Chapter 23: Extermination of the Tribe

  "Your Highness, the Ma Family Ranch is now under the control of my Wolf Troop." Wang Zuwei reported to Yang Chengfeng as he accompanied him into the Ma Family Ranch.

  "Have Ma Tongchao, Ma Zhongwei and Ma Shuying been caught?" Yang Chengfeng asked.

  "He's been caught."

  "Bring them to the ranch hall to see me, and gather all the family members of the ranch together, don't harm them." Yang Chengfeng instructed.

  "Yes."

  Ma's Pasture, Great Hall

  Yang Chengfeng sat high on his seat, with the elite imperial guard standing around him. Below him were Yang Chengfeng's top generals, Wang Zuwei and Peng Yunlong. Although Peng Yunlong's heavy cavalry played a crucial role in this great battle, they lost one thousand out of three thousand men, which was a devastating loss.

  Before long, Ma Tongchao, Ma Zhongwei and Ma Shuying were brought in, but compared to earlier, they looked disheveled.

  "Ma Tongchao, what else do you have to say?" Yang Chengfeng coldly looked at Ma Tongchao and the others.

  "What's going on? Hmph, if I didn't have any defenses, your Tianlang Legion would think they could break into the Ma Family Ranch?" Ma Tongchao coldly snorted.

  "You brought this upon yourselves, you can't blame others. Since I, Yang Chengfeng, arrived in Wuwei, I have never had any grudges with your Ma family, but now you actually want to kill me? If I wasn't lucky enough, I wouldn't be standing here alive right now."

  "Hmph, this is just your one-sided words. I think you actually want to destroy our Ma family." Ma Tongchao coldly hummed and said.

  "Ma Tongchao, Ma Tongchao, I think you're getting old. Ask your son and see if this is true. I think your eldest son, Master Ma Shuying, knows all about it." Yang Chengfeng looked at Ma Tongchao with disdain.

  Ma Tongchao turned his head and looked at Ma Shuying.

  "Father, don't listen to his nonsense! How could I possibly send someone to assassinate him?" Ma Shu-ying said anxiously.

  "Is that so?" Yang Chengfeng sneered, "Does the humble one have a need to falsely accuse you? What kind of thing are you, worthy of the humble one mobilizing troops to falsely accuse you? You still don't know, do you? The three thousand Ma family iron cavalry you sent has already been completely annihilated."

  Ma Shu Ying's heart was delighted, and he said: "What evidence do you have to prove that I sent someone to kill you?"

  "Evidence, haha!" Yang Chengfeng burst out laughing and shouted loudly: "Come on, bring the Mach number!"

  Ma Shu Ying's face changed greatly. Didn't Yang Chengfeng say that the 3,000 Iron Riders had been completely annihilated? How could Ma He appear now?

  Yang Chengfeng sneered: "Ma Shuying, what else do you want to say? Ma Hezai has already told me everything. You sent him to attack me."

  "No, it won't." Ma Shu-ying's face turned pale.

  "Your Highness, Mach has arrived." At this time, the guard had already brought Mach in.

  "Brother!" Ma Tongchao looked at Ma Heshu, who was covered in blood and disheveled, and cried out in grief and anger. At the same time, he rushed towards Ma Heshu. The soldiers beside him hastily stopped Ma Tongchao.

  "Ma Hezun, Ma Shuying said that you led the Ma family army to attack me on your own initiative, and it has nothing to do with him or the Ma family. I don't know if it's true?" Yang Chengfeng asked Ma Hezun.

  "What?" Ma Hu's face changed greatly, he had just been brought out of the Wuwei prison and did not know that Yang Chengfeng had already defeated the Ma family army, controlled the Ma family pasture, and thought that Yang Chengfeng came to the Ma family to discuss with Ma Tongchao. After hearing Yang Chengfeng's words, he thought that Ma Shuying was betraying him for his own safety, his face changed greatly, and he glared at Ma Shuying fiercely: "Big brother, what do you mean by this? Didn't you tell me to attack the Liao king? Originally I planned to send my own two thousand imperial guards, but you said to bring one thousand Ma family iron cavalry to kill the Liao king."

