"Brother, where are we?"

"have no idea."

"King Wu of Qin is really in a state of dissipation and has been following us."

Ma Chao, Ma Dai and his group marched in the Tengger Desert in the northwest. The sun was scorching like fire, and all of them were dry and dry.

Ma Chao's defeated army fled into the desert to avoid the pursuit of the Qin army, but King Wu of Qin was still chasing Ma Chao.

The worst thing is that Ma Chao and his group didn’t know where they were.

Ma Chao brought more than a thousand Xiliang cavalry into the desert, and now there are less than five hundred people still alive.

"Dad was killed by the King of Qin, and I will never be forgiven!"

Ma Yunlu escaped into the desert with a Nu Liu body, suffered all the hardships, and still had to go against the Qin army, because Ma Teng died in the battle with the Qin army.

Therefore, this group of Ma family troops never surrendered to the King of Qin like other Western Liang princes.

"Brother, it's a mountain range!"

In a trance, Ma Yunlu saw the endless mountains and thought it was a mirage, so he repeatedly confirmed it.

"It seems that we are finally going out of the desert. This revenge must be avenged, but first of all, we must know where we are."

Ma Chao scanned the surroundings and the terrain finally changed from a barren desert to a sparse vegetation. Knowing that they and their group finally left the Tengger Desert.

“There are herdsmen!”

Ma Chao and Ma Dai took cavalry to surround the herdsmen who were grazing at the bottom of Helan Mountain.

The herdsmen were extremely frightened. Although they were barely considered second-level troops in front of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, they had no power to fight back and could not raise the idea of ​​fighting with Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

"These cattle and sheep will be loaned to us for the time being. We will definitely return them twice in the future!"

Ma Chao led the Xiliang cavalry to siege the herdsmen.

Ma Chao, the Western Liang Iron Cavalry, was already hungry and received supplies here.

Ma Dai wanted to know one thing: "Where is this?"

The frightened herder replied: "This is Helan Mountain..."

"Helan Mountain? Then it is the boundary of Beidi County."

According to the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ma Dai divided various places, and this was the boundary of Beidi County.

"It is said that this place was occupied by a group of Dangxiang Qiang people, and we can completely replace it."

Ma Chao knew that this place was occupied by the Dangxiang people led by Li Yuanhao and wanted to replace Li Yuanhao.

"From now on, you will be my Ma Chao's subordinates."

Ma Chao forced this group of herders as his subordinates and decided to gain a foothold here.

"Who is Ma Chao?"

This group of herders ignorant of the eyes and really don’t know Ma Chao.

But they knew the saber in the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, so they had to join Ma Chao's troops.

Ma Chao annexed the nomadic tribes and herdsmen he encountered along the way, and soon the number of cavalry reached thousands.

A Xixia military general guarded the town was suddenly attacked by Ma Chao, the remaining soldiers.

Ma Dai led fifty Xiliang cavalry to attack Xixia soldiers who had left the city.

"Damn it, a mere team of bandits dare to attack the territory guarded by this general. It's really a pity!"

"Open the city gate, I will destroy them!"

The bald general of Xixia carried a mace, and the vicious and evil spirit, took two thousand Xixia cavalry out of the city to attack Ma Dai.

"Catch them alive and act as slaves!"

The Western Xia cavalry roared wolf, and went one after another, two thousand to fifty, and the advantage lies in me.

"They were fooled!"

Ma Dai's fifty Xiliang cavalry were showing off his power at the city. Seeing that the Xixia military generals led two thousand Xixia cavalry out of the city, they knew that the other party had been deceived, so they took the cavalry and pretended to flee.

"Hahaha, they are scared! Chase them and don't let them run away!"

The Western Xia general thought that Ma Dai was afraid of him, so he continued to chase him without stopping.

Two thousand Western Xia cavalry waving their sabers excitedly, trying to capture Ma Dai and his group alive.

Ma Dai escaped for several miles, and the ambush led by Ma Chao and Ma Yunlu appeared and attacked the Western Xia cavalry from both sides!

Ma Chao's tiger-headed golden spear stabbed out, and a shot penetrated the armor of the Western Xia cavalry. With a little force, he picked up the 200-pound Western Xia cavalry!

