The wind and sand swept in, blowing so that people couldn't open their eyes.

When there were still about ten miles away from Xinyang County, a gust of wind suddenly swept by, and with a "click", the handsome flag embroidered with the word "horse" was broken at the waist.

All of a sudden, the people shouted that the horses were neighing, and it took a lot of effort for everyone to calm down the frightened horses.

"Shhh...... It's a bad omen for the wind to blow off the flagpole, otherwise let's turn around and go back, right? Ma Teng's confidence suddenly wavered, and he frowned and asked what Ma Chao meant.

Ma Chao's white clothes were like snow, and he was angry, and said angrily: "The cool wind and sand have been very big all year round, not to mention that it is spring now, and blowing off the flagpole is just an ordinary thing!" Now that he has arrived in front of Han Sui, how can he not question him? This guy has swept up our grain and grass, how can we let him live freely? ”

After a pause, Ma Chao's spear pointed at the small county town in front of him: "Father, you are waiting outside the city, let the child enter the small Xinyang County single-handedly, if Han Sui returns the grain and grass to me, otherwise I will shoot a hole in his neck and let him know that cheap is not so easy to get!" ”

Ma Teng frowned in thought on his horse.

The grain and grass in his hands can only last for about 20 days, and there are still 1,500 miles away from Wuguan, and the men and horses under his command are a mixed team of horses and foot, even if the cavalry and foot soldiers take turns to ride horses to increase the speed of the march, it is estimated that they can walk more than 200 miles in a day. It will also take seven or eight days to get to Wuguan as quickly as possible.

What's more serious is that, according to the scouts, Zhu Yang and the others have already divided their troops to take a shortcut to the front road to set up an ambush, although they don't know the specific location of the ambush, but the Luoyang army will definitely not give up and let themselves go. Therefore, along the way, you still need to keep going around in circles with the Luoyang army. In this way, at least six or seven days of hard work will be wasted, and it is really unknown whether the grain and grass can support Wuguan.

In addition to being able to borrow food from Han Sui along the way. There was no other way to raise it, if the flagpole was blown off by the strong wind. After this village, there will be no such shop!

"What Meng Qi said is also reasonable, this is the force of nature, why be afraid? You and I, father and son, will continue to enter the city as planned! Ma Teng hesitated for a moment, then continued to urge the horse forward.

Ma Chao followed Ma Teng left and right, and arched his hand: "Father, in my opinion, don't enter the city, let the child enter the city alone to meet Han Sui, and it's not too late to touch what he means!" ”

Ma Teng's head shook like a rattle, and he refused: "No! Han Wenyue has always been the lord of cheapness. I had to accommodate him and compliment him. Your temper is too impatient, your personality is too arrogant, you are afraid that you will have a conflict with Han Sui in just a few words, but it will be self-defeating, you must go to Han Sui for your father to ask for food, so that you can hope to convince him! ”

Listening to his father's words, Ma Chao was silent, clenched the dragoon in his hand, and tightly guarded Ma Teng's left and right. A group of more than 100 horsemen rode horses and whipped up, speeding up. It didn't take long to rush to the gate of Xinyang County.

Xinyang is a small county town with only more than 1,000 residents, with less than 10,000 people in the city and low city walls. Han Sui has taken over the defense of the county seat since he settled in Layue last year. And he built barracks in the city, strengthened and increased the walls, and fortified the fortifications in the dangerous places outside the city. Dig trenches to bury antlers and guard against death. Like a great enemy.

Most of Han Sui's generals knew Ma Teng, so they were able to drive straight outside the gate of Xinyang County. Ma Teng arched his hand towards the top of the city wall and called the door: "I don't know which general is on duty on the wall?" Please hurry up and report to Han Wenyu, just say that I, Ma Teng, passed through Xinyang, and came to visit the deceased! ”

"Oops...... It turns out that Ma Gong is here, please wait a while, Rong Mo will go to inform the lord! ”

On duty at the head of the city is one of the candidates of Han Sui's eight generals, after listening to Ma Teng's self-reported name, he respectfully called "Ma Gong" at the head of the city, and then quickly went down the city wall to report to Han Sui.

At this moment, Han Sui summoned Liang Xing, Cheng Yi, Yang Qiu, Cheng Yin, Ma Wan, Li Kan, Zhang Heng and other seven generals in his mansion to discuss countermeasures. Since Ma Teng led his troops to pass seventy miles north of Xinyang, he definitely wouldn't leave quietly like this, and he would definitely come to him to ask for an explanation, how to deal with his old friend, which also gave Han Sui a little headache.

Han Sui, who was sitting on the chair, was more than seven and a half feet tall, about forty-seven or eighteen years old, with a thin and narrow face, a high nose and deep eyes, a long beard under his chin, which was already slightly gray, and a pair of eyes kept turning, revealing cunning and treachery.

"Just don't do it twice, set up a Hongmen banquet, invite Ma Teng's father and son to the city, slash and kill them indiscriminately, and then swallow Ma Teng's subordinates. In this way, our army no longer needs to look up to Zhao Kuangyin's snort! Cheng Yin stroked the mustache at the corner of his lips and said gloomily.

Han Sui stroked his beard and groaned: "I'm afraid that Ma Teng will not be in danger lightly, not to mention that Ma Chao has the courage to be unstoppable, and with him by his side, it is not easy to kill Ma Teng!" ”

Liang Xing snorted coldly, with a look of disdain: "Two fists are hard to beat with four hands, and a hero can't stand up to many people!" We admit that it is not as good as Ma Chao to fight alone, but as soon as we rush up, we don't believe that we can't kill their father and son! ”

"I've been friends with Ma Shoucheng for decades, so killing him like this will cause a lot of scolding?" Although Han Sui was treacherous and despicable, he still knew the shame, and after listening to the advice of his generals, he still hesitated.

