The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 754 Gaining Trust 753
Although Zhang Fei let Ma Chao enter the pass, he did not let go of his guard against Ma Chao and others. Everyone who entered the city, including Ma Chao, had their weapons taken away. When someone makes any abnormal behavior, it will immediately lead to death.

"General Zhang, what do you mean?" Ma Chao had already entered the pass, led the [-] soldiers who followed him, including Pang De and Ma Dai, and asked after looking around at the surrounding soldiers who were staring at them. stand up.

Zhang Fei rode a war horse and stopped opposite Ma Chao. Hearing Ma Chao ask him this, he said coldly: "It's nothing interesting, it's just that I don't want to die for no reason. Doesn't mean I can trust you..."

Before Zhang Fei finished speaking, he heard Ma Chao argue: "Since you don't believe me, why did you open the door and let me in?"

"I let you enter because I don't want you to die at the hands of those people outside. Even if you die, you should die at my hands. Tell me, you are a good general of the Han Dynasty. Why did you turn to surrender to me? ?” Zhang Fei asked.

Ma Chao sighed heavily, and said slowly: "It's a long story..."

"Let's make a long story short!" Zhang Fei said firmly.

Ma Chao said: "Well, the matter is very simple. I offended Xu Huang, General Zuo. Xu Huang has always held a grudge against me. No matter what, he will trouble me and slander me in front of Pang Tong, saying that I have the intention of rebellion." Who knew that Pang Tong believed it was true and wanted to seize my military power. If I handed over the military power honestly, then I would really be a prisoner. Xu Huang, who was prepared, was attacked by surprise. I was outnumbered and suddenly attacked by a surprise attack. Since the Han army treated me like this, what's the point of staying there? If General Zhang hadn't opened the city gate in time, Let me enter, I'm afraid I have already gone to the underworld."

While listening to Ma Chao's words, Zhang Fei carefully observed Ma Chao's every move. He found that Ma Chao's expression was gloomy, and he looked very depressed. When he spoke, there was great anger and hatred in his eyes. Like telling a lie.

"Don't you have an army of [-]? Why didn't the Qiang people you brought from Liangzhou help you?" Zhang Fei asked again.

Ma Chao said: "Those Qiang people were bewitched and bought by Xu Huang, so they couldn't figure out the truth for a while, and this incident happened suddenly, even if they wanted to help, it was too late. But General Zhang, don't worry, I will help you." I only stayed in the pass for one night, and tonight, I will send people out of the pass to get in touch with the leader of the Qiang people who followed me, and attack Pang Tong and Xu Huang at night, and I will not give up until I kill them both."

Zhang Fei took advantage of the situation and said: "When I was at Jiameng Pass, I sent someone to contact you. You led the soldiers from Liangzhou, and I led the soldiers from Yizhou. Our combined forces will take Guanzhong, and we will rest for three or five years. Then we can go east to fight for the world, and when the whole world is conquered, wouldn’t it be wonderful for us to share it equally? It’s a pity that you rejected it at the beginning, and you became an old enemy on the battlefield, and missed many good opportunities..."

"Well, it's only because Ma didn't recognize the current situation that he fell into such a situation. If I had known today, I should have followed General Zhang's advice. Maybe now we are already drinking in Chang'an City, and we don't know what to do. As for worrying about yourself here." Ma Chao said.

Zhang Fei laughed and said: "General Ma, it's not too late even now, as long as General Ma is willing to follow my advice, I guarantee that General Ma will not only show his glory, but also become king and hegemony in the future. Is the general still going to be squeezed out?"

Ma Chao glanced at Zhang Fei and asked, "General Zhang, I came here in a hurry. Don't add insult to injury and bully me. If General Zhang insists on forcing me to be your general, then I, Ma Chao, would rather lead the others." Go out again and fight the Han army to the death!"

Hearing what Ma Chao said, Zhang Fei knew that Ma Chao had no intention of surrendering himself at all, but more of using this place to avoid difficulties.What's more, what he said just now made Ma Chao's heart flutter and his eyes shine. If he wants Ma Chao to be used by him, he can't make things worse.

"Hahaha, General Ma is worrying too much. I will definitely not let General Ma surrender. Even if General Ma wants to surrender, I still dare not accept it. After all, General Ma is not the kind of person who is willing to be subordinate to others. If I just force you Surrender and serve me, then am I not feeding tigers? General Ma and I are more cooperative than subordinate. General Ma, Jiange can provide you with a temporary residence, but it is only for one day. Your subordinates are all outside the pass, and your goal is not Yizhou. It is not realistic for me to force you to stay here. I hope that when I wake up tomorrow morning, I can see you carrying the heads of Pang Tong and Xu Huang to vent your anger .” Zhang Fei said.

