Chapter 30: Wei Ziliang ordered him to be punished again, and Guo Boji set up an ambush to rob the grain

"I got the military report five days ago, why did you come to pay the order now?" Wang Pingduan sat behind the desk and asked Wei Yuan.

It turned out that Wei Yuan received a military order to return fifty percent of the order, although the date was not specified, but the army had its own rules for traveling. All logistics sergeants travel 70 miles a day with food, and 100 miles a day without food (Note 1). Because Wei Yuan and his entourage were injured, they were three days late for this return trip, but they were arrested by Wang Ping today.

"General, it's not that the last general is slack, but after successive battles, many soldiers are injured, so it's too late, and the last general is willing to be punished." Wei Yuan arched his hand.

"Bastard!" Wang Ping patted the case and said angrily: "You first lost the grain and grass, and then although you robbed the grain and grass back, you privately erected the flag of General Liao, but now it is too late, what else can you say?" ”

Wei Yuan said: "Let the general punish him, and the source has no objection." ”

Wang Ping said angrily: "Okay! That being the case, come on! ”

"Whoa!" Immediately, a soldier flashed out.

"Wei Yuan, this son, lost the grain and grass first, and then privately erected the general's flag, and now he delays the military plane, drags me out, and is heavily responsible for thirty military sticks!"

"Whoa!"

"Wait!" When the soldiers on both sides were about to take Wei Yuan down, they suddenly heard a person in the tent shouting, Wang Ping looked fixedly, but it was Hu Ling, the chief bookkeeper of the army.

Hu Ling arched his hand and said: "General, Liao Yuan's son, although he lost the military rations first, but he is not the main general of the grain, on the other hand, Wei Yuan knows that he does not have many troops, and it is also helpless to temporarily borrow the flag of General Liao." Then the return was delayed, but there were too many wounded soldiers in the army, and the last general thought that all of them were excusable, so the last general implored the general to open the net and be lenient. ”

Wang Ping looked at Wei Yuan and asked: "The responsibility for the loss of grain and grass should be the main general, I can not blame you, but you borrowed the flag privately, the return was delayed, I follow the military regulations, can you be convinced?" ”

Wei Yuan said with a smile: "Yuan privately borrowed the general's flag, and the return trip was prefabricated, and it was a blessing that the general did not behead a certain head, so why not accept it?" ”

After hearing this, Wang Ping waved his hand, and Wei Yuan went out of the account with the armor. After Wei Yuan left, Hu Lingtu smiled, hugged Wang Ping and saluted, and also left the military tent to chase. The soldier took Wei Yuan to Yuanmen, and when he took off the inner lining of his robe, and his own torturers rested the military stick on Wei Yuan's double strands to prepare for execution, he suddenly rushed over a person in the distance and said, "Wait! ”

The soldier heard the prestige, but it was the commander of the army, Bo Huling.

A group of soldiers and criminal officers hurriedly saluted, and were dismissed by Hu Ling with a wave of his hand.

Wu Quan, the leader of the armor soldiers, arched his hand and said: "Lord Bo is here, but he is here to save this Liao Yuan?" With our military orders in hand, I am afraid that we will not be able to make the Lord as he wishes. ”

Hu Ling sneered: "I know that you have a military order, so I will not interfere with your execution, but there is something that needs to be told in advance."

Wu Quan arched his hand and said, "Please show me the master." ”

Hu Ling said: "Although the general ordered Er and others to use the torture stick on Wei Yuan, but did not say the severity of the torture stick, I will add a sentence, if Wei Yuan's bones are injured and bloody after the torture stick, I will definitely repay today's virtue in the future." ”

Wu Quan smiled bitterly: "Why is the Lord Bo embarrassed us villains? If the lord Bo doesn't want Liao Yuan to suffer from the military stick, why not suggest to the general that he go to Liao Yuan's torture stick, wouldn't it be good? ”

Hu Ling said with a smile: "Don't want words, I have my own opinions." ”

When Wei Yuan saw this, he bowed his hand to Hu Ling and said: "Yuan is grateful to the Lord for his loving heart, but Yuan violated military regulations and received some punishments without complaining." If the source is implicated because of the fault of the source, the source is ashamed. The eldest brother of the armor is also acting according to orders, and I hope that Lord Bo will not blame Er. ”

Hu Ling said: "There are many mysteries in the army's torture stick, can you know?" ”

Wei Yuan said with a smile: "The source knows everything, but the source has rough skin and thick meat, please rest assured that Lord Bo is it." ”

It turns out that the torture sticks in the army are many secrets. If it is determined that the main general wants a person's life, often less than ten sticks can beat a person's life, on the contrary, even if he is tortured with a hundred sticks, he can be fine after a period of cultivation.

