Chapter 144 Another Poisonous Trick
. "You framed me!" In Ma Jingrong's opinion, all this was undoubtedly a conspiracy: "I should take a good look at your so-called letters that colluded with enemies and treason, and distinguish between true and false."
Of course, he refused to sit and waited for death, and leaned forward to seize the letter from Zhang Chi.
In his eyes, a weak scholar and an incompetent prefect cannot accomplish anything. If he can't handle such two people who are powerless, he will have been in the army for so many years in vain.
But the result was much beyond his expectations. Before he could rush to Zhang Chi, his wrist had been captured by the hamster beside Zhang Chi.
Although the hamster seems to be quite old, his kung fu is still not low. He held Ma Jingrong's wrist with one hand and let Ma Jingrong pull it for a while and did not move at all.
"Do you want to kill someone to silence the evidence?" The hamster didn't allow Ma Jingrong to answer, and suddenly exerted force on his hand.
With a scream of "Ah!", Ma Jingrong's right wrist had been broken by a hamster.
Ma Jingrong originally wanted to reach out to grab the letter, but was caught off guard. His wrist was folded up and felt unbearable pain. He quickly pulled out his waist knife with his left hand and swung it towards the hamster's face.
The hamster was waiting for this moment. He flashed lightly to Ma Jingrong's left, held the back of the knife with one hand, and pushed it in the direction of Ma Jingrong's force.
The long sword was swung in a circle. A hamster was pushing with such force, and could not stop even if he wanted to stop. He cut it directly on his own throat. The vital point of the throat was cut off, and blood was like a spring in an instant, and there was no life left.
The soldiers and generals behind him were already stunned. The incidents that happened made them confused. Shi Kean said: "This matter is clear. Ma Jingrong surrendered to the enemy and treason, and designed to kill General Zhai Shiyan, intending to seize the military power in Hanzhong. After the incident was defeated, he wanted to kill people to silence him! Fortunately, the traitor was killed, but the incident suddenly began. I don't know if Ma Jingrong had a conspiracy, which would make the army panic and stabilize the morale of the army. As the prefect of Hanzhong, I can only use stop-point measures to temporarily hold military power. Other matters will be reported to Chang'an immediately before deciding! "
After Shi Ke'an finished speaking, he sent an order and said, "Immediately notify the generals of the three armies and come to our prefect's office to discuss matters within half an hour. If it is out of date, it will be a crime of colluding with Ma Jingrong for the crime of colluding with the enemy!"
Suddenly, two generals with the highest official titles in the army had died at a loss. These soldiers were already confused. Moreover, what Shi Ke'an said was inconsistent and reasonable, so the soldiers could only accept the order.
As for the generals of the battalions in the army, they gathered at the prefect's mansion in a short time.
Originally, these people in the army did not agree to the prefect taking charge of military power, but when they saw the "evidence" of Ma Jingrong's treason for colluding with the enemy and treason, they had nothing to say.
This letter is not a forgery. Gu Beicheng, the defender of Yinping, had a good relationship with Ma Jingrong, and everyone knew about this. In addition, it can be seen from the letter that the army in Shu had already captured Yinping. I thought that Yinping had many troops and the city defense was strong. How could it be said that it was captured if it was captured? Moreover, Hanzhong was not far away, and there was no sound of wind.
Then there is only one possibility. Gu Beicheng, the defending general, surrendered. Moreover, since he dared to do this, he must have made plans long ago. He had a good relationship with Ma Jingrong, and the two must have been in contact. This letter was exactly what made Ma Jingrong serve as an insider to help the Jin army seize Hanzhong.
Now there are problems in the army, and the general has been killed, so it is indeed reasonable for the prefect to take over military power. Moreover, Shi Kean also said that this is just a temporary solution. When these matters are reported to Chang'an immediately before deciding.
"It is obvious that there are traitors hidden in our army. Although Ma Jingrong has been executed, he will inevitably have accomplices. Otherwise, if there are fish who missed the net and collude with the Jin army, Hanzhong will be in danger. This matter must be thoroughly investigated." Shi Ke'an ordered: "Before the investigation is made, you are wronged to temporarily hand over the military power and return it after it is found out."
The prefect is already the highest official title in the city. Some of these intermediate generals are unwilling to hand over military power, but they are worried that they will be suspicious of surrendering to the enemy in this way. How dare they have any objections?
"Then I'll be sorry for all the generals to live in my prefect's mansion first and not leave alone for the time being."
After the meeting, the generals arranged their residences to rest. Although it was a rest, it was actually no different from house arrest. The service was strictly supervised, and the military power of the whole city was taken into the hands of the prefect Shi Ke'an.
In this way, it would be easy to capture Hanzhong. What Zhang Chi is thinking hard now is how to inform Du Ximing to send troops to Hanzhong, and then how to communicate to achieve internal and external cooperation.
Seeing Zhang Chi pondering, the hamster smiled and said, "I know what the young master is thinking."
"Oh?" Zhang Chi was curious.
"Young Master, please rest assured that Emei has already made arrangements for the next thing. We have a set of messages in the "poor family". Even if the city gate in Hanzhong is closed, we can still pass the messages outside the city. What's more, now the military power in the whole city is in hand, so what else can we worry about?"
