When the rugged and difficult mountain disappeared behind him.

When the danger of ten thousand people is opened unguardedly in front of his eyes.

When the surging Yellow River appeared in front of him.

When the slightly dilapidated Guanzhong, the barren fields, and the roadside with many bones, this scene appeared in front of his eyes.

Cao Cao finally couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "This is Guanzhong, the land of the three generations of Zhou, Qin, and Han. ”

He looked at the army behind him that stretched to the distance, just camped several miles away, and he couldn't even see his face before and after, this kind of army was so strong that it was the strongest since the end of the Later Han Dynasty.

He felt too lucky.

Yuan Shao is strong, but he is in the land of four wars, and he has successively encountered strong northern enemies such as Gongsun Zan and Yan State, and when he fought with himself, he was raided by Yan State, and as a result, he was reaped by himself and picked peaches.

The worst enemy died in the siege.

It's quite lucky to encounter this kind of thing once, but I never expected that it would be able to reproduce it once in Guanzhong.

Ma Chao, a Liangzhou tiger general, and a hero in Guanzhong, also encountered a strong enemy from outside the Han Dynasty, and he came to Huang Que by himself.

It's just too smooth.

smoothly made Cao Cao himself feel that he was really blessed by destiny.

"Ma Chao, Ma Chao."

Cao Cao's eyes narrowed slightly, and there was murderous intent in his eyes.

Cao Cao and Ma Chao's festival was quite large.

……

The prancing horse raised his gun, feeling the cool breeze blowing from both sides of his cheeks, and Ma Chao only felt that the beads of sweat on his cheeks were slightly dry.

The spear in his hand never stopped, still harvesting life at high speed.

He is Jin Ma Chao in Liangzhou Guanzhong, he is the Shenweitian general of the Qiang people, and he is the Yongwang of Guanxi!

The reckless mountains and rivers trembled only under the hooves of his horse, and life bloomed and disappeared in the blood flowers.

In the eyes of the people of the Western Regions, he is like a demon god, invincible and invincible, just like the legendary protector god of Buddhism and Taoism.

The bones everywhere are proof of Ma Chao's brave posture.

The war between the Western Regions and Guanzhong was tragic, and no one was willing to make any concessions, and both sides had already begun to fill it with the most ordinary young and strong.

Batches of elites were trained by the brutality of war and then fell on the battlefield.

Ma Chao withdrew his invincible blade a little tiredly, he kept attacking here, but the soldiers of the Western Regions seemed to be unable to kill.

With the blessing of those Taoist priests and monks, they attacked their army without fear of death.

Ma Chao swore that if he could defeat the king of the Western Regions, he would definitely rush into the Western Regions and smash all those temples and Taoist temples to pieces.

……

Cao Cao led a large army into Guanzhong, but the news of the surrender of the Xiliang princes finally reached the ears of Ma Chao and other high-level officials of the Yongguo.

The question asked by Fa Zheng that day had a definite answer.

The princes of the Central Plains not only knew that there was a big war here, but also directly raised a large army to attack.

Cao Cao's attack on Guanzhong was too huge, he was the largest prince in the Central Plains, Guanzhong was in a weak position, and now he also gathered a group of Xiliang princes, with these people leading the way, the power was so strong that Ma Chao could not imagine.

"The widow and Cao Cao have an enmity."

Ma Chao said to Fa Zheng with a gloomy face, "Cao Cao is afraid that he will be eager to kill the widow and then hurry up." ”

Ma Chao's courtiers were all a little flustered.

At the beginning, Cao Cao invited the princes of the Han family to go to the Central Plains to help and attack Yuan Shao, but in the end, Ma Chao stabbed Cao Cao in the back, almost blocking Cao Cao on the north bank of the Yellow River and not coming back.

If it weren't for the efforts of Xiahoudun and Chen Gong, Yanzhou's foundation would probably be ruined.

Cao Cao has been in the Central Plains for so many years, and the dangers encountered that time can definitely be ranked in the top three.

This kind of deep hatred, Cao Cao must kill Ma Chao quickly.

Now that the king of the Western Regions in the west has vowed to go east, there is a real fire between the two sides, and neither side will retreat.

