The steppe people revere the hero, whether he is an enemy or a relative, as long as he is a true hero, he will be respected. After the battle in the camp just now, Ma Chao is obviously a big hero. Moreover, he is not only a hero, but also a young and handsome hero, and is naturally an idol in the hearts of thousands of girls.

Hearing Ma Chao say it so bluntly, Tuoba Yan's heart was also pounding, but thinking of the survival of the tribe, her face suddenly darkened, lowered her head, and said, "But, but I already have a fiancé." ”

Ma Chao sneered: "Then if I kill him, you won't have a fiancé." ”

This time to march into the Mobei grassland, Liu Xin issued an amnesty order, allowing them to act on the spot, except for not allowing ** women, killing prisoners and killing surrenders can be exempted from punishment. So, don't talk about killing Jian Man, as long as Ma Chao is willing, he has the right to kill all the more than 2,000 people here.

Tuoba Yan hurriedly said, "No! You can't kill him! ”

The iron spear in Ma Chao's hand had already been raised, and he tilted his head and asked, "Why?" ”

Tuoba Yan said: "Because, because my father had promised that if he died, he would take me to give him a funeral." ”

Ma Chao smiled and said, "I thought you weren't afraid of death, it turns out that you have been saving him, or to save yourself." ”

Tuoba Yan blushed and said, "No! I'm really not afraid of dying, I'm just, I just don't want to die like that. ”

Ma Chao was silent for a moment, and suddenly said: "I have a way, you can get married now!" ”

"Marriage?" Tuoba Yan looked at Jian Man, who was just a little above her knees behind her, and opened her mouth wide, a little at a loss.

"That's right! Get married! Ma Chao said word by word, "Then, I'll grab a kiss!" ”

People who live on the grassland know what it is like to rob relatives, and only a strong person like Ma Chao can think of such a tough method. Jian Man was already stupid when he heard that Ma Chao was going to kill him just now, but he still had a glimmer of hope, and now when he heard that Ma Chao had come up with such a solution, his legs suddenly became weak, and a smell of urine came out.

Suddenly, a young Xianbei woman rushed out of the crowd, pounced on Jian Man, and yelled at Tuoba Yan. She scolded Xianbei words, and Ma Chao couldn't understand a word. But looking at this woman's appearance, she is somewhat similar to Tuoba Yan, presumably it is Jian Man's mother Tuoba Sakura.

Tuoba Yan is also in a dilemma, in fact, she hopes that Ma Chao can accept her, but as the daughter of the tribal leader, she can't take care of the interests of the tribe.

saw Ma Chao shouting at Tuoba Sakura and said, "Shut up! You haven't figured out the current situation, the people of Jianman's own tribe have been taken prisoner, do you still expect him to keep the Tuoba tribe? Now, the only person who can keep the Tuoba Department is me! ”

Tuoba Sakura really stopped crying and scolding, and asked, "Can you really keep Tuoba Ministry?" ”

Ma Chao ignored her, but turned to Tuoba Yan and asked, "Can I contact your father?" ”

Tuoba Yan shook his head and said, "My father went to the Central Plains at the beck of the chief. ”

Ma Chao paused and said: "It's bad, your father can't come back!" ”

Tuoba Yan was shocked and asked repeatedly, "What do you mean by this, general?" ”

Ma Chao didn't notice that the girl's name for him had changed slightly, and he still frowned, and said, "You also saw just now, my hundred cavalry killed all the guards in this camp in two back and forth. ”

Tuoba Yan secretly slandered herself, and said in her heart, nearly half of these guards were killed by you, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid the victory and defeat would not be so easy. Although she thought so in her heart, she said: "The Great Khan has gathered an army of 300,000, and how many cavalry can you Han people have?" It is not certain who will kill the deer. ”

Ma Chao sighed and said, "There is no necessarily, only certainly." You don't know, there is a heavy cavalry in my Han army, and your Xianbei people's bows and arrows can't hurt them at all, and you can only be slaughtered when you encounter them. ”

At this time, the heavy armored cavalry mentioned by Ma Chao did not appear on the Taiyuan battlefield, but appeared behind Yan Liang's cavalry.

Yan Liang commanded his cavalry to repeatedly attack the position held by Shi Jian and Wang Wei, and the battle for the front of the trench was very fierce, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. Just as Yan Liang launched another attack, there was a loud "boom" sound, and the trebuchet of the Han army began to attack.

Because the night before yesterday, they relied on trebuchets to suppress the defenders of Wucheng, and last night they used trebuchets to carry out three waves of attacks, and they were running out of stone bullets. Shi Jian had always regarded trebuchets as a last reserve, intending to add them when the trenches were about to fall.

But Yuan's offensive was too fierce, wave after wave. Shi Lian's pikemen and shield bearers had lost most of them, and the crossbowmen had no time to reload their iron arrows, so they raised their "engineering shovels" and joined the ranks of hand-to-hand combat. At this time, Shi Jian urgently needed to delay the attack of Yuan's army through the attack of the trebuchet, so as to buy time for him to adjust the deployment of troops and give full play to the advantages of the bow and crossbow.

