Before Emperor Wu of Han, the old path of the Yellow River was near Neihuang County. Later, the Yellow River diverted to the southeast twice, leaving only a yellowish water siege, which cost dozens of miles in size. In some places, the river embankment of the Warring States and Qin Dynasty could be vaguely seen.

During the peaceful season, the people of Wei County, with many people and few land, seek a way out from the water and huts and houses. Now the world is not peaceful, and more refugees and gangsters flee in. So the leaders gathered hundreds of people to make thieves, occasionally offending Neihuang, but more often, they often ran west to the farther boundary of Hanoi County to rob.

Some people say that this is a thief who cannot bear to hurt his hometown, while others say that there is an iron hand behind them that is controlling it...

At the end of September of the second year of Dihuang (21 AD), Ma Yuan had only been replacing Neihuang's false slaughter for a few days, but Huang Ze thieves suddenly moved around, left the lake, and launched an attack on the county town for the first time.

Let’s talk about Ma Yuan’s predecessor and seized the power of the county center, he brought a hundred prisoners to station in the county temple. He also asked him to bring the two Wei-di light heroes recruited by Zhang Hu and Zhao Xi to each bring 50 people to guard the north and south gates of the county town. As for the east gate and the water gate to the west, they were closed and were not allowed to enter and exit, so he had been on guard for a long time.

But Ma Yuan has not been in office for a long time. Today, the team inspecting Ximen was killed by "thieves" who were hiding into the city. Then the Ximen was opened from inside, and Huang Ze thieves rushed into the city and rushed straight to the county temple!

Huang Chang was shocked when he heard this. Although he had always suspected that his ex-girl Huang Zai had hooked up with Huang Ze Tuo and even brought food to raise the thief, he did not expect that Huang Ze Tuo was so bold that he was immediately timid and only advised Ma Yuan to say:

"Ma Jun, there are hundreds or thousands of thieves in Huangze. It's better to stay in the county temple to resist, so wait for the county lord to come and help!"

Ma Yuan only glanced at the clerks and did a good job in paperwork. He was scared to death when he encountered a soldier: "Boyu gave me most of his hands, and there were only more than a hundred people around him. How can I save him? Do you expect to obey the county soldiers of Li and Ximen clans?"

"What should we do?" Huang Chang's face was pale. Now there are strong enemies outside and internal response inside. Are they going to die here?

But Ma Yuan had already put on his armor: "There is only one way to fight out, take advantage of Huang Ze's thief and drive them back to the lake in one go!"

This made Huang Chang stunned. Where did Ma Yuan get his confidence? Although he was extremely powerful and no one among the prisoners could pass the three-way match, how could one fight with hundreds of thieves?

"I have four victories, and the thief has four defeats."

"First, I am orderly, but there is no order." The prison soldiers trained for a long time. Although they only understood the standing company, the soldiers, the commanders and the squads inside were all brave old soldiers, and one was led by five, which was enough.

"Second, I have armored soldiers, and most of them are harpoons and wooden sticks." After the Fifth Reun controlled the county arsenal, he sent his subordinates all kinds of Han equipment down, and had reached the point where a hundred-sized man had a big yellow crossbow, and everyone was wearing armor. Do you think it was scary?

"Third, the thief is different, and he is known as a thousand people. In fact, some people want to rob the rich, some people want to dominate the people. Half of them are really trying to kill me? And the prisoners are trapped alone, and if they don't fight, they will die. A hundred people can be used as five hundred!"

"Fourth." Ma Yuan was full of confidence: "You have Ma Wenyuan, but there is no one on the other."

Huang Chang was stunned when he heard this and could not find any words to dissuade him. Ma Yuan also ordered him to take a dozen people to Anji County to contact Zhang and Zhao, two subordinate officials from the north and north gates, and sent dozens of people to detour the west gate, to attack the thieves from the front and back, and catch turtles in the jar!

Is this the intention of a hundred people surrounding thousands of thieves? Huang Chang just murmured: "Mr. Ma, you have such a skillful arrangement. Could it be that you have fought with thieves in the past?"

"I have never suppressed thieves."

Ma Yuan laughed loudly and led the team out with a knife: "But no one knows thieves better than me!"

...

The distance between Neihuang and Yecheng is 150 miles, and the fast horse at the post station will take two days to run.

So Di Wu Lun and Ma Yuan made an appointment to report the news every two days, and at the end of September, they received news that Huang Ze thieves attacked Neihuang County!