In the east, Cao Cao, an enemy, led a large army to come, vowing to set foot in Guanzhong, which was almost a place of death.

Ma Chao said with some difficulty: "At the beginning, Yuan Benchu was defeated under the attack, and now the outnumbered people are not as powerful as Yuan Benchu, but they have encountered the same situation, how should this be?" ”

Fa Zheng thought for a while and then said in a deep voice: "King, the current situation is nothing more than war and peace.

If the king is willing to fight, although the Cao army is powerful, it may not be able to win, after all, this is Guanzhong, not Kandong, with the king you are here, our army may not have the strength to fight.

If the king thinks that he is not Cao Cao's opponent, he can surrender.

Although the king thinks that he has a great enmity with Cao Cao, Cao Cao has the ambition of the world.

He is a man of great will, with the opportunity of the universe in mind, and the measure of tolerance, and the people who have always surrendered to Cao Cao have never had accidents.

The king just backstabbed Cao Cao as an ally, what is this?

Since Bang Zhou, apart from Luo, which prince has not betrayed his allies?

Even Cao Cao himself backstabbed Liu Bei, the king of Chu.

As a male lord who aspires to dominate the world, if the king is willing to submit, then Cao Cao will gladly accept the king.

He didn't have to spend anything to get a powerful army and land, and he couldn't get it. ”

Ma Chao was silent for a moment, and then said slowly: "Filial piety, do you mean to let the widow surrender to Cao Cao like this?" ”

Ma Chao was extremely aggrieved in his heart.

This is simply a non-war crime for him, if it weren't for the king of the Western Regions attacking him like crazy, he would definitely not have fallen into this step.

He should have been a powerful country in the world with the power of Western Qin, not the current state of stormy and stormy.

Fa Zheng shook his head in the eyes of everyone, and Shi Shiran said: "If you say that you will not surrender, the minister's idea is not to surrender.

At least you can't just surrender without doing anything.

That's really at the mercy of man.

Moreover, Cao Cao's power is too strong today, and he may not take the king too much in his heart, so Cao Cao must be allowed to see the value of the king, whether it is war or peace, he can negotiate conditions. ”

Ma Chao breathed a long sigh of relief, at least he still had a chance, and he might not be able to find a way out of a desperate situation.

He didn't see Fa Zheng sighing behind his back, and the previous words were all to comfort Ma Chao.

The situation in Guanzhong has reached the current point, and the possibility of reversing the situation is very small, unless Yan, Lü Bu, Wu and other countries attack Wei together.

Let the Wei State start a war in Nanyang, Huaisi, Yanzhou, Jizhou, and Sanhe at the same time, then the Wei State will definitely collapse in a short time.

Otherwise, with the current national strength of Wei, he would be able to defeat the rest of the princes on another front while holding on one front.

Although he was not optimistic about Ma Chao's future in his heart, Fa Zheng still planned for Ma Chao responsibly: "King, dealing with the Western Regions and Cao Cao at the same time is the way to die."

Now one person must be dealt with with all his might.

The minister's suggestion was to cede the four counties of Hexi to the king of the Western Regions in exchange for the support of the king of the Western Regions, and then attack Cao Cao together. ”

Ceded the four counties of Hexi to the king of the Western Regions?

Ma Chao pondered, although Liangzhou is where he started his Ma family, he is a Fufeng person, and it doesn't matter if the four counties in Hexi are not.

Fa Zheng put forward this suggestion, not necessarily without the same idea, for a noble son like him in Guanzhong, the four counties of Hexi are dispensable.

If it is really possible to exchange the four counties of Hexi for a short period of peace, it will be completely worth it.

Ma Chao doubted: "Can the King of the Western Regions agree?" ”

Fa Zheng shook the feather fan lightly, only revealing slightly narrow eyes, and said in a gloomy voice: "Please also ask the king to send an envoy, just wait for the minister's guidance, and it will be successful." ”

……

Western Regions Barracks.

Ma Chao would send an envoy to the king of the Western Regions was somewhat unexpected, and all the nobles of the Western Regions looked at the envoy curiously.

