Outside the city of Bianzhou

"Xiao Ya Cai Wei"

- Anonymous pre-Qin

Picking the weed, picking the weed, the weeds are also soft.

When he returns, his heart is also worried.

Worried, hungry and thirsty.

I am undecided, and I will be hired.

……

The life of ordinary people, constantly running around and working hard and even not hesitating to be born and die, is actually for their own belly, and the most incurable stubborn disease in the world is undoubtedly hunger!

Meng Hu is a notoriously pot-bellied man! As long as you have food, you can eat all the time. The big reason why he likes Xu Cun is that Xu Cun knows that he has a big belly, and always secretly gives him more food. In the past, when he was in Caizhou City, whenever Meng Hu was on duty at night, Xu Cun would always quietly stuff him with half a piece of bran cake or a small handful of beans, for which Meng Hu was very grateful. Now, when it comes to the battlefield in Bianzhou, Xu Cun is even more benevolent and righteous.

Just now, the boss and Brother Lu stuffed themselves with the cured meat that had just been divided. Looking at the fragrant cured meat in his hand, Meng Hu couldn't help but look at them with gratitude. The boss hung his head very strangely, why did Brother Lu still have a bad smile on his face? Regardless of them, some eating is a good thing!

Meng Hu rubbed his nose with his sleeve and continued to eat.

Under the big tree not far away, Lu Ben sat on the stone, Xu Cun's injury on the buttocks had not yet healed, so he could only stand carefully leaning against the big tree, in order to hide his embarrassment, he also put on a look of stopping and looking forward.

After hastily responding to Meng Hu's grateful looks, Xu Cun began to think silently.

Captain Xu Cun arrived in Bianzhou three days ago, and he had already met his boss Captain Guo Fan, and was assigned by him to guard here.

Today's Qin Zongquan almost occupies the Central Plains, leaving only Zhao Li, who is sticking to Chenzhou, and Zhu Wen, who is entrenched in Bianzhou, still struggling to support.

Chenzhou is the southern barrier of Bianzhou City, the two lonely cities rely on each other, so that the Caizhou army can not join forces to besiege the city, Qin Zongquan originally wanted to first lay down the narrow Chenzhou, and then set foot on Bianzhou, so as to unify the Central Plains, but did not expect that Zhao Li was a hard bone to gnaw, in the face of several sieges of the Caizhou army, he actually dared to hold on to the city and would rather die than surrender. The most hateful thing is that whenever Qin Zongquan is about to break the city, the damned Zhu Wen will send troops to attack and harass, so that the Caizhou army will be defeated repeatedly.

Qin Zongquan, who hated it, decided to change his strategy, bypassing Chenzhou, mobilizing heavy troops and besieging Bianzhou City, determined to completely destroy his old enemy Zhu Wen.

Qin Zongquan understands that as long as he can finish his work in one battle and destroy Zhu Laosan's Xuanwu army, the small Chen Zhou will naturally not be worried, and the hegemony of Wang Tu in the Central Plains is just around the corner! Therefore, in this siege of Bianzhou, Qin Zongquan did his best to win, and more than 100,000 Caizhou troops drove to the city of Bianzhou, and the army camp was dozens of miles.

Although the Caizhou Army is menacing, the famous Zhu Wen is by no means an easy person, he was the number one general in the Huangchao Army in his early years, and he is well versed in the way of using soldiers. Back then, if Zhu Wen hadn't defected before joining the imperial court, Huang Chao would not have been defeated.

Now, although there are only 20,000 horses under Zhu Wen's command, they are all strong generals who have followed him in the east and west for many years.

The Xu Cun Department was stationed at the forefront. Two miles ahead is the forward battalion of Zhu Wen's right army, which is close at hand, and the smoke can be smelled. Five miles in the rear is the military village of Captain Guo Fan, according to which Chigang is the garrison of the main general Zhang Hui, that is to say, if the armies of both sides choose to start a battle from here on the front within a radius of dozens of miles, Zhu Wenjun will rush into battle, and Xu Cun and these brothers will be all explained. Even Cai Zhoujun's own horse rejection stone formation was placed a mile behind Xu Cun. Obviously, Xu Cun and these people are veritable death squads.

Xu Cun is also experienced in the battlefield for a long time, and he naturally knows the situation of his team. In fact, from the first day he was stationed here, he had been thinking about how to lead the brothers out of danger, but unfortunately he had never been able to do so.

Standing under the tree and thinking for a long time, Xu Cun, who retracted his gaze, beckoned to Hu Si, who was eating cakes not far away, and Hu Si, who was full of chaff, ran over like a monkey;

Xu Cun was expressionless, pointed to the direction of the enemy camp not far away, and said to Hu Si in a low voice: "Fourth, let's go over tonight and take a look, the tiger can't run fast, and Ben'er is weak and stays here to meet us." ”

"Touch the camp! …… Why are you doing so desperately for no reason? Without waiting for Xu Cun to finish speaking, Hu Si jumped up and threw the chaff cake in his hand on the ground;

"Lao Tzu is in a hurry to be promoted, can't he?" Xu Cun looked irritable, didn't say much, walked over and kicked Hu Si, dropped a sentence and turned around and left: "Tonight's fourth watch, meet under the tree!" ”。

Lu Ben got up and picked up the chaff cake from the ground, patted the soil indiscriminately, stuffed it back to Hu Si, and followed Xu Cun away, leaving only Hu Si with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, holding the cake in one hand, rubbing the butt that had just been kicked by Xu Cun with the other, and looking at the distant backs of the two with a suspicious face.

