Three Kingdoms King of the North

"There is nothing wrong with it." Li Jue waved his hand and said in an unquestionable tone: "Take him and his family down immediately, and no one is allowed to leave."

Guo Bang summoned the military commander who was patrolling the city, and asked him, "Let me ask you, which ministers have often left their mansions to walk around?"

Army Sima thought for a long time, and then said: "General Qi, Liu Fan of Zuo Zhonglang and Zhong Shao, the admonishing doctor, visited the mansion of Ma Yu, the servant, and did not return all night."

"What will these three people do when they stay together?" Li Jue couldn't help talking to himself when he heard this.

When Army Sima heard Li Jue's words, he thought the other party was asking him, and quickly replied, "General Qi, maybe the three of them were drinking and chatting together, but I don't know."

"I see, you go down." Li Jue waved at the army Sima expressionlessly, signaling him to leave.After the army commander had left, Li Jue asked all the warriors present: "Someone in the city colluded with Ma Teng and Han Sui outside the city. Tell me, what should we do?"

"Does it need to be said?" Fan Chou, who has always been reckless, spoke first: "I will lead two thousand soldiers and horses to surround the mansion of the three men, capture them alive, and bring them back to the general."

"General Fan is not allowed." Jia Xu hurriedly stopped Fan Chou, and said to him: "At present, we are only guessing that the three of them colluded with Ma Teng and Han Sui outside the city, but there is no real evidence, and rashly arresting people will cause chaos in the city." People are panicking."

Facing Jia Xu, Fan Chou said angrily, "But if they really colluded with Ma Teng and Han Sui, and we let them go like this, I will be unwilling."

"The father of Liu Fan, general of Zuo Zhonglang, is Liu Yan, shepherd of Yizhou." In order to prevent the reckless Fan Chou from doing stupid things, Jia Xu said euphemistically: "If we send Liu Fan to prison without real evidence, I'm afraid Liu Yan will know. After that, there will be rebellion."

"Mr. He." Seeing that Fan Chou was rendered speechless by Jia Xu's words, Zhang Ji quickly stood up and said, "Now Ma Teng and Han Sui's soldiers and horses are outside the city. If we don't get rid of the internal forces, I'm afraid." He didn't finish, but everyone in the lobby understood what he meant.

"Report to General." At this moment, a soldier ran in from outside and knelt down on one knee in front of Li Jue, "There is a servant outside who claims to be from Ma Shizhong's mansion, begging to see him."

"A servant of the servant of the horse." Li Jue waved his hand impatiently after hearing the report from the guards, "I see you, hurry up and blow him away!"

The soldiers agreed and stood up to leave, but Jia Xu stood up again: "Wait a minute!" After the soldiers stopped, Jia Xu said to Li Jue: "General, we are not suspecting Ma Yu, Liu Fan, Zhong Shao, etc. Could the three of them be Ma Teng and Han Sui's internal response? Since his servants are asking for an interview, why don't you call them in and ask what's going on?"

"Childish," as soon as Jia Xu finished speaking, Guo Si echoed, "I think Mr. Jia's words are quite reasonable, why don't you call the servants of Shizhong's mansion in and ask him to hear what he said? If so Talk nonsense, just beat them out with a stick."

Li Jue had always trusted Guo Si very much, so when he heard what he said, he changed his mind and ordered his soldiers: "Go and bring that servant here!"

"The villain sees General Li." A moment later, the servant who came in with the soldiers knelt down in front of Li Jue and said, "The villain wants to report the illegal activities of the director to the general."

Li Jue stared at the servant kneeling on the ground, and only uttered one word from his mouth: "Say!"

"General Li, the younger one wants to report Ma Yu, the master of the family, and secretly discussed with Zuo Zhonglang General Liu Fan and the admonishing doctor Zhong Shao to open the city gate and let the Xiliang army outside the city enter the city!"

The words of the servants of the Ma family immediately shocked the people present into a cold sweat.After a long time, Jia Xu asked, "You said that your master, in collusion with Liu Fan and Zhong Shao, tried to open the city gate to let Xiliang's army enter the city. Is there any real evidence, or are you guessing out of thin air?"

"Responding to your lord's words," the servants of the Ma residence did not know who the person was asking the question, but they still boldly said, "After dark last night, my master sent a confidant to contact Ma Teng and Han Sui outside the city. In the middle of the night, the person sent out came back from the outside. I don’t know what he said to my master. My master discussed with Liu Fan and Zhong Shao all night. At dawn, my master also ordered people to distribute weapons to us. Said to take action soon. The villain felt that something was wrong, and he was unwilling to join forces with them, so he came to report to General Li."

