Ma Chao rushed back to Yumen Pass and told everyone about convincing the eighteenth son.

"These eighteen sons are still knowledgeable about current affairs, or when our army arrives, we will ensure that we will kill them without leaving a piece of armor!" This was said by the king.

Ma Chao smiled and shook his head, these eighteen sons are not the three Han brothers, although the three Han brothers also knew in advance that the army was going to attack them, but at that time the army was almost there, so they were defeated in a hurry.

But if it is not easy to attack the Eighteen Sons, first of all, they have already prepared, so they will win if they win, but the casualties are definitely more than before. And each of the eighteen sons has a third-rate level of martial arts, and if they don't run a few well, it will become a disaster. And Ma Chao sympathized with their plight, and also felt that eighteen people were usable people, so he did not hesitate to persuade them twice. As for the three Han brothers and the one-eyed dragon, they all had nothing to say, and they were all exterminated.

"I don't know what Taishou is going to do next?"

Pang Rou asked Ma Chao, he was right, Ma Chao was about to say this.

"My next step is naturally to send troops to exterminate the one-eyed dragon. I know what you're worried about, but I already have a plan, and if he doesn't solve the problem that the long history of the Western Regions doesn't solve, then I, the Dunhuang Taishou, will be responsible for solving it. Even if one day, this matter will be caused by His Majesty, I will not be afraid! The enemy is at the door of your home, and you haven't made a move, so you can only make people laugh at our Liangzhou army and our Dunhuang defenders! How can the side of the couch allow others to sleep soundly, let alone the enemy, what do you think? ”

"What Taishou said is very true!"

Wang Yan knew that Ma Chao had already made a decision, so of course he wouldn't say anything. What's more, he has wanted to exterminate the bandits for a long time, especially the one-eyed dragon in the Western Regions, who is greedy and cruel, and has killed countless Han compatriots, and Wang Yan has long wanted to solve him.

"The words of Taishou are exactly the meaning of subordinates! Thinking that the one-eyed dragon has done a lot of evil, this person should have been punished a long time ago! ”

Pang Rou said that he also hated the one-eyed dragon. Ma Chao looked at it, and this was right. Don't persuade and talk like at the beginning, it's like you can't go to the Western Regions.

"Okay, since both of you agree, let's move on to the next step!"

Ma Chao wrote two letters, the first of which was to the long history of the Western Regions, which roughly meant that in order to solve the bandit problem west of Yumen Pass, he had to send troops to suppress the bandits. When His Majesty appointed me as the Taishou of Dunhuang, he specially instructed me to solve the bandit problem of Yumen Pass, so now I have to send troops to the Western Regions. After the matter is completed, I will definitely make it clear to His Majesty that the long history of suppressing bandits has also made great efforts, and it is quite cooperative.

Anyway, that's roughly what it means, although when the Western Regions Changshi received the letter, Ma Chao's bandit suppression was over. But in any case, it is also a letter written first and then sent by soldiers. As for saying that the letter was received late, it can only be said that the reason is too far, and there is no way.

The second letter was written by Ma Chao to Liu Hong, and was handed over to Liu Hong by Zhang Rang's hand, the content of which was that he wanted to go out of Yumen and enter the Western Regions to suppress bandits in order to repay His Majesty's kindness, report to the country, and appease the people.

After both letters were written, Ma Chao sent someone to deliver the letters. However, in Zhang Rangna, he also prepared some property to bribe him, I believe that with Cao Cao's face, this matter is no problem at all.

After resting for two days, Ma Chao took Cui An and Wei Ping to the Eighteenth Son, and when he left, he asked Wang Yan to wait for his news. And the reason why he took Wei Ping was because he was responsible for delivering news to Wang Yan.

When the three of them arrived at the eighteenth son, Li Wei and others invited Ma Chao and them up the mountain.

In the conference hall, "Li Wei, how did I do with what I told you?" Ma Chao asked first.

"Hui Taishou, I just received a reply from the one-eyed dragon, and I haven't had time to see it, so you're here!"

As he spoke, he handed the one-eyed dragon's letter to Ma Chao, "Oh? Cyclops' reply? ”

"Exactly!"

After Ma Chao took the letter, he opened it and looked at it, his brows furrowed slightly, and he said that this one-eyed dragon was quite cautious.

He had come up with an idea to ask Li Wei to write a letter to the one-eyed dragon. Although there was no contact between them, now that the three Han brothers had been destroyed, it was impossible for the one-eyed dragon not to know the way. So Ma Chao asked Li Wei to use this as an excuse to write to the one-eyed dragon and ask him to come to the eighteenth son to discuss countermeasures.

