(Thank you Taimeng, Zhao Wuxian 2014, Glorious Charter)

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On the ninth day of the ninth month of September, the day of Chongyang's ascension, Ma Han left White Wolf City and went to Xiangping, Liaodong, to report on his work.

Feiyan Ling has been formally established, Ma Yunluo is the cavalry general, Zhao Yingzi is the cavalry captain, and the fifty female knights in the red scarf are all included in the Feiyan Ling, and then from the unmarried girls who are slightly riding and shooting in the Han Ge Department, fifty people are selected to form one hundred female horsemen of Feiyan Ling. Ma Han personally served as the chief trainer, and Xia Houlan and Wu Chai served as auxiliary trainers to conduct actual combat training for the newly released Feiyanling female soldiers.

However, in view of the fact that Ma Han is about to go to Liaodong, the responsibility of this training is temporarily handed over to Xiahoulan and Wu Chase.

Feiyan Ling was established, but the chief officer was not finalized. Ma Yunluo stared at the horse seal that had just been built on the case and still had a special metal smell for a long time, and finally took it back to Ma Han, saying that he could not accept the appointment yet, and he must first show his father and get understanding before considering it.

It seems that Ma Yunluo is not too stupid, and knows that it is absolutely impossible to get his father to agree, but at least he should report it first, let his father know that there is such a thing, and then think about how to avoid the important and light persuasion.

Ma Han naturally agreed, and let the cavalry captain Zhao Yingzi take charge of the training and formation work first. He learned from Nian Nu's mouth that now this pair of Jiao can be said to be unacquainted, and the relationship is quite iron at the moment, often practicing with each other, and there are endless whispers at night, and even sleeping in the same room. Let Zhao Yingzi temporarily take his place, Ma Yunluo will not only be dissatisfied, but will only be happy.

In fact, Ma Han knew what method to use to get Ma Teng to agree to Ma Yunluo to stay in White Wolf City, but the time was not yet ripe, and his strength, fame, and identity were not enough, so it was not time to use this method.

Ma Han took up his post in the north this time, because of the limited number of people, after careful consideration, he decided to only lead Zhou Cang, Wu Chai and fifty wolf tooth flying horses. In addition, fifty servants escorted the men and horses with food and grass, as well as various gifts, a total of ten carriages on the road.

At the beginning, Li Ji had hoped to go north with Ma Han, but that was last year, and at that time, White Wolf City was surrounded by enemies on all sides, and it was embarrassing, so it was naturally safer to follow Ma Han to the north. But after a year, White Wolf City is no longer what it used to be, with 5,000 soldiers and horses, which can be described as strong and strong. There are many good generals, even if Ma Han doesn't find trouble with the surrounding aliens, who else dares to provoke the forces of White Wolf City? Therefore, it is safest for Li Ji to stay in White Wolf City.

With only fifty horses, it doesn't seem like much, but everyone in the entire White Wolf City knows that their city lord is an enemy of 4,000 Kunbtulu, if he can go safely, he will definitely be able to return unscathed. From White Wolf City to Liaodong. The most commonly taken road is to follow the north branch of the White Wolf Water, along the Mashou Mountain Road to Liucheng, and then turn to Zhiyangle, Liaoxi County, and enter Changli in Liaodong. Then through Liaodong without worries and dangers, and finally arrived at Xiangping.

But after repeated comparisons, Ma Han decided to take another route: first along the Fengda Shui to the west coast of Liaodong Bay, and then along the coastline to the north. Enter the migrating river of the subject country of Liaodong, and then travel 300 miles east to the danger, and finally arrive at Xiangping. This one is significantly shorter than the previous one. The journey is shortened by at least a third, but there is a drawback, that is, the road is difficult to travel, and the places passed are sparsely populated.

