"PS: The words of the code at the father-in-law's mother-in-law's house.,It's a little uncomfortable, so it takes a little more time than at home.,But I still insisted on finishing this chapter.。 Tomorrow's mother-in-law's 60th birthday, if there is time, I will insist on the code word, if there is no time, then I can only ask for leave again, and then make up for it after I go back, I hope the book friends will forgive me. For the time being, I'm going to go back on the morning of the 7th, well, it's a six-hour drive."

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That night, Lian Po was in charge of the night patrol of the camp.

After explaining the matters of night patrol and duty to the subordinate Simas at all levels, Lian Po took more than a dozen guards to the camp of Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao and made an appointment with Zhao Bao's Zuo Sima Zhao Ben.

When he learned of the report of his subordinates, Zhao Ben was very surprised by Lian Po's appointment, after all, they had not crossed paths before - Zhao Ben was a general of the Handan department, and Lian Po was a general of the Jinyang department.

Not to mention that there is also a gap between the identities and backgrounds of the two, Zhao Ben is the cousin of Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao, the official worships Zuo Sima, if nothing else, Zhao Bencai will take over Zhao Bao's military power in the future, and Lian Po was only a line Sima under the command of Fengyangjun Li Dui, although the military positions of the two are actually only one level apart, but considering that there are generally only two Zuo Sima in the establishment of an army, but there can be as many as eight Xing Sima, it can be known that the gap between this level is really big.

However, since Lian Po defeated the two generals Hu Qian and Peng Zhen under Gongzi Zhang, and rescued Zhao Wang He from Ji Ze, no one regards Lian Po as an ordinary Sima, after all, everyone understands that Zhao Wang He felt Lian Po's rescue, and Lian Po will inevitably be on the rise in Zhao in the future, and it is unlimited.

Because of this, when Zhao Ben met Lian Po, he was also polite and regarded Lian Po as his equal.

"I don't know that Lian Sima came, and he never greeted him from afar, forgive his sins."

"Zhao Zuo Sima is serious."

Lian Po smiled and hugged his fists, and immediately explained: "I originally wanted to discuss some things with Yang Wenjun, but I heard that Yang Wenjun handed over all the affairs of the military to you, Zuo Sima......"

"Hmm." Zhao Ben nodded and explained: "A while ago, Yang Wenjun and Jun Shang and his party were trapped in Jize, without water and food, plus Yang Wenjun is also old, and his body is inevitably a little weak recently, so I will be in charge of the army on my behalf...... Speaking of this, he asked curiously: "I don't know what Lian Sima wants to discuss with Yang Wenjun, and it is the same to inform him." ”

"That's nature."

Lian Po nodded, and immediately said to Zhao Ben: "I just suspect that the rebels are likely to come to attack at night, so I want to come and discuss with Yang Wenjun......

"Night raid?" Zhao Ben chuckled and said, "Could it be Meng Zhong who Lian Sima is guarding against?" ”

"Sort of."

Lian Po didn't hide it, nodded and said truthfully: "You have also seen today's battle Zuo Sima, as far as I know, that Meng Zhong brought 3,000 soldiers here today, but from beginning to end, Meng Zhong did not give an order to assist Gongzi Zhang, according to my guess, I am afraid that Meng Zhong did not intend to attack, but pinned his hopes on a sneak attack." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Ben crossed his arms and groaned.

I have to say that Meng Zhongjun's actions today, he also felt quite strange, Gongzizhang's rebels fought to their death, while Meng Zhongjun watched from afar on the edge of the battlefield, except for containing his Zhao Ben's thousands of troops, he did not contribute to Gongzizhang's rebels at all.

No matter what he thought, Zhao Ben felt that Meng Zhong had other plans.

However, Zhao Ben didn't have too much to worry about Lian Po's night attack, of course he knew that Meng Zhong was good at leading the army to attack at night, so he naturally made corresponding precautions early, if Meng Zhong really dared to come to sneak attack, he Zhao Ben would definitely make him pay a heavy price!

Seeing that there was nothing else at hand for the time being, Zhao Ben simply asked the soldiers to prepare some wine and food, and invited Lian Po to drink in the tent and exchange feelings, after all, Lian Po is destined to be reused by Fengyang Jun Li Dui and even Zhao Wanghe, and build a good relationship in advance, maybe it will be of great use in the future.

Lian Po is also a good drinker, and he didn't shirk when he saw Zhao Ben's invitation, anyway, he had already explained the matter of the night patrol to the Simas under his command, unless the rebels really came to attack, he didn't have to bow down to everything.

