As a soldier, it is sometimes good to know whose hands it is to die at, at this moment Dou Yun clenched his knife and said, "Brother Wei, please don't embarrass my wife and children." ”

Wei Yan nodded.

The cavalry led by Ma Hong successfully entered Anzhong City, and captured the defenders of Anzhong City who were still asleep in less than an hour.

Being able to capture Anzhong City so smoothly not only depends on Ma Hong's strategy, but more importantly, Wei Yan's execution ability is extremely strong. Ma Hong squinted at the rising sun and asked, "Zhengfang, why don't you see Wei Yan's figure?" ”

Li Yan said: "According to the report of Wei Yan's soldiers, Wei Yan went to Dou's house in the south of the city. ”

Ma Hong said: "What did he do at the Dou family?" ”

Li Yan shook his head and said he didn't know.

The branches of the poplar trees were just crawling with thin buds, and the sunlight sprinkled through the poplar forest to Wei Yan's eyes, and at this moment, tears were flashing in Wei Yan's eyes. Wei Yan's throat was dry, and the green tendons on the back of his hands were rioting, and then he stretched out his hand and slapped himself in two mouths hatefully, then took off his combat boots, untied his saber and put it on the ground, then turned over and slowly jumped into the pigsty, he jumped into the pigsty lightly and did not dare to alarm the piglets, because there was another different life lying with the piglets, it was a child, a boy less than a year old.

Wei Yan's whole body trembled as soon as he took a boy out of the smelly pigsty, he opened his mouth but couldn't speak, he looked up at the rising sun, the warm sunlight made the tears in his eyes no longer so cold.

The three soldiers stood tremblingly at the door of Dou's house with their heads bowed and did not dare to speak, when they did not join the Jingzhou army a while ago, they were robbers, and the robbers naturally liked to do what the robbers were used to doing, and they were not used to doing what the soldiers should do. The three of them were supposed to take care of Dou Yun's wife and children, but they defiled Dou Yun's wife and killed her, and threw Dou Yun's son, who was less than a year old, into the pigsty.

Wei Yan didn't speak, he didn't look at the three soldiers, he just walked straight into the Dou family with the child, he had already imagined the situation in the house, he held the child and found a piece of cloth to cover the naked woman, and then sat on the ground without saying a word.

The three soldiers guarding the door of Dou's house were frightened, and the soldiers with a numb face said, "Two brothers, do you think Wei Yan will spare us?"

The two soldiers shook their heads.

The soldier with a blank face continued: "We might as well run to General Ma to plead for mercy now, maybe General Ma will spare us, that little general is kind." ”

Another slightly older soldier said, "Impossible, I heard that the last time it was the little general who forced General Gan to kill the soldier who kidnapped the woman." ”

The soldier with a pockish face said, "Then we might as well take this opportunity to escape!" ”

"Escape? Where to go? ”

Suddenly, a cold voice came from behind them, and Wei Yan was already standing behind them at some point.

When the Madou-faced soldier turned his head, the dagger in Wei Yan's hand had already been inserted into the Madou soldier's right arm, and before he could scream, half of his left hand fell to the ground again.

Blood accompanied by cries, and beast-like roars, this is only a one-sided fight, the three sturdy soldiers in the face of Wei Yan, as weak as three children facing an adult man, they watched the dagger cut from their arms, eyes, nose bridges, and hamstrings, but they were so powerless, at this time they were as helpless as the woman they rode under them last night, the same helplessness, the same despair.

When Ma Hong and Li Yan rode to Dou's house, three soldiers who had broken their hands and tendons were crying in the pigsty, they had lost their eyes and what a man should have.

When Ma Hong learned the reason for the incident from Wei Yan's soldiers, Ma Hong couldn't help but say, "Wei Yan is really ruthless. ”

Li Yan said: "Wei Yan also did this for a reason. ”

"Whatever the reason, it's cruel." Ma Hong Road.

Li Yan sighed and said, "I know something about Wei Yan, Wei Yan grew up in a pigsty. ”

Ma Hong said with a look of amazement: "What's going on." ”

Li Yan simply told Wei Yan's life experience, it turned out that Wei Yan was the child of a wealthy family in Yiyang's family, but he was the child of a concubine. When Wei Yan was born, his mother died of dystocia, and Wei Yan's father also died when Wei Yan was two years old. Wei Yan lived with pigs at the age of two, but he did not die until he was seven years old when he was seen by his uncle, who had returned home from other places. Wei Yan's uncle adopted Wei Yan and raised him as an adult.

