The night was like a curtain, and darkness covered the whole sky.

After purging all the resistance forces in Fuyang City, the 800 stragglers had been "on leave", except for the few stragglers who were responsible for guarding the city and keeping watch, the majority of the rest were rampaging like locusts in Fuyang City, [] the poor people did not commit any crime, but the rich families who were hiding in the deep courtyards were suffering. The original simple and kind-hearted farmers are undergoing an unprecedented metamorphosis under Ma Yue's deliberate connivance and induction, and the pure simplicity at the corners of their eyes is dissipating their legs, and the fangs at the corners of their mouths are getting sharper.

Guan Hai, Pei Yuan Shao and the two big chiefs rarely lost their interest in "enjoying their vacation" and came running to Ma Yue to report their happiness. This time they were really rich, the food in He's house was piled up like a mountain, and the linen in the treasury was enough to make a winter coat for each of the 800 stragglers, and to Guan Hai's surprise, He's house actually kept 300 horses, which was an extremely valuable strategic resource for a straggler.

The county magistrate's inner hall, Ma Yue look deep, is staring at the silk book map in front of dazed, Guan Hai, Pei Yuan Shao and two big chiefs just entered the door to see Ma Yue this look, immediately like a frosty eggplant wilted, one stood around, silent as a chill. The silence in the study was suffocating, only the sizzling sound of the burning lamp twist.

Looking at the map, Ma Yue's brow gradually tightened.

Where are Qin Jie's Nanyang soldiers now? The most disturbing thing to Ma Yue was, where was Zhu Jun's elite official army today? If you face Qin Jie's Nanyang soldiers, you may have the possibility to break out again, but if you are entangled by Zhu Jun's official army, you are afraid that it will be bad luck. Especially the Xiliang devil Dong Zhuo's iron cavalry, once entangled, like maggots, will not stop.

From Jing Mountain all the way to the east to Biyang, and then from Biyang to turn south to attack Fuyang, the 800 stragglers have run for more than 300 miles in four days, whether it is Qin Jie's Nanyang soldiers or Zhu Jun's army, it is impossible to catch up in such a short time, at least until dark tomorrow, the 800 stragglers are still safe in Fuyang.

The news that Fuyang has been lost must have reached the ears of Qin Jie and Zhu Jun, Zhu Jun can conquer and fight well, Qin Jie is treacherous, they can't sit back and watch the 800 stragglers roam around and ignore them, they will definitely find a way to destroy themselves, what will the government troops do? What will the government troops do? Will they wait with their nets open, or will they continue to pursue and intercept? Ma Yue did not know.

Although Fuyang had been taken, Ma Yue had never considered defending the city, and with only eight hundred stragglers, he wanted to fight against the whole Han Empire, which was undoubtedly like a mantis.

It was not a question of continuing to flee, but where to flee next?

To the north is a desperate road, the northern counties of Nanyang suffered the most severe poison from the Yellow Turban tea, and then the northern Yingchuan situation is even worse, the people are displaced, ten rooms nine empty, rich families fled, killed, has been extinct, to this direction, who else can plunder? If we don't rely on plunder, what will the eight hundred stragglers eat? What would they drink?

Moreover, what made Ma Yue worry more was that if they fled in this direction, they would most likely run into Zhu Jun's elite official army head-on, and then they would die without a burial place.

After Qin Jie lost Wancheng, he took Yuyang County as his base and withstood the onslaught of hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turbans in Nanyang. Now is far from the time to shake the official army head-on, so the road to the west is also impassable.

To the east, although I have not heard of any powerful official army, but Ruanan is also deeply poisoned by the Yellow Turban tea, the people are suffering, limited oil and water.

Ma Yue's eyes over the Fuyang, south is with the county, and then from the county south is Jiangxia County, Jiangxia has not been ravaged by the Yellow Turban, the scholar rich, is the most ideal place to roam, however, Qin Jie and Zhu Jun after all is not easy to deal with the generation, will not set traps on the way to the south?

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Ping's, Qin Jie's army camp.

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The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you are getting into.

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Zou Jing looked concerned and advised, "Your Excellency, you should rest more, you should not work on the military."