So, Zhao Ben and Lian Po were in the tent, drinking wine while talking about today's confrontation between the two armies.

As if it was about to be around the middle of the day, Zhao Ben and Lian Po suddenly heard a commotion in the camp, as if there were many soldiers running back and forth, and even chattered and didn't know what they were saying.

Glancing at each other, Zhao Ben and Lian Po suddenly put away the smiles on their faces when they were laughing before, and stood up and walked out of the tent in unison.

I saw that outside the tent, in the southeast camp of the camp, it was vaguely seen that many soldiers were running back and forth with torches, for some reason.

Seeing this, Zhao Ben immediately ordered the soldiers guarding outside the tent: "What happened over there?" Why is it so noisy? Hurry up and ask why! ”

However, before the soldiers he sent out had gone far, several soldiers hurried to report it.

Among those soldiers, the leader was a "brigade commander", that is, a general who commanded 500 people, only to see him rush to Zhao Ben, clasped his fists and said: "Qi Zuo Sima, a sudden shouting of killing suddenly sounded on the southeast side of the camp, and it is suspected that there are rebels attacking our army camp at night. ”

"Night Raid?"

Zhao Ben and Lian Po glanced at each other, and immediately came to the camp on the southeast side.

After a careful inspection, Zhao Ben and Lian Po did not find any signs that the camp was attacked by the rebels, but many soldiers who had been awakened were running back and forth with torches and panicked faces, searching for the rebels who had invaded the camp.

"What's going on?"

Zhao Ben asked.

When one of the soldiers explained: "Back to Zosima, there seem to be signs of a rebel attack on the camp, but the soldiers checked all over the camp and found nothing unusual. ”

"Outside the camp?" Zhao Ben asked again: "Have you ever sent troops to search outside the camp?" ”

Or a soldier replied: "Back to Zuo Sima, Zhou Ge Sima has led his troops out of the camp to search for traces of the rebels. ”

"Has Zhou Ge already gone?"

Zhao Ben nodded slightly.

Zhou Ge is the Sima in his army, with a steady personality and bravery, and is a general that Zhao Ben values more.

After waiting for about half an hour, Sima Zhou Ge led a team of soldiers back to the camp, and after seeing Zhao Ben and Lian Po, he hurriedly walked in front of Zhao Ben and saluted with fists.

Zhao Ben nodded, and then asked, "Zhou Ge, you went to search outside the camp, did you find the whereabouts of the rebels?" ”

"No, I didn't." Zhou Ge shook his head, and then recounted what happened at that time: "I just heard shouts and drums from outside the camp, and I immediately gathered the soldiers who kept vigil, but I didn't see any signs of the rebels attacking the camp. Therefore, when the drumming stopped, I led a group of soldiers out of the camp to investigate, but there was no sign of any rebels outside the camp. ”

Speaking of this, he paused slightly, and then added: "However, during this period, I found the corpse of a team of night patrol soldiers, suspected to have been ambushed by crossbow arrows, but the arrows could not be found on the corpse, and the corpse still showed signs of dragging. ”

“……”

Zhao Ben frowned when he heard this.

Since there were soldiers who were patrolling outside the camp for the night, it was clear that there were rebels operating in the area, but the rebels killed a group of soldiers who were probably more than one team of soldiers who were patrolling the night, and then beat the snare drum and shouted outside the camp before withdrawing?

Is there any significance to this move?

I can't figure it out, Zhao Ben really can't figure it out.

At this time, Lian Po interjected on the side: "If you are on the southeast side, it should be that Meng Zhong, right?" ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Ben nodded slightly.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the rebels are divided into three branches: Zhao Zhang, Meng Zhong, and Pang Xuan, among them, Pang Xuan is far away in Xindu, and it is impossible to bypass the camp of Anping Jun Zhao Cheng to sneak attack them, as for Gongzi Zhang, Gongzi Zhang's camp is about 20 miles away, and it will take at least nearly two hours to travel at night - could it be that Gongzi Zhang is full of food and support, and after the fierce battle just in the daytime today, he does not let the soldiers rest and recuperate, and it takes two hours to lead the troops to run to them and shout?

Thinking about it, Meng Zhong is more suspicious.

As soon as he came, Meng Zhongjun's garrison was to the east of Quliangyi, although it was also about twenty miles away, but Meng Zhong was familiar with the art of war, and his strategy was far from being comparable to those of Gongzizhang, so maybe there would be some trickery behind his move.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ben told Zhou Gedao: "In short, that Meng Zhong is scheming, you need to be careful." Now, tell all the soldiers to go back to their tents to rest. ”

"Whoa!"

