Let’s take a look at the situation in Wei County.

In accordance with Ma Rong's request, when it was approaching evening, Ma Rong's nephew Ma Yi sent someone to order the four gates to let the guards pass the keys of the city gate for him to keep. He also personally went to the north gate of Wei County, which was facing the Han army camp, and personally took back the keys of the north gate of Wei County and the city gate of the urn city from the hands of Wang Dao, the guard general of the north gate of the north gate.

Because Ma Yi was holding Ma Rong's handwritten order with the seal of Jianning Prefect, Dao Wang still gave Ma Yi expressionlessly. The other three gates were all like this, and there was no disobeying the order. Ma Yi felt relieved and quickly returned to Jianning Prefect's Mansion to report to his uncle Ma Rong.

When he arrived at the lobby, Ma Rong was enjoying the instant noodles delivered by the Han army on the New Year's Day with his confidant Bo Luoxing. When he saw Ma Yi coming to the hall, Ma Rong quickly asked him to sit down and eat noodles. When the servant was serving Ma Yi instant noodles, Ma Rong asked Ma Yi: "How is it? Is the keys of the city gate taken back? What are the reactions of the guards at each gate?"

"Reporting to my uncle, the four inner gates and four wall cities have all been taken back." Ma Yi reported truthfully and said, "When my nephew arrived at the North Gate to collect the keys, General Wang seemed very unhappy and seemed a little dissatisfied."

"There is no choice but to be unhappy." Ma Rong said helplessly: "He is the tooth general who was promoted by the old governor after he came to Nanzhong. The old governor's kindness was too great, so he had to be careful, and he could only wait and slowly compensate him."

"Uncle, my nephew has some words, I don't know whether to say it." Ma Yi looked very hesitant and said hesitantly: "Uncle, have you done too much today? The old governor has not only been kind to our Ma family, but also made a vow in public, and promised not to force the old governor to stay. Now he has broken his promise and repents and ungratefulness. What will the soldiers and the people of the Southern Central Committee think of you?"

"Do you think I want this?" Ma Rong's answer was helpless and said, "The old governor was capricious. After surrendering to the Great Wei court, he turned against the bandit army and surrendered to the bandit army. He also went to the city to persuade the surrender on behalf of the bandit army, which shakes the morale of our Great Wei army. If my uncle doesn't take the opportunity to take him down, the court will pursue him in the future. How will my uncle explain?"

"And," Ma Rong added: "Don't forget your uncle. His family is now in Chengdu. If you and I are a little shaken, your uncle will be implicated immediately. Do you want your uncle's family to be imprisoned and beheaded?"

Thinking about his uncle Matthew's family in Chengdu, and his father Ma Hui had passed away, Ma Yi had nothing to say, so he could only sigh: "I hope that the soldiers of Wei County can understand our difficulties and never waver. Our troops are not as strong as those of the thieves' army. Most of the troops were urgently drawn from various places in Nanzhong. The combat power is uneven. If there are traitors in the middle, then we will be in great trouble."

"They dare not." Ma Rong raised his courage to himself and said, "The law of the Great Wei Dynasty. Once the generals and soldiers of the army betrayal and surrender to the enemy, their families will be punished. If they have this concern, they will not dare to do anything randomly with their courage."

"But uncle, our generals and soldiers, and their families are basically in Nanzhong." Ma Yi quickly reminded: "Even if they turn against the enemy, they still have hope of saving their families."

Ma Rong, who had been comforting himself with this, had a gloomy face. Ma Rong's confidant Luo Xing, next to him, said slowly: "Mingfu, Beizhi believes that in addition to reminding them to consider their families, we should also let them see hope and let them know that the Wei army will arrive soon and help us completely eradicate Zhang Zhi's thief army, so that they can boost their morale."

"Our soldiers are not fools. Can you deceive them like this?"

Ma Rong said angrily: "The road from Chengdu to Jianning is far away, and the mountain roads are mostly rugged and difficult to walk. Moreover, we urgently sent messengers to go north to ask for help from Chengdu on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month. Even if the messengers run fast, Chengdu will definitely not even have enough reinforcements, and the food, grass and military supplies are not prepared."

"Don't worry, the Wei army will never come too late."

Luo Xing suddenly smiled mysteriously and said with a grim smile: "Because as early as late October, someone had already sent envoys to Chengdu to contact Wei Guan, the governor of Yizhou of the Great Wei Dynasty, and reported the news that Huo Biao was captured alive by Zhang Zhi's thief army to the governor of Wei to know. So if nothing unexpected happens, the governor of Wei must have prepared something, and the reinforcements he sent would definitely be much earlier than you expected in Mingfu."

