Chapter 97: Conquer Shangdang

Xiahou Ba looked at the young man in front of him for some reason.

"Uncle? Nephew? Where did a guy come from here to catch up with relatives?" Xiahou Ba thought at a loss.

"Who are you?" Xiahou Ba asked.

"Haha, uncle, we have never been masked, so it is normal for you not to know me." A Dou said.

"Have you ever been masked?" Xiahou Ba was completely confused this time.

The Xiahou family is a big family, especially the Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan eras, and the Xiahou family members also became prosperous and destroyed. The entire Xiahou family included the branches and relatives of the foreign family, and there were nearly a thousand people. Among them, there were definitely not a few who called Xiahou Ba's uncle. How could Xiahou Ba remember so clearly that when A Dou called Xiahou Ba's "uncle", Xiahou Ba did not react at all.

"Who are you?" Xiahouba continued.

"Uncle, I'm Liu Chan!"

"Liu Chan..." Xia Hou Ba suddenly opened his eyes wide, his mouth slightly opened, obviously scared.

"This...how could this happen..." At this moment, Xia Houba didn't know what to do.

Adou ignored Xiahou Ba's reaction at all, walked inside, sat down steadily, and then spoke, "Uncle, I came here in person this time because I hope you can follow the will of heaven and surrender to me."

"I'm a joke!" Xiahou Ba said toughly.

"Uncle, you should actually think that since I appeared here, Cao Zhen is over. I can tell you that Cao Zhen is indeed dead, but he is dead in front of me. Now my army can advance eastward and rush straight to Yanzhou at any time. The south bank of the Yellow River is within your reach. How can you, Yingchuan, be spared? So I hope my uncle can surrender to me, so that the people can not only save the people from war, but also not harm the feelings between our uncle and nephew."

After hearing A Dou say this, Xiahou Ba finally confirmed that Cao Zhen is indeed dead. A Dou will not deceive himself in such a thing.

As A Dou said, with Xu Shu's existence, the entire Yanzhou was equivalent to being sent out for free. Without Yanzhou, his own Yingchuan would be like an isolated island.

"It's just a Yanzhou. Yanzhou is easy to defend but difficult to attack, so it's okay to give it to you. Hebei is the foundation of my Great Wei. Jizhou has abundant resources, and the two states of Youbian are rich in elite soldiers and powerful generals. As long as Hebei is here, hum..."

"But Hebei can't be saved now." Before Xiahou Ba finished speaking, Adou interrupted Xiahou Ba's words.

"What, do you still want to attack Hebei?"

"Of course, this time Cao Wei's vitality is severely damaged, so of course I have to do my best to attack Yecheng."

"Hahaha, you don't have to think about it anymore. If it's winter, the Yellow River has no water, maybe you can cross the Yellow River. Now the Yellow River is in full swing, how can you cross the Yellow River? When it's winter, Hebei can recruit hundreds of thousands of troops."

"Who said I want to cross the Yellow River? I just need to capture Bingzhou and then go out of Huguan and attack Yecheng directly."

"Attack Bingzhou? Wang Ling of Bingzhou has 30,000 Bingzhou cavalry and tens of thousands of infantry. Zhao was a generous man, and Shangdang City was even easier to defend but difficult to attack. Do you think it could be captured just by saying something?"

"Uncle, I'll give you a clear idea. Now Shangdang, I'm afraid he's no longer named Cao."

"Impossible. Wang Ling is loyal to Taizu and will never surrender."

"My uncle misunderstood. I have sent someone to attack Bingzhou."

"Hahaha, then I'm not even worried."

"Uncle, you seem to be very confident in the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry. But I tell you that this time the attack on Bingzhou was Ma Qiu, my great general Fuyuan, and Ma Qiu led the Iron Cavalry that swept the three thousand miles of Wusun that year!"

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Bingzhou.

Hu Zun pointed to Jinyang City in the distance and said, "There is Jinyangcheng ahead. The guards in the city are close friends with me, and they have already agreed to surrender. The two generals please wait, and I will immediately go forward and call the city."

Hu Zunzong stepped forward and came to the city gate. After a while, a general appeared on the city tower. Hu Zun discussed with the general and opened the city gate for convenience. The Han army captured Jinyang without bloodshed.

Immediately afterwards, Ma Qiu commanded his men to march south and attacked Taiyuan County.

Taiyuan County is Guo Huai's hometown. Guo Huai's grandfather was also among the Nine Ministers at that time. In addition, Guo Huai was valued by Cao Pi before and was named the governor of Yongzhou. Therefore, the Guo family had a very strong influence in Taiyuan and could be regarded as the first family in Taiyuan. The Taiyuan garrison was also involved in the Guo family.

Before, Guo Huai had sent people to manage the situation, and the Taiyuan guards had been bribed by the Guo family, so when Ma Qiu arrived, the Taiyuan guards also happily opened the city and surrendered.

Taiyuan City Lord's Mansion.

"Hahaha, General Guo Huai, thank you for your hard work. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have obtained these two counties so quickly." Ma Qiu said.

"I deserve these." Guo Huai answered immediately.

"Next, Shangdang and Huguan." Ma Qiu said and looked at Guo Huai and Hu Zun, and then asked: "Two generals, how much do you know about Huguan?"