Bianzhou City, the first important town in the Central Plains except Luoyang, the eastern capital, is located in the hinterland of the plain, with no mountains and no mountains nearby, and has been a prosperous place for trade since ancient times. Because the city was built against the river, the inner city was built on higher ground in order to prevent waterfall;

Now in the early spring, although the grass and trees have sprouted but not yet lush, today is the first month of March on the night of the full moon, there is no wind and no clouds under the sky, and the bright moon is as bright as day.

Under the big tree in the fourth watch, Hu Si, who looked depressed, glanced at a few snot marks on Meng Hu's face, and he could see it more clearly than during the day, and his face became more and more difficult to look at, and finally he couldn't help but feel depressed, and asked Xu Cun beside him with a bitter face: "Boss, you see that we are going to go tonight...... Touching the camp? "Hmm!" Seeing that Xu Cun just impatiently agreed, obviously he had made up his mind, and there was no possibility of retracting his fate, Hu Si was completely deflated, and his short body looked like a mourner.

"Hang the armor!" Xu Cun ignored it, took out two sets of tattered heavy armor from the big basket behind him, and threw them to Hu Si.

Heavy armor is expensive, and has always been only equipped for the most elite cavalry charges, and it is not a death squad like Xu Cun who does not even have a donkey to be qualified to distribute it; It's just that these two sets of tattered heavy armor are not the Mingguang armor equipped with today's elite cavalry, but the old antique "armor" of the previous dynasty; Because it is too cumbersome, it has been abandoned more than 100 years ago, and it was included in the army after it was captured in the Mengzhou treasury half a year ago.

Lu Ben and Meng Hu didn't dare to slack off, according to Xu Cun's instructions, they helped them hang up the heavy armor, the two tried to walk a few steps on the spot, the tattered heavy armor kept rattling, Hu Si said with a sad face: "Boss, wearing this Laoshizi, are you afraid that people don't know that we are going to touch the camp?" Xu Cun didn't bother to pay attention to it, and ordered Lu Ben to pick up the wicker basket that was originally filled with heavy armor and carry it on the two of them.

"Don't be noisy, go, go with the captain of this school to touch the camp!"

Under the bright moonlight outside Bianzhou City, two "monsters", one tall and one short, staggered over. The former lieutenant of the Zhu Wen Forward Battalion on duty was full of doubts, rubbed his eyes, turned his head and asked the accompanying sergeant: "Can you see clearly?" What is it that Raush? "My subordinates don't know, why are they still carrying a big basket?" The sergeant behind him craned his neck, also confused; "I heard that there was a shortage of food in Qin's old thief army, didn't you send someone over to collect wild vegetables and mushrooms at night to satisfy your hunger?" "We've been stationed here for more than half a year, haven't you heard of mushrooms?" ……

The former lieutenant shook his head and ordered the sergeant behind him to wake up all the soldiers on duty, and prepare for the battle. The lieutenant wanted to send someone over to capture the two "monsters" and torture them to understand, but he was afraid that he would hit the enemy ambush by mistake by attacking rashly at night, so he did not wait for anyone to approach according to the guard plan, and urgently ordered the crossbowmen to release their arrows.

As soon as the sound of arrows breaking through the air sounded, the two monsters fell to the ground; When a round of feathered arrows was fired, he saw two monsters groping on the ground, and after a while, he staggered up again, turned around and walked back. A few steps out of the crossbow range, the tall monster turned around and waved in the direction he was.

When the "monsters" were far away, there was no movement in front of them, and the former lieutenant didn't understand what the situation was. The captain secretly thought: This matter is too weird and there is no war damage, and if you report it truthfully, you may be scolded by your boss; After a moment of hesitation, the lieutenant instructed the accompanying sergeant that the matter should not be recorded in the battle report.

Lu Ben and Meng Hu, who were waiting under the tree, hurriedly stepped forward to support the crumbling Xu Cun and Hu Si, and hurriedly helped them remove their heavy armor. Without waiting for them to catch their breath, the anxious Meng Hu asked angrily, "Boss, how is the military situation?" Can you find a way to break the enemy by going to the camp? "Foolish, broken...... Birds...... Enemy! Xu Cun stretched out his hand to wipe his sweat while scolding, and then pointed to the feather arrows in the two large baskets and instructed Lu Ben: "It's good to hide, our brothers have to rely on this to save their lives." ”

Hu Si rubbed his sore thin legs, and said angrily: "Boss, didn't you make Master Chen lose his mind and go crazy?" With these two baskets of broken feather arrows, you can beat Bianzhou? Xu Cun hugged his head and slapped Hu Siyi: "Your mother is crazy, when did Lao Tzu say that he was going to fight forward?" "If our brother wants to live, he has to think of going backwards!" Hearing Xu Cun say this, Meng Hu hurriedly squatted down and opened a pair of bull's eyes and asked, "Go back?" Are you going to lead us to rebel against Lao Qin? Xu Cun was angry and kicked Meng Hu again, "Just take a few of you fools, what kind of rebellion can you make!" ”

Lu Ben, who was helping Xu Cun beat his shoulders and legs, seemed to understand his thoughts a little, and after exchanging glances, he grinned and laughed evilly with Xu Cun; Meng Hu and Hu Si still didn't know what was going on, but they were afraid that Xu Cun would come to beat people again, so they hid in the distance and looked at them suspiciously, muttering in a low voice:

"Won't the boss really lose his mind and go crazy?"