In the face of the wolves coming from all directions, the boys, who had never seen such a battle, were flustered and began to retreat timidly, while Dian Man, Xu Yi and Wang Shuang waved the weapons in their hands to try to drive away the approaching wolves, and in the chaotic crowd, only Ma Zheng remained calm.

In the Mobei grassland, Ma Zheng has participated in many hunts, and he has long been accustomed to such scenes, and he also knows how to deal with these fierce and bloodthirsty wolves.

"Don't panic, don't panic, everyone." Ma Zheng hurriedly waved the bow and arrow in his hand and shouted, "Everyone retreats to the side of this son, and forms a formation with their backs against the fence." Second brother, you and Dian Man, Wang Shuang, and Xu Yi protect the outermost outermost area, and use heavy shields to resist the attack of the wolves, Zhou Ping, Pei Ding, Fang Qiu, and Xu Qian, use the spears in your hands to protect the flanks, and give support to the sword and shield hands, Gao Jin, Guan Qi and Ben Gongzi shoot the wolves with bows and arrows, quickly! ”

Jia Xu's efforts to teach Ma the conscription book tactics in the past few years have not been in vain.

Hearing the shouts, Dian Man, Xu Yi and Wang Shuang quickly retreated to Ma Zheng, unloaded the heavy shield on their shoulders and hit the ground heavily, building a shield wall, Zhou Ping, Pei Ding, Fang Qi and Xu Zhen also put the spears in their hands on both sides of the heavy shields of Dian Man, Xu Yi and Wang Shuang, and placed them in a rather rigorous defensive array.

At the same time, Guan Qi and Gao Jin had also retreated to Ma Zheng's side, holding their bows and arrows and preparing to shoot wolves.

Only Ma Zhan turned his head and glared at Ma Zheng with disdain, and said coldly: "Why listen to you?" Coward, Ben Gongzi can kill this group of coyotes alone, hum! ”

Ma Zheng hurriedly said: "Second brother, don't mess around, come back quickly!" ”

Ma Zhan ignored it, slashed the horse slasher in his hand, and rushed to the wolves in front of him like crazy.

……

On the lookout, a hint of coldness flashed in Ma Yue's eyes.

Jia Xu also looked awe-inspired, and said in a low voice: "The second prince is brave and good at fighting, but unfortunately it is only the courage of the horseman, and it is not as good as the eldest prince's command, and he is quite a lord." ”

……

Wolf Circle.

The horse battle was like a mad tiger, and it was furious into the wolves, and the sharp horse chopping knife rolled and waved, trying to throw the steppe wolves who fell to the ground one after another, these steppe wolves were either disemboweled by the blade, or their limbs were cut off and wailed, although the horse war was only eight years old, but it was already extremely powerful, and it was by no means comparable to these steppe wolves.

However, after all, there is a limit to the power of one person.

After killing dozens of steppe wolves alone, Ma Zhan obviously began to lose his physical strength, and the rhythm of his movements began to slow down, but the siege of the steppe wolves became more and more ferocious, and the situation quickly became difficult.

Shocked back, Ma Zhan only saw a giant wolf volleying into the air, the open blood plate in its mouth, the sharp fangs were hideous, Ma Zheng was eager to dodge, but people had nowhere to borrow in the air, and wanted to return the knife to the horizontal frame, but unfortunately the move was old, and he had just opened the sweeping knife momentum, and it was too late to retract the knife at this time.

"Damn!"

"Instigation!"

Ma Zhan snorted, and when he shrank his head sharply and wanted to hit the giant wolf's blood plate with his head, a wolf tooth arrow swept into the air, coldly shooting through the giant wolf's head, shooting in from its left eye and revealing its right eye, the giant wolf fell down in the air with a wail, and a cold sweat broke out behind Ma Zhan, and he swept the three steppe wolves around him into six.

When Ma Zhan looked back, Ma Zheng had already rushed forward with a ten-person squad that had formed a formation, and the arrow just now was obviously shot by Ma Zheng, and only Ma Zheng had this archery technique.

