In the first year of Xingping (194 AD), Changping Temple.

The fire that stretched across the battlefield made Ma Teng and Han Sui stunned.

They didn't expect that the seemingly ineffective army would actually adopt the method of death. It is absolutely cost-effective to replace nearly 70,000 soldiers and horses with 6,000 men.

At this time, only less than 10,000 soldiers and horses who had escaped by luck gathered around them, and what surrounded them were Li Wei's 60,000 elite soldiers. Li Wei's more than 10,000 flying bear troops, Li Li's more than 30,000 people, and Guo Yan and Fan Chou's nearly 20,000 cavalry surrounded the outside into iron buckets.

"Alas, it was a failure! Wen Yue, I don't want to cause you to die together. Ma Teng said with remorse.

"Since you and I are brothers, why bother saying this, being able to die on the battlefield with you can be regarded as living up to the oath of worship back then." Han Sui smiled bitterly.

"Okay, my Xiliang warrior only died, not surrendered! Generals, slay the traitors with me! Ma Teng shouted loudly.

A tragic aura spread, and the faces of the soldiers under Ma Teng all showed expressions of seeing death as home.

"Brother Shoucheng!" Li Dao suddenly came out of the queue and shouted at Ma Teng.

"Traitor! You don't need to say much, although I know that I will die today, I still have to fight, let the horse come! Ma Teng was determined.

"Order, let Brother Shoucheng and Brother Wen Yue leave." Li Dao said to the captain beside him.

"What?!" Ma Teng said in surprise: "Li Dao! What do you mean by that? ”

"Brother Shoucheng, I had no intention of fighting with you, but you forced me too much, so I had to send troops to fight. Now you can finally listen to me calmly. Li has always admired you and Brother Wen Yue as heroes, and he intends to make friends, but he has never been able to get it. The reason why I don't want to grant you what you want is because I don't want you to make enemies in Xiliang. Imagine, once the subordinates who have been subordinating to you learn that General Ma has raised troops here just to seek an official position, but you have forgotten your subordinates, it is inevitable that there will be no narrow-minded people who hold grudges. ”

Li Dao paused for a moment, with a hesitant expression on his face, and then said:

"Brother Shoucheng, I will meet the Son of Heaven tomorrow, make you General Andy, and Brother Wenyue be General Anjing, and ask Your Majesty to reward the soldiers who have been protecting the border under you. I only hope that in the future, you and I will never have to fight again, and we will always be in alliance. Li Dao rushed to Ma Teng on the horse, and his words were very earnest.

"Shoucheng, promise, for the sake of these nearly 10,000 soldiers." Han Sui saw that Ma Teng was still hesitating, so he stepped forward to persuade him.

"Alas!" Ma Teng let out a long sigh and threw his sword to the ground. Han Sui breathed a sigh of relief and also threw away his sword.

"The generals obey the order and lay down their blades." Ma Teng's voice was not loud, but there was a hint of desolation.

Although unwilling, Ma Teng's men were absolutely obedient to him, so they threw their blades at their feet. At this time, Li Daojun had also made way of the way.

"All the soldiers obey the order," Guo Yan stepped forward and jumped off his horse, "Follow me to pick up Ma Tengjun's weapons and return them to them." ”

He approached one of the horsemen, smiled, bent down to pick up the man's spear, and handed it back to him.

I am afraid that there is no more sincere move than this, and return the weapon to the enemy army who is close at hand, without a blade. The slightest mistake can lead to a death in jeopardy.

Ma Teng saw everything in his eyes, and couldn't help but sigh and said: "General Xie Li's grace of not killing, you and I will be allies in the future." ”

After saying that, he turned the horse's head and walked slowly into the distance.

There were less than 10,000 horses, following behind Ma Teng, Ma Chao slowly caught up and asked suspiciously:

"Father, why didn't he kill me?"

"Li Dao is a smart person. It's better to deal with me and Wenyue than to deal with the Xiliang departments. That's right, Wenyue. ”

"Yes, he also understands the status of you and me in Xiliang, if you kill me, it will just give Xiliang an excuse to send troops. Hehe, Li Dao, Li Dao, ......"

Because it is valuable, it can live, and neither of them said this sentence.

But not all people have a value worthy of forgiveness......

……

Looking at the dust raised by Ma Tengjun's retreat, Li Dao did not speak for a long time.

"Childish, don't think about it, you're doing the right thing. But I'll wait until I have anything to do, so give the order. Guo Yan came to Li Dao's side and said to him.

Li Wei nodded helplessly, and said to Fan Chou beside him: "Leave 10,000 soldiers to clean up the battlefield, you personally lead 15,000 soldiers and horses to Huaili, and be sure to bring back the heads of Chong Shao and the others." ”

Fan Chou agreed, and went down to convey the order.

The fire on the battlefield was still burning, and with the help of the wind, the heat like a wave was pushed towards Li Wei.

He closed his eyes and smelled blood again.

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Yefeng North Church.

A woman in her thirties with her hair coiled slowly walked into the hall of the old sages, and on the stone chairs, the four sages were talking to the nine sages.

"Yuliu is here." Jiuxian said with a smile.

"I've seen the four sages and the nine sages."

This woman is one of the night marshals of the Nine Sages Elders, named Yuliu, who received an order from the main hall to urgently return from Youzhou.

"I wonder what the two virtuous elders command?"

