There are four Qiang people in the same company, three old people and one child, and Wei He said that they are good at Soma. The Han Chinese name of the Qiang boy was Wei Fa, and he followed his father. Whether Weifa is good at Soma Ma Yue doesn't know. But he knew that Wei Fa was good at playing the Qiang flute.

The Qiang flute has a sharp sound, and it is played with a sad sense of homesickness. Wei Fa played the Qiang flute during the break, and Ma Yue liked it very much, so he asked Wei Fa to teach him to play the Qiang flute to pass the boredom. At this time, Ma Yue was leaning on the cart, holding the head knife given to him by Ma Teng, sharpening a two-pipe Qiang flute. Now they have entered Wuwei County, which is less than half a day's journey from Zuli County at most. The horse riding skills are general, a day can ride up to three hours, after four hours will be unbearable back pain immediately bumpy, when riding a horse to drive the horse's hips with both legs so as not to let themselves fall off the horse.

Guan Yu said that this is also a kind of cultivation, so Ma Yue stays on the horse for nearly five hours every day. I couldn't stand it, so I asked Guan Yu to ride a horse and hang up the cart and pull him away. The song that Wei Fa taught him was called Bai Yun, which told the beautiful story of a young girl who ran away from home and watched watch. These days, he can already blow a little look, but it's not unpleasant. This lonely city of Wanren Mountain is only accompanied by the white clouds on the horizon, and it is not bad to play this song, anyway, Ma Yue's playing ability is not good, and he can't blow the homesickness of the song itself.

I'm tired of seeing the scenery on the horizon on the way, but some people feel that this unchanging beautiful scenery is particularly annoying.

At this time, there was a roar in front of the caravan, and more than ten arrows shot out from the forests on both sides of the official road, and one of them shot into the cart, so frightened that Ma Yue's hands trembled, and in a panic, he hurriedly raised the small copper shield given to him by the lame brother to block the front.

"Saburo be careful!" Guan Yu, who was riding a horse, reacted quickly, and let out a long howl almost at the same time as the arrow hit.

"Enemy attack!"

There was a sound of swords being drawn, and dozens of sword-wielding thieves rushed out on both sides of the official road.

Before the hand-to-hand soldiers could meet, the caravan fell to several of its guards. In a panic, Guan Yu dismounted with a knife and kicked the flip cart, hiding Ma Yue behind the cart to prevent being injured by stray arrows. Then the tiger leaped out to meet the thieves.

Ma Yue's heart was about to rise to his throat when he hid behind the plank, and the fragility of life was at a glance at this time. This is the second time he has experienced this situation, the first time was when Akiyama was chopping wood and was pounced on the ground by a wild wolf. He held a shield in his left hand, and a long knife in his right hand half-squatted behind the cart, and through the gap in the plank, he could see Guan Yu's figure at a glance in the chaotic crowd.

At this time, Guan Yu opened and closed with one enemy and three swords, and there were already two corpses under him, and the caravan guards saw that he was so brave and tried to get closer to his side while fighting bravely to kill the enemy.

After a while, Ma Yue saw the second brother Ma Zong with a few guards from Longxian County and Guan Yu rounding. Ma Zong was covered in blood at this time, but he didn't seem to be in trouble.

kicked away the thief who was blocking between the two, and while making up for it, Ma Zong asked eagerly: "Where is San Lang!" ”

Guan Yu cut down the last person in front of him, and motioned to the cart where Ma Yue was hiding, and after Ma Zong nodded, the two of them went towards Wei Gongzi's side together.

Compared with the attack at the back of the car, the thief obviously put the center of the attack on Wei Gongzi's wave of people. There are many thieves, and there are hidden archers in the dense forest, and the form is precarious. If it weren't for Guan Yu and Ma Zong to bring people to arrive, I'm afraid that most of his own guards would have been killed or injured.

Ma Yue was not in the slightest danger behind the cart, and looked at the form in front of him and beat a small drum in his heart. This gang of thieves does not seem to rob money, but rather kills for the sake of killing, the means are fierce but the strength is insufficient, and they don't look like thieves who have been wandering the mountains and forests for many years.

