It's true that they have done a lot of killing, but looking at the eighteen sons, they should indeed have let go of their baggage. And this has to be said to be a good thing, if they want to be like before all the time, Ma Chao really doesn't know what will happen to the eighteen of them after the most difficult Dao, after all, they are indeed a little not so normal.

And Li Wei and the other people of the eighteen sons looked at each other a few times, the eighteen people knelt in front of Ma Chao in unison, Li Wei said loudly to Ma Chao at this time: "The lord avenged the old and small of Lijia Village in Linqiang, Jincheng, and I will wait for the eighteen brothers to follow the lord from today onwards!" No matter whether you go up to the sword mountain or go down to the sea of fire, our eighteen brothers will not frown, if you violate this oath, heaven and earth will not tolerate it!! ”

After Li Wei finished speaking, eighteen people kowtowed to Ma Chao, and Ma Chao didn't stop him, because he also knew that he had to let them kowtow, and after they were all done, they should basically become normal.

After eighteen people kowtowed to Ma Chao, Ma Chao helped Li Wei up, after all, there were eighteen people kneeling on the ground, and he couldn't help everyone to help him up, so when he was holding Li Wei with both hands, Ma Chao said to the others: "Everyone, please get up, please get up!" I think when I was still in Dunhuang, I lobbied you more than once, and after the mouth wore out your mouth, you conditionally agreed to enter my account, and I never forgot to promise you! Now that many years have passed, today I can finally say that I have fulfilled my original promise, and you can finally untie the knot and let go of your burden, which is really gratifying, gratifying! ”

The eighteenth son smiled when he heard this, and Li Wei said to Ma Chao: "When the lord said this, his subordinates also remembered what happened at the beginning, but I didn't expect that the things promised by the lord could be fulfilled so quickly, which was indeed beyond the expectations of his subordinates!" Now Mi Ji is dead, and the burning Dangqiang has been extinguished, in order to wait for the eighteen brothers to take Mi Ji's head back to Lijia Village to pay tribute to the souls of the villagers, I don't know if the lord can agree? ”

"Yes, that's as it should be! Even if Li doesn't say it for you, I have to let you go back! You don't have to be in a hurry, it's nothing big now, you can go, you don't have to rush back! ”

"No! However, after my brother has done this, I will return as soon as possible to serve the lord! ”

Everyone else also gave up their hands to Ma Chao, but Ma Chao waved his hand, "Go, just go back to Longxian then!" ”

After listening to Ma Chao's words, the eighteenth son left with a few days of dry food and Miji's head, after all, the matter should be resolved as soon as possible, and it would be better to return to Longxian County as soon as possible to serve the lord.

At this time, the battlefield had been cleaned and the corpses had been disposed of, and Ma Chao ordered the whole army: "The whole army returns to the camp!" ”

With Ma Chao's order, the army withdrew to the Liangzhou army camp. Don't look at the soldiers are already very tired, but the speed of the march is still not slow, and the distance between the two places is not particularly far. As for why Ma Chao didn't set up camp in the Dangqiang tribe, this is something he was careful about, after all, a bunch of materials were seized, and other Qiang tribes were inevitably red-eyed. Especially since this place is still quite close to Xian Lingqiang, and when they know that the 20,000 soldiers they sent to Lu have all been wiped out, it is inevitable that they will not blame them for this.

So in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Ma Chao let the Liangzhou army return to the camp as soon as possible. What is called a long night and a lot of dreams, this place is not a place in Liangzhou after all, so Ma Chao's caution is right. The army rested for a day, and Ma Chao led his troops back to Liangzhou on the second day. Anyway, it's safe to leave early, Ma Chao is not afraid of Lingqiang first, but it is not yet time to fight to the death with them. Of course, he didn't think that Lingqiang had the courage to fight a decisive battle with the Liangzhou army, but "the heart of defense is indispensable", and this must be guarded against.

On the way back to Liangzhou, Jia Xu deliberately said to Ma Chao, "What the lord is doing in the Dangqiang tribe will inevitably be criticized by the people of Shilin!" ”

Ma Chao smiled at this, "What Mr. said is good, Chao actually expected it!" But 'do not regret it, regret not do it', and you don't need others to talk about it! Some people only know the way every day, but they don't know how many casualties the army in various parts of Liangzhou will be killed and wounded every year, and they don't know how much the people in Liangzhou will lose. If they can solve this problem, then do they need to do anything? ”

After Ma Chao finished speaking, he slowly shook his head and said no more. And Jia Xu also shook his head after hearing this, and didn't say anything more.

In this way, Ma Chao returned to Longxian with the Liangzhou army, and Chen Zhi deliberately led people out of the city to welcome the triumph of the army.

In fact, Ma Chao's name in Xiqiang has already spread to Liangzhou, and Ma Chao is called "horse butcher" by the Qiang people because he led the troops to slaughter the entire Dangqiang tribe! And the eighteen sons have a blood feud with the Qiang of the sea, so they are bent on revenge, so that the most reckless people killed too many, because of this, the Qiang people called them "eighteen madmen". And Cui An just likes the battlefield and likes to kill, so when he slaughtered and burned Dangqiang, he made a lot of efforts, although he killed fewer people than the eighteen sons, but he was only one person, so in fact, it was really not less, and as a result, he was called "Cui Killing God" by the Qiang people.