As a result, the one-eyed dragon was obviously very cautious, he didn't say whether he would come or not, but just said that he was busy with affairs every day, and hoped that the eighteenth son would come to his place to discuss together, isn't this just a clear non-come. However, although he was very cautious, Ma Chao still saw an opportunity from it.

His previous idea was to lure the one-eyed dragon to the Eighteen Sons, and then as soon as he arrived, he would kill him on the spot, and then send troops to take his lair. But now it's obviously not good, but looking at the meaning of the one-eyed dragon, the eighteenth son can go to him, which is not an opportunity.

Ma Chao gave the letter to Li Wei again, "Li Wei, is this one-eyed dragon familiar with you?" Does he recognize your faces? ”

Li Weiyi replied when he heard this: "Taishou, to what extent this one-eyed dragon is familiar with us, I don't know below. But when it comes to whether he recognizes our brother's appearance, I don't think this should be, at least the third, fifth and eighteenth, he will definitely not recognize it! ”

"Oh? Why is that? ”

Li Wei smiled, "The third, fifth, and eighteenth children rarely show up in our place, and even our own brothers almost don't recognize them, let alone outsiders?" ”

That's right, the third Li Xue, the fifth Li Shen and the eighteenth Li family, the three of them usually don't like to show their heads, and they haven't even seen their own people many times, and occasionally they see brothers who they don't know. But Li Wei is giving Ma Chao face, so Ma Chao has come these few times, and the three of them have appeared.

Ma Chao nodded, I see, that's great. He came to Li Wei again and whispered a few words in his ear, and Li Wei nodded hurriedly after hearing this.

He had just read the one-eyed dragon's reply and felt that Ma Chao's method could be tried. So Li Wei wrote a reply letter to the one-eyed dragon, to the effect that our brothers decided to go to the appointment of the dragon master after discussion, and everyone discussed countermeasures together at the dragon master's place. After it was written, the letter was sent back by the previous person.

Two days later, Li Wei, Ma Chao and Cui An came to the one-eyed dragon's lair. Before, because he had to pass through Yumen Pass, Ma Chao happened to make some deployments at Yumen Pass. Originally, I thought that the one-eyed dragon would come to the Eighteen Sons, but it turned out to be the opposite, and Wei Ping didn't use it.

The agreed time was when Ma surpassed the Yumen Pass, when the army attacked the one-eyed dragon's lair, and Ma Chaohui would result in the one-eyed dragon before that. The snake can't be headless, as long as the one-eyed dragon dies, the more than 500 rabble under his hands, Ma Chao hasn't taken it seriously. And he specially instructed Cui An not to speak, so that he hid the momentum of a first-class general. So now you can only see that Cui An has killed a lot of people, but you don't know what his real martial arts are.

When the three of them arrived at their destination, someone had already gone to the ceremony. So the one-eyed dragon soon arrived, and he was only heard to say to the three of them: "Hahaha, welcome three, welcome!" You are Li Wei Li's family, the name is like thunder, like thunder! ”

Seeing him like that, he seemed to be very enthusiastic, Li Wei hurriedly said: "I have admired the name of Lord Long for a long time in Xia, and now I see that it is really extraordinary!" ”

Ma Chao was also secretly looking at the one-eyed dragon, this one was really one-eyed, and he was indeed not a Han Chinese, a purebred from the Western Regions, with a fierce face, not like a good person. Nine feet tall, tall and big, big guys, looks like good martial arts, not good stubble.

Li Wei continued: "Master Long, this is my third brother Li Xue and eighteenth brother Li clan, you haven't seen Long Ye yet!" ”

Ma Chao and Cui An hurriedly hugged their fists, which could be regarded as greetings. As soon as the one-eyed dragon saw Cui An and Ma Chao, he said in his heart that Li Wei's third brother seemed to have good kung fu, and as for the eighteenth brother, except for his good looks, he didn't feel anything, how could he look like a scholar.

"Yes, yes! In the words of your Han people, this is a hero from ancient times, both are young heroes, I Long Gang is fortunate to get acquainted with three lives, we go up the mountain, three please! ”

"Please!"

Accompanied by the one-eyed dragon, Li Wei and the three of them went up the mountain. The one-eyed dragon invited them into the meeting hall, invited the three of them to take a seat, and introduced his five subordinates, each of whom led more than a hundred bandits, and Ma Chao didn't pay attention to what their names were. He'd been thinking about it until evening, so he could get the cyclops on his way.

Everyone chatted until the evening, and the one-eyed dragon feasted the three of them, and the three of them were not polite. The one-eyed dragon drank a lot during the banquet, and Ma Chao saw that God helped me, and he estimated that the time agreed with Wang Yan was almost up.

