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After dusk came, the surroundings of Shijing Village gradually quieted down, and a team of officers and soldiers patrolling the camp continued to patrol outside the village, for fear that the gang of thieves in the village would break through and escape at night, and the people in the village were also silently holding bowls and eating in large gulps, and it was rare to eat a bite of meat on weekdays, and now the large pieces were placed in front of them, although they still tasted the same fragrant, but everyone's mood was very heavy, because in their opinion, this was the last meal in their lives, and when the sun rose again tomorrow, I'm afraid that it was when they died here, so everyone was silent, just bowed their heads and ate, even the villagers in the village, they all silently gathered together to eat this meal with the most meat in their lives, secretly worried about their fate, only children who did not have a little scheming, for the first time to eat meat so much, laughing and playing with each other, while their parents were secretly weeping, and there was a kind of despair in the crowd. （）

A group of crows smelled the smell of blood in the air from nowhere, and gradually gathered over Ishii Village, and began to fall one by one, tentatively landing between the corpses that had been dropped by the officials and soldiers at the entrance of the village, and tentatively began to walk back and forth between the corpses to see if there was any danger.

After they found that there was no danger, they began to jump on some corpses and pecked hard, and gradually more and more crows began to fall, competing for the corpses dropped by these officers and soldiers, but for such a scene, although the officers and soldiers looked uncomfortable, they did not dare to come over and grab the corpses of their robes.

Because these corpses are within the range of the thieves in the village, if the corpses are not robbed, and if they are shot by the thieves, it will be even more cost-effective, and they can only send another big meal to the crows for nothing.

And for these crows fighting to eat the corpses of officers and soldiers, Luo Li and his subordinates are not in the mood to care, anyway, they are not their brothers, and the crows will let them eat if they like to eat!

But then Zhang Yan really couldn't stand it, sent people to set up two cannons, aimed at the entrance of the village and fired two cannons, the huge cannon sound startled the crows who were fighting for the corpses, the cannonballs scattered on the ground at the entrance of the village, and did not kill a few crows, but startled the people in the village, Luo Li and the soldiers grabbed their weapons and were about to jump up and prepare, for fear that the officers and soldiers would launch an attack at night, once that was the case, they would definitely not be able to survive the night, so they all hurriedly got up and prepared for battle.

But at a glance, everyone scolded loudly, it turned out that the officers and soldiers were bombarding the crows with cannons, which made everyone nervous, so they all sat down again.

At the same time, Xiao Tianjian also led his troops to the mountain pass, stopped far away, Wang Chengping immediately led his subordinates to clean up the night of several officers and soldiers who appeared around them, and captured a live mouth, sandwiched it on horseback and brought it back to the army.

The performance of Wang Chengping and his subordinates really convinced Xiao Tianjian and them, the riding skills of these people are very exquisite, after arriving on the flat ground, like a dragon entering the water, coming and going like the wind, even Shi Ran, the sentry general of the scout team, has to express his admiration for Wang Chengping.

The officers and soldiers who were captured could not stand the torture of the Xingtian Army at night, and immediately confessed, telling them where they came from and the situation in Shijing Village.

It turned out that this official army was transferred from Taiyuan Mansion all the way to the guard, and it was ordered by Hong Chengchou to go to Henan to encircle and suppress the people's army, because Hong Chengchou was in a hurry, they set off from Taiyuan Mansion on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, and dragged their way here, and the Zhang guerrilla who led the team was also in Jiangxian County, so he led his troops to take a detour and wanted to go home to see, but they ran into Luo Li's gang who was collecting food in this area.

This guerrilla Zhang made meritorious service, thinking that if he could exterminate all the poles before he arrived in Henan, it would be a credit, and he would definitely be able to get the attention of Lord Hong Chengchou and pave the way for his promotion in the future.

After hearing the news that the official army had not yet taken Shijing Village, Xiao Tianjian was much more relieved, and the night of this official army was also said, Zhang Yan had already ordered to stop attacking Shijing Village in the afternoon, and planned to take Shijing Village in one fell swoop tomorrow, but he did not expect that this group of poles blocked in Shijing Village would have a support army to rescue them.

