When Ma Teng and Han Sui rebelled, they were defeated and helpless, and agreed with Dong Zhuo to divide Liangzhou with the Yellow River as the boundary. Ma Teng according to Wuwei, Han Sui in Longyou, has been peaceful for many years, the Qiang people still rebel all day long, large and small, although Ma Teng and Han Sui are in different places, but they are all facing the same problem. It is also these restless Qiang people, so that Ma Teng in the battle process of Pingqiang set up a great reputation, in Xiliang, the appearance of the Ma family banner not only made the Qiang people admire and fear, but also made the Qiang people resentful and hateful. Not only Ma Teng, but even several descendants of the Ma family have begun to emerge, famous in Xiliang, known as the "Xiliang Five Horses", respectively, Ma Teng himself, as well as Ma Teng's three sons Ma Chao, Ma Xiu, Ma Tie, and Ma Teng's nephew Ma Dai. Among them, the youngest Ma Tie was only fifteen years old, but because in a battle, Ma Tie, who was born with a calf, actually rode a horse straight into the ranks of dozens of Qiang people, Ma Tie's bravery and the majesty of the Ma family actually made the Qiang people chaotic without a fight, Ma Tie took the opportunity to kill a Qiang leader, and since then he has been famous in Xiliang. What others don't know is that Ma Tie went back and suffered Ma Teng's family law of fifty lashes because of this.

Ma Teng is a descendant of the famous general Ma Yuan of the Han Dynasty, the Ma family lives in the wind, and the Ma family is passed on to Ma Teng's father Ma Ping's generation, Ma Ping has no great talent, and the highest is the county order of a small county in Tianshui. The Ma family has fallen into the middle, and Ma Teng was a woodcutter when he was young, and even had to make a living by chopping wood and selling it. Ma Ping was depressed and turned to Xiliang, because of his poor family background, he accidentally married a daughter of the Qiang people as his wife, and gave birth to Ma Teng and Ma Teng brothers, but unfortunately Ma Teng's brothers were not blessed, and died of illness before the Ma family took the initiative to be brilliant again, leaving Ma Dai to be adopted by Ma Teng.

To say that the rise of the Ma family originated from the Xiliang Rebellion many years ago, the rebellion of Beigong Boyu and others, Ma Teng began to join the army at that time, and Ma Teng, who was by mistake, finally had to hang up the title of anti-thief, which is really unpredictable. This is also something that Ma Teng has never been able to let go, so after retreating to Wuwei, Ma Teng, with a trace of guilt, will not be soft on those who dare to provoke the Han Dynasty, whether they are Han or Qiang. The status of the Ma family is in the middle of the day in Xiliang, and the name of Xiliang Ma Teng is irreplaceable.

In addition to the famous Xiliang Five Horses in the Ma family's army, there is also a wise and brave figure, no one will and dare not forget, that is Ma Teng's number one general and think tank, Pang De Pang Lingming. Pang Debi Ma Teng is slightly younger, and he began to follow Ma Teng as early as when Ma Teng joined the army, and has made great contributions to the Ma family for many years. Recently, because the little Ma Tie is also famous in Xiliang, Pang De's son Pang Hui couldn't bear it and insisted on enlisting in the army, which is a young hero in the same year as Ma Tie.

Pang De is strong in force, good at using long knives, coupled with courage and bravery, he will charge in the front of the soldiers in every battle, and he is deeply loved by the soldiers and reused by Ma Teng, and he is the only person who has the right to lead the Ma Jiajun, and even Ma Teng's son does not have the position of captain at present, which shows that Pang Dezhi has the trust. Pound is not only good at force, but also relative to everyone in the Ma family, Pound has extraordinary wisdom, and the first thing that Ma Teng thinks of whenever he has doubts is Pound. At that time, he agreed to stay across the river with Dong Zhuo, and it was Pang De who suggested Ma Teng, and Ma Teng proposed to Han Sui to make peace with Dong Zhuo, which was strongly agreed by Han Sui, who was known as a famous man in Xiliang. But since something happened, Ma Teng had a gap with Han Sui.

