The Three Kingdoms

"It's better to live than to die, and I'm not a cornered overlord of Western Chu!" Ma Chao laughed at himself.

It takes courage to commit suicide, and it takes courage to survive.

He is just Ma Chao, not Xiang Yu.

"Ma Chao, although you killed Gan Ning, I don't hold grudges against you!"

Sun Quan pondered for a while, and then quietly uttered some words from his heart: "In this troubled world, you kill me, I kill you, maybe you have experienced too much. On the battlefield, you never die or I live. General, which one is not the person whose hands are stained with countless blood, how many people in this world are remembering them, they have experienced too much, and those who survived the troubled times, I don't want to bear grudges."

On the battlefield, there is never right or wrong, only life and death.

"Of course, if killing you, Ma Chao, can cheer up my Great Wu army, I will do it mercilessly, but you, Ma Chao, are lucky. You are Zhao Zilong's brother-in-law, and Zhao Zilong is my number one favorite general. Although he is not Said, but I also know that he loves his wife Ma Yunjue and wants to save your life, so this is a favor!"

Sun Quan continued: "And you are quite capable. If you use it well, you may not be an invincible spear of the Great Wu. Although the Central Plains is fixed, my ambition to be the Great Wu is not limited to the Central Plains. Our Wu army is still expanding. , I still need talents, so I have never killed you!"

"But you know, I won't surrender!"

Listening to Sun Quan's words, Ma Chao's eyes flickered with a strange color.

He listened to Sun Quan's words.

But it's a little hard to understand.

There is no right or wrong on the battlefield, but killing is hatred, hatred can be erased, but it does not exist. He killed Gan Ning, Sun Quan's favorite general, and he did not believe that Sun Quan would not bear hatred against him.

Perhaps this is the difference between him as an ordinary person and Sun Quan as a ninety-five-year-old. Sun Quan saw that he was always a common man, but he could suppress his unknown emotions.

"I don't need you to surrender!"

Sun Quan suddenly understood the general's thinking of getting into a dead end, and it was easier for him to deal with it: "I will make a deal with you. You will go to the battlefield for Wu, earn military merit, and use military merit to clear your name. , as long as you have accumulated enough military merits to wash away your crimes, I can let you go, and from then on, everything in the past will be wiped out, and the world will be big, as long as you don't violate the law of the Great Wu, you will be free!"

This is Sun Quan's strategy of delaying troops.

As long as Ma Chao is in the game, he won't be able to get out of Wu Jun's shackles.

And Sun Quan believes that Ma Chao will automatically enter the game.

Sure enough, Ma Chao's heart was moved, and even his indifferent expression changed slightly, his eyes were bright, and he stared intently at Sun Quan's amber eyes, trying to see through the sincerity of Sun Quan's words.

"Don't doubt my sincerity. I am the Ninth Five-Year King, the Son of Heaven, and I will never lie because of such a trivial matter as you, Ma Chao, and ruin my reputation as a generation of Mingjun in the hearts of the people in the world!"

Sun Quan seemed to have seen through his thoughts, and continued: "And you don't want to be locked up in this sky prison all the time, are you? You are Ma Chao, Xiliang Ma'er, a generation of titans, a tiger on the battlefield, and the sky prison is not suitable for you. , even if an eagle with broken wings survives, it will die because it cannot fly!"

"Where do I need to go, the Western Regions or Mobei?" Ma Chao asked directly: "How many military exploits do I need to make in exchange for my freedom?"

He longs for freedom, and he doesn't want to be an eagle without wings, let alone a tiger in shackles, which bets him.

"readily!"

Sun Quan stood up and said calmly: "You can get out of the prison tomorrow, and I will give you three days to prepare. After three years, someone will send you to the battlefield in the Western Regions. The Military Aircraft Department will give you a suitable position soon. No matter how many military exploits you have, someone will give you a clear limit!" (To be continued.)

[Chapter [-] of the text, Extinguishing Sabbath VII]

Province of Mesopotamia.

On the north bank of the Euphrates River, on a riverside plain, the air was filled with a cold bloody smell. It was obvious that a tragic war had just ended, and corpses could be seen everywhere.

