In the middle of the night, everything is silent, and the sky is quiet.

A group of patrolling Yellow Turban soldiers walked to a hillside of the woods with not very neat steps.

One of the veterans in the lead suddenly stopped, and the people behind him also stopped.

The veteran rubbed his waist and complained: "This work is really not done by people, I can't walk this waist for a while." It's not okay for people to be old and not accept old age! ”

A person behind the veteran joked to him: "I think Brother Li is asking for it." Passing by that village a few days ago, Brother Li played with three girls alone, one of whom was a big girl, and I wanted to intervene and was driven away. The body is not good, and a person still wants to eat alone. ”

When the other soldiers heard this, they burst into laughter, and the veteran angrily flew up and kicked at the person who made fun of him, and scolded in his mouth: "You ugly boy, you are here to entertain Lao Tzu!" ”

The man was prepared and jumped away with agility. The other soldiers were even more smiling.

The veteran was afraid that they would be punished by the commander for making too much trouble, so he whispered to them to silence and continue patrolling.

A group of people was about to hit the road, and the veteran seemed to notice something, and when he looked back, the youngest soldier in the team did not follow the group, but stared at the dark and deep jungle in a daze.

"What's up, little root?" The veteran shouted at him.

"Nothing." The soldier, Koneko, recovered from his stunned state and followed the group.

After the group left the edge of the woods, Xiao Genzi still looked back at the depths of the woods one last time. For some reason, it always gave him a very bad sense of danger.

After the group was far away, less than ten paces away from where Xiao Genzi was standing, a bush of low trees suddenly moved, and several big soldiers came out.

The soldiers, all covered in weeds, crouched in the bushes, and no one could see them hiding in the dim darkness of the night.

One of the soldiers looked at the direction of Xiao Genzi's departure and said with palpitations: "That person stood for a long time just now, and I thought he had been discovered." I was so scared that I drew my crossbow and was ready to start. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, this camouflage technique was invented by His Highness Our Great Sun Shihou, how can it be seen through!" There was a very good look next to him, obviously his boss's person taught him.

"Oh." The soldier nodded as if he didn't understand. Although he still didn't understand that his boss always talked about Shi Hou Liu Wei and admired the five-body throw, but he was used to hearing it, and he also felt that the plausibility should be like this.

"Guo Baichang, when are we going to do it? It's not a thing to hide here. The soldier asked another man who looked like a hundred.

The man known as Guo Baichang glared at him and said, "Don't complain, what does military discipline say?" All actions are commanded. You go and give me an order now, without my order, all teams are not allowed to act rashly, and those who violate military law will be dealt with!" ”

"No!" Seeing that Guo Baichang was angry, the soldiers hurriedly took the order, and ran to convey the order to the various teams that were ambushed elsewhere.

Driving the soldier away, Guo Baichang took a breath of anxiety. He and his two hundred men had been lying in ambush on the edge of the woods for almost a day and a night. The camp of the Montenegrin army was close at hand, but his immediate boss Jiang Qi was slow to issue the order to attack.

Not only was the soldier under his hand anxious, but he was also very irritable in his own heart. He glanced back at the chief standing next to him and said to him, "You go and ask Captain Jiang when he will start attacking." ”

"No!" The chief took the order and went.

At this time, Jiang Qi was carefully considering the deployment of the battle that was about to start in the depths of the woods, and in order to conceal it, he did not light a torch, but drew a map in his heart in the col where he was now, where to ambush, where to charge, and every step was constantly practiced in his mind.

This is the first time he has led troops in actual combat, and it would be false to say that there is no sense of tension. However, he must not retreat until now, and he has Liu Bian's hope and entrustment. In his own opinion, since Liu Bian treated him as a national soldier, he would inevitably repay him with a national soldier.

Originally, his initial task was to lead the army to requisition the Montenegrin army in Hanoi County. Unexpectedly, as soon as he led the army into Hanoi, the news came that Yang Feng, the leader of the largest Montenegrin Army in Hanoi, was recruited by Wang Kuang, the Taishou of Hanoi.

This Yang Feng was originally a commander in the Yellow Turban Army, and after the failure of the uprising, he moved to Hanoi and other places. He joined the Yellow Turban Army because he couldn't stand the land annexation of the landlords, and felt that there was no way to live, so he took risks.

