The lives of the people and the livelihood of the people, for Ma Yue, are like a boulder pressed against his heart and mouth, and he can't breathe.

Lying on the couch for more than ten days, Ma Yue was finally able to walk on the ground, since Guan Yu Cheng Li led the troops to attack Luobei, every battle report was read to Ma Yue by the couch, and then handed over to Jian Shuo Kuaima to Luoyang after his approval. The former army troops transferred a large number of Han troops, leaving only one thousand people in charge of Yang Feng to prevent the Yellow Turban people who moved south from causing chaos.

On the 23rd, Ma Yue was finally able to stand up and give his own instructions for the war report, and the messenger reported that after being besieged by Guan Yu for more than ten days, Eping finally surrendered Kaicheng and pacified the three counties of Luobei.

And another letter followed, and Cao Cao was coming.

Arriving on the bank of the Luoshui River before Cao Cao was the baggage from the state capital, Luobeiguan County, which was about to become an important town to support the Han army's northern expedition and support the army's baggage.

The entire East County has been pacified, and although there are still the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, most of them have turned into bandits. The top priority at the moment is to attack Jizhou, and the joint attack of the north and south will wipe out the yellow turbans in Jizhou in one fell swoop, and help the great rivers and mountains.

Guan Yu and Cheng Li have already recruited troops in Guanxian County, and at the same time released sentry horses to understand the battle situation and people's livelihood in Jizhou, waiting for the arrival of the army, Ma Yue will not stay long in Dongjun.

When Cao Cao arrived at the military camp on the bank of the Luoshui River, it was already July and the sun was scorching the earth, Ma Yue was walking on the ridge in a cloth suit, and Yan Xing followed him and carefully supported him.

The wounds on Ma Yue's body are so good that even the arrow wound on his back has gradually healed, but he still can't make any big moves, and it's okay to walk in the fields in an ox cart on weekdays, and it's impossible to put on armor and get on the horse within a month.

The people who moved south were very successful in settling down, and with the fields donated by large families, it was very easy for the people to settle down. The people have always been a very lovely people, and as long as they are given the land they need for life, they are willing to cultivate and settle down.

Bu Ji said that he ruined the lives of the people of Luobei, Ma Yue also admitted it in his heart, because of this he paid more attention to the livelihood of the people of Luonan, just a few days ago when Ma Yue was able to write with a pen, he put on a letter to Chen Qi's interests, hoping that Liu Hong could exempt the people of Dongjun from paying taxes for two years, although the edict has not yet been handed down, but I think Liu Hong will consider his suggestion.

The horses galloped on the ridges, and the soldiers on the horses jumped down and knelt in front of Ma Yue, and reported: "Captain, Cao Cao, the cavalry captain, led the cavalry to arrive in Dong'e County. ”

Ma Yue took the rag from Yan Xing's hand, wiped the sweat on his forehead, nodded with a smile, and climbed back into the ox cart with Yan Xing's support, he wanted to take a good look at his brother of the Cao family, who was in battle for the first time.

The voice of the cavalry was not small, and many people who were working under the ridge knew that this eight-foot young man in cloth was Ma Yue, the commander of the Ten Thousand Army, and cast all kinds of eyes, including hatred and gratitude.

Not far away, three farmers put down their farming tools and climbed up the ridges of the fields with a smile, looking like they had finished their work for the day.

The ox cart turned around, Ma Yue sat in the caravan and closed his eyes to rest, this time the injury made Ma Yue's vitality greatly damaged, and when his body was recuperated, Ma Yue decided not to do such a dangerous thing in the future.

When the three farmers saw the ox cart coming, they hurriedly avoided to the left, and Yan Xing nodded and drove the ox cart forward.

These three farmers have an honest face, living on this land as farmers for generations.

Just when the two sides were staggering, the three farmers suddenly took out short knives from their waists, and the three of them lifted the feet of the car together and flipped it down, Yan Xing, who was driving, had no time to react, turned his head and exclaimed, "Be careful!" Then the wagon tumbled down the ridges.

