Chapter 379: Falling Short (Medium)

From the other side of the valley, there was a shout of killing, and a group of enemies suddenly appeared behind the Mengjia army, not very many, about two or three hundred people. Although the number of soldiers is still a little insufficient compared to the soldiers of the Meng family's army, the combat effectiveness is fierce and tight, coupled with the fact that it was at night, or a sudden attack, Meng Tian placed the men and horses on the opposite hillside of him in a short time before this sudden force broke through the encirclement and opened a hole.

"Young master, come up, I'm here to get you out!" A man in armor, with only a strip of red cloth tied to his long hair on his head, stood on the edge of the hillside and shouted to Xiang Yu who was below the valley.

Xiang Yu heard the shout, looked up at his head, and couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the person coming. "Long Ji, why are you?"

"Okay, it's not too late to ask when we go out, let's go, Meng Tian is about to kill!" Yu Ziqi didn't have time to think, pulled Xiang Yu's arm, and climbed towards the top of the valley along the hemp rope thrown down by the dragon.

How could Meng Tian be willing to let go of Xiang Yu, a master in the rebel army, like this, he snorted angrily and ordered loudly: "All the soldiers listen to me, I can't let go of a traitor tonight, and I will kill them on the spot!"

"Kill!" the soldiers of the Mengjia army shouted in unison after receiving the general's order, and then rushed down the hill and killed the hillside opposite them.

The Mengjia army is worthy of being known as the elite division of the million Qin army, after a wave of sudden attacks and killings started by the rebel reinforcements, although it was chaotic for a while, but it quickly stabilized its position, and the rebels who came to rescue Xiang Yu and Yuzi started a tug-of-war. The two sides fought back and forth, the soldiers of the Mengjia army were victorious in cooperating properly, and the number of people was not much more than that of the other party, and the reinforcements of the rebel party were stronger than the Mengjia army.

The slopes on both sides of the valley are not very high, only about two zhang, and Xiang Yu and Yu Ziqi climbed up from the bottom of the valley with just a few breaths of hemp rope. With the addition of these two god-killing figures, the reinforcements who were originally gradually losing ground began to counterattack under the leadership of Xiang Yu, Yu Ziqi and Long He, and wanted to escape when the Mengjia army did not form a siege around them.

Meng Tian would not give these people a chance, he led the other half of the Meng family army and began to climb up the hillside. Meng Tian took the lead, the first to climb the opposite hillside, raised his hand and slashed the throat of a rebel who slashed at him, and then a backhand sword, picked on the chest of a rebel, he saw Xiang Yu who was killing all sides among the soldiers of the Mengjia army, as long as this person was caught, then the rest of the people would not be a threat to him.

"Xiang Yu, suffer death!" Meng Tian roared, and the Zhengang sword stretched out forward, rushing straight towards Xiang Yu not far away.

As the so-called enemies saw each other, their eyes were red, Xiang Yu shot a shot in the chest of a Mengjia sergeant, although he had armor to protect himself, but he still couldn't withstand Xiang Yu's blow, the Mengjia sergeant's breastplate was shattered, and the whole person was knocked into the air, and before he landed, a mouthful of blood mixed with internal organs spit out, and he didn't breathe when he fell to the ground. Xiang Yu turned around and saw Meng Tian killing him, his arm shook, and the spear in his hand instantly turned his head, and then he greeted Meng Tian.

After Li Qing disappeared with Meng Tian the moment he decided to make a move, he left the valley, and with his familiarity with the surrounding terrain, he took a trail to the other side of Qingfeng Village. Before leaving, Meng Tian ordered him to prevent dry firewood and other fire-starting things in the secret place of Qingfeng Village, and asked him to come back and set fire to the cottage, which was used to give the other more than half of the Mengjia army led by Meng Li a signal to attack the cottage.

Li Qing returned to Qingfeng Village and saw that the atmosphere in the cottage was as usual, without the sense of oppression that preceded the war. Li Qing stood on the hillside and smiled, these enemies who killed his wife, children and brothers, tonight he finally had a chance to avenge them.

Li Qing quietly walked down from the hillside, hid his figure, followed an unknown path into Qingfeng Village, and then walked towards the fire point he had set up. The ignition point arranged by Li Qing was at the place where the first cottage and the second cottage were connected, and lighting the fire in this place could turn the arsenal in the first cottage and the second cottage in half, so that the rebel army in the first cottage would be much smaller.

Li Qing went to the place where he had secretly set up a fire, took out a fire fold from his waist, blew it, and then lit the dry firewood that he had carefully piled up and poured with oil. The dry firewood fire burned instantly, there was no rain in the mountains these days, and the wooden walls in the cottage were dry, and they were burned by the fire, and they burned more and more fiercely, burning along the wooden walls towards the wooden houses on both sides.

"It's on fire, come and put out the fire!" As soon as the fire in the cottage burned, the soldiers patrolling the cottage found out, so they hurriedly shouted loudly in the cottage and found someone to come to extinguish the fire.

