Jin Ma Chao fought to the death, and old Zhang Ji was born and died

Just when Dong Zhuo attacked on all sides, the backyard caught fire.

Ma Teng, with eight thousand disciples and soldiers as his team, united with the oppressed people of Xiliang to rise up, and with his eldest son Ma Chao and the fierce general Pound De as the vanguard, he raised an army of 100,000 troops, captured the three cities of Anding, Wuwei, and Tianshui, and beheaded Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Niu Fu, shocking the government and the opposition.

Dong Zhuo was horrified and hurriedly ordered the Zhenxi general Zhang Ji to take advantage of Ma Teng's unstable foothold to go to the conquest.

Zhang Ji was the current head of the Hongnong Zhang clan and the uncle of Zhang Xiu, the gun king of the Northlands, and although brave, he was over sixty years old at this time.

As the saying goes, the old man is not able to use his muscles and bones, and it is really reluctant to let this veteran fight. However, due to the fact that Dong Zhuo's perverse behavior was very unpopular, many talents refused to serve him and had to use his old subordinate Zhang Ji.

The veteran general was also unaccustomed to What Dong Zhuo had done and wanted to refuse, but his nephew Zhang Xiu wrote a secret letter, pleading with his uncle to agree to this military operation and stating that it was very important for the future development of the Zhang family.

Zhang Jisi came and went, but finally agreed.

Before leaving, he said to his wife Zou: "This march is very dangerous, if I have an accident, the owner of our Hongnong Zhang family will be Xiu'er in the future." ”

Zou Shi was secretly hurt, Zhang Ji took her into his arms, smiled and said: "The ancients said that being over fifty years old is not a short lifespan, and now I have two out of sixty, and people like us who lick blood on the knife edge are already very rare." ”

When this sentence was uttered, Zou Shi actually cried out, crying while saying: "It is really obscure to say such an unlucky thing before the war. ”

"Hahaha, I am a big old man, I will not comfort people, you have suffered with me for so many years." The veteran who has been fighting for many years is actually a little embarrassed at this moment.

Three days later, Zhang Ji led 80,000 troops out of the Wild Goose Gate.

Fifteen days later, outside Tianshui City, the two sides confronted each other on the spot.

On one side was Zhang Ji's army, which was a servant of the wind and dust, and the leader of the other side was a young general.

"I heard that your ancestors were Ma Yuan, the fubo general under Emperor Guangwu of the Ming Dynasty, and that there were such loyal ancestors for the country, but you committed treason and disturbed the tranquility of the northwest of my Great Han Dynasty." The old man advised you to lay down your weapons, and I will report to the imperial court, and if I look at the face of General Fubo, I will certainly forgive you for your capital crimes, and maybe I can still serve the imperial court. Zhang Ji said with a sincere face.

The young general did not appreciate it, and scolded: "You old thief, you still have a face to mention my ancestors." If his old man were alive, he would definitely agree with our approach, kill the Jingshi, cut dong Zhuo's corpse into ten thousand pieces, and by the way, get rid of you traitors who aided and abetted abuse. ”

Zhang Ji knew that he was unreasonable, so he stopped speaking.

The teenager called for a single challenge, and Zhang Ji naturally did not agree.

Seeing that this young general only led 30,000 troops, but there were 80,000 elite soldiers on his side, which was superior in number, he immediately commanded the two wings to encircle.

The white-robed teenager laughed and said in a loud voice, "The whole army is attacking." ”

Poor Zhang Ji's formation had not yet been spread out, and it was rushed to pieces.

The old general immediately changed his formation, and a long snake formation was formed, facing the cavalry of the white-robed youth.

Although the young generals were brave, except for the 5,000 elites, most of the other thirty thousand soldiers and soldiers were ordinary people who could not train for more than a month, and their combat effectiveness was naturally very general.

Soon, Zhang Ji stabilized the battle and gradually took advantage of the large number of soldiers to launch a counterattack.

"Catch the thief before the king." Zhang Ji ordered his personal elite heavy cavalry of fifty horses to go and kill the teenager.

The white-robed general who was fighting to kill the enemy saw that the enemy army that was originally surrounded by water was actually flashing a slit at this moment, and he was wondering, when he suddenly saw dozens of mounted heavy cavalry joining the battlefield, and immediately understood that this was to deal with himself.

