After asking Deng Wen about his defeat, Xin Er laughed and sighed: "If you are a tiger, you are really an enemy!" ”

is not handsome, nor is it considered the newly emerging bald Boye, Wang Shuwang, Ma Hui and other generals, only the big and small generals who have been famous for a long time in Dingxi, such as Luo Dang, Koji Zhang, Koji Rin, Bing Bo, etc. Cao Fei of the Wangcheng Army, etc.; Suo Gong, Zhang Shao, Kui Ban, etc. of the Western Army system; As well as Beigong Yue, Yan Xi, etc., which are now under his account, Xin Er has seen them, and many of them have fought with him, these people have their own strengths, but if you only talk about the courage of fighting alone, at least for now, it seems that Gao Yancao is the number.

Since the day before yesterday, it has been raining.

It has been half a month in Hanzhong, and in this half month, it is either cloudy or rainy, and there are only a handful of sunny days.

The rain from the day before yesterday to today, at first similar to the previous rains, was just a drizzle, but it did not stop soon, but it has become heavier and heavier, drenching the endless mountains far and near, and filling the rushing rivers with water.

The dark sky is approaching the South Zhengcheng Tower, and the rain falls like a river.

People look at it from a distance, can't help but have a feeling of black clouds pressing the lonely city, wind and rain into a fluttering feeling, several white Shu soldiers military flags in the clouds, heavy rain, extremely conspicuous, they are soaked in rain, listless hanging. The water at the head of the city flowed down the hundreds of battlements on all sides of the city wall like a small waterfall. In the past few days, the Dingxi soldiers have attacked the city, leaving stains of blood on the city walls. The rain poured it down, brushed it to the ground, mixed with the blood on the ground, or flowed to the sides, or into the moat a hundred and ten paces away.

Because of the rain, in the past three days, Xin Er did not launch another attack on Nanzheng County.

A man from outside the tent came in.

When he got into the tent, the man took off his wet robe, took it in his hand, and shook it, and the carpet in the tent became wet. The guards hurriedly took the coat and took it outside. Although it was raining, the people who came did not forget to catch a feather fan, but it was not Tang Ai.

Tang Ai saw Deng Wen for the first time, and then saw the ten monkeys and ten men and women.

"What is this?"

Xin Er handed Gao Yancao's report to Tang Ai and said, "The tiger sent it." ”

Tang Ai looked at it and said, "Weiyang has been defeated? All right. The grasp of conquering Nan Zheng has three more points. ”

Xin Er heard the meaning of his words and said, "Qianli, do you have a plan to break the city?" ”

"I was on the mound outside the camp and observed the situation in Zhengcheng and the city in the south of the city. This heavy rain not only prevented our army from continuing to attack the city, but also made the guards in the city relax their guards. I watched the sky last night and it will rain even more tonight! Ming Gong, this is the time for our army to conquer the city! ”

"Observing the celestial phenomena at night" is cloudy, and soldiers pay attention to "the right time, the right place, and the right people," and a good military leader or staff officer must be able to observe the celestial phenomena. Of course, this "observation of the heavens" is not talking about the things that the gods are talking about, but about rain, snow, fog and wind. Tang Ai is a master in this aspect. Not to mention anything else, only in the half month of Hanzhong, every time it rains, he can predict it in advance through the weather changes on the previous day. Xin Er still trusts him very much in this ability.

Xin Er said, "Oh? ”

Waiting intently for Tang Ai to speak, he saw Tang Ai squatting down, holding a feather fan, and smashing the ten golden retriever monkeys in the cage, making the monkeys grin and pretending to be fierce, and listening to him laugh and say: "These ten monkeys can also come in handy." ”

Xin Er said: "Qianli, don't sell it." What's the best plan, let's do it quickly! ”

Tang Ai told him the plan.

Xin Er heard it, pondered for a while, and said: "This strategy is feasible!" ”

……

In the afternoon, more than 100 cavalrymen escorted Deng Wen out of the camp, braved the heavy rain, circled around Nanzheng, and kept shouting to the city: "Weiyang has been broken by me, Deng Wen is here, you can come and see!" ”

The guards in the city didn't know Deng Wen, but the generals all knew Deng Wen.

Hearing the news, the generals hurriedly went to the city to take a look, and found that the one who was tied up with five flowers and tied to the horse was indeed Deng Wen.

