Chapter 34: Martyrdom
Ugly, the southern suburbs of Shanyang.
After an hour of galloping, Yulin's right horse arrived at Shanyang.
With the edict of the imperial court, Ma Yue went all the way unimpeded, and in the middle of the night, people were sleepy and horses were tired, so Ma Yue ordered everyone to hide in the forest and rest for half an hour to recuperate.
The own sentry horses are sprinkled out, and the horsemen hide in the deep forest without worrying about being discovered by the mountain people.
With two "pops", Yang Feng looked at the flint, blew out the flames on the leaves, and lit the bonfire.
Jian Shuo took out a boundary map from his arms, dedicated it to Ma Yue for the map of Shanyang County, and said: "Ma Youjian, this is a map of Shanyang, according to the secret report, Ma Yuanyi is hiding in the eastern suburbs of the county, do you want to send someone to recruit the pavilion chief for careful interrogation?" ”
Ma Yue waved his hand and said: "It's not proper, since Taiping Dao has infiltrated into Luoyang, Ma Yuanyi must have something to rely on if he dares to stay in Shanyang. ”
Guan Yu and Yang Feng stood behind Ma Yue, and in addition to the Zhonghuangmen redundant Cong Jian Shuo, who was sitting next to Ma Yue, there was also a Yulin military candidate named Zhu Ling.
Ma Yue knows this person, but he only knows that his name sounds familiar, but he doesn't know what he will do in the future, but at least he is a celebrity, and his ability should not be bad.
Ma Yue spread out the map on the ground and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, there are four miles in the eastern suburbs of Shanyang County, and Ma Yuanyi must be hidden in the middle of these four miles, so if you want to divide the army, Zhu Junhou is familiar with you Yulin, so he will lead one to check from west to east, and one to check from east to west, and be sure to act quickly to arrest Ma Yuanyi." ”
Zhu Ling arched his hand and said: "The right eunuch, it is inappropriate to say a word in the lower courage, although the door is closed in the middle of the night, but according to the right eunuch, the Taiping Road is very large, and it is very likely that the news of the Yulin cavalry action has been received, regardless of whether the thief leader is no longer in Shanyang, even if it is still there, the road in the middle of the four miles is tortuous and there are many field roads, it is better to lead a hundred Yulin orders in the next four miles of the prison to close the inner door, and the right prison will wait for the Yulin to rest and then lead people to search one by one, right supervisor, can you see it?" ”
Ma Yuexin said: In this way, you don't go to the same grass and scare snakes, but they all mean the same thing, this is the first time Zhu Ling asked for his life, so what about answering him?
Then he opened his mouth and said: "It's okay, then there will be Lao Zhujun waiting." Ma Yue massaged the legs of the horses behind him and said, "This prison will arrive after everyone is rested." ”
"Zhu Ling obeys!"
Zhu Ling clenched his fists with both hands, and then ordered a hundred people to leave from the official road.
Liang people love horses, horses are their second life, Ma Yue's technique of massaging the joints of horses is still learned from Yan Xing. In fact, many people in later generations felt that it was wrong for cavalry to be easy to organize.
The money and energy it costs to raise one horse is enough to raise ten slaves.
If you want the horse to run away, it is absolutely impossible to only eat grass, and it needs to be supplemented with beans to ensure the absorption of nutrients by the horse, and it is easier to enhance the physical strength and endurance of the horse. In this era, there were no double stirrups and Takahashi saddles, and the lives of the cavalry on the battlefield were completely tied to the hands of the mounts, and if you want to have a good relationship with your horse, it is not enough to just ride a walk all day.
The horse is tired, as the owner, you have to massage him, otherwise the joints will run bad, and it is a pity that a good horse is ruined like this, and no one wants to see it. Every day, the horse should be prepared to eat on time, sometimes the horse is in a small mood and does not want to eat, the owner has to coax the horse to eat, and the horse has to go to the stable again at night to sleep, and prepare a little supper for his horse, and talk to it.
Feelings between people need to be cultivated, and the same is true for feelings between people and horses.
Rubbing the horse's ankles, Ma Yue suddenly remembered Yan Xing, the young man who was born in Xiliang and grew up on the snowy plateau, when Ma Yue fed the horses at night in the Liang Mansion, he would always see Yan Xing lying in the straw of the stable with his arms and chatting with the horses, and would always talk until he fell asleep, so that later Ma Yue specially asked the servants to prepare a futon in Yan Xing's stable.
