Chapter 73: Raising a Tiger is a Disaster

Eight hundred bandits captured Jia County in one fell swoop. Shortly afterwards, Eight hundred bandits defeated the Han army in Yingchuan, and killed Zhao Qian, the prefect of Yingchuan, in front of the battlefield, and successively captured Xiangcheng. The news of Jia County spread throughout Yingchuan County like a flood. Zhao Qian settled the situation of Yingchuan, which Zhao Qian used iron-blooded suppression to collapse overnight. When Ma Yue's Eight hundred bandits were still resting in Jia County, a fierce storm quickly spread out in the southern counties of Yingchuan County.

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Yingchuan County, Wuyang County.

Countless people wrapped in yellow turbans holding manure forks, hoes and bamboo poles, rushed like a tide, surrounding the entire city. A strong man rode on a donkey and waved a dull sword in front of the formation and shouted loudly: "Brothers, the supreme great wise and good teacher sent an invincible general, leading an invincible tiger and wolf army to attack Yingchuan. The prefect of Yingchuan Zhao Qian was killed in front of the formation. Xiangcheng and Jiaxian had been captured one after another. The era of the Yellow Turban Army was about to fall. The Han Dynasty was about to be destroyed. The color will be changed soon. Oh~~"

"Ao~~"

"Ao~~"

Thousands of people who were already starving were following the noise and frantically waved the broken guys in their hands.

On the city tower, Wuyang County Magistrate was so anxious that his face turned pale, and he kept silting: "What should I do? What should I do~~"

As soon as the magistrate of Wuyang County finished speaking, a minor official ran up to the city tower with a sad face and shouted: "Sir, the big thing is over. The chaos in the city has begun. The chaos has already captured the county government~~"

Wuyang County Magistrate was shocked when he heard this, and after a long time he was lost, he sighed: "I am the one who died, and I am the one who died~~"

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Yingchuan County, Kunyang County.

A tall and strong man struggled to snatch the waist knife from a Han soldier's hand, and viciously swept the throat of the Han soldier. The splashing blood instantly chaoticed the people gathered around him. They all supported the man and wrestled with the Han soldiers around him, and shouted at the top of their lungs: "Kill them all. Kill all the jackals and wolves~~"

The strong man jumped onto the steps with a knife and shouted: "First it was drought, and then it was locust plague. The crops in the fields were not harvested, but the government still had to distribute our taxes. We were no longer able to survive. The villagers, it would be better to kill all the jackals killed in heaven and go to join the invincible general in Jia County~~"

The Kunyang Cangma, who led his followers to the countryside to collect grain taxes, was frightened. Seeing that there were fewer and fewer soldiers around him, there were more and more chaotic people gathering around him. A dark cloud could not help but pass through his eyebrows. It seemed that the situation in Kunyang would soon be out of control.

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Yingchuan County, Dingling County.

"Kill~~"

Bo Wu struggled to put a cloud ladder onto the city wall, raising his arms and shouting, two young men wrapped in yellow turbans, held steel knives on their mouths, and climbed up to the city with their hands and feet like monkeys along the cloud ladder. The Han army near the city was coming like a tide. He wanted to drive the two Han soldiers down the city, and the fierce battle took place on the narrow city.

"Kill~~"

"Kill~~"

The shouts of tsunami like a mountain collapse surged up, and countless people wrapped in yellow turbans flocked to the city, one after another, one ladder after another, and more and more yellow turban thieves climbed to the city. The Han army on the city was gradually flooded by the yellow ocean, and the city had fallen in an instant.

Bo Wu was the nephew of the former Yingchuan Yellow Turban Commander Bo Cai. After Bo Cai was defeated, Bo Wu led a group of Yellow Turban soldiers to escape to Dingling and became a bandit. Recently, he heard that 800 bandits swept across Yingchuan, killed Yingchuan prefect Zhao Qian in front of the formation, and then captured Xiangcheng and Jiaxian two cities. He thought that the time had come, so he led his troops to rise up and took the surrounding people to attack Dingling.

"Boom~"

With a loud bang, the heavy city gate of Dingling County collapsed, and the Yellow Turban thieves swarmed in like ants.

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Yingchuan County, Linying County.

Sun Zhong, a native of Yangcheng, led more than a hundred strong men and rushed into the county government with sharp weapons, and killed Linying County Magistrate, County Magistrate, and a group of officials of all sizes and big and small. He called himself a general and his soldiers were rewarded. The wealthy gentry in the city were captured and killed and poached, and many innocent people were also affected by the fish in the pond.

