Ma Chao and three young generals arrived in Ji County. In this way, including Liu Qi himself, there were a total of twenty-five allied troops.

Although most of them are soldiers of local tyrants and their combat power is up to be discussed, it can at least ensure the stability of Liangzhou in the rear when Liu Qi was expeditioning Dong Zhuo in the west.

Under the auspices of Liu Qi, everyone fought for blood and agreed on time to gather soldiers and generals to prepare for the westward advance.

However, while advancing westward, we need to clarify several important issues and also clarify our own strategic goals.

Liu Qi knew it himself. He knew that with the tens of thousands of troops under his command, he could not compete with Dong Zhuo's main force of the Xiliang Army, and it was even more delusional to capture Guanzhong.

Even if you can compete for Chang'an for a while, it will never last long.

What's more, most of the Liangzhou heroes who are now accomplices are fencemen. They are facing Dong Zhuo themselves. Once the situation changes, they are likely to be backfired by them.

But Liu Qi doesn't care.

His goal has never changed from beginning to end... This time, the troops were mainly sent to welcome Huang Zhong, Xun You and King Chen back to Hanzhong.

King Chen was anxious to make contributions before, and believed that Wang Yun had joined forces with him. Now he was injured by Zhang Liao in danger... That was the result of his impulse and he could not blame others.

But it would be a pity if the troops of Chen State were eliminated in Guanzhong due to his negligence and thousands of powerful crossbows were captured by the Xiliang army.

Liu Qi knew that entering Guanzhong was too risky, but he also understood that if he could successfully take over Liu Chong's powerful crossbow through this battle, Jingzhou could form a powerful crossbow army and in the future, he could be invincible when fighting against any strong enemy from the north.

But the specific implementation is still quite difficult.

At first, Liu Qi wanted to use Dong Min as a hostage to negotiate with Dong Zhuo, but after thinking about it, he finally gave up on this idea.

Dong Min is of course important to Dong Zhuo, but I think it is not enough to allow Dong Zhuo to give up encirclement and annihilate the 50,000 soldiers under King Chen.

It would be worth it to buy 50,000 enemies and 70,000 powerful crossbows in exchange for his life in the Dong family... for Dong Zhuo.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to keep Dong Min for the time being and use it for another time in the future.

On the night of the alliance, Ma Xuan and Fa Zheng came to Liu Qi's tent and asked him to see him.

Liu Qi summoned the two of them, and he probably knew why the two came here late at night.

"What do you think about Ma Teng and Han Sui's generals leading troops to join forces?" After Fa Zheng entered the account, he did not politely and asked Liu Qi directly.

Liu Qi pursed his lips and said, "Actually, since I hit those three people in, I have been thinking about Han Sui's purpose... After all, he had just cooperated with Dong Zhuo to deceive Liu Chong and Wang Yun. He suddenly turned around and wanted to help us deal with Dong Zhuo again. It was very deep."

Fa Zheng turned his head and looked at Ma Xuan: "What is Bo Chang's great view?"

Ma Xuan comforted Fa Zheng and said, "Since Xiaozhi has already figured out, there is no need to ask us one by one. If you have anything to say, it doesn't matter. Would you still be jealous of your talent and intelligence being better than me?"

Speaking of this, he turned to look at Liu Qi and smiled and said, "As the Lord of the Mansion, you will not be even jealous."

"The more agile you are and the more unparalleled your ability becomes, the happier I am." Liu Qi said his heart calmly.

Fa Zheng bowed to the two of them politely and said, "Since they are all open-minded people, then Fa said bluntly."

Liu Qi straightened his back and listened carefully to Fazheng's opinions.

"Mr.," Fa Zheng said solemnly under the gaze of the two: "Although Han Sui and Ma Teng's military power was strong in the past, they were still rebels. Over the years, the rebels' branches have fought against each other, and their power has greatly weakened. After all, the root cause is just because their reputation is not right."

Liu Qi could probably understand the meaning of Fa Zheng's words: "Xiaozhi means that Mahan sent troops here to help me, in order to obtain the name of righteousness and to remove the shackles of the rebels' names?"

