Chapter 1150 Inside and Outside the Battlefield

On the horizon, the black smoke from the fire pillars rising from Lijiawu Fort reflected on the land of Guanzhong, as if tearing a hole out of the heavy sky.

In the midst of the billowing fire, a small group of cavalry suddenly broke open the east gate of Lijiawu Fort and ran wildly outward!

Every fleeing cavalry soldier from Lijiawu Fort invariably let out a roar of exhaustion, as if they were struggling to escape from hell and escape the threat of death.

The Qiang cavalry who followed Ma Chao on the north and south sides of Lijiawu Fort did not immediately speed up to intercept them. Instead, some of them just made a show of trying to follow the small group of cavalrymen on foot. All Wubao personnel rushed into chaos and were either captured or killed...

The journey from Longyou to Longshan was in a hurry. Since Ma Chao wanted to attack Lijiawu Fort and take its property to supplement the military, these Qiang people would naturally not have any objections, and Ma Chao had said at the beginning that the siege The three-queue-one strategy, in this case, if someone breaks through, just let them break through, and the Qiang people will naturally be happy and relaxed.

Moreover, the Qiang people also know that those who break out must be elite soldiers, and they are also important personnel in Li's Wubao. However, what the Qiang people care about is food and grass, property, and women and children who can be robbed. The most important thing is these people Escape means that the resistance of Li's Wubao is over. At this moment, when there are large pieces of meat to eat, who can only stare at the bones with some thorns and not much meat?

The Qiang people are originally more open-minded than the Han people, not to mention that the rolling fire is constantly reminding these Qiang people that a step slower may only leave some residue, so the two wings These Qiang people just chased for a few steps, and then retreated, happily participating in the process of ethnic integration in Li's Wubao.

Screams and wails erupted inside Li's Wubao, accompanied by black smoke rising into the sky, rolling and boiling.

For the Li family tenants and family members in the surrounding areas, who would have expected that there would be such a situation today?

Shouldn't the procurement of grain and grass be a matter of bargaining with each other and then compromise to a level that is relatively acceptable to everyone?

Where can anyone come up with a knife like this at the slightest disagreement? !

These Ma family thieves actually sent troops to break into the fortress?

Where is General Xia Mouxia?

Why don't you come and stop it?

Or……

Thousands of thoughts swirled in the minds of the fleeing Li children. Looking back at the black smoke rising into the sky, everything finally turned into a painful howl: "Mother..."

This fire was set by the old lady of the Li family herself.

The men may have a chance to escape, but the women and children are almost certain to be unable to escape. Naturally, these gentry children know very well what will happen to the women and children who fall into the hands of the Qiang people.

Bear the humiliation and wait for Li Jiazi to spend money to redeem it?

Which family would be willing to spend a lot of money and then put a mark of shame back in front of them?

When Wang Zhaojun passed away, he wrote a letter requesting to return to China, but Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty ordered him to "follow Hu customs"...

Did Wang Zhaojun have merit?

meritorious service.

No matter who it is, whether ancient or modern, even the most rigid Confucian scholars speak of Wang Zhaojun with deep admiration. After Wang Zhaojun left the country, there was no war between the Han and Huns for sixty years. If not, the Western Han Dynasty would have collapsed without waiting for Wang Mang to usurp power...

But such a woman still bears the mark of the Han Dynasty's patience and marriage, so even though she has contributed to the country, she is still not allowed to be in the court. The living Wang Zhaojun is a disgrace, but the dead Ning Hulan is a hero.

Life is worse than death, that's it.

At that moment, the Qiang cavalry had already followed the open gate of the village and rushed into the Wubao and other places. When they saw the men, they didn't even think about it or asked. They just chopped with knives and stabbed them with spears. They didn't even bother to use knives and spears. , directly jump forward to rush forward and trample!

Whenever he sees a woman, he grabs his hair or pulls his waist and arms, puts himself on the horse, laughs and rushes to the next target...

At this time, on the west wall of Lijiawu Fort, the gate of the village had also been breached. Groups of soldiers poured in, breaking open the gates along the street like wolves and tigers, and rushed in with swords and guns. .

At the long street of the village gate, a figure was sitting on the back of a horse, with a bloody human head stuck on the spear held in his hand. He was Ma Chao. The commander of Lijiawu Fort, who led the soldiers to resist, eventually fell to Ma Chao's gun and became the last straw for Ma Chao to defeat Li's resistance.

At this moment, the firelight reflected on Ma Chao's face, illuminating his smile.

