It was late at night. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Vast darkness shrouded the land, and everything became blurred. As Jiang Wei himself said, tonight is the last quarter moon, and the crescent moon in the sky is extremely dark, and it can't illuminate many clear places at all. It was so obscure that everyone unnaturally had a hint of coldness. In the sky, the wind blew faintly, but it added a footnote to this gloom and coldness - it was really a murderous night when the moon was high and the sky was dark.

Because of the day's fighting, the city seems to be tired and tight, and there is no sound at all at this time, except for the sound of Bangzi chiming the time in the city, which is Jiang Wei and others standing at the gap at the head of the city. They were all waiting, listening to the sound of bangs, waiting with bated breath for the moment of departure. All the way, Jiang Wei insisted on it: using the shady curtain as a cover, he went directly to attack the position of the Tang army. According to Jiang Wei's observations, these damn positions were all packed up by them and placed in the artillery battalion, which was placed by Ma Dai and the others in the baggage battalion behind. As for the location of the baggage camp, it is impossible to figure out because of the layout of the camp like a ** formation, but one thing is certain, that is, the other party's baggage camp is definitely the rear of the camp.

"This sortie is a dangerous one for us. Although we have always done the dangerous thing of going deep behind enemy lines, I would like to ask you one more thing: 'Do you have the confidence and ability to accomplish today's mission?' At the head of the city, the three hundred guards stood quietly in front of Jiang Wei in a neat row of thirty columns, and Jiang Wei calmly asked them about their wishes, as if what he was doing at the moment was not a dangerous task, but just an ordinary job, but it was really indifferent. But it was true that as he himself said, they had done many dangerous missions before, and some of them were not necessarily as dangerous as they were about to carry out.

"They'll probably say yes." This seemed to be a completely certain thing, but somehow, at this moment, Jiang Wei actually had some feelings of weakness. Although this feeling only passed by quickly, the taste of it was still deeply engraved in Jiang Wei's psychology, "I am still a little scared of the enemy opposite me after all." He felt that this was not something to be ashamed of. One cannot even dare to admit one's own thoughts.

"Yes!" Before Jiang Wei's thoughts were finished, the oath of the soldiers under him exploded. What is there to say about this? Whether it's their training, the treatment they're enjoying, and everything they've done in the past to prove that they're the best. "You are the strongest! This is my hope for you, and this is what I ask of you! When Jiang Wei decided to change his personal guard team to such a team, he said this to them. Since they have always done such things, how can they retreat from this invisible and untouchable thing at this time? If they did, it wouldn't be them. Most of the people in the army are a little enthusiastic, so they regarded Jiang Wei's remarks as sarcasm for themselves, but they reacted extremely loudly for a while.

"That's good...... Let's fill this cup to the brim! "It's the same as before the expedition, Jiang Wei still asked people to prepare good wine for himself and the people present, which can be regarded as a wine of practice.

"Bang ......" drank a bowl, but there was a sound of smashing the bowl, and everyone unanimously straightened up their already full chest. As the heat of the liquor burned in their chests, so did their self-confidence. After that, thirty ropes were gently thrown down from the city, but everything was ready. At this moment, the sound of bangzi in Jixian County has sounded three times, which is the so-called midnight moon in the middle of the night.

One by one, hazy black shadows descended from the city at the moment when the crescent moon was covered by black clouds, and quickly came to the city that was vaguely filled with all kinds of broken arrows. The land here has been subjected to heavy artillery bombardment today, and a large amount of blood has seeped into the siege that followed, although the corpses on it have long been cleaned, but the thick blood and extremely soft soil have faintly told people the tragedy of today's battle.

"If it's next year, the land here should be able to be turned into a large fertile field!" Walking on this soft soil unexpectedly, Jiang Wei was not thinking about how to get into the enemy's camp to achieve his combat goals, but about whether the land was fertile or not. At this moment, it seems that he is thinking a little off-topic, but for him everything seems simple: "With such a large fertile land, the people in the city should be able to share some of it, so that they can live better next year." —This is what he said.

