Chapter Twelve: The General's Death Will Be Heard Far and Wide

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  Under the leadership of Deng Tong, Hu Yuan and more than a dozen Heishan cavalrymen, Ma Xun rode forward for over a hundred paces, and saw under the great banner with white tassels that armored general. His appearance was roughly as Ma Xun had imagined - a robust and muscular military general with a full face and a helmet on his head, riding a rather tall horse from Pingzhou, looking quite majestic. This was Du Chang, the commander of the Heishan army.

  Du Chang wore only a ring-headed knife at his waist, with a flag officer, a messenger officer, and an account supervisor who carried his weapons behind him. Du Chang's weapon was a rather heavy long-handled knife.

  Du Chang had already learned from Deng Tong's mouth that the ignorant and arrogant little boy in front of him was the one who had beaten his own account, slapped his own face, and had been sulking all along. When he saw the precious horse ridden by Ma Yuan, a pair of fine eyes flashed with a hint of greed, and he coldly snorted: "You're the one who just charged out of the enemy's formation? I heard from Deng Tong that you are a hundred generals of Xiakou Qu. Hmph, this general asks you, as a general of Xiakou, why would you appear behind the enemy's formation? If there is no explanation for this matter, don't blame this general for treating you as a spy."

  "Your tone is not good!" Ma Chao coldly glanced at Deng Tong, guessing that this person had spoken ill of him. Without another word, he picked up Yuan Shao and threw him to the ground: "Can the cavalry commander recognize who he is?"

  At this time, Yuan Shao was struggling to get up. When he lifted his head, his eyes met Du Chang's. The latter was shocked and disbelieving. After a while, he stuttered: "You... you are... Yuan Benchu?!"

  Yuan Shao stood up straight and said proudly: "That's exactly what I am."

  Du Chang was stunned for a long time, and suddenly he looked up at the sky and burst out laughing: "It turns out that the earl of Qi Xiang is actually inside the earth house! It's really heaven's blessing to my Black Mountain Army, heaven's favor to me Du Chang! Haha!"

  Deng Tong and Hu Yuan were also overjoyed, their bodies trembling with excitement. This achievement was too great, far beyond what they had imagined.

  Du Chang's eyes turned to the Dawan horse, and he couldn't hide his desire: "Is this the precious steed of Qi Xiang Hou?"

  Ma Xun dismounted and nodded: "Yes, I was just about to present it to General Ji."

  Du Chang's eyes flashed, and he nodded: "That's right, only such a fine steed can match the name 'White Horse General'. Ma Baijiang's great merit is unparalleled, Du Mou thanks him."

  At this time, Ma Huan had already taken off his golden helmet and came before Du Changma, holding it up with both hands.

  A stern and menacing voice came from above: "You little brat, don't you know military etiquette? Do you know what kind of punishment you'll receive for disrespecting a superior officer?"

  Military salute? Ma Xun naturally knew, it was a single knee kneel. He had previously knelt to Gongsun Zan, but that was a generation of heroes, showing some respect was okay, what kind of goods was Du Chang, also worthy!

  Like Ma Hong, who was used to being the boss, he actually had a wild streak in his bones. He just wanted to see Du Chang's reaction, but Du Chang didn't react at all, and instead looked down on him with an air of superiority, his eyes cast downward, coldly staring at him.

  At this moment, Ma Huan knew what kind of person Du Chang was - narrow-minded and jealous of others' abilities. Such a person would not appreciate your kindness no matter how great the benefit, and might even repay kindness with enmity.

  Ma Hu knew that this time the credit would be given to Bái Yǎn Láng. However, when under someone's roof, one has no choice but to bow their head, right? Being able to yield and adapt is also a necessary quality for being in charge, so Ma Hu didn't hesitate and immediately performed a single-knee salute on the ground, but he didn't offer both hands with the golden helmet, instead pressing only one hand on the ground - since they weren't giving him any face anyway, why bother giving them more?

  Du Chang's eyes hardened, his fierce light fully exposed. The one commanding the siege of Yuan Shao was him, Du Chang, why should this unknown little soldier intervene and take away the honor that belonged to him? Du Chang glanced at Yuan Shao with the corner of his eye, his mind already made up, this great achievement, he wanted to monopolize it alone. Suddenly raising his hand, he made a downward chopping motion. As soon as Lord Yuan saw this gesture, Hu Yuan was overjoyed and even forgot about the pain in his arm, immediately riding quietly to Ma Yan's back, pulling out his waist knife, holding it high, aiming at the back of his neck and chopping down.

  Ma Xun had been in the gang for so long, seeing many scenes of people drawing their swords at the slightest disagreement, but he never thought that a commander who led thousands of cavalrymen would actually kill a low-ranking officer in broad daylight just to get credit and seize a precious horse. However, his years of experience in the bloody and violent world had taught him to be cautious, so although he knelt down with his head bowed, his eyes were fixed intently on the gleaming golden helmet...

