Three Kingdoms: Wolong's brother-in-law, tricking Liu Bei into seizing Jingzhou

Pang De turned around tremblingly, and when he saw the familiar face clearly, his expression suddenly changed.

"Ma...Ma Mengqi?"

The three words came out in a trembling tone.

That’s right, the man who was riding his horse and charging towards him was none other than his former master, Ma Chao, the young master of the Ma family army.

Pang De's emotions were mixed at once, and he froze in place, neither turning his horse to flee nor raising his sword to fight.

Just when he was distracted, Ma Chao, on horseback, broke through the chaotic army and arrived in front of him.

He filled his hand with all his strength and thrust the silver spear forward with great force, carrying the power to destroy the world.

Before the gun reached his eyes, the oppressive force of fear made him feel an inexplicable sense of suffocation.

It was this feeling of suffocation that suddenly woke Pound up and made him realize that this was a life-and-death moment and it was not the time for him to lose consciousness.

Pang De took a deep breath and attacked with all his strength using the long sword in his hand.

"throat!"

There was a loud bang as if the sky was collapsing.

The sword and the spear collided in mid-air, and a circle of dusty air expanded in all directions, actually shaking the surrounding soldiers to the point that they couldn't stand steadily.

Pang De's palms felt numb, his blood was boiling, and he felt a dull pain in his internal organs. The sword in his hand was knocked back by the force.

He took another deep breath, the veins in his arms crackling, and he exerted force, finally pushing back the long sword that was suppressing him.

The knife and the gun were facing each other in mid-air.

"Lingming, my Ma family has treated you well. The thief Cao has harmed my entire family. How could you surrender to the thief Cao and become his henchman?"

Ma Chao asked in a stern voice with an angry look on his face.

Pang De's heart was shocked, and a trace of guilt flashed in his eyes for an instant.

Deep down, he really felt guilty towards the Ma family.

After all, he was just a small soldier in the border army back then. It was Ma Teng who had the ability to judge people and saw that he had the talent to be a general, so he promoted him from a small soldier to the position of a general of the Ma family army.

For many years, Ma Teng had always raised him as a half-son, and his relationship with Ma Chao was that of both master and subject and brother.

This was also the reason why Pang De firmly followed Ma Chao and rose up against Cao Cao when Ma Teng was killed.

Even when Ma Chao was defeated in Longxi and forced to flee to Hanzhong to rely on Zhang Lu, he still followed him.

It was not until Cao Cao attacked Hanzhong, Yangping Pass was accidentally lost, Nanzheng was besieged by Cao Cao, and he lost contact with Ma Chao that he was forced to surrender to Cao Cao along with Zhang Lu.

After he surrendered to Cao, Cao Cao treated him well. His kindness and respect gradually eliminated the guilt in his heart and made him loyal to the Cao family.

until today.

When Pang De unexpectedly met Ma Chao on the battlefield and was angrily questioned by the other party, the guilt that he had suppressed in his heart resurfaced.

"Ma Mengqi, it's not me, Pang De, who has failed your Ma family!"

"When you were trapped in Yangping Pass, you didn't know whether you were alive or dead. Nanzheng was surrounded by the King of Qin, and Zhang Lu opened the city to surrender. I had no choice but to surrender to the King of Qin!"

Pang De held Ma Chao's spear with his long sword and could only speak out to defend himself.

"Well, even if you had no choice back then, now that we meet again, what reason do you have to fight for Cao thief again?"

"Follow me and surrender to the Han Dynasty, to the Emperor."

"The Emperor of the Han Dynasty is a great leader, benevolent, righteous and wise. Only he can pacify the world and destroy the Cao family to avenge my Ma family!"

"Ling Ming, it's never too late to mend your ways. Let's fight for the Han together!"

Ma Chao also felt that he had let Pang De down, so he stopped blaming him and extended an olive branch to Pang De among the thousands of soldiers.

Pound's heart trembled, and for a moment he was indeed shaken.