What's more, there are bows and crossbows in hand, and the Han Dynasty banned bows and crossbows from appearing among the people. What's more, it is a place like Liangzhou that borders foreign races, and the reason why the Han Dynasty did not have a strong and prosperous method to win is the method of strong bows and crossbows and military formations, so the control of bows and crossbows in the border area is stricter than that of the Central Plains, and it is difficult for bandits and others to get bows and crossbows.

At the end of the battle, the thieves couldn't attack for a long time and showed their cowardice, how could they be the opponents of Guan Yu and others, who were becoming more and more brave in the battle, and left more than 20 corpses and fled. Ma Zong wanted to pursue, but was blocked by several sharp arrows shot in the dense forest, so he had to give up.

Ma Yue drew his sword out of the sheath but did not participate in the battle, and only after seeing the safety of his surroundings did he get out of the back of the cart and help count the casualties.

Guan Yu said that 'if you want money, you have to have a life' is right, and the pay is often proportional to the return. Twenty-three of the thieves died, one groom and three guards died in the caravan, and six of the guards were seriously wounded, lying on the ground wailing that they would not survive.

The rest of the people also had varying degrees of minor injuries, and the originally brisk travel atmosphere was covered with a layer of sadness in an instant.

No one was in the mood to talk and laugh, and after the wounded were dealt with briefly, everyone went on the road again, but this time everyone was vigilant, worried about being ambushed again.

Ma Yue sat in the cart and couldn't calm down, he tried not to think about the faces of the dead whose bodies were thrown on the side of the road and only had the grass wolf as his companion, but his hands couldn't stop shaking. It reminded him of a brief conversation in the old world.

"Listen to me, don't think about apples now."

"Tell me what you're thinking?"

"Apples."

Ma Yue is now caught in such a cycle. The harder he tried to tell himself not to think about the dead, the more his mind couldn't help but run that way.

Guan Yu, who was riding a horse, turned his head and asked with a smile, "The first time I saw a dead man?" ”

Ma Yue was expressionless, trying to make himself look normal, he nodded, and then thought that on the first day of his birth, he saw his eldest brother Ma Teng wielding a pitchfork and poking the two horse thieves off the tall horse, so he shook his head, and then found that this was something that could not be said, could it be that Guan Yu asked him when he was born for the first time?

Guan Yu sighed, and said with a look that was difficult to see on Guan Yu's face: "This is the way it has been in these years, there are dead people everywhere every day, and you will get used to it when you see it too much." ”

It's a compassionate look. Ma Yue looked at Guan Yu's strong side face on the board car, and his mood suddenly calmed down, he felt that this kind of expression should not appear on a cold-faced iron man like Guan Yu, but it appeared. You didn't want to die when the thief pointed the steel knife at you, so in an instant, Guan Yu had seven or eight more ghosts under the knife in his hand.

If a succession of killings does not turn a person's heart into stone, then that person must be kind. No matter why he kills.

Ma Yue didn't understand how angry and helpless he must be, those thieves were obviously unfamiliar but pounced on them with steel knives. He had always thought that unforgettable hatred would drive a man to draw his blade, just as he had when he rushed towards Pound. Now he knows that there are many people in this world who do not preach morality and do not distinguish between cause and effect, and can want to cut off your head and take your life for no reason.

Wei He sent Ma Yue a crossbow, and in the battle, he captured three crossbows, and this was one of them. The main body of the hand crossbow is wooden and reinforced with bronze, and the crossbow has been basically perfected in the Han Dynasty, such as Ma Yue's hand crossbow bow arm standard is readily available, but the sight is called Wangshan in the Han Dynasty, which is a small bronze pillar mounted next to the tooth, marked with a scale. The total length of the crossbow is a little more than two feet, the Han ruler is slightly shorter than the current ruler, two feet is more than sixty centimeters now, and Ma Yue tied a rope to the handle position and hung it around his waist.

Ma Zong had used a crossbow on the battlefield, and in the battle just now, he was shot with an arrow in the arm but it was fine, so he came over to teach Ma Yue how to shoot arrows with a crossbow. Bows and crossbows are big killers for people who don't wear iron armor, if they are white-knuckled battles, it is difficult for ordinary people to enter with the force of Ma Zong, but cold arrows can easily take his life. After all, martial arts are not iron cloth shirts and golden bell jars, and the arrow in the key point is still not saved.

