Ma Chao nodded and replied, "Yes, father, and I'm afraid that the responsibility for Pang Rou's defection is mainly on me." ”

In front of Ma Teng, Ma Chao did not hide anything, and truthfully told his father what happened.

"Okay, now that my father knows, it's good to be able to get back the two counties." After listening, Ma Teng understood.

Speaking of which, there are two very key reasons for this situation.

First, Ma Teng despised Jin Jue and despised the other party's determination and ruthlessness.

This means should not be something that a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child can come up with and do. However, Ma Teng knew better that among the scholars in Jin Jue now, whether it was Wei Duan or the Fifth Patrol, he could come up with it. Judging from Jin Jue's past actions, it is really possible that the lame kid deliberately burned it to himself.

Second, regret that you shouldn't have listened to Yang Fu's plan, regret that you shouldn't have let Pang De go to Hongnong County, and let your son Ma Tie lead the army.

The Yellow Turban thieves have always been ruthless, although they did not confuse the Guanzhong region and Liangzhou, but Ma Teng, who has been in the army for a long time, has heard about this, and this time, he rashly let Ma Tie lead the army to attack Longxian, from the starting point, it is his own fault.

Waving his hand, Ma Teng commanded: "Chao'er, Tie'er, this matter is over, you hurry back to your respective jurisdictions, especially Chao'er, while trying to find a way to appease Pound, you must be prepared to meet Pound." Cao Cao was capricious and a man without faith. Maybe at any time, he will point the finger at you, my father and son. At that time, Chao'er you and Pound became his first targets. ”

"Father rest assured, when his son returns to Jingzhao County, he will definitely get these two things done." When Ma Chao and Ma Tie heard this, they both breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and Ma Chao replied with his fists clenched.

"Tie'er, you led the troops for the first time to have this defeat, in fact, it is not terrible, the terrible thing is that you can't learn a lesson from this defeat, you must take care of your subordinates when you lead troops to fight in the future, be cautious, you know?" Ma Teng looked at Ma Tie, who was covered in cold sweat, and admonished with a pleasant face.

When Ma Teng cared for and taught his son, his brain was quite bright.

"No!" Although Ma Teng had made it clear that he would not blame him for the defeat, Ma Tie still didn't dare to say more.

The news that Ma Teng had sent his two sons to recapture the two counties of Hanyang County soon spread throughout Sanfu and Liangzhou.

Those who don't know the details think how powerful Ma Teng's two sons are, especially Ma Chao, who defeated Jin Jue without much effort. However, anyone who knew the details saw from this battle the current situation of Ma Teng's strong and middle-class cadres.

Don't look at Ma Tengjun's current occupation of the five counties, which is on par with Han Sui, and originally, the four counties of Guanzhong and Hanyang are far better than the four counties of Hexi and Jincheng under the control of Han Sui in terms of economy, population and military resources. However, after the rebellion of Dong Zhuo, Li Yu and Guo Yan, as well as the first year of Xingping and this year's Han Dynasty, the current 800-mile Qinchuan has been weakened to the extreme, and even the dense population has fled to Jingzhou and Yizhou because of famine and war.

If Jin Jue can really capture Hanzhong County within a year or two, the future of Ma Tengjun's army is really worrying. Therefore, the forces that now occupy the entire Sili Lieutenant, Bingzhou and Liangzhou have all focused their attention on this confrontation between Jin Juejun and Zhang Lujun.

Let's talk about Hanzhong.

In the end, Zhang Lu listened to Yan Pu's strategy, and surprisingly did not send the belligerent Zhang Wei to lead troops to reinforce Yangping Pass, but sent Yang Song to lead only 10,000 soldiers to be responsible for reinforcements.

Yang Song is just a civilian official, and the reason why Zhang Lu sent him was because he had a blood feud with Jin Juejun - Cheng Lian stabbed his brother Yang Bai to death with a halberd on the battlefield.

And Zhang Lu's other two generals surnamed Yang, the eldest brother Yang Ren was released back by Jin Jue with all beards and tails, which aroused Zhang Lu's suspicion and is still locked in prison, and his younger brother Yang Ang was immediately relieved of all his positions in the army since Yang Ren returned, and he was left idle. After that, none of Zhang Lu's subordinates dared to take care of these two brothers, let alone come forward to intercede for Yang Ang.

Such an encounter made Yang Ren, who was originally loyal to Zhang Lu, feel cold.

Unexpectedly, before Yang Ren was let go, everything Jin Jue said to him came true.

Although this is the other party's plan to make a discord, however, this is Chi Guoguo's conspiracy, Yang Ren himself has no argument, and Zhang Lu will not believe him. At this time, Yang Ren secretly hated himself in his heart, he knew that it would be like this, he might as well surrender directly to Jin Jue.

This night, when Yang Ren was distressed in prison, he heard someone suddenly shout in a low voice, "Big brother, you're okay these days!" ”

"Who?" Yang Ren woke up suddenly, and looked at the source of the voice just now, with the help of the moonlight looming in the prison, his eyes widened only to realize that the person outside the door of the prison where he was being held was his younger brother Yang Ang.

"It's me, eldest brother, your second brother!"

"Foolish, how dare you come in at this time? If you are also trapped, what will happen to your family? Yang Ren didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly lowered his voice and scolded.

"Hehehe, big brother, I don't want to risk it either! However, just today, someone suddenly came to the door. He claimed to be the subordinate of that kid in Luoyang County, and his purpose was to persuade our brother to surrender? Isn't the little brother always undecided? I spent some money to buy off the cell boss, and I want to ask your opinion here? Ma Ang laughed three times and truthfully informed the eldest brother of the purpose of his trip.

"Oh!" After Yang Ren listened, he was silent for a while and asked, "Have the two sides already fought, can you tell me the situation specifically." Also, if the other party wants to persuade us, what specific conditions are given? ”

"This ......, big brother, it is reported that the other party sent 70,000 people to Yangping Pass, but, I don't know why, the other party actually went there together, and actually did not immediately tackle the problem, but built a camp outside the pass, I really don't know what the other party is going to do? I also know very well that now that you and my brother have fallen into this field, they must not be able to follow Zhang Lu's side anymore?

It's just that if the other party's offer is good, I won't risk coming to see you. The messenger sent by the other party only said that if you are willing to surrender to that son, at most you and my brother will be spared one life. And after he pacifies Hanzhong County, at most we will give our brother a Sima Gangan from another department. Big brother, you say, is the other party sincere in doing this? ”