Chapter 35
Meng Qing looked back at the bottom of the mountain, Liu Zhengfeng had already lined up in formation, only to see a group of soldiers under the encouragement of the big and small leaders, one after another to move to the foot of the mountain, the first few teams of soldiers have begun to slowly climb the slope, and the distance between people is gradually widened, when encountering stones thrown on the mountain, there can be space to avoid each other, so as not to squeeze and trample on each other.
"My lord, the thief is starting to go up the mountain!" A cronie is a little discolored.
Meng Qing's face was like an expression, and he just waved his hand to signal the men and horses of each department to take their places, prepare stones and arrows, and wait for the attacking soldiers below to go up to the halfway point of the mountain and fight back together. At this time, a scout hurriedly ran over and said in a low voice: "Report, I found a team of thieves on the left and right flanks who wanted to bypass the front of our army and were going up the mountain from the flanks. ”
"Oh, how many men are there in each of the thieves?"
"Lord Hui, there are hundreds of thieves on both wings."
Meng Qing frowned, his front team only had six hundred people, and he had lost dozens of dollars in a fierce battle in the mountains just now, but since he found that the back road had changed, he had already sent Meng Jiashan to lead two hundred teams, and he only had more than three hundred teams on hand now, if he divided the troops again, the defensive force on the front would be greatly weakened. However, Liu Zhengfeng must not be allowed to easily come up from the two flanks and affect the frontal blocking.
Meng Qing ordered in a deep voice, "Order the forward Luo Hai to divide a team of 100 households, and block the attack from half of the two general flags to the two wings, and if it fails, let the lost general flag come to see you!" ”
"No!" The soldiers were ordered to go, and a hundred households were divided into two halves and went to the two wings to block the attack.
Meng Qing looked back at the back road again, all the hope was there!
As the so-called fear of something, there has not been a fight here, but I saw a large number of soldiers returning from Hulala on the back road, and it is currently Mengjiashan.
Meng Qing's heart jumped, he knew that something was wrong, and under the electric turn of his mind, he had already turned a few ideas in his mind. After pacing back and forth on the mountain ridge a few times, now that the situation is urgent, there is no room for hesitation, Meng Qing finally made up his mind, "Order, all the mountain stones are thrown to the thieves under the mountain, and after the stones are thrown, they will be silenced immediately." ”
Urgent order: "Let the hundred households team that just divided the troops to block the retreat, leave all the flags in the mountain range, gather the whole army, and withdraw immediately along the ridge, and order Meng Jiashan to change the meeting place, let those defeated soldiers who fled back just now retreat with Jiashan, return to Jiashan to command, if you violate the order, behead!" ”
"The thieves are coming from the east and west, so we will retreat to the north, and Lingjiashan will immediately retreat north!"
"No!" After receiving the order, a few pro-soldiers did not dare to slack off, and went separately to pass the order. For a while, the people and horses in the mountains suddenly boiled, and countless stones were thrown down like rain. Liu Zhengfeng's front team originally only started from the foot of the mountain without a few steps, and it was still nearly 100 meters away from the mountain, and suddenly saw countless large and small stones falling like rain, so they had to hurriedly retreat, but fortunately, because of the distance, the time and space for dodging were large, and basically no major losses were caused, only a dozen people were accidentally bruised or broken feet.
Meng Qing retreated quickly, he took about 300 people and horses on the mountain ridge along the ridge, lowered his figure, lowered his sword and gun, and quickly withdrew, Liu Zhengfeng and the others did not notice it at the bottom of the mountain because of their limited vision, but they felt that suddenly the rocks fell like rain and fell a little weird.
At this time, the sound of fighting behind the mountain has been lowered and can no longer be heard.
Meng Qing's withdrawal was fast, and Meng Jiashan was not so lucky.
Meng Jiashan took two hundred households to support, and met Zhao Shi and other troops on the way, and the two sides suddenly encountered, because the two had fought many times before, and it was the enemy who was very red when they met, Zhao Shi shouted, waved the knife and went up, Wu Side and others were unwilling, followed by them, and immediately the two sides were entangled together.