"In that case, then I will not care about this matter, and you will do as ordered." Hu Ling listened, and waited for Wu Quan and his colleagues.

Wu Quan breathed a sigh of relief, gave a look at the torture batons, and began to use the torture batons on Wei Yuan one by one, but after all, Hu Ling had a word first, and Wu Quan did not dare to make a mistake, Wei Yuan was only slightly injured in the end.

Hu Ling returned to the tent, and Wang Ping smiled at him: "How? ”

Hu Ling said with a smile: "If the general secretly cares about him, then Liao Yuan will be fine." However, it is not clear why the general decided to use a torture stick on that Liao Yuan? But secretly care for him? ”

Wang Ping sighed: "Liao Yuan's son is a general. It is fortunate that my Shu country can produce such a young generation. I did this to save his life. ”

Hu Ling said: "Wei Yuan's talent is true, but how can he save his life by imposing a torture stick on him?" Ling Yuan heard the details. ”

Wang Ping said: "Changing the flag is a major event in the army. If the flag is replaced, the lieutenant general and the flag owner will gather the whole army to worship it, and then burn the old flag to worship the sky. Therefore, after the flag was made, it was locked in a secret box, and the new flag of the whole army could not see the light of day without summoning the whole army. If you see the light in advance, the banner owner will have the disaster of soldiers. ”

Wang Ping paused for a moment, and then said: "Although Liao Yuan is trying to recover the grain and grass, but he privately moves the Zhongxiang Waiting General Banner, if it is known by him, Anken will give up?" I will give him a torture stick today, and when he can see the middle country one day, then I can politely intercede for him as a deaf ear. ”

Hu Ling praised: "The general's love for my Shu country's good talents, Ling admires it. ”

Wang Ping said: "Without him, I only hope that my Shu Kingdom will be unified as soon as possible and regain the glory of the Han Dynasty." ”

At this time, the secret letter of Xiahouen's uncle and nephew had been handed to the Wei General's Mansion, Cao Zhen took out the view and sneered: "A nobody, a little luck, how can I design to harm him?" Xiahou's uncle and nephew were worried. So he put the letter aside and ignored it.

Now Zhao Liu was leaning against the rock and napping, and at the same time, he occasionally glanced at the flag that was flickering on the mountainside.

At this time, Li Zhu was carrying a small flag on his back and trying to find a path to climb on the mountainside, but he had to be careful that the flag hanging above his head was not scraped off by the branches of the big tree beside him. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there was a thing where the small flag was torn off by the branches of the trees next to him when he climbed the mountain, and the result of this was that the back of the horse had already reported to the camp when he was not clear about the situation, until the end the whole team of the horse was cut off by his head. Therefore, since then, every time the horses are exploring the road, the chiefs and the governors are very careful to tell their subordinates that no matter what, the flag must not land, which has become an iron-like rule for the horses.

Li Zhu was originally a timid and timid person, and his enlistment as a soldier was nothing more than to mix a bite of food. After enlisting in the army, he was repeatedly bullied by a group of big-headed soldiers because of his personality, and basically every time the dirtiest, most tiring and dangerous work was arranged for him first.

The mountain road was very rugged and steep, and Li Zhu had to slow down, and it took him nearly an hour to climb to the top of the mountain at a height of 300 feet. Li Zhu stood on the top of the mountain, looked around, and found no movement. Immediately after he noticed that in fact, the other side of this Surabaya Ridge was actually very gentle, and on the other side of the mountain range was a dense forest, Li Zhu couldn't help but curse in his heart. Because the military order found that the woods must go in to visit the situation, so Li Zhu had to untie the flag on his body, waved the flag up and down three times, and waved it up and down three times after a while, after passing the signal, Li Zhu waited for a long time and did not see the response from the mountain, he couldn't help sighing, and then planted the flag on the top of the mountain, and then rushed to the woods. Approaching the woods, Li Zhu suddenly felt a burst of fear for no reason, he couldn't tell why he suddenly had this thought, this kind of thought came a little inexplicably, as if he was targeted by a poisonous snake and beast, but he thought about it, and was still ready to go to the woods for a casual walk and then immediately go back to his life, after all, everyone else was sleepy and sleepy, and he felt very unbalanced when he came to run errands with his own grievances.

