The thirty-seventh chapter
The orders given by Lu Zhi to Pang De and his department were already tempting, and Pang De, as the head coach, was naturally well aware of them. Lu Zhi's orders cannot be explicitly disobeyed, otherwise he would not be able to explain to the court and Ma Teng. However, Bingzhou's abdomen cannot be kicked with his feet. Pang De believes that as long as he dares to lead the team to Guyuan area to cause trouble, the angry Zhao Xing will definitely keep the 10,000 Ma Teng's family's eldest son, completely in Bingzhou, including Ma Chao, the eldest son of the Ma family.
After thinking about it, Pang De had no good idea, so he could only go to the road first. From Lishi to the east, there was a wide and straight road that could be passed by, so even if Pang De deliberately suppressed the speed of the march, he still walked very quickly. In less than two days, he ran to the Zishi area, which was already forty or fifty miles away from the West Road Alliance.
Seeing the Zi family, which was almost without soldiers, Pang De suddenly had a plan. Pang De ordered his soldiers to circle the Zi family three times, but no one was allowed to shoot arrows or attack the Zi family. Then, Pang De left the Zi family with 10,000 cavalry and continued to march eastward slowly. Wherever he passed, he did not violate any crime and dared not disturb the people.
In fact, since Pang De led his army to leave the Lishicheng area, many eyes have closely watched the actions of the ten thousand cavalrymen. Regardless of the 4,000 elite soldiers led by Wang Lu's troops ambushed in Zhongyang County, even if the reserve troops from all over the country were organized to defend the city, it would definitely not be easily captured by Pang De, a cavalry unit without heavy siege equipment.
Lu Zhi is testing Pang De or Ma Teng, but Zhao Xing is also testing Ma Teng or Pang De's attitude. As long as you survive this Bingzhou crisis, Zhao Xing will not be polite to anyone else. The forces that can win over smoothly will naturally be happy and save time and effort. For those who fight to the end, Zhao Xing will never mind destroying one or two more forces and strengthening himself by the way.
As Pang De gradually penetrated into the hinterland of Bingzhou, he felt more and more a mysterious and depressing atmosphere. He knew that this was being targeted. In fact, their team of 10,000 people was indeed targeted. Zhang Liao, who had driven the Black Mountain Army back to the Taihang Mountains, was looking for fighter jets recently. It happened to be that Pang De was swaying to the depths of Bingzhou. So Zhang Liao immediately led the Dragon Cavalry Army along the Bingzhou Expressway from east to west, and arrived in Pingtao and Daling within two or three days, just facing Pang De's troops heading east.
If Pang De was not clear-headed and misjudged the situation, thinking that the hinterland of Bingzhou is now open and he can ask for it, he will really make a bloody head. The anger of the 20,000 Dragon Cavalry Army is not something that he can withstand. Even if Ma Chao and Pang De are strong, it will be useless. The strength of the Dragon Cavalry Army lies in their equipment being equipped with hand-dumping thunder, and they rely on group combat to win. They do not care how brave the single general is. What's more, Zhang Liao is not a vegetarian in terms of force, and there is a woman dressed in a man next to him.
Pang De understood these things, but the young Ma Chao didn't think so long. Over the years, as Ma Chao gradually grew up, he was taught a lesson by his father Ma Teng, and wanted to learn how powerful the so-called "Bingzhou Five Tigers" were on the battlefield. Unfortunately, until now, he had no chance to compete with the famous Bingzhou generals such as Lu Bu, Guan Yu, Xu Huang, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, etc., let alone compete with General Zhao Xing, Zhenbei.
Ma Chao heard that Zhao Xing had fought with Zhang Fei among the coalition forces on the east bank of the Yellow River, but it turned out to be a draw. He had never fought with Zhang Fei, and only thought that Zhang Fei was just a second-rate general, so he did not agree with Zhao Xing's martial arts. It is understandable that young people are arrogant and arrogant, but some of the things that the young Ma Chao did next almost caused Zhang Liao's misunderstanding. If Zhao Xing's secret letter had not come in time, Zhang Liao might have brought the Dragon Cavalry Army and destroyed Ma Chao, who had only three thousand cavalry as the vanguard.
The thing is like this. Since the days when he was heading east, Pang De and his unit did not encounter any resistance at all, so Ma Chao gradually became bored and felt that Pang De's marching was not refreshing enough. Ma Chao yelled to act as the pioneer. Without waiting for Pang De to agree, he led three thousand cavalry to the front and threw Pang De away a large part.
In fact, Ma Chao did not do much bad things, but the ground was too shocking and a bit of a prank. Ma Chao ran forward with his men and horses, spreading rumors that the Zhenbei Legion had been defeated and the West Road coalition was about to attack Taiyuan and Shangdang. Everyone should run away quickly. Although he did not cause any actual harm to Bingzhou, he was actually disturbing people's hearts and was considered to have violated the taboos of Bingzhou.
Ma Chao kept causing trouble in front of him, which made Pang De rush to wipe his butt from behind. Pang De walked along the place where Ma Chao ran and told the local people that the Zhenbei army had not been defeated, and the troops he brought were friendly troops from Bingzhou, so he went to Bingzhou to observe. So the people along the way rolled their eyes fiercely, and Pang De could only continue to take the blame to the end.
The reason why Zhang Liao was not far from Ma Chao was slow to take action was because he received an emergency secret letter from Zhao Xing. In the letter, Zhao Xing said that when the plague was rampant in the past few years, many aristocratic families and large families did not cooperate with the general's mansion, and vaguely meant to rebel against Bingzhou. This time, since Ma Chao liked to make trouble, he simply took advantage of his opportunity to spread rumors all the way to identify which families had ulterior motives and were not on the same line as Bingzhou.
Sure enough, as Ma Chao led his team to Bingzhou, some local families and families believed in the truth blatantly paid Ma Chao food and military pay, began to recruit family soldiers, accumulate food and fodder, and wait for signs of Lu Zhi coming. What's more, some families who were forcibly burned with corpses during the plague were rampant, and were ready to attack the local county government.
After the data from the Shadow News was sent to Zhang Liao, he was really surprised. If Zhao Xing had not come up with such a secret trick, he would have really not seen that there were many unstable elements in Bingzhou.
Since Zhang Liao discovered that he had nothing to do, he had to spend some time to eliminate these potential hidden dangers and dissidents for Zhao Xing. Zhang Liao thought he could not beat Guo Jia, so he told Guo Jia his ideas, and the plan was provided by Guo Jia, and Zhang Liao was responsible for the specific actions.
Guo Jia was not polite. After analyzing the possible rebellion or resistance, he proposed a plan to ask you to fall into the trap. That is, inciting the exposed dissidents and hidden dangers, continuing to cause trouble, and let the people of Bingzhou see the true faces of these people, and then use thunder means to quickly extinguish and clean them.
Ma Chao, who was only rushing forward, felt that this time he was very happy in Bingzhou. He could brag about his younger brothers and sisters when he went back in the future. However, he knew that Bingzhou had actually used his willful behavior to clean up and eliminate dissidents. To put it bluntly, Ma Chao finally took the blame for Zhao Xing.
Chapter completed!