Traveling through Chenghan Xiandi, fortunately I have a simulator

Chapter 187 The perfect end
Han Sui's conjecture was completely correct. As early as the day when Zhang Liao reported the news to the court, Jia Xu had keenly discovered that Ma Teng could be used as a pawn to ruthlessly insert into Han Sui's game, thus paving the way for the subsequent war. the way.

Sure enough, when he heard about the arrival of the court envoy, Ma Teng gave a warm welcome. The Ma family in Xiliang was originally a family loyal to the court. This time, since the court had a request, how could Ma Teng refuse it? They will also receive food donations from the imperial court to help the victims overcome their difficulties.

The imperial court's request was not complicated, and that was to let Ma Teng send soldiers to fight with Han Sui. The imperial court would naturally move at an important pass, and this important pass was when Han Sui attacked Chang'an for the third time.

After Han Sui attacked Chang'an for the second time, Jia Xu sent someone to Pound's barracks to inform Pound of the appropriate plan, and Pound told Han Sui the plan, which finally led to the current situation.

Although Han Sui had figured it out, it was no longer the time for him to regret it. The most important thing for him now was to run for his life.

Han Sui gave the order to retreat, and began to lead the rear army to take a step ahead, while he left Cheng Yin here to continue resisting the attack of Pound's army.

Standing on the city wall, Zhang Ming and Jia Xu looked at Han Sui who was fleeing, and couldn't help but smile in their hearts. If Han Sui continued to fight here, he might be able to take away more troops, because all the soldiers in the court were recruits. Those trained by Zhu Jun were also recruits, and they were not as good as Han Sui's soldiers in terms of combat ability, so the two battles outside the east gate and west gate were actually just holding back Han Sui's army. It is bound to be able to break free from the entanglement of recruits in the city, so as to support Han Sui's large army.

However, Han Sui chose to run away in the end. From the time he led the rear army to leave first, even though he handed over the large army to his subordinate Cheng Yin to command, the main general had already withdrawn, and the soldiers underneath were not at all. A lot of morale, and now it's gone.

But Han Sui doesn't care about these, Liangzhou is his real sphere of influence, as long as he can return to Liangzhou, even if the impact of the drought cannot be solved, but after a few years of cultivation, he will still be the lord of Liangzhou, as for Ma Teng , plotted against him this time, he will definitely take revenge if he finds a chance in the future.

"Your Majesty, Han Sui has escaped." Jia Xu said with a smile beside him.

"Well, now we'll see if Zhang Liao can stop him." Zhang Ming nodded aside.

"Your Majesty, are there no ambushes along the line?" Jia Xu asked curiously.

"There are no soldiers in the imperial court, not to mention, from here to Chencang, there is an open area all the way, so there is no place to set up an ambush." ​​Zhang Ming said helplessly.

If there were [-] more elite soldiers in Chang'an City, Zhang Ming would definitely set up an ambush without hesitation to prevent Han Sui from escaping back to Liangzhou. Unfortunately, the [-] soldiers in Chang'an who came back from Hedong County were all recruits. Defending the city is okay, but fighting outside the city is not as good. As for the temporary recruitment of soldiers, Zhang Ming didn't even think about it, because the temporary recruitment of soldiers is impossible to be the opponent of Han Sui's army, even the defeated Han Sui army , still maintained a strong combat power.

In fact, there are still [-] soldiers from Zhang Liao, plus [-] soldiers from Mei County, and [-] soldiers from Pang De's subordinates, a total of [-] soldiers. These [-] soldiers have already received the letter from the imperial envoy. His mission is to eat the [-] soldiers led by Hou Xuan that Han Sui placed here.

Different from the battle outside Chang'an, the battle outside Chencang did not contain any conspiracy or trickery, because there was no need to use tricks at all for the [-] troops against the [-] troops, but no one thought that the quality of Han Sui's army was so high that Hou The [-] soldiers selected actually consumed half of the soldiers of the imperial court before they were completely eliminated.

But this is also normal, because the soldiers sent by the imperial court to Chencang and Mei counties are almost all recruits recruited before. These recruits can defend the city, but they are much weaker when they go out of the city to fight, so they can fight Han Sui with [-] court recruits. There are [-] elite soldiers, which is already a good record.

On the battlefield outside Chang'an City, the war was still going on. Ever since Han Sui led the rear army to retreat, although Cheng Yin had tried his best to maintain the stability of the large army, he was still outnumbered. It was not as good as Pound's army, so defeat was inevitable. As expected, after only an hour, Han Sui's army under Cheng Yin's control completely collapsed.