After walking for miles, Jiang Wei saw the military camp shrouded in darkness. The barracks were quiet, as if it were an uninhabited abandoned place, and under the harsh night breeze, it gave people a little desolate feeling, a little eerie and weird. Outside the gate, the fence was open, but no one defended it, Jiang Wei was surprised by the situation shown in front of him like this. A little bit of panic rose in his heart. In an instant, the camp gate in front of him seemed to turn into a monster's huge mouth, quietly waiting for them to step in. To go in or not to go in? Jiang Wei hesitated for a moment.

In the end, I decided to go in. After all, although I feel that something is wrong, I still can't back down until everything is clear. This has a lot to do with the self-esteem of being the strongest soldier in my heart. And Jiang Wei also thinks that no matter what situation he encounters in the end, he can get through it. It's not why, it's just about self-confidence in one's own abilities.

A group of people lightly touched the camp and quickly approached the big tent of the Chinese army, but they did not hear a sound, and it seemed that everything was going very smoothly and perfectly. This made Jiang Wei feel even more frightened. He whispered to his left and right: "Be careful...... There's a good chance it's a trap! - This is for sure, for there could not have been such silence in the enemy's camp. But what exactly is this trap? This aroused Jiang Wei's curiosity. On the one hand, he is a master of art and bold, and on the other hand, he is a small boat and a good U-turn, but he is not afraid of the trap laid by Tang Jun here at all. In his mind, this trap was used against a possible night attack in his own city, not against the assault of his own hundreds of people. For themselves, "They probably didn't find out." That's what Jiang Wei is relying on at the moment.

Is this reliable? Jiang Wei is also in Bo. He didn't know that Ma Dai and his army were no longer here, and that another pair of bright eyes were already watching them in the darkness. Every move they thought they were hidden had long been in the eyes of the Tang Army. Speaking of hidden ambush and spy intelligence, which team in the world is comparable to Haoyue, who is subordinate to the white? No, absolutely nothing.

So, when everything was clear in Haoyue's eyes, Ma Yan's plan began. As Jiang Wei had guessed, Ma Yan's plan was originally for a large-scale night attack. If Jiang Wei's actions could really deceive those Haoyue's sharp eyes, they might not really be activated. However, there was no if, Jiang Wei and they were discovered by Haoyue, so everything became very different for both parties.

"Knock...... Boom...... Boom ......" The rumbling war drums rang out abruptly in the night, breaking the silence like a thunderbolt on a sunny day. Countless torches lit up around the camp, dazzling light and a dark background, so that Jiang Wei and the others in the middle of the camp couldn't see for a while how many people were killed from all directions. Annoying shouts of slaughter were used to accompany the rockets that covered the sky and the moon, and the well-timed roar of a huge explosion made it all more dangerous.

"Oops!" Suddenly such a change happened, even a fool can clearly think of this, and the miserable wails of the few subordinates around him before they died told Jiang Wei the truth of this change more clearly, Jiang Wei suddenly shouted, and then made a very wise and decisive decision: "Retreat......!" Obviously, this is also the most correct decision.

Under the order, Jiang Wei and his men threw off their thighs and ran wildly. Because of the training they had had done beforehand, they were not slow to escape. Countless arrows fell behind them and left and right, and although they did not completely break their muscles and bones, they also killed and injured them, but they did not really stop until they reached a mile outside the camp.

At this point, there was a stop. They didn't chase them out of the camp, they seemed to be waiting only in the camp. On the safe enemy side a mile away, Jiang Wei looked at them through the fire that had ignited in the camp opposite, and found that most of them had longbows in their hands and no other weapons, it seemed that they really only wanted to defend.

If the mission fails, it is not impossible to continue the attack, but it is not something that more than 200 people in his own area can do. Jiang Wei planned to go back after taking a look at the strict defense situation on the other side. He wanted to discuss the matter with his own Taishou to see if it was to mobilize the army or something else, after all, he was not the general of the whole army, and many things still couldn't be done.

Things settled down for the time being, and everything was calm. Not to mention how Jiang Wei reported his situation tonight to Taishou Ma Zun, and put forward a request for a strong attack, only that the Tang army's side did not intend to extinguish the fire in the camp after such an ambush, but retreated out of the camp overnight, and set up another camp three miles west of the original camp.

