Ma Chao thought for a while, then looked back at the family members and the soldiers who had returned in disastrous defeat, feeling extremely uncomfortable.
He originally wanted to take his men to Hanzhong via Ziwu Valley, but they encountered an ambush on the way. He fought his way out of the siege and was forced to retreat to Baling.
At this time, Gao Fei Shengyi Quanquan invited him to China. He naturally understood the meaning of this. But he had not thought about it yet. Will his hard work be completely collapsed today? His dream of being emperor
Never to return, the hatred of country and family weighed on his shoulders. Such a heavy burden made him almost breathless.
Seeing that Ma Chao was hesitating, Gao Fei said further: "Meng Qi, have you forgotten the hatred of your country and your family? If you are willing, we can attack all the way to Chang'an now to avenge those who betrayed you!"
When Ma Chao heard the word "revenge", he was startled. He immediately raised his head and looked at Gao Fei. He saw Gao Fei's eyes shining with hot eyes, which were enough to make everyone's blood burn. He once again
He turned back, glanced at his family, and finally said: "Okay!"
With a cry, he turned over and jumped off the horse, inserted the Earth Fire Xuanlu Spear on the ground, knelt down on one knee, held his fists, lowered his head to Gao Fei and said: "Ma Chao is willing to submit to His Majesty the Great Emperor from now on.
From now on, I am willing to obey the orders of His Majesty the Great Emperor, and I will serve as a vanguard, willing to clear all obstacles for His Majesty the Great Emperor!"
Gao Fei was overjoyed when he heard Ma Chao's answer. He quickly got off his horse and helped Ma Chao up himself. He said happily: "Meng Qi, please get up quickly. I have Meng Qi, who will be even more powerful than a tiger. I will bring peace to the world in the future."
Just around the corner!”
The rumble of horse hoofs came from the official road. Zhao Yun, wearing armor and leading a group of cavalry, galloped over. Behind him was a long team that could not be seen to the end.
When Zhao Yun saw Gao Fei holding Ma Chao's hand, he already knew it. He immediately rode his horse and quickly came to Gao Fei's side, turned over and dismounted, knelt down and worshiped: "I am late to save you, please punish me!"
Gao Fei hurriedly helped Zhao Yun up, patted Zhao Yun heavily on the shoulder, pointed at Ma Chao and said: "Zilong, from now on, I have another tiger general, and you are no strangers. We were enemies before, but from now on
Stay closer and closer to me from now on!"
"Ma Mengqi, the minister of the country's subjugation, has seen General Huwei!" Ma Chao was the first to put aside his worth and bowed to Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun also returned the courtesy politely and said: "I have heard the name of General Ma for a long time, and it is like thunder in my ears. I am really lucky to be able to serve as a minister in the same palace today!"
After the two people were polite to each other, Gao Fei immediately asked: "Zilong, how many cavalry did you bring?"
"Three thousand cavalry, seven thousand infantry, and infantry arrived soon after. They met Zhou Cang and Gao Lin along the way, so they combined the infantry together and are now overtaking this side." Zhao Yun said.
Gao Fei nodded and said to Ma Chao: "I am going to attack Chang'an now, would you like to accompany me?"
Ma Chao immediately clasped his fists and said, "I can't get it!"
After Gao Fei heard this, he laughed and asked people to move the roadblock quickly. After a while, Zhou Cang, Gao Lin, Dian Wu, and Uli Deng arrived with more than 10,000 infantrymen. To the east of the small Baling City
The open space in front of the door was blocked with water.
After the roadblock was completely removed, Gao Fei led Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Xu Huang, Bian Xi, Zhu Gongdao and four thousand cavalry as the front, and galloped towards Chang'an. Zhou Cang, Gao Lin, Dian Wu, and Wu Liden led the way.
The infantry followed closely behind, while Ma Dai led Ma Chao's family and the remaining defeated soldiers to retreat eastward.
Among them, Zhao Yun and Xu Huang each led a hundred horses in front to clear the way. Bian Xi and Zhu Gongdao were guarding Gao Fei on his left and right, and Ma Chao followed closely behind Gao Fei.
Gao Fei had already expected Ma Chao's surrender, but he was also very clear about Ma Chao's personality. If he hadn't used his power to take revenge, how could Ma Chao have surrendered so easily. However, since he had surrendered, he had to both use and
Defend.
After galloping for about thirty miles, I suddenly heard a horn sound, and a dark crowd of people suddenly appeared in the woods on both sides of the road. Thousands of arrows were fired at Gao Fei and others like a storm.
summer on the road
Hou Dun blocked the way with his cavalry, and Xia Houyuan and Cao Ren behind them blocked the return route, and surrounded Gao Fei and others in this narrow road. The Qiang cavalry, which was several times the size of the Chinese army, kept firing arrows.
Within a short time, hundreds of people were killed on the spot.
While Gao Fei deflected the arrows, he glanced at the ambush Qiang people, but saw that the Qiang people were all in high spirits, with red faces, and not at all tired from the fierce battle. He suddenly remembered that the Qiang people still had 200,000 reinforcements to come.
After arriving, he ambushed Xia Houyuan after occupying Tongguan. Cao Ren was so dazzled by the victory that he forgot about it.
As soon as he thought of this, he immediately shouted: "Retreat! Retreat quickly!"
Arrows were like rain, densely shot towards the Chinese army. Although the soldiers were wrapped in steel armor, they were not completely covered, so many people were injured, and some horses were shot into hedgehogs, causing heavy casualties.
