The Shangqi defenders hurriedly wanted to close the city gate to resist Xu Huang's attack, but Xu Huang was well prepared this time. In addition, their performance on the way to march was quite a bit like a kind and righteous army, which led to a large number of Ma Chao soldiers who were unwilling to be enemies with them, and they demanded to open the city gate and surrender.

After all, the title of the Emperor of Han was still very useful in this year. Even Ma Chao also called himself the general of the Western Expedition, so he must be afraid of the real king's army.

After nearly two hours of assault, the Shangbi defenders announced their surrender and opened the city gate to welcome Xu Huang and Guo Huai into the city. A large number of soldiers who had just been recruited outside the city put down their weapons early and begged for surrender to Guo Huai.

Xu Huang and Guo Huai sighed in their hearts, and then began to reorganize the soldiers of Ma Chao's army according to Yunshan's previous deployment.

On-site captives and on-site supplements, Cao's army had the same idea before, but whoever was so idle and willing to join the army was willing to join the army. In most cases, it was necessary to rely on coercion and threats to be willing to join the army, and then some benefits were distributed by plunder.

The captured soldiers were also worried, fearing that after Cao's army, who had always had a bad reputation, would treason and let go of the war, or rob them directly like before. However, they did not expect that although Cao's soldiers could not be said to be completely unscrupulous after entering the city, they could probably control the military discipline, occupy the important areas in the city and outside the city to camp, and block the granary of the arsenal. Apart from this, there was no sign of letting go of the plunder.

When Xu Huang and Guo Huai entered the city, they called the local wealthy elderly and asked the people to testify, opening the granary one by one.

It is not the autumn harvest season yet, and most of the grain stored in Shangqi is the old ones. Xu Huang asked everyone to witness it, and roughly determined the amount of grain, and asked people to register and prepare for the release of grain!

"Give food?" Everyone in Shangqi was stunned.

Xu Huang and others came far away, but after that, they didn't know how long they would fight with Ma Chao, but they were willing to share the food with the people?

"General, is this food distribution for all the people? "

"What about that?" Xu Huang had a stern face, and a little reluctant appeared in his eyes.

If Xu Huang's previous temper was based on Xu Huang's previous temper, he would have killed all the people who dared to resist him before, and let the rest spare their lives, how could he continue to release food for them?

But Guo Huai said that the most critical part of Yunshan’s previous deployment was to win the hearts of the local people, which was better than 100,000 elite soldiers.

Although Xu Huang was quite dissatisfied, he still trusted Yunshan very much. After much reluctance, he decided to release food immediately. In addition to leaving necessary military supplies, he compiled other stored food in the city one by one and began to distribute it to the local people!

At first, the people in Shangqi thought that there was some deviation from rumors, and they did not dare to collect food for a while. Xu Huang and Guo Huai simply asked someone to prepare a few big pots. The two of them personally led their troops to get the water from the Wei River, asked people to cook porridge and cook, and entertained the people coming and going.

The people in Shangqi were quite wary of Cao's army. Seeing this, they completely relieved their hearts. Smelling the seductive wheat fragrance, they could no longer restrain their unbelievable expectations, and quickly took the pottery bowls and brought the elderly and the young to the Cao's army's camp.

They were exploited and worked hard before under the rule of Cao's army, and they were willing to help this family when Ma Chao arrived.

But after Ma Chao arrived, not only did he not bring any changes to them, except for not seeking widows, Ma Chao's army even collected more military supplies than Cao's army, which made everyone struggle on the verge of life and death. In this year of disagreement, even the local wealthy family was in trouble.

The fragrant rice and grain have exceeded everything, making many people who usually care about their identities unable to help but join the team for grain.

"You are saved!"

"Men, you are saved!"

"Ma Chao rebels Wudao, our court is here to save you!"

"Don't be polite, eat quickly!"

Not only did they release food, but the militias distributed to Guo Huai under Guan Ping also played a huge role. They did not look arrogant when facing these people holding bowls and looking expectant. Instead, they all looked like they were indifferent to their well-being.

They were all ordinary farmers in Guanzhong before, so they naturally understood the helplessness and grievances of the people of Liangzhou. Not only did they not mock these miserable people who came to make life, this made everyone feel quick, and their impression of the army of the court has changed.

"I didn't expect that the heavenly soldiers were completely different from the legendary ones."

An old man held a bowl of wheat porridge in his hand, and his eyes were filled with tears and trembling, but Guo Huai shook his head and said casually:

"Not all heavenly soldiers are like this, General Yun is like this."

"ah?"

Guo Huai did not deliberately lower his voice. On the contrary, he said proudly:

"General Yunshan Yuntan and General Xu Huang and General Xu Gongming are both benevolent and righteous people. Only these two people understand the great righteousness and are willing to stand up for the people of the world.

As for the others...hey, how can you compare to the two generals!"

Guo Huai's words were slapped and stomped, with a strong sense of provocation, and it was obvious that he wanted to cause trouble on purpose.

But Xu Huang held his arms and stood still, and his face showed a hint of satisfaction.

"Yes, other people cannot control it, but I will guard Liangzhou for the emperor. In the area of ​​Liangzhou, I will be in charge of my own benevolence and righteousness. If I violate military orders and kill innocent people, I will be enemies with me.

Well, General Yun guards Yongzhou like his original general, and is a companion for each other. Don’t be afraid of all the fellow villagers. We are all for your own good.”

