The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 417 416 Liangzhou Rebellion (3)

At dawn, Ma Chao, Ma Dai, and Pang De woke up early. After a simple breakfast, they went for a walk in the street together.

There are not many shops open in the early morning. This time is not the peak period of business. Generally, the shops will not open until after the time of day.

Ma Chao, Ma Dai, and Pang De wandered around the street and felt that the street was a little calm. After many inquiries, they did not ask anyone who was willing to accept tiger skins. When the three were discouraged, they planned to go to the Try your luck at the Luoma Market in the west of the city.

Unexpectedly, the three of them had just walked a few steps when they saw a young boy posting a notice. Ma Chao glanced at it casually, but saw that the notice read "Tiger skins at a high price" in large characters.

Ma Chao stopped immediately, turned around and walked towards the boy, and asked hastily: "Brother, I saw that you posted a notice saying that you want to collect tiger skins. I happen to have one here. I don't know your master Do you accept it or not?"

The boy glanced at Ma Chao, and immediately asked, "Do you really have tiger skin?"

"It's absolutely true!" Ma Chao winked at Pound behind him, and Pound took off the burden on his back, and then opened it, revealing a brand new tiger skin.

After the young man saw it, a smile appeared on his face, and he hurriedly said to Ma Chao: "Great, my master will be very happy to know, this strong man, please come with me, I will take you to Meet my master."

Ma Chao, Ma Dai, and Pang De followed the boy, wandering around the city for a long time, and finally came to a dilapidated courtyard in the northeast corner of the county seat.

"Brother, did you take us the wrong way? This seems to be a yard that has been abandoned for a long time?" Ma Chao looked around, but he saw that this was an abandoned garden, and the person who wanted to collect the tiger skin must be right and wrong. Wealth is expensive, how could you live in this place?
The boy said: "It's here. The three strong men don't know something. My master likes to collect furs of various animals very much, but my mistress is against it, so every time my master collects furs, he always goes here. , I'm afraid my mistress will find out, if you go to my master's mansion, if my mistress finds out, you might have a big fight with my mistress, your tiger skin will definitely not be sold. "

"Oh, so that's the case, I was overthinking." Ma Chao said.

The boy said: "No problem! Three strong men, you wait here for a while, I will go back and inform my master, and then bring money to collect your tiger skins!"

"Thank you brother." Ma Chao cupped his hands.

As soon as the young servant finished speaking, he turned around and walked away, his steps became more and more brisk, and finally he simply ran, and disappeared without a trace in a flash.

Ma Chao and Ma Dai found a random place and sat down in the abandoned garden. However, Pang De frowned tightly, with a gloomy face, as if he was deeply concerned.

"Young master, don't you think that boy just now is a bit suspicious?" Pang De couldn't help laughing, walked to Ma Chao, and said softly.

"Why is it suspicious?" Ma Chao asked.

Pang De said: "The boy didn't even ask how we sell the tiger skin, so he just left. If he really bought the tiger skin, he would definitely ask the price first, and then bargain. There are some loopholes. Since the hostess does not let the host buy it, the host secretly buys it outside, but after buying it, the host has to take it home for collection? Moreover, this place is very remote and has been abandoned for a long time. If it is not When we come here, there will be no footprints on the ground at all, if the owner of the boy really often collects furs here, there should be some human footprints here."

Hearing Pang De's words, Ma Chao felt a little suspicious, and the boy seemed to be more and more suspicious.

At this moment, a high-pitched voice came from outside the ruins, it was the boy who had left just now, and he shouted: "It's right here, all three of them are here!"

Immediately afterwards, there was a rush of horseshoe sounds outside the ruins, disorderly and forceful. Ma Chao, Ma Dai, and Pang De were all startled. They hurried to the entrance of the ruins and looked out. The cavalrymen rushed here fiercely, all the cavalrymen were dressed in uniform, and it seemed that the visitors were not good.

"Han Sui's subordinates again?" Ma Chao looked over carefully, and recognized these cavalry at a glance, they were the subordinates of Zhenxi General Han Sui.

Before Ma Chao, Ma Dai, Pound and the others could react, a group of cavalry rushed into the ruins and surrounded the three of them.

Ma Chao, Pang De, and Ma Dai all stood there with calm faces, looking around at the cavalry surrounding them, not only did they not show a trace of fear, but they were full of confidence.

"The general is here!"

At the beginning of the conversation, a group of cavalry retreated to the sides, but saw two knights riding horses side by side from the road that the cavalry left. One of them was wearing an iron helmet and armor, with a ferocious face, fierce eyes, and a strong physique. Strong, with a huge body, holding an iron gun in his hand, he is the candidate.

The other person was wearing a strong suit and a warrior crown on top of his head. He had a thin face, sunken eye sockets, and shrewd eyes in a pair of black eyes. It was Yang Qiu.

When Ma Chao saw Hou Xuan and Yang Qiu appear here, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he immediately cupped his fists and shouted at Hou Xuan and Yang Qiu: "General Hou, General Yang, how do you know I'm here? Are you here to treat me to a drink for such a big battle?"

"Ma Chao?!"

Hou Xuan and Yang Qiu walked in and saw that the person standing in front of them was none other than General Anxi and Ma Chao, the son of Ma Teng, governor of Liangzhou.And behind Ma Chao, there was a person standing, they also knew that person, Ma Chao's confidant Pound, but they didn't know the young man standing with Pound.However, seeing that Ma Dai's appearance is slightly similar to Ma Chao, it is not difficult for the two to guess Ma Dai's identity.

