Sheep?

Even though Lian Po has been in the army for several years, he has seen all kinds of winds and waves, but even so, he is still stunned by what he has seen.

"Huh-"

The guards beside Lian Po took out the tongue of fire from his bosom and opened the lid to blow it on fire.

With the help of the light of the fire tongue, Lian Po squinted his eyes and took a closer look.

But no matter how closely you look at it, the sheep is still a sheep, and it will not become a rebel at all.

Indeed, it is a sheep.

『…… The sound of the snare drums I saw along the way turned out to be the sound of these beasts? That'......

Lian Po suddenly felt a sense of emptiness in his heart, and with the help of the light of the fire tongue, Lian Po glanced around, only to find that the soldiers nearby looked like him, as if they were unspeakably uncomfortable.

Think about it, thousands of people mobilized to besiege and kill the rebels, and when they heard the sound of the snare drums, they became emotional, thinking that the rebels were already in the urn, but they didn't get to the end, but it was the movement of a dozen sheep that led them here, how did they accept this?

『……』

Clenching his fists tightly, Lian Po's cheeks filled with shame, especially when he remembered the excitement he had rushed in a moment ago.

Suddenly, Lian Po's face changed slightly, and he scanned his surroundings vigilantly.

"If the rebels are deliberately luring us here, then ......."

He was thinking about it when suddenly out of the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of a light coming from the southern sky.

"That's ......"

Lian Po squinted his eyes and took a closer look, and then his complexion changed greatly.

For he saw countless arrows of fire coming towards him.

"Arrow Strikes ——!"

Ignoring nothing else, he shouted, alerting the soldiers around him.

It's a pity that he was still a step slower, and I saw those fire arrows shoot here in the blink of an eye, or directly hit the bodies of his soldiers, as if blooming with blood; Or tuk-tuk nailed to the trunks of the surrounding trees, burning the bark.

The attack of this wave of fire arrows caused the soldiers under Lian Po's command to be chaotic all of a sudden.

In order to avoid the fire arrows shot at the head and face, the soldiers of the Lian Po army dodged in panic, which made them inevitably collide with Tong Ze in the army during this period, so that some of the soldiers were knocked to the ground, and when they struggled to stand up, they were trampled by the panicked Tong Ze, and immediately vomited blood and fainted.

"Don't panic! Don't panic! ”

"Stop! Stop! ”

The Sima under Lian Po shouted loudly to stop the panicked soldiers.

Seeing this scene, Lian gritted his teeth with hatred.

In fact, he had just guessed that Meng Zhong deliberately used a dozen sheep to lure him here, and he must have been preparing to launch an ambush from somewhere, but he guessed that he had no countermeasures at this point, so he could only urge the soldiers to withdraw from this forest as soon as possible.

"Withdraw! Evacuate! Go back the way you came! ”

When giving the order to retreat, Lim Po also asked his soldiers to keep order and not to panic, because he knew that the rebels' ambush against them would not be limited to fire arrows, and he believed that it would not be long before the rebels would come from somewhere.

But unfortunately, the fire arrows in the sky were too stressful, and the nearby trees had been ignited by those fire arrows one after another, so that more and more trees were burning, so that the soldiers under Lian Po's command could not care to obey the order and fled towards the smaller part of the fire.

At the same time, on the south side of this forest, Meng Zhong, Meng Hu, Hua Hu, Mu Wu, and Xiang Yi were carefully listening to the screams and panicked voices coming from the woods.

Behind them at this moment, thousands of soldiers were lined up in a relatively neat line, and the crossbowmen in the middle of the procession, as many as a thousand people, holding arrows and beams tied to the fire-burning objects, shot wave after wave of fire arrows towards the forest in front of them, making the forest seem to be enveloped by a rain of fire.

"It seems that we have almost gathered together, and the fire of our army is ...... at the right time."

Looking at the forest in front of him with his hands on his back, Meng Zhong's tense face slowed slightly.

Hearing this, Meng Hu licked his lips and smiled evilly: "Actually, I'm more curious about what kind of faces they had when I saw the dozen sheep on the other side. ”

Hua Hu also smiled strangely when he heard this: "I think it, most of them are so angry that they can't even speak." If it were me, I would have been angry......"