The wolves that followed one after another were like the huge waves of the long river, rushing forward wave after wave, but the shield wall built by Dianman, Xu Yi, and Wang Shuang was like a solid rock, allowing the waves to crash on the shore, and Wu Zi stood still, and the spears of Zhou Ping, Pei Ding, Fang Qiu, and Xu Zhen were like poisonous snakes spitting letters and stabbing non-stop, firmly protecting the left and right wings of the team.

In the center of the team, Ma Zheng is in the center, Guan Qi is on the left, Gao Jin is on the right, and the three of them are calmly holding their bows and arrows, shooting the steppe wolves around Ma Zhan one by one, but at this time, there are more and more steppe wolves around the ten-person team, and there are two cunning she-wolves who even go around behind the team to try to sneak attack.

"Second brother, stand back!" Ma Zheng returned an arrow and shot the two she-wolves who tried to sneak attack with one arrow, and then turned around and glared at Ma Zhan and shouted, "If you continue to mess around, everyone will have to die with you?" ”

Ma Zhan has never seen Ma Zheng speak so fiercely, since he was a child, since he can remember, Ma Zheng seems to have always been the object of Ma Zhan's teasing, even if he was tricked badly, even if his head was broken and bleeding, Ma Zheng never got angry, and never told his parents the truth of the matter, Ma Zhan always thought that Ma Zheng was cowardly, so it would be like this.

But today, Ma Zheng made Ma Zhan feel a little strange.

"Second brother!"

Ma Zheng suddenly pulled his bow and arrows, and the cold arrow cluster was aimed straight at Ma Zhan's eyebrows.

On the lookout platform, Ma Yue and Jia Xu gasped at the same time, and Su immediately jumped behind Ju Tu slowly stretched his bow, and put a thumb-thick wolf tooth arrow on the bowstring, and when he was about to pull the bow, Ma Yue's big hand hit Ju Tu's shoulder heavily, this is a competition between Ma Zheng and Ma Zhan brothers, Ma Yue does not want any external force to intervene in it.

"Second brother, bow your head!"

Ma Zheng roared angrily, Ma Zhan instinctively lowered his head, and said that it was too late, only to see a flash of cold light, and a sharp wolf tooth arrow had already passed by Ma Zhan's helmet.

Almost at the same time, an incomparably tragic wolf howl sounded from the back of Ma Zhan's head, and Ma Zhan instinctively looked up, only to see the huge silver-gray body of the wolf king falling heavily from the air, and a hideous wolf tooth arrow shot straight into its open blood disc mouth, straight through the back of his head.

"Whew~"

"Howl~~"

The Fallen Wolf King let out a dying wail, and the wolves who were launching a frantic attack on the ten-person squad immediately began to retreat, and Ma Zheng took the opportunity to lead the team forward to save Ma Zhan. Ma Zheng pulled Ma Zhan up from the ground and asked with concern, "Second brother, are you okay?" ”

Ma Zhan looked at Ma Zheng a little stunned, and called out inaudibly: "Big brother? ”

On the lookout, Ma Yue and Jia Xu breathed a long sigh of relief, their eyes showed a look of relief, these unruly sons and brothers had finally found their wolf king.

……

In August of the ninth year of Emperor Jian'an of the Han Dynasty (196), Fang Yue, who was guarding Hanzhong, finally waited for the news of Ma Yue, when the fast horse with the flag planted diagonally behind his shoulder galloped into the north gate of Nanzheng, and when the crisp sound of iron hooves shattered the silent long street, Yan Pu, Yang Ren, Yang Ang and Zhang Lu and others who were idle at home all began to get nervous.

The time has come to decide the life and death of the people of Hanzhong and the Wudou Rice Sect.

……

After Zhang Lu surrendered, in order to stabilize the situation and not stimulate the local scholars, Fang Yue did not send troops to occupy the Hanzhong city outside Nanzheng, but stationed all 20,000 troops in Nanzheng, of which 3,000 elite soldiers were stationed in the city, led by Fang Yue himself, and the other 17,000 troops were divided into two parts, led by Chen Zhi and Zhang Xiu, and stationed in two military camps outside the city.

The two camps of Chen Dao and Zhang Xiu are like two guards, guarding the Hanzhong military camp in the middle.

The 20,000 Hanzhong troops were placed in this barracks, but in order to prevent mutiny, the 20,000 Hanzhong troops had been disarmed, and the military rations in the camp could only last for three days.

