In the starry night, a group of men and horses quietly entered the mysterious path and headed straight for the camp in the mountains.

When they got closer, the camp guard saw the group of men, and was alert, and immediately raised a fire to ask who it was.

The first person was Zhao Qi, and he said loudly to the guard who was questioning: "It's me, I have already annihilated the enemy's vanguard troops, and now I have captured their vanguard and come back." ”

The camp guard saw that it was Zhao Qi, and saw that there was indeed a tall man wearing enemy armor tied to him, and the team behind him was all his own people, so he opened the door and let a group of people in. It turned out that this Zhao Qi was not the commander of the unit responsible for interception, he was just a young general responsible for tonight's night attack.

The real commander of the army is actually in the camp, and he is planning how to defeat the enemy in the future if Zhao Qi fails. In this march and war, it is necessary to consider all the problems comprehensively and come up with corresponding countermeasures in order to be invincible.

was discussing, and suddenly heard someone report that Zhao Qi had returned victoriously, and the generals were very happy and hurriedly greeted them out of the camp. The guards on both sides raised their torches to open the way, and when they saw Zhao Qi in the firelight, they were really tied back, and they were even happier in their hearts. Looking at the military horses behind them, it seems that many people have also been captured, as well as some grain and grass.

"Zihe is really brave and good at fighting, and he defeated the vanguard of the enemy army in one sentence, I will definitely play the lord and let him reward you well." The commander laughed and said.

"Thank you, General, this is a humble matter." Zhao Qi dismounted, clenched his fists and said, and at the same time asked people to get the bound Ma Yuan off the horse. The commander looked at Ma Yuan with a smile and said, "Are you the vanguard sent by the county guard Zuzhao?" I heard how Zu Zhao was good, how he broke the Yellow Turban Righteous Army before, I think it's just like that, choosing a pioneer is so resistant to a blow, he is good, but he has no brains. ”

Ma Yuan scolded: "Traitor, you are a scourge to the world, you must not die a good death, you have the ability to let me go, and fight with me for three hundred rounds, can you dare?" ”

The commander laughed and said, "The general of the defeated army still dares to speak bravely." Someone came, pulled him out and beheaded him. But when the order was given, no one moved, and he was furious, and shouted, "Someone has come, pushed him out and beheaded him, and did you not hear it?" ”

His guards wanted to move, but they were stopped by Zhao Qi and said, "General, this is an enemy general we captured, so we beheaded him like this, I'm afraid it's not appropriate, right?" ”

"What's wrong? Since it is an enemy general, what is the use of not keeping it? The general reproached loudly.

Zhao Qi said: "General, should we negotiate with the troops behind them with this vanguard?" Bringing their vanguard generals out in battle can also strengthen the momentum of our army. ”

"It's useless to keep it, fighting depends on ability, not opportunism. Drag it down and behead it, since it is a prisoner you captured, then you will carry it out with your own hands, and I will give you your credit and reward to the general. The general said.

But Zhao Qi didn't move, but pulled out the saber at his waist and looked at the commander coldly. The commander was taken aback and scolded loudly: "Zhao Zihe, do you want to rebel?" Push this man out and behead him, do you hear? ”

"General, catch the enemy general, don't interrogate, don't try to surrender, just afraid that it will be inappropriate?" Zhao Qi said.

The commander said coldly: "The general of the defeated army, what is the use of recruiting." A small vanguard, who can interrogate something, directly beheaded, frustrates the enemy's spirit. Quick, push him out and cut him down. ”

Zhao Qi was stunned for a while, then suddenly pulled out his saber with a roar, and cut the rope that bound Ma Yuan at once. Ma Yuan laughed, took the big axe handed by the soldiers, and approached the commander with Zhao Qi. The commander was shocked, and scolded loudly as he retreated: "Zhao Qi, are you going to rebel?" ”

Zhao Qi said: "What about the opposite? You only know how to fight, and you don't care about the lives of others, and following you will indeed only harm the people. When I entered Wangping County, I saw that the people there were living and working in peace and contentment, working hard to reclaim the land and plant spring millet, but as soon as our army came, they did not help them, and killed the people indiscriminately, and your subordinates even did some things that raped women, at that time I wanted to oppose you, but unfortunately your official position pressured me, I had to swallow my anger, and now I came out with you to ambush the enemy army, you actually thought about killing people without asking anything, I want to understand, your anti-Han is simply for our people, but for your own desires. ”

"Bold, you dare to speak like that. That's their people, they support Zu Zhao wholeheartedly, if you don't kill them, are you waiting for them to come and kill us? The commander scolded.

"Being able to win the support of the people shows that he is a virtuous person, wherever our army goes, robbing the people of money and food, and even killing the people indiscriminately and raping women, this kind of righteous army is really unjust, I might as well follow General Zu, even if I am a small common man in his jurisdiction, I am willing, instead of following you to kill people indiscriminately." Zhao Qi said.

The commander was a little flustered at this moment, and shouted loudly: "Come on, pull this unknown traitor out and behead him with the enemy." But after yelling twice, I found that none of the soldiers responded, and when I looked again, I found that everyone inside and outside was controlled by Zhao Qi's people. Only then did he realize that these people were not Zhao Qi's people at all, but Zu Zhao's vanguard troops.