This is a bit of a strange move. After Jiang Wei heard the news, he was a little stunned. Many thoughts flashed through his mind, and for a moment he seemed to grasp something, but he turned his head and suggested to Taishou Ma Zun: "Shall we send someone to reconnoiter the other party's camp again?" They retreated suddenly, and I'm afraid they had some strange behavior! ”

"Hmmm! This thing is indeed quite strange...... "Although Jiang Wei's action failed, Ma Zun obviously still trusts Jiang Wei very much, he heard Jiang Wei say this, immediately used his brain to think about it, and then nodded and agreed: "Hmm...... Then send someone to check it out. Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles! ”

"No!" His suggestion was adopted by his boss, and Jiang Wei was naturally a little happy. Once again, he sent his own guards to carry out the task.

After a while, the information arrived, but the information that appeared in front of Jiang Wei still made him feel a little weird: the newly built camp of the Tang Army was still an empty camp, with only countless straw men in it, and there was no real soldier. The other party did a good job of clearing the traces of departure, and it seemed that he did not leave in a hurry, and all the marks were cleaned up, so that his side could not detect the direction they were going in at all.

“…… Tang Army, the movement is unknown! This is the final answer that the intelligence gave to Jiang Wei.

"Unclear action? What exactly do they want to do? When Jiang Wei reported the news to Ma Zun, Ma Zunba blinked his eyes and asked such a question. Although he tried his best to show a look of great concern, Jiang Wei still saw from his performance that he was obviously relieved that Tang Jun was leaving. "Ji County is finally 'defending'!" These were the words that he did not speak.

Jiang Wei could see Ma Zun's thoughts, but he didn't say much about his boss's "selfish" thoughts, just looked at his face calmly, and slowly said his conjecture: "I think they must be for Qishan's affairs." I heard that General Guo Huai fiercely blocked the Tang army's northward march in Qishan. Now that the Tang army has attacked here, it is natural to find a way to connect this partial division. ”

"Oh? Is that the reason? Wouldn't it be otherwise? For example, Li Tangjun deliberately retreated, trying to lure our army into pursuit? Ma Zun was very willing to believe the explanation Jiang Wei said, but out of some cautious consideration, he still said his thoughts - in fact, he said this for only one purpose, that is, to prevent Jiang Wei from putting forward the most taboo reason as much as possible. After all, he is just the Taishou of Tianshui, as long as he guards the county seat of Tianshui in "Ji County", as for the affairs of Qishan, he can't manage it, and he doesn't want to take care of it.

“…… This is clearly a short-sighted act. Looking at Ma Zun's cautious appearance that year, Jiang Wei thought so. At this moment, there was a fire in his heart. If it weren't for the fact that Ma Zun in front of him was his boss and had the grace to know him, I was afraid that his anger would explode on the spot. Although he endured it now, he still did not give up his opinion because of Ma Zun's words: "My lord, although the possibility of that is there, it is not high. Why? Is there any need for the enemy to make any fuss with us? With their artillery, as long as they bombard our city walls for one day, our Ji County will definitely fall. Compared to us, they have absolute power, and in the face of this absolute power, it should be us, not them, who should use stratagem. Therefore, the possibility of luring the enemy is not great. ”

"And what do you think?" Ma Zun glared at Jiang Wei, as if he wanted to warn him through his eyes: "You can't say that you want to pursue the suggestion ......!" ”

"I want to pursue!" Jiang Wei is a bold person, but also a guy with firm beliefs, he never wants to give up on what he wants to do. Although he also saw the look that Ma Zun handed to him, he still said his thoughts: "Attacking Li Tangjun from behind is the only way we can achieve victory now." Li Tang's army has artillery, if we don't seize the opportunity to defeat them, then when they converge Li Tang's division, they will also turn around and attack us. It doesn't make any difference to us at all. If there is one, it is only the difference between early death and late death. ”

"What is the difference between dying early and dying late? Can that be said? Ma Zun was a little unhappy when he heard this, he stared at Jiang Wei fiercely, instinctively wanted to refute him, and then scolded him fiercely. You......! For a while, Ma Zunsheng's face turned red and became silent. Generally speaking, if you want to refute the other party's words, of course, you have to think about the other party's words, and Ma Zun is naturally no exception. However, unlike others, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that what Jiang Wei said made some sense. He thought about it, and in the end he didn't think of how to refute Jiang Wei's words, but instead agreed with Jiang Wei's thoughts. So, the red skin turned white, although there was some embarrassment on his face, he still nodded affirmatively: "You said it really directly." Well, that's right. But how many soldiers and horses do we have to call? We're not going to be able to send all the troops. ”

