Chapter 201: Great Gain
To surrender, or not to surrender, or to simply accept death.
Ma Yi's heart suddenly fell into a tangle. Don't look at this guy who is usually very arrogant and looks like he is not afraid of death, but when he really dies, he is not really afraid of death.
Look around.
The eyes were full of wounded soldiers and dead horses, and the wails of the wounded soldiers were endless, which made people feel creepy when they heard it. This is the battlefield, and the commander on the battlefield is not afraid of the death in battle, but even more afraid of the wounded.
Because the wailing of the injured person can have a great impact on morale.
But in this situation, it is impossible for Ma Yi to let people kill his own kind.
Surrender.
Once he chooses to surrender, although he can live, there is no turning back, and the Wanma tribe has nothing to do with him from now on.
In the barbarian world, it is not that there is no surrender. But once you surrender, it means that you will become a slave of the other side, no longer have freedom, and even your own family name will be deprived.
But no matter what, it's still alive.
"Surrender—"
In the end, Ma Yi still shouted these two words. After shouting these two words, he felt that all the strength in his body had been consumed, and the whole person was like losing his soul.
The eldest prince asked him to surrender, and naturally no one from the other clansmen insisted on resisting, so they threw down their weapons and chose to surrender.
"Everyone, line up, come out in turn, there are abnormal movers, there is no mercy!" The herald conveyed Ma Shuo's order directly. In order to be more efficient, Ma Shuo decided to receive the captives from two directions.
Soon, the exits and entrances that had been blocked were opened, and the Wanma tribesmen who had laid down their weapons walked out of it in line with their bare hands as requested.
In the end, a little more than fourteen thousand were still alive as captives. In other words, the cavalry of the Wanma tribe that was killed completely exceeded 5,000 people.
Of the 40,000 war horses, many of them were directly wounded by shooting, and some were injured by collisions with each other, and among them, almost 2,000 were seriously injured and could no longer be used.
The injuries were not very serious, almost six or seven thousand horses, and the remaining thirty thousand horses were not problematic at all.
Looking at the black war horse, Ma Shuo's face could no longer hide the smile, good guy, he finally has the confidence to form a strong cavalry. The quality of this batch of war horses is very good, which is much higher than the war horses that he is riding in the cavalry team in Western Xinjiang now.
Ma Shuo decided to send 15,000 war horses from here to the western frontier, so that the cavalry battalion there could truly meet the standard of one person and two horses, and at the same time, appropriately expand the scale of the cavalry battalion.
Of the remaining more than 20,000, except for those who were seriously injured and directly killed, the rest were temporarily collected into the horse farm.
When these prisoners of war are ready, these horses will come in handy. Don't look at the 30,000 horses in your hands now, but the number of cavalry is too small, so the mobility is still very poor.
In the barbarian zone, mobility is very important in order to have a sufficient advantage. Now that he finally has a chance, Ma Shuo certainly did not hesitate.
Ordinary prisoners of war are easy to handle, at that time, this Ma Yi, Ma Shuo was still weighing, how to deal with it?
Do you send someone to send a message to the Wanma tribe right away, or do you wait for a while to digest and digest this harvest?
After weighing it up, Ma Shuo decided to take Ma Yi into custody first, and not send someone to inform the Wanma tribe to ask for a ransom for the time being. After all, there are too many benefits to be gained during this time, and it must take some time to transform these gains into combat effectiveness.
The war horses selected to be sent to the western frontier were quickly sent over.
The main task of Ma Shuo's side is to reorganize the captives of the Wanma tribe as soon as possible, and make full use of the remaining war horses to form a cavalry unit to assist the Qin army.
Prisoners of war, but quite a few, more than 14,000 in all. These people, Ma Shuo first asked people to pick out those who were more seriously injured, had little possibility of recovery, and whose actual age was somewhat older, and threw them directly to the mining area to serve as mining laborers.
In this wave, only a little more than 10,000 of the more than 14,000 captives remained.
In order to control these prisoners of war as soon as possible, Ma Shuo completely disrupted and reorganized the 30,000-strong team of Ma Chi, Ma Luo and Ma He and the more than 10,000 prisoners of war.
First of all, Ma Shuo put Jin Tian in charge and selected 10,000 of the best from these people to serve as cavalry. Each of them is configured according to the standard of one person and two horses. At the same time, in order to make this cavalry form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, Ma Shuo asked Jin Tian to transfer 2,000 people from his own personal guard battalion, the Qinglong Battalion, and directly entered the cavalry battalion as officers at all levels.
With the addition of these veterans of the Guards Battalion, it is believed that these surrendered barbarians will soon be able to be transferred. What's more, it's not all prisoners of war, there is also a guy from the 30,000-person team, who has long been impressed by the life of the 10,000-person team.
The rest is just enough for 30,000 people. Ma Shuo asked Ma Chi and the three of them to use their old backgrounds as the basis, and each selected people from the remaining prisoners of war of the Wanma tribe to supplement them according to the shortage of personnel.
After some reorganization, the prisoners of war of the 10,000-horse tribe harvested this time were finally digested quickly, and the total number of men and horses on the side of the barbarian army of the auxiliary Qin army increased to 40,000, three infantry 10,000 troops, and one pure cavalry 10,000 troops. However, with the increase in horses, the size of the cavalry will continue to expand in the future.
Because 2,000 people were temporarily transferred into the cavalry 10,000 people, the guard battalion around Ma Shuo was only 3,000 people. At the same time, because Jin Tian was arranged to serve as the commander of the cavalry 10,000 people, Ma Shuo temporarily promoted Song Jin, the original deputy general of the pro-guard battalion, to serve as the new commander of the pro-guard battalion.
In fact, Ma Shuo does not need to worry about the specific reorganization of people. After he proposed the general direction, he actually took Sang Kun to find the two later strong masters of the Wanma tribe.
Because he was injured by Ma Shuo's blow before, Gorm and Rambo, the two masters who had already reached the supreme level with half a foot, could not avoid the fate of being captured. It's just that Ma Shuo didn't have time to deal with them before. Now, after everything was on the right track, Ma Shuo remembered that there were still two such existences.
In fact, Ma Shuo brought Sang Kun to find Gorm and Rambo, not to recover each other, but to learn more about the situation of the great wizard of the Wanma tribe from the other party's mouth. Ever since he learned from Sang Kun that there was a mysterious wizard in the Wanma tribe, Ma Shuo had always been interested in this mysterious existence.
It's just that Sang Kun's status in the Wanma tribe is not high enough, and he doesn't have many opportunities to contact the great wizard. Therefore, he actually knows very little about the Great Wizard.
In desperation, Ma Shuo had no choice but to hit Gorm and Rambo with his ideas.