Chapter 425 The Praying Mantis Catches the Cicada and the Sparrow Follows
Han Sui, who represented Ma Teng to envoy the Jin Kingdom. It has been a few days since I returned to Wuwei. When he went to the Jin Kingdom, Han Sui took some treasures and Bingzhou's favorite horses that Ma Teng had specially bought from the Changshi Mansion in the Western Regions, and when he returned to Wuwei, he brought a large number of weapons and armor. Of course, in order not to attract attention, these weapons and armor were disassembled and stored in large wooden boxes according to numbers, and after being transported back to Wuwei, they were assembled by craftsmen who accompanied the Jin Kingdom.
It stands to reason that Han Sui did a good job on this errand and should be rewarded by Ma Teng, but the problem is that he "lost" the eldest lady of the Ma family in the Jin Kingdom. Ma Teng has many sons and few daughters, and he has always loved Ma Yunluo very much, otherwise he would not have easily agreed to go to the Jin Kingdom because of his daughter's entanglement.
Judging from what Han Sui learned privately, this eldest lady who did not go home in Wuyuan City and accompanied her brother Ma Chao was eight times out of ten because she fell in love with Zhao Yun and was suffering from nymphomania. Ma Yunluo didn't return to Wuwei, so Ma Dai had to come back and be reprimanded by his uncle. After being reprimanded by Ma Teng, the originally honest Ma Dai was anxious, so he distinguished a few words, and now even Ma Teng knew that his daughter had grown up and was no longer left.
Hearing that the man in his daughter's photo turned out to be the "jade-faced tiger" Zhao Yun, Ma Teng, who was old and uncultivated, grinned happily at that time, and said again and again: "My daughter has the ability, it's really a good vision!"
The subordinates around Ma Teng suddenly smiled when they saw the master who had been full of gloom for many days, and their hearts were very strange. It's no wonder that these subordinates can't understand how they can see how much interest will be involved in the entanglement between Ma Yunluo and Zhao Yun in the future.
The relationship between Ma Teng and Zhao Xing has always been in a good state, but when it comes to friendship, it is average. Ma Teng knew very well that his existence could not threaten Zhao Xing, so Zhao Xing would be so polite to him, and he would support him openly and secretly. Ma Teng is also very aware of his existence, and he is really threatening Dong Zhuo in Liangzhou, if there is no Zhao Xing to help, sooner or later he will be cleaned up by Dong Zhuo.
No one is willing to live under others, Zhao Xing, Dong Zhuo and Ma Teng are all the same kind of people. Dong Zhuo's wish is to destroy Ma Teng and support the puppet Liu Qian to be the king of Liangzhou, in fact, he wants to be the king of Liangzhou. Ma Teng doesn't know Dong Zhuo's hole cards at the moment, but he also has his own ideas. He wanted to use Zhao Xing's help to kill Dong Zhuo and then come to Liangzhou Mu himself.
Wuwei County is indeed quite a large territory for Ma Teng, who had nothing in the past, but after eight years of dormancy, today, when the situation in the world has changed dramatically, Ma Teng's appetite has also become bigger, and it is a whole state of land when calculated.
There are no benefits in this world, so why should Zhao Xing support himself? There must be common interests or emotional ties to bind the two sides tightly. Zhao Xing hoped that Zhao Yun would win Ma Yunluo, but he did not consider enhancing the relationship with Ma Teng's forces, and Ma Teng was even more eager to reach some kind of alliance of interests with Zhao Xing. Therefore, when he learned that his daughter had a relationship with Zhao Xing's brother, his first reaction was that his waist was stiffer and more confident.
A few years ago, several shadow team members who infiltrated Ma Teng's mansion and the army, in addition to Qin Yun, there were also Peng Jian, Yue Yun, and Yang Jiashao. Because these people are very deeply hidden, they have not shown any horses' feet, so they have gradually been promoted and reused, and the current identities of the three are: Peng Jian became the second housekeeper in the palace of the captain of Huqiang, mainly responsible for the preparation of the people in the palace, including horses, carriages, wine, food, clothing, etc.; Yue Yun has grown into a pioneer under Pang De, commanding a force of 500 people; Yang Jiashao is the leader of the guards around Han Sui, responsible for protecting Han Sui's safety.