The news came, and there was a riot in the city.

……

In the twilight, Xin Er ordered the mallet oxen to kill the sheep and let the three armies be fed.

……

At night, Xin Er did not move and gathered soldiers and horses.

Tang Ai, Ling Hujing and other ministers, Beigong Yue, Luo Dang, bald Boye and other generals, all arrived, lined up in front of the tent.

Xin Er said: "The sun has fallen, whether Nan Zheng can pull it out or not, it's tonight!" He pressed his sword and asked the generals, "Who wants to go first for me?" ”

The bald man was a horseman, and he knew what he was capable of, and stood still. The more Beigong waited, one person had already stepped out of the queue and responded loudly: "The last general dares to be the first to ascend!" "And when they all looked, it was Luo Dang.

Xin Er said happily: "It has to be a general!" ”

……

The battalions were prepared for battle.

Xin Er led everyone back to the tent and waited for a while.

The sound of the rain reached the tent, and the cold wind lifted the curtain and blew the candles on the table.

Under the light of the light, Ling Hujing sat on the couch, his expression changed, and finally he couldn't bear it, and said: "Do you want to attack Nanzheng at night?" ”

Xin Er replied, "Exactly." ”

"The clouds are thick, the rain is pouring, and it is night, and it is still difficult for the soldiers to see things, Ming Gong, how can you attack the city?"

Xin Er replied with a smile: "Rarely, this is a thousand-mile strategy." It is precisely because the guards thought that our army would not attack the city in the night rain that our army had to win by surprise! ”

Ling Hujing said: "But if the battle is unfavorable, I'm afraid it will only increase casualties, and it will not be beneficial!" ”

"I turned to the east and west, Ke Qiuzi and Doushuo Fang, and compared to the danger, Qiuzi and Shuo Fang cannot be compared with Nanzheng. Our army has been under the city of Nanzheng for ten days, and it has not been conquered for a long time, and the reinforcements of the Shu army from Zitong and Brazil may not take long to come, and by that time, Nanzheng can only be more and more difficult to fight. If we don't take the opportunity of the rainy night to launch a surprise attack, then in a rare opinion, how can our army take this city? ”

Ling Hujing shook his feather fan and said thoughtfully: "Didn't you just receive good news from the Huan Gong Army in the morning?" Huan Gong has Kepengmo, only a hundred miles away from Chengdu. Next, Duke Huan will definitely fight with the Shu soldiers between Pengmo and Chengdu. Instead of risking the current attack on Nanzheng, why not wait for Ming Gong to wait and wait for the battle between Duke Huan and the Shu soldiers to have a result, and then make plans? ”

"What do you mean, do you want to wait for the Duke of Huan and the Shu soldiers to divide the victory and defeat, and then our army will fight Nanzheng?"

"Yes."

"What if Gong Huan is defeated?"

"If Duke Huan is defeated, it shows that the Shu soldiers are still strong, and even if our army defeats Nanzheng, it will be difficult to hold ...... for a long time."

Xin Er interrupted him and said, "I understand. Rarely, you are saying that if Duke Huan is defeated, our army will withdraw to Qinzhou, and from then on there will be no mention of attacking Nanzheng; And if Huan Gong wins, our army can then fight Nanzheng again. ”

Ling Hujing hesitated and said, "Jing is what it means. ”

Xin Er seemed to smile and said: "Rarely, it was you who proposed to cooperate with Huan Gong to attack Shu that day, and today I personally led the troops south into Shu, and said that it is not suitable to attack Nanzheng at this moment, and you should sit and watch the success or failure of Huan Gong." Rarely, you've confused me. Do you want to help Huan Gong cut down Shu, or don't you want to help? ”

"......, Duke Ming, the destruction of Shu is a major event of the country, of course it should be supported, but in Beijing's humble opinion, support is supported, but it seems that it should not take the risk of attacking Nanzheng, after all, the losses are all our children of Longzhou!"

Xin Er said angrily: "Few, I know what I mean, needless to say!" As Qing said, Huan Gong has been invincible for thousands of miles, and the soldiers have reached Chengdu a hundred miles away, but our army has entered Hanzhong for half a month, but now it can't even fight Nanzheng! It's not as good as Gong Huan.

