Looking at Urd's retreating back, Liu Ye knew that things had gone wrong. In front of him, hundreds of thousands of Lingqiang people rushed up the mountain. He sighed heavily, turned around and left here sadly.
An hour later, Ma Chao led Wang Shuang and 500 cavalry to arrive first. When they arrived at Lingwu Valley, all the Xianling Qiang people had already ascended Helan Mountain. There was no one in the entire Lingwu Valley, and the ground was in a mess.
Ma Chao climbed up to a high place and looked out from the air. He saw herds of cattle and sheep, piles of horses, and some herdsmen who had been trampled to death at the mountain crossing leading to Helan Mountain. He already knew this. He immediately smiled and said: "Xian Ling
The Qiang went up to Helan Mountain, and now they are playing into my hands. Wang Shuang!"
"The end is here!" Wang Shuang said, cupping his fists.
Ma Chao shouted: "You can lead people to block all the main roads in and out of Helan Mountain, and bring all the cattle, sheep, horses, and all the sundries back to Lingwu Valley. I will surround the mountain!"
Wang Shuang responded, turned and left, just as the two thousand cavalry behind him arrived. When he was about to pass on the order, he went to the mountain road and drove all the cattle, sheep and horses back to Lingwu Valley, and moved the pots and pans away.
Pots, clothes and other sundries quickly blocked the mountain path.
Ma Chao then detached four thousand cavalry to circle around Helan Mountain. If there was a road out of the mountain, they would block it and impose martial law within a radius of dozens of miles.
The Qiang people had already reported the actions at the foot of the mountain to Urd, and had clearly seen the number of Ma Chao's troops. After hearing this, Urd felt very regretful, regretting that he had not listened to Liu Ye's words and guarded the Lingwu Valley. He immediately ordered to go down.
Taking advantage of Ma Chao's unsteady footing, he retaken Lingwu Valley.
As a result, tens of thousands of Qiang people rushed down the mountain from the mountain.
Wang Shuang led two thousand people to seal the main road going down the mountain. He dispersed all the soldiers on both sides of the road. When he saw the Qiang people counterattacking, he also fought back. Because the mountain road was narrow and the number of soldiers he could accommodate was limited, this undoubtedly gave the Qiang people a hard time.
This caused great confusion. Although there were two to three hundred thousand people, they were all blocked on the mountain. Moreover, because they were leaving in a hurry, many people did not even bring their bows and arrows.
The Qiang people tried several charges, but ended in failure, and were finally forced to retreat to the mountain.
At dusk, the Qiang people pushed down boulders from the mountain in an attempt to clear a path. Although this strategy was good, it was completely immune to Wang Shuang and others who mainly focused on defense. The boulders fell from the mountain road.
Rolling down, I stumbled across many stones. When I arrived at the feet of Wang Shuang and others, it was already a pile of small stones. As a result, the stones piled up more and more, blocking the exit.
The Qiang people were well-intentioned and shot themselves in the foot. Their efforts were in vain, and the night had fallen. At this time, they were tired and hungry, so they stopped charging down the mountain and raised piles of bonfires on the mountain.
Prepare to spend the night.
For a time, Helan Mountain was illuminated by piles of bonfires like daylight. More than 300,000 Qiang people gathered in a palm-sized place, which was called a squeeze.
Tired and hungry, the Qiang people began to form their own groups to hunt deep in the Helan Mountains and find caves to spend the night. At one time, tens of thousands of Qiang warriors went deep into the Helan Mountains.
The remaining Qiang people gathered around the bonfire and suffered from hunger. Some herdsmen brought food. When they took it out and roasted it, they attracted onlookers. When the meat was cooked, it caused a commotion.
In order to get a bite to eat, the herdsmen fought, fought, and even risked their lives. For a time, the riots continued, and Urd, the Qiang king, could not control it, so he had to turn a blind eye.
Let it pass like this.
The night was deep, and the screams of people and the wails of beasts were constantly heard from the depths of Helan Mountain. This was a contest between humans and beasts. A long dragon made of little flames was wandering in the depths of Helan Mountain. It was just hunting in the middle of the night. It was obvious that there was
With too many disadvantages, the Qiang warriors moved into groups of three to five and four to six, and penetrated deeper into the Helan Mountains bit by bit.
The roars of tigers, howls of wolves and the calls of many animals were all very clear at this moment. The size of Helan Mountain was beyond the imagination of the Qiang people. Since the beasts were more afraid of fire, most of them hid in it.
went deeper into the mountains and forests, so that tens of thousands of people went hunting, and what they hunted
But very few prey arrived. After more than an hour, hundreds of Qiang people came back with their prey first, and the rest continued to hunt in the deep mountains and old forests, chasing the beasts. Gradually, the sound could no longer be heard, not even the fire dragon
I can't see anymore, I can only see a halo under the mountain peak over there.
Urd sat there, waiting for a long time, and finally could have a full meal. The prey brought back by hundreds of people were eaten first by the nobles, but once these things were separated, everyone could get their share.
Very few.
Thinking of last night in Lingwu Valley, where he ate a lot of meat and drank a lot of wine, Urd's nose felt sore. The gap was as big as heaven and earth. He was also thinking that Ma Chao was alone, why did he see him?
Ma Chao was afraid. After thinking for a long time, he couldn't figure it out. He felt a little sleepy and fell asleep.
In the second half of the night, most of the Qiang people found shelter in the mountains. There were many large and small caves in the mountains, which were originally caves for various animals. However, once such a large number of Qiang people arrived, those beasts could only avoid them.
