Liu Yan gently knocked on the door of the room.

"Who?"

Ma Yue's cold voice came from the room, just like the snowflakes falling from the sky, cold to the bone marrow.

Liu Yan gently pushed open the door of the hidden room, only to see Ma Yue is ambling and seat, usually used to use the sword right hand but holding a brush, is a white cloth on a scratch, but delayed to write.

Ma Yue coldly swept Liu Yan a glance, asked in a deep voice: "What is it?"

Liu Yan's face is miserable, since last time secretly released Zou Yu Niang, Ma Yue's attitude towards her became more and more bad, if not because Liu Yan is the only one among the eight hundred stragglers who knows medicine, Ma Yue would not even look at her, is she really so disgusting? This hard-hearted man, his heart is actually how to forge?

Liu Yan pursed her cherry lips, the corners of her eyes filled with desire to drip, whispered: "The medicinal materials of several pharmacies in the city ...... have run out."

Ma Yue frowned and asked in a deep voice: "How much is still missing? How is the rescue of people?"

Liu Yan hung her head, there are two crystal tears from her cheeks quietly slipped down, replied in a low voice: "Can save all have been saved, the remaining ...... are not saved."

Ma Yue's eyes suddenly swept a cold awning, Huo raised his head and stared coldly at Liu Yan.

Although Liu Yan lowered his head, but still can feel Ma Yue's ice-cold eyes, suddenly the whole person like falling into the ice cave, backed down two steps na na replied: "I ...... I have tried my best."

The coldness in Ma Yue's eyes gradually faded away, and then stifled a hum

Liu Yan hesitated for a moment and finally mustered up the courage to say, "Ma Yue, can I ask you one thing?"

Ma Yue's face showed a trace of impatience, frowned and asked, "What is it?"

"Can you let Zou Yuniang give me a hand? I have to take care of so many wounded soldiers by myself, I can't be too busy."

Ma Yue once again turned around haughtily and stared coldly at Liu Yan, but this time Liu Yan no longer avoided Ma Yue's icy gaze, but bravely looked at him squarely, a little innocence, two hints of kindness, and seven points of perseverance flowing from her clear eyes.

Ma Yue said in a deep voice: "Didn't you let Zou Yuniang go?"

Liu Yan said bravely again: "I already know everything, last time you ...... Yuniang sister, is deliberately doing that, you knew I would let Yuniang sister, Yuniang sister will also be you deliberately reveal the military information to tell the official army, so the official army will fall into the scheme, the official army after the scheme to Yuniang sister under the The official army was tricked and put her in the prison, right in Fuyang."

Ma Yue sighed in his heart, but his mouth was a muffled hum.

Liu Yan whispered: "Ma Yue, let sister Yuniang give me a hand, okay?"

"That's your business."

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......

The county magistrate's prison.

He Zhen pounded his waist, sighing repeatedly: "Painful old man, painful old man too!

The old man is accustomed to the life of fish and flesh countryside, arrogant and spoiled, how to withstand the suffering of such a march? In order not to let He Zhen die of exhaustion, Ma Yue deliberately allocated a horse for him to ride, but He Zhen is after all old and decrepit, and his bones have long been exhausted by the bumps and bruises of these several hundred miles.

On the side, Fuyang County magistrate Chen Zhen while rubbing his calf, while thinking indignantly, you have a horse to ride still scream what suffering? Do not see me this reader also followed those stragglers ran a few hundred miles? Aigoo, this leg is really hard with the stone general, when to suffer this kind of pain yo?

After all, Li Yan is a martial artist, Kuai Liang is also rich and strong, although also tired half dead, but this has been relieved, and still have the heart to chat on the side to climb friendship.

"The first time I saw you, I was in the middle of the game. I've been known for a long time, I'm sorry."

"Brother Zirou is a great talent of Jiangxia, Yan really dare not be."

"Alas, what a great talent, the battle of Suixian was not a prisoner of 800 stragglers!"

Li Yan laughed bitterly: "I am not the same."

Kuai Liang shook his head and said, "I still can't figure out how I lost the battle of Suixian under the 800 stragglers?"

Li Yan clapped his hands and said, "The battle of Muzhapo, I was not defeated in a muddle? The ancient and modern art of war, there is no record of the use of soldiers like Ma Yue, there is no way to test, no way to test which!"

"All right, stop arguing, get up immediately, prepare to gather!"

Li Yan's words fell, a thunderous bellow from outside the cell, interrupting the conversation between the two, the two looked at each other with a bitter smile, knowing that a new run will begin, this Ma Yue not only use the army like a ghost, tossing people also like a vicious ghost ah, only a pity is a rogue, if the origin of the scholar clan willing to work for the court, how good it would be.

