Li Yan, Kuai Liang, Zou Jing and Chen Zhen, each with his own thoughts, walked into the hall one after another, only to see that a banquet had been prepared inside (in ancient times, the hosts and guests had a table, and each set wine and meat, not like the current table and eat together), so that the four people prepared to taste the taste of captivity of the 800 stragglers leader Ma Yue, already sat on the main seat, and said to the four captives with a solemn hand: "Please sit down. "

The four men reacted differently, but their respective hearts and courage were revealed.

Chen Zhen nodded fawningly at Ma Yue, and then settled down with trepidation, this is the generation who fears death.

Zou Jing instantly white face, suddenly had a very bad feeling, thinking that Ma Yue this table banquet, only afraid of the Hongmen Banquet, which is not good, which is the nature of suspicious.

Kuai Liang smiled spontaneously, dusted off the seat with a brush of his sleeve, and settled down, and then did not wait for Ma Yue to greet, but actually started to drink up, although being a prisoner, but there is no inferiority complex, self-pity color, at a glance it is known to be a person with a bold temperament, such people, is often the most firm beliefs.

Li Yan kicked over the wine feast in front of him and said morosely: "If you want to kill, kill, why bother!

Li Yan's words, Zou Jing immediately a trembling, Chen Zhen is scared to kneel up, only Kuai Liang drained the cup of wine with a sound, smashed tongue: "Zhengfang overthinking, Ma Da leader today to host a banquet, there is no intention to kill."

Ma Yue gaze awe-inspiring, looking at Kuai Liang said, "Foot soldier is worthy of Jingxiang famous scholar, a word."

Li Yan said, "But what do you want to do?"

Ma Yue said, "To be frank, I have already reached an agreement with He Xian, the steward of He House, that He House will exchange 2000 horses and Zhou Cang, the leader, for Old Master He and the four of you. But before letting you go, I still have one more thing to say, not to say!"

Zou Jing and Chen Zhen smiled with joy.

Kuai Liang said: "Foot soldier but want to say, this is a famous general after, now although the bandits, really helpless ear?"

Li Yan said, "What you and the 800 stragglers have done is against the court and the people, and it is a perversion of the law and an outrage to the gods.

Ma Yue Huo stood up, his heart was extremely angry, knowing that today's meal is a waste of the invitation, the heart of the prepared words also wasted. To change the view of these guys to the 800 bandits in their hearts is simply a pipe dream, forcing them to change their clan and join the army is not even a thought.

The first thing you need to do is to take them down to the prison, and from now on, they will not be given food or water, and they will be starved for three days.

......

Wancheng, righteous village.

The long, thin crippled beggar is squatting in the corner, pulled off a piece of pastry can't wait to stuff into the mouth, looks like it is starving, but not eat a few mouthfuls before choking, fortunately a bowl of noodle soup handed to him in time.

Liu Yan expression softly looked at the beggar, softly said: "sister, eat slowly, do not choke."

Zou Yu Niang beside him wondered, "Sister, how do you know she is a girl, not a man?"

Liu Yan smiled sweetly and said, "Yu Niang sister, you look at her throat will know, men have throat knots."

Zou Yu Niang could not help but sigh: "Sister is really smart, long and beautiful, such a one in a million lovely child, I really do not know what is made of the Ma leader's heart, how can be indifferent to your tender feelings."

Liu Yan looked gloomy and said quietly, "Sister, stop it."

The speaker has no intention, the listener has a heart, when Zou Yu Niang said to the horse big chief, that female beggar dark clear eyes suddenly brightened, and then towards Liu Yan servant's kneel down to the ground.

"Sister, you take pity on me, take me in as a slave girl."

......

In the blink of an eye, three days passed, and it was time for the agreed exchange of hostages.

The southern direction of Echinoyang remained calm, since the death of Qin Jie, Huang Zhong, Wei and led the remnants of the Nanyang army retreated to the line of Echinoyang, as long as the eight hundred stragglers do not go to harassment, and never take the initiative to attack.

The direction of Pheon County also did not find any abnormal, Mao San, Niu Si every once in a while to send back information, claiming that only yesterday two hundred county soldiers drove thousands of war horses into Pheon County, then everything is as usual, and did not find a large group of official army, it seems that He Xian also do not want to tear at this time, so as not to endanger the life of He Zhen.

Of course, the heart of prevention can not be free, in order to prevent Huang Zhong and others to take advantage of his time out to take Wancheng, Ma Yue still did enough arrangements and preparations, Wancheng within a radius of 100 miles has been spread throughout the eight hundred stragglers scouting horses, any wind blowing grass Ma Yue can grasp in time.

After all the arrangements were made, Ma Yue personally took 200 Qingzhou stragglers, escorting Li Yan and four other prisoners, and set out on a journey north to Pheasant County to receive the army and horses. After all, Ma Yue was a human being, not a god, and was unaware that the biggest threat did not come from Echinoyang in the south, but from Pheasant County, which was the last thing on Ma Yue's mind.

In the tens of miles around Pheasant County, thousands of elite Han troops are already waiting for Ma Yue to lead them.

......

The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you want to do.

The person beside him, Jin Shang, looked south with his hand on the cool fountain and suddenly looked uplifted and said to Yuan Shu, "General, it's coming."

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Yuan Shu's bright eyes suddenly swept a hint of gloomy color and asked Jin Shang, "Yuan Huo, has the forage been fed?"

Jin Shang bent down and respectfully replied, "As ordered by the general, it has been fed at the hour."

"Good!" Yuan Shu nodded and asked, "What time is it?"

"Exactly noon."

"The hour has arrived!" Yuan Shu said morosely, "Beat the drums and blow the trumpet, open the city gates and offer the war horses!"

"Horn oooooo~~~"

"Dong dong dong~~~"

The loud bullhorn and the stirring drums sounded stretched out, the closed city gates slowly opened, and 2000 majestic horses came out like a tidal wave.

"What a good horse, but it's a pity that it's gone to the stragglers."

On the city tower, Jin Shang shook his head and sighed.

Yuan Shu looked frosty, his eyes clouded with gloom, thinking that it would not be long before the horses returned to his hands!

"Horses, a lot of horses! From now on, we will have horses to ride, hahaha ......"

The bandits could not help but be happy behind the horse leap.

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There were some stragglers who went ahead to guide and gather the horses without owners.

"Don't worry, even though we are bandits, we know that we can't stand without faith." Ma Yue promised in a loud voice and said to Zhou Cang beside Yuan Shu, "Zhou Cang, has General He ever treated you poorly?"

Zhou Cang said morosely, "Great chief, Zhou Cang is fortunate not to insult the order."

Yuan Shu said, "Grand Chief Ma, is it time to exchange hostages."

Ma Yue said, "Of course."

Yuan Shu said, "Okay, after three drums, you and I will release the hostages at the same time, how about it?"

Ma Yue's gaze was astonished, he had the intention to regret but was concerned that Zhou Cang was still in the hands of the official army, if he disregarded Zhou Cang's death, he was afraid that the stragglers under his command would be cold-hearted, so he gave up the idea of regret. The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.

"DONG DONG DONG ...... DONG!"

The sound of the war drums finally sounded heavily, and then stopped, Zhou Cang ran out from the official army formation, Li Yan four people escorting He Zhen ran out from the stragglers formation at the same time, each rushing towards the home formation. Mao San, who heard the news and came to join Ma Yue, opened his bow and arrow, intending to shoot He Zhen, but was stopped by Ma Yue.

If you let him go, why shoot him again? If the current general He Jin is angered, there is no benefit to the eight hundred bandits, this, Ma Yue still knows very well.