When Li Zhu raised his legs and was about to walk forward, he suddenly heard a strange sound in his ears, "Woo-woo-" Li Zhu was suddenly frightened, stopped, held the saber in his hand tightly, and looked around, but did not find anything abnormal. However, the whining sound kept coming.

'It's a wolf!' Li Zhu had a sudden feeling in his heart, he had seen a wild wolf guarding food when he was a child, and that kind of whining voice impressed him deeply. This kind of ferocious beast is not something that ordinary people can compete with. Li Zhu swallowed nervously, and stepped back step by step with his saber in his hand, but fortunately when he left the woods and retreated into the distance, the evil beast did not chase out of the forest. Li Zhu breathed a long sigh of relief, since there were wolves in the woods, there must be no situation, he thought about it, tied the flag again, and found his way down the mountain.

In fact, what Li Zhu never expected was that as soon as he reached the top of the mountain, there were no less than thirty strong bows full of strings that were aimed at him. After Li Zhu came down the mountain, someone in the forest suddenly praised in a low voice: "Thanks to Hanping's quick wisdom, if this success is achieved, Hanping should be the first to make the contribution." ”

The sunlight fell on that person's face through the layers of branches and leaves, but it was Guo Huai, the then Western Liang Thorn Shi of the Wei State.

Chu Heng blushed and smiled: "I was a little worried about this guy rushing into the forest just now, and I used the beast cry to intimidate him in a hurry, and I never thought that this guy was so timid." ”

Guo Huai said with a smile: "This is God bless my Great Wei, and my Great Wei will win this battle." Then his face turned straight, and he said in a low voice: "The scouts of the Shu army have passed, and their grain ships must pass through here at the latest, and the order will go down, and the whole army will prepare, and no one will be allowed to escape from the Shu army's grain team!" ”

It turned out that after Guo Huai repelled the Qiang counterattack in the moth block, he immediately arranged for Guo Yi to hang Guo Zishuai's flag, and then secretly returned to Xiliang with a few soldiers and horses. After arriving in Xiliang, he immediately ordered the Wei army to explore the location of the Shu army's grain road, during which the pioneer Chu Heng even saved Xiahouba's life on the path. After Chu Heng encountered this incident, he immediately returned to report to Guo Huai. After Guo Huai heard what happened to the whole thing, he couldn't help but sneer: "I originally thought that Jiang Wei'er would transport grain on land this time, and since Jiang Wei personally threw the army back to rob the grain and grass, then Jiang Wei must transport grain by water this time." ”

Chu Heng was puzzled: "General, now that Jiang Wei is far away from the camp, why don't I take advantage of the situation to attack and take it down?" Moreover, the Shu army is obviously transporting grain on a dry road, otherwise Jiang Wei would not personally lead the army to rob back the grain and grass, I don't know why the general decided that the Shu army must take the waterway to transport grain? ”

Guo Huai twisted his beard and smiled: "Hanping can ask this question, I am very relieved." After a pause, he said: "Then Jiang Wei has Zhuge Kongming to teach him, how can he be a wasted person?" If we go to intercept him, first, he will have to take precautions, and second, it will be easy to expose the reality of our army. ”

Guo Huai stood up, slowly walked to the wall, looked at a topographic map hanging on the wall, and said: "The Shu army transports grain on dry land, and the soldiers are only 500, and Ding (Note 1) is only more than 1,000. Since there is fraud in transporting grain by dry road, there is no doubt that Jiang Wei'er will transport grain by water. Guo Huai moved slowly along the Shudao River with his hand, until he moved to the Weishui River, and suddenly clicked a few times on the topographic map with his hand, and said categorically: "There is no doubt that this place is also." ”

I saw that on the topographic map, there were three small words written 'Surabaya Ling'.

After Guo Huai expected that the Shu army would transport grain by water, he came here early to set up an ambush, not wanting to be almost discovered by the scouts of the Shu army. also owes Chu Heng's wolf roar ventriloquism.

After Li Zhu went down the mountain, he was worried that he would be ridiculed for being cowardly, so he secretly concealed the encounter with wild wolves on the mountain, and only explained to everyone that the mountain had been carefully searched and no special circumstances were found.

Everyone immediately thundered with joy when they heard this, so Ma Zisan sent people back to report the news, and the difference from when they went up the mountain was that this time all the people rushed to go back to report the news. Because in the eyes of this group of scouts, if they report this kind of information back, often the generals will reward people with a full meal, and even sometimes the generals will reward some silver and two copper coins when they are in a good mood. So that's a beauty difference. After some disputes, Zhao Liulan, who was still good at slapping horses, got off this beauty difference, turned over and galloped away the way he came.

