Three Kingdoms: I help Liu Bei grow thousands of miles

Chapter 234
Ma Chao's emotional management is still in place. Facing the strange expressions from the generals, he patted his chest and said, "I'm sorry, when Bo Zhan came to call me just now, I swallowed some cold wind and got cold in my stomach. The food is long gone"

"My nephew has seized supplies, so is the food supply so tight?" Han Sui frowned, thinking that you are outside Tongguan, and you have harvested a lot of cattle and horses.

"How can you not be nervous? Uncle must have a lot of people and consume a lot. I haven't eaten a grain of rice for two days. Bo Zhan, do you think so?" Ma Chao turned to Ma Dai and asked.

"What brother said is true." Ma Dai replied with clasped fists, he thought that his brother had only eaten meat for the past two days, and indeed he did not eat any staple food.

The soldiers of the Kansai Union had mixed eyes, and Ma Chao's troops seized the military supplies of cattle and horses, which were all the military rations that everyone needed now, which had already aroused the jealousy of the people around them.

Because Ma Chao's strength is too strong, the other small warlords dare not stroke his beard at all, and Han Sui, whose strength is almost the same, can't speak because of the "father-son" relationship, so the other family is really suffering from cold and starvation. Everyone is eating meat and drinking wine.

After a few days of stalemate between the Kansai Allied Army and the Cao Army, various ministries began to sell out food and sell miserably. Han Sui still secretly went to Ma Chao to borrow food. He thought Ma Chao would express it, but Ma Chao finally refused with various excuses.

The daily consumption of Ma Chao's 2 people is very high, and the cattle and horses seized outside Tongguan alone cannot last long.When Han Sui was in trouble, food shortages gradually began to occur in his camp.

Under such a difficult situation, Han Sui and others wanted to cede territory to Cao Cao for peace.

Cao Cao received Han Sui's peace letter, so he summoned the "poison man" Jia Xu and asked: "We have only crossed the river for seven or eight days. Han Wenyue wants to use the land in the west of the river to seek peace. What does Wenhe think?"

Jia Xu stroked his beard and replied: "The Prime Minister risked being attacked by Liu Bei and Sun Quan, and gathered Han Sui, Ma Chao and others here. How could he give up because of the mere land in Hexi? We can pretend to agree to seek peace and let them relax. After being vigilant, use the strategy of alienation to weaken their hearts and disintegrate their ambitions, and then send troops to attack them, and a battle can be settled."

Cao Cao laughed and praised: "Wen Hezhen is the only master of poison"

"The prime minister's absurd praise." Jia Xu knew what he was doing, although he was ruthless and not liked by his colleagues, but Cao Cao only needed trust.

According to Jia Xu's plan, Cao Cao wrote back and agreed to Han Sui's peace proposal. The Kansai Allied Forces were relieved when they heard the news, but they dared not give up their guard even though they only made a verbal promise.

Soon Cao Cao asked Han Sui to meet in front of the battle, and the two met under the warm winter sun in Weinan.

Cao Cao and Han Sui's father were promoted to Xiaolian in the same year, and Cao Cao and Han Sui were of the same generation, so the two can be regarded as old friends.

Han Sui thought that Cao Cao was going to talk about ceding land for peace, but he didn't expect that he was just talking about his past and friends in the capital.

Han Sui wanted to change the subject. He pointed to Cao Cao's beard and said, "I heard that Meng De has a beautiful beard. Why is your beard so short? And it's a little messy."

The matter of cutting beards and abandoning robes was propagated by Ma Chao's Xiliang soldiers, and it was no secret among the Kansai coalition forces. Han Sui deliberately mentioned this to remind Cao Cao of the Tongguan war.

Unexpectedly, Cao Cao had a broad mind. He shook his head and laughed until he almost lost his voice, "The horse is brave and invincible, just like Lu Bu resurrected. I was chased by him in Tongguan and cut off my beard and abandoned my robe. I heard that this person is your son?"