Now that the uprising has failed, he has lost the enthusiasm he had to overthrow the imperial court. With a long-term vision, he knew that the current routine of going from place to place and grabbing land was not a long-term solution, so he moved the idea of defecting to the imperial court and seeking a half-official position.

And Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang Zheng had a headache about the intrusion of the Montenegrin army in the county, and also came up with the idea of surrendering, just singing with the chanting "I hope that the king of heaven will recruit peace early, recruit peace early, and his heart will be full." Yang Feng coincides. After several negotiations, Yang Feng was officially recruited by the imperial court. After Wang Kuang's seal went up, Emperor Ling also specially named Yang Feng as the captain of Montenegro and asked him to control the thieves in Montenegro. To put it bluntly, he wants him to come forward to recruit more people, or to clean up the Montenegrin army who are unwilling to accept recruitment for the imperial court. With the intention of letting them eat dogs.

The big leaders of the Hanoi Montenegrin Army all surrendered, and the other minions naturally couldn't get along. Either he accepted Zhao'an, or he retreated into Jizhou.

As a result, the Montenegrin rebellion in Hanoi was finally put down.

But Jiang Qi, who was planning to train in actual combat, pounced in the air, and naturally he would not be reconciled. He planned to go deep into Jizhou in the name of pursuing the remnants of Montenegro.

Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang expressed his admiration for his idea, but expressed his love for the supply of food and grass for future military operations. After all, the Montenegrin Army under his jurisdiction has been pacified, and Jizhou is not under its jurisdiction, so there is no reason to support grain and grass to solve other people's problems.

Jiang Qi also understood Wang Kuang's behavior, but he couldn't support the battle without food and grass. He borrowed grain and grass from Wang Kuangshang for twenty days, and then led his troops into Zhao County.

Zhaojun and Changshan are the hardest hit areas of the Montenegrin army, with dozens of large and small groups, and there are various names. Jiang Qi also heard the Zhang Yan that Liu Wei mentioned to him, at this time his boss Zhang Niujiao had just hung up, and he was elected as the commander of the Montenegrin Army, with as many as 20,000 capable fighters.

Although Jiang Qi really wanted to meet this Zhang Yan for a while, first, he had Liu Wei's warning, and secondly, he only had these 1,000 people in his hands, and he really couldn't afford to fight with 20,000 people. So I had to endure this thought, and after wandering around Zhao County for several days, I finally selected the Black Mountain Army led by Zuo Zhangbachi, who was active near Yongnian County.

The reason why they were chosen first was because Jiang Qi didn't like the strange names of the two of them, and the second was that there were only about 1,000 soldiers and horses to which these two belonged, which was comparable to Jiang Qi's soldiers and horses, and was very suitable for military training. Moreover, the Black Mountain Army of Zuo Zhangba is notorious in Zhao County, basically slaughtering villages in villages, ** captive and doing all kinds of evil, unlike Zhang Yan and others who sometimes do some things to rob the rich and help the poor.

After inquiring about a mountain col where Zuo Zhangba's camp was located, Jiang Qi led someone to quietly touch it. Ducked in a grove outside the camp, waiting to attack them after dark.

This battle is very important, how to ambush and how to charge, Jiang Qi has done fine deliberation and arrangement. Even if everything was in place at this time, he still kept rehearsing the various surprises that might occur at the beginning of the attack and how to deal with them in his mind.

At this time, Guo Wen's subordinate Shi Chang ran over to ask when the attack would begin, Jiang Qi opened his eyes impatiently, and said: "Tell Guo Bai Chang to wait for the military order, and don't act rashly." If he can't stand it, I'll call him back and someone else to charge! ”

Guo Wen is his old brother when he was in the palace for a long time, he is a strong martial artist, has a brave personality, and is very naïve and not afraid of death. So Jiang Qi put him on the front line, and he launched a charge against the Yellow Turban Army camp. It's just that Guo Wen's personality is more impatient, although he has been restrained by Liu Yan's long-term teaching, but Jiang Qi still has to be strictly oppressed from time to time, otherwise he is really afraid that he will do something impulsive.

