The night is getting thicker, and the winter night wind is still cold and biting even in the south, except for the soldiers in charge of the night patrol, the rest of the soldiers have long been hiding in the military tent to keep warm.

On the top of the hill, Chen Mo sat cross-legged on the ground, looking down at the sleeping hill, constantly thinking about how to break the enemy in his mind.

Now that the Gepi thieves are powerful, it is of little significance to the Gepi thieves to break through one or two cities, but if their speculation is correct, according to the changes in luck shown by the system immortals and what they see today, the Gepi thieves are afraid that they have already expanded their strategic focus to the east, and at this time, if there is chaos in the rear, they can at least break the deployment of the other party.

As long as you can disrupt the opponent's rhythm, you can make the opponent show more flaws, so that the possibility of breaking the thief is higher.

How to lure the enemy out of the city, in Chen Mo's view, is a matter of deception, just like fishing, your bait is attractive to the fish, and the fish will take the bait, so for the Gepi thief, what can attract them?

Grain!

The reason why thieves are everywhere this year, in addition to the management chaos brought about by the state pastoral system, in fact, the most fundamental reason is that the grain, in recent years, there has been a famine every year, and the imperial court's taxes have been collected more and more after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and the ridiculous thing is that the taxes have increased, but the annual treasury has less input.

Why this phenomenon occurs, Chen Mo doesn't want to think about it, but the increase in taxes and the lack of food harvest, it is not without reason that the remnants of the Yellow Turban are everywhere, but these are not within Chen Mo's consideration, his current identity is a general, and what he has to do is only to defeat the enemy, higher-level things, just scrutinize and scrutinize them on weekdays, don't bring these things to the battlefield.

"Da Lang!" After sitting quietly for a long time, Chen Mo suddenly turned his head and said to Da Lang.

"Whoa!" Da Lang came to Chen Mo's side.

"You bring your personal guards, bring all the horses of the generals, and then chop some wood and come over, let the soldiers who patrol the night keep a few, and the others will also come to help." Chen Mo said to Da Lang.

"Whoa!" Da Lang didn't ask the reason, and left with someone.

……

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, when the soldiers woke up, they were stunned to see that there were a few more simple carriages in the camp, and Chen Mo put the only five war horses in the army on the carriage.

"Marquis, why is that?" Bao Geng came to Chen Mo's side, looked at the carriage and frowned.

"Last night, I came up with a way to break the enemy." Chen Mo replied as he put the reins on.

"Oh?" When Bao Geng heard this, he came to his senses and hurriedly looked at Chen Mo.

"In this way, in a while, you will take a team of men and horses, escort these five grain carts, and go around the sleeping hill from north to south." Chen Mo drew a simple map on the ground with a tree branch and said: "Remember, don't get too close to the city, but you must let the people at the head of the city see you, and then if the thieves come out of the city to chase you, don't meet the enemy, pull the grain cart around the hills, I will lead people to ambush here." ”

"Marquis, this is the grain cart?" Bao Geng looked at the five carriages in amazement, and his mind couldn't turn around.

"Not bad." Chen Mo nodded.

"Where's the grain?" Bao Geng wondered.

"Up!" Chen Mo didn't answer, just waved his hand, and a group of people put the dead branches and hay prepared overnight on the car, covered them with felt cloth, and sealed them with ropes.

"The food is there!" Chen Mo patted the felt cloth and turned his head to look at Bao Gengdao.

"But it's a branch!" Bao Geng obviously didn't figure out what Chen Mo was going to do.

"The thief doesn't know." Chen Mo pointed to the simple map on the ground and said: "If you can't understand it, you will take the grain cart to the north of Mengqiu City for ten miles, remember, when you go, you have to stay away, don't let people notice, and pass by this side when you come back......."

Chen Mo pulled Bao Geng to the top of the hill, pointed to the road below, and said: "Walk on this side of the mountain, try to hide your tracks, and finally come around here, we will ambush here." ”

"Marquis, if you want to lure the enemy out of the city, why do you want to hide your tracks?" Bao Geng frowned.

"People will believe in the truth they have obtained through searching, and if you just go past in such a grand manner, I am afraid that people will not believe it." Chen Mo looked at Bao Geng and explained.

"And what if they were deceived by me?" Bao Geng frowned.

The big man on the side glanced at him and said, "You're too worried." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Bao Geng was suddenly angry, and stared at Da Lang irritably.

"Enough!" Chen Mo waved his hand and said, "If you really do it, we will be hungry for a day today, and we will come back tomorrow." ”

Bao Geng was suddenly a little speechless, he had to starve after deceiving the other party, where to reason? But if they really can't trick each other out of the city, they will really starve, and the rations they brought out have been eaten up last night.

"The last general commands!" Bao Geng had to order a team of people to pull the 'grain cart' away, and Chen Mo led people to start sharpening some rough wood, making some traps commonly used by hunters, rope traction, cutting ropes when needed, and flying out to attack the enemy by inertia.

Chen Mo didn't know how many people would come over in the city, so he did more to be prepared and reduce their casualties.