"Hey, hey, hey." Mu Wu also smiled evilly.

"Ahem!" Xiang Yu coughed, lowered his voice with a straight face, and said, "A few of you are serious, you look like a pawn, and the recruits are all looking at it?" ”

Hearing this, Meng Hu felt a little disappointed, and asked Hua Hu and Mu Wudao angrily: "It's really disappointing, what is this guy doing?" ”

"Who knows." Hua Hu shrugged.

As if hearing Meng Hu's inquiry, Xiang Yu said quite smugly: "Hey! The bait to lure the enemy, that is caught by my soldiers, if there are not those dozen sheep, what do you use to lure Lian Po? ”

Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu glanced at each other, but they didn't know how to respond.

After all, the dozen or so sheep that Xiang Yi did have a huge credit.

At this time, I saw Xiang Yi looking up at the waves of fire arrows passing through the sky, and said regretfully: "It's a pity that there is not enough oil, otherwise, let's pour oil in the woods in advance, at this moment, few Zhao pawns inside can escape alive!" …… That's interesting. ”

“……”

Hearing this, Meng Zhong, Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu all turned their heads to look at Xiang Yu in unison, with strange expressions on their faces.

As if noticing the strange gazes of Meng Zhong and the others, Xiang Yu turned his head back and asked in surprise, "What?" Why are you looking at me like that? ”

"No ......"

Meng Zhong shook his head, immediately coughed, and said, "Okay, that's the end of the joke." …… Lian Po's army was ambushed by this, and presumably the army's morale had been dissipated, and it was an excellent time to enter the army. Mu Wu, just as I told you before, I'll leave it to you here. ”

"Obey!" Mu Wu looked upright and hugged his fists.

His mission was simple: to command the nearly 1,000 crossbowmen of the land and lead them to set the woods on fire with fire bolts.

In order to prevent the counterattack of Lian Po's army, Meng Zhong also handed over 500 infantry soldiers to Mu Wu in advance, a total of about 1,500 soldiers.

After ordering Mu Wu to be dismissed, Meng Zhong took Meng Hu, Hua Hu and the rest of the more than 2,000 generations of county soldiers into the woods in front of him, trying to attack the Lian Po army who was retreating from the side.

"Why don't you choose a frontal block?"

Halfway through, Meng Hu asked curiously.

Because in Menghu's opinion, if they set up an ambush on the retreat route of the Lian Po army, wouldn't this be able to block the Lian Po army in the woods? When the time comes, when the fire in the woods spreads, Lian Po's army will surely suffer heavy casualties.

But Meng Zhong shook his head and said: "This is the same as the "encirclement of three and one", never block the enemy's last way of life, otherwise, the enemy soldiers will fight our army desperately in order to survive, but it will put our army into a dangerous situation." …… The current situation is also the same, if they stand in front of it, half of the enemy may lose hope and surrender to our army, while the other half will most likely break through desperately, which will cause our army to suffer unnecessary casualties. But if we only attack from the flank, the enemy soldiers will hardly stop spontaneously to stop us on the way to escape, they will only flee blindly, and for this reason they will not hesitate to expose their backs in front of our soldiers, and then our troops can inflict heavy damage on the enemy without much effort. ”

"I see!"

Meng Hu and Hua Hu suddenly realized.

In less than a moment, Meng Zhong, Meng Hu, and Hua Hu led their soldiers to approach Lian Po's army.

Just as Meng Zhong predicted, thousands of soldiers under Lian Po's command were fleeing in all directions, so that when Meng Zhong and others led the army to kill from the side, the soldiers of Lian Po's army were greatly frightened, and there were no soldiers who spontaneously stopped to stop Meng Zhong's army, they just fled faster in a panic, and even did not hesitate to push Tong Ze in the army.

"Kill ——!"

With the shouts of Menghu and Huahu, about 2,000 rebels were like a fierce beast lurking in the forest, and after seeing the opportunity, they suddenly attacked and bit Lian Pojun's abdomen, which made Lian Pojun's soldiers even more frightened.

"Sima! Sima! ”

Immediately, some soldiers reported the enemy's situation to Sima Lianpo: "The flank was ambushed by the rebels, and the soldiers had no fighting spirit and retreated. ”

"Bastard!"