What followed were all kinds of rumors from the south: Sometimes it said that the county town was broken, and sometimes it said that Ma Yuan was dead.

"We really shouldn't have let Wenyuan take the risk at Neihuang at the beginning." Geng Chun now only felt that the fifth rento was great and that he was too anxious to try to seek Neihuang. However, he had a short time with Ma Yuan, so he only thought that Ma Wenyuan had outstanding military courage.

It is impossible for the fifth reunion to be calm and he even had a trace of regret, but in the end he persisted.

"I believe in Wenyuan!"

Ma Yuan was a thief in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. He killed Ruchen and defeated Lu Fang, all of which showed his excellent qualities as a general. When he arrived at the lower reaches of the Yellow River, he was an official. Is it still unclear how to deal with thieves?

What's more, although the prisoners have only been trained for more than a month, relying on the veterans of Zhu Tufeng to support the skeleton, their combat effectiveness is definitely not comparable to loose thieves.

However, in Di Wulun's heart, I only felt that Ma Yuan could defend the county temple and rescue was necessary, but the county soldiers were unreliable. The thief Li Neng showed respect for Di Wulun, but he was slow to assemble the army - this was indeed the speed of the county soldiers.

The fifth reun then pointed out Zang Nu, hoping that he would lead another hundred prisoners to the south, but Zang Nu refused.

"I am the chief guard, and I must never leave the general!"

Zang was as angry as a mountain. Although he was not very smart, he could see that the county town was in danger, and it would be impossible without him and others to protect the fifth relationship.

"Let me go." Although I didn't understand why the fifth reun was so sure that Ma Yuan would not lose, as a friend, Geng Chun was still willing to help. The clan soldiers he brought from Julu, a team of 50 people stayed in Yecheng. The Geng family was also a wealthy man with two thousand guests.

Gengchun and Gengboshan are not only able to patrol their facial features in one day, but Yan and Zhao are many tragic people who sing and sing. They often draw swords on the streets. If they are not literary and martial, they will be embarrassed to say hello to others.

But before Geng Chun took his men out of the city or Li Neng secretly laughed at the scene, Ma Yuan and Di Lun had agreed to contact each other every two days and arrived as scheduled.

Zhao Cheng, the lower reaches of the gate, held up the good news and spread it loudly on Yecheng Avenue!

"The Ma County Jail has repelled the Huang Ze thief! Beheading two hundred and capturing four hundred!"

...

After a battle to attack the thieves, the officials of Neihuang City, who were hesitant to the Xinxian County Prison, and the rich and powerful, dared to walk in front of Ma Yuan.

It was an incredible battle. With the help of internal support, more than 900 Huangze thieves had already broken through the west gate and entered. However, after entering the city, they did not obey the command of the leader. Most of them scattered to attack Lilu and rob the rich households, and only four hundred people followed the avenue to besiege the county temple.

Unexpectedly, Ma Yuan brought a hundred prisoners to set up a formation directly on the street, and the torches were raised high, making it impossible to tell how many people were.

First, a wave of crossbows with touching accuracy shots were so scared that the thieves did not dare to move forward. Then, they stepped forward with their spear without any technical skills, and pushed the thief back to Ximen.

Zhang Hu and Zhao Xi are worthy of being the one Ma Yuan is interested in. They are also brave. They are ordered to bring more than 30 people to block the door, making the thieves think that they are surrounded by superior officials and become headless flies in the chaos, so they are defeated.

Huang Chang rushed to call on all the wealthy families to send troops to attack the thieves. At first, no one was willing to move, so they all hurriedly hurriedly in the Liluwu courtyard to protect themselves. Until he saw Ma Yuan defeating the more with fewer people, he found that the official army was about to win, so he hurriedly came out to help.

In the end, only three hundred thieves escaped, counted the heads, and killed more than two hundred. Most of them died in chaos, and even the big leader died at the feet of everyone. Four hundred people were captured, resulting in insufficient ropes for them being tied up.

The thieves were pulled out of their clothes and squatted in the wall of sheep and horses in dejectedly. Ma Yuan asked the surrendered young leaders and the elders in the county to identify them one by one, and pulled them to the left for those who did evil things. As the prisoners who repaired the destroyed door, the inner wall really couldn't survive and followed the thief. Before he had time to do too many bad things, he pulled them to the right and pointed at the clothes and hot feast.

"Are you willing to join the army?"

