Cao Jun rushed to a mountain stream, and Cao Cao ordered the army to stop and rest for a while.

Ma Xiaoquan raised his head, looked at the surrounding mountains, and said to Cao Cao: "Xiao Cao, you are relying on the mountain stream to stop the army, are you not afraid that the Yellow Turban thief army will attack you?" ”

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Lord Shangxian is too worried, most of the rabble of the Yellow Turban Thief Army, where there are any good strategies and strategies, you can rest assured." ”

Ma Xiaoquan smiled, shook his head, and stopped talking.

In a mountain stream not far from Cao Jun, there was an ambush of a group of scouts from the Yellow Turban Army, the leader of which was a blue-faced burly man, although he was lying on his stomach, but his back could be used as a board.

A scout crawled in front of the leader and whispered, "Big brother, Cao Cao has been found ahead, do you want to go back and report it?" ”

The man hummed and whispered, "Go and come back quickly." ”

"Yes."

Cao's army was almost out of rest and recuperation, and Cao Cao ordered the march to continue.

Ma Xiaoquan sat in the carriage, humming and chirping and singing a little tune, Cao Cao listened curiously and asked, "Lord Shangxian, what are you singing?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan is actually just humming casually, if he wants to rap something, he can't tell Cao Cao, this is a modern song, so Ma Xiaoquan lied to Cao Cao and said: "This immortal is cultivating, singing the song of becoming an immortal, by the way, Xiao Cao, can you understand?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan just hummed and chirped just now, his voice was sometimes loud and sometimes small, and Cao Cao could only understand a few words in it, so Cao Cao didn't pretend to be a face, and confessed: "Lord Shangxian, this song of becoming an immortal, I don't understand!" ”

Ma Xiaoquan nodded with satisfaction, and said in his heart: You Cao ** The Li County Order of Zhongmu County is much stronger, not bad, yes, and the children can be taught.

Xun Yu stepped forward and stammered and asked Ma Xiaoquan: "Immortal Lord, I don't feel that something is wrong." ”

Ma Xiaoquan stopped Cao Cao, and Cao Cao ordered the march to stop.

Xun Yu said: "This road is not far ahead, there is a place, called 'Mouse Ditch', the 'Mouse Ditch' has a lot of twists and turns, and the road is not easy to walk, although our army chooses to take the big road, but the 'Mouse Ditch' terrain is muddy and muddy, if I am the Yellow Turban Thief Army, I will definitely think of setting up an ambush there"

Xun Yu said that there were almost more than 20 breaths in a paragraph, but his analysis was reasonable, and after Cao Cao listened, he frowned and said nothing.

Ma Xiaoquan said: "Xiao Cao, what Wen Ruo said is right, you must have studied the map before, and you are sure that there is a 'mouse ditch' not far ahead, so you can't continue to go down."

Xiahoudun said slightly: "Lord Shangxian, if you don't go down, it will be difficult to go back, the soldiers are very tired." ”

As soon as Xiahoudun opened his mouth, all the soldiers complained one after another.

Cao Cao was silent for a while, then raised his hand, signaled everyone to be quiet, and then said: "I understand everyone's feelings, so I already have an idea, the march is to continue to advance, wait a while, I will deploy, you just need to listen to the order." ”

Cao Cao's words were categorical, and the soldiers had just declared their allegiance to him, so no one dared to refute it.

Cao Cao approached Ma Xiaoquan and whispered, "Lord Shangxian, my thoughts are like this"

Cao Cao quietly told Ma Xiaoquan his thoughts, Ma Xiaoquan was startled when he heard it, he looked at Cao Cao in surprise, and asked, "Xiao Cao, are you sure you want to do this?" ”

Cao Cao nodded.

Ma Xiaoquan also summoned Xun Yu, and then told Xun Yu of Cao Cao's thoughts, Xun Yu was also startled after hearing this, but soon, Xun Yu calmed down and muttered: "This method is not impossible."

