Three Kingdoms

Debate.

By the Qingni River.

Several fast horses came from the south, trampling on the riverside, splashing water, and emitting colorful colors under the sun.

Xu Huang received the message from Hanzhong and did not dare to neglect. He immediately took the lacquer-sealed bamboo tube and came to Fei Qian's tent.

Xiabian is not far from Yangping Pass. Fei Qian sent a messenger to Guanzhong, and naturally he also sent soldiers to Hanzhong. This lacquer-sealed bamboo tube was naturally Li Ru's reply.

Fei Qian was wiping the Zhongxing Sword. When he saw Li Ru's reply, he placed the Zhongxing Sword on the table, held the bamboo tube, and looked up and down. The lacquer seal is intact, and there is nothing wrong with the imprint of the history of the general who conquered the west stamped on the lacquer.

Fei Qian picked up the Zhongxing Sword, broke the lacquer seal with the tip of the sword, took out the towel from the bamboo tube, unfolded it, and felt his heart skip a beat.

Xu Huang raised his eyes and looked at Fei Qian's face, then lowered his eyelids and remained motionless.

After a long time, Fei Qian said slowly: "Gongming, the emperor has changed his reign and is offering amnesty to the world..."

Li Ru's reply did not directly describe the current solution at the beginning, but said that he had received information that Liu Xie, the emperor of the Han Dynasty in Heluo, had changed his reign name some time ago.

Xu Huang bowed his hands to Dongfang to show respect, and said: "I wonder what the emperor's current reign is..."

"Yan Ping." Fei Qian said slowly, as if these two words weighed a thousand pounds, and then gestured with his fingers in the air to show Xu Huang the glyphs.

"I understand, Yan Ping."

Although Xu Huang didn't understand Fei Qian's surprise, he didn't ask anything.

"Yan Ping... this year is almost halfway... this Yan Ping..." Fei Qian pondered for a moment, raised his head to the east, his eyes flashed, and murmured, "... before the age is over, Shi will also It's still young. I'm afraid that the pelicans will start to sing, which will make the husband's grass less fragrant... Could this be your Majesty's intention?"

Xu Huang was silent and did not answer. After all, this matter was not something that Xu Huang, a middle- and low-level general, could comment on.

Fei Qian didn't expect Xu Huang to answer. He lowered his head and looked at the Zhongxing Sword in his hand. He suddenly felt an emotion that he didn't know how to describe...

The scars on Zhongxing Sword's body appeared in front of Fei Qian's eyes.

"...He Qiongpei's crotch is hidden by the crowd. But the people in this party are unforgiving and are afraid of jealousy and breaking it. Times are so colorful and changing, how can they be kept?" Fei Qian read out the following words. came out, and then let out a long sigh.

Yan Ping.

When writing this year name, Liu Xie's heart was probably so complicated and sad.

However, this era name also has a special meaning for Fei Qian. What does this era name, which has never appeared in the Han Dynasty, mean what will happen in the future?

This world is completely beyond the scope of Fei Qian's understanding. No one knows where it will slide in the future...

Fei Qian was silent for a moment, and then he calmed down. He hid the complicated emotions that suddenly grew up in his heart after hearing the name of the year. He continued to take Li Ru's letter and read it down. Because Fei Qian himself is now the backbone of the entire army. If he panics, then the entire army will be doomed in Longyou surrounded by wolves.

But what Li Ru wrote next in the letter surprised Fei Qian even more...

"Old Qin Ling?"

There is such a thing?

Fei Qian finished reading the letter, and then read it again from the beginning with some uncertainty. Only then did he believe that it was not his eyesight, but that Li Ru had indeed written this.

Fei Qian's eyes turned to the edge of the table and looked at the token with the word "Qin" on it. He suddenly realized that it turned out that the word "Qin" did not represent the Qin Dynasty or the power of Qin, but the people of Qin. …

The earliest group of people in Guanzhong were also the original owners. Of course, they were also the group of people who were most marginalized and driven the furthest away during the Han Dynasty...

Li Ru, Li Wenyou, how many secrets do you still have?

How many unknown things are there in Longyou and Guanzhong?

But right now, okay, let’s do this first.

"Gongming... how is the surrounding situation now?" Fei Qian said.

"For the record, sir, there is nothing unusual within fifty miles around, and there is no movement among the Qiang people a hundred miles away..." Xu Huang said.

"It's a good thing if there's no movement..." Fei Qian smiled and said, "This shows that the Qiang people don't have much mobility... Gongming, let Hanzhong civilians and handymen wait to retreat to Yangping Pass in batches..."

