The trumpet of war sounded, and the Qiang men who were grazing cattle everywhere all returned to the Qiang royal court with their mounts.

Unlike the Han Chinese, the Qiang army would gather together for specialized training, they were born on horseback, and herding was also a kind of training.

As long as the horn sounds, these strong men who are herdsmen will be transformed into brave warriors.

After Ma Chao learned the news that Chen Xu led his troops out of the fortress, he began to think about how to deal with it.

After thinking of the complex terrain outside the plug and the few people under Chen Xu's command, Ma Chao was still not too worried after all.

As Ma Chao said earlier, Saiwai is not the Central Plains.

The reason why Ma Chao gave up the captured city and led the Qiang people to retreat to the shore of Mingze Lake was because he was worried that Chen Xu would raise troops to attack.

However, today's Ma Chao has taken advantage of the time, location, and people outside the Saiwai, and Ma Chao is absolutely confident that he will wipe out Chen Xu's 15,000 cavalry.

As long as this army is defeated and the myth of Chen Xu's invincibility is broken, Ma Chao will be able to become famous all over the world.

If Chen Xu can be captured or killed alive, Ma Chao's might will definitely shake Kyushu, and at that time, he will move eastward to capture Liangzhou and occupy Guanzhong, which is very likely to be successful.

Whenever Ma Chao thought of this, he felt that his blood was boiling.

Although Ma Chao's personality has changed a lot, the aggressive desire in his bones can't be concealed.

An ambitious person, when the edges and corners have not yet been polished, as long as he is given the opportunity, he will expose his ambition.

Ma Chao is ambitious and extremely conceited.

He believes that this battle with Chen Xu will be the biggest turning point in his life.

"What is it to defeat that Han army and force Chen Jing to death? Chen Wenzhao is my ultimate goal! ”

Ma Chao's eyes showed a bloodthirsty and crazy light, and there was too much difference between him and the beautiful man who rode a war horse upside down and played the Qiang flute, and he was like two people.

In a tent, the Qiang Ulu came to his wife's side, looking at such a beautiful Han woman in front of him, he couldn't help but flash a **** and doting in his eyes.

Not long after Chen Xu promulgated the 'Qiang Killing Order', the small Qiang tribe where Ulu belonged was destroyed by the sand thieves because of the betrayal of Huang Kai, a slave of the Ulu Han people.

Of course, the so-called betrayal, only Ulu thinks so.

Huang Kai has always thought of himself as a Han Chinese, and Ulu has brought him nothing but hatred. He led the sand bandits to destroy the Qiang tribe, not betrayal, but revenge.

The destruction of the tribe turned Ulu into a rootless duckweed, fleeing in all directions and hiding from the wolf-like Han Chinese.

In the process of fleeing, Ulu was very afraid that one day, he would be beheaded by those greedy Han people and taken to the government to ask for credit.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for Ulu to join another large Qiang tribe, so he didn't continue to live in fear.

Rao is like this, and Ulu's hatred of the Han people has also reached an unstoppable level.

The situation of the Qiang people was constantly changing, and Song Jian finally used various factors to unify the scattered Qiang people and became the first generation of Qiang kings.

As for Ulu, he eventually became Song Jian's subordinate.

In the years that followed, Ulu became a cold-blooded butcher, and every time he broke through the Han city, he was the vanguard of the massacre of the people.

Over the years, nearly 100 Han Chinese have died in the hands of Ulu. Ulu also relied on the ferocity, and only then did he slowly climb up and get his current higher status.

Until one day, Ulu met this Han woman in front of her, she was beautiful and gentle, and she looked beautiful.

For most Qiang people, this kind of woman is just a vase, a plaything.

But Ulu was deeply fascinated by this Han woman, and he was so inextricably unable to extricate himself, he seemed to have found his own spring.

Ulu did not **** this Han woman as usual, and then brutally tortured and killed.

Instead, Uru snatched the woman back, gave her the title of wife, and doted on her.

With Ulu's current status, this Han woman doesn't have to work at all, and she can live a good life.

However, the industrious Han woman begged Ulu to get her a loom, and when she had spare time, she began to weave.

The clothes worn by Ulu were all made by this Han woman.

With this woman, Ulu is like getting the whole world.

Since then, he has never brutally slaughtered Han Chinese, but has taken to heart the words of women and not to let the hatred deepen.

However, Ulu himself has changed, and the conflict of interests and hatred between the two communities is not so easy to change.

"Chir, chirp, chirp."

