Chapter 105: The Half-Enemy
After waiting for nearly an hour, Mrs. Guo and other large troops rushed over with their baggage, only to see a yellow, orange and orange patch under the small Pingyang County town, crowded with people, and it was a white wave thief wearing a yellow scarf.
Pingyang County is a small city, and it has just been breached once, most of the defense facilities have not been restored, and the city is still stained with blood. Mrs. Guo and several other leaders saw that Ma Chao couldn't hold out, and after a little discussion, they planned to attack, but at this time, they only listened to "Bell!" With a gong sound, the drawbridge was lowered, the city gate was opened, and a young man with a golden helmet, gold armor and silver belt rushed out first, followed by more than 200 horsemen, all of whom were strong men wearing heavy armor and holding seven-foot swords.
Ma Chao only took Dian Wei and his two hundred personal soldiers out of the city to meet the battle, and when the two sides were a stone's throw away, he violently reined in the war horses, and more than two hundred war horses flew in front of their hooves, neighing in unison, and the momentum shook the sky.
These two hundred horsemen are the most elite troops under the command of Ma Chao at present, all armed to the teeth, not only covered with heavy Kai, but also carefully selected horses, and all of them are protected by strong armor, and even the horse's hooves and shins are covered with cowhide armor, it can be said that there are only joints on the body, and the horse's hooves, horses' eyes, and the horse's tail are exposed.
War horses are still like this, let alone people. This heavy armor team can be said to be Ma Chao's experiment, and he has always wanted to create a heavy armored cavalry with perverted defense for charging into battle. In the past two months, he has been busy with internal affairs in Xiliang, but he has not forgotten this matter, and it took three months to recruit craftsmen to build such a small army.
More than 100,000 white wave thieves were in an uproar, is there still such a cavalry in the world? It's like moving a tower, and it's hard to cut it even if you stand still. Goodbye to the sackcloth sticks on his body, it's like a heaven and an earth, and morale has plummeted!
Ma Chao rode up a few steps and shouted: "The white wave thief is handsome Mrs. Guo, Yang Fengke?" The Great Han Wei General Ma Chao is here! Let's come out and answer first! ”
Mrs. Guo and Yang Feng glanced at each other, and also took a few steps forward, Mrs. Guo said: "I have heard the name of the champion Hou for a long time, and now I see that it is really majestic, like a god descending from heaven!" I am Mrs. Guo, I don't know what General Ma has to advise! ”
Ma Chao said: "Don't dare to advise!" Since you are the commander of the Yellow Turban, you should learn a lesson from the failure of the Yellow Turban, but why did you raise troops to rebel today? You can't wait for more than 100,000 people, but the imperial court has a million troops and tens of millions of people, wouldn't you kill yourself by hitting a stone with an egg? ”
Guo Taidao: "The court has no way, the Son of Heaven is mediocre, the eunuch party is chaotic, and the common people such as us should not care about this matter, but the court is tyrannical, the officials oppress the good, and the family enslaves the people, have you ever given us a way to live?" The officials forced the people to rebel, and there is still a way to live if they rebel, and if they don't rebel, they can only live and wait for death! Therefore, we have to rebel! ”
Ma Chao nodded, and said in a loud voice: "The matter of the Son of Heaven is not something that ordinary people can talk about, and the general will also know the suffering of the people, but poverty and hunger cannot be a reason for rebellion. But have you ever thought about the local people? ”
Guo Taidao: "The difference between what the champion Hou said! The White Wave Army is a righteous army, not a chaotic army! Since January, we have only plundered the powerful family, the local government and some large households, and have never robbed the poor people of a grain of rice, let alone killed a single ordinary person! ”
Ma Chao said: "If you don't kill, it doesn't mean that your subordinates don't kill or rob, do you dare to say that these more than 100,000 people are like you?" Besides, you are indiscriminate, and you have to kill all the local officials in every county you conquer, don't these officials have good officials? If a family has worked hard for a year, and the grain harvested was once robbed by thieves, what would happen to you? ”
Mrs. Guo subconsciously replied: "If others rob me, I will naturally rob others!" ”
"Yes, it is this reason, if this continues, more people will die, and those who are lucky enough to not die will become thieves, who will go to the fields in the long run? Who still goes to produce? In the end, more and more people will die, and less and less food will be grabbed, so won't the world be in chaos? ”
Mrs. Guo was speechless, and said to herself: "I'm a rough person, I don't understand so many big truths, we get together to rebel and just want to live, that's all!" ”
Ma Chao laughed and said, "In this case, I would like to give you a way to live!"
Guo Taidao: "Please also ask the champion Hou Mingyan!" ”
Ma Chao stretched out his hand to the northwest and pointed: "There is the Yellow River in the east and Fenshui in the west, and the fertile soil is thousands of miles, but now it is sparsely populated, the land is barren, and tens of thousands of people are young and strong. As long as you are willing to lay down your arms and plough the fields, Ben will not only be the master to pardon your crimes, but also guarantee that you will have land to cultivate, food to eat, and to solve the problem of wives and families if you are not married. ”
After a pause, he said: "I believe you have heard of the migration of more than 200,000 displaced people from the Montenegrin Army to the north, and now they have been properly resettled in Shuofang and Jiuyuan, those who lack food will be given grain, those who have no livestock will be given livestock, and those who can't afford to marry a wife will also give Wuheng, Xianbei and Xiongnu young women as wives, everyone has land to cultivate, as long as they are diligent and willing to work in less than two years, they can live and work in peace and contentment, isn't it ten thousand times stronger than you being a thief!" ”
These words were deliberately said loudly, and more than 100,000 people below could hear them clearly, and there was an immediate uproar.
"I want to follow the general!"
