The feet are steaming in the summer and rustic, and the back is burning in the sky.

Cao Cao stretched out his sleeve to wipe the sweat on his face, bit off the pear in his hand, watched Ma Yue wander around the fields, and asked loudly: "Why did San Lang leave the camp and wait, he had to inspect the fields under the scorching sun, even if he wanted to lure out the assassin as a bait, he should come out at night." ”

Now the sun is scorching, so that Cao Cao frowned and shaded himself with a wide sleeved robe.

Hearing Cao Cao shouting to himself, Ma Yue shook his head and smiled bitterly, and then took Yang Feng around the field and walked back to the ridge road, climbed on the horse sideways, tilted his head and said to Cao Cao: "It's not that I'm afraid of those assassins, it's just that the war has missed the agricultural time, and I'm worried about the livelihood of the people who moved south." ”

"You, you. Just find a sergeant to take a look for you, the big war is about to take care of the method of the battle formation, and you actually think about these inconsequential things. Cao Cao patted the horse's buttocks, turned his head and said to Xiahoudun, who was following closely: "Yuan Rang, can the Tibetan ice that the big families in Dong'e City ask for be sent to the camp?" ”

Xiahoudun nodded and said, "It should have been delivered, Dong'e's surname is very easy to speak, especially Fan." ”

"San Lang has leveled Dongjun Buji, those big families must be grateful to Dade." Cao Cao beat the horse in front of the horse and crossed the horse's head, raised the whip and swept and said: "San Lang, don't do this again in the future, your letter has offended many members of the court, and I am afraid that it will not fall well among the people of Dongjun. ”

These days, with the careful care of the doctors and soldiers, the wound left by Luo Bei is almost healed, at least he can ride a horse slowly, gently urging the horse, Ma Yue chuckled and said: "Whether they like so-and-so or not, what does it have to do with so-and-so, and a certain family does not live for them." ”

"Hey!" Cao Cao looked at the thriving wheat field with a flat face, shook his head gently, and said, "For the name that my brother told you when he was in Luoyang, you have forgotten it now." ”

"Brother San Lang didn't dare to forget what he said, he just wanted to do something right, and offending so many courtiers was something San Lang never expected."

Cao Cao pursed his lips, his face was a little gloomy, and said: "You want to do the right thing, what is the right thing, and offending the gate valve is the right thing?" What do you do right without their support? Correct, correct, righteous, righteous, and indeed feasible. There is nothing to do in your heart, and no one supports you, what is really feasible for you? ”

Seeing that Ma Yue was silent, Cao Cao continued: "Could it be that you are brave with blood? The court is not a battlefield, but it is much more cruel than the battlefield, how do you kill yourself? ”

Ma Yue was stunned for a moment, raised his hand and wanted to ask Cao Cao what this had to do with killing Bu Ji, but he still said truthfully: "Pretend to be a yellow turban thief and go to Luobei to kill him while he is not prepared." ”

"That's it." Cao Cao clapped his hands and said: "Look, our crusade against the Yellow Turban is just, so you killed Bu Ji with a treacherous plot, but none of us think you did something wrong, and we all think you did a good job." This is called sacrificing small righteousness and taking great righteousness, but do you really think that your knife collapsed the situation in Luobei? Otherwise, it was you who first let the big households here give up the land and destroyed the loyalty of the people on the other side of the river, so that you got the opportunity to ambush and kill Bu Ji, otherwise kill a Bu Ji and Chen Ji and Yang Ji, as long as they still have the hearts of the people, your Changshui battalion will kill the Luobei Yellow Turbans that are so soft that they can't finish beating the endless Luobei Yellow Turbans. This is a trade-off, give up some, maybe get some...... You get the idea. ”

Speaking of this, Cao Cao jerked the horse's butt under Ma Yue's crotch, and then lightly knocked the horse's belly and galloped and laughed: "Let's go!" There are not many free days, go back to play chess with your brother, and let your brother teach you what is between square circles and the way to choose! ”

The horse's sudden forward charge startled Ma Yue, and then he hurriedly stabilized his galloping horse and galloped towards the camp.

