Ma Zongheng waved his hand and motioned for everyone to get up. Who knew that Gao Ran and the others didn't dare. Gao Ran's face changed, and his face couldn't help showing a little shame, and said: "The last general is incompetent, although he has captured the Dong family child at that time, who knows that during the negotiation, unexpectedly, Gao Boyi's subordinates have a good hand at archery, and they took the opportunity to shoot the Dong family child. And Gao Boyi also took advantage of the chaos to lead his troops to fight to the death. If you spoil the good deeds of the lord, you will be willing to be punished! ”

As soon as Gao Ran's words came out, Ma Zongheng's face changed at first, and then he remembered that when he was sour in Jujube, he had shot with a bow and crossbow with a member of Gao Shun's army, and then he reacted, but he was too late to regret it.

"This good hand also had a fight when I was sour jujube, but I forgot to remind you. You and the generals have done their best, and the matter has come to this point, and it is helpless. I don't blame you, get up. "Ma Zongheng has clear rewards and punishments, and he never wants to force his subordinates, as long as he does his best, most of Ma Zongheng will not be punished. When Gao Ran heard this, he was moved in his heart, and he got up and thanked him.

About half an hour later, Jiang Ming returned from injury, but he was desperately counterattacked by Gao Shun's army at the end of the road, although he killed many enemy soldiers, but Jiang Ming was also injured by Gao Shun, and the soldiers suffered a lot of losses.

Ma Zongheng listened, just sighed, and then ordered the troops to rest in the camp on the mouth of Hengwu, and took a lot of baggage and weapons from Dong Huang's army, so he rewarded the troops, and everyone in the army liked it.

Then again, Guo Jia's strategy was streamlined, and it did not give Ma Zongheng a comprehensive plan in detail. Of course, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and it is absolutely impossible for Guo Jia, who is thousands of miles away, to know everything before the war happens. However, Ma Zongheng was able to go through Guo Jia's guidance, lay it out, and finally achieve victory, which really makes people admire this pair of monarchs and ministers, it is really a match made in heaven!

But it was said that Ma Zongheng was following Guo Jia's strategy and making their own layouts at the same time. Let's look at the official road from Luoyang to Tiger Prison Pass.

The so-called people are not romantic teenagers. In this era of male superiority and inferiority of women, it is very common for men to have three wives and four concubines, and nobles and nobles in various places are often groups of wives and concubines.

To be honest, there are not many women who are only twenty-three years old, but his three wives are all beautiful and good-looking. And Qiao Wan, who has a marriage contract with Ma Zongheng, has the beauty of the country and the city, and is good at piano skills, I don't know how many noble sons in Yanzhou shook their heads, but they just wanted to see her.

However, Ma Zongheng still has a woman, I am afraid that even if these four women are combined, they are not as good as her peerless beauty of sinking fish and geese, and closing the moon and shyness.

She was once the world-famous stunning princess - Liu Xueyu. And with the decline of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo has gained power, and the stunning princess has long ceased to exist, and now she is just a lowly singer who was appreciated by the great Situ Wang Yun and redeemed her body-Diao Chan!

On the official road, a horse-drawn carriage was galloping away. There were two men dressed as grooms in the carriage, and when you looked closely, they were Wang He and Zhang Kun!

"Princess, don't be afraid, in the past, Lord Ma treated us as brothers, and when we were in trouble at home, we were taken care of by Lord Ma. Although Master Ma has never cared about the dozen silver taels, for the two of us, it is like a mountain! With the two of us here, even if you fight hard, you will be sent to the Tiger Prison! Wang He exclaimed with a determined expression. Zhang Kun, who was on the side, heard this, and was also shocked: "Brother Wang is right, not to mention that we promised Wang Situ that we must protect your safety." You can rest assured!! ”

It turned out that Wang He and Zhang Kun did not move their families back then, but left Luoyang with their families, and returned to their hometowns to settle down their families, but they sneaked back to Luoyang. I heard that at that time, Wang Yun secretly gathered righteous people in the mansion in the name of recruiting diners, and wanted to entangle with the evil forces led by Dong Zhuo in the court. So the two came to Wang Yun's mansion and became diners in his mansion, intending to fight Dong Zhuo to the end.