"I am willing to become the general's people, and I ask the general to accept it."
"I'm waiting for my wish to surrender!"
Under the instigation of Ma Chao's promise of profit and emotion, about two or three Chengren immediately expressed their willingness to surrender, and they threw down their weapons one after another, and the sound of "dang chang" and "bell chi" was endless.
Several leaders suddenly panicked, Mrs. Guo's expression was solemn, and her heart was full of contradictions, these big leaders were originally from poor people, but now they have more than 100,000 people in their hands, and they have just experienced the wonderful taste of power, how can they be willing to hand over power? I have long forgotten my original intention.
Yang Feng stood up in time and whispered, "Don't surrender!" Such words are not enough to deceive children, how can we easily believe them? Now that 100,000 troops are coming to the city, it is easy to break through Pingyang County! As long as we capture Hedong or even the entire annexed state, the brothers under our command will not still have food to eat, fields to cultivate, and wives to sleep with! ”
Mrs. Guo suddenly realized when she heard this, and said in her heart: Yes! If he can be a state pastor, why can't I? Didn't the great virtuous and good teacher raise troops back then to push the Han himself to become the emperor? Now that I have 100,000 male soldiers in my hands, I almost broke through the annexation state, so why be afraid of a teenager? As long as the champion Hou is defeated and continues to develop at this rate, even if he can't overthrow the Han Dynasty, he can still divide one side and ensure that the people who follow him have no worries about food and clothing!
Thinking of this, Mrs. Guo's face became more and more determined, and she turned around and shouted, "Brothers! Haven't you been bullied enough by the court? Ma Chao is the son-in-law of the faint monarch and the lackey of the imperial court, this is just to deceive us and others to lay down their weapons, don't forget how many officials we have killed, how many official mansions we have robbed, and now there is no turning back, surrender will definitely die! Hurry up and pick up your arms and capture Pingyang City with Ben Shuai, 30,000 of them? But we have a hundred thousand people, so why are we afraid? ”
Yang Feng also turned around and shouted: "All the leaders listen to the order, if anyone dares to speak again, they will not be spared!" ”
I have to say that the two of them still have quite prestige in the Baibo army, and after the two shouted like this, some of the people who had laid down their weapons before picked them up one after another, at least on the surface.
Ma Chao shook his head secretly, looked up to the sky and sighed: "I was going to have my heart to the bright moon, but I had no choice but the bright moon shining on the ditch." The general really didn't want to slaughter the people of the Han Dynasty, even if it was the rebellious Diao people! Since a big war is inevitable, Ben will not be merciful! Speaking of this, he suddenly shouted loudly: "Wait for the Baibo thieves and listen, the Baibo Valley of the West River is about to be surrounded by Ben General, if any of you are willing to surrender, take off the yellow scarf and lie on the ground and do not move, what Ben Jiang just said still counts." On the contrary, not only will the enemy be killed, but even his family members in the Baibo Valley will be reduced to slaves and sent to the prairie to work all night until they die of exhaustion! Ben will let these people know that there is no good thing in the world that is not earned for nothing! ”
Mrs. Guo was immediately furious and shouted: "Huangkou Xiao'er is so deceitful to confuse the public, and he dares to speak out when he is dying!" How can you hold back my 100,000 army of 20,000 or 30,000 people! ”
Ma Chao laughed, took a few steps forward and raised the Heavenly Dragon Breaking City Halberd and shouted: "Ma Mengqi is here, who dares to come over to fight!" ”
More than 100,000 people were terribly quiet, Ma Chao guarded three times in a row, and no one knew about the undefeated heroes, and no one dared to come to death. Mrs. Guo looked back and shouted, "Hu Cai, since you are a child of Ma Chao, why don't you dare to fight at this moment?" ”
Hu Cai suddenly felt that his face was gloomy, and he said hard: "Why don't you dare? A certain family doesn't believe that a yellow-mouthed son can beat the iron gun in my hand! After saying that, he patted the war horse under his crotch and rushed out, and said loudly: "Xiao'er is arrogant, Bai Bo handsome Hu just came to meet you for a while!" ”
"Look for death!" Ma Chao scolded in a low voice, turned around and shouted to Dian Wei and the two hundred heavily armored soldiers: "Do you dare to rush into battle with the general to kill the enemy?" ”
Two hundred people shouted in unison: "May I follow the Lord's guidance!" ”
"Good! If you win this battle, you will be rewarded with 10,000 dollars each! Attach an interracial beauty, Xianbei, Wuheng, Xiongnu sixty or seventy thousand women Ren Er, etc., can be selected at will! ”
When the two hundred people heard this, their blood immediately surged, their eyes glowed red, and they shouted in unison! Rewarding beauties for meritorious service in battle has always been the treatment of generals, when is it their turn to be a soldier. And they were selected from sixty or seventy thousand people, which is unprecedented in ancient times! It's no wonder they're not excited!
After Ma Chao finished speaking, he snapped the thunder and rushed straight to Hu Cai who came from the opposite side, the two horses intersected only one together, and even there were screams, a big head flew up more than five feet high, Hu Cai's body held the gun in both hands and kept the posture of stabbing forward, and ran more than 20 steps with the war horse before falling off the horse. This Hu Cai is just a stronger farmer, not even a third-rate general, and he is not as good as the personal soldiers under Dian Wei.
Ma Chao cut Hu before he could ignore the people, picked up the halberd and slapped it with the back of the halberd when the head fell, and the huge head flew towards the crowd like a baseball that was knocked away, and the scene was extremely bloody!
"Kill!" Dian Wei's face was full of excitement, and with a loud roar, he took the lead in charging with two hundred heavily armored cavalry! 100,000 men with 200 men! (To be continued.) )