Chapter 1046 The Jade Man in the Thief Village

After noon, the sun made the farmers in the field a little sleepy. They wiped their sweat, stopped their work and ran to the ground to drink water. At the moment when they looked up, they saw a team coming from the distance: more than 50 horses, immediately with bows and swords. At present, the two have a jade face and a scarf. They talk and laugh moderately. Looking at their demeanor, they are not ordinary people. Especially the scar-faced man beside them is frightening.

This group of people naturally went out to meet Zhang Yan's Ma Chao and others. Everyone walked and stopped along the way, which was very pleasant. In summer, the river is as bright as a mirror, sparkling, flowers bloom on both sides of the river bank, green trees line up, new buds sprouts in the fields, birds singing and butterflies dancing, full of vitality. Ma Chao did not meet the tension of the legendary bandits of Bingzhou, but seemed to go on a tour.

According to Ma Chao's understanding, his Ma Jiajun is essentially just a bandit in a skin. However, his bandit army is large, well equipped, strong, and has the highest discipline, so it is beyond the ordinary bandits like the general Yellow Turban Black Mountain. But with all the dazzling aura faded, what Ma Jiajun did was nothing more than killing and arson to grab the territory. No matter how you beautify and disguise, you can't hide the core facts.

Unfortunately, the world has been bound by loyal thoughts for too long to see through. For Ma Chao, this so-called meeting is just a face-to-face project for big bandits to annex small bandits. Naturally, he is not worried at all.

After finally entering the Taihang Mountains, Ma Chao saw dozens of people greet him. From noon to dusk, Ma Chao and his party finally arrived at Zhang Yan's old nest. At that time, Ma Chao was shocked by the scenery in the valley. After watching the incense for a long time, he looked at Zhang Yan's residence.

"Lord, you can see that the layout of this station is orderly, and the camp tents are also arranged horizontally and vertically. Although it is not a strict military formation, it is also convenient to gather people against the enemy. Zhang Yan is different from ordinary people. Brother Chou's eyes were on the wooden fence with iron thistle hanging outside the camp, as well as the military facilities such as the high overhead guard at the four corners of the camp. It can be imagined that once a foreign enemy invades, the soldiers on duty can quickly strike the gong next to warn, and the whole valley can be gathered into a fighting machine in an instant.

"Hey, it's worthy of being the leader of the bandits. He's about to catch up with the regular army." Ma Chao nodded and looked at Guo Jia.

Guo Jia's vision was obviously unique. He pointed to a place and said, "Meng Qi, guess what Zhang Yanjun is doing?" Ma Chao stretched out his eyes and saw many people building foundations and building stone walls, as if they were going to build a camp. Rows of earth kilns have been built in the rear, which are as ugly as grave bags, which makes Ma Chao feel very unlucky.

But later, when Ma Chao saw 20 or 30 big cars around the graves, his face changed slightly. Those cars carrying lime, hay, coal stone and iron ingots placed a large area around the tomb - such a scene can only explain one thing.

Zhang Yan is building a large-scale military equipment workshop, and those so-called "grave bags" are furnaces for iron smelting.

"We are a little too optimistic now. Zhang Yan may come to us to negotiate, not to be sincere!" Ma Chao's face became a little gloomy. He suddenly turned around and asked quickly in a low voice, "Tell me, is Zhang Yan's grain really not enough to make ends meet?"

"Small, the villain is not clear. I only know that Zhang Yan goes out to plunder every year, and when I said that there was a shortage of food and grass in the grain, he did not deny it, or maybe it was really a shortage of food and grass, right? Wei Gu didn't know why Ma Chao suddenly asked this, and he couldn't answer for a moment.

'This idiot!' Ma Chao was secretly annoyed that Zhang Yan went out to plunder, perhaps to make her reputation, or to develop this station, or even completely because of professional inertia. It's not necessarily because of the lack of food and grass. After all, Zhang Yan has begun to build military weapons workshops, which doesn't look like she doesn't have enough to eat.