The fast horse that delivered the letter had just arrived, and Chen Zhi and Zhang Xiu had already heard about it.

Fang Yue put Zhang Xiu and Chen Zhi into the military tent, turned on the fire paint in front of him, unfolded the book, and then circulated the booklet to the two generals after reading it himself.

After Chen Dao and Zhang Xiu read it, Fang Yue said in a deep voice: "The lord only said in the letter how to deal with Zhang Lu and the 20,000 Han Chinese army, but how to deal with the Han sergeant clan but did not mention it, only said that it is up to us to deal with it at our discretion, then, according to the two generals, how to deal with the Han sergeant clan?" ”

"The last general is the only general."

Zhang Xiu's answer was perfect, but it was the same as not saying it, after all, this guy was not the fledgling stunned young man ten years ago, the wind and rain of many years have made him politically mature, and he has spoken a lot more calmly, so he will never easily express his opinion before he finds out the temper of the main general Fang Yue.

In comparison, Chen Zhi seems to be strong-blooded.

Zhang Xiu's voice fell, and Chen Zhi said to Fang Yue: "General, since Zhang Wei, Yang Ren, Yang Ang, and Yan Pu are unwilling to surrender to Lianghou, then kill them!" Keeping them is a scourge after all, and maybe when will it cause trouble? As for those Han sergeants, it is best if they are willing to surrender, and if they are not willing to surrender, they will be killed, and they will be killed until they are frightened and begging to surrender! The last general wants to see, is it the stiff necks of these warriors or the sabers of our Liang army? ”

Fang Yue thought for a while and said, "But you can't kill people for no reason, right?" It is better to do this first, starting from today to strictly rectify the public order in Nanzheng, and once it is found that there are scholars who are causing trouble, they will be severely punished to set an example! ”

Zhang Xiu's heart jumped, and he wanted to say something to stop it, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them back into his stomach.

After all, Chen Zhi is young, and his blood is strong, it is not strange to say this, and Fang Yue is a pure soldier, the so-called pure soldier, that is, he can only lead troops to fight, and his political performance is extremely retarded, because of this, when Fang Yue received the "edict" from Liu Ming, the princess of Yiyang, he led the army to execute it before he figured out whether it was Liu Ming's own meaning or Ma Yue's meaning, and the result almost caused irreparable consequences.

Fang Yue and Chen Zhi are accustomed to thinking about problems with the thinking of soldiers, so they naively think that the strategy of killing one and setting an example can deal with the soft confrontation of the Han sergeant clan, Zhang Xiu is much more mature than the two politically, and he also followed Dong Zhuo in his early years to trouble Luoyang, knowing that the Shi clan at that time was not simply force that could be surrendered.

Zhang Xiu wanted to persuade Fang Yue to change his strategy, but after thinking about it, Fang Yue was a confidant under Lianghou, although Lianghou didn't say anything in the letter, who could guarantee that Lianghou didn't have another secret letter to hand over to Fang Yue alone? Maybe Liang Hou asked Fang Yue to kill the Jinghan Sergeant Clan in the secret letter!

After thinking about it again, Zhang Xiu finally didn't say anything.

The plan was decided, and Fang Yue immediately summoned Zhang Xian, the general of the state, and ordered him to lead 500 elite soldiers to patrol the streets, impose a curfew on Nanzheng, and strictly prohibit any idle people from going to the streets at night. That night, there was a shortage of soldiers in Nanzheng City, and the officials of the Shi clan did not know what was going on, and everyone was in danger.

The next day, Fang Yue summoned Zhang Lu, Yang Song, and Yang Bai to the barracks, and sent troops to forcibly "invite" Zhang Wei, Yang Ren, Yang Ang, Yan Pu, and other Han sergeant officials who refused to surrender to the barracks, and read out the horse butcher's decision in front of them, ordering Zhang Lu and 20,000 "five doumi" disciples to leave Nanzheng and go to Zhongnan Mountain within half a month.