"General Ma, this Huguan is an important place connecting Jizhou and Bingzhou. After leaving Huguan, Yecheng is not far east. However, there are not many soldiers and horses defending this Huguan. After all, Bingzhou and Jizhou are both the territory of Cao Wei, and Shangdang has Wang Ling's heavy troops stationed. Therefore, there are not many soldiers and horses defending the Huguan. As far as I know, now there are only eight hundred remaining soldiers at that time."

Ma Qiu nodded: "Those two generals, I will give you three thousand people, and I may conquer Huguan?"

"Don't worry, General Ma, Guo Huai (Hu Zun) fulfilled his mission!" the two said at the same time.

"Okay!" Ma Qiu nodded, and then said to Ma Dai next to him: "Second uncle, reorganize the troops immediately, let's go to attack Shangdang."

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Wang Mai is Wang Ling's nephew, and now he replaces Wang Ling and guards Shangdang.

During the reign of Emperor Ling, the Wang family was also a big family. At that time, Wang Ling's uncle Wang Yun was once ranked among the nine ministers, and later in the reign of Dong Zhuo, he was even more appointed as the Grand Tutor.

However, later, Wang Yun eliminated Dong Zhuo, Li Jue and Guo Si went to Beijing and slaughtered the Wang family. Only a few people escaped from the Wang family. It is also because of this that although Wang Mai was only Wang Ling's nephew, the Wang family was rarely submissive, so Wang Mai was highly valued by Wang Ling.

Wang Mai is just a small goalkeeper, but he can serve as the guard of Shangdang. Wang Ling was the prefect of Bingzhou. After Adou won Chang'an, Wang Ling was even the governor of Hedong and Henei counties. In the old Zhao land, Wang Ling was the one-on-one figure. Therefore, no one dared to object to Wang Mai's guard Shangdang.

In front of Shangdang City, Ma Qiu stood up and looked coldly at Shangdang City in the distance. The cavalry beside Ma Qiu did not make any noise, and there was a feeling of depression around him.

On the city wall, Wang Mai looked at Ma Qiu with some disdain. Ma Qiu was about the same age as Wang Mai, but compared to this, Ma Qiu was already the world-famous General Fuyuan. He went to the northwest Wusun with Ma Chao and founded the achievements of Huo Qubing's class Dingyuan.

In comparison, the tooth goalkeeper Wang Mai is nothing.

Wang Mai never stayed at the front line, so he did not add up many military achievements. Being able to become the general of the goalkeeper was also a contribution to Wang Ling's promotion. If it weren't for Wang Ling, Wang Mai would probably be just a small school.

Wang Mai was very dissatisfied with Ma Qiu, who was about the same age as him. In Wang Mai's opinion, both parties were about the same age, but Ma Qiu's opportunities were much better. Wang Mai felt that if he had Ma Qiu's opportunities, he could achieve the same achievements as Ma Qiu.

"General, look, that person is Ma Qiu, Ma Chao's son. I heard that Ma Qiu has the courage of thousands of men and his strength is not weaker than Ma Chao's back then."

"Hmph..." Wang Mai snorted coldly: "What's the point of Ma Qiu? It's just relied on Ma Chao's remaining power back then. What kind of storm against Wusun for three thousand miles is mostly due to Ma Chao's credit. Ma Qiu is just eating ready-made food. What's the fear? Come and bring me a big knife, and I'll teach that Ma Qiu a lesson!"

Wang Mai is also a powerful general, and is only eight feet tall, so he makes good use of a big sword of seventy kilograms. Facing Ma Qiu, Wang Mai is a newborn calf who is not afraid of a tiger, so he directly decides to go out of the city to fight.

"Ma Qiu is ahead. Do you dare to come out and fight me?" Wang Mai yelled with the big sword.

"Why do you use General Fuyuan to fight against you, so why bother to take action? I, Ma Dai, are enough!" Ma Dai rushed up.

"Hey, good horse!" Wang Mai's eyes suddenly shone with gleam when he saw the war horse Ma Dai rode.

Ma Dai rode an authentic Western Regions sweat-blooded BMW. This sweat-blooded BMW is a national treasure-level existence in the Western Regions, and it is hard to find gold in the Central Plains. When Ma Qiu returned from his expedition to Wusun, he brought a total of six sweat-blooded BMWs. Except for Ma Qiu and Ma Dai, the remaining four were presented to Adou. A Dou was not stingy and rewarded the four war horses to his subordinates. Among them, Wei Yan, Zhang Ren, and Li Yan each had one, and the last one was given to Jiang Wei.

"Good horse, kill you later, you must take this horse off!" Wang Mai thought to himself.

"Wang Mai, come and take your life!" At this moment, Ma Dai had already started to accelerate and rushed towards Wang Mai.

After a moment of silence, Ma Dai had already rushed to Wang Mai.

"So fast!" Wang Mai was shocked. The speed of the sweat-blooded BMW was much beyond Wang Mai's expectations. Ma Dai rushed to Wang Mai in a few blinks.

"I'm afraid you won't succeed!" Wang Mai raised his sword with both hands, blocking Ma Dai's attack.

"Ma Dai, today I, Wang Mai, will you sacrifice your life to the flag!" After blocking this knife, Wang Mai immediately started to fight back.

"Swoosh..." At this moment, a black dot appeared in Wang Mai's eyes and fell towards Wang Mai's face.

"Puchi..."

"Oh! The hidden arrow hurts people, what a good man..." Wang Mai shouted and fell off his horse. At this time, he saw an arrow inserted into Wang Mai's face.
Chapter completed!