Ma Teng and Ma Dai died, and more than 100 guards led by Ma Teng were all killed by Han Sui, the purpose was to temporarily hide the news of Ma Teng's death, take advantage of Ma Chao's unpreparedness, raid Ma Chao's base camp, and take Liangzhou in one fell swoop.

It's a pity that Han Sui is also a hundred secrets, he laid a lot of fine works in Ma Teng, and similarly, Ma Teng also laid some fine works in his place, that night, there was a Ma Teng's fine work left overnight and went straight to Ma Teng's base camp Wuwei County.

When Ma Chao got the news, he was naturally shocked, and immediately cried to the ground, and was hurriedly rescued by a group of subordinates.

After Ma Chao woke up, he immediately pulled out the long sword at his waist, cut off a corner of the case with a sword, and shouted angrily: "If you don't kill Han Sui Lao'er, my Ma Chao will be a son of man in vain." ”

At this moment, Ma Tie and Ma Xiu, who heard the news, also ran in crying, knelt in front of Ma Chao, and cried and said: "Big brother, I must avenge my father and kill Han Sui's old son." ”

Ma Chao helped the two younger brothers up and persuaded: "Second brother, third brother, don't worry, for my brother, I will do my best, attack Jiuquan, and avenge my father." ”

Ma Tie immediately said: "Big brother, little brother is willing to be a pioneer." ”

Ma Chaoda said happily: "Okay, the third brother is brave and brave, and he can be a pioneer." ”

Immediately, Ma Chao said to Ma Xiu again: "Second brother, this expedition to Han Sui will definitely be a protracted and vicious battle, military food is the weight of our army, for my brother to order you to be responsible for escorting military food and ensuring the logistics supply of our army." Although there is no need to go into battle to kill the enemy, but we also have to guard against Han Sui Lao'er robbing our army's food road, and the second brother must be cautious. ”

Ma Xiu immediately hugged his fists and said: "Don't worry, eldest brother, the younger brother will live up to the expectations of the eldest brother." ”

After the three brothers discussed, Ma Teng's youngest daughter Ma Yunlu also learned the news and cried to death.

Ma Teng lost his wife at an early age, only three sons and one daughter, and he especially loved his young daughter Ma Yunlu.

When Ma Chao heard this, he immediately took Ma Tie and Ma Xiu together to persuade Ma Yunlu. The latter heard that Ma Chao was going to raise troops, so he had to follow the expedition, so the three brothers of Ma Chao had a lot of words, so he persuaded her to come down, after all, the three brothers of Ma Chao were all out on the expedition, and the base camp of Wuwei County must be guarded, and Ma Yunlu, who is skilled in martial arts, is naturally the best choice.

The news of Ma Chao's soldiers was very vigorous, and it soon spread to Jiuquan Han Sui, who of course knew that it was Ma Tengbu who leaked the news from his meticulous work, and secretly screamed a pity, and hurried to prepare for war.

There are a total of seven counties in Liangzhou, the three counties of Dunhuang, Jiuquan and Xihai in the northwest are Han Sui's sphere of influence, and the three counties of Wuwei, Xiping and Jincheng in the southeast are Ma Teng's sphere of influence, and in between, there is also a Zhangye County, which is the common sphere of influence of Cheng Yin and other eight departments, and it is also a buffer zone between Han Sui and Ma Teng's forces.

If one side has ambitions and wants to attack Cheng Yin and other eight subordinates in Zhangye County, the other party will immediately wave troops to rescue, and this side is definitely not the opponent of the nine divisions on the opposite side. Therefore, it is precisely for this reason that Cheng Yin and the other eight departments can exist for so long under the gap between Han Sui and Ma Teng.

Therefore, if Ma Chao wants to attack Han Sui, he must go through Zhangye County and get the consent of Cheng Yin's Eighth Division, and even get the help of Cheng Yin's Eighth Division to attack Han Sui together.

Ma Chao, before sending the army, also sent eight letters to Cheng Yin and other eight people, and wrote all the things that Han Sui killed Ma Teng for no reason, and he wanted to raise troops to avenge his father, hoping that the eight people could help him avenge his father, and at the worst of all, he had to be allowed to enter Jiuquan County through the road.

It went well, and Cheng Yin and the eight people quickly replied to Ma Chao's letter, in which they all expressed their indignation at Han Sui's move, and said that they would help Ma Chao avenge his father's murder.

Ma Chao was naturally overjoyed, and immediately replied to Cheng Yin's eight people with a letter, agreeing to give all Han Sui's territory to Cheng Yin's eight people after killing Han Sui.

This hand, it seems that Ma Chao is generous, but in fact, it also shows that Ma Chao is strategic.

The reason why Cheng Yin's eight people are united and can get along well in a Zhangye County is because there are two behemoths in Liangzhou, Han Sui and Ma Teng.

Now, the eight of them helped Ma Chao to take revenge successfully, and Ma Chao gave Han Sui's three counties to eight of them, and the eight of them will naturally be distributed, and the final result is likely to be that the two of them share one county.

The strength is greater, the power is greater, the ambition will naturally swell, these eight people will definitely not have the previous unity, the mutual annexation will definitely happen, and the defeated side will definitely ask Ma Chao for help, and Ma Chao will have an excuse to send troops.

Ma Chao was full of confidence, personally led an army of 200,000, and almost poured out of the nest, killing Jiuquan County in a mighty way.

Sure enough, from the beginning of entering Zhangye County, no matter which of the eight people passed, it was unimpeded, and even Cheng Yin and others set up a banquet to warmly entertain Ma Chao.

Ma Chao did not refuse, he thought that this was eight people who were talking to him, and they all hoped to get a piece of fat in Jiuquan County, after all, Han Sui had been operating there for many years, and the population of Jiuquan County was twice as large as the population of Dunhuang and Xihai Counties.

In fact, for Jiuquan County, Ma Chao is also very hot, but across a Zhangye County, he is beyond the reach of the whip, and can only capture Jiuquan County and kill Han Sui, and sweep away the good things that Han Sui has been looting for many years, after all, with these things, a lot of grain can be bought from the Central Plains, so as to solve the shortage of food in Xiliang.

More than half a month later, Ma Chao's army came to Zhangye County's governance office, which was the territory of Cheng Yin, the head of the Eight Divisions.

After touching it, it is considered to have officially entered the territory of Jiuquan County after passing the high platform to the west.

Here, Ma Chao was also warmly entertained by Cheng Yin, and Cheng Yin even said that he was willing to send 30,000 troops to help Ma Chao take revenge.

On the way here, the other seven departments also sent troops one after another, some sent 20,000 troops, some sent 10,000 troops, some sent 15,000 troops, and together there were more than 100,000 troops.

Now, with Cheng Yin's 30,000 troops, there are 150,000 of the eight coalition forces alone, as well as 200,000 soldiers and horses from Ma Chao's headquarters, a total of 350,000.

As for Han Sui, the strength is almost the same as Ma Chao, at most only 250,000, Ma Chao believes that in this battle, he will definitely be able to defeat Han Sui and kill him.

However, just when Ma Chao was drunk and was sent back to the camp by his own soldiers, there was a sudden burst of boundless shouting and killing from all sides, which scared Ma Chao's drunkenness half awake.

"It's not a good thing, Major General." The soldiers soon came over to report, saying that Han Sui's army suddenly appeared, united with eight soldiers and horses, and besieged Ma Chao's large battalion.

(End of chapter)