This result was unexpected by Zhang Lu, and he was shocked at the time: "General, Zhongnan Mountain is high and dense, snakes and insects are rampant, although it is difficult for woodcutters and hunters to go deep, what should the 20,000 army do for a living after entering the mountain?" ”

Fang Yue said coldly: "This Zhang Tianshi doesn't have to worry, Lianghou has already made arrangements, and the Yongzhou Thorn History Department will provide enough military food every year to maintain the livelihood of 20,000 disciples." ”

Zhang Lu hesitated: "This~~ Can you allow Lu to make a decision after discussing with the elders in the sect?" ”

"No need." Fang Yue categorically refused, "This matter has already been decided, so Zhang Tianshi doesn't need to discuss it with the sect elders anymore, just follow the order." ”

"Ugh."

Zhang Lu let out a long sigh and slowly lowered his head.

……

It was noon, Yan Pu, Yang Ren, Yang Ang, Zhang Wei and others came to Zhang Lu's mansion together.

Seeing Zhang Lumian, Yan Pu shouted loudly: "Master, the matter is urgent, you can make a quick decision!" ”

Zhang Wei also said: "Yes, big brother, Fang Yue forced the eldest brother and 20,000 Hanzhong soldiers to go to Zhongnan Mountain, he must not have a good heart, otherwise where can the 20,000 soldiers be placed, whether it is Guanzhong or Beidi, where can you not Tuntian?" Why do you have to pick the old forest in the deep mountains of Nanshan? ”

Yang Ren and Yang Ang also echoed in unison: "Yes, Fang Yue must have received a secret letter from the horse butcher, and he wants to kill all 20,000 Han soldiers in Zhongnan Mountain, Shijun, you don't have any illusions about the horse butcher anymore, the butcher is the butcher, he will only careless of human life." ”

Zhang Lu's face changed again and again, and finally Haoran sighed: "Even if the horse butcher has other arrangements, but now the 20,000 army has been disarmed by the Liang army, and the leading Yang Song and Yang Bai brothers have been in collusion with the Liang army, even if we want to resist, what can we do if we have no soldiers and no generals in our hands?" ”

Yan Pu smiled gloomily and said to Zhang Lu: "As long as Shijun is willing to make up his mind, these are not problems!" ”

Zhang Ludao: "Ziyu (Yan Pu table character) can have a good strategy? ”

Yan Pu shook his head and said: "There is no good plan yet, but there is still half a month before the army starts, we have enough time to think about it in the long run, only the master needs to make a decision early, and we can run with all our strength without worries." ”

Zhang Lu's eyes narrowed slightly, and he fell into deep thought.

The reason why Zhang Lu decided to surrender was actually to preserve the Wudoumi Sect.

In Zhang Lu's heart, the life and death of the Wudou Mi Sect is far more important than the gains and losses of the Hanzhong group, the situation at that time was that Zhang Xiu, Chen Zhi and the two armies had already arrived on the Hanzhong Plain, if the Hanzhong army blindly resisted, resulting in endless wars, then the land of Hanzhong would inevitably be devastated, so the Wudou Mi Sect that existed by the people of Hanzhong was bound to suffer from the pond fish, so Zhang Lu made the decision to surrender.

But the development of things later was beyond Zhang Lu's expectations.

Zhang Lu originally thought that the horse butcher would still let Zhang Lu be the Taishou of Hanzhong for the sake of stabilizing the situation in Hanzhong (this was a common thing at that time, but whenever a separatist warlord surrendered, the surrendered party would inevitably entrust the local important task, at least until the local nobles returned to their hearts, and would never dare to transfer or dismiss them without authorization), so that the Wudou Mijiao could continue to survive.

But who knew that the horse butcher did not play his cards according to common sense at all, and ordered Zhang Lu and 20,000 "Five Doumi Sect" followers to move to the inaccessible Zhongnan Mountain, which Zhang Lu did not expect.

What to do?

Revolt? Maybe it will succeed, maybe it will fail, if it fails, it will be a burning stone, but if it succeeds, then the Five Dou Mi Sect can continue to survive! Obey? 20,000 followers will probably be slaughtered by the horse butcher, and in order to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, who is sure that the horse butcher will not kill the remaining followers?

Stretching out the head is a knife, and shrinking the head is also a knife, so it's better to fight!