"If you want to follow the Qing's proposal, wait for the decisive battle between Duke Huan and Chengdu, watch its success or failure, and then advance and retreat, it will only increase the prestige of Duke Huan, and reduce the momentum of my Dingxi. This proposal is really not advisable!

"And Xin is young, the man's husband is also, Nan Zheng I take it myself, who is the one who makes things happen because of others?"

"Something happens because of people" is an allusion, from "Mao Sui's self-recommendation".

After the Battle of Changping, the Qin army besieged Handan, the capital of Zhao, and the king of Pingyuan was ordered to go to Chu for help. Mao then recommended himself to follow. When he arrived in the state of Chu, the other nineteen outstanding disciples who followed the king of Pingyuan had no merit, and they all relied on Mao Sui to persuade the king of Chu to agree to aid the state of Zhao. At the time of the blood covenant, Mao Sui called the nineteen doormen to come and sarcastically said: "The so-called 'people who do things because of people' are also the ones who are waiting for the public." That is, you are all doing things because of the merits of others.

Xin Er quoted this allusion here, the meaning is very clear, he is saying that he wants to rely on his own strength to defeat Nanzheng, and is never willing to rely on Huan Wen to defeat the Shu soldiers and conquer Chengdu as proposed by Ling Hujing, and take the opportunity to defeat Nanzheng.

Under Xin Er's blazing gaze, Ling Hujing no longer had the incorruptible tongue when facing Pan Kuan and the others, and he was speechless, just laughing and shaking his fan.

Tang Ai was subdued by Xin Er's brilliance, and looked at Ling Hujing with strange eyes, thinking: "Lu Shuang attacked and destroyed Yuxing, and reaped the merit of destroying the country; If the Duke of Ming personally attacked Shu this time, if he returned in vain, or if he captured Nanzheng purely because of Huanmeng's victory, then the two would compare, and the prestige of the Duke of Ming in the court would inevitably fall, and the credit for stabilizing the Western Regions and so on would also be wasted.

"Linghu's rare suggestion sounds good on the surface, but I think it's a malicious intention!"

The wind was as cold as ice, and the rain was howling.

……

At the two watches, as Tang Ai judged, the already small rain became heavier and heavier.

Mixed with lightning and thunder.

The wingmen have the custom of worshipping thunder and sacrificing thunder, and the ten men and women who were sent by Gao Yancao threw themselves to the ground, bowed down in the prison tent, and sang ancient songs. One of the children, through the crack in the tabernacle, saw a group of soldiers in armor and blades passing by, trampling on puddles of water, splashing droplets. A bolt of lightning lit up the night sky. The child was so frightened that he burst into tears.

The five hundred elite dead soldiers selected, under the leadership of Luo Dang, pushed the ladder and went out of the camp first.

Xin Er, Tang Ai, Ling Hujing and others also arrived outside the camp, climbed to the top of the hill, and watched from afar.

It was pitch black, and after a short time, Luo Dang and the soldiers he led disappeared from the sight of Xin Er and others.

Xin Er and the others turned to look at the city, but there was no fire in the city, and they couldn't see anything clearly.

They waited for a while, maybe only two quarters of an hour, maybe two hours. Just when Ling Hujing and the others were anxious, another lightning bolt flashed, and Tang Ai's eyes were sharp, and he saw the Dingxi soldiers who were climbing on the city wall.

"Ming Gong, look!"

Xin Er hurriedly looked, and just caught a glimpse of the figure of the soldier who climbed the wall, and when the lightning passed, it was as black as ink.

The soldiers who had participated in the battle had assembled and stopped near the two mounds facing each other outside the camp gate. The rain drowned out all the sounds. Thousands of people stood there, not hearing a sound.

A little fire was kindled at the head of the city.

Immediately after, there was another bit of fire. A little bit of fire lit up one after another.

The fires seemed to be unafraid of the rain, and moved very fast, some even jumping. These fires are the ten monkeys. Tang Ai instructed the soldiers to smear the monkey with oil, but it was specially used at this time.

Subsequently, despite the interference of the sound of rain, although the distance from the city was not very close, the sudden explosion of shouting and killing still reached the ears of Xin Er and the others.

Xin Er calmed his mind and calmly gave the order: "Beat the drum!" Besiege! ”

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