Chapter 944

Zhang Liao told the deputy general beside him: "Immediately leave the city after finishing preparations."

"Understood!"

The deputy general agreed and hurriedly went to pass the order.

It is not that Zhang Liao is heartless, nor is it that Zhang Liao looks down on Wang Mi.

It is just that this is Wuwei Commandery, not Jincheng Commandery.

Since the beginning of this year, Wuwei Commandery has not been peaceful.

The Huangzhong Yi led by Beigong Boyu, Li Wenhou, and others have been elusive in Wuwei Commandery, raiding everywhere.

By the end of the year, the Zhangye Army and the Qiang tribes in Wuwei Commandery were also drawn in by Beigong Boyu.

Moreover, many Han people and forces in Liangzhou were mixed in.

Zhang Liao knew clearly in his heart.

The Liangzhou reform touched the interests of many people.

This includes the great clans of Liangzhou.

There are local scholar-clans and powerful clans in the five commanderies of Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Beidi, and Anding.

Liangzhou's land reform, pastoral reform, and the monopoly of trade completely broke the original pattern of Liangzhou.

Many people do not want this.

But they dare not openly oppose the Lord.

But they are helping in the dark.

For the past few months, he has been fighting wits and courage with Beigong Boyu and others, fighting dozens of times big and small.

Every time he learned Beigong Boyu's information through the Military Intelligence Department and organized a large army to encircle and suppress, he would be informed by Beigong Boyu in advance and escape.

Once or twice is understandable, but after a long time and many times, Zhang Liao had doubts in his heart.

It is definitely a group of people helping in the dark, wanting to fish in troubled waters.

They do not want Liangzhou to be a place where one person has the final say.

They hope that Liangzhou will continue to be chaotic.

Only if Liangzhou continues to be chaotic will the new policies not be implemented in the remaining places.

These people are calculating this.

Zhang Liao himself is not from a commoner background.

As the Zhang clan of the number one powerful clan in Mayi, Zhang Liao knows this method too well.

This is just another way of raising bandits to gain self-respect.

Therefore, after setting out, Zhang Liao does not trust any official in any city or pool.

Because these officials are all from great clans and powerful clans.

Whether they are connected with Beigong Boyu and others behind their backs, no one knows.

And how could Zhang Liao eat the food prepared by these people?

Moreover, after many encirclements and suppressions, Zhang Liao also reached a conclusion.

Since the encirclement and suppression by a large army will expose his whereabouts and purpose.

Then simply break up the whole into parts.

He took more than a thousand cavalry to sweep across.

Wherever he goes, he sweeps across.

As long as there is intelligence, he will attack immediately, not organizing a large army, and absolutely not delaying the action time.

A thousand cavalry, each with two horses, attack at the fastest speed.

Although the results may not be great.

But it wins in speed.

In this way, after dozens of battles, Zhang Liao found that the number of enemy troops killed in this way was even greater.

And after returning from Hanyang Commandery this time, Zhang Liao received Beigong Boyu's whereabouts information again.

Zhang Liao, leading a thousand cavalry, attacked from Lingju County in Jincheng Commandery all the way, and had already fought seven or eight battles with the Huangzhong Yi after chasing here.

There were nearly two hundred casualties.

The thousand cavalry at the time of departure only had these eight hundred left.

After the order was issued, the eight hundred cavalry took the meat jerky they carried with them and began to sit on the spot to bite, drinking the cold water they took from the river outside the city.

Zhang Liao himself also sat on the saddle removed from the warhorse to rest.

Beside him, the deputy general Tian Tong came to Zhang Liao's side and handed the beef jerky in his hand to Zhang Liao.

"General, you should eat something too," Tian Tong said.

Tian Tong.

Son of Tian Yan.

In the battle of Yunwu last year, Tian Yan died in Yunwu, leaving only his family behind.

After Duan Yu went to Yunwu, he recruited Tian Tong as an official.

It can be considered as finding a way out for the descendants of Tian Yan who died in battle.

Now Tian Tong serves as a deputy general beside Zhang Liao.

As a local of Jincheng Commandery in Liangzhou, although Tian Tong is not as brave as Zhang Liao, there are still many places where he can help Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao nodded, took the beef jerky from Tian Tong's hand, and while biting, looked at a map unfolded in front of him.

"Gongda, do you think Beigong Boyu is a bit strange this time?" Zhang Liao asked while biting the beef jerky and looking at the map.

Tian Tong leaned to Zhang Liao's side and looked at their march route this time on the map.

This time, chasing out from Lingju has been for a while.

After looking at it, Tian Tong nodded: "General, in the past, Beigong Boyu's news should have disappeared by now."

"That's right," Zhang Liao nodded: "We have been fighting with Beigong Boyu for almost a year."

"This person is extremely cunning, and his subordinates are all cavalry, and their speed is not slower than ours at all."

"Every time we chase, it will not exceed three days at most, and he will disappear without a trace."

"But this time it has been five or six days, and he is still in front of us."

"I always feel that he seems to be doing it on purpose."

Tian Tong's eyebrows twitched and he suddenly said: "General, you don't think he is... using himself as bait?"

"Wanting to lure the General?"

Zhang Liao's eyebrows frowned.

This is also what he guessed in his heart.

Beigong Boyu's behavior this time is extremely abnormal.

It is very likely that he is using himself as bait.

Zhang Liao nodded slowly: "He should want to solve us all at once."

"Using himself as bait, hum hum."

"He is testing my courage to see if I dare to eat this fragrant bait!"

Zhang Liao suddenly clenched his fist.

Tian Tong looked at Zhang Liao: "General, then we..."

Zhang Liao's mouth raised slightly, sneering: "The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. Who is the hunter, it is too early to say now."

"But he underestimates my courage too much. Such a fragrant bait, of course, I, Zhang Wenyuan, want to taste it!"

"Pass the order down, rest for an hour, the army will set off immediately!"

Just as Zhang Liao's voice fell, a round of applause suddenly sounded from behind.

"Good young man, good courage!"