Unexpectedly, by chance, when Wang He was talking to Zhang Kun about Ma Zongheng, he happened to be heard by Diao Chan in the pavilion. Diao Chan has never dared to tell Wang Yun about himself and Ma Zongheng, and Wang Yun does not let her go out of the boudoir lightly on weekdays, so when she heard the news about Ma Zongheng, she was happy and cried. Later, Diao Chan learned that Wang and Zhang had received the favor of Ma Zongheng, and saw that both of them were dignified men, so they did not hide it, and told the two of them their identities and the story of Ma Zongheng. Wang and Zhang once also inquired about the news of the stunning princess for Ma Zongheng, of course, they also knew the story of the two, at that time they were still amazed by the beauty of Diao Chan, and they were secretly sighing, I heard that she was the stunning princess, they were startled at first, but after reacting, they also felt that there was only such a woman in the world, who was worthy of the word stunning.

And just when Diao Chan tearfully repaired a letter and asked Wang and Zhang to find a way to go to Yanzhou to report to Ma Zongheng. Wang Yun suddenly arrived, and when he saw that Wang and Zhang were furious, Wang and Zhang were so frightened that they hurriedly knelt down. Wang Yun, who was furious at that time, snatched the letter from Wang He's hand, opened it and looked at it, and suddenly his expression changed greatly, only to know that Diao Chan had a personal affair with someone when he was in the palace, and he was even more angry, so he wanted to teach someone to drag Wang and Zhang out of the mess and beat them to death. Fortunately, Diao Chan pleaded hard and was excused.

And because Ma Zongheng killed Ding Yuan, everyone in Luoyang City was already known at that time. Wang Yun hated Ma Zongheng's treachery back then, otherwise Dong Zhuo would not have been able to enter the capital of Luoyang so lightly, so he wanted Diao Chan to cut off contact with Ma Zongheng.

As for Wang and Zhang, Wang Yun was afraid of leaking the news, but he promised Diao Chan not to kill these two, so he put them under house arrest and did some housework on weekdays, but there would be someone to monitor them wherever they went. Wang and Zhang were also at ease with Diao Chan, so they did not escape from the palace.

In the following days, Diao Chan learned that Ma Zongheng escaped the catastrophe of Jiguan, stood firm in Yanzhou, did not want to go to see each other all the time, missed day and night, and became more and more haggard and emaciated, and lost more than 20 pounds in less than a few months, and fell ill in bed. At that time, the news of the 21st Princes' crusade against Dong Zhuo had spread all over the capital. Among them, the father and son of the Ma family occupy two seats. And Wang Yun later calmed down and after investigation, he also found that there were many suspicious points in the changes in Jiguan, and when he saw the Ma family's father and son raising troops together, his hatred for Ma Zongheng disappeared a lot. Moreover, Wang Yun has a status and reputation in the court, but he suffers from no soldiers and no power, thinking that after the father and son of the Ma family are loyal to the family, they are also interested in uniting with them to jointly support the Han family.

So, Wang Yun began to tell Sù Diao Chan about Ma Zongheng, and promised to find an opportunity to send her out of Luoyang in the future to meet Ma Zongheng. When Diao Chan heard this, he was overjoyed, like a remnant flower bathing in the spring breeze, restoring his vitality, and people instantly became energetic, and after a period of time, his condition also improved.

When Wang Yun saw it, he was bitter and helpless, only to know that Diao Chan had fallen in love with the boy of the Ma family.

But not long after, Dong Zhuo actually hollowed out eighteen imperial tombs, and the news that he wanted to hijack the Son of Heaven to evacuate Luoyang spread even more. Dong Zhuo even began to teach his officials and checked the household registration of the ministers of the imperial court, which confirmed Dong Zhuo's conjecture that he wanted to evacuate the capital.

One day, the officials under Dong Zhuo came to the palace and were about to count the population. All diners, large and small, must come to register, even Diao Chan cannot avoid it. At that time, as soon as Diao Chan appeared, like a goddess descending to earth, it was immediately amazing to the audience. The official was surprised when he saw that Diao Chan was beautiful, and when he asked, he learned about Wang Yun's righteous daughter. At that time, Wang Yun was in the court, and he didn't know it, but when he came back, he knew bad things. Sure enough, Dong Zhuo, who had always been lustful that night, summoned Wang Yun and asked about his daughter-in-law, who had the intention to see if he really had the same heavenly appearance as the rumors. Wang Yun had no choice but to refuse Diao Chan's illness first, Dong Zhuo was not happy, Wang Yun was sitting on pins and needles that night, and hurriedly discussed with Diao Chan after going back.