"Why not?" Jiang Wei wanted to ask this rhetorically, and then argue with Ma Zun. In his mind, sending all the troops out is the regular way to solve the problem: there are only 20,000 horses in the entire Ji County, which is undoubtedly the difference between heaven and earth compared to the 200,000 people on Ma Dai's side. No matter how many men and horses his side finally sent to carry out such a plan, it would be a huge drain on Ji County's defense. Although it is said that with the situation on Li Tang's side, it is unlikely to carry out those plans to divert the tiger from the mountain, but as long as this plan appears, it is impossible to defend with the strength of Ji County. Since this is the case anyway, you can't defend against it, so it's better to just fight in one go. This is obviously also a gamble, if you can win, then everything is naturally easy to say, but if not, then it is not only yourself who will fall, but also these soldiers around you and the entire Tianshui County.

"It seems that it is impossible to take all the soldiers to the raid." After determining this, Jiang Wei began to calculate the number of troops he needed to complete the entire plan: "Cavalry, it must be on a scale for this, five thousand people is certain, and it must be elite archers, and at least three thousand infantry are needed to cooperate with the planning of the entire campaign. Not...... It would be nice if there were some other soldiers to do things like traps and raids. After thinking about it for a while, Jiang Wei finally made a decision: "I need 5,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry." In addition, I want Lord Taishou to give me the right to mobilize the garrison of the county. Those county towns each have one or two thousand soldiers and horses, and it is absolutely impossible for them to defend the city. In this case, it is better to transfer them out and let them go into an ambush to harass and harass each other! ”

"Hmmm......! That's pretty good, too! Ma Zun thought about it and quickly agreed. It's not that he is unwilling to give Jiang Wei military power, it's just that this military power can only be given without affecting the safety of Ji County, where he is located. As long as Jiang Wei left "enough" defensive forces for his Ji County, then he would naturally give power to Jiang Wei. Who made this Jiang Wei the most important and capable general under him.

Soon, the soldiers and horses were all together. Jiang Wei set off from Ji County with a large group of people, but he went all the way south. Before him, there were already a number of horsemen with them, and the horses followed the orders issued by Jiang Wei and walked in front of Jiang Wei, and the things mentioned were very simple, that is, three things: let everyone in the south obey Jiang Wei's orders; Let them quickly use their own strength to probe the movements of the Tang army; Let them desperately stop the movement of the Tang Army after discovering the traces of the Tang Army, let them harass the Tang Army, and harass them desperately, not giving them a chance to breathe.

“…… Naturally, it will be very difficult for you, a few troops who are not very good, to attack the army of the Tang Army. But to achieve victory, there is only a certain sacrifice. How the Tang Army dealt with the big family, you don't know. Do you want to give away the assets that you have accumulated over generations? Resistance is a dead end, not resisting is also a dead end, the same is death, why do you have to choose to wait for death? Let's send troops! I am here to assure you all that we will make up for all the losses you have suffered in this battle. Although Ma Zun is timid, although he has this kind of scruples, but in the matter of defeating Li Shengjun, he and Jiang Wei still have the same thoughts, after understanding what Jiang Wei wants to mobilize those fragmentary forces for, he sent someone to write such an announcement letter to all the big clans in Tianshui County, and sincerely asks them to send their own armed forces to help him solve Li Sheng's damn trouble.

"Those people are the head of the earth! Let them handle these things, I'm afraid it's more useful than you use the defenders of the county seat. Moreover, the strength of the private soldiers they possess is by no means under the general county defenders. Ma Zun told Jiang Wei: "If you want to complete your plan, you must get their help." ”

"Of course, there is no problem." Jiang Wei didn't think there was anything wrong with this, he thought about something very simple: victory, that is, victory. In his opinion, only victory can wash away his defeat yesterday.