Ma Hong was silent for a long time after listening to this, and did not speak.

Li Yan drew his sword and jumped into the pigsty to end the pain of the three soldiers, and then he and Ma Hong stood at the door of Dou's house all the time, waiting for Wei Yan to come out.

Wei Yan came out holding the little boy, who had already taken a hot bath and changed into clean clothes.

"It's a lovely kid." Ma Hong said.

"He will be my son from now on." Wei Yan said.

Ma Hong nodded and said, "It's a clean child." ”

Wei Yan gently touched the child's face and said, "In this army, Jun Cheng has the best knowledge, and I bother Jun Cheng to choose a name for this child." ”

Ma Hong touched his nose, raised his head to look at the rising sun, and said: "This child can be regarded as being reborn, just like the rising sun, it is good to be called Wei Sheng." ”

Wei Yan thanked him: "Xie Juncheng gave the child a name. ”

Ma Hong basically calmed the hearts of the people in Anzhong City within three days. This time, the calculation of Anzhong was a smooth one, and less than twenty soldiers were injured, three of whom were killed by Wei Yan, seven were killed, and more than a dozen were injured. Most of the dozen or so wounded were injured by falling from their horses on the way to Anzhong. War horses are scarce, and there are not many soldiers who can ride horses, and there are less than 60 soldiers in the cavalry team led by Ma Hong who can ride horses. War horses are hard to assemble, and cavalry is also difficult to train. Ma Hong understood that according to the current situation, it would be difficult to forcibly lead this cavalry team north to cooperate with Gan Ning to attack Wancheng. I am afraid that I will not be able to harass the enemy army with this new army, and if I really start a war with the Cao army in Wancheng, the consequences are unimaginable.

Ma Hong couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he asked Li Yan and Wei Yan to discuss countermeasures together.

Wei Yan said: "Wancheng is strong, and the morale of our soldiers is not high."

Li Yan nodded and said, "You can't rush to attack Wancheng, you might as well train your soldiers first and wait for the opportunity."

Ma Hong shook his head and said, "Now is the best time, but there are not enough troops. If we delay for another half a month, we will no longer be able to send a single soldier. ”

Wei Yan asked with a puzzled face, "Why?"

Ma Hong replied: "Because the letter from Xiangyang will be handed over to the son, and the lord will ask the son to stop."

Li Yan nodded and said, "It is said that the lord has no intention of fighting Cao Cao."

Ma Hong glanced at Li Yan, Li Yan is a low-level official in Jingzhou, and it is impossible to know the decisions of the high-level, but Li Yan is a well-informed person, and he knows a lot of small things.

Ma Hong has pacified the thieves several times in the past month with Gan Ning, and he is well aware of the weakness of the thieves, and when the thieves are fighting with the official army, as long as the battle situation is slightly unfavorable, they will scatter and flee. The thieves are the thieves, they have no strict control, once they fight, they do not cooperate and do not obey the command, and the combat effectiveness is low, and now half of the soldiers led by Ma Hong and Gan Ning are composed of the original thieves.

After discussing with Wei and Li, Ma Hong quickly made a new plan, using military warfare and reusing cultural warfare. Ma Hong formulated three strategies for Liu Qi, one of which was to order Ganning's army to suspend its march towards Wancheng, and send jewels to Zhang Quan's close officials in Wancheng to buy his heart, in order to confuse Zhang Quan and reduce Zhang Quan's defensive psychology; Second, the tax revenue of Nanyang County was greatly reduced, and spies were sent to infiltrate the rumors to spread rumors about Jingzhou's low tax policy, and at the same time, farmers from Cao Cao's territory were exempted from taxes for three years. This article is mainly aimed at Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, after the war, a large number of soldiers and grain were conscripted, which made the farmers miserable; Third, he ordered 500 cavalrymen disguised as horse thieves to divide into 10 teams to attack villages on the border line with Cao Cao from time to time, so that the people on the border line of Cao's army panicked and accelerated the implementation of the second strategy.