Zhao Shi and the others came by victory, their morale was high, and the number of men and horses was far more than that of Meng Jiashan.
Meng Jiashan rushed to reinforcements eagerly, all the soldiers of the Meng clan heard the sound of fighting on the back road just now, and also saw the soldiers who fled back, knowing that the comrades on the back road were in danger, and suddenly met Zhao Shi and others on the way halfway, and the flexible mind had already guessed that the comrades on the back road were only afraid that they were already more auspicious. Seeing that Zhao Shi and the others were menacing and murderous with monstrous intent, they were cowardly in their hearts, and the battle was fierce, and several leaders led by Wu Side shouted: "One or two!" Or! Or! After hearing this, the soldiers on the other side fought even more frantically.
For a while, "one or two!" Or! Or! The shouts were earth-shattering.
It didn't take long for the Mengjiashan Department to be unable to resist, they were at a disadvantage in terms of morale and numbers, if they weren't ordered to come back, they wouldn't come over if they were ordered to come over, and then reluctantly confronted each other for a while, until dozens of people were cut down to the ground by Zhao Shi and others, and finally didn't support, Meng Jiashan saw that the situation was not good, and he shook a knife and forced the opponent back, shouting "Retreat!" Under the cover of his own soldiers, he retreated, and the rest of the soldiers saw that the main general had run away, so they naturally didn't want to insist more, so they were defeated in a swarm.
In just four or five miles, Mengjiashan's two hundred households lost half of them. Meng Jiashan hurriedly fled back to the foot of the mountain, Zhao Shi and the others had already arrived, and the organic spirits among the volunteers jumped directly into the grass on both sides, and no longer fled with Meng Jiashan.
Meng Qing saw it clearly on the ridge: Mengjia Mountain fell into the wilderness, and Zhao Shi and others followed closely.
Zhao Shi saw that Mengjiashan was about to climb the mountain in front of him, and Meng Qing's commander at the ridge sent hundreds of people to rush down to meet Mengjiashan. So he stood still, took off the bow and arrow behind his back, stretched his bow and set up an arrow, aimed at Mengjiashan, and the arrow of "whoosh" hit his heart.
"Wu'er!" Meng Qing saw Meng Jiashan fall to the ground with his own eyes, and he screamed in pain, his body shook a few times, his eyes were dark, and he almost fell to the ground. Luo Hai and several pro-soldiers around him hurriedly supported him, and the voice of "Lord" shouted to him to wake up.
Several soldiers in front of Meng Jiashan desperately dragged his corpse, and after setting up the horses, they led the horses up the ridge to join Meng Qing. Meng Qing was in tears, stroking Meng Jiashan's corpse and was reluctant to leave for a while, Luo Hai saw that Zhao Shi and the others still had the intention of climbing and entanglement, so he didn't dare to delay any longer, and hugged Meng Qing, who was already a little confused, on the horse, supported him left and right, led the war horse, and fled in a hurry along the ridge.
Zhao Shi and the others chased all the way, and fought with the Mengjia Mountain Department again, and then they had to continue to climb the mountain to pursue, and everyone felt physically exhausted. Zhao Shi had to restrain his subordinates, and gathered at the foot of the mountain to rest, and at the same time asked people to go up the mountain and look at the opposite side to observe.
After Liu Zhengfeng's tentative attack was withdrawn, more than a dozen big and small leaders were still confused, and they didn't know what trick Meng Qing was playing. The timing of Meng Qing's stone throwing just now was quite strange, this kind of method of throwing stones in advance could not cause any damage to the enemy, but he wasted a lot of stones.
"No matter what the old thief is, he will only increase the difficulty of his defense by consuming a large number of stones, now the old thief can't find so many stones at once, it is estimated that the old thief has not many arrows, the big guy is working hard, let's do it again, I will lead the team to be the first one!" Liu Zhengfeng encouraged these leaders.
