The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 497 Capture the Martial Capital
With Wudu falling into Zhang Wu's hands, the gate of Liangzhou has been opened, and Yizhou and Hanzhong are safer.With Ma Chao in his hand, Zhang Wu's capture of Liangzhou is just around the corner.

Although Xu Huang was rescued by his personal guards, he was seriously injured and died in the army tent before he could withdraw to Tianshui.

Zhang Wu stayed in France and was temporarily guarding Hui County. He returned to Xiabian to deal with the post-war affairs, appease the people, and deal with the prisoners of war.

Yang Fu was handed over to Ma Chao. Zhang Wu also knew that Yang Fu was a loyal and capable minister, but he had a blood feud with Ma Chao.First, people like Yang Fu would not surrender; second, even if Yang Fu was willing to surrender, Zhang Wu did not want to distract Ma Chao by recruiting Yang Fu.

The loyal and capable ministers of the enemy country are our formidable enemies. Since Ma Chao took refuge with Zhang Wu, he has made a lot of contributions, especially in the construction of the Chu army's cavalry. Ma Chao has made great efforts to capture Liangzhou in the next step. We also need to rely on the prestige of Ma Chao and the Ma family. There is no need to alienate Ma Chao because of Yang Fu.

Now Zhang Wu's subordinates do not lack such a talent.

Ma Chao led Yang Fu outside the city, looked at Yang Fu angrily and smiled back: "Dog thief, did you ever think that this day will come!"

Yang Fu was not afraid at all, his eyes were full of contempt.

Ma Chao hated Yang Fu, and Yang Fu also hated Ma Chao.

Originally, Yang Fu did a good job assisting Wei Kang, the governor of Liangzhou, but it was Ma Chao who rebelled against the court and caused chaos in Liangzhou. Ma Chao also killed more than 40 members of Wei Kang's family, Yang Fu's boss and friend.

If Yang Fu was afraid of death, he would not have feigned surrender to Ma Chao in the first place, and backhandedly killed Ma Chao's family.Later, Yang Fu called seven brothers from the same clan, and the eight brothers besieged Ma Chao together, but Ma Chao killed seven of them, and Yang Fu was shot five times and survived.

When Xiabian City was defeated, Yang Fu still had a chance to escape, but he knew that if Wudu was lost, not only would Liangzhou no longer be owned by the Wei State, but even Longyou would be difficult to retain. By then, the Wei State would be completely in danger. The disadvantage is that it can only be defended passively.

Yang Fu, who grew up in Liangzhou since he was a child, is very aware of the importance of Liangzhou, especially the danger of falling into Zhang Wu's hands.Today, no one in the world dissatisfies with Zhang Wu's ability. The main reason why Zhang Wu has not been able to completely suppress Cao Pi is the lack of cavalry.

The battle between the two countries will ultimately be won or lost on the battlefield, and the comparison between the two armies is manpower and material resources. The manpower includes the monarch, counselors, generals and soldiers, and the material resources are money, food, grass and equipment.

Once Zhang Wu obtained the horse-producing land in Liangzhou and established a cavalry force capable of countering Cao's army, anyone with a discerning eye would see that Chu State had the upper hand in terms of manpower and material resources.

It can be said that the outcome of the Battle of Wudu will affect the future trend of the world, and even determine who will ultimately belong to the world.

In fact, based on the current situation, even if Wei Guo loses Wudu, or even Liangzhou, if the whole country defends the pass, at least ten years will not be able to tell the winner.

But what made Cao Wei more uncomfortable than in history was that facing a unified south, he had to defend from two or even three sides, making it difficult to take care of the beginning and the end.

When the Three Kingdoms were at the same time in history, the Kingdom of Shu often joined forces with the State of Wu to fight against the State of Wei, but the combination of the two countries was not as good as one, and was often divided and disintegrated by the State of Wei.In the end, Sun Quan attacked Guan Yu. After that, Cao Pi not only made Sun Quan king, but also married the two families.

Now Cao Wei needs to deploy heavy defenses on the east, west, and middle roads, because any road that cannot be defended may lead to the danger of destroying the country.