Judging from what they have learned recently, Ma Teng is in full swing preparing for war, and the imaginary enemy is Dong Zhuo. Because Qin Yun returned to the Jin Kingdom, the task of being responsible for the transmission of intelligence now fell on the second housekeeper Peng Jian. Peng Jian took advantage of his advantageous status as a housekeeper to get in touch with Yue Yun and Yang Jiashao from time to time, so he could naturally get a general idea of the situation in Ma Teng's army.
After receiving the information sent by Peng Jian, Zhao Xing immediately made the following arrangements: First, he ordered someone to inform Ma Chao, who was in Wuyuan, to immediately lead his army from Wuyuan to the west and along the bank of the Yellow River upstream into the Wuwei area; second, to send an envoy to Wuwei to propose marriage to Ma Teng, so as to facilitate the marriage between Zhao Yun and Ma Yunluo as soon as possible; and third, to immediately notify Guan Yu in Gaonu in Shangjun and LĂź Bu in Diaoyin to make preparations for contingencies and to take countermeasures once it was found that Ma Teng's army was not supported.
Ma Chao's guards only have 3,000 people, which is just a drop in the bucket in front of Dong Zhuo's army of 60,000, Zhao Xing just let the young man roar to the battlefield in a hurry, is it a bit too hasty? Even if he saw Dong Zhuo and Ma Teng fighting, the Vanguard Army and the Flying Tiger Army had no reason or excuse to help Ma Teng fight?
Zhao Xing had already considered these problems, so he asked Ma Chao to bring back Wuwei not three thousand guards, but thirteen thousand people, of which 10,000 were soldiers of the Huang Xuan clan, led by Hu Che'er. Among the affinity team sent to Wuwei, Zhao Xing specially arranged a military advisor who was more familiar with the Qiang people to hide in it, ready to assist Ma Chao in the fight, this person was Guo Jia.
As for what kind of reasons and excuses Zhao Xing will find to let the Protector Army participate in the war, it is a very important secret, and there are no more than three people who know it so far, anyway, Dong Zhuo will definitely not be able to eat and walk around at that time.
As far as Zhao Xing is concerned, if he directly attacks Dong Zhuo, even if he does not find a reason for the red fruit land, the 180,000 soldiers of the Protector Army will obey unconditionally, and the key question is what to do after defeating Dong Zhuo? In front of the people of the world, the land that originally belonged to Liangzhou should be included in the jurisdiction of the Jin State, right? Since it is impossible to obtain practical benefits by directly doing it, Zhao Xing will not go to the pole to do this kind of thankless thing.
Dong Zhuo himself felt that holding the Four Princes in his hand was a life-saving hole card, but this hole card was Dong Zhuo's life-saving talisman in Zhao Xing's eyes. Dong Zhuo plans to support Liu Qian to be the king of Liang, and Zhao Xing also has this idea. Liu Qian is just a six-year-old child, like a puppet, who will listen to whoever falls into his hands. Now it seems that Dong Zhuo is holding Liu Qian's line, but what if Liu Qian falls into Zhao Xing's hands?
When Ma Teng tried his best to fight with Dong Zhuo, no matter which side won and which side lost, at this time, Zhao Xing came out to clean up the mess, destroyed Dong Zhuo, deterred Ma Teng, controlled Liu Qian, and the second plan to borrow the corpse to resurrect the soul could succeed......
With the super control of the shadow troops in Zhao Xing's hands, once Liu Qian was named the king of Liang, Zhao Xing only needed to appoint two capable generals in Liangzhou, one civil and one military, to be responsible for internal affairs and military affairs respectively, which was equivalent to controlling the land of the two states at the same time, and others could not find a reason to attack him.
This kind of good thing of praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches is behind, how many Zhao Xing will not be idle......