After Zhao Liu left, a group of people lay down and rested for a long time, and it was not until about noon that Mazi San got up lazily and called a group of soldiers to guard various mountainsides. In fact, there are only more than 30 people in this sentry, and it is clear that they are guarding the dangerous places, but in fact they are just playing a warning role. This is actually a rule that has been handed down since the Qin Dynasty, the army marches forward, passing through dangerous places, you need to first order people and horses to hold the key points, and then the army passes quickly in turn, and then the first commander can retreat. But the rules are like this, just like the policies and countermeasures in later generations, for the veterans who have been messing around in the Tanma camp for a long time, they are all lazy and lazy. The veterans usually find an obvious high spot first, and then lean back on it to sleep. As long as the team is full of energy, stand there and make a conscientious appearance. In this case, the only one who didn't dare to sleep was none other than the recruit Li Zhu.

At the end of noon and the beginning of the day, about 60 Shu troops galloped on horseback. Mazi looked at it three times, and the leader was Wang Ping's nephew Wang Shang.

Seeing that it was Wang Shang coming after that, Ma Zisan couldn't help but feel a sudden shock in his heart, and immediately hurriedly greeted him, and hugged his fists from afar and said, "I've seen the general." Wang Shang first glanced at the peaks standing at both ends and asked, "Can the surrounding area be explored?" ”

"General, I've investigated them all." Ma Zisan was clever and replied.

"Have you searched this mountain?" Wang Shang asked coldly. "It's all searched," Ma Zisan stole a glance in the direction where Li Zhu was, and said.

Wang Shang looked at the swarthy mountain rocks in front of him, but did not speak, but waved his hand slightly. Immediately behind him a man dismounted, and then divided into two bands and climbed up the hills on either side. The bodies of these people were obviously some very experienced veterans, and they were separated as they climbed, and every time they climbed a distance of about thirty feet, one of them immediately stopped and stood guard, and then the rest of them waved their flags and continued to climb upward. After an hour passed, I saw the signal flag waving on the cliff on the left, indicating that everything was safe. Then, after a short while, the same signal flag waved on the top of the cliff on the right, showing all the messages of peace.

After Wang Shang saw the Xun flag waving, he sighed and said, "Ma Zisan! ”

"In!"

"Thou hast returned the same way as you have come at once, and told the grain ship that the road ahead is safe and you can continue to move on!"

"No!" Ma Zisan agreed, immediately turned over and got on the horse, but when he was about to leave, he was stopped by Wang Shang, Wang Shang said in a low voice: "Go back and report to General Wang Xu, say that a certain family sees that this place is dangerous, please cross the valley as soon as possible."

"No!" Ma Zisan agreed, beat the horse and left.

Wang Shang then instructed left and right: "Each army commander immediately seizes the dangerous place to guard, and reports it immediately if it is found that there is an abnormality!" ”

Suddenly, several people chanted loudly, and then each led the people forward to hold the dangerous place.

At this time, in the dense forest on the mountain, Guo Huai smiled at Chu Heng and said, "Hanping has made another contribution." ”

Chu Heng said with a smile: "Thanks to General Hongfu, the last general never thought that the Shu army was so cowardly, and one or two wolf howls scared it away." ”

Guo Huai said with a smile: "Hanping doesn't know, the Shu army that went to the previous was a coward, and there was no objection to being scared away by Hanping. The later sergeant was obviously a veteran of a hundred battles, because he saw the sound of wild wolves calling for harmony in this dense forest, and mistakenly thought that there were no ambushes in this dense forest, so he retreated. ”

Chu Heng said with a smile: "No matter what, this is the great achievement of General Tianyou, and the last general congratulates the general first." ”

Guo Huai said with a smile: "This is God bless my Great Wei, this time Wei Shu competes, my Great Wei will win." Then he immediately said: "The horse has gone, and I expect that within two hours, the Shu army grain ship will come." Thou shalt arrange for a full-arms war as soon as possible, and thou shalt not delay it. ”

Suddenly, all the generals sitting around Guo Huai lowered their voices and sang a promise, and then hurriedly summoned their subordinates according to the plan.

Looking at the soldiers beside him preparing in an orderly manner, Guo Huai's face suddenly showed a slightly hideous smile, he looked at the wild geese flying in the sky, and muttered: "Jiang Wei'er, this time, even if you have wings, you can't escape my grasp!" ”