Zhang Lu's slightly narrowed eyes slowly opened, and a trace of determination flashed in his eyes, and he said to Yan Pu and the others: "This master has made up his mind, for the great cause of the Holy Sect, for the life and death of 200,000 people in Hanzhong, he will never be restrained!" Although Ziyu and the generals let it go, all the consequences will be borne by the master. ”

Yan Pu said excitedly: "Shijun is wise. ”

Generals Zhang Wei, Yang Ren, and Yang Ang also angrily struck out: "Shijun should have been like this a long time ago!" ”

……

Opportunities come when they say they come.

Fang Yue's curfew was originally intended to kill a group of Han sergeant clans under an excuse, but after the curfew, the originally unruly Han sergeant clan closed their doors one after another and stayed at home, only the people who were close to Yang Song and Yang Bai brothers showed off their power and were domineering in Nanzheng City.

And it turned out to be an accident.

Yang Song's brother-in-law and brother were drunk and took their domestic slaves to make trouble on the street, and clashed with the patrolling Liangjun soldiers, and the Liangjun colonel who led the army was angry and killed Yang Song's wife and brother, Yang Song ran to Fang Yue to complain, but Fang Yue not only did not punish the murderous Liangjun colonel, but also reprimanded Yang Song fiercely.

Yang Song touched his nose and had to return depressed.

At noon that day, Yan Pu came to Yang Song's mansion, and the two talked secretly in the study for a whole afternoon, until it was getting late, and Yan Pu got up to leave. In addition to not understanding politics, Fang Yue also made another fatal mistake, that is, he did not restrict the freedom of action of the Han sergeant clan.

The next time, Zhang Lu begged Fang Yue to allow the soldiers to return to Nanzheng and resign with their relatives under the pretext that 20,000 soldiers were going to travel far away, Fang Yue categorically refused for safety reasons, Zhang Lu retreated and begged for the second, asking Fang Yue to allow the relatives in Nanzheng City to go to the barracks in batches to say goodbye to their relatives, Fang Yue thought that things should not be done too desperately, so he had to nod and agree.

Under the cover of the brothers Yang Song and Yang Bai, the people of Nanzheng brought a large number of weapons and dry food into the barracks.

When everything was ready, Zhang Lu ordered the people of Hanzhong to offer a large number of chickens, ducks, fish, meat and wine and delicacies to the Liang military camp to work in the army, and set up a wine banquet in the mansion, inviting Fang Yue, Zhang Xiu, and Chen to the banquet.

Chen Dao and Zhang Xiu did not go together because they stayed in the camp outside the city.

At that time, Chen Zhi and Zhang Xiu stayed in the two camps outside the city, and the camp in the city was left behind by Lei Xu and Zhang Xian because of Fang Yue's banquet, and because the people of Nanzheng sent a large number of chickens, ducks, fish and wine (the wine is non-toxic, it is not easy to drug the army of thousands of people), and the three thousand Liang soldiers of the camp in the city are drinking and carnivaling.

Fang Yue brought a total of more than 100 personal soldiers to the banquet, more than a dozen officers were accompanied by the generals of Zhang Lu's mansion and arranged to drink and feast in the side hall, and the rest of the soldiers were arranged in the front yard. Fang Yue, of course, was accompanied by Zhang Lu, Zhang Wei, Yan Pu, Yang Ren, Yang Ang, Yang Song, Yang Bai and others in the main hall.

After three rounds of drinking, Zhang Lu, Yan Pu, Yang Song, Yang Bai and others left the table under the pretext of going to the toilet one after another.

Yang Ren glanced at Yang Ang, and the two kicked the case at the same time, pulling out their long swords and stabbing at Fang Yue.

Although Fang Yue was shocked in his heart, his martial arts were still there, and he stood up to avoid the assassination of the two at the moment, and shouted with his sword: "Yang Ren, Yang Ang, what do you want?" ”

Behind the screen, he turned out of Zhang Lu's strategist Yan Pu, and said gloomily: "Fang Yue, your death is coming!" ”

"Yan Pu Pifu, An dares to kill a certain surname!"

Fang Yue was furious and threw the long sword in his hand into the air.

The cold light flashed, the sharp blade broke through the air, Yan Pu had already been pierced by the sharp long sword before he could dodge, Yan Pu immediately screamed, vomited blood and died, Zhang Lu hid behind the screen and saw it, and couldn't help but be secretly frightened.

(To be continued)