The envoy was bold enough to go straight to the queen of the Western Regions, and then heard the king of the Western Regions ask, "What is the reason why the envoy is here, but the king of Yong is willing to surrender to my Great Xia Kingdom?" ”

The envoy's face did not change, he had been instructed when he came, and it was impossible to be angry, so he directly began the classic speech, and laughed loudly: "King, the foreign ministers are here because the great disaster of the Xia Kingdom is coming, if not, how can the ministers appear here?" ”

When the king of the Western Regions heard this, he immediately sneered and said: "The envoy is really joking, my Western Regions is vast, the population is large, there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the country, communication with the West Pole, and there are many goods, I am afraid that your country is not my country's opponent." ”

The words of the king of the Western Regions made everyone in the tent proud, and after coming out of the east, he realized that the Western Regions were already so strong.

The envoy smiled and said, "Great King, don't you know that Cao Cao, the biggest prince in the Central Plains, has entered Guanzhong?"

He has two thousand miles of land, all of which are suitable fields for farming, with a population of tens of millions, an army of hundreds of thousands, and a huge force, even if the king and my king combined, I am afraid that he is not an opponent.

You and my king here to kill to the end, but it is just a lose-lose ending, and in the end, Cao Cao reaped the benefits of the fisherman.

My king already wants to surrender to Cao Cao, and when that time comes, how will you deal with yourself, my lord?

The king ordered his ministers to come here because of the truth that his lips are dead and his teeth are cold, don't you understand this truth, my lord? ”

The words of the envoy of Yongguo made the face of the king of the Western Regions change again and again, and he was not calm at all, before he attacked the Central Plains, he naturally investigated the information of the Central Plains.

Know what a powerful prince Cao Cao is.

But since the war happened, he has not reaped any benefits, and he has to fight against Cao Cao with the Ma Chao Alliance, he is naturally unwilling, there is no such reason in this world.

Before the king of the Western Regions could say anything, the nobles of the Western Regions in the tent had already exploded, and said angrily: "What Cao Cao, I don't know, but if King Yong wants to use these words to make me stop attacking, it will be a dream!"

Liangzhou Guanzhong must be in my pocket in the Western Regions! ”

Looking at the excited nobles of the Western Regions, the king of the Western Regions suddenly knew that it was absolutely impossible to negotiate peace with Ma Chao, and people died for money and birds died for food, this is the reality!

The messenger sighed slightly, knowing that he really had to come up with the last killer weapon.

So he said aloud in the noisy voices of everyone: "Great King, my king is willing to cede the entire Hexi Corridor to the Western Regions and sign a cession contract as the sincerity of the union between the two sides. ”

Hearing this, the King of the Western Regions immediately stood up and asked in a loud voice, "Is King Yong serious?" ”

The nobles of the Western Regions also quieted down, looking at each other with some surprise, and the envoy nodded heavily: "Naturally, this is my king's national letter!" ”

As he spoke, he took out the national letter from his bosom, which had been printed with the big seal of King Yong, with the map of the Hexi Corridor and the directory of the population household registration atlas.

After the complete population registration land atlas is handed over, this is really the land of the Western Regions, and it can directly take over the kind of tax collection, and this sincerity is not unimportant.

The King of the Western Regions couldn't help laughing, and then looked at the envoy with shining eyes and said: "Please also ask your envoy to return to King Yong, since King Yong has such sincerity, my Erlang of the Western Regions values integrity the most, and the widow is willing to make an alliance with King Yong's blood to fight against Cao Cao, the King of Wei, who invaded the pass." ”

The nobles of the Western Regions in this tent didn't say much, they fought for so long and shed so much blood, didn't they just want to get the Hexi Corridor?

How many people died in the Western Regions for this strategic goal?

Now that I have obtained this place without much effort, it is in the interests of the Western Regions to fight Cao Cao, who tried to invade the pass.

After all, Ma Chao occupies Guanzhong, and the Western Regions still have a chance to seize Guanzhong, if Cao Cao is allowed to occupy Guanzhong, then the Western Regions may be blocked in the extreme west for the rest of his life and cannot come out.

……

Cao Cao, who had had a smooth journey, didn't know that Ma Chao and the King of the Western Regions had reached a brief covenant, but he sensed that something was wrong with Guanzhong.

