"Poof!"

An ember of flame released the last flames in the drizzle, then was extinguished by water droplets, and a wisp of pale black smoke drifted through the air.

The Qing Dynasty Han Army is the Yellow Banner First Class Jingqi Ni Ha Fan Zuo Mengeng stretched out his hand and fanned his nose, dissipated the wisp of smoke in disgust, and then touched his cheek and looked left and right.

Around him, the corpses of the Qing soldiers lying in a pool of blood, out of breath, Zuo Mengeng had nowhere to put his feet, and if he walked in that direction, he would step on the dead, making him frown, so he had to step on the corpse that had not yet become stiff at will, and the bottom of the military boots rubbed and squeezed the corpse, making a "squeak" sound, as if a mouse was gnawing.

The noon sun occasionally showed half of its face among the thick clouds, illuminating this col with a beam of less intense sunlight, and the fine and dense light rain sprinkled down from the sky, flying in the sun, and the extremely gorgeous weather of half rain and half sunny appeared in the sky of Jinzhong.

But at this moment, Zuo Mengeng has no intention of appreciating this rare beauty, in the beautiful scenery, he was rushed by the strong bloody breath in the air, and it was tasteless, but there was a thrilling horror in it.

Zuo Mengeng carefully wrapped his big gun, avoided a spear stuck upside down in the head of an unlucky Qing soldier, and walked to the edge of a collapsed tent, where several people wearing the color of generals' uniforms squatted there, and when they saw him coming, they stood up one after another.

"Dashuai!" They proclaimed.

Zuo Mengeng nodded and asked, "Found it?" ”

"It's supposed to be this corpse." One person replied: "Although the head was cut off, according to Liu Zeqing's guard, there was a horizontal cut wound on his left arm, which was an old wound when he was in Liaodong, and there was an arrow wound on his back, which was in the shape of a plum blossom, and these two wounds appeared on this corpse at the same time, and the corpse held Liu Zeqing's habitual long knife, and the knife had the word Jingwu on the knife, so there would be no mistake." ”

"Then drag it away, this lewd rain is very uncomfortable, don't let him suffer in the rain." Zuo Mengeng sighed, shook his head and said, "Find a coffin and pull it back to his family." ”

A few people agreed, beckoned the soldiers who came to patrol around, and did their work.

Zuo Mengeng looked around again, probably not wanting to stay in the rain for a long time, and stayed for a while, then stepped over the pile of corpses and walked towards a remnant house.

This house is the best one in the bandits' den, and it is also Liu Zeqing's residence last night, except for being a little messy, there is no major damage, it is used to rest, but it is okay.

Zuo Mengeng went in, and a personal soldier brought him a chair, held up a square table, and put a bamboo kettle.

Zuo Mengeng drank saliva, rinsed his mouth, went to remove the blood he had just smelled in his mouth, and as soon as he spit it out, he saw two big men coming in.

The people who came were generals in the army, Zhang Yingxiang and Xu Ensheng, these two people have followed the Zuo family since his father Zuo Liangyu, all the way to the south and the north, with countless meritorious achievements, and Zuo Mengeng, also friends and teachers, without these veteran generals, he Zuo Mengeng may not be able to control the huge Zuo family's army.

"Two generals, what's the situation?" Zuo Mengeng stood up and asked solemnly.

The two wiped the rain from their faces, looked at each other, frowned and shook their heads.

Zhang Yingxiang said: "Dashuai, the other party's actions are very sharp, but no wonder Liu Zeqing is incompetent, we found many corpses of soldiers in front of the mountain and in front of the village, it should be the secret whistle scout released by Liu Zeqing, they were all killed by someone with a knife, and they didn't even struggle before they died." ”

Xu Ensheng said: "Also, judging from the fighting situation in front of the wall, the Ming army of the night attack did not drag, and came in directly from the wall, the wall is just some earthen walls, no more than half a person high, and it jumps over, but the difficulty is that there are more than 20,000 soldiers in the camp, even if the night attack is powerful, it is impossible not to alarm the people in the camp, more than 20,000 people came out one after another, at least they can resist for a while, but they didn't even resist for half an hour and then collapsed, asked those defeated soldiers, they said that they heard the screaming outside in their sleep, When I went out, I saw that the mountains were full of people running, and there were white-armored soldiers who were slashing and killing indiscriminately, like terrible ghosts, so frightened that they had no intention of resisting, and the whole camp was defeated. ”

After the two finished speaking, Zuo Mengeng had already ordered two chairs to be set up and asked the second general to sit down, and he said nervously: "In this way, Liu Zeqing is not a fighter, but the opponent is too strong?" ”

Xu Ensheng is the oldest of the three, when Zuo Liangyu was still a general under Hou Sui, he was already the general flag in the army, and he had fought more battles than Zuo Mengeng had ever seen.

When it comes to military affairs at this moment, he has the most right to speak, so he only heard him say: "It's true, anyone can do it while the night sneak attack, but the difference lies in the organization of his own people, the marshal knows that the dark lights are blind at night, and he can't even see the road clearly, to accurately find the location of Liu Zeqing's camp, he also has to find and clear the secret outpost, and then go straight to the center in one go, instantly disintegrate the fighting spirit of 20,000 people, and take the head of the general, this ability, ordinary people can't do." ”

Zuo Mengeng's brows furrowed even deeper: "Is General Xu saying that the Ming army in Shiling Pass is so powerful?" ”

Xu Ensheng twisted his neck uneasily, and said abruptly: "I'm afraid that's the case!" ”

Zuo Mengeng's face turned pale, and his body sitting on the chair was a little shorter: "I didn't expect that after Huang Degong, there would be such a strong army in the Ming Dynasty, but it was unexpected, no wonder Bolo died here." ”

Zhang Yingxiang looked at the two of them, his face trembled, and said loudly: "Zuo Shuai, General Xu, although the Ming army is strong, it is difficult to defeat four hands with two fists, they took advantage of Liu Zeqing's lone army to advance and took the time to end the camp, it doesn't mean that they are really invincible, even if they are all ten enemies, the regent led an army of 100,000, and they were crushed to death, why be afraid?!" ”

Zuo Mengeng smiled bitterly and said to Zhang Yingxiang: "That's true, but now we are the second army to come here, and the regent is still in Xinzhou, a hundred miles away, and it is difficult to travel in heavy rain. ”

Zhang Yingxiang waved his hand: "Don't worry, Zuo Shuai!" Now that we know the means of the Ming army, we can naturally be prepared, tonight we choose a place to camp, leave half of the people awake, dig a pit and wait for him, if the Ming army comes to steal the camp again, just catch turtles in the urn, kill him without leaving a piece of armor, wouldn't it be a big achievement? ”

Xu Ensheng was overjoyed and said happily: "This is good! The plan will be calculated, I am afraid that the Ming army will not come, our army also has 20,000 people, even if you put the fight is not afraid, the art of war is real and virtual, virtual is real, it is difficult to guess, and the Ming army will definitely be fooled! ”

Zuo Mengeng looked at the two of them, he was a person who didn't see much, he heard that the two of them were reasonable, and he readily agreed, the three of them sat down, and began to discuss where they should camp and set up formation.

Before he had finished a few sentences, he heard a commotion outside, and there was a loud roar, and the whole house shook, and the dust on the beams fell straight down, and three people fell.

The three of them were in a hurry, and before they could go out, they saw a pro-soldier stumbling in, and he didn't give any courtesy, and shouted eagerly: "Big handsome, big handsome, it's not good!" There's a Ming army attacking outside! ”

"What?" The three of them changed color together, and cold sweat came out of Zuo Menggeng's head.

(End of chapter)