Xiao Tianjian waved his hand, and someone came over to drag this night Bushu down, and without saying a word, he slashed it with a knife, and then he summoned Yan Chongxi, Shi Ran and others and began to discuss how to rescue Luo Li and his group.

According to Wang Chengping's idea, that is, early tomorrow morning, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the officers and troops, they suddenly appeared from behind the officers and troops, with nearly 100 cavalry of their scout team as the vanguard to assault the rear of the officers and troops, and Xiao Tianjian led the troops to smash the officers and troops again, so that they could defeat the officers and troops and rescue Luo Li and other troops in Shijing Village.

Regarding Wang Chengping's suggestion, basically several generals also agreed, although they did not have as many troops as the officers and soldiers, but the Xingtian Army was well trained and relatively rich in combat experience, and it should not be a problem to defeat this army with their strength, and it was safer to do so, and the danger was very small for them.

But Xiao Tianjian frowned and thought silently for a long time, but finally rejected Wang Chengping's proposal and said to them: "It's not appropriate! We are not making a big deal against the Shanxi officials at the moment, but temporarily hiding in the Yangcheng area, the method you said is indeed more secure, and there will be no problem in breaking up this road of officers and soldiers, but have you thought of what impact we will have on us in the future? ”

Everyone shook their heads to show that they didn't expect it, Xiao Tianjian smiled bitterly, and then said to them: "The night of the official army just now is not collected, but I said, this official army is the soldiers and horses of the Taiyuan Prefecture Metropolitan Guard, if we really blatantly go over and overturn them in one fell swoop, then think about it, will the Shanxi Political Secretary still not notice us?"

So if this battle can not be fought, it is better not to fight, we don't want to kill more enemies, as long as we find a way to rescue Luo Li and them, it is best to create an illusion, so that they misunderstand that we don't have many soldiers and horses, and it is best to treat us as an ordinary pole or a horse thief!

In this case, even if this guerrilla suffers a little loss, it is estimated that he will not dare to blatantly report it, as long as the loss under his command is not very large, he will find a way to press this matter, and the province will lose his official position because of this matter, so that we can not only rescue Luo Li, but also will not attract a big report from the government!

In addition, I can tell you that now that King Chuang Gao Yingxiang and their large group of rebels have been raised to Henan, I am afraid that they will soon do earth-shattering things, and the imperial court and the surrounding provincial governments will definitely focus their attention on Henan. This time we should have a chance to try not to make a big deal out of it, do you know what I mean? ”

Since Xiao Tianjian said everything so clearly, what else did Yan Chongxi and Wang Chengping not understand? So they all nodded and made it clear, in terms of grand strategy, they are far less clear than Xiao Tianjian, a later person, about the current general trend of the country, so in terms of overall consideration, these people's vision is definitely not as good as Xiao Tianjian's, but for Xiao Tianjian's current idea of accumulating strength in Yangcheng, they also agree, after all, they also know that they are only a few thousand, and if they confront the officials and troops on the Shanxi side head-on, their strength is still too small, so now Xiao Tianjian said that they want to hide the truth and show the false, and they have nothing to oppose.

So everyone began to discuss again, and finally Xiao Tianjian put forward an opinion, and after everyone discussed it, they said that they could, so Xiao Tianjian waved his hand and said: "Then it's decided, everyone starts to rest, today the brothers have walked hundreds of miles during the day, and they are all tired, take advantage of this opportunity, hurry up and sleep to recuperate!" Wait until I give the order, and get moving! ”

The generals immediately received the order, and began to go down to arrange, and a group of soldiers of the Xingtian Army hid into the forest on the side of the mountain pass, and they all gnawed some cakes in the cold water, and then fell to the ground and wrapped their clothes in a quilt, and squeezed together to sleep.

In order to avoid being discovered by the officials and soldiers at night, the Xingtian Army didn't even light a bonfire, just huddled together and slept under the trees in the cold forest, but the long-distance rapid march during the day really exhausted them, even if it was very cold, the soldiers of the Xingtian Army quickly snored loudly and fell asleep, after such a long time of tempering, most of the generals' nerves have become very large, knowing that they may be about to go into battle, but few people are the same as when they first joined the army, I couldn't sleep all night.