Chapter 2 (Fourth)

"Men and boys are pitiful, their heads are in the ditch in a different place, no one collects the white bones in front of the battle, and their wives and children look at each other in their dreams. Men and boys are pitiful insects, they do not return in spring and autumn, no one collects the grain beans at home, and partridges and wild finches fly around the trees. The twenty-eight young woman's face was like paint, and she sat under the lamp sewing clothes. There is nowhere to send the clothes sewn, and they are folded at the head of the bed. Get up in the middle of the night and sew two lines, one is lonely and one is crying......"

The song came along the mountain wind, intermittently drifting into people's ears. It was a new word, but it was the old tone of Murong Xianbei's family. It's long and lingering.

Most of the soldiers of Liu Wu and Zhou's army were recruited from the two counties of Mayi and Yanmen, and half of Hu and Han, and their hearts were not too desolate after hearing this. The generals and colonels in the army were mostly his old department in Zuowuhou, an out-and-out son of the Central Plains. Listening to the ballad, I thought that after my death, my wife and children were not taken care of, and I couldn't help but cry.

Wei Chi Jingde secretly screamed that it was not good, and listened to the folk song for a while, without the enemy to fight, his military spirit had already dispersed. Hurriedly puffed up his breath and shouted vigorously: "Don't listen to the fox on the mountain, they are afraid, so they came up with these crooked tricks." Immediately form the whole team, this time, Lao Tzu personally took the lead! ”

Before the words fell, a horn suddenly sounded behind him. Immediately after, more than 300 cavalrymen swooped out from the depths of the woods like mad tigers and bit the end of the ranks. Liu Wu Zhoujun was listening to the song and listened sadly, but no one knew where this cavalry came from.

"Steady, steady. Follow me and kill them! Wei Chi Jingde was so angry that he smoked and led his own soldiers to meet him. In the panic, it was so easy to get the mount to increase its speed. When he finally put his soldiers in order, he put on a formation to meet the attack. The enemy army has had enough, whistle and gallop away. Only a big banner with the word "king" was left, waving in the wind in the dust.

"If you don't take revenge, you won't be a person!" Wei Chi Jingde gritted his teeth and scolded at the back of the enemy. After scolding enough, I suddenly remembered that the main owner was still watching the excitement on Niutou Mountain, and those were just a sentry just now.

"The whole team, follow me and kill them, and trample them into meat sauce!" Pointing the lance in the right direction, he commanded loudly. With that, a belt of mounts rushed to the front of the team.

"General, slow!" Lu Jianfang didn't know where to get out again, and stabbed obliquely to stop Yu Chi Jingde's horse's head. "There are too many archers on the mountain, and if you rush forward, you can't get any bargain!"

"Who let you out, who has such guts!" Wei Chi Jingde was on the fire, pointing at Lu Jianfang's nose and scolding. If the other party does not warn, perhaps halfway through the rush, he himself will realize the mistake of command and bring the brothers down the hill again. Now that I was awakened by the other party, I felt ashamed and angry, knowing that it was wrong, and I didn't want to turn back.

"They weren't tied tightly enough. The enemy army attacked secretly just now, and the last general didn't dare to sit still, so he had to escape by himself! Lu Jian hugged his fists to Wei Chi Jingde and replied calmly.

With his seniority and popularity in the army, it is true that no brother dared to tie him up and stuff horse manure in his mouth. dragged him away just now, just for show, lest Wei Chi Jingde not be able to get off the stage. At this moment, Wei Chi Jingde was in a hurry, and everyone was in chaos, so they didn't dare to dissuade them, so they had to invite Lu Jianfang out again and pour some cold water on Yu Chi Jingde's head.

Seeing that the other party was neither humble nor arrogant, Wei Chi Jingde's anger became smaller, nodded and said in a low voice: "It's okay if you're fine." I'm going to personally lead the army to charge, and you just happen to help me center the dispatch! ”

"With the bravery of the general, the enemy formation will be broken with a single drum." In the face of a strong enemy, Lu Jianfang took into account the overall situation and no longer fought hard with Wei Chi Jingde. "But we only have more than 2,000 elites, and we can't all be buried here at once. The enemy relied on nothing more than bows and arrows and crossbows. If my army weaves branches into shields and covers them with mud, they can block the bow and crossbow shots! At that time, the general will come forward with a lance and ......."

"Thank you Lao Lu for your advice!" Wei Chi Jingde's eyes were happy, he jumped off his mount, and rushed to the ground with a long slam at Lu Jianfang. "Last night was a certain anger, offended, please bear with Lao Lu. When he destroyed the thieves, he avenged the brethren. When he returned to the city, he was punished by the beating, and a certain family would never dare to escape. ”

"Don't talk about that. I also went crazy last night, and my mouth was full of tongues! Lu Jianfang waved his hand and responded in a low voice, "The last general will organize people to cut down tree branches." Please also ask the general to be more vigilant, lest the thief repeat his old tricks! ”

"Hmm!" Wei Chi Jingde agreed in a low voice. Two groups of cavalry, about 50 men each, were then dispatched to search the area around the camp so as not to give the enemy an opportunity. After a while, the search party returned to report that the enemy had gone away. But the scouts sent out last night were completely damaged, their bodies were left in the wilderness, and their horses, weapons, and armor were stolen by the enemy.

