Chapter 645 Ma Xiaotiao

On the 29th, the army launched an attack on Jiuyuan City. Although the counties were successively recovered and the tribes had been alerted, facing the attack of more than 7,000 soldiers and 5,000 players, and the fact that the Hu people were not good at defending the city, Jiuyuan City only lasted half a day before it was captured.

Of the nearly 10,000 people of the Zahu tribe, except for the more than 2,000 people who were killed and more than 2,000 who escaped, the remaining nearly 6,000 people were captured. Afterwards, Zhao Zilong occupied Jiuyuan.

However, everyone knew that it was not over yet. Afterwards, Zhao Zilong ordered all players and Shegan's 1,000 light cavalry to disperse to the area of ​​dozens of miles around Jiuyuan to warn the county. The rest of the soldiers and horses repaired the city walls with the civilians and prisoners and prepared for the battle.

Four days later, 30,000 Zahu coalition forces appeared in the wilderness northeast of Jiuyuan City. In the afternoon of that day, the coalition forces began to attack the city. At this time, Zhao Zilong's weakness of not having a strong general to support him was reflected. Jiuyuan's defense battle was obviously not as good as the Xiake's Guangmu defense battle, not to mention Huangfu Chaobo's Xi'anyang battle.

It was not until noon on the third day that Zhao Zilong defeated the attacking Zahu cavalry. The 30,000 coalition forces suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, more than 5,000 were captured, and the remaining more than 10,000 fled. After the war, Zhao Zilong collected less than 5,000 horses and nearly 10,000 cattle and sheep.

However, his own losses were not small. First of all, his 5,000 NPC soldiers, except for 1,000 crossbowmen and 1,000 cavalry, suffered a slightly smaller loss, and the other 3,000 infantry soldiers suffered nearly half of the losses. Fortunately, Jiuyuan City was finally defended. However, if you want to recover, it is estimated that it will definitely not be possible without a year or two. Moreover, before there are strong generals, Zhao Zilong needs to be cautious if he wants to continue to expand.

As for the third player who recovered the city, Zhao Zilong's gains were much worse than the previous two: one upgrade blueprint for a small town, a medium town, and a large town, one upgrade blueprint for a special-grade restaurant, one Nine-transformation Rebirth Pill, and a production blueprint for a level 40 horn bow.

Among them, only the blueprint for the special-grade restaurant is more useful to Zhao Zilong, because the higher the level of the restaurant, the more attractive it is to NPCs, which gives Zhao Zilong, who lacks generals, a glimmer of hope.

As for other things, the territory upgrade blueprints, town-level ones are not a hot commodity among current players, but city-level ones are still rarely found. Zhao Zilong himself has several Nine-transformation Rebirth Pills in his hands. As for the horn bow, it is relatively suitable for cavalry, but for Zhao Zilong, it is really limited.

When Zhao Zilong led everyone to arrange and deal with Jiuyuan City, Wuwei City, more than a thousand miles southwest of Jiuyuan, was in the city. On the tower, there stood several young generals. The leader was a young general in white robe and armor. He had a handsome face, eyes like shooting stars, tiger body, ape arms, leopard belly and wolf waist. The others beside him were even younger.

Yes, these people were Ma Chao and others who would later become famous in Xiliang and were known as the Five Tigers of Xiliang. Ma Chao was sixteen this year. Although he was not very old, he had fought with his father Ma Teng for several years. The oldest among the others was Ma Chao's nephew Ma Dai, who was already fifteen years old. This year, he had joined Ma Teng's army and served as a lieutenant. There were two others beside him, namely Ma Teng's second son Ma Xiu and third son Ma Tie. Both of them were not yet adults, but they followed their two brothers to fight in the army every day.

Several people stood on the tower, their eyes were looking at a group of people going east under the city. They were Wu Yu who came to Wuwei to meet Ma Teng and wanted to return the ancestral calendar to Jiuquan.

After careful consideration, Ma Teng agreed to Wu Yu's request. Of course, this was conditional. After Wu Yu obtained Jiuquan, he had to follow Ma Teng's lead and pay a certain amount of money and grain every year as a price.

Ma Dai said to Ma Chao in front of him: "Brother, why do you agree to the request of this strange man? Jiuquan is located to the west of Zhangye. Although it is not comparable to Zhangye, it is also a county. Wouldn't it be better to control it in your own hands?"

Ma Chao chuckled and said: "Although Jiuquan is good, it is not what we can take care of now. Jin Wuwei and Yin Zhangye, how many people are jealous of us for holding the two best counties in Xiliang.

There are Dong Zhuo in the east, Han Sui in the south, and Qiang Hu in the north. As for the west, let them fight for a while, at least we don't have to pay too much attention to the west. When we have time, Jiuquan can be taken in a snap."

Ma Chao's words made the eyes of several brothers sparkle. Ma Dai said: "Brother, you know a lot."

Ma Chao saw the look of several brothers, smiled mysteriously without saying anything, but he said in his heart: "Actually, I don't know these, but I happened to hear it when Brother Lingming gave advice to father yesterday." Of course, he would not say these words.

At this time, a general came up from the tower, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, and full beard. He was Pang De Pang Lingming, a general in Ma Teng's army. Pang De said a lot to get Ma Teng's consent this time. Of course, Pang De's starting point was indeed for the Ma family rather than Wu Yu.

In addition to what Ma Chao said, the main reason was that Zuli County was the throat of Wuwei's eastward exit. Such an important place should not be in the hands of outsiders.

"Dengdeng..." After a sound, Pang De ran up to the tower and saluted Ma Chao and others, saying: "The last general greets the young general, and meets General Dai and the young masters."

"Brother Lingming is too polite, please stand up." Ma Chao happily stepped forward to help Pang De up and said;

"Thank you, young master," Pang De stood up and said: "Young master, how to arrange Zuli County? Does the young master have a candidate in mind?"

"How did Brother Pang discuss with my father just now?" Ma Chao asked back;

Pang De shook his head and said, "I don't have a good candidate either."

Ma Chao pondered for a long time and suddenly said, "Ma Xiaotiao, since Bo Zhan strongly recommended you to me, this time, I will recommend you to my father as the magistrate of Zuli County for Bo Zhan's sake. Later, 500 cavalry and 2,000 infantry will be selected from the county soldiers. You can go to take office after your father agrees. I hope you can guard Zuli for my Ma family."

A man stepped out from behind the few people and said, "I will obey your order. Please rest assured, General. I will definitely guard Zuli for General Zhengxi. The city is there as long as the people are there!"

If there are players here, they will be shocked. This general is also a player, and judging from his appearance, his position is not low. He should be at least a sixth-rank official, otherwise he cannot be the head of a county.

Yes, this is another player who took advantage of the name like Huangfu Chaobo. His name is Ma Xiaotiao, but he was born in Danyang, Yangzhou. In order to establish a relationship with the Xiliang Ma family, he rushed to Xiliang as soon as he entered the game. After arriving in Liangzhou with great difficulty, he always had no chance to contact the people of the Ma family, so he simply settled down in Wuwei.