Chapter 44 Confusing the Truth with the False
"Pass my general order, the whole army will have a meal, and assemble out of the camp at the right time!" Meng Guan gave the order.
"Yes!"
Qi Wannian watched the battle in the city as usual, and the two generals of Hao Duyuan and the Qi family also pulled the wind to open the formation, waiting for the Jin army.
Hao Duyuan said to Lafeng: "Sir, you can't have any scruples about using the snake array this time, you can't stop until you wipe out all the Jin army, if you hurt the person you want, as long as you give her the snake venom, the person is still yours, you can't destroy the Jin army, you still can't take the people you want." ”
"Well, this time the old man is no longer soft!"
When the words were not long, the Jin army came out of the camp, there were 40,000 people, a hundred flat vans all dispatched, the flag covered the sun, the sword armor was bright, came to a place one arrow away from the rebel army and stopped, lined up in a phalanx, three thousand crossbowmen pressed the horns of the formation, Meng Guan once again beat the horse out of the formation, took a few steps forward, and pointed at Hao Duyuan with a whip and said: "You wait for the rebel army to surrender early, so as not to have no eyes for swords and arrows, and the lives will be ruined!" ”
Hao Duyuan came out and said: "Boy, don't call here, if you have the ability, don't just run away, and fight with us!" Last time you ran faster than a rabbit! Hahahaha......"
The rebels behind him also laughed wildly.
Meng Guan hit his horse back into battle, and with a wave of his sword, he ordered: "Kill!" ”
The Jin army attacked forward in a phalanx, with four rows of halberders and pikemen in front, advancing with guns, followed by fifty taels of flat vans, and hard crossbowmen on the side of the car.
Hao Duyuan saw the Jin army coming to charge the battle, and said to Lafeng: "Let them taste the power of the snake formation again!" ”
Lafeng agreed, took out the waist drum, clapped his hands a few times, and thousands of snakes poured out again in all directions, just like last time, attacking the Jin army!
The snake got closer and closer, and suddenly countless mechanical meerkats were released from the Jin army's flat van, and as soon as they landed, they pounced on the poisonous snake, and made a kind of cry from their mouths.
When Lafeng saw that it was a meerkat, he was taken aback: "This, this, this, where did the meerkat come from!" ”
The poisonous snake had no scruples, but as soon as he saw the meerkat and heard their call, although the snake's hearing was almost none, the mouth of the meerkat was close to the ground, vibrating, so the snake could clearly perceive the sharp cry of the meerkat and knew that its natural enemies were coming, and they were about to retreat back. But he couldn't understand how the Jin army could find so many snake mongooses in such a short period of time!
The Jin army re-launched the attack, the rebel army did not have the help of poisonous snakes, and it immediately collapsed, Hao Duyuan couldn't stop drinking, and also withdrew with the chaotic army to the city, the Jin army shot indiscriminately, and the rebel army was killed and wounded.
The Jin army was able to kill, but there was a golden gong behind the collection of troops, and the Jin army had to stop chasing anymore, Meng Guan wondered if he didn't order the troops to be collected, what kind of person would this disobey the military order!
Meng Guan took a closer look at the gong that was striking the gong by Zu Ti and several sergeants.
Meng Guan went over and said angrily: "Who let you ring the gong casually!" ”
Several soldiers were afraid and couldn't speak, Zu Ti said: "General Meng, I asked them to do it, I'm sorry, Zu Ti faked your order, it's none of their business." ”
"Zu Ti, why did you do this, do you know, if we take advantage of the victory to pursue, we will wrap all the tens of thousands of dumplings in him, although you are not a person in the army, but the crime of falsely passing on military orders and delaying military aircraft is unforgivable!"
"General Meng, most of these rebellious armies are actually ordinary people, natural disasters and man-made disasters have to follow Liu Wannian, I hope the general will not kill too much, as long as he can catch Qi Wannian and other thieves, the rebellious army will naturally disperse."
"How can there be a woman's kindness in the army! What a mess! There are so many people in the rebel army, how can you guarantee to capture Qi Wannian? ”
"General, Zu Ti once said that the rebellious army would be eliminated within a month, and Zu would never break his word! But quelling the chaos is not necessarily a killing spree! ”
"You...... You...... You ......"
