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At this time, the battle in Lingzhou had ended, and more than 100,000 Huns, women, children, and young and old became prisoners of the Han army. The Qiang people attacked Lingzhou City, except for Liu Meng's mansion and Guancang being controlled by the Han army, the rest of the men, women, and children in the city were slaughtered by the Qiang people. About 6,000 Huns living in Lingzhou City, were basically all Huns nobles, chiefs of various tribes, their brothers, nephews, wives, concubines, and grandsons, as well as slaves serving them. The Qiang people were so angry that they were killed. No matter men, women, young and old, masters and servants, they were all slaughtered, and the entire Lingzhou City turned into Shura Hell.

According to the agreement between the two sides, tens of thousands of cattle and sheep from the Huns were owned by the Qiang people as a profit, and the rest of the territory and property were all owned by the Han army. However, the Qiang people suffered heavy losses in the war against the Hun cavalry and killed more than 4,000 people. As a pension for the dead, Ma Chao ordered the 200,000 sheepskins in the official warehouse to be given to the Qiang people as war pensions.

In Lingzhou City, more than a thousand Han soldiers were busy disposing of the bodies. The Qiang people had withdrawn from the county town and stationed to the west of the county town to kill cattle and sheep, and drink to celebrate. According to the customs of the Qiang people, a day and night banquet was held to show celebrations.

The Han army camp was on the east side of the county town. In addition to more than 8,000 Han troops, there were more than 100,000 ordinary Hun herders captured by the Han army. The Han army was on high alert, not only to prevent the Huns from escaping, but also to prevent the Qiang people from coming to snatch women when they were drunk.

Accompanied by Liao Hua, Ma Chao inspected the county town, which was slaughtered twice within two months. The Huns were no longer seen in the county town, and busy Han soldiers were everywhere, cremating the bodies and buried them deep.

Liao Hua shook his head and sighed: "The Qiang soldiers are really cruel and have no military discipline. Not only do they massacre all the women, children and elderly people in the city, but they even did not obey the burning of houses in advance. The county town was basically ruined."

Ma Chao didn't say anything. It was his intention to kill all the Huns nobles, and it was not necessary to kill them all with the Qiang soldiers. However, the county town was completely destroyed. It was a pity that Ma Chao saw that many burned buildings still maintained a little rough outline. It can be imagined that the exquisiteness of the past was the capital that Qiang King Ahang spent twenty years to manage was destroyed.

Thinking of the 20 years of hard work in the Qiang King, Ma Chao immediately remembered something and asked: "Is the jewellery wealth of the Qiang King still there?"

Liao Hua nodded, "I ordered the Han army to control Liu Meng's mansion. I guess all the treasures are in Liu Meng's mansion. As expected, I guessed that the governor would follow me."

Liao Hua brought Ma Chao to Liu Meng Mansion. This was the palace of the former Qiang King Ah Yan. It was also the only well-preserved building in the city. It was a palace imitating the Central Plains. It was decorated magnificently and exquisitely, with expensive porcelain and carpets from Persia everywhere.

They walked to the back house and came to a large, heavily guarded house. The whole house was made of bluestone without a single window. The door was also cast of pig iron, and eight soldiers stood at the door.

"Open the door" Liao Hualingdao.

The two soldiers each opened a copper lock and pushed open the iron door. Ma Chao walked in and was amazed. Here was a warehouse filled with rows of iron racks, with all kinds of gold and silver utensils and various jade bowls and crystal bottles on it. The most were jade boxes, each of which was valuable jewelry.

At the bottom, there were large wooden boxes close to the mouth neatly placed. "What are those?" Ma Chao asked pointing to the box.

Liao Hua smiled and said, "We were shocked when we came in. These things should be in the Qiang people's official warehouse, with numbers on them, which matched the account books in the official warehouse, but now they have become Liu Meng's private wealth."

Liao Hua walked forward and opened several large wooden boxes. Suddenly, golden light flashed and dazzling. There were pieces of gold ingots inside, all of which were gold. Ma Chao was also a little stunned. He walked forward slowly and gently stroked the gold.

He heard from the Qiang official who fled to Hexi that in order to establish the country, the Qiang King mined and collected a large amount of gold over the past 20 years, which was as much as 50,000 kilograms. It was the greatest wealth of the Qiang people in Lingzhou. It was hidden in the underground palace of Guancang, but he did not expect that the gold was actually in Liu Meng's home.

Ma Chao immediately turned around and said to Liao Hualing: "Block the news immediately and never let the Qiang people know about the gold."

Ma Chao paused for a moment and said resolutely: "There are many dreams when you have long nights. These gold and treasures cannot be left in Lingzhou. So I will work hard for Yuan Jian to set off tonight. You will personally lead two thousand cavalrymen to send them to Xiaoguan."

Liao Hua immediately bowed and bowed, "Abide by the order"

Just the second day after Ma Chao led his army to capture Lingzhou, the 50,000 army led by Zhao Yun also arrived in Gaonu County. It was too late at this time, and the army set up a camp to rest in the wilderness about twenty miles away from Gaonu County.

