Ma Chao's emotional management was still in place. Faced with the strange expressions from the generals, he patted his chest and said, "I'm sorry. When Bozhan came to call me just now, he swallowed some cold wind and caught a chill in his stomach. In fact, I am also lacking in the camp."

Food has been around for a long time..."

"My nephew has seized the supplies. Is the food supply so tight?" Han Sui frowned, thinking to himself that your boy had harvested a lot of cattle and horses outside Tongguan.

"How can you not be nervous? Uncle, there must be a lot of people and consumption. I haven't eaten a grain of rice for two days, don't you think so, Bo Zhan?" Ma Chao turned to Ma Dai and asked.

"What brother said is true." Ma Dai answered with clasped fists. He said to himself that his brother had only eaten meat for the past two days and indeed had not eaten any staple food.

The Kansai Alliance soldiers were too arrogant. Ma Chao's troops seized cattle and horses as military supplies, which were the military rations that everyone needed now. They had long made the people around him jealous.

Because Ma Chao was too strong, other small warlords did not dare to stroke his beard. Han Sui, who was about the same strength, could not open his mouth due to the "father and son" relationship, so other families were really suffering from cold and starvation. His whole camp

Everyone was eating meat and drinking wine.

After several days of stalemate between the Kansai Allied Forces and Cao's army, various ministries began to run out of food and sell miserably. Han Sui secretly approached Ma Chao to borrow food. He originally thought that Ma Chao would express his gratitude, but in the end he was rejected by Ma Chao with various excuses.

The daily consumption of Ma Chao's 20,000 men was very high, and they could not last long just with the cattle and horses captured outside Tongguan. When Han Sui was in trouble, his camp gradually began to suffer from food shortages.

Under such difficult circumstances, Han Sui and others wanted to cede territory to Cao Cao and seek peace.

Cao Cao received Han Sui's peace request letter, so he summoned the "poisonous scholar" Jia Xu and asked: "The effectiveness of the camps in Weibei and Weinan will be judged. We have only been across the river for seven or eight days. Hanwen wants to use the land west of Hexi to seek peace.

What does Wen He think?"

Jia Xu stroked his beard and replied: "The Prime Minister took the risk of being attacked by Liu Bei and Sun Quan and gathered Han Sui, Ma Chao and others here. How could he give up the land just west of Hexi? We can pretend to agree to sue for peace and let them relax.

After being vigilant, we can then use alienation tactics to weaken his heart and disintegrate his will, and then send troops to attack him, and he can be defeated in one battle."

Cao Cao laughed and praised: "Wen Hezhen is poisonous...a unique scholar..."

"The Prime Minister is so complimentary..." Jia Xu knew what he was doing. Although he was ruthless and unpopular with his colleagues, Cao Cao only needed to trust him.

Cao Cao responded according to Jia Xu's plan and agreed to Han Sui's request for peace. The Kansai Allied Forces were relieved after hearing the news, but they did not dare to give up their guard even though they only made a verbal promise.

Soon Cao Cao asked Han Sui to meet in front of the battle formation, and the two met under the warm winter sun in Weinan.

Cao Cao and Han Sui's fathers were promoted to be filial and honest in the same year, and Cao Cao and Han Sui were contemporaries, so they could be considered old friends.

Han Sui thought that Cao Cao was going to talk about ceding territory and seeking peace, but he didn't expect that he was just talking about the past and friends in the capital.

Han Sui wanted to change the subject. He pointed at Cao Cao's beard and said, "I heard that Meng De has a beautiful beard. Why is your beard so short? And it's a bit messy..."

The matter of cutting off beards and abandoning robes was publicized by Ma Chao's Xiliang soldiers and was no longer a secret among the Kansai Allied Forces. Han Sui deliberately mentioned this matter to remind Cao Cao of the Tongguan War.

Unexpectedly, Cao Cao had a broad mind. He shook his head and laughed until he almost lost his voice, "The horse is brave and invincible, just like Lu Bu coming back to life. I was chased by him in Tongguan and cut off my beard and abandoned my robe. I heard that this man is your son?"