As a result, Ma Chao became a "horse butcher" from the Qiang people, and the eighteen sons became "eighteen madmen", and Cui An became a "Cui killing god". Of course, this is just the nickname that the Qiang people gave to the three people. Because they have killed too many Qiang people, the Qiang people naturally do not give them any nicknames.

And the Liangzhou army actually gave each of the three of them a nickname, Ma Chao, as the state pastor, commanded the whole army, and won the military heart of the Liangzhou soldiers. And this time, he led the Liangzhou army to burn and burn Qiang, slaughter and burn Qiang, and relieved the resentment of the Liangzhou soldiers against the Qiang people over the years, so the Liangzhou soldiers nicknamed their state pastors "Shenweitian General", because in the eyes of the Liangzhou soldiers, their state pastors are like generals from the sky. Ma Chao has always been a full-body silver helmet and silver armor plus a silver gun, and there is also a white horse sitting down, a BMW shining on the night jade lion, plus Ma Chao's appearance is dignified, it is indeed not to be underestimated.

As for the eighteen sons, because the eighteen of them are all from Linqiang, Jincheng County, Liangzhou, the Liangzhou sergeants call them "Liangzhou Eighteen Cavalry". And the soldiers of the Liangzhou Army did see the eighteen sons on the battlefield, after all, they have practiced martial arts with the three brothers of the Du family over the years, and they really did not learn in vain.

At a long distance, they shoot with arrows, although it is not said that it is a hundred shots, but it is almost the same, this is the archery skills they learned with Du Li, the third elder of the Du family.

At a closer distance, they use spears when they are a little farther away, and marksmanship is learned by Du Ren, the boss of the He Du family, don't look at it for only a few years, but they have learned the essence of Du Ren's marksmanship. Even Du Ren himself had to admire them, and he was very pleased. Although they had not formally apprenticed to their teacher, Du Ren had long regarded the Eighteen Sons as his students, and the Eighteen Sons had long regarded Du Ren as their own teacher. In this way, in fact, whether to apprentice or not is not the most important thing.

The closest to the last is to chop with a short knife, and the short knife was specially tailored by Ma Chao for the eighteen of them. After all, Ma Chao deliberately wrote a short knife knife technique and gave it to Du Yi, so that he could teach it to the eighteenth son. Of course, Du Yi didn't hide it, and taught Ma Chao's knife skills to the eighteen sons. Therefore, the use of short knives by the eighteenth son is indeed quite good.

In this way, the comprehensive strength of the eighteen sons is indeed the second-rate level, and the eighteen second-rate level, no wonder they can kill so many people.

The most reluctant, Cui An, was called "Cui Zhanshen" by the soldiers of the Liangzhou Army. Because "Cui Killing God" is called by the Qiang people, although this is more appropriate, the soldiers of the Liangzhou Army don't like it very much, and they want to call him by the nickname they gave Cui An. Therefore, Cui An became the "Cui God of War" in the eyes of the Liangzhou sergeant, because in the eyes of the Liangzhou sergeant, as long as Cui An appeared, then the enemy would be a piece, and all of them would be killed and injured by Cui An, and this can only be done by the God of War.

Now it has been several days since Ma Chao slaughtered and burned Dangqiang, and Ma Chao has been marching, so he really hasn't heard of anything. But in Liangzhou, and even in the Han Dynasty, it was already boiling at this time, just because Ma Chao slaughtered the entire tribe of Dangqiang.

In fact, the people of Liangzhou can understand their state pastors, after all, the Qiang people have harassed Liangzhou for many years, almost every year, I don't know how many people have died in Liangzhou because of this. And many people knew about the affairs of Lijia Village back then. So since the Qiang people can go and slaughter the people of the Han Dynasty and the compatriots of Liangzhou. So why can't the Han people slaughter the Qiang people, anyway, if you do the first year of junior high school, then we can do fifteen, which is nothing to do.

But above the court, those old guys in the court talk a lot of nonsense. Since Ma Chao slaughtered Dangqiang, the book was given to Liu Hong like snowflakes, without exception, all of them were from Ma Chao. But they forgot that Liu Hong is now seriously ill, and it is getting more and more serious, and it is so serious that he can't handle affairs. At this time, all matters large and small were handled by Zhang Rang and He Jin at their discretion, so they joined Ma Chao, and after the most trouble, they naturally sank into the sea, and there was no news.

And the biggest reaction is still the people in Shilin, after all, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism, the influence of Confucianism on the Han Dynasty is not insignificant, so Ma Chao's actions really made countless people start to bombard him. After Ma Chao learned about this, he just smiled faintly and didn't explain much. Because he feels that no matter how much he explains, it is useless, the so-called "justice is in the hearts of the people", he killed so many people not just for himself, but he was scolded and said, it is really nothing, isn't there still someone who supports him and understands himself.