At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Even if you are passively beaten, wait for the order. If there is no order, whoever dares to take the initiative to lead troops to attack, even if he wins the battle, it will be a death penalty if he returns.

Military orders are like mountains, and there are no human feelings at all.

After this incident happened, it greatly shocked the officers and soldiers of the Wei army who had just defeated Yuan Shao and were extremely proud.

All the armies immediately organized collective study and recitation of military regulations, especially the regulations on sortie operations. Even the auxiliary soldiers who were doing miscellaneous duties in the barracks were required to recite the relevant regulations.

Guo Peng upholds his consistent military philosophy. He believes that there is no such thing as the best of both worlds, so the two evils are the lesser of two evils. He insists on beheading the victorious general who disobeys orders, and ensures the resolute implementation of military regulations. The status of military regulations maintains his absolute control over the army.

After the Wei Xiao case, no one dared to challenge the military regulations.

Facing military regulations, from Cao Ren down to an ordinary auxiliary soldier, no one dared to violate them.

Even if the fighter plane is right in front of me, without an order, just watch the fighter plane lose!Don't move!

It can be said that the occurrence of the Wei Xiao case caused Wei Jun, who was restless and violated the military regulations, to be severely beaten, his head was bloody, and he never dared to have similar thoughts.

Because Guo Peng really dared to kill, no matter who it was, as long as he crossed the red line, he would kill.

Cao Ren had reason to believe that the reason why Cao Hong was not killed at that time was because Cao Hong committed a crime of corruption, which was an ordinary crime and did not violate the real red line in the army.

If Cao Hong violated the red line, the Heavenly King Lao Tzu would not be able to save him, and Guo Peng would definitely not just beat him up and then spare him.

In the mature political group of the Guowei regime, a sound system of rules and regulations has already been formed, and it has been operating in accordance with such rules and regulations for a long time.

Liangzhou people are used to being loose, and they think that everyone is loose. With such an asymmetric understanding of information, they are calculated to death.

Han Sui and Yan Xing, including Cheng Gongying, really believed that Cao Ren had made such a decision alone, and decided to cooperate with them to attack Ma Teng and obtain the second county, so as to claim credit for Guo Peng.

Such a model reassures them.

So under Zhang Ji's persuasion, Han Sui arranged for Yan Xing, who was the prefect of Hanyang, to let go of the most critical line of defense in Longdi, so that Cao Ren could lead the army into Hanyang County to join forces with him, and then attack Ma Teng.

Chapter 667 .670 Liu Xia Houyuan showed a meaningful smile

When Han Sui decided to let go of the Longdi line of defense, it was the middle and late April of the first year of Jian'an.

Three days later, Cao Ren learned the news that Zhang Ji had brought back.

"Hahahahahaha! The line of defense that Emperor Guangwu took four years to pass, we can pass in just over a month. Wei Gonggong has calculated everything! Hahahaha!"

When Cao Ren learned that Han Sui had decided to let go of the Longdi defense line and let him enter Hanyang County to assist in the battle, he was overjoyed and immediately ordered the army to be reorganized.

At this time, 2 of the [-] soldiers repairing Tongguan had been secretly transferred back by Cao Ren, and they had already returned to Chang'an Camp to stand by.

Cao Ren immediately mobilized [-] soldiers and horses from the Chang'an camp to prepare for the battle.

Cao Ren took himself as the commander in chief, ordered Guan Yu and Xia Houyuan to assist, and the three of them marched together, crossed Longdi, joined forces with Han Sui, and joined forces in Ji County.

They agreed on the fifteenth day of May, but on the ninth day of May, some of Han Sui's subordinates leaked the news and let Ma Teng know that Han Sui was planning to start a rebellion.

At that time, he didn't know that Han Sui's rebellion was because he called Cao Ren to help. As far as he thought, Han Sui would never let go of the Longdi line of defense to let the Wei army in.