After giving the order, Zhu Gongdao escorted Gao Fei. Zhao Yun and Xu Huang began to turn around and retreat. Bian Xi kept shooting at the enemy with flying knives.
With the advantages of steel armor and steel helmets, the Chinese army has reduced a lot of casualties. However, if such a dense rain of arrows is not rushed out quickly, I am afraid that the entire army will be annihilated sooner or later.
Seeing that he had been ambushed, Ma Chao turned his horse around and roared immediately, like a beast trapped in a cage. The roar was like thunder, shocking the entire valley. After roaring, Ma Chao rode with his Earth Fire Xuanlu Spear.
He ran wildly, turned around and shouted to Gao Fei: "Your Majesty, please come with me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Ma Chao rode the white war horse and galloped up the hillside. His whole body was hidden under the horse's belly. No one could be seen. Only a horse without a rider could be seen galloping.
The Qiang people were shooting non-stop when they saw a horse galloping over. They were overjoyed. Some Qiang people couldn't help but immediately dropped their bows and arrows and waved the lasso, preparing to lasso Ma Chao's horse.
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It is the nature of the Qiang people to love horses, especially when they see a high-quality horse, they can't put it down and want to steal that horse as their own. Ma Chao's war horses come from the Dawan Kingdom in the Western Regions, and the Dawan horses have noble bloodlines.
, excellent
The Qiang people have always liked it for its endurance and amazing running power. However, this kind of war horse is expensive and difficult for ordinary people to own. Therefore, this white war horse has appeared and immediately attracted the attention of many Qiang people.
"Mine...it's mine..." Many Qiang people saw the war horse galloping towards them, and they gave up archery, which turned into a competition for the noble Dawan horse.
Then, there was a commotion on the hillside on the left. The Qiang people pushed me and I pushed you. They never threw the rope, because they were afraid that someone would hit the horse first. After a while, the commotion started.
It turned into a fight with fists and kicks, and many people began to yell and use force to solve the problem, which suddenly made the area of Qiang people more chaotic.
On the hillside on the other side, Xu Shu was happy when he saw that more than half of Gao Fei's soldiers and horses were dead and wounded. Suddenly he saw that the Qiang people there were disorderly and beating each other. He couldn't help but frowned. When he saw
After the white horse galloped up the hillside,
I felt that the war horse seemed familiar. I was about to guess who the war horse belonged to, when I suddenly saw a person jumping up on the horse's back under the belly of the white horse. That dress was none other than Ma Chao. He was startled and said immediately:
"Ma Chao actually defected to Gao Fei?"
Ma Chao's sudden appearance caught the Qiang people who were fighting for the horses unprepared. They were all stunned. A dozen of them had no time to dodge, so they were picked to death by Ma Chao with a spear. The rest of the Qiang people were very scared when they saw Ma Chao.
His dashing appearance is intimidating.
"Tian...Tian General?"
There are no Qiang people who don’t know Ma Chao. Even if they don’t know the Qiang kings of various tribes of the Qiang tribe, they still must know Ma Chao, because Ma Chao’s reputation enjoys a great reputation in the hearts of the Qiang people.
Ma Chao, who had conquered the Qiang at the age of ten and was invincible in the northwest at the age of eleven, was dubbed the mighty general by the Qiang people. When he appeared, he immediately caused a sensation.
Ma Chao climbed to the top of the hillside and killed more than 20 Qiang people in succession. He raised his horse and raised his spear, took a deep breath, and shouted: "I am Ma Chao, please retreat quickly!"
A loud shout resounded throughout the valley, and the word Ma Chao rang out like thunder. Many Qiang people who were drawing their bows and shooting arrows were stunned. They stood there for a while, and then scattered and fled to avoid Ma Chao.
More than 20,000 Qiang people disappeared without a trace in an instant.
Xu Shu, Xia Houdun, Xia Houyuan, Cao Ren and others were surprised when they saw the Qiang people retreating. They thought that Ma Chao's reputation had been ruined, but they didn't know that Ma Chao's reputation was still there, and the Qiang people were actually afraid of becoming like this. Seeing the numbers they brought
Hundreds of personal followers were exposed under the eyes of the Chinese army, and the group fled and disappeared in a flash.
Gao Fei witnessed Ma Chao scare away tens of thousands of soldiers with his own eyes. He couldn't believe his eyes. He couldn't help but feel that Ma Chao had capital to exploit, and he also felt that Ma Chao posed a threat.
Looking back at the valley, there were corpses everywhere. More than two thousand Chinese soldiers and horses were shot dead in the valley. He immediately said to Bian Xi: "Go ahead and investigate."
Bian Xi said "Promise" and left.
The people who stayed behind began to clean up the mess. Ma Chao came down from the hillside and came to Gao Fei. He asked with concern: "Your Majesty, are you okay?"
"It's okay." Gao Fei said, "Meng Qi's reputation still exists, and he is able to defeat an army on his own, which really impresses me."
Ma Chao said: "It's just borrowing the old reputation. Fortunately, these Qiang soldiers are burned as Qiang. We can scare them away because they are leaderless."
Not long after, Bian Xi left and returned, reporting: "There are numerous Qiang cavalry in front of us. At a glance, they stretch to the foot of Chang'an City, and now they have stopped moving forward."
Gao Fei sighed and said: "We lost the opportunity to attack Chang'an. There are so many Qiang people here. Our army's strength is already too small. With the lone army going deep, it is easy for something to happen. It is better to retreat to Tongguan for the time being and wait for a while."
Picture it! Send the order, the rear team becomes the front team, and the whole army retreats!"