On the morning of early winter, wisps of cold wind were blowing, and the surface of the Han River was already a little frozen. Facing the biting north wind, Ma Chao set off from Hanzhong City, passed through Yangping Pass, and finally arrived at Tianshui City in the evening after nearly a day of traveling. Seeing that it was the return of the son Ma Chao, the city guards saluted and let him go. Ma Chao came to the Tianshui County Shoufu smoothly.

"Greetings to Father, Child!"

"Why does Meng Qi have time to come to me, I'm tired, hurry up and take a seat! I'll ask the attendants to prepare the feast, and we'll have two drinks in the evening!" Ma Teng saw Ma Chao's face and knew that Ma Chao was tired from the journey, so he said.

"This time I came from Hanzhong City, I have something important to report to my father!"

"Meng Qi, but it doesn't hurt to talk about it, you have grown up, you don't need to report to me in the future, you can decide for yourself!"

"Thanks to my father's trust, the child recently collected intelligence and found that Chang'an City will be in chaos soon, and the child wants to build a new army in case of emergency; When the time is ripe, you can also gather the power of the entire Xiliang to attack Chang'an! ”

"Build a new army, as a father, I can fully support you, but is it too risky to attack Chang'an, after all, there is Dong Zhuo's lesson in the front, and Li Dao's rebellion in the back, and the Beijing division Chang'an is like a deep cement pool, which cannot be easily touched!"

"Father, please rest assured, these children all know that Dong Zhuo failed because of his tyrannical personality, cruelty and unreasonableness, and he braved the world's disapproval to abolish the Son of Heaven, which caused the princes of the world to rise up and crusade. The reason for Li Dao's rebellion is that Li Dao's own qualifications, background, and talents are not enough to convince the public, and it will naturally cause civil strife after a long time! We are very different from them, our army is united, has strong cohesion and combat effectiveness, and my father is wise and martial, and his subordinates are like clouds, which Dong Zhuo and Li Dao can be compared! As a traverser, Ma Chao knows that necessary compliments are necessary, and the ancients loved this. In addition, Ma Teng was killed by Cao Cao in history, and Ma Chao also has a lot to do with it, this time it was not easy to cross, so naturally I have to have a good relationship with Ma Teng, be filial to him, and no longer let Ma Teng take risks, give Cao Cao a chance, and make up for Ma Chao's mistakes in history.

Sure enough, Ma Teng laughed when he heard this, and said: "Don't give me a top hat, you kid is already old, and it will be your young man's world in the future!" Tell me, what do you think? For the Father, you are! ”

"The child wants to build a new army, and there is a shortage of 5,000 men! I hope my father will support me."

"Missing 5000 so much? So how many people are you going to build? ”

"The boy wants to form a cavalry of 10,000 men, with Pound as the commander. Pound has made a lot of contributions this year, and it is time to become a general! ”

"And how many men do you have now?"

When Ma Chao heard this, he said shyly: "Not yet, don't you come to report to your father as soon as you have an idea?" My father is far-sighted and ambitious, and he will definitely support me, right? ”

"I really can't do anything with you kid, I don't have anyone, I have to form a new army of 10,000, even if I give you 5,000 people, there is still 5,000 left!"

"Don't worry about this father, the mountain people have their own clever plans!" Ma Chao plans to find a way to select 5,000 cavalry in Hanzhong!

"Well, for the sake of the Father, your wish has been granted! However, you can give you 5,000 cavalry, but you must be cautious when attacking Chang'an, and you must discuss it with me and your Uncle Han Sui in advance! You kid just dare to attack Chang'an with 10,000 or 20,000 horses, if you are given 40,000 or 50,000 horses, are you going to go to Hebei to fight Yuan Shao? ”

"Don't say it, attacking Yuan Shao in Hebei is really in the child's plan, but it will take a few years, and it will not be able to be defeated!"

"You should be proud, be careful of falling a big heel, and it will be too late to regret it! In this way, I will transfer Cheng Yi to your account again, Cheng Yi is good at cultivating good horses, but he is a proud disciple of his father, with his help, the war horses in Hanzhong can also be improved to a higher level! ”

"Thank you father, the child will definitely come up with a good result to repay his father's trust! There are still many things to deal with in Hanzhong, so the boy will retire first! ”

Ma Chao still rode alone, and it would take a little time for Cheng Yi and them to arrange the handover of Tianshui, and Ma Chao had to go back to Hanzhong to prepare first.

Where will the remaining 5,000 come from? It is possible to recruit a part of Hanzhong City, but the training of cavalry can not be completed in a day or two, and the basic production of Hanzhong is infantry, and there is no basis for the production of cavalry in Xiliang. The big head had to come from the captives of Zhang Lujun in Hanzhong.

At that time, after Yang Ren and Yang Ang were defeated, Ma Chao gained nearly 10,000 prisoners. There are 5,000 cavalry in it, but 2,000 of them with weak will have been successfully recruited, and the excellent ones have been added to the Eastern Army.

The remaining 3,000 cavalrymen are die-hard elements, belonging to the most loyal and stubborn Heavenly Master Sect, and they can be regarded as the core team of Zhang Lujun. Due to the proximity of Hanzhong City to Xiliang and the surplus of money and food in Hanzhong City, 8,000 cavalry have also accumulated over the years, led by Yang Ren and Yang Ang brothers. It's a pity that Hanzhong City lost to Ma Chao in a big battle. Of course, Ma Chao was reluctant to kill the cavalry, and out of a total of 8,000 cavalry, 5,000 were captured.

As long as Ma Chao got the 3,000 cavalry, more than half of the 5,000 people were solved, so Ma Chao came to the prisoner camp.

These 3,000 cavalry refused to surrender, and there must have been a leader in it; As long as you find out this leading brother, things will be much easier!

Zhang Lu has only a few civil and military generals, among which Yan Pu is the most outstanding and has been subdued by Ma Chao; Yang Ren and Yang Ang, as the leading generals, were ambushed at that time, and Zhang Wei is now the leader of Zhang Lujun, but unfortunately fled to the Sword Pavilion; The rest are the brothers Yang Song and Yang Bai, who did not see the two of them when Yan Pu led the soldiers of Hanzhong to open the city and surrender, and it is estimated that they were mixed in the captives.

Ma Chao came to the prisoner camp and saw that in addition to 3,000 cavalry, there were more than 1,000 infantry who were also locked up here.

Yang Song's stats in Three Kingdoms 11 are 28 in intelligence, 35 in politics, 2 in command, 5 in force, and 5 in charisma. In Ma Chao's impression, Yang Song in history was a notoriously despicable villain, greedy for money and a traitor for glory; It was Yang Song who caused Pang De and Zhang Lu to surrender to Cao Cao.

I saw two people clustered among the captives, like a core, one was slightly fat, white and tender, and had no power to restrain the chicken, although he was wearing soldier clothes, he didn't look like a soldier who had been fighting for many years; The other looked noticeably more majestic than the soldiers around him. Ma Chao immediately understood that these two must be two brothers, Yang Song and Yang Bai! The two of them are both literal and martial, no wonder they were able to suppress this group of prisoners.

If it were someone else, Ma Chao might not have a way, this Yang Song, Ma Chao still understands, greedy for money and lustful, pit people to death and not pay for their lives, in history, not only Pang De, Zhang Lu, but even Ma Chao has been pitted.