Zhang Liao beheaded Zhang Yi with a halberd, and Pei Ji and Huang Zhong took Nanyang by chance.

Guo Jia personally dispatched the military advisor sacrificial wine, leaving Pei Ji and 5,000 elite soldiers to defend the city, and more than 20,000 soldiers under his command were divided into two routes, one was Huang Zhong led an army of 10,000 to the west to take Nanxiang County, and the other road was personally commanded by Guo Jia, Zhang Liao was the vanguard, and the 15,000 army approached Xinye.

……

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

However, it is said that Liu Pan led an army of 8,000 to go out of the West Gate and follow the traces left by Wang Li's army to catch up.

Although Liu Pan was anxious to take revenge, he didn't dare to cover his head and rush forward regardless of it. In order to avoid repeating the previous defeat at the foot of Phoenix Mountain, he not only sent all his three hundred scouts out, but also kept a certain distance from the Chinese army and did not dare to stay away.

It was getting late, and the sun had already set on the other side of the mountain.

It was still more than ten miles away from Wang Li's army, Liu Pan's heart gradually became anxious after being silent for a long time, if he had been falling far away like this, could it be that he would have to follow Wang Li to Luoyang to eat ashes?

"Report!"

A rush of footsteps interrupted Liu Pan's contemplation, Liu Pan raised his head to look at the scout team in front of him, and a trace of hope flashed in his eyes: "Speak, but with Wang Li's new moves?" ”

"Returning to General Yu, Wang Li's army has indeed made a new move. But..."

"But what?"

The team leader looked at Liu Pan and hesitated for a moment, and then said: "General, according to the report from the brothers under the command of the last general, Wang Li and the others are now camping five miles ahead, and the posture of the camp is enough to accommodate more than 4,000 people. ”

"You mean that Wang Li's military horses are all here?" Liu Pan's face was overjoyed.

The team leader shook his head and said, "But they only found more than 500 people here, and the rest of the 3,500 people are not in the camp. ”

"Not in the books?" Liu Pan's heart froze, he frowned and thought for a long time, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "Is there any hiding place nearby?" ”

The team leader thought for a while, and then said: "The general's expectation is good, I remember that when the brothers returned, they did mention that there was a dense forest in front of the camp, which was the only place to pass from Xinye to Nanyang!" ”

Hum! Jungle ambush, is it another fire attack?

It is said that this Wang Li is unpredictable with soldiers, and in my opinion, it is nothing more than that, and he even wants to stage another fire attack in front of my eyes? Do I Liu Pan have such a stupid hat, but I don't understand the truth anymore and want to fight with me! Wang Li, Wang Li, this general wants to see who will have the last laugh today!

Thinking of this, Liu Pan's heart rose with fire, and the fighting intent and cruelty in his eyes could not be concealed: "You quickly go to the Chinese army to report to the marshal, please divide the troops and go straight to the front of the forest to block Wang Li's way back, Liu Mou wants to capture Wang Li alive today, and he will be ashamed!" ”

"No!"

……

The night outside of Shinno Castle is unusually quiet. The summer cicadas have not yet come out, but the frogs and insects seem to have disappeared, and the only sound in the dense forest is the evening wind blowing the leaves. Dense dark clouds also poured in from the sky, covering the white last quarter moon tightly, and the whole land was shrouded in darkness.

In this dark night, Liu Pan couldn't even see the whereabouts of his subordinates clearly, but he could still clearly see the white tents hundreds of steps ahead.

There is a widely sung classic line in "East Evil and West Poison": The person who knows you best is not your friend, but your enemy. Liu Pan has not watched "East Evil and West Poison", and he definitely doesn't know Wang Li, and he hasn't even seen Wang Li, but all this does not affect his heart and mind for Wang Li.

Now that the tent is ahead, and your enemy is in the tent, what do you let him do?

Keeping your heart at peace?

