There is a cause and effect. If it weren't for the faction of Wu Lianji County soldiers whom Zhang Zhi took the initiative to release, the general of Ke Qu, Wu Ma, could have escaped from the pursuit of the Han army and fled back to Qilan to continue to be his general.

As mentioned earlier, after the Han general Zhu Xiang led three garrison teams into the county camp, he chose to avoid the front and directly hit the central tent of the county soldiers with a right hook. During this period, he quickly defeated a county garrison team. In fact, this county garrison team was not another team, but it happened to be Wu Ma's direct garrison team.

If Wu Ma, who was deeply envied by the army, was not under house arrest by Su Ding, it would not only be difficult for Zhu Xiang to quickly defeat his direct troops, but on the contrary, he might encounter a tough nail and be directly blocked by Wu Ma's direct troops with fewer enemies and more. There is no other reason. Wu Ma's fair and selfless person, able to share the joys and sorrows with his soldiers, and was loved by the grassroots soldiers. His direct troops were even more loyal to him and had strong cohesion. Therefore, if Wu Ma was not under house arrest, his direct troops would definitely burst out with super combat power and cause huge trouble for the Han army.

The bad thing is that Su Ding fell into someone's shameless trick. For his own safety, Wu Ma chose to put Wu Ma under house arrest. As a result, Wu Ma, who had long been unwilling to help Su Ding, was willing to take the opportunity to get rid of his life. However, his soldiers in the direct sub-city team were very dissatisfied. They were not willing to work hard for Su Ding, nor were they willing to obey the orders of Su Ding's trusted confidants who temporarily replaced Wu Ma. In the disparity of the army, Wu Ma's direct sub-city team was quickly defeated by the Han army, and then they were unable to quickly complete the reassembly. They almost watched Su Ding be beaten away by the Han army.

It was only after Su Ding abandoned the camp and fled that Wu Ma's direct garrison team performed at a normal level. First, they quickly met with many broken county soldiers in the chaos, expanded the team size, and then rushed into the rear camp to rescue Wu Ma who was under house arrest by Su Ding's personal soldiers. They begged Wu Ma to lead them out of the camp to retreat. Seeing that the situation was critical, Wu Ma did not refuse and resolutely took on this heavy burden.

However, at this moment, the fatal problem arose. What should the families of the county soldiers who do not retain their responsibilities?

If Su Ding was in Wu Ma's position, then it goes without saying that Su Ding would definitely throw these families away immediately? But Wu Ma couldn't do it. Not to mention his mother, his wife and children were among them. Even for the county soldiers who were Wu Lian, Wu Ma would never leave these families alone! So Wu Ma had no choice but to take the remaining county soldiers and soldiers to protect these families from running for life. Relying on the familiarity of the terrain, he decisively chose to take the mountain path east of Wu Lian to retreat north, allowing Su Ding, who was running on the western road to escape, and the defeated county soldiers and the Han army to attract the pursuit of the Han army.

This move started to play a role. Almost all the Han army brigades, eager to expand the results of the war, went to the main road to chase after the Han army, with only one garrison team, stared at Wu Ma's team, and was still led by Wu Ma to retreat while chasing. They could not pose a threat to Wu Ma's team, allowing Wu Ma to successfully escape into the depths of the small road and temporarily escape from the pursuit of the Han army.

Logically speaking, after leaving the Han army, Wu Ma's team should be safe, but unfortunately, the cunning Zhang Zhi never forgot that the families of the county soldiers who were released from the city were also thinking about capturing more prisoners to strengthen their strength. So when it was clear that the families of the county soldiers were fleeing north on the small road to the east, Zhang Zhi not only immediately ordered the two generals Zhu Xiang and Zhao Quan who had just retreated to lead the army to pursue, but also handed over the mission to clean the battlefield to Fu Gong and Zhang Ju, and personally led his own personal troops and the new force of a village to join the pursuit team.