Jia Xu cast a contemptuous look at the servant of the Ma family who was begging for glory, and asked coldly, "Do you know that if you report this in front of General Li, your master's life will be lost?"

"I know, I know." The servants of the Ma Mansion nodded several times, and said in a positive tone: "The villain just can't understand their private attempts to harm General Li, so I came here to report to the general."

"Come here!" Li Jue got the information he wanted from the servants of the Ma Mansion, and quickly ordered Guo Bang, Zhang Ji, and Fan Chou to lead 1000 troops each to the Ma Mansion, Liu Mansion, and Zhong Mansion. Capture the three officials who colluded with Ma Teng and Han Sui in private.

Regarding Li Jue's order, Zhang Ji asked hesitantly: "General, this Liu Fan is the eldest son of Yizhou Mu Liu Yan. Is it appropriate for us to take him down?"

"There is nothing wrong with it." Li Jue waved his hand and said in an unquestionable tone: "Take him and his family immediately, and no one is allowed to leave." With a wave of his hand, Li Jue said in an unquestionable tone: "Immediately take him and his family down." He took it with his whole family, and no one was allowed to leave."

"There is nothing wrong with it." Li Jue waved his hand and said in an unquestionable tone: "Take him and his family immediately, and no one is allowed to leave." With a wave of his hand, Li Jue said in an unquestionable tone: "Immediately take him and his family down." He took it with his whole family, and no one was allowed to leave."

Chapter 262 Ma Teng Retreats

Outside the city, there were spies from Xiliang who were monitoring the movements in the direction of the city. When they saw the city, they killed hundreds of men and women. famous.

The spies didn't dare to be negligent, and hurried back to the camp to report to Ma Teng and Han Sui: "General Qi, something is wrong, the city of Chang'an is killing people at this moment."

Hearing the spies' report, both Ma Teng and Han Sui stood up abruptly, and asked nervously, "Can you see who was killed?"

The spy shook his head first, then nodded, and said, "Although I don't know who was killed, there were men and women. After the killing, the corpses were thrown directly from the city wall."

After the spies finished speaking, Ma Teng looked at Han Sui and said cautiously, "Yue, who do you think Li Guo and the other thieves killed?"

"It's needless to say," Han Sui said disdainfully: "It must be the ministers in the court who cannot rely on them. Li Guo and other thieves are killing chickens and monkeys to deter the officials."

Ma Teng has been feeling uneasy since hearing the spies' report, so he asked again: "Yue, in your opinion, could it be Ma Yuma's attendant?"

"Probably not." Han Sui said in an uncertain tone: "We just got in touch with Ma Shizhong last night, and today they were ransacked by Li Jue and Guo Si all over the house. This is too much of a coincidence."

"No, my heart is not at ease, I want to go out and have a look." Ma Teng said, took two steps forward, and said loudly to the outside of the tent: "Come on, prepare the horse for me, I want to go to the city in person Go outside and have a look."

"Wait a minute, father." Ma Chao, who was standing aside, saw that his father was going to check outside Chang'an City, and hurriedly stepped forward to dissuade him: "It's a trivial matter, why do you need father to go out in person, and wait for the child to go and find out!"

Ma Chao brought five hundred Xiliang cavalry to a place a stone's throw away from the city, and carefully observed the mountains of corpses piled up outside the city wall.Just when he was thinking about how to find out who was killed, he suddenly heard a shout from the direction of the city.The cavalry who followed Ma Chao thought that the soldiers and horses in the city were about to rush out, and they all made preparations for battle.

But after waiting for a while, only shouts were heard in the direction of the city, but there was no movement.A cavalryman with sharp ears said to Ma Chao: "I report to Major General that the city wall invites you to come closer and have something to say."

The young and energetic Ma Chao, after hearing what the cavalryman said, wanted to go over as soon as he reined in the horse, but was stopped by the military lord next to him.The Marquis tried hard to persuade: "Young General, there may be fraud ahead, let the little one take someone over to have a look."

"What are you afraid of!" Ma Chao glared at Junhou, and said dissatisfiedly: "Even if they have any plots and tricks, I can kill a few times with this silver gun in my hand."

Seeing that Ma Chao was angry, the Marquis didn't dare to persuade him anymore, so he could only lead people to follow him and gallop towards the city gate.He thought to himself, if we got to the city and the defenders in the city suddenly came out, even if they risked their lives, they would have to protect the major general from danger.

Fortunately, what he was worried about didn't happen. Fan Chou stood on the top of the tower and shouted at Ma Chao at the bottom of the castle: "Hey, Ma's son, Ma Yu, Liu Fan, Zhong Shao and others who are your internal responses are all gone!" Fu Zhu. Go back and tell your father, if you don't retreat, they will be your fate!"