Ma Chao is in the clear field of the strong wall.

In the Zhaocheng meeting, it was agreed that each other would not destroy each other's grain, grass and farmland, but just as the way not to kill the captives was not to take prisoners.

As long as it is not deliberately and obviously destroyed, the agreement does not say that it cannot be harvested and eaten by itself, and the part that cannot be eaten by people can be fed to horses and other livestock.

Feeling Ma Chao's resolute will to fight, Cao Cao smiled at the ministers of Wei State: "It seems that Ma Chao is going to resist to the end and want to fight with the outnumbered army." ”

Although he was smiling on his face, his voice was full of coldness, and he felt that Ma Chao was a little ignorant and dared to resist himself.

Xun You frowned and said: "I'm afraid it's because he backstabbed the king at the beginning, and now he is worried that the king will be liquidated by him because of this matter, so he desperately resists, which is not a good thing." ”

Cao Cao was about to make a disdainful remark against Ma Chao, when he saw Xi Zhicai, whom he trusted, also said in a deep voice: "King, Ma Chao is the general of the tiger and wolf, and I lack such a general in Wei the most."

The captain has the courage of ten thousand people, but he does not have the talent to command the army.

The generals of the clan have their own talents and even handsome talents, but they are not enough to be called the enemy of ten thousand.

Only General Xu can charge into battle and have the talent to lead an army, but it is far from enough.

If Ma Chao can be subdued, when he and Liu Xuande are held in the future, our army will not be inferior to the generals of the 10,000 enemies.

Ma Chao's Fa Zheng Fa Xiaozhi is also the world's top resourceful man, especially good at military strategy, these years to help the wind Ma can be big in Guanzhong, Fa Xiaozhi I don't know how many meritorious deeds this person has made, if you can get this person, Liu Xuande, who has no strategists, is not the opponent of the king. ”

Cao Cao's eyes lit up when he heard these words, and now he can be called a general like a cloud, and his ministers are like rain, even Yuan Shao at the peak of his time is not as good as him.

If Ma Chao can join his command, then Liu Bei's strongest military general group is not inferior to him.

Jin Ma Chao vs. Zhao Yun, Northland Spear King Zhang Xiu vs. Tai Shici, Tiger Idiot Xu Chu vs. Zhang Fei, Gu Zhi Evil Lai Dian Wei vs. Guan Yu, and himself and the generals of the Xiahou and Cao clans.

Isn't it just not falling behind?

It's a few points better than Liu Xuande!

Cao Cao, a great writer who is quite emotional, when he thought of this, he suddenly had endless magnificent waves in his heart, and he felt extremely cool, and he was better than Liu Bei in terms of military generals, and he couldn't think of it before.

He said in high spirits: "Zhicai said it well.

The widow has the mind to accommodate the universe, as long as Ma Chao is willing to surrender, the widow will inevitably treat him as a prince, if he is not willing to surrender, then hit him until he surrenders.

Marching into Chang'an! ”

Cao Cao waved his sword and ordered, and the army, which stretched for several miles, began to march again, and a steady stream of grain and grass was brought up the river from the Yellow River.

……

Ma Chao endured the pain of cutting off the Hexi Corridor in exchange for the opportunity to make a bloody alliance with the king of the Western Regions, and his speed was very fast, and he immediately withdrew all the Yongguo army from the four counties, including the scholars who were unwilling to stay in the four counties.

As for those Dashi clans, they are naturally reluctant to go, and Ma Chao is unwilling to rule here, so they serve as the king of the Western Regions.

Now the real territory in the hands of Ma Chao, only the eastern part of Liangzhou remains, that is, the traditional source of the Janissaries of the Six Counties of the Han Dynasty, in the Later Han Dynasty, except for Longxi County, the rest of the counties were frequently renamed, so the world will be called the six counties.

In addition to these six counties, Ma Chao also ruled most of Sanfu, and he and Han Sui were originally bounded by Chang'an, and the west of Chang'an belonged to him, including Chang'an City.

But later he attacked and killed Han Sui, although because of the sudden attack of the Western Regions, he did not kill all the princes of Xiliang and occupy the entire Guanzhong, but Han Sui still had a considerable amount of land occupied by him.