At this time, almost all the county soldiers and families were elderly, women and children, which of course severely slowed down the retreat speed of Wu Ma and his group, making the county soldiers led by Wu Ma unable to get up anyway. They left the camp late at night and fled until noon the next day. Wu Ma and his group were stunned and walked only more than thirty miles away.

What's even more deadly is still behind. Many county soldiers, including Wu Ma's children, were reluctant to leave Wu Lian's hometown. They were secretly persuading Wu Lianji's county soldiers to turn back and surrender to the Han army and live a wonderful life of eating instant noodles every day. At noon, when Wu Ma and his group were drinking water by a stream to rest, his daughter and son hugged him and begged...

"Dad, stop leaving, go back, let's go home."

"Dad, I'm hungry, I want to go home, I want to eat instant noodles, take us home to eat instant noodles."

Wu Ma didn't say anything, but silently scraped off the scales of the small fish that were fished out of the stream with a knife, and handed the small fish to his children, saying, "Be good, eat some raw fish first to fill your stomach. When you arrive at someone's place, Dad will find a way to get you something to eat."

"I don't eat fish!" the ignorant son cried and said, "I want to eat instant noodles, I want to go home! I want to eat instant noodles, instant noodles!"

The daughter also cried and asked to go home. Wu Ma had no choice but to hand the shaved fish to the white-haired old mother who was wiping her tears next to her, and said, "Mom, eat a little bit. The child is unfilial and dragged you down to this point. It's because the child is incompetent."

"I'm not hungry, you eat." Wu's mother wiped her tears and said, "You have to use your strength to fight, you eat, your mother is not hungry."

"Good man, have you never thought about going back?" The wife spoke carefully and said with a sob: "County Magistrate Zhang is a good person. He is always a soldier. Why don't you want to give him a soldier?"

Wu Ma was silent again and said for a long time: "Of course I know that Zhang Zhi is a kind-hearted good man, but he is too stupid and dares to rebel from Wei. Even if he wins a battle now, it will never last long. If I follow him, I will only implicate you."

"We are not afraid of you being implicated." The wife mustered up the courage and said, "And you have served as a soldier for County Mayor Zhang, and we can still benefit from it with you and eat better instant noodles. Don't you know how slandered our children are?"

"I'm going to give my life away for a little food. Are you stupid?" Wu Ma smiled bitterly and said, "Besides, how much instant noodles can Zhang Zhi have in his hands and how long can we eat?"

No one could convince anyone. Although Wu Ma's family members wanted to go home, Wu Ma knew very well that the huge gap in strength between Wu Lian and the Wei army. In order not to implicate his mother and wife in the future, he insisted on bringing his family back to Qilan to return to the team. So after a while, Wu Ma still ordered the county soldiers with about 110 people to get up and set off to protect the county soldiers' families and continue to go north.

"Walking north about ten miles further north, there will be some houses. When you get there, you will have food. Everyone is cheering up and heading north quickly."

The village to the north became the only hope for the county's defeated soldiers to obtain supplies. Unfortunately, after nearly an hour of hard work, he finally found the small village next to the official road, but Wu Ma and his group were stunned to see that this small village with only about twenty households was empty at this moment, and the village was full of traces of looting. It was obvious that the defeated soldiers of other counties had already taken the lead and ransacked.

Unwilling to give up, Wu Ma asked the county soldiers to search carefully in the village, but it was useless. The defeated soldiers of the county who needed food to flee north had already plundered the small village completely, and even the vegetables in the fields were almost wiped out. Wu Ma and his group tried their best to find a little residual vegetables and some grains that had been scattered on the ground. Not to mention withdrawing the grain from Qilan, it was not enough for each of the soldiers and their families to eat.

The crying sounded among the family members, and the soldiers of the county were depressed, sighing constantly, and some people even complained that Wu Ma insisted on bringing his family members with them, which made them unable to walk ahead to collect food. The governor of Wu Ma, Hu Zi, asked with concern: "General Wu, what should I do? If the villages ahead are like this, then we will be hungry if we don't walk halfway through our road?"