Qin Jie waved his hand, a trace of solemnity appeared on his pale face, spreading a silk map on his knee, Zou Jing let out a soft sigh, walked to the soft couch and sat down on his knees.

Qin Jie's worried gaze fell on the map of Fuyang County, said in a soft voice: "Fuyang is already lost, Ziyu, according to see, what will happen next to the eight hundred stragglers? The first thing you need to do is to get the best out of it.

Zou Jing sighed, "Your Excellency, if Ma Yue was a person with an inch of vision, he might have defended the city, but you and I both know that Ma Yue is as cunning as a fox and will not take his own life.

Qin Jie sighed, nodded slightly, said: "I also think so, if Ma Yue according to the city and defending things but easy to do, but if the eight hundred bandits really abandoned the city, roaming around, in your opinion, they will go where to roam?"

Zou Jing's expression moved and he said in a gruff voice, "Does your Excellency want to change the pursuit to interception?"

Qin Jie nodded gently and sighed: "This is also a last resort, since ancient times to combat bandits, chasing is the best policy, but the 800 bandits are not like the ancient bandits, they are light and fast, plundering for a living, no supplies, no provisions, swarming, whistling away, a day can drive a hundred miles, if we still follow the normal method of fighting, the three soldiers are tired of running and lose one another, it is really The suffering is unbearable."

Zou Jing nodded and said, "Your Excellency is wise, I think so."

Qin Jie shook his head and said, "I am a dying man, so there is no need for such empty words and courtesies. Ziyu, the official has always respected your talent, you tell us, after abandoning Fuyang, where will the eight hundred stragglers go?"

Zou Jing pondered for a moment and said, "I think that nine out of ten of the eight hundred stragglers will go south to Sui County and go straight to Jiangxia."

Qin Jie lightly coughed twice and asked, "What is the reasoning behind this?"

Zou Jing said, "To the north is a desperate road, Ma Yue does not know that General Zhu Jun has gone north to Jizhou, thinking that the army is still in Wancheng, so they will not dare to go north to take their own lives, to the west is the counties of Yuyang, the Lord has been operating here for a long time, and Ma Yue does not know that your troops are far away in Ping's, with his 800 men, they will not dare to commit a light attack. The only two ways to the east and south, to the east is Runan, Runan also by the Yellow Turban scourge, the people are suffering, eight hundred stragglers to plunder for a living, to go to Runan that is to throw themselves into a desperate situation. All of the above, I dare to assert that eight hundred stragglers will go south to Sui County and run to Jiangxia."

Qin Jie's eyes showed appreciation, the original chaotic thoughts by Zou Jing so an analysis also suddenly clear up.

"Ziyu, help me up."

Zou Jing went forward and gently helped Qin Jie up.

"Bring the pen and ink." Qin Jie also said, "This official repair a letter, you condemned overnight to send to Jiangxia, to show off the Jiangxia governor Wang Min, asking Lord Wang to send troops to cooperate to break the thieves."

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The back room of the Fuyang County Office, Ma Yue gradually made up his mind, south to Jiangxia is already a nail in the coffin, this is the only way to live, there is no other way. But how a southward method, but it is worth to speculate. The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the actual situation.

Ma Yue would never dare to compare himself to a great man, but it is not difficult to slightly modify countless classic battle examples in the vast history of two thousand years and then apply them to the chaotic world of the late Han Dynasty.

Volume II: Eight Hundred Stray Invaders Raising the Smoke of Wolves

Chapter 31: Disorderly after drinking

The wind was howling, and it was a morning when water was dripping into ice.

The goose feather snow is falling tightly, overnight, the whole Fuyang city has been silver makeup, a thousand miles of bleaching white. Ma Yue took Guan Hai and Pei Yuan Shao to the east gate, only to see two night watchmen standing on the city tower like javelins, their bodies were covered with thick snow, the whole was frozen just like a popsicle, but the spirit was quite strong.

"Big chief!"

Seeing Ma Yue appear, the two stragglers showed respectful eyes and straightened their backs.

A trace of imperceptible satisfaction swept through Ma Yue's eyes, things were developing in the direction he expected, these stragglers were becoming more and more like wolves.

