Although Zhang Fei let Ma Chao enter the customs, he did not lift his guard against Ma Chao and others, everyone who entered the city, including Ma Chao, was taken away from their weapons, and the surrounding crossbowmen were even more eyeing each other, as long as Ma Chao and others had any abnormal behavior, it would immediately lead to death.

"General Zhang, what do you mean by that?" Ma Chao had already entered the pass, and led the eight hundred soldiers such as Pang De and Ma Dai who followed him, looked around at the soldiers who were eyeing them around, and asked.

Zhang Fei rode a war horse and stopped opposite Ma Chao, and when he heard Ma Chao ask him like this, he said coldly: "It's not interesting, it's just that I don't want to die." Just because I've let you in doesn't mean I can trust you......"

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

"I let you enter the customs 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. Let's talk about it, 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......

"That's a long story short!" Zhang Fei said with a tough attitude.

Ma Chao said: "Okay, the matter is very simple, I offended General Zuo Xu Huang, Xu Huang has always held a grudge against me, no matter what is going on, he wants to trouble me, and slandered me in front of Pang Tong, saying that I have the intention of rebellion." Who knew that Pang Tong believed it to be true and wanted to seize our military power. If I honestly hand over the military power, then I will really become a prisoner, I am not convinced. I'm going to find Pang Tong Theory with someone. Instead, he was attacked by Xu Huang, who had been prepared. I don't have many troops, and I was suddenly attacked by a sneak attack, so I was outnumbered, since the Han army treated me like this, what was the point of me staying there? If it weren't for General Zhang opening the city gate in time and letting me enter the customs, I'm afraid that I would have gone to the Netherworld by now. ”

Zhang Fei listened to Ma Chao's words and carefully observed Ma Chao's every move. He found that Ma Chao's expression was gloomy, he looked very depressed, and when he spoke, there was great anger and hatred in his eyes, and it didn't seem like he was telling a lie.

"Don't you have an army of 100,000? Why don't you help those Qiang people you brought from Liangzhou? Zhang Fei asked again.

Ma Chao said: "Those Qiang people were bewitched and bought by Xu Huang, and they couldn't figure out the truth of the facts for a while, and this incident happened suddenly, even if they wanted to help, it was too late." However, General Zhang was relieved. I'm only staying overnight in Kannai for one night, tonight. I sent people out of the customs to get in touch with the Qiang leaders who came with me, attacked Pang Tong and Xu Huang at night, and did not kill the two of them, and I vowed not to give up. ”

Zhang Fei took advantage of the situation and said: "When I was in Jiameng Pass, I once sent someone to contact you, you led the soldiers of Liangzhou, I led the soldiers of Yizhou, we joined forces to take Guanzhong, and then recuperated for three or five years, we can go east to fight for the world, and when the whole world is conquered, we will divide it equally, isn't it beautiful?" It's a pity that you rejected it at the beginning, and you have become an old enemy on the battlefield, and you have missed many opportunities......"

"Alas, it's only because Ma didn't recognize the situation at the beginning, so that he would fall into such a field, I knew that today, I should have listened to General Zhang's construction at the beginning, maybe now we are already drinking in Chang'an City, and we won't be distressed here." Ma Chaodao.

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "General Ma, even now it's not too late, as long as General Ma is willing to listen to my advice, I guarantee that General Ma will not only be able to show his strength, but also be the king and hegemon in the future, isn't it better than being a general under Zhang Yan?" ”

Ma Chao glanced at Zhang Fei and asked, "General Zhang, I came here to ask for help in a hurry, you don't want to fall into the well and bully me." If General Zhang must force me to be your general, then I, Ma Chao, would rather lead the crowd out of the customs again and kill you to the death with the Han army! ”

When Zhang Fei heard Ma Chao say such words, he knew that Ma Chao had no intention of surrendering himself at all, and was more likely to use this place to avoid difficulties. And what he said just now, Ma Chao's heart was pounding, his eyes were shining, if he wanted Ma Chao to be used by him, he couldn't fall into the ground.

"Hahaha, General Ma is too worried, I categorically will not let General Ma surrender, even if General Ma wants to surrender, I don't dare to accept it, after all, General Ma is not the kind of person who is willing to be subordinate, if I blindly force you to surrender and serve me, then am I not raising tigers? General Ma and I are more of a co-operative than a subordinate. General Ma, the Sword Pavilion can provide you with a temporary place to live, but it is only for a day, your subordinates are outside the Guan, and your target is not Yizhou, it is not realistic for me to force you to stay here, I hope that after I get up tomorrow morning, I can see you carrying the heads of Pang Tong and Xu Huang to vent the anger in your heart. Zhang Fei said.