"The old man discussed with the four sages, since Wen Hao and Wuyan have been killed, all matters in Hebei will be handed over to you in the future." Jiuxian Lao said with a slight loss.

"Subordinates obey." Yuliu didn't seem surprised, and immediately agreed.

"Also, all of Wuyan's subordinates have been killed when Yuan Shao attacked Yecheng, but Wen Hao's subordinates still have three sub-commanders, Lu Yuan and Tian Yao have already gone to Hebei. It's just that the Jicheng branch was disheartened after hearing about Wen Hao's matter, and at this time he was in Xu Wu, gathering hundreds of people to live an ordinary life. It is up to you to decide whether or not to accept him. ”

"Yuliu commands."

"Alright, let's go."

Yuliu Shi saluted and retired, and there were only two old men left in the hall.

Because of the same thing, the two fell into deep thought.

After a long time, the four sages finally spoke first, "Old Nine, I didn't expect that the Sixth Elder finally chose this path." ”

Jiuxian Lao looked at the letter he was holding in his hand, and his eyes were also full of sadness, "Ye Feng, is there a future?" ”

A few days ago, when Sun Ce sent troops to Lujiang, Zhang Hong, the old man of the six sages, sent a letter to the Northern Headquarters. When the three elders read the letter, they were speechless for a long time in astonishment. Although I also knew that the Southeast Hall had gradually deviated from Ye Feng's original intention, there had been no big movement on the southeast side. But the arrival of this letter made everything irretrievable.

The meaning of the letter is very clear: from now on, the Southeast General Hall will break away from Yefeng and be renamed "Tilting Han". In the future, the Sun family will be supported at all costs, and if there is a conflict with other Yefeng Headquarters, there will be no mercy.

"It's indeed the style of the sixth child, alas...... It's hard for him to be my equal. ”

"Fourth brother, although we are already short of manpower now, we still have to find a way to divide the southeast."

"Weiyun has been staying in Jingzhou, and I have no one to send, so I have to let your night marshal go out. When the time comes, I will let Meng Qing's two relatives and apprentices accompany me. Oh, I didn't want to be the first to become an empty shell. The four sages said with a wry smile.

"It's okay, I'll let Yuyu go. After all, there are more subordinates in the Northern Hall today. The fifth brother should be able to draw out manpower over there, by the way, is there any news of his other beloved disciple who betrayed the handsome Xi Yan? ”

When Xi Yan rebelled against Yefeng Northern Headquarters, the only person who witnessed it was another of his beloved disciples, Long Yuqing, whose name was Yuqing. He happened to see Xi Yan leading hundreds of people to leave the Anyi branch where he was stationed at that time, and he thought that the master was going out to run errands, so he stepped forward to ask, but was "burned" by Xi Yan himself. This poison is not fatal, but it will make people's life worse than death, it is refined by bee venom, and after being poisoned, the whole body is as severe as a fire, and many poisoned people choose to commit suicide to end the pain.

Long Yi never imagined that his closest person would treat him like this, but he could only be tormented by severe pain and watch his master leave.

Later, he was sent back to the Northern Church, and was carefully treated by the Nine Sages so that he did not have sequelae. But after he was poisoned, he immediately said goodbye, although Ling Yuan didn't say whether he was alive or dead, and several virtuous elders also knew that he was going to look for Xi Yan, but because he was busy dealing with the legacy left by the thirteen virtuous elders Zhang Jiao at that time, he didn't have time to care about it, just told everywhere to pay attention.

Presumably, Yuan'er has managed to inform Yu'er of her encounter with Xiyan in Chang'an. I have ordered someone to go to Chang'an to find it, but now Chang'an is controlled by Li Dao, and I can't be too quiet, I'm afraid that it will be extremely difficult to find someone in the huge imperial capital. The four sages sighed helplessly.

"If the eleventh brother is still here, what's so difficult about it." Jiuxian Lao could only complain.

"yes, we've lost so much in the last ten years."

Both stopped talking, and fell into a long silence.

……

Inside the carved iron gate on the left side of the hall is the "Night Worship Hall", where everyone rests. Ascending the narrow staircase is the residence of the night marshals.

Even if he is a night handsome, the residence is the same as that of ordinary night whisperers, without any luxurious decorations.

Yuliu spread her long hair and lay flat on the bed, her eyes staring blankly at the roof.

"When are you leaving?" A man's voice came from the side, and Yuliu turned her head and looked over there.

Sitting on the wooden chair over there was Han Yuan.

If you look at it alone, it will always make people think that this person is not a good person. He used to tie his hair back at the back of his head, but he always had to leave something to cover the right side of his face, and he always dressed casually.

But only Yuliu knew that it was in the battle to pacify the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and in order to save himself, Han Yuan's right face was hit by the burning red door frame.

She was thinking about Hebei, but when she heard Han Yuan calling herself, she turned her head to look at him, her eyes full of tenderness.

"Let's be early tomorrow morning, after all, there are no more Yefeng people in Hebei now, so it's better to pass as soon as possible."

Han Yuan stood up, walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, the back of his hand gently rubbed Yuliu's cheek, "After that, there will be fewer days for you and me to see each other." ”

When Yuliu heard this, tears immediately appeared in her eyes. She hurriedly smiled, sat up and leaned against Han Yuan's back, "Pay more attention to yourself in the future, don't be addicted to alcohol." ”

Han Yuan's body trembled slightly, and the next moment, he could no longer suppress his emotions, pressed Yuliu to the bed hard, and kissed her mouth affectionately......