Wu Ma was speechless, but at this moment, some county soldiers and family members suddenly came to Wu Ma and knelt down and said, "General Wu, we are so hungry that we can't walk anymore and don't want to leave anymore. Otherwise, you take the military men and let us go back."

"Dad, I want to go home." The son also came over and hugged Wu Ma's thighs, and cried, "Take us home. I don't want to go to Qilan, I just want to go home."

When he was in a dilemma, the sentry in the distance suddenly shouted, "The pursuers are coming! The pursuers of Zhang Zhi's bandit army are coming!"

"How is that possible?" Wu Ma was shocked and blurted out: "We have all gone so far and are still chasing us?"

Although Wu Ma couldn't believe that the Han army would chase so far, the facts were the facts. In the blink of an eye, at least five or six hundred Han soldiers were chasing him quickly, and the county soldiers and the county soldiers were completely in chaos. During this period, Wu's mother and Wu's wife cried and asked Wu Ma to leave them and leave quickly. Wu Ma's children hugged him together, crying and shouting for him to stay. The other county soldiers and families cried and cried, and the scene was like the end of the world.

After a little delay, the Han army pursued the troops neared. However, what surprised Wu Ma and the county soldiers was that the Han army did not rush up and shouted to kill him. They chose to temporarily stop in the open area in the south, and then took out instant noodles and teared them apart. Then a Han general came out and shouted loudly: "Who among you is the leader? Come out and answer!"

After hesitating for a moment, Wu Ma Yue came out and said loudly: "I am the leader, what do you want to say?"

"Brother Wu, it's you." The general of the Han Dynasty showed a look of surprise and said, "Do you still remember me? I am Zhao Quan. When you were transferred to the county to serve, I was like you, the governor of Wulian County soldiers."

In fact, Wu Ma, who had long recognized Zhao Quan, nodded and bowed and said, "Brother Zhao, it's been a long time since."

Zhao Quan hurriedly returned the salute, and then said, "Brother Wu, I won't say much nonsense. Zhang Mingting has an explanation and asked me to catch up with you. Please wait a moment, and he will come to talk to you in person later."

"What if we don't?" Wu Ma asked coldly.

"Brother Wu, do you think you can still run away?" Zhao Quan asked back, and said, "With so many elderly and children, and there is no food, how far do you think you can run? Zhang Mingting also has an explanation. If you insist on running, then we can only chase and kill with all our might. At most, we just surrender and not kill, otherwise we will never show mercy to your subordinates."

Looking at the exhausted soldiers under his command and the old men and children who were crying, Wu Ma was extremely hesitant. However, Wu Ma's son ran over and swallowed his saliva and said to Zhao Quan: "Uncle, can you give me some food? I'm hungry."

Zhao Quan smiled and immediately took out a pack of instant noodles from the cloth bag around his waist and threw it at Wu Ma's son. Wu Ma's son cheered and wanted to step forward. Wu Ma quickly pulled him away. His son struggled and cried. Zhao Quanze said: "Brother Wu, let him take it for food. Don't worry, if we want to take hostages, we wouldn't have let them out of the city and returned it to you."

Knowing that his son hadn't had enough grain of rice for almost a day, Wu Ma really couldn't bear it, so he let his son go and let his son cry and rushed forward to pick up instant noodles. He took it back in front of Wu's wife and shouted to boil water and instant noodles. After learning that he could not boil water, Wu Ma's son was like a Han army soldier, tearing open the instant noodles and chewing it directly, and his face was covered with dough.

Seeing this, the other county soldiers and families also followed suit and came forward to plead with Zhao Quan, saying, "General, we are all unrestricted people. We are so hungry that we can't stand it. Please give us some food."

