440 West Wind Spirit(7)
In just one round, Jiang Chao was captured by Ma Chao, such a scene made the onlookers sigh, and their hearts were full of awe for Ma Chao, knowing that Ma Chao was powerful, but they didn't want Ma Chao to be so powerful.
Ma Chao casually pressed the tip of his spear against Jiang Chao's throat, and his sharp eyes quickly glanced at the onlookers of horse thieves, and then shouted to Jiang Chao: "Let them all disperse!" ”
Jiang Chao is not afraid of death, his skills are not as good as others, he was captured alive in front of all his brothers, he can't hold his face, if he is greedy for life and afraid of death, then his image among his brothers in the past will be destroyed.
"Humph! I'm not as good as others, and I have nothing to say, since I've been captured by you, if you want to kill it, you have to listen to it! Jiang Chao pretended to be calm.
Seeing this, Ma Chao smiled and said, "I don't want you to be a man!" ”
After finishing speaking, Ma Chao casually threw Jiang Chao aside, Jiang Chao fell directly from the horse, fell heavily on the ground, and flipped twice. At this time, the soldiers behind Ma Chao rushed directly towards Jiang Chao with the rope that had been prepared, and tied Jiang Chao up with three strikes and five divisions.
At this time, Ma Chao put a spear against Jiang Chao's neck and shouted at the horse thieves: "If you don't want him to die, take me to see your king!" ”
The horse thieves looked at each other for a while, but no one moved, and there was a hint of embarrassment on their faces.
Ma Chao said: "What? Do you really want him dead? ”
As he spoke, Ma Chao's spear increased a little harder, and the sharp tip of the spear was about to pierce into Jiang Chao's flesh, as long as he used a little force, the tip of the spear would pierce in. Directly release Jiang Chao's blood.
"What do you want to see our king?" Jiang Chao swallowed a mouthful of saliva nervously. Asked.
Ma Chao said: "Don't do anything." Discuss something with him! ”
Jiang Chao said: "What's the matter?" ”
"You can't control anything, when I see your king, I will naturally tell your king!" Ma Chaodao.
Jiang Chao said: "I am the king you are looking for!" ”
After hearing this, Ma Chao immediately turned his head, looked at Jiang Chao with suspicious eyes, and asked, "You are the king of horse thieves entrenched in Heli Mountain?" ”
"What? Isn't it like? Jiang Chao said.
Ma Chao laughed and said, "It's really hard to find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it!" Didn't expect the person I was looking for. Right in front of my eyes. Are you really Jiang Chao? ”
Jiang Chao admitted: "I'm not like Li Guang, I am me, I am Jiang Chao." If the eldest husband doesn't change his name, he doesn't change his surname, Jiang Chao is me. ”
"Good, good, good! Now that the person I'm looking for is already here, let's talk! Ma Chao turned over and jumped off the horse, and stabbed the spear in his hand to the ground, and the spear stood straight on the ground. The roots are about half a foot into the ground, which shows its amazing arm strength.
It was the first time Jiang Chao had encountered such a powerful character. Even the Lijing people he knew were not as powerful as the person in front of him, so he couldn't help but swallow his saliva and said with some shudders: "Talk...... What to talk about? ”
Ma Chao said: "I have already inquired about you, and I know that your ancestor was an official of the court of the Han Dynasty, and because he was framed by others, he was unwilling to be slaughtered so he fell here and fell into the grass." Moreover, although you are horse thieves, you often rob the rich and help the poor, and you can be regarded as righteous thieves, which is different from Li Guang in Nanshan. Because of this, I didn't kill you with a single shot just now, but chose to capture you alive, wanting to make a deal with Jiang Chao. But who thinks, you are Jiang Chao. ”
After Jiang Chao heard this, he frowned, and saw that Ma Chao was dignified, mighty, and the armor on his body was distinct, and he seemed to be a person in the army, so he asked curiously: "What are you trying so hard to find me for, and who are you?" ”
Ma Chao said modestly: "The contemptible surname is Ma, the name is Chao, and the word Meng Qi ......"
Before Ma Chao's words were finished, Jiang Chao's face immediately showed surprise, and he hurriedly interrupted Ma Chao's words and asked, "Are you Ma Chao?" ”
Ma Chao nodded.
Jiang Chao looked at Ma Chao again, and asked with surprise and joy, "You...... Are you really Ma Chao? Ma Chao, who was praised by the Qiang people as the general of Shenweitian? ”
Wang Shuang said impatiently: "My father-in-law, if it's not Ma Chao, who can it be?" Looking at the whole of Liangzhou, who else can be more handsome and extraordinary than my father-in-law? The name of Jinma Chao is definitely worthy of its name! ”
The person standing in front of Jiang Chao can capture him alive in one round, this force is definitely not something that ordinary people can do, except for the invincible Heavenly General Ma Chao, who else can have such great ability?
Jiang Chao no longer doubts, it's just that he has a question in his heart, for him, Ma Chao is a god-like being, such a legendary figure, appearing in front of him, is still here to find him, so what is Ma Chao looking for him?
Ma Chao's name has already spread to the entire Liangzhou, even the more remote four counties in Hexi have heard of Ma Chao's name, this qiē, have to thank some Qiang people. Because it was the Qiang people who spread the legend of Ma Chao to every corner of Liangzhou, even the Western Regions outside Liangzhou, and the name of Ma Chao was also circulated. As long as it is a place where the Qiang people can reach, Ma Chao's prestige can spread wherever it goes.
