The news that Zhang Bao successfully captured Nanxiang County spread throughout Daxia without much deliberate publicity by Zhang Bao.
In fact, before that, when Shaanzhou Ma Yaohan sent troops to Hezhou, it had already attracted the attention of countless people around him.
for them.
Perhaps everyone knows that the Great Xia is in chaos, and the imperial power is in name only. If it weren't for the more than 300,000 people in Xiazhou, the emperor might have been gone long ago.
Everyone unanimously maintained the peace on the surface and waited for an opportunity. Although there was an undercurrent surging underneath, no one was willing to take the initiative to take the lead.
Even before Taizhou sent troops to Hezhou, it was just for a lame reason.
But this time Ma Yaohan's dispatch of troops had no cover, it was Chi Guoguo's attack.
I just want to win Hezhou.
With Ma Yaohan taking the lead, as long as Zhang Bao also participates in the war, they will have a reason to mobilize troops.
It's like two people fighting.
There has to be someone to break up the fight. In the process of breaking up the fight, it is normal for one person to accidentally hit someone, and another person to hit twice without paying attention. As the fight continues, what was originally a fight between two people will turn into a group of people. of melee.
War is similar to fighting.
The reasons for war and fighting are similar.
Almost everyone believes that the battle between Hezhou and Shaanzhou will last for a long time.
But when they were dispatching troops, preparing food and grass, and preparing to participate in the melee to get a share of the pie, news came from Hezhou that the battle was over...
Not only was the battle over, but all the people in Shaanzhou were wiped out.
There were hundreds of thousands of people who went to Hezhou one after another.
Not only the soldiers who fought on the battlefield, none of them came back, but even the spies who infiltrated into Hezhou had their heads cut off and their heads were thrown into a pile at the border of Shaanzhou. Huge head bag.
When Ma Yaohan heard the news, he vomited blood and fainted on the spot.
The hundreds of thousands of people sent out can be said to be the core combat force of their entire Shaanxi Province.
Four generals even passed by, but were killed overnight.
This is a hundred thousand troops. Once destroyed, no one can accept this situation.
However, after the initial shock and confusion, the people around him started to feel happy and secretly happy.
Thanks to Ma Yao and Han Biao who came out on their own initiative this time.
This helped them find out the truth. Otherwise, they might be the unlucky ones. Now that Shaanzhou's vitality is severely damaged, it is estimated that in the next competition, it will be reduced to the bottom.
It is even very likely that Hezhou will take the opportunity to eat him!
But the next news once again made everyone's jaws drop.
Not long ago.
Fan Hanzhong, the new general of Hezhou, led a strong attack on Taizhou with 100,000 troops.
Capture cities and territories along the way.
Although Taizhou Prefecture Mu Dingyan led the army to resist desperately, he was still no match for Fan Hanzhong, judging from the strength Fan Hanzhong showed now.
The invincible general who killed everyone before is back again.
Although he was old and did not personally kill the enemy, Ding Yan was caught off guard and embarrassed by various tactics, strategies, and formations.
Moreover, Fan Hanzhong's men were quite powerful in combat, and Ding Yan's men were almost defeated at the first touch.
Just like this, when everyone's attention was attracted by the battle in Shaanzhou.
In just two months, Taizhou was captured by Fan Hanzhong of Hezhou.
Mu Dingyan of Taizhou Prefecture was killed.
Tens of thousands of the enemy were killed, and all the remaining troops were captured.
However, judging from the news, although Fan Hanzhong captured Taizhou, they also lost a lot of troops.
These two pieces of news coming from Hezhou were enough to shock everyone.
Naturally, some people are happy and some are worried about this situation.
Shaanzhou.
"Sir, another imperial edict has arrived!"
"Look, it's still the same as before..."
Ma Yaohan was lying on the bed when a servant came in to report.
"Imperial decree?"
"No!"
"quick!"
"Bring it in quickly!"
When he heard that the imperial edict was coming, Ma Yaohan turned over from the bed and sat up as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.
Regardless of his weak appearance, he led several servants to kneel out and greet him.
"Your Majesty, Yaohan, kneel down to greet Lord Angel!"
Seeing Ma Yaohan kneeling respectfully on the ground, the eunuch who announced the decree almost shed tears.
This eunuch was one of the people sent to Hezhou by Grand Sima Cao Kang to deliver the imperial edict to Zhang Bao.
After Zhang Bao came back, Zhang Bao had all the eunuchs released.
In Zhang Bao's view, it is unnecessary to kill these eunuchs. Normal people are not willing to deal too much with this species. What's more, after Lao He came back, he didn't know what he was busy with. He didn't even see a shadow all day long. Less than.
Zhang Bao simply put it back.
Besides, seeing how they were being tortured one by one, there was no need to take action.
God knows what the miserable situation will be like when this group of people are released and support each other back to Xiazhou.
For them, they still think that there are very terrifying man-eating monsters in Hezhou. This was firmly believed when they accidentally saw the huge head floating in mid-air. .
To them, Hezhou is as scary as the Palace of Hell.
On their way out of Hezhou, they drove the carriage almost desperately. No matter day or night, after leaving the realm of Hezhou, the horses were exhausted to death, and the carriage had long been broken apart by the jolts, leaving only A bottom shelf was taken off.
In the end, he begged all the way back to Xiazhou.
It can be said.
The trip to Hezhou left a huge shadow in their lives.
So much so that when Da Sima once again asked them to come to Shaanzhou to issue an edict, the chosen ones almost wanted to put their own things on the beams of the house.
Even if I am beaten to death, I will not be a eunuch in my next life.
And to be honest, Cao Kang had sent several imperial edicts to Ma Yaohan in Shaanxi Province before, but Ma Yaohan turned a blind eye to them and did not say anything about resisting the edicts or obeying them.
At that time, Ma Yaohan had already decided to attack Hezhou. After taking Hezhou, he would proclaim himself king. How could he still take the so-called emperor seriously?
What's more, he also knew that these so-called imperial edicts were just issued by Cao Kang with the help of the emperor.
in this case.
Going to Shaanzhou to deliver the imperial edict, the eunuch named Qin Ergou didn't know if he could go back alive.
So before coming, I had already prepared for the worst.
But I didn't expect it.
The governor of Shaanzhou was actually so polite to me. Looking at his kneeling posture, it was as if he was meeting the emperor.
Qin Ergou's waist straightened immediately.
He held his head high and held the imperial edict high, and walked into the house.