"Late October?" Ma Rong was stunned and said in surprise: "In late October, someone had already reported to the Wei Governor Wei that Huo Biao was captured? Who sent the envoy?"

Luo Xing smiled but said nothing, Ma Rongze immediately woke up and said in surprise: "Is it you? You sent someone to report the secret to Governor Wei?"

"The Ming Mansion misunderstood. Even if you lend me a hundred courage, I will never dare to do such a thing on your back."

Luo Xing quickly shook his head and denied it, and said, "And the news was not deliberately spread by Bei Zhi. Someone secretly asked Bei Zhi for verification to find out whether Huo Biao was captured. Bei Zhi immediately understood that the suspicion sent by Wei County to Wei County had already heard the news, and he was sure that they would not be careless and would definitely report the matter to Wei."

"A man, do you think I will believe your nonsense?" Ma Rong's forehead roared and said angrily: "Say, have you been secretly bribed by the Wei people? I secretly monitored me for the Wei people?"

"Mingfu, is this important?" Luo Xing asked without answering a question, and said: "The most important thing now is that we can only work together, stick to Wei County, and wait for the reinforcements of the Great Wei. Otherwise, once the city is captured by Zhang Zhi's thief army, we will definitely die without a place to bury!"

Considering what fate would happen if Wei County City Polite, Ma Rong's anger was quickly replaced by fear. Luo Xing checked his words and said, "Mingfu, we really have no other choice at the moment. I suggest you, tomorrow, you might as well make the situation of someone contacting the Wei governor to the public, and at the same time, forge a reply from the Wei governor to you, claiming that reinforcements are coming soon. In this way, our soldiers of the Wei generals will surely be determined, and they will defend the city with all their might and persevere until the Wei reinforcements arrive."

After thinking about it with a dark face for a long time, Ma Rong snorted coldly and said, "I won't say it earlier. If I say it earlier, I have already told him about this situation when I wrote to the old fox of Cuan's friend today."

"The Ming Mansion has forgiven the crime. It has never had the right opportunity before, so I didn't dare to make any suggestions easily." Luo Xing apologized in a bad manner and said, "But the Ming Mansion has no need to worry at all. He is currently not holding a hand, but actually not watching the wind, but just waiting for the opportunity to attack Zhang Zhi's son. As for the reason, it is also very simple. Unless he is gaining and losing his mind, he will turn to Zhang Zhi's army in the face of such a world trend, giving the Great Wei court an excuse to take the opportunity to attack him."

Ma Rong's face was still blue and black, and he said after a while: "I want to see someone sent by Governor Wei."

"Don't worry, Mingfu, I will contact him tomorrow and ask him to meet you." Luo Xing agreed immediately.

Ma Rong nodded with a dark face, but quietly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said in his heart: "Although this ordinary man was secretly bribed by the Wei people is hateful, it is indeed a good thing. At least, the governor of Wei has prepared in advance, and reinforcements must have come sooner than I expected."

It was precisely because he swallowed Luo Xingwei's reassurance that Ma Rong, which had been tightly holding his heart in his throat, finally let go a little. When it was dark, Ma Rong, who was taught by Ma Zhong and Huo Yi, led his personal troops to the most dangerous and important north gate city to inspect. During this period, he comforted Wang Dao, the general of the Nanzhong Army guarding the north gate, and repeatedly claimed that he did not trust Wang Dao, but to be cautious, he made all kinds of promises to share wealth and hardships.

After doing this, Ma Rong dragged his tired body back to the prefect's house to rest. In order to relieve the pressure, Ma Rong also called a concubine to accompany him. He had to sleep for a while before he fell asleep. In his dream, he saw a beautiful scene of himself being named the governor of the Southern Central by Cao Wei and replacing Huo Yi as the emperor of the Southern Central Central.

"Boom--!"

A sudden shocking noise came from the north gate, which suddenly ran through the entire city of Wei County, and directly woke up the soldiers and civilians in Wei County. Out of intuition, after jumping off the bed barefoot, Ma Rong not only shouted and asked what happened, but also put on clothes and armor as soon as possible, and ordered drums to gather generals to rush to the lobby of the prefect's mansion to preside over the response.