Zhou Ge clenched his fists and received the order, and immediately ordered the soldiers standing in the camp to return to the military tent to rest.

Seeing this, Zhao Ben took Lian Po back to his tent.

After the two sat down face to face, Zhao Ben snorted lightly: "That Meng Zhong, I don't know what the intention is......

As soon as the words fell, before Lian Po could respond, he vaguely heard that there was a commotion again in the southeast camp that had just quieted down.

"Damn it!"

The wine bowl that Zhao Ben had just picked up was put back on the low table with a snap, and then stood up and walked outside the tent.

Lian Po frowned and followed closely.

Just like Fang Cai, when Zhao Ben and Lian Po ran to the southeast camp, the shouts and drums outside the camp all stopped, and there was only a group of alarmed soldiers in the camp, holding torches and weapons, or searching around the camp with panicked faces or confused, to check whether there were any rebels attacking the camp.

However, the search turned out that everything was normal in the camp.

Subsequently, Sima Zhou Ge, who led the army out of the camp to search again, also returned again in vain, and reported to Zhao Ben without any gain: "Zuo Sima, I have not found any trace of the rebels outside the camp. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Ben frowned and said, "Since it's just a false alarm, let's call the soldiers back to the tent to rest." ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the southeast direction and sneered: "It's really leisurely, in the middle of the night, I ran twenty miles outside my military camp and shouted...... Did he think that with this scare, our army would be frightened by him? ”

Lian Po didn't pick up, because he was also thinking about the intention of Meng Zhongjun's move.

Is it really just trying to scare them?

A moment later, the alarmed soldiers in the barracks also returned to their respective tents one after another.

Seeing this, Lian Po hugged his fists at Zhao Ben and said, "Zuo Sima, it's not too early, then I'll leave first." …… I was also a little worried about whether our side was being harassed by the rebels. ”

Zhao Ben nodded, also hugged his fists and said, "Indeed, then there will be no Lian Sima." ”

The two parted, Lian Po returned to his camp, while Zhao Ben returned to his military tent.

At this time, the night was dark, and he drank a lot of wine, Zhao Ben also felt a little tired, so he fell on the grass couch and closed his eyes, ready to rest.

Unexpectedly, just when he was groggy and about to fall asleep, he suddenly faintly heard a commotion in the camp again.

"Fuck you!"

Zhao Ben, who usually has a good cultivation, scolded after opening his eyes suddenly, and immediately put on his coat, put on his saber and rushed into the tent.

And this time, he simply didn't even go to the camp on the southeast side, and went straight to the camp gate on the east side with a team of guards.

On the way, Zhao Ben met Lian Po, and after asking, he learned that Lian Po thought of going with him: when Lian Po returned to his camp, he saw that Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao's military camp sounded shouting and killing again, so he decisively led the guards straight to the Dongying Gate, wanting to find out in person.

Different from the previous two times, this time Zhao Ben and Lian Po did indeed hear the shouts and drums outside the camp, but these shouts and drums disappeared again before and after they arrived at the Dongying Gate, because Sima Zhou Ge in the camp had led hundreds of soldiers on night patrol to the outside of the camp.

Walking outside the camp with Lian Jie, Zhao Ben saw Zhou Ge and hundreds of soldiers under his command from a distance holding torches searching in the distance, and he shouted loudly: "Zhou Ge." ”

"Zosima?"

When Zhou Ge heard this, he immediately came to Zhao Ben and Lian Po and saluted the two of them with fists.

Zhao Ben nodded as a return gift, and then frowned and asked, "Can you find any traces of the rebels?" ”

Hearing this, Zhou Ge raised his hand and pointed to the dark distance, and said with a solemn expression: "It seems to have come from that direction, and I am about to lead the soldiers to search forward inch by inch." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Ben nodded, signaling that Zhou Ge didn't have to care about him and Lian Po.

Seeing this, Zhou Ge continued to lead his soldiers to search for traces of the rebels inch by inch in the vicinity, while Zhao Ben and Lian Po followed behind to check the situation.

But unfortunately, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack to search for traces of the rebels outside the camp in the middle of the night, although Zhou Ge and the hundreds of soldiers he led searched for more than half an hour, but they still did not find the slightest.