His current sphere of influence is basically somewhat similar to that of the Qin State during the Great Western Exploration.

Ma Chao led the army back to the east, and Fa Zheng took a slight inventory with him, and both of them had a slight twitch on their faces.

Because of the battle between Yongguo and the Western Regions, the losses caused were too great, basically fifty percent of the elite were folded in, and the other losses were countless.

The entire Yongguo national strength was at least half reduced because of this war, and the Zhongxia Kingdom would not be much better.

Ma Chao asked with a little trembling: "The strength of my Yongguo is not as good as that of Wei, and now it has suffered heavy losses, can it really fight with Cao Cao, the king of Wei?" ”

Unless the soldiers of Guanzhong can be ten with one, it will be difficult to defeat Cao Cao.

He even directly gave birth to the idea of surrendering, and the current situation is like hitting a stone with an egg, and there is no chance of winning at all.

Fa Zheng saw Ma Chao's thoughts, and said in a deep voice: "King, in this world, useful talents will not be abandoned, and talented talents will be reused."

Even if the strength of my Yongguo is not as good as that of Wei, but there are Xia and Qiang tribes, at least there is forty percent of the strength of the Wei army!

Forty percent strength, as long as the tactics are appropriate, is enough to defeat the weak. ”

His eyes were full of crazy red light, even Ma Chao was startled by this appearance of Fa Zheng, he had no idea why Fa Zheng was like this.

Fa Zheng's mind is very clear, Ma Chao is now afraid of Cao Cao, in this case, it is difficult to win, but the education Fa Zheng received since childhood could not let him surrender so easily.

He wanted Cao Cao to invite him to Wei State, who attached great importance to him.

As far as Fa Zheng is concerned, since he can no longer help Ma Chaoding to reach the world, he wants to achieve something great in the Wei State.

People of insight in the world can see that Cao Wei is likely to dominate the world, and Fa Zheng naturally wants to get a piece of the pie.

Fa Zheng probably couldn't have imagined that he had already made his name with Cao Cao, and he belonged to the people who could take Cao Cao's big ship without doing anything.

He misjudged his influence among the Kanto advisors.

……

Cao Cao marched into Guanzhong and divided his troops into three ways to attack Ma Chao.

Ma Chao followed Fa Zheng's strategy, took advantage of the geographical advantages of Guanzhong, avoided Cao Cao's main force, and attacked one of the partial armies, saying that it was a partial army, but the military strength was not less than the main force, and there was no shortage of generals and generals.

Today's Cao Wei is able to be so extravagant, and his family background is too thick!

……

Ma Chao suddenly covered the army and killed, but seeing the flag waving and flying sand and stones, the Wei army couldn't see how many people there were at all, and could only hear countless horses' hooves resounding in the smoke and dust.

The Wei sergeant immediately panicked.

Seeing arrows shot out from there, the Wei army was immediately a little scattered, and when the smoke and dust dispersed a little, I saw that all the cavalry were covered with strange bloody skins and ghost masks on their faces.

This impactful scene appeared in front of the Wei army, and the horses in full armor that rushed out at the front directly crashed into the Wei army camp before they had time to form a formation.

The infantry soldiers who did not form a formation were nothing more than lambs to be slaughtered in the face of the fully armed cavalry, and even the elite Wei troops immediately scattered and fled.

Xiahou Yuan, who commanded the army, only felt like falling into an ice cellar, but he quickly reacted to one thing, and asked in a cold sweat, "Where is the second son?" ”

I don't know!

The people around him were confused, and Xiahou Yuan's heart sank more and more.

The son of the King of Wei - Cao Pi!

Now in the army!

In this chaotic army, if there is any accident, it will be bad.

This Wei army directly bombed the camp, in this case, even Han Xin could not pack up the army, Xiahou Yuan could only find people in the chaotic army, but in the face of the crowd that came to him, he desperately found that it was impossible to find it.

If he doesn't leave, I'm afraid he himself will be coerced to death in the chaos.

