Chapter 469: See Your Performance

The Yellow Turbans acted very quickly. After everyone reached a unanimous decision, Ju Shou immediately led two or three soldiers to Wuwei. Although the war was tense and the atmosphere of hostility between the two sides was thick, they would not treat the envoys too harshly.

After revealing his identity as an envoy, Ju Su was taken all the way to meet the father and son of the Ma family.

Walking into the Liangzhou Army's camp, one can see with naked eyes that the morale here is visibly low. After all, they have suffered heavy losses at the hands of the Yellow Turbans one after another, so it would be strange for the soldiers to be happy.

Of course, although the overall morale is not very good, the individual soldiers still retain enough fierceness.

Ju Su was deeply impressed by this. The soldiers he met on the road, after knowing that he was a Yellow Turban envoy, all looked at him coldly. Such fierce and cruel eyes would make an ordinary person's legs go weak.

In other words, Ju Su was shrewd enough and experienced enough not to be moved.

As for the three Yellow Turban soldiers who were accompanying them, they were not afraid at all. Whenever the Liangzhou soldiers came to threaten them, the Yellow Turban soldiers just glared back at them without changing their expressions. Even though they were outnumbered, their momentum was not at all inferior.

The soldiers from Liangzhou had no temper about this, because they were the defeated enemies.

But Ju Su was shocked. The bravery of the Liangzhou soldiers was indeed not false. Even with such low morale, the soldiers were still as fierce as wolves and tigers, and their combat effectiveness had not been lost too much. This was truly incomparable to any ordinary army. Only the Yellow Turbans could definitely defeat them.

When they reached the center of the camp, Ju Shou was brought into the big tent. The first thing he saw were two men, one was a strong middle-aged man, and the other was a young and vigorous young man. They were Ma Teng and his son Ma Chao.

"Humph, the fighting has come to this point, what are the Yellow Turbans sending envoys for? Are they here to surrender? If so, I will show mercy and agree to it."

Ju Shou had just stepped into the big tent when he saw Ma Teng, who was sitting at the top, snorted coldly and ridiculed him shamelessly.

After he finished speaking, he even laughed out loud.

Ma Chao on the side also curled up the corner of his mouth, without even looking at Ju Shou. His expression was one of extreme indifference and contempt, and he did not take the so-called Yellow Turban envoy seriously at all.

Ju Shou simply sneered in his heart at their deliberate display of strength.

Strong on the outside but weak on the inside!

Although he ridiculed the Ma father and son's pretentiousness in his heart, Ju Shou would not show it on the surface. He did not react at all to their sarcasm, as if he did not hear it, and just treated them with a smiling attitude.

"You two are joking. There is no such thing as surrendering to a defeated general in this world. My Xuan Xia offensive is like thunder and unstoppable. I have beaten you two back step by step. How can you say you surrender?"

When he said this, Ju Shou stood with his hands behind his back, looking calm and composed: "If you really want to surrender, you should surrender to the Yellow Turbans."

After he finished speaking, Ma Teng's face suddenly darkened, but after thinking about it, there was nothing to say. This was the fact, and it was because he was the defeated one.

No matter how powerful his talk is, he cannot change this reality, which inevitably made Ma Teng feel a little suffocated when facing Ju Shou.

But Ma Teng could endure it, but Ma Chao could not. With a "bang", Ma Chao slapped the table and broke it into pieces. Then he stood up, holding the hilt of the sword at his waist, and looked at Ju Shou coldly.

"You dare to be so presumptuous when you enter my camp? Don't you know how to die? Do you think that my Ma family dare not kill people?"

"Of course I don't doubt your courage to kill, but I believe more in the strength of the Yellow Turbans to annihilate your Ma family. If I die here today, tomorrow will be the day for you to accompany me." Who is Ju Su? Ma Chao's verbal threats could not scare him at all. He even retorted even more aggressively.

It’s not that Ju Shou is not afraid of death, but his confidence comes from the fighting power of the Yellow Turbans, which gives him enough confidence to say these words.

As expected, Ma Chao's face changed again and again, and began to turn red visibly, but the hand that was tightly gripping the hilt of the sword never pulled it out.

If an ordinary person had such an attitude in front of him, he would have killed the person long ago, but Ju Su could not do that.

Whenever he thought about the things that had worried him and his son these days, he had to control his anger and calm down.

"What a joke!" After calming down, Ma Chao sat down again. Now he stopped shouting for war and killing, and just sneered: "The entire Liang Province is backed by my Ma family. Millions of soldiers and civilians can command me. Can you, the Yellow Turbans, defeat them?"

"Oh?" Upon hearing this, Ju Su pretended to be surprised, then smiled faintly and said, "Is it really like that?"

Ma Teng spoke up at the right time: "Of course it is. If you Yellow Turbans don't believe me, you can attack us and see whether your offensive force is stronger or the people of Liang Province are more united!"

The big tent fell silent for a moment. Ma Teng looked calm and Ju Su was smiling. The two men just stared at each other, with no sign of who was stronger in terms of momentum.

Not long after, Ju Shou laughed and shook his clothes, saying: "If that's the case, maybe our army will have to satisfy the general's wish, but by then, it won't just be the Yellow Turban Army that will attack."

As soon as these words were spoken, Ma Teng and Ma Chao felt a sudden shock in their hearts, and they realized that something was wrong.

But Ma Teng still held his breath and asked calmly, "Oh, so you feel that you are no match for us and have found some new allies?"

Ju Shou said with a smile: "Have you two ever thought about one thing? Since the Yellow Turbans have sent envoys, are they only going to come here?"

Ma Chao couldn't wait any longer and asked immediately, "Stop talking nonsense. What do you mean?"

Ju Shou shook his head and said bluntly, "Liangzhou is not the only place you two can talk to. Han Sui's former subordinates have lost control now, and they are all arrogant and ambitious. They have many old grudges against you two. If our envoys go over to contact them, they should be happy to join our army in attacking you two."

This time, Ma Teng could no longer hold back. His face changed drastically and he stood up abruptly, but after a moment of silence he sat back down.

He knew that the Yellow Turbans had seen through his true colors. The so-called unity between the army and the people was not false, but the prerequisite was that he could complete the integration of the entire Liang Province. He had to wipe out all of Han Sui's old subordinates first. Unfortunately, he was being pressed too hard by the Yellow Turbans and did not have the time for that.

But the Yellow Turbans happened to discover this key. If they really made this happen, then we would be attacked from all sides, and it would be the end of us!
Ma Chao obviously realized the problem, and his face was as ugly as charcoal.

The father and son looked at each other, speechless.

After a while, Ma Chao looked at Ju Shou angrily and said, "If that's the case, why did you come here as an envoy? If you want to fight, then fight. Who can be afraid of you?"

Ju Su smiled indifferently: "Our army can fight them, and we can also help you fight them. It's up to you two to decide which one to choose. I, the Yellow Turbans, have no old grudge against you two. We don't have to fight to the death. But don't say that I, the Yellow Turbans, didn't give you a chance."

After saying that, Ju Shou sat down leisurely aside, waiting for Ma and his son to speak with an expression that said "let's see how you perform".

(End of this chapter)