Ma Chao said: "Don't worry, General Zhang, I will take action tonight. Also, don't worry, General Zhang, my subordinates and I will spend the night here. To show my sincerity, the horses and weapons are temporarily handed over to General Zhang." It is kept by my subordinates. At night, General Zhang only needs to let one of my confidantes go out. When the good news comes, I will come back to ask General Zhang for horses and weapons. Everything is done under the supervision of General Zhang, so that General Zhang will not say I'm playing tricks!"

Hearing what Ma Chao said, Zhang Fei was really relieved. He nodded and said, "Okay then, let's do what General Ma said. However, since General Ma is here, I should do my best. Sincerely, I will have a banquet in a while, and I hope that General Ma can drink with me!"

"This is for sure!"

Zhang Fei's doubts about Ma Chao have completely dissipated, and he also hopes to use Ma Chao to break the current deadlock. Now he only has a lonely city like Jiange left, and the rest of the place is no longer his. The last straw, he must seize this opportunity tightly.

He no longer thought about Guanghan, Shujun and other places west of Jiange. The chariot general Zhang Liao led an army to Chengdu. After surrendering to the Han army, Zhang Fei's power was like a flash in the pan.

There are 10,000+ Han troops in the east of Jiange. He had already prepared for the worst. Who knows that there is no unparalleled road in the sky. Ma Chao and Xu Huang are fighting each other. He can use this as an opportunity. Use Ma Chao and the Qiang army he brought to defeat Xu Huang, and instigate Ma Chao to return to Liangzhou, and he can regain the territory east of Jiange. Most importantly, he can also take the opportunity to seize Hanzhong and use Hanzhong as his The new foundation, united with Ma Chao in Xiliang, raised troops together to counter the Han army.

Zhang Fei did not pay attention to these matters alone, but more from Fazheng.Ma Chao's words and deeds are not enough to deceive Zhang Fei, Fazheng must also be convinced.If Ma Chao came to surrender, it would definitely make Fazheng suspicious, and maybe he would be killed.But Ma Chao never mentioned the matter of surrender from the beginning to the end, but only regarded it as a temporary refuge. Words that had to be said in order to seek a place of refuge.

Because of this, Fazheng believed Ma Chao's words, thinking that Ma Chao's visit this time was not a false surrender, but that he had indeed fallen out with Xu Huang.

After Ma Chao entered the customs, Xu Huang and others cleaned up the mess outside the customs and carried all the corpses to the distant woods for burial.However, when these corpses were carried into the woods, one by one miraculously came back to life, and many people even complained, saying that the attack was too ruthless, and they almost died.

It turns out that all of this is fake, it's all a trick. Xu Huang and Ma Chao didn't really have a fight, but they acted for the people in Jiange Pass to watch. If they don't act more realistically, others really don't I can't believe it.However, although acting is fake, there is also truth. During the moment of chasing Ma Chao, hundreds of people's lives were indeed sacrificed, so as to confuse the other party and convince the other party.

For this reason, Xu Huang also specially ordered that these people be gathered together, and then buried together, and the names of these people were recorded, and they were prepared to reward their families one by one after the victory of the war.

In the hall of the Jiange official office, Ma Chao received Zhang Fei's courtesy, served him with good wine and good meat, and when Ma Chao was half drunk, he pretended to be drunk and stopped drinking, so he got up and said goodbye, and returned to the gate of Jiange. He and his subordinates sat on the ground with bare hands, quietly waiting for the night to fall.

And Zhang Fei didn't really dispel his concerns about Ma Chao. He dispatched two thousand crossbowmen at the gate of the city to stand by at any time. If Ma Chao and others made any abnormal behavior, they would immediately kill them without mercy.

Zhang Fei's confidant Liu Xian was still in charge of guarding the city gate, and Li Yan also came to the city gate because he was worried.

"Brother, do you think you can really succeed this time?" Ma Dai, who was sitting next to Ma Chao, looked around and asked in a worried voice when he saw countless crossbowmen staring at them.

"Judging from the current situation, there seems to be no major problem, but the key is to see whether Zhang Fei will be fooled. This is just a prelude, and the real good show is yet to come. You just need to sit quietly and wait until nightfall. You can go out." Ma Chao said.

Ma Dai had just returned from Liangzhou. Ma Chao got a lot of gold, silver and jewels from Hanzhong and asked Ma Dai to transport them back to Liangzhou.

Pang De also seemed to have noticed the worry on Ma Dai's face, so he patted Ma Dai's shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry, we will definitely succeed tonight!"

(End of this chapter)