Previously, Tai Shici, Tian Yu and others also mentioned that it was the fastest to take a boat to Liaodong, and it was enough to shorten the distance by half. However, Ma Han believed that it was necessary to personally take the overland route, both for investigation and military purposes. I am the captain of Liaodong and the lord of the white wolf city in Liaoxi, but I can't even see all of Liaoxi, and I haven't walked through Liaodong, where can I say it?

Only by wading by sea and by land can we know what to expect.

On this day of the Chongyang ascending, Ma Han and his entourage of 100 people, escorting ten carts, bid farewell to everyone and officially set off.

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On September 16, a week after departure, Ma Han had traveled 400 miles, although the road was very difficult, the mountains were deep and the forests were dense, and the roads were blocked. Fortunately, this area is under the customary jurisdiction of Wencheng County, when Ma Han took Wencheng, he sent special personnel to survey the terrain and draw maps many times, and he knew a lot about the trails, mountains and forests and rivers in this area. Therefore, I can walk on the most correct and fastest road, and I have not detoured the slightest wrongful road. Rao is like this, every day only walking sixty or seventy miles, a week, has not yet gone out of Liaoxi, from the first transit station, Liaodong subject country of the river, there are still more than 100 miles.

Along the way, it is sparsely populated, and it is rare for both Han people and Hu people to be seen. Think about it, if there is a large county in Liaoxi, but there are only 40,000 or 50,000 registered people, plus non-registered black households, at most 70,000 or 80,000 people, most of whom are distributed in several county towns and around the city. How many people dare to live in the rest of the poor mountains, bad waters, and wild beasts? This is not Mobei, where there are water and grass, there are people in the ministry.

Ma Han traveled all the way, this situation and this scene, all in sight, and his mood became more and more heavy. It is true that western Liaoning is not a suitable place for development, the roads are not quiet, it is difficult to communicate with trade, there are many mountains and little land, arable land is limited, and it is already the limit to raise 5,000 soldiers. Whether it is White Wolf City or Liaoxi County, it is just a springboard rather than a foundation, so where are he and the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians under his rule going to jump? Where is their foundation?

Leaders are not so easy to do, and for Maham, in the coming year, he must point the way for his group. Next year is 194 A.D., the Three Kingdoms have entered the era of the most fierce disputes, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Lu Bu, Sun Ce...... These thunderous heroes will either lay their own foundation or find the direction of struggle in this year.

In the overall situation of the world, whoever falls first will be able to take the lead. One step fast, one step first; One step at a time, one step at a time.

There's no time to wait, Ma Hu, you have to be faster than them - Ma Ha clenched his fists hard to cheer himself up.

Just as Ma Han was thinking hard about how to break the situation, ten sentry horses five miles away were released in front, and suddenly they ran back halfway, and the horse neighed, panting and reported: "Yu Cheng Shou, there are more than ten Hu horsemen chasing a rider in front, and they are coming in the direction of our chariot and horse, and the brothers of the first army are staring at them, whether to intercept them, please let the city guard show you." ”

Ma Han's thick eyebrows furrowed slightly, and then he said categorically: "You don't have to intercept them, let them come." The vehicle is in a circle, with ten flying horses across the front of the car, and the remaining forty flying horses, scattered on the left and right wings, and the warning radius is 100 paces. If Hu Qi dares to enter within 100 steps, cut off his back road, and kill him! ”

Fifty wolf's fangs flying horseman and fifty servants, along the way, have already rehearsed countless plans for various emergencies. As soon as the sound of the horse's order fell, the fifty servants, under the command of Zhou Cang, methodically untied the bridles of the horses, surrounded the ten carts into a circle, and the gap between the carts was blocked with simple three guns to resist the horses, and the servants and the horses entered the circle. The Wu chase led forty wolf tooth flying horses scattered on both sides about a hundred paces away, riding and shuttling, like wolves wandering, seemingly scattered, but in fact hidden killing opportunities, ready to launch a thunderous strike.