Just as he was ordering the chief in front of him to immediately go to Guo Wen to give the order, the camp of the Yellow Turban Army outside the woods suddenly became chaotic. The voices of people are boiling, and the sounds of killing are constant.

Jiang Qi thought that Guo Wen couldn't help but make a move in advance, so he stood up and was about to rush forward, but saw Guo Wen running over.

"What's going on?" He yelled.

Guo Wen gasped and said angrily: "Someone rushed into the camp of the Black Mountain thieves and robbed the camp, not our people!" Now the gang of black thieves is moving. ”

Jiang Qi was stunned.

"Tell Chen Wei and them to come over and take a look together!"

Jiang Qi led people to the edge of the woods on the second floor, and saw the Montenegrin army camp not far away was in flames, and the northeast corner was a pot of porridge, and many Montenegrin soldiers ran out of the tents to support there.

A cavalry entered the camp from the southwest corner, Gu Jiang Qi observed that the number of people did not seem to be very large, probably less than fifty people, but the battle was very strong, although it was surrounded by the Black Mountain Legion that came from it, but it was left and right, and no one dared to approach. All the way to the big tent of the Chinese army.

It seems that the purpose of this cavalry is very clear, that is, to attack the big tent of the Chinese army, kill the leader of the Black Mountain Army, and achieve the effect of dispersing the remnants. This coincides with the deployment of Jiang Qi's "decapitation operation" at the beginning, but Jiang Qi has a large number of people, and he is more complete and comfortable.

Jiang Qi also let Guo Wen and his 200 men rush into the enemy camp first, and kill the enemy leader as soon as possible. Chen Wei and Liu Yu led troops to pour in in the southwest and southeast, drove the enemy soldiers to retreat to the exit to the north of the mountain pass, and then Zhang Lei and Maqing ambushed there with 400 strong crossbows and arrows to give a desperate shot.

If Guo Wen did not kill the enemy chief in the first place, then he could also feign defeat and retreat to the north of the mountain pass, induce the enemy to pursue, and then be shot by Zhang Lei Maqing, who was in ambush. The armies of Chen Wei and Liu Yu took advantage of the enemy's pursuit of Guo Wen to attack the camp.

It should be said that this is a perfect plan, with both initial actions and backup plans. It's just that what I didn't expect was that Jiang Qi's deployment of racking his brains was inexplicably inserted into the bar.

"What should I do, Brother Jiang?" Guo Wen looked at the military camp opposite the murderous sound and asked anxiously, "Do you want me to bring someone up?" ”

Before Jiang Qi could answer, Chen Wei, who was more suspicious, doubted: "Will this be a fraud?" ”

"It shouldn't seem like it's possible!" Jiang Qi frowned and shook his head.

Although he was annoyed that his carefully arranged tactics had come to naught, Jiang Qi also knew that he had to calm down at this time. After carefully analyzing the current situation, he found that there was not much deviation from his original tactical intentions, but the first to attack was replaced by someone else, and the attack time had also advanced from around the time of his plan to the present.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly ordered: "Tell Zhang Lei and Ma Qing to still ambush in the mountain pass according to the original plan, Liu Yu stay where he is and ask the soldiers to light all the torches and beat the drums to build momentum, Guo Wen and Chen Wei, the three of you will bring people with me."

After the simple arrangement, Jiang Qi took the lead and rushed into the camp of the Montenegrin Army with Guo Wen, Chen Wei and others.

Those Montenegrin troops all paid attention to the cavalry that came in first, and there was a group of men and horses rushing behind them, coupled with the sudden drumming of drums in the surrounding mountains and forests, and the wildfire torches were bright all over the mountain, thinking that they had encountered a large army, and suddenly people panicked, and some cowards immediately abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and most of them fled to the north where there was no movement.

Seeing that his troops were scattered, a general of the Montenegrin Army hurriedly restrained his troops while rushing at Jiang Qi and them with more than a hundred people.

