Cao's army and Xu's army entered Liangzhou at the same time. Just as they were about to settle in Liangzhou, the hearts of Beidi and others, who thought they had found their savior, suddenly became cold.
Ma Chao wanted to scold his mother, but now was not the time for him to scold his mother. He could only leave Beidi and others who were still trying to act like emperors, and hurriedly summoned Xiliang's 50,000 troops, and divided them into two groups to deal with the sudden attack of Xu Jiajun and Cao Cao.
The clan's army.
As for the former, those who came after the Northern Emperor and used the banner of destroying the Emperor sounded scary.
Ma Chao originally thought that the latter was an unknown force and would be easier to deal with than the Xu Jiajun, but he did not expect that the Cao family's dog thieves would actually imitate him and follow the Xu Jiajun's cry of destroying the Beidi.
At this moment, Ma Chao felt like he was getting cold.
His counselors came over one after another to persuade him to kill Beidi and others and send them to the foot of Helan Mountain to seek peace with the Xu family army.
Why are you looking for Xu Jiajun instead of Cao's army?
This begins when Dong Xing entered Beijing.
At that time, Ma Chao was not the boss of Xiliang. The young man followed his father and uncle and took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to bring 20,000 cavalry from Xiliang to Beijing to meet the young emperor.
Unexpectedly, it was only when he arrived in the capital that he realized that the fruits of victory had been picked off by Dong Xing.
Ma Chao's father and uncles traveled all the way but were forced to return empty-handed. What can they do?
It definitely can't be done.
Ma Jia Ma suddenly joined Dong Xing's army, intending to enjoy the fruits of victory together.
However, at that time, the high-spirited middle-aged men, Cao, Yuan and others, as loyal ministers of the Zhao family, how could they watch the emperor being held hostage by villains?
Naturally, the Ma family and the Cao family were on opposite sides.
For so many years, the Ma family has stayed in their hometown of Xiliang and never wanted to get involved in the messy things in the Central Plains.
Keren's life can be so outrageous sometimes. Ma Chao and his elders made the same mistakes that every man would make.
They are dead.
The old man seeks stability, but he passes away without really stabilizing Xiliang.
Ma Chao, a new young man, has followed his uncles on horseback since he was a child. A middle-class young man always has some middle-class ideas, and he has some thoughts about the vast land of the Central Plains.
And he is indeed a young talent, coupled with the rich human resources left by his father's generation, he quickly used strong force to calm down the chaos within Xiliang.
At this time, the Xu Jiajun in the Central Plains had already taken the lead. A girl who was only thirteen years old became the female leader of the rebel army. This was undoubtedly a huge blow to Ma Chao, who was already twenty years old at the time and had not even stepped out of the house.
of stimulation.
Therefore, in the past few years when the Xu Jiajun captured Youzhou, Xiliang also made many steps towards the south.
All failed.
The old thief Cao De is not that easy to deal with. The princes and kings of the Central Plains also have deep prejudices against them, northern men.
Therefore, in comparison, the Xu family's reputation and background are even lower than those of the Ma family.
Logically speaking, he should not dislike the Ma family.
Xu Jiajun: Feng Ping was murdered!
Ma Chao looked at the Beidi ministers behind him who were trying to remain cold but actually panicked, and felt a little moved.
Beidi and the ministers who supported him suddenly felt the threat of death.
At this moment, a loud "bang" sound comparable to thunder came from the foot of Helan Mountain, and the hearts of everyone in Beidi County in Wuwei County suddenly tightened.
"No! It's Xu Jiajun's shocking move!" the minister from Beidu shouted in panic.
Ma Chaojun frowned, "What is earth-shattering?"
The Northern Minister swallowed his saliva and explained: "It is a divine thunder that can instantly level a million troops!"
Divine thunder?
Ma Chao doesn’t believe it!
"How can a mortal body trigger thunder from the sky? What nonsense are you talking about? Are you bullying me for being young and weak? Are you ignorant?" Ma Chao stared at the Northern Minister in displeasure, his eyes widening in horror.
Seeing that he didn't believe it, the Northern Minister became anxious and hurriedly described how Gongsun's army was defeated that day.
"The iron barrel was as big as a person's arms. The barrel was filled with black powder, and the smell of poisonous substances such as saltpeter and sulfur came out. I saw Wang Pingping standing in the air, aiming the rocket in his hand at the thrown iron barrel!
"
"Boom! Suddenly, the color of the sky and the earth changes, and the ground beneath your feet trembles violently. It shakes in a daze, and without giving people a chance to react, a heat wave comes, directly rushing people away. Their hands and feet wither, and there are broken limbs all over the place.
....”
The Northern Minister became more and more panicked as he spoke. When he finished speaking, he was so scared that he almost shed tears.
There is no other reason than that in this era of belief in the power of ghosts and gods, the strength displayed by explosives is completely in line with contemporary people's understanding of the abilities of ghosts and gods.
On weekdays, people are not afraid of ghosts and gods, because no one has ever seen such terrifying anomalies.
The most talked about ones are the green will-o'-the-wisps and the ghosts screaming in the middle of the night.
But how can those psychological fears be as scary as real death?
Xu Jiajun's earth-shattering explosive barrel can kill people in an instant!
However, this is all from a layman's perspective. From Wang Pingping's perspective, these explosives have a deterrent effect, but their lethality is seriously insufficient. If they are thrown into a crowd, they will not kill many people.
However, the role of thermal weapons has always been to serve as a deterrent, rather than to actually use them on a large scale to harvest human lives on the battlefield.
If you use huge explosions to intimidate the enemy, if your psychological quality is not up to par, you will immediately lose your combat effectiveness.
A sufficient amount of explosives can also be used to blast city walls and fortresses, destroy enemy defenses, etc.
But no matter what, the statement that a million troops were instantly razed to the ground is far beyond what black gunpowder can achieve.
Even with the nitric acid developed by students at Xujiazhuang University, the tiny dose would not reach the amount needed for a war.
However, the explosive barrel alone was enough to deter Ma Chao and others.
Huge explosions kept coming from the foot of Helan Mountain, and the soldiers' exclamations seemed to reach the Wuwei County Government Office. Ma Chao couldn't sit still anymore and went into battle himself.
His ministers stopped him one after another, and even Beidi stopped him and refused to let him go.
But will Ma Chao listen to his puppet emperor?
The rebellious youth obviously won’t!
...
"General Wang! Ma Chao is calling for you from the city gate!"
Zhang Fei, with a gray face, ran into the coach's tent excitedly and shouted excitedly with a loud voice.
With his gray and gray face, one could tell that he had just finished cleaning up the battlefield.
It was almost dusk at this time. In the daytime battle, the Ma family's army was defeated by the Xu family's army. They had lost two cities and were now blocked in the acropolis by the Xu family's army and did not dare to come out.
Blitzkrieg was what Wang Pingping was best at. With the help of explosive barrels, the front line was pushed forward two hundred miles in one day.
At this speed, it can be said that the Xu Jiajun was completely running to catch up with the Ma Jiajun.
When she heard Zhang Fei running in, Wang Pingping, who was being washed by Xu Da, raised her head from the basin. Her short, crisp hair made a perfect arc in the air, and Xu Da was covered in water.