  Ma Tongchao and Ma Zhongwei turned pale after hearing Ma He's words.

  "How's that? Ma Tongchao, what else do you have to say now?" Yang Chengfeng sneered.

  "Your Highness, considering our past collaboration, I beg of you to spare the Ma family!" Ma Zhongwei pleaded, kneeling on the ground.

  "This time and that time, I originally had a good impression of the Ma family and was very willing to cooperate with them. But what did I get? What I got was the ruthless attack of the Ma family's Iron Cavalry. Ma Zhongwei, if it were you, how would you do?" Yang Chengfeng said.

  "This..."

  "Hmph, you think that taking down the Ma family ranch will destroy us? I'm telling you, the strength of the Ma family is far beyond your imagination." Ma Shu Ying coldly snorted.

  Ma Zhongwei's face changed greatly, secretly scolding Ma Shuying for being ungrateful.

  "Is that so? I'd like to see just how powerful the Ma family is. Bring those people, take down Ma Songchao, Ma Zhongwei, Ma Shuying, and Ma Hesi, kill them." Yang Chengfeng coldly laughed.

  "No, you can't kill us." Ma Shu Ying couldn't believe Yang Cheng Feng would actually kill them, his face turned pale in an instant.

  But no matter how hard Ma Shaoqiang shouted, he couldn't change Yang Chengfu's mind. He had long been displeased with the Ma family of Wuwei. At that time, cooperating with Ma Zhongwei was just a temporary measure. Now that the Ma family army has been eliminated, there is no need for the Ma family of Wuwei to exist anymore.

  The Ma family is indeed a thousand-year-old family, and the wealth it possesses is astonishing. The tens of thousands of war horses in the Ma family pasture alone are enough to excite Yang Chengfeng. In addition, there are one million stones of grain, millions of silver tickets, countless antiques, and paintings in the Ma family pasture.

  "Your Highness, what about those prisoners of war? Are they going to be treated the same as the Mongols?" Wang Zuwei asked, coming up beside Yang Chengfeng.

  "No, they will be soldiers of our Tianlang Legion. I used to worry about military expenses, but now the Tianlang Legion is not yet full. The silver tickets we got from the Ma family are enough for us to expand the Tianlang Legion to one million. General Wang Zuwei, you go and select 30,000 elite troops from the Ma family's prisoners of war. I plan to expand them into the Tianlang Legion." Yang Chengfeng said.

  "Yes."

  ……

  "Your Highness, you shouldn't have killed Ma Tongchao and the others!" Lei Meng said to Yang Chengfeng with a pained expression in the Wuwei Liao Wang Fu.

  "What's wrong, Lord Lei thinks there's something improper?" Yang Chengfeng asked after taking a sip of tea.

  "Your Highness, the Ma family has been a prominent family for thousands of years in Wuwei and even in the entire Northwest. They have deep roots among the common people. Now that you've killed Ma Tongchao and others, it's equivalent to going against several million people in the Northwest!" Lei Meng said.

  "How dare they rebel?" Yang Chengfeng coldly snorted: "If it's really like Lord Lei said, shouldn't Ma Tongchao and the others be killed? Now is the Great Qin Empire's world, not the Ma family's world. The Ma family has tens of thousands of Ma family iron cavalry, dominating the northwest, what do they want to do? Hmph, I absolutely will not permit any force that endangers the existence of the Great Qin Empire to appear."

  "But, adults..."

  "Alright, don't say any more." Yang Chengfeng somewhat impatiently interrupted Lei Meng's words and said: "Lord Lei, don't forget that you are now the Taishou of Wuwei, not a running dog for the Ma family."

  Lei Meng's face turned pale and he secretly sighed as he left the Liao Wang Fu.

  "In the dark of night, immediately dispatch someone to monitor every aspect of the situation. As soon as there is any news, report back at once." Yang Chengfeng said towards the corner of the study.

  "Yes."