Chapter 161: Praying Mantis Catches Cicadas
Xiao Qing was about to alert everyone when he saw Xiao Qing helping Mo Yun out of the woods next to him.
Someone had already come up to take Mo Yun, and Mo Li also came over to diagnose Mo Yun's pulse. Mo Yun is fine.
"Whatever you think, let someone of unknown origin in. I'm afraid I won't be so lucky next time. I've disposed of that woman. Anyone who touches her skin and clothes must be careful, for fear that they will be controlled. ”
Xiao Qing said indifferently, but what he said was still towards Xiao Qing and them, and the hearts of those who listened warmed.
"Is there a way to solve it?" Xiao Qing realized that the matter was far more serious than he thought.
"The woman is already dead, and then quickly boiled water with mugwort leaves, drank and washed it, and it should be fine. ”
After Xiaoqing finished speaking, she disappeared into the grass again. Xiao Qing realized that he knew too little about Xiaoqing. These things, how does it know.
"Let's do it!"
In fact, as Xiao Qingyi said just now, someone had already hurried to prepare.
Although many people had not come into contact with this woman, everyone took turns to do it just in case. Including Xiao Qing, Mo Ke and Han'er husband and wife. After such a delay, he only entered the mountain for half a day, and then camped again.
Sima Lan They didn't know what was going on, and they were still waiting stupidly. When he got the news that the other party was camping again, Sima Lan's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
He couldn't help but wonder if they had known that there was an ambush for a long time, so they were here to grind. It seems that his own deployment has to be adjusted.
"Your Majesty, many of our people have been bitten by snakes, especially those soldiers on the periphery, and the situation is very serious. ”
"Aren't there any snakes around here?"
"I've looked at it before, and it really isn't. But today, I don't know where so many poisonous snakes have appeared, and many of them are highly venomous. We don't have many medical officers, and ordinary snakes can still deal with them, but now that they are all poisonous snakes, it is obviously not enough manpower. The herbs brought by the doctor were also incorrect, and there were too few of them. If we wait any longer, I'm afraid that the morale of the army will be a little sluggish. ”
Yuzhu came in with some worries.
"It seems that they have been prepared for a long time, let people go to the medicine city to get the medicine. Then the soldiers retreated ten miles and stationed, standing still. Assemble the Dark Guards and act tonight. ”
Sima Lan had already seen that he would inevitably fail to meet his original expectations this time, but he couldn't be reconciled if he returned in vain. He was going to raid tonight, and he had to at least capture Madame Jade no matter what.
"Your Majesty?"
Yuzhu had the heart to persuade, and when he saw Xue Fei glaring at him, he had to shut up and turn around and go out to arrange.
Xue Fei also followed. looked at the rain with disdain.
"Do you still want to persuade the emperor when he needs you to get an idea. Don't blame me for not reminding you. Now, the emperor is the emperor, and you and I are just guards. ”
Xue Fei said lightly and went alone.
Yuzhu stood on the ground fixedly, and then sighed, so he had to go directly to carry out the order.
In the middle of the night, Sima Lan cleaned up his secret guards, and a total of more than 100 people were dressed in black clothes. The mission this time is very clear, that is, to rob Madam Yu as quickly as possible and leave.
Sima Lan held a sword in his hand and a stiff bow behind him. The left and right are Yuzumi and Xuefei. The group quietly approached Xiao Qing's camp and hid in the grass.
Sima Lan looked at the quiet camp from a distance, and it seemed that there was still a peaceful atmosphere, but Sima Lan didn't believe that there would be completely defenseless over there.
And it is very unwise to go knowing that there is a defense. So Sima Lan couldn't make up his mind for a long time, so he lay down in the grass and watched, without giving the order to attack.
It was only now that Sima Lan realized that what he had to face might be a nervous general. In fact, he already knew that he shouldn't come, and he knew it very well in his heart. But he felt unwilling. But the unwillingness to march and fight is often the root cause of defeat. Sima Lan has been on the battlefield for a long time, how can he not understand?
"Retreat! Let's go!" Sima Lan made a final decision. Reason triumphs over impulse.
"I can't go!"
Someone shouted. Sima Lan was taken aback, it seemed that he was going to ambush others, but this time he was ambushed by others. So far, I have no choice but to continue to retreat.
As soon as I walked out of the distance, I heard another ringing around me. Sima Lan knew that it was not good, so he didn't answer, and directly retreated in the opposite direction of the garrison with a group of secret guards.
There is nothing wrong with Sima Lan's thoughts. After all, he is surrounded by elites, and escaping the trap should not be a big problem. And to lure the enemy to the place where the garrison is located, there is a danger of leading to the annihilation of the whole army. It's not worth it.
But he didn't expect that the direction he fled to happened to be Di Yunshan's station.
And Sima Lan didn't know, he ordered the army to retreat ten miles. Ten miles is not close for a wounded unit. The army is retreating, but the snakes are with them. The soldiers who were left behind were quickly brought down by the snakes. And the serpents are faintly threatening to surround the entire army. The army that Sima Lan wanted to protect had been almost wiped out by the time he was ambushed.
And it was Xiaoqing who went to finish off the leader of his troops. However, Xiao Qing also followed Xiao Qing's instructions and tried his best to fight their combat effectiveness, but did not ask for the life of the sergeant.
After being bitten by the snake, the sergeants were paralyzed and fell to the ground, thinking that they would definitely be attacked by the snakes, but they did not expect the snakes to bypass the fallen soldiers one after another like trained warriors, and then sneak attack the sergeants in front.
