Seeing Ma Teng trying to escape, Cheng Yu snorted coldly: "Chase!"
When Han Sui saw Ma Teng injured, he was overjoyed and immediately urged his horse to kill him with his sword.
When Ma Yi saw Han Sui blocking the way back to the city and coming to kill him, he immediately slapped his horse and struck with his sword. He turned around and shouted: "Ling Ming, escort the general into the city quickly!" He immediately led his troops to kill him.
"Brother!" Ma Teng's eyes were cracked.
He knew that Ma Yi was no match for Han Sui, and rushing over now was risking his life to buy them time to return to the city. The emergency situation did not allow Ma Teng to shed emotional tears. With a hoarse voice and suppressed red cheeks, he roared: "Withdraw!"
Pound escorted Ma Teng from the east gate, and Ma Yi led three thousand cavalry to intercept Han Sui's troops.
When Han Sui saw Ma Teng trying to escape, he sped up and rushed over. Facing Ma Yi who was intercepting him, he roared and waved his long knife, his face ferocious and fierce, like a hunting wolf in the northwest.
Ma Yi narrowed his eyes.
Beginning in April of the fourth year of Zhongping (187), Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou at that time, trusted traitors, which led to rebellion in the Hanyang Kingdom and the Di, Qiang and other ethnic groups.
The states and counties recruited warriors to defeat the rebellion.
Ma Yi and his younger brother Ma Teng were drafted into the army. Because of Ma Teng's excellent martial arts skills and virtuous treatment of others, he stood out from the army and became the representative of the Xiliang people.
From that time on, the Ma family followed Ma Teng and became a tyrant in Xiliang. He had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses and dominated Xiliang.
He followed Ma Teng into battle and participated in hundreds of large and small battles. He can be said to be a true veteran of all battles. Facing the fierce and brave Ma Teng, he had no guilty conscience. When he faced Han Sui's army alone, he was already prepared to die.
He lowered his body to the war horse's neck, put the handle of the long knife under his arm, and with a determined look in his eyes, he galloped away.
The two sides were approaching at great speed.
Han Sui roared sharply, and swung his sword towards Ma Yi's head quickly and quickly, and it was inevitable that he would be decapitated.
Ma Yi suddenly slashed with his knife.
The two knives intersect.
A sharp, sharp metal collision sounded. Ma Yi felt that the opposite side was as thick and powerful as a mountain pressing down on him. The huge momentum made his hands numb, and the tiger's mouth burst open, pressing his back onto the horse's back.
Han Sui sneered ferociously: "You want to stop me? You are overestimating your own capabilities."
Ma Yi gritted his teeth: "How can you kill a pig with a cattle knife? I am enough."
"Arrogant!"
Han Sui roared angrily, swung the long knife in his hand, and slashed through Ma Yi's neck as fast as lightning, bringing out a thick stream of blood.
Ma Yi felt a chill on his neck, and then saw the world turning upside down...
When he rushed to the gate of Longxi City, Ma Teng turned around and saw the scene where his eldest brother's head was chopped off and flew away. With blood rising in his head, he roared: "Brother!" and then fell off the horse.
Pang De and others' expressions changed greatly. They hurriedly slid off their horses and helped Ma Teng up. They entered the city in a crowd and immediately closed the city gate.
After the city gate was closed, Cheng Yu and Han Sui fought to the bottom of the city. Han Sui raised his head proudly and sneered: "Humph! I want to see how many days you can hold on in the city without food and grass. Send the order, besiege the city!"
Inside the city.
Ma Teng exposed half of his left arm and sat next to the brazier. The arrow was poisonous. When he pulled it out, his left arm was already bruised and swollen, and the poison had penetrated into his bones, making him unable to move.
Pound hurriedly said: "General! The poison has penetrated three parts of the bone. It is necessary to seek medical treatment urgently, otherwise it will damage this arm."
Ma Teng's face was tense, and the pain in his left arm was like a steel needle piercing flesh, making him sweat. "There must be a good doctor in the city, go find him quickly."
Pang De and others hurriedly searched the city. That afternoon, Pound found a wise doctor and hurriedly came to see Ma Teng.
Ma Teng looked around and saw this man wearing a square scarf and a wide robe, carrying a green bag in his arms. He walked into the room and bowed down, cupped his fists and said loudly: "I am from Qiao County, Pei State. My surname is Hua, my given name is Tuo, my courtesy name is Yuanhua, and I am named Yuanhua." While the medicine was here, I suddenly heard that the general had been poisoned by an arrow, so he came here to treat him."