Hearing this, Lian gritted his teeth with hatred.

In fact, he had already guessed that after the fire arrow, the rebel army led by Meng Zhong would definitely set up an ambush on their way to retreat, but he guessed that he could not give effective command at all in the current situation where the sergeant of the army was ambushed by the fire arrow and fled in all directions.

Thinking of this, he picked up the sword in his hand and rushed in the direction of the rebels, intending to personally cut off the rear for the soldiers under his command.

I have to say that Lian Po is really worthy of being the most courageous general Meng Zhong has encountered so far, I saw him rush to the place where he was attacked, and without saying a word, he slashed several rebel soldiers to death with his sword, and the rebel soldiers who were about to pursue did not dare to step forward.

"Meng Zhong!"

Lian Po didn't bother to pay attention to the little pawns in front of him, and shouted with a sharp sword in his hand: "I am Lian Po!" I know you're here, but do you have the guts to show up and fight me to the death?! ”

Before he could finish speaking, a wave of arrows was shot in the distance, and although Lian Po was agile, he was still hit by an arrow in the arm.

Seeing this, the soldiers behind him panicked, shouted "Sima be careful", and pulled Lian Po back without saying anything.

Seeing that he invited Meng Zhong to fight but was almost killed by random arrows, Lian Po, who was full of anger, was not afraid in his heart, but became more and more angry, and was desperately pulled by the guards around him, while scolding Meng Zhong.

I have to say that Meng Zhong was really wronged, because he was not actually here, and it was the soldiers next to Hua Hu who ordered to shoot arrows at Lian Po.

Of course, Hua Hu knew that Lian Po was a fierce general on Wang Shi's side, and when he saw that this person actually appeared in front of him in anger, of course he wanted to try to get rid of Lian Po - but he knew that his martial arts were not enough to kill Lian Po, so he asked his soldiers to shoot arrows, trying to snipe Lian Po and get rid of a big trouble for himself.

"Sima! Sima! ”

Seeing that Lian Po was still angrily scolding that Meng Zhong, the generals beside him couldn't care about anything else, grabbed Lian Po's clothes and shouted, "Sima, please calm down!" Our army has been defeated, and if anything happens to you, I am afraid that thousands of soldiers will die here! …… Is that what you want to see? ”

Hearing this, Lian Po's face changed suddenly, and after taking a few breaths, he suppressed the anger in his heart, nodded and said, "You're right!" ”

With that, he shouted to the fleeing soldiers around him: "I am Sima Lianpo, gather around me as soon as possible, and form a formation to stop the rebels, otherwise, we will all die and have no place to be buried!" ”

After shouting several times, about 200 soldiers finally gathered around Lian Po, so that the number of soldiers that Lian Po could command at present increased to about five or six hundred, and with these five or six hundred, Lian Po could barely resist the offensive of the rebels.

He fought and retreated, helping more of his soldiers flee the area.

vaguely saw this scene, and even faintly saw Lian Po taking the lead, killing one rebel soldier after another, although Hua Hu gritted his teeth with hatred, but there was nothing he could do.

Also as a disciple of Zhuangziju, and Meng Zhong and Meng Sui are familiar with the art of war, Hua Hu of course knows that Lian Po is the most critical point of the enemy army at present, as long as he can kill this enemy general, the enemy army on the opposite side will completely collapse, but unfortunately, whether it is him or Meng Hu, with their teenage bodies alone, they have no ability to personally kill the enemy general as brave as Lian Po, he can only hope that the bow and crossbow of his subordinates, whether it is a dark arrow or a cold arrow, are aimed at that Lian Po, hoping to shoot it.

But it's a pity that Lian Po's body is really strong and strong, or the armor on his body is also very thick, all in all, even if he was caught off guard by several arrows, but Lian Po became more and more courageous, not to mention that the Daijun soldiers under Hua Hu's command were frightened, and even Hua Hu himself didn't feel a little frightened.

I don't know how long it took, Hua Hu suddenly heard a sound of gold, as if it was coming from the southeast direction.

"Is it Chung?"

Hua Hu was stunned, and immediately decisively ordered the withdrawal of troops.

