Ma Teng left without hesitation.
Ma Feng stood on top of the city wall, watching Ma Teng and his men leave, tears streaming down his face.
"F * ck, let's go. Why did you have to ride my four thousand warhorses?”
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Four thousand warhorses and four thousand Longxi County soldiers were all taken away by Ma Teng.
There were less than 100 soldiers left in the entire Di Dao to maintain order.
Ma Feng had replaced Ma Teng as the commandant of Longxi.
Before Ma Teng left, he even gave Ma Feng a name in advance.
Ma Feng, cousin Bo Yun.
It was already the middle of May, year 184.
Ma Feng knew that he didn't have much time to prepare. He had to be fast, even faster.
Ma Teng's departure made all of Ma Feng's plans fall through, and he had to make new plans.
The first thing he did was to look for Longxi Governor Li Mu and ask for money and food to recruit as many soldiers as possible.
Li Mu, a native of Hedong, was in his forties. He was the descendant of a famous scholar, and his ancestors had once been the three dukes.
The reason why Ma Teng went to help Dong Zhuo was not because he had a good relationship with Dong Zhuo. On the contrary, he looked down on martial artists like Dong Zhuo.
But because Dong Zhuo was the prefect of Hedong, he had sent Ma Teng for the benefit of the family.
War? Anyway, he was not the one who died, and the one who died was not his Li family's disciple. As for how many Liangzhou people died, what did it have to do with him?
"Li Gong, there are less than a hundred soldiers left in the city. Shouldn't we take some money and food from the treasury to recruit soldiers?”Ma Feng asked.
"Oh, that's true. 100 people is indeed a little too little. How about this? I'll arrange for someone to release the results later and recruit another 1,000 people.”Li Mu said calmly.
"Only a thousand? Isn't it a little too little?"
"It's not a small amount, as long as it's enough. Besides, the treasury doesn't have much money and food.”
"Then take some money and food, recruit some commoners, and strengthen the city walls. Is that possible?”Ma Feng asked again.
"Reinforce the city walls? There was no need. There was not much money and food in the treasury.”Li Mu refused.
"Lord Prefect, is there no money or grain in the treasury, or is it all in your pocket?”
Ma Feng stood up and asked coldly.
"Hey, what do you mean? I'm honest and upright. Do you want to quit as a commandant? You still dare to question me?"
"Hehe, let me tell you, don't think that I'm as easy to talk to as my father. What happens to you has nothing to do with me. But if you ruin my plans, I'll make sure that I won't be able to leave Longxi.”
Ma Feng said coldly as he kept touching the hilt of his saber, as if he was about to pull it out at any moment.
Li Mu, a weak scholar, was shocked by Ma Feng.
"What are you doing? Are you trying to rebel?"
"Rebellion? If I really wanted to rebel, it would be because of a stupid prefect like you. Lord prefect, from today onwards, you don't have to leave the government office. I'll handle the rest for you. What do you think?”
After Ma Feng finished speaking, he left without waiting for Li Mu's reply.
Pang De led 1,000 men and surrounded the government office. Nominally, these people were protecting Li Mu.
But in reality? He directly controlled Li Mu.
Ma Feng wasn't as easy to talk to as Ma Teng. If they could cooperate, they would cooperate. Then I'm sorry. It's good that I didn't kill him directly.
After that, they started to recruit county soldiers. As long as they signed up, they would be given money and food.
In just ten days, he recruited 3,000 soldiers and 10,000 commoners.
These 10,000 people were used to reinforce the city walls and build a barbican, trying to strengthen Di Dao's defenses.
When Di Dao was busy, Ma Feng handed over Di Dao's affairs to his second uncle, Ma Yi, and led a few people to the Xianling Qiang.
Nothing else. He borrowed troops from his uncle.
Ma Feng hadn't been to Xianling Qiang for many years, but Lei Bo was still very friendly after seeing Ma Feng.
Lei Ao was also an adult. He was about the same size as Ma Feng, but his width was almost equivalent to two Ma Fens.
After Ma Feng explained his intentions, Lei Bo was generous and lent Ma Feng 3,000 soldiers.
Led by Lei Ao, the 3,000 soldiers followed Ma Feng back to Di Dao.
Although three thousand soldiers were a little small, it was already the limit of the Xianling Qiang.
Although the Xianling Qiang was a large tribe with 100,000 people, they had to prevent other tribes from starting a war against them.
When Ma Feng came to borrow troops, he naturally wouldn't say that Liangzhou was about to fall into chaos.
They only said that Ma Teng had taken away the county soldiers and couldn't recruit any people at the moment, so they had to borrow troops from Xianling Qiang.
Although the 3,000 Qiang soldiers were not many, every Qiang was a natural cavalryman and a natural warrior. To Ma Feng, this was a timely assistance.
A few days later, Ma Feng returned to Di Dao with his troops.
After Ma Feng returned to Di Dao, he was very busy.
He was busy recruiting commoners and county soldiers.
He was busy instructing the civilians to reinforce the city walls and how to build the barbican.
He was busy training the newly recruited county soldiers and Qiang soldiers. He had to let them know what cooperation was.
They were busy collecting food, salt, and iron.
They would hoard more food and salt, even if they were trapped in the city.
He needed more iron to forge more weapons and armor.
However, all of Di Dao's blacksmiths combined were not enough. There was simply not enough time. Moreover, those blacksmiths who only knew how to forge farm tools really made Ma Feng very anxious.
Forging long and short sabers and spears was fine, but forging armor? Di Dao didn't have anyone who understood. He didn't even know how to draw a map for them.
In the midst of his busy schedule, it was September 183. In this season of autumn harvest in Liangzhou,
Paohan Qiang, Heguan group of thieves took the lead in rebellion, jointly supported Huangzhong Yi from Hu North Gong Boyu, Li Wenhou as generals, killed Qiang protection lieutenant Ling Zheng.
Then, he 'coerced' the two celebrities of Jin City, Han Sui and Bian Zhang, to rebel together.
Kill the Governor of Jin City, Chen Yi, and occupy the entire Jin City Prefecture.
All of a sudden, all the Qiang people in Jin City responded. Like a rolling snowball, the number of soldiers increased.
In a short span of ten days, they had already surpassed fifty thousand men, and there was still a growing trend.
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