Zhao Quan was also a soft-hearted person. Seeing that these fellow villagers were so hungry, he knew that Zhang Zhi would definitely treat these families with kindness, so he ordered the soldiers of the army to take out some instant noodles and deliver them to the families. The families of the county soldiers took it and kept thanking them. Then he returned to the county soldiers with instant noodles and said to the county soldiers, "Did you see? How nice is County Magistrate Zhang's people to us? Take us home, and you can eat this instant noodles every day when you go back."

"Sir, surrender." The family even began to persuade other county soldiers and soldiers and said, "For County Mayor Zhang, you can eat several packs of instant noodles every day, which is much better than you for the Wei State."

The county soldiers generally looked hesitant and all looked at Wu Ma. However, Wu Ma was both painful and hesitant in his heart. He refused to face anyone's eyes, but just lowered his head and waited for Zhang Zhi to arrive.

After a while, a red "Han" banner finally appeared in the distance. Then, surrounded by a group of Han soldiers, Zhang Zhi, who pretended to be wearing a pair of armor, appeared in front of Wu Ma, bowed to Wu Ma and said, "General Wu, I have long admired my name. Here is Zhang Zhi, the acting county magistrate of Wu Lian County of the Han Dynasty."

Wu Ma returned the favor hesitantly, and Zhang Zhize said again: "General Wu, we don't tell any gossip. Now I only ask you one question, are you willing to surrender?"

"Surrender?" Wu Ma laughed and said, "I'll let you bury me? Do you think that with the little force in your hands, can we stop the next wave of conquest of our soldiers in Ke County? Can we stop the Nanzhong army that has surrendered to Wei?"

Zhang Zhi sighed and said loudly: "General Wu, do you know how disappointed I am with you when you say this? I originally thought that Mahjong Wu, who walked out of us, was a man of heaven and earth, but I really didn't expect that General Wu, you are a greedy and afraid of death!"

"I'm greedy for life and fear of death?" Wu Ma looked up angrily.

"Isn't it?" Zhang Zhi asked loudly, and said, "General Wu, why do you refuse to return to the Han army? The reason is that the Cao Wei bandit army has taken Chengdu, and General Annan Huo Yi has also surrendered to the Wei people. He feels that the Han army is in a desperate situation and is afraid that after returning to the Han army, it will be wiped out by the Wei people soon, losing their lives, and even implicating their family, right?"

"But have you ever thought about it?" Zhang Zhi suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "Compared with the situation of our great Han Emperor Zhaolie, what is our difficulty? When Emperor Zhaolie was defeated by Cao thieves in Xuzhou, he fled to Jizhou alone. At that time, Emperor Zhaolie wanted troops but no soldiers, and no food, so he could only temporarily live under Yuan Shao's lineage, but Emperor Zhaolie gave up the great cause of promoting Han? No?!"

"Later in Jingzhou!" Zhang Zhi said again: "Emperor Zhaolie had only a small county in Xinye, with only two thousand soldiers, and only Zhang and Zhao. The food and grass must rely on the supply of Liu Biao. However, Cao Cao had already unified the north and personally led hundreds of thousands of troops south. Did our Emperor Zhaolie give up the great cause of reviving the Han Dynasty?"

"Later, the world was divided into three parts, Cao Wei was the only one, Shu Wu and Wu were divided into one. Emperor Zhaolie unfortunately died in Baidi City. Shu Wu made enemies and rebelled in the southern center. The Wei people were even more eyeing Guanzhong. The situation was so critical. Did our Han Prime Minister Zhuge give up the great cause of reviving the Han Dynasty? Later, the five northern expeditions, did our Han army beat the Wei people so frightened that they could not retreat and did not dare to go out to fight? Our Han army revived Hanwu, and did the glory of Guangwu?"

"After Prime Minister Zhuge, there is General Jiang Wei. At that time, the national power of our Han Dynasty had been weak, but did the General give up the great cause of reviving Han? Even after His Majesty was deceived by the traitor and chose to open the Chengdu gate to surrender to the Wei people, the General still did not give up! He still tried his best to restore the country. Even if the Wei people were cut off from the caesarean section, he would never regret it until his death!"

