Chen Shou's original text: "Ma Chao fled to Zhu Rong, and when Cao Cao pursued stability, it happened that something happened in the north and he led the army back." At that time, yangfu said to Cao Cao: Ma Chao has the fighting capacity of Han Xin and Ying Bu, and is very supported by Qiang Hu. If the army goes back and does not strictly control Ma Chao, then the counties in Gansu will fall into the hands of Superman. Later, Ma Chao really made a comeback, led Zhu Rong to capture counties in Gansu, and counties in Gansu joined Ma Chao one after another. Ma Chao killed Wei Kang, the secretariat of Liangzhou, occupied Ji Cheng and took over Ji Cheng's army. Ma Chao appointed himself as the general of the Western Expedition (Ma Teng was dead at this time, and Ma Chao led the army to the Western Expedition, which shows that he inherited his father's ambition), commanding the state animal husbandry and supervising the Liangzhou military department. Wei Kang's old men yangfu, Jiang Xu, Zhao Qu and others conspired to attack Ma Chao. Yangfu and Jiang Xu set out from Lucheng, and Ma Chao went out of the city to attack and failed to lay down; When I came back, Liang Kuan and Zhao Qu had successfully rebelled and closed the gates of Ji Cheng, and Ma Chao had lost Ji Cheng. In a dilemma, Zhang Lu can only run to Hanzhong. But Zhang Lu was not an ideal host, so he appeased Ma Chao in a small town (city). When Ma Chao heard that Liu Bei was besieging Chengdu, he secretly wrote to Liu Bei and surrendered to him.

It is said in The Compendium: In the 16th year of Jian 'an, Ma Chao rebelled with ten generals in Guanzhong. The candidates were Yin Cheng, Li Kan, Zhang Heng, Liang Xing, Cheng Yi, Ma Wan, Yang Qiu and Han Sui, with a total strength of 100,000. * * * and the Yellow River, which is holed up at the junction of Tongguan, set up a battalion. In this year, Cao Cao made a Western Expedition and fought with Ma Chao and other allied forces at the junction of the Yellow River and Weishui. Ma Chao and others finally lost. Ma Chao fled to Anding, and Han Sui fled back to Liangzhou. Chao Ting (Cao Cao) issued a decree to kill all Ma Chao's relatives in Yecheng. Ma Chao was defeated in Gansu (by yangfu and others). Later, when Ma Chao was in Hanzhong, Zhang Lu asked Ma Chao to take the post of "Let's talk about wine offering". And I want to marry my daughter to Ma Chao and let her be together. At this time, someone said to Zhang Lu, "Some people don't even care about their relatives. Can they take care of others? " In other words, even if Zhang Lu married her daughter to Ma Chao, Ma Chao would not be so obedient to Zhang Lu, so Zhang Lu gave up the idea of marrying her daughter to Ma Chao. When Ma Chao didn't rebel against Cao Cao, one of his concubines and younger brothers named Zi stayed in Sanfu. By the time Ma Chao was defeated and returned to Hanzhong, Zi had already arrived in Hanzhong. On the right day, Ma Chao came to pay New Year's greetings. Ma Chao beat his chest and vomited blood, saying, "More than 100 people died in my family one day. What can we congratulate today? " Later, Ma Chao repeatedly asked Zhang Lu for funds for military forces and wanted to capture Liangzhou. Zhang Lu finally reluctantly agreed to Ma Chao and sent some soldiers to Ma Chao, but the plan to take Liangzhou north failed. Plus Zhang Lu's men and others crowd out D, for fear that capable D will surpass their position. Ma Chao finally fled Zhang Lu, fled from Wudu to a place where Miao people lived in compact communities, and then switched to Liu Bei.