Summary of the previous chapter: Ma Xiaoquan led his four sons to steal the clothes of Cao Bing's soldiers, and then ordered his sons to shout "The ghost is coming". The awakened Cao Bing was at a loss, and after some embarrassment, reported it to the lord Cao Cao.
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Back in the camp, the beaten General Cao weakly conveyed his lord's order to the general.
When the general heard this, his heart tightened at first, and then he felt a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, I didn't report it to my lord in person today, otherwise I would have received this beating with a military stick.
"Okay, I understand. Someone, please carry Vice General Zhang down and give him good treatment."
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After the deputy general carried him down, the general immediately held a military account meeting, and the topic of the meeting was to discuss the cause of the will-o'-the-wisp appearance last night.
After some discussion, Cao Jun unanimously believed that will-o'-wisps existed.
However, since the lord had already issued an order to be strictly observed, Cao Jun did not dare to neglect it. Starting from the afternoon, a thorough forest scan was carried out.
Unfortunately, after pretending to be a ghost last night, Ma Xiaoquan led his sons back to Yecheng. Cao Bing did a scan and found nothing.
At night, the devil-like Ma Xiaoquan appeared again with his four sons.
Ma Zheng blinked at his father and asked, "Dad, what are we doing today?"
Ma Xiaoquan lightly slapped his son on the head, laughed and cursed: "Call sir!"
Ma Zheng's chest was firm: "Sir, what are we doing tonight?"
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled: "Well, tonight... hehe..."
The sons were still young and didn't understand many things yet. Looking at their father's sinister and obscene expression in the moonlight, they all couldn't help but shudder.
Ma Xiaoquan pointed to the bonfire in Cao's camp not far away and whispered: "How are you preparing the fire dumplings I asked you to prepare yesterday?"
Ma Zheng rushed to say: "Sir, everything is ready."
Ma Xiaoquan slapped his son again and cursed: "I didn't ask you, why did you interrupt me? Xiao'er, you tell me."
Ma Zheng pursed his lips, looking aggrieved, and was about to cry.
Ma Zheng's move was his "special skill". He thought that if he was naughty and got into trouble, once this special skill was used, he would be forgiven immediately.
Unfortunately, Ma Zheng's calculation was wrong, and standing in front of him was his own father, Ma Xiaoquan.
Ma Xiaoquan is not Hua Yuexin. Hua Yuexin loves her son very much. Every time this naughty kid gets into trouble and then pretends to be pitiful, Hua Yuexin will soften her heart.
"Damn it!" Ma Xiaoquan slapped him again impatiently. This slap was quite powerful and hit Ma Zheng hard.
"If you keep pretending to be pitiful for me, go back to me. I will never play with you again."
Ma Zheng was so dizzy from being slapped by his father. Hearing his father say that he would never take care of him again, how could he dare to cry? Although he felt aggrieved, he could only get up from the ground and hold back the tears, and looked at him stubbornly.
With his father Ma Xiaoquan.
Ma Xiaoquan didn't have time to pay much attention to Ma Zheng. He turned around and asked Ma Xiao: "How are the preparations for Huo Zhezi?"
Ma Xiao said: "Sir, everything is ready."
Ma Xiaoquan nodded, still ignoring Ma Zheng.
At this time, Ma Zheng felt very aggrieved. He just interrupted and got a big slap from his father, and...
"Why are you still standing there?"
Ma Zheng shook his head and took a closer look. It turned out that his father was waving to him.
A child is a child after all, he is very forgetful, and he feels aggrieved that he has been wronged. At this moment, he followed his father and started playing with his brothers.
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Yesterday, Ma Xiaoquan asked his sons to prepare some small fire dumps. Today, these fire dumps will become a nightmare for Cao's soldiers.
After approaching Cao Ying, Ma Xiaoquan quietly said to his sons: "Today's work will be done by me alone. You four bastards have been taken care of by me. After today's work is completed, I will ask you one by one what you think."
, Do you understand?"
Ma Zhenggang was about to interrupt with another sentence, but suddenly thought that he might get slapped again, and hurriedly and secretly poked his brother Ma Qiang next to him.
Ma Qiang is younger after all, and his thoughts are simpler. When his brother poked him like this, Ma Qiang immediately raised his hand and whispered: "Sir, what do you mean after viewing?"
Ma Xiaoquan explained in a low voice: "The impression after viewing is what you think after watching it."
