Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

The celebration banquet was held very late, and the atmosphere became even more lively, especially after Ma Chao, the sudden protagonist, appeared.

Although it was his first time to see him in person, Ma Chao kept to himself. During the dinner, he kept talking to Liu Bei about how to capture Zhang He.

To Liu Bei, Ma Chao said the simplest thing in the most complicated language.

Zhang He was beaten to death.

Jieting retreated, Chencang fell, Zhang He's troops lost all their supplies, and the hidden danger of insufficient food and grass gradually began to appear.

Ma Chao then led the Qiang cavalry in pursuit. Zhang He had no choice but to run, and supplies could only be obtained by looting along the way.

The two sides chased and fled from Yongxian County to Duyang, then to Yinmi, then to Quaigu (pronounced Tonggu), then to Linjing, and finally almost reached Yuezhi City all the way. Zhang Jiao finally ran out of food and was captured.

Of course, Ma Chao is no better off. Just look at his ferocious meat-eating posture to know what kind of life he has been living in the past month.

Liu Bei pulled his soldiers over and ordered:

Go and give Zhang He a piece of food. It's a nice treat.

Watching the soldiers leave, Liu Bei also relaxed and poured a glass of wine for Ma Chao with his own hands.

Ma Chao was flattered by this move. He held the wine jue in one hand and wondered whether he wanted to drink it. The other hand still held half of the roast chicken reluctantly.

However, Ma Chao also remembered Mr. Jian’s earnest teachings before and said:

Chang'an is a huge city, but Duke Xuande conquered it in just a few days. It's really a miracle!

These words are sincere. It has always been a problem for the Qiang and Hu to attack cities. For example, the previous 100,000 coalition troops to resist Cao bypassed Chang'an and fought at Tongguan.

Liu Bei smiled, raised the wine cup in his hand to signal, and had a drink with Ma Chao.

At the same time, I was also thinking about whether Yide and Shiyuan went to pacify Hedong smoothly.

For Guanzhong, Hedong is an elbow and an armpit and must be taken care of. But the terrain is not critical, so few people have put much effort into governing Hedong before.

Previously, the Hedong Army was among the 100,000-strong coalition that resisted Cao Cao at Tongguan. After the defeat, Han Sui and Ma Chao fled west, and the Hedong Army nominally surrendered to Cao Cao.

Now that Liu Bei is ruling the roost and wants to rule Guanzhong, he naturally has to have a good talk with the Lord of Hedong.

I heard that my lord also captured Xia Houyuan? Ma Chao looked admiringly.

Liu Bei shook his head: It's because his subordinates wanted to surrender, so I just tied him up.

I have written to Cao Cao and want to exchange Xia Houyuan for Yizhou Jian'er.

Yizhou athlete? Ma Chao was confused and didn't understand what this had to do with Cao Cao.

So Liu Bei sighed and slowly told the story of Liu Zhang's gift of soldiers to Cao Cao a few years ago. The parents of these athletes were all in Chengdu, hoping that their beloved sons would return to Shu.

This simple thing made Ma Chao silent for a long time. In the end, the man who had almost lost weight after a month of hard chasing but still maintained his heroic temperament knelt on the ground on the spot:

“Please, my lord, save my father. ̮̦͖̥͈̳̭̭̋̏͝ŝ̸̢̜̳̱͈̹͓̀̆̔͋͛͜͠ḩ̷̻̩͍̱̗͔̺̏̓͊̀͂̀ͅṵ̵̙̻͉̦͙̗̥̉̓̓̑̊̑̂

Ma Chao had received several letters from Liu Bei before the Battle of Tongguan, but at that time he was very ambitious and planned to make Ma Chao's name known to all the heroes in the world. The only thing he listened to Liu Bei's advice was that he did not worship Han Sui as his adoptive father on the spot.

But in the end, he was still severely educated by reality. He had his own ideas, and Han Sui had Han Sui's demands. The 100,000 coalition forces were defeated overnight and fled westward in a hurry.

