Ma Chao said that it was a pity and secretly scolded Li Dao for being lucky. At the same time, I regret it in my heart.

In order to lure Li Dao and Guo Yan, Ma Chao did not hesitate to reflexively engage them several times, with fewer strikes and more attacks, and there are only 3,000 people left. Those soldiers were all the elites he brought out with his own hands, but now they have become empty, not only did they not play any role, but they gave their lives in vain!

"Hahaha, Ma Chaoxiaoer, you are still a little tender!"

Li Wei's proud voice came: "It's a small plan, what can I do?" ”

Ma Chao's face fell, he looked out of the valley hatefully, and he didn't answer, looking back, he was going to order the army to set up camp and rest on the spot. Ma Chao didn't want to pay attention to Li Dao, but Li Dao was interested.

"Ma Chao, you're still young after all!"

Li Wei's tone was joking and serious, as if an elder was preaching to his juniors.

"As the so-called ginger is old and spicy, hehe, do you know where your second master Guo Yan went?" Li Wei sneered: "Presumably at this time, you will be able to reunite with your old father Ma Teng here, hahahahahaha"

Ma Chao's face was blue and red, and his eyes seemed to want to choose someone to eat!

"Li thief!"

Ma Chao shouted violently, and was about to rush out with a gun, but was grabbed by the deputy general of the guard next to him, and dissuaded him for a while before stopping.

Fortunately, because Li Dao wanted to arrange a large army to camp, he didn't get any more stimulated, otherwise Ma Chao would not have been able to stop him, and he rushed out alone to fight 100,000!

Outside the Tiger Valley, Li Dao set up camp with 100,000 troops on the spot and blocked the mouth of the valley.

In the valley, there is a camp of 3,000 people under Ma Chao.

On the cliffs on both sides of the valley, there were 30,000 people each, and it was an army under the command of Ma Xiu and Ma Tie.

The three armies are involved in each other and threaten each other, and no one dares to act rashly.

Ma Chao walked back and forth in a simple tent set up in a makeshift tent, and the two were sent down from the cliffs on both sides by soldiers with ropes, and the three brothers got together to discuss how to solve the situation.

"Big brother, you sit down first."

Of the three, Matthew was the calmest.

"My father is in danger, how can I be quiet? How dare you be quiet!? Ma Chao roared.

"But big brother, in the current situation, it's useless for you to be anxious." Matthew said in a deep voice: "Why don't you calm down and see if you can solve this game, and then divide your troops and horses to rescue your father." ”

"Division?"

Ma Tie frowned and tightened, and said: "If Guo Yan wants to defeat his father, he must bring no less soldiers and horses." If we divide our troops to rescue now, 12,000 is definitely not enough! Besides, the eldest brother is trapped in this valley, and if I divide the troops and leave, what if Li Dao urges the troops into the valley? Big brother, if my second brother and I can get down, you can go too! ”

Ma Tie said, his eyebrows fluttered: "It's better to wait until it gets dark, take advantage of the night, and let the big brother be pulled up with a rope." Then these 3,000 men and horses were left here to hide people's eyes and ears and confuse Li Dao. The eldest brother took most of the soldiers and horses to Jincheng. ”

Ma Xiu followed Ma Tie's meaning and said: "My third brother and I took a small number of people and horses to make a big noise, and we are here to deal with Li Dao. After the eldest brother defeated Guo Yan and Han Sui and met his father, he would come here to join forces and defeat Li Dao in one fell swoop! ”

"Good way!"

When Ma Chao heard this, the haze on his face disappeared, and he laughed.

"That's it!"

Liu Yuan and Dian Wei, and personally guarded two thousand, starting from Jizhou Julu, crossing Bingzhou, Hetao, passing through Luyan, along the Great Wall, all the way to the west, through Lingzhou, through the desert, and finally arrived at Yancheng, the national residence of Zhangye Juyan!

Situated on an oasis in the desert, Juyan was at the heart of the Silk Road.

During the reign of Emperor Yuan of the Western Han Dynasty, there were two captains of Juyan and Xiutu to guard this place.

Now that the Han dynasty is in decline, these two captains have also existed in name only. If it weren't for the great power of the Han Dynasty, I am afraid that this place would have been occupied by the countries of the Western Regions.

Huang Chang led a large army to this place ten days ago and forcibly took over Juyan from the second captain.

Liu Yuan walked in this important city with a population of less than 10,000, and he only felt a different style, which made him feel a little novel. But it's just a novelty, after all, it's a soul that has crossed over in the future.

Huang Chang was on Liu Yuan's right, Dian Wei was on the left, and behind him were ten guards. Everyone changed into casual clothes and walked around the somewhat desolate streets.

"Has the situation in the Western Regions changed?"

Liu Yuan asked Huang Chang while smiling at the Hu Ren kid who walked past him and grimaced at him.

Huang Chang shook his head and said, "The situation in the Western Regions is all in the calculations of the lord and Guo Junshi. Except for Wusun You, who slipped a little, the rest of the three kingdoms, such as Jiankun, Ding Ling, and Hujie, almost all had their armies, and all of them converged on the Xiongnu royal court. ”

Liu Yuan nodded and said, "Have you ever calculated the specific number of enemy troops?" ”

"All in all, I'm afraid there are more than 300,000, close to 400,000!"

Huang Chang pondered for a moment and affirmed.

"Three or four hundred thousand," Liu Yuan chuckled lightly and said, "You have 50,000 people here, 100,000 people under Gongming, 150,000 against 400,000, do you have confidence and certainty?" ”

"Yes!"

Huang Chang snorted and waved his fist and said: "Our sons and daughters of Youzhou, win more with less, and never be ambiguous!" ”

"Hehe, good!"

