Looking at the handsome and tall, but murderous back, Ma Teng shook his head slightly. Now the Qiang people and the Di people regard Ma Chao as a heavenly soldier who presides over justice, and this kind of prestige is estimated to have a "bright future".

Ma Chao returned to the camp and discussed important matters with Pang De and Ma Dai.

Ma Chao said, "Recently, I heard that the Xiliang Army has returned to stability, and the imperial court intends to make us obey the arrangement, I don't know what news you have?" ”

From the younger brother Ma Dai said, "There is news that Tong Yuan is decisive in killing, and he is amiable to those who fall to him, but he is ruthless in his methods against him. I heard that he made ninety-nine people to pour molten iron in the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum in Qiaoshan and knelt there, what a terrible guy. ”

He continued: "This person has collected and surrendered 100,000 Xiongnu and all the unseeded Qiang and Qianren tribes, which has made some of the Qiang tribes on our side yearn for it. In addition, there is Li Ru on the side of the imperial court, and the situation is a little bad for us. ”

Ma Chao said, "My father has the idea of obeying the orders of the imperial court and temporarily cooperating with Jia Xu and Tong Yuan. Not to mention whether this is right or not, but in the long run, helping others to be majestic, coupled with the elimination of one and the other, is really the road of no return. ”

Pang De and Ma Dai listened to his words and fell into thought, they should listen to the words of the lord Ma Teng, but they are also burdened with the future of thousands of soldiers under their hands, and large and small heroes and tribes.

At this time, everyone knows that Liangzhou has been in turmoil for decades.

It is not so much that the imperial court was burdened by the party and moth thieves, but that the entire northern frontier fell into a huge mud stall, especially the northwest officials were rampant, forcing hundreds of thousands of Han Hu Erlang to rebel, and it was out of control at all.

They have their own understandings of these things, and it is certain that Ma Teng or their followers will not agree with the court, but will support other leaders.

What's more, they have the same mind as Ma Chao, if the traitors of the court do not enter this land, then they will also obey some orders, but if they dare to come over, it will be a war, and there is no room for compromise.

Pang De said with other concerns, "We really can't fall to them, but with our current strength, even if we add Han Sui, Huangfu Li and other departments, they are not opponents over there, and how to deal with them requires great skill." ”

Ma Chao said, "Don't look down on yourself, although our population is not as large as the Dong family, the quantity and quality of our troops are not worse than theirs." What's more, I have repeatedly gone north to deal with the Qiang disputes, and at present, several tribes are very supportive of us, so I am not afraid of them. ”

The three of them discussed for a while, and basically agreed with their subordinates, that is, they would not surrender to the imperial court and the Dong family, even if Ma Teng insisted.

In fact, there is one thing that Ma Chao did not explain to Pang De and Ma Dai, that is, Han Sui and Huangfu Li had already sent someone to contact him about this matter.

In Jincheng County, Yongzhou, Han Sui looked at the map of Yongliang Sanfu and made a fist and sighed. This state has lasted for a year, and he has been trying to take the opportunity to intervene in Guanzhong, especially when he saw Li Guo's rebellion, he felt that the opportunity was approaching.

It's a pity that Jia Xu is unusually stable, not only did he not lead his troops to help, but instead brought the world's strongest Huangzhong Yicong and a group of Xiliang elites to Tianshui. After that, Tong Yuan and Er Li completed the integration, and the integration and merging of the three auxiliary Yongzhou were connected, so that he could not see the opportunity for development.

When will he be able to stay in Chang'an?

Huangfu Li looked at Han Sui's back, and thought in his heart, "Compared with the tall and heroic Ma Teng, although this Han Sui is not good-looking, he is more ambitious and means. The era of Bian Zhang, Beigong Boyu, Li Wenyue, and the kingdom has passed, and he is still standing, this is his ability. ”

Han Sui was looking at the map again, clenching his fists and sighing, this is what a hero should look like.

Huangfu Li no longer hesitated, stepped forward and said, "General, but you sigh at the injustice of the world? ”

Han Sui nodded and replied, "Dong Bai has become the climate now, Tong Yuan is the general of the Dong family, and even Li Ru is also a member of the Dong family." Now that the imperial court and such a large area of land are in their hands, this result is the last thing you want to see, right? ”

Huangfu Li said, "This is natural, aren't we gathering here to get rid of the traitors and help the Han family?" ”

Han Sui asked: "Now that we are in a predicament, I wonder if Mr. can deal with it?" ”

Huangfu Li looked at the map and said seriously: "In the past, whether it was Bian Zhang, Li Wenyue, Wang Guo, or the general, after we raised our troops, we all fought in Sanfu and went to Chang'an and other places, but in the past ten years, all of them have been failures. ”

A hint of yin flashed in Han Sui's eyes, he was very familiar with these names just now, they were all his superiors, but the last one who survived was still him Han Wenyue.

He looked at Huangfu Li, knowing that this person's focus should be on the present rather than the past, and he asked, "Indeed, isn't it wrong to do this?" ”

Huangfu Li is a native of Anding County, and he is very familiar with the situation in the northwest in the past ten years.

In the past, he and Huangfu Song also thought that as long as Chang'an was stable, the chaos in the northwest could be suppressed, so they also operated in the same way, and every time they broke the enemy army in the final stage and won.

In the past few years, they have been stationed in Longxi and Wudu, and their positions and positions have gradually been opposite to those in the past. As a local force that divides the northwest and dominates the mixed Han and Hu people, if they want to enter the Sanfu and the imperial court, they must think clearly how not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

He had discussed this matter with Wang Yun's nephew, Wang Chen, before, and the conclusion at that time was that someone in Sanfu and other places needed to raise troops to respond, and then they could cooperate with the outside and win the world in one fell swoop.

But now the situation has changed, Emperor Xian left Chang'an to Hongnong, the distance seems to be only 400 miles, but it completely cut off the possibility of the northwest warlords attacking the three and supporting Emperor Xian.

Huangfu Li studied Tong Yuan's development ideas, and found that his people were different from the usual warlords rushing to enter the imperial court, and his focus was on recovering his homeland and revitalizing the northern frontier.

Because of this, he has accumulated a large material base in just a few years and developed a strong army and horses.

In the past, no one may have paid much attention to this Dong family general, but whether he was out of the purpose of guarding against the enemy, or the righteousness of supporting the Han family, he needed to regard Tong Yuan as the number one enemy.

After thinking about it, after countless sleepless nights, he learned from Tong Yuan's development path and came up with a way to break the current situation.

He looked at Han Sui, who was also anxious about this matter, and said quite confidently:

"In the past, we only knew about entering Sanfu, but we didn't develop behind it. Now the road ahead is slow, why don't we completely conquer Liangzhou, meddle in the Western Regions to control the trade routes, tie up the northern and southern Qiangqi departments, and then condescend and wait for the opportunity to move, then Guanzhong can be determined. ”

Han Sui listened to Huangfu Li's words, and hesitated for a while and didn't know how to answer.

He was a native of Jincheng County, and the area under his actual jurisdiction corresponded to a few dozen kilometers west of Lanzhou in later generations, and he knew better about the situation in the west than Huangfu Li.

At this time, it is very subtle that in Jincheng and Anding counties, the number of Qiang and Di is much more than that of the Han people, while further west of Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan and other places, there are more Han people than Hu people.