The farmer lifted the caravan, and the horses inside felt more than Yan Xing, and secretly said 'not good' and hurriedly curled up in the car, and then his body was greatly shaken, and the caravan was overturned to the ground.

Ma Yue had no weapons, the sharp pain from his back seeped into his bones, he curled up in the collapsed caravan and couldn't move, and suddenly a blade stabbed out of the upper part of the caravan, and the cold blade was only a few inches away from Ma Yue but was stuck by the body.

When the caravan was about to collapse, Yan Xing had already jumped onto the north back of the pack ox with his horsemanship, and then pulled out his side ring knife and jumped to the side of a farmer with a roar and kicked it into the opponent's crotch, and stabbed the opponent through the chest with a knife in the neck.

The short knives of the farmers kept stabbing into the caravan, and in a blink of an eye, five holes were pierced in the body of the caravan, Yan Xing dragged one person to kick his broken leg and drop it off the ridge, slashed through the neck of the other, and hurriedly shouted at the overturned caravan: "Lord, lord!" ”

"I'm fine, come get me out."

"Oh, okay, my lord, wait a minute."

Yan Xing stuck the knife on the ground and stood beside the car and looked around, the three farmers had no accomplices, the assassination happened in an instant, the nearest farmer was half a mile away, only the unlucky guy who was kicked off the ridge by Yan Xing and left his leg on the ridge kept wailing in the wheat field.

After some effort, Ma Yue was pulled out of the destroyed caravan with the support of Yan Xing, looked condescendingly at the wailing farmers in the wheat field, and asked with a frown, "Why did you kill me?" ”

There was no reply, and the farmer just looked at Ma Yue with hatred on his face.

Sighing, Ma Yue tilted his head towards Yan Xing, and Yan Xing pulled out the ring knife and jumped down with a knife, killing the farmer.

"Go back and check, the identities of these three farmers should be recorded when they are territorial."

This is not far from the camp, Ma Yue walked all the way back along the ridge with the support of Yan Xing, and the high-spirited Cao Cao was startled when he saw Ma Yue's gray-faced appearance.

"San Lang, how did you get this look."

Ma Yue waved his hand, and was embarrassed by the assassination of three peasants only five miles away from his subordinates' garrison, and he would never tell Cao Cao about this kind of thing.

"I heard that my brother has made great achievements in Yingchuan, and this time I drove to Jizhou as a vanguard force, and San Lang is here to congratulate my brother." After bowing, Ma Yue led Cao Cao into the big tent, "Come, brothers, let's sit in the tent for a while." ”

Ma Yue swept over in a daze, and most of the Sima Junhou behind Cao Cao were old faces he had seen, Xiahou, the Cao family brothers, and a few new faces.

Everyone sat down in the tent, and Cao Cao arched his hand and said: "San Lang, my brother captured a yellow turban thief named Peng Tuo in Yingchuan. ”

Ma Yue's face was expressionless, but his heart was beating wildly, Peng Tuo, Peng Tuo, you still failed.

"Don't hide it, brother, the younger brother has an old relationship with this Peng, can you ......?"

"That can't be!" Before Ma Yue finished speaking, Cao Cao had already waved his hand and said: "Early tomorrow morning, Yu will send seven or eight soldiers to escort the two thieves to report to Luoyang, San Lang, are there any wandering mountain bandits here in Dongjun?" The elder brother was a little worried. ”

"Clever ghosts!" Ma Yue said in his heart, looked at Cao Cao, who was full of smiles, exchanged glances with him, and said with a smile: "I haven't heard of the bandits, but there are many stragglers with yellow turbans in the mountains and fields. ”

"En......" Cao Cao nodded and said: "Brother has to tell them that if there are thieves to intercept them, they will behead the two thieves and send the heads to Luoyang...... However, in this way, the reward for the wonderful talent will be less. ”

Ma Yue smiled and nodded, picked up the warm soup in front of him and said with a smile: "San Lang replaced wine with water, thank you Brother Cao and Brother Xiahou!" ”