"Through Pei Qing? How is this possible? Now Ma Teng and Pei Qing are in a slew together. They are in the alliance, and Pei Qing is still the leader. The gentleman expects Pei Qing to avenge the Lord's Communiqué. How is this possible?"

The soldiers were full of suspicion. They were very dissatisfied with Cheng Gongying's words and expressed their thoughts.

But Cheng Gongying said, "You only know one thing but not the other. Although Ma Teng and Gong Pei are allies, he only seeks benefits for himself in the name of joining the alliance. For example, this time, he annexed the lord's Jincheng County and assassinated the lord. This is absolutely impossible for Mr. Pei to mean that, so this incident also exposed his ambitions. In the future, Mr. Pei will definitely not give up his control over Jincheng County and will definitely appoint a new governor of Liangzhou. At that time, the conflict between the two sides will be highlighted. Therefore, although Ma Teng seems to be prosperous now, he is just a fire cooking oil. He is only proud for a while. Once he is proud in the future, the final result will naturally be self-evident. At that time, will it not be our opportunity to take revenge?"

After hearing this, the soldiers thought for a moment, then put the knife in the sheath, and then respectfully apologized to Cheng Gongying: "Mr. Cheng, we were confused for a while before and actually misunderstood Cheng Gong. It is really a sin. Please forgive me. Cheng Gong is far-sighted and insightful. We admire him. We are willing to follow Cheng Gong and join Mr. Pei."

"Since that's the case, it's not too late. Let's hurry up and go on the road. It's not Cheng's confidence. I believe that Ma Teng will definitely be reluctant to let us go, and will come soon. If we walk slowly, we may not be able to walk."

After Cheng Gongying finished speaking, he led the twenty or thirty people to rush forward and rushed towards Guzang City overnight.

As Cheng Gongying expected, when Ma Teng saw that there was only one of Han Sui's generals who surrendered to him, he immediately cursed Liang Xing insincerely cursed Liang Xing's stupidity, because what Ma Teng wanted most was Cheng Gongying. His years of friendship with Han Sui naturally knew all the generals under Han Sui. He knew that the bravest one under Han Sui was Yan Xing, and the most wisest one was Cheng Gongying. However, Ma Teng lacked counselors, so he naturally hoped to use Cheng Gongying's wisdom to make up for the shortcomings of the lack of wise men in his army. However, Liang Xing did not surrender Cheng Gongying, which really disappointed him.

So Ma Teng cursed Liang Xing and pointed out that coming to Cheng Gongying to bury Han Sui was actually just an excuse. His ultimate goal was to not be willing to serve him. Then he ordered Liang Xing to go back to find Cheng Gongying immediately, and even if he was tied up, he would tie it back.

Liang Xing didn't believe it at first, but when he found Han Sui's tomb, he found that Cheng Gongying and the others had left for a long time, so he believed Ma Teng's words, and then he replied listlessly to Ma Teng.

When Liang Xing reported to Ma Teng, Cheng Gongying was already 200 miles away. He led more than 20 strong soldiers under his command and finally arrived at the city of Guzang three days later.

"What? You are Cheng Gongying, the lower general of Han Sui, and now you are here to surrender to General Wei?" After hearing Cheng Gongying's own report, Duan Tong, the general of Wei Yan, who was standing at the top of Guzang City, was immediately full of confusion, because they were enemies a few days ago, and today they actually came to surrender. This was really unbelievable.

However, Duan Tong was afraid of missing such an opportunity to gather talents. After some thought, he directly sent someone to report to Wei Yan and handed the problem to Wei Yan.

When Wei Yan heard this, he immediately determined that Cheng Gongying had really defected, because Han Sui was dead and Ma Teng occupied Jincheng, so Cheng Gongying really had nowhere to go.

So Wei Yan went out of the city to greet him personally. Of course, this does not mean that Wei Yan was not prepared for Cheng Gongying. He wore inner armor and hidden weapons when he greeted him, for fear that Cheng Gongying and his soldiers would take the opportunity to assassinate him. However, the final result was very peaceful. Cheng Gongying sincerely surrendered without any ill-behavior behavior.

Wei Yan welcomed Cheng Gongying into the camp and temporarily appointed him as a military advisor. He also reported Cheng Gongying's situation to Pei Qing, which was to show that he would not leave talents privately as a staff member, and on the other hand, he also allowed Cheng Gongying to be formally appointed by the court.

Wei Yan did this in front of Cheng Gongying, which made him look even more open and selfless.

Of course, Cheng Gongying admired Wei Yan even more, and at the same time deeply admired Pei Qing, because Wei Yan was able to do this, which shows how good Pei Qing knew people and that Pei Qing's generals were loyal to him.

At this moment, the personal soldiers came to report that there was an imperial edict coming, and Wei Yan and Cheng Gongying naturally wanted to go and welcome him.

In fact, the so-called emperor's edict is very simple. Because Pei Qing has privileges, his memorials will automatically take effect without the approval of the emperor. Of course, in form, Pei Qing asked the eldest princess to sign the edict on behalf of the emperor with an ink edict. Therefore, the edict issued by Pei Qing was not signed by the emperor with a cinnabar pen in the signature place, but the eldest princess signed with a black ink pen. However, this edict can have the same effect as the emperor's edict. Of course, this effect is only valid within the scope ruled by Pei Qing.

In this strange edict, Wei Yan was appointed as the new governor of Liangzhou, while his general Duan Tong was appointed as the prefect of Wuwei. However, Pei Qing specifically proposed here and ordered Duan Tong to go to Chang'an to discuss his merits to the soldiers of the entire army.

Cheng Gongying was also very happy to see Wei Yan having a new appointment, but he knew that Wei Yan's current position was somewhat unworthy, because the four counties of Jincheng and Zhangye, Jiuquan and Dunhuang were not in Wei Yan's hands.

Of course, Cheng Gongying could not persuade Wei Yan to attack Jincheng at this time, so he could only use a roundabout strategy and actively proposed to Wei Yan that he was willing to go to Zhangye, Jiuquan and Wuwei to persuade the chiefs and people of these three counties to surrender to Wei Yan. In Cheng Gongying's view, Ma Teng should soon start a fight for these three counties. He was angry with Ma Teng, so he took a step forward today and persuaded Wei Yan to agree to help him persuade the three counties to surrender.

After some thought, Wei Yan felt that Cheng Gongying should not have the courage to betray him. On the other hand, if Cheng Gongying had his own prestige alone, he would not be enough to call on the officials and civilians of the three counties to surrender to him.

Therefore, Wei Yan happily agreed to Cheng Gongying's suggestion, appointed Cheng Gongying as the envoy, prepared many gold, pearls and jade artifacts for him, and sent the soldiers that Cheng Gongying originally brought to protect him.

After hearing this arrangement, Cheng Gongying was filled with mixed feelings. He did not expect that Wei Yan would arrange him so generously and let him go to Zhangye and other three counties with confidence. He suddenly felt a strong sense of warmth emerge in his heart.

"When we first met, Mr. Wei actually trusted me so much. Even the lord didn't have this kind of trust back then." Cheng Gongying sighed in his heart. If he hadn't known that Wei Yan was loyal to Pei Qing, he would have had an impulse to die for his confidant, and he would have swear to break out of Wei Yan's grace of knowing and meeting him to the death.
Chapter completed!