As for the siege soldiers led by Liang Xing, although they were fighting hard against Xu Huang's five thousand elite soldiers, most of them had already been wiped out. As for the remaining soldiers, Liang Xing led them to follow Han Sui's direction. Liang Xing didn't care about the other teams.

Outside the east gate and west gate, the imperial army was still no match for the soldiers led by Han Sui's subordinates, so they decisively chose to retreat to the city, and Han Sui's subordinates were not busy chasing after them. They were more concerned about Han Sui's life now. Recently, when the two armies saw that Han Sui's army had collapsed, and heard that Han Sui had left Chang'an City a step earlier, the two armies retreated westward without hesitation. They did not care about the collapsed army. Han Sui sent a large army.

In the end, Han Sui's army under Cheng Yin's control was still wiped out by Pang De's army and Xu Huang's army. Cheng Yin did not surrender until his death, so only a few thousand people were captured in this battle.

Han Sui withdrew, Liang Xing withdrew, and outside the east gate and west gate, two more troops withdrew, and these troops finally caught up with Han Sui outside Wugong County.

"Hey, how many people are left in our army?" Han Sui hurriedly asked Liang Xing. As his capable general, Liang Xing was not dead, so he was very happy. As for the soldiers who lost, although he was sad, it was useless. up.

"My lord, our army arrived in Chang'an City with a total of 8 people. Now there are only over [-] people here, and many of them are injured." Liang Xing said sadly.

"If my guess is correct, the [-] soldiers left outside Chencang City must be gone." Han Sui said solemnly. At the beginning, he left [-] soldiers and Pound's [-] soldiers to prevent the future. He was cut off, but unexpectedly, his retreat was still cut off.

"Yes, my lord, but according to what my subordinates have seen, there should not be many imperial soldiers in Chencang City and Mei County. These two places are easy to defend and difficult to attack. They have always been used for defense, so it is unlikely that the imperial court will be here. There are too many soldiers left there, and my lord has also seen that most of the guards on the city wall of Chang'an are recruits, and only those who go out of the city to chase our army are elite soldiers, which means that the imperial court does not have so many soldiers to squander."

"If Ma Teng joins forces with the lord, it will not be difficult to break the city of Chang'an. I just didn't expect that Ma Teng, who cooperated with the inside and outside, actually deceived the lord. He really deserves to die." Liang Xing cursed. What he mentioned, but now Ma Teng has cheated him, and he is not feeling well at all.

"It's pointless to scold now. After I return to Liangzhou to reorganize the army, I will definitely settle accounts with Ma Teng." Han Sui also cursed, this is not the first time he and Ma Teng have been rivals, but It was the first time he suffered such a big loss.

"Yes, my lord, the situation ahead is still unclear, why don't you let your subordinates explore the way ahead first." Liang Xing said.

"Then you go ahead to explore the way and pay attention to ambush." ​​Han Sui instructed, he didn't want to have any big losses.

Today's Chang'an City has returned to its former calm. As for outside the city, there are still a large number of corpses, and soldiers are currently cleaning up these corpses.

According to Yan Zhong's statistics, this war lost a total of more than 1 soldiers, captured more than [-] people, and killed more than [-] enemy troops. However, most of this is due to Pound's army. The loss of about [-] soldiers is overall a big victory.

"Your Majesty, Pound is here." Jia Xu said from the side.

"The last general will see His Majesty." Pound took a few steps forward, and then knelt down on the ground.

"Get up, thanks to General Pang's help this time, otherwise the court would not be able to defeat Han Sui's army so easily. I don't know, what reward does General Pang want?" Zhang Ming said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, I was ordered by my lord to assist the court, so I dare not ask for anything. If Your Majesty must reward me or something, then let me go back to Liangzhou with relief food." Pound stood up, humbly Said.

"General Pang doesn't have any personal request. I promised Ma Shoucheng's request at the beginning, so I wouldn't refuse. Besides, the people of Liangzhou are also my people. I have the obligation to help them out of reason. " Zhang Ming said with a smile.

"I really have a little personal request." Pound said a little dull.

"Please tell me?" Zhang Ming said with a smile.

