Chapter 574 Red Deer
In his life, Ma Wu witnessed the establishment of the great man twice.
The first episode was six years ago, on the beach mandala by the Qingshui River in Nanyang, a messy green forest army exhibition party. Liu Xuan half-supported and half-placed. Emperor Gengshi stood in the south and accepted Ma Wu and others' worship. Liu Xuan was always cowardly. Seeing this scene of thousands of people gathering, he was ashamed and sweating, and hesitated with his hands, even speaking in disarray.
At that time, Ma Wu supported Liu Bosheng. Seeing this, he looked down on Gengshi and whispered to Liu Xiu next to him: "A man who is so arrogant can be the emperor. I think not only Bosheng is better than him, but Uncle Wen is more than ten times better!"
At that time, Liu Xiu just smiled, but his words came true. The Green Man was indeed an empire built on the sand and soon collapsed and scattered. Ma Wu was fortunate to witness the revival of the Han Dynasty at Sishui Pavilion in Pei County: This time, the person who ascended the throne was Liu Xiu, who inherited his brother's ambitions!
In contrast to the mediocre Liu Xuan, Emperor Jianwu Liu Xiu was a natural monarch. His skills were enough to restrict the ministers. After he established his capital in Jiangdu, he once convened a meeting of Ma Wu and others to celebrate the merits and talk to them, saying: "These are all marquises and generals. However, if Wang Mang had not usurped the Han Dynasty, he was still in power. I am afraid that I would just be an ordinary royal family in Chongling, who worked farming and selling grain at home, and the ministers would not be able to meet at this time. How many titles and salaries should be saved? What are you doing?"
At that time, Deng Yu, who had just become the Grand Situ, took the lead in speaking: "I have little knowledge and can be a doctor of literature in a county."
Liu Xiu laughed and said that Deng Yu, as a child of the Deng family, had ambitions and practices, and could be a county gongcao who was in charge of his achievements and retreat.
When it was finally Ma Wu's turn, he couldn't wait and shouted loudly: "My servants can be the guardian and supervise the thieves with their bravery!"
Unexpectedly, Liu Xiu lit him and said with a smile: "It is a blessing that General Ma will not be a thief. Even in the prosperous era, he is afraid of being a thief. He doesn't know how many guards and the head of the pavilion."
I don’t know if it was because of the sentence "You are better than Liu Xuan as an emperor" or because he married Ma Wu’s sister, Liu Xiu favored Ma Wu. Ma Wu was addicted to alcohol and was open-minded and dared to speak out. After getting drunk that day, he actually damaged his colleagues in front of the imperial throne and commented on others' strengths and weaknesses. Without any taboos or scruples, his colleagues glared at him.
If his ancestor Liu Bang had changed, he would probably have been so angry that he would be so angry that he would be so angry that he would not blame Ma Wu for being vulgar and kept indulging. He didn't even think Ma Wu was drunk and lying in the hall, but instead put the blanket on him.
Ma Wu was grateful, but the blanket seemed a little heavy, which made him breathless...
The pain suddenly recovered. Ma Wu woke up in shock, and his body was almost everywhere. He was covered with wounds from his forehead to his legs. The most serious one was the sharp arrow that penetrated his abdomen. This was the masterpiece of the Six-Stone Crossbow. It pierced from the broken armor gap, and the internal organs in the abdomen must have been messed up, and the blood still did not stop. As the stretcher moved, it fell on the ground.
At this time, Ma Wu realized that he was tied to a stretcher and carried forward by someone. No wonder he was so tight in his dreams. He turned his head and looked left and right. All he saw were tragic dead bodies. Half of the scorching Han flag was burned, sinking into the mud, and trampled under his feet by the Wei soldiers.
Ma Wu remembered that he marched westward under the order of Deng Yu, but was besieged by twice the enemy's forces. Then he tried to break through several times, but failed. The enemy had thousands of cavalry, and within a short distance, how could they run with two legs?
Later, after Cen Peng took over Deng Yu, he returned and surrounded Ma Wu. He led his troops to fight for a day and a night, but finally he could not support him. His personal guards died and rushed to Ma Wu to commit suicide. Before Ma Wu committed suicide, the Wei soldiers rushed forward to capture him.
"General Ma is awake?"
