Chapter 557: Use the barbarian to control the barbarian
A night battle at the ferry directly defeated Wang Jing, the confident governor of Bingzhou. He also understood why the former Northwest War Zone, which had so many talented people, was being wiped out by the Shu army step by step.
There is such a statue hanging on the wall. If you ask Xiang Yu to go up, he will recreate a wave of Wujiang and commit suicide for you.
With nearly five thousand men, he took advantage of the darkness to catch the Shu army by surprise. The result was simply that Ma Su got up and got angry, so he directly called the God of War Qijiao, and then they were defeated.
This girl is still going to market trade. If she jumped... what the hell, just go back to Anyi and defend her.
This battle made Wang Jing realize the reality clearly, and his eyes became clear. At the same time, this also allowed Ma Su to regain his feeling. It had been so long since I had ridden a horse to fight. I didn't expect that I was still so strong.
It seems that I have to commit suicide even more in the future, otherwise I'm afraid I won't have any chance at all.
This night battle also caused huge derivative effects. Throughout the battle, the barbarians brought by Jiang Wei and others were spectators throughout the whole battle.
They watched with their own eyes as Ma Su chased hundreds of thousands of people and fought, ten thousand times more powerful than the most heroic warriors in their tribe. After watching Ma Su crush the Wei army to pieces, the cohesion of the Hu tribe increased to a new level.
Being able to fight with such a brave general is an opportunity that one could never hope for while tending sheep on the grassland.
Especially from the gossip leaked by the personal soldiers of Jiang Wei and others, those who are loyal, brave and brave will be recruited to the central government to join the Cavalry General's Mansion in the future, and can follow General Ma at a close distance.
For the Hu people who have only lived on the grasslands all their lives, this temptation is incomparable to anything.
For a time, the loyalty of the 30,000 Hu people, especially the Hu leader among them, to the Han began to rise crazily. If this momentum continues, it will be very quick to cultivate a group of spiritual Han people...real Han people in the six towns.
After the field battle at the ferry ended, Wang Jing abandoned his helmet and armor along the way and left in disgrace, never daring to come back again. As a result, the Han army successfully crossed the Yellow River and began to march into Hedong County.
Although Hedong County is north of the Yellow River, its administrative units were generally subordinate to Sili in the past.
The reason is that this place is close to the Yellow River and has fertile soil, so both the population and food output are high. Because of this, many large wealthy families have been born here.
Of course, these wealthy families know best how to navigate the situation. Therefore, when the Han army entered the Hedong garrison county, they encountered little resistance. The local wealthy families basically ate pots of milk to welcome the king's army.
When Ma Su controlled half of Hedong County and was preparing to take advantage of the situation to march into Anyi, he suddenly received a letter from the north.
The letter was sent from the direction of Taiyuan, and the person writing the letter was Huchuquan, the Shanyu of the Five Southern Huns. The reason why he wrote to Ma Su was also very simple, that is, he sent people to surrender.
Taiyuan County was the seat of Bingzhou in the past, but it was occupied by the Hu people after the chaos in the late Han Dynasty. At the same time that Cao Wei established the country, the five Xiongnu tribes also established a firm foothold in Taiyuan and became the actual masters of Taiyuan County.
Of course, whether they can secure their position is still not up to them. After all, the Central Plains Dynasty was not invincible, but because of the Little Ice Age, it was a bit of a loss to recapture Taiyuan, so they allowed the Southern Huns to occupy it.
Therefore, Shanyu Huchuquan of the Southern Huns was also very wise and knew when to take sides. When Ma Su entered Hedong, he also sent people to surrender, intending to negotiate terms to attack Cao Wei together.
Hu Chuquan's letter was delivered to Ma Su, which caused Ma Su's hesitation.
"The Southern Huns are coming to surrender at this time? Are you sure you are not planning to take advantage of the situation?" Ma Di squinted his eyes and scanned the Xiongnu's sincerity of surrender, feeling a little more suspicious in his heart.
In the letter, the Shanyu of the Southern Xiongnu was extremely flattering, saying that they had always been Han subjects, but were oppressed by the pseudo-Wei and had to pretend to surrender. Now that the Han Dynasty is rising again and coming to regain their homeland, they should come to help.
As long as General Ma nods, the 50,000 Xiongnu army will immediately go south to help the Han army seize Bingzhou.
That's what he said, but it's hard to tell whether the Xiongnu planned to take this opportunity to find an excuse to go south to harvest grass and valleys. After all, according to Jiang Wei, there was a severe cold in the grassland last year, and life was not so easy for these grassland people.
Moreover, Ma Su was also more wary of the southern Huns. After all, the five Xiongnu tribes were much stronger than the group of barbarians on the Hetao Plain. Moreover, they themselves became Chinese earlier and are stronger. If they raise tigers in the future, they will lose more than they gain.
"Boyo, what do you think?" Ma Di pondered for a while, then looked at Jiang Wei who was standing next to him and asked.
"Your Majesty, give me 10,000 people, and I will go all the way north to clean up the Southern Huns together, so that we can be settled once and for all!" Jiang Wei immediately picked up the conversation and replied confidently.
"If possible, I can even recover all the way to Yanmen for the general, and seal the wolf as a Xu..."
"Stop it now. Let Deng Ai give his opinion." Ma Di quickly interrupted Jiang Wei and turned to look at Deng Ai.
I don’t know why Jiang Wei has become so radical now because that bastard kidnapped my Bo Yue. If this continues, Ma Di won't be able to trust Jiang Wei to lead troops outside.
Maybe one day the hot-blooded leader will risk his life and die outside, so Ma Su can't help but cry to death.
Facing Ma Su's inquiry, Deng Ai seemed relatively calm. He pondered for a while, then raised his hands and replied,
"Your Majesty, in my opinion, no matter what the Xiongnu's intention is, we should try our best to appease them now. The crusade against the pseudo-Wei is the first priority right now. As for the Southern Xiongnu's little thoughts, we can actually let go of them. ”
"Although the five Xiongnu tribes are strong, they are not without opponents. Yanmen and other places in the north of Taiyuan are all in the hands of the Xianbei people, and they are also unable to deal with the Huns."
"So it is better to take this opportunity to appease the Xiongnu, but not give any help. At the same time, send people back to the six towns, release Kebineng who has been detained, escort him back to Yanmen and let him contain the Xiongnu."
"And someone also heard that the current Shanyu Huchuquan and Zuoxian Wang Liu Bao are not on good terms. We can also act according to the situation..."
In just a few sentences, Deng Ai came up with a very good idea for Ma Su. After listening to Deng Ai's answer, Ma Su's eyes suddenly lit up.
Compared with the more mature inheritance laws of the Han people, the inheritance rights of these Hu people can be described as messy. Moreover, there are many conflicts between them. If they are really provoked, it is easy for them to become the same.
As for provoking conflicts between them, this seems easy, but in fact it is not difficult at all. As a man with a long culture, he is very experienced if he wants to make a fuss about this.
If Deng Ai's idea is followed, the Hu people in Bingzhou headquarters will be trapped in mutual restraint. And Ji Han will also gain huge benefits from it, and can rest assured that he will march eastward.
This is the famous example in history of using a barbarian to control a barbarian!