Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 374
"Han Sui's special envoy Yang Qiu, I have a superstitious letter written by General Han Sui. I want to hand it to the prime minister in person. Please inform me." Yang Qiu said.

"Wait here, I'll report right away!" One of the battalion soldiers said, then turned and left, leaving the others to look at Yang Qiu. After all, he came from the enemy camp. Who knows what he came for? This is not to be taken lightly.

"Oh! He really said that he is Han Sui's special envoy Yang Qiu?" Li Song looked at the soldier kneeling on one knee and asked.

"Yes Prime Minister! This person claims to be Han Sui's special envoy Yang Qiu, saying that there is a secret letter written by Han Sui to hand over to the prime minister in person. I don't dare to delay, so hurry up and report it!" said the battalion officer.

"Bring him to see me quickly." Li Song said, the battalion soldiers took the order to go, and after a while, they brought Yang Qiu to Li Song, the battalion soldiers saluted and retreated.

"Yang Qiu pays homage to the prime minister!" Yang Qiu greeted him with fists in his arms.

"Han Sui sent you here, what's the matter?" Li Song said.

"If you want to return to the prime minister, the old general Han ordered me to come here and send a letter of surrender, willing to capture Ma Chao together with the prime minister." After Yang Qiu said, he took out a secret letter written by Han Sui from his body, and Xu Chu stepped forward. After taking it, he turned back to Li Song and handed the secret letter to Li Song.

Li Song was overjoyed after seeing it, and said: "Go back and tell Han Sui that if this matter is to be accomplished, then you will make Han Sui the Marquis of Xiliang, and you, Yang Qiu, the prefect of Xiliang. .”

"Please don't worry, Prime Minister! I will take the Prime Minister's words back to Old General Han Sui and say goodbye!" Yang Qiu was overjoyed and left.

"Zhongkang! Pass down the order. The Xiliang army is on fire tonight, and they will slowly approach the Xiliang army camp. Don't rush to kill. After the Xiliang army is both defeated, our army will take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill." Li Song said to Xu Chu.

Xu Chu hurriedly walked from Li Song's side to Li Song, cupped his fists and saluted, "No!" Then he backed out.

The reason why Li Song wanted to wait for the Xiliang army to lose both sides was to weaken the power of the Xiliang warlords through this method, or even let them disappear directly. This would not only reap the benefits of the fisherman, but also not damage his reputation.

If he did it, it would be easy to get a reputation of treachery. Whoever dares to submit to you in the future will definitely fight you to the end at that time, which is not in line with his interests.

Therefore, this matter can only be resolved by letting them fight among themselves, so as to maximize their interests. As for Han Sui and others, it is natural to add a big reward to let others know that it is only beneficial and not harmful to rely on themselves!Of course, most of the rewards for Han Sui and others are just false names.

Back at the Xiliang army camp, Yang Qiu immediately went to see Han Sui, and said to Han Sui: "The prime minister agreed with us to set fire tonight, and we should cooperate with each other to take down Ma Chao in one fell swoop, and you can be promoted to rank."

Han Sui was overjoyed and said, "I'm going to order the sergeants to pile up dry firewood behind the tent of the Chinese army. You, Liang Xing and the other five will wait with their swords hanging. We will hold a banquet tonight to invite Ma Chao, and plot against Ma Chao at the banquet." He bid farewell and left, and split up with Han Sui.

In Ma Chao's tent, Ma Chao and Pound were discussing something.

"I just learned that Liu Xiongming was defeated by [-] troops led by Pei Yuanqing at the Wuguan Pass. Only Liu Xiongming escaped, and his whereabouts are still unknown." Pang De said.

"Liu Xiongming's subordinates are just a mob. Naturally, they will not be Li Songjun's opponents. It is not surprising that they were defeated! What we have to worry about now is the old man Han Sui." Ma Chao said, and when he mentioned Han Sui, his face was grim and he gritted his teeth.

"I've sent people to keep an eye on the movement over there, and if there is any trouble, I will know." Pound said.

"That's good. How is the contact with Zhang Lu in Hanzhong?" After hearing this, Ma Chao couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and then asked.

"The other side has already replied that Zhang Lu sent general Yang Ang to gather more than ten thousand troops to help." Pang De said.

"Fortunately, just in case, I sent people to Hanzhong to contact Zhang Lu one step ahead of time, and Zhang Lu sent troops to help out. In addition, soldiers and horses from various tribes of the Qiang people came to help. In this way, our army With a great increase in strength, even if Han Sui and others were eliminated, they would not be afraid of Li Song's army." Ma Chao said.

"My lord is right, but what should I do with Han Sui's family?" Pang De said.

"I've already sent people to execute them all." Ma Chao said, Pang De had no objection to Ma Chao's cruelty, after all, everything would be dead after all!
"Report!" At this time, there was a sound of reporting from outside the tent, and Ma Chao shouted to the outside of the tent, "Come in!"

The spies entered, saluted, and then whispered in Ma Chao's ear what happened to Han Sui. Ma Chao's expression was very gloomy.

"My lord! But what happened to Han Sui?" Pang De looked at the gloomy Ma Chao and said.

"Old man Han Sui dared to conspire with Li Song to kill me! It's really disgusting!" Ma Chao said angrily.

"What? How dare Han Sui cooperate with the enemy!" Pang De was shocked.

"What else is there?" Ma Chao raised his head and saw that the spy did not retreat, but stood there like a pillar, and said.

"My lord! There's news from Liangzhou! Han Sui's family has been rescued, and the prefect of Longxi joined hands with troops from Nan'an, Hanyang and other counties to encircle and suppress our hometown," said the spies.

"What?" Ma Chao was shocked!Unexpectedly, Han Sui's family members were rescued, and even his old nest was besieged. If he was defeated here, he would not even have a way out.

"This matter must not be spread to the outside world! Anyone who leaks the news will be shot to death!"

"No!" The spy took the order and left.

"Put the rest aside for now, let's deal with traitors like Han Sui first." Before Pang De could speak, Ma Chao took the lead.

"No! It's just what should we do next?" Pound said.

"I will lead my relatives with a few people. I will go first with my sword, and you will lead my troops to respond after me. Play by ear!" Ma Chao thought for a while.

Ma Chao came outside Han Sui's tent and sneaked into Han Sui's tent. He saw the five generals whispering to Han Sui, and heard Yang Qiu say, "It's not too late, it can be done quickly!"

Ma Chao was furious, swung his sword straight in, and shouted: "How dare the gang of thieves plot to kill me!"

Everyone was shocked!Ma Chao looked at Han Sui's face with a sword and chopped it off. Han Sui was in a panic and didn't care about holding up a weapon, so he directly blocked Ma Chao's sword with his hand.

"Ah!" As you can imagine, his left hand was cut off by a sword, and blood sprayed out from the cut. Han Sui screamed in pain, and Han Sui almost fainted from the pain.

Hearing Han Sui's screams, the five generals came back to their senses, and hurriedly swung their knives out. Ma Chao stepped out of the tent, and the five generals surrounded and killed.

Ma Chao wielded his sword alone and defeated the five generals. On the bright spot of the sword, blood spattered: he chopped down Ma Wan and Liang Xing, and the three generals escaped separately. As soon as the fire broke out, all the soldiers in the village moved.

Ma Chao hurriedly got on his horse, Pang De led the troops to arrive, and fought with Han Sui, Yang Qiu and others' soldiers and horses. Ma Chao led the troops to charge left and right, Han Sui, Yang Qiu and others lost most of their soldiers and horses, and Li Song's army slowly surrounded them. Come up, wait for their casualties to be about the same, and then swarm up.

(End of this chapter)