"Leave him alone. Kill the group of dog thieves on the mountain, they are a gang anyway! Wei Chi Jingde waved his fist and forced himself to calm down. About an hour later, Lu Jianfang prepared a huge shield made of three hundred branches and mud, and let the strong men in the army hold it and walked to the front of Wei Chi Jingde.

"Directly feign upwards and push it in front of the enemy's deer. The cavalry dismounted, followed the shield and walked slowly, and when the shield player came into contact with the enemy, he would rush forward and kill! Wei Chi Jingde pondered for a moment and arranged in a low voice.

This strong force is the elite of Liu Wu Zhou's army, although it has suffered setbacks, it can still carry out the orders of the main general in an orderly manner. After a while, the attack sequence was rearranged, and Wei Chi Jingde arched his hand to Lu Jianfang and handed over the camp to the other party. Then lead the whole army and slowly press towards the hillside.

I had never seen such an ugly tactic, and the defenders behind the deer were a little dumbfounded. At first, he panicked and shot a few rounds of feather arrows, but found that the effect was not great, so he mobilized his crossbowman to step forward and shoot at the shield. Helplessly, the shield made by Lu Jianfang was so full of materials that he couldn't wait to see through two layers of leather armor, and the crossbow arrows that could penetrate two layers of leather armor smashed on the surface of the mud shield, and he could only smash out a pit. You can't hurt the enemy behind the shield at all.

"Keep the speed, keep the speed, it doesn't have to be too fast! The people behind hurry up and follow! Seeing that the mud shield tactics worked, Wei Chi Jingde was overjoyed and whispered a message backwards.

"The general has an order, keep the speed, and the people behind follow suit." One by one, the guards passed the order from the front of the line to the end of the line. Everyone was sure that this time the victory was in their hands, and when the strength of the two sides was about the same, General Wei Chi had never lost to any opponent. As long as he rushes forward, wielding a lance in one hand and a whip in the other, no number of warriors can stop him.

Soon, the team approached within a hundred paces of the deer. At his feet, the remains of the war dead began to appear, horizontal and vertical, and bloodstained. Wei Chi Jingde ordered the team to pause, and while arranging the formation, he ordered the dead robes to be carried to the rear, ready to be buried, and not left to the beasts to spoil them. This move rebuilt his morale, and many of the brothers saw the dead man covered with feathered arrows, and their eyes turned red, and their hands holding knives were bruised.

The feathered arrows behind the deer are getting more and more sparse. The defending generals found themselves doing something in vain. Simply stopped shooting. "Keep going! Hasten! Wei Chi Jingde knew that the opportunity to charge had come, and shouted in a deep voice. The shield-bearers immediately quickened their pace, rushed through the distance between friend and foe, and smashed the huge shield made of branches and mud on the deer with a thud.

"Raise your lance, rush forward!" Wei Chi Jingde shouted, threw the iron whip to his own soldiers, and stepped on the shield with both hands flat. The sturdy shield shook and held his legs. Immediately after, he jumped over the deer and swung his lance sharply, smashing the three enemies crouched behind the deer at the same time.

The feeling that the spear was passing out made Wei Chi Jingde's arms sore, and his teeth were astringent. The wheel is round but the hammer is smashed into the air, this is the feeling, before he joined the army, he tasted a similar taste. The three enemy soldiers hiding behind the deer suddenly showed their prototypes, where were the frightened and frightened people, it was clearly three scarecrows, and the clothes of the soldiers were on the boat.

The soldiers who jumped into the deer one after another also found out that they had been fooled, and cut down countless "enemy soldiers" one after another, but they did not see half a drop of blood. The fellows who had fired the arrows at them had already run two hundred paces away, and as they ran down the other side of the hill, they turned around and beckoned.

"General Wei Chi, my General Cheng said, thank you for sending it away. Those scarecrows are given to you as gifts! Among the deserters, a few funny guys shouted loudly, lest Wei Chi Jingde not be mad.

"Bring the bow!" Wei Chi Jingde roared angrily, eager to cut the other party with a thousand knives. I stretched out my hand a few times, but no one responded. Only then did I realize that this place was an enemy camp, and the strong bow I usually used was left at the bottom of the mountain, and I didn't bring it with the guards at all.

"General, poor Kou Mo chase!" A guard was afraid that Wei Chi Jingde would do something irrational again, so he stepped forward and reminded in a low voice.

"You say it." Wei Chi Jingde returned his hand and pushed the other party to a stagger, "The whole team, go down the mountain, go around the bottom of the mountain, and catch them!" ”

"The whereabouts of the enemy army are unknown!" The guard dodged a few steps and continued to warn.

"What?" Wei Chi Jingde frowned, raised his eyes and looked around. The enemy troops who had served as suspicious soldiers in the mountains and had only fled in the end had run farther and farther. Soon he ran to the bottom of the hill on the north side, trotted up another hill, and disappeared into a patch of green. In the depths of the verdant mountains, I don't know how many opponents are hidden, I opened my throat, and continued to sing endlessly: "Men and boys are poor insects, their heads are in different ditches, no one collects the white bones in front of the battle, and their wives and children look at each other in their dreams. Men and boys are pitiful insects, they do not return in spring and autumn, no one collects the grain beans at home, and partridges and wild finches fly around the trees. The twenty-eight young woman's face was like paint, and she sat under the lamp sewing clothes. There is nowhere to send the clothes sewn, and they are folded at the head of the bed. Get up in the middle of the night and sew two lines, one is lonely and one is crying......"