The Montenegrin general was unusually tall and had a hideous face. It's just that there is a gunshot wound in the left shoulder, and the blood is pouring profusely, obviously just after a fierce battle. Seeing Jiang Qi and the others rushing towards him, he roared angrily: "I am the handsome man of the Yellow Turban, who dares to come to rob the camp?" ”

Jiang Qi saw that the person who came was the leader of the Black Mountain thief, so he didn't reply at all, he peeked at the other party who was closer to him, and raised his crossbow with an arrow.

The crossbow arrow just shot into the other party's eyes, and with a scream of "ah", he turned over and fell off his horse. He didn't even have a chance to scold Jiang Qi for being despicable and shameless.

At the same time as Jiang Qi sent the crossbow, the other soldiers also shot the crossbow arrows in their hands, and the hundred or so people brought by Zhangba were instantly shot down by thirty or forty people. The rest of the wounded were numerous, and when they saw that the leader was dead, they immediately fled in all directions.

When Jiang Qi led the people into the center of the camp, the cavalry in the vanguard also killed in front of him. Most of the thieves were driven to the northern mountain pass, and Chen Lei Guowen led people to follow and pursue. But there were still some red-eyed thieves who surrounded the cavalry, shouting to avenge the Zuo Qu Marshal and fight to the death.

Before approaching, Jiang Qi saw that the cavalry was actually only about 20 people, surrounded by more than 100 red-eyed thief regiments, but he was not afraid at all. Led by a young warrior with a white horse and a silver robe, he was very handsome, and a spear in his hand flew up and down like a poisonous snake out of a hole, and the thieves around him were swept by the tip of the spear like a snake, and fell down like a swift wind.

Jiang Qi finally understood why this cavalry of only about 20 people was so strong, it turned out that there was a warrior who was brave and crowned with three armies.

The shouts of the mountain pass in the north began to sound, and Zhang Lei Maqing, who wanted to ambush there, had already begun to move. Jiang Qi ordered to cooperate with the cavalry to eliminate the remnants of the enemy in front of him, and the cavalry saw that the banner of the comer was the regular army of the Han Dynasty, and they were even more courageous, and soon annihilated the remaining remnants of the enemy under the attack on both sides.

The battle was somewhat calmer, and the two armies converged in one place. Jiang Qi rode his horse to the young general, and saw that the man had been killed all over in blood, and the original white horse silver robe was also covered with mottled blood. It's just that there is no emotion after the fierce battle on Fang Zheng's face, only calm and solemnity with a strong smell of blood.

This is a tiger general! Jiang Qi couldn't help but admire in his heart.

With a fist hug on the war horse, Jiang Qi asked loudly: "Jiang Qi, the left captain of the Han Dynasty, dare to ask what the name of the strong man is?" ”

When the white-robed general heard that Jiang Qi turned out to be the left lieutenant of the imperial court, he hurriedly bowed his hand and said, "Caomin Changshan Zhao Yun Zhao Zilong!" ”

Although Jiang Qi was initially annoyed that this cavalry had disturbed his tactical arrangement, when he saw that the leader of this cavalry was such a brave general, he loved it in his heart, and he had long forgotten the initial unhappiness. Curious why this Zhao Zilong attacked the camp of the Black Mountain Army, he opened his mouth and asked, "Why did Zhao Zhuang attack the Black Mountain Bandit Camp at night?" ”

Zhao Yun saw that the other party was the leader of the regular army of the Han Dynasty, and he had just cooperated with the Black Mountain bandits he had annihilated. Naturally, he would not shirk what Jiang Qi had heard, so he briefly explained the reason.

It turned out that the Black Mountain Army of Zuo Zhangba was originally active in Changshan County, but a few months ago it wandered to the vicinity of Zhending County. Although they did not dare to attack the county seat, they plundered several surrounding villages. Zhao Yun's village was one of them, and many villagers were killed by Black Mountain thieves, and even Zhao Yun's brother was seriously injured.

