"Through Pei Qing? How is this possible? The current Ma Teng and Pei Qing are in collusion, they belong to the alliance, Pei Qing is still the leader of the alliance, Mr. expects Pei Qing to avenge the Lord Communion, how is this possible? ”

The soldiers were full of suspicion, they were very dissatisfied with Cheng Gongying's words, and expressed their thoughts.

But seeing Cheng Gongying said: "The rank only knows one but doesn't know the other, although Ma Teng and Pei Gong are allies, but he only seeks his own interests in the name of participating in the alliance, for example, this time, he annexed the lord's Jincheng County, and at the same time assassinated the lord, this is absolutely impossible Pei Gong's meaning, so, through this incident, his ambition is also exposed, and in the future, Pei Gong will definitely not give up control of Jincheng County, and will definitely appoint a new Liangzhou assassin history, at that time, the contradictions between the two sides will be highlighted, So although Ma Teng seems to be prosperous now, it is just a fire cooking oil, just a moment of pride, and when he gets carried away in the future, the final result will naturally be self-evident, and at that time, isn't it an opportunity for me to take revenge? ”

After hearing this, the soldiers pondered for a moment, then put the knife back into the sheath, and then respectfully apologized to Cheng Gongying: "Cheng Gong, we were confused for a while, and we actually misunderstood Cheng Gong, which is really a sin, please forgive Cheng Gong." Cheng Gong is far-sighted and perceptive, we admire it, and we are willing to follow Cheng Gong to vote for Pei Gong. ”

"That being the case, then without further ado, let's hurry up and get on the road, not Cheng Mou's confidence, I believe that Ma Teng will definitely be reluctant to let us people go, and we will find it soon, if we go slowly, it is likely that we will not be able to walk."

After Cheng Gongying finished speaking, he led these twenty or thirty people to hurry up and rush to the direction of Guzang City overnight.

And the fact is just as Cheng Gongying expected, when Ma Teng saw that there was only one Zhang Heng among the generals of Han Sui who surrendered to him, he immediately secretly scolded Liang Xing for being stupid, because what Ma Teng wanted most was Cheng Gongying, he had been friends with Han Sui for many years, and naturally knew everything about the generals under Han Sui, knowing that the most courageous under Han Sui was Yan Xing, but the most resourceful was Cheng Gongying, but Ma Teng lacked strategists, so he naturally hoped to use Cheng Gongying's wisdom to make up for the shortcomings of his own army's lack of resourceful men. But this Liang Xing didn't recruit Cheng Gongying, which really disappointed him.

So Ma Teng scolded Liang Xing, pointing out that Cheng Gongying's burial of Han Sui was actually just an excuse, and his ultimate goal was not to serve himself, and then ordered Liang Xing to go back to find Cheng Gongying immediately, even if he was tied up, he had to tie it back.

Liang Xing didn't believe it at first, but when he found Han Sui's tomb, he found that Cheng Gongying and the others had been gone for a long time, so he believed Ma Teng's words, and then listlessly replied to Ma Teng.

When Liang Xing returned to Ma Teng, Cheng Gongying was already two or three hundred miles away from him, and he led more than 20 soldiers under his command to work non-stop, and finally arrived at the foot of Guzang City three days later.

"What? Are you Cheng Gongying, the general of Han Sui's account, and now you are here to join General Wei? After hearing Cheng Gongying's self-report, Duan Tong, the general of Wei Yan's department who was standing at the head of Guzang City, was suddenly full of doubts, because they were enemies a few days ago, and today they took the initiative to surrender, which is really unbelievable.

However, Duan Tong was afraid of missing such an opportunity to gather talents, so after some thought, he directly sent someone to report to Wei Yan and handed over this problem to Wei Yan.

As soon as Wei Yan heard this, he immediately judged that Cheng Gongying was sincerely taking refuge, because Han Sui was dead, Ma Teng occupied Jincheng, and Cheng Gongying really had nowhere to go.