  Just as Hu Yuan raised his knife, Ma Huan suddenly threw the golden helmet backwards with a loud crash, hitting Hu Yuan's face like a shot put.

  Ma Huan's right arm threw a powerful blow! The three-catty golden hammer, with a force of no less than 100 catties, smashed Hu Yuan's face, causing his pancake-like face to cave in.

  Hu Yuan let out a mournful cry, which was stuck in his throat, and fell off his horse. His long knife flew out of his hand, spun twice, and stabbed into the ground in front of Yuan Shao with a thud.

  Either don't move your hands, or if you do, go all the way! This is Ma Hu's consistent principle.

  After killing Hu Yuan with a golden hammer, Ma Xian suddenly jumped up, stretched out his arm, grabbed Du Chang's ankle and pulled him off the horse. Then, using his huge body as a stick, he swung it around, creating a strong wind, and swept down Du Chang's armed attendants, including Zha Xiaodao and Deng Tong, as well as more than ten other followers.

  These guards were all Du Chang's escorts, all of whom were brave and robust soldiers. They shouldn't have been beaten by Ma Xun like a wooden stake, but the commander was in someone else's hands, everyone was afraid to use their blades, and could only try to rescue him with their bare hands.

  Comparing strength with Ma Chao? It's like competing in arm-wrestling with a crane, and not dying quickly enough! As a result, all the followers were pulled off their horses and rolled to the ground. Du Chang, the "human club", had already broken his tendons and fractured his bones, his neck twisted in an unnatural way. The poor Black Mountain general was caught in Ma Chao's iron palm, without even having the strength to resist, and died in a most miserable manner.

  This is Ma Chao's fourth day in the Three Kingdoms era, and four generals have already died at his hands, earning him the nickname "beheading one general a day".

  When Ma Chao suddenly started a riot, the scene was in chaos. Yuan Shao was overjoyed and used his shoulder to push open the soldiers who were holding him. He turned around and rubbed the ropes binding his arms on the blade of Hu Yuan's abandoned knife several times, and the rope broke immediately.

  Yuan Shao pulled over Hu Yuan's war horse, mounted the saddle, and gave a heavy slap on the horse's buttocks. The war horse felt pain and galloped forward violently.

  At this time, Ma Chao had already killed Du Chang and his entourage, and threw the corpse of Du Chang, who was like a rotten mud, onto the white horse. He turned his head to glance at Yuan Shao's back, who was driving his horse to rush forward more than ten steps away, and then looked around at the Black Mountain soldiers who were swarming in, secretly sighing: Gongsun Zan! It's not that I didn't want to help you, nor did I not want to eliminate your greatest threat for you. The fact is that your pig teammates are too pig-like.

  He sighed and gave up the idea of shooting Yuan Shao, to avoid being surrounded, and suddenly shook the reins, fleeing in the opposite direction with Yuan Shao.

  Whether it was the Youzhou army, the Heishan army or the Jizhou army, they had all lost their commanders at this time and were without direction, fighting in a chaotic melee.

  Ma Huan no longer cared about the Youzhou army or Jizhou army, he had made up his mind to leave. Even though Gongsun Zan treated him well, he would not tolerate a small general under his command killing the main general of an allied force. So if Ma Huan returned to the Youzhou army camp, there was only one outcome waiting for him - certain death. For now, he had to leave the battlefield as quickly as possible, the farther the better, but before that, he had to retrieve his own things.

  White horse like lightning, riding like flying, through the chaotic battlefield edge, Ma Hao rushed to the small hillside where he was before - fortunately! His own vanguard team, although they had gone out to assist in the battle, still left three vanguards to take care of their horses.

  The three generals who had been left to guard the camp were overjoyed when they saw Bai Qi return with his hundred officials, and they all let out a sigh of relief. They hastily went forward to welcome him, just as they were about to explain the direction of their troops to Ma Feng, but were stopped by Ma Feng's raised hand. What followed was that Ma Feng's actions left his three subordinates staring in amazement.

  But then Ma Yun quickly removed the quiver, package, dry ration bag and water bottle from his own war horse's saddle and transferred them to Silver Arrow's back. He then pulled out a small knife, cut off the stirrup leather strap, threw it into the package, mounted the horse, and with a fist bump towards the three subordinates who were still unfamiliar, said: "Brothers, Ma has been forced to leave the team, it's really hard to say. If fate permits, we'll meet again another day." After speaking, he galloped away.

  The sun sets in the west, the sound of horseshoes fades into the distance, bloody killings are like a backdrop. In this vast red background, only a white bright spot can be seen, appearing and disappearing, moving further and further away.

  From this moment on, a person who didn't originally belong to this time and space truly entered the magnificent world of Three Kingdoms. The wheel of history was slightly hindered by this unexpected event, and when it regained stability and continued rolling forward, the direction had unexpectedly changed...