"Can your majesty deliver the relief food to me earlier? I am a little worried about the situation of the people in Liangzhou, and Han Sui has already withdrawn. I am afraid that he will find trouble for the Lord after he goes back, so I can't stay here for too long. time." Pang De said cautiously, he was really worried that the court would find an excuse not to provide food for the time being, but he had to come back early, so he was very disturbed.

"Hahaha, I thought it was some personal request, it turned out to be just this." Zhang Ming said with a smile.

"Cui Ming, wait a minute, you take General Pang to the treasury, let General Pang take as much food as you want," Zhang Ming ordered.

"Your Majesty, no, the last general only needs 30 shi of food." Pound quickly stated.

"Okay, go back and tell Ma Shoucheng to take good care of Han Sui for me." Zhang Ming said solemnly.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Pound said.

After leaving the Gaomen Hall, Pound followed Cui Ming to the treasury. What Pang De never expected was that there were actually 250 million shi of grain here.

"Cui Changshi, why does the imperial court have so much grain? Isn't this year a year of severe drought?" Pound looked at the grain bags piled up everywhere, and couldn't help asking.

"General Pang, half a year ago, His Majesty had already prepared for this year's drought. Your army must have seen many canals and waterwheels on it along the way. Besides, there are many other policies. They were all prepared for the drought, so this year's Guanzhong, the grain harvest is even more than in previous years, above the court, His Majesty asked you what reward you want, I am not joking with you." Cui Ming also said with a smile.

"I didn't expect that the imperial court would be so prosperous. Your Majesty really has the ability." Pang De said hastily.

Then, with the help of the imperial guards, Pound transported all the grain out of the city. A total of 40 shi of grain was transported away, and the extra [-] shi of grain was rewarded by Zhang Ming.

Of course, in order to allow Pang De to transport the grain back to Liangzhou, Zhang Ming enlisted some peasants to help. Anyway, Ma Teng did help a lot in this battle.

"Your Majesty, Pound has led his troops to leave." Cui Ming said.

"I see, you go down first." Zhang Ming nodded and said.

"Wenhe, Han Sui was defeated, how long will it take me to go to take back Liangzhou?" Zhang Ming turned to look at Jia Xu who was on the side.

"Your Majesty, be safe and don't be impatient. Although Han Sui has lost [-] to [-] elite soldiers, Liangzhou is the place where he has worked for many years. If Ma Teng hadn't been checking and balancing him, he must be a difficult opponent. , but it may take several years for Han Sui to regain his vitality, and during this time, what His Majesty should do is to completely subdue Bingzhou." Jia Xu analyzed.

"Wen He is right. During this period, I must have been concerned about Han Sui's affairs, but ignored the affairs of Bingzhou. I think that Bingzhou is also a land that has just been conquered, and it will take time to digest it. Therefore, at this moment We really shouldn't be too anxious about Liangzhou's affairs, not to mention, Han Sui's defeat, presumably there will be no big moves in recent years." Zhang Ming nodded and said.

"By the way, when it comes to Bingzhou, I recently received news that the Southern Huns Shanyu is still alive, he was not killed by Zhang Yang's subordinates, and just a few days ago, he came to Baling County alone , happened to meet Han Sui attacking Chang'an, so he didn't go to Chang'an, and he got the news of Han Sui's retreat in the past two days, so he probably will come here soon." Zhang Ming said with a troubled face.

At the beginning, Zhang Ming just wanted to draw a huge cake for the Southern Huns Shanyu, so that he could mobilize all the power of the Southern Huns to fight against Zhang Yang. The final result was as Zhang Ming expected, that is, the Southern Huns were almost destroyed. Of the five tribes of the Xiongnu, one was destroyed by Huangfusong, and three by Zhang Yang's subordinates. Only the last royal family was almost killed by Zhang Yang's subordinates.

But Zhang Ming never expected that this cake would persecute him in the end. If he had known this, he should have drawn other cakes, such as giving food and money, but these ordinary cakes would not be able to convince the Southern Huns Shan Yu Use all your troops.

"It's better to kill it." Jia Xu said sinisterly.

"No, since he dared to come alone, he must have made other preparations. If the court really kills him, the court's reputation will probably be ruined afterwards. At that time, it will be difficult for the princes of the world to serve me." Zhang Ming said aggrievedly.

If he didn't have the name and reputation of the big man, Zhang Ming could not have easily persuaded Ma Teng by sending an envoy, and then won a big victory. Therefore, Zhang Ming now has to maintain the name and reputation of the big man.

(End of this chapter)