Uncle Liu Huang did show sincerity this time and wanted to form an alliance with Boss Cao, because Uncle Liu, Pang Tong and Xu Shu knew very well that once Boss Cao, who had been weakened to the extreme, fell before the onslaught of the Xuzhou army, then with Deputy Director Tao's black and poisonous heart, he would definitely attack Hanzhong without hesitation, and kill the old enemy Uncle Liu Huang, who had been entangled for many years, with a thousand knives and Ling Chi to death! So for Uncle Liu, keeping Boss Cao is saving himself, and if Boss Cao falls, he has to fall, and there is no other choice, Uncle Liu can only offer a series of preferential conditions and seek to establish an alliance with Boss Cao - of course, whether the promised benefits will be fulfilled in the future can also be said according to the situation.

There is another important reason that prompts Uncle Liu Huang to form an alliance with Cao Boss, that is, Ma Tengjun's direct threat to Hanzhong, Ma Chao, who has the reputation of the unrighteous Jin Ma Chao, has extorted countless money and grain from Uncle Liu Huang for more than a year since he was stationed in Fu County, but he has always refused to leave in Fu County, and under the pretext of resisting Cao Boss, he transferred a group of troops from the rear to be stationed in the area of Sanguan and Gudao, and the intention of the Hanzhong granary of the vertical line can be seen even by a fool, if Uncle Liu Huang does not hurry up and clean up this lord, If you don't do it well, you have to refuse the front door and enter the wolf at the back door, and Ma Chao was suddenly yin.

Fortunately, the desperate Boss Cao finally agreed to form an alliance with Uncle Liu Huang, and also promised to join forces with Uncle Liu Huang to get rid of Ma Chao and Han Sui, after Sun Qian brought the news back to Hanzhong, Uncle Liu Huang first breathed a sigh of relief, and then hurriedly acted according to the original plan, first went to Yangping Pass in person, and then sent someone to invite Ma Chao to Yangping Pass to talk, saying that there was something important to tell him, and Ma Chao happily obeyed. Together with Pang De, he went to Yangping Guanzhong to meet Uncle Liu Huang, and then Uncle Liu Huang didn't talk nonsense, and immediately handed a letter to Ma Chao, saying: "Meng Qi, this is the letter that Han Wenyue (Han Sui) just sent me, please take a look." ”

Taking a closer look at the so-called Han Sui letter, Ma Chao's hair suddenly stood up, it turned out that Han Sui desperately said bad things about Ma Chao in the letter, vigorously accusing Ma Chao of the unjust act of constantly blackmailing Uncle Liu Huang in Fu County, and persuaded Uncle Liu Huang to join forces with him to get rid of Ma Teng's forces. Then Han Sui told Uncle Liu Huang in a letter. said that he was going to take advantage of the opportunity that the main force of Ma Teng's army was brought to the area of Fu County by Ma Chao, and in the near future, he would send troops to attack Ma Teng's old nest Didao City, and asked Uncle Liu Huang to send troops to contain Ma Chao's team, and not to give Ma Chao a chance to return to the army to rescue. After the deed was completed, Ma Teng's land was divided equally.

After carefully reading the letter, it was indeed Han Sui's handwriting. Ma Chao immediately scolded. Uncle Liu Huang pretended to persuade Ma Chao, saying that Han Sui's move might just be a moment of confusion, and he was willing to come forward to persuade Han Sui to quit the army. Continue to join forces to defeat the Cao thieves. Ma Chao also felt that this matter was too sudden, and he coveted the Hanzhong granary and refused to give up Fuxian, so he did not rush to retreat and return to Di Dao, but repeatedly thanked Uncle Liu Huang for his warning, so that people hurriedly returned to Di Dao with a book to report to Ma Teng, and asked Ma Teng to reorganize his troops and horses to guard against Han Sui's sneak attack.