With his old master in front of him, trying so hard to persuade him to abandon Cao and join Liu, it seemed that he had no reason to refuse.

But soon, Pang De remembered how good Cao Cao had been to him.

If I abandon Cao Cao at this point, wouldn't I be considered an ungrateful person?

Wouldn't you be laughed at by the whole world, who would laugh at you for being fickle and easily influenced by others?
Thinking of this, a flash of hesitation appeared in Pound's eyes.

"The King of Qin has treated me well, how can I, Pang De, betray him?"

"Ma Mengqi, I am sorry that I cannot obey your order!"

Pang De gritted his teeth, exerted force with both arms, and lifted Ma Chao's silver spear away.

Seeing that Pang De did not listen to his advice, Ma Chao became furious:
"Pound, you fool, I'll wake you up!"

After saying that, Ma Chao let out a long roar, and the silver spear in his hand turned into light and shadow in the sky, sweeping down towards Pang De like an overwhelming force.

Pang De no longer hesitated. He took a deep breath and used all his strength to block the attack with his sword.

The knife and the gun collided like lightning, and countless light and gun shadows intertwined into a light net that enveloped the two of them.

Although Ma Chao's martial arts skills are unparalleled and are at the level of the Five Tigers, Pang De is no weakling either, and is also one of the most powerful generals of the time.

With two people fighting to the death like this, how could the winner be decided by just one move?

The two riders soon engaged in a battle, and it was difficult to tell who would win.

However, Pang De was an extremely skilled warrior and could still barely fight against Ma Chao, but the Qin cavalry under his command were not so lucky.

The Han cavalry rushed over and in a blink of an eye had cut them into pieces, killing them to the point of screaming and howling like ghosts.

The Qin cavalry collapsed.

Without Pang De's command, they turned their horses around and fled towards Weikou.

After the Han cavalry defeated the Qin cavalry, they did not pursue them, but instead, according to the prior deployment, attacked the Qin infantry who were attacking the main camp at an angle.

The cavalry rolled over and crashed into the Qin army's infantry formation.

People and horses were thrown to the ground, ghosts were crying and wolves were howling...

More than 20,000 Qin soldiers were attacking the Han camp with all their might, and they had no idea that their Qin allies would be defeated so quickly.

In less than a quarter of an hour, 10,000 Qin cavalry were defeated.

In such a hurry, Cao Zhen had no time to organize a defense, and was blocked by the Han cavalry and rushed into pieces.

The Qin army was in chaos.

In the Han camp, Huang Zhong stood on his horse with his sword drawn, looking at the Qin army that was collapsing and scattering outside the camp, and a smile appeared on his old face.

The outcome of today's battle has been decided.

He and Ma Chao not only defended the main camp and the foothold on the south bank, but also defeated the 30,000 Qin infantry and cavalry that came to attack in one fell swoop.

In the Battle of Weishui, the greatest credit must go to these two people!

"Han army soldiers, listen to my orders!"

"Open the camp gates, follow me and kill all the Qin troops!"

Huang Zhong shouted loudly and pointed the long sword in his hand towards the outside of the camp.

The camp gate burst open.

The Han army soldiers, full of fighting spirit, rushed out of the camp like a tide with deafening shouts of killing, and rushed towards the Qin army which was in chaos and defeat.

The Qin army collapsed across the board!
"No retreat, no retreat!"

"Re-form the formation, stop the Han army, and do not retreat—"

Cao Zhen brandished his spear, beheaded the fleeing soldiers, and shouted anxiously.

To no avail.

The morale of the Qin army had collapsed, and no one took his orders seriously anymore. Even killing could not stop the Qin army from being defeated like a landslide.

"Pang De, you are really incompetent. How could ten thousand cavalrymen be defeated so easily by the enemy?"

"Weishui has been lost, you deserve to die!"

Cao Zhen looked in the direction of Pang De, gritting his teeth and cursing in anger, blaming all the responsibility for the defeat on Pang De.

