The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

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"Thank you for your majesty's grace of not killing the dog. Ma Teng is willing to do the same for your majesty!"

As a prisoner himself, Ma Teng did not have too many ideological struggles.

Considering that the Han Dynasty that is loyal to Liu Bei is also the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty that is loyal to Liu Zheng is also loyal to the Han Dynasty.

There isn't much of a difference.

His ancestor Ma Yuan was also a military general of the Western Han Dynasty at first, and later he took refuge in Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu and became a general of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

He, Ma Teng, can also become a general of the Han Dynasty first, and then switch to Liu Zheng. He is also loyal to the Han Dynasty without too much psychological pressure.

This is the advantage of the children surnamed Liu.

The dynasty they founded.

There is orthodoxy in nature.

There is no self-reliance on behalf of the Han, because what he himself established is the Han Dynasty.

Just changed the emperor.

This puts much less pressure on the hearts of many generals and counselors who want to take refuge in them.

This is the case with Ma Teng at the moment.

Liu Zheng heard that Ma Teng agreed to his invitation.

Immediately his face became excited.

Ha ha laugh.

Then he waved his hand and directed at the two little eunuchs beside him.

"Come on, go and invite the two generals Ma Chao and Ma Dai!"

In fact, Ma Chao and Ma Dai had been invited to Xiangyang City by Liu Zheng a few days ago.

It's just that the two of them had special identities and did not accompany Liu Zheng.

In any case, the two of them were always prisoners, and they had not been recruited by Liu Zheng yet.

Therefore, as captives, they can only enjoy the treatment of captives.

It's different now, Ma Teng surrendered to Liu Zheng, then Liu Zheng will take advantage of the trend to recruit Ma Chao and Ma Dai to surrender.

The little eunuch saluted immediately, followed Liu Zheng's order, and called Ma Chao and Ma Dai over.

Not long after, the two young generals appeared above the main hall.

They were still a little surprised at their appearance, and they didn't understand why Liu Zheng called them over at this moment.

But when the two of them came to the hall and saw Ma Teng standing in the hall.

The faces of the two people were suddenly surprised.

"Father!"

"uncle!"

Ma Chao and Ma Dai stared at Ma Teng for a moment and blurted out, then quickly walked to Ma Teng's side.

Speaking of which, they haven't seen each other for a year.

But I didn't expect to meet again under such circumstances.

"Father, why are you here!"

Ma Chao was more concerned about why Ma Teng appeared here, ran over to hug his father, and quickly asked about his doubts.

This made Liu Zheng, who was in the main position, a little bit in a dilemma.

For a moment, I didn't know whether to interrupt them or not.

But seeing their father and son reunite after a long absence, there is still a lot to say.

Liu Zheng didn't have the nerve to interrupt their conversation, so he let the father and son whisper a few words first, expressing his heart.

Come talk to them when they're done talking.

Ma Teng also quickly explained why he was here.As well as talking about the recent situation with Ma Chao and Ma Dai, it took a long time to explain things clearly.

After Ma Teng finished talking about these things, Ma Chao and Ma Dai both knew about it.

Ma Teng has now turned to Liu Zheng.

For a moment, apart from surprise, they were more puzzled.

Of course, there are surprises besides these.

Ma Chao and Ma Dai have been taken as captives for a year and held in Liu Zheng's territory.

Although they were captives, Liu Chen still gave them a lot of authority.

Their freedom is rarely restricted.

Many times, they were even able to go to the barracks to exchange ideas with the generals under Liu Zheng.

They have a good impression of these soldiers and even the generals under Liu Zheng's command. If it weren't for his father, who was still on Liu Bei's side, Ma Chao and Ma Dai might both want to surrender directly Liu contended.

Now seeing his father, Ma Teng, who had already joined Liu Zheng before them, how could he not be surprised.

At this moment, they didn't even wait for Liu Zheng to offer a solicitation, and directly knelt and surrendered to Liu Zheng who was sitting on the chair in front of him.

"The last general, Ma Chao, is willing to follow his father and seek refuge with His Majesty!"

"The last general, Ma Dai, is willing to follow my uncle and seek refuge with His Majesty!"

The two brothers, Ma Chao and Ma Dai, fell to their knees and pledged their allegiance to Liu Zheng.