At the same time, Boss Cao, who had secretly formed an alliance with Uncle Liu, also made a move, sending an envoy to Jincheng with a book, and sent a forged letter from Ma Teng to Han Sui, saying that it was a confidential letter that Cao's army team had inadvertently obtained in the Sanguan area, and asked Han Sui to look at it. In this letter written by Ma Teng to Uncle Liu Huang, Ma Teng counted the crimes of Han Sui's subordinates who bullied his own soldiers, robbed the cattle and sheep pastures of his army's war horses, cattle and sheep and killed his wife, and said that he could not bear Han Sui, and at the same time, in view of the fact that Han Sui and Cao Jun had many private contacts, in order to eliminate hidden dangers, Ma Teng decided to take advantage of Han Sui's current unpreparedness to unite with the Qiang people to attack Han Sui, but he was worried that the backup grain and grass and Cao Jun would sneak attack him, so Ma Teng asked to secretly form an alliance with Uncle Liu Huang and implore Uncle Liu Huang to support the grain and grass. After the matter was completed, Ma Teng took out 5,000 war horses and 1,000 cattle and sheep to reward Uncle Liu, and promised to join forces with Uncle Liu to destroy Cao.

Here is a general introduction to Ma Teng's revenge for killing his wife mentioned in the letter, Han Sui did kill Ma Teng's wife, but this is also Ma Teng's own finding, in April of the first year of Xingping, Ma Teng and Han Sui became brothers with different surnames, and the relationship was once very close and friendly, but in less than two years, Ma Teng took the wrong medicine, and suddenly raised troops to attack Han Sui, robbing Han Sui of countless cattle and sheep land, Han Sui, who had a high prestige in the Xiliang area, was caught off guard and suffered a fiasco, but Han Sui relieved his breath, united a large number of Xiliang soldiers and horses to fight back, not only regained the lost land and city, but also simply copied Ma Teng's lair, and easily cut Ma Teng's yellow-faced woman with a knife, and formed a deep hatred with Ma Teng. It was not until Zhong Xuan came forward to mediate after presiding over Guanzhong that the relationship between the two families eased again.

It is precisely because of these festivals that he put them in front, although he didn't dare to believe the letter sent by Boss Cao, but for the sake of prudence, Han Sui, who knew Ma Teng's capricious character, still didn't dare to take it lightly, and immediately sent a large number of scouts to sneak to Ma Teng's garrison to reconnoiter the situation. Han Sui was shocked and angry when he heard the report, of course, he also hurriedly gathered troops to contact the people of Xiliang, and seized the time to prepare to send troops to fight, and then a vicious circle was formed, Ma Teng's army scouts found out about the situation and reported to Ma Teng, which made Ma Teng even more convinced that Han Sui was ready to destroy himself, and quickly sent an envoy to contact the Qiang tribe, asking the Qiang people to send troops to help him clean up Han Sui.

The vicious circle will suddenly erupt to a certain point, the fuse of igniting the powder keg is also many, the people are fierce in the Xiliang area, the friction between the various departments and armies for the interests is constant, to the beginning of March, Longxi finally had a spring rain, the grass began to grow, the herdsmen in order to make the cattle and sheep who had lost weight in the winter grow fat as soon as possible, naturally they couldn't wait to herd sheep and horses, and as a result, for a small piece of fertile land on the border, Ma Teng and the herdsmen under the rule of Han Sui clashed, It soon turned from a clash between a few herders to a military conflict, and the Mahan army, which had long been tense with saber-rattling, began to join the war group and wage a thousand-man war for this small piece of grass.

As a result of the conflict, Han Sui's team suffered a loss, and Ma Teng's team, which had strong individual combat effectiveness, took advantage. The news reached Han Sui, Han Sui was furious and learned the lesson of being attacked by Ma Teng first last time, and resolutely decided to take advantage of the opportunity of Ma Teng's army to disperse, and immediately sent troops to attack Di Dao. The two armies fought a big battle in the territory of Longxi County. Han Sui, who had a large army, was victorious, and Ma Teng, who had few troops, was defeated and was forced to retreat to the Lintao area of the neighboring Qiang people, and at the same time sent envoys to ask Ma Chao for help. asked his son to quickly lead troops to find a place for himself. Han Sui expected that Ma Teng would inevitably collude with the Qiang people and send Ma Chao back to the division. But he is not afraid. Immediately sent an envoy to ask Cao Boss for help, and at the same time mobilized all the troops in Longshang to come for reinforcements, and the war in Longxi also quickly developed in the direction of getting bigger and bigger.

