The day after persuading Ma Teng and killing the Han envoy, Ma Chao immediately actively prepared for war. First, he led the troops and plundered various cities in Fufeng County. He plundered not the people's wealth, but the craftsmen, especially the blacksmiths. But all the craftsmen who have a skill, Ma Chao will take all the orders, not a single one, all of them can't help but say, and they are taken captive to Chencang City. In addition, through Ma Teng's relationship, Ma Chao asked for a lot of iron ore and scrap iron from Fufeng Taishou.

The entire Fufeng County was shaken because of this, and people believed that Ma Chao intended to rebel. Ma Chao looted the whole county and obtained more than 1,000 craftsmen, of which more than 600 were blacksmiths. Ma Chao's intention in doing this is to step up the creation of stirrups and horseshoes. The stirrup can help the cavalry to sit firmly on the horseback, with the stirrup, the cavalry does not have to hold the saddle with one hand, can handle the weapon with both hands, and the combat effectiveness is greatly enhanced; The horseshoe is a sharp weapon to protect the war horse, which greatly increases the ability of the war horse to run long distances.

When Ma Chao was capturing the craftsmen, he found that one of the craftsmen had a special description and was different from ordinary people. Ma Chaoqi talked to the craftsman and found that the craftsman had a stuttering problem, but he was quick-witted; Ma Chao asked again and learned that this person's surname is Ma Mingjun and the word Deheng!

Ma Jun was the most famous inventor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, a native of Fufeng, and a fellow villager of Ma Chao, who invented the overturning car and the weaving machine. Ma Chao Da Joy! With such a talent, Ma Chao naturally would not let go, so he set up a craftsman battalion headed by Ma Jun, and gave Ma Jun simple drawings of stirrups and horseshoes, and ordered him to step up to create a weight for tens of thousands of horses. Although Ma Jun stutters, he has extraordinary intelligence and is good at thinking. The stirrups and horseshoes are also very simple in shape, so it is not difficult for him at all. Within two days, Ma Chao was given enough stirrups and horseshoes for 40,000 horses.

When the entire army of 20,000 horsemen was equipped with stirrups and horseshoes, the ridicule and disdain for Ma Chao's unscrupulous work disappeared, and were replaced by surprise and admiration. After using it, the cavalry discovered the benefits of the stirrup and the horseshoe, and became more convinced of Ma Chao.

After having the stirrup, Ma Chao began to train the galloping skills of his five thousand horsemen. In the era when there were no stirrups and could only rely on the legs to clamp the horse's belly and hold the saddle with one hand to fix it, the Han people who knew gallop shooting were almost one in ten thousand; Even the Hu people outside the Saiwai rarely have warriors who can shoot skillfully.

But with the help of the stirrups, Ma Chao's galloping skills were trained very quickly, but the accuracy was very poor, and only when he was close to the distance of twenty paces could he kill and injure the enemy in a big way. But just like that, Ma Chao is also very satisfied. After all, even he, the "Shenwei Heavenly General", can't guarantee that he will shoot 100 shots and 100 hits. Ma Chao also tried his martial arts, only to know that his shooting skills are only at the upper middle level, but he has the courage of ten thousand people, the silver gun makes the water not leak, and the swordsmanship is also amazing (in history, Ma Chao has a stunt swordsmanship "out of the technique").

In just five days, he got 5,000 fine horses, and got Ma Dai and Pang De as his generals, and also got stirrups and horseshoes, which are artifacts that belong to "black technology" in the Eastern Han Dynasty; With the support of his father Ma Teng, the entire Fufeng County as a base, and the support of the entire hundred-legged insect dead but not stiff imperial court, Ma Chao finally had some confidence to face Han Sui directly.

But to say that Ma Chao is not afraid of Han Sui is a lie. Han Sui's real name is Han Yue, and the general He Jin once heard about his reputation and invited him to the mansion to talk. Han Yue was a man of insight who knew that the Ten Standing Servants were the scourge of the world, and strongly persuaded He Jin to kill the Ten Standing Attendants. But He Jin was a, I don't know if he still relied on the Ten Standing Servants, or was afraid of the power of the Ten Standing Servants, so he didn't accept Han Yue's suggestion.

