Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 675

[Chapter 675]

Three days later…

Xiangcheng.

In the study room of the imperial palace, Dou Wei pointed to the map hanging on the wall and discussed with Dou Mu about sending reinforcements to Wuguan.

Five days ago, he received a request for help from Dou Kuang.

Immediately, he asked Dou Xiao to summon the Nanliang soldiers and horses near Xiangcheng.

After five days of preparation, 30,000 soldiers and horses were urgently transferred to Xiangcheng, and he gave Dou Xiao another 50,000 forbidden troops to march towards Wuguan tomorrow.

“Ma Han was able to conquer Qinzhou and Yongzhou within ten days, relying on the firearms given to him by the King of Yan. I didn’t expect Zhao Xu to be so generous that he gave his best firearms to the Ma family.” Dou Wei pressed his fingers In the position of Wuguan, he frowned.

All along, he thought in his heart that King Yan would never trust Ma Han completely.

After all, the Ma family used to be one of the eight major clans. Even if they surrendered to King Yan, they still belonged to a separatist force in the northwest of Dasong.

Dou Mu said: “Isn’t the King of Yan afraid of Ma Han’s rebellion?”

His thinking was the same as his father’s. If the Ma family surrendered to Nanliang, he must watch carefully, and it is impossible to tell him his heart.

After all, the two looked at each other.

Naturally, they would not have thought that Zhao Xu’s trust in Ma Han was due to his absolute confidence in his own strength.

Even if Mahan rebelled, he could easily deal with it.

Therefore, he was naturally able to arm his Ma family soldiers to the teeth to achieve his strategic goals.

While the two were talking, suddenly an eunuch came in a hurry and whispered something to Dou Wei.

Dou Wei’s complexion changed drastically when he heard the words, and he murmured: “This…how is this possible.”

“What’s wrong?” Seeing Dou Wei’s face turning livid, Dou Mu suddenly felt a strong uneasiness in his heart.

Dou Wei had never been so panicked as at this moment, and said to Dou Mu: “Wuguan…Wuguan has fallen.”

“Ah?” Dou Mu was stunned.

It will take two days to travel from Wuguan to Xiangcheng Kuaima.

In other words, it only took one day for Ma Han to win Wuguan.

Now, what they were most worried about had happened.

Rangcheng didn’t last a day, Xiancheng didn’t last a day, and even Xiaoguan and Ma Han only took a day.

It is precisely because of these terrible information that he asked Dou Xiao to immediately dispatch to Wuguan for help.

It’s just that it takes at least four days for the infantry to go from Xiangcheng to Wuguan, so they are still one step too late.

Thinking of something, Dou Wei grabbed the eunuch’s collar and urged: “Immediately send out fast horses and call the imperial army back to guard Xiangcheng.”

Dou Mu supported the table with his right hand, and sat down slowly, with a flash of panic in his eyes, he said “Even if Dou Xiao comes back, there are only 100,000 forbidden troops in Xiangcheng, how long can they hold off Ma Han?”

Seeing Dou Mu’s slumped expression, Dou Wei couldn’t bear it.

Although he himself was very flustered at the moment, he still comforted him, “Xiangcheng has deployed more than 400 cannons, surrounded by mountains and rivers, like a fortress of copper and iron. As long as Dou Xiao can come back, with the 100,000 forbidden troops, it is enough to resist the Ma family soldiers Ma Yue Yu, after all, they are my Nanliang elite.”

Hearing this, Dou Mu felt a little relieved.

He said: “I’m afraid this is not very appropriate. Let General Xiao Cheng lead his troops back and take back Wuguan, otherwise Nanliang will not have a day of peace in the future, and besides, our border market between Nanliang and Beidi will be abandoned and lost. Great.”

Dou Wei nodded, then turned his eyes, and suddenly said: “Your Majesty, you can’t be fooled by the King of Yan. I’m afraid that the King of Yan ordered Ma Han to seize Wuguan. The army was recalled and defeated one by one, the more he did this, the more guilty he felt, thinking that he could not deal with the Yan coalition.”

