Chapter 318: Self-Inflicted Consequences

"Your Highness, we have found a large amount of grain, fodder, gold, silver, and jewelry in the granary and treasury. According to the Xiliang soldiers, this is what they plundered from Jinzhou."

After leaving Tuoba Wuji's courtyard, Zhao Xu had not walked many steps before Qin Shan walked over with an excited expression on his face.

The gloom on Zhao Xu's face dissipated a little.

At least this was good news; the Xiliang people had not yet had time to transport these things back to Xiliang.

Otherwise, this would be another huge loss for Great Song.

He went to the granary with Qin Shan first.

Zhao Xu discovered mountains of grain and fodder piled up in the granary.

"After the Xiliang people occupied Jincheng, the Rich Clans of Jinzhou, in order to seek peace, handed over a lot of their family assets to the Xiliang people. Added to what the Xiliang people plundered, there is truly a lot," Qin Shan explained to Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu smiled, "But this saves us a lot of trouble; now we can just take it directly."

He looked toward Chang Wei, "Have the laborers transport all the grain and fodder here back to Yanzhou."

After taking Jinzhou, the Imperial Court would inevitably send officials to take over.

These officials would certainly embezzle these things upon seeing them.

He had taken Jinzhou with such painstaking effort and sacrificed so many soldiers; how could he let these things be given away to others for nothing?

Taking them back to provide pensions for the families of the soldiers who died in battle would also be good.

"Yes, Your Highness."

Chang Wei craned his neck to look into the granary, where there were piles upon piles of wheat and soybeans.

Even if Yan Wang had not ordered it, he would have advised Yan Wang to transport these things to Yanzhou.

Leaving the granary, the group went to the treasury.

In the treasury, Zhao Xu saw mountains of cloth piled up.

There were also chests of silver, gold bricks, and copper coins.

"Send these things back to Yanzhou as well," Zhao Xu said.

He had expended a huge amount to fight this war, so it would not be right not to make up for the loss.

Chang Wei said at this time: "Your Highness, since we have taken Jincheng this time, we should also give the soldiers some rewards."

Zhao Xu nodded.

In history books, there are often records of generals allowing soldiers to plunder for three days in cities they have captured.

In fact, this is a means for generals to stabilize military morale and reward their troops.

However, he naturally could not learn from this practice.

After all, once he indulged the soldiers in doing this, his army would gradually degenerate to the quality of the Shizu Army.

At the same time, this was also not allowed by the military regulations of the Prince's Personal Army.

But the soldiers risked their lives to fight, especially after winning a battle, yet they were not given any reward.

The soldiers would certainly not feel good about it.

So he said: "Rewards, naturally there must be rewards. You record these things, and after returning to Yanzhou, take half of them to reward the soldiers."

"This general thanks Your Highness on behalf of the soldiers." Chang Wei was overjoyed.

The Wangfu Army soldiers following Zhao Xu also all revealed smiles.

Zhao Xu continued at this time: "I will give you another task: confiscate all the family assets of the Rich Clans in Jincheng.

Also, settle your minds; don't be busy being happy yet, the war is not over."

"Yes, Your Highness." Chang Wei and Qin Shan's expressions turned solemn.

At this moment, there were still thirty thousand Xiliang soldiers rushing toward Jincheng.

……

Anze Xiang.

Pula Ba felt anxious in his heart and kept urging them to speed up the march.

At the beginning of the war, as one of the three deputy leaders, he was sent to the south of Jinzhou to defend against the Ma Family.

This task was extremely simple; it was nothing more than putting on a show with the Ma Family's troops.

After negotiating in secret, he yielded three county towns to the Ma Family.

This created the illusion that the Ma Family's offensive was very smooth.

And during this period, they did not have any real conflicts with the Ma Family.

They just "fled at the sight of the wind," letting the Ma Family take some advantage.

He thought it would continue like this, that the Ma Family would just come to go through the motions, and eventually Yan Wang would be defeated.

But he did not expect the Ma Family to suddenly tell him that Jincheng was besieged by Yan Wang and that it was extremely urgent.

While he was marching toward Jincheng, the Ma Family's Scouts kept telling him the movements of the Yan Prince Army.

"Deputy Leader." While he was frowning with worry, the scout team rushed over from the rear of the troop.

"Is there any new situation?" Pulache's heart sank.

"We discovered a team of Yan Wang Scouts heading toward Lincheng; this thing fell off when we were pursuing them." The scout handed a letter to Pulache.

Frowning, Pulache had the soldiers beside him open it.

Seeing that there was nothing unusual, he took it and glanced at it, then immediately crumpled the letter paper into a ball, "We have been tricked."

"What is going on?" a Main General asked.

"We fell for the Ma Family's trap. That Ma Family has been secretly communicating with Yan Wang all along; they were just tricking us out of our cities. Damn it, now the entire Lin Jun has fallen into the hands of the Ma Family." Pulache was both anxious and angry.

Jincheng was lost, and now Lincheng was lost too.

The key was that the Ma Family occupied Lincheng without spending a single soldier or arrow.

In the letter, Yan Wang praised the Ma Family's strategy of deceiving Xiliang.

At the same time, he informed Ma Jin that Jili's great army had been completely annihilated.

Now, he only needed to eliminate the troops under his command to be able to capture Jincheng with peace of mind.

He ordered Ma Jin to lead his troops here to conduct a pincer attack with him and annihilate him.

The three Main Generals were furious upon hearing this, "Vice Leader, I said long ago that the Song People cannot be trusted; now we have indeed fallen into a trap. The Ma Family has obtained Lin Jun without any effort at all; it is simply detestable."

"We cannot go to Jincheng now, otherwise, if we are attacked by forces from two sides, it will be impossible to win," another Main General said.

Pulache's expression was uncertain.

Currently in Jinzhou, Xiliang had fallen into an extremely disadvantageous situation.

He said, "Immediately send someone back to Xiliang to request reinforcements."

Just as he finished speaking, another scout team came over and reported to him, "Vice Leader, the Ma Family troops have been following behind us and seem to be heading toward Jincheng as well."

Upon hearing this, Pulache raised his hand and ordered the great army to stop marching.

With heavy hatred surging in his eyes, he said, "This Ma Family is still acting even now. Since that is the case, we shall satisfy them and perform a real act with them for a while."

After speaking, he whispered to the three Main Generals.

The three of them nodded one after another.

They led their troops toward the south and set an ambush on the road that the Ma Family troops were bound to pass.

Since the Ma Family wanted to attack him from the front and rear, he would break the Ma Family first.

One day later.

The Ma Family troops appeared on the official road passing through Jincheng.

Ma Jin sat on his horse, feeling both happy and worried.

What worried him was that Yan Wang was actually so formidable, having reached Jincheng; the plan to weaken Yan Wang did not seem to be proceeding very smoothly.

However, this was only the beginning; after all, Xiliang would not be reconciled to this and would certainly send a great army to provide support.

What made him happy was that even if Xiliang was defeated, his Ma Family had still taken Lin Jun.

This was also a great achievement in the imperial court.

And this credit belonged entirely to the Ma Family.

Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly heard a sound of something piercing through the air.

Raising his head, he looked at a black cloud flying in the sky.

This black cloud gradually turned into individual black dots.

"There is an ambush!" Ma Jin shouted loudly.

The Arrow and his voice fell together.

A series of screams rang out, and instantly, hundreds of soldiers fell.

Suddenly attacked, the Ma Family Army fell into chaos.

Ma Jin had never expected that there would be enemies in this place.

Xiliang would not attack them, and Yan Wang would attack them even less.

Then who exactly was it?

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