Wei Yan and Zhang Wei failed to go down to Xiaban City to harass them, because they learned from the captives that in addition to the open terrain around Xiaban City, which is not conducive to rapid hiding, there are also enemy troops camping on several high ground outside the city, so that once they are discovered, they will be surrounded on all sides, and there is no way to withdraw at all. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Moreover, they also saw that after Xiahou Yuan led the army out of the city, even the foot soldiers marched and ran like a gust of wind.

Not only did Wei Yan look depressed, but Zhang Wei couldn't help but scold: "These guys, why are they going to mourn." ”

"I think it's better to meet with General Huang Lao first and discuss it together." Zhang Wei persuaded Wei Yandao.

Wei Yan shook his head and said, "Otherwise, I'll still find a way to go to the rear of the lower division and give them a few clicks in the back." ”

"Don't, I'm worried about General Huang's side, there are a lot of new people there, so let's go back and take a look first, and then discuss. In my opinion, Xiahou Yuan may be about to send someone to search the mountain. Zhang Wei suddenly felt that the situation was very serious.

The two of them led the army back, and it happened that Huang Zhong also sent someone to look for them, and the next morning, they saw Huang Zhong and Fa Zheng.

Xiahou Yuan had already confirmed that there were only less than 1,000 enemy troops hidden in the mountains, because when the Shu army was robbing grain the night before, two Cao soldiers took advantage of the darkness to hide in the grass and escaped, and then appeared on the road yesterday and reported the situation to him.

After a quick inspection yesterday, it was found that in addition to the place where the grain was robbed, a total of three military station checkpoints were destroyed, and further on, the sergeants there had received the news and strengthened their defenses. He had already asked them to inform the next few checkpoints, temporarily merge one for every two military stations, and leave them some cavalry to strengthen the defense, and at the same time send people to quickly fly forward to report to Cao Cao.

When he returned to Xia Zhi in the evening, although he went back and forth two hundred miles a day, he still did not sleep for most of the night, and vowed to destroy all those enemies in the mountains.

As soon as he came early in the morning, he quickly gathered his sergeants and set out again, and today, he was going to take action so that the enemies hiding in the mountains would have nowhere to hide!

"Climb up to the ridgeline, and on every hill you will cut down trees and erect a watchtower for me. I'd like to see how long they can hide! Xiahou Yuan pointed to the hills on the side of the road.

He said to Zhu Ling again: "You take people, start from here." Remember, they're less than a thousand at best, so don't be intimidated by them anymore! ”

"Yes, yes, general, rest assured. As long as I find their traces, I must kill them without leaving a single piece of armor, and be ashamed of the eve of the snow! "Zhu Ling is really going to die of shame now.

Xiahou Yuan ordered the other sergeants: "Let's go, start from the other end, and go back to investigate with the sergeants who stayed there yesterday!" ”

As soon as Fa Zheng, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan met, they received the news that Xiahou Yuan had set up a sentry along the ridgeline.

Wei Yan's first reaction was: "Let's not get together, let's disperse and transfer quickly, the more people, the bigger the target, the easier it is to be exposed." ”

Fa Zheng had already anticipated this situation, and had already discussed it with Huang Zhong: "General Wei, don't disperse anymore, let's do a big job, and then quickly find a way to retreat." I estimate that Cao Cao will also retire soon, and your original goal has been at least half achieved. ”

What kind of achievement is this, Wei Yanzhi shook his head: "At the beginning, I wanted to take it down." ”

Fa Zheng's head shook even more than him: "No, no, no, General Wei don't be too greedy, just with such a few people, and there is no internal response, it is too slim to take down Xiahou Yuan's heavy defense, and even if he takes it, he will be surrounded by the enemy's heavy troops." This is not Nanzheng, Cao Cao has people. ”

"The enemy is already preparing to search the mountains, we can't wait here to die." Wei Yan sat on the ground.