Because of this, Han Yue died of his heart on the imperial court. Not long after returning to Liangzhou, Beigong Yu, the leader of the Qiang people, was ordered by Zhang Jiao, a great virtuous teacher, to raise troops in Xizhou and take Han Yue and Bian Yun, who had prestige in Liangzhou, hostage as the commanders of the rebels. Han Yue took advantage of this to gradually control the rebels' military power, and it didn't take long for him to design and kill Song Yang, Beigong Boyu (that is, Beigong Yu), Bian Yun (that is, Bian Zhang) and others, and became the de facto commander of the rebels; It was renamed Han Sui again, and the words were about.

Now, Han Sui and his commanders occupy most of Liangzhou; With 200,000 cavalry, it can be said that the soldiers are strong and strong, dominating Xiliang, and even the imperial court may not be able to have such strong soldiers. And Ma Teng and Ma Chao's forces were like a toddler baby facing a middle-aged man in front of Han Sui.

What's more, Ma Chao came from later generations, and he knew that Han Sui had defeated Huangfu Song, Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian and other famous generals in the world one after another. Therefore, whether Han Sui is wise or able to command troops to fight, he is a famous general.

Ma Chao has no idea whether he can defeat Han Sui or not. But Han Sui's strength aroused Ma Chao's ambition even more, Ma Chao thought to himself, the road to conquer the world and conquer the heroes starts with this Han Sui.

So he prepared for several days, and Ma Chao dreamed every night that he wanted to immediately lead the army to attack Liangzhou, and meet Han Sui, who was known as the "Yellow River of Jiuqu", to fight with him.

As a result, it didn't take long for the head of the envoy sent by Han Sui to persuade him to surrender to Jincheng, and Han Sui immediately sent a force of 5,000 cavalry to attack Chencang City.

Ma Chao was overjoyed and immediately led his army out of the city to meet the attack. Ma Chao ordered 5,000 elite cavalry to use gallop shooting skills, but the rebels did not expect Ma Chao's troops to be more proficient in galloping and shooting, and were caught off guard. Ma Chao took the opportunity to lead the army to cover up and defeat the rebels. In this battle, Ma Chaobu beheaded more than 2,000 horsemen and forced down the other half of the men, while he only lost 300 horsemen. Ma Chao added these soldiers to his subordinates, and sure enough, as he imagined, the soldiers knew his life experience, and they did not resent him, but obeyed him very much.

After the victory, Ma Chao bid farewell to Ma Teng and led the army to advance towards Anding County, the only county still under the rule of the imperial court. In order to intercept Ma Chao, Han Sui sent four successive groups of troops to fight, which were broken by Ma Chao one by one and were incorporated into the tribes. Five battles and five victories, the gains were not small and the damage was very small, so that Ma Chao's prestige was immediately raised in Xizhou; Finally, some Qiang people began to call him "General Shenweitian".

It was expected that Han Sui knew that Ma Chao was not a soft persimmon, so this time he no longer sent troops to fight Ma Chao head-on, but sent a strange army to attack for a long time, bypassing Ma Chao's marching route, and the goal was to sneak attack Chen Cangcheng of Fufeng County behind Ma Chao. Fortunately, Ma Chao's scouts discovered this strange army, and Ma Chao led the army to defeat it, so as not to cause a catastrophe.

This is the first time since Ma Chao crossed over that he broke out in a cold sweat. Although now, he had relied on his bloodline advantage to snatch Han Sui's forces again, but after sitting in the tent for a while, Ma Chao understood the seriousness of this time.

Ma Chao calmed down and thought about it, if he hadn't happened to bump into this strange soldier, then this strange soldier would have attacked Chen Cangcheng, and it was a surprise, and it was very likely that Chen Cangcheng would have been captured. Chen Cangcheng is Ma Chao's rear base, once there is a loss, then Ma Chao will be finished.