In desperateness, Ma Chao quickly looked up at the terraces in the valley. I saw green onion-like wheat flourishing, but because Zhang Yan still grows ordinary wheat here, it has not been eared in summer, and the low yield is certain. However, there are also cattle, sheep and pig pens in the distance of the valley. Ma Chao really can't figure out whether these harvests can support the life of bandits in Zhang Yan's camps.

In this negotiation, the Montenegrin army's food and fodder is a very important reliance on Ma Chao. And if this is not the case at all, the weight in Ma Chao's hand will be much lighter - looking at the stubbornness that he doesn't understand, Ma Chao really wants to stab this useless thing with one shot.

Of course, there is another option, which is to completely eliminate the Montenegrin army. However, after having the idea of subdue, Ma Chao did not want to meet each other like this when he had no choice - judging from the current situation, Zhang Yan has at least the ability to guard a county. There are still 300,000 people under their forces, and it's a pity to suppress them.

Just as Ma Chao was stammering, there was a noise outside the village gate. Everyone stared at it and saw a group of soldiers dressed in armor holding big sticks or wooden knives, hitting a person who was also in leather armor without a nose and a face. The man still held a cardamom girl in his hand. Although he was obviously unable to resist, he had to pull the little girl to continue to run away. But it seems that he can't tell the direction, so he has to turn around in the valley by intuition. Those armors were obviously more familiar with the terrain than him, and they almost won several times. The man panicked and suddenly felt that his eyes were wide. He actually rushed out of the village gate and saw more than 50 horses standing coldly.

"I'm going to die!" The man shouted miserably and hurriedly pushed the girl in his hand aside and shouted, "Run, don't look back!"

"Second brother!" The girl exclaimed, but then after seeing Ma Chao and others dress up, her eyes lit up and blurted out, "They are not Zhang Yan's people, they are officers and soldiers!" And he..." The girl pointed to Ma Chao and seemed to be a little hesitant, but finally insisted, "He is Yongliang Ma Mengqi!"

Indeed, although Ma Chao did not wear armor this time, his weapons, ** horses, and cold-blooded temperament seemed to be a man who had been used to war for a long time. However, Ma Chao didn't expect that how could a girl who lived in the valley call out his name at once?

However, Ma Chao denied his guess at the next glance. The girl's hair is combed in a bun, wearing a round-neck long-sleeved summer coat, a green knee skirt, red silk embroidered shoes, yellow makeup on her face, a little thick eyebrows, and her eyes are really beautiful. If you take a closer look, you can see that the girl's ** skin other than her face and hands is stained by running away, and the skin exposed by the broken neck and shoulder blades is as white as jade and as mutton fat. You only need to wash it slightly, and it must be a national fragrance.

Moreover, the man who fell to the ground was also a Confucian robe with no cocoon in his hand. Obviously, he was a man who was pauppetent - these two people should be the meat tickets held hostage by Zhang Yan. And the second brother of the two brothers and sisters also had some small tricks. When Zhang Yan Zhujun was busy welcoming Ma Chao, he changed into Zhang Yanjun's leather armor and wanted to take his sister out, but he still failed.

"In addition to looting Jinyang City, which caravan has Zhang Yan hijacked these days?" Ma Chao saw that those soldiers were using wooden sticks and knives, and he also knew that these people still wanted to keep these two people for ransom. Immediately, he calmed and asked Sui Gu again.

At this time, Ma Chao has decided that if this stubborn dares to say 'don' or 'unclear' to himself, Ma Chao will really stab this stubbornness with one shot!

Maybe as Zhang Yan said, this guy is still a little lucky. Seeing Ma Chao's bad face, he quickly replied, "This subordinate really knows that the Zhen family has defected to the Cao family these days and secretly transferred Jizhou's materials to Yecheng to subsidize Cao Cao. Zhang Yan didn't know how to get the news, * once in the Zhen family caravan.

"Zhen family?" Ma Chao thought of a person when he was neutral. After taking a closer look at the girl, he whispered, "The skin is like a condensed fat, like a jade coat. Is this girl..."

With this speculation in his heart, Ma Chao turned around and smiled at Wei Gu: You guys are not completely useless...