The beautiful Han woman, very focused on weaving, did not see Ulu enter the tent at all.

Suddenly, the woman felt a pair of strong arms hug her, and a large hand covered her full breasts.

"I, I'm still going to weave."

A flush flashed across the woman's face, and she struggled for a moment, accidentally breaking the silk thread on the loom.

The moment he touched the woman's body, Uru felt that his blood was boiling, and he picked up the woman and walked directly in the direction of the big bed.

The wheezing sound, accompanied by the crunch of the wooden bed, lasted for a long time before it stopped.

Ulu lovingly took the woman in his arms, stroked her smooth back, and said with some reluctance: "I'm going to go on an expedition." ”

The woman with a flushed face was suddenly stunned when she heard Ulu's words, and the blood on her face suddenly dissipated.

But she still didn't persuade after all, but said softly: "I'll wait for you to come back." ”

Ulu nodded emphatically, and suddenly heard the sound of a horn outside, and did not dare to continue to indulge in Gentle Township, so he hurriedly got up and finished dressing, and after saying hello, he ran outside.

The woman was also dressed, her right hand resting on the door frame of the tent, her left hand clasped tightly together, a little white.

At this time, the woman's thoughts couldn't help but drift far away.

She could never forget the nightmare scene after the city was breached by the Qiang.

She hid in the firewood, witnessed the killing of her husband and children, watched their bodies fall in pools of blood, and looked at the hideous faces of the Qiang people.

Although she hid, she was eventually discovered, and just as she was terrified, Uru appeared.

Ulu's appearance did not make her feel at ease, and she even became more and more frightened.

Because Ulu at that time was soaked in blood, it was not his own, it was the blood of Ulu massacring other Han people.

From the attitude of other people towards Ulu, the woman also knew that Ulu was a very terrible demon who took pleasure in killing and torturing Han people.

She was frightened, helpless, and crying.

She resisted violently, but was finally dragged to a no-man's land by Uru and defiled her body.

Just as she closed her eyes and waited for death, Uru spoke: "From now on, you are my woman, and I will be good to you." ”

Such words made the woman stunned on the spot.

Didn't it mean that after the Qiang people toyed with Han women, they would kill them?

Ignoring the woman's resistance, crying, and doubts, Ulu was very strong and brought the woman back to the Qiang station.

In the years that followed, the woman lived in daily humiliation and struggle, and she wanted to commit suicide, but she could not muster the courage no matter what.

Her heart also began to go numb, and she even got used to this kind of life a little.

Uru is not the kind of person who is good at expressing emotions, he always loves this woman in his own way, although this is not what the woman wants, but she is still touched by Uru after all.

Gradually accepting the reality and accepting Ulu as her husband, the woman began to consciously guide Ulu and told him not to slaughter Han people in the future.

Uru was silent for a long time, but finally agreed.

Since then, Ulu, the cold-blooded butcher at the beginning, has never slaughtered an unarmed Han civilian.

For this reason, Ulu was criticized and ridiculed by the rest of the Qiang people, but he didn't care, he only cared about the Han woman who made him unable to extricate himself.

The change in Ulu made the Han woman very happy, and she also accepted Ulu's extraordinary love.

Whenever Ulu goes on an expedition, women always feel worried in their hearts.

"Uru, you must come back alive."

The woman looked at Ulu's figure as she drifted away, and thought to herself.

"It would be great if one day we could find a stable and peaceful place where you would raise horses and herd sheep, and no longer take up arms to fight everywhere, and I would weave cloth and take care of the children."

"I don't care that your hands are covered in blood, and I don't care that you're a Qiang. All I know is that you are good to me and you have a conscience in your heart, and that is enough. ”

The woman retracted her gaze, looked up at a large eagle hovering in the air, and whispered, "Eagle, you say, will there be a day?" ”

"Wow!"

The eagle let out a high-pitched chirp from its mouth, and then spread its wings and flew off into the distance.

When the woman saw this scene, her eyes couldn't help but smile into a crescent moon, and she said, "If the eagle answers like this, there will definitely be a day." ”

The parting before going to the battlefield always makes people feel melancholy.

Even in the eyes of the Han people, the extremely cruel and bloodthirsty Qiang people have their own gentle side.

The Qiang army was finally assembled, and Ma Chao led 25,000 Qiang cavalry to the battlefield this time, leaving behind 3,000 blonde and blue-eyed foot soldiers.

In the face of the cavalry charge, the foot soldiers can certainly break it with a phalanx.