The young man sneered, raised his whip, and roared at the sky with his crotch warhorses, and then rushed to the group of heavy cavalry with all his might.

"One, two, three... Twenty-two..." The young man's spear pierced through the chests of many people, and the originally imposing heavy cavalry was now as powerless as a lamb to be slaughtered.

Zhang Ji, who was not far away, saw this scene and sighed darkly: "This young man's bravery is comparable to Lü Bu's." ”

In less than a quarter of an hour, the fifty heavy cavalry was completely destroyed, and for a time, no one came forward to surround and kill the young man.

Zhang Jifu frowned, thinking that such a heroic teenager, if he could throw himself under his command, it would be a great blessing in his life, so he shouted at the teenager again: "Give you another chance, if you submit to me, the old man will definitely guarantee you as a general." ”

The teenager cursed again.

Zhang Ji sighed and said to the soldier, "Whoever can kill this person will be rewarded with thousands of gold and sealed with ten thousand households." ”

Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men, and the Xiliang soldiers who were still afraid to come forward just now are rushing up like chicken blood.

In a short period of time, tens of thousands of soldiers surrounded this white-robed young general with three layers of outer three layers.

Zhang Ji seemed to sigh a little unbearably in his heart: "Freshly dressed and angry horse young man, it is really good, but it is a pity that he does not know current affairs." ”

Suddenly, the corner of his right eye beat violently, and with an ominous premonition in his heart, he hurriedly looked at the young general, only to see that the crowd surrounding him seemed to be increasing. Elsewhere on the battlefield, only a small number of soldiers fought the rest of the rebels.

"There's nothing wrong with that." The old general muttered.

"No, go back to your team and stay in formation to meet the enemy." Zhang Ji shouted violently.

At this moment, in their rear, two forces were rushing to form a siege.

The soldiers surrounding the teenager slowly dispersed and returned to their respective teams.

At this time, the white-robed boy had become a red-robed teenager, and there was the blood of the enemy on the armor, and naturally there was also his own blood.

Hearing the sound of fighting on the outskirts of the battlefield, the young general laughed loudly: "The sky does not kill me, the sky does not kill me." Immediately, he beckoned his own soldiers, who were still insisting on fighting, to launch a counterattack from within.

Under the internal and external attacks, Zhang Ji quickly retreated.

The young general chased Zhang Ji for hundreds of miles on a single horse, and after killing hundreds of his guards, he finally captured him alive.

Zhang Ji looked at the teenager with a smile and asked, "Will the old man know the general's name before he dies?" ”

"Ma Chao."

"Well, Jin Ma Chao, he is indeed a young hero." Zhang Ji saw that the young man was full of vigor and heroic, and he sincerely admired it.

"You gave me a chance before, and now I give you a chance, and if you surrender to our army, you will not die." Ma Chao said coldly.

"Hahaha, since he is a severed husband, how can he surrender to the general?" Without saying a word, he slowly closed his eyes.

Ma Chao nodded slightly, picked off Zhang Ji's helmet with his spear, and stabbed it into the ground fiercely, and then the horse returned.

Zhang Ji opened his eyes and smiled bitterly.

Three days later, the news of Zhang Ji's defeat reached Dong Zhuo's ears.

After learning that the old general committed suicide and apologized, Dong Zhuo posthumously gave Zhang Ji the title of Taifu (太傅) and Marquis of Xiliang (西梁侯) in order to appease Zhang Xiu, the gun king of the Northern Lands.

Ma Tengjun's heart was shocked, and this frontier haojie took the opportunity to sweep away the surrounding forces and sit firmly in the lord of Western Liang.

At this point, there were Liu Yu and Liu Bei in the north, Tao Qian and Cao Cao in the east, Liu Biao in the south, and Ma Teng in the northwest, and several forces surrounded Dong Zhuo in the middle.

In just over two years, Dong Zhuojun changed from strategic expansion to strategic defense.

Even so, it was difficult for the various forces to shake the position of the demon king, and several forces reached the stage of stalemate.

In Jia Xu's mansion, the first strategist of Dong Zhuojun sat cross-legged in a secret room, with a simple bronze mirror placed in front of him. He looked into the mirror and seemed to be muttering to himself, and seemed to be talking to people.