"Master Long, the kid has a treasure that he wants to take a look at Master Long!"

At the same time, Ma Chao also secretly glanced at Li Wei and Cui An, and asked the two to act at the opportunity, and the two would understand.

"Oh? Li, Brother Li, let me see Cocoa, okay? ”

"The kid is the one who let Master Long take a look!" Saying that, Ma Chao walked close to the one-eyed dragon, and at the same time, Li Wei also slowly approached the one-eyed dragon.

The one-eyed dragon said, "Baby, where is it?" ”

Ma Chao smiled, "Do it!" ”

After speaking, he clasped the wrists of the one-eyed dragon with both hands, and Li Wei took out a dagger, the one-eyed dragon reacted, and just said, "You, you, you ......" As a result, Li Weilian stabbed him with four daggers in the heart, and the one-eyed dragon died of exhaustion.

The one-eyed dragon Longgang, the leader of the first powerful force in Yumen Pass, died in the hands of Ma Chao and Li Wei, as for what did it for Li Wei and Ma Chao just cooperated, this couldn't be simpler. Li Wei is not ready to be a bandit anymore, and Long Gang is Li Wei's vote for himself, he killed the one-eyed dragon, and Li Wei will never want to be a bandit again.

At the same time as Ma Chao and Li Wei made a move, Cui An also attacked the other five, he first raised the long case and killed one, and then caught up with one and killed him. The remaining three shouted while running, but they were also caught up by Ma Chao and the three of them. However, the previous shouts and fighting voices had already alarmed the guards guarding the door, and I saw that people came in one after another, and found that the head of the house and the five leaders were dead, and some of the other bandits fled, some were fighting with Ma Chao and them, and some were shouting that they wanted to move the soldiers, and the council hall was in chaos.

Ma Chao and the three of them fought from inside the hall to outside the hall, but fortunately, there were not too many people to stop them. And before Ma Chao also took the opportunity to cut off the head of the one-eyed dragon, he threw the head of the one-eyed dragon at the bandits, and said to everyone: "The dragon has just died, and you will be next!" ”

The other bandits saw that the boss was already dead, what else were they fighting, so quickly took the money and ran for their lives. So many people are so psychological, and there are not many people who really fight with the three of them to stop the three of them.

At this moment, the reinforcements came up the mountain, and the one hundred and fifty-four main soldiers had already received Ma Chao's order to kill them all, leaving no one alive. Therefore, he kills people when he sees them, and he shows no mercy at all.

In Ma Chao's eyes, such a heinous bandit doesn't have to leave anything alive at all. After killing for more than an hour, it can be regarded as no enemy in sight. Ma Chao ordered the soldiers to search from place to place to see if there were any fish that had slipped through the net. There are nearly a thousand soldiers of Wang Yan under the mountain, and he is still at ease.

Sure enough, a few more robbers who were hiding were found, and only one of them died when they were found, Ma Chao, Li Wei and Cui An led people to carry out a carpet search, and finally determined that there was no enemy on the mountain.

So they began to clean up the battlefield, and the king of the mountain had already ended the battle. The result of the final statistics was that the main force of one hundred and fifty-four soldiers was killed and fifty-four were wounded, but it was not a fatal injury, and it was not much different from the three Han brothers.

Because at that time, when the bandits saw or heard that the leaders were dead, they ran more than half of them at once, and the soldiers under the mountain were killed, more than eighty, and nearly a hundred were injured, and the bandits ran away more than ten later, but this was also expected by Ma Chao, in fact, it was already very good.

Next, after cleaning the battlefield and disposing of the corpse, Ma Chao said to Li Wei: "Thanks to you this time, otherwise it wouldn't be so easy!" ”

"It's too much to keep the award, this is what should be done!"

Ma Chao nodded in approval, and said to Wang Yan: "Thanks to Wang Sima's good command, I will take care of the relatives of the sacrificed soldiers after I go back, and I want to reward everyone well!" ”

"This is the responsibility of the subordinates, but I still have to thank the brothers for Xie Lu and Xie Taishou!"

Wang Yan knows that Ma is very generous, and he is also very sympathetic to his subordinates, and it is also the blessing of Dunhuang to be so guarded.

After resting on the mountain for one night, the army returned to Yumen Pass the next day, and before leaving, Ma Chao still burned the one-eyed dragon's lair. At this point, even if the bandit problem in Yumen Pass is solved, as for some scattered small bandits, Ma Chao means that he will destroy when he sees it, and if he can't find it, he has other countermeasures to prevent.

The army was led back to Yumen Pass by Wang Yan, while Ma Chao, Cui An and Li Wei returned to the Eighteen Sons, where Ma Chao still had to deal with some things.