The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 269 No.11 State Acquired

Liu Bei took advantage of the situation and captured and killed two generals Yang Huai and Gao Pei when they entered the camp. He took advantage of the situation and occupied Fushui Pass to plot Yizhou.

On the other hand, although the Xiliang army is still maintained at around [-], its momentum is not as good as before. On the other hand, the Wei army has become more vigorous as it fights.

The two armies came to a stalemate in Jicheng.

Previously, the Wei army had fought with the Xiliang army several times. Although the victories were few and the losses were many, thanks to the large size of the ten prefectures under its jurisdiction, they could bear the losses. Guanzhong, back to Jicheng.

At the same time, in order to change the passive situation, Cheng Yuanzhi sent Xu Chu, Jiang Qi, and Zhu Ling each to lead an army, secretly sneaked to the back of Jicheng, forming a situation of besieging the city on all sides.

In this situation, the generals in the Xiliang Army immediately had differences.Han Sui advocated making peace with some of his subordinates, while Ma Chao hoped to fight and destroy the Wei army head-on.

Cheng Yuanzhi realized that this was the time when the alienation strategy came in handy.

The brilliance of Jia Xu's "estrangement strategy" is that even if he knows it is the opponent's strategy, he will inevitably fall into the trap.

Because once the strategy was implemented, Ma Chao would not dare to rest assured to hand over his back to Han Sui, and he dared not bet on whether the latter would kill him and surrender.

The core of the divorce plan is that Han Sui and Ma Chao have differences.This is a prerequisite for alienation.

If two people are of the same mind and have no differences, no matter how clever the alienation plan is, there is no way to separate them.

Only under the premise that the two sides have equal strength and neither can eliminate the other in a short period of time is the necessary condition for the separation to be implemented.

If one party is too weak, it can be easily defeated by the other party.Then no matter how clever the distance meter is, there is no need to use it.

At this time, Jiang Qi, Xu Huang, and Zhu Ling had already entered the camp behind the Xiliang army camp, and Ma Chao was facing the danger of being attacked by the enemy.

The war between the two sides has entered a stalemate, and the differences between Ma Chao and Han Sui have also been revealed.

Cheng Yuanzhi quickly seized the opportunity and fine-tuned the strategy, making it even more difficult to be seen through.

But before the plan was implemented, Han Sui sent Yang Qiu as an envoy to Cheng Yuanzhi's camp to write a letter, saying that he would cede the land and ask for peace.

That is to say, before Ma Chao agreed to make peace, Han Sui sent someone to cede land to seek peace.

It can be seen that there are already differences between Han and Ma, and this difference has affected the decision-making of the army.

Cheng Yuanzhi sent the envoy away, and Jia Xu looked at each other, and they both laughed tacitly.

The strategy is actually very simple.There are three steps in total.

Step [-]: While Ma Chao and Han Sui took turns defending the city, Cheng Yuanzhi came to the city alone and met Han Sui alone.

During the conversation, Cheng Yuanzhi deliberately avoided sensitive topics, but talked about some private topics in the form of chatting, and did not wear armor or weapons, showing a very friendly and harmonious posture.

Step [-]: Write a letter to Han Sui.The letter was vague in attitude and ambiguous in tone.The smearing and modification at the key points is to make Ma Chao feel that Han Sui has a ghost in his heart, so he made the smearing and modification to make Ma Chao suspicious of Han Sui and completely distrust Han Sui.

But this is not enough.

Step [-]: Cheng Yuanzhi had dozens of members of Ma Teng's family executed, but he treated Han Sui's son favorably, and then "unintentionally" spread the news to the front of the two armies.

After these three steps, the rift between Ma Chao and Han Sui could no longer be bridged, so Han Sui's surrender became a matter of course.

Even if Han Sui did not surrender, he would definitely lead his troops away from Ma Chao.The two separated and were defeated by each other.

Cheng Yuanzhi just slightly modified the estrangement plan in the original time and space, and expanded the differences between the two infinitely, and finally reached the point where they could not be trusted.