So Wei Yan personally went out of the city to greet him, of course, this does not mean that Wei Yan is defenseless against Cheng Gongying, he wore inner armor and hid weapons when he greeted him, for fear that Cheng Gongying and his soldiers would take the opportunity to assassinate, but the final result was very peaceful, Cheng Gongying surrendered sincerely, and there was no misdemeanor.

Wei Yan welcomed Cheng Gongying into the camp, temporarily worshiped him as a military advisor, and reported Cheng Gongying's situation to Pei Qing, so as to show that he would not keep talents as staff members privately, and on the other hand, let Cheng Gongying get an official appointment from the imperial court.

Wei Yan did this in front of Cheng Gongying, and he even seemed to be upright and selfless.

Of course, Cheng Gongying also admired Wei Yan even more, and at the same time deeply admired Pei Qing, because Wei Yan was able to do this, which shows that Pei Qing knows people wisely, and it shows that Pei Qing's ministry will be loyal to him.

And at this moment, I saw that the soldiers came to report, saying that there was an edict from the Son of Heaven coming, and Wei Yan and Cheng Gongying naturally wanted to go to greet them.

In fact, the so-called edict of the Son of Heaven is very simple, because Pei Qing has privileges, and his recital does not need the approval of the Son of Heaven to take effect automatically, of course, in terms of form, Pei Qing asked the eldest princess to sign the edict in ink instead of the Son of Heaven, so the edict issued by Pei Qing was not signed by the Son of Heaven with a cinnabar pen at the signature place, but the eldest princess signed with a black ink pen, but this kind of edict can have the same effect as the edict of the Son of Heaven, of course, this effect is only valid within the scope of Pei Qing's jurisdiction.

In this peculiar edict, Wei Yan was worshiped as the new Liangzhou Assassin History, and his subordinate Duan Tong was worshiped as Wuwei Taishou, but Pei Qing specifically proposed here that Duan Tong was ordered to go to Chang'an to recount the merits of the whole army.

Cheng Gongying was also very happy when he saw that Wei Yan had a new appointment, but he knew that Wei Yan's current position was a bit unworthy of the name, because the four counties of Jincheng and Zhangye, Jiuquan and Dunhuang were not in Wei Yan's hands.

Of course, Cheng Gongying couldn't persuade Wei Yan to attack Jincheng at this time, so he could only use a roundabout strategy and took the initiative to propose to Wei Yan that he was willing to go to the three counties of Zhangye, Jiuquan and Wuwei, and persuade the governors and people of these three counties to surrender to Wei Yan.

After some thought, Wei Yan felt that Cheng Gongying should not have the courage to betray him, and on the other hand, Cheng Gongying's own prestige alone was not enough to call on the officials and people of the three counties to surrender to him.

Therefore, Wei Yan happily agreed to Cheng Gongying's suggestion, appointed Cheng Gongying as an envoy, prepared a lot of gold beads and jade for him, and sent the soldiers that Cheng Gongying originally brought to protect him.

Cheng Gongying suddenly had mixed feelings after hearing such an arrangement, he didn't expect Wei Yan to arrange himself so generously, and let himself go to Zhangye and other three counties with confidence, and suddenly felt a strong warmth in his heart.

"When we met for the first time, Duke Wei trusted me so much, and this kind of trust didn't even exist back then." Cheng Gongying's heart was full of emotion, if he didn't know that Wei Yan was loyal to Pei Qing, he would have been able to emerge an impulse to die for his confidant, and swear to die to break out Wei Yan's kindness.

But now, he can only secretly make up his mind, and when he arrives in the land of the three counties, he must instigate the tongue of the three inches to persuade the officials and people of the three counties to surrender, so that Wei Yan, the assassin of Liangzhou, will become more decent and his position will be more stable, and at the same time, he will also give Wei Yan a credit in order to repay Wei Yan's trust.