It is rumored that Zhang Lu has the wealth of the country, but what is in front of Pang Tong and Xu Huang today is only these wealths, which can be regarded as a rich country.

However, the two of them still had some questions, Zhang Lu's secret room is very large, and using such a large secret room to store such a small amount of wealth is quite a bit overkill.

However, after the two exchanged eyes, neither of them spoke, hiding their doubts in their hearts.

Ma Chao has been paying attention to Pang Tong and Xu Huang's every move from the side, and seeing that neither of them reacted, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he paid for the success of his plan, so that Pang Tong and Xu Huang had nothing to say.

Subsequently, Ma Chao asked people to move all these gold, silver and jewelry out, and then load them in the car and hand them over to Pang Tong to manage.

As a supervising army, Pang Tong's authority is slightly greater than that of Ma Chao, the vanguard, and when necessary, he can represent the regent Zhang Yan. Pang Tong is a smart person, and he knows that Zhang Lu's wealth is definitely more than that, but what Ma Chao does is impeccable, and he can't catch any tricks.

When those gold, silver and jewelry were sent to Pang Tong, and Ma Chao begged Pang Tong to send them, Pang Tong borrowed flowers to offer Buddha and transferred this wealth to Ma Chao.

Ma Chao refused to accept it, but Pang Tong said: "General Ma is the vanguard of the Western Expeditionary Army, and the soldiers led by him are all charging into battle, it is inevitable that there will be some casualties in the war. As long as General Ma led the crowd to kill the enemy bravely. The regent's side will definitely not be without General Ma's reward! ”

Ma Chao hugged his fists and said: "Since that's the case." Then Ma is respectful and might as well obey his fate. ”

Xu Huang squinted at Ma Chao with a look of disdain. After Ma Chao left, Xu Huang asked: "Military advisor, Zhang Lu's wealth is definitely more than that, it must have been swallowed by the kid surnamed Ma, and this money is just used by the surnamed Ma to plug our mouths." He kindly sent these gold, silver and jewels over, why did the military advisor send him back again, isn't it all cheap for the kid surnamed Ma now? ”

Pang Tong frowned, and said coldly: "General Xu, please pay attention to your words, what is the boy surnamed Ma, Ma Chao is the general of Zhenxi, and the imperial court is officially entitled, although the position is slightly lower than yours, but he is also the general of the town guarding the side." How did it get into your mouth and call it that? You should call him General Ma. ”

Xu Huang said: "I call his grandmother's General Ma!" He is the one who embezzles the spoils of war. Also worthy of being called a general? What a bandit! No, not even bandits! ”

Pang Tong Zhengse said: "General Xu, I will solemnly tell you again, Ma Chao is a dignified and upright general of Zhenxi, if you are not inferior again, be careful that I will refer to you from the regent." I know you have prejudices against Ma Chao, but you have to figure out what is the real purpose of the regent in this western expedition, if you keep going like this, sooner or later you will destroy the regent's major affairs, in case this matter is known by Ma Chao, he will definitely rebel, maybe he will join forces with Zhang Fei and rebel together, and when the time comes, the southwest and northwest will rebel at the same time, you will be the sinner of the country! ”

After Xu Huang heard this, he held back, but he was not convinced, and asked, "Military Master, then why do you still give those gold, silver and jewelry to Ma Chao?" ”

"You know what, it's called wanting to get away with it. From now on, all your actions must be authorized by me, otherwise, you will be acting without authorization, and the regent has given me the power to behead before the battle, be careful that I behead you! Pang Tong said.

Xu Huang saw that Pang Tong was younger than himself, but he was very discerning in his actions, and he didn't seem to give himself any face, and he used the regent to pressure himself everywhere, so he was not very happy.

However, as soon as I remembered that he was going to fight side by side with Pang Tong for a long time in the future, if he got into a stalemate with him, the cooperation would definitely not be pleasant in the future, and Pang Tong had a lot of ghost ideas, and if he didn't play a trick behind his back, he couldn't bear it.

Therefore, Xu Huang did not have the slightest intention of rebelling, but was very obedient to Pang Tong. Nominally, the vanguard of this Western Expeditionary Army is Ma Chao, and the deputy vanguard is Xu Huang, but in fact, both Ma Chao and Xu Huang have been restrained by Pang Tong, who is the superintendent of the army.

Hanzhong was captured by Ma Chao, Zhang Lu and Zhang Wei were killed, many believers of Wudoumi Taoism in the territory could not accept this fact, and many fanatics took collective suicide to bury Zhang Lu, but the vast majority of them are people who eat indiscriminately, because after joining Wudoumi Taoism, they will eat and drink without worry, and they don't need to farm, they only need to chant sutras every year.

Therefore, when Zhang Lu died, many believers in Wudoumi Taoism completely chose to surrender, and there were hundreds of thousands of prisoners.

However, this qiē happened in the territory of Hanzhong, and because Pang De controlled the various passes leading from Hanzhong to Xichuan in advance, there was no leakage of news.

When Ma Chao reported the number of captives to Pang Tong, Pang Tong asked Xu Huang to be responsible for receiving all the prisoners, and then selected 10,000 people who could fight and incorporated them into Xu Huang's subordinates, and the rest were all released, and they were assigned to the people on the spot, incorporated into the household registration in Hanzhong, and responsible for reclaiming wasteland.