Nodding lightly, Ma Yue asked in a deep voice, "Well, is there anything?"

"There is." One of the stragglers reached out and pointed outside the city and said, "Just after dawn, I found a suspicious-looking guy wandering around outside the city, neither like a farmer from a nearby village nor a hunter from the mountains."

Ma Yue looked in the direction of the finger of the bandit and saw a guy poking his head in the direction of the city tower on the snow-capped surface, which may have been noticed by the people on the city tower, actually turned around and slipped away, although sunk in the knee-deep snow, but also slipped away quickly.

Ma Yue frowned and said sternly: "Guan Hai!"

Guan Hai looked uplifted, stepped forward with his head held high and said in a stern voice: "Yes."

"Bring that guy back to me, alive."

"Yes, sir!"

Guan Hai received the order, and did not take the stairs down the wall, leaped up and slid down the suspension rope of the drawbridge to the wall, and then threw open his stride and flew after the suspicious guy, Guan Hai was as tall as ten feet, and his two long legs far exceeded those of ordinary people by a large margin, so one step was two steps ahead of others, and in just a few moments, Guan Hai caught up with the guy and tackled him like a chicken.

On the city tower, Pei Yuan Shao and the two stragglers couldn't help but let out a cheer.

A short while later, Guan Hai went back and threw the guy in front of Ma Yue with his hands.

"Military master, the small ...... little one is just a hunter in the mountains, want ...... to go into the city to find ...... a relative."

The guy wrapped in torn and tattered cotton clothes, hands shrunken in the sleeves, looks like a cropsman, but his eyes betrayed his identity, an honest cropsman is impossible to have that kind of bony chaos group of eyes, obviously, this is the official army spy undoubtedly.

The corners of Ma Yue's mouth blossomed into a grim smile, and said in a deep voice: "The army is short of food, just this guy skinned down the pot, put more coarse salt, cooked and dried into dry food."

Guan Hai was stunned, thinking that he had just robbed a lot of food from the He Mansion last night, so there was no shortage of food in the army. But since it is Ma Yue's order, of course he Guan Hai should not hesitate to carry out, immediately sternly shouted: "Good, Mao San, Niu Si, drag this guy down, boil a pot of boiling water to wash clean, and then open the guts to empty the guts ......"

The man was already scared shitless, kowtowing to Ma Yue like garlic, begging, "No, military master spare life ah."

Ma Yue smiled morosely and asked in a deep voice: "Are you a mountain hunter?"

"Yes...... not." The detailed work originally wanted to sophistry, but as soon as he met Ma Yue's pair of cold eyes, he hurriedly dismissed the idea and said repeatedly, "I said everything, everything."

"Who are you?"

"I am a sentry under the tent of Qin Jie, the governor of Nanyang."

Ma Yue's heart jumped and asked in a deep voice, "Where is Qin Jie's army today?"

"Ping's."

"Ping's?" Ma Yue frowned and said, "Qin Jie's army has arrived at Ping's?"

"Yes."

"How many men are there?"

"3,000 Nanyang soldiers and 1,000 Jiangxia soldiers, a total of more than 4,000 people."

"What about Zhu Jun's army, where is it now?"

"Zhu Jun's army already went north to Jizhou four days ago to clean up the Yellow Turban in Jizhou."

"Zhu Jun's army has gone north? So it's Han Zhong who is holding Wancheng now?"

"Uh ...... military master do not know, the rebel Han Zhong and the following bandits more than 20,000 people, five days ago all have been killed."

"Han Zhong's men have been killed! Ma Yue's heart jumped and he sternly shouted, "How dare you lie?"

The detail said, "I didn't lie, every word is true."

"How dare you defend yourself!" Ma Yue said, "Guan Hai, lord this guy's head."

"As ordered."

Guan Hai grunted, and went forward to pick up the spy, the poor spy has been scared white, while kicking the legs, while still shouting: "I said everything is true, there is no falsehood! Military master spare life, spare life which ......"

"Uh~ ah!"

"Giggle."

Half a scream, the city tower immediately silent, Guan Hai hand up the knife, a head of the police has rolled to the ground, a cavity of blue blood splashed out ten steps away, moistened the white snow surface.

