Chapter 3: Slaughter?
"Young master, these captives ......"
The battle was over, and the corpses of the Broken Qiang soldiers were intertwined, and the deaths were strange and strange, stretching into the distance, and the grass had long been dyed dark red, and at a rough glance, in this endless grassland, the Broken Qiang had at least thousands of casualties.
And the Xiliang Iron Cavalry under his command is almost undamaged! There are also those Han army prisoners before, except for a trace of fear in their eyes, the rest are surprised!
Of course, one or two hundred warriors may have been buried in the grassland, but it is undeniable that this pursuit: a great victory!
After this battle, the nerves that crossed the male horse Chao gradually began to relax. And between breaths, Ma Chao found that on his body, in addition to the blood stained by the unlucky Qiang soldier who killed him earlier, in the subsequent massacre, there was not a drop of blood splashed on his body, and it can even be said that it was unstained!
From this point of view, what kind of state should this body's instinctive killing martial arts reach?
And the guard Pang De saw that the blood red in Ma Chao's eyes gradually subsided, so he dared to ask Ma Chao about the post-war disposition. However, even like the indifferent and ruthless Pound, there was still a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.
Ma Chao saw the surprise in Pound's eyes, in fact, Pound didn't know that when he fought with that handsome man before and came back to report his work, Ma Chao also had this kind of surprise in his eyes. However, Ma Chao already understood the meaning of the surprise at this time: they belonged to the same kind of people, the kind of people who were as ruthless as fire on the battlefield and as calm as ice when they got off the battlefield!
It's just that Ma Chao is born with a natural character. Pound, on the other hand, is caused by the acquired environment.
Thinking of this, Ma Chao took a closer look at Pang De standing in front of him: this person has a typical northern face, clear and resolute, and his figure is also the kind of northern standard figure with broad shoulders and narrow hips. What's even more commendable is that his expression, the starlight between his eyebrows, reveals a trace of unyielding will, and with his magnificent body, there is even more arrogance that does not bow to the sky.
This is the consciousness of a true soldier, and it is also the unique temperament of Pound's talent.
A famous general with such an awareness and temperament, but the pearl is covered with dust. If he hadn't crossed over by himself, I'm afraid it would take at least a few years for Pound to emerge in the troubled times, right?
Ma Chao remembered that after he crossed over and gradually accepted his fate, he began to look for Pound all over the world. Not for anything else, because anyone who has a little common sense of the history of the Three Kingdoms knows that Xiliang has two peerless generals: Jin Ma Chao and Meng Pang De.
Needless to say, the name of Jinma Chao is needless to say, and Pang De can be regarded as a first-class general on the list of generals in the late Han Dynasty. Of course, I have to say that Pang De's luck was indeed a little frustrated, and he followed Ma Chao, which made his brilliance covered up a lot by the Jin Ma Chao in history.
However, even the glorious Ma Chao has not completely covered up Pound's brilliance.
Pound's record in the first half of his life is very brilliant! During the Jian'an period, Cao Cao asked Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang to Liyang, Yuan Tan sent Guo Yuan, Gao Gan and others to take Hedong, and Cao Cao made Zhong Xuan lead the generals in Guanzhong to ask for it. Pang De followed Ma Tengzi Ma Chao to reject Guo Yuan and Gao Gan in Pingyang, and Pang De was the military striker, attacking Guo Yuan and Gao Gan, breaking it, and personally beheading the reinforcements. Worship the Zhonglang general, seal the capital pavilion marquis. Later, Zhang Bai rode against Hongnong, and Defu followed Teng Zhengzhi, and broke Bai to ride between the two dishes. In every battle, he often falls into Chen but the enemy, and bravely crowns the army.
As for the other Xiliang generals, except for Ma Teng and Han Sui, only Ma Chao's brother Ma Dai can handle it. The rest, such as Ma Wan, Liang Xing, Yang Qiu and others, although they were known as the 'Eight Banners' in the later period, they had no record at all, and they were just tricks at best.
As a result, the brave and combative Pound made Ma Chao even more interested. And Ma Chao finally found Pang De, but he was in the torture camp!
The cavalry battalion is not a regular unit, and the people in the cavalry battalion are all prisoners on the battlefield, or people who have committed capital crimes. They had no formal armor and weapons, some were only their own flesh and blood, and on the battlefield, large-scale tentative charges were carried out by the cavalry battalion. And when retreating, if it is a big defeat to the point of hopelessness, it is also the criminal cavalry battalion that is responsible for the bottom.
To put it bluntly, the people in the torture camp are cannon fodder. The popular point says that they are floating clouds, and as soon as the wind blows on the battlefield, they cease to exist.
In the same way, because the cavalry battalion knew that they were mortal, the systems of the army could not restrain them at all. They are all ruthless people who kill without seeing blood, and the only thing that excites them is to kill and be killed.
Ma Teng has always kept a 2,000-strong cavalry camp, and it was in that place full of violence and blood that Ma Chao finally found Pang De, a fierce general in Xiliang. Fortunately, Pound, who was like hell, only showed such a slight tendency of schizophrenia after being recognized by Ma Chao's eyes......
At least, Pound after the war is not just like himself after the crossing, just an honest, calm and wise good general, right?
In this battle, Ma Chao led Ma Teng's torture cavalry battalion. And because of a gambling contract, Ma Chao got more than 2,000 standard armor and weapons of Xiliang Iron Cavalry from Ma Teng, plus Ma Chao's personal guards, to make up these 3,000 Iron Cavalry...... Of course, the reason for this trip, well... It's because Ma Teng thinks that Ma Chao, who has crossed over, is not doing his job......
"Is it according to the young master's practice to slaughter?" Pang De saw that the young master in front of him was already looking at him with a little misty eyes, and he couldn't help but ask this sentence.
"Exhausted... Slaughter? Ma Chao suddenly woke up from his imagination, and suddenly felt stunned in his heart: I'm a good girl, the previous Ma Chao is really a perverted murderer!
Seeing that Ma Chao was silent, Pang De, who had been personally transferred by Ma Chao as the leader of the guard, thought that Ma Chao was too lazy to speak, and was about to wave his hand to let his subordinates take the lives of those Qiang people, but he heard the young master shout in surprise:
"Slaughter? Slaughter your sister! ”
"Young master, my subordinates have been floating since childhood, their parents died early, and they have no brothers and sisters...... Pang De was immediately taken aback by Ma Chao's overreaction, and replied with a frowning and doubt.
"Uh...... Don't be annoyed, I didn't mean that. Ma Chao saw Pang De's explanation and quickly apologized to others. Then he continued: "Since Poqiang has kidnapped our Han people, why don't we treat them the way of others? ”
"What does the young master mean?" Pang Dechu and Ma Chao couldn't fully understand Ma Chao's intentions. However, Pound had a vague feeling at this time that the young master in front of him seemed to be different from the rumors.
"Escort these Qiang people back to Chencang and put them in the torture cavalry camp. If you are willing to follow the master obediently, it's okay to say, if you dare to blow up the thorns, the master has a way to clean them up! When Ma Chao said this, a sharp glint suddenly flashed in his eyes. And Pound couldn't help but deeply lament the fate of these unfortunate Qiang people......