Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 190 Don't Let Me See You Again!
The current situation in Chang'an is all about peacekeeping and stability. Liu Xie naturally doesn't want to untie the shackles around Ma Chao's neck at this time and let the tiger out of the cage.However, after thinking about it, he hesitated: he seemed to be so preconceived at the beginning, which made Lu Bu's lone wolf leave him.

Although there are other factors involved, Liu Xie has to admit that his desire to suppress Lu Bu's embankment did make Lu Bu see no way out for him, so he chose to leave Chang'an.

As a result, Liu Xie looked at Ma Chao's fiery eyes and thought for a while.I feel that this matter is not a matter of principle, and there is still a lot of room for turning around.That madman Chen Deng was right. Raising a strong general, especially a very aggressive and ambitious general, is like raising a tiger. You have to be fed and will bite when you are hungry.

Although Ma Chao would not just grab Liu Xie and nibble on him when he was hungry, but it was by no means a good thing to keep this guy hungry like this.

"As for me, I really want to find a group of troops to handle some trivial matters right now. However, Xu Huang has talked about this matter in front of me many times, and I have been worrying about whether it is more appropriate to send you or Xu Huang." Now that you have decided to feed the tiger, you can't just throw food away and let the tiger eat it. You have to whet the tiger's appetite and let him know who is feeding him.

When Ma Chao heard that Xu Huang dared to compete with him, his sword-like brows immediately raised, and he said proudly: "If your majesty sends the last general to go, and the last general is willing to use his head as a guarantee, he will definitely do better than General Xu." outstanding!"

Liu Xie shook his head inscrutablely.This kid Ma Chao is just too temperamental, he dares to speak wild words without even asking about anything?

"Why, doesn't Your Majesty trust the last general?"

Liu Xie still shook his head, sighed and said, "Xu Huang will go out this time, and I don't need to prepare any supplies for him."

"What?" Ma Chao turned pale with shock, but this blow did not bother him. After pondering for a moment, he lowered the price like a rival bidding with Xu Huang: "Your Majesty doesn't need to prepare any supplies."

Now Liu Xie was a little strange. He said that Xu Huang didn't need any luggage, which was actually an exaggeration.Because of this task, Liu Xie had a flash of inspiration and wanted Xu Huang to take the soldiers of the Southern Army to do his old job.Although there is no major disaster in the Guanzhong area, some bandits and robbers still occupy the mountains and become kings everywhere.This will greatly hinder him from reopening the trade route in the future, so it is necessary to send a sharp iron plow to plow the Guanzhong area.

The last time Xu Huang entered Huashan, he only brought a few hundred people with him, and the luggage and the like can be ignored, but it is by no means that there is no need to prepare at all as Liu Xie said.However, less than half of the old soldiers under Ma Chao's command were cavalry that cost a lot of money. How could he have the confidence to say such things?
"In the end, I only need to write a letter to my father, and let him send some livestock over." Ma Chao was a little proud, and seemed to have a sense of superiority over the pampered Han people like Liu Xie: "The Qiang people have been nomadic since ancient times. Sheng, although those old soldiers have been Sinicized a lot, the blood in their bones has not changed. As long as some highland barley noodles are combined with goat milk, they will have physical strength to fight. As for war horses, it is not a problem, each of them can also herd Take care of the horses."

After hearing this, Liu Xie was convinced. Although Ma Chao's traditional method was very difficult, he had to admit that the ancient nomads were indeed tough.To build a cavalry in the Central Plains is ten times the cost of raising an infantry.Ma Chao's method can be used to reduce the cost of cavalry at once.

No wonder the nomads have always been the nightmare hammer of the farming peoples in the Central Plains. Every few hundred years, a powerful race will rise and hammer the land of the Central Plains.

However, although Liu Xie was extremely satisfied in his heart, he was still worried on the surface: "Xu Huang has been a bandit and bandit before, and he is more experienced than you... What's more, the bandits in the Guanzhong area all occupy the mountains as kings, and you are outside the Great Wall." Using cavalry to charge, can you break through those strongholds?"

"What's so difficult about this?" As soon as he said this, Ma Chao became even more disdainful: "The root cause of the chaos in Guanzhong has been eliminated, and the rest of the small troublemakers have been forced to become bandits. Old soldiers, they have three disadvantages, which are enough for the last general to defeat them in one fell swoop."

When talking about marching and fighting, Ma Chao immediately talked eloquently.Liu Xie couldn't imagine that this usually cool and reticent guy had such a talkative side.

"Firstly, those grass bandits are fighting on their own, they don't belong to each other, and even the various copycat forces are still fighting endlessly. In the end, the general will lead the army to attack with the force of thunder, relying on the crowd to bully the few, and using the strong to attack the weak. It can be broken one by one."

