Hao Zhao, courtesy name Bodao, was from Taiyuan, Bingzhou, and a fellow villager of Guo Huai.
Unlike people like Guo Huai, who came from a long-standing family, Hao Zhao did not come from a wealthy family. He was just a child from a poor family. Therefore, from a very young age, Hao Zhao had to join the army to gain fame.
Like Wei Yan, Hao Zhao served as someone's buqu in his early years, and was promoted step by step, from buqu to buqu governor, and then with meritorious service, he was promoted step by step from buqu governor to school captain, and then to his current position. Miscellaneous General.
When Liu Bei vowed to join the Northern Expedition, a rebellion happened in Liangzhou.
In May of the 25th year of Jian'an, Qu Yan of Xiping County in Liangzhou colluded with several nearby counties to create unrest and resisted the prefect Zou Qi sent to Xiping County by Cao Wei; Zhang Jin of Zhangye County also arrested the prefect Du Tong, and Jiuquan County Huang Hua refused to allow Xin Ji, the prefect, to take office in the county. They all claimed that they were prefects and responded to Qu Yan. The Hu people from the three tribes in Wuwei County also rebelled again.
This was Liangzhou during the Eastern Han Dynasty. If nothing happened every once in a while, it would be embarrassing to call yourself a Liangzhou native.
In the face of such a rebellion, even with the influence of Liu Bei's pledge to fight for the Northern Expedition in Hanzhong, Cao Wei could not ignore it.
On the one hand, Cao Wei ordered Guo Huai, the governor of Liangzhou, to lead troops to Tianshui County in the north of Yongzhou to defend Liu Bei. On the other hand, Cao Wei asked Su Ze, the captain of the Qiang Protector, to send troops to rescue Guanqiu Xing, the prefect of Wuwei.
Cao Wei and Cao Wei started to attack at the same time, preparing to suppress the rebellion in Liangzhou while preparing for Liu Bei's Northern Expedition.
It's not that Cao Pi was careless, in fact, Cao Wei at that time was really powerful, and the gang of bumpkins in Liangzhou would make trouble every three to five years, and they would always be put down in the end. Cao Pi was used to it. I really don’t care about the Liangzhou locals.
It was at this time that Hao Zhao followed Su Ze, the captain of the Qiang Protector, into Liangzhou and stationed in Guzang County, Wuwei County. As a general, he assisted Su Ze in putting down the Liangzhou rebellion.
At the beginning, the counterinsurgency went smoothly.
Su Ze still has some abilities, at least against these powerful men in Shang Liangzhou, his intelligence is crushing.
Su Ze believed after research and judgment that although these Liangzhou locals rebelled, they were only for personal interests and were not united. They could defeat them one by one. This was the old problem of Liangzhou rebellion. Since Ma Chao fled and Han Sui died, Liangzhou Without a single backbone figure, the self-reliance situation in the Yongliang Pass that had been separatized could never be reproduced.
Su Ze obviously also grasped the law of Liangzhou rebellion and understood that the rebel leaders in various counties only cared about their own selfish desires. Not only did they have no intention of uniting and cooperating, but they also guarded against each other, intrigues, and even attacked each other. As long as they sent people to divide and divide , maybe they would fall apart without Su Ze leading troops to conquer, and Su Ze could easily put down the rebellion.
As for the barbarians in the three counties, this is not a problem.
Putting aside the fact that the Han people have a natural psychological advantage in fighting the Hu people, it is not necessarily true that the Hu people rebelled sincerely.
A few years ago in Liangzhou, Guo Huai pushed these barbarians to the ground and rubbed them. Now Guo Huai is recruiting barbarians from all over Tianshui County to fight. It is unlikely that the barbarians in the three counties of Liangzhou will choose to fight at this time. If you truly rebel, you will most likely be coerced or lured by the rebels from the three counties.
This problem is actually the best to solve.
What the Hu people want is nothing more than money and food. If the three counties can bribe and coerce them, then Su Ze can also use the same method to bribe and coerce them to defect to the court again. These Hu people are nothing to worry about.
Without the help of the barbarians, the local rioters in Liangzhou were not united. They only needed to use alienation tactics and attack them one by one, and the rebellion could be put down.
Su Ze's idea was correct and his plan was good. However, just after Su Ze had bribed the barbarians in Liangzhou and sent them all to Guo Huai to be cannon fodder, Su Ze had not waited for Su Ze to respond. The wealthy families of Liangzhou in the three counties are taking action. Liu Bei has already led his troops out of Qishan Road.
The whole of Yongliang was busy dealing with Liu Bei's Northern Expedition at this time. Su Ze had no choice but to stay put in Wuwei County for the time being, ready to respond to Guo Huai at any time.
But who would have known that Guo Huai, who earned the title of "God of Heaven" in Liangzhou, was completely defeated in more than ten days. Even Guo Huai, the governor of Liangzhou, did not choose to return to Liangzhou after his defeat, but went directly to Shang Dynasty. Now Su Ze's claws were numb.
Although Su Ze is the captain who protects the Qiang, his prestige in Liangzhou is obviously not comparable to that of Guo Huai. If Guo Huai does not return to Liangzhou, it will easily give those wealthy people in Liangzhou who are still on the side of Cao Wei a feeling of "everyone is being blamed by Cao Wei". Abandoned” feeling.
You really can’t blame the wealthy families in Liangzhou for thinking this way, because this kind of thing has happened repeatedly for more than a hundred years. The Han people in Liangzhou are not naturally rebellious, if it weren’t for the imperial court’s repeated “abandonment” They, they wouldn't have the wallowing style they have now.
