While the three of them were talking, suddenly a tight sound of gongs and drums penetrated their ears, Wang Bo's face changed suddenly, and he scolded: "What are you messing with!" ”

Before the words fell, in a dense forest on the Hare Ridge on the left, a raging fire suddenly ignited, and Xu Gai's face behind the bronze mask suddenly changed greatly, it was a scene that would only appear when hundreds of flints lit the fire-starting things at the same time, and he opened his mouth and shouted: "Not good, enemy attack!" ”

Wang Bo's expression suddenly froze on his big face, and he looked at the woods on the left in surprise, only to see that this dense forest was densely packed with bows and arrows like flying locusts, and the arrows and arrows were full of fire, like thousands of fire meteors, crossing the sky, with beautiful arcs and the smell of saltpeter, accurately hitting the curtains of those military camps in the glade.

It's winter, but there is no snow in the past few days, the climate in this forest is unusually dry, these rockets are coated with fire oil saltpeter and other powerful fire-causing things, and this company camp is all set up by trees, there is no minimum fire prevention measures, soon, the camp became a sea of fire, hundreds of steps away, the sergeants who were practicing just now were also swallowed by the raging fire, hot, a scorching air, there were constantly miserable screams, and a bad smell of barbecue, It also spread throughout the camp along the fire.

Wang Bo was dumbfounded, broke out in a cold sweat, and muttered, "Impossible, this is impossible!" How so, how so! ”

Xu Gai grabbed Wang Bo's chest and said sharply: "Wang Bo, this is the Sui army's attack." Hurry up and organize a resistance. While extinguishing the fire. Facing the enemy on the side! ”

Wang Bo woke up like a dream, gritted his teeth, turned around and ran towards the rear, shouting as he ran: "The Sui army is coming, everyone comes out and fights, hurry!" ”

As he runs, calls. The dozen or so guards behind him also shouted loudly, the sound getting farther and farther away, but the sound of footsteps and armor shaking was getting louder and louder.

Xu Gai looked at Wang Bo in the distance, and sighed: "Alas, Wang Bo is really not a general, at this critical time, he can just see his quality as a main general, but this person has no city government at all, panicked, and does not rely on the golden drum banner to stabilize the battalions." Organize resistance, but shout here. There are no specific orders, and it seems that today is going to be defeated. ”

Xu Shiji shook his head: "Father, why don't you take over Wang Bo's command now and organize a counterattack?" The number of Sui troops will not be too much, if they really have tens of thousands of elite soldiers, they will not beat gongs and drums before the attack, in order to make a momentum, although their current bow and arrow attacks are very intensive, but that is by relying on the elite soldiers in the continuous release of arrows, it does not mean that there are many people who shoot arrows, according to the judgment of the child, they are at most three or five thousand people, but there are tens of thousands of soldiers in the village, as long as they are stable, it is enough to fight! ”

Xu Gai smiled bitterly and waved his hand, pointing to the scene around him that had become a mass and people were scattering everywhere: "Look at these rabble, they have not undergone strict training at all, and even Wang Bo doesn't know how to use banners instead of shouting to gather soldiers, how can they organize a counterattack in this situation?" Not to mention that the Sui army only came in a few thousand, even if they only came, relying on these rocket attacks was enough to make this stockade collapse. ”

"Besides, Wang Bo is the master of a village here, these soldiers only know him, we take over the command at this time, I'm afraid that these people won't listen to us, in the face of life and death, who will listen to the command of a stranger?"

A sly glint flashed in Xu Shiji's eyes: "Father, if we take over the command at this time, I'm afraid that if we want to get out, it won't be easy." ”

Xu Gai was stunned for a moment, then laughed, he patted Xu Shiji's shoulder, and said with a smile: "My son is really smart, you are right, let's find a way to evacuate, where do you look?" ”

Xu Shiji looked around for a moment and said, "Ten miles to the south is the Tiger Leaping Gorge, and here in the north is the lofty mountains, which are not easy to climb. The woods in the west are where the enemy shoots arrows, only the dense forest in the east now seems to have no movement, according to common sense, there is an enemy situation in the west, and the north and south are not allowed to walk in large groups, and the only way to flee to the east is the best choice. ”

Xu Gai nodded: "Then you mean to flee east?" ”

Xu Shiji shook his head: "No, absolutely not, the east is the real place of murder, the enemy army came so prepared, not just to set fire to this Zhishi Village, they want to kill it all, so the west is just a suspicious soldier to drive away the village soldiers, the real elite main force of the enemy army must be ambushed in the forest in the east." ”

Xu Gai's face changed slightly, he looked at the woods in the east, carefully observed for a long time, and shook his head: "But my father can't see any signs of ambush now, it's too quiet, not even a bird." ”

Xu Shiji said: "It is precisely because there is not even a bird, it means that there must be an ambush, if there is no one in the forest, the birds and beasts can easily enter the mountains and forests, but there are no birds that can call for half a day, the fire is rising, there are no frightened birds in this forest, father, do you think this is normal?" “

Xu Gai suddenly realized that in terms of military talent, as a literati, he is really lacking, but his son likes to be familiar with the art of war since he was a child, and he has been taught martial arts by famous teachers.

He frowned and said, "Shiji, then how do we go, and rush to the forest in the west?" ”

Xu Shiji shook his head: "No, there are too few of us here, in addition to our father and son, there are only a dozen guards behind, although there are not too many Sui troops in the forest, but we can't rush through this point, only when they get out of the mountains and forests by themselves, is the time for us to leave." ”

Xu Gai nodded with a smile, turned back to the panicked guards behind him and said, "All throw away their masks, change into the clothes of the village soldiers, lie on the ground, smear some blood on their bodies, hide among the corpses and pretend to be dead, and when the Sui army comes out, then flee with me!" ”

Xu Shiji's face changed: "Father, I'm afraid that this won't work, if the Sui army comes over to harvest the heads as a battle achievement, what can I do?" ”

Xu Gai smiled "hehe": "Don't worry, there are too many people they have to harvest today, there are tens of thousands of people in this stockade, most of them will break through to the east, and they will be too late to deal with those people when the time comes, they will definitely have to fight on both sides, and they can't care about cleaning the battlefield, and as soon as the Sui army in the forest in the west leaves, we will flee back from the west, I have rich experience in pretending to be dead and escaping, follow me, that's right!" (To be continued......)