While expanding his army, Sun Zhong sent people to Jiaxian to contact Ma Yue.

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Jia County, a deep courtyard.

Ma Yue sat on the ground. On the table in front of him was a high-legged wine cup. A small tripod was steaming in the cauldron. The tempting smell of meat filled the room and was smelled. Zou Yuniang was dressed in plain clothes and tall and tall, dressed in charmingly. She held a wine pot in her hand and was serving on the side, pouring wine for Ma Yue.

At the sound of footsteps, Zhou Cang's figure came in high.

Ma Yue asked lightly without raising his head, "Zhou Cang, are you here?"

Zhou Cang responded, standing upright like a pineapple.

"How many brothers were injured and killed in the Battle of Jia County?"

Zhou Cang said: "Seven people died in battle and two people were seriously injured."

"How many brothers are left?"

"Together with 823 people."

"Where is the war horse?"

"Twenty-two war horses were lost, and 1,023 left."

"How much money and grain does Jiaxian have?"

"More than 3,000 scoops of copper coins, more than 2,000 hu of wheat, more than 500 stones of millet, and two hundred stones of grain."

Ma Yue said: "The old rules are used to deliver all the copper coins to Lao Hei. After melting them, the entire army will leave enough military rations for ten days, and give the extra wheat and millet to Liao Hua. Peng takes them off, leave the grains and feed the horses."

Zhou Cang said: "The big leader, there is a large blacksmith shop in the city, which may be an official workshop. There are more than 3,000 kilograms of iron stored in the shop, and more than 1,000 pieces of good weapons have not been built."

"Is that true?" Ma Yue's eyes lit up and he said in a low voice, "Immediately send someone to pick up Lao Hei and the others from Xiangcheng. In addition, all the blacksmiths in the shop will be arrested and no one is allowed to be let go."

Zhou Cang clasped his fists and said, "Abide by the order."

Ma Yue waved his hand and Zhou Cang turned around and left.

Zhou Cang had just left, and a figure flashed at the door. Guo Tu, who was thin, had already flashed in and said to Ma Yue in a shaved manner: "Big leader, Tu~~ I have something to ask for advice."

Ma Yue took the wine cup from Zou Yuniang, drew it all in one mouthful, and asked with a gloomy face: "What's the matter?"

Guo Tu's eyes rolled around and said, "The big leader, now that Yingchuan Prefect Zhao Qian is dead, the people of the counties are panicked and the guards are empty. This is a good opportunity for God to give up. The big leader can quickly condemn elite troops to conquer cities and territory, occupy all the entire Yingchuan county as the foundation, and then recruit more troops and accumulate more food and grass, and make a big event for Xu Tu."

Ma Yue glanced at Guo Tu coldly and said in a dark voice: "Does the Lord want to repeat the wave before the mistake?"

Guo Tu looked suffocated, put his hands into his sleeves, and responded angrily: "This~~"

"Big leader! Something happened~~" When Guo Tu was embarrassed, Pei Yuanshao Chong's voice sounded outside the door, and then rushed into the door with quick footsteps. "Big leader, Liao Hua, Peng Tuo did not listen to the dissuasion and led his army to attack Yingyang."

"Yeah?"

Ma Yue smiled faintly, and there was no trace of surprise on his face. Liao Hua and Peng Tuo were still bandits after all. The bandits were not eight hundred bandits, and the eight hundred bandits were a tiger and wolf army created by Ma Yue from the bloody storm. But the bandits were not. They had been involved in Ma Yue's command for less than a month.

As long as Ma Yue gave his order, eight hundred bandits dared to fight Luoyang, but the bandits could not do it. If they could not fill their stomachs for three days, they would turn against Ma Yue without hesitation. Just like now, Liao Hua and Peng Tuo ignored Ma Yue's orders and sent troops to attack Yingyang without authorization.

Ma Yue would never think that a group of bandits who had just been conquered could be as loyal to him as the eight hundred bandits.

Perhaps, by chance, if time allows, this group of free and casual bandits can also be trained into another tiger and wolf army, but Ma Yue no longer has the energy to train them. Now his mind is all about the eight hundred bandits! Ma Yue only wants to further transform the eight hundred bandits from the tiger and wolf army into an iron-blooded army.

Ma Yue did not want the size of the eight hundred bandits to be too large. An overly large army not only had difficulty in supplying, slow movement, but also had a large goal and a great threat, which could easily lead to full encirclement and suppression of the Han Empire. Ma Yue did not believe that his eight hundred bandits could compete with the entire Han Empire.