But it was because of a small thing, a small thing that could have been ignored. That year, Ma Teng's eldest son Ma Chao was still young and impulsive, Ma Teng and Han Sui formed brothers of the opposite sex in the pride of the Xiliang people and gathered together. The soldiers in Han Sui's army had some small conflicts with Ma Teng's soldiers in private, and among them was a Sima named Yan Xingbiao Zi Yanming, who was a relatively martial junior colonel in Han Sui's army. The two sides clashed, and happened to bump into Ma Chao, who was patrolling the camp, and Ma Chao was young and vigorous, and immediately joined the conflict. Unexpectedly, Ma Chao is young after all, and his experience is not as good as that of a battle-hardened person. Ma Chao was almost assassinated by Yan Xing with a military spear, if it weren't for the broken military spear, Ma Chao would probably have become an unknown young man who died young, and he would not have today's reputation. Of course, Ma Teng wanted to settle accounts with Yan Xing, but under Han Sui's persuasion, Ma Teng was also relieved and did not hold Yan Xing responsible, which was a trivial matter in the army. But who knew that as soon as Ma Teng left, Han Sui vigorously promoted Yan Xing in a blink of an eye, became a general a day later, and married his daughter to Yan Xing, Han Sui said to Yan Xing: "The Ma family has a son, how can my Han family not have it, but unfortunately I didn't kill the little wolf." Somehow Ma Teng listened to it, and since then he has a grudge with Han Sui, but fortunately, the two of them divided their troops to guard different places.

Wuwei is actually a battle-ridden place, located less than 300 miles south of the Great Wall, and the north of the Great Wall is the place where the Xiongnu, the sworn enemy of the Han Dynasty, and the Xianbei and Qiang people live together. These Hu people often crossed the Great Wall to invade the border, and since Ma Teng established himself in Wuwei, he joined the local people and scholars to resist the Hu people outside the Great Wall. It is also strange to say that the Qiang people in Wuwei County often make trouble, but every time there are Hu people outside the Great Wall, these Qiang people will settle down and not cause chaos to Ma Teng, and even the Qiang people who admire Ma Teng's prestige will lead their people to fight against Ma Teng to fight against the foreign Hu people. At the beginning, Ma Teng didn't understand, and brought a large group of soldiers and horses to the Qiang people, Ma Teng's hands and feet were cold, and he was attacked before and after, and Ma Teng thought that he would definitely die. Unexpectedly, these Qiang people actually rushed to the Hu people outside the pass, and then fought a few battles together one after another, after the Hu people, the Qiang people made chaos again, and the Hu people came and the Qiang people united with Ma Teng to fight the enemy together. In this way, Ma Teng actually formed an inexplicable wish with these Qiang people, like both enemies and brothers. Gradually, even the Qiang people in Xijun, Zhangye and other places in the Arctic Land admired the Ma family and were unwilling to come to Ma Teng's land again. Therefore, Ma Teng enjoys a very high honor both in the Qiang tribe and in the hearts of the Han people.

On this day, Ma Teng and Ma Dai were returning from the Tieqiang tribe in the west, and drank wine for three days and three nights with Lao Tie, the leader of the Tieqiang tribe. The names of the Qiang people are extremely casual. This is thousands of miles away from Chang'an, Dong Zhuo has been dead for two months, and there are two camps on both sides of the Yellow River, so the news barely reached Wuwei at this time. As soon as Ma Teng entered the city and returned to the fort, he heard Ma Chao's loud shout: "Father, Dong Fatzi is dead, Dong Fatman is dead." "It's Dong Zhuo. If this is heard by any literati, you have to scold, either you will directly scold people as Dong thieves, or add official positions after your surname, such as Dong Xiangguo, and then call the table Dong Zhongying. A name like this is said to be a great insult, which will provoke the other party to fight hard, which is simply an insult greater than the revenge of killing the father. But this is Liangzhou, not only the Qiang people, but even the Han people have long been accustomed to it.

