For Ma Chao, a young general, Lu Bu had the intention of taking it under his command at the beginning, and used a lot of brains for this, but in the end he could succeed or not, even if he had such a huge prophetic advantage, he was at a loss.

This time, Xu Shu swore to Lu Bu that the capture of Chang'an would fall on Ma Chao, as for the details, Xu Shu didn't say much, just asked Lu Bu to provoke Ma Chaocheng to fight alone, and then everything that followed, as soon as the time came, it would all be handed over to him.

After more than ten days of hard work, Lu Bu finally provoked Ma Chao out, and he still went out of the city alone, obviously without the permission of Huangfu Song, but coerced the guards and ran out by himself.

But Lu Bu didn't do it, leaving Ma Chao there alone, you can imagine how angry Ma Chao was in his heart.

Seeing that Lu Bu had galloped away like a gust of wind, and even the dust raised was blown down by the autumn wind and dissipated, Ma Chao hated it so much, but he could only helplessly turn the horse's head and gallop back to the city gate, seeing that the city gate was not open for a long time, he was so angry that he turned the spear upside down, took the gun bottle and pestle it on the thick city gate a few times, and roared: "Open the door, open the door quickly!" ”

After waiting for a long time, just as the horse was about to lose patience and run away, the gate finally creaked open, but it only opened the width for one person and one horse to pass, and stopped.

Ma Chao's face was pale, he clenched his spear, and rode his horse into the city slowly without saying a word, and he knew with a sweep of his eyes that the opening of the city gate was the result of his own soldiers coercing the guards, otherwise, I was afraid that he would have to hang outside the city for a long time.

"Be bold and steal open the gates, I will ......"

The goalkeeper team couldn't stand being coerced twice, stalked his neck, and yelled at Ma Chao. The cold throat is cold, and the face is flushed. Immediately became pale, the whole body stiffened, did not dare to move, and before the words were finished, they stopped abruptly.

Because the tip of Ma Chao's spear was so firmly on his throat, when the Adam's apple rolled up and down, he could feel a little stinging pain when the flesh was squeezed.

"Humph!" Ma Chao snorted coldly and said, "Lao Tzu is not your group of cowardly Guanzhong soldiers, you only know what to do with your neck." When the head is shrunken turtle! It's to come to the aid of the Guanzhong Army, no matter how rude it is, kill! ”

When he shouted angrily, Ma Chao's body was full of murderous aura, but the spear was suddenly withdrawn. The goalkeeper seemed to have his whole body drained by the spear, and his legs were weak. Just threw himself on his knees.

"Bold!"

There was a shout of rage from inside the gates. There is majesty in old age, and there is deep weariness.

Ma Chao turned his head expressionlessly and glared at the angry Huangfu Song, who had no intention of theorizing with it at all, and turned his head to a group of pro-soldiers and shouted: "Go, go back to the camp!" ”

Huangfu Song watched Ma Chao lead people past him, and the anger in his heart turned into monstrous anger. His chest rose and fell sharply, obviously suppressing it so that it didn't break out.

When Ma Chao led the people away, Zhu Jun next to him sighed. said to Huangfu Song: "Brother Yizhen, young man, his blood is strong, and he is impulsive when something happens, so why not just let him lead his troops and horses out of the city to fight?" If he wins, he can boost his morale, and if he loses, he will no longer have the shame to mention the battle. ”

"No, wouldn't it be ...... if he led his army to leave Chang'an and flee back to Xiliang?"

There is no need to guess, everyone knows that it is Han Sui's general Ma Yu who said this, and he is the only one who targets Ma Chao so much, and is worried that Ma Chao will lead 1,500 elite horsemen under his command to flee back to Xiliang when he goes out of the city to fight against Lu Bu.