"Secondly, those bandits and grassroots are not half as powerful as the last general. The weapons they are equipped with are no more than farm tools and wooden sticks, so how can they be the opponents of fully armed old soldiers? What's more, it is not the last general who despises those rats. Those copycats Among them, I am afraid that none of them can go through the three moves under the command of the last general. However, these bandits all rely on the blood and courage of the leader, and the last general only needs one person to demoralize the enemy army."

"The third is that these grassroots bandits have no fighting spirit. These bandits and grassroots who occupy the mountains and become kings, except for a few villains in the family, few of them really want to rebel. As long as the general wins one or two games Prestige, the rest of the cottages will surely surrender. As long as His Majesty grants them the right to deal with them on the spot, the final general will let them go down the mountain obediently and become good citizens of the great man."

"With these three evils, it is only a matter of a flick of a finger to wipe out those lowly bandits in the pass. The ancients said that if God does not take, you will be blamed instead, Your Majesty!" Ma Chao is not a person with deep thoughts. Since he calmed down, his emotions gradually became agitated: "Your Majesty, you will never be able to train a strong soldier in training. Only by throwing those soldiers on the battlefield and repeatedly tempering them with blood and fire can they be reborn from the ashes and become a real army. A strong man who knows what war is!"

Liu Xie was shocked by what he heard, and looked at Ma Chao without blinking: Is this still the brave and foolhardy Ma Chao in history, or the brocade of Xiliang who demonstrated in Longyou Tucheng?How could such a stern, ruthless God of War, full of blood and obsession with revenge, come up with such a thousand-dollar strategy?
However, if you think about it, Ma Chao is indeed a hero who has been misinterpreted by history.Later, he massacred the city of Jicheng in Longyou, and it happened after he heard that Ma Teng and more than [-] members of his family were all beheaded by Cao Cao.

In history, it was not after Ma Teng was beheaded by Cao Cao that Ma Chao became angry.On the contrary, at that time, Ma Teng raised the banner of anti-Cao while still in Yecheng as a hostage to Ma Chao.But Ma Chao couldn't be blamed for this matter, it was Boss Cao who played tricks first.

At that time, Cao Cao, who occupied more than half of the country in the Han Dynasty, was concerned about the hidden dangers in Guanxi, so he resorted to false tactics to destroy Guo, and asked to use the road of Yongzhou to attack Zhanglu in Hanzhong.This crappy strategy immediately made the princes in the Kansai area nervous.

At that time, Ma Chao, who had already commanded the Ma family army and was more powerful than Ma Teng, made the decision to fight Cao Cao in order to protect his family.He thought that as long as he won that battle, he would have the capital to fight against Cao Cao. Naturally, Cao Cao did not dare to fight against the Ma family.

This decision can be said to be very wise.Unfortunately, Ma Chao underestimated Cao Cao's ability.

In the Battle of Weishui, although Ma Chao killed Cao Cao and abandoned his robes, the weakness of the loose alliance in the Kansai area was immediately penetrated by Cao Cao and Jia Xu, who had sharp eyes.A "Jiao Ma Yu Yi" and "Mo Shujian Han Sui" really caused a rift between Ma Chao and Han Sui, which eventually led to Ma Chao's defeat in the first battle.

Afterwards, Ma Chao naturally also knew the fate of the Ma family in Yecheng, so, stimulated by this urgent worry, he attacked Jicheng in Longyou like crazy, hoping to gain a foothold in Longxi again, so as to contain the Cao Cao.But under the torment of anxiety and Jicheng's desperate resistance, Ma Chao could only attack and attack frantically.However, the moment Jicheng was captured, he heard the news that all the Ma family in Yecheng had been executed.

So, at that moment, Ma Chao, who was dazzled by hatred and anger, completely transformed into a ghost with inexplicable grief, and gave the order to slaughter those who swore to protect Jicheng, turning Jicheng into a sad and desolate place. city ​​of the dead.

And that decision became a turning point for Ma Chao to be depressed throughout his life.From then on, his life, which was as bright as the scorching sun, suddenly entered the cold and cruel winter.

Thinking of this, Liu Xie didn't know why, he looked at Ma Chao's handsome face with high spirits.An indescribable feeling arose in his heart, as if Ma Chao in front of him was a pure and innocent boy, and he really didn't want such a boy bathed in sunshine to experience such a painful and gloomy nightmare in history .

But just when Liu Xie felt that his father's love was growing, Ma Chao, who saw Liu Xie silent for a long time, turned ugly. He looked at Liu Xie suspiciously, and cautiously asked: "Your Majesty, can you Don't look at me like that?"

"why?"

"This kind of look is exactly the same as those big girls and young daughter-in-laws on Chang'an Street look at me, with greed in their admiration, as if they want to swallow the last one..."

Liu Xie's face immediately turned red from pity, and then he reacted suddenly, raised his leg angrily and kicked Ma Chao, and shouted furiously: "Get out, take your old soldiers out of the city to suppress the bandits! In the past six months, don't let me see you again!"

(End of this chapter)