Received a request for help from Han Sui. Of course, Boss Cao, who was being harassed by the various departments in Longxi, couldn't ask for it, and immediately agreed to Han Sui's request so that Han Sui could fight with confidence, and sent Zhang Liao and Zhang He to lead the cavalry to attack, and rushed to Meixian to find an opportunity to clean up Ma Chao's reinforcement team. After Ma Chao received Ma Teng's request for help, he was also in a dilemma, and hesitated for a long time before deciding to lead half of the army back to rescue his father, leaving Pang De to continue to guard Fu County to keep the hope of soldiers entering Hanzhong, and at the same time, Ma Chao naturally had to ask Uncle Liu Huang for food and grass support, Uncle Liu Huang agreed, patted his chest and immediately prepared, promising to send Ma Chao follow-up food and grass, so to say that he finally sent away Ma Chao, the plague god, and at the same time stepped up contact and rebellion against Pang De.

Ma Chao should probably leave Ma Dai to guard Fu County, and let Pang De return to Longxi with him, because Pang De is quite brainy in addition to fighting bravely, can use tactics, and can also recognize some of the enemy's means, and Ma Chao's shortcomings in this regard are too obvious, after the troops dispersed, although Ma Chao divided his troops to the east to guard against the sneak attack of the Cao army, but Zhang Liao and Zhang He did not pay attention to him at all, and the garrison Meixian remained motionless, allowing Ma Chao to cross the Weishui smoothly in Chencang. And when Ma Chao decided that Cao Jun wanted to preserve its strength and would not send troops, and withdrew the soldiers and horses to monitor Cao Jun, Zhang Liao and Zhang He began to shoot, leading the light cavalry to travel 300 miles in two days, catching up with Ma Chao in the east of Longguan, and suddenly launched a surprise attack, Ma Chao was caught off guard and was defeated, the second brother Ma Xiu was stabbed under the horse by Zhang Liao, and he was also caught by Zhang He, unable to organize the team to counterattack, Ma Chao's army team fled into Longguan without any fighting spirit, Zhang Liao took the opportunity to chase and kill, and broke Ma Chao in Longguan, Ma Chao led the remnants of the soldiers and horses to flee into Longxi in embarrassment, Zhang Liao and Zhang He did not chase and kill, packed up their soldiers and horses and retreated to Meixian.

Some friends may ask, why did Boss Cao really help Han Sui clean up Ma Chao, and directly let Ma Chao go back to work with Han Sui? There is only one answer, Ma Teng and Ma Chao father and son are too capricious, and they will turn their faces when they say that they will turn their faces, just like an unscheduled bomb that may threaten the back of Cao Jun at any time, and Han Sui is much more reliable in this regard, at least he can communicate and liaise, and he knows that some courtesy, righteousness and shame can be justified, and when the Xuzhou Army sends troops to the west in the future, Cao Boss also hopes to persuade Han Sui to join the coalition army to fight against the Xuzhou Army. Therefore, Boss Cao would rather suffer a loss and let Han Sui quickly kill Ma Teng, rather than hope that Ma Teng's father and son would stabilize their positions and block Han Sui's attack and then threaten his back.

Cao Laoda's good intentions still worked, after Ma Chao's reinforcements were defeated by a sneak attack, he was naturally unable to provide strong assistance to Ma Teng, even if he rushed to Lintao to join Ma Teng's team, he could not reverse the entire battle situation, and was still pressed and beaten by Han Sui's team, but fortunately, the relationship between the old Ma family and the Qiang tribe has always been good, and many Qiang tribes have sent teams to help, and Han Sui will not be able to eliminate Ma Teng's team for a while, and the war has gradually fallen into a stalemate.

At this time, among the divisions of Ma Teng's army stationed in Fu County, there was naturally news that Ma Teng and Ma Chao had both died in battle, and it was also rumored that Han Sui had slaughtered all parts of Longxi, and the military spirit of Pang De's team quickly dissipated, and people's hearts were floating, and Uncle Liu Huang also took the opportunity to take immediate action to buy Pang De with high-ranking officials and money beauties, but unfortunately Pang De's eight characters were born to deal with the emperor's army, not only categorically rejected Liu Huangshu's co-optation and bribery, but also repeatedly restrained the team to stop the desertion. Uncle Liu Huang had no choice but to adopt Pang Tong's plan, pretending to discuss with Pang De about aiding Ma Teng, and tricking Pang De into Yangping Pass to capture the thief and capture the king first.