Ma Chao and Fa Zheng laughed as they looked at the overwhelming army, and secretly said in their hearts: "Cao Cao should know the ability of the two of us this time, right?" ”

Ma Chao was smiling and rushing to kill, when he suddenly seemed to hear something, shouting the son of King Wei or something.

Huh?

The son of King Wei?

Ma Chao and Fa Zheng glanced at each other, made sure that they had heard correctly, and hurriedly looked at the source of the sound on the noisy battlefield, and saw a team of soldiers besieging several people, one of whom was dressed in fine armor, and at first glance he was an important person, but his martial arts were relatively poor.

It can't really be the son of King Wei, right?

The son of the king of Wei did not follow the king of Wei in the Chinese army, why did he appear in such a partial army?

That's too dangerous, isn't it?

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard the man shout loudly again: "I am Cao Pi, the son of the King of Wei, let me go today, and my father will be grateful for it." ”

Crouch......

What a son of King Wei!

Ma Chao and Fa Zheng glanced at each other, everyone was numb, the two of them were worth showing, not dead, Ma Chao was about to shout loudly, making the soldiers stop.

Poof!

An arrow hit Cao Pi's face heavily, and an arrow pierced through Cao Pi's face with an unwilling look, and he fell to the ground in an instant, and the surrounding soldiers were cheering, which was a great achievement.

Ma Chao and Fa Zheng only felt like falling into an ice cellar.

The son of the King of Wei died at our hands?

Ma Chao said with some difficulty: "Filial piety, you said that Cao Cao has a mind to tolerate the world, can he still tolerate this hatred of killing his son?" ”

Fa Zheng's forehead was bruised, he took a deep breath, and then said slowly: "Cao Cao must have such a mind, but do you believe it?" ”

"The widow does not believe!"

Ma Chao said categorically, people always treat others as their own, he thinks that he can't let go of the enemy who killed his son, so he naturally doesn't believe that Cao Cao can endure it.

Fa Zheng nodded and said, "Besides, Cao Cao is old, even if he is willing to let us go for the sake of the world, what about his son?"

We killed the brother of the future monarch of Wei, then Cao Ang, I heard that I have a good relationship with all of you, will I take revenge on Cao Pi in the future?

People can't live in the moment, they always have to look at the future. ”

Ma Chao was silent, but he knew that what Fa Zheng said was right, and if he surrendered to Cao Cao in this case, he would really hand over his life to the Cao family.

And ask yourself, there is a high probability that you will not get any good ending.

Having said that, Fa Zheng and Ma Chao already have a choice to make.

The originally planned plan to surrender Cao Cao could no longer be implemented under such circumstances.

Ma Chao said with a sad face: "Then what now?"

If Cao Cao knew that we had killed his son, he would have been furious, and if he had joined forces to attack, our army would have been no opponent! ”

Fa Zheng sighed slightly: "Now we have two choices, one is to surrender to Cao Cao first, and then find an opportunity to rebel against Cao Ying."

Second, now Cao Cao's army is in Guanzhong, and there are not many troops in the country.

We can only lead more than 10,000 Xiliang iron horsemen, carry grain and grass, cross the east of the river, and then go from the border between Jin and Wei, all the way to the border between Wei and Yan, and finally reach Qingzhou.

There will be no army to intercept us along the way, and then we will directly join Yan Guo or Liu Xuande. ”

Are you kidding?

After marching for 2,000 miles, he brought dry food, isn't this looking for death?

Fa Zheng is a strategist, and as a commander-in-chief, he knows how difficult it is to march so far, and without supplies, it is simply impossible.

The most reliable is the first way, but ......

Ma Chao really couldn't make up his mind, he just killed Cao Cao's son, turned his head and surrendered to Cao Cao, no matter how you look at it, it's like looking for death.

When the interruption continues, it will be chaotic!

Ma Chao decided to follow the first method, and now there is really no other way, Fa Zheng knew that Ma Chao had made up his mind as soon as he saw Ma Chao's expression.

He began to figure out his own future.

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The emperor conquered Ma Chao, Zi Pi died in the hands of Chao, and Chao cried tears and begged, the emperor endured grief and said: "Life and death have a life, I am sad but not angry, and I am safe." - "Wei Shu Wu Di Benji"

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