Ma Chao enjoyed this moment very much. In this moment of killing and seizing on the battlefield, in a moment, he could overthrow the city or destroy the country. Isn't that what a man should do?

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At this moment, Fei Qian, who was far away from the battlefield in Guanzhong, was slowly heading south with his troops.

Fei Qian originally didn't want to take Guanzhong so quickly.

Capturing Zuo Fengyi is a must, because if Zuo Fengyi is not captured, then Guanzhong will be in line with Yang Biao, which will be a big threat to the future.

But all over Guanzhong...

Um.

Still a problem.

Because the problem in Guanzhong is not external, but internal...

Fei Qian glanced at Pang Tong beside him.

Pang Tong had already returned from Hedong. He was sitting unsteadily on the horse, with his face raised, eyes squinted, and trusting the horse to ride. Anyway, the war horse has this advantage. It has a fully automatic following function, so you don't have to control it specially. Following the horse in front, he was not afraid of the sun tanning him even more, and he was still humming a little tune, which seemed very comfortable.

Pang Tong naturally had reason to be so proud. He led 500 soldiers, plus Zhang Liao's 800 cavalry, which was only a few thousand, but it disturbed Yang Biao's left and right, and had no choice but to withdraw from Tongguan...

Of course, most of them were handled by Zhang Liao, but after all, Pang Tong also had a share of the credit, right? And when he was young, he wanted to put all his achievements on his face, so he only had to wear red and colorful colors, pull a banner, and write a letter Three big words, "Praise me."

Naturally, if you really praise him, Pang Tong will show that you don't care at all. In short, arrogant and humble is enough to describe Pang Tong at this time.

Fei Qian couldn't help it, and gently poked Pang Tong with his riding crop, who was swaying on the horse with his eyes narrowed, and said: "Come on, Shi Yuan, let me ask you something..."

"Huh?" Pang Tong uttered a rising syllable, raised Fei Qian's eyelids and eyebrows, and said lazily, "...but it doesn't matter..."

"Within ten years, can we eliminate all the wings of the Guanzhong gentry?"

Fei Qian resisted the urge to whip Pang Tong, and then said, as if he was asking whether he should eat mutton or beef today, and his tone was very smooth, but he was so frightened that Pang Tong staggered on the horse and almost fell off the horse.

Pang Tong quickly grabbed the saddle and reins with his hands, widened his eyes and said, "Your Majesty, this matter is not a joke!"

Fei Qian looked forward and said calmly: "I'm not joking..."

"Do you know that the Guanzhong gentry, but for more than a hundred years..." Pang Tong looked at Fei Qian and said, "Although it is already sunset, there is still some light. How can we get rid of it quickly..."

Fei Qian naturally knew what Pang Tong said.

Why do some people repeatedly propose to abandon Xiliang? Isn't it just because Xiliang was abandoned that Guanzhong became the border, and then these Guanzhong gentry became the next Bingbei gentry?

In the Western Han Dynasty, the Guanzhong gentry ruled the world, but the gentry in Jizhou and Yuzhou in the Eastern Han Dynasty were all country bumpkins in the backwoods during the Western Han Dynasty...

The recommendation system for officials in the Han Dynasty was the biggest cornerstone for the rise of these noble clans.

Why did people in the Han Dynasty never forget officials with two thousand stone, even as a criterion for whether a nobleman could reach the upper class? Although part of it was due to the reputation of the court, but more importantly, the official with two thousand stone had the ability to directly recommend talents. The power ranges from one person to three people per year. If the country needs special talents, this is not included.

Regardless of whether these nominated personnel can become officials in the end, their reputation, class and status in the Han Dynasty will be greatly improved.

In return, these recommended people will be branded with the recommender's mark and become a small part of the recommender's family tree...

Over the years, these officials with more than two thousand stones, in addition to their own expansion, can also attract outstanding talents to their side in this way, eventually forming a dense forest.

The gentry in the Guanzhong area of ​​the Western Han Dynasty have experienced more than a hundred years of expansion and reproduction. Even if they were suppressed by the Shandong gentry, Jizhou and Yuzhou in the Eastern Han Dynasty for a hundred years, they were still able to dominate one side during the Wuhu chaos, and even With Longyou's Li family, they could rise again during the Sui and Tang Dynasties...

One very important reason why Fei Qian didn't want to take Guanzhong so quickly was that he didn't want to take the old path of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, or even the path of Liu Bei and Sun Quan.

As long as a caring person pays a little attention to those things outside the battlefields of the Three Kingdoms, he can clearly know that these battlefields are not isolated, nor do they only mean fighting between two armies.