Seeing this, Zhou Ge replied to Zhao Ben with some disappointment: "Zuo Sima, those rebels may have evacuated. ”

“……”

Zhao Ben nodded when he heard this, and then frowned and glanced at the pitch-black distance, and scolded hatefully: "This Meng Zhong, I sent soldiers to disturb our military camp several times in the middle of the night, and I don't know what the intention is. ”

At this time, Lian Po was turning his head sideways to look at Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao's camp, and he found that because of the noise outside the camp, the Handan soldiers in the camp were alarmed again, so that at this moment, the camp was full of people and it was very chaotic.

"That may be Na Mengzhong's intention."

Purssing in the direction of the camp, Lian Po snorted coldly and said, "He deliberately made it difficult for the soldiers of your army to sleep. ”

Zhao Ben also glanced back when he heard this, and nodded with some sudden understanding.

The soldiers don't sleep well at night, they don't have the energy during the day, and if there is any battle during the day, they will naturally not be able to play to their due level - such a simple truth, Zhao Ben naturally understands.

"It seems that Meng Zhong may be preparing for Gongzi Zhang's rebel army to attack again in a day or two, with the purpose of consuming the energy of our soldiers......

Zhao Ben was thinking about it, when suddenly there was another shouting of killing and the sound of earth-shattering snare drums in the distance.

Glancing at the direction, he realized that it was coming from Yang Wenjun Li Dui's military camp.

Seeing this, Lian Po snorted heavily and said, "It seems that it is not only your army that the rebels are trying to disturb. Zosi, Shu Lian has to go back to the camp to find out the situation. ”

"Lian Sima, please."

The two said goodbye again, Lian Po led the guards back to his camp, while Zhao Ben took Zhou Ge and his party back to the camp.

After returning to the camp this time, Zhao Ben instructed Zhou Ge: "Tell the soldiers on duty that the shouts and drums outside the camp are just a trick of the rebels to harass our army, so that the soldiers don't have to care, just sleep peacefully." ”

After that, Zhao Ben also left to go back to rest.

"Are the rebels really just trying to harass our soldiers to rest?"

Zhou Ge frowned and thought for a moment, he felt that he should be cautious to avoid being taken advantage of by the rebels.

About half an hour later, Lian Po also returned to his barracks.

As soon as he arrived at the barracks, he was called by Li Ji, the son of Fengyang Jun Li Dui, and asked about Lian Po Fangcai's whereabouts.

Lian Po told the truth.

Strictly speaking, in fact, Lian Po visited Zhao Ben at night while on duty, which is actually considered an unauthorized departure from his post, but Li Ji is quite serious about Lian Po now, of course he doesn't care about such a trivial matter - after all, he didn't suffer any losses in the camp.

After nodding, Li Ji asked Lian Po: "About an hour and a half ago, I heard the sound of shouting and killing and the sound of military drums from Yang Wenjun's camp, and I thought that there was a night attack by the rebels, so I immediately asked Li Xing to raise 5,000 troops to support, but the soldiers who did not want to go to investigate the situation one step ahead said that Yang Wenjun's military camp was not attacked by the rebels...... About half an hour later, similar shouts and snare drums rang out outside our camp, but when the soldiers prepared to resist, they found that it was only a false alarm......"

"It's a ruse of the rebels."

Lian Po explained: "The purpose is to make it difficult for our soldiers to rest. ”

"Sure enough."

Li Ji nodded, and immediately saw that Lian was a little confused, so he explained with a smile: "This matter also alarmed my father, but when the rebels harassed me outside our military camp for the second time, my father asserted that it was just a trick of the rebels, and then went back to the tent to rest, I was still a little worried, so I waited here for Sima to return, and wanted to ask about the situation." …… Is this also the case with Yang Wenjun? ”

Lian Po nodded and said, "As Fengyangjun said, it's just a trick of the rebels. ”

Hearing this, Li Ji showed a look of relief on his face, patted Lian Po's arm and said with a smile: "Since this is the case, then I will also go back to the tent to rest, and I will ask Sima for the duty matter." ”

"Whoa!"

Lian Po hugged his fists and sent Li Ji off.

At this time, it was already around the hour, and the military camp of Yang Wenjun and Zhao Bao gradually quieted down again, and the soldiers who had been disturbed by the rebels had returned to their respective tents to rest, and even Zuo Sima Zhao Ben was wrapped in a futon and fell on the straw couch in the tent to rest.

However, Sima Zhouge, who was in charge of the guard, was still vigilant against the rebels.

In this way, at about three o'clock in the blink of an eye, the earth-shattering shouts and snare drums sounded outside the camp again.

