As soon as the black-faced man screamed, the brothers behind him cheered and continued to rush up with him, the black-faced man was agile and dodged the rain of arrows and took the lead in rushing to the front, and when he realized that something was wrong, it was over, because the brothers who were close to him had fallen, he was in the front, and he was less than ten meters away from Ma Hong's position, but his brothers were all stopped at a distance of ten meters from him.

"I'll give it to me with a black face." After Ma Hong finished speaking, he bent the bow and shot the arrow in one go, the movements were smooth, and the archery posture was quite chic, but the arrow shot a lot off.

"I'll leave it to you! Shoot him in the leg, don't shoot him to death. Ma Hong said.

Ma Er shot an arrow in response, and an arrow hit the black-faced man's thigh, and the arrow passed through the black-faced man's thigh. The black-faced man fell to the ground with a scream, and before he could shout a second time, another feathered arrow shot at his other thigh.

"Brothers, come and save me!" The black-faced man shouted.

The robbers saw that the leader was hit by an arrow, and hurriedly stepped forward to rescue him, but they were all shot by the rain of arrows and fell to the side of the black-faced man.

"Ma Er, do you know what this trick is called?" Ma Hong took another arrow and shot it out and asked Ma Er.

Ma Er said while shooting an arrow: "My subordinates don't know. ”

"Siege the corpse and send reinforcements." Ma Hong shot another arrow.

Shooting the bandit leader to the ground cleverly relieved Ma Hong's own crisis, and most of the robbers focused on rescuing their own leader and ignored Ma Hong. Use the black-faced bandit as bait, only shoot the black-faced bandit and let the other robbers come up and send them to death, so that the battle will end faster.

"Rubbish!" Niu Guts at the bottom of the slope looked at the situation on the slope, stamped his feet and led the remaining brothers to rush upward, shouting as he rushed: "Leave the black dog alone, keep rushing upwards for me!" Keep rushing! ”

Although the robbers heard the shouts of the bulls, they were already in chaos, and most of the robbers had already died under the arrows.

"Brothers, shoot all the arrows, and shoot them all to death, and leave not one behind." Ma Hong yelled loudly.

Some of the hundred robbers did not even have a decent sword, and the number of arrows was even smaller, and now they were faced with more than twenty well-armed and well-located convoys.

The robbers heard the boss's shout, and some of them gave up rescuing the black dog and attacked the top of the slope instead.

Ma Er shouted: "Points." ”

The guards were two people standing together to shoot arrows, one of them drawing his sword and rushing forward to stop the bandits, and the other continued to shoot arrows.

At this time, Martha came back from the back slope and laughed: "Those cubs have been killed by us, Ma San and two brothers are guarding, I will come back to help you." ”

After hearing this, Ma Hong shouted loudly: "The bandits on the back slope are dead, and you will die if you rush down, keep coming!" ”

After Ma Hong finished speaking, he drew his long sword and rushed forward, stabbing the throat of the rushing robber, and then kicked the dead robber out with a strong kick, knocking over the robber behind him. Ma Da saw his son-in-law rushing forward, and hurriedly stepped forward to guard Ma Hong's side.

"Halberd." With Ma Er's order, the guards took out their throwing halberds and smashed them at the enemy who rushed over, because the distance was very close, more than a dozen halberds were thrown out at the same time, and they stabbed and injured a piece of people in an instant, and when the third round of halberds was thrown, few of the robbers who rushed up were standing, and those who stood were smashed by the iron rods held in Ma Da's hands.

Seeing that most of his brothers were dead, Niu Dan stopped rushing upwards and shouted bitterly: "Withdraw." ”

As soon as he said the word "withdrawal", an arrow was inserted in his chest, which was still trembling, and the bull dared to kneel on the ground with a miserable roar. Obviously, this bull gall is not too popular, his brother-in-law Black Dog fell to the ground, and someone saved the black dog, but when he knelt on the ground, no one pulled him. Before Niu Dare said to withdraw, seven or eight robbers had fled, and when he said the word withdraw, the bandits' strings were completely broken, and they fled down the mountain without their lives.

