Ma Teng is dead......

How could Ma Teng die like this?

"Nope! This is not true! Ma Chao howled, his voice was terrible, he grabbed the collar of the soldier who reported the news, pinched the soldier's neck, and yelled viciously, "This is not true! If you dare to curse my father, I will kill you! Kill you! ”

"Meng Qi!" Han Sui shouted in a deep voice, "Calm down! ”

Ma Chao's body stiffened for a moment, and then his hands slowly loosened.

The soldier who escaped death covered his neck, gasping and coughing violently, and then saw Han Sui sitting on the top and waving his hand, so he was relieved, and ran out in a hurry.

Han Sui glanced at Ma Chao, who was still standing, and his expression was quite complicated.

"Li thief! A certain and you are incompatible! ”

In the middle of the sound, Ma Chao, who came back to his senses, pulled out his sword, cut a bloody wound on his palm, and then applied it to his face.

This is the tradition of the Qiang people, who paint their faces with blood and swear an alliance to express their intention to return blood with the enemy.

"Uncle!" Ma Chao turned to Han Sui and gritted his teeth and said, "Let's march!" I'm going to catch the Li thief with my own hands and break it into pieces! ”

Han Sui's eyebrows moved slightly, but he didn't speak.

Didn't move either.

March, fight back, spank a fart.

What about grain and grass?

Eat the wind and gnaw the soil?

What about the original lost war horses?

What about instruments?

What about arrows?

Can it fall from the sky?

Not to mention anything else, even if the grain and grass on hand at hand is saved, it will not exceed five days, at most seven days. If you want to attack Li Dao, let's not talk about whether you can win the battle, where will the grain and grass along the way come from?

What's more, if you really want to enter, there are a lot of related matters involved, how can there be such a simple thing.

"Uncle! Uncle! Ma Chao didn't understand why Han Sui was silent, thinking that Han Sui hadn't made up his mind yet, so he shouted again and again.

Han Sui said: "Meng Qi, Brother Shoucheng was poisoned by this, and he was also heartbroken, but ...... We don't have much food in stock now, and if we move in haste, we are afraid that others will take advantage of it, so this matter needs to be considered in the long run......"

"Nope! I'm going to kill him! Kill him! Ma Chao's face was covered with his own blood, and his originally handsome face looked a little hideous.

Han Sui sighed, first asked someone to bandage Ma Chao's hand a little, and then pulled Ma Chao to sit down, and said comfortingly: "Meng Qi, don't be impatient, I can understand your mood, but if you want to march, it's really not simple." ”

Ma Chao wanted to stand up, but was pulled by Han Sui, and had no choice but to sit down, but still said murderously: "Why is it not simple? Just kill! Kill directly from here to the place where the Li thief is! I want revenge! Avenge! ”

Han Sui endured it, and then said: "Li Thief is extremely evil, this revenge must be avenged, but we must also pay attention to some methods, can the virtuous nephew know how much food we have?" ”

Ma Chao blinked, and then said as a matter of course: "Isn't my uncle in charge of the grain and grass?" "You Han Sui, you don't know anything about this, how can I be clear?

Han Sui was silent for a moment, and then said, "Within the Wuwu, the amount of grain and grass is only five days...... And from here to Xinfeng, it is more than five days...... If there is any delay on the way, or if you can't find the Li thief for a while, you will be hungry, so how can you fight? ”

When Ma Chao heard this, he was silent for a while, but he still knew the importance of grain and grass, and he didn't say stupid things even if he was hungry.

However, Ma Chao did not give up, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly said: "We can go and grab it!" It's like the last time I hit Meiyang, grabbing grain and grass! Uncle, right, we have soldiers and horses, just grab it! ”

Han Sui looked at Ma Chao and sighed in his heart.

Young man......

But who hasn't been young?

Han Sui was patient and explained in detail: "Yes, you can rob it, there is nothing wrong, but Meng Qi, have you ever thought about what will happen after you rob it?" ”

Ma Chao replied almost without thinking, "What will happen?" It's not that we haven't robbed it, and we haven't robbed it, and if we rob it, we rob it, and the people in these surrounding counties don't have many soldiers and horses, so what can they do with us? ”

Han Sui shook his head and said, "This time and that time." We plundered Meiyang before, it was because we were in a hostile state with these guys in Guanzhong, even if we went too far, we didn't have anything to say, but now that we have peace talks...... If you repent all of a sudden, you will lose your faith......"

