Surrounded by these soldiers, Ma Chao went straight to Han Sui's tent and asked when he saw Han Sui's disheveled face: "Cao Zhi wrote you a letter, what did he write?"
Of course, Han Sui was very disgusted with Ma Chao's impolite questioning. He didn't even call him "adopted father" today. But Han Sui was Ma Chao's elder after all, so he didn't care about Ma Chao's impoliteness and just generously took it out.
He handed the letter to Ma Chao and said, "It doesn't say anything, just read it yourself!"
Ma Chao didn't take it politely and read it. He saw a piece of paper that read: "Thank you Wenyue (Wen Yue is Han Sui's calligraphy): When you raise an army, you will be forced to do what you want, and I will make it clear. Come in the morning."
, to assist the country and the dynasty together.”
There are only more than 20 words, concise and concise, quite similar to Cao Zhi's simple style of writing. The handwriting is obviously written by Cao Zhi himself. The content is nothing more than saying that Han Sui's rebellion was not voluntary, but was forced by others, and Cao Zhi knew it.
.Cao Zhi hoped that Han Sui could abandon the dark side and join the bright side as soon as possible, and work with him to build the Han Empire.
Usually such letters from two sides in a hostile state are either abusive or persuasive. The letter Cao Zhi sent to Han Sui certainly had the intention of persuading him to surrender. This is obvious and understandable.
But Ma Chao, who was angry when he saw the content of the letter, noticed how badly the letter had been altered. Especially the words "that morning" and "来" were the most heavily altered. Why was this letter like this?
"Father, why did you change this letter?" Ma Chao asked Han Sui calmly.
Han Sui was stunned by Ma Chao's question, his eyes widened, he glanced at the content of the letter again, and said rather unhappily: "This letter is like this, how could I have painted it? It's really unreasonable..."
Ma Chao's heart trembled, and he said with a sneer on his face: "It's strange, why did Cao Zhi send a draft to his adoptive father? This is not like the behavior of a prime minister of a country?"
Of course Han Sui heard the suspicion in Ma Chao's words, and couldn't help but frown and said: "If you ask me, who should I ask?"
At this time, Yan Xing on the side immediately seemed to help and explained for Han Sui: "Maybe Prime Minister Cao is careless!"
"Hmph, Prime Minister Cao...Cao Zhi is such a sophisticated person, how could he make such a mistake..." Ma Chaozhong snorted, repeated the change in Yan Xing's title, and accepted the letter again lukewarmly.
Suspicion questioned Han Sui.
Han Sui was so provoked by Ma Chao's attitude that he couldn't bear it any longer. He slapped the tables in front of him, shaking the wine cups and dishes placed on them, and said angrily: "Meng Qi
(Ma Chaozi), what do you mean, you mean I must have altered this letter?"
Ma Chao snorted and continued to sneer: "Let's not talk about the letter, let's talk about your meeting with Cao Zhi in front of the formation! Why did he not want to see me after meeting you? And you guys
What exactly were we talking about that day, and why are you still hiding it from me?"
In response to Ma Chao's blatant questioning, Han Sui almost exploded with anger. He stood up and said, "Ma Chao, if you doubt me, I will kill the thief Cao Zhi tomorrow to prove my innocence!"
"That's great!" Ma Chao patted his palm twice, and Han Sui, who blew his beard and glared in anger, turned around and left.
"Ouch, I'm so angry!"
In Ma Chao's opinion, whatever Han Sui said or did at this time was all pretentious and pretentious. Ma Chao would never trust this person again.
The next day, the two armies set up a formation on the plain between the Wei River and the Yellow River. The Guanzhong Allied Forces set up a square formation, with ten troops arranged from left to right. Cao Zhi set up a Yanxing formation, with a sharp front and a wide back.
Like a flock of swallows flying.
On this day, the sun was trailing its own rays. According to the candidate who could divine the stars, sun and moon, he said: "The sun's rays are all in vain. Three generals have been defeated in a row before the battle."
The candidate's words boosted the morale of the coalition forces, but then the candidate said: "If the back of the sun turns green and red, and bends outward, it is a sign of betrayal, and the general will have two minds." These words made the generals murmur to each other.
I also felt a little more vigilant.
Soon, according to the candidate, the best time to send out troops for battle had arrived. Han Sui was convinced, and immediately led a pair of troops to the front of the formation, and challenged Cao Jun to take the lead.
Cao Zhizhong was fighting with Xia Houyuan. Han Sui and Xia Houyuan didn't waste any time, and they immediately fought each other. Xia Houyuan fiercely drove his steel spear to Han Sui's spear, and secretly said to Han Sui, who was fighting with all his strength: "Prime Minister, please
Don't delay the general's affairs!" After saying that, he winked at Han Sui ambiguously, then suddenly stopped his move and turned his horse back to the formation.
Han Sui held his spear in confusion for five minutes. He looked back awkwardly at the reaction of the troops behind him and the other coalition generals. Then he blushed and continued to curse and challenge Cao Jun. This time, Cao Jun challenged Zhang.
The jaw, that jaw was the same as Xia Houyuan's. After making a few strokes with Han Sui, he seemed to have said something to Han Sui, then turned around and walked away.
Han Sui was angry and quarrelsome, and challenged Cao Jun for the third time. This time Cao Jun fought with Xu Huang. Xu Huang fought with Han Sui with his battle axe, and it was a desperate posture, but the two were fighting fiercely. Cao Zhi
Behind them, he ordered his troops to retreat and hurriedly hid in the camp.
