Seeing the corpses of a family in the city, Ma Teng's eyes turned red in an instant. The molars were clucked by his bite, "Han Wenyue, Lao Tzu and you are incompatible." ”

However, the incompatibility requires capital. The loss of Wuwei County cut off Ma Teng's back road, and the Tianshui City of Han Sui in the southeast seemed to be blocking the mountain in front of Ma Teng, which can be said to be blocked in front and pursued after the army.

Due east, on the border between Sizhou and Liangzhou, Luan Yi's church army is in full battle and ready to attack Liangzhou at any time......

On the other hand, Ma Teng has less than a thousand people left. Not to mention finding Han Sui for revenge with such a little person, it is extremely difficult to attack a county seat.

At this moment, Ma Teng was at a loss. "Oh my God! Am I going to die here? I'm sorry for my ancestors, I'm sorry for my ancestors! Grandfather...... If you are alive, show your children and grandchildren a way forward! ”

Seeing his father's sad face, he was in tears. Ma Chao, Ma Xiu, and Ma Tie brothers were all heartbroken. The third Ma Tie comforted Ma Teng and said: "Father, it is not only useless to be sad at this time, but it hurts your body. The first thing to do is to think about what the future holds. ”

The second Ma Xiu said at the right time, "Father! Right now, Xiliang is already in the hands of Han Sui, and staying for one more day will be more dangerous. According to my intentions, why don't you leave Xiliang and join someone else! ”

"Leaving Xiliang?" Ma Teng jumped high, "No! Xiliang is the birthplace of my Ma family's ancestors, and it is unfilial piety to abandon it easily. Even if I Ma Teng dies, I will die in Xiliang. ”

"Father! The second brother is reasonable. Ma Tie said, "As the saying goes, a tree dies, and a person lives." Instead of staying in Xiliang to find a way out, it is better to temporarily retreat and seek a way back in other places. It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and it is not too late for my Ma family to make a comeback in the future, and then to return to Xiliang. ”

Hearing Ma Xiu's words, Ma Teng gradually calmed down, "But who should we vote for at this time?" ”

Ma Xiu said: "Zhang Lu in Hanzhong has quite a lot of soldiers and horses. The child has some friendship with Zhang Ren, the general under Zhang Lu's account, and can be introduced. ”

"No!" Ma Chao flatly refused, he told Ma Teng and Ma Xiu, "Although Zhang Lu has some power, he is just a prince in Hanzhong." At present, Luan Yi's army has driven to Xiliang, with many soldiers and generals, and there are siege weapons. Han Sui definitely couldn't resist it. When Luan Yi takes Xiliang, the next target is Hanzhong. Han Sui is not Luan Yi's opponent, let alone Zhang Lu. At that time, we who have just joined Zhang Lu will become lost dogs again! Don't mention these, Zhang Lu is a small family, let's vote for him. Whether he will take us in is a question. ”

Hearing this, Ma Teng panicked, "How is that good?" ”

"For today's plan......" Ma Chao thought for a while, "Instead of running around, we might as well drop Luan Ziqi directly." Everyone in the world is a righteous person, if we serve him, he will not treat us badly. More importantly, he controls the world's soldiers and horses, and as long as we are sincere with each other, he will definitely lend us a large army. In that way, we can also find Han Sui to avenge our family revenge one day earlier. ”

Hearing Ma Chao say that he wanted to take refuge in Luan Yi, although Ma Teng was unwilling in his heart, he had to admit that Ma Chao was reasonable. Under the current circumstances, there are only three ways in front of him, either stay in Liangzhou and wait for death, or take refuge in Zhang Lu - die later, and the only way to survive is to defect to Luan Yi.

He didn't want to die. He also has to keep this old life to avenge his wife and children, as well as find his missing daughter Ma Yunlu.

So, he almost didn't bother much, so he made the decision to make a detour to the northeast and go to the border of Sizhou and Liangzhou to meet Luan Yi.

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In fact, Luan Yi had long expected that after Ma Teng and his son returned to Liangzhou, one day they would come back and join the church because they had no foothold.

But when the father and son arrived at the church camp, he could not help but feel a wave of ecstasy. Not to mention Ma Teng's deterrent effect on the Qiang people, after Ma Chao joined, plus Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Le Jin, Yu Ban, Zhang He and Xu Huang, the five tiger generals and Wu Ziliang will gather under his account.

Therefore, when Ma Teng and his entourage came to the outside of the tent, Luan Yi entertained them in the highest way. He personally went out to greet him, and later that day he called all his subordinates to hold a grand dinner to entertain Ma Teng and his son.

This kind of high-standard treatment was unexpected before Ma Teng's father and son came, and they were immediately flattered. What made Ma Teng even more ecstatic was that at the banquet, Luan Yi announced on the spot that Ma Teng had guarded Xiliang for many years, so that the Qiang people did not dare to invade Shenzhou eastward, and all the officials of the imperial court knew their great achievements. In recognition of Ma Teng's merits, Ma Teng is now canonized as the general of the Han Dynasty.

"General Fubo? This is the highest honor an ancestor has ever received! After receiving such a reward, Ma Teng burst into tears with excitement, and led his three sons to kneel on the ground and bowed, "Xie Qi Wang Longen!" ”

Luan Yi smiled and waved his hand, "Eh! Thank me for what I have done, and if you want to thank you, you should also thank you today. ”

Ma Teng was stunned when he heard this, and then bowed to the west as Luan Yi said, "Thank you for the grace of the Son of Heaven." It's just that although he said so, he knew in his heart that now the court is no longer the world of the Son of Heaven, and it is the King of Qi who has the final say in everything. His General Fubo is also from the pen of Luan Yi, the king of Qi, and has nothing to do with the Son of Heaven. Luan Yi made him grateful for the kindness of the Son of Heaven, but it was just for show.