Zhu Jun said with a smile: "It's okay, if you go out of the city to meet Lu Bu, you don't have to bring all the soldiers and horses, three or five hundred, it's enough." ”

Ma Yu was silent, obviously acquiescing to Zhu Jun's words, but Huangfu Song also remained silent, just staring at the dim city gate in a daze, with a lonely expression, full of white hair, wrinkles on his face twisted together, as if he was thinking about something in his heart.

Zhu Jun knew very well what the past few months meant to Huang Fu Song, but he saw that Huang Fu Song was like two people before and after.

In just a few months, Huangfu Song's plan failed, and his beloved son Huangfu Li died tragically under the trampling of chaotic horses, damaging the general Yan Xing, and now he is trapped in the lonely city of Chang'an.

Alas!

Zhu Jun sighed secretly in his heart, turned his horse and left, and Ma Yu and the others followed, leaving only Huangfu Song alone in front of the city gate cave, hidden in the shadow of the city gate tower in the sunset, watching blankly.

There is no way to serve the country, and the hero is in the twilight!

When Zhu Jun turned around, such a sentence appeared in his mind, and his mood immediately became sad and desolate, and his evaluation of the veteran Huangfu Song was actually not a portrayal of his own heart.

Thinking about back then, he led the army to quell the rebellion of the moths and thieves, at that time, he was the same as Huangfu Song, how high-spirited he was, thinking that from now on the world could be peaceful, the saint could work hard from now on, and the Han Dynasty could thrive from now on and restore the glory and glory of the past.

However, after a few years of work, the saint is still the saint, the court is still the court, what was the original situation, after quelling the rebellion of the moths and thieves, it was still how, so that now the Han Dynasty is already stormy, authoritarian and sweep away, such as him and Huangfu Song, loyal veterans, have no way to serve the country, and they have fallen into such a lonely end now.

Zhu Jun followed the war horse slowly, swaying all the way, and sighing all the way, unable to understand the current situation in the world, let alone the hearts of the people in the world today.

He and Huangfu Song are in such a state of mind, even if Ma Yu and even Huangfu Jianshou are by their side, they are not aware of it, let alone feel it, they only pay attention to the current situation in Chang'an.

The next day, Lu Bu led three hundred elite cavalry as scheduled, came to Chang'an outside the city to fight, Ma Chao got the approval of Huangfu Song, led three hundred Xiliang elite cavalry to fight, the two fought a big battle, Ma Chao unexpectedly lost, and agreed to fight again tomorrow.

In this way, there is no war in the siege of Chang'an, every day, only Lu Bu and Ma Chao are single-handed, Ma Chao has been defeated and fought repeatedly, he is not discouraged, and he fights every day, still full of energy and high morale.

He, as well as Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and others, didn't realize that this kind of fighting was not all because Lu Bu's army needed time to make siege equipment, but also to buy time for Xu Shu's plan.

Ma Teng, who was far away in Longxi Didao, paid attention to the latest progress of the battle situation in Guanzhong every day, and he already knew that Lu Bu besieged Chang'an and had taken the three counties of Guanzhong into his pocket. Lin'er Ma Chao is also trapped in the city, and he doesn't know when he will be able to get out.

But at the moment, his attention was all attracted by the envoys sent by Liu Yan, the king of Shu, and it was Zhao Wei, the general of Liu Yan's account, who came to Di Dao, and the theme of the discussion was that Shuzhong and Xiliang joined forces to raise a large army to relieve the siege of Chang'an. Then the three families divided 800 miles of Qinchuan equally.

The so-called three families are Liu Yan, the king of Shu, Ma Teng of Longxi, and Han Sui of Jincheng.

This proposal, it has to be said. Quite attractive to Maarten. The west is cool and bitterly cold, and Longxi and Hanyang under his control. It's still a little denser. Jincheng under the control of Han Sui, because it occupies the fertile soil of the river valley, is still enough to feed the army, and the other counties are even difficult to protect themselves.