Ma Qiang said oh and stopped asking questions.
Seeing that his younger brother was not slapped by his father, Ma Zheng felt quite unhappy. Why was he slapped every time he interrupted, while his younger brother was not slapped even if he interrupted?
After thinking about it, Ma Zheng still focused on the question he answered before without raising his hand.
It seems that if you want to avoid getting slapped, you have to raise your hand for interrupting.
Thinking of this, Ma Zheng also raised his little hand and whispered: "Sir, can you get closer..."
"Pah!" Before Ma Zheng could finish his words, Ma Xiaoquan slapped him on the head again.
"Please be quiet for me, why are there so many demands? Just be obedient!"
Ma Zheng was stunned for a moment, his mouth flattened, and he was about to cry.
Ma Xiao was the eldest brother. He saw the grievance of the third brother through the moonlight and immediately stepped forward and covered his mouth.
Seeing his son's behavior, Ma Xiaoquan also felt that he had gone too far. He leaned down, sighed, and said quietly: "Zheng'er, it's not that dad is demanding, but what's coming next is too dangerous. You are dad."
My son, dad can't let you take risks. You are still young. When you are older, dad will take you to do more thrilling things."
Ma Zheng looked at his father Ma Xiaoquan with tears in his eyes and nodded vigorously.
At this moment, Xiao Ma Zheng thinks most about growing up quickly and doing adventurous things with his father.
Ma Xiaoquan stood up, gave some instructions to his four sons, and then cautiously sneaked towards Cao Ying.
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Tonight, Cao Cao's camp indeed followed Cao Cao's orders and had soldiers guarding the guards in a decent manner.
Spotting a yawning Cao Bing, Ma Xiaoquan quickly stepped forward, with his right hand in the shape of a knife, and slashed the opponent's back of the neck.
The Cao soldier groaned and fell backwards.
Ma Xiaoquan stepped forward to support the Cao soldier, and then quickly dragged the Cao soldier into the woods.
After a dozen breaths, Ma Xiaoquan appeared in the appearance of Cao Bing.
"Hmph." Ma Xiaoquan squatted down, picked up a handful of dust from the ground, wiped it on his face, and then strode towards Cao Ying.
"Stop!" A Cao soldier put a spear on Ma Xiaoquan's neck, "Why haven't I seen you?"
Ma Xiaoquan was stunned for a moment, and then spoke in a standard Yecheng local dialect, "I've never seen anything like this before, please get out of the way."
When the soldier heard that Ma Xiaoquan called himself a gang leader, he curled his lips in disdain and withdrew his spear.
"Go in." Cao Bing said calmly.
Ma Xiaoquan did not hesitate and entered Cao's camp in a slovenly manner.
Since it was late at night, most of Cao's soldiers were already asleep, and only those who were on duty were still awake.
After Ma Xiaoquan entered Cao's camp, he carefully observed that although the Cao soldiers on duty were awake, they were yawning one after another as if they were not awake.
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head and thought: It seems that Cao Cao has been a little neglectful. With this kind of formation, let alone a war, even if he is used as cannon fodder, I am afraid that he will not be able to hold on for long.
Ma Xiaoquan was right. During the fifteenth year of Jian'an in history, Cao Cao's main focus was basically on economic construction.
As the saying goes, soldiers and horses should move forward before food and grass are used. Cao Cao was indeed right in doing so, but with this shift in focus, the army immediately became a coward.
But all this has nothing to do with Ma Xiaoquan. His purpose today is just to cause trouble.
After observing the situation in Cao's camp, Ma Xiaoquan took out the small fire sticks prepared by his sons, quietly slipped to the grain stack, and blew the fire sticks one by one.
"Humph!" Ma Xiaoquan hummed and threw out all the fire sticks in his hand.
As soon as the fire stick touched the grain pile, it immediately burst into flames.
"Fire...fire..." Ma Xiaoquan shouted several times and immediately got into a tent of Cao Jun's camp.
The grain stack was on fire. It would not be a joke if the lord Cao Cao knew about it. When Cao Cao's soldiers woke up, one by one they were carrying tubes and basins, and even worse, they took off their pants to urinate.
Put out fire.
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After a thrilling effort to put out the fire, the flames on the grain pile were finally extinguished.
"Damn it!" The general was very angry. If the lord knew about this, his head would be in danger.