Chapter 80: The Plague

After a few moves, not only did the catchers fail to catch Ma Chao, but they were even injured by him, and they were all injured.

The head catcher followed the cold, gloomy as water, and shouted: "Bold fanatics! If you dare to openly confront the government, you will die! ”

After that, the head catcher stepped forward step by step, pulled out the long knife at his waist, and his body moved, like a meteor flying: "The knife roars and shocks the forest!" ”

The sword light is awe-inspiring, like a sharp blade, catching the head and taking a step forward, and the whole person is carrying the swift and unparalleled knife strength, rushing to kill.

"Good time!"

Ma Chao was stunned because he didn't expect that when he casually met a head catcher in a county town, he also had stunts, and he really couldn't say whether he was too lucky or too bad.

But at this time, it is not the time for him to sigh, the blade in the head catcher is strong, if Ma Chao does not show all his energy to meet the enemy, the result will definitely be extremely tragic.

The wounds on his body did not heal, but the blood scabs were initially condensed, and he could not use too much force, and the war giant lance could not be used, so Ma Chao attacked with a sword and collided with the sword light.

"Trick Strike!"

The sword collided, bursting into a burst of brilliant sparks, and the figure of the headhunter disappeared behind the firelight, and then disappeared, and the perception of danger is a necessary ability for every general on the battlefield.

"On the left!"

There was a gust of wind on the left, especially a killing intent aimed at Ma Chao, no matter how it was hidden, it couldn't hide the strong killing intent.

What is Killing Intent?

No matter who answers this question, it is impossible to give a standard answer, because everyone's feelings are different.

For some people, killing intent is a kind of induction, just like in thousands of people, you can detect that someone is staring at you.

For others, killing intent is a dangerous aura, once they are threatened by a mortal threat, then this kind of person will become extremely active all over the body, every cell in the body, in order to deal with the threat from the enemy at any time.

With a bang, Ma Chao held the hilt of the sword with his backhand and blocked the knife slash from the headcatcher, and the headcatcher couldn't help but be surprised, he would never have imagined that his knife skills were blocked by a half-old boy.

It's just a humiliation!

"Damn!"

The headcatcher struck with a flying sword, and Ma Chao fought together, the sword light and sword shadow, sparks splashed, and the headcatcher took advantage of the situation to disappear again.

Even if it is broad daylight, the head catcher can disappear in front of Ma Chao's eyes twice, which shows that he is good at using the refraction of light to hide himself and assassinate the enemy.

Ma Chao only frowned, the pillar sword was on the ground, the light and shadow around him finally dissipated, and there was a sense of danger above his head.

He didn't even raise his head, and immediately raised his sword: "Make a move, swim the dragon and slash!" ”

The sword light was like a dragon, circling and dancing, the dragon groaned, and the dragon flew into the sky, colliding with the assassination knife from the top of the head.

Knowing Ma Chao's weirdness, the head catcher used a knife that exploded the strength of his whole body: "The knife collapses and the ground cracks!" ”

On the blade, a huge sword light condensed and formed, and with the swing of the headcatcher, it fell with a bang.

The flying dragon and the sword light collided, and with a bang, a circular shock wave was crashed, and the crowd of onlookers on the street was swept away.

"Ah——!h

"It's so strong!"

People fell to the ground, unable to get up for a long time, and in the center of the annular shock wave, a large cloud of dust flew with broken flying stones, floating everywhere, like fallen leaves scattered by a strong wind.

When the dust settled, the situation inside was gradually revealed, the dust and smoke dissipated, and a figure appeared, and people looked at it, it turned out to be Ma Chao!

At this time, Ma Chaozhu's sword was on the ground, and the wind beat the corners of his clothes, but he couldn't shake the slightest trace of his figure, tough as iron, like a swordsman proud of the world.

At his feet, the head catcher's body lay on the ground, and a long, oblique and narrow wound on his chest ran from his right shoulder to his left waist.

This terrifying penetrating wound was extremely hideous, and the head catcher coughed up blood, and he was already seriously injured, so he could only lie down and pant heavily.

"Headcatcher!"

The catchers were terrified, but they didn't expect their top boss to be injured by a teenager and look like this.

3 years ago, when the head catcher first came to Yuan County, he once set up a ring, defeated more than 30 knights and heroes in the past few days, and coerced the head catcher in Yuan County at that time to step down.