Yang Fu is a die-hard fan of Cao Cao. When Yuan Shao and Cao Cao confronted each other in Guandu, Yang Fu was very optimistic about the talented and far-sighted Cao Cao.

Yang Fu, who was born in Liangzhou, knew very well the prestige of Ma Chao and his family in Liangzhou and Longshang. When Ma Chao was defeated for the first time, Yang Fu advised Cao Cao to kill Ma Chao. It is owned by the country again.

It's just that Cao Cao was in a hurry to retreat, and the army withdrew in a hurry without having time to make careful arrangements, which led Ma Chao to make a comeback and lead various Hu leaders to attack the counties in Longshang. All counties responded one after another, but Jicheng persisted.

Later, although Ma Chao was defeated by Cao Cao again, he returned to Zhang Wu, and Yang Fu did not expect that an unknown person who was born as a thief would grow to be so powerful.

After Zhang Wu occupied Wudu, with the support of the entire Jiangnan manpower and material resources, and with the help of Ma Chao, it was already easy to take Liangzhou. After taking Liangzhou, he made up the last shortcoming. Can't fight it.

So Yang Fu didn't want to run away, where else could he go?

If you run to Liangzhou, they will call you again in two years, and then run to Guanzhong?Yang Fu was born in Liangzhou, became famous in Liangzhou, and lived in Liangzhou all his life. He didn't want to see Liangzhou fall into the hands of Zhang Wu, and he didn't want to see Ma Chao return to Liangzhou to show off his power, so he simply died in Wu. Forget it.

Yang Fu looked at Ma Chao contemptuously and said, "You traitor, I only regret that I didn't get rid of you for the court! Kill me if you want to, don't try to humiliate me!"

Ma Chao didn't bother to talk nonsense to him anymore. The bloody feud between him and Yang Fu didn't require words to avenge him. Then he killed Yang Fu with his own hands and paid homage to the whole family.

After killing Yang Fu, Ma Chao felt that the sorrow accumulated in his heart seemed to ease a little.A violent martial artist like Ma Chao, even if he doesn't care about other people's life or death, he still cares about his family, especially when his youngest sons were hacked to death one by one and thrown down from the city wall, Ma Chao I almost died of anger.

Speaking of which, Ma Chao actually hated Yang Fu more.

Although Ma Chao's father and two younger brothers both died at the hands of Cao Cao, it was Ma Teng who wanted to kill Cao Cao first. His plan failed and he was killed because he was actually unable to scheme against others.But Yang Fu pretended to surrender and deceived Ma Chao. Ma Chao felt that Yang Fu was loyal. Not only did he not kill him, he also reused him. He even appointed the people he recommended as officers without hesitation.

As a result, this fellow cheated Ma Chao in the blink of an eye, and even killed Ma Chao's wife and children.

Now Ma Chao has avenged half of his revenge, and is even more determined to work for Zhang Wu.

After Yu Jin led his army to retreat to Tianshui, Guo Huai also led his army and came over. When he learned that all the military forces were lost, he had to gather his troops to temporarily defend Tianshui.

Cao Pi lost Guangling on the eastern front, left general Le Jin died of illness; lost Wudu on the western front, right general Xu Huang was injured and died.Cao Pi, who had just proclaimed himself emperor, was severely hit. The situation was even worse than when Cao Cao lost Hanzhong and Huainan.

Because once Guangling was lost, Cao Wei would no longer be able to build a navy. If Cao Pi wanted to build a navy directly, he would not have enough time, and Zhang Wu would definitely not give him a chance.

After the loss of Wudu, the gate of Liangzhou was opened to Zhang Wu. If Ma Chao assisted Zhang Wu in re-establishing the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in time, I am afraid that Cao Jun will not dare to engage in frontal field battles with Chu Jun.

Historically, the Shu Han Dynasty during Zhuge Liang's reign, after Liu Bei buried 40 elite troops in Yiling, was still able to rely on the power of Yizhou to suppress Cao Wei. In addition to occupying the favorable terrain of Hanzhong, it was because of Ma Chao and The last Xiliang cavalry led by Ma Dai.

Once Ma Chao died, the Xiliang cavalry gradually disappeared, and Zhuge Liang found it difficult to continue his northern expedition to the Central Plains.

(End of this chapter)