These corpses lay in disorder on the plain, including soldiers from the Wu army and soldiers from the Roman army. The corpses and broken arms seemed to be intertwined together...

This is an ambush.

The Roman army ambushed the Wu army.

Two days ago, under the order of Prince Caracalla, the Roman general Maximinus led the iron-blooded legion of the Roman army out of the city of Cecilia and went straight to the Wu army.

Maximinus is a famous Roman general, and his layout is very sharp.

He was familiar with the river area of ​​the Euphrates River, and he took advantage of the special watershed of the river's swollen water and the terrain error to lead the Wu army into the plain on the shore, and ambushed the Sea Eagle Corps of the Ninth Army of the Wu army.

The Sea Eagle Legion was caught off guard, and the boats were rushed up the river beach by the impact of the river water. On the river beach plain, they were attacked by tens of thousands of Roman soldiers, and finally they were forced to land on the riverside of the plain to fight.

This battle was fought suddenly and fiercely. Both the Roman army and the Wu army suffered heavy casualties.

Although the Roman Legion laid out an ambush ahead of time and had the upper hand, but because they failed to figure out the lethality of the heavy equipment deployed on the Wu army's warships, Zhou Tai's ruthless bombing of the ships resulted in heavy casualties among the soldiers under his command.

Of course, Wu Jun, who was ambushed, did not please him, and suffered a big loss after losing the first move.

The main force was repeatedly ambushed by the Roman army on the river beach and attacked by the city. In order to stabilize his footsteps, Zhou Tai had no choice but to blow up his own warships. The lives of tens of thousands of soldiers were spared.

In the end, the battle turned into a brutal tug-of-war like a meat grinder, and the main generals of both sides had no choice but to retreat and stop the battle.

Rome's iron-blooded legion was finally forced to retreat out of the Euphrates River plain and retreated to the city of Cecilia, and the Wu army could only entangle the remnant soldiers, withdrawing troops along the river and eastward, and withdrew from Mesopotamia province's area.

This can be regarded as a lose-lose battle.

……

Late at night, the night is very quiet, and the surface of the Euphrates River is also quiet.

The large ships that symbolize the sea eagles are moored in the middle of the river. The iron chain boats fixed the warships, forming a river fortress in the middle of the river, and the sound of quiet flowing water echoed in the ears of every soldier.

"How about our casualties?"

In a huge ship, in a spacious cabin, the light of one oil lamp after another is very bright, flickering the darkness in the cabin, illuminating the cabin like daylight, and reflecting Zhou Tai's rigid face. lifelike.

"Report to the Commander!"

On the left side, an elegant deputy general of the staff stood up, his voice was low and somewhat frustrated: "It took two full days and two nights before and after this battle. During this battle, we lost a total of three large ships, including the main battleship The ship Yong'an, the warship Tianhe, which is dedicated to carrying the thunder and thunder, and the Taigu, the strongest long-range attack, also lost seventeen iron-clad battleships, lost..."

"I'm asking about casualties of soldiers..."

Zhou Tai suddenly shouted coldly, his voice filled with cold qi, the power of the sound wave reverberated, making the wicks of the oil lamps sway with the burning light.

"Yes!"

Hearing the words, the elegant staff officer trembled, nodded quickly, and quickly reported the casualties, saying: "We lost a total of 620 three soldiers in this battle. There were 180 soldiers who were seriously injured, and 36 soldiers who were slightly injured. The main generals who died were Sun Ming, the commander of the 39st Division of the 40th Army, Xu An, the commander of the [-]rd Division of the [-]th Army, and the commander of the [-]rd Division of the No.[-] Army. Lei Dong died in battle..."

"Crack!"

Zhou Tai's eyes were bloodshot, and the blood streaked across his tiger eyes one by one. His bloodthirsty expression appeared extremely ferocious, and his hands forcibly crushed the armrest of the chair.

And in the entire cabin, the atmosphere was so cold that water could be squeezed out. The expressions on the faces of each army commander and division commander were all gloomy. Facing Zhou Tai's current mood this week, no one dared to speak.

Although this battle was a tie between them and the Roman army.

But in fact they were defeated.

This can be regarded as the second defeat to the army of the Roman Empire since the Wu army went west.