"General Wu, think about us martyrs of the great man." Zhang Zhi said loudly again: "Think about the great man soldiers who followed the late emperor, the prime minister and the generals to fight south and north. Compared with them, you say yourself, are you a greedy and afraid of death?

The ancients valued loyalty and righteousness the most. Wu Ma, who surrendered to the Wei army with the crowd, was a rectal man again. After hearing Zhang Zhi’s passionate words, tears began to flash in his eyes. Zhang Zhize said again: “General Wu, there are two ways in front of you now. One way is to return to our Han army, fight with me and the Han soldiers, follow our Han martyrs, and make every effort to revive our Han dynasty. I can also guarantee that I will never treat you and your family unfairly!”

"As for the second path, I believe you know it, it's a lifelong traitor, and leave your family and escape back to Qilan, and go to our enemy, Cao Wei, to waggle your tail and beg for mercy, and exchange for your life's peace. Where to go, please choose, General."

"And you, you, those of you who were soldiers of the Han Dynasty more than half a month ago." Zhang Zhi pointed his hand at other county soldiers and shouted: "You choose too, are you willing to return to our Han army and fight for the revival of the Han Dynasty, or are you willing to be a slave to the Cao Wei army, let the Cao Wei army drive such a horse and raise the butcher knife to our Han compatriots. You can choose now!"

After closing his eyes and thinking for a long time, Wu Ma, who had been extremely shaken, made up his heart. In the end, he threw down the weapon in his hand and knelt on the ground to surrender to Zhang Zhi. As a result, after Wu Ma took the lead, more than 100 tired and hungry county soldiers followed suit, throwing down their weapons one after another and kneeling down to surrender. However, the county soldiers and family members were cheering, and they were all happy with the correct choice made by their relatives.

After the Han army soldiers came forward to collect the weapons, Zhang Zhicai stepped forward and helped Wu Ma up with his own hands, patted Wu Ma's hand and said, "I am really a big official who can return to the Han Dynasty. Please rest assured that no matter what the situation in the future, I will do my best to ensure the safety of your family."

"Thank you for your gratitude." Wu Ma bowed and thanked, saying, "Ming Court is kind and righteous. Wu Male is well-behaved, and he will be crushed to pieces and repay with all his strength."

"Like it." Zhang Zhi replied in his heart: "If it weren't for your family's drag on you, even if I was talking a lot, you wouldn't have chosen to surrender. As well as the soldiers of these county soldiers who followed you, most of them chose to surrender for their sake and would not really work hard for me. But it doesn't matter. After eating my instant noodles, your loyalty will have to be increased by at least ten points."

He muttered in his heart that Zhang Zhi, who was in a hurry to lack civil and military talents, quietly made up his mind, that was, let Wu Ma see the miracle of instant noodles that he had created out of thin air, so that he knew that he was possessed of superpowers and worked hard for him more loyally and reassuredly.

Wu Lian Han army not only caught Wu Ma, a big fish. On the same day, when Fu Gong brought the Han army soldiers to clean the battlefield, Xue Rang, the governor of County Ke, also brought a few clerks to the Han army to ask for surrender. As for the reason, it was very simple. As a literati, he could not run fast, and Lan was more than 350 miles away from Wu Lian. There was no drink or food on the road. Several literati might have to starve to death if they couldn't walk halfway. Therefore, our governor of County Xue had to choose to temporarily serve the thief and wait for the opportunity to return to the warm and broad embrace of the Great Wei court.

Of course, if Zhang Zhi and Wu Lian Han army could really make a name for themselves, our Juncheng Xue would never refuse to be a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty who revived the Han Dynasty. Moreover, after eating a bowl of instant noodles with oil, meat and vegetables, Juncheng Xue made up his mind on the spot - unless the instant noodles in Zhang Zhi finished eating, he would never easily consider surrendering to the Great Wei again until the last moment!
Chapter completed!