Fa Zheng and Huang Zhong looked at each other and smiled, and said to Wei Yan: "Where are you going now?" Xiahou Yuan was not slow. But since he's running fast, why don't we just let him run a little faster and let him run to death? ”

"What do you mean?" Wei Yan finally heard the meaning of Fa Zheng's words, and quickly stood up again.

Fa Zheng sneered twice: "Xiahou Yuan relied on himself to run fast, and he actually wanted to launch a search and arrest almost at the same time from a distance of dozens of miles, so there must be a lot of negligence in this......

Xiahou Yuan is still too slow, he can't wait to find out the hidden Shu army and destroy it on the same day, and then go to teach the people who are grabbing food with him. At his urging, on the forty-mile stretch of the road, observation towers were erected on half of the roadside hills that day, and some sergeants had already begun to climb over the mountain beams to search.

The next day, the manhunt was in full swing, and it soon bore fruit.

Zhu Ling's subordinates climbed over the mountain beam and went down to the bottom of the valley, where they found a large number of traces of human activity, many plants and trees were trampled on, and there were footprints everywhere on the ground.

Zhu Ling personally came over to check and immediately concluded: "That's right, this is almost a thousand-person operation, it seems that those enemies have moved here." Everyone, pay attention, follow the footprints! ”

Not far after chasing, Zhu Ling's eyes were sharp, and he immediately found that on the hillside in front of him, there were many enemies desperately climbing up, some people had already climbed to the top of the mountain, and looked back a few times, and quickly disappeared to the back of the mountain, and hurriedly beckoned to the sergeants: "Quick, the enemy has fled to the mountain over there, hurry up and catch up, don't let them run!" ”

The Cao army rushed forward one by one, following the enemy's road in advance, and went into the mountains and forests to chase hard, but this hillside was really difficult to walk, and many people were unstable under their feet, so they fell backwards, and kicked down the others who were following closely behind.

"Whoosh!" Out of nowhere, a short arrow flew out of nowhere, and it was stuck in the throat of the sergeant in front of the platoon, and before he could scream, he fell on his back and rolled downhill.

"Spread out! Watch out for the Dark Arrows! The leading military marquis hurriedly ordered everyone to pay attention to concealment.

Everyone quickly crouched down, stared nervously ahead, and immediately responded with random arrows, and saw the bushes in front of them shake, and a figure jumped out and quickly rushed up the mountain.

"Quick, keep up, catch him!" The military marquis hurriedly asked everyone to get up and chase after him.

As soon as everyone stood up, "Whoosh! Several more short arrows were fired in front of him, and several more were knocked down at once.

Chasing and chasing, Cao's army became more and more scattered, in groups of threes and twos, while climbing hard, while staring around, ready to avoid enemy attacks at any time.

The three Cao soldiers cautiously searched forward, and suddenly there was a sound behind the boulder beside them, and they hurriedly lay down and observed nervously.

A Shu soldier in front of him dodged out from behind a tree and quickly fled to the mountain.

And behind the boulder, two Cao Jun appeared and shouted softly: "Chase!" ”

It turned out to be their own people, and the three of them got up and raised their legs to chase together.

The two Cao Jun who appeared from behind the boulder seemed to have just noticed that there were still people around them, and hurriedly turned around: "Who?" ”

"Your own people, your own people! Oh, brother, why is there such a big blood stain on your clothes? Hurt by them just now? The three of them hurriedly greeted each other.

The two men relaxed, approached them, and said enthusiastically, "My own people, my own people." He walked up to them, but suddenly waved his sword, and while they were not paying attention, he slashed them all to the ground.

"Your own people? I'm your uncle! The two of them wiped all the blood from the knife on themselves, and teased each other softly, "You see, I am more injured than you." ”

It turned out that this was the Shu army wearing Cao Jun's military uniform and pretending to be so.

Zhu Ling watched his subordinates chase and kill for a long time, but there was not much progress, and he was a little anxious, so he hurriedly ordered all the subordinates who were searching for it to rush over, and sent a sergeant to report to Xiahou Yuan, saying that the Shu army was here, and he quickly sent people over to encircle and suppress together. (To be continued.) )