On the other hand, Pang Tong ordered Ma Chao to attack Xichuan quickly, taking advantage of Zhang Fei's lack of defense, taking it by surprise and attacking him unprepared, first taking the important pass of Irichuan, opening the mouth of Irichuan, and preparing for the follow-up battle of the army into Sichuan.

So, Ma Chao gathered his troops and horses early the next morning, left Nanzheng, and went straight to Cangyang, which was occupied by Pang De.

After Ma Chao left, Pang Tong was not idle, and asked Xu Huang to lead the soldiers and horses of his headquarters to follow closely and go to Chuyang to defend Yangping Pass.

Yangping Pass was originally a necessary way to enter Shu from Hanzhong, and it was the northern gateway of Shu, but because Zhang Lu rebelled that year, Yangping Pass was taken first, and Shu had no danger to defend, so Baishui Pass was the main pass to defend Zhang Lu.

When Pang De went straight from Wudu to Weiyang, the first thing he captured was Yangping Pass, and then he personally led the army to Weiyang City, so that the news would not leak.

And now, Ma Chao led Pang De and others with an army of nearly 100,000 people, all gathered in the vicinity of Chuyang City, because the county seat of Chuyang is slightly smaller, can not accommodate so many troops, and the road into Shu is difficult to walk, horses are not suitable for walking, so Ma Chao will leave a large number of war horses in Chuyang City, only led 500 personal cavalry, driving nearly 100,000 troops, soldiers out of Yangping Pass, straight to Baishui Pass.

In Ma Chao's army, more than half of the people are Qiang, and the Qiang people have a very strong physique, in addition to being able to skillfully control horses, they can also walk like flying in the mountains. This is because the Qiang people have grown up in the plateau and mountains since childhood, and they have long been on flat ground in the mountains and forests, so even if there are no horses, they can walk far on their feet.

This is also one of the reasons why when Ma Chao formed the Western Expeditionary Army, he brought nearly 60,000 Qiang people.

Ma Chao takes the people of Baimaqiang as the front, Baimaqiang is active in the Wudu area close to Yizhou, and there are a few Baimaqiang people in Yizhou, so they are very familiar with the terrain in this area, and they are walking in the mountains, Baimaqiang is also the fastest, which comes in handy.

Closely followed by the White Horse Qiang is the Wolf Qiang, the Wolf Qiang and the White Horse Qiang's activity area is similar, although there is not as fast as the White Horse Qiang in the mountains, but the Wolf Qiang has brave and good warriors, one of the main forces in the Western Expeditionary Army, its excellent jumping and climbing ability, and can even climb the high gate without any siege equipment.

Behind is the cavalry team led by Ma Chao himself, and Ma Chao lives in the middle of the entire team, also to facilitate command. Behind Ma Chao was a mixed formation of Qiang people such as Xian Lingqiang, Burning Dangqiang, and Zhong Cunqiang led by Pang De.

After Ma Chao guarded Xiliang, his personal prestige further alleviated the contradiction between Han and Qiang, and under Xu Shu's construction, he alleviated the contradiction between the two relatively large Qiang tribes, Xianlingqiang and Shaodangqiang, and made Zhong Cunqiang's Xiqiang king be feared and become a Shenweitian general in the eyes of the Qiang people.

Therefore, Ma Chao has any conscription, the Qiang people of all tribes will send troops to assist, this time Ma Chao formed the Western Expeditionary Army, first zero Qiang, burning Dangqiang two rivals, but also gave up the original hostile relationship, have sent troops to help, it can be seen that Ma Chao's prestige among the Qiang people of various tribes is irreplaceable.

It is precisely because of this that Ma Chao dared to make nonsense in front of the regent Zhang Yan, saying that as long as he raised his arms in Liangzhou, hundreds of thousands of people would follow him.

Soon after Ma Chao's army set off, Xu Huang led the crowd to rush and directly led his troops to block Yangping Pass, blocking the road from Hanzhong to Xichuan.

Two days later, Ma Chao led the army to suddenly launch an attack on Yizhou, and the momentum was like a bamboo, and Baishui Pass and the large and small passes behind him were all lost, and its troops approached Jiameng Pass.

Garrisoned in Jiameng Pass is the famous general Leng Bao in Shu, the Yizhou army was suddenly attacked fiercely, because the attackers were dressed as Qiang people, at first the Yizhou army thought that the Qiang people rebelled, until the Qiang people hit all the way to the Guancheng of Jiameng Pass, Ma Chao did not show up.

And Leng Bao knew that it was not the Qiang people who were rebelling, but the Han army attacking.

Leng Bud didn't know that Ma Chao was coming to commit at first, relying on his personal bravery, he went out of the city to meet the enemy, and Ma Chao fought alone, but was stabbed to death by Ma Chao with a shot, poor Leng Bud had just surrendered Zhang Fei for a month, and he died under Ma Chao's hands before he had time to enjoy the blessings.

Leng Bao's subordinates saw that Leng Bud was dead, immediately blocked the gate, and insisted on not fighting, Jiameng Pass was extremely strong, and the city defense was thicker, Ma Chao tried to charge several times, all of which ended in failure, and finally could only station the army under the Guancheng, and send soldiers to the front of the battle every day to scold.

And on the side of Jia Mengguan, the Yizhou army immediately played the matter to Zhang Fei, the new Yizhou pastor who was far away in Chengdu...... (To be continued......)