A broad face came over, the Wei general who captured Ma Wu. He was in a very good mood and looked down at Ma Wu and smiled: "The general doesn't know me, but I actually have served in the green forest."
This person was Yu Kuang, a captain of the Wei army. He was from Xi County, Nanyang. He started his career as a bandit. Liu Bosheng joined when he was conquering Guanzhong. However, with the defeat of the Han army, he immediately left the Green Forest and turned to the fifth reunion. Together with other Green Forest surrendered troops, he was affiliated with Cen Peng and fought back to the south.
After Yu Kuang joined Wei, his biggest achievement was that he had escorted Feng Yan to Sichuan, but now Feng Yan and General Cen have broken up, and this experience is a negative result for him.
Unexpectedly, God made good use of the good fortune, Yu Kuang received the task of intercepting Ma Wu. He still captured him under the intervention of countless "brother troops" who had earned merit. This person was the wife and brother of the Han Emperor Liu Xiu, one of the core figures of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He was the highest-level general who was captured since the battle between the Han and Wei Dynasty!
"I heard that the general was a thief in the past, and I was also a thief. Later, the general served Green Forest, so did I."
Yu Kuang persuaded Ma Wu: "I am unfortunately captured now. Isn't General Ma having an old relationship with General Cen? If I am willing to join Wei, my gate will still be open!"
Ma Wu was seriously injured and his breath was faint, which made Yu Kuang approach. Unexpectedly, his eyes suddenly widened, he opened his mouth and bit Yu Kuang's ears, and pulled off a corner of his head. Yu Kuang's head was suddenly covered in blood!
Ma Wu spitted blood and cursed: "Even if you are a thief, you are a thief. How could you compare to a thief like you?"
Then he struggled violently. The chaos caused the soldiers carrying the stretcher to take off their hands, Ma Wu fell to the ground face down, and the result was that the one inserted into the abdomen was pierced deeper, and a lot of blood was soaked in the back!
When Cen Peng finally saw this "old friend", Ma Wu's injuries were even worse. He lost too much blood, his organs were damaged, and he fainted again. His pale lips were muttering: "Diet is also a Han ghost..."
Cen Peng sighed and asked the Wei soldiers to pour cold water on him to wake him up.
Ma Wu opened his eyes and saw that Cen Peng was watching him with a high look in the form of a victorious official. He shook his head before recognizing it. He only sneered and cursed: "Cen Junran, if I had known today, King Bosheng would not have forgiven you in Wancheng!"
More than five years ago, the new dynasty was destroyed, and Cen Peng was trapped in Nanyang. In desperation, he could only surrender to the Han Dynasty by Yan You. Unexpectedly, Yan You wanted to let him live, and he had already had the will to die. That day, Cen Peng hurriedly buried Yan Boshi, who committed suicide, and led his subordinates to kneel in front of Wancheng Gate to welcome the "King Army".
The one who came in was a group of troops with all kinds of clothes. The first thing he did to enter Wan was to grab the special robbery. Only Liu Bosheng's subordinates had good military discipline, while Ma Wu, Wang Chang and others all entered the city with him and accepted Cen Peng's submission.
However, today, there is a different situation of victory or defeat.
"General Ma."
Cen Peng had heard of Ma Wu's temperament and knew that he had no intention of surrendering, so he just whispered: "When you arrive in the underworld and see Bosheng, please tell him something on my behalf."
"Cen Peng did receive the kindness of Bosheng not killing him, but it was far less than the kindness of Yan Gong Boshi's teacher and the king of the Emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty. During Bosheng's lifetime, Cen Peng had no regrets at all, but it was not considered a matter of repaying his kindness. In this life, he vowed to destroy the Han Dynasty for my emperor. Bosheng's kindness can only be repaid in the next life!"
"Peng Su knows that General Ma is loyal and brave, and I will send you on your way today!"
After saying that, Cen Peng stretched out his hand and held the arrow that Ma Wu stabbed into his abdomen. Ma Wu pinched his wrist tightly, but after a long time, he still let go.
In Ma Wu's eyes, he was unyielding, and he also took life and death calmly: "Well, it's better to die at the hands of Cen Junran than to insult the prison guards."
As Cen Peng pulled out the sharp arrow, Ma Wu's injuries became worse. After heavy bleeding, the aura in his chest was also discharged. However, Ma Wu still didn't say a word, but the anger in his eyes slowly weakened as the blood flowed out, until it completely disappeared.