Just like Fei Qian realized a long time ago when he was in the Jujube Alliance that war is just a continuation of politics. The victory or defeat of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao has their own factors, but there are more factors. It was the result of the mutual struggle between their political groups, that is, the gentry groups.

Yuan Shao used the nobles of Yingchuan and Nanyang to kill Han Fu, the Mu of Jizhou. However, in order to borrow the power of Jizhou, most of his soldiers were still led by Jizhou people. Even the one who defeated Gongsun Zan and his white horse Yi Cong was also Jizhou Juyi. It was not Yuan Shao himself, let alone this group of people from Yuzhou. Therefore, the competition and internal strife between the Yuzhou and Jizhou factions, with Tian Feng, the benchmark of Jizhou, being imprisoned as a breaking point in Guandu, eventually led to Yuan Shao's decline...

For Cao Cao, his life was simply the culmination of the internal strife among the gentry and the most perfect embodiment.

Fei Qian believed that not to mention Cao Cao's migraine, illness, and eventual death. Even if Hua Tuo could successfully treat Cao Cao's disease, it would still be very difficult for Cao Cao to unify China if he was given ten more years.

Not only that, Liu Bei and Sun Quan were also using different methods to solve this problem, but unfortunately, as everyone knows, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan were all solved by this problem in the end.

Cao Cao was suppressive at first, but later became licentious.

As for Liu Bei, the executioner Zhuge Liang once imposed very harsh punishments after entering Sichuan. He also adopted similar strategies to Cao Cao to divide and suppress.

Sun Quan is completely different. His method is compromise. This is why Sun Wu has always been the most stable and darkest regime among the Three Kingdoms...

These things are like hidden reefs under the water. What most people see are the rough waves on the water, and the waves are flying in the sky. But few people mention these things hidden in the darkness under the water. If Fei Qian If we don't think about and explore slowly and little by little, I'm afraid we will inevitably end up on the old path of the Three Kingdoms.

Dominance is simple, just kill.

But when Fei Qian himself grows old or dies, those sneaky things suppressed by Fei Qian will crawl out from under the water again...

Yuan Shao, who took the path of balance, lost his balance once and collapsed and could never get up again; while Cao Cao, who took the path of suppression, was stabbed over and over again, and even had to compile the phrase "A Killer in a Dream" " Only then can you sleep peacefully; Zhuge Liang, who also took the repressive route, was forced to do everything himself. Many people in later generations also ridiculed Zhuge Liang for being too smart and asking for trouble, but they never thought that this was actually What a painful and helpless act; Sun Quan, who took the road of compromise, was eventually stained in darkness and completely sunk...

Or if you have wine, just get drunk today, just let it go, just take care of the present, smooth it out, leave a mess for future generations to deal with, anyway, as soon as you close your eyes, you will be in charge. Will the sky fall or the floods flood?

Pang Tong subconsciously looked around, and then said: "...Why are you...in such a hurry?"

Fei Qian sighed and said: "Originally, I thought I could take it easy... but now I can't take it easy..."

The original plan was to train a group of grassroots manpower in Bingbei and form a complete system in the three aspects of civil affairs, culture, and military, and then use these manpower to slowly penetrate the emerging strata. To replace the original role of the noble clan in this era, and finally complete the guidance and improvement of the entire noble clan, or to cut it off.

But now, Cao Cao's time to marry, well, to welcome Emperor Xian has obviously been advanced. Yuan Shao has also advanced his attack on Gongsun Zan. There is another Yang Biao in the land of Heluo, but Ma Chao comes from Guanzhong...

What else happens next?

Fei Qian didn't know at all.

For Fei Qian, who has lost control of the time chain of the Three Kingdoms, the future in front of him is like a black curtain covering his eyes, but under his feet is a winding and rugged mountain road, and he may miss the mark at any time... …

Just like Xun Chen said, there are more than 100,000 refugees in Guanzhong. If Fei Qian doesn't take action, even Zuo Fengyi may not be able to survive. The most important thing is that these people will become nourishment for surrounding forces. Even if they can't walk east On the other hand, going south out of Wuguan is Jingzhou and Yuzhou, and going west through Xieguan is Hanzhong Sichuan, or simply becoming part of the Qiang people. This situation is also something Fei Qian doesn't want to see.

And just like the famous saying of later generations, when you open the window, not only fresh air comes in, but also mosquitoes and flies.

Therefore, facing Guanzhong, Fei Qian has to face not only inside the battlefield, but also outside the battlefield...