Dou Mu thought for a while, then nodded slowly.

Only the next day, with a piece of news, they became tense again.

About 60,000 Ma family soldiers set off from Wuguan and marched towards Xiangcheng.

Although the nobles of Nanliang intercepted them on the road, they would collapse at the first touch, and they were not their opponents at all.

At this time, they got the news that the Ma family soldiers and horses were in Neixiang County, a hundred miles away from Wuguan.

The next day, another message arrived.

The Hao family near Nanyang discovered the traces of the soldiers of the Ma family.

On the third day, the Hao family in Xinye encountered the soldiers of the Ma family.

The local nobles assembled 30,000 soldiers and horses to fight against it on the only way they had to pass, but they were defeated and fled in just half an hour.

At this time, panic began to spread in Nanliang, and the Hao family who fled to Xiangcheng described the soldiers of the Ma family as extremely terrifying.

It is said that their muskets can hit ten miles away, and if they cut off a branch at will, turn it into a stick and throw it out, it will explode.

These rumors made the people of Xiangcheng panic for a while.

“Your Majesty, Xinye is only one day away from Xiangcheng. Since the soldiers of the Ma family will arrive in Xiangcheng tomorrow, if they don’t ask my brother for help at this time, how long will they have to wait?” In the

court hall, a general came out and asked Dou Mu cupped his hands.

He turned out to be Xiao Cheng’s younger brother Xiao Yuanshan.

After murdering Mo Di, he fled back to Yizhou.

Before Da Song was in civil strife, Xiao Cheng had been protecting him.

After Nanliang established the country, he no longer had any scruples, and found a position in the Nanliang court.

Today, because the Ma family’s soldiers and horses were about to arrive in Xiangcheng, Dou Mu called a group of ministers to discuss countermeasures, and he couldn’t help but speak.

“Recalling General Xiao at this time, the crusade against King Yan will fall short. Don’t you know which is more important?” Dou Xiao said coldly.

In his opinion, Xiao Yuanshan is just a fool, and he has always been very disdainful of him.

He led the troops halfway, and then received an order to return to Xiangcheng.

Now the 50,000 forbidden troops have all returned to Xiangcheng.

Xiao Yuanshan sneered, “Even if the Ma family’s troops are so fierce, who can guarantee that the Yan coalition army can defeat the King of Yan? If it fails, Xiangcheng will not be able to withstand the Ma’s troops, so what should we do? Besides, I am doing it for your own good, you love to hear Don’t listen, anyway, Jingzhou is the foundation of your Dou family.”

Silence.

There was deathly silence in the hall.

Although Dou Xiao refuted Xiao Yuanshan with a red face, he knew very well that Xiao Yuanshan’s worry was not unreasonable.

If the Allied Forces against Yan fail miserably and they cannot defend Xiangcheng, Nanliang will lose Jingzhou, or even worse.

After all, this is the place where their Dou family has been operating for more than two hundred years.

“Your Majesty, order to recall General Xiao and Beidi cavalry.” Dou Wei’s voice broke the silence in the hall.

Three days ago, he was full of confidence.

But as the disintegrated wealthy families poured into Xiangcheng, he began to doubt.

Remove the exaggerated part of the rumors of the Hao family.

After questioning, he determined more real information.

There are indeed about 60,000 Ma family soldiers heading to Xiangcheng at the moment,

and these soldiers have muskets with a range of more than 300 meters and strange wooden sticks that can kill a dozen people when thrown into a crowd.

It was this kind of thing that frightened the wealthy people, and passed it on like a god.

And such an army of the Ma family could not be stopped by the 100,000 troops in Xiangcheng alone.

He cannot make the same mistakes as Ma Jin in Yancheng and Xiancheng, and General Beidi in Xiaoguan.

Xiangcheng.

Can’t lose it.

(end of this chapter)