At the beginning, Chen Mo was worried that even if the other party saw it, he would be worried about the plan and would not dare to go out of the city, but Chen Mo obviously overestimated the ability of these thieves in the city.

Standing on the hill, watching this chase, Chen Mo was a little speechless, how to not mention the enemy's combat effectiveness, but this vigilance still has a head...... It's really not like that.

"Marquis, everything is ready!" Another Tun general came to Chen Mo's side and reported.

"Good! Place! Chen Mo nodded, and with a wave of his hand, a group of people quickly hid in the forest at the edge of the hill.

Chen Mo called the flag officer again and instructed: "After a while, I will shoot the thief head with an arrow, you don't have to look at me, just look at the thief head, once the thief head falls off the horse, he will attack with a flag, and if I miss the two arrows, you will also immediately play the flag and order an attack!" ”

Although I feel that it is impossible to miss a shot at such a distance with my archery, there are always accidents in everything, even if his archery skills are good now, he may not be able to hit every shot, and the unexpected situation must be taken into account, and try to avoid the impact of accidents.

"Whoa!" The flag officer agreed, carried it to the front, like a spirit monkey, quickly climbed a tall tree, the position here is eye-catching, can observe the enemy's movements most clearly, and at the same time, his every move can be seen clearly by the soldiers who are ambushed on the mountain at any time, this tree is also the flag tower chosen by Chen Mo!

Half a circle around the hill is only more than ten miles, and soon, I saw Bao Geng with people and horses, urging the carriage to rush towards this side, the smoke and dust billowing behind, and a large number of people and horses were chasing and killing.

"There are quite a few people, there are four or five hundred!" The sentinel in charge of investigating the enemy's situation rushed back and came to Chen Mo's side and panted a little.

"Prepare for war!" Chen Mo nodded, picked up the longbow, two arrows were clustered in his hand, one was already on the bowstring, and the other was clasped between his fingers, the first shot would not be too long.

Bao Geng had already led the men and horses through this section of the road, gradually slowing down, but the chasing thieves thought that the other party was no longer able to escape, and they were overjoyed, and chased harder, and the originally neat team gradually distanced themselves.

The thief head rushed to the front, a little far away, plus the cloak was scattered, and he couldn't see the appearance clearly, but only he ran the most arrogant in a group of people, even if he was not the main general, he was definitely the soul of the entire army related to morale, and at the same time, in the middle of the troops, there was also a person who wore something different, the thief did not have a unified clothing, Chen Mo didn't want to let go of the thief head, seeing that the enemy army had already entered the ambush area more than halfway, the bowstring was immediately loosened, and at the same time as an arrow was fired, the bowstring had been full again.

"Poof~" The most arrogant thief who ran was still waving the knife in his hand and roaring, and the sudden cluster of arrows pierced directly through his skull, and the entire army was stunned, and many people saw that the leader was dead, and their pace slowed down a lot.

The man in the middle of the group seemed to be about to say something, and a second cluster of arrows followed pierced his neck, and the troops pursuing Bao Hong were instantly thrown into chaos.

Almost at the same time that the second person was shot, the flag officer quickly waved the order flag.

"Kill~"

On the hill, the fight between the trees made the thieves who were already panicked even more chaotic, followed by various wooden thorns falling from the sky, the formation was completely dispersed, Da Lang took the lead in rushing down, a ring head knife left and right slashed, where it passed, the thieves had no power to resist at all.

Bao Geng also stopped fleeing after hearing the sound of fighting in the rear, dropped the carriage, and turned around with the men and horses to kill, for a while, the sound of killing under the calm hills shook the sky, and the sound of crying and begging for mercy echoed in the wilderness.

"Loser stuff, go to a few people, pull the horse back for me!" Seeing that Bao Geng ignored it, dropped the carriage and killed it back, Chen Mo gritted his teeth and scolded, and hurriedly commanded someone to pull the horse back.

The battle did not last long, less than half an hour, the thieves who were still menacing before had already been killed, Chen Mo caught one person to inquire about the situation in the city, and learned that the two people who were killed were the county commander and county lieutenant of Bedqiu appointed by the leader of the Gepi thieves, and after there were not many soldiers and horses in the city, Chen Mo immediately stopped chasing and killing these thieves who fled in embarrassment, gathered men and horses, and went straight to Sleepyhill.

Bedqiu County, which had lost the head of the thieves, did not even have time to reclose the city gates, and was killed by Chen Mo with his troops, and the Gepi thieves in the city were no match for these brave soldiers.

"Junhou, clever calculation!" Bao Geng led people to find Chen Mo, who was appeasing the people, and grinned.

"It's too early to laugh, I have captured a few prisoners, I want to question, and send someone back to Xiang County to inform that the sleeping hill has been recovered, we can't stay for long, we have persuaded the people to temporarily close the city gate and guard the city, please send enough people as soon as possible!" Chen Mo didn't bother to pay attention to this kind of compliment, and ordered directly.

"Whoa!"