It can be seen that Luan Yi is indeed very happy for Ma Teng's arrival. At the banquet, Luan Yi led, and the church in the tent frequently toasted Ma Teng, and the atmosphere was very warm.

In the past few months, Ma Teng has been running around and hiding, and he has not had a peaceful meal like today for a long time. The mood is relaxed, the wine is naturally enjoyable, and the people who are enthusiastic to toast are all refused.

When the wine was half-drunk, Luan Yi threw out another piece of good news that made him ecstatic. Luan Yi promised him that he would allocate 40,000 troops to him tomorrow, and let his father and son attack Han Sui as the vanguard and capture Xiliang in one fell swoop.

Knowing that the day of revenge was approaching, Ma Teng was grateful again.

It's ridiculous to say. In fact, most of the 40,000 horses that Luan Yi allocated to Ma Teng were originally Ma Teng's subordinates, and many of them Ma Teng could be named.

Later, Ma Teng was defeated in the battle of Chang'an, and these soldiers were thrown into Luan Yi's account, and now Luan Yi just changed the soldiers and horses to him as they were, but Ma Teng was still grateful from the bottom of his heart.

After these 40,000 soldiers and horses surrendered to the church, Luan Yi carried out a round of reorganization of them, sent the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions in the central army of the church to 40,000 Xiliang soldiers to serve as middle and lower-level military attachés, and transferred the patriarch of the diocese of Chang'an, Wuda, and his subordinate workers and propaganda team to join the army to specialize in missionary matters. Subsequently, a medical battalion, a cooking squad and an engineer battalion were added to the army, which were injected with medical soldiers, cooking soldiers and engineer soldiers respectively.

In addition, the biggest difference between the current Xiliang army and the past is that in the past, Ma Teng's soldiers and horses used old-style Han ordnance. After being put into Luan Yi's account, Luan Yi carried out a first-class costume change for them. In the past, the copper shields, iron armor, leather armor, and iron spears used were all banned, and 30,000 steel guns, 5,000 divine knives, 5,000 stainless steel shields of the statue of the Virgin, 12,000 sets of thousand leaf armor, 20,000 chain mail, and 5,000 fine scale armor, and at the same time, 3,000 foot heavy armor was specially mobilized from the Central Army to be put into the Xiliang Army. In addition, there are 5,000 sets of hard bows made of mahogany, which can be used to build 120 main accessories for thunderbolts, 500 catties of gunpowder, 1,000 hand melon shells, and 750 Molotov cocktails...... 500,000 stone of grain and grass.

There are so many of them, and the amount is not small.

After getting the weight details, Ma Teng couldn't help but look up to the sky and smile.

Not to mention those sharp soldiers and armor, he has seen the power of gunpowder with his own eyes, and with the gunpowder thunderbolt in his hand, why worry about not killing Han Sui.

"The day of revenge is only in the morning and night!"

Ma Teng was eager for revenge, received the Tiger Talisman for the transfer of troops, and after receiving the 40,000 troops, he immediately began to handle the expedition.

Correspondingly, seeing that it was the Mid-Autumn Festival and winter was not far away, Luan Yi also wanted to end the Battle of Xiliang before this year, so he urgently asked for all the military supplies before Ma Teng's expedition, and specially dispatched Mao Jue to be responsible for docking with Ma Teng.

With the joint efforts of Mao Yu and Ma Teng, the supply was completed in only three days.

This speed made Ma Teng's father and son staggered, according to their initial expectations, it would take an appointment time to mobilize such a huge amount of food, grass and ordnance for so many soldiers and horses, but the actual time consumed was only one-tenth of what was expected.

As the saying goes, the soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved, and compared with the war, in fact, the preparation of assets before the war is more difficult. In the past war, Ma Teng and his son were worried about collecting grain and grass. Now, he suddenly feels that it is really good to have Luan Yi as his backing, and he no longer needs to worry about internal affairs.

At three o'clock on the nineteenth day of August in the eleventh year of Shengyuan, Ma Teng, Ma Chao, Ma Xiu, and Ma Tie led 40,000 vanguard troops to cross the Sizhou boundary monument and enter Xiliang, and the soldiers pointed directly at Tianshui.

At the moment before the army set out, Luan Yi sent Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang to Ma Teng's army, saying that these two were Ma Teng's military advisors.

Glancing at Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang on the right, Ma Teng questioned: These two people look like they are more than ten years old, why did Luan Ziqi find two little dolls to be my military advisor?

However, due to his feelings, he didn't explain it to Luan Yi, but he just had the right to comfort in his heart and when these two little dolls didn't exist, he didn't need to pay too much attention to them, just fight his own battle.

Within two days, Ma Teng's contempt for Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang ceased to exist. The two looked young, but they were unusually sophisticated.

Zhuge Liang helped Ma Teng to take care of the housekeeping in an orderly manner, where to put the ordnance when marching and camping, and where to store the grain and grass, and arrange it properly. The daily consumption of grain and grass in the army, and how much military equipment was damaged, are clearly recorded. In addition, each tribe has never been in arrears in taking grain on a daily basis, and the incidents of grain and grass officials embezzling grain and straw that often occurred in the past have been put an end to it......

These seemingly trivial things have been major matters that have plagued the vast majority of the Han army for a long time in the past. With the existence of Zhuge Liang, these military ills have completely disappeared.

The same army gave Ma Teng a feeling of being reborn.

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