Looking at the continuous tents in front of him, Liu Pan's face was full of irrepressible excitement, as if he had seen Wang Li and the damn old Huang Zhong rushing north under the slaughter of his own army, and even kneeling under his horse and kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"Handsome... Where are their horses now? Liu Pan turned to the scout team on the side in a low voice.

The team leader pointed to both sides, Liu Pan looked through the moonlight, and saw a lot of people and horses walking quietly on the avenues on both sides, like two moving black skies, winding around the left and right. Liu Pan was immediately overjoyed, and shouted at the team leader: "Palm fire, attack!" ”

The torches in the hands of the team leader suddenly ignited, as if they had immediately opened the Pandora's box in the hands of Zeus, the king of gods in Greek mythology, and the outside of the dense forest suddenly brightened, hundreds, thousands of torches were raised at the same time, like ten thousand stars shining on the dense forest.

"Kill!"

Wen Ping shouted angrily, and a series of cannons rang out at sky-high prices.

Horses are like flying dragons, knives are like thunderbolts, and even the three military horses under Wen Ping's command, 25,000 Jingzhou soft-footed crabs have become fierce tigers out of the sheng, or riding on war horses, or galloping between the fields and rushing to the big tent ahead.

The sound of horns and cannons, and the shaking hooves of the horses had already awakened the sleeping soldiers, and more than 500 soldiers in the big tent climbed out of the big tent one after another, looked behind them, turned around and ran into the dense forest, and threw their armor and weapons to the ground.

The appearance of the other soldier's wolf running away and the clothes and armor left on the ground came into view, and a stream of blood rushed to Liu Pan's brain, and before he could see clearly, there were only more than 500 people in the big tent, and the big knife in his hand flew into the sky, swung down violently, and exploded outside the dense forest with a loud shout.

"Kill!"

"Hack Huang Zhong to death and capture Wang Li alive!"

As soon as the words came out, countless echoes sounded. The 25,000 Jingzhou soldiers turned into speeding trains, and they could no longer stop.

The tent was getting closer and closer, two hundred steps, one hundred steps, fifty steps, thirty steps.

The hideousness on Liu Pan's face was particularly obvious in the firelight, the tip of his knife was glowing with a deep murderous aura, and there was a cruel smile on the corner of his mouth.

Looking at the big tent in front of him, Liu Pan's legs clamped fiercely, and the jujube red horse under his crotch broke into the big tent like an arrow from the string, and the big knife in his hand was raised high, and he suddenly fell from mid-air. With a "sting", the tent burst open, revealing countless straws and fire oil in bottles and cans.

"Not good! Hit the trick, withdraw quickly! ”

Liu Pan shouted, the standard-bearer pointed to the sky in his hand, tens of thousands of people and horses stopped in front of the big tent, Wen Ping and Wang Wei came over from both sides: "Liu Duwei, why did you stop?" ”

"Dashuai, please look!" Liu Pan pointed to the ground, Wen Ping and Wang Wei couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, and the cold sweat on their backs immediately poured out.

"Boom!"

As soon as everyone stood still, hundreds of rockets flew out of the dense forest and landed on the straw and bottles in the big tent, and the flames rose along the route of the big tent, waving their red claws in front of everyone, and even the trees on the outer edge of the dense forest crackled in the firelight, and in an instant an impassable fire ditch was laid in front of everyone.

Wu, there was a thunder in the depths of the dense forest, and suddenly the flags were unfurled, the drums and horns sounded, and the shouts of three or five hundred people suppressed the drums and horns, and came through the fire: "The Emperor of Heaven, the Emperor of the Earth, Jingzhou is full of soft feet." There was a fire in Phoenix Mountain, and Liu Pan was so frightened that he urinated his crotch. The Emperor of Heaven, the Emperor of the Earth, and the sons of Jingzhou are busy vomiting blood. There was a fire outside Xinye City, and Wenpin Wang Wei cried again. ”

Liu Pan and Wang Wei were furious.

