Shema Po.

As the sun was setting, Pei Yuan Shao came panting to join Ma Yue and Guan Hai. Behind Pei Yuan Shao, each of the 50 soldiers carried a large cloth bag, which was heavy and filled with quicklime. Ma Yue found the lime kiln in the backyard of Zhang Zhuang, it was like a treasure, this thing is insignificant, but if used properly but has unimaginable killing power.

What Ma Yue didn't expect was that quicklime had already appeared in the Three Kingdoms. In fact, as early as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the Chinese had already mastered the method of quicklime calcination.

Guan Hai, who was naked and had a bulging body, threw a large bundle of hay into the artemisia bush by the roadside and yelled to Ma Yue with some displeasure: "Bo Qi, the brothers are busy for half a day, but they are cutting grass here. Are we going to fight and kill the government troops?"

Ma Yue's eyes swept a trace of awe, although the eight hundred stragglers have experienced several lives and deaths, but have not experienced the real battle of evil, so the cruelty of war and the tolerance of death is limited, at this time, to try to avoid a hard fight with the official army, so Ma Yue must find ways to use strange schemes to deal with the official army.

Only after experiencing more victorious battles, can the confidence of the bandits be cultivated and the psychological advantage over the official army be established in their hearts. However, it is never now.

Ma Yue coldly asked, "Old tube, do you think cutting grass has nothing to do with fighting?"

"Uh, this ......" Guan Hai scratched his head and asked rhetorically in confusion, "Is there a relationship?"

"Of course." Ma Yue coldly related, decided to give Guan Hai and Pei Yuan Shao, two reckless men, a lesson in tactics, pointed to the gentle slope in front of him and said, "The Makemake slope is the road leading from Fuyang County to Zhang Zhuang, if the official army comes to attack, it will definitely pass through here."

Guan Hai and Pei Yuan Shao nodded their heads at the same time, this is easy to understand.

Ma Yue's face swept a trace of grimace, said in a deep voice: "The terrain here is gentle, artemisia grass, three sides are all gentle slopes, only the south is a swampy land. Now is the early spring, the sky is dry, the grass is withered, very easy to burn, if our troops from the east, west, north three sides at the same time, the fire from all around to the middle, the official army can only retreat to the south one way."

Guan Hai and Pei Yuan Shao nodded their heads with seeming understanding.

Ma Yue looked back at the fifty cloth bags neatly stacked, a cruel murderous look swept across his face, and said coldly: "As long as the official army retreats into the swampy land, they will be in a dead place, and the gods cannot save them."

"Uh ......"

Guan Hai and Pei Yuan Shao simultaneously struck a cold war, Ma Yue's eyes at this time made the chill straight behind them.

Ma Yue gave a stifled grunt and said in a deep voice: "Old Guan, old Pei, do as I originally instructed and hurry up and prepare!"

"Yes, big chief."

The two men promised and went away in a flash.

......

"Quick, hurry up, keep up at the back, don't fall behind."

"The front army continues to gallop forward, don't stop."

Li Yan rode on his horse and kept urging his soldiers to speed up the march.

Zhang Qiu, the steward of Zhang Zhuang, wiped the sweat from his cheeks with his sleeve, looked enviously at Li Yan's horse and said, "Lord Li, take a moment to rest, I really don't have the strength, I can't walk anymore."

"No, you can't!" Li Yan categorically refused, "Zhang Zhuang bandits may disappear at any time, we must arrive before the bandits escape and destroy them with a single blow."

Zhang Qiu said with a bitter face, "Lord Li, even if we can get there before the bandits disappear, the soldiers may not have the strength to kill them, so it will be unfavorable. Why don't we rest for a while, and then advance slowly when we have enough energy."

Li Yan glanced disdainfully at Zhang Qiu and said, "How dare you talk about military matters? Don't you know that one drum will be exhausted after another? All soldiers listen to the order, do not restless, a drum to kill to Zhang Zhuang, to destroy the bandits, Lord Chen heavy reward."

Zhang Qiu small eyes swept a trace of anger, had to drag the tired legs to continue to rush.

