The blood of death drifted to a distant place with the strong wind of the grassland, and Ma Chaojun finished packing up and continued to march.

The two armies continued to go deeper, and it didn't take long for a Xianbei cavalry to appear on the other side of the grassland again, but this cavalry was only hanging far behind Ma Chao's army.

The Frontier Army was about to go after and kill, but the enemy immediately retreated, and the Frontier Army returned, and the enemy again hung behind.

Even, there are many Xianbei sentry riders wandering around Ma Chaojun.

Seeing this situation, Jia Xu frowned deeply, spread out the map to look at it carefully, and said, "Our army, it seems to be surrounded by Xianbei?" ”

Ma Chao had already opened his talent for peeping, and in the thermal imaging, there were red dots all around, but the red dots were relatively scattered, and there was no joint force to form a red light cluster.

This shows that the red dots are all cavalry of the Xianbei tribe, they are gathering troops, and they dare not face the Ma Chao army until the gathering is completed.

After all, the battle that just ended fully demonstrated the combat effectiveness of Ma Chaojun.

With the thermal imaging in hand, Ma Chao was fearless and said calmly: "No matter what else, let's continue to move forward." ”

However, the number of Xianbei cavalry hanging far behind them was rising rapidly, and when this cavalry broke through 4,000 people, Su Dingfang couldn't hold back any longer, and asked for orders: "Young master, please let me lead the army to rush and kill!" ”

Ma Chao also felt a little chill in his heart, and nodded: "Go ahead." ”

This time, Su Dingfang launched the King of Talent Conquest, increasing the marching speed by 50%, and 5,000 cavalry rushed into the Xianbei cavalry like a vicious tiger.

The Xianbei people did not flee at the first time, and they also thought that with 4,000 troops, they were capable of fighting with the 5,000 troops of the Han army, after all, for so many years, the Xianbei cavalry had not lost.

The cavalry battle came suddenly, Su Dingfang ordered the flag to wave, 5,000 cavalry turned into several units, divided the troops and moved, or wandered, or shot, or besieged, or culled, Xianbei people were surprised to find that they were not opponents at all!

On the prairie, the wind suddenly howled, the grass fluttered in the wind, and among the corpses killed in battle, a large amount of blood and gas wafted, which was carried far away by the wind.

Ma Chao took a deep breath, the air was mixed with a rich smell of blood, and he looked at the blood-soaked prairie again, which was originally full of green, but now a large piece of blood suddenly appeared.

He sighed: "Just a few hundred people died, and a bloody wind and bloody land were formed, and I can't imagine how many people would have to die if they wanted to become a bloody scene!" ”

The wind was raging, becoming more and more violent, the fur hat on Ma Chao's head was blown off, the cold wind was biting, he frowned, and said: "The weather is not right, we should find a Xianbei settlement as soon as possible to avoid the strong wind." ”

The 4,000-strong Xianbei cavalry threw down the corpses on the ground and fled quickly, and in the blink of an eye, they disappeared.

Ignoring this rout, Ma Chao turned on the thermal imaging and headed towards the place where the red light spots were most dense.

Roaring in the wind, after half an hour, I finally saw a settlement, which was still lit by fireworks, at least a few thousand people.

Su Dingfang asked: "Young master, have you killed all these Hu people?" ”

Ma Chao shook his head: "You don't need to kill them all, ordinary Xianbei people are similar to the Han people." ”

Su Dingfang was noncommittal, but he didn't dare to disobey Ma Chao, so he had to keep quiet and lead a cavalry into the settlement to negotiate with the Xianbei people inside.

Before he could say a few words, all the Xianbei people, regardless of men, women and children, all held knives, forks and wooden shields, shouted at Su Dingfang's department, and killed him.

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Are Xianbei people so rigid?

Ma Chao was shocked, Su Dingfang's department was on guard, and was forced to meet the enemy, ordinary people who had experienced the baptism of war The opponent of the Han army, a burst of chopping melons and vegetables, everyone who stood was cut and killed.

There were even some mortally wounded Xianbei people, even if they fell to the ground and couldn't get up, they had to use the last bit of strength in their bodies, throw the blades in their hands, and do everything possible to kill a Han soldier.

This one-sided massacre was meaningless, the blood was steaming, and there were bloody corpses everywhere, and whoever saw it was terrified.