In the war between Liyang and Cao Cao, Yuan Jun had already learned the power of trebuchets, but Cao Jun's trebuchets were copycats, and their range and accuracy were much worse. Hearing the loud sound of "boom", the soldiers of the Yuan army habitually dispersed, but the trebuchets of the Han army seemed to have eyes, and the falling stone rain did not concentrate together, but poured down overwhelmingly, and the first wave of attacks seemed to plow the position in front of the trench again. Yuan Jun suddenly encountered this "stone disaster from the sky", and they all hugged their heads and ran away, and Shi Lian's pressure was also relaxed.

However, just as Shi Jian was waiting for the trebuchet to carry out the second wave of attacks, smoke suddenly rose from behind him, and it was the direction of the trebuchet's position that caught fire.

Shi Jian was suddenly shocked, and said to Wang Wei: "General Wang, there must have been an enemy attack there, the trebuchet must not be lost, and please go to the rescue!" ”

Wang Wei arched his hand and said, "General Shi take care, Wang is gone!" ”

Without the cover of trebuchets, Yuan Jun will soon make a comeback, and the battle in front of the trench will be even more fierce, Wang Wei doesn't know if he can see Shi Jian again, but now the situation is urgent, not the time to say these sad words. Wang Wei waved his hand and hurried to the back with five hundred people. There were only so many people he could take with him now, and there were still five or six thousand people on the trebuchet position, and if there weren't too many enemies, they could still resist for a while.

However, the enemy who attacked the trebuchet this time was not many, but many, a full 50,000 people, and it was the infantry led by Gao Ran. Gao Ran led 50,000 infantry to reinforce Neihuang, but was ridiculed by Jiang Qi, and in a fit of anger, Gao Ran forced his subordinates to march overnight to aid Yecheng.

According to Gao Ran's original estimate, they could rush to Yecheng that night. But the Yuan army can't compare to the Han army, they can't bear this hardship, no matter how Gao Ran urges and scolds, the soldiers just slowly soar, and there are many complaints along the way, stop and go, and they haven't arrived in Yecheng until now.

However, although Gao Ran and the others did not arrive at Yecheng as expected, they accidentally ran into the trebuchet position of the Han army. Gao Ran had seen the power of trebuchets and immediately ordered an attack.

The operators and loaders in the position had just finished a wave of attacks, and before they could reset the trebuchet and reload the stone shells, they found a large number of Yuan troops rushing over. The Han soldiers were forced to rush into battle, grabbing swords and guns to resist while setting fire to trebuchets.

Although the trebuchet has been much easier to transport after years of improvement by the Institute, it is still much less mobile than the infantry. So, as soon as the position is lost, the trebuchet will fall into the hands of the enemy. These trebuchets are the result of years of research and integration of a large number of cutting-edge technologies in this era, but as long as someone else gets one, they can be easily copied. Therefore, these trebuchets could not fall into the hands of the enemy under any circumstances, and self-destruction if necessary was a plan that had been set up a long time ago.

When Wang Wei was on the road, he had already guessed that this fire was probably set by his own people, which means that the situation on the trebuchet position was already very critical. Thinking of this, Wang Wei couldn't help but whip his horse twice, put aside the five hundred soldiers, and rode alone towards the place where the smoke rose.

There are more than 5,000 soldiers responsible for the operation of these trebuchets and the loading of stone bullets, and they not only carry out various training related to trebuchets in peacetime, but also involve physical fitness, fighting, and battlefield rescue.

Therefore, when Gao Lan's army of 50,000 attacked, although these soldiers responded to the battle in a hurry, everyone fought bravely, and they all competed to be the first, and they actually resisted the attack of Yuan's army to the death. Gao Ran couldn't help but be furious when he saw this, rushed over with a gun and a horse, and stabbed people when he saw them, and tore open the defense line of the Han army by himself. The soldiers of the Yuan army who followed behind Gao Ran swarmed up, and the position fell into a scuffle.

When Wang Wei arrived, there were corpses everywhere, and there were still many Han soldiers fighting to the death, but because they were outnumbered, they were already at a disadvantage. Wang Wei shouted, waved his knife and rushed over, slashing left and right, killing six Yuan soldiers one after another. However, more Yuan soldiers rushed over and surrounded him.

These soldiers of the Yuan army like to fight the wind the most, and now their own advantages are obvious, victory is already in sight, in the face of this Han army general who rushed over alone, who does not want to make a head. Although Wang Wei swung his sword hard, killing one after another, his arms were already numb, but the enemy was like a tide.

Just when Wang Wei was fighting hard, the outermost part of the encirclement suddenly became chaotic, and a group of black-clothed and black-armored soldiers killed them, and it was the five hundred infantry he had brought.

Wang Wei knew that if he continued to kill, he would not be able to save his comrades here, and he would also fall into it. And he had already seen the trebuchet burned, and a large stone in his heart had finally fallen to the ground. Immediately stopped fighting, shouted, and killed in the direction where the reinforcements came.