Ma Chao gathered his troops in Tianshui and parted ways with Ma Su. After a few days, he reached stability and joined forces with Han Sui and others.

Han Sui established the Xiliang coalition forces for half a month, and he had already made arrangements for the next step, but Ma Chao, as the deputy governor of the coalition forces, naturally needed to express his own opinions.

Han Sui did not really fight with Cao Cao when he revived this time. His strategic deployment was to arrange the coalition forces to march into Tongguan, cut off the contact between Guanzhong and Cao Cao, force Cao Cao to compromise, and continue their career as a local emperor in Xiliang.

Ma Chao has great ambitions. Before sending troops, he once asked Ma Su for advice.

Ma Su believed that if Han Sui only made an offensive posture and wanted to force Cao Cao to surrender, it would be useless! Because pacifying Xiliang, it had long been included in Cao Cao's plan. Even if Cao Cao temporarily gave up the idea of ​​borrowing from Xiliang this time, it was imperative to recover Xiliang, and it was only a matter of time before he could send troops this time. It would be better to lead his army to attack Chang'an, occupy the entire Guanzhong first, gather the power of Guanzhong and Xiliang, and completely oppose Cao Cao. The best strategy is to be the one.

Although the Xiliang coalition forces regarded Han Sui as their respect, because Ma Chao's argument was reasonable, there were many people who supported Ma Chao's opinions. The two sides could not argue and could not make up their minds. They stayed in Anling for nearly half a month.

Ma Chao debated with Han Sui for another day, but he was unable to convince him to change his mind. He felt bored and lie down alone in the tent to rest.

After falling asleep in a daze, Ma Chao felt a dream at night: he dreamed of lying on the snow, and a group of tigers came to bite him, and was frightened and confused, unable to sleep at night.

Limited by the level of knowledge at that time, people linked strange dreams with people's good and bad fortune, birth, old age, sickness, and death, and even the rise and fall of the country. Dream interpretation has become an important part of their daily life.

Ma Chao was uneasy, so he stood up and gathered his subordinates to tell him about the dream, wanting them to interpret the dream together.

Although Ma Chao's army lacked the most talented and well-educated people, there were also many people from all walks of life, each with their own strengths. The next person in the account replied:

"This dream is an ominous sign."

When Ma Chao saw that he was his confidant in front of his tent, his surname was Pang, his name was De, and his courtesy name was Lingming.

Although Pang Tong was only a good writer, he was usually humble and studious, and had extraordinary knowledge. He was a brave general with both wisdom and courage, and had a great prestige in the army.

When Ma Chao was surprised to hear Pang De's answer, he asked quickly:

"Ling Ming, what do you see?"

Pang De thought for a while before answering:

"I meet a tiger in the snow, and my dreams are very evil. I suspect that the old general in Xuchang may have an unexpected disaster!"

As soon as Pang De finished speaking, a man was unkempt and his hair was staggering in, crying and bowing to the ground, and said to Ma Chao:

"Brother, my uncle and two younger brothers were both killed by Cao Cao!"

When Ma Chao heard this, he was shocked! When he looked carefully, he found that he was his cousin Ma Dai who followed his father.

Ma Chao thought that when he was still arguing about his rebellion, there shouldn't be any news that reached Xuchang. His father and brother were killed by Cao Cao, so he hurriedly asked Ma Dai for the reason.

Ma Dai cried:

"My uncle was very happy to receive the news that his eldest brother was about to rise up. He was preparing to follow his eldest brother's advice to go to Jingzhou, sign an alliance with Liu Bei, and then return to Xiliang. The minister Huang Kui was originally a marching adviser sent by Cao Cao. Because of the matter of wearing and robbing edicts, he was invited to his uncle as a confidant and had a strong relationship with his uncle. He happened to escort food and grass, and his uncle treated him with wine. During the banquet, his uncle revealed that he wanted to return to Xiliang. Huang Kui was afraid of extermination of the family, so he asked his uncle to bring his eldest son to Xiliang. Unfortunately, he was beheaded in the market and was killed at the same time. Only because I went to the street market to buy dry food, I was not caught by Cao Cao. I pretended to be a merchant and left Xingye. When I saw the scout under my elder brother, I happened to be my old acquaintance, so I brought me here."