It turned out that it was Meng Zhong who found that Zhao Ben's 3,000 soldiers were quickly killing Yang Wenjun's military camp with torches, and he was worried that he would be attacked by Zhao Ben's army and Lian Po's army from both sides, so he decided to accept it when he saw it, and simply withdrew his troops.

On the other side, Meng Hu also heard the sound of Mingjin, and after determining the direction of Mingjin's sound, he also decisively ordered the withdrawal of troops: "Withdraw!" Fall back! ”

In a matter of moments, the rebels were completely evacuated.

Seeing this, Lian Po and the soldiers around him also breathed a sigh of relief, and sat down on the ground panting.

"Sima, the fire over there has spread......

There may be soldiers on the left and right who reminded.

Lian Po nodded, and then, he frowned and asked, "What about Yu Ren?" ”

The nearby soldiers glanced at each other, or one of the soldiers whispered: "Yu Ren was too late to dodge, and was shot in the right eye by an arrow, piercing the head, and immediately ...... No breath. ”

“……”

Lian Po opened his mouth, and after a period of silence, he suddenly slammed his fist on the ground, and the corners of his forehead were tense.

"Damn!"

He whispered through gritted teeth.

The soldiers on the left and right looked at each other, or some of the soldiers noticed the fire that was about to spread to this side, and cautiously reminded: "Sima, the fire in the forest is about to burn here, we must evacuate......

Hearing this, Lian Po let out a long breath and asked, "What about the rest of the soldiers?" Have they all been evacuated? ”

The soldier replied, "It's almost all evacuated, and only a few hundred of us are left......

"Hmm."

Lian Po nodded, then struggled to stand up, and with the support of several soldiers, limped towards the outside of the forest.

At this time, outside the forest, Zuo Sima Zhao Ben was assembling the rout troops under Lian Po's command, and when he learned from the soldiers that Lian Po had walked out of the forest, he immediately came over to check Lian Po's injuries.

I saw that in Zhao Ben's eyes, Lian Po had six arrows in his upper and lower body, three of which were in the chest, two in the right leg, and one on the left arm.

After pondering for a while, Zhao Ben said softly: "Lian Sima, the rebels seem to have retreated...... Isn't that the end of tonight? ”

“……”

Lian Po was silent for a moment, and then nodded silently.

I have to say that their plan to ambush Meng Zhong tonight can be described as a complete failure, instead of killing Meng Zhong, they were counterattacked by Meng Zhong's generals for a while, fortunately, Zhao Ben's support was quite timely, otherwise, I am afraid that the five thousand soldiers under Lian Po's command may be swallowed by Meng Zhong's army.

Subsequently, under Lian Po's plea, Zhao Ben sent his soldiers to the woods to move back the Lian Po soldiers who died in the battle as much as possible, so that the corpses of these heroic soldiers would not be swallowed up by the merciless sea of fire and there would be no bones left.

Originally, Lian Po wanted to stay, but Zhao Ben was moved by Yu Lian Po's courage to ignore his injuries, and repeatedly asked Lian Po to return to the camp first to deal with his injuries.

It took more than an hour for Zhao Ben to deal with the aftermath and return to the camp with his soldiers.

When he returned to his tent, he found Lian Po sitting in his tent.

I saw that at this moment, Lian Po had taken off his armor and his upper body was wrapped with strips of cloth, so that it was clearly visible that three pools of blood were oozing from his chest.

"Zosima!"

After seeing Zhao Ben enter the account, Lian Po wanted to stand up and salute, but seeing this, Zhao Ben hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Lian Sima doesn't need to be polite. ”

With that, he took off his armor, changed into a robe, and sat down opposite Lian Po.

"The corpses of your soldiers, I have asked the soldiers to move back as much as possible, and they are now being placed in Dongying ......"

"Thank you, Zosima."

“……”

“……”

Immediately, the two fell into a long silence.

Because they're in a bad mood at the moment.

After dozens of breaths, Zhao Ben carefully asked with his words: "Lian Sima, if you don't mind, can you tell me about your ambush by mistake?" ”

Lian Po didn't get angry when he heard this, nodded, and told Zhao Ben about his mistake in the ambush, including the fact that Meng Zhong used a dozen sheep to kick the snare drum to lure him to the ambush point.

After listening to Lian Po's complete narration, Zhao Ben let out a long breath.