"You, you, it turns out that you didn't succeed in the sneak attack at all, you were caught by the enemy, didn't you?" The commander asked.

Zhao Qi said: "That's right, I failed, but they didn't kill me at every turn like you, but treated me well, told me about their psychology and ambitions, and their future development, I think they are the ones I want to follow." ”

"Zhao Zihe, you traitor, I will report to the general and break you into pieces." The commander scolded loudly.

"If you can escape with your life, let's talk about it." Ma Yuan said coldly, and at the same time brandished an axe and slashed at him. At this moment, a group of people suddenly rushed out from behind the commander to protect him. They are the commander's direct subordinate troops, and they have been hiding in the shadows, so naturally they are not controlled by Ma Yuan's people.

When the commander saw that it was his own people coming, he immediately smiled and said loudly: "Chop them into pureed meat for me, and leave no one behind." ”

The soldiers were ordered, and they rushed up with swords, guns, swords, and halberds, seeing their momentum, Ma Yuan and Zhao Qi had to retreat while fighting, but fortunately, they also had more than 500 soldiers, forming a situation of confrontation between the two.

"General, you can't let him escape. Be sure to catch him. Zhao Qi said.

Ma Yuan smiled and said, "This is natural, I'll leave it to you here, I'll go directly to get someone else's head." As he spoke, he climbed on a group of war horses, clamped his legs, and rushed towards the camp in front of him. A soldier wanted to come to block it, but was cut down by Ma Yuanyi with an axe, and everyone saw his momentum, and no one dared to stop him.

As soon as he arrived at the side of the big camp, he suddenly stabbed out two cavalrymen, both of whom were double halberds, which looked unusually majestic, roared, and killed Ma Yuan directly. Ma Yuan didn't show any fear, his legs clamped, and he rushed forward with an axe.

"When." The two axes slashed together in the air, sending out shining sparks. Just when Ma Yuan took the attack of the first person, the second person also cut over, Ma Yuan gave up the man, drew back the axe, resisted the attack, and there was another burst of sparks.

Ma Yuan attacked again and again, and he didn't fall behind after forty or fifty rounds, but he also sighed in his heart, there was still such a guard in this enemy team, and Zhao Qi couldn't catch it in three rounds before, it stands to reason that he was so weak, shouldn't he be the one who led the sneak attack, could it be that he didn't go all out at that time? Or is it something else.

Just thinking about it, one of them slashed up again, Ma Yuan straightened his waist, waved the axe with both hands over his head, dodged the halberd stabbed by the other party, and struggled to cut down, which would raise the halberd to resist, but Ma Yuan's strength was too great, and he directly beat the horse to squat and sit down, struggling to get up.

Looking at this gap, Ma Yuan brandished an axe and took another person, but when the person saw it, he didn't dare to engage in the battle and fled. Ma Yuan caught up with the horse, and an axe was cut out, which was too late to lift and was cut off the horse. Ma Yuan's generation understands that these two people are not small, and they are very good at cooperating with each other, but they are actually very weak when it comes to one-on-one.

At this moment, I saw a pair of men and horses sneaking out in front of me, and the first person was the commander of the enemy army. Ma Yuan shouted, rode his horse to catch up, encountered obstacles, he rushed left and right, as if entering no man's land, not long after, the guards around the commander were all cut off by him, only the commander has been running wildly.

Ma Yuan saw that his horse's foot strength was a little insufficient, but the opponent's horse was getting faster and faster, and if he chased it like this, he would definitely escape. He shook his spirits, let out a loud sigh, and threw the axe in his hand with his arms in his hands.

The commander heard the wind and moved, and when he turned his head, he saw an axe flying towards him, he didn't have time to draw his weapon to resist, he could only wave his hand to resist, but the axe was amazingly powerful, he felt a heat in his hand, and then he felt a pain in his head, and immediately turned over and fell off the horse, rolled on the ground a few times, and no longer moved.

Ma Yuan chased after him, and when he mentioned the commander, he saw that his arm bones were broken, his skull was shattered, and he had died. Ma Yuan sighed, grabbed the corpse and stepped on the commander's mount, and hurried back to the camp with a whip, seeing that everyone was still fighting. He raised the corpse of the commander with one hand and said loudly: "Your commander has been killed by me, and you still don't disarm and surrender?" ”

The two armies immediately stopped, looked at him in amazement, and saw that he was really the corpse of the commander in his hand, and the soldiers of the headquarters cheered loudly, and the enemy soldiers also laid down their arms and surrendered.

Ma Yuan saw that this road was also smoothed, and opened the way for the follow-up troops, he was very happy, and directly stationed in this camp, and after pacifying the enemy soldiers, he collected all of them, and when he went out, he only took five hundred cavalry, and now none of his own people were damaged, but some people were injured. And having absorbed the enemy's army, he immediately had a force of fifteen hundred men.

The team rested in the camp for one night, made food on the third watch, and raised troops on the fifth watch, approaching Wangping County.