"I really didn't expect that this Cao Cao's ambition was really big enough, and he would want to annex Yuan Shao's entire force, occupy Hebei, and then resist our army stubbornly."

After learning that Cao Cao had begun an all-out attack on Yuan Shao, Zhang Ji said.

But saw Zhang Chao smile and said: "It's just a dying struggle, it's useless at all, but it's for people to marry, if it's us, maybe we're embarrassed to break the alliance with Yuan Shao, but now that Cao Cao occupies Hebei, just to create a reason for our troops, we take the opportunity to occupy Hebei, so that there is only a Jingbei part left in the land of Jiangbei, isn't it wonderful?" ”

Zhang Ji realized after hearing this, it turned out that everything was under his own calculations, although Cao Cao struggled, but the final result was already doomed, and his struggle was destined to be futile.

At this time, I saw Hu Zhao also open his mouth and smiled: "Cao Cao thinks that after seizing Hebei, he will have the capital to compete with us, but now that the state has been owned by us, as long as he gets out of Huguan, he can threaten Yecheng, even if Cao Cao occupies Hebei, he will still be threatened by us in the end, and he will just drag it out for a while." ”

Pei Qing smiled and said nothing, Zhang Chao and Hu Zhao's thoughts were exactly his thoughts, Cao Cao's strength seemed to be very strong, but due to the lack of talents under his command and the fact that he did not occupy the geographical advantage, and his base often encountered wars, there was no territory that could provide long-term peace and continuous supplies, and the gap with himself was getting bigger and bigger, which fundamentally doomed him to ultimate defeat, but now Pei Qing needed to use Cao Cao to help him seize the territory of the heroes occupied by Cao Cao, so he did not launch an all-out attack, Otherwise, once Pei Qing's powerful talents and troops were concentrated, Cao Cao would definitely fall into despair.

In fact, with the current situation, it is not that Pei Qing and the strategists under his command will definitely surpass Guo Jia, Xun Yu and others under Cao Cao, but the current situation is like this, Guo Jia and they obviously know that they are really being used by Pei Qing, but they can only find a way to plan a way for themselves as much as possible, as long as there is a little opportunity, he will not let go, so he will go all out to plan for Cao Cao, in order to maintain his mental state, he would rather often take Wushi powder to boost his spirits, Then, after extreme fatigue, drink alcohol to relieve fatigue.

In order to further reduce the pressure on his own side and prevent Pei Qing from stabbing him in the back, Guo Jia finally came up with a plan after some careful consideration, that is, to incite Ma Chao to rebel in order to attract Pei Qing's attention.

Cao Cao immediately agreed after hearing this strategy, and he immediately manipulated the imperial court to pass an edict, worshiping Ma Chao as the general of the expedition to the west, Yongzhou Mu, Fake Festival, and Fenghuai Lihou, and the entire right Fufeng was all assigned to the Yongzhou Thorn History Department, this meaning is obvious, that is, to ask Ma Chao to attack the right Fufeng and create trouble for Pei Qing.

Ma Chao took the Dawan BMW after leaving Chencang, only half a day's work came to Hanyang County, that is, Tianshui County, Ma Chao with the appointment of the imperial court and Ma Teng's eldest son, immediately got the unanimous approval of the local officers and soldiers, he quickly gathered the soldiers, rectified the soldiers, and continued to advance towards Longxi County, along the way the counties all hope to surrender, but more than ten days have gathered most of Ma Teng's people, occupy Tianshui and Longxi two counties, at this time Jincheng County has someone secretly organized a rebellion, Ma Chao also did not have the patience to find out who was organizing the rebellion, and directly led the army to personally conquest, and it took less than half a month to completely conquer Jincheng and kill all those involved in the rebellion, at the same time Ma Chao personally raised troops to the Qiang tribe and coerced the Qiang people to hand over Han Sui, the mastermind behind the assassination of his father, and then personally killed Han Sui and his whole family, leaving no one, and finally thwarted Han Sui's conspiracy, and also thwarted the Qiang people's conspiracy to interfere in the Central Plains, and re-established the dominance of the Han people in Yongzhou.

Subsequently, Ma Chao announced that he was appointed as the assassin of Yongzhou, and commanded all the soldiers and horses in Yongzhou, and ordered the army to be trained, the number of soldiers expanded, and the grain and grass were allocated.

Not long after, when Ma Chao's army was almost deployed, he suddenly heard another angel edict outside the door, Ma Chao's heart was suddenly shocked, could it be that the news of his large-scale military expansion was known by the imperial court, and he wanted to ask himself for his guilt?

However, Ma Chao couldn't turn him away, so he had to order the messenger of the Son of Heaven to be welcomed in, and decided to take one step at a time.

What I didn't expect was that the person who came turned out to be Zhong Xuan, Ma Chao knew that this person belonged to Cao Cao's people, and after seeing Zhong Xuan, he suddenly understood a little in his heart, it seems that this angel is not conveying Pei Qing's intentions, but Cao Cao's meaning, Cao Cao and Pei Qing have been secretly competing, this time did he bring news that is beneficial to himself?

Facts have proved that Ma Chao's conjecture is correct, after a little greeting, Zhong Miao announced the edict of the Son of Heaven, appointing Ma Chao as the pastor of Yongzhou, the general of the expedition to the west, the marquis of Huaili, and the right Fufeng into Yongzhou, and also asked Ma Chao to work hard, keep his own land, etc., although it was not clearly said that Ma Chao would attack Pei Qing, but it had an obvious sense of provocation.

Ma Chao was overjoyed when he heard the news, and patted his chest to Zhong Xuan and assured him that he would definitely live up to the high expectations of the imperial court.

What surprised Ma Chao even more was that Zhong Miao was appointed to join the army and be responsible for assisting Ma Chao, of course, there was also a side of supervision and constraint.

Ma Chao didn't care about this at all, how could a literati really restrain himself? However, he is lacking a resourceful military advisor, and now with Zhong Xuan's help, he is naturally even more invincible.

Originally, Ma Chao had the ambition to capture Pei Qing's territory, and now that he has the edict of the imperial court, he is naturally more fearless, but Ma Chao is not stupid, he knows that he wants to attack Youfufeng with only his little strength, which is simply looking for death, but if he takes advantage of Pei Qing's unpreparedness to occupy Chencang by surprise first, and then on the one hand send people to defend Chencang, on the other hand, he will unite with the Qiang people to occupy Wuwei and cut off the connection between the three counties west of Pei Qinghe and Guanzhong, so that he may be able to win by surprise like Pei Qing did when he captured Liangzhou. In one fell swoop, he also occupied the entire four towns of Hexi.

You must know that the Silk Road has been opened now, and the four towns of Hexi are not only military strategic places, but also the necessary places for Sino-Western transportation. You only need to set up a card to levy taxes, that is, a good income, you use this income to feed the army, and continue to grow yourself, if the Central Plains has nothing to do, then annex the Western Regions, if the Central Plains has something to do, then wave your troops to the east, occupy Guanzhong, and even win the Central Plains.

"Hehe, I didn't take me as a hostage in Chang'an for nothing, I also learned some skills and read some books, such as this strategy, which is modeled after the example of Qin Mugong's monopoly on Xirong and Pei Qing's capture of Liangzhou, and now I will return the favor to the other in his own way, I believe that if Pei Qing knows, the expression on his face will be very exciting." Ma Chao thought of the smugness, and couldn't help but have a faint smile on his face, and he was in the mood to secretly laugh at Pei Qing.