......

In front of the county hall, in the courtyard.

Zhou Cang's more than three hundred yellow turban remnants have been facing the cold wind to complete the formation, the original more than a thousand people, along the way, there are frozen to death, there are starved to death, there in the Fuyang City was shot, but also last night died in the melee, seriously injured, in short, now there are only three hundred people left, and most with injuries.

However, the big wave elimination, remove are some dregs, but the rest are some gold. Do not look at the more than three hundred people mostly with injuries, but each of the spirit is quite adequate, think about it, can not eat and drink for several days, lack of clothing, and carry the snow, braving the cold of more than ten degrees below zero, long-distance travel hundreds of miles, and then survived two fights, and finally survived, how difficult it is? That is simply a purgatory-like selection which!

Ma Yue looked awe-inspiring and slowly walked up to a yellow turban soldier with a wooden crutch, patted him on the shoulder and asked, "What's your name?"

"Niu Calf!"

"Well, not bad! Like a bull calf." Ma Yue punched the calf's waist and said morosely, "Although he is missing a paw, as soon as he rides on a horse, he is still a man with iron bones!"

Ma Yue's gaze over the calf fell on the face of a one-armed yellow turban, one-armed yellow turban did not wait for Ma Yue to ask the first said, "My name is Big Black!"

Ma Yue hehe smiled, nodded and said: "Long is a little darker, and missing an arm, but, a man has a root egg, even if no hands and feet, even if only a ji bus, but also can poke people to death!"

Not only more than 300 yellow turban soldiers laughed loudly, is the opposite of the 800 stragglers also followed the drumming up, the sound in the courtyard suddenly became enthusiastic, Ma Yue took advantage of the momentum to jump to the steps, clenched his hand into a fist sternly shouted: "from Wancheng down the yellow turban brothers, you ...... are good! "

The laughter of the yellow turban soldiers and the bandits stopped, and all eyes suddenly focused on Ma Yue's face.

Ma Yue awe-inspiring sweeping a week, said: "No one can not eat and drink, lack of clothing and clothing but also brave the ice and snow cold to walk through hundreds of miles of mountain road, and still have the strength to kill with the official army, I Ma Yue can not do. However, you have done it! Therefore, I admire you, you are real men, real men, iron men!"

More than three hundred yellow turban soldiers have eyes of excitement.

"Pat your chest, what in this world you can't do? Even if the sky falls down, I believe you can all use your shoulders to hold back!"

The yellow turban soldiers' eyes began to become burning hot, one felt a blazing fire in their hearts, this Ma Da chief, his words were like a spark, ruthlessly thrown into the pile of dry firewood harbored in their hearts, instantly ignited the primitive blaze in their hearts.

"I, Ma Yue, a rogue bandit, two shoulders on a head, nothing else, just kill the official army, grab food, drink when there is wine, eat meat when there is meat, no wine when there is no meat will have to endure hunger! If you get rich in the future, also plan to marry ten or eight beautiful young wife!"

The yellow turban soldiers coaxed, who does not want to live such a life?

"If you want to leave, I will never leave you! If you are willing to follow me as a bandit, we welcome you with open arms! I, Ma Yue, swear to heaven that I will never treat you as outsiders, and if I, Ma Yue, have a bite of meat, I will never let my brothers have soup."

"What else to say, our Zhou Cang this life is given by the Ma Da leader, from today onwards, these two hundred pounds of meat will be sold to the Ma Da leader, the knife mountain oil pot, water fire, as long as the Ma Da leader gave the order, if Zhou Cang frowned, the son of a bitch."

After a night of rescue and recuperation, the tough man Zhou Cang actually miraculously stood up.

"Yes, General Zhou is right, this life is given to us by the great leader Ma, from today onwards, we will listen to the great leader Ma."

The yellow turban soldiers have responded, really a group of desperate people, by Ma Yue a few words a stir, surprisingly none of them are willing to leave.

"Good!" Ma Yue bellowed, said morosely, "Since this is the case, from now on, we are all brothers, since they are brothers, then I have to treat all of them equally! I don't care whether you are wounded or not, whether you can walk or not, if you are men, don't complain about suffering, don't find excuses to act like bears! Immediately pack up, the whole army immediately pull out, the goal ...... Wancheng!"

Volume II: Eight Hundred Rangers Raise the Smoke of Wolves

Chapter 42: Capture the City

The wind was like a sword, and a whole army of onyx appeared outside the east gate of Wancheng.