Fortunately, after this loud noise, there was no sound of shouting and killing from the north gate. Ma Rong felt relieved, but he hurried to the lobby to preside over the overall situation and understood why such a loud noise sounded. However, just as Ma Rong rushed to the lobby and saw Ma Yi and Luo Xing who were rushing to the lobby, another shocking loud noise came from the north gate, "Boom!"

"What happened? What happened? Why did the North Gate sound two loud noises one after another? Is there a thunder? How could there be thunder in winter?"

No one could answer Ma Rong's question. On the contrary, there was finally a huge noise from the north gate. In addition to the sound of gongs and war drums, there were also shouts of killing, which declared that the Han army had launched an attack on the Wei County city.

A panic expression immediately appeared on the faces of Ma Rong's uncle and nephew and Luo Xing. During the time of the rushing order, some generals of the Southern Central Army rushed over to wait for the order. At the same time, Ma Rong sent his personal soldiers to the North Gate to investigate the situation and rushed back to report the situation. As soon as he came to the court, he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Prince, it's not good! The sky thunder split the inner and outer city gates of Wei County's north gate, and Zhang Zhi's thief army has already rushed into the city!"

"Sky thunder splits the city gate?"

Ma Rong was stunned and then roared: "Fart! The sky thunder split the city gate? Is there such a ridiculous thing in the world?!"

"Prince, I dare not lie!" The personal soldiers who reported the news screamed in despair: "It was really the thunder that thunder broke through the city gate, and the thieves have already rushed in! If the little one has a half-word words, I would be beaten by the sky and thunder!"

Ma Rong was completely stunned. As soon as he arrived at the Southern Lieutenant General was stunned, only Ma Yi shouted tremblingly: "Uncle, do you still remember? When you swear to the sky today, you once said that if you break your word and do not believe, you will be struck by thunder in the sky?!"

Hearing this, the Nanzhong generals present also looked up one after another, all looking at Ma Rong with incredible eyes. Ma Rong was also panicked and said in his heart: "Does he really deserve to swear? God is angry that I broke my promise, so he lowered the thunder and split the city gate and helped the thieves break the city?!"

"Mingfu, don't believe these words of gods and ghosts." Luo Xing quickly spoke and said, "If God really swears, he should directly reduce lightning and strike you. How could he break the city gate? Bei Zhi dares to bet that it must be because of other reasons, so the city gate was opened. Please don't panic in the Mingfu and send troops to reinforce the North Gate to block the thief army!"

As if he had caught a life-saving straw, Ma Rong nodded repeatedly, admitting that Luo Xing's words were reasonable, and quickly ordered General Meng Liu and Huang Shu to lead the troops to reinforce the North Gate, and to the north gate of Lingwei County, so that the North Gate General Wang Dao immediately put down the Qianjin Gate for emergency response and gain time for the Wei County defender to rescue the North Gate.

Bad news kept coming like snowflakes. First of all, Ma Rong, Luo Xing and others clearly saw in the yard that the Han army holding the red flag rushed directly to the north gate of Wei County, and the progress was as smooth as if they had not encountered any resistance at all.

Then the personal soldiers reported that after the inner and outer city gates of Wei County were split open by 'sky thunder', Director Wang, who was guarding the north gate, never put down the Qianjin Gate to rescue the emergency!

Immediately afterwards, Ma Rong sent his personal soldiers to monitor Meng Liu and Huang Shu to fight and ran back, reporting with a sad face that Meng Liu and Huang Shu not only did not lead their troops to rescue the North Gate, but also rushed to the Nanzhong Governor's Office where Huo Yi was imprisoned!

"Two ordinary men, what are they doing in the Governor's Mansion?!" Ma Rong shouted in a panic.

"Not good!" Luo Xing exclaimed: "Ming Mansion, Meng Liu and Huang Shu must be going to save the old governor! We have to immediately capture the old governor, so that we can have hope of getting out!"

At the critical moment of life and death, Ma Rong could not allow him to think carefully and adopted Luo Xing's suggestion. Ma Rong could only order other generals to accompany him to the Nanzhong Governor's Office to control Huo Yi. However, what made Ma Rong's stomach burst out, as soon as he left the house, the Nanzhong General immediately dispersed and fled far away faster than the other. When Ma Rong saw it, he was furious and roared quickly: "Catch them, catch them all! If you dare to resist, execute them immediately!"

"Ming Mansion, it's too late." Luo Xing pulled Ma Rong and shouted: "Go to the Governor's Mansion first and grab Huo Yi first, so that we can have hope of survival!"

