On May 21 of the first year of Jian'an, Cao Ren, a former general of Wei, arrived in Ji County with 30,000 troops, joined Han Sui, and cordially met with Han Sui, who was looking forward to him.

"When the general is in the future, the soldiers of our army hope that the general is like a long drought and looking forward to the rain, and when the general comes, I can all live."

After speaking, Han Sui kept wiping his tears, just like the real thing.

In fact, it's true, if Cao Ren doesn't come, Han Sui will kill the Ma family's father and son sooner or later, and now that he feels that he has a way to live, isn't it normal to shed a few tears of excitement?

However, Han Sui's luck is really not very good.

Because in addition to Ma Teng's father and son, Guo actually wanted to put him to death.

It's just that Guo is different from Ma Teng, Guo is more ferocious and greedy, and feels that they are all garbage, so they have to sweep into the garbage heap of history together.

After Cao Ren arrived in Ji County, he immediately held a military meeting with Han Sui, and the two sides discussed the issue of going on the expedition.

In the end, it was decided to use Cao Ren as the commander, and Han Sui also had to listen to Cao Ren's orders, and did his best to provide food and straw for the army.

For Cao Ren's request, Han Sui did not disagree, and decided to do everything he could to satisfy Cao Ren.

In his opinion, as long as Cao Ren is happy and the credit is in hand, then the position of the Liangzhou Thorn History will be his own in the future, as long as he sits firmly in the position of the Liangzhou Thorn History, won't he still be able to get any benefits at that time?

What you have lost, you have to take it back from the hands of the Ma family father and son, and then enjoy it seriously!

Han Suike didn't think he would lose money at all.

But Ma Teng was dumbfounded.

Knowing that Han Sui let go of Longdi and let Cao Ren lead his troops into Liangzhou to help in the war, and then killed a son Ma Tie, the army was defeated, and Han Sui survived, Ma Teng directly rolled his eyes and fainted, so that Ma Chao was in a hurry to wake up Ma Teng.

But it was useless for Ma Teng to wake up, the ending was already doomed.

The Wei army crossed the Longdi defense line into Liangzhou, and attacked with Han Sui, and the situation was reversed, and Ma Teng was in danger.

It just so happened that at this time, Cao Ren sent a war letter, saying that he was going to crusade against Ma Teng, a disloyal and unrighteous rebellious thief, for Guo Peng, and wrote Han Sui's accusation of slandering him, and Ma Teng was stunned for a moment.

Then, Ma Teng was furious.

"Cao Zixiao, a fool, does he just listen to Han Sui's words? It's all fabricated! It's all fabricated! How could I insult Guo Zifeng in public? How can it be? Han Sui is also a fool! Doesn't this idiot know the consequences of putting Cao Zixiao in? Now people are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, it's over! Finished! ”

Ma Teng suddenly collapsed on the bed.

Seeing Ma Teng like this, Ma Chao picked up Cao Ren's battle book and looked at it, and immediately gritted his teeth in anger.

"Han Sui, this traitor, actually slandered his father! When did my father say that Guo Zifeng was Dong Zhuo's second? Something that simply doesn't exist! Father obviously just said that Guo Zifeng is a villain who is greedy for power! This bastard! ”

Ma Teng looked at Ma Chao inexplicably.

Ma Chao blinked.

Shaking his head and sighing, Ma Teng gave up some ideas and began to angrily accuse Han Sui and Cao Ren of being stupid, and then shook his head and sighed deeply.

"Cao Zixiao is a fool, he has been deceived by Han Sui, he only thinks about killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions, he doesn't care about Guo Zifeng's order at all, now Guo Zifeng is far away in Yecheng, even if we send someone to defend now, at least three months back and forth, three months, can we hold on? Can you hold out until Guo Zifeng's order arrives? ”

Ma Teng, who was in Longxi County, looked at the map and felt that the situation was very dangerous.

"Then send someone to Cao Zixiao to explain the matter, and send someone to find Guo Zifeng, all in all, we can't sit still, we can't let Han Sui's villain get his will!"

Ma Chao said.

"Let's do it first."

Ma Teng nodded, gave an order, and then sent an order to the side of the big and small warlords in Liangzhou, asking them to immediately lead their troops to Longxi County, and prepare to gather the forces of the Liangzhou warlords to fight against Cao Ren and Han Sui.