Hearing this noise, Sima Zhou Ge, who had been in the camp shelter with his eyes closed and recuperating, suddenly opened his eyes, glanced at the direction from which the sound came with vigilant eyes, and immediately ordered to the left and right: "Send the order to go down and tell the soldiers on duty at the camp gate and guard tower to raise their guard, and as for the rest of the soldiers, if there are any disturbed people, tell them to go back to their tents to rest." ”

"Whoa!"

At the same time, Zhao Ben, who was sleeping soundly, also opened one eye alertly after faintly hearing the noise outside the camp.

"Meng Zhong, you're fucking endless......"

Muttering and scolding, Zhao Ben closed his eyes again, and soon after, there was a burst of snoring.

Sure enough, this movement outside the camp was just a false alarm, although Sima Zhou Ge always remained vigilant, but in fact it turned out that the rebels seemed to have only this trick.

The soldiers in the camp, after being played by the rebels twice, gradually stopped paying attention, ignoring the shouts and drums outside the camp, covered their ears and went to sleep.

At the same time, about two miles away from Yang Wenjun's military camp, Meng Zhong was watching the situation of the enemy camp from a distance.

Behind him, there were four chariots, each with a huge war drum on it, each being beaten by a soldier so hard that it made a thumping sound, like thunder in the silence of the night.

These four chariots carrying war drums are also the only chariots left in the Mengzhong army, and all the chariots have been taken away by Le Yi.

In front of Meng Zhong, about two hundred zhang away, Meng Hu led a group of soldiers, facing the camp of Chaoyang Wenjun, shouting loudly such as "kill" and "attack", and at the same time knocked on the weapons in his hands one after another, so as to make a louder sound.

I remember the first few times, the reaction of the enemy camp in the distance was very exaggerated, and as soon as I heard these noises, the camp was like exploding a pot, which made Meng Hu shout funny.

This time, however, the soldiers in the enemy camp seemed to have paid no attention to them, and remained indifferent to their shouting.

Seeing this, Meng Hu explained a few words to his subordinates, and then came to Meng Zhong's side and said to the latter: "Ah Zhong, the other side seems to have seen through your plan, so we can do that now...... Is that what you call 'counting what you do'? ”

As for why Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao's military camp was chosen, firstly, because Zhao Bao and Zhao Ben's army was the closest to them, and secondly, it was also considered that the number of troops under Zhao Bao and Zhao Ben was the smallest, less than 6,000 people, and the risk of night attack was the lowest.

"Wait."

Seeing Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao's military camp half loud, Meng Zhong shook his head slightly and explained: "Right now, the soldiers on the opposite side are still suspicious and have not completely relaxed. ”

"When, then?" Meng Hu asked a little anxiously.

"Don't worry!" Meng Zhong instructed softly: "First tell the soldiers to continue harassing the other side." ”

"Okay." Meng Hu nodded.

Subsequently, during the period from Choushi to Yinshi, the soldiers led by Meng Zhong and Meng Hu continued to harass the military camps of Yang Wenjun and Fengyangjun.

As they harassed one after another, both Lian Po and Zhou Ge gradually became immune to it.

I remember that Zhou Ge was initially wary of the rebels who harassed them, but as time went by, he gradually got used to it, wrapped in a quilt and sat in the windy place around the camp gate to nap, even if he heard the shouts of killing and the sound of military drums outside the camp, he didn't care, he didn't even bother to open his eyes, muttered a few words and continued to nap.

In this way, it was around the middle of the hour, and at this time, the first glimmer of the morning sun was faintly revealed in the far east.

At this moment, Hua Hu and Mu Wu led hundreds of soldiers to arrive quietly.

"It's time!"

Meng Zhong woke up Meng Hu, who had been curled up next to the chariot in a futon for a nap since he didn't know it.

"I don't attack at night, but I have to wait for dawn...... I'm going to wait until I'm at my sleepies......" Meng Hu yawned and reluctantly got up, taking a few deep breaths to shake his spirits.

Hearing Meng Hu's complaint, Meng Zhong smiled slightly.

Yes, he just wanted to do the opposite, launching a sneak attack on Yang Wenjun's military camp at the moment when it was about to dawn.

He believed that whether it was Yang Wenjun, Zhao Bao or Zuo Sima Zhao Ben, they would never guess.

"Up!"

Pointing to the military camp, Meng Zhong ordered Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu.

Seeing this, Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu led 500 Xinwei troops, and quietly approached the almost defenseless enemy camp amid the deliberate shouts of killing and the sound of military drums.