Ma Chao said: "General Zhang, don't worry, I will take action tonight." In addition, General Zhang can rest assured, I and my subordinates will spend the night here, in order to show my sincerity, horses and weapons are temporarily handed over to General Zhang's subordinates for safekeeping, at night, General Zhang only needs to let one of my henchmen out of the customs, and when the good news comes, I will come to General Zhang again to ask for horses and weapons, all of which are completed under General Zhang's supervision, lest General Zhang say that I am playing a bitter trick! ”

Zhang Fei was indeed relieved when he heard Ma Chao say this, he nodded and said, "Okay, then do what General Ma said." However, since General Ma has arrived here, I should do my best to be a landlord, and I will set up a feast for a while, and I hope that General Ma can drink with me! ”

"That's 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 such a lonely city as Sword Pavilion, and the rest of the place is no longer his, Ma Chao's arrival is like his last straw, he must seize this opportunity tightly.

He no longer thinks about Guanghan, Shu County and other places west of the Sword Pavilion, the chariot general Zhang Liao led the army to Chengdu, Huang Quan, Wang Lei, Zhang Song and others welcomed back Liu Zhang, and united the rest of the counties to surrender the Han army, Zhang Fei's power was like a flash in the pan.

There are more than 100,000 Han troops in the east of the Sword Pavilion suppressing, he has been prepared for the worst, who knows that there is no way to the sky, Ma Chao and Xu Huang are infighting, he can use this as an opportunity to use Ma Chao and the Qiang army he brought to defeat Xu Huang, so as to instigate Ma Chao to return to Liangzhou, and he can regain the territory east of the Sword Pavilion, the most important thing is that he can also take the opportunity to seize Hanzhong, take Hanzhong as a new foundation, unite Ma Chao in Xiliang, and jointly raise troops to resist the Han army.

These things are not Zhang Fei's attention alone, but more from Fazheng. Some of Ma Chao's words and deeds are not enough to deceive Zhang Fei, but also to make Fa Zheng convinced. If Ma Chao comes to surrender, then it will inevitably make Fa Zheng suspicious, and maybe he will be killed. But Ma Chao never said anything about surrender from beginning to end, but only used this place as a temporary place of refuge, although Ma Chao said that he was willing to assist Zhang Fei when he called the door outside the gate, etc., but these are some words that were said in an emergency, just to seek a place of refuge and had to say.

Because of this, Fa Zheng believed Ma Chao's words, thinking that Ma Chao's coming this time was not a fraud, but indeed a falling 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 woods in the distance for burial. However, when these corpses were carried to the woods, they miraculously came back to life one by one, and many people complained, saying that they were too ruthless and almost really died.

It turns out that this qiē is all fake, it is all a strategy, Xu Huang and Ma Chao did not really have a fire, but acted for the people in the Sword Pavilion Pass to see, if they don't act realistically, others really can't believe it. However, although the acting is fake, it is also true, and when chasing Ma Chao, he did sacrifice hundreds of people's lives, so as to confuse the other party and make the other party convinced.

For this reason, Xu Huang also specially ordered that these people be gathered, and then buried them uniformly, and wrote down the names of these people, and prepared to reward their families one by one after the victory of the war.

In the official hall of the Sword Pavilion, Ma Chao was courteous to Zhang Fei, and was served with good wine and meat, and when Ma Chao was halfway drunk, he pretended to be drunk and stopped drinking, so he got up and said goodbye, and returned to the gate of the Sword Pavilion, and his subordinates sat on the ground with their bare hands, quietly waiting for the night to fall.

And Zhang Fei did not really dispel his concerns about Ma Chao, and sent two thousand crossbowmen at the city gate to stand by at any time, once Ma Chao and others had any abnormal behavior, they would immediately kill him.

The person in charge of guarding the city gate is still Zhang Fei's henchman Liu Xian, and Li Yan also came to the city gate because he was not at ease, and the two of them were eyeing Ma Chao and others on the left and right.

"Big brother, do you think you can really succeed this time?" Ma Dai, who was sitting next to Ma Chao, looked around and saw countless crossbowmen staring at them, so he couldn't help but ask in a worried whisper.

Judging from the current situation, there doesn't seem to be a big problem, but the key is to see if Zhang Fei will be fooled, this is just a prelude, and the real show is still to come. All you have to do is sit still, and when it is nightfall, we can go out. Ma Chao said.

Ma Dai just came back from Liangzhou, Ma Chao got a lot of gold, silver and jewelry from Hanzhong, let Ma Dai transport it back to Liangzhou, after he completed the task, he returned to Ma Chao's side, just spread this kind of thing, it is inevitable that there will be some worries in his heart.

Pound also seemed to notice the worry on Ma Dai's face, so he patted Ma Dai on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry, you will definitely succeed tonight!" (To be continued......)