So he thought that Han Sui wanted to fight against trapped beasts, so he ordered his son Ma Chao to lead [-] troops to attack Han Sui.

"Han Wenyue figured out what I wanted to do. He planned to fight a trapped beast. He thought, would it be so easy to fight me to the death? I won't let him succeed."

Ma Teng expressed his confidence.

Ma Chao was overjoyed when he got the order. He mobilized [-] soldiers and rushed to Ji County with his general Pang De and his younger brother Ma Tie Maxiu.

Along the way, Ma Chao's soldiers were sharp and attacked the three counties of Ayang, Chengji and Xianqin in succession. Han Sui was caught off guard and unable to resist, and a small number of troops quickly retreated.

After finally waiting for Han Sui to organize an army and hand it over to Yan Xing and Cheng Gongying to lead him to face Ma Chao, Xianqin County also fell.

Fortunately, it happened to be the [-]th of May at that time, and Cao Ren led an army of [-] troops safely through the Longdi defense line under the support of Han Sui's son. After hearing the news that Ma Chao led his troops to attack Han Sui and Han Sui was defeated, he decisively led the army He rushed to help Ji County.

Yan Xing and Cheng Gongying led the army to set up defenses on the south bank of the Weishui River, and formed an array on the north bank of the Weishui River to resist Ma Chao's army.

At that time, Ma Chao had won consecutive battles, not only Ma Chao, but also Ma Xiu and Ma Tie were a little proud.

So the two of them each led a cavalry as the vanguard and rushed forward, thinking of directly overthrowing Yan Xing and beheading Yan Xing to avenge their elder brother.

As a result, the two ran into Yan Xing and Cheng Gongying's army head-on. Yan Xing led his army to defeat Ma Chao's vanguard, Ma Tie, and Cheng Gongying defeated Ma Xiu, defeating them both.

This victory slightly curbed Ma Chao's advance and stabilized the battle line on the north bank of the Weishui River.

Later, Ma Chao arrived in person, annoyed by the fact that Ma Xiu and Ma Tie were defeated, and angrily reprimanded the two younger brothers, telling them to retreat, and then he himself led the troops forward.

Ma Chao had nearly 5000 troops, and the main force was intact, while Yan Xing and Cheng Gongying had only [-] troops in total, so they didn't bother to fight, and immediately crossed the water to return south and set up defenses on the south bank.

Ma Chao sent people to cross the Weishui several times, but Yan Xing and Cheng Gongying led the army to repel them. Angrily, Ma Chao scolded Yan Xing on the north bank, and yelled that Yan Xing should come to the north bank to decide his life and death.

Yan Xingcai ignored him, and continued to defend the line of defense, holding Ma Chao on the north bank of the Weishui River so that he could not get through, so as to buy time.

When Yan Xing and Ma Chao were fighting fiercely, Cao Ren had already led the army galloping in Ji County. The vanguard Xia Houyuan was faster. city.

So Xia Houyuan led his troops to charge and repelled Ma Chao's siege troops. Han Sui in the city was overjoyed, and immediately opened the city to welcome Xia Houyuan, and welcomed 3000 Xiahouyuan's vanguard troops in.

Ma Chao had forcibly crossed the Wei River seven times before, Yan Xing and Cheng Gongying suffered serious losses in their troops, and finally could not hold on and were forced to retreat. Now they had to retreat to Ji County.

Han Sui had no choice but to put on his helmet and armor to go up to the city to command the defense. Ma Chao sent people under the city to scold Han Sui for treachery, conspiracy and rebellion, and he was a rebellious thief. Kaesong surrendered immediately.

Han Sui blushed from anger, thinking that Ma Chao learned this trick very quickly, so he immediately used his advantage of talking about it, and sprayed Ma Chao furiously, making Ma Chao a rebel.

