Liangzhou, the frontier of the Han Dynasty, is also the main area of war with foreign peoples, and now, there are two forces that really dominate Liangzhou, one is Han Sui, and the other is Ma Teng!

Speaking of which, this Han Sui and Ma Teng both made their fortunes in Liangzhou, and Han Sui was once recruited by the former general He Jin, but Han Sui's proposal to He Jin to kill the eunuch was not adopted by He Jin, so he asked for his life to return to Liangzhou.

During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the imperial court lost control of the Liangzhou area for a while, which led to those alien races living in Liangzhou ready to move! In the first year of Zhongping, Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou rebelled, killed Chen Yi, the Taishou of Jincheng, and held Han Sui and a man named Bian Zhang hostage. I don't know whether this Han Sui was voluntarily or forced, in short, this Han Sui became the commander of these rebels, but the following year he was defeated by the army sent by the imperial court.

Afraid of the might of the Han army, Han Sui and others escaped from the Guanwai, and after the imperial army retreated, Han Sui turned around and killed Beigong Boyu, Li Wenhou and Bian Zhang, who worked with him, and truly became the commander of the rebels, and led the rebels to besiege Longxi again!

At that time, the imperial court was eventful, the rebellion of the ten permanent servants, Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing, this series of things happened, so that the imperial court had no time to take care of Han Sui, at that time, the Xiliang assassin Shi Geng contempt had vainly tried to lead the troops to attack Han Sui, but before he could lead the troops to Han Sui, he was killed by his own men, and Ma Teng, who was serving as a Sima in the army under Geng Contempt, was also at this time, officially united with Han Sui!

The two took advantage of this great opportunity to join forces to annex Geng Cong's soldiers and horses, strengthen themselves, and began to dominate Liangzhou, and afterwards, even Dong Zhuo, who had begun to control Luoyang at that time, could not do anything with them. Later, the two also fought openly and secretly with each other, but on the surface, they still maintained an alliance state.

When Dong Zhuo was in charge of Luoyang, in order to win over the two, he borrowed the hand of the Son of Heaven and named Han Sui as the general of Zhenxi. Ma Teng was the general of Zhengxi, and asked the two to assist his son-in-law Niu Fu to defend Liangzhou, and Han Sui and Ma Teng seemed to be tired of this rebellious life, so they honestly accepted Zhao'an.

Holding heavy troops and supporting the troops with self-respect, although Niu Fu has a nominal position, he is also polite when he sees the two of them. After all, in Liangzhou, Han Sui and Ma Teng were too powerful, and even Niu Fu couldn't help them, and they were even more reluctant to provoke easily, until the Eighteenth Route Princes Alliance crusaded against Dong Zhuo.

Han Sui advocated wait-and-see, but Ma Teng chose to join the Dong Alliance, and from then on. Liangzhou is not very peaceful, especially after Dong Zhuo's defeat. Han Sui and Ma Teng directly exchanged fire with Niu Fu, the two dominated Liangzhou, and they could not resist, although Niu Fu had an army of 100,000, he couldn't stop the two from joining forces, so. After a defeat, when even chose to retreat towards Chang'an.

However, what he didn't expect was that a few days ago, Cao Cao relied on the help of the princes and ministers in Chang'an City. Li Dao and Guo Yan were killed, Xu Rong, Zhang Ji, Zhang Xiu and others broke through and fled, Yang Feng, Xu Huang and others surrendered, and gathered 70,000 or 80,000 people in the Xiliang army, and the military strength increased greatly for a while.

Niu Fu came here, straight as throwing himself into the net, was Cao Cao set up a plan, a battle was broken, Niu Fu died on the spot, 50,000 Xiliang troops were captured, in order to enhance the force, against the future enemy, Cao Cao will be all incorporated, for a time, the number of the army under his command doubled, there are two or three hundred thousand horses.

Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty felt Cao Cao's merits, named him the prime minister, and had an overview of the world's military affairs, but unfortunately, before they could settle down and rectify the world, the Taiping army sent a letter to Guguan and went straight to Chang'an to kill it.

Guo Jia is a conspiracy, Huang Zhong is the commander, Zhang Jaw, Gao Lan, Wen Ping, Leng Bao and others are deputy generals, a total of 100,000 troops, sent a letter to Guguan, Bingfeng direction, pointing directly to Chang'an.

Although Cao Cao has gathered more than 200,000 troops in the Chang'an area, 130,000 or 40,000 Xiliang troops are all prisoners, and they can't be put into battle at all, otherwise there is a possibility of bombing the camp at any time, and even he must take out a certain amount of troops to guard these Xiliang army prisoners, so now he can use no more than 50,000 troops.

