war on the Eastern Front, and the opposite is that there is a Western Front battlefield in Wudu County. When Zhang Wei led his troops to raid Chen Cang, Yang Ang, the general under Zhang Lu's tent, led an army of 40,000 to attack Wudu County. Within half a month, he was unstoppable and occupied most of the Wudu County. It was not until Ma Chao led the Huben Camp that the offensive momentum of the Hanzhong soldiers was curbed, and then they entered the city to defend and confronted Ma Chao's army. This was the Western Front battlefield opened by the Hanzhong soldiers in Wudu County. The strength of the troops was even greater than that of Zhang Wei's troops who attacked Chen Cang. He confronted the Huben Camp for more than a month with 40,000 infantry and cavalry, and has not missed the defeat.

The battlefield on the Western Front was so ineffective, not that Ma Chao was incompetent in command, nor that the soldiers of the Huben Camp were not brave enough. Instead, the Huben Camp fought from Shuozhou to Bingzhou, and then rushed to Wudu County to continue fighting. The continuous battles lasted for ten months were not only sharply reduced, but also that the troops were trapped and the troops were defeated. Under such high-intensity continuous battle, even the iron-torn combat cavalry would be exhausted, let alone people?

Because of this, the Western Front battlefield was able to maintain the status quo. It was very rare to curb the offensive momentum of the Hanzhong soldiers. Therefore, Li Li mobilized the army to the west to fight, and the first thing he did was to send Zhou Yu to lead the Shuofeng Camp war cavalry to Wudu County to take over the defense line, replace all the Huben Camp war cavalry, and return to Chang'an to rest for a while.

At the same time, Li Li led the main army to Fufeng County and took over Chencang Pass, as the main battlefield of the central army in the western expedition of Hanzhong. Zhou Yu, as the deputy general of the central army, also led the main general of the Western Front battlefield, led the Shuofeng Camp to Wudu County, confronting Hanzhong general Yang Ang, waiting for an opportunity to use troops.

At this point, as the Western Liang army's troops and horses were gradually in place, the entire battle situation underwent fundamental changes.

Before this, Zhang Lu, Hanzhong and Zhang and Lu attacked on both sides, led 10,000 central troops to Yangping Pass, and then sent Zhang Wei, Yang Bai, led 30,000 troops to attack Chen Cang, and Yang Ang led 40,000 troops to attack Wudu County. The attack caught the Western Liang army off guard, defended the east side, missed the west side, and completely lost the opportunity, and lacked troops, and was in an extremely unfavorable situation. However, after Li Li won the battle of Sili, the main battle battalions returned to Liangzhou one after another. Zhang Lu's military strength advantage in Hanzhong was gone, and the momentum of active attack also came to an abrupt end. The entire battle situation suddenly reversed and became a difficult situation.

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Fufeng County, Huaili City, the county magistrate's official hall.

Today is the sixth day of Li Li's leadership of the western expedition. Last night, the army arrived at Huaili City. After a short rest, 20,000 Qingong Battalion soldiers under Huang Zhong's tent marched overnight and rushed to Chen Cang to take over the defense. The 10,000 Jinqiu Guards and Zhao Yun, and the 20,000 unparalleled cavalry led by Ma Dai were stationed outside the city and were on standby at any time.

At this moment, Li Ligao sat in the position of the county magistrate. On both sides of the hall were the prefect Ma Teng, the new military advisor general Fa Zheng, the commander of the Qin Bow Camp Huang Zhong, the commander of the Wushuang Iron Cavalry Zhao Yun, and Chen Dao, Ma Dai and Ma Xiu.

This is the first time that Ma Teng's subordinate identities participated in military affairs. It is also the first time that he met Li Li again after three years. How it tastes like? It is like a person who knows the warmth and coldness of water.