"Hahaha..." Yang Qiu immediately reined in the horse, jumped off the horse, walked straight in front of Ma Chao, clasped his fists respectfully, and said, "The major general came to Long County. It’s good to send someone to meet the major general.”

"Meng Qi was on a whim, and went hunting with his companions. By chance, he hunted a white-fronted tiger with eye-catching eyes and got a tiger skin. Long County is a place where businessmen gather, so I brought this tiger skin here. , I wanted to sell the tiger skin and exchange some money for wine and food, but I didn’t want to meet General Yang and General Hou here.”

When Ma Chao was talking, he looked at Hou Xuan from time to time, but he saw Hou Xuan's expression of anger, blowing his beard and staring while riding on horseback.

"Huh? Why does General Hou look so ugly? Who offended General Hou? Made General Hou so unhappy?"

Sitting on horseback, Hou Xuan tightly held the iron gun in his hand, and glared at Ma Chao viciously. He never thought that it was Ma Chao who beat his son yesterday, and he became even more angry.

But seeing Hou Xuan's chest and abdomen rising and falling, shortness of breath, and the blood in his body boiling, he couldn't help laughing, so he pointed the iron gun in his hand at Ma Chao, and cursed: "Ma Chao! Why don't you give me your mother's word?" I pretended to be garlic! You injured my son Hou Yin for no reason and humiliated me. Others are afraid of you, but I am not afraid of you! Kill you, I..."

Before waiting for Hou Xuan to finish speaking, Yang Qiu saw that Hou Xuan was so angry, he immediately interrupted Hou Xuan, and said loudly: "Brother Hou, the Major General is definitely not that kind of person, I think there must be some misunderstanding. Besides , you just listened to Mr. Hou's one-sided words, which is not enough. Now that the major general is here, why don't you two spread the word and take this opportunity to clear up the misunderstanding, wouldn't it be better?"

"Misunderstanding? Misunderstanding! Will my son lie to me? If I don't even believe my son's words, then who else should I believe? Yang Xiandi, you go away, this is between me and Ma Chao, and you It doesn't matter, a knife and a gun have no eyes for a while, if it hurts you, it will be bad!" Hou Xuan said angrily.

Hou Xuan is one of the eight generals under Han Sui's account. In terms of martial arts, he is the first among the eight generals. He is brave and good at fighting.

As the so-called skillful man is bold, although Hou Xuan knew that Ma Chao was highly skilled in martial arts, he always liked to regard himself as the number one military general in Xiliang. He had never fought against Ma Chao before, and today was a good opportunity.

Ma Chao has been fighting with his father since he was 16 years old. Although he is young, he has created miracles one after another.

Three years ago, the Qiang king sent troops to attack Ma Teng's camp for no reason. Ma Teng's army was unprepared and was successfully raided by the Qiang people. They suffered heavy losses, and Ma Teng was also trapped in the siege of the Qiang people.At that time, Ma Chaoyuan was in Anding, and when he heard that Ma Teng was surrounded by Qiang people, he was eager to save people, so he went to rescue Ma Teng single-handedly.

As a result, Ma Chao entered the Qiang king's camp with his own power, and beheaded the Qiang king under the siege of thousands of troops. The rest of the Qiang people were astonished as heavenly beings. Ma Chao also became famous in the first battle, and has since become a mythical figure in the Liangzhou area, and Ma Chao's reputation has been continuously spread among the Qiang tribes. Whenever the Qiang people hear Ma Chao's name, they will be terrified.

Han Sui and Ma Teng get along friendly on the surface, but in fact, they both want to swallow each other up. The surprise attack of the Qiang king three years ago was secretly fabricated by Han Sui behind the scenes, with the purpose of using the power of the Qiang king to swallow him up. Kill Ma Teng with his hands.

However, he didn't want to be self-defeating. The Qiang king not only lost his life, but also made Ma Chao famous in the first battle, and the Qiang people did not dare to harass Ma.

Hou Xuan is one of the few insiders, and the last thing Hou Xuan wants is for Ma Chao to overshadow his limelight, and he has always felt that Ma Chao has a false name, and he even believes that he can easily kill Ma Chao.

After Ma Chao heard Hou Xuan's clamor, he sneered, cupped his hands and said, "Since General Hou wants to fight, then Meng Qi will accompany him to the end, but I can say my ugly words first, in case I accidentally kill you, all this But you can’t blame me, but you have to blame yourself!”

"Hmph! Don't be ashamed! It's not certain who will kill who!" Hou Xuan also cheered up.

Yang Qiu saw that Hou Xuan and Ma Chao had already put on a stance, and they were even more tit-for-tat. He was afraid that the two of them would fight, and no matter who was injured, it would hurt the harmony between Ma Teng and Han Sui. Once the harmony between the two parties is hurt because of this, and war breaks out again, Liangzhou will fall into chaos, and the people of Liangzhou will be even more miserable, and it will also give those Qiang, Hu, and Xianbei people a chance to take advantage of it. machine.

Yang Qiu is a sensible person, he will never sit idly by watching this kind of thing.So, he hastily dissuaded him: "Brother Hou, Major General, calm down, don't hurt the harmony of the two families because of a small incident. Major General, Brother Hou said that you injured his son Hou Yin, Is this really true?"

Ma Chao said, "Who is Hou Yin, I have no idea at all!"

"Come here!" Hou Xuan turned his head and roared behind him, and a soldier came out from behind and stood beside Hou Xuan.

Hou Xuan pointed to Ma Chao and asked, "Is it he who hurt the young master?"

"Yes! That's right, it's him!" the soldier said firmly.

Hou Xuan said angrily, "Ma Chao, what else do you have to say?"

(End of this chapter)