After entering the camp, Cao Cao was not in a hurry to find Ma Yue to play chess, nor was he in a hurry to drink ice water, but hurriedly pulled Ma Yue to the big tent and showed him the established route forward.

"San Lang, your subordinate Sima Guan Yu has blocked the only way from Yanzhou to Jizhou in Guanxian County, ensuring that the army led by the two generals is unimpeded. The army is unhindered, but the baggage is a big problem, you also know, the elder brother only has 1,500 paces to ride, you have fought with Bu Ji, is there a road in Luobei that is convenient for the transportation of baggage and is not easy to be intercepted by the anti-thief remnant party? ”

Ma Yue pondered for a moment, pressed his finger on the topographic map of the sheepskin mountains and rivers, and said with confidence: "Liao County, only Liao County." ”

"The people of Luobei have not been plagued by war, and the countryside is the time when the wheat grows wildly, and the wheat fields are tall enough for hundreds of thieves to hide. Only Liao County to Guan County, the wheat fields on this road were trampled by the army before, and the crops in the field could not grow. Looking for a road in Luobei that will not be attacked by the Yellow Turban Yu Party, the foolish brother does not know, but if there is a road that allows our scouts to know the field of vision within a few miles, if there is a road that can detect the enemy situation in advance, if there is a road that is unimpeded and Pingchuan, then it must be the official road from Liao County to Guan County. ”

Cao Cao nodded, turned his head and gave Xiahoudun a look, Xiahoudun would intend to accuse Ma Yue and run out of the courtyard, gather his scouts and run to Luobei to check the road.

"That's a lot of work." Cao Cao stretched his waist and said with a smile: "Come on, take Go." ”

After a while, the entourage set up the chessboard in front of the two, and guessed that Ma Yue held the black zi, and Cao Cao held the white characters, and sat opposite each other in front of the chessboard.

The sunspot went first, and Ma Yue placed the chess pieces in the 'Tian Yuan position', the center of the chessboard.

Ma Yue's chess skills are very poor, and he chose Tian Yuan to start in order to use a very rogue tactic and imitate chess. Tian Yuan's position is the only asymmetrical drop point in the entire chessboard, and from this point on, every time Cao Cao falls, Ma Yue will fall in the symmetrical position on the chessboard.

Compared with Ma Yue, Cao Cao is a master of chess, and chess skills for Cao Cao can almost be equal to Ma Yue's riding skills. However, it is difficult to win with the subtle imitation tactics of the players.

Cao Cao left a son, and the third son sealed the sunspot qi near the edge of Ma Yue with a closed encirclement, and asked casually after taking the sunspot: "Did San Lang later board the gate of Yuan's mansion?" I heard that Taifu Yuan Kui was very dissatisfied with your dedication to the field, and almost fainted during the court discussion. ”

"Nope." Ma Yue shrugged his shoulders in a symmetrical direction, picked up Cao Cao's white son in the same way, and said with a smile: "Brother Ben doesn't seem to like me very much, and he hasn't been idle since he caught Ma Yuanyi, so he can't leave to visit." ”

Cao Cao was originally a chess player who loved to play chess, but he was bored by Ma Yue's imitation of chess, let go of the chess pieces and said: "You should be serious, chess games, battlefields, and courts are not child's play." It is often a shame to cling to the powerful, but it is not a shame to cling to the Yuan family. Cao Cao looked at Ma Yue very seriously and said: "There is a man from Liangzhou who is similar to you, he has the same humble background when he was young, he does not have a celebrity like Liang Lao to rely on, but he has been appreciated by Yuan Taifu as a staff member of the house, and in a few years, you are all close to your own people, and you are arrogant and rude to the outside, but he later became bigger and bigger in the officialdom with the identity of the former official of the Yuan family, and he did it all. ”

"Is there still such a person in Liangzhou? Who is it? Ma Yue frowned and asked thoughtfully, he couldn't think of such a number one martial artist in Liangzhou.

"And the history of the state assassination." Cao Cao stared at Ma Yue's eyes and said a name.

"Dong Zhuo."