"The incident started suddenly, so these generals in Hanzhong were not in response. If they could not capture Hanzhong in a flash, they would inevitably have long nights and dreams. And even if news of the poor generals came out, how could our army far away in Yinping listen to the news of strangers?" Zhang Chi was worried, and Du Ximing did not know Emei, and even if Emei went, he might not believe it. If the commander of the three armies listened to the wind and rain, wouldn't it be easy to fall into the enemy's trap?
"Young Master, don't forget that there are also people from my poor family in the Yinping army." The hamster smiled.
"Dark Blade!" Zhang Chi didn't need to remind him anymore, but he thought of who the hamster was talking about.
Indeed, at this time Du Ximing had indeed led his troops to a hundred miles away from Hanzhong, but he did not have many people.
Yinping had only 30,000 troops in total, but there were many surrendered soldiers from Hu people in the city. Zhang Chi ordered the surrenderers not to be killed, but this did bring considerable potential risks to Yinping.
People have no intention of killing tigers, but tigers hurt people's hearts. No matter when, you must be careful when dealing with these huge number of surrendered soldiers.
In fact, Zhang Chi had a long plan on this point. He had told Gu Beicheng that only 8,000 troops were used to attack Hanzhong. In fact, he could only draw out these troops, otherwise no matter how many, Yinping would be difficult to preserve.
If there are so many surrendered soldiers in a small Yinping, then wouldn’t Hanzhong have more? In fact, the reason why Yinping has many surrendered soldiers is because Zhang Chi cannot let them escape. Otherwise, if the news of Yinping being captured will spread, and with his 30,000 troops facing the Hu people, what can we do?
But Hanzhong is different. No matter what strategy is used, a city like Hanzhong with an important strategic location will definitely be known to everyone after conquering it. So why do you have to do these things and let them collapse.
It would be a great thing to use only eight thousand men to capture Hanzhong, which was stationed in 100,000 Hu army. Even since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there has never been such a huge battle, let alone such a battle is a battle of siege.
Du Ximing knew that as long as he succeeded this time, it was Zhang Chi, and even himself would be famous in history.
The eight thousand cavalrymen were all wearing armor and weapons of the Yinping surrendered soldiers. They held up the flag high and were not careful. Instead, they rushed straight to Hanzhong with a swagger.
If you pretend to be a Hu army, you will go back to your own home when you return to Hanzhong. Of course, you don’t have to sneak into it. At dawn, Du Ximing finally led his troops outside Hanzhong City.
The city gate garrison had long been replaced by Shi Ke'an with his confidants, and Du Ximing's eight thousand elite soldiers were in Hu's armor, so no one aroused doubts and came directly to the prefect's mansion.
Of course, there is a reason why Du Ximing's eight thousand troops still need. Although the military power in Hanzhong is now allocated by Shi Ke'an, if he blatantly surrenders, 100,000 Hu soldiers refused to accept it. After all, Shi Ke'an is a Han Chinese, and he only has a small number of soldiers directly under him. It is really difficult to stabilize the situation if he kills the generals like this.
However, Zhang Chi had a clever plan. When Du Ximing led his troops to arrive, he had regular soldiers and horses, although there were not many, but he could do a lot of things.
First, he rushed into the prefect's mansion and captured all the generals of Hanzhong battalions in the mansion. At this time, Shi Ke'an revealed his true face and told the truth of the matter himself. Then he deliberately let one or two people escape from time to time.
The city gate was closely controlled, and the two generals escaped from the city, but could not leave the city, so they could only bring their troops under their command to conquer the prefect Shi Ke'an.
And this is exactly what Zhang Chi wants to achieve. Shi Ke'an can openly order the Hu army to quell the rebellion.
Ma Jingrong is a traitor. Now Ma Jingrong is executed and wants to thoroughly investigate the people who surrender to the enemy in the city. At this time, he wants to raise an army to kill the prefect. What is it if he is not an exposed traitor?
The Hu generals from other battalions were still controlled in the prefect's mansion. The soldiers at the lower level knew something and thought it was true that the Hu people attacked each other.
Let your dog bite the dog, this is Zhang Chi's method.
When these two Hu troops are about to kill them, they will release one and two Hu generals. These generals escape from the prefect's mansion, but the city gates on all sides are strictly guarded. What can I do? The only way is to summon soldiers who belong to me to kill Shi Ke'an.
But all this was long after Zhang Chi and Shi Kean's plan, and the rest of the Hu soldiers defeated the rebellion.
The ordinary Hu soldiers knew what they knew, and only knew that someone had ordered them to fight. The war in Hanzhong City continued from dawn to sunset. Although it was only a short day, there were already corpses hanging around and blood flowing into a river. Most of the soldiers and horses in Hanzhong City had been exhausted.
"Sir, this poisonous plan is really poisonous." Shi Kean was impressed by Zhang Chi's methods.
Zhang Chi saw that the time was almost the same, which made Shi Ke'an open the city gates on all sides, and Du Ximing came out of the city. After a day of fighting, the Hu people in Hanzhong City were already dizzy, but at this time, the army of Jin people descended from the sky.
Originally, Shi Ke'an's confidants had arranged the Hu soldiers to command their attacks, but since Du Ximing's army came out as the Jin army, these generals had long disappeared.
Although Du Ximing's army was only 8,000, no one knew about the Hu people and fled in all directions.
Fortunately, the city gate was opened, and these Hu people rushed towards the city gate, rushing to escape from the city.
Du Ximing's mission is to disperse these remaining soldiers out of the city, and of course it does not intercept them at all.
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