The eight hundred miles of Qinchuan in Guanzhong are all fertile fields of Pingchuan. The three families went to divide, in fact, in the end, he had to take advantage of it, and he went down from Hanyang, that is, Guanzhong. And Han Sui was staying in Jincheng, and if he wanted to reach Guanzhong, he had to ask him Ma Teng; In the customs clearance in Shuzhong, it is difficult to climb over the mountains and mountains, and the plank road is difficult to walk, and it is by no means as convenient as Longxi and Hanyang.

Therefore, Ma Teng is very tempted, the only thing to worry about is Han Sui, according to Ma Teng's estimate, the possibility of Han Sui nodding is probably not big.

Liu Yan sent an envoy to Jincheng, and there were other people, and Zhao Wei had been staying in Didao, waiting for news from Jincheng, if Han Sui also had this intention, then everyone could sit together and discuss this matter seriously.

Within two days, someone from Jincheng came and handed Ma Teng a handwritten letter from Han Sui, which made Ma Teng feel both happy and a little faintly puzzled: Han Sui was so generous, could it be that he had other plans.

These days, Zhao Wei and Ma Teng have talked very happily, Jincheng Han Sui's letter, after Zhao Wei read it, he returned it to Ma Teng with a smile, and said: "The general is worried that Han Wenyue has other plans?" ”

was broken by Zhao Wei's words, Ma Teng smiled and replied: "There are some grievances between Ma and Wen Yue, he is so open-minded and generous, Ma has to worry." ”

"It's human nature!" Zhao Wei replied, "However, according to what Yun has seen, Brother Wen Yue does have other plans this time, but it should be after the matter is completed, he will exchange Longxi with the general with the income from Guanzhong." ”

"Oh?"

Ma Teng raised his eyebrows, and immediately secretly calculated in his heart, if Han Sui really thought so, in exchange for Longxi Guanzhong, this deal would still be very cost-effective, after all, compared with Hanyang, Longxi can be regarded as sparsely populated.

Zhao Wei nodded and replied: "The general has lived in Xiliang for a long time, when he knows that Brother Wenyue is in Jincheng, the road to the east is blocked by Longxi Ha Hanyang, and the west is Wuwei, the land is vast and sparsely populated, the land is barren, and the detour to Beidi County, not to mention the long distance, and the mountain road is difficult to travel, so even if Brother Wen Yue gets a county in Guanzhong, he only has two roads, either give up Jincheng and move to Guanzhong, or stick to Jincheng and give Guanzhong to the general in exchange for the land of Longxi. ”

Such an analysis is not much different from what Ma Teng thought in his heart, and after thinking about it carefully, Han Sui should have nothing else except this thought.

Seeing that Ma Teng was silent there, Zhao Wei didn't say anything in a funny way, and after half a sound, he said to Ma Teng: "Brother Wen Yue asked the general to meet in Woganling, and agreed that each would only bring 300 personal guards, which shows the sincerity of Brother Wen Yue, does the general think so?" ”

"Hmm!"

Ma Teng subconsciously responded, the middle of the Woganling Valley Road mentioned in Han Sui's letter is a post station, opening up a spacious open space within a radius, which used to be used for past business travelers to rest and stay overnight, and the two ends of the Woganling Valley Road are respectively Di Dao of Longxi County and Yuzhong of Jincheng County, which are under the control of Ma Teng and Han Sui respectively, and even Woganling is actually bounded by the post station in the middle, and the two of them each control a section.

Han Sui's appointment to meet here is indeed sincere, at least Ma Teng can't see anything wrong.

Zhao Wei patted his palms and said, "Okay, good, the general has this intention, and Brother Wen Yue also has this intention, in this way, the big thing can be done." General, this matter should not be delayed sooner rather than later, why don't you send someone to send a message to make an appointment with your brother, set a time, and everyone will sit together and discuss the details of the action? ”

"Good!" Ma Teng groaned for a while, and finally the temptation to win Guanzhong overwhelmed the faint doubts in his heart, and replied, "It will take two days from Di Dao to Yunwu, so that in five days, we will be on the post road in Woganling." (To be continued......)