Although Liu Zheng's impression of Ma Chao was not particularly good, after the previous battle between Ma Chao and the Xianbei, Liu Zheng's impression of him was much better.

In any case, Ma Chao is still a famous player in the world, and his future achievements will be limitless.

As long as he is trained well, he will definitely be the best among Liu Zheng's second-generation generals.

Able to compete with Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Wen Pin and others.

"Okay, very good, I like cheerful people like you. I happen to lack a Xiliang iron cavalry under my command. When I take down Liu Bei, I will let you take back the Western Regions!"

When Liu Zheng's side got a few more powerful generals, Liu Bei on the other side was miserable.

Chapter 1000 Two hundred 97 Shocked Liu Bei

The matter of Liu Zheng's flooding of Fancheng was passed on to Xinye by scouts the next day.

In fact, even if the scouts hadn't spread the news to Xinye City, the monstrous flood had already crossed Fancheng and spread to Xinye.

Liu Bei who was stationed in Xinye City was stunned when he heard the news.

He was so shocked that he almost didn't recover.

With trembling words, he asked Jian Yong who was passing the news by his side.

"This thing, really?"

Jian Yong, who was equally anxious and numb, could only nod his head when he saw Liu Bei like this.

"My lord, it's over, everything is over!"

"The flood flooded Fancheng, and all our soldiers and horses were trapped in the city!"

"I'm afraid there will be more bad luck than good luck!"

For Jian Yong, he was too aware of the consequences of the flooding of Fancheng.

There was no navy in Fancheng, after the flood surrounded Fancheng.

It is almost impossible for the soldiers and horses in the city to escape.

Can only be trapped in the city, unable to move.

If no reinforcements go to support them, then the only possibility for those people is to surrender.

Otherwise, it will be wiped out by the enemy.

Except for the men and horses trapped in the city, there were also some cavalry stationed outside Fancheng.

The situation is good, so there is nowhere to go, because until now, Jian Yong has not received any information.

He didn't know their news, so in Jian Yong's view, most of those people were also trapped in the water.

Either it has been washed away by the flood, or it is trapped in place and cannot move.

In this case, only Liu Bei sent ships to rescue.

In order to preserve one's own strength as much as possible.

But where does Liu Bei get the navy right now?

Even if he has some ships to add up, he will never exceed 50 ships.

And they are all small ships.

It is okay to carry troops and horses, but it is simply impossible to go to Fancheng to rescue tens of thousands of troops.

As for those who went to Fancheng, their own troops.

Liu Bei at the moment can't do the same.

Because as early as a few days ago, the result of Liu Bei's discussions with his advisers was that only a small number of soldiers and horses were stationed in Fancheng, and the remaining large number of troops had already made a surprise attack on Runan at this moment.

Guan Yu personally commanded the [-] cavalry that Fazheng had seconded from the Guishuang Empire.

With Pang De Guanping and others, they hurried to Runan, I am afraid that the city of Runan has been defeated by now.

Because of this, the number of soldiers and horses left in Xinye was only a few thousand.

With this little manpower, it would be foolish to go to Fancheng for support.

"It's over, everything is over, the people in Fancheng are gone."

Liu Bei felt lost, and lost his mind all of a sudden.

It seems to have suffered a huge blow.

But he is also a person who grows from the blow.

Not because of this little setback.

He recovered quickly from the shock.

Immediately began to go down, calling the counselors who were still in Xinye City at this time to come to discuss the matter together, so as to discuss a result.

Faced with the current situation, Liu Bei himself has no idea at all, and can only rely on these advisers around him.

Not long after, Cheng Yu and Pang Tong appeared in Liu Bei's camp.

Right now, only the two of them are still here.

At this time, both Cheng Yu and Pang Tong didn't know what happened.

It was just called in hastily.

As soon as he entered the big tent, he saw Liu Bei and Jian Yong both looked dignified.

Cheng Yu immediately realized that something serious must have happened.

Hastily asked Liu Bei.

"My lord, what happened?"

At this moment, Liu Bei saw Cheng Yu, his most important adviser, arriving.

I also calmed down a bit in my heart, and immediately cheered up again.

He opened his mouth to answer Cheng Yu's question.