To be honest, he didn't underestimate Lian Po before, even when he realized that Lian Po had fallen into Meng Zhong's ambush in turn, and after listening to Lian Po's story, he also thought that Lian Po didn't make a mistake, but that Meng Zhong was too cunning - who would have thought that the sound of the snare drum would be the sound of a dozen sheep kicking the snare drum?

"That Meng Zhong...... Awesome! ”

Just when Zhao Ben didn't know what to say to comfort Lian Po, Lian Po took the initiative to say: "I, Lian Po, am not good at using soldiers, but I have also faced many opponents, but so far, I have not encountered an enemy, like that of Meng Zhong...... Intriguing. ”

Zhao Ben nodded silently, then frowned and said, "I still can't figure it out, how did he know that you and I would ambush him tonight?" ”

Lian Po thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's because of my relationship." ”

"You?" Zhao Ben was a little puzzled.

Seeing this, Lian Po explained: "This morning, I took more than 100 soldiers to the eastern hills to spy on the camp of the rebels under Meng Zhong. ”

"So what?" Zhao Ben still didn't understand.

So Lian Po explained: "Maybe he guessed that it was me, and then considering that I was a military general under Fengyangjun, but this time I went to the eastern hills to spy on, which probably means that Fengyangjun is ready to take the lead in eradicating him Mengzhong, and then ......"

Hearing Lian Po's explanation, Zhao Ben was stunned.

He looked at Lian Po's serious appearance, and he didn't suspect that this was Lian Po's nonsense, but could Meng Zhong really guess from such a thing that they would ambush outside the camp tonight? - How could Meng Zhong's foresight predict this extent?

After being silent for a moment, Zhao Ben said softly, "Today...... It's better to stop here, Lian Sima will also go back to the account to rest, as for the matter of Meng Zhong, you and I will discuss it in detail tomorrow. ”

Lian Po nodded when he heard this, after all, he had just lost, and he was not in the mood to discuss the strategy of eradicating Meng Zhong.

So, he immediately got up and took his leave.

As soon as Lian Po left on the front foot, Zhao Bao came to Zhao Ben's tent and asked Zhao Ben about the specific process and results of the ambush of Meng Zhong tonight.

When they learned that Lian Po and Zhao Ben not only succeeded in killing Meng Zhong, but were ambushed by Meng Zhong in turn, Yang Wenjun and Zhao Bao actually laughed.

This laughter made Zhao Ben very embarrassed.

"Zhao Ben, don't care, the old man is not laughing at you."

As if seeing the embarrassment on Zhao Ben's face, Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao waved his hand and explained: "The old man is just laughing...... Just laugh at me Zhao Guo. ”

After that, he shook his head and sighed, and said with emotion: "I still remember when Zhao Suhou was the Marquis of Zhao, my Zhao State took over the 'hegemony' from the hands of Wei State, and then Zhao Suhou used Su and Qin to unite the six countries, and my Zhao State has since gotten rid of the weakness since the civil strife of Zhao Huanzi, and then to the father of Zhao, and attacked Yanmen, Yuzhong, and Zhongshan before and after, forcing Qi to surrender to my Zhao State, seeing that my Zhao State will be strong and prosperous, and compete with Qin State, and people of insight in the world have gathered, but I never thought that at this juncture, the country once again caused civil strife......"

With that, he shook his head, sighed, and left.

Looking at the back of Yang Wenjun and Zhao Bao leaving, Zhao Ben couldn't help but be a little silent.

He, as well as Lian Po, and Meng Zhong on the other side, the three of them are each other's courtiers and generals of the Zhao State, and the armies under the command of the three are also the soldiers of the Zhao State, and they should have joined hands to fight against the Qi State or the Qin State, but because of the contradictions between the three of Zhao's master's father, Zhao Wanghe, Gongzi Zhang's father, brother, and brother, they were hostile to each other and fought against each other.

"That's not what I'm supposed to think about......

Shaking his head, Zhao Ben put all the nonsense in his heart behind him, and calmed down to think about the strategy to eradicate Meng Zhong.

The question is, how do you defeat that cunning and resourceful kid?

Zhao Ben, who used to be quite conceited about his talents, suddenly felt a little lacking in confidence.