Guo Huai was away and Su Ze's prestige was not enough. Xu Miao was able to suppress the wealthy families in Jincheng, but no one outside Jincheng County would buy Xu Miao's face.
Not to mention, the three northwest counties are still in rebellion. Faced with this situation, Su Ze dared not rush into the army to quell the Liangzhou rebellion.
Another one, Su Ze also has his own little thoughts.
Su Ze is a martial artist from Fufeng and is already very close to Liangzhou.
Su Ze's official experience was basically in Liangzhou, where he served successively as the prefect of Jiuquan, Anding, and Wudu counties. In his early years, Wudu was also under the jurisdiction of Liangzhou before Cao Cao withdrew from Hanzhong.
So, although Su Ze was appointed by Cao Wei as a captain to protect the Qiang, he was actually half a Liangzhou native.
Su Ze knew very well the mentality of the people in Liangzhou, but similarly, Su Ze had been an official in Liangzhou for a long time, and he might not necessarily be very loyal to Cao Wei. Su Ze was also watching to see who could control Liangzhou.
If Liu Bei can control Liangzhou, then Su Ze will not commit the crime of having to fight to the death for Cao Wei. But if Cao Wei still controls Liangzhou, then Su Ze will immediately send troops to divide the rebellion of the three counties and quell the civil strife in Liangzhou.
The development of the situation was already obvious by the beginning of the 26th year of Jian'an.
With Liu Bei's success in cutting off Long, the connection between Liangzhou and Guanzhong was cut off. Even if Su Ze wanted to be loyal to Cao Wei, he now had no channel to establish contact with the Cao Wei group in Guanzhong.
Therefore, in Su Ze's heart, as Pang Tong, Fazheng and others said, he was inclined to want Liu Bei's army to surrender.
However, surrendering like this is really not in line with the characteristics of Liangzhou people. You have to fight no matter what, just to show off.
First, show your abilities so that you can get a better treatment after surrendering to Liu Bei.
Secondly, as a member of the scholar-bureaucrat class, doesn’t it seem very unscrupulous to surrender as soon as you say you want to? !
You have to resist to some extent and show your character of loyalty and service.
This is the real reason why Su Ze gathered troops in Wuwei County to resist Zhao Yun.
But the problem is, Su Ze didn't expect that his humble general Hao Zhao would actually block the attack of nearly 20,000 people from the famous general Zhao Yun with only 7,000 men.
And the most important thing is that Hao Zhao defeated almost all Zhao Yun's offensive methods and burned most of the Shu army's siege equipment, while his own casualties were only a few hundred people.
This is magical, okay?
Su Ze knew very well the virtues of his soldiers. These were newly recruited soldiers in the past three months. Guo Huai had taken away all the real Liangzhou elites, and they were all in Ji County.
With only 7,000 newly recruited soldiers and a little-known general, they can stop the siege of Liu Bei's army. Can Liu Bei do it? !
Don't look back and let Cao Wei's army fight back. If you surrender so quickly, wouldn't you be in bad luck? !
Su Ze is now the Colonel Protecting Qiang, and his official position is not low. If he makes a wrong move, his future will be ruined.
Su Ze hesitated. He didn't know whether he should surrender. Because Hao Zhao fought so well, even if Su Ze hesitated, he still had the initiative.
Zhao Yun, who was outside the city, was also having a headache now because he had no way to deal with Hao Zhao.
Although I had heard that Zhang Xi used rockets before, according to the third brother, the rockets were used to scare people and had no practical significance at all. How can you say that they have no practical significance? !
All your siege equipment will be burned by this rocket, okay?
If Wuwei County cannot be broken quickly and the combat power of Liu Bei Group can be demonstrated, it may not be that easy to smoothly take over Liangzhou.
Zhao Yun was also worried about this.
A hard attack will definitely not work. The opponent's general is really good at defending. If he builds a batch of siege equipment, it is probably more likely to be burned down. But this does not mean that Zhao Yun has no other options.
Zhao Yun is not a reckless man, he is a standard famous general with both wisdom and courage, but he is low-key, so his reputation is not as good as that of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Ma Chao and others.
Since we can't attack by force, we have to use clever methods.
Before entering Liangzhou, Zhao Yun had already had some superficial understanding of the situation in Liangzhou. He knew that the powerful people in Liangzhou were rebelling, and they happened to be behind Wuwei County.
Zhao Yun immediately sent someone to contact Qu Yan of Xiping County. At the cost of his official position as the governor of Xiping County, he asked Qu Yan to attack behind Wuwei County and attack Guzang County with him from both sides.
Although Qu Yan was the main person in charge of the Liangzhou rebellion, the powerful people in Liangzhou, since Ma Chao fled to Yizhou and Han Sui died of illness, have refused to obey anyone. Even if they rebelled, they have not thought about how to fight against them. The first thing they did to suppress the rebel army was to attack each other, hoping to imitate Ma Chao and Han Sui and become the co-leader of Liangzhou.
So in fact, Qu Yan's life was not easy. He not only had to face the counter-rebellion army led by Su Ze, but also had to be on guard against backstabbing by Zhang Ye, Zhang Jin and Jiuquan Huang Hua at any time. His small life was also very anxious.
Now that Zhao Yun has extended an olive branch, Qu Yan is overjoyed. With Liu Bei Group as his backing, what does Qu Yan need to fear from Zhang Jin and Huang Hua? !
In this way, Qu Yan immediately led three thousand troops to attack Wuwei County from Xiping County, and cooperated with Zhao Yun in the front to launch a flanking attack on Wuwei County.
Su Ze felt uncomfortable now.
(End of chapter)