The first cottage and the second cottage were like a frying pan, and the originally peaceful cottage did not work for a moment after the fire started, and almost all the sleeping rebel soldiers rushed out of the house, but they still came out a little late, and the fire had spread, and it burned on top of the house of the first cottage. In the second cottage, several houses that were fighting against the wall had also been burned.

In the third cottage, in the conference hall, Xiang Liang and Zhang Liang had another leader, and the three of them sat in the hall, waiting for Xiang Yu to come back and report the good news to them. It's a pity that they didn't wait for the good news, but the soldiers who came to report the fire in the cottage came.

"What's going on? How could there be a fire in the cottage?" Xiang Liang was furious, he was most familiar with the situation in the cottage on weekdays, and he couldn't remember where there was a fire hazard in the cottage. After all, he had spent a lot of time in the barracks with his father, and he couldn't miss the places he should pay attention to.

The one who came to report was the Zhao Lao Wu who greeted Huang Can when Meng Tian and Li Qing entered the cottage that day, he stood at the door sweating profusely, and said to the three leaders: "The villain doesn't know, according to the brothers who patrol the night, this fire doesn't know how to do it, and it suddenly ignited, and the fire doesn't look like a natural fire, but it seems that someone deliberately lit the fire, because there is no accumulation of ignition in the cottage, and this fire is very big as soon as it burns, so the villain suspects that someone deliberately set fire to our cottage." ”

Xiang Liang got up and walked out, Zhang Liang and another person also got up, Zhang Liang said: "In my opinion, this fire does not look like a natural fire, since someone did it on purpose, it means that there are internal ghosts among us, just in case, Mr. Xiang Liang can arrange people to put out the fire, and at the same time arrange people to pay attention to the situation outside the cottage, in case the Qin army comes to sneak attack." ”

Xiang Liang said "oops", he said: "It's still thoughtful in the ovary, okay, I'll arrange manpower." By the way, should we take out the batch of weapons that have been built, if the Qin army really dares to come and sneak attack, we can also give them a little bit of power. ”

Zhang Liang closed his eyes and thought for a moment, nodded in agreement with Xiang Liang's thoughts, "Anyway, these weapons are for the Qin army, if the Qin army dares to come and take advantage of the fire tonight, then it is not too much for us to give them a little power." ”

"Okay, then I'll lead someone to the back and get these weapons. Another leader said.

"Okay, Brother Yingbu, we'll be waiting for you outside. After Xiang Liang finished speaking, Zhang Liang and Zhao Laowu, who came to report the news, left the conference hall and went to the two cottages in front to organize firefighting.

Meng Li led 6,000 Mengjia troops and Ji Bu, who came to help, and 1,500 of his men, standing on the top of the hill opposite Qingfeng Village, and when he saw the fire burning in Qingfeng Village, Meng Li said to Ji Bu, who was wearing a cloak and holding a halberd in his hand: "Our people have succeeded, and the next thing is up to us." You must remember that you promised me, Jibu, otherwise the general will not forgive you in the future. ”

Ji Bu's face was full of meat, and a pinch of mustache dangled on his chin. "General Mengli, you can rest assured, since your Mengjiajun has given me face like this, I, Ji Bu, will naturally not be unappreciative. This group of turtle sons of Qingfeng Village are bastards, I have long seen that they are unhappy, but I am not the opponent of one of the young people among them, so I didn't clean them up. Since the general led that man away tonight, what else should I fear? Brothers!"

"Here!" said Ji Bu's men in unison when they heard the boss's call.

"Kill me!" Ji Bu took the lead, brandishing his halberd, and behind him, fifteen hundred people followed their own wolves in the dark to kill their prey.

Ji Bu led the people to rush forward, Meng Li nodded at his lieutenant general, the deputy general understood, stretched out his hand, and the six thousand Mengjia soldiers were divided into two teams, one team ran towards the mountain under the leadership of the deputy general, and the other team followed behind Meng Li, following Ji Bu and his men towards Qingfeng Village.

"Young master, it's not good, Qingfeng Village is on fire!" The fire in Qingfeng Village illuminated the dark night in the distance, and the valley was clearly visible. Long He was the first to see the abnormality of Qingfeng Village in the distance, and said loudly to Xiang Yu.

Xiang Yu repelled Meng Tian with one shot, looked up in the direction of Qingfeng Village, only to see that the fire on the side of Qingfeng Village reflected the sky red, and there was a sound of fighting, it seemed that Qingfeng Village was also attacked.

Xiang Yu turned his head and saw Meng Tian looking at him with a comfortable face, he understood, it turned out that everything tonight was a ghost that Meng Tian was doing in secret, but it was a pity that he couldn't do it earlier, he should have led people to kill him in the cottage, and there were no such disasters now.

"Meng Tian, I'll kill you!" Xiang Yu was angry, the spear was thrown at Meng Tian suddenly, and then he slammed on the ground with one foot, and the whole person rushed towards Meng Tian like an arrow from the string.