Han Sui fought three strange battles. He didn't know whether he had won or lost. He walked back to the camp dejectedly. Ma Chao came up to him and said mockingly: "Father, this battle was really good. Congratulations.
Congratulations, is this the ‘Three consecutive defeats’ shown in the solar astrology?”
Han Sui had already had enough of this disrespectful Ma Chao, and he understood the irony in Ma Chao's words, and he raised his gun and wanted to fight him. Ma Chao was also well prepared, with his gun already in hand, and he couldn't help but start a fight with Han Sui.
together.
Fortunately, Yan Xing, Liang Xing, Cheng Yin and others stepped forward to persuade the two of them, and an internal bloodbath was avoided.
At noon, Yan Xing, Liang Xing, Cheng Yin and others came forward to prepare a banquet. They took the two big bosses Ma Chao and Han Sui to sit down together, drank, calmed down the two people's anger, and recalled the time when they "made an alliance with blood".
The scene of everyone working together and sincerely united. The words of persuasion are just because of some trivial matters and not because they are suspicious of each other.
A group of men talked about it, and with the help of alcohol, a lot of the unhappiness in the morning was quickly eliminated. Ma Chao and Han Sui also expressed their intention to abandon their old grudges and continue to resist Cao Cao. Ma Chao also had a symbolic encounter with Han Sui.
Cup, it can be said that the previous unhappiness has been overcome and things are getting better again.
During the dinner, Cheng Yin offered another suggestion: "The weather has gradually warmed up in the past few days. Cao Zhi's frozen sand wall will soon melt and will no longer be so strong. Why don't we all go out tonight to rob Cao Zhi's camp!"
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Everyone agreed in unison. At three o'clock in the night, there was fog on the ground. According to the attack plan agreed during the day, Ma Chao led his troops, plus Zhang Heng, Candidate, Li Kan, Cheng Yi and others from the left to attack Cao Ying.
To launch the attack, Han Sui, together with Liang Xing, Ma Wan, Yang Qiu, Cheng Yin and other troops, launched an attack on Cao Ying from the right, implementing a two-pronged attack strategy.
Everyone made an appointment to go out together at three o'clock in the morning, but in the sky at this time, there was a thief star flashing on the lower corner of the quarter moon. This was actually an ominous sign. It meant that someone among them had become a traitor, but at this time not only did they not People noticed that no one asked the candidates anymore. Because the conflict between Ma Chao and Han Sui some time ago was more or less related to the divination mentioned by this half-hearted divination candidate, for the sake of the unity that had just been stitched together, the official generals had decided this afternoon. , no longer superstitious.
Ma Chao's team quietly approached the left side of Cao Jun's camp along the river beach. They could already see that behind the dark village wall, camps resembling tombs stood one after another in the night.
A few vague soldiers on night watch were walking back and forth on the camp against the backdrop of will-o'-the-wisp torches. Under the wall of the camp, a few soldiers holding spears and spears were already leaning against their horses, and the camp gate was about to open. Fell asleep.
Ma Chao took the lead. When he saw the situation in Cao's camp, he was very excited. It seemed that he would be able to break into Cao's camp tonight and win.
But just when Ma Chao's war horses passed Juma and Luzhai, and stabbed the first sentry with his spear, something felt wrong. It didn't seem like the feeling of a sword entering the body, but more like...
Ma Chao stopped his rapid pace and used his gun to pick off the fallen sentry's military uniform. "Ah!" It turned out to be a scarecrow.
"No, I fell into a trap!"
As Ma Chao shouted, a row of torches suddenly lit up in front of his eyes, and at the same time there was a sound of war drums, and swishing arrows shot down all over the sky in the next second.
"Quickly retreat!"
"Boom boom!"
Ma Chao was hit by an arrow in the shoulder and ordered his troops to retreat, but it was too late. His troops and the various coalition troops that came at the same time were already in chaos under the sudden bombardment of stones from Cao's camp.
Soon Ma Chao saw Xia Houyuan and Han Sui, who were listlessly fighting during the day, with their jaws open, and Xu Huang, now full of energy and vigor, leading cavalry units to fight from the camp and from both wings.
"Ma Mengqi, Han Sui has surrendered to me a long time ago. Get off your horse and surrender!" Cao Zhi appeared on the wall of the stronghold at some point and shouted to Ma Chao who was stunned and stunned by Cao's army below the wall.
"Ma Chao, your adoptive father has sold you long ago. We already knew you would come from here..."
Xu Huang and other generals of Cao's army also used words to create chaos while harvesting the lives of enemies.
"Han Sui, you and I are incompatible with each other!" Ma Chao screamed heartbreakingly and ordered an emergency retreat.
Standing on the camp, Cao Zhi looked at the gradually weakening coalition forces, shook his head and sighed, saying to Jia Xu next to him: "You are too young after all! The military advisor is so clever!..."
Ma Chao struggled to break through, but none of the alliance allies who were following him were at this time. Ma Chao didn't know where Zhang Heng, Candidate, Li Kan, Cheng Yi, etc. had gone. The battlefield was already in chaos. Without being able to see the formation or the coordination between the various ministries, they had already been dispersed by Cao Jun's three-pronged attack. It was even more difficult to effectively convey military orders. Everyone was struggling to support themselves in the face of the enemies around them or in front of them. .Now Ma Chao thinks that these guys either surrendered to Cao Zhi with Han Sui, or were killed.