, fled around. After a lot of cleaning and cleaning, it was finally able to be inhabited.
Regardless of whether these Qiang people had eaten or not, at this point, they all fell asleep, and even the sentinels had lost their meaning.
There is no moonlight tonight, and the night is pitch black. Just after the ugly hour, most of the bonfires have lost their fuel and extinguished automatically. The most heard on the entire mountain is the sound of grunting and hungry stomachs. However, no one noticed.
, a group of black shadows had already opened a small gap in the road blocked by the big rocks at the bottom of the mountain, and quietly went up the mountain from the bottom.
At three o'clock in the ugly hour, the black shadows of the five thousand people launched an attack on the Qiang people at the same time. In an instant, the heads of the five thousand people left their bodies in their sleep.
Ma Chao was dressed in silver and stood out in the dark night. He had a silver helmet, silver armor, and a red gun. On such a night, he looked like a ghost from hell. In fact, he did come with five thousand soldiers.
fate.
In just a few seconds, the second wave of 5,000 heads separated from the body. When everyone carefully started to kill the third wave, a Qiang man who had gotten up at night to go to the latrine suddenly saw this scene and screamed immediately.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack..."
Before the Qiang man could scream for the third time, a human head fell to the ground, and blood spurted out, spreading all over the ground.
Immediately afterwards, a whimpering horn sounded, awakening the sleeping Qiang people.
At the same time, Ma Chao, Wang Shuang and others started a frenzied killing spree among the Qiang people. Taking advantage of the Qiang people's recovery time, they beheaded another 10,000 people one after another, harvesting the heads of this group of Qiang people.
Across the fields, blood penetrated the earth.
Suddenly attacked, the Qiang people quickly launched a counterattack. Unfortunately, in the darkness, they could not see clearly who the opponent was. In addition, due to the lack of weapons, the elite troops went deep into the mountains and forests to hunt and failed to return. As a result, they were disturbed by five thousand people including Ma Chao and Wang Shuang.
The chaos turned into a pot of porridge, and the Qiang people began to
Fleeing everywhere and panicking, many Qiang people fell into the valley, or tripped over a stone and hit their head on a stone, dying. Some people also rolled down the mountain directly, blocked by layers of stones.
, the pain was unbearable after the fall, and the body was paralyzed.
For a time, the sound of mourning filled Helan Mountain.
While Ma Chao was frantically killing, he suddenly bumped into Qiang King Urd, chopped down several of Urd's guards, stretched out his long arm, and directly caught Urd. After capturing the bandit leader, Ma Chao would be fine.
, fearing that pushing the Qiang people into a hurry would be counterproductive, he immediately shouted: "Retreat!"
After giving the order, Ma Chao, Wang Shuang and others retreated one after another. The Qiang people suffered a great disaster. Faced with this disaster, they did not know how many enemies came and did not dare to pursue them rashly.
Half an hour later, Ma Chao, Wang Shuang and others arrived at Lingwu Valley safely without losing a single soldier. A thousand soldiers guarding at the foot of the mountain hurriedly blocked the road.
In the Lingwu Valley, the lights were bright. Ma Chao took off his armor and sat in the largest cave. He glanced at Urd who looked frightened, then smiled and said: "Uld, do you know him?
Me?"
"I know... I know... General Tian is so famous, so why don't I know him?" Urd said timidly.
"Since you know me, why didn't you come back and surrender quickly when you saw me? Instead, you resisted me? I have no choice but to arrest you personally and hold you accountable!"
"I...I was bewitched by others, it was not my will. How dare I be an enemy of General Tian?"
"But you still did it. Today I will capture you and give you two ways to go. One is to lead all your Lingqiang tribesmen to surrender to me, the other is you..."
Urd was very afraid of Ma Chao. Before Ma Chao could finish his words, he hurriedly replied: "I choose one! I am willing to lead all the people of the first Lingqiang tribe to submit to the Huaxia Kingdom, and I will never dare to be an enemy of the Huaxia Army again...
…”
Ma Chao looked gloomy, sneered and said, "I think you answered wrongly!"
"Wrong answer?" Urd asked in confusion.
Seeing that Urd was not enlightened, Ma Chao immediately reminded: "I said that I want you to lead all the people of Lingqiang to surrender to me, not to the Huaxia Kingdom."
Urd hurriedly changed his words: "I was wrong, I was wrong. I am willing to lead all the Lingqiang tribesmen to surrender to General Shuntian. From now on, they will obey General Houtian's orders. Whatever General Tian asks me to do, I will do it! If
If I dare to betray the alliance, I will die without a burial place and be struck by five thunders from heaven..."
"That's enough, that's enough." Ma Chao laughed and shouted outside, "Bring us wine and meat to comfort King Qiang!"
After finishing his words, Wang Shuang brought up the wine and meat that had been prepared and placed them in front of Urd.
Urd immediately ate and drank without eating at all.
Ma Chao said to Wang Shuang: "Send someone to give the emperor a good news, saying that the Xianling Qiang have been pacified. The mountains here are high, the roads are far away, the pits are deep, and there are desert obstacles. Please take a rest in Linrong City while I settle down the Qiang people here."
, then return to Linrong City to meet the Holy Spirit."
"promise!"
(PS: I’m finally back. My friends are getting married together, and I’m running out of time. There are a few weddings in October. I don’t know why, but they are all getting together this year. Sorry, I’ll make up for the missed chapters later.)