Ma Teng hadn't had time to tell Ma Chao about Ma Yu and others' internal response, so when Ma Chao heard Fan Chou say this, he thought it was the other party's nonsense.Seeing that Ma Chao and the others looked disapproving, Zhang Ji in the city quickly ordered the soldiers to fetch the heads of Ma Yu and the others.Then he yelled at Ma Chao: "Son of the Ma family, in case your father doesn't believe us, we will ask you to bring some certificates back."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Jichong shouted to several soldiers carrying the head next to him: "Throw the head out." Following Zhang Ji's order, several soldiers rushed the head out of the city.

When Ma Chao saw a bulging object flying down from the top of the wall, he still thought it was a stone thrown by the defenders, so he waved his silver gun and dialed.The heads of Ma Yu and others fell three or four places away from Ma Chao, rolling on the ground.A Dubo who had followed Ma Teng to Beijing and met Ma Yu and others got off his horse, stepped forward to inspect the head carefully, nodded at Ma Chao, and said, "Major General, that's right, it is indeed Ma Si who served them." The heads of the three."

Ma Chao's purpose here is to find out who was killed by Li Guo and others.Now that he knew that it was Ma Shizhong who was killed, there was no need to stay here any longer. He quickly ordered the soldiers: "Pick up the head, and we will return to the camp immediately."

When Ma Teng saw the three heads that Ma Chao placed in front of him, he couldn't help stomping his feet angrily. He said angrily, "I just discussed with them about opening the city last night. I didn't expect that within a day, the three of them would die." They were raided and beheaded by Li Guo and other thieves."

"Shoucheng," Han Sui saw that Nei Ying in the city had been killed, and his attempt to sneak into Chang'an under the cover of night had been shattered, so he could only ask Ma Teng, "What should we do next?"

"We came from Xiliang, are we going back in such a despondent way?" Ma Teng stared at the three heads in front of him, gritted his molars and said, "I will definitely break through Chang'an and kill Li Jue and Guo Si , Zhang Ji, Fan Chou and others, to avenge Ma Shizhong and them."

"But our army came from afar, and we don't have enough siege equipment. Facing a city as strong as Chang'an, I'm helpless." Han Sui felt that even if he made a strong attack, it would be almost impossible to take down Chang'an City. , So he continued to persuade: "Moreover, our army's current food and grass are only enough for one month. In my opinion, we should withdraw our troops as soon as possible."

"Impossible, we must not withdraw our troops." After hearing Han Sui's proposal, Ma Chao immediately expressed his opposition: "Once we withdraw our troops, the troops of Li Jue and Guo Si will definitely chase after us before we return to the West." Liang, most of the soldiers and horses under him will be scattered. In my opinion, it is better to attack the city."

"There is a saying about it." Fortunately, Ma Teng did not immediately order the siege, but said to Ma Chao: "We don't have siege equipment now, and it may not be easy to capture Chang'an. My son can lead Three thousand soldiers and horses will go nearby to cut wood and make siege equipment. It will not be too late for us to attack Chang'an after five days."

Not to mention that Ma Chao led his troops to cut down trees and make siege equipment.At this moment in the city, Guo Bang and Li Jue are having a quarrel: "Zhiran, although Ma Yu, Liu Fan, Zhong Shao and others colluded with Ma Teng and intended to open the city gate to let Xiliang soldiers enter the city. But you shouldn't let the three of them Kill all the old and young. Doing so is against the harmony of heaven, and sooner or later there will be retribution."

Unexpectedly, after Li Jue heard this, he sneered a few times: "Did you still kill the people you and I killed on the battlefield? I haven't seen any retribution until now. That's fine, you don't need to say, anyway, people have already been killed. Even if you want to regret it, it's too late. You immediately lead people to patrol the city, and if you find someone colluding with Ma Teng again, regardless of his official position, he will be executed."

"General Guo." Seeing that Li Jue and Guo Si might have an argument at any time, Jia Xu came out to smooth things over in time: "The reason why General Li wanted to kill all three of them was to serve as a warning to others, lest there be more people." Officials who are not afraid of death, continue to collude with outsiders, intending to harm General Li"

"Mr. Jia," Li Jue interrupted Jia Xu without warning, looked up at him and asked, "How are those two people from Jizhou doing now?"

"Report to the general, they are still staying in the post house." Jia Xu just asked Xu Shu and Shi Tao, who were sent by Han Zhan to beg for the military officials, and Li Jue quickly replied, "The subordinates have already sent people to take the post house away." They were completely surrounded and completely cut off their connection with the outside world."

"What are you afraid of!" Ma Chao glared at Junhou, and said dissatisfiedly: "Even if they have any plots and tricks, I can kill a few times with this silver gun in my hand."