Looking back at that time, although Ma Teng's troops were not as strong as Han Sui in Jincheng, the Ma family's army was very powerful, which made Han Sui also afraid of him. Therefore, Ma Teng was the leader of the heroes of Xiliang, and he regarded himself as the leader of Xiliang. However, with the strong rise of Li Li and his Wuwei army, the situation in Yongliang changed drastically, Li Li came to the forefront, defeated Ma Teng and Han Sui, and became the most powerful vassal force in Liangzhou. Then the entire situation in Xiliang changed drastically, Dong Zhuo died, Wang Yun was destroyed, Lu Bu was defeated, Li Jue, Guo Si and other veteran generals bowed one after another, Li Li entered Chang'an, unified the Xiliang army, and then led his troops to pacify the two states of Yongliang.

To this day, Han Sui of Jincheng has long been a dry bone in the tomb. Half of the eight tribes in Liangzhou have died and half surrendered. He has made great contributions to Li Li and become a direct general who follows Li Li wholeheartedly. Ma Teng, who was once the leader of Xiliang, has been idle for three years after his life. Just when he was completely calmed down and took care of his old age, Li Li once again appointed him and ordered him to serve as the prefect of Fufeng and guard Chen Cang.

Time is the most ruthless, and time can eliminate all grudges and fighting spirit.

After less than three years, Ma Teng walked all the way from the torment of living like the New Year at the beginning. Now he has adapted to the quiet and peaceful days of unemployment, and his mood has become calm.

Two years ago, his eldest son Ma Chao was promoted to the commander of the Longxiang Camp, and was appointed as the marquis. He also promoted his nephew Ma Dai to the Central Army General, Ma Tie and Ma Xiu brothers also gained merits to the lieutenant. Last year, his eldest daughter Yunluo, who had always been let go, officially became Li Li's concubine and gave birth to a big fat boy with a treacherous head and a stubborn man. For this reason, Ma Teng couldn't help but make a special trip to Meiwu to visit his grandson and lived in Wubao for more than half a month.

It was this trip to Chang'an that made Ma Teng completely let go of his obsession and no longer hostile to Li Li. He truly regarded him as his son-in-law and no longer had the idea of ​​fighting for hegemony. Because he saw with his own eyes the great achievements Li Li has achieved in just two years, with great official paths, people coming and going in the post station, and caravans are endless. There was no refugee along the way, and there were endless wheat fields everywhere. Xiliang was stable and peaceful, and the people lived and worked in peace. Ma Teng could not dream of such a prosperous scene, and he believed that Li Li could never do it, nor even thought about it. All of this was seen with his own eyes, so that he admired his son-in-law from the bottom of his heart and sighed that Li Li was really an amazing person!

In addition, Li Li is very good to Ma Yunluo. Although there are many female relatives in the entire Meiwu House, they get along very well, happily and laughter. In Ma Teng's impression, although his daughter Yunluo was beautiful, she was a little thin, straightforward and had no intention. Therefore, he had always been worried that his daughter would inevitably be bullied by her husband after becoming Li Li's concubine, and even in dire straits and suffering.

As a father, he could only stand by and watch, and was unable to change his daughter's situation at all. However, after he went to Meiwu, he realized that he was simply thinking about things and judging others by himself. The reality was completely different from what he thought. His daughter Yunluo, who had not met for nearly two years, became more and more beautiful and plump in appearance, graceful manners, and smiled all day long, took care of her husband and children, played the piano and painted with her sisters, sang and danced happily, and was extremely happy.

Seeing that his daughter's life was happy and his son and nephew were highly appreciated by Li Li, Ma Teng finally felt relieved. For this reason, he had thought of taking the initiative to volunteer to become an official, and doing his part to Li Li in his lifetime, whether it was governing counties or guarding the border, he would go wherever he needed it. This would be a waste of his life. It could be regarded as doing his best for his children and accumulating more. Unfortunately, he couldn't lose face after all, and was embarrassed to ask Li Li for him, so he could only return to Hanyang with regrets and continue to work for his old age.

But he didn't know that since he was unemployed, he had been following around him all year round. Although he could not say he was surveillance, he always stared at his every move. Therefore, his thoughts came to Li Li, who was on the front line of Hangu, and the situation in Hanzhong was unclear, so Li Li appointed Ma Teng as the prefect of Fufeng to guard against Zhang Lu of Hanzhong's sneak attack on Chang'an.

Facts have proved that Li Li's use of Ma Teng to take charge of Fufeng County was undoubtedly a wise move.

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