Ma Teng was about to angrily reprimand Ma Chao for being unstable or something, but when he heard the words that burst out of Ma Chao's mouth, he was stunned. turned to shout: "Meng Qi, go and call Ling Minglai, hurry, something big is going to happen, why is Dong Zhongying dead." Ma Chao sighed and responded, galloped away, got on the horse when he went out, and went straight to Pound's house. The farther north Xiliang goes, the more distinctive the style of the house is, and it is by no means like the attic-based style of the Central Plains. Instead, it is dominated by Wubao, and the richer people live in Wubao, which is higher and thicker, and is known as a city within a city. However, most of the cities in Xiliang have no moats, and even if they do, there is very little water. It is difficult to find water for people to drink in this place, let alone use it to protect the city, the city near the Yellow River is better, and a city like Wuwei cannot have too much water. At the same time, it advocates military force, and most of them are warriors on horseback, so the general city is not so tall, and there are few cities that really determine the victory or defeat, but look at the strength of the army. Xiliang's army was mainly cavalry, and there were few infantry. Liangzhou was the largest cavalry concentration in the Han Dynasty, but unfortunately the Han Dynasty failed to truly unify Western Liang over the years, and rebellions continued. Whenever there was a rebellion, the Han Dynasty could only use infantry to quell the rebel cavalry, which was one of the reasons why the Han Dynasty rarely had an advantage. Dong Zhuo took half of Liangzhou, and has the strategy of the Han people, so Dong Zhuo has dominated the imperial court for so long, for so many years, this is the first, I have to say that Dong Zhuo's reputation in Xiliang is not as bad as the Central Plains, on the contrary, many people admire Dong Zhuo's pride and martial arts very much.

As soon as Pang De heard that Dong Zhuo was dead, he hurriedly fought with Ma Chao, as soon as Dong Zhuo died, the Yellow River would be chaotic, and the Qiang people would be chaotic, even if Wuwei had the Ma family to guard it, then south of the Yellow River, the land of Sanfu would definitely fall into a turmoil that was even greater than that of Beigong Boyu. Although Ma Teng accidentally got into trouble with the name of a thief, he later accepted Dong Zhuo's recruitment, and Dong Zhuo had the seal of the imperial court, which can be regarded as justifiable. Ma Teng is definitely loyal to the Han, and when he heard such news at this time, he couldn't help but be anxious. Although Dong Zhuo is bad in the eyes of the Central Plains people, but Dong Zhuo's strength is there, do you see that in the past few years when Dong Zhuo has been in power, Xiliang has dared to have any major turmoil. Which family and household of Qiang people are not afraid of Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo is here, these people will definitely not dare to mess around, now that Dong Zhuo is dead, it will be a big outbreak.

"Lord, as soon as Dong Zhongying dies, I'm afraid that not only will his old department not be constrained, but even the Qiang people in Liangzhou will be ready to move, and there will be a big chaos in Liangzhou." Pang De couldn't help but speak, but at this time, he saw Ma Chao's excitement on his face, and he was in chaos, okay, and shouted: "Okay, it's good, it's the time when my Ma family dominates Liangzhou, and even goes to Chang'an." ”

Ma Teng first listened to Pang De's words and couldn't help worrying, he thought the same way, and in a blink of an eye, seeing Ma Chao like this, Ma Teng was furious, this is simply lawless, no king, no father, such rebellious words can be said, where can it be regarded as the queen of the Ma family. Ma Teng shouted: "Nonsense, my Ma family has been a prince for generations, and I am deeply favored by the emperor, how can I be such a chaotic minister and thief." After that, it was a punch to Ma Chao, and it hit Ma Chao on the head heavily. Ma Chao was aggrieved and didn't dare to speak out.