Ma Teng said happily: "Please ask a doctor to treat me. I would be very grateful."
Hua Tuo put down the green bag, looked closely at the arrow wound on his arm, and said: "Well... this is an injury from a strong crossbow. The arrow has the poison of "aconitum". Its poison is very tricky and penetrates deep into the bones. If it is not treated early, it will Stabbing this arm will not save you!"
Pang De was shocked: "Is it possible to get medical treatment?"
Hua Tuo twirled his beard and said solemnly: "There is a method that can cure this arm, but I am afraid that the general will be afraid of you."
Ma Teng laughed: "I regard death as home. The battlefield is extremely dangerous and not scary. How can I be afraid of a small pain? Sir, it's okay to get medical treatment."
Hua Tuo reminded: "This medical treatment is very painful. Please consider it carefully, general. Don't stop halfway. Otherwise, the arm will definitely not be saved."
Ma Teng asked: "How to cure it?"
"I need to use a sharp knife to cut open the skin and flesh until it reaches the bone, scrape off the curare poison on the bone, apply medicine on it, and sew the wound through the flesh with a needle and thread before I can succeed. Is the general afraid?"
"hiss!"
When everyone heard this, they took a deep breath.
Pang De was surprised and said: "Such a medical method is unheard of. If you use a sharp knife to break the flesh, wouldn't it mean that you will bleed out and die?"
Ma Teng pondered for a moment and felt that he could not give up his arm just because he was afraid of pain. He made up his mind and said, "Sir, it's okay to get medical treatment. I'll just bear with it."
Hua Tuo admired him and said, "The general is very brave. Tuo admires him." Then he called for a brazier, took out a sharp knife from his green bag and said, "Please also tie this arm with a rope and cover his head with a quilt. I want to strike." .”
Ma Teng did as he was told.
After a while, Ma Teng's body was tied to a wooden stick, and his left arm was tied to a stick alone.
Hua Tuo lowered his knife and cut through the flesh with one stroke, the tip of the knife going straight into the bone. Ma Teng howled like a pig, his whole body trembled in unspeakable pain, and his face became distorted in extreme pain.
Hua Tuo turned a deaf ear and concentrated on cutting the flesh and skin. The bones were already turning blue. Hua Tuo changed the bone scraper and began to scrape the poison from the bones.
Ma Teng was dizzy and woke up from the pain, his throat was almost broken by shouting, and his face was bloodless.
Pang De and the others were so frightened that their hair and bones were damaged, and they stood upside down with chills all over their bodies. Some of them were even so frightened that they couldn't stand up because their legs were trembling.
In a moment, the blood flowed into the basin.
Hua Tuo scraped off the poison on the bones, applied medicine, took out a curved needle and threaded it, and then sewed the flesh with the thread. Ma Teng started howling like a killing pig again, his whole body was shaking, and he was incontinent.
After sewing, Hua Tuo wrapped the wound with cloth and put away the props. Ma Teng was in so much pain that he couldn't tell the difference between human and animal, and he was trembling all over.
Hua Tuo smiled and said: "This injury will recover within a hundred days, so don't hurt it in anger. The general's injury will be cured, and Tuo will retire!"
Seeing that Ma Teng was twitching and unconscious, Pang De didn't dare to let him leave: "Sir, I'll stay here for now. I'll wait until the general wakes up and thanks him before I go back to eat."
Hua Tuo glanced at Ma Teng and knew that he might not be able to leave unless he woke up, so he nodded and said, "In that case, there will be more interruptions."
Pang De immediately ordered people to bring food and wine and asked him to sit and wait.
It wasn't until late at night that Ma Teng slowly woke up. His arm hurt as before, but it was already stretched and comfortable, so it was no problem.
He cracked his withered lips and said with a smile: "If I hadn't saved you, sir, I wouldn't have saved my arm." Then he ordered Pang De to say, "Take a hundred gold as reward, sir."
When Pang De was about to go out, Hua Tuo stood up and said with a smile: "I practice medicine without any intention of getting any reward. It is not a good luck to have a lot of money in my body. I leave this post to cover the wound. I am saying goodbye!"
Ma Teng praised: "Sir, you are so righteous!"
Farewell to Hua Tuo.
At this time, Zhang Xiu had already learned about the changes in Xiliang.
