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Ma Chao (176–222), courtesy name Mengqi, was a native of Fufeng Maoling (present-day Xingping, Shaanxi), a descendant of the Han fubo general Ma Yuan, who was then known as the General of Shenweitian.
Cao Cao Ri: "Horses don't die, and I don't have a burial place." ”
However, such a heroic figure, looking through the scenes of his life, can only feel infinite sadness in the end.
Ma Chao
Ma Chao has been known as a brave warrior since childhood, and in his early years he accompanied his father Ma Teng to fight around. In the seventh year of Jian'an (202), gao Gan, a general of the Hebei warlord Yuan Shang, joined forces with Shan Yuhuquan of the Southern Xiongnu, and the two jointly attacked Guanzhong, but Zhong Xuan, who was then a lieutenant colonel, could not resist and wrote to Ma Teng, asking him to send troops in the name of righteousness. So Ma Teng sent Ma Chao to lead more than 10,000 people into Guanzhong to assist Zhong Xuan. After Ma Chao arrived, he took advantage of Gao Gan's army to cross the river and led his army to rush to kill, Gao Gan was not Ma Chao's opponent, and his army also panicked under Ma Chao's attack, and was gradually destroyed by Ma Chao. After this battle, Ma Chaoyongwu was even more well known to everyone in the world. Cao Cao was very jealous of Ma Chao, so he recruited Ma Chao to enter the dynasty as a pass, but Ma Chao refused to take up his post, and Cao Cao felt helpless about it.
Later, his father Ma Teng, under the persuasion of others, entered the dynasty as an official, but only Ma Chao stayed in Liangzhou. In March of the sixteenth year of Jian'an (211), Cao Cao sent Zhong Xuan to lead an army to attack Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, and warlords led by Ma Chao and Han Sui suspected that Cao Cao was attacking and annexing Liangzhou. Therefore, a total of 100,000 people joined forces with the generals in Guanzhong to rebel against Cao. Ma Chao once said to Han Sui:
"Now, Ma Chao abandons his father and takes General Han as his father. General Han was also an outcast and took Ma Chao as his son. ”
Even Han Sui was terrified of this, and his men advised him: "Super gangsters, don't conspire with them", but Han Sui felt that his strength alone was too weak, and finally decided to cooperate with Ma Chao.
Cao Cao heard that Ma Chao and Han Sui were united, so he sent his general Cao Ren to face Ma Chao, and Cao Ren was afraid of Ma Chao's bravery and did not dare to fight with it.
Therefore, in July, Cao Cao personally led a large army to confront Ma Chao at Pusaka, and then sent his general Xu Huang to attack Ma Chao, beheading Ma Chao's general Liang Xing. Cao Cao did not dare to take the initiative to attack after Ma Chao's defeat, so he led a large army to cross the Wei River in the north, not wanting Ma Chao to personally lead the iron horse to rush to kill, and suddenly the arrows rained down. Cao Cao was finally able to escape under the desperate cover of his Tiger Guards.
In this battle, Cao Cao almost lost his life, and most of his soldiers were also damaged, but Cao Cao laughed and said, "A few thieves are trapped, and I swear to capture them." ”
Later, Cao Cao listened to the schemes of his adviser Jia Xu, pretended to make peace with Ma Chao and Han Sui, and deliberately showed closeness to Han Sui in front of Ma Chao, and wrote a letter to Han Sui to dissect Ma Chao and Han Sui, and Ma Chao was eventually confused by Cao Cao and clashed with Han Sui's generals. Cao Cao took advantage of this to attack Ma Chao's camp in a big way, so Ma Chao and Han Sui were defeated and could only retreat to Longshang.
Cao Cao
In the first month of the seventeenth year of Jian'an (212), Ma Chao joined forces with Zhang Lu in Hanzhong to attack Jicheng again, and Shi Weikang of Liangzhou could not resist and could only surrender to Ma Chao, but Ma Chao instructed Zhang Lu's generals to kill Wei Kang, so everyone secretly contacted Cao Cao with Ma Chao's cruelty; and Cao Cao saw that ma Chao could not surrender, so he killed all the Ma Chao people (including his father Ma Teng and his two younger brothers Ma Xiu and Ma Tie). Then personally lead the army, and then fight the horse Chao.
When Ma Chao saw that Cao Cao was leading an army and planned to defend Jicheng, he expected That Wei Kang's old department to secretly contact Cao Cao, and Ma Chao had to abandon the city and defect to Zhang Lu in Hanzhong under internal and external difficulties.
Zhang Lu admired Ma Chao's martial prowess and planned to marry his daughter to Ma Chao, but was stopped by his subordinates: "The one who killed his father, is there any righteousness?" So Zhang Lu also changed his mind.
Ma Chao had always wanted to borrow troops from Zhang Lu to restore Liangzhou, but Zhang Lu was afraid of Cao Cao and refused to borrow troops from him. And because people kept saying bad things about Ma Chao in front of Zhang Lu, Ma Chao resigned and fled into the middle of the army. At this time, Liu Bei led an army to attack Liu Zhang, so he sent Li Hui to befriend Ma Chao, who knew that Zhang Lu was not a person who did great things, so he wrote to Liu Bei and submitted liu Bei. Liu Zhang, horrified by Ma Chao's prestige, had to surrender Kaesong. After Liu Bei pacified Xichuan, he promoted Ma Chao to the rank of General of Pingxi.
Liu Bei
In the second year of Zhang Wu (222), Ma Chao fell seriously ill, and Shangshu gave Liu Bei: "The two hundred people under the clan of the subject clan were killed by Cao Cao, and only his brother Ma Dai was left, I hope that Your Majesty can treat him kindly, and there is nothing else to say." In December of the same year, Ma Chao died of illness at the age of 47.
In Ma Chao's life, although he was brave and extraordinary, he gave up his family affection for his own selfish desires, and was ultimately disgraced by the world. Later generations said: "Super brave but not merciful, see unrighteous, not for lips and teeth." "That's probably why he failed!"