Ma Han jumped off the big green horse used for riding, turned over and rode on the silver arrow, galloped back and forth, the blood bow in his hand was flicked, and his slender fingers gently wiped the arrow feathers, waiting for something. Ten steps behind him was Zhou Cang, who was holding the Pointing Heaven Overlord Spear for him, and ten wolf-tooth flying warriors who were eager to attack with arrows on the strings.

After a while, there were indeed shadows of riders on the horizon ahead, raising a faint amount of smoke and dust. As the distance narrowed, I saw a horse running wildly, dozens of steps behind him, more than ten horsemen in hot pursuit, from time to time there were knights with bows to shoot, arrows flew from the fugitives left and right, several times almost shot.

The fugitive apparently discovered Ma Han and his party, and immediately saw a savior, and desperately whipped the horse's buttocks, and ran towards this side. The pursuing more than ten horsemen hesitated, slowed down their horses, and slowly approached. These Hu Riders were also obviously wary of the Wolf Tooth Flying Riders who scattered the two rules, but they seemed to be a little intimidating, so they were not afraid to approach them.

However, when more than ten Hu riders approached the vehicle to 200 paces, suddenly someone pointed to the banner of hunting the wind on the vehicle and shouted, the voice was full of fear, and the group of Hu riders who seemed to have no fear exploded like startled horses, and they all turned their horses and fled.

The horse quickly raised his hand and shot an arrow, the arrow flashed and disappeared from view, and when it reappeared, it had pierced the neck of a horse, and the knight was overturned.

The arrows of the horses were orders, and the forty wolf-toothed flying horsemen moved when they heard the sound of the arrows, the iron hooves thundered, the dust was turned over, and the piercing arrows that broke the air were endless. In just a few breaths, most of Hu Cai's guns were shot, two were wounded and captured, and only four horsemen escaped. Even if they were two hundred paces away, they found it bad to flee, and if they had gone a hundred paces, they would have been slaughtered.

As soon as the fugitive had rushed a hundred paces, he was swept up by the four wolf fangs led by Wu Chase, overturned and dismounted, and was captured alive. Then he threw them on the back of his horse with the two Hu captives, galloped back, and reported to Ma Han from afar: "Defend the city, shoot eight people, take two prisoners, and flee four." Ten bows and eight horses were obtained. ”

Zhou Cang carried a heavy gun, galloped closer, and shouted unhappily: "It's a pity to run away from four, these Hu slaves are too timid, they run away like a ghost two hundred steps away, is it chasing you and revealing something?" ”

Wu Chai spread his hands: "Don't blame me, if you want to blame it, you will blame it." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed in a certain direction.

Zhou Cang looked along the black chasing finger and saw the white wolf headhunting flag waving in the wind on the cart. This is the battle flag of the white wolf battalion, with a black linen tough cloth as the bottom, embroidered with a white wolf head with blood teeth, and the wolf pupils are inlaid with thumb-sized jadeite.

The white wolf headhunting flag, the symbol of the white wolf riding fiercely, in western Liaoning, everyone knows it, no wonder that the group of Hu people looked at the flag and fled.

Zhou Cang grinned, and was about to say something, when he suddenly heard a hoarse cry: "Captain Madu!" Majo Mamoru ! Is that you? I, I'm Shi Yan, Shi Yan of Zhen's Mansion! ”

Ma Han was surprised when he heard this, and hooked his finger to the source of the sound: "Bring the person who spoke." ”

Wu Chai heard the sound and saw that it was the fugitive who was being chased and killed, and he wondered in his heart, who is this person? I even knew the castle guard.

The fugitives were quickly escorted over, and despite the disheveled hair, dusty face, and several whip marks and blood marks on his face, Ma Han still recognized it at a glance, and it was indeed Shi Yan.

Shi Yantong knelt on the ground with a puff of time, burst into tears, and was excited: "God bless, I have to meet Ma Jun!" For the sake of Zhongshan Zhen's sake, save the three ladies! (To be continued......)