Liu Yuan laughed.

"In this case, this side will be handed over to you and Gongming, and this king will not point fingers, lest you two complain! Hehehe" Liu Yuan smiled and said: "Xiliang is in full swing by Wenhe, so I won't stay here, go to Liangzhou to join in the fun."

The real purpose of Liu Yuan's trip this time was not to personally participate in the war against the Xiongnu, nor was it to expand the army in Jizhou.

Speaking of which, he has two things to deal with personally.

The first is to subdue the Ma family.

For the Ma family, Liu Yuan still attaches great importance to it. Otherwise, Jia Xu would not have been allowed to take action personally. Even so, he himself naturally did not hesitate to meet the Ma family father and son in person, and met the Xiliang Jin Ma Chao, General Shenweitian! Give him the face of the Ma family.

Second, observation. Liu Yuan once asked Tian Feng in Jizhou to fully implement various policies in Youzhou, and completely included Jizhou in his bag. In fact, the true meaning of Liu Yuan's seclusion lies in this! Take a look at the situation in your own jurisdiction, and choose the implementation of the strategy according to the specific situation.

For example, Jizhou.

Before, because Liu Yuan had luck with the Son of Heaven, he couldn't overstep his authority; Now that he has publicly stated that he is competing for the world, he naturally does not need to take into account the so-called Son of Heaven, and blatantly includes Jizhou in his pocket. Now, except for a few counties that are still under Yuan Shao's control, the Jizhou tribe has been in the hands of Liu Yuan for several years, and under the subtle influence of Tian Feng and the Jizhou army, Jizhou has fully met the conditions for the implementation of Youzhou. So Liu Yuan gave the order without hesitation.

However, it is different in places such as Bingzhou and Hetao.

Although the Merge State Legion has controlled the Merge State for many years, it is not yet the time to implement the Youzhou Policy because of the complexity of the merger of the state races. As for the Hetao, it is simply the nest of the Hu people. Although because of Liu Yuan's strength, the Qianghu in the Hetao area could only succumb, but how could Liu Yuan, who dealt with the Hu people a lot, not know the surname of the Hu people? It's all something that bullies the soft and is afraid of the hard!

If they want to surrender completely, they must be ruthless and die!

Destroying everything they had and re-establishing faith in their hearts is the best way to subdue the Hu people!

The same goes for Liangzhou.

The complexity of Liangzhou's composition is also above the merger of states.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Yuan attaches so much importance to Ma Teng's family.

Although Liu Yuan admires Ma Chao very much, this is not the main reason. Ma Chao is powerful, but Liu Yuan now does not lack fierce generals who can fight well. Xu Huang, Huang Chang, Zhao Yun, Yan Liang, Zhang Fei, Lu Bu, etc., etc., who is worse than Ma now?

It is precisely because the Ma family is the best prescription to reconcile Xiliang that Liu Yuan used a series of means to slowly suffer. Otherwise, the army will drive over and run over all the way, who can stop it?

To put it bluntly, if you want to conquer the world, you can't rely entirely on force.

To win the support of people's hearts, is the real way of the emperor!

Jincheng County is now the sound of cranes.

Ma Teng, the overlord of Xiliang, and Han Sui turned against each other and confronted the two cities of Guiyi and Jianwei. This has caused the entire Jincheng County to fall into a state of tension. The people didn't dare to go out, the vendors didn't dare to open, and even the heroes who usually bullied men and women obediently hid in the house, waiting for Ma and Han to divide the winner.

Guiyi City, Ma Teng frowned, and his spirit was very bad. Ma Dai sat down, also full of anxiety.

These days, Ma Teng and Han Sui have attacked each other several times, and intrigues and tricks have emerged one after another, but it is difficult to defeat each other.

These two people have been together for more than ten years, they know each other very well, all kinds of means are expected by the other party, plus the strength of troops and other conditions are similar, and it is tantamount to a fool's dream to easily defeat each other.

Whether it is Ma Teng or Han Sui, they are all sad and meditating these days.

"Uncle," Ma Dai took a deep breath, suppressed the depression in his heart, and said, "I don't know what happened to the eldest brother, has he already broken Yan Xing?" ”

Ma Teng shook his head slightly, how could he not understand his son Ma Chao's ability? If you talk about fighting generals, there is really no one in this Xiliang who is his opponent. But this war is not only about fighting generals, but also about fighting wits!

As for Yan Xing, Ma Teng used to be quite appreciative.

"Yan Xing is cautious, it's really not easy for my son to win the Sanguan." A trace of worry flashed on Ma Chao's face. In fact, he was not worried that Ma Chao would not be able to defeat Yan Xing, but that he was worried about the remnants of Dong Zhuo in Yongzhou!

In case Yan Xing saw that defeat was imminent, and under the broken can, he switched to lead the enemy and introduced Li Dao Guo Yan into Xiliang, it would really not be good!

And now that several days have passed, Ma Chao has not sent a messenger to report the situation, and Ma Teng is worried in his heart.

The uncle and nephew were frowning, and were racking their brains to think when the voice of the herald came from outside the door.

"Lord, there is a person in the city who asks to see, only the lord is the deceased, saying that it is Jia Xu, I dare not make the decision privately, please make a decision."

"Jia Xu?" Ma Teng and Ma Dai glanced at each other, and a trace of doubt flashed through them.

Now that the war is in chaos, how did this Jia Xu come here? Aren't you afraid of death?

You know, this Jia Xu is the most life-saving!

Ma Teng pondered for a moment and said, "Bring him in." ”

"Uncle, this person is not well-intentioned, why" Ma Dai said: "Now is a critical juncture, in case this person has bad intentions, then"

(To be continued)