"I can't save it!"

Li Xiang's words sounded in Ma Guangmeng's mind again, and he couldn't save it... There are three benefits to not being able to save it, first, the people of Qizhai will completely hate the Nanping Army because of this, and they can only follow our Yuezhou; Second, the innocent death of these people will completely chill the hearts of the people of Nanping and help us completely disrupt the situation in Nanping; Third, killing the people without permission gave Yuezhou a real mouth, and we had an excuse to send troops. Moreover, after pacifying Nanping, as long as we do a little bit of appeasement, we can show our "benevolence" and the "injustice" of the king of Nanping, and it is easy to clean up people's hearts.

"General Ma, General Ma!" Pan Mei looked at Ma Guangmeng in a trance, and couldn't help but tug Ma Guangmeng's sleeve with her hand.

Ma Guang woke up suddenly, looked at Pan Mei's anxious expression, and said, "Do you know how many of them escorted the people to the Yangtze River from that road." ”

Cao Bin, who was on the side, hurriedly unfolded the simple map of Guizhou. Pan Mei glanced at it, pointed to a place on the map and said: "This is Lijiagou, they held the people of Qizhai hostage, set off late last night, walked back twenty miles, returned to the official road, and then Bao Tang returned to Badong County with more than 1,000 people, leaving at most 300 people to escort, along the pipeline to the direction of Guizhou, it is said that the people of Qizhai will be driven to the Yangtze River at the Yangtze River ferry." ”

Ma Guangmeng pondered for a moment and said: "Bao Tang is now only two thousand soldiers and horses, leaving three hundred to escort the people, and the remaining 1,700 people have returned to Badong County. ”

Ma Guangmeng said, stared at Pan Mei and asked, "Have you ever seen it in person, 1,700 people from Bao Tang have returned to Badong County." ”

Pan Mei was stunned for a moment, and said hesitantly: "There are many of them, and the spread is also very large, so we don't dare to get too close, look like that, right?" However, we did count the sergeants who escorted the people, and it was estimated that there were about 300 people. ”

Ma Guangmeng snorted coldly, thought for a while and said, "You didn't disclose this news to others." ”

Others? Pan Mei shook her head again and again and said, "No, no, I didn't say anything except my own people." ”

Ma Guangmeng's face softened, his eyes were glued to the map, not knowing what he was thinking.

Pan Mei said on the side: "The people in our village have an abnormal atmosphere when they know the news, if it weren't for General Zhou's suppression, they would have been ready to fight with those 300 bastards." ”

Ma Guangmeng was stunned for a moment and said, "Didn't you say that you didn't tell anyone." ”

Pan Mei saw Ma Guangmeng's displeased face, and said with a forced smile: "General Ma, I want to boost morale and help me fight." ”

Ma Guangmeng stared at Pan Mei fiercely and said, "If you are my subordinate, if you are not Shentu Congjian's brother-in-law, I will slaughter you by virtue of your walking military aircraft." As he spoke, he slapped Pan Mei on the neck.

Pan Mei's head shrank suddenly, with an aggrieved expression on her face.

Ma Guangmeng glanced at him coldly and asked, "How many roads are there from Lijiagou to the Yangtze River?" Which road is closer? ”

Pan Meiwei said resignedly: "Two roads, from Lijiagou directly to the north, only thirty miles to the Yangtze River." ”

Ma Guangmeng sneered: "If you are Bao Tang, you want to drive these people into the Yangtze River, you go back to that road." Or, if you want to kill these defenseless old and weak women and children, do you have to drive them into the Yangtze River? ”

Pan Mei and Cao Bin were both stunned, and Cao Bin said, "General, is this a plan?" ”

Ma Guangmeng looked at the two of them with a wry smile and said, "Yes, this is exactly a plan, and it is also a plan that we know is a plan, and we can't help but be hard-headed." ”

Ma Guang paused for a moment and said, "Cao Bin, give the order to go down, eat immediately, rest for a quarter of an hour, immediately go on the road, and go straight to Wangjiawan." As he spoke, he turned to Pan Mei and said, "You go back and tell Zhou Xingfeng to let him lead the 600 sergeants who are training, and set off immediately, rushing to Wangjiawan to round with me, you have to remember, to persuade the 600 sergeants to obey the order, if there is anyone who disobeys the order, only you ask!" ”

Pan Mei said: "General Ma, don't worry, I will definitely convince them." He bowed and turned away. Ma Guangmeng looked at his back, and couldn't help but sneer in his heart, how could it be so easy to convince when it was related to the life and death of his relatives.

Suddenly, he thought of something again, and said loudly: "Pan Mei, come back." ”

Pan Mei hurriedly turned around and came back, and Ma Guangmeng whispered: "Don't tell those 600 people that there is an ambush." Pan Mei was stunned, hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Yes." ”

Hurried all the way, and finally arrived at Wangjiawan in the afternoon, which is 70 miles away from Badong County and 80 miles away from the Yangtze River ferry. Wangjiawan is backed by mountains and hilly in front, but the terrain is relatively flat compared to other places in Padang. It can be seen from the recent encounters that the Nanping army is not good at mountain warfare, so they want to set up an ambush, give full play to their own advantages, and completely annihilate the "seven villages" in the state, and they will inevitably choose a relatively gentle terrain, and even if there is a mountain, the kind that is extremely difficult to climb. And Wangjiawan just fits this requirement.

At the foot of the mountain, 15 miles away from Wangjiawan, the two armies turned, Ma Guangmeng summoned Zhou Xingfeng, Cao Bin, and Pan Mei to meet temporarily for a meeting, and learned about the situation of the Qizhai soldiers.

Ma Guangmeng looked at everyone and said, "The current situation, I think everyone knows about it, let's talk about it, do you have any ideas?" ”

Zhou Xingfeng and Cao Bin were silent, Pan Mei gritted her teeth and said: "At this point, it is better to rush over, the soldiers will come, the water will come to Tutun, fight a fight, it is best to save it, and if you don't come out, you will die in battle, this is in Guizhou." ”

Zhou Xingfeng glanced at Pan Mei, and secretly scolded this bullshit idea in his heart. He is not afraid of death, but he can't die like this, they took the Yuezhou soldiers, came from afar, on the one hand, it was indeed for the "Qizhai", but more for the purpose of plotting the big plan of Nanping Sanzhou, now the eight characters have not been skimmed, how can he be willing.

Cao Bin said on the side: "We'd better not fight hard, or find a way to transfer Bao Tang out of Wangjiawan." ”

Zhou Xingfeng said: "It's not difficult to transfer out Bao Tang, but at the moment, the 600 soldiers in Qizhai are fighting hard to save people, and if they don't save people here, I'm afraid there will be a mutiny." ”

Ma Guangmeng said slowly: "I have a way to save the people, but I need a dead man." After speaking, he looked at Qingshan and stopped talking.

Pan Mei looked at Zhou Xingfeng and Cao Bin, gritted her teeth, and said, "General Ma, I caused the disaster, and I am willing to be this dead soldier." Please make it clear to the general. ”