Tai Shici led Ma Chao to visit the barracks and took him to see the stored grain and grass with confidence.

I saw that the army was very neat, and the grain was piled up, and I didn't know how many.

Ma Chao couldn't help but secretly admire in his heart, it seems that this King of Qin has capable people under him, just looking at the barracks arrangement, he knows that this King of Qin is not a wasted person.

For three days in a row, Tai Shici, Zhang Liao and others warmly entertained Ma Chao one after another, and they were defenseless against him, just like a long-lost brother.

On the fourth day, Ma Chao went to the study to see Liu Ping, and Tai Shici, Zhang Liao and others stood beside him.

"My lord," Ma Chao clenched his fists and bowed and said: "My father doesn't know that the last general has joined the lord, and he is leading tens of thousands of troops to come to fight the lord's enemy, why don't you let the last general go, explain the kindness of the lord to my father, and persuade my father and the last general to serve together under the lord's command?" ”

"That's very good," Liu Ping rubbed his head: "This king probably has some misunderstanding with General Ma, I don't know why, General Ma Lao will lead the army to attack, and he can't explain it for a while, which is really a pity."

Now there is General Meng Qi as the intermediary to resolve the contradiction between the king and General Ma Lao, and avoid the swords and soldiers from rising everywhere and ruining the lives of the people, which is a great merit.

The general went early and returned early. ”

"My lord, that's it...... Is it inappropriate......" Xu Huang suddenly stood up and said in a slurred voice, while glaring at Liu Ping again and again.

It's not easy to catch Ma Chao, and it's too casual to put Ma Chao back so easily.

After all, Ma Chao said that he would go back and persuade Ma Teng, who knows if it is true or not, doing so is tantamount to letting the tiger return to the mountain.

"Eh, Gongming is too worried, let's believe that General Ma Mengqi is a man of his word, and he will never do anything that is contrary to the yang and the yin," Liu Ping said with a smile.

"Thank you for your trust, the last general will never dare to live up to the deep friendship of the lord," Ma Chao bowed to Liu Pingshen.

Then someone sent Ma Chao's weapons and armor over.

On the street, Ma Chao put on his helmet and armor, sat on his war horse, arched his hand at Liu Ping, and then walked away.

He walked out of the gate of Tianshui City and galloped in the direction of Xiliang until it was dark, only to see an endless camp ahead.

Seeing so many of his own soldiers, Ma Chao was relieved, and when he stepped forward, a sentry patrol soldier suddenly blocked Ma Chao's way.

"Stop, dismount," the leader of the soldiers looked at Ma Chao vigilantly, holding his spear.

"Bastard, don't you know me anymore?" Ma Chao shouted angrily, he didn't expect to return to his barracks, and someone dared to stop him, he said angrily: "If you dare to talk nonsense again, don't blame me for turning my face and being ruthless,"

"This ...... Major General, this is an order from the Lord, saying that the Major General has surrendered to the enemy, and if he sees the Major General, he can ...... Lawfully kill on sight. ”

"What? What did you say? ”

Ma Chao's heart sank, he originally pretended to surrender in exchange for a chance to live, and then took the opportunity to escape.

But why did the news spread so quickly? Even here I know about it.

"You can kill me?

I don't care about you! ”

Ma Chao stood up the spear and said coldly: "The one who stands in my way will die, I will go to see my father, and I will not be afraid of death." ”

As he spoke, he shook the reins and walked forward with the reins.

The soldiers held their spears and retreated around him, but they did not dare to stop him, for when this man was so strong that it was indeed self-defeating to stand in front of him.

Second, after all, this is the lord's own son, and they naturally dare not make a mistake.

Everyone could only watch Ma Chao walk in slowly.

"You dare to come back?" At this time, the curtain of the Chinese army's tent was opened, and Ma Teng pressed his sword in his hand and stood in front of the tent with an angry face.

Seeing his father, Ma Chao hurriedly dismounted, threw the spear in his hand, knelt in front of Ma Teng, and said sadly: "Father, why does my father also believe that his son will surrender?" ”

"You served under Liu Ping, and were named General Pingxi, Marquis of Guannei, this imperial edict has been issued to the world, do you still want to deny it?"

Saying that, Ma Teng threw a scroll in front of Ma Chao and said in a deep voice, "Look for yourself." ”

Ma Chao unfolded it, and it turned out that this was the edict of the Han family to prove that he had surrendered to Liu Ping, and Liu Ping guaranteed that he was rewarded by General Pingxi and the Marquis of Guannei.

"Damn, no wonder he let me back so quickly, it turned out that he had premeditated." Ma Chao clutched the edict tightly, trembling with anger.

With this edict, it is equivalent to proving to the world that he is already Liu Ping's subordinate.

After a while, he said to Ma Teng: "Father, my son was accidentally captured at that time, and the reason why he pretended to surrender was just an expedient measure.

My father's army is close to the left, how can my son surrender? ”

"Are you really pretending to surrender?" Ma Teng narrowed his eyes and looked at Ma Chao suspiciously.

Even if this is his son, when the captives face the butcher's knife, they choose to surrender between life and death, and it is difficult to say whether it is true or false.

"Even if you fake surrender, then Liu Ping trusts you so much and lets you come back with confidence, is Liu Ping so easy to deceive?"

Ma Chao was speechless, Liu Ping's generals and Liu Ping himself really trusted him.

"Since my father doesn't believe me, you can give me 5,000 men and horses, and when I lead the army to climb the city wall at night, take Tianshui City, and put Liu Ping's head in front of my father," Ma Chao gritted his teeth and said.

"How can 5,000 men and horses take Tianshui City? Don't you know how to soldier? Ma Teng sneered.

"In the past few days, I have been patrolling around Tianshui City, and I found that in the west of the city, the city wall is low, the defense is relatively weak, and the soldiers are under the city wall when they change shifts.

In other words, there will be a tea time when the child is in time, and there will be no soldiers on the city wall. ”

"Is that true?"

"It's true, this is the only chance, otherwise Tianshui City has abundant grain and grass reserves, and my father will not be able to force him to run out of food even if he besieges the city for half a year."

"Good! I'll give you another five thousand soldiers," Ma Teng pinched his beard and pondered for a moment, then said with a serious expression.

In order to test whether his son really surrendered to the enemy, it was worth taking out 5,000 soldiers, anyway, he still had 60,000 or 70,000 horses under his command now.

And if it is really as Ma Chao said, when the time comes, he can successfully take Tianshui and kill Liu Ping, and Ma Chao himself can also prove his innocence.

"My son must be careful, I wait for good news."

"Thank you father," in the middle of the night, Ma Chao led a group of soldiers to sneak to the west of the city, looking at the time of the day, all the black figures on the city disappeared, Ma Chao gave an order, and hundreds of people threw the ropes tied with flying claws to the city.

These are all extremely athletic people, and they soon climbed the city wall, learned a few insect calls, and signaled to Ma Chao that everything was going well.

Ma Chao said to the soldiers behind him: "They will open the city gate, and then raise the fire as a signal, and wait for me to rush over and kill ......."