Han Sui was startled when he heard this, and said with an embarrassed smile, "Meng Qi mentioned about recognizing his adoptive father, but brother Shoucheng is far away in Yecheng, and I just take care of him.

"Hahaha, it's good to adopt a horse as a foster son, one more person will do your filial piety for you." Cao Cao continued to laugh.

Because the two laughed loudly, many people from the Kansai coalition army came close to watch, as if they were looking at something strange.

Seeing this, Cao Cao said magnanimously, "Would you like to see Mr. Cao? I am like a human being. I don't have four eyes and two mouths, but I have many ears."

Cao Cao and Han Sui chatted until dusk before returning. After returning to the camp, Ma Chao and other generals came to ask each other, and Han Sui told the truth that all the generals were suspicious.

The next day Cao Cao sent a letter to Han Sui again, and many places on the letter were smeared, and they were all important places.

Ma Chao was already skeptical, but after reading the letter, he became even more skeptical. He pointed to the smeared place and asked Han Sui: "Uncle, what are the black dots in the third paragraph of the letter that says 'Wen Yue needs to send a horse.'" "

Han Sui smiled wryly: "Meng De sent this letter just like that, and my uncle was puzzled by it. I was just about to write back and ask, when my nephew came over."

"Uncle thinks I'm here early?"

"Meng Qi and I have the same love as father and son, how can we dislike each other?"

Ma Chao asked coldly: "Uncle and Bandit Cao have met and communicated. Has he told you when to withdraw? All our battalions have stopped cooking."

"Meng Deshi didn't mention it, so I'll write to ask about it."

Ma Chao raised his white robe behind him, and then rushed out of Han Sui's camp with a cold snort.

Han Sui was extremely upset, sparks seemed to burst out in his eyes, and he thought that you are so aggressive, how can you look like a father and son?Can you think of me when you are slaughtering horses and cattle?
The success of Cao Cao's divorce plan was not because of how clever Jia Xu's strategy was, but mainly because the Kansai coalition forces were not united. They all came together for their own interests.

For several days after that, Cao Cao asked Han Sui to chat alone in front of the battle, and continued to expand the effect of the alienation plan.

Cao Cao still refused to propose a peace, and no matter how stupid Han Sui was, he guessed that Cao Cao was plotting against him.

During the last meeting, Han Sui took the initiative to say: "When will the Prime Minister make a peace plan? We will discuss the old days alone before the battle, lest outsiders gossip."

Cao Cao said seriously: "You and I are aboveboard, who dares to gossip?"

"After all, the prime minister has a high position and power, and he is afraid that there will be villains in the court, so he will go forward and offer slander in front of the emperor." Han Sui deliberately used Cao Cao as an excuse to retreat.

"Now that the military power is in hand, how can a villain dare to stroke a tiger's beard? The emperor will not listen to slander." Cao Cao thought that it was because I didn't want to, otherwise I would have taken Liu Xie's throne long ago.

Then Cao Cao waved his big hand forward, and the five thousand armored cavalry behind the formation marched a few steps forward neatly.

Ma Chao, Cheng Yin, Yang Qiu and others were watching every day. When they saw Cao Cao's attitude of showing weakness to the enemy, they were all shocked and terrified.

After Cao Cao showed his strength, he sent a letter to the Kansai Allied Forces the next day, and agreed to a decisive battle in Weinan two days later.

Han Sui put the letter of war on the table. He shook his head and sighed, "Cao Cao is too cunning. We have been deceived by him these days."

All the generals were silent after hearing this, and they didn't know what to discuss with him these days.

Ma Chao picked up the letter of war with a cold face: "Thief Cao is a man who does not believe his words, but since he has come to invite a battle to die, let him taste the power of Xiliang's iron cavalry."

"Nephew Meng Qixian is right. The Xiliang cavalry has a great advantage in fighting in the wild. As long as everyone is united as one, they will definitely be able to drive the Cao thief out of Guanzhong."

Han Sui spoke uprightly, but unfortunately all the generals in the tent had lost their minds, and everyone planned to take a look first.

(End of this chapter)