The former Green Forest Bandit turned into a dead object.
"I'm looking for a good coffin to be placed. The weather is hot, so I'm afraid I won't be sent back to Huyang. So I'll be buried near Fancheng. I put a sword on it and wrote the "Tomb of the Great Bandit of the Green Forest"."
Cen Peng gave the enemy the last dignity and wiped the blood on his hands. With Ma Wu's death, the war north of the Han River ended completely. Deng Yu was saved by himself, and more than 10,000 troops were destroyed by Cen Peng's hands. One-eighth of the total Han army's strength was completely lost. This was a great victory that he had never won since he returned to Wei!
"I finally live up to your Majesty's trust."
Cen Peng looked up at the clear sky after the rain. His method of using troops was learned from Yan Younan during his campaign. It was precisely on this landscape that he listened to Yan Gong's teachings and benefited a lot.
"Sir Yan, have you seen it?"
Cen Peng only sighed secretly: "Disciple, I won another battle against the Han soldiers! Liu Xiu, another Green Forest General!"
However, the war was far from over, and before Cen Peng could celebrate the victory, he received an urgent report from the Hanshui South Bank Camp:
"Han general Feng Yi attacked Nanshankou fiercely. Our army had already lost two captains and could only hold the defensive position. Ren Nong Ling said that he hoped that General Cen would come to Tanxi to take charge of the overall situation after completing the Jiangbei incident!"
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When Cen Peng stepped onto the floating bridge connecting the Han River again, it was no longer as hasty as before, and the horse hooves on his mount were quite calm.
The war had just been fought behind him and was resting and collecting the troops guarding prisoners of war in the war; those elite troops who had to follow Cen Peng to fight against Jiangnan before they had time to take a nap; the garrison of the floating bridge, the baggage troops standing on both sides; and even the army that Jiangnan was looking forward to his arrival...
Everyone's eyes were full of longing and blind trust when they looked at Cen Peng. In the past few months, the Wei army in Jingxiang has been uneasy. After all, even the chess pieces that Cen Peng set up in advance could not see through, let alone ordinary pawns.
But now, Cen Peng destroyed more than 10,000 Han troops in one battle. He heard that he had also killed Liu Xiu's relatives. Even though the main force of the Han army was still in the south, no one doubted that Cen Pengding would easily defeat them!
But Cen Peng did not have this optimism in his heart. He had arranged for the Jiangnan camp to stand firm and wait, and just hold Feng Yi back. How could he be defeated? He was even beheaded by two lieutenants and had thousands of soldiers?
As soon as he arrived at the south bank, Cen Peng saw Ren Guang himself in a hurry and told him the specific situation.
"Just this morning, after the news of the destruction of Deng Yu's army came, Feng Yi might also know that, so he retreated in a hurry from Nanshankou. The side generals of the Shankou camp were mobilized by the generals. The captain encouraged the general to win, so he ignored the previous order and sent light troops to pursue him. I couldn't stop him. Unexpectedly, after only half an hour of chasing, he was ambushed at the neck of Nanshan, and the soldiers were damaged and the generals were lost..."
After listening to the detailed battle situation, Cen Peng realized that Feng Yi had an ambush in the future, turning the "Wengkou" that was not conducive to the march into an ambush point.
"How is the battle now?"
"After Feng Yi succeeded, he immediately attacked the mountain pass, and the two battalions fell. Now his troops are approaching the Tanxi Camp." Ren Guang was not too panicked, and the geographical advantage was still on their side. After Cen Peng returned, everyone was full of confidence in the war. Feng Yi dared to break into the Xiangyang Basin and would be hit hard.
After running away, Deng Yu and capturing Feng Yi, expanding the victory situation, they can also erase the flaws of small losses.
However, when Cen Peng heard that Feng Yi was attacking fiercely, he seemed to have to kill in and avenge Ma Wu, he sighed.
"This is Feng Yi's plan. The only one who attacked Nanshan is his side division. Feng Yi himself must have turned the back team into the front team and retreated south!"
Seeing that the hunt was about to end at the beginning, Cen Peng only regretted and counted his prey:
"Although the 'Rhino' is dead, the 'Rhino' has escaped from the water. Even this 'big tree' has grown its feet and is about to jump out of the trap!"
Chapter completed!