Faced with Cheng Yuanzhi's strategy, Han Sui decided to be honest with each other at the beginning. He felt that his surrender was surrender, and Ma Chao should not think too much about it.

If the partnership is not benevolent and righteous, there is no need to make excuses and make everyone look bad.

But unexpectedly, when he told Ma Chao all the conversations with Cheng Yuanzhi, and handed over the letter written by Cheng Yuanzhi to Ma Chao for reading, he failed to exchange his frankness for Ma Chao's trust. Ma Chao's bad words turned to each other.

No matter how sincerely Han Sui explained, in the end Ma Chao still didn't believe him, and the two fell out.

Through this incident, Han Sui has realized that Ma Chao is more than brave, but not wise enough to conspire with great things. Ma Chao's failure is inevitable.

And he, Han Sui, must not be tied to this broken ship that is about to sink.

Cheng Yuanzhi didn't know what happened in Jicheng. He only knew that Han Sui sent someone to say that he would surrender the city when it was dark and attack Ma Chao together.

Seeing that Han Sui didn't even care about "ceding the land and asking for peace", he just hoped to defeat and even kill Ma Chao quickly.

Cheng Yuanzhi understood, knowing that Han Sui was afraid, afraid that Ma Chao, a stunned young man, would kill him.

Just at this time, the news of Ma Teng's family being executed reached Ma Chao's ears. Ma Chao was furious immediately, and Tibing fought a battle with Han Sui in the city.

This battle lasted from noon to midnight, and Jicheng was in chaos.

As soon as it was dark, Han Sui opened the city gate, let the Wei army in, and arrested Ma Chao.

After being attacked by Han Sui and Cheng Yuanzhi, under the condition of complete crushing of troops, there was no suspense in the defeat. After his wife and daughter were killed and paid a heavy price, Ma Chao successfully broke through and fled to Liangzhou.

At this point, Han Sui surrendered and Jicheng was recovered.The rebellion between Ma and Han achieved phased victory.

Cheng Yuanzhi easily pushed the army to the border of Liangzhou.

The No.11 state is about to succeed!
The military situation was in a hurry, and Cheng Yuanzhi had no time to celebrate the victory. He divided his troops into five groups to capture the five counties of Xiliang, and led a large army to chase and intercept Ma Chao on the land of Liangzhou.

Is there still a place to stay in Liangzhou?
Ma Chao, who is like a lost dog, is at a loss.

In desperation, Ma Chao had to defect to Xiqiang, hoping to seek self-protection by connecting with the Qiang people.

But when the Qiang people heard that the Wei army was approaching, they looked at Ma Chao and often pointed and whispered in private.

Ma Chao had no choice but to leave with more than a thousand cronies, and went south to Jiange to join Liu Bei.

Originally, Ma Chao wanted to defect to Liu Zhang, because Liu Zhang was weak and easy to fool.

However, the Jiange was already in Liu Bei's hands, and Ma Chao couldn't go there. After thinking about it, and Li Hui, who had already defected to Liu Bei, lobbied, Ma Chao had no choice but to choose to defect to Liu Bei nearby.

Hearing that Ma Chao was willing to vote, Liu Bei, who was in a fierce fight with Liu Zhang, was overjoyed. He immediately stopped his troops temporarily and went to Jiange to meet Ma Chao in person.

Although Ma Chao's troops only had more than a thousand men left, Liu Bei still valued Ma Chao very much. He immediately named Ma Chao as a forward and assigned troops to him to attack Liu Zhang.

In addition, in order to firmly tie Ma Chao.Liu Bei also promised that once Yizhou was captured, the whole army would go northward, recover Xiliang and Guanzhong, and avenge Ma Chao.

In order to avenge his wife's murder and his inner unwillingness, Ma Chao vowed to help Liu Bei take down Xichuan.

Afterwards, Ma Chao rectified a little, raised his troops and went straight to Chengdu.

At the same time, there was a big banquet in the prefect's mansion of Jicheng. Cheng Yuanzhi and all the men and women under his command drank happily and raised their glasses to celebrate the victory. The No.11 state was in hand, and the unification of the world was one step closer.

(End of this chapter)