Xiao Qing: At first, they just planned to do a good job of defense. But Xiaoqing came, saying that he had gathered all the poisonous snakes in this mountain range. It can hold Sima Lan's army back.
For Xiao Qing, if Xiao Qing was Sima Lan, in the same situation, she would not choose to sneak attack like Sima Lan. In her opinion, the odds of winning a halfway ambush are better. So Xiao Qing chose to fight the ambush.
Xiao Qing and Mo Ke decided on this strategy. At this time, Xiao Qing had already prepared a defense against a sneak attack at night. Most of the main forces were distributed outside the battalion. Just waiting for Sima Lan to enter the camp.
As for the camp, it is nothing more than an empty city. If Sima Lan entered the camp, he would really be unable to escape. Now that they are retreating halfway, it is the best option at the moment, not putting themselves in the place of death.
Sima Lan's secret guard is indeed experienced in a hundred battles, and his martial arts are good, all of them are like tigers in the mountains, protecting Sima Lan and moving forward all the way.
Mo Ke's secret guard is not a vegetarian, and when he sees that ordinary gangs are not opponents, the poisonous powder sprinkled on him has not played much role. The secret guards immediately assembled automatically, becoming the most important line of defense to stop Sima Lan.
Both sides are masters and play against each other. As the saying goes, if two tigers fight, one will be injured. But after all, Sima Lan belonged to the party that had lost the matter, and the retreating side had a worse morale. The master has made a move, and the slightest difference is a thousand miles. By the time Sima Lan escaped from the encirclement, there were sixty or seventy people left of more than one hundred people.
Sima Lan panicked and headed all the way south, followed by Mo Ke's secret guards in hot pursuit. After running out for a while, Sima Lan saw that no one was chasing after him, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. When I went back and counted the number of people, there was only half left.
Sima Lan couldn't help but secretly regret that he shouldn't have acted rashly, so that these secret guards who had followed him for many years could not escape. And this is also one of their most elite troops.
Just as he was thinking about it, someone in Sima Lan's team came across a strip of cloth. A bell is tied to the strip of cloth. At this time, the crisp ringing of the bell is especially harsh in the night in the wild.
Sima Lan immediately realized that she had been ambushed by Madame Yu again. When he first tried to retreat from the Jade Lady camp, he also made a loud bell, and now it was the sound of a small bell. No wonder the pursuers suddenly disappeared just now, it turned out to be in the defensive range of the other team. It seems that it is difficult to get out today.
Sima Lan can't help it, although these twenty or so people are already very tired, they must also meet the enemy!
Sima Lan thought that he had been ambushed by Madame Yu again. Actually, this statement is not wrong. Even if Sima Lan didn't choose this direction, Xiao Qing and Mo Ke would force him to run in this direction, and Xiao Qing had heavy troops in ambush in other directions. The only difference is that it is Di Yunshan who is ambushed here, not Xiao Qing.
Di Yunshan was about to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and then be the yellow finch, but he didn't want anyone to break into his camp. As soon as he came in, he was indiscriminate, and he went straight to the killer. Such a move is not that Li Yu of Xichu, who else. So Di Yunshan was not polite, and directly released poisonous insects. And those who are controlled and are not afraid of swords, guns, and halberds. Even if Li Yu can't help this, she has to consume her vitality. Anyway, these poisonous insects and bell people are also used to deal with Li Yu.
Sima Lan didn't expect that this wave of people would be more difficult than those who had been ambushed before. The previous secret guard could still fight against it for a while with years of skill. This time, his own people had no power to fight back at all.
The poisonous insects on the other side are much more powerful than the previous poisonous snakes. And those people, it's like they're unconscious. How can he resist it? Sima Lan's people desperately protected Sima Lan from piercing through the oblique stab, but fortunately, the ambush circle of the other party was not large. finally fought hard, and in the end, only seven people were left, including Sima Lan. That's a huge toll.
By the time these six or seven people had gone far around the garrison, there were only five people left. Two more people died of poison on the way. Sima Lan was heartbroken. When they arrived at the army station, Sima Lan, Yuzhu Xuefei and others were all embarrassed.
Sima Lan was about to enter the camp and was stopped by Yuzhu. Yuzhu looked at it carefully for a while, and his face changed greatly.
"Master, these are not our people, I'm afraid the camp has already been occupied, and the whole army has been wiped out, let's go!"
Yuzhu's words shocked Sima Lan. Several people panicked like frightened birds and hurriedly retreated. They didn't dare to take the straight road, so they first went around to the north before they dared to go to Yicheng. I didn't dare to go to other cities in the middle, for fear of being ambushed again.
In fact, Mo Ke expected that Sima Lan would come to attack, so he sent a branch of Cao's army to wait for the snakes to retreat and then come to occupy the camp of the Eastern Dynasty. Sima Lan's people have long been put down by poisonous snakes, and surrendered by those who surrendered. The army of the Cao Gang can be said to occupy Sima Lan's camp without bloodshed.
Mo Ke also sent his own people to disguise themselves as Sima Lan's troops, waiting for Sima Lan to get into the trap. And the intersections to several nearby cities are guarded. If Sima Lan appears, there will definitely be no return.
But who could have calculated that Yuzhu had set a safety code with the leader of the guarding troops? Yuzhu didn't want Sima Lan to steal the camp, but he couldn't dissuade him. As a precaution, Yuzhu and the leader of the troops set a code to hang out the red flag if it was safe. Yuzhu looked at it carefully just now, and there was not a single red flag. Fortunately, it was Yuzhu who had this play to save Sima Lan's life.