"I obey. But, Lord...do we really want to retreat?" Xu Huang asked with some doubts.

Fei Qian smiled slightly and did not answer the question.

Xu Huang suddenly understood, cupped his hands, and then turned around and left.

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Ling Jie led three soldiers pretending to be Qiang people and squatted on the edge of a small river. While drinking some river water with his hands, he whispered: "...Have you remembered everything I told you? After entering, everyone just Able to speak Qiang..."

"I have remembered everything... Junhou, don't worry..." a soldier behind Ling Jie responded.

Ling Jie took out several medicine bottles hidden in his arms, distributed them to the three soldiers, and said seriously: "Be careful in your actions. It is better to stay still than take risks! If you find something is wrong, run away! If it is true, If you can't run away, just...solve it yourself..."

"Wei!" The three soldiers also replied solemnly.

Ling Jie nodded and said, "Let's meet here before sunset... Okay, let's go... Be careful..."

The three soldiers nodded, stood up, spread out, and slowly walked towards the place where the Qiang people gathered.

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"Have the Tsing Yi Qiang been annexed by the Yak Qiang?" Jiang Ji frowned and said in disbelief. No wonder there were people from the Tsing Yi Qiang and Yak Qiang nearby.

Now that Riwoji had started talking, he had nothing to hide, so he said: "It's not you who did it... Although I don't know why the war horses exploded at that time, after all, they belonged to Qingyi Qiang at that time. The person was responsible for guarding, so he was killed on the spot... The Yak Qiang had conquered the city wall anyway, so naturally they had to be rewarded... After we retreated, the boy from the Ma family led the Yak Qiang people straight towards Qingyi. Qiang's Qiang villages...and then that's it..."

The residence of the Xiongnu leader was called Wangting, and the gathering place for the leaders of the Qiang tribe was called Qiangtun.

"Is it difficult for Qingyi Qiang to resist?" Jiang Ji couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, why not, but what's the use?" Riwoki twitched his lips and said, "It's not like you don't know how prestigious the Han family and the Ma family are in this territory? Now that the Ma family has come forward, , the Qingyi Qiangtou people are all dead, how much use can they still have?"

In Xiliang, Han Sui was originally a famous scholar, and he was one of the earliest leaders of the uprising together with Beigong Boyu, Bian Zhang and others. When Han Sui led his army to attack the city, Ma Teng was just a frontier soldier. A small army commander was beaten by Han Sui and fled in all directions.

Later, Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, led his army to suppress the rebellion and was defeated by Han Sui's army. Ma Teng and a group of current Xiliang warlords took the opportunity to betray the imperial court and defected to the kingdom of the commander-in-chief of the Xiliang army at that time.

After the death of the kingdom, in order to balance the various forces in Xiliang, Han Sui won over Ma Teng, the most brave and somewhat ancestral glory among them, and pushed him to the position of deputy commander of the Xiliang army, once again establishing the Han family and the Ma family. status in Xiliang.

"So... the people I'm debating now are the Yak Qiang and Qingyi Qiang people?" Jiang Jiong asked, "Does this mean that these Qiang people are more inclined to the Ma family?"

"Yes!" Riwoji was also unambiguous. Perhaps to ensure that he had not received the goods, he said directly, "That boy from the Ma family is a madman! Wu madman! Let me tell you, it is not the same in Longyou and Guanzhong. Same! This is our territory, don’t say I didn’t remind you... We are personal friends, and I can’t hold back even if we have to fight! I think you should withdraw as soon as possible..."

Jiang Ji raised his eyebrows and ignored Riwoji's question about who won and who lost. Instead, he said, "Old friend, are you mistaken? This time, it's not us who want to fight Longyou, but you who want to fight again." Come and fight Guanzhong?"

"Are you kidding? How can we have time to attack Guanzhong? The big animals are all full-bellied now. You let..." Riwoki suddenly glared in the middle of his sentence and said, "What do you mean? Zhengxi came to Xiabian. , isn’t it to march into Xiliang?”

Jiang Ji said: "General Zhengxi's defense is true, but he did not come to conquer Xiliang, but to purchase food and grass. He came in person to express his sincerity. How could he mean to march into Xiliang? Besides, If it is really to conquer Xiliang, is it possible that we will only bring this small number of troops?"

Riwoki was dubious: "Really?"

Jiang Ji said categorically: "When did someone tell a lie?"

"...Well," Riwoki's eyes wandered, "This is a bit strange..."