Ma Yue said: "It seems that what this guy said is true, Han Zhong's men have all been killed, Zhu Jun's army has indeed gone north, and Qin Jie's army has indeed arrived at Ping's!"

Guan Hai said with awe, "Bo Qi, should we gather our brothers together?"

"The Nanyang soldiers have come quite fast, they have actually arrived at Ping's, and there are more than 4,000 of them, Qin Jie really thinks highly of our 800 stragglers." Ma Yue's eyes swept through a trace of palpitating cunning, and said in a deep voice: "There is no hurry to assemble first, I have my own reasons. Old Pei, you go to find an altar of wine, old tube, you go to get some small dishes, and you, you, come to the county courtyard to drink with me later."

"Yes, chief."

Once heard the big chief please drink, Guan Hai, Pei Yuan Shao and the two stragglers immediately two eyes shine, the face of the horizontal meat are shaking open.

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The backyard of the county courtyard, the room.

Liu Yan and Zou Yu Niang are talking by candlelight at night. Liu Yan although the bandits but gentle nature, Zou Yu Niang although from a family but bold nature, eight hundred stragglers are rude men, stop them two women night and day company, a few days to get along, but quite some hate each other meaning.

"So before killing the official rebellion, your Liu family was originally a family of Ruanan?"

"It's all in the past, what's the point of mentioning him?"

"Do you really intend to follow Ma Yue as a rogue for the rest of your life? That Ma Yue may not appreciate your affection."

Liu Yan was poked by Zou Yu Niang in the heart of the pain, can not help but sigh a sigh, hanging head speechless.

Seeing Liu Yan's gloomy face, Zou Yuniang's mood also down, Liu Yan's fate is pity, she Zou Yuniang is not? Thinking about their own beauty, beans, but from now on with the thief, red-headed since ancient times more thin fate, do not know what the future will be the fate of it? Maybe one day in the future, Ma Yue will reward her to some of his men, or maybe one day in the future, she will be possessed by Ma Yue himself.

This is a man's world, they women are born to be the appendages of men. The woman was given around as a gift by the man, that is also a common thing, even her own brother Zou Jing, for his career prospects, did not also want to give her to the Nanyang governor Qin Jie as a concubine?

The two women were lamenting their fate when the door of the room was kicked open and the drunken-eyed Ma Yue had walked in with a stench of alcohol.

"Ma Yue, you've been drinking?"

Liu Yan stood up and looked at Ma Yue with concern.

Ma Yue reached out his hand and pointed to the door and said to Liu Yan, "You ...... go out!"

Liu Yan hesitantly said, "Ma Yue, what do you ...... want to do?"

"Do what? Uh ......" Ma Yue hit a wine uh, evil eyes turned to Zou Yuniang, he said with a heated smile, "This does not need you to care, you go out, go out!"

Zou Yuniang like a scared little rabbit jumped up, hiding behind Liu Yan, said urgently, "Sister Yan you can not go, must not go, please."

Ma Yue frowned, came up a hand Zou Yu Niang from Liu Yan side to pull away, poor Zou Yu Niang empty martial arts, but Liu Yan's three silver needles to stop the acupuncture points, a little force on the army body sore numb, half a day can not move, how can be Ma Yue this strong man's opponent?

Zou Yu Niang gave a cry and staggered back to the embroidery couch and fell down on her back with a weak leg.

Ma Yue two steps to the front of the couch, reached out and grabbed Zou Yu Niang's clothes and pulled downward, only to hear a "hiss" sound, Zou Yu Niang's clothing has been torn raw, outer clothing along with small clothes were torn off a large, white skin is coming through the glittering white as jade attractive color, the pair of full and upright jade breasts trembling seems to want to break the confines of the bib. Ma Yue's vision gradually became confused and became burning ......

Liu Yan, like a puppet, watched Ma Yue stripped Zou Yu Niang's clothes, and then wrenched open the jade legs and gasped to her body. Liu Yanfang heart mourning to die, but what can she do? She could not do anything but sigh gloomily, bowed her head and walked out of the door silently, and then quietly covered the door of the room.