Since Le Jin became the governor of Jingzhou, Xu Huang has been quite jealous in his heart, but he knew that such opportunities were hard to come by, so he could only vomit sour water in his heart.

But looking at the awe-inspiring and grateful eyes of the people around him, Xu Huang's enterprising spirit that had been suppressing in his heart finally sprouted slowly.

What is Le Jin? I, Xu Huang, can do what he can do, and I can do better. He is just lucky and is the first to discover Tanzhi, which is why he has today's status.

I, Xu Huang, are different...

Looking at the hot land of Liangzhou in front of him, Xu Huang's heart became more and more excited.

Liangzhou leads directly to the Western Regions and is far away from the Central Plains. It costs a lot of money to conquer this place. Yunshan has a good relationship with him, and he is the governor of Yongzhou. If the imperial court wants to conquer it, he must first cross the land of Yunshan.

Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu in the south were not afraid of it. Even if Liu Bei was the leader in the future, Xu Huang was confident that the good relationship between him and Guan Yu would have room for maneuver, and Liu Bei would never be able to take the lead in attacking him.

As long as you occupy this place and continue to respect the Emperor of Han on the surface, such a vast world can be allowed to gallop.

Isn’t this better than Le Jin doing in Jingzhou?

Xu Huang's persistence over the years still made him feel embarrassed and afraid, but then he thought, the one he was loyal to was Cao Gong who was preparing to save the Han Dynasty, not the King of Wei who later betrayed the Han Dynasty. I have always been the most loyal minister of the Han Dynasty. What's wrong with this?

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Ma Chao doesn't know that there is a fire in his backyard yet.

Because now something has made him feel overwhelmed.

Chang Diao, who broke into Liangzhou, actually succeeded in attacking Xingguo, looting there, and then left.

Xingguo is just a small town by the water, more like a land bunker, and it was not a dangerous place.

But it was the hometown of Agui, the Di king, with a population of 70,000 or 80,000 tribes. Everyone was good at fighting and even women could ride horses and fire their bows. They were important supporters of the Ma Chao army. The Di people were not only good at fighting and riding horses, but also a few tribes in the Western Rong who were good at farming. They chose Xingguo, which was close to the waterside, and kept in touch with Qiang people of the same origin. They wanted money and money, people, and food.

Agui is known for his fierceness among the Di people and has great prestige. No matter who comes to Liangzhou, he must first win over Agui and win Agui's support.

But Chang Diao was better. Although he had not many soldiers and was isolated in Liangzhou, he was isolated and helpless. Normal people should win over the tribes around him, and at least they should live in peace with them, so as not to fight with all the Western Rong around him and make them unable to fly. However, Chang Diao's brain circuit is indeed different from others. He heard that the Di people were good at farming and were supporters of Ma Chao, and speculated that Xingguo must have a large amount of military rations.

So Chang Diao ordered and led his army to raid Xingguo, easily taking away a large amount of food and grass.

Agui heard that his hometown was robbed, so he didn't believe it, but in the past few days, people kept escaping and reporting the news, saying that Chang Diao was killing, burning and looting in Xingguo, and robbing all the things that could be robbed, and all the things that could not be robbed were burned. The water in Changlichuan was dyed red.

A Guiqi's seven orifices were smoked, and he immediately screamed, dispatching a large army to prepare to completely wipe out Chang Diao!

In order to make it difficult for Chang Diao to escape, Agui also called his friends and asked the surrounding Qiang and Hu tribes to join the war together.

When the Qiang people heard that Agui was robbed, they all shared their hatred for the enemy. In just a few days, Agui gathered more than 20,000 Qiang people and searched around under the scorching sun.

"When I catch Chang Diao, I will definitely snatch him from the cramps and skin him to relieve my hatred! I must kill him, I must kill him!"

Of course, Ma Chao knew what the consequences would be for offending these Qiang and Hu in Liangzhou. Chang Diao was so cruel. If he could catch him and get rid of his cramps, it would be a good thing for Ma Chao.

But the previous battles with Chang Diao made Ma Chao secretly feel alert. He was afraid that Agui would make mistakes, so he quickly led his army to catch up with Agui, asking him to be careful of Chang Diao's conspiracy and intrigues. It would be best to stay for a moment, find out where Chang Diao was and then eliminated in one fell swoop.

Ma Chao is kind-hearted, but Agui is angry now. He heard Ma Chao advise him to be careful, and now he sneered and laughed:

"My family was killed by Chang Diao. If I stay here, how can I calm down their spirits in heaven? Meng Qixiu must judge others by himself and get out of here quickly!"

His words were clearly mocking Ma Chao for not responding after hearing that his family was killed. Ma Chao was immediately furious and pointed at Agui's face with a spear:

"What did you say? Say it again!"

Agui was shocked, and then he realized that he had made a mistake and quickly said:

"Yes, it's me that's wrong, it's me that's wrong, I..."

Ma Chao's face turned pale and sneered: "I kindly want to help you draw a plan, why mock me? Could it be that the iron spear in my hand is not good?"

Agui gritted his teeth, raised the iron spear in his hand and pointed it at Ma Chao, and said in a trembling voice:

"Meng Qi, let's not be hurt by the harmony. If you have to fight with me, I'm not afraid of you!"

Ma Chao stared at Agui's face and said angrily:
Chapter completed!