Sixteen sturdy men carrying a heavy coffin that has not yet closed the lid, step by step towards Wancheng, Zou Jing's face pale, one hand on the coffin, tramping, behind Zou Jing, the fierce and vicious Zhou Cang is watching, as long as Zou Jing a slight movement will immediately draw his sword will be beheaded on the spot.

Not everyone can see death as a return, Li Yan is one, but Zou Jing is not, in the face of the threat of death, Zou Jing chose to yield.

"No. ooo~~"

"Dong Dong~~"

The city tower of Wancheng sounded a low and loud warning horn, followed by the sound of drums, after a tea time, the east gate of Wancheng opened wide, a team of heavily armed elite official army came out of the city, and then quickly spread to the two flanks, into a goose wing encirclement over, the army will protect the spirits surrounded in the center.

An official army general gallantly stepped forward on his horse and shouted sternly, "I am Zhang Xun, the captain of Nanyang, let me know your name!"

Zhou Cang gave a stifled grunt, Zou Jing could only sigh, raised his head and said, "Does Lord Zhang still know me?"

Zhang Xun's gaze was stern, and when he saw that it was Zou Jing, he was surprised and said, "So it's Lord Zou Jing, the county lieutenant of Yuyang, Lord Zou Jing, and the soldiers are all dressed in onyx, but I wonder why?"

Zou Jing said: "Lord Zhang does not know, Lord Qin ...... has already passed away."

"What!?" Zhang Xun was stunned and lost his voice, "Lord Qin has passed away?"

Zou Jing looked miserable, this was forced by the bandits, made such a betrayal of the court, the future does not know how to incur such a crime punishment, can not help but gloomy, eyes even trickled down two lines of tears to. Zhang Xun saw Zou Jing look sad, does not seem to be false, anxiously spurred his horse forward, cocked his head to the coffin to look at the coffin, I saw a person lying in the coffin with a pale face, life has died, Zhang Xun see really, not Qin Jie who else to come? Zhang Xun's face changed dramatically at that time, the servant turned over and fell on his horse, wailing and crying.

"Lord, Lord where ......"

Behind Zhang Xun, hundreds of official soldiers have fallen to their knees in the snow, wailing into a sound.

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Zhang Xun howled dry and stood up, said to Zou Jing: "Lord Zou and wait a moment, I will go back to the city to summon civil and military officials."

With these words, Zhang Xun turned on his horse and sped off towards the city, surrounded by hundreds of elite Nanyang soldiers who were eyeing the city like a tidal wave.

Five miles east of Wancheng City, there is a forest, two frightened birds suddenly fluttered their wings and flew up from the forest, frightened off the sky of broken snow.

The outer edge of the dense forest, Guan Hai face full of frost, holding a long knife in his hand, standing under a pine, hawk-like eyes deadly stare at the Wancheng City in front, but when Zhou Cang slaughtered all the civil and military officials of Wancheng City, occupying the east gate, Zhou Cang will lead 200 horsemen to kill like a whirlwind, with a thunderous force to flatten the city's defenders, to meet the arrival of Ma Yue's army.

In less than a meal's time, the sound of bawling came from far away from the city. Led by the captain Zhang Xun and the county chancellor, the civil and military officials left behind in Nanyang slowly came out of the east gate in two neat rows, crying as they greeted Qin Jie's coffin, and just reached his coffin.

"Dang!"

Zhou Cang untied the two swords from his back and struck each other fiercely with a clear sound of gold and iron, and then Zhou Cang's mournful hissing sound resounded through the clouds.

"Brothers, kill the dog officials and seize the city!"

"Poof!"

Zhou Cang's double swords flipped, like shears and arrived, poor standing in the forefront of Nanyang County, a civil official, was caught off guard early cut off his head, next to Zhang Xun saw the situation stunned, know that bad, neither dare to answer the battle, nor dare to return to the city, straight towards the north of the city and fled! Zhou Cang was ordered by Ma Yue to aim at the city of Wancheng, so he did not chase after them and waved his troops towards the east gate of Wancheng to cover up and kill them.

In just a few moments, except for Zhang Xun who fled, the unsuspecting civil and military officials of Wancheng were all killed, and Zhou Cang led this group of tiger-like stragglers across the drawbridge and killed the city gate.

By the time the official troops in the city arrived in chaos to reinforce them, Zhou Cang's 300 men had already been firmly nailed to the east gate of Wancheng like nails, and most of the military officials left to guard Wancheng had been killed.

The official troops launched several waves of chaotic counterattack, but they were all repelled by Zhou Cang's army. At this time, Guan Hai's iron cavalry of Qingzhou battalion arrived instantly, crushing over to Wancheng like a rolling iron stream.