The so-called love of horses should be like Yan Xing, and treat horses like cherished wives.
Ma Yue massaged the horse as he gently swirled in his head what Jian Shuo had said as he passed by.
Jian Shuo said: Ma Youjian should be careful of Cao Mengde, this person is the most selfish.
Half an hour after Zhu Ling left, Ma Yue saw that everyone had finished resting, and the horses had recovered their spirits. ”
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Although his subordinates suggested that Ma Yuanyi start a war with the Han army, Ma Yuanyi clearly knew that at this time, the Yellow Turban Dao could never have any conflict with the Han court.
He was the first group of people to follow Zhang Jiao, such as Ma Yuanyi, such as Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang brothers, Zhang Mancheng and others, all of whom were friends of Zhang Jiao when he was in Julu County. They know their roots, and Zhang Jiao is more assured of their ability and character. Ma Yuanyi was a county official before joining the Yellow Turban Road, and he had studied for two years, but these identities and pasts became clouds of the past after he believed in the Taiping Dao. Now he has only one identity, under one person, above 10,000 people, the only person in charge of all the activities of Taiping Dao in the Sili Captain's Department, the divine envoy of Taiping Dao! is a high authority, so that he knows it better.
"You can't go to war with the Han army! Liu Shi! As he spoke, Ma Yuanyi tore off the map behind him, rolled up the list of forbidden troops and handed it to Liu Shi and said, "If I have an accident, you will be fully responsible for all the activities of the Sili Captain's Department!" ”
When Liu Shi heard this, he hurriedly knelt down, his heart beating hard in his chest, and he commanded the lieutenant department!
He said in a panic: "God's envoy! How can Liu Shi and De teach you to have such trust!
"The overthrow of the Han Dynasty is the trust that Huang Tian has given us!" Ma Yuanyi's voice was full of emotion, pointing at everyone and shouting: "Great sages and good teachers have clouds: equality and peace!" Don't disturb the overall situation because of your personal life and death! You know how many people are homeless! How many people are starving and freezing! ”
"The Han army is coming, you should withdraw as soon as possible, take all the believers away, and when Huang Tian comes, he will avenge the most devout believers!"
Everyone was waiting to say anything, but they all left under Ma Yuanyi's scolding, leaving Ma Yuanyi alone in the huge mansion waiting for the arrival of Yulin, but at this moment, Ma Yuanyi smiled.
"Taiping Road?" Ma Yuanyi sneered, only Zhang Jiao's dead eye would regard Taiping Dao as his life, and he had forbearance and layout for more than ten years.
Just waiting for the moment when the flowers bloom and ripen.
Whether it was when Zhang Jiao showed him the Taiping Qing collar book he picked up when collecting medicine, or when he pretended to be a yellow man in Luoyang Guansi during the Xiping period, or when he had personally seen more than 10,000 believers in the sect for Zhang Jiao in the past ten years. Even at the beginning of the year, he personally led 100,000 believers from Jing and Yang Prefectures to gather in Yecheng, Jizhou.
He Ma Yuanyi, from beginning to end, did not believe in any Taiping Dao, did not believe in those doctrines, did not believe that the Taiping scriptures were divinely granted, did not believe that the Yellow Heaven would come, and did not believe that the Yellow Heaven was the only true God.
Because of the yellow sky, it doesn't exist at all! The Taiping Sutra and Zhang Jiao originally existed, but now they are one.
"Taiping Sutra" has a cloud: swallow my words today, and then can be taught by him, teach ten hundred hundred and correspondingly, it is the way, between the moments, is the flow of the eight directions and the six hex, the spirit with the cure.
In accordance with the teachings, Zhang Jiao burned the seven bamboo slips into ashes and drank water, and devoured the entire Taiping Sutra.
"The first man to be martyred. If you don't give in, take it as a punishment for being a divine envoy but doubting Huang Tian. ”
Ma Yuanyi went down to the cellar, leaned against the corner of the wall to uncover a jar of old wine that had been sealed for a long time, and drank it with his head tilted.
The arrival of the Yellow Sky was just an ethereal pretense in his eyes, but he believed in Zhang Jiao. He believed in the new world that Zhang Jiao had depicted to him many years ago, with the old people having food and no hunger and cold. So when he realized that Tang Zhou was arrested, his reaction was not to run away, but to give up.
He gave up everything except the future of Taiping Dao.
"The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand!"