Li Yan frowned and was about to stop the march, when he suddenly saw a swampy wetland to the south, and this gentle slope had a gentle terrain and a wide view, which was not conducive to ambush.

Zhang Qiu said, "Your Excellency, this is the name of the horse herding slope, and 5 miles ahead is Zhang Zhuang."

Li Yan's expression lifted and he waved his horse whip and said in a loud voice: "Three troops listen to the order, five miles ahead is Zhang Zhuang, speed up the march!"

......

On the top of a hill not far to the north, Ma Yue waved his hand gently, and the two stragglers behind him loosened their hands, and the lone pine they could hold fell down with a bang.

Seeing the lone pine on the top of the hill on the north side fall, Guan Hai on the east side and Pei Yuan Shao on the west side simultaneously drew their bows and set up their arrows, and a straggler had already pulled out the firewood inserted in the ashes and put it on the arrow coated with lamp oil, the arrow burst into flames, then with a loose hand, the bow buzzed and the arrow with fire had shot out in the air.

......

"Swoosh!"

"Shoo!"

"Phew!"

Li Yan's words fell, only to hear three harsh cracking sound, three rockets from the east, west and north three directions shot out at the same time, Li Yan and 300 official troops watched the three rockets in the air through the curved arc, head down in the yellow grass, before you look back, three fire has been burning up.

Li Yan was the first to react, his face changed dramatically and he roared sternly: "All troops speed up, pass the Makematsu slope immediately!"

However, it was already too late! More rockets came from the air and kept falling around the official army. The hay that the 800 stragglers had carefully prepared for the whole morning would finally play its rightful power, and the fire spread rapidly, the wind helped the fire, and it soon burned into a piece, forcing over from the north, east and west in three directions, trapping Li Yan and the 300 official troops in the middle, leaving only the swampy area to the south without fire.

Li Yan was terrified, before he could give the order, the panicked three hundred officers had already fled without waiting for his order, in a chaotic manner.

"Porridge tom-tom ......"

The official army jumped into the cold swamp like dumplings, the thick mud immediately did not reach their knees, making them difficult to move, a few unlucky is rapidly sinking, disappearing in the mud puddle in the blink of an eye, so that the back of the officers and soldiers did not fall into the water to see the heart, jumping is not, not jump is not.

The roaring fire soon spread over, standing on the shore has been unable to resist the scorching force, desperate official soldiers closed their eyes, jumped to the swamp, stay on the shore will have to be burned and killed, jumped into the swamp although it may also be killed, but at least there is a great chance of survival.

Li Yan also wrapped in the chaos of the army to jump into the marsh, but unlike the soldiers who were happy in their hearts, he knew that the bandits since the design of such a vicious fire attack plan in the Moma slope, will not leave a life in the southern marsh to the official army, there are more vicious means waiting for it.

Li Yan is worthy of the famous teenage talent in Nanyang, really let him guess.

When the last official army jumped into the swamp, the woods opposite the swamp suddenly sounded a shouting sound, and then a large group of bandits from the woods rushed out to kill, Li Yan looked, a cursory glance and judged that there are more than 500 people, not at all Zhang Qiu said that there are more than 100 people, then knew that the bandits were caught in the enemy's baiting occasion, can not help but turn back to hate to find Zhang Qiu, intended to cut off his head with a sword, but why the chaos The army has long disappeared Zhang Qiu trace.

What surprised Li Yan is that the front of the more than a hundred bandits in the hands of neither swords, nor guns, but a group of two carrying a mouth of heavy cloth bags, but also do not know what things contained inside? The more than a hundred bandits will be heavy pockets carried to the edge of the swamp to the water a throw, and then also do not attack turn around and go.

Soon, Li Yan was surprised to find that the water near the southern shore of the swamp floated up the hot air, many parts of the water is like boiling general tumbling up, it is difficult to have endured here the official troops have not yet understood, has killed like a pig howling, and then jumped and screamed, rolled down in the swamp struggling and wailing, its situation is quite gritty ......