When Ma Chao heard this, he cried and fell to the ground. All the generals rescued him.

Ma Chao gritted his teeth and hated the thief. He could no longer bear it and did not want to argue with Han Sui anymore. He was preparing to ignite the army and go to attack Tongguan to take revenge according to Han Sui's arrangement.

Ma Chao was about to go to Han Sui to tell him, but Han Sui sent someone to invite Ma Chao to see him.

When Ma Chao arrived at Han Sui's military camp, Han Sui showed a letter that Cao Cao had just sent him, and Cao Cao said in the letter:

"If Han then captures Ma Chao to Xudu, he will be appointed as the Marquis of Xiliang, and will be inherited from generation to generation and will be permanently settled in Xiliang."

Ma Chao didn't know Han Sui's intention, so he was secretly alert and waited for Han Sui's following.

Han Sui paused for a moment and continued:

"I am a brother to your father. This time I am launching an army to rebel against Cao Cao, to dispel Cao Cao's idea of ​​invading Xiliang. How can you harm you? If you want to raise an army to take revenge, I should help you!"

Ma Chao thanked me and said, "I am eager to take revenge and my mood is already in chaos. So I marched directly into Tongguan according to my uncle's arrangement, and then rushed to Xuchang to avenge my father!"

Han Sui did not answer and ordered his subordinates to decapitate the envoy of the Cao army, first expressing his attitude, and then speaking:

"It is also my wish to avenge your father! But Xiliang is our fundamental place, and there is no loss! I thought about it carefully and felt that Cao Cao is strong and we should be prepared for a long-term confrontation! The best way to put down Guanzhong first and stabilize the rear is to make a decision! It is better for us to divide the troops into two groups. I and the other eight armies and horses went to Tongguan to resist Cao Cao's reinforcements. The nephew can lead the troops of our army and attack Chang'an first, and then sank the entire Guanzhong, and then join forces to Xuchang!"

It turned out that Han Sui's original intention was to go to occupy Tongguan and intimidate Cao Cao, but he did not want to completely turn against Cao Cao and then negotiate terms with Cao Cao.

In fact, Han Sui also knew that Ma Chao was right, but he refused to let go, just to maintain his majesty as the Grand Commander.

But now Ma Chao and Cao Cao have a grudge against him to kill his father, so he will definitely not compromise with Cao Cao. After he lets him capture Tongguan together, he will not obey his military orders and wait for Cao Cao to come in Tongguan.

Once Ma Chao wants to continue to advance to Xuchang, Han Sui cannot sit idly by. By then, the army alone will lead to a big disaster.

Han Sui is not an incompetent person to be able to survive until his current position!

For his own safety, he didn't care about his face and reputation, so he immediately changed his mind and led his troops to Tongguan to leave Ma Chao in Guanzhong to make trouble. After he calmed down after several battles, he would make another plan.

Who knew that Ma Chao was unwilling to stay in Guanzhong now and was determined to conquer Tongguan first and run to Xuchang. Fortunately, Pang De and Ma Dai persuaded him to stop, so he divided his troops and attacked Han Sui.

Ma Chao was eager to advance, so he led Ma Dai to Chang'an first, so he asked Pang De to return to Tianshui and to avenge his army.

Ma Chao's army had not reached Chang'an yet, and Chang'an County Magistrate Zhong Yao had already had to report it. He quickly sent a fast horse to report to Cao Cao, and while lit up his army and prepared to lead the army to resist the enemy.

Ma Chao asked Ma Dai to lead the front vanguard and lead five thousand troops to the city of Chang'an.

When Zhong Yao saw Ma Dai's army setting up a formation outside the city gate, he led his troops out of the city, first letting the archers shoot at the site, and then answered.

Ma Dai was full of anger because of Ma Teng's death. At first sight, Zhong Yao took off his horse and didn't even talk. He ran to Zhong Yao directly, trying to capture the thief and the king, and took Zhong Yao off.

Although Zhong Yao was a scholar, as the eldest son of the Zhong family, he studied literature and martial arts since childhood and his martial arts skills were not weak. When he saw Ma Dai rushing to fight with a horse, he was not panicked and took a gun and jumped onto the horse to fight.
Chapter completed!