Thanks to the help of the private soldiers of the wealthy family invited by Ma Zun, Jiang Wei still had a very good grasp of the position of Li Sheng's army. Under the constant hurry, it only took him two days to catch up with the tail of the Tang army, and watched them go to Xixian from afar.

"This is an opportunity!" Jiang Wei felt that although the troops under him were very tired, Jiang Wei still felt that he could not waste such an opportunity. You must know that Xixian is the place where the grain and grass are hoarded on the entire Qishan front, if Xixian is lost, then even if the Tang army does not capture the Qishan camp, the Qishan camp will not be able to hold it. "This is a very dangerous thing, and it is also an opportunity for us to defeat Li Tangjun!" Jiang Wei told himself once again that he was keenly aware that the other party had not yet realized that he had hung behind them. also calculated the situation if he could rush to the battlefield before the other party captured Xixian: "In addition to the slow rate of fire, the enemy's artillery can only attack in one direction in a heavy way. If we suddenly appear behind them before they conquer West County. With the steel knife in our hands, we can kill them all in one go. ”

Thinking of this, Jiang Wei quickly laid out his battle plan, and he explained his thoughts to his subordinates like this: "Let all the troops closest to here, whether they are regular troops or civilian troops, rush to Xixian County to participate in the city defense." As for us, after resting here for two hours, we rushed directly to Xixian. Judging from the current situation, the enemy has not yet begun to attack Xixian. This is a good thing for us, if we take a little rest and rush over, then when we reach the city of Xixian, the enemy will launch a tentative attack on Xixian, and then we will suddenly kill them from their rear, fearing that they will collapse on the spot - this is our only chance to defeat them. ”

"No!" Things have reached this point, and everything is just as Jiang Wei said, there is only one way to turn the entire battle around, and everyone is naturally roaring violently. To be honest, they don't think that they are much worse than the other party, so they are very dissatisfied with the situation that they have always been suppressed by the other party, and when they hear that they have a chance to defeat the other party, they naturally scream one by one. As for the matter of winning the battle, as long as there is no special reason, I am afraid that every soldier has strict expectations.

Rest, reorganize the army, and go again, while all the soldiers are doing all this in an orderly manner, Jiang Wei, the chief general, is still busy with intelligence matters. Because he was closer to the enemy, Jiang Wei was able to directly make further contact with the front, and constantly obtained various movements from the enemy in front. Although it has been affirmed that the enemy is going to storm Xixian in order to obtain a key way to open up the two roads of people and horses, but how the other party is going to get through all this Jiang Wei still does not know at the moment. For this unknown thing, he is understanding and waiting.

It has to be said that Jiang Wei's tactic of delaying and harassing the Tang army that Jiang Wei suggested Ma Zun carried out was very correct - the information reported to Jiang Wei clearly showed this: the Tang army was moving extremely slowly, especially in the rear army. Although the entire artillery team was tightly protected and unharmed, and its morale was also the highest part of the entire army, it was obvious that the other guys who had been harassed and had a bit of a headache seemed to have a lot of complaints about such a young master soldier, and this artillery team also reacted unusually strongly because of the other party's injustices against them. This kind of antagonism between the arms of the army has been prevalent throughout the army, and the generals of the Tang Army are very dissatisfied with this, but there is no other way. They were powerless to deal with these things, so they had no choice but to promise everyone in the army that they would "liberate for three days" after capturing Xixian.

"Is this the so-called benevolent army of Li Sheng?" Looking at this information, Jiang Wei didn't pay attention to the real situation at the moment, which was that he had forced the other party to such a point, and just scoffed at the other party's actions: "A group of hypocritical guys." That's what he thinks. This is also a very normal thing: if the three kingdoms have been divided and the three kingdoms have been established, because he is in Wei, he Jiang Wei naturally follows the position of the country and regards the Tang army as his enemy, and only looking at the enemy is the most common and normal behavior. After all, the general stream is so.

"Looks like they're going to attack in an hour!" Through the various circumstances expressed in the intelligence, Jiang Wei made such a judgment. He was seventy percent sure that this judgment was correct, so he gave the battle order based on this judgment: "After three quarters of an hour, the whole army will set off directly to the rear of these guys!" ”

It's dawn, but it's the most difficult time for everyone.