The army of 50,000 is actually quite a lot, but Cao Cao knew that this time he was not dealing with an ordinary opponent, but he did not dare to risk bombing the camp and now fighting with the Taiping army.

Cheng Yu offered advice: "Chang'an's natural danger is all in Hangu Pass, and now the Taiping thieves are in control of Hangu Pass, if they pinch the lifeblood of Chang'an, since our army is not suitable to fight with the Taiping thieves at this moment, it is better to take the Son of Heaven to move and annex the state." ”

Cao Cao thought about it carefully, this is indeed the case, his results are very rich, if he can digest it, he can have nearly 300,000 troops, and he may not be able to compete with the Taiping army at that time.

Cheng Yu was scheming, and he could see Cao Cao's thoughts at a glance, and said with a slight smile: "I know that the lord is not willing to give up Chang'an easily, but I have two plans, and I will make the Taiping thieves not easily occupy Chang'an." ”

When Cao Cao heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up, and he hurriedly asked, "Where did the plan come from?" ”

Cheng Yu said with a smile: "We go out of the city first, we can bury the things that cause fire in Chang'an City, and then leave an elite army, when the time comes, when the Taiping thief army enters the city, first burn it with fire, and then ambush it, even if it can't be defeated in one fell swoop, but it will definitely damage its vitality." ”

"Wonderful! Wonderful! That's a great plan! Cao Cao stroked his palms and laughed, and after a while, he then asked, "This is the first plan, what about the second plan?" ”

Cheng Yu said: "Niu Fu is defeated, Liangzhou should be occupied by Han Sui and Ma Teng, the lord can send one person to Xiliang, with a three-inch tongue, saying that they will come to fight for Chang'an with the Taiping thieves, so that the two tigers will fight, and their vitality will be damaged, just wait for us to complete the rectification army, and defeat the anti-thieves in one fell swoop." ”

Cao Cao listened with excitement, as if he had seen the prospect of launching a large army and defeating the Taiping army, fortunately, he was still relatively calm in the end, and after being happy, he immediately asked: "Then who should be sent to Liangzhou?" ”

Cheng Yu said: "Chen Qun has great talents, you can send him to it, and it will be done!" ”

Without saying a word, Cao Cao immediately dispatched Chen Qun, with a group of guards, and went straight to Liangzhou, and after a short time, he arrived at the ground and asked to see Han Sui and Ma Teng.

Defeated Niu Fu, Han Sui and Ma Teng were moving towards how to occupy Liangzhou for a long time, who would have thought that before the butt was hot, Cao Cao's envoy arrived.

Knowing that the task of this trip is important, Chen Qun did not talk nonsense, and after some greetings, he immediately explained his intentions, but his wisdom was extraordinary, and when he spoke, he tried his best to say that Cao Cao intended to form an alliance with Xiliang to jointly fight against the increasingly powerful Taiping thief army, and did not mention that he deliberately wanted to lead Xiliang and the Taiping army to attack each other, so that the two tigers competed with each other.

After listening to Chen Qun's proposal, Ma Teng already had some intentions, but Han Sui said: "What Lord Chen said, although it is not bad, but the Taiping army has swept the world, I am afraid, even if our two families form an alliance, they may not be able to resist the general trend of the Taiping army. ”

"General Han's words are wrong!" Chen Qun said: "Although the Taiping thief is powerful now, but, looking back on the past, the Yellow Turban thief is not equally powerful, but under the suppression of the imperial army, it is inevitable to be defeated after all, Prime Minister Cao Cheng killed Dong Zhuo's relics, rescued the Son of Heaven and returned to the court, and swept away the thieves in the world by the order of heaven. ”

"This ......" Hearing Chen Qun's words, Ma Teng and Han Sui glanced at each other, both of them saw the hesitation in each other's eyes, but for a while, it was difficult to decide.

Chen Qun spoke at the right time and said: "Two generals, Prime Minister Cao Cheng has set a trap in Chang'an this time, and he will definitely be able to defeat the Taiping thieves. ”

Chang'an is prosperous, far from being comparable to Liangzhou, hearing this, Ma Teng and Han Sui immediately couldn't hold it, Han Sui was still considering, but Ma Teng couldn't help but say loudly: "Okay, I'm Xiliang, and I'm willing to form an alliance with Cao Cheng to fight against the Taiping thieves!" (To be continued......)