The former head catcher was forced to step down, and he was definitely not convinced, so he gathered a group of dozens of bandits and thieves to unite and fight the current head catcher fiercely on a rainy night, but after the first battle, all of them were killed by the current head catcher.

Since then, this new head catcher has dominated one side in Yuan County, not to mention the county order of Yuan County, even if it is the county guard of Nanyang County, he doesn't pay attention to it.

Every time Nanyang Taishou saw him, he had to be respectful, for fear that the other party would look at him unpleasantly one day and cut him with a knife.

Such a fierce head catcher was actually seriously injured by a teenager today, which deepened the fear of Ma Chao among the fast catchers.

Ma Chao frowned, sensing the injuries in his body, because of his battle with the head catcher, the wound burst open, and the blood soaked the clothes on his body.

Ma Chao raised his head and glanced at the audience with cold eyes, people were intimidated by his gaze, and they all turned their heads, not daring to look at Ma Chao.

He sneered, asked Liu Xie to support himself, and left with Zhuge Xuan and the others.

Walking out of Yuan County in a hurry, Zhuge Xuan said: "Before, I deliberately told Zhu Song that I was going to Yizhou, but in fact we were going to Deng County. ”

When Ma Chao heard it, he knew that Deng County was the place where Zhuge Liang "cultivated in Nanyang", there were a total of 36 county seats in Nanyang County, and Deng County was one of the more important county seats, and it was also the place where Cao Cao hoarded grain and grass during the Battle of Chibi in history.

Moreover, there are many scholars here, and they are quite popular with Zhuge Xuan.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, among the scholars, there was a saying that there were two states in the north and south, and Nanzhou was mainly in Jingzhou, which was the main selection place for officials of Liu Bei's group.

Beizhou is mainly in the area of Yingchuan County, which is the main selection place for officials of the Cao Cao Group.

Moreover, the first class of Nanzhou celebrities is Pang Tong, Pang Degong praised Zhuge Liang as "Wolong", Pang Tong as "Phoenix Chick", Sima Hui as "Water Mirror", and Sima Hui praised Pang Tong as the crown of Nanzhou scholars.

As a traverser, Ma Chao knows the importance of Jingzhou celebrities, Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao only knows that he loves celebrities, but he can't use them, and the name of benevolence and virtue is empty.

Even a madman You Heng is incompatible, and he sent him to Huang Zu to be killed, and the strength of the tolerant people is so narrow, it is not as good as Cao Cao, who is famous for killing celebrities.

Therefore, as soon as You Heng died, Liu Biao lost the support of the famous people in Jingzhou, and all of them returned to the mountains and forests, avoiding officials.

Otherwise, even if the Cai family is a big family in Jingzhou, it is impossible to tilt the power of a state, just because the people's hearts are not gathered.

Following Zhuge Xuan to Deng County, Ma Chao had enough time to visit Xianming here, in addition to a large number of scholars in Nanzhou, there were also miracle doctors.

Zhang Ji, one of the three divine doctors in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, was an official in Jingzhou, and then avoided the official and went to study traditional Chinese medicine at home, and wrote the huge work "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", typhoid fever is a kind of plague, and all over the country, the mortality rate is extremely high.

Among the seven sons of Jian'an, Chen Lin led 4 people died because of this, from Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty to Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty for more than 70 years, a total of 17 plagues broke out in the country, even the scholars and doctors of the Cao Wei regime could not stop the erosion of the plague, let alone the common people.

Cao Zhi's "Speaking of Epidemic Gas" wrote about the unprecedented tragedy of the plague rampant at that time, the epidemic of warp, and the mourning of crying in the room. or die with the door closed, or lose the family. In many places, even coffins are sold short, whether rich or poor, there is a chance to be infected, and the poor people have no money to bury people.

Ma Chao is very aware of the importance of Zhang Ji, the total population of the Eastern Han Dynasty was at least 50 million or more, but there were only 8 million people left in the Three Kingdoms.

It was also because of the sharp decline in the population of the Three Kingdoms that the Hu people in the north took the opportunity to invade south, and then entered the tragic and turbulent era of "Five Hu Chaohua".

Looking at the combat effectiveness of the entire Northern and Southern Dynasties, it is simply a joke, a group of fishers and slashing each other.