Wen Ping calmed down: I heard that the former general Wang Deyu used it earlier

The soldiers are unique, and the soldiers under their command are even more like fingers. It was just a fire under Phoenix Mountain that burned Liu Pan's head and forehead, but now this fire burned outside Xinye City was a little inexplicable.

If you use your own soldiers, you will definitely have to set fire to the dense forest and then ambush the soldiers, and no matter how careful you are, you will inevitably have some damage. Why is this Wang Deyu doing the opposite, hurriedly lighting a fire outside the forest, and preventing my Jingzhou army from entering the dense forest?

What is his purpose? What is he hiding?

Seeing the light of the fire in the depths of the dense forest gradually disappearing, Wen Ping raised his head and looked at Wang Wei: "Are there still only more than five hundred sergeants in the tent just now?" ”

Wang Wei thought for a moment and raised his head suspiciously: "It seems that there are indeed only a few hundred people, could it be that the rest of the more than 3,000 people are hiding in this dense forest?" ”

"Nope! If Ben Shuai is not mistaken, the arson hidden in the dense forest should be the people who escaped just now, and Wang Li's main force is definitely not here! The flames in the depths of the dense forest were finally extinguished, but a gleam flashed in Wen Ping's eyes.

Liu Pan also reacted: "The main force is not here? How can it be? Could it be that Wang Li only left these hundreds of people, and then personally led the main force to quietly abscond back to Luoyang? ”

"Well, it should be. Wang Li is an important minister of the country, and his life is naturally more important than that of ordinary soldiers! Wen Ping shook his head, suddenly felt uneasy in his heart, a lightning bolt crossed his heart, and when he raised his head again, his face was full of horror, "No, Zishen, Boulder (Liu Panzi), do you two remember that this evening, the scout reported that a fire was found near Nanyang?" ”

Wang Wei and Liu Pan glanced at each other, nodded and said, "There is indeed such a thing, but isn't this the Nanyang Governor Zhang Yi and them assisting us in sending troops to arrest Wang Li?" ”

"What a trick to hide from the sky and cross the sea, a good trick to hit the west, a good Wang Deyu!"

Hearing Wang Wei and Liu Pan's answers, the thoughts in his heart became more and more firm, Wen Ping looked at Wang Wei and the others, and smiled bitterly, "The fire in the afternoon should not have been set by Zhang Yi, but lit by Wang Deyu." Zhang Yi was ordered by the commander to chase and block, and thousands of troops were placed on the spot, waiting for the army under my command to surround him, why set fire to the mountain? Is it to watch the fireworks?

Of course not! Therefore, the fire outside Nanyang will only be lit by Wang Deyu, and only he will take advantage of this opportunity to catch us off guard. In the same way, the fire here is only meant to stop us, not to kill the enemy. We all underestimated his mind and appetite, and his goal was not to sneak back to Luoyang quietly, but..."

"And what?"

"Soldier Kou Nanyang, sword pointing at Jingzhou!" Wen Ping snorted categorically, turned to Pan County Ling beside him and asked, "Pan County Order, is there any other road around here that can be diverted to Nanyang?" ”

Pan Xian Ling looked at Wen Ping hesitantly and said: "Marshal, saving soldiers is like fighting fires, if Wang Li is really as you said, the target is Nanyang, I'm afraid that now Nanyang Zhang Duwei has been trapped by it, if it takes another ten or ten miles..."

Wen Ping waved his hand and interrupted Pan County's words: "This dense forest has been trapped by the fire, and there is no whole night, and it is estimated that it will not stop." If we want to rescue Zhang Duwei as soon as possible, we can only find another way, otherwise as soon as this fire is extinguished, Zhang Duwei is afraid that he will already be loyal to the country! ”

Feeling the high temperature of the fire on the outer edge of the dense forest, Pan Xian Ling wiped the sweat on his forehead and nodded: "There is indeed a shortcut ten miles away, which can bypass this dense forest and lead straight to the avenue under Nanyang City!" ”

"Where?"

"White River!"