At the same time Han Sui secretly met with Cao Cao's envoy, in another camp about five or six miles away from Han Sui's camp, General Liang Xingzheng listened to the report of a patrolman with a serious expression.

"I was absolutely not wrong with Bei Zhi. He was Cao Cao's envoy. He was escorted by Cao's soldiers and drove a small boat across the river. The envoy finally entered Han Sui's camp."

Liang Xing was also one of the ten tribes of Guanlong, with 8,000 soldiers under his command. He was originally stationed at Pujin Pass under the order of Ma Chao, but his defense was not strict. Pujin Pass was successfully attacked by Cao's army, so he had to be forced to retreat south.

However, in the battle to retreat to Weishui south, he was defeated by Cao's army and lost nearly 5,000 people, which made Liang Xing extremely dissatisfied with Han Sui. He believed that Han Sui was unable to handle the situation. Although Han Sui had already arrived in Weinan, he was reluctant to send troops to support him across the river, so that his army suffered heavy losses. He recorded this account on Han Sui.

Now Han Sui is actually in secret contact with Cao Cao's envoy. How could he let it go? Liang Xing immediately ordered the left and right, "Be sure to intercept Cao Cao's envoy!"

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The envoy of Cao Cao left Hansui camp while the night was covered, and rode his horse to the Wei River with two followers. They ran more than ten miles along the river. When they passed by a forest, a sudden whistle blasted over their heads. Hundreds of soldiers rushed out of the woods and surrounded them. In the harsh flames, Liang Xing urged his horse to step forward, looked at the envoy of Cao Cao coldly, and ordered: "Tie them for me!"

Everyone rushed over and overturned the envoy Cao Cao to the ground, and found Han Sui's reply from him. The envoy shouted: "Don't hurt me, I'll explain everything!"

Liang Xing took Han Sui's reply and looked at the letter skin, "Prime Minister Cao's Farewell" and the signature was Han Sui of Xiliang. Liang Xing couldn't help but smile on his face. The evidence was conclusive, and it would be clear what he had to say.

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Three days later, Ma Chao led 50,000 coalition forces to the south bank of the Wei River and set up a camp not far from Hansui's camp. While the camp was busy cleaning up, soldiers came to report, "General Liang is here!"

This is Liang Xing coming. Ma Chao was also learning about Cao Jun's situation and hurriedly invited him in. After a moment, Liang Xing hurried into the tent and knelt down on one knee to salute, "I will meet the general!"

"Get up! Tell me about the situation of Cao's army."

Liang Xing stood up and said, "The Cao army was about 30,000, and was commanded by the general Xiahou Yuan. In the first battle, my defense was loopholes, and I had too few defense forces at night. They were successful in Pujin Pass. But the second battle was defeated in Weibei, which was not the responsibility of the humble position. Someone secretly contacted Cao's thief and betrayed me."

"What do you mean?"

Ma Chao asked in surprise: "Who betrayed you?"

Liang Xing took out the letter Han Sui had given to Cao Cao and handed it to Ma Chao, saying, "I intercepted the envoy of Cao's army. I searched for this letter on him. The general knew it at a glance."

Ma Chao took the letter and looked at it, his face suddenly became gloomy. He opened the letter and looked carefully, and was furious, "I regard him as my father, but he secretly betrayed me. This thief should be killed!"

Next to him, Ma Chao's brother Ma Dai advised: "Brother calm down. If the two armies have internal conflicts, it will only give way to Cao's army. It is better to keep silent for the time being. Please ask Han Sui to discuss military affairs, kill this person directly, and accept his army."

Ma Chao held back his anger and nodded, "My brother is right!"

He immediately ordered his personal soldiers, "Go to the Han Governor's camp and said there was an emergency military situation. Please come and discuss it quickly."

After walking a few steps, Ma Chao said to Ma Dai again: "You and Ling Ming each led 10,000 troops and lie around Hansui's camp. Wait for me to have a signal to surround his camp and make an emergency landing!"

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Han Sui sent Cao's envoy away and was waiting for Cao Cao's reply. Seeing that Ma Chao's army had arrived at the Wei River, Cao Cao had no news for a long time, which made him feel a little uneasy. At this time, Ma Chao sent someone to ask him to discuss the military situation. Han Sui had no doubts and rushed to Ma Chao's camp with more than a dozen followers.

When he entered the military camp and approached the tent, Han Sui felt a little murderous intent. He suddenly became a little uneasy. At this time, Ma Chao greeted the tent and smiled and said, "Why is Uncle Shi late?"

"I'll pack up my things in the camp and come one step later."

Ma Chao wanted to get in and deal with him, but at this moment he could no longer help but feel angry and said coldly: "Is Governor Han packing his luggage?"

Han Sui was stunned and stopped and asked, "Nephew, why did you say this?"

Before Ma Chao could speak, Liang Xing rushed up and pointed at him and cursed: "Old thief, you have an affair with Cao Cao, which has led to my miserable defeat. Do you still dare not admit it?"

Han Sui suddenly turned around and looked at Ma Chao, and saw him pressing on the hilt of the sword, with murderous intent in his eyes. He knew that he had been exposed, so he turned around and ran. Ma Chao pulled out his sword, took two steps, and slashed Han Sui on the thigh with one sword. Han Sui fell to the ground. He bowed and begged: "Nephew, please spare my life because of our former friendship!"

"friendship?"

Ma Chao said viciously: "I only have the hatred of killing my mother and the hatred of betrayal with you, but I have no friendship. He raised his sword and killed Han Sui!"