Zhao Yun, who went out to return, was naturally furious when he saw the devastation in his hometown, and contacted dozens of hot-blooded young people from his own village or other villages who also wanted to take revenge to discuss going out to take revenge. At this time, the county guard of Zhao County was also troubled by the intrusion of Zuo Zhangba and others, and decided to pay for the purchase of the heads of Zuo Zhangba and others. Zhao Yun and others raised some money and grain to buy horses and weapons. Walked out of Zhending County and looked around for the Black Mountain Army of Zuo Zhangba

For several months, they followed the trails of Zuo Zhangba and others all the way, while practicing martial arts and equestrian skills under Zhao Yun's training. In the end, they found the camp of Zuo Zhangba in this mountain col in Yongnian County, Zhao County, Zhao Yun used the maneuver of his cavalry to set the tactics of attacking the military camp at night, capturing and killing the thief leader, and breaking up the thieves. So there was tonight's revenge.

After hearing this, Jiang Qi couldn't help but admire Zhao Yun's courage, with only a few dozen people to attack the camp of a thousand people, this is not something that ordinary people can do. In the end, even if he didn't interfere, Jiang Qi felt that Zhao Yun had a good chance of winning in the end.

Before Jiang Qi led the army to rush in, the Montenegrin army had begun to flee in panic. Only some of the die-hard thieves still surrounded Zhao Yun and the others. The thief leader Zuo was killed by Zhao Yun in seconds as soon as he saw his face, and the other thief was also injured by him.

By the time it was light, the killing sounds in the col had subsided. The Montenegrin army that drove to the edge of the mountain pass was mercilessly shot by Zhang Lei and others who were in ambush. However, not everyone stood there waiting to be shot, and a small number of people saw that they could not cross the mountain pass, so they turned around and fled, just in time to bump into Chen Wei Guowen, who was chasing behind.

But fortunately, Chen Wei and the others are not murderous, and the sentence "surrender without killing" makes the remaining thieves obediently put down their blades and surrender automatically. Chen Wei and the others joined forces and returned to Jiang Qi with this group of prisoners to resume their lives.

In the end, the number of people was counted, and it was found that only a dozen people on their side were slightly injured and two were seriously injured. On the other hand, more than 600 were killed and more than 100 were captured. Among those who were captured was the recruit Xiaogenzi.

This has to be said to be the result that Liu Wei and Jiang Qi wanted the most, which not only achieved the purpose of military training, but also did not have a high result of battle damage.

Regarding the disposal of Zuo Zhangba and the two of them, Jiang Qi didn't want any credit, so he proposed that Zhao Yun bring back the heads of the two to ask for a reward. But Zhao Yun insisted that he killed the left mustache, but Zhang Ba was killed by Jiang Qi. The credit should be half of the person, and he only took the head of the left mustache back.

Jiang Qi felt a burst of shame, Zhang Ba had been seriously injured by Zhao Yun before he met him, he just picked up a ready-made bargain. But Zhao Yun still insists on half the credit of one person, which shows his loyalty and sincerity, and his high demeanor.

Jiang Qi was very fond of Zhao Yun, so he was invited, and asked: "Zhao Zhuangshi is excellent in martial arts and brave enough to be reckless, it's a pity to be so reckless." I wonder if Zhao Zhuangshi is willing to join our army and serve the country? ”

Zhao Yun replied: "Serving the country is the long-cherished wish of my generation of boys. It's just that Fei Yun doesn't want to follow the captain, but his brother is still sick and has no one to take care of him, and in today's war, there are also many brothers who came out of Changshan with me and are out of their hometowns, and Yun is also responsible for transporting them back to their hometowns for burial. ”

Jiang Qi saw that Zhao Yun insisted, and he also knew that the twisted melon was not sweet, so he said a decision that he was about to regret: "Even so, Qi will no longer force it." But there is one thing that Zhao Zhuang needs to know, in the future, there will be a vacant position in Qi's army, and if he comes to meet the strong man in the future, Qi will definitely meet him! ”

Zhao Yun was moved by what Jiang Qi said, and said with moist circles in his eyes: "Thank you for not giving up, Yun He will come to serve one day!" ”

The two said goodbye, and Zhao Yun led people north. Jiang Qi tied the captured Montenegrin military ropes together, and the mighty squad returned to Beijing.

Xiao Genzi was also among the captives, and before leaving, he happened to see the corpse of the veteran Brother Li who was only half cut off on the ground. stopped and sighed, for the sake of Brother Li on the ground and for himself. Then he was pushed by the caretaker behind, and he had to continue to walk towards the unknown fate.

To be continued