Meng Guan was so angry that he couldn't speak, but after all, he couldn't do without Zu Li, if he could quell the chaos as soon as possible, his reputation would shock the government and the opposition, and the addition of an official to the knighthood was just around the corner, he ordered angrily: "The whole army returns to the camp!" ”
Back in the camp, Meng Guan no longer paid attention to Zu Ti, and Zu Ti did not go to see him for the time being, he wanted Meng Guan to calm down.
He entered Jin Ziyan's tent and asked her out of the camp to the Wei River, and the two walked by the river.
Jin Ziyan and the two walked side by side, talking as they walked, she suddenly felt that there was someone behind her, she looked back, saw Yun Ru following from a distance, saw Jin Ziyan turned around, and turned to the other side unnaturally.
"Brother Zu, Yunru is following us ......"
Zu Ti looked back and saw Yun Ru from a distance, he said: "Yun Ru follows me every day, and if I don't see him for a while, there will be no master, and it is normal for him to follow us." ”
"Big brother, she relies on you so much, will she ......?"
"What......?"
"Does she like you?"
"How come, she is the third princess of Loulan, I am a small citizen, she follows me like this is nothing more than asking me to go to Loulan to help, even if she relies on me, she regards me as a big brother in her heart, don't think about it."
"You're going to Loulan after you're done with this?"
"Yes, I promised to help her, no matter what, I will go to Loulan and do my part."
Jin Ziyan thought of her senior brother Jin Zhanhong, she had regarded him as a big brother since she was a child, maybe Yunru really regarded Zu Ti as a big brother.
Jin Ziyan was relieved, and cherished the rare time with him, he said happily: "Big brother, there is a tree in front, let's see who runs fast, the one who can reach the big tree first wins, and the one who loses will have his nose scratched." ”
"Okay, but no one is allowed to use internal force."
"Well, a ...... Run! Jin Ziyan counted a count and ran away.
"You're cheating, I'm waiting for you to count to three!"
Zu Ti chased forward, the two ran happily, and after a while, Jin Ziyan reached the big tree first, clamoring to scrape Zu Ti's nose.
Yun Ru watched Zu Ti and the two happily together from afar, and her heart was inexplicably sad, she always thought, and now she also thinks that Zu Ti is her own, Loulan's concubine in the future, and her bosom lover, but all these dreams have been broken by this scene in front of her, Yun Ru took out the agreement signed by Zu Ti from her arms, and looked at Zu Ti's promise between the lines, feeling a little better.
The two of them were immersed in the world of the two, when a sergeant rode over, dismounted and said, "Brother Zu, General Meng is looking for you." ”
Zu Ti didn't dare to delay and returned to the camp immediately.
Zu Ti entered the Zhongjun tent, seeing that Meng Guan's anger at this time had also disappeared, and before he could speak, Meng Guan said: "Zu Ti, you did the right thing just now, but it was all my fault, which made you unhappy." ”
"As long as the general can understand, Zu Ti does everything for the people of the world, for the court, for the general, and he will never dare to have personal feelings in it."
"Okay, Zu Ti, now the rebel army is in the city, we are outside the city, it is not a way to hold each other like this, I remember you once said that you would help me break the rebel army in a month, and now half of the time has passed, are you still sure?" ’
"As long as the general can trust Zu, Zu will definitely be able to do it."
"Of course I trust you, and this expedition is also thanks to you, otherwise General Ben may not be able to have today's situation. From now on, you can plan for me again, what to do next, but no matter what, you must wipe out the rebel army within half a month. ”
"The general trusts Zu, Zu is grateful, as long as he is able to obey his words, not to mention that half a month is even a few days in advance."
"Okay, so what do we do now?"
"Xianyang City is high and strong, and it can't be attacked hard, otherwise it will only waste military strength, and the current way is to besiege the city."
"Siege? Is it useful, the food they stole in Xianyang City is enough to eat for a year and a half. ”
"The purpose of our siege is to let him escape, as long as he runs, we will be able to use our soldiers."
"But how could Qi Wannian be so obedient?"
"Then we can only force the rebels to flee out of the city."
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