He cut off Han Sui's head, raised it high and shouted: "Han Sui had an affair with Cao Cao, trying to kill us. Today he killed him to warn the traitor!"

Han Sui was killed, everyone in Ma Chao's camp was shocked, and the other military leaders were in panic, especially those who were close friends with Han Sui, Cheng Yin, Li Kan and others were even more dissatisfied and angry.

Just when Ma Chao's army attacked Han Sui's military camp and the internal army was unstable, the Cao army took the opportunity to build a floating bridge on the Wei River. Xu Huang led 10,000 troops to build a military camp twenty miles away from Ma Chao's camp. At this time, Ma Chao was busy quelling civil strife and was unable to stop Cao's army from stationing. In just one day and one night, Xu Huang built a military camp that could accommodate tens of thousands of people on the south bank of the Wei River.

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At night, dark clouds were covered with stars and moons, and thick red clouds enveloped the land of Guanzhong. The strong river breeze blowing from the surface of the Wei River blew the woods on the south bank. On the newly built Cao Jun camp sentry tower, several sentries were pacing back and forth, staring vigilantly at the official road in the distance.

Just in a forest several miles away from Cao's army, Ma Chao personally led 15,000 troops to attack. Tonight was a good opportunity to steal the camp. Pang De, the general next to him, whispered: "I have always heard that Xu Gong is wise and brave, and he is very likely to be attacked tonight. Will Xu Huang be prepared?"

Ma Chao sneered and said, "He is ready at any time, so what can he do? Can his camp withstand the impact of my five thousand iron hooves?"

At this time, a personal soldier said, "General, the time is here!"

Ma Chao waved his sword and shouted loudly: "Kill me up!"

Five thousand cavalry suddenly launched, like a river collapsed from the dam, with horses galloping, surging and running wildly, horse hooves sounded like thunder, shouting and killing resounded throughout the earth, and the five thousand most elite cavalry rushed to the Cao army camp.

Just when the cavalry were more than a hundred steps away from the camp, hundreds of war horses running in front suddenly fell down one after another, and the war horses were neighing with broken bones. A large number of trapped horse pits were dug in front of the camp gate, and caltrops were densely spread on them. The war horses were hit and rolled to the ground. The cavalry were thrown out from the horses, and the war horses behind were not as strong as possible and collided into a ball.

Just when the cavalry was in chaos, fire suddenly broke out on the wall of Cao's army. Thousands of crossbowmen lying here fired arrows to the Xiliang Army. The arrows were like rain, covering the sky and overwhelmingly. In just one stick of incense stick, more than half of the five thousand cavalry had lost, and they were so scared that they retreated one after another, and the 10,000 infantry behind were also in chaos.

Pang De ran to Ma Chao and reported loudly: "General, the enemy is well prepared, and the brothers are suffering heavy casualties!"

Ma Chao's face turned pale and he could only say hatefully: "Retreat!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a loud drum sound came from behind him, and fires rose everywhere. The six thousand Cao troops lying behind them rushed out. The generals led by the mountain-opening axe in their hands, majestic. It was Cao Cao's army Xu Huang. He shouted loudly: "Don't go!"

Ma Chao was furious and rushed forward with a gun, but Pang De and Ma Dai held the reins tightly and shouted: "General, the army is in chaos, retreat quickly!"

The Xiliang army was in chaos around, and they turned around and fled westward, and even the cavalry no longer rushed. At this time, Yu Jin led another 5,000 people to come from the south. The Xiliang army was frightened and fled to their own lives. Seeing that the defeat was settled, Ma Chao had to sigh and ordered: "The entire army retreat!"

He turned his horse's head and took Pang De and Ma Dai to escape to his camp. Xu Huang and Yu Jin led their troops to chase after him. This battle killed the Xiliang army corpses everywhere, with heavy casualties. Ma Chao led 15,000 people to steal the camp. In the end, less than 4,000 soldiers fled back, and most of the five thousand elite cavalry were killed and injured.

Ma Chao fled back to the military camp and felt extremely depressed. At this time, he was also a little shaken. He sent someone to find Ma Dai and Pang De. Ma Chao sighed and said to the two: "Han Sui betrayed, I underestimated the enemy and lost the army. I am afraid that the morale of the army has been shaken. Let me tell you what should we do now?"

Ma Dai pondered for a moment and said, "Can we ask Liu Jing for help? Since he has occupied Hanzhong, he should have enough troops in his hands. If he can go north to Guanzhong, then our crisis will be resolved."

Ma Chao shook his head, "Liu Jing is in Xiangyang now. Even if he agrees to send troops, it will take half a month to go back and forth. I am afraid it will be too late. Moreover, our situation is unfavorable, so he may not be willing to send troops and cannot place his hopes on him."

Pang De said again: "I heard that the candidate, Cheng Yin and others were dissatisfied with the general's killing of Han Sui. Now that we are defeated, the morale of the army is even more unstable. It is better to ask Cao Cao for peace. We retreat to Liangzhou to accumulate energy and consider making a comeback in the future."

Ma Dai also advised: "Ling Ming said it well. Anyway, Han Sui is dead, and no one will compete with us for Xiliang anymore. Retreat is the best strategy. I agree to discuss peace with Cao Cao."

Ma Chao thought about it and had no choice but to nod, recruit a Shu Zuo, and handed him his handwritten letter and said, "You go to the north bank and tell Cao Cao that as long as he is willing to let me retreat to Xiliang, I am willing to use the Yellow River as the boundary and never go further east. In addition, I can also use my son as a hostage."

"Abide by the orders!"
Chapter completed!