But in the vast desert and the Gobi, as long as the cavalry does not take the initiative to fight the foot soldiers, what can the foot soldiers do?

Don't look at the time when he fought with Chen Jing at the beginning, Ma Chao only began to lose a few battles in a row, but if Ma Chao really wanted to leave, Chen Jing couldn't stop him no matter what.

It's just that with Ma Chao's pride, if he is not forced to do so, he doesn't bother to act like that at all.

This time, Chen Xu's command was full of cavalry, and if Ma Chao brought these foot soldiers, it would only become a burden. Ma Chao, who is proficient in cavalry tactics, cannot fail to know this.

Twenty-five thousand iron horsemen roamed the desert, rolling up yellow clouds in the desert.

During the march, the military advisor said Ma Chao: "Your Majesty, although the Guanzhong Army only has 15,000 cavalry, it is rumored that these cavalry are the elite of the world, and their combat effectiveness is very strong. ”

"Even if our army is far superior to the Guanzhong cavalry, if we confront it head-on, I am afraid that there will be heavy casualties."

"Now that the Guanzhong army is going to the outside of the Saiwai and running for a long time, why don't we wait for work on the shore of Mingze Lake, and then have foot soldiers to assist, occupy the right time and place, and defeat Chen Wenzhao, wouldn't it be easy?"

Ma Chao shook his head and said: "Chen Wenzhao is very human, if he passively waits for his attack, he will completely dig his own grave. ”

"Besides, how can it be so simple for cavalry to fight?"

When the military advisor heard this, he immediately stopped talking, although he had some strategy, but he was not very proficient in marching and fighting.

Since Ma Chao said this, there must be a reason.

Ma Chao was riding on a war horse, holding a spear in his right hand, but his eyes were a little erratic.

Although he didn't know the saying that 'the enemy is outside the country', he had already regarded the Qiang royal court as his base camp.

If it wasn't a last resort, Ma Chao was absolutely unwilling to bring the war there.

As for the head-on confrontation with the Guanzhong cavalry, although Ma Chao was conceited, he would not be so reckless.

As the military advisor said, the Guanzhong cavalry is extremely elite, even if Ma Chao can defeat it with his superiority in strength, the Qiang cavalry will also suffer heavy casualties.

Today's Qiang people, after Chen Xu's several weakenings, are no longer as strong as they used to be.

If most of the 25,000 soldiers and horses were killed and wounded again, and the Qiang people were destroyed, it would only be a matter of time before they were killed.

Therefore, the Guanzhong cavalry can afford to fight, but the Qiang people can't fight.

What Ma Chao was thinking, perhaps no one except himself understood it at all.

The sun was still shining in the sky, the sand on the ground was scorched by the sun, the temperature became extremely high, and the horses were a little restless.

"Huh, wolf smoke?"

Ma Chao was leading the Qiang cavalry to gallop forward, and suddenly saw a wolf smoke appear in the sky in the distance.

Although wolf smoke is called wolf smoke, it is not all made from wolf dung.

If wolf dung is used as fuel, it is difficult to collect a large amount of wolf dung, and the smoke from the burning of wolf dung does not rise straight up.

Most of the so-called beacon fires are poplars, red willows, robust hemp, rhizome, baici, camel grass, licorice, dry reeds, and saxony that grow on the desert.

Not only are these things very common, but they also burn with thick smoke.

The reason why people call the beacon fire 'wolf smoke' is because the wolf in the wasteland is a totem that many nomads admire.

When these beacons are ignited, it also indicates that these alien races who worship wolf totems have begun to invade the border.

Therefore, people call the smoke from the beacon fire wolf smoke.

Ma Chao looked at the wolf smoke in the distance, knowing that he had gone a little off, and immediately shouted: "In the direction of the wolf smoke, forward!" ”

Generally speaking, wolf smoke represents an enemy invasion, but sometimes it is like a beacon on the sea, pointing the way to the army.

Because it is difficult to distinguish the direction in the desert, it is very difficult to contact one's own people, so the wolf smoke will become a lighthouse in the desert and grassland.

Ma Chao looked at the wolf smoke rising into the sky, his eyes couldn't help narrowing slightly, and he couldn't help but tighten the spear in his hand.

(People are tired, the heart is even more tired, I saved the manuscript for ten days, I was going to explode at the end of the month, and suddenly I didn't want to write, and the later chapters were released regularly, I was ready to go out for a walk, read more, see more, don't code words, and when I find the feeling, I'll write an ending to this book.) ）