Chapter 529: Ma Teng's Sons Are Saved
Ma vacated the city of Guzang and walked to the southeast, and when the team walked about twenty miles, they saw a wide and majestic loess pass standing in the distance.
After the teams of the two sides met, Yan Xing dismounted and saluted Ma Teng, and then reported: "Yan Xing led 2,000 people to escort according to the general's order, please command the general!"
Ma Teng saw that the soldiers brought by Yan Xing were in good spirits and had strict military discipline, and he liked it in his heart, so he said happily: "Please General Yan lead the way in front!"
Yan Xing waited for Ma Teng's words, so naturally he had no objections, and led his two thousand men and horses into the canyon first.
At the beginning, Yan Xing's team was still able to control the speed and keep an appropriate distance from the Ma Teng convoy that followed behind, but when they reached the middle of the canyon, they didn't know if they had found an abnormality in front, Yan Xing actually led his troops to gallop wildly, leaving Ma Teng far behind.
Ma Teng, who found that the situation was different, immediately called to his side and ordered: "Go and investigate quickly and see what happened to General Yan's team!"
When the entourage was about to get up to receive the order, he suddenly heard the whistling sound of arrows breaking through the air above his head, so he hurriedly tried to hide in front of Ma Teng, but his action was already half a minute late.
Ma Teng watched in amazement as a rain of arrows flew towards him, and before he could give any orders, he was shot into a hedgehog, and the soldier who listened to the order in front of him was also hit by multiple arrows, and died on the spot.
Before the hundreds of guards in the valley could react, a continuous rain of arrows shot down like splashing water, continuing to mercilessly harvest the lives of these innocent soldiers.
After a while, the ambush soldiers on the top of the canyon finally stopped firing their bows and crossbows when they saw that there were no more living centaurs in the valley.
Yan Xing, who had already disappeared without a trace, suddenly turned around and returned to the place where Ma Teng's convoy was ambushed, and personally checked that Ma Teng and his guards had all been wiped out, and then ordered his subordinates to bring back the corpses of Ma Teng and the guards to the place. Next, Yan Xing will also stage a big drama in the Chinese army, throwing the black cauldron of Ma Teng's death to Zhao Xing of the Jin Kingdom, so Ma Teng's corpse after being hit by an arrow is still of great use.
In history, because Ma Teng believed Cao Cao's words, he was lured into the capital and killed, and ended up with a tragic ending where he was in a different place and could not return to his homeland. Ma Teng in this time and space, because of his unclear judgment of the situation, believed Han Sui's slander, and finally died with ten thousand arrows through his heart, which is also emotional.
Not long after Ma Teng led the team to leave Guzang City, Peng Jian, the second housekeeper who was originally vomiting and diarrhea, turned out to be possessed by a fairy, and his body was completely improved, so he jumped out of bed and went straight to the courtyard where Ma Teng's sons lived.
The two brothers, Ma Xiu and Ma Tie, were fighting with wooden guns in the courtyard, and when they saw Peng Jian rushing in, they asked a little puzzled: "What is the urgency of Steward Peng's coming here?"
Peng Jian had already thought about how to deceive the words of the two children, so he said with a panicked face: "General Ma originally asked me to accompany the two sons to the left army garrison in Luanniao City to comfort the army, but the little one forgot about this important incident because of the unbearable diarrhea at night, but now that he remembered it, he hurried to tell the two sons. ”
Ma Xiu and Ma Tie, who were locked up in the house, lived a very boring life on weekdays, the last time Ma Chao went to Yuyang, Ma Teng strictly ordered the two not to accompany him, so he had long been thinking about looking for an opportunity to go out of the city to play, when they heard Peng Jian say that he had the opportunity to go to comfort the army on behalf of his father, they immediately cheered, and urged Peng Jian to hurry up, taking advantage of the fact that it was still early, no matter what, they would go out of the city today.
Peng Jian, who had already made preparations, immediately took the two sons of the Ma family out of the mansion and came to the south gate, just in time to see some carriages full of supplies waiting there. Peng Jian beckoned Ma Xiu and Ma Tie to get into the carriage, but he fell behind the convoy on the grounds of escorting the car.
When he watched the Shadow Team escort Ma Xiu and Ma Tie out of Guzang City, Peng Jian immediately turned back to Ma Teng's mansion, although the current situation was already very critical, Peng Jian still had some follow-up things to do.
First of all, he wanted to send a letter to Pang De, who was far west of Wuwei, to wake up Pang De to guard against a military mutiny in Xiliang, and at the same time remind Pang De to protect Ma Teng's subordinate Ma Dai. It turned out that Ma Dai was now serving in the army, and this time he happened to follow Pang De out to fight, so he naturally escaped a catastrophe.
Secondly, Peng Jian continued to collect evidence that Han Sui was plotting to rebel and even assassinating Ma Teng, so that he could give an explanation to Ma Chao in the future and prevent Han Sui from detaining the basin that killed Ma Teng on the body of the "leading brother".
Ma Xiu and Ma Tie rode the carriage all the way to the south, and the brothers were in a very happy mood, not to mention how happy they were. The location of Luanniao City is just south of Wuwei, and further south is the Jincheng Lingju garrisoned by the army of Liangguo, so after the convoy drove for a whole day, the two brothers Ma Xiu and Ma Tie, who were familiar with the terrain of Wuwei, did not find anything abnormal.
According to the map markings, the convoy of the labor army camped in the evening and rested for the night, and then caught up with a certain distance the next morning to arrive at Luanniao City at noon. The two brothers ate excitedly at the supper brought by the convoy escort, and soon fell asleep.
After a while, several members of the Shadow Squad gathered outside the carriage where Ma Xiu and Ma Tie were sleeping, and one of them said in a deep voice: "Han Sui rushed to Luanniao by fast horse early this morning, in order to prevent accidents, we hurried overnight and made a detour to Cangsong City, which was originally the station of Pang Lingming, the left army of the Xiliang Army, and now people go to the city, which is just convenient for us to pass!"
After several team members agreed on the course of action, they immediately untied all the horses that were originally pulling the carriage, wrapped cotton cloth on the horses' hooves, and directly left dozens of carriages full of withered grass to ignore them, and carried two children who were enchanted by sweat medicine all the way to the east.
Not long after Peng Jian wrote the secret letter to Pang De, Cheng Gongying led five hundred elite soldiers to Mafu in a menacing manner. According to Cheng Gongying, now Guzang City is full of spies who rebel against the Qiang people, intending to plot against General Ma's family, and he received an order from Ma Teng to come to protect Mafu.
For this kind of excuse for death without proof, Peng Jian naturally scoffed. He pretended to be very grateful to Cheng Gongying for coming to protect the Ma Mansion, and then used the excuse that he wanted to buy vegetables and food for the five hundred soldiers, and wanted to find an opportunity to leave the Ma Teng Mansion. Then the thoughtful Cheng Gongying was unmoved, rejected Peng Jian's kindness, and bluntly said that his soldiers came with food, and there was no need to bother the people of Mafu to cook.
Peng Jian looked at this formation and knew that he was now in a desperate situation, and if he was not careful, he would be killed by Cheng Gongying looking for an opportunity. At this critical juncture, his first concern was not his own safety, but how to send the secret letter to Pound out of the mansion smoothly.