Zhou Cang gave an order, and the bandits under his command suddenly flickered towards the city gate, giving way to the passage they had been holding.

"Kill!"

A tiger's roar, Guan Hai's long sword a sweep, the frontal collision of three official soldiers have been cut into six, behind Guan Hai, 200 roving bandits eyes burning killing machine, harsh wolf howl, like a frenzied beast horse gallop, the shiny saber has been raised, reflecting the dark and dreary sky.

Half an hour later, Ma Yue led the main force of the bandits to kill into Wancheng, 1,000 left behind the official army was destroyed, a part of the rout, most of them abandoned their weapons and surrendered, 800 bandits effortlessly captured Wancheng, the county capital of Nanyang.

"Pei Yuan Shao."

"Yes."

"Immediately lead the troops to guard the four gates, forbid all people to enter and exit, but anyone who trespasses on the city gates, regardless of red or white - all beheaded!"

"Yes, sir!"

"Guan Hai."

"Yes."

"Lead the Qingzhou battalion to patrol the streets immediately, and tell the whole city that everyone should stay at home, but anyone who goes out into the streets without permission - kill without pardon!"

"As you command!"

"Zhou Cang."

"Yes."

"Come with me to guard the office of the governor."

"As ordered!"

"The rest of the men, take leave and loot as much as you want! Go!"

Only Zhou Cang led 50 men to stand by Ma Yue's side. Ma Yue took a deep breath of cold air and said sternly, "Zhou Cang, there is a very dangerous mission today, but it is about the life and death of the 800 stragglers, do you dare to go?"

Zhou Cang said morosely, "Why don't you dare?"

Ma Yue said in a deep voice: "Although there is no chance of death, do you still dare to go?"

"I dare not!"

"Good!" Ma Yue bellowed, his eyes showed admiration, he took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Zhou Cang, saying sternly, "There is a letter today, it is a handwritten letter from He Zhen, the father of the current general He Jin, and there is also a head of Qin Jie, the governor of Nanyang, and a seal of the governor, you can take a book and a seal with you, and run to Luoyang at night. I expect that the government will not dare to make things difficult for you and will definitely condemn someone to escort you."

Zhou Cang said morosely, "Yes, sir!"

Ma Yue said in a deep voice: "If you can see General He Jin, you can tell him to drive 2000 horses to come within ten days, otherwise, you can wait for his old father to collect his corpse!"

"As you command!"

Zhou Cang clasped his fist and bowed, turned around and went away.

As he watched Zhou Cang's figure go away, Ma Yue's heart was heavy. From the bottom of his heart, Ma Yue thought that the possibility of He Jin's ambush was very small. 2,000 horses were not a small number, and even if He Jin was the general of the dynasty, it was not that easy to raise them all of a sudden! What's more, to give the war horses to the bandits is a treacherous thing, He Jin dares to risk the world?

However, the possibility is very small is not the same as zero, even if there is only one hope, Ma Yue thinks it is worth to pay 100% of the effort!

People without long-term concerns, there must be near worries, now the eight hundred stragglers seemingly scenery, but in fact is the danger of the four ambush.

Qin Jie is dead, Nanyang soldiers now have no leader, disintegration is inevitable, before the new Nanyang governor took office, the eight hundred stragglers in Wancheng are still safe, but after? The Han court, of course, will not sit back and watch Wancheng fall into the hands of thieves for a long time, and will certainly reassign capable officials and elite government troops to suppress it.

Qin Jie's defeat was due to the fact that he was not familiar with the tactics of the 800 stragglers, and used the old way of dealing with the yellow turban bandits who only knew how to defend the city from place to place to deal with Ma Yue's 800 stragglers, which only resulted in losing both sides and being restricted in every way, following the heels of the 800 stragglers.

However, the official army is not a fool, the end of the Han Dynasty, the three kingdoms, the scholar clan gatekeepers in the generation of capable people, it will not take long, the official army will be familiar with the eight hundred stragglers way of fighting, and then come up with a breakthrough strategy, then, the eight hundred stragglers can still play the official army in the palm of the hand like now?

As the opponent becomes stronger and the court attaches importance to it, the pressure of survival faced by the eight hundred stragglers will only get bigger and bigger, and if they don't try to improve their mobility, they are bound to be trapped in a corner. The most effective way to improve the mobility of the 800 stragglers is to turn them into a clean cavalry! The famous king of the roving bandits, the King of the Busters, overthrew the Ming Dynasty with a clean cavalry, didn't he?

Of course, Ma Yue never thought of subverting the Han Dynasty, he just wants to live well now, that's all.