The army camped during the march, without having to build a wall, but just set up a large tent, and surrounded the camp with large supplies and carts, and inserted 200,000 spears at the outermost point to form an outer defense spear formation.

However, Zhao Yun was cautious and sent five patrols to set up control within a radius of ten miles. In this way, even if the Huns attacked overnight, it would be difficult to succeed.

There is a sand table with a length and width of two meters in length in the large tent. This is the terrain sand table in Guanlin that has been successfully made just now. There are two in total, and the other one is in the hands of Liu Jing.

Zhao Yunzheng and Fa Zheng stood in front of the sand table to discuss the combat plan. Fa Zheng was quite proud. Although his previous plan was firmly opposed by the generals, His Highness the King of Han finally ordered him and Zhao Yun to go to the battle of Gaonu. This was the trust in him, which made Fa Zheng feel grateful and made him more conscientious.

Fa Zheng picked up the wooden pole and pointed to Gaonu City and said, "According to the latest scout information, the Huns' army currently has about 10,000 people in Gaonu County. They no longer attack the city, but are mainly defense. The camp is in the south of the city, and there is also a Yangma City built with soil next to it. This should be a heavy land for the logistics and rations of the Huns' army, but I am sure that the maximum number of troops in the Huns' camp is only 5,000."

"Why?" Zhao Yun asked in confusion.

Fa Zheng smiled slightly, "It's actually very simple. Since it is a major logistics and food supply area, the Huns must constantly send troops to deliver food to the south. The 80,000 troops heading south consume a huge amount of money. It is far from enough to send one trip. It must be delivered continuously. In this way, the grain teams on the southward road need at least six teams. If they go and return, they have no civilians, and each team has at least a thousand people. Then there are six thousand people. Then there are another returning grain team, so the Huns in the camp only have at most five thousand people."

Zhao Yun nodded and praised: "The military advisor is indeed amazing, with insight and planning in the tent. Since the enemy's troops are not strong enough, can we wipe out the enemy in one battle tomorrow morning?"

Fa Zheng said for a while: "Although this is the right way to defeat the enemy, according to my opinion, it is best to suppress it and not attack."

Fa Zheng said it very implicitly, but in fact he disagrees with Zhao Yunming's idea of ​​defeating the enemy early. Zhao Yun understood what he meant and hurriedly bowed, "Please teach me the military teacher."

Among the Han generals, Fa Zheng liked Zhao Yun the most. Not only did he liked him, but also military advisors such as Pang Tong, Jia Xu and Sima Yi liked to work with Zhao Yun. This is because although Zhao Yun is in a high position in the military, he is always humble and self-disciplined, loves soldiers like him, respects officers, and is deeply loved by all parties in the military.

This time, Zhao Yun and Fa Zheng sent troops, and the advice that Fa Zheng could be followed, which made Fa Zheng deeply moved. He also decided to assist Zhao Yun with all his heart and seek unparalleled achievements.

Fa Zheng said calmly: "General Zhao can tell what the purpose of the Han army fighting against the Huns this time"

Zhao Yun pondered for a moment and said, "I heard from His Highness the King of Han that if we want to move the capital to Chang'an, we must eliminate the threat from the north, expel the Huns, and recover the counties within the pass."

"Correction of capital is only one aspect, but more importantly, it is to recover the lost territory of Guanlong and rebuild the power of the Han Empire. In this way, when the Han King inherits the Han Dynasty's great rule, people in the world will feel that the Han King deserves its name and is winning the hearts of the people."

Zhao Yun nodded silently. He suddenly remembered something and asked again: "Since that's the case, why did Your Highness promise Cao Cao to be the main person and use the name of heaven? Isn't this contrary to the original intention of the King of Han?"

Fa Zheng laughed, "This is just a political attitude, but justice is in the hearts of the people. How much did the Han army fight and how much Cao Cao fights, what is right and wrong in the middle, I believe everyone has an account in their hearts, and there is no need to explain it deliberately."

"I understand." Zhao Yun nodded.

Fa Zheng continued: "So we must start from the overall situation and use this battle to completely defeat the Huns, so that they will not dare to go south for decades."

"Please tell me bluntly, I will follow the arrangements of the military advisor."

Fa Zheng stroked his beard and said, "The reason why I said that if I suppressed but did not fight, the Xiongnu Chanyu in the south would inevitably send people to Liu Bao for help under the pressure of food logistics. When Liu Bao's army crossed the river and marched westward, Cao Cao would send troops to the northern part of Bingzhou to attack Liu Bao's nest. When Liu Bao hurriedly retreated east, it would be our opportunity. We must defeat Liu Bao's army in one battle and completely eradicate the Xiongnu in Bingzhou."

"If this is the case, the Xiongnu Khan took the opportunity to retreat north and escape from our encirclement. Isn't this a big regret?"

Fa Zheng narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Whether the Xiongnu Khan can escape depends on the will of God."
Chapter completed!