None of them thought that this was Guo Peng's order, they thought that Han Sui had deceived Cao Ren and sent troops to assist, so as long as they insisted on resisting and then pleaded with Cao Ren, Cao Ren would inevitably retreat.

At the beginning of June, Cao Ren sent people to find out the deployment of Ma Teng's headquarters in Longxi County, and was about to lead his troops to attack, but received a letter from Ma Teng.

"Ma Teng said to me, I sent troops indiscriminately, against the will of the Duke of Wei, wantonly attacked the Liangzhou assassin appointed by the imperial court, contrary to the way of righteousness, if you don't want to get into trouble, you should immediately collect troops and leave Liangzhou, this is the best policy."

Cao Ren showed Ma Teng's letter to his generals, and the Wei generals read it one after another, and then laughed in unison, and Han Sui and Yan Xing laughed a little embarrassed.

Because Ma Teng said that they were slandering themselves, everything was nothing, and they could only force themselves to laugh to hide their weakness.

As a result, the two didn't expect that Cao Ren didn't seem to care about this, but focused on other concerns.

"I'm wantonly attacking officials appointed by the imperial court? Han Beijia is not an official appointed by the imperial court? Ma Teng can attack Han Beijia, but I can't? What is the rationale for this? ”

Cao Ren's face was full of mocking expressions, and he said with a smile: "In my opinion, Ma Shoucheng is an old fool, and he can't tell the difference between right and wrong, can such a person continue to be the history of Liangzhou Thorn?" I thought it wouldn't work, so this battle had to be fought, fought, and it had to be won! ”

"Victory!"

The generals shouted in unison.

Han Sui and Yan Xing were overjoyed and breathed a long sigh of relief.

So Cao Ren immediately began to arrange tasks, preparing for the march, and after the grain and grass were in place, he took Xiahou Yuan as the vanguard, let him set off first to open the way for the army, and then decisively ordered the whole army to march.

The 35,000-strong crusading army, consisting of 30,000 Wei troops and 5,000 Han Sui's Liangzhou soldiers, set out from Ji County and advanced to Xiangwu County, intending to wipe out Ma Teng's defenders in Xiangwu County in one fell swoop.

In order to resist Cao Ren's attack, Ma Teng arranged for Ma Chao and Pang De to garrison 20,000 troops in Xiangwu County to resist, and then prepared an army near Di Dao himself.

Ma Teng won all the warlords he could win, promised heavy profits, and took advantage of the prestige of the Ma family among the Qiang people to mobilize many Qiang people and get 5,000 Qiang soldiers.

So Ma Teng prepared another 20,000 rear troops and prepared to lead himself to resist Cao Ren.

Cao Ren's side was not ambiguous at all, leading the army to attack Xiangwu County, with Guan Yu commanding the troops in front, changing his previous caution, thinking of marching quickly, and planning to end this war in the shortest possible time.

This war is not meant to drag on for too long.

Guo Peng told him that the Liangzhou soldiers are good at tactics and short of strategy, and they do not have a long-term vision, so they are not strategic enemies, so they don't need to be too careful, and they can boldly march into the army.

So Cao Ren asked Guan Yu, who was more courageous, to command the front army and sit in charge of the Chinese army himself.

Guan Yu's combat effectiveness has always been very strong, which is recognized.

Among the generals under Guo Peng, Guan Yu's ability to command troops to fight has always been in the top five.

In Guo Peng's heart, Guan Yu's ranking level is higher than Zhang Fei's, and it is also more reliable than Zhang Fei.

But because of Guan Yu's personality problems, it was difficult for him to get along with his colleagues normally, so Guo Peng never let Guan Yu out, and only stayed by his side to command the troops.

After taking Guanzhong, it was also because the head of Guanzhong was Cao Ren, Cao Ren was Guan Yu's old superior, and he was also one of the few people who could convince Guan Yu, so Guo Peng put Guan Yu in Guanzhong with confidence.

Now is the time to let Guan Yu, who is good at attacking, strengthen Cao Ren.

Cao Ren was too cautious in his use of soldiers, good at defense, and slightly deficient in attack, so Guo Peng arranged Guan Yu, who was good at attacking and daring to attack, to be his subordinate, and the cooperation between the two was just right.