Chapter 555 Wei Jun’s Night Attack

Chapter 555 Wei Jun’s Night Attack

"It seems that we can't just base it on the historical layout of the six towns..." Ma Su shook his head with a headache and expressed his helplessness.

Obviously, the problems in the northern border are still very complicated and cannot be solved by just six towns.

But it's normal. Historically, the people who built the six towns were foreigners. Moreover, the six towns eventually became the biggest hidden danger in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and even triggered the final chaos in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Now that the founder has become a big man, although the current situation is much more stable than in history, the corresponding problems in the six towns still exist. If this is not accomplished, the Six Towns will sooner or later become a serious problem for the Han Dynasty.

However, although he knows all this, Ma Su really doesn't have a particularly good solution at the moment. After all, we are not in the troubled times of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the aloofness of the Han people still exists.

Now, even if he wanted to follow the example of the Tang Dynasty and give the Hu people a channel for advancement, he would probably be blocked by the Han clan. The stereotypes left by Hu and Han for hundreds of years have allowed this implicit discrimination to continue to exist.

In fact, this problem is obvious when it comes to Shu Ji.

This leader of the Dong Qiang made great military exploits under Ma Su and participated in all of Ma Su's early wars. But as soon as Ma Di left Longyou, his official position remained unchanged for several years, and even Jiang Wei caught up with him.

And this kind of discrimination exists widely throughout the Han Dynasty. If it is not handled well, there may be another barbarian movement south in the future.

"So Sir, please forgive me for being powerless. At present, the six towns are no longer able to continue to penetrate the power downwards." Deng Ai spread his hands and said to Ma Su with a wry smile.

If possible, they would also like to use strong men from top to bottom. This has high control and is safe, but the situation doesn’t allow it.

With Ji Han's current national strength, Ma Su himself must take half of the credit for being able to intimidate the six towns. If they refused to make any concessions, the six towns would have been in chaos.

"I can understand this. The issue of the six towns can be said to be very complicated and cannot be forced." Ma Su shook his head, frowned, and gave a reply after pondering.

"From now on, the Hussar General's Office will have to give the six towns the power to promote filial piety and incorruptibility, and try to recruit as many barbarian generals as possible into the army. Otherwise, the posts in the six towns alone will be filled up in a short time."

"No!" Wu Yi, who came with Ma Su, was shocked when he heard this and hurriedly spoke to dissuade him.

"If you, Youchang, do this, even if no one dares to object despite your high prestige, I'm afraid many people will hate you privately...Have you forgotten Yang Yi?"

We are now in the Three Kingdoms era, and the Han people from top to bottom have a deep-seated contempt for the Hu people. If Ma Di opened this hole to allow Hu people the power to enter the Han bureaucracy, he would probably be hostile to the entire bureaucracy.

You know, this is something Zhuge Liang didn't even do when he went south to conquer the southern barbarians. It's such a taboo that Ma Su would have done it if he did it.

"I don't want to, but there is no other way." Ma Su shook his head. As the temperature drops, the Hu people will migrate further and further south.

One day they will enter the Central Plains and have conflicts with the Han people. If we don't find a way to divide and win over some of them as soon as possible, I'm afraid that the only thing that will greet the big man is a bloody storm.

As for the hostility of the Han bureaucracy, Ma Di disagreed. Anyway, there are many people who hate him to the core, so there is no shortage of them.

If they really wanted to kill him, that would be better. The last thing he was afraid of was assassination!

"This matter is settled. I will shoulder all responsibilities! For the sake of the future of Han Dynasty, even if I face the world's accusations, I, Ma Su, will never regret it!" Ma Su finally made the decision and issued a decree in the name of General Hussars. Recruit within your own power first.

In the future, with the promotion of education, we can also use this as a basis to gradually educate the Hu people. As long as some of the Hu people in the Hetao Plain are civilized and made loyal to the court, the Han people will have a firm foothold in the Hetao Plain.

However, there was no way to arrange the vanguard camp, so Ma Su could only bring these thousands of vanguards to fight the war.

The 30,000-strong army rested and reorganized near Xia Yang. After the baggage from the next six towns arrived, the Han army began to cross the river.

In order to ensure safety, Ma Su took the forward selection battalion first and crossed the Yellow River before the large army. A thousand elite soldiers established a beachhead on the other side of the ferry and set up camp to control Pujin Ferry to support the army in crossing the river.

Because of the lack of food and fodder, the Han army at Pubanjin did not mobilize. Therefore, this time to conquer Hedong County, we can only rely on the soldiers and horses of the six towns.

But in Ma Su's view, this is not so difficult. All he had to face was Bingzhou's crippled troops. If it weren't for the need for follow-up troops to occupy the city, Ma Su thought that he would be enough with a thousand selected forward battalions.

The Han army set up camp in Hedong County so arrogantly. Ma Di didn't even lay out antlers, making it clear that he looked down on you, the Wei army.

However, this time Wei Jun was not intimidated by Ma Di's reputation.

Late at night on the second day when the Han army camped on the east bank, thousands of Wei soldiers on foot and cavalry took advantage of the darkness to raid from Anyi to Pujin Ferry.

"Your Majesty, the Shu army has two battalions stationed at the ferry. The west camp is the main camp of the Hu soldiers in the Hetao and is heavily guarded. The east camp is only one battalion in size and has no antlers trenches. The defense is extremely empty!" The scouting horses of the Wei army quickly defeated the Han army. The intelligence was passed back and reported to a middle-aged man who looked like a scholar in the Chinese Army.

He is Wang Jing, the governor of Bingzhou, and now the highest officer in the Bingzhou War Zone.

"The Shu army is so trusting? They don't think that if they defeat me once in Shangjun, I will be a coward, right? My surname is not Sima." Wang Jing looked at the battle report sent from the front line, with a trace of disdain in his eyes. .

"Don't be careless, I heard that the commander of the Shu army this time is Ma Di." Bo Luzhi, the leader of Bingzhou, also followed and stood up to remind him at this time.

"Before Governor Tian left, he also said that the five Xiongnu tribes had different intentions. Now we have no chance to make mistakes."

"I know this well, no need to remind you." Wang Jing waved his hand, but didn't seem to listen.

"But now that the Shu army has already exposed its flaws, should we still hesitate? Especially when we have so many soldiers and horses rushing towards us, if we hesitate for too long, the Shu army will notice it."

"So don't hesitate, this is a taboo for military strategists! Give me the order, cavalry in front, infantry in the back, the whole army attacks the east camp of the Shu army! We must get off to a good start!"

"Wait a minute, Sir. One look at Dongying will tell you that Ma Su himself is in charge. It's too dangerous to go there. Why don't we raid Xiying. There are many barbarians there. As long as we break the camp, we won't have to worry..."

"Am I the governor or are you the governor? You don't need to advise me on this kind of thing!" Wang Jing glared and snorted coldly.

"Ma Su? You can lead a thousand people and still be so paralyzed. Let him never come back today!"