Ma Chao was furious: "Are they crazy? Ordinary people, still want to fight with the army? What exactly are they for? ”

Knowing that Ma Chao was still young and didn't understand many things, Jia Xu sighed: "The border has been intrusive for a long time, either you kill me, or I kill you, and the court has always been ruthless in treating the Hu people." ”

Hearing this, Ma Chao's hands were trembling slightly, and he said in a trembling voice: "When is the time for retribution?" Why can't we just sit down and have a good talk? ”

When Su Dingfang heard this, he said in a deep voice: "Everything is for survival!" Every year in the cold winter, the Hu people have nothing to eat, so they can only come to ask the Han people what they want to eat, and the Han people on the border themselves are not much better, how can they let the Hu people plunder? ”

"The two sides have been fighting and killing each other for a long time, hundreds of years..."

Ma Chao was silent, and after a while, he made up his mind and said: "I once said to Zhang Liao that I would make my best efforts for the harmony and prosperity of Han and Hu. ”

He turned around, looked at everyone, and said, "Look to you, and walk with me." ”

Everyone was amazed at the greatness of Ma Chao's ambition, and at this time, a message came from the system.

[Su Dingfang, Sima Cuo, and Gao Shun's loyalty rose to 80, and because it did not reach the standard of 90, the host gained a total of 10 years of life. 】

(Sima Cuo's loyalty has reached 60 before, so only the loyalty of Su Dingfang and Gao Shun is counted.) ）

This Xianbei settlement was slaughtered, and Ma Chaojun scattered into every felt bag to hide from the cold.

The felt bag is the later yurt, the steppe nomads move with the pasture due to grazing, one piece of the grassland is eaten up, and then go to the next pasture, the felt bag is a temporary residence to settle in a place.

In the felt bag, Ma Chao, Jia Xu, Gao Shun, and Chunlan were lighting a fire to keep warm, and a large box in the corner of the felt bag suddenly made a noise.

"Huh?"

Gao Shun gently pulled out the saber on his waist, touched the big box, and listened, there was really someone inside!

Gao Shun cut off the lock hanging on the box with a knife, kicked over the big box, and rolled out 2 children, a man and a woman.

Looking at the age, the pair of children is about the same age as Ma Chao, about 8 years old, at this moment, looking at Gao Shun who is eyeing the tiger, the girl is so frightened that she hides behind the boy.

The boy plucked up his courage and tried to calm himself down, and said to Gao Shun, "Great, adult! ”

"Kill me, I will be a threat to you, but please spare my sister, she will never hurt you, and she is very obedient, after I die, you can make her your maid!"

Looking at this pair of Xianbei children, Chunlan remembered her origin, and had a trace of sympathy, she and Ma Chao said: "Young master, they look so pitiful, after all, their parents have been..."

Ma Chao knew what she wanted to say, but he had only seen the cold and cruel side of Xianbei people, and he had other plans in his heart, so he motioned for Gao Shun to stand aside.

Ma Chao personally asked: "What are your names?" ”

The little boy was at a loss: "I, we come from humble backgrounds, we don't have names..."

"That's good."

Ma Chao smiled and said: "In the future, you will have the surname Ma, the same surname as me, I will give you names, called Ma Lie, Ma Wan, you know?" ”

Ma Lie immediately took Ma Wan's little hand and knelt down to Ma Chao together: "Thank you for the name!" ”

"Our brothers and sisters swear to the grassland wolf god that they will follow their masters all their lives, and if they have two hearts, they will be punished by heaven and cut by a thousand knives!"

Swear so hard?

Ma Chao was helpless, but the appearance of Ma Lie and Ma Wan made him see an opportunity from the brother and sister.

Asking Gao Shun to take the brothers and sisters to take a bath, Jia Xu asked: "Young master, do you want to place your hopes on the Ma brothers and sisters, do you want to realize the grand wish of harmony between Han and Hu?" ”

Ma Chao nodded: "Yes, the grievances of the older generation, let them disappear, the Ma brothers and sisters are still young, they have no parents and family, and they follow my family name, only I am their closest family in the future, and they will definitely represent a new generation of Xianbei people in the future!" ”

He went on to add: "The new generation, without barriers, is on an equal footing with the Han people!" ”

Ma Chao's gaze penetrated the felt bag and the grassland, and looked to the far west, is it enough to unify the world of the Eastern Han Dynasty?

That's impossible.

He wanted to preserve the population as much as possible, achieve great national unity, and then devote all the strength of China to lead an army to attack the West, and his real ambition was to build an empire that was greater, stronger, and invincible than the Mongol Empire!

Everywhere, rivers, lakes and seas, the sun and moon shine, all are the land of the empire!

He wants to be the only progenitor emperor in heaven and on earth!