Then you have to say that you are willing. If you don’t agree, you just take it to the other end and serve as a coolie.

After three days, Ma Yuan recruited a total of 300 Huang Ze thieves, and brought Zhu Tufengyong, who were promoted to the next level, and the veterans of the prisoners, and after training for ten days, they would put the outstanding performers back into the marsh and recruit more refugees and thieves.

Ma Yuan personally raised a five-character flag on the edge of the marina to recruit soldiers. He was strong and could only help him.

As for those who are weak, they always come in handy clothes for military officials, weave straw sandals, and farm and plant some beans in wastelands around the marsh.

After the people who came back showed up, just eating food was broken by Ma Yuan. Now that the remnants of Huang Ze, who had no food and clothing after winter, were moved, were very moved, and more than a hundred people came out in a few days.

The fifth reunion has cancelled Neihuang’s rent this year. There is no need to pay the county government to pay the grain directly for Ma Yuan to train troops. If it is not enough, he can even give him thousands of stones from Yecheng.

The son-in-law hopes that his father-in-law can pull up a team of thousands of people from Neihuang in the spring of the following year, so that the gun of the fifth replies will become hard and can poke the back of the powerful. Now there are at least five or six hundred.

One of them has changed, and the Huang Ze thief, who was once known as a thousand people, was killed in such a battle, and even the refugees who rose again were intercepted by Ma Yuan.

In early October, when the latest news about Neihuang came back to Yecheng, the forces behind Huang Ze's thief, Li Neng, who called the thief as a thief, were angry and annoyed, and only covered his left hand and regretted it.

"I originally wanted to break my fifth relationship, but now it is him who broke my arms first, how painful it is!"

...

After October, there were good news on the fifth reunion. First, the southern horses defeated the Huangze thief, and the plan to recruit soldiers was halfway through.

This battle was the embodiment of the fifth public's force, which made the effect of killing the chicken to warn the monkey even more significant. The slaughter of each county hurriedly sent the autumn harvest books and this year's rent to Yecheng.

Fu, the fifth reunion did not take it seriously, the currency of the new dynasty is even cheaper in Kanto. Even if the big cloth Huangqian is abolished, it still cannot curb its depreciation. Some big cities have reached the point where one stone of rice can be exchanged for two thousand coins.

As for leaving the city, the people have returned to bartering, and cloth and grain have become hard currency.

The most important thing is food. In the past, the fifth relationship was in the fifth mile and could only rely on doing business and farming to accumulate hard. But now, relying on the power of the county magistrate - this is still the power that the Daxin official has few left. If a government order continues, tens of thousands of stones of food will come easily.

"Sure enough, being an official came quickly." Di Wulun felt extremely safe as he looked at the little bit of food accumulated in the warehouse.

The next issue is the distribution problem. In theory, this is public grain, but it is often different from the royal family. The county monarch can also play like this. When dividing, of course, honest people are preferred and direct descendants are preferred!

But it was not all good news. Geng Chun told Di Ren: "Wu'an, Shexian and Wushi counties sent a total of 6,000 stones of grain. When passing Qinkou Mountain, they were robbed by bandits!"

This is really as shocking as the Huang Ze thief besieged the county town.

What does one thousand stone mean? It’s enough for thousands of people to eat for six months!

The fifth reunion felt distressed, but he couldn't bear it. After returning to the county government, he told Geng Chun: "Wu'an, Shexian and Wushi counties are located in the northwest of Weicheng, and are backed by Taihang Mountains. They are all considered the territory of the Li family in Wu'an."

"Li Neng has been a thief for so many years and is powerful. His younger brother is an iron official. It is said that he sent troops to suppress Qinkou Mountain no less than three times, and consumed countless money and food from the government. To this day, he has not yet been destroyed!"

"Is this Li Neng incompetent or is he too capable?"

According to Ma Yuan's capture of Huang Ze's thief leader and after interrogation, he received confession without substantial evidence, behind the Huang Ze's thief leader, there were many wealthy people supporting iron weapons, and they handed them over to Huang Ze's thief through his ex-Huang Order.

There are also rumors about Huang Chang inquired about, rumors in the county, and after all the things, the fifth reunion’s own logical inference. A great man entrenched in the county was secretly targeting him and through various small actions, he was unwilling to let him control Wei Cheng’s plan to be implemented smoothly.

"It seems that behind Huang Ze thief and Qinkou thief, the friend who did not want to be named."
Chapter completed!