Ma Hong stood in front of Niu Gut and the black dog, slapped a sword on Niu Guts's face, and then asked, "Who sent you to intercept me?" ”

Niu Guts gritted his teeth in pain and did not speak.

"What about you? To say or not to say? Ma Hong slapped another sword on Niu Guts's face.

Niu Guts opened his mouth and scolded: "Milk hairy child, if you want to kill, you will kill, don't want to ask a word from my uncle's mouth." ”

"Good, good!" Ma Hong laughed and said three good words in a row, and then put the sword into the sheath and said: "Brothers, take revenge for the dead brothers!" Give me a knife each, don't let him die so quickly. ”

A quarter of an hour later, the ox gall was stabbed with nineteen knives, blood was flowing all over the ground, his tongue was cut off, and he lay on the ground convulsing all over his body, and he was about to choke.

The black dog's face turned purple and he collapsed on the ground trembling all over.

Ma Hong slapped a sword on the black dog's face and asked, "Do you want to die like him?" If you don't want to, say it, and I'll spare you your life. ”

The black dog trembled and said, "If you say it, our wives and children will die, please kill me!" ”

Ma Hong laughed and said, "If you don't say it, I don't know who instructed you?" ”

The black dog kept his head down and did not speak.

Ma Er grabbed the black dog's hair with one hand, inserted the halberd into the black dog's belly and asked, "Say!" ”

"Can't tell." The black dog said with tears in pain.

Ma Er stirred the black dog's stomach with his halberd and asked, "Say!" ”

"Still can't say." The black dog is still the same sentence.

"Forget it, don't ask, his master is Cai Mao." After Ma Hong finished speaking, he stabbed the black dog to death with a sword.

Liu Qi became the Taishou of Nanyang County with the assistance of Ma Hong, and most of the officials in the counties around Xinye were purged by Ma Hong, which harmed the interests of the Cai family in Xiangyang. If you ask who Ma Hong offended in Jingzhou, the first is to offend the bandits and robbers, and the second is to offend the Cai family in Xiangyang. The robbers want Ma Hong to die, and Cai Mao also wants Ma Hong to die. Once Ma Hong died, Liu Qi lost his eyes.

Ma Hong asked his subordinates to cut off the head of Niu Gut and bring it back to Xiangyang City, and took the head of the leader of the Liukou not to scare Cai Mao, but this head could be exchanged for some bounty.

Cai Mansion, Cai Mao's face was not very good-looking, he knelt and drank, and said to Zhang Yun on the side: "I heard that the day before yesterday, Ma Hong was attacked by rogues, do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing?" ”

Zhang Yun smiled: "If you die, it's naturally a good thing." ”

"Ma Hong is not dead, but he will definitely suspect me." Cai Mao said.

"Did the general do it?" Zhang Yun asked straight to the point.

Cai Mao poured the wine into his mouth with his backhand, and said angrily: "How could I do such a stupid thing, even if I did, I wouldn't do it so blatantly, if I go on like this, that kid must be suspicious of my head, who is holding this basin on my head." ”

Zhang Yun saw Cai Mao angry and knew that this thing was indeed not done by Cai Mao, so he sighed and said: "It seems that someone deliberately wants to arouse the contradiction between Da Liu Qi and us, who will that person be?" ”

Who is that man?

Night falls, Liu's house.

A young man is building a small bamboo building with a small bamboo strip in one hand, and there are words written on the small bamboo strip, and at a glance he knows that the bamboo strip is removed from the bamboo slip. The boy was about fourteen or fifteen years old, with a fair face, long eyes, and a length of more than seven feet, but his body was extremely thin, his arms were very thin, and his ten fingers were like withered branches, as if they would be broken at the slightest break.

"Hey, failed again."

The young man was holding the wooden stick and had not yet placed it on the small bamboo building, which had collapsed. Although the boy failed again when he spoke, his tone was extremely light and emotionless. Then the young man lay on the ground, holding a thinner bamboo strip in his hand and plucking his ears, with an expression of great enjoyment on his face, and his mouth read: "Uncle, if you don't do it for a long time, I'm so anxious to wait." You're going to have to help me now! ”

This young man is Liu Cong, the second son of Liu Biao.