Knowing that the situation was critical, Ma Rong stomped his feet and roared. He could only quickly rush to the Nanzhong Governor's Office to control Huo Yi. During this period, he had no time to discover it. In fact, his soldiers of the direct army were also fleeing and refused to continue to follow him.

Moreover, it was too late for Ma Rong to do this. When he led Ma Yi, Luo Xing and some of his best friends to the gate of the Nanzhong Governor's Office, the soldiers of the Nanzhong led by Meng Liu and Huang Shu had already lined up to guard the gate of the Governor's Office. At the same time, Huo Yi had already stood in front of the Governor's Office with his hands behind his back. Under the personal protection of the two generals Meng and Huang, he welcomed the arrival of Ma Rong and others with a cold and murderous look.

Subconsciously stopped at more than ten steps in front of Huo Yi. Ma Rong and Ma Yi's uncle and nephew trembled like sparrows in the cold wind. Their lips shivered several times, but they couldn't even say a word. Huo Yi looked calm and said coldly: "What? Do you want to take me hostage? Force the Han army to release you out of the city? Then take me to ask Cao Wei for me?"

With a sound of noise, the iron knife in Ma Rong's hand fell to the ground, and continued to kneel down on his knees, shouting in a crying voice: "Uncle forgives the crime, my nephew is confused for a moment. Please remember my uncle for the past relationship, so I will keep my nephew alive!"

Ma Yi also threw away his weapons, knelt in front of Huo Yi and kowtowed like pounding garlic, crying and saying, "Grandpa Huo spares life, Grandpa Huo spares life, nephew is confused, nephew deserves to be punished for death, please forgive me for my nephew and grandpa."

Ma Rong and Ma Yi took the lead. Their best friends, including Luo Xing, also threw down their weapons and crawled in front of Huo Yi and begged for mercy. Meng Liu and Huang Shu were not polite and immediately ordered their soldiers to come forward, take down Ma Rong's uncle and nephew, and dragged them to Huo Yi to wait for the defeat. Uncle and nephew Ma Rong did not dare to resist anymore, but just tried desperately to beg for mercy. Even if they knocked their foreheads and bleeded, they would not dare to stop.

Seeing the pitiful appearance of Ma Rong's uncle and nephew crying desperately, and recalling the scene when Ma Zhong entrusted his two sons to him, Huo Yi's hatred gradually faded away, and he sighed and said, "You are smart and took the initiative to put down your weapons and surrender. In this way, I have another explanation for pleading for you in front of Governor Zhang. If you insist on resisting to the end, then I can't open my mouth even if I want to save you."

Hearing that Huo Yi had the intention of giving them away, Ma Rong's uncle and nephew were overjoyed and of course thanked him repeatedly. Huo Yi ignored them and turned to Meng Liu next to him and asked, "Is the city gate of Wei County really cracked by thunder?"

"Report to the old governor, it's true." Meng Liu quickly replied: "The general has sent someone to investigate. The two inner and outer city gates of Wei County's north gate were indeed split by thunder. Then the director of Wang deliberately refused to put down the Qianjin Gate to rescue the emergency, so the Han army entered the city very smoothly."

"The sky thunder split?" Huo Yi laughed in a silence and said, "Is there such a ridiculous thing in the world? I dare to bet that it is definitely Zhang Dengyuan's tricks. There are too many secrets hidden in this little boy."

After saying that, Huo Yi smiled and said, "But it doesn't matter. After this incident, if this little guy dares to hide anything from me, I will slap him with a big ear!"

At the same time, outside the North Gate of Wei County, the little girl Huo Meng who was so excited that she was crying, stood side by side. Looking at the towering Wei County Tower, Zhang Zhi was extremely excited and said to himself: "I'm here for the third time junk food assistance. Prime Minister, General, please, this time, I will bless me to draw junk food for meat anyway."

"Scumbaby host, you dream!"

The voice of the system girl rang in Zhang Zhi's mind and said gloomyly: "Using a powder barrel to break the city gate, it is so shameless that it uses this dimensionality reduction attack method to attack the city, and deceive the system's costly free assistance. God has eyes, and you, the scumbag host, will definitely let you, the scumbag host, draw old pickles, French fries, potato chips, yam, jelly candied small spicy strips, and then be pierced by thousands of arrows on the battlefield, then be dismembered by random knives, crushed bones and ashes..."
Chapter completed!