Fa Zheng raised his left hand, stretched out two fingers, then gently broke off one, and said, "This is only for one thing. The last official believes that Ma and Han still have the intention of forcing Dong Zhuo to compromise in this move."

"I don't understand what Kojima said."

"Today, in addition to joining the Alliance of Protecting the King and Protecting the Lord, he was the only one who received the imperial seal from the court and was no longer a traitor. The power of the imperial seal is now in the hands of Dong Zhuo... but he would not be taken out easily."

Ma Xuan smiled and said, "How cunning Dong Zhuo is to let you do it? How could he easily enfeoff Ma Han? If this eagle is fed, wouldn't it fly?"

Liu Qi clapped his hands with praise: "After listening to the high opinions of the two gentlemen, I suddenly realized... I understood that Mahan could not bear the restraint of Dong Zhuo, so he sent Ma Chao, Yan Xing and others to join us. This was equivalent to joining the Alliance of Guarding the Lords, which was considered to be a righteous person. If Dong Zhuo knew that Mahan led his troops to join us, he would definitely design differentiate us from the old thief's position... and the means to divide us and Mahan would be tantamount to directly enfeoffing them." Liu Qi seemed to have some understanding.

Fa Zheng nodded with certainty: "This is exactly the reason."

After Liu Qi figured out the key point, he felt quite relaxed. While pounding his shoulders, he said, "Ma Teng and Han Sui are really good at calculating. No matter what the final result is, they are not at a disadvantage. This is taking advantage of me and Dong Zhuo."

"Mr., even though that is the case, the last official took the opportunity of patrol to visit Ma Chao and Yan Xing's military camps to observe their military power." Ma Xuan said calmly.

“What’s the result?”

"Mahan's soldiers were rebels, but they were in battle for a long time and were extremely majestic. Most of them were cavalry. As our army's arm, they were indeed very useful."

Fa Zheng nodded and said, "Because of this, we need to design to let Mahan and Dong Zhuo break up as soon as possible, so as not to be distracted... This time it was Mahan who was careless. In order not to conflict with Dong Zhuo head-on, they sent a few young and energetic people, but they didn't know that the young people were young and energetic, which was the most likely to mislead things."

Ma Xuan smiled and stroked his hands, saying: Aren’t we all young?”

Fa Zheng's expression was very disdainful: "How can we compare with those Liangzhou tigers and wolves?"

"Let's fight and see." Liu Qi said casually: "At least for now, they are still our allies... Bo Chang, you will send someone to investigate the details of Ma Chao, Yan Xing, and Pang De, and report to me about the situation of these three people's military service over the years. They are all young and have not been in the long term. It should be easy to investigate."

"Don't worry, the last official will send someone to investigate carefully."

"Okay, after all the troops gather together, we will go to Fufeng from Ji County."

"only."

...

For the Guanzhong Plain and Hanyang County, Youfufeng is the buffer zone between the two places.

Over the years, whether the court sent troops from east to west to suppress the rebellion, or the rebels went from west to east to attack the Han Dynasty, the first place that was trampled was undoubtedly You Fufeng.

As the accumulation year by year, Youfufeng's economy has been unable to develop, agricultural fields have been repeatedly destroyed, and the population has continued to decline and outflow. To this day, Youfufeng, which has twenty-one counties, has changed from 836,700 people at the beginning of its name to less than 90,000 people, and has removed 90% of the households.

If more than 100 counties in the Han Dynasty were allocated into small countries, then You Fufeng is basically no different from destroying the race now.

No wonder the handsome figures like Fa Zheng and Meng Da, who also left their homes and businesses, ran from Youfufeng to Western Shu.

This time, Liu Qi's coalition forces were about 70,000. They went to Chang'an and drove their troops into Youfufeng.

But at the same time, Liu Qi also received news that Dong Zhuo also divided the troops into two. He left Li Jue to lead 80,000 soldiers to continue to besiege Chang'an, and he led 100,000 elite troops, turned his fingers again, went to Meiwu first to replenish food and fodder, and then drove into Fufeng County to fight Liu Qi himself.
Chapter completed!