"General Zidan, the situation is over. Let's retreat quickly."

"If we don't leave now, we will be wiped out here!"

The deputy general Cheng Yi beside him screamed at Cao Zhen.

Cao Zhen gritted his teeth and after a moment of hesitation, he could only shout angrily:
"Sound the horn, the entire army retreats to the Weikou camp!"

When the sound of golden arrows rang out, Cao Zhen's general flag was the first to withdraw eastward.

As soon as the commander retreated, the Qin army collapsed and everyone fled eastward.

Twenty thousand Qin infantrymen collapsed.

Cavalry.

Pang De, who was fighting hard, suddenly heard the sound of gold. He found a chance to glance sideways and his heart sank to the ground in an instant.

He saw that there were only a few cavalrymen left on his left and right, and they had been killed by the Han cavalry and were either forced to flee in all directions or lose their lives.

He also saw that the infantry in the southwest had completely collapsed and was retreating towards Weikou like rats crossing the street.

Lost!

Not only did their 30,000-strong infantry and cavalry army fail to drive the Han army off the Wei River, but they were also defeated and forced to flee by the Han army.

If I go back, how am I going to explain this to Cao Cao?
"Pang De, your situation is hopeless. How long are you going to persist in your delusion? Why don't you dismount and surrender to the Han people?"

Ma Chao's confidence soared, he fired his spear more fiercely, and tried to persuade the enemy to surrender again.

Pang De had lost his spirit and his fighting spirit quickly collapsed, and he was soon unable to withstand Ma Chao's fierce attack.

In an instant, he was wounded on the arm and shoulder by Ma Chao's spear, and several cuts were made on him.

"How can I, Pound, be a treacherous person?"

"Ma Mengqi, I have already failed you, how can I fail you again!"

Pang De roared, and swung his long sword to knock away Ma Chao's silver spear, then turned his horse around and fled in a panic.

He still refused to change his ways.

Although he was defeated, he still decided to flee back to Weikou and continue to serve as a minister of the Qin State.

"Pound, don't go--"

With Ma Chao's violent temper, there was no way he would let him escape. He mounted his horse and raised his spear to chase him.

"Dang Dang Dang——"

The sound of a gong rang out over the camp.

It was Huang Zhong who gave the order to withdraw the troops.

Ma Chao was depressed. At the critical moment when he was about to pursue Pang De, Huang Zhong ordered his troops to retreat.

Huang Zhong is a senior official, holds a higher official position than him, and is also the commander-in-chief of an army of 30,000. It is difficult to disobey his orders.

After much hesitation, Ma Chao had no choice but to rein in his horse, staring at Pang De's retreating figure, and snorted coldly:

"Pound, you stubborn fool, if I see you again next time, I will beat you until you kneel down and admit your mistake!"

The 10,000 Han troops stopped pursuing and returned to camp.

The sounds of killing finally died down, and the battle of attack and defense ended with a complete victory for the Han army.

In the camp, Ma Chao met Huang Zhong.

As soon as they met, Ma Chao complained:

"General Huang, I was just about to capture Pang De alive, why did you suddenly call off the troops?"

"Let's make a concerted effort and destroy these 30,000 Qin troops without any problem!"

Huang Zhong smiled and patted Ma Chao on the shoulder:

"Mengqi, today we not only successfully crossed the river, but also defeated the enemy. This is already a great achievement. Don't be too greedy."

"Besides, the order given to us by the emperor is only to successfully set up camp on the south bank. I am afraid that if we pursue them rashly, if Cao Cao has a rear army, we will be in danger of turning victory into defeat."

Ma Chao suddenly realized, so he stopped complaining and nodded:
"General Huang is right. It is important to defend the ferry camp and the floating bridge. You are right to withdraw your troops. Don't let this happen!"

Huang Zhong laughed and said happily:

"Come here, report the victory to His Majesty as soon as possible, and tell him that we have defeated the Qin army and secured the crossing. Please lead the army to cross the river!" (End of this chapter)