"Uncle Liu, how can you be the first to go? I did this work in Shichang! Yu Shichang was anxious, stepped forward, and took the position of the vanguard. The rest of the leaders were a little embarrassed and dissuaded one after another, since Yu Shichang took the lead, everyone was happy to follow behind. After all, there were dozens of casualties on his side in the first few charges, although it has reached a critical juncture, everyone has to work hard, but the swords and guns are not long-sighted, someone is in front, and it is always safer to stay in the back.
After everyone finished speaking, the whole team again, Yu Shichang took the front team to start going up the mountain, suddenly a few heads appeared on the mountain, looked down, and saw a large group of people under the mountain, who had been lined up in groups, looking at the flag, it was Liu Zhengfeng and others, so he happily shouted below, and the companions next to him stood on a high place and waved.
Liu Zhengfeng and the others suddenly saw a change on the mountain, and when they looked closely, they seemed to be their own people, and they couldn't believe their eyes under the surprise. It wasn't until Yu Shichang led the front team all the way up the mountain safely that he let go.
Everyone was in a desperate situation, and they couldn't help but be a little inexplicable when they were overjoyed, this time all the leaders were ready to bear huge casualties, and it was normal to even hang up a few leaders. Who knows that the wind and clouds are changing, like the blessing of the Bodhisattva, in the blink of an eye, the enemy on the mountain has become their own, and some people can't help but dance under the great sorrow and joy, and excitedly sing the hometown tune.
Liu Zhengfeng and others hurriedly climbed the mountain, and happened to meet Zhao Shi and a few people strolling up the mountain. Liu Zhengfeng was surprised and delighted, and went up to hug Zhao Shi and laughed.
"I thought it was the Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Soldiers who would help each other in the future, but it turned out that this Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals were Brother Zhao Shi! God really has eyes, the big guy finally got out of danger safely! ”
"Brother Zhao, where did you invite so many people? If it weren't for their help, we would be so lucky! Yu Shichang followed, stepped forward to salute Zhao Shi and the others, and asked gratefully.
"Yes, Brother Zhao Shi, where did you invite so many people?" Liu Zhengfeng was also strange, and asked with Zhao Shi.
"It's a long story, big boss, let's arrange for everyone to hurry up and cross the mountain, Yu Qianhu just sent someone to say, if everyone is safe, you might as well continue to move forward, there is a Shiyu Village in front, you can rest for a while."
"Yu Qianhu? Where did Yu Qianhu come from? Could it be the leader of these centaurs? Yu Shichang and Liu Zhengfeng and other leaders were inexplicable, they had already noticed hundreds of people resting at the foot of the mountain, all armed with spears and knives, not only ragged, but also many of them were stained with blood, obviously a group of soldiers after the bloody battle. Seeing their happy and enthusiastic appearances, they naturally won the battle.
Liu Zhengfeng summoned the team behind him to hurriedly cross the mountain in turn, along the mountain road, and continue to move forward in the direction pointed by Zhao Shi. Shiyu Village is about ten miles away from here, and if you walk fast, it won't take you an hour to arrive.
Zhao Shi accompanied Liu Zhengfeng and others down the mountain, and briefly explained on the way that Yu Zhilong led people to seize the stone field and rescue more than 2,000 people and coolies, so that he had more than 1,000 soldiers, and then attacked Liujiazhuang and Hujiazhuang overnight, and seized a lot of food and wealth. Originally, it was planned to attack Linqu County, but the scouts came to report that Meng Qing's volunteers were blocking the road here, and judged that Liu Zhengfeng and others had arrived here and were blocked here, so they concentrated most of them to relieve the siege.
It's just that I didn't expect that Meng Qing's department at the mountain range was only a striker, and most of Meng Qing's department was still about ten miles behind, fortunately, the scouts found the enemy's traces first, and Yu Zhilong and others decided to destroy most of Meng Qing's troops first, and then turn back to clean up the forward led by Meng Qing.