Later, when Jian Yong came here, he was very knowledgeable, his conversation was heart-wrenching, and his demeanor was personable, reasonable, and persuasive.

Lu Bu's notoriety became Jian Yong's best example of reasoning, and Ma Chao also had a clear understanding of his dilemma:

Of course you don't have to have a biological father, but you must not bear the reputation of being unfilial.

Now Ma Chao has found the best solution to this matter: ask Duke Xuande to come forward.

Jian Yong and Liu Bei looked at each other and smiled. Ma Chao's sharp blade was good for hurting others, but bad for hurting himself. But fortunately, it has now been polished to a just right level.

Ma Chao belongs to Liu Bei, and he has a record of success. Han Sui has gone far away, and Yongliang is as solid as Mount Tai.

Under such circumstances, Cao Cao's reckless killing of Ma Teng would be harmful but not beneficial. If coupled with the exchange of prisoners in his hands at this time, there should be no worries about saving Ma Teng's life. This alone is enough.

So Liu Bei became more and more friendly:

Meng Qi invites you to rise. You have made great achievements. I will do my best to do this.

Ma Chao breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at Mr. Jian secretly. He happened to see Mr. Jian giving him a thumbs-up gesture, so he couldn't help but feel a little excited and his heart was completely relieved.

Ma Chao, who returned, was quickly given a new responsibility by Liu Bei: raising horses.

The eight hundred miles of Qinchuan are rich in water and grass, and there are good fields near the city, and there are also good horse farms in remote areas.

Qiang and Hu know horses, so there must be many people who are good at raising horses. Liu Bei asked Ma Chao to select those who are good at raising horses to form a new horse farm.

And they will send someone over later to sort out the methods, regulations, and precautions for raising horses.

A few days later, Zhang Fei and Pang Tong also returned, bringing back all the families of the Hedong generals.

Facing Liu Bei's army, the Hedong generals naturally swore that their previous surrender to Cao Cao was nothing more than an act of betrayal.

Zhang Fei believed it, and then put forward a very simple condition: just keep his wife as a hostage in Chang'an.

Pick a thorn and destroy it with the force of thunder, and the rest will go smoothly.

Although Liu Bei didn't like this method, he also knew that facing the generals in Hedong who were all bandits and bandits, there was no other more suitable method for a while.

In the final analysis, there are still not enough manpower, Liu Bei lamented.

I have been trying my best to cultivate talents since I was in the police, but the speed of cultivating good talents obviously cannot keep up with the speed of territory expansion, which is a happy trouble.

So at the end of April, Liu Bei and others were in the Chang'an government office, planning to read the light curtain as the best pastime during the war.

Ma Chao, who was listed here for the first time, had a fresh look on his face. He felt that Xuande Gong had a lot of real talents under his command—including, of course, Ma Mengqi.

And compared to Cao Cao's place, the atmosphere is much more relaxed, but what are you waiting for sitting here? Ma Chao was puzzled.

Besides, why did these people turn their attention to Zhuge Military Advisor after seeing him?

Ma Chao looked suspicious.

…

Chang'an City, November.

After sending Li Jing away, Li Shimin felt a little nervous.

He was not nervous about Tuyuhun. He was just a country chicken and a dog who didn't know whether to live or die. He had the advantage of a map, gunpowder as a trump card, and fierce generals to raid the formation. Li Shimin didn't know how to write the word death for Tuyuhun.

But Li Shimin also knew vaguely in his heart that compared with the history in the light curtain, the time difference between Ping Jieli and Ping Jieli was only half a year, so it was not a big problem.

But the battle of Tuyuhun was abruptly advanced by nearly five years. After this battle, the Tang Dynasty would embark on a completely different path from that in the history of the light curtain.

It is now November in the winter month, but not a single snowflake has fallen. Li Shimin's head immediately pops up with the words of future generations about the climate.

I even thought about the biggest beneficiaries of this climate:

Tibet……