"I understand..." Jiang Ji nodded and said, "That makes sense... It was the boy from the Ma family who said that General Zhengxi was going to attack Xiliang, right? If he didn't say that, how could he drive you to do this? What time to send troops? Besides, what is the benefit of your marching into Guanzhong? Take Fanxu Road? Jitou Mountain? Wating Road? Do you think Guanzhong will still be like before, letting you come and go without any defense? "

"Huh!" Zhiwoji said noncommittally.

"Old friend, help me tell this matter to other tribes..." Jiang Ji said with a smile, "It's just a message, it doesn't take much effort... In this way, I will add 10% to your goods..."

Zhiwoji stared and said, "What do you mean it's effortless? If you don't count on what you say, won't I have to take the blame? No, no, no!"

"One and a half percent."

"Uh... no, no..."

"Forget it, I'll go find someone else..." Jiang Ji stood up and was about to walk out.

Riwoji jumped up, grabbed Jiang Ji, and stretched out two fingers: "Twenty percent, twenty percent! Only others will believe what I say!"

Jiang Ji sighed and said, "I'm going to pay my capital...Okay, 20%..."

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"What?" Ma Chao said with a frown, "The little thief from Zhengxi is retreating? Why is he retreating? This...this..."

The food and fodder for the expedition to the west has been robbed. Shouldn't we send some troops to investigate?

To investigate, these troops will naturally come into contact with the specially arranged group of Qiang people in the north of Xiabian. This group of Qingyi and Yak Qiang people who are not very powerful are actually the bait left by Ma Chao for Fei Qian. .

As soon as the soldiers and horses from Zhengxi appeared, the people Ma Chao arranged among this small group of Qiang people would naturally lead the troops to encircle and suppress the small group of troops sent by Zhengxi to survey the surrounding area. The number of these Qiang people is only two thousand. Once exposed, according to common sense, Zhengxi will naturally not be afraid of these two thousand Qiang people and will definitely send troops to attack again.

Once these Qiang people are conquered and killed, the Qingyi and Yak tribes led by the Yak Qiang in the northwest will inevitably take revenge, and will also bring along the Qiang people of other tribes...

The reinforcements from Fanxudao in the direction of Guanzhong were blocked by Han Sui and his men. Even if Han Sui saw something was wrong, he wouldn't have let the Zhengxi people pass through Longshan so easily.

On Longyou Tianshui side, Ma Chao and his men are on guard. If the provocation plan fails, Zheng Xi will not get any support. In this way, the next development will be like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger. , the little thief of Zhengxi will sink deeper and deeper, and eventually he will suffer a disaster in Longyou, which is cut off from foreign aid.

But the problem is, as if the little thief from Zhengxi saw where the red line was, he squatted down and argued motionless, then he didn't send troops out, and then he actually wanted to withdraw his troops?

Little thief from Zhengxi, where is your courage? Where is your courage?

We've just withdrawn our troops before anything has even started?

How does this work?

"Brother, what should we do now?" Ma Tie asked from the side.

"Let's go! Let's go to the debate!" Ma Chao said immediately without thinking for a long time, "Let's hold back the little thief from Zhengxi!"

Ma Tie said: "Ah? Weren't we originally scheduled to wait here for the Xiliang tribes?"

"Yes, that's right, that's what I planned, but the Xiliang ministries that were summoned are still in Wuwei. Even if these people set off immediately, it will take a certain amount of time to get here non-stop. If we wait for these people to arrive, If we take action, it will be too late..." Ma Chao said, "We can't wait for them any longer, we must take action first and hold Zheng Xi back no matter what, otherwise our plan will completely fail as soon as he retreats into Yangping Pass. Got it!"

"But, brother... we don't have enough manpower..." Ma Tie turned to look at the people and horses around him and said.

Ma Chao suddenly turned around, grabbed Ma Tie's collar, and shouted in a deep voice: "Have you forgotten how Brother Dai died? Have you forgotten how many people from our Ma family died in Guanzhong? Have you forgotten who our ancestors were? Really? Tell me, what's your last name? Who are you?"

Ma Tie was grabbed by the collar by Ma Chao, and it was difficult to breathe. He said with difficulty: "I... know... I know..."

"It's good to know!" Ma Chao let go of his hand, glanced at Ma Tie, and added, "Let's go find the Yak Qiang first, and then take them with us to Xiabian! We haven't all arrived, and there aren't many people in the expedition to the west. ! There is still a great chance of winning! Let’s go! Give the order, set off, and march down the mountain!”