Ma Xiaoquan was anxious when he heard this, so he pulled Xun Yu aside, and first asked Xun Yu to analyze some of his thoughts on his lord Cao Cao, and then, Ma Xiaoquan used it as a microphone and told Cao Cao Cao Xun's opinions.

After Cao Cao heard this, he touched the mustache on his chin and nodded his head with satisfaction, and then, Cao Cao pulled out his sword and ordered: "All the generals obey the order, and now they will immediately obey their own generals, bring fire oil and hay, and set fire to the mountain."

In fact, Cao Cao's previous idea was nothing more than the scorched earth tactics of the strong wall and clear the wilderness, but for Ma Xiaoquan, who had crossed back from modern society, this was undoubtedly Yan zhòng's destruction of the environment, so Ma Xiaoquan was very surprised after listening to Cao Cao's thoughts; Xun Yu was not surprised by environmental problems, people in this era do not have much environmental awareness, Xun Yu is worried that if he does this, will it hurt his own army.

Cao Cao's original scorched earth tactics were to advance the whole army and set fire to the mountain, and after Xun Yu built yì and improved, Cao Cao decided to divide it into small teams: with each of his leading generals, each led a pair of men and horses, set fire to the mountain, not far in front of the "rat ditch" Although the terrain is muddy, if there is a fire spreading to that place, the muddy land will become harder because of the fire, and after the fire is extinguished, the road is relatively easy to walk. It's just that if the mountain is set on fire, it will inevitably lead the Yellow Turban army over, so Cao Cao ordered Xiahou Yuan Li Dianle to enter the three generals, each leading a team of men and horses to scatter on both sides to reconnoitre, and once an abnormal situation is found, retreat immediately.

After the deployment was completed, Cao Cao looked at Ma Xiaoquan with satisfaction, hoping that Ma Xiaoquan would praise him twice.

To be honest, Ma Xiaoquan couldn't say anything good about the marching formation, so Ma Xiaoquan closed his eyes mysteriously, and the corners of his mouth bent slightly, giving Cao Cao an indescribable sense of profundity.

Cao Cao saw that Ma Xiaoquan did not speak, and thought that Lord Shangxian was acquiescing to his approach, so he led his troops forward with great interest.

After Cao Cao walked away, Ma Xiaoquan opened his eyes, grabbed Xun Yu's clothes, and said loudly: "Wen Ruo, Xiao Cao's trip, this immortal calculates that there will be danger, and now this immortal orders you to think of a way to control Xiao Cao's desire to win." ”

Xun Yu heard that Lord Shangxian spoke, how dare he disobey, and hurriedly bowed down and said yes. Immediately, Xun Yu quickly thought of a way.

Xun Yu whispered this method to Ma Xiaoquan, and after Ma Xiaoquan heard it, he laughed and said: "If Wen Ruo's method is good, just do it, but let Ben Xian go, aren't you afraid that Ben Xian will vote for the Yellow Turban Thief Army?" ”

Xun Yu said with a smile: "Lord Shangxian said and laughed, when the lord of Xingyang broke through the siege and broke through the battle in the past, if it wasn't for Lord Shangxian telling Zilian to protect the lord throughout the whole process, how could I have Cao Cao Junping Yanzhou Yellow Turban today?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand: "There is no need to mention the old things, since this is the case, then Ben Xian will go to the camp of the Yellow Turban Thief Army, Wen Ruo, remember, only you know and I know about this matter, can you understand?" ”

Xun Yu said respectfully: "Xun Yu understands! ”

Ma Xiaoquan clapped his hands, asked Xun Yu for a mount, and left, and when Cao Cao came back again, he asked Xun Yu where Ma Xiaoquan went, Xun Yu lied: "Just now the immortal said that there was something, so he flew away on the clouds" Xun Yu stammered, Cao Cao frowned and ran away without listening.

