In May, facing the scorching summer, Ma Yue led his army through Luoshui and faced the Yellow Turban Buji Department entrenched in Shen County.

The people who were exiled from the northern part of Dongjun spontaneously built a boat bridge for the Han army to walk on the Luoshui River, and nearly 1,000 people used it as a supply line for Ma Yue, driving ox carts to send supplies to Changshui operations.

"Master, even if it is for the sake of the people of Dongjun, a certain must capture and kill Bu Ji."

Thousands of troops are mighty, Cheng Li is on the left, and Guan Yu is on the right. Ma Yue's words aroused Cheng Li's enthusiasm, and the old man who was over forty years old locked the courtyard wall and got on the horse again, and took his eldest son to serve the Han.

Cheng Li galloped on the side, and said with a smile when he heard this: "The captain is thinking too much, if there is no letter of appointment from the imperial court to Xue Zhi, I am afraid that this 'common people' will not be so easy to contribute to the captain." ”

"Oh?" Ma Yue smiled puzzledly: "Could it be that this is Xue Zhi's credit?" ”

"What?" Cheng Wu galloped on Cheng Li's side, lest his father, who had been teaching for many years, make a mistake on the horse, Cheng Li said: "The large fields south of Dong'a are all owned by the Xue family, and these people are also tenants of the Xue family, what does the school captain think?" If the captain does not offend the Fan family, I am afraid that this spontaneous people will be doubled again. ”

Ma Yue nodded, did not speak, and led the army north.

This is the power of the clan that occupies the countryside, but in the small county town of Dong'e, the small Xue clan has thousands of tenants and hundreds of soldiers. As soon as the head of the family gave the order, the more than 1,000 tenants raised hundreds of ships to transport grain and grass to support thousands of Han troops. The strength should not be underestimated.

This is just the clan, there are more wealthy people who have the right to pass through the county, the scholars who are known all over the world, and the family has been a prince for generations.

If you want to be more powerful, you can't do it without the support of these people. This time, Ma Yue was deeply aware of the power of the clan.

He is in the position of a school captain, with the power of a thousand armies in his hands, on the surface, it seems that he is strong, and the Fan and Xue clans can only bend down to obey orders, and it is precisely because of this that when Fan Ci asked him for treasures, he was disgusted. Internally, he felt that Fan Ci had no ability to influence his own orders at all, but he was wrong.

This is the Central Plains, not Liangzhou. In Liangzhou, it is compared to who has more horses in military equipment, whose martial arts are higher, and whose fist is bigger and who is the king. It seems so natural to lead the crowd to attack and kill without saying a word. But it's different here, everything in the Central Plains has to be reasonable, that is, Ma Yue looks at Fan Ci thousands of times unpleasantly, and he can't lead his troops to let Fan Ci die and the clan be wiped out, even if he thinks, the soldiers around him will not be willing to do this. However, Fan was able to pretend to be a bandit to rob him of his grain, and let the tenants pretend to be homeless people to hand him false news, and there were countless ways to disgust him and even destroy him.

Fortunately, Ma Yue is not the master who deceives people too much, and Fan Ci is not a person who messes around, so the two are now at peace.

Mercedes-Benz, who commanded thousands of armies on the official road, couldn't help but think about what would happen if he was more tolerant of the Fan family and returned the money and property to the original owner?

Distributing the goods to the people, Ma Yue was grateful to the people of Dong'e, and the people made tens of thousands of arrows for him, but Xue Zhi played a vital role in this, and he was not respected by the people when he entered the city. If you give the money to Fan, maybe you will have it all and get more, but ask yourself, he can't do it.

That night, the Changshui camp camped in the mountains and forests two hundred miles south of Shen County to rest, Yang Feng led more than 100 light cavalry to cruise left and right as sentinel horses, the whole army set up a pot to make rice, Ma Yue took a bowl of boiled vegetables with dry food and a group of officers sat around the bonfire, eating happily.

Cheng Li and Cheng Wu sat beside Ma Yue and smiled at Ma Yue: "The captain is always restless today, why is he smiling at night with a clear soup and little water?" ”

Cheng Lixin recently entered Ma Yue's camp to take care of his baggage, and he was always by Ma Yue's side, and Changshui respected him a lot, but no one was close to him.

But in a moment, Ma Yue had already snorted a bowl of porridge with a pottery bowl, wiped his mouth and shook his head and said: "It's not that I'm restless, it's just that I haven't rested well for months. ”

"yes." Guan Yu on the side also said: "Since the beginning of the year, I have not dared to slack off since the pursuit of Ma Yuanyi, and I have been running north and south...... Alas. ”

Yan Xing held the pottery bowl, drank half of it and felt that he was full, put it on the ground and said to Ma Yue: "Lord, when I went back to Liangzhou last year, Xiaochao asked you when you would return to Liangzhou, I don't know how to answer him, when will we be the head of the battle." ”

"I'm tired." Ma Yue nodded and smiled lightly, but his face was a little bitter, and said, "I'm also tired, but there will be no time for peace in the future." ”

Ma Yue is just a sentence of emotion for the future Three Kingdoms period, but when this sentence is heard in everyone's ears, the feeling is very different.

"yes." Guan Yu nodded and said: "When I came back from last year, the water of the Jincheng River rose over the horse's belly for three days, and I don't know how many people were affected in the county over there. ”

"Oh?" Ma Yue didn't know the reason, so he asked, "Jincheng is flooded?" Why is there no news to Luoyang? It is said that something happened in Liangzhou, and our family should know about it first. ”

"It's useless." Yan Xing shook his head and said: "At the beginning of the year, Si Li was blocked, and now no one is allowed to enter or leave except for the army, and our caravan is the same, not to mention that we come out to suppress the yellow scarf, and it is estimated that the boss will not receive any news." ”

"Ugh." Sighing, Ma Yue looked around at the sergeants, looked at the gruel in the bowl and suddenly remembered the horse play, Ma Yue smiled: "Fortunately, Brother Monkey didn't come to Luoyang with him, otherwise he would have been hungry to death." ”

"Haha." When it comes to horse play, Guan Yu said with a smile: "There has been no smell of meat for a few months, and a bird can fade out of my mouth." I could have imagined that a monkey would say that. ”

Everyone rarely smiled, and Ma Yue said, "Have you heard the news of Peng Tuo recently?" ”

Pengtuo!

Suddenly mentioning this name, except for Cheng Li's father and son, everyone's expressions were a little frozen.

Guan Yu and Yan Xing Xu Huang both shook their heads, and Guan Yu said: "We are in Dongjun now, maybe the people over there in Yingchuan will know about Peng Tuo, I'm afraid he will also make some trouble for Huangfu Zhonglang." ”

"yes." Ma Yue didn't know that Peng Tuo was a Yellow Turban general in history, but he knew that Peng Tuo's current ability was only much stronger than those Yellow Turban grass-headed generals.

At this moment, the sound of galloping horses' hooves came, and Yang Feng jumped off his horse in the dust.

"Lord, I'm afraid that I can't kill myself!"