In fact, Han Sui is not an old pedant, holding the type of so-called benevolence and righteousness, but in his eyes, whether there are enough interests to give up at the moment, faith is not a problem, but whether the things exchanged for these beliefs are worth it is the question.

"Faithfulness?" Ma Chao frowned and muttered.

Han Sui nodded and further explained: "If you and I want to stay in Guanzhong, we need to pay more attention to the word Xinyi...... If we end up with a name of unbelief and unrighteousness, I am afraid that not only Guanzhong, but also the people of the world will not be with us. ”

Ma Chao lowered his head and pondered for a while, then turned his head to look at Han Sui and said, "But my father is dead!" And we have soldiers on our hands! I want revenge! ”

"Uh......" Han Sui paused for a while, and finally sighed, "Okay, in this way, I will write a letter to General Xia first to explain the situation, otherwise the movement of troops and horses close at hand will definitely cause him to be vigilant and uneasy, and in addition, I have to wait for the next batch of grain and grass to come, if I can write more grain and grass equipment or something, it will be better......"

………………………………

In a residence in Yiwu, several leaders of the army, as well as Ma Dai and Ma Xiu, sat together.

Ma Dai is Ma Chao's younger brother, and in terms of blood, he is more inclined to Ma Chao's mother's side, that is to say, like Ma Chao, there is more Qiang blood, and it is precisely because of this that although Ma Dai is now past the crown year, he has not officially taken one even a word.

Matthew, on the other hand, has not yet performed the crown salute, so there is no official word. Xiliang Wuwei also has a younger brother in the family, called Ma Tie, because he is not yet ten years old, so he did not follow this time.

And among these people, it is Ma Chao who is pacing back and forth.

The guards standing outside the hall were all Ma Chao's clansmen, most of whom were Qiang, and they were all loyal warriors of the Ma family. After getting the news that Ma Teng was killed by Li Dao, he gathered it as soon as possible.

Now everyone is looking solemn. There was even an incredible look of surprise in between.

Nearly 3,000 sons, although some of them belong to Li Dao, but even after deducting these horses, there are still about 1,800, so they can't protect Ma Teng?

In addition, there are these wealthy families in Xiliang, and everyone knows in their hearts that strictly speaking, Li Dao, Guo Yan and others are even lower than Ma Teng and Han Sui, because when Ma Teng and Han Sui were on an equal footing with Dong Zhuo, Li Dao, Guo Yan and others were still listening to orders under Dong Zhuo's account, and now they are actually ......

Everyone's eyes were focused on Ma Chao's face, but Ma Chao had no expression, just pacing back and forth slowly in the hall.

Ma Chao sometimes looks a little flustered, but it doesn't mean that Ma Chao is stupid.

The people of Xiliangqiang all got married early, and there were many people who became fathers in their early teens, but Ma Chao didn't, and he didn't even talk about family affairs, let alone what kind of relatives he had.

Ma Teng was very depressed when he was young, so poor that he could only go up the mountain to chop firewood to survive, although the women of the Han Dynasty were not as gold-worshipping as a small lump in later generations, but no scholar family was willing to marry their own women to a person who could not see the hope of such a family.

Even though Ma Teng kept emphasizing what kind of Ma Yuan he was, it was still not easy to use, so in the end, Ma Teng had no choice but to marry a Qiang girl in the Qiang tribe, the daughter of the leader of a small branch of Qiang, that is, Ma Chao's mother.

In April of the fourth year of Zhongping, when Liangzhou assassin Shi Geng was a traitor, which led to the rebellion of the Didao kingdom and the Di and Qiang ethnic groups, and the prefecture and county recruited warriors to crusade against the rebellion. Ma Teng seized the opportunity and enlisted in the army, and was soon valued by state and county officials because of his bravery, and was appointed as a military officer, commanding the troops......

And Ma Teng took him to join the army was Ma Chao's mother's clansmen.

Of course, with the improvement of Ma Teng's status, many so-called successful men have to face problems.

Little Three.

Well, the Han Dynasty didn't have that title, but that's what it is.

Ma Teng remarried a woman of the Han clan and gave birth to Ma Xiu and Ma Tie.

As for the original Qiang wife, she naturally stayed on the Qiang side, and then Ma Teng was on one side, which was beautiful.