At this time, fortunately, the news that the Northern Alliance soldiers were forcing the tiger prison came. Wang Yun didn't want Diao Chan's lifelong happiness to be ruined in his own hands, so he came up with a way to find Wang and Zhang, teach them to evacuate Luoyang with Diao Chan, and even repair a secret book, teaching the two to secretly send Diao Chan to the Tiger Prison, and then hand it over to the princes in the Dong coalition army. Wang and Zhang heard that Dong Zhuo coveted Diao Chan's beauty, and they heard that Wang Yun had already made arrangements, so they were duty-bound.

That night, Wang Yun found his friend, a well-developed businessman in Luoyang City. When the merchant heard that he could just send a few people out of the city and pass a few more passes, he was also happy to sell them to Wang Yun, so he agreed.

So the next day, Wang, Zhang, and Diao Chan, who was hiding in the carriage, followed the merchant's caravan out of the city. And that merchant Jia has always known how to be flexible, and he is also familiar with the guards in the city, if it is a normal time, the guards will not make it difficult, and they can leave after a little inspection.

Who knew that because the Northern Alliance soldiers were forced to prison the tiger, Dong Zhuo strictly ordered that the people who came and went to Luoyang should be thoroughly investigated, whether it was the common people, caravans or aristocratic families, they must be strictly investigated. The guard can only strictly enforce it, just when he came to Diao Chan's carriage, opened the curtain and looked, when he saw Diao Chan, he suddenly seemed to be hooked. The merchant hurriedly came, saying that it was his newly established concubine. And Diao Chan is also in danger, and he smiles and salutes. The guard was suddenly fascinated, and he didn't dare to surprise the beauty. At this time, the merchant also sent some silver taels with interest, and the guard accepted it, and after hearing that he had found nothing unusual, he also let the caravan out of the city.

It happened that Dong Zhuo was impatient that day, so he found a doctor from the court, and even took a carriage back to the palace with Wang Yun, just to see Diao Chan in the name of seeing a doctor. How did he know that Diao Chan's personal maid suddenly said that Diao Chan was gone, Dong Zhuo was shocked, and immediately ordered to follow the deployment to find the entire palace, almost digging three feet into the ground, but he didn't see half of Diao Chan's figure.

Dong Zhuo was furious, but Wang Yun was also angry, his face was full of grievances, and he pushed and said that Diao Chan had committed adultery with the diners in the house and ran away all night.

Dong Zhuo ordered people to go to the city gates, announced that they saw beautiful women, stopped each other, and took them all to the palace to be read by Dong Zhuo and Wang Yun in person. So, in one day, thousands of women were stopped at various city gates, all of whom were taken to the palace, and the people of the entire Luoyang City were panicked and didn't know what happened. Dong Zhuo and Wang Yun saw the night from noon, and they were only halfway there, and then Dong Zhuo was so annoyed that they heard the report from the East Gate Guard, saying that today they saw a merchant in the city Jia Xin marrying a concubine who was beautiful and extraordinary. Dong Zhuo heard left and right that this businessman seemed to have a deep friendship with Wang Yun, so he reacted and immediately ordered a hundred black jackals and tiger soldiers to chase him back all night.

However, it was said that at this time, Wang and Zhang had set up a carriage, separated from the caravan, and were rushing to the Tiger Prison Pass. The two of them were afraid of the sable cicada, and they did not forget to appease.

"The kindness of the two eldest brothers, Diao Chan will never forget."

Inside the carriage, Diao Chan's big eyes like water waves blinked slightly, grabbed his hand, and whispered.

Although the voice was soft, Wang and Zhang still heard it and couldn't help but smile at each other.

"Haha, it's been two years before I know it, and I said that Master Ma is definitely not a thing in the pool, and now he has really become one of the twenty-one princes. I heard that not long ago in the sour jujube camp, he and his subordinate Zhang Liao killed the Western Liang Tiger Beast Huaxiong and was defeated, and tens of thousands of troops were all killed and fled! Zhang Kun said with admiration on his face.