Since Ma Yue returned to Longxian, the military camp on the bank of the Lingshui River in Longxian County has been continuously drilled, with the help of falcons and fierce dogs, and even in the depths of winter, soldiers can always hunt game. What's more, Dong Zhuo sent nearly 1,000 cattle and sheep to him in Jincheng because of the Ma family's brothers, the quality of the soldiers' food is good, and the drill is naturally energetic, and now these men are all strong and burly, and Ma Yue's command ability has also been significantly improved, at least he can do this hundred-person team like an arm.

In recent days, there has been heavy snow in Longxian County, but the temperature has turned into ice. The city gate of Longxian was listless, standing at the head of the city with a pestle, yawning, and a team of black shadows were seen running from far and near the city.

The soldiers were all surprised, and there was not a hint of nervousness, but there was a slight commotion.

"The horse team is taking the martial arts team for morning exercise again. I really don't understand how he can get up in this damn weather. ”

The soldier next to him smiled, "Damn, if I didn't have to be on duty at night, I would still be warm in the bed now." ”

The head soldier laughed for a while: "You kid want to go back and hug his wife, haha." ”

At this time, a soldier interjected: "Have you heard, the horse team won three consecutive martial arts exercises in Jincheng some time ago, and it is really brave." ”

"Eh, how do you know?"

"It's true, my brother-in-law is on an errand in Jincheng."

"Let's talk about it, let's talk about how the horse team went to Jincheng, how did they fight the Qiang people three times?"

"I don't understand the details, but I heard that his eldest brother horse thief Cao was promoted to the captain of Luoyang County after he came back, and the horse team was not promoted because of his youth."

This situation is now mostly happening in the land of Liangzhou, Ma Jiaerlang has lost three people in a row, and two of them are also warriors who have won three games in a row. Once the Qiang people performed martial arts, the Ma brothers were out of the limelight. Of course, it also made those Hu chieftains add another fierce general to the name of Dong Zhuo, the captain of the Han army.

If there is a gain, there is a pay, and now when it comes to Ma Yue and Ma Teng, the first thing that comes to mind is not the disciple of Liangzhou Thorn Shi Liang Hu, but the minions of Dong Zhuo under the command of Bingzhou Thorn Shi Dong Zhuo.

Zha Jia was placed overnight through the cold of his clothes and pierced his body, and his breath turned into white gas spewed out from his mouth and nose in the dark night of the fifth watch, like swallowing clouds and spitting mist. Ma Yue led the team to run at the front, behind him was Guan Yu Pengtuo, a hundred soldiers like a long snake through the darkness, everyone in armor, each carrying a twenty-pound bag, heavy footsteps echoed in the wilderness.

Every day in the morning of the fifth watch, Ma Yue and his soldiers have never stopped marching with weights, at the beginning it was only half an hour to run out of ten miles, the soldiers were already exhausted, and now in the morning, two hours of marching fifty miles, around the city of Longxian three times, and then go back to eat, can still complete a day's normal training.

The physical fitness of the soldiers, the proficiency of the formation, the individual combat ability and the quality of the equipment represent the strength and weakness of an army in Ma Yue's eyes.

It is not up to him to have the final say on the issue of equipment, the head of the sword, the long ge, the weak bow and the light crossbow, all the border counties and county soldiers of the Eastern Han Empire are like this, and he has nothing to say, as a general, he wants his soldiers to be stronger than others, no matter how many.

After breakfast, he and his soldiers tied their bodies to their horses, galloped on the grassland, without the mundane things of guarding the horse farm, in addition to training every day, they rested, knowing that they would go to Beidi County with Ma Yue after the year, and the soldiers could withstand the tired training, and it was a great honor in their eyes to be able to fight for the defense of the country in the border of the Han Dynasty!

What's more, they are willing to fight for Ma Yue, otherwise they may be difficult to ride the pure-blooded Liangzhou horse under the crotch now for the rest of their lives, under normal circumstances, they can only ride those inferior horses with low endurance and weak system, riding such a high-headed horse, but the treatment that only regular martial arts riders have.

After the afternoon, the hundred horsemen pursued, the vultures hovered overhead, the hunting dogs galloped under the horses, and everyone carried bows and arrows into the mountains and forests, not only getting rich prey but also exercising the cooperation of the soldiers in riding and shooting.

It's just that there are no bandits in Longxian, and Ma Yue's hundred-man team can't see blood, so it's difficult to become a strong army.

Ma Yue understands that this is the weakness of his hundred-man team, he has not experienced a real battle, there is no so-called murderous spirit, and if he fights against the martial arts teams of other states and counties, he may be difficult to win.

If the reason is related to the dirty things of those in power, Liang Hu was favored by the Han Emperor as a side branch of the Xiaohao clan in Longxi, and got the position of assassin history, which is also the beginning of this year, and the departments of Liangzhou counties and counties are mostly controlled by those school captains and Taishou, Liang Hu himself has no capital to operate in Liangzhou, so that he is called Liangzhou Thorn History, in fact, the control of the counties and counties in Liangzhou is so small that it is not counted, and only Longxian and several surrounding counties are really under his control. The captain and he pretended to be a snake, but in fact there was not much respect at all.

His subordinates did not have strong soldiers, which also had something to do with the previous assassin Wei Yuanpi, the former assassin Zhou Hong had strong soldiers in the state and county when he was in office, and when the post was handed over, Wei Yuanpi scattered the strong soldiers in the border area to prevent Qiang, and he wanted to take it back but died of illness, and then Liang Hu took office, he had no foundation in Liangzhou, and wanted to recover the strong soldiers who were scattered outside, but how could those border generals let go, and they couldn't do it.

Therefore, now within a radius of 100 miles in Longxian County, the most elite troops may be the few hundred people under Ma Yue.

At least the physical fitness of this squad is far from being comparable to those ordinary county soldiers.

Ma Yue's soldiers can each carry 20 catties and travel 100 miles a day, of course, this is the reason why Hanli is only 400 meters and has no baggage, but for those ordinary soldiers, they can travel at most 70 miles, and they already have the posture of a strong soldier with the quality of the soldiers. What's more, each person is equipped with a sword, halberd, bow and crossbow, and there is also a good horse and double leather armor.

Now they have it all, and all they need is a bloody battle.

People tasted it: If you are sleepy, someone will send a pillow.

When the horse crossed the forest path, he heard a commotion outside the forest, and hurriedly summoned his soldiers to hide, and he took three soldiers to investigate, and when the four of them approached cautiously, they saw a group riding hundreds of paces in the wilderness.

There are two official roads from Zhangjiachuan to Longxian, and there is only one road to the Lingshui River, these people are wrapped in shabby thick robes but armed with knives and guns, poorly equipped but fierce, and they are not good people at first glance.

Although they may not be really thieves, but the horses are not sloppy, although Liang Huyi in the Lingshui military camp has sent two teams of soldiers to guard the horse farm, but this group of foot cavalry is more than 500 at a glance, and it may be very difficult to hold on to those 200 recruits alone.

Without further ado, regardless of whether the purpose of this team is Lingshui Racecourse or not, the training of Ma Yue's team has ended. When he returned, he gathered the people and turned his horses back to the camp.

Longxian is a hundred miles away, Ma Yue and his party shoot all day long, no one is more familiar with the grass and trees around than them, immediately choose a forest path closer to the top, everyone galloped back to the camp.

Here, they're the snakes.