Han Sui was startled when he heard this, and said with an embarrassed smile: "Meng Qi did mention recognizing his adoptive father, but Brother Shoucheng is far away in Yecheng, I just take care of him, I can't count, I can't count..."

"Hahaha, it's good to have a horse as your adopted son. You will have one more person to fulfill your filial piety..." Cao Cao continued to laugh.

Because the two laughed loudly, many people from the Kansai Allied Forces came closer to watch, as if they were looking at something strange.

Seeing this, Cao Cao said generously: "You want to see Duke Cao? I am also a human being. I don't have four eyes and two mouths, but I have many wise ears."

Cao Cao and Han Sui chatted until dusk before returning. After returning to the camp, Ma Chao and other generals came to ask questions. Han Sui told the truth and all the generals were suspicious.

The next day, Cao Cao sent another letter to Han Sui. Many places on the letter were daubed, and they were all important places.

Ma Chao was suspicious at first, so he asked for the letter and became even more confused after reading it. He pointed to the smudged area and asked Han Sui: "Uncle, in the third paragraph of the letter, 'The contract requires horses...' there are a few black spots at the end." What is it?"

Han Sui smiled bitterly: "That's how it was when Meng De sent this letter. My uncle was puzzled by it. Just when he was about to reply to the letter and ask questions, my nephew came over..."

"Uncle, do you think I came too early?"

"Meng Qi and I share the same love as father and son, how could we dislike each other..."

Ma Chao asked coldly: "My uncle has met and communicated with Cao Cao. Did he tell us when to withdraw? All our battalions have run out of food..."

"Meng De actually didn't mention it, so I'll write and ask..."

Ma Chao raised his white robe behind him and then rushed out of Han Sui's camp with a cold snort.

Han Sui was extremely unhappy, and sparks seemed to burst out of his eyes. He thought to himself, "How can you be so aggressive like a father and son? Can you remember me when you are slaughtering horses and cattle?"

The success of Cao Cao's alienation plan was not because of how clever Jia Xu's strategy was, but mainly because the Kansai Allied Forces were not united in the first place. They all gathered together for their own interests. Now they have turned from attack to defense, and they are all working for themselves.

For several days after that, Cao Cao invited Han Sui to chat alone in front of the battle line, further expanding the effect of the alienation plan.

Cao Cao still refused to propose peace. No matter how stupid Han Sui was, he guessed that Cao Cao was plotting against him.

In the last meeting, Han Sui took the initiative and said: "When will the Prime Minister finalize the peace plan? We will spend a few days alone in front of the battle to talk about old times, so as not to provoke outsiders to gossip..."

Cao Cao said seriously: "You and I are upright in front of the battle, who dares to gossip?"

"The prime minister has a high and powerful position after all, so I am afraid that there are villains in the court who may cause trouble and make slanderous remarks in front of the emperor..." Han Sui deliberately made trouble for Cao Cao by retreating in order to advance.

"Now that I have military power in my hands, how can a villain dare to rub the tiger's beard? The emperor will not listen to slander..." Cao Cao said in his heart, it means I don't want to, otherwise I would have replaced Liu Xie as emperor.

Then Cao Cao waved his big hand forward, and the five thousand armored cavalry behind the formation marched a few steps forward in an orderly manner. The sunlight reflected on the armor of the cavalry showed the appearance of "shine".

Ma Chao, Cheng Yin, Yang Qiu and other generals were watching every day. When they saw Cao Cao showing weakness to the enemy, they were all frightened and frightened.

After Cao Cao showed his strength, he issued a letter of challenge to the Kansai Allied Forces the next day, agreeing to hold a decisive battle in Weinan two days later.

Han Sui put the letter of war on the table. He shook his head and sighed: "Cao Cao is too cunning. We have all been deceived by him these days..."

All the generals were speechless after hearing this, and they didn't know what they had been discussing with him these past few days.

Ma Chao picked up the letter of challenge with a cold expression: "The traitor Cao is a man who doesn't keep his word, but since he comes to fight and seek death, let him have a taste of the power of Xiliang's cavalry."

"Nephew Meng Qixian is right. The Xiliang cavalry has a great advantage in fighting in the open field. As long as everyone is united and united, we will definitely be able to drive the Cao thieves out of Guanzhong."
Chapter completed!