Cao Hong drove his horse to Xun Yu's side and asked, "Wen Ruo, I just saw Lord Shangxian running backwards on your horse, what is he doing here?" ”

Xun Yu stretched out his right index finger, made a quiet gesture on his lips, and then whispered to Cao Hong: "Zilian, don't talk too much, Lord Shangxian is going to help me wait, let's just wait." ”

If he changed to someone else and went deep into the tiger's den, Cao Hong was really worried, but if he was the Shangxian Lord in his mind, Cao Hong not only was not worried, but he smiled, patted Xun Yu's shoulder and said: "Shangxian Lord is doing things, I see it's okay!" ”

It is said that Ma Xiaoquan rode Xun Yu's horse into the trail behind Cao Jun, although it was a trail, but because of the footman mountain people, he also stepped out of a smooth road. Ma Xiaoquan took out two eggs from his sackcloth bag behind his mount, ate them, then wiped his lips and continued to walk with a little song.

Ma Xiaoquan expected that there would be an ambush of the Yellow Turban Thieves not far from the trail, so he didn't hide or hide, and just strode forward.

Sure enough, when he came to a two-way intersection, Ma Xiaoquan really encountered a group of Yellow Turban thieves.

As soon as this group of Yellow Turban thieves saw that Ma Xiaoquan was alone, they immediately became thieves, and the first person pulled out their sabers with a "Qiang" sound, rushed out, and shouted: "Ah, rebels and thieves, dare to break into the realm of my Yellow Turban righteous warriors and beg for death!" ”

Ma Xiaoquan squinted, sat on the horse, and looked at the yellow turban thief.

This person has a pair of mouse ears and mouse eyes, and under a horse face, there is a mouthful of yellow teeth, which looks like he has drunk too much fluoride water.

Ma Xiaoquan laughed, didn't get off the horse, and said loudly: "Don't ambush, just Benxian alone, come out!" ”

Most of the Yellow Turban thieves are honest peasants, these peasants don't have too much scheming, and when they heard that Ma Xiaoquan had already seen through them, they didn't hide, and jumped out one by one with weapons.

One, two, twenty or twenty were thirty-five people.

Ma Xiaoquan didn't expect that there were thirty-five yellow turban thieves ambushed on the side of such a small road, but since they were all drawn out, Ma Xiaoquan was not worried.

Ma Xiaoquan said: "Huh? Are you setting up an ambush on this trail to spy on Cao Cao's army not far away? ”

When the leader heard this, he hissed, and said angrily: "How do you know, could it be that you are the same party of the Cao thief?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan was amused when he heard it, how could he ask questions and report himself to his family without confessing to himself, if it was him, he could completely divert the topic instead of opening his mouth with a sentence of "how do you know".

However, Ma Xiaoquan didn't plan to hide it, he had told Xun Yu before, he was going to go deep into the Yellow Turban Thief Army this time, so Ma Xiaoquan smiled and nodded: "Yes, this immortal is that Xiao Cao's comrade." ”

When the leader of the Yellow Turban Thieves heard this, he immediately became murderous, and he was just about to shout, when a person burst out of the crowd and said a few words in his ear, and the leader paused.

The horse-faced leader took the saber in his hand and asked Ma Xiaoquan: "What do you say you are, what 'Ben Xian'?" Do you still call that Cao thief 'Xiao Cao'? Why, could it be that you are a god? ”

Ma Xiaoquan knew that the horse-faced leader would question him, so he stretched out his right hand, and as soon as he concentrated, a light red flame burst out from the palm of Ma Xiaoquan's right hand.

"Huh?" The horse-faced leader was startled when he saw Ma Xiaoquan summoning flames empty-handed.

They were originally known as the "Tiangong General" Zhang Jiao's old department, in the past, when Zhang Jiao formed the Yellow Turban Army to confront the imperial court, it was under the pretext of the immortal oracle and the like, and Zhang Jiao had also done magic in front of everyone, and did not say what the law was, they didn't see it too clearly, but after the false rumors, the word fairy did make them very useful, at least everyone present at the moment has a dream of worshipping the gods in their hearts.

The horse-faced leader had no idea for a while, and the subordinates who whispered to the horse-faced leader just now were startled when they saw Ma Xiaoquan's skills, but he was not as helpless as the leader, but secretly opened his bow and arrows and took the opportunity to shoot an arrow.