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Chapter 380: Imitate the Sages

Ma Dai put down the cup in his hand, looked up and asked, "What's weird?"

"Report to the general, there seem to be people from Wei in this tribe."

"What?" Ma Dai was shocked and stood up suddenly: "Did you discover the Wei people? Tell me the situation carefully."

Ma Cang responded and immediately said, "I was bored just now, so I took a few brothers out for a walk. When I reached the west end, I suddenly found that there were several large tents at the foot of the mountain surrounded by Qiang soldiers.

I also went around this place two days ago. At that time, there were no Qiang soldiers guarding it, and now I suddenly surrounded it. I think there must be something strange about it.

So we went around in circles and sneaked into the hillside from the dense forest to the south. We looked down and found several Han-like men coming in and out of the big tent.

But at this moment, we are the only Han people in the Burning Tribe. Where are these people?

Although my subordinates were curious, there were Qiang soldiers patrolling me below, so they did not dare to go down and explore it at will.

While he was wandering, someone suddenly shouted in the big tent inside the innermost roar. Although we still couldn't hear it clearly, fortunately, Zuo Feng's kid had a good hearing, but he heard three words."

"Oh? What are the three words?" Ma Dai asked hurriedly.

Ma Cang replied: "It's the three words Xu Envoy."

"Envoy Xu?" Ma Dai read it softly, suddenly reacted and shouted excitedly: "Xu Miao?"

"I thought so too. Who else can be called Xu Miao, the governor of Liangzhou of the pseudo-Wei? Therefore, I guess those people should be sent by Xu Miao."

Ma Dai nodded: "Yes, this is very likely." He paused and praised: "You did a good job. If you hadn't discovered this in time, we might have big trouble."

"This is all the credit of that boy Zuo Feng, and his subordinates dare not take credit." Ma Cang said humbly with his fists.

"That guy Zuo Feng is indeed supposed to be the first meritorious person. If he hadn't heard the three words Xu Jun, it would have taken a lot of effort to figure out the identities of those people. Hehe, I didn't expect Zuo Feng's sharp ears would come in handy this time."

Hearing Ma Dai joking about Zuo Feng's hearing, Ma Cang couldn't help but smile: "Yes, everyone used to be angry that Zuo Feng heard something that he shouldn't have heard, but unexpectedly he made great contributions this time."

After a pause, he asked again: "General, why do you think these Wei people came here to do?"

"What are we doing? We must be the lobbyist for the same purpose as us." Ma Dai sneered.

"Lobbyist? Does Xu Miao want to..."

Ma Dai nodded slightly and said, "Yes, Xu Miao also wants to win over the Qianghu and others. He naturally knows that our army's next target is his Liangzhou.

Longyou has been recovered by our Han Dynasty, so Xu Miao is now isolated and helpless. The less than 10,000 Wei soldiers in Liangzhou alone cannot stop the Wang Shi's army's troops, so he wants to connect with Qiang and Hu to resist our army."

"So that's it. Xu Miao is thinking pretty. But he didn't know that the general had sneaked into Liangzhou. With the reputation of our Ma family, the Qiang and Hu in Liangzhou will definitely not follow the thief." Ma Cang said.

Ma Dai was not so optimistic and shook his head: "It's too early to say this. Our Ma family has long since disappeared from its reputation as before. Look, why didn't this guy just put us together again today?"

"I said why did he delay again? It turned out that the Wei people arrived, which made him sway."

Ma Cang said in shock: "Hao still didn't reply to the general today?"

Ma Dai nodded and sighed helplessly.

"So brave, this guy dares to perfunctorily deal with our Ma family. It seems that these Qiang and Hu have forgotten the methods of our Ma family back then, right?"

Ma Dai said: "Since my brother was defeated in Hanzhong, our Ma family's prestige in the Liangzhou territory has declined. In recent years, these Qiang and Hu can still sell me aside their face, which is a great blessing for the ancestors."

"That general, are we just watching the Wei people bewitching this guy here?"

Ma Dai shook his head and said, "Of course not. We must not let these Wei people break Prime Minister Zhuge's plan. But what should be done should be done in the long run, and we must not act rashly."

"I thought it would be better to cut the mess quickly and kill these Wei people. If I drag it down, it would be difficult to protect the Qiang people from being moved by the Wei thieves?" Ma Cang lowered his head and muttered in a low voice.

"Ah, what were you just talking about?"

Ma Cang looked up and said panic: "It's nothing, my subordinate just said he can't drag it on."

"It's not this, what did you say in the previous sentence?"

Ma Cang said in confusion: "A sentence before?" After thinking about it, he replied: "I said that it would be better to kill those Wei people, so as not to have too many dreams."

"Haha, yes, these Wei people should be killed." Ma Dai smiled happily.

Ma Cang said in surprise: "Ah, General, are you serious? My subordinates were just angry and talked nonsense just now."

"Ma Cang, have you heard of Ban Dingyuan's story when he went to the Western Regions to recruit Shanshan Kingdom?" Ma Dai said with a mysterious look on his face.

Ma Cang is a rough man, and it is great to be able to read. How could he know the deeds of Hou Banchao, Dingyuan, Later Han Dynasty? He shook his head and said, "I don't know. I'm just a general. What does this have to do with the affairs of the Wei people?"

"Don't be anxious, after listening to this story, you will understand what the relationship between the two is."

Ma Dai smiled and asked Ma Cang to sit down, then said, "Emperor Ming, when Emperor Zhang was in the midst of Emperor Zhang, my Han Dynasty was competing with the Northern Huns for the Western Regions.

Once, Dingyuan Hou Banchao was ordered to recruit Shanshan Kingdom. At first, King Shanshan asked Dingyuan Hou and others about their well-being, and respectfully, but later King Shanshan suddenly changed his attitude and became more distant and cold."

"Why is this?" Hearing this, Ma Cangqi said.

Ma Dai said: "Yes, there must be something strange here. Dingyuan Hou was extremely smart and immediately expected that an envoy from the Northern Huns must have come here, which made King Shanshan hesitate and not know which company to surrender."

"Ah, this is the same as our current situation. I wonder how Dingyuan Hou responded back then?" Ma Cang finally reacted and understood the reason why his general told this story.

Ma Dai smiled and said, "Marquis Dingyuan called his subordinates to tell them, "If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get a tiger's son? For the sake of this, you can only set fire to attack the Huns' envoys overnight.

The Huns did not know how many of us were, and they would definitely be scared. In this way, we could take the opportunity to destroy them. As long as we killed the Hun envoys, King Shanshan would be scared and we would be done by then."

"It's actually true, Dingyuan Hou is so courageous!" Ma Cang praised.

Ma Dai ignored him and continued to preach: "That night, the Marquis of Dingyuan led thirty-six subordinates to set fire down the wind and attacked and killed the Hun envoys in one fell swoop. The next day, when King Shanshan saw the head of the Hun envoy, he was shocked, and the whole Shanshan was also very shocked.

The Marquis of Dingyuan took the opportunity to comfort him, but because King Shanshan had no way out, he had to express his willingness to submit to the court and send his protons to the court. So the Marquis of Dingyuan made great contributions and became famous in the Western Regions."

"General, my subordinates understand. Tonight we will follow the example of Dingyuan Hou's feat and attack the Wei people." Ma Cang already fully understood Ma Dai's intention, and immediately stood up and clasped his fists and said.

Ma Dai nodded and asked, "Where are the others?"

"The subordinates asked them to continue to stay there to find out what happened."

Ma Dai said: "Leave one person to monitor, others to recall, and ask the brothers in other tents to call over. We will do a big fight tonight, so we must make careful arrangements."
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