Because the situation on Ma Teng's side is indeed critical, although Pang De is also worried that Uncle Liu Huang will pass on his uneasy intentions to enter the customs, but in order to rescue the major event of Ma Teng's father and son, Pang De still entered Yangping Pass, and the result was that he was just tricked into the hall by Uncle Liu Huang to drink and talk. The axemen who were lying in ambush on both sides of the corridor immediately poured out together, surrounding Pound. Then Uncle Liu Huang also immediately tore off his hypocritical face, and under the pretext that Ma Tengjun was trying to annex Hanzhong, he suddenly declared war on Ma Tengjun and demanded that Pang De surrender himself. - By the way, in history, when Uncle Liu Huang annexed Yizhou, he used this hand to kill the famous generals Yang Huai and Gao Pei in Yizhou, and then immediately took the leaderless Baishui Pass of Yizhou.

Everyone knows Pang De's temper, if Uncle Liu Huang is like Boss Cao, he will take Pang De and persuade him to surrender on the two armies. Then Pound may still be able to surrender. However, Uncle Liu Huang used despicable tricks to take Pang De, and Pang De, who was originally at odds with Uncle Huang's army, would naturally not succumb so easily. And Pang De not only did not give in, but also drew his sword to kill Uncle Liu Huang, wanting to capture Uncle Liu and escape from Yangping Pass. After being stopped by Zhang Fei. Pound fought another battle with Zhang Fei and others. struggled to kill more than 20 sword and axe hands arranged by Uncle Liu Huang, and was wounded more than ten times in his body, and finally was killed by Zhang Fei in the hall. The more than 20 guards that Pang De brought into Yangping Pass were all killed, and none of them were spared.

Killed Pang De, Uncle Liu Huang immediately waved out of the pass, killed to the leaderless Fu County, under the pretext that Ma Teng's army tried to steal Hanzhong and Pang De tried to assassinate himself, I don't know how many times to the same ally army to kill the killer, no one presided over the overall situation of the Ma Teng army in Fu County was defeated, there were countless descendants, only a few people fled to the old road Sanguan to report to Ma Dai, Ma Dai was shocked and angry when he heard the report, he had the intention to send troops to retaliate but the strength was insufficient, and he insisted on the old road of Sanguan and there was no guarantee of food and grass, so he was forced to lead the army to retreat to Longxi to meet with Ma Teng, and Uncle Liu Huang took the opportunity to take the old road of Sanguan, grasped the initiative in the Longxi battlefield.

"Do you want to swallow the master with a guest and take down my Hanzhong? It's a joke, and I don't want to inquire, in this whole world, who dares to compete with my Xuande Gong for the means of swallowing the lord and seizing people's inheritance?! This is what Uncle Liu Huang said in his heart after completely driving away Ma Tengjun.

When the news of the Longxi melee and Uncle Liu Huang's drive away from Ma Tengjun reached the front of Deputy Director Tao in Xuchang City, the time was already May of the eleventh year of Jian'an, and Deputy Director Tao had just personally presided over the winter wheat harvesting work in the Xuchang area. ”

"Sooner or later." Jia Lao Poison sneered and said: "The next target of our army is definitely Cao Cao, after Cao Cao is finished, Liu Bei will definitely not be able to run away, his lips are dead and his teeth are cold, Liu Bei will definitely support Cao Cao to fight against our army, keep Cao Cao, the watchdog, and protect himself." ”

"It's no surprise that the big-eared thief and the Cao thief have joined forces." Deputy Director Tao said with a puzzled expression: "But the only strange thing about me is that Cao Thief dares to join forces with the big-eared thief so reassuringly?" None of those who dare to form an alliance with the big-eared thief will have a good end, and the Cao thief has long known this, how can he dare to conclude an alliance with the big-eared thief? ”

"Dying." Xun Chen said with a relaxed expression: "The Cao thief is now without food and soldiers, and he is surrounded by enemies on three sides, and he will bear the brunt of our army's westward expedition, if he does not conclude an alliance with the big-eared thief, he will only die faster." ”

"And." Liu Ye also said with a fluttering eyebrow: "Our army made a detailed report, the Guanzhong area was dry last winter, and there were only a few light snows throughout the winter, this year's spring drought, and the first spring rain only fell in March, and the winter wheat harvest was a foregone conclusion. ”

"Really?" Deputy Director Tao is still a little skeptical, "Although Mr. Youruo and Mr. Ziyang are reasonable, I still feel that something is wrong, bow to the big-eared thief, and willingly be a watchdog for the big-eared thief, this is not the character of Cao Thief." There is another point that is more crucial, Cao Thief will not ignore this issue. ”

"What's the problem?" Liu Ye and Xun Chen asked together.