Although the Han Empire was terminally ill, it was not exhausted. At least before Emperor Ling died, there was no power in this world that could shake its foundation. The huge and decadent Han Dynasty would rumble along the original trajectory. All rebels who dared to challenge their authority would be ruthlessly crushed into powder.

Also, the number of war horse lands also determines the scale of 800 bandits. The existing bandits plus Xu Chu's 300 bravery have exceeded 1,000, and war horses are no longer enough. Liao Hua, Peng Tuo's bandits, and even all the bandits, bandits and bandits who are still active in the Central Plains, can only be allies that Ma Yue can use in the eyes of Ma Yue. Ma Yue never thought of integrating them into the 800 bandits.

In the war-torn Central Plains, in the chaotic times of natural disasters and man-made disasters, the source of troops has never been a problem. The problem is how to control the scale of the army and resist the temptation of blind expansion. The Yellow Turban Generals did not resist this temptation, but were defeated, and they were defeated miserably! The so-called "million-million army" is simply a mob, and it is vulnerable to the elite Han army.

Ma Yue said calmly: "Liao Hua, Peng Tuo is going to attack Yingyang, so let them go."

Ma Yue's principle is to be weaker than excessive, not just one mind, never stay, and staying behind is also a bad sheep, sooner or later, and the soldiers of the entire army are implicated. Eight hundred bandits are in the heart of the Central Plains, and there are countless elite Han troops around them eyeing them. If there is a slight mistake, it will be a disaster. Ma Yue cannot afford to lose, and Eight hundred bandits cannot afford to lose.

Pei Yuanshao said: "The two also encircled the people of Xiangcheng, claiming to be a 30,000 army, and went to attack Yingyang together."

Ma Yue frowned when he heard this.

Another burst of rapid footsteps approached, and Guan Hai's thunderous sound rang out of the door: "Boqi, good news! Haha, good news~~"

The sound fell and the figure of Guan Hai was already appearing in the house.

Ma Yue asked, "What good news?"

Guan Hai said: "Wuyang, Kunyang, Dingling and Linying counties have all been re-occupied by the brothers of the Yellow Turban Army. Now the entire southern part of Yingchuan has become the world of the Yellow Turban Army. The leaders of the four Yellow Turban Army have sent envoys to worship you as the commander-in-chief of Yingchuan. Hehe, the eight hundred bandits are finally going to have a foundation."

Out of Guan Hai's expectations, Ma Yue's face did not have a trace of joy, but instead stared at him with a cold look. Guan Hai said in surprise: "Uh~~Boqi, aren't you excited?"

Ma Yue asked back, "Are you happy?"

Guan Hai said: "Of course. If you have a territory, you don't have to wander around, that's great."

"Then what?"

Guan Hai scratched his head and replied, "Then recruit soldiers and horses to capture the world."

"Recruiting soldiers and horses to capture the world?" Ma Yue smiled coldly and said, "It's easy to say! Recruiting soldiers and horses requires a lot of money. Where does the money come from? The army needs food and grass to mobilize first. Where does the food and grass come from?"

Guan Hai said: "Of course I'm going to grab it."

Ma Yue said: "The people of Yingchuan suffered from famine and had no food left in the household. Where can I grab it?"

Guan Hai said: "If you don't have Yingchuan, just go to Runan and Chenliu. You can go to other prefectures and counties to grab it."

"What if I've finished grabbing?"

"Just fight."

"What after the fight?"

"Give it up again."

Ma Yue frowned when he heard this, and beat him after he robbed him, and then rob him after he fought. This is the logic of Guan Hai. Ma Yue believes that there must be many bandits who recognize this logic. If you have to take care of Hai's behavior, even if eight hundred bandits can eventually seize the world, then I am afraid that the entire China will be destroyed.

Guo Tu, who was on the other side, coughed dryly and said, "If you want to seize the world, it is impossible to rely on robbery. The key is to govern the local area and win the hearts of the people. If the people are rich, the country will be strong, and if the country is strong, the army will be strong. If the army is prosperous, the world will be at your fingertips."

Guan Hai slapped his forehead and suddenly said, "Yes, Mr. Guo is knowledgeable and has to rely on managing the local area. Boqi, we have to build the territory and manage it well. Wouldn't we have money, food, etc. be there? Then we can seize the world with money and food, hehe."
To be continued...