The subsequent development is naturally similar to most bloody plots, and as time goes by, although Ma Chao is Ma Teng's eldest son, he can also feel that Ma Teng is focusing more and more on Ma Xiu and Ma Tie......

That's why Ma Chao's mother sent Ma Dai over. In the concept of the Qiang people, whatever they want, they can't ask for it, so Ma Chao's mother didn't expect Ma Teng to be able to turn back, but after all, Ma Chao was his own child, so he did his best to support Ma Chao.

So, the situation is very delicate.

Ma Chao didn't say a word, but everyone felt a little strange.

For these burning Qiang people sitting beside Ma Dai, Ma Chao is not only the son of Ma Teng, but more importantly, the children of his own nobles, naturally he is fully supportive, although they will also feel sad about Ma Teng's death, but more worry.

On the other side, for a few people close to Ma Xiu's side, Ma Chao is not the best successor of the Ma family in their minds, but now Ma Xiu is still young, and it is inconvenient to formally contend with it.

This time Ma Teng led the troops into Chang'an, in addition to the intention of taking advantage of the fire to rob, it was to prepare to give Ma Xiu Ma Tie a mixed background, after all, Ma Teng said that he was after Ma Yuan, but after all, he was too poor before, and he was not even a cold door, at most it was a broken door, so it still took some processes to return to the scholar system.

Ma Teng's plan is naturally good, and it is progressing quite well, but now that he has lost his footsteps, what will happen to the Ma family in the future has become a problem facing him now.

On weekdays, Ma Chao is babbling, and he often doesn't choose what he says, as if he will say whatever he thinks, and naturally he has never convened everyone to discuss matters like now.

Ma Chao turned around a few times, and finally stopped, stood in the middle of the hall, looked left and right, and then said: "The current situation, that's it, do you have any ideas?" ”

In the past, Ma Teng was all arbitrary, basically directly issued orders, and let everyone under him follow the instructions, so everyone was used to it, but now looking at Ma Chao young, he didn't seem to have any opinions, and he looked hesitant, some people looked at each other, gave some looks, and then opened their mouths.

“…… The old master is full of martial arts, how can he be so easy...... Is there anything else going on? Could it be that the old master is actually not ...... It's just fake news released by Li Thief and others? ”

"This also seems to make some sense, but now the question is what are we going to do now, whether to march or not?"

"Young Commander, we seem to have an agreement with these people in Guanzhong now, are you rushing into the army...... General Han also said that he also asked us to abide by the agreement and not to move without permission......"

"You really take this agreement seriously, but it's temporary, everyone knows this in their hearts, but now it's true that there is not much grain and grass, this is also the truth, if you really don't care about this agreement, the grain and grass sent on that side will be broken at any time! That's a problem......"

"Although it is said that sending some sons and daughters to the surrounding areas to fight some grass valleys or something, it is not a big deal, but there are no good goods in the surrounding areas, can it really be searched around? I'm afraid that the collection is not enough, and the teeth of the sons and daughters sent out are not enough......"

"Everyone, I say, now it's not a question of food and grass, but a question of whether to march in to avenge the old master! What are you doing with all that nonsense......"

"What is nonsense, don't you eat food and grass? Even if the old master is here, he is also sympathetic to Erlang, and there is no reason to let Erlang go to the battlefield with an empty stomach! I don't know how the soldiers who followed you survived......"

"Hey! Did I ever tell my men to go hungry? Who doesn't know that I've always been the best to my men, and I'm not like someone who piles up all the good things in his account and never knows how to divide them! ”

"What do you mean to divide some! That's all Lao Tzu, I worked hard, and I hit it with a knife and a shot! What's the matter, I'm jealous, I want to carry a knife to the battlefield to get it! Staring at red-eyed beads all day long, good things will fall from the sky? Hey, hey, hey......"

When one person spoke, everyone immediately spoke, and everyone in the hall expressed their opinions one after another. Ma Teng's subordinates, the Qiang people are the majority, the etiquette is naturally a little rough, everyone is dancing, the voice is getting louder and louder, and then the more and more biased, mixed with the old things of Chen Sesame and rotten grain, tearing each other down, some people simply ignore Ma Chao's face in the hall, and quarrel with themselves, the originally solemn hall seems to have become a pond filled with hundreds of ducks at this time......