"Cao Thief's condition!" Deputy Director Tao replied: "When the news was sent from our army's internal line last time, it was said that Cao Apu was not only aggravated by the head wind, but also contracted a cough, which could not be cured for a long time, and his body was emaciated and haggard. ”

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Almost at the same time in Chang'an City, Cheng Yu gently walked into the bedroom of Boss Cao, which was full of medicinal smells, and saw that Boss Cao was coughing, Cheng Yu quickly stopped and wanted to retreat, but Boss Cao glanced at Cheng Yu out of the corner of his eye, and coughed and said, "Zhongde, what's the matter?" Say, I'm fine. ”

Cheng Yu hesitated for a moment, then came to Boss Cao's side, patted Boss Cao's back to help him spit out phlegm, and then said: "Lord, the grain production situation in Xuchang that you are concerned about, our detailed work has been reported, and you said that you will report it to you as soon as there is news, so Yu will report it immediately." ”

"How?" Boss Cao hurriedly raised his head and asked, "The tuntian in the area of Xuchang, a bumper harvest or a bad harvest?" ”

Cheng Yu was silent, not daring to answer directly, Boss Cao observed the words, and immediately guessed why Cheng Yu was concealing, so he sighed: "Tiangong helps Tao or not Cao, there is a great drought in Guanzhong, my Chang'an Tuntian is almost out of harvest, but Xuchang on the pottery thief's side has a bumper harvest, and the pottery thief will not hesitate to send troops this year." ”

Sighing, Boss Cao couldn't help but cough violently again, when Cheng Yu hurriedly asked if the medical officer was summoned, another person came in outside the door, but it was Cao Ang, the eldest son of Boss Cao, seeing that Boss Cao was coughing badly, Cao Ang was also busy shushing the cold and asking for warmth, and Boss Cao waved his hand to say that he was fine. Finally stopped coughing, and Boss Cao asked Cao Ang, "Why did my son come?" ”

Cao Ang hesitated a little, peeked at Cheng Yu, Cheng Yu understood, and quickly said goodbye and left the room, until only Cao Boss and Cao Ang's father and son were left in the room, Cao Ang asked in a hesitant manner: "Father, the child ......, the child heard that you have a secret alliance with the big-eared thief Liu Bei, I don't know if there is such a thing?" ”

"How do you know?" Boss Cao asked rhetorically.

"The father forgives his sins, but the child cannot speak." Cao Ang shook his head, suddenly knelt down again, grabbed Boss Cao's sleeve, and said with a nervous expression: "Father, you can't be a big-eared thief!" Big-eared thief, he's an immature wolf! A jackal that specializes in biting allies and biting its master! Father, don't forget the lessons of Tao Qian, Yuan Shu, Liu Biao and Kong Rong! Father, you have made an alliance with him, and as long as he has the opportunity, his big-eared thief will swallow us up to the bone! ”

Boss Cao was silent, and after a long time, Boss Cao said weakly: "If I guessed correctly, the secret alliance between me and the big-eared thief must have been guessed by your friend Sima Yi and told you secretly, right?" ”

Cao Ang didn't dare to say anything, and Boss Cao didn't care, and said: "Go and talk to your Uncle Xun Yu, just say my explanation, in the future, you will be responsible for the liaison and negotiation between our army and the big-eared thief, and Sima Yi will be your deputy, you should be respectful and friendly to the big-eared thief, so that the big-eared thief will believe that you hate the pottery thief to the bone, and believe that you regard him as a close friend." ”

"What?" Cao Ang, who was brainwashed by the Xuzhou Army to hate and despise Uncle Liu Huang, was stunned and asked, "Father, why do children act like this?" ”

"You'll understand in the future, go ahead." Boss Cao refused to answer, and when Cao Ang got up helplessly, Boss Cao suddenly added a sentence and said in a low voice: "Remember one more thing, I formed an alliance with the big-eared thief, not for myself, for you, for your brothers and sisters, and your relatives!" You are allowed to know this alone, and you must not let the second person know about it! ”

"Father risked his alliance with the big-eared thief for me? Is it for our family? ”

The honest boy Cao Ang retired in confusion, Cao Boss watched the back of his beloved son out of the room, sighed quietly, and suddenly lowered his head and coughed violently, and when he wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, Boss Cao was stunned to find that there was blood on the handkerchief. (To be continued......)