Jiang Chao is just a character who admires Ma Chao very much, for him, Ma Chao is his idol, and now the idol is standing in front of him, how can he not be happy?
"Heavenly ...... General Tian, I have always admired you very much, but I have never had the opportunity to meet, and it is really a blessing for me Jiang Chao to meet General Tian here today. It's just that I don't quite understand, why did General Tian look for me? Jiang Chao asked excitedly.
"I'm going to Dunhuang, on the way I heard about the situation here, saying that horse thieves are rampant in this area, often robbing merchants, I will come to find out, if you are really a righteous thief as rumored, then I am ready to include you in my subordinates, let you change your ways, from now on, follow me, use your abilities in the army." If you don't live up to your name, then I can only kill you and solve the problem of horse thieves in this area. Ma Chao said slowly.
Jiang Chao asked curiously, "What does the general mean now that day...... Kill me, or are you going to include me among your men? ”
Ma Chao said: "Through my observation of you, I found that you and Li Guang are indeed different, and you have the spirit of willing to die and unyielding, I value you very much, so I want to include you in my subordinates, from now on, your horse thieves in Heli Mountain are my Ma Chao's troops!" It's just that I don't know if you'd like to join my army and be a little commander? ”
"Don't say it's the tun chief, even if it's just for me to be a small soldier, I'm willing! The lord is above, please accept Jiang Chao's worship! Jiang Chao was excited, and immediately bowed to Ma Chao.
Seeing this, Ma Chao laughed, personally helped Jiang Chao up, and the fight subsided, and he also accepted some subordinates.
Subsequently, Jiang Chao led the way in front, welcomed Ma Chao into his Heli Mountain cottage, and held a grand welcome ceremony, in the village on Heli Mountain, there were only about 300 horse thieves, but there were more than 1,000 people, Jiang Chao The property obtained from the robbery was basically evenly distributed to each family, these people were Jiang Chao one by one, and Heli Mountain became a small town.
And Ma Chao can see that these people are very enthusiastic about Jiang Chao, and they also love Jiang Chao very much, which shows that Jiang Chao has indeed done a lot of good things.
In the banquet, Jiang Chao's two cousins, Jiang Yu and Jiang Yue were accompanied, because of Ma Chao's arrival, everyone was very happy, the legendary General Tian, who doesn't want to see the honor.
After three rounds of drinking, I don't know why, everyone mentioned Li Guang's subordinates, the Jiang brothers hated Li Guang's subordinates very much, and they were also very excited, and scolded Li Guang, although Li Guang was dead, but they still couldn't contact the Jiang brothers' hatred for Li Guang.
Subsequently, after unanimous discussion, everyone decided to be led by Ma Chao tomorrow to go to Nanshan to exterminate the remnants of Li Guang and return the Silk Road to peace.
Early the next morning, Jiang Chao assembled the team, Jiang Yu and Jiang Yue each gathered their troops and horses, followed Jiang Chao, and gathered in an open space outside the cottage.
And Ma Chao also asked Wang Shuang to assemble a team, and together with Yang Fu, he took Jiang Chao's team to Nanshan to exterminate the horse thieves.
Nanshan is Qilian Mountain, the bandits entrenched here are the remnants of Li Guang, after Li Guang's death, the troops were taken over by the third Li Li, just as the third was ready to assemble a team to avenge Li Guang, the people reported that Jiang Chao led the troops to come here.
So, Li Li took troops to meet the battle, lined up the soldiers and horses at the foot of Qilian Mountain, and quietly waited for the arrival of Jiang Chao and others.
Li Li's subordinates were far more than Jiang Chao's, about five hundred people, all over the mountains, everywhere, and in some places they deliberately waved flags, giving people the illusion that he had a lot of people.
When Ma Chao led Wang Shuang, Yang Fu, Jiang Chao, Jiang Yu, Jiang Yue and others to the foot of Qilian Mountain, they were all taken aback when they saw the horse thieves all over the mountains, and they never expected that there would be so many horse thieves here.
However, soon Ma Chao and Yang Fu observed a clue and thought that this was a bluff by the horse thieves to confuse them.
So, Yang Fu offered advice to Ma Chao and asked Jiang Chao to challenge, and then deliberately deceived the enemy, lured the enemy to go deeper, and killed Li Li with superior forces.
Jiang Chao acted according to the plan, single-handedly went to pick up Li Li, Li Li did not show weakness, went out to fight, and Jiang Chao fought for a few rounds, Jiang Chao was defeated and left, Li Li did not know what the plan was, chased after the horse, but was stabbed to death by Ma Chao with a shot, and his subordinates were suddenly leaderless, and they scattered as birds and beasts.
Ma Chao drove the troops to cover up and kill, and did not chase the horse thief, but went straight to Qilian Mountain, and burned the horse thief's cottage, so that the horse thief had nowhere to go.
In the following two days, Ma Chao asked people to hunt down horse thieves everywhere, captured a lot of people, and all of them took Li Shan, and after identifying themselves, those horse thieves surrendered to Ma Chao.
As a result, the two groups of horse thieves in the Hexi Corridor were pacified by Ma Chao, Jiang Chao and others temporarily stopped in Heli Mountain, and Ma Chao led Wang Shuang, Yang Fu and others to continue to move westward and go straight to Dunhuang. (To be continued......)