The crossbow power is three stones and ninety Han catties, and Ma Yue is small but powerful, and five crossbows can be opened in a row. Wei He also came with ten crossbow arrows, the arrows were bronze with strong penetrating power, and they could shoot eighty steps.

It is said that it is eighty steps, but the crossbow arrow has no arrow feathers, and there is a significant flip after more than sixty steps. But this doesn't matter to Ma Yue, what he wants is the accuracy of this crossbow within thirty steps, with his archery skills, he can't shoot a human-sized target thirty steps away, he can shoot within thirty steps, and he can point where to hit ten steps.

Ma Yue has a new weapon, and he has a lot of fun playing with a crossbow every day. Although the bow and crossbow were contraband in this era, who would catch him in the wilderness now. So he kept cutting branches, shooting them when he was done, and he didn't put arrows on them, so he practiced accuracy.

Wei He also wore a crossbow around his waist, and his crossbow was more delicately made, not captured but his own. These days, Ma Yue has been familiar with Wei He's temperament, although he looks like a noble son, but there is an intimacy of a well-known person in his speech, especially the attitude towards Ma Yue and the three of them, and several people can talk very well.

"Saburo, do you ask me to believe? I'm not religious, but I've seen a lot of Taoist priests who are pretty good. When I am old and unburdened myself, I will find a Taoist monk and become a Taoist priest. ”

"There are no Taoist priests in Liangzhou."

"When I was in Shuzhong, I saw that there were also Taoist priests in the Zhengyi League who were called the Five Buckets of Rice Sect, and their sect members had to hand in five buckets of rice every month. Zhang Tianshi of the Five Buckets Rice Sect is a powerful person, he built a rice shed over there and invited people to eat rice. ”

"Then he is a good person, there are always people who starve to death and freeze to death in Liangzhou these years."

"Not only is he a good person, you know that he is not the only one who invites himself, he called on the people of the Wudou Rice Sect to invite together, and the Yisha on the side of the road in Hanzhong is full of resettlement, and every day there are rice, vegetables and meat for the hungry people on the road to eat."

Ma Yue and the three of them were stunned when they heard this, and Ma Zongwen said: "Then others don't eat all his family poor." ”

Wei He smiled and pointed at Ma Zong and said, "Where can it, not to mention that no one will do that, even if you really want to eat every day, you don't dare." ”

Ma Yue said: "Then what don't you dare? ”

"The food they gave up was given by God to eat, and the Taoists prayed every day, and those who ate too much would be condemned by the demons and gods."

Ma Yue pursed his lips disdainfully, but Guan Yu and Ma Zong respected this kind of ghost and god theory very much, and they no longer spoke.

"God, there are more gods. You've heard of it. ”

Ma Yue and Ma Zong glanced at each other and shook their heads. But Guan Yu heard it and said, "But the great sage and good teacher of Taiping Taoism? ”

Wei He patted his leg and nodded: "Yes, it is the great sage and good teacher of Taiping Dao." ”

As soon as Ma Yue said this, he knew that Zhang Jiao, the Yellow Turban Uprising in Taiping Road, was the one who swept the world with a peasant uprising a few years later, and finally died of illness. As soon as Wei He said this, he also came to his senses, and hurriedly asked, "What kind of divine law is Taiping Dao?" ”

Wei He smiled, pointed at his guard captain and said, "See Peng Tuo." Let me tell you, when we were in Jizhou, we were attacked by a group of bandits, and Peng Tuo was stabbed in the heart. ”

The three of them all widened their eyes in surprise, they were all transparent and could they still live?

Wei He was very satisfied with the reaction of the three of them, and said: "At that time, we happened to meet the great sage and good master with his disciples, and the great sage and good master gave a talisman water, and after doing the ritual, we carried Peng Tuo back and prepared for the aftermath. ”

If it weren't for the fact that Peng Tuo was now straddling a tall horse in front of the caravan, who would have believed such a bizarre thing?

Ma Yue leaned on the cart, shocked by everything.