Han Sui scolded Ma Chao and Ma Teng for attacking him first, they had bad intentions, they clearly wanted to annex him, they were the rebels, and he was the loyal minister of Han, Guo Peng already knew all this, and he also said that Guo Peng had sent a large army to attack Ma Chao, let Ma Chao be caught as soon as possible.

Ma Chao didn't believe Han Sui's words, and immediately commanded the army to attack the city. Han Sui immediately fought back, and the two sides fought extremely fiercely.

But at this moment, Xia Houyuan arrived, and a burst of charge broke up Ma Chao's younger brother Ma Xiu's army and rushed into the city.

Afterwards, Xia Houyuan erected the banner of Xia Hou, the empress general of the Wei Dynasty, and the military flag of the Wei army in the city. Xia Houyuan personally went to the city to warn Ma Chao, and asked Ma Chao to stop the army immediately, otherwise, once Wei Gong's soldiers arrived, he would be too hungry to walk around. .

Ma Chao looked at the big banner on the city, and he muttered in his heart.

Wei Jun is really here?

Is Xia Houyuan really here?

Are you kidding me?

Han Sui and Wei Jun colluded and put them in Liangzhou?

This is almost impossible in terms of time and possibility.

Ma Chao didn't think such a thing would happen at all, so he basically didn't believe it, and continued to send troops to attack. As a result, he encountered strong resistance from the army in the city, and was repelled four times in a row.

Ma Chao continued to mutter in his heart, so he sent Ma Tie to lead his troops towards Longdi, intending to accept Longdi, so that it would be considered safe.

At this time, Ma Chao's general Pang De came to dissuade him.

"Look at the dress style and flag of the army. How is it not similar to the soldiers of the Duke of Wei before? The subordinates are worried that these are really the soldiers of the Duke of Wei. General, let's withdraw the troops first. Maybe Han Wenyue really called the soldiers of the Duke of Wei. Now, if we continue to attack, we are going against Duke Wei."

Ma Chao frowned and shook his head immediately.

"No, I don't believe it. How could Han Sui call Guo Peng's soldiers here? He would do such a stupid thing? We Liangzhou people can fight whatever we want, so what's the point of bringing Guo Zifeng here? He's here, so why not?" go?"

Ma Chao was sober for a rare time at this time, and felt that Han Sui would not be so stupid.

Originally, Han Sui wouldn't be that stupid, but the Ma family and his son oppressed him too much, which made his survival instinct surge up. Once the survival instinct took over the mainstream, the depth of thought would be lost.

In order to survive, what else could Han Sui not do?

Ma Chao didn't believe it, and wanted to send troops to seize Longdi, but Pang De insisted that the troops should be withdrawn now. Even if the troops were not withdrawn, Ma Tie should not be sent rashly. not too late.

Ma Chao didn't listen to Pound, and let Pound continue to lead troops to attack the city, and waited for news in the barracks.

In the end, the news really came.

Not good news, of course, but bad news.

The [-] troops that Ma Tie took to seize Longdi were wiped out, and only a dozen or so returned were released by the Wei army to report.

The first day Ma Tie led the troops there, and at dawn the next day the dozen or so people came back. They reported in tears that Ma Tie had been beheaded by Wei general Guan Yu, and the entire army was wiped out.

Then the Wei army's army was only two hours away from Ji County at most, and it was about to arrive soon, so Ma Chao was asked to withdraw his troops as soon as possible.

Ma Chao's head buzzed and went blank, Pound was taken aback, and Matthew fell to the ground and passed out.

This news was really shocking. It took Ma Chao a while to react, but he was a bit at a loss. While gnashing his teeth and hating Wei Jun, he didn't dare to confront each other head-on. While hesitating, Pang De stood up.

"General, let's retreat right now. We can't stay here any longer. Once Duke Wei's army rushes over, we won't be able to leave!"

Ma Chao was awakened by Pound's shouts, and Ma Chao immediately realized that Pound was right, so he nodded repeatedly.

"Yes... yes! Withdraw troops! Withdraw troops!"