Cheng Yi said with a smile: "Ma Teng's father and son entered the city, aren't they at our mercy?" The lord said that he would treat each other politely, send money, food and horses, but Ma Teng's father and son did not know how to harm the lord, and the lord had to kill them in order to protect himself. Who can tell the difference between truth and falsehood? ”

"Lord, lord!"

Footsteps sounded outside the door, but it was the candidate who hurried back from the city wall, and before the person entered the house, he shouted at the top of his voice, "The lord is not good, Ma Teng is here, Ma Teng has arrived outside the city gate!" ”

"What?" Han Sui and all the generals were taken aback, but the deterrent power of Ma Teng's father and son still made them feel afraid, "How many people did you bring?" ”

The candidate took a breath and waved his hand: "You don't have to panic, Ma Teng only brought Ma Chao and more than 100 followers, and there was no brigade of people and horses. ”

Listening to the candidates' words, Liang Xing, Yang Qiu and others were overjoyed, and they all rubbed their hands: "Haha...... There is really a way in heaven that you don't take, and there is no way to go to hell! Since Ma Teng's father and son have thrown themselves into the net, what are the lords waiting for, let Ma Teng's father and son enter the city, slash and kill them indiscriminately, and then bring Ma Teng's cronies and generals into the city, kill them one by one, and annex their subordinates to be invincible! ”

Han Sui's eyes flickered, and he stroked his beard and said softly: "Li Kan, Cheng Yi, Ma Play, Zhang Heng listen to orders!" ”

The four generals bowed their hands together: "The last general will listen to the order!" ”

"Order each of the four of you to choose a hundred sword and axe men to lay an ambush around the banquet room. If Ma Teng's father and son make a disrespectful speech, I will throw a cup as a number, and you will lead your troops to kill and cut down with a knife, and chop Ma Teng, Ma Chao and his son into meat paste! Han Sui stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of the banquet hall, and ordered with compassion.

After the arrangement, Han Sui personally brought Liang Xing, Candidate, Cheng Yin, Yang Qiu and other four generals, turned on their horses and went straight to the city gate to greet Ma Teng and his son.

"Oh, Brother Shoucheng, you're finally here, Brother Fool has been thinking about you all the time these days!" The first moment he saw Ma Teng, Han Sui greeted him with a smile and gave Ma Teng a warm hug.

Ma Teng let Han Sui hug him expressionlessly, and said in a somewhat stiff tone: "Foolish brother misses you too!" ”

Ma Chao glared at Han Sui angrily from the side, and hated to stab Han Sui to death with one shot, but he saw Liang Xing, the candidate and others carefully guarding Han Sui, for fear of hurting his father, so he suppressed the anger in his heart and did not act rashly.

After the greetings, Han Sui warmly invited Ma Teng to the table: "Brother Yu has set up a banquet in the city, let's drink wine and eat meat and talk slowly!" ”

At the moment, Han Sui and Ma Teng walked side by side, and Ma Chao, Liang Xing, and the candidates and other four generals followed closely behind, leading their respective entourages to flock into the city and go straight to Han Sui's mansion.

When they arrived at the gate of Han Sui's mansion, the guard stepped forward and said to Ma Chao and his entourage: "Please leave the spear behind, and please unload your weapons!" ”

"Huh?" Ma Chao glared angrily, "My dragoon spear is here, Mo Shu'er and others, even the Qianghu in the entire Liangzhou dare to let me Ma Chao leave the gun!" ”

Seeing Ma Chao's angry face, Han Sui smiled and ordered the guards; "Okay, okay, Brother Shoucheng and I are old friends, why bother to be so tense and make it like a Hongmen banquet? If Meng Qixian's nephew wants to bring a gun, just let him bring it! ”

After entering the seat, Han Sui was in the center, Ma Teng, Ma Chao and his son sat in the guest seats, Liang Xing, Cheng Yin, Yang Qiu, and the four candidate generals each hung their swords from their waists, and sat down with their hands under Han Sui, all with solemn faces, as if facing a great enemy.

"Why don't you see Cheng Yi, Li Kan, Ma Play, and Zhang Heng?" Ma Teng took a sip of his teacup and asked his own questions. has been friends with Han Sui for many years, and Ma Teng knows Han Sui's generals well.

Han Sui said with a smile: "Hehe...... Don't hide it from my brother, lest the Luoyang Army invade on a large scale, Cheng Yi, Zhang Heng and other four generals took Zhao Kuangyin's life and went to Nan'an to garrison! ”

After a few words of gossip, Han Sui raised his glass to Ma Teng, and after a glass of wine, he went straight to the topic: "Brother Shoucheng, don't blame me for transporting the grain, Xiping can't keep it at all, if the city is broken by Zhu Yang, we won't have a grain of grain!" The foolish brother wanted to send someone to send his brother to Wuwei, but he couldn't break through Zhu Yang's defense line, so he had no choice but to load them all and transport them to Tianshui, temporarily attached to Zhao Kuangyin. ”

"Humph!" Ma Chao crushed the wine glass in his hand and snorted coldly.

After all, Ma Teng had a request for Han Sui, so he didn't want to make too much trouble, so he signaled Ma Chao with his eyes not to make trouble. Then he showed a smile and bowed his hand to Han Sui: "Brother, I can also forgive you for your hard work." People have their own ambitions, and they can't be strong, since Wen Yue is willing to follow Zhao Kuangyin, my brother won't say anything more. I plan to lead my troops to Wuguan to join Liu Wei, the son of heaven of the Han Dynasty, and there is a shortage of food in the army at this moment, so please ask Wen Yue to lend my brother sixty or seventy thousand stone of grain for the sake of your and my twenty years of friendship, and I will not forget this in the future! (To be continued......)