Ma Yunlu, Ma Xiu, and Ma Tie rushed forward with a gun, and the spear trembled out of the gun flower, killing the Western Xia cavalry!

Ma Dai turned around, slashed out with one knife, and used a dragging sword trick to kill the Western Xia generals under the horse with one knife!

In the middle and late periods of Shu Han, except for Wei Yan, in terms of force, Ma Dai next came.

Among these generals, Ma Dai is second only to Ma Chao.

The Western Xia military general was killed by Ma Dai with a knife-dragging strategy, and the rest of the Western Xia cavalry were headless, and people were panicked and at a loss.

"Those who follow me will prosper, and those who go against me will perish!"

Ma Chao shouted loudly, and his voice was like thunder, shaking the Xixia cavalry around him into blood!

The horses swept through the gun and swept across a row of Western Xia cavalry, killing more than a hundred Western Xia cavalry with their own strength, just like a god of war.

"We are willing to surrender!"

Seeing that Ma Chao and Ma Dai and other military generals showed their might, the Western Xia cavalry directly surrendered to Ma Chao.

If you can't beat it, you can only join.

The Xiliang cavalry entered the city and occupied the town.

"This town has a population of 8,000 households, and the total population of each village controlled by the villages is 50,000. We use this town as a base to quickly annex the surrounding land, and it is still possible to lie in one place."

Ma Chao occupied the town and set out to guide other villages and towns.

"But brother, as far as I know, after several years of melee, the princes of various places have risen and become the strong. The princes in the Helan Mountain area should have great strength. Why are there only two or three thousand defenders like this, which governs the population of 50,000 households?"

Ma Yunlu discovered something unusual.

This important city that controls the population of 50,000 households has too few troops.

Ma Dai directly captured a Western Xia cavalry: "Where did your town go to the extra troops?"

The Western Xia cavalry replied in panic, "Our king recruited troops from various tribes and went east to fight with the Xia army."

"Xia Army?"

Ma Chao, Ma Dai, Ma Yunlu and others have been enemies of the Qin army in Xiliang for a long time. They are not sure what happened in Guanzhong and Central Plains and what forces they have.

"The Xia army is the overlord entrenched in Guanzhong, Heluo area. The lord is Zhang Hua, and even our king is defeated by his men..."

"Anyway, this is a good opportunity for us to occupy the territory of the Dangxiang people."

Ma Chao learned that Li Yuanhao and Zhang Hua fought hard on the east side of the Yellow River, and they were full of fighting spirit and began to attack Li Yuanhao's territory.

Li Yuanhao, who was fighting with the Xia army, was in a hurry after receiving it.

"A group of bandits conquered Yingli Town? I left three thousand cavalry in that town. What bandits can conquer the town guarded by three thousand cavalry?"

Li Yuanhao's face was heavy.

To attack the city, more troops are often needed.

Three thousand defenders, the bandits who attacked the city must have seven or eight thousand troops no matter how hard they are.

When did there be such a large-scale bandit in Helan Mountain?

If there were such bandits, they would have been wiped out by Li Yuanhao.

"The guard was lured out of the city, ambushed by bandits in the wild, and was defeated and killed!"

"So that's it. These bandits actually dare to provoke me, Li Yuanhao, and seek death!"

Li Yuanhao was furious.

"There are more than a dozen cities ahead, and the Xia army will not be able to reach here for a while. I will go with you and quickly defeat this bandit."

Li Xin decided to join forces with Li Yuanhao, use cavalry to quickly return to the army and annihilate the bandits.

Otherwise, letting this group of bandits destroy heavily in the rear will affect the transportation of food and grass.

Li Yuanhao and Li Xin counted 10,000 cavalrymen and secretly went out of the camp. They were raiding Ma Chao and his group who were regarded as bandits.

In the Tengger Desert, King Wu of Qin led Ren Bi, Wu Huo and Meng to say that the three Qin strongmen and thousands of Qin cavalry chased Ma Chao, but they never caught up.

Not only that, King Wu of Qin pursued behind and lost Ma Chao's trace. Instead, he lost his way in the desert, making the arrogant King Wu of Qin look a little embarrassed.

"King, drink water."

Meng, a strong man from Qin, said that he directly squeezed the cactus with his bare hands and squeezed out the green cactus juice and presented it to King Wu of Qin.
To be continued...