Ma Chao finally gave the order to retreat, and the Liangzhou soldiers who were in disarray retreated in a swarm and retreated to Longxi County. Han Sui in the city was greatly relieved.

"That little thief Ma Chao is gone. It seems that General Cao's army has arrived. It's great, it's great! General Xiahou, it's all thanks to General Cao and General Xiahou that Han can get through this time. If the matter is successful, Mr. Han must thank you a lot!"

Xia Houyuan sized up Han Sui and smiled meaningfully.

"Hahaha, then I would like to thank Ambassador Han."

"The envoy is still...hahahahaha! General Xiahou is overrated!"

Han Sui smiled like a chrysanthemum blooming on his old face: "If Mr. Wei likes Mr. Han, Mr. Han will definitely guard Liangzhou for Mr. Wei, and will never betray Mr. Wei like the father and son of the Ma family!"

Xia Houyuan continued to laugh without speaking.

Before sending out troops, Cao Ren had told him and Guan Yu the purpose of the battle.

Guo Pengcai didn't believe in Han Sui, just like Guo Peng didn't believe in Ma Teng and Ma Chao. It was just to use the contradiction between them to let them kill each other and create opportunities for the Wei army to fight.

This operation went very smoothly. The Wei army easily crossed the Longdi that Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu had only crossed four years ago. The elimination of the Liangzhou separatist forces was just around the corner, and their great achievements were just around the corner.

Guo Peng absolutely did not mean to stop fighting.

From their point of view, Guo Peng is a perverted monarch with a lot of energy and a strong desire to fight. Just like his fertility, he is a powerful man who is admired by the entire Wei army.

Guo Peng wants to stop fighting and enjoy power?

Guan Yu and Xia Houyuan wanted to laugh when they heard such a statement.

They both belong to the Yuancong Group. To this day, everyone believes that the goal of the Guowei Group is to build a powerful empire that will not lose to the Han.

You are still sleeping soundly by your side, how can we have glory to speak of? !

Xia Houyuan looked at Han Sui as if he was looking at prey.

However, Han Sui didn't know the number 13 at all, and he didn't realize that his behavior was opening the door and robbing, or luring wolves into the house.

Guo's army is coming easily, go?

nonexistent.

Chapter 668. 670 Someone in Qi Guo thinks they are all rubbish

On May 21st of the first year of Jian'an, Cao Ren, the former general of the Wei State, led [-] troops to Ji County, joined forces with Han Sui, and cordially received Han Sui, who was eagerly awaiting him.

"When the general is coming, all the soldiers of our army look forward to the general as long as the rain after a long drought. When the general comes, we can all live."

After speaking, Han Sui kept wiping away his tears, as if it was real.

In fact, it was true that if Cao Ren didn't come, Han Sui would kill the Ma family father and son sooner or later. Now that he felt that he had a way out, wouldn't it be normal to shed a few tears of excitement?

But, Han Sui's luck is really not very good.

Because besides Ma Teng and his son, someone Guo also wanted to put him to death.

It's just that Guo is different from Ma Teng. Guo is more cruel and greedy. He thinks they are all garbage, so they should be swept into the garbage dump of history together.

After Cao Ren arrived in Ji County, he immediately held a military meeting with Han Sui, and the two sides discussed the issue of going out.

In the end, it was decided that Cao Ren would be the commander-in-chief, and Han Sui would also obey Cao Ren's orders, and try his best to provide food and fodder for the army.

Han Sui never refused to agree to Cao Ren's request, and decided to do his best to satisfy Cao Ren.

In his opinion, as long as Cao Ren is happy and credited, then the position of governor of Liangzhou will be his own in the future. As long as he secures the position of governor of Liangzhou, won't he be able to get all the benefits by then?

What you lose, you have to take it back twice as much from the hands of the Ma family and his son, and then enjoy it seriously!

Han Suike didn't think he would lose money at all.

But Ma Teng was dumbfounded.