Because of the relationship between the two of them in an offensive and defensive alliance, Cherrigi's words and deeds became more and more earnest.

Seeing this, Xiahou Ba also relaxed his heart a little towards him.

He suddenly thought of the words spoken by the two Qiang jailers last night, so he found a gap and asked:

"Ma Chao has always relied on the Qiang people, although you were defeated by him, but if you bow down to him, he may not be incompatible, why do you want to do dangerous things?"

Cherrigi was stunned for a moment, and then said hatefully:

"Ma Chao's husband only thinks about occupying the old land of Qiang and Di, and vainly tries to use the lives of the Qiang people and Di people to compete with Wei and Shu for the world. The villain's entire family has been killed by him, where is he willing to die for him again? ”

Xiahou Ba muttered: "Compete with Wei and Shu for the world...... Are you saying that Ma Chao has the heart of self-reliance? ”

Cherrigi said calmly: "Yes." It is said that when Liu Bei proclaimed himself king of Hanzhong last year, Wei Yan, who was crowned with an official position under him, served as the Taishou of Hanzhong, and Ma Chao was resentful, which was no secret in Hanzhong and Wudu. Even a three-year-old knows his mind! ”

Xiahou Ba groaned: "Ma Chao is uninhibited, and it is possible to be arrogant to his colleagues, but when it comes to self-reliance, I'm afraid it's not enough." ”

Cherry Ji explained: "The general doesn't know anything, there are rumors in Hanzhong that Ma Chao is self-reliant, and Liu Bei naturally can't let him lead the troops out of the customs." Therefore, this time the Shu people sent troops to occupy Wudu and Yinping, and the leading general was a kid named Jiang Wei, and Ma Chao was only the nominal chief general and had no combat mission. ”

Xiahou Ba slowly bowed his head when he heard this, and said in his heart, Ma is super strong and unrighteous, brave but not benevolent, he can't think of righteousness, and he must not be relied on for lips and teeth, Liu Bei is wary of him, but it is also expected.

Cheriji continued: "At that time, the Qiang coalition army was fighting with Jiang Wei for Luoyang City, but Ma Chao suddenly violated Liu Bei's ban and sent troops to take a long detour to capture the city! If it weren't for this, our coalition army of nearly 10,000 men and horses would not have been defeated by Jiang Wei's 2,000 men, and the villain would not have been imprisoned here! It can be seen that Ma Chao at this time has openly contradicted Liu Bei! ”

Xiahou Ba knew that Jiang Wei was the young general who defeated him a few days ago, and secretly thought that with his ability, being the main general of the road would not be buried, but he still didn't believe that Ma Chao's move meant rebellion, so he pondered for a while, and then asked:

"That day in Yinping, I saw Jiang Wei appear in Ma Chao's army with my own eyes, if he represents Shu State, how can he serve Ma Chao?"

Cherrigi only thought that he did not believe in himself, and said hurriedly:

Jiang Wei was also bold, seeing Ma Chao's blatant disobedience, he entered Ma Chao's camp alone, claiming that he was carrying Liu Bei's edict and wanted to take the post of town supervisor. Ma Chaoxu knew that there was Governor Cao Dadu watching, and now was definitely not the time to tear his face with Liu Bei, so he acquiesced to him entering the army and walking. At present, although the two seem to be one, they are actually in the same situation, and they each woo the Qiang people to join their own camp. ”

Xiahou Ba thought for a while, and finally shook his head and said:

"Ma Chao has endured several defeats, and he has long been like a lost dog with nothing, what is his original intention of rebelling against Liu Bei at this time? What are the benefits of being self-reliant? I still don't understand. ”

Cherrigi scratched his head and said: "It's all right, a few months ago, Liu Bei gave Ma Chao's son an official called Shilaozi Taishe, I heard that he is still a big official, but I don't know why, Ma Chao is a little unhappy." I don't know if his sudden rebellion has anything to do with it. ”

Xiahou Ba's heart flickered, and he hurriedly asked, "But the prince is a person?" ”

"The general is wise, it seems to be the name!"

"I see!" Xiahou Ba let out a long breath, and his heart suddenly became clear.

Liu Bei named his son as the crown prince, obviously because he was not at ease with him and wanted to take his son as a hostage.

But over the years, Ma Chao's relatives have been killed and wounded, and the eldest son and concubine have died in Yicheng and Hanzhong.

When he was young, Ma Chao crisscrossed the west and cool, there was no right in the world, and if he didn't agree with each other, he would draw a knife and look at his behavior, although he was reckless, but how happy was he to enmity and hatred?

After that, after a great difficulty, the edges and corners were finally smoothed, and finally became submissive, but there was no fault.

Therefore, the current Ma Chao can tolerate Wei Yan's power being greater than him, and he can obey Liu Bei's orders and not come out.

But since ancient times, the country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change.

While Ma Chao silently accepts the status quo, he may not be dissatisfied, or he may not be resentful!

Finally, the straw that crushed his psychological defenses and prompted him to make an extreme choice appeared—an order that he would never allow this to be sent hostage!

A lion is always a lion, even if the hero is in the twilight, he also has the bottom line and fangs of the king of beasts.

So, he took the opportunity of the Shu soldiers to go out of the military capital to escape the cage in one fell swoop, and since then the dragon has entered the sea and the tiger has entered the mountains.

Xiahou Ba secretly thought, a disobedient Ma Chao is certainly the great enemy of Wei, but for Shu, why is it not like a man?

As long as it is used well, it may not be impossible to use Ma Chao's momentum to firmly restrain Liu Bei's progress in the direction of Liangzhou.

When he thought of this, he was really overjoyed, and he secretly made up his mind that once he escaped from here, he would definitely report all the great changes in this place to the Metropolitan Governor!

******

For the next two days, during the day, Xiahouba and Cheriji pretended not to know each other, and lay down on the grass to sleep boredly; At night, one person will look at the wind, and the other will hurry to dig the tunnel.

Time flies, and in the middle of the night on the third day, Cherrigi hurriedly poked his head out and shouted in a low voice: "General! It's done! ”

He quickly ran to the bars of the two cells, and with the strength of his arms, he broke the two logs into a bow.

Xiahou Ba took the opportunity to get out of it, and sighed secretly in his heart: "This guy has a lot of strength!" ”

The two of them tiptoed and were about to hide in the hole.

At this moment, the jailer, who had been lying on the table, suddenly stretched out and yawned, then got up and walked to a corner, and Zizi began to pee.

Xiahou Ba was prostrate on the grass, his heart was beating wildly, and he said in his heart, if the jailer looked back and saw that his cell was empty, it would be a failure!

At last the jailer was so lazy that he only had the table in his eyes, and he didn't want to look any more at the other place.

After a while, the snoring resumed.

Xiahou Ba was sweating profusely, let out a long sigh of relief, and then crawled through the tunnels one after the other under the leadership of Cherrigi.

The tunnel was about a few feet long, but in a few moments, the two of them had climbed to the other end.

In the eyes and ears, I saw the moonlight faint and faint, and the cicadas weeping.

A row of stakes were driven at their sides, and a few tethered horses were munching hay while they were curiously looking at the two uninvited guests "coming out of the ground".