Chapter 31: The Mole
"Tell your nephew, put down your weapons and open the door to surrender, I will spare your uncle and nephew from death!" The big red wolf stared at Li Hongji viciously, he was an ugly man, with a pair of slender eyes on his long and narrow face, and few people could remain calm under his forced gaze. But Li Hongji was one of these few people, and he just turned his face slightly, with a disdainful smile on his face. The big red wolf was enraged by the other party's behavior, he violently tore Li Hongji's robe, exposed his chest, and pulled out a dagger against the other party's heart
"Believe it or not, I killed you alive!"
"That's it!" Shen Yikui stopped the big red wolf with a drink: "These are useless to him, it's better to spend some effort on how to take down the house is serious!" “
"You're cheap!" The big red wolf angrily thrust the dagger back into his waist, turned to Shen Yikui and said, "Those who are in charge of the plate, let me take the children up, and I will definitely catch Li Guo's rabbit cub to see you!" “
Shen Yikui looked at the sky: "Wait a while, there are at most two or three hundred people in the house, from yesterday to now, it should have been exhausted a long time ago, it's just a string tight, but it's difficult to loosen this string and then want to stretch it!" ”
As Shen Yikui guessed, there was already a lot of snoring in the house, and even the two people who were standing on a high place as sentry were already napping. Li Guo was no exception, although he tried his best to resist the arrival of the sleeping demon with willpower, but after all, human power could not resist the objective law, and soon his head hung down and sank into sleep.
I don't know how much time passed, a sharp pain woke Li Guo from his sleep, he opened his eyes, only to see a man with a knife and card with his back to him, it turned out that Li Guo was sleeping too dead, and lay with several corpses, the raiding enemy treated him as a dead man, and stepped on his thigh. Li Guo did not immediately jump up to fight the enemy, but looked around carefully, and a familiar figure came into his eyes - the big red wolf was standing on the top of the wall, beckoning more soldiers to climb up, only four or five steps away from Li Guo. Li Guo cautiously reached out and groped around, and found a broken spear in half, he carefully got up, and threw the broken spear towards the back of the big red wolf.
"Ahh
With a terrible scream, the big red wolf turned around, his face distorted by great pain, stretched out his finger at Li Guo, and wanted to say something, but blood gushed out of his throat, muffling the sound, and then he fell off the wall with a dull sound.
"Kill!" Li Guo roared loudly, swung his knife at the nearest person, and cut him down before he could react, he slashed and screamed loudly, as if there were soldiers commanding his own side, and the soldiers who were suddenly attacked panicked and looked for their leader, but could not find them, and the reinforcements did not continue to climb the wall (the death of the big red wolf frightened the follow-up troops). Thinking that they had been ambushed, the attackers threw down their weapons and fled in a hurry, and many of them did not even have time to climb down the ladder, but jumped off the wall more than two feet high, broke their heads and bled out, and fled to their camp in disarray.
"Rubbish, a bunch of rubbish!" Seeing all this, the god slammed his fist on the table: "Abandon the leader and flee, all of them are arrested, beaten with a hundred whips, and arrows are inserted into the camp!" ”
Shen Yikui's order was quickly and resolutely executed, and there was a muffled sound and cry of a leather whip whipping flesh in front of the battle, he turned his head suddenly, and the vicious Li Hongji said: "Li Guo is a good man, but his life is not good, he is your Li Hongji's nephew, so he will die here today!" ”
At this moment, a small leader quickly ran to Shen Yikui's side, knelt down and kowtowed: "Big boss, the officers and soldiers have crossed the river!" ”
"What?" The god was stunned for a moment, and asked sharply: "Really, are all the officers and soldiers moving or are only part of them moving?" ”
"It's all moving!" The little leader replied, "We crossed the river at dawn yesterday morning, and before we had finished the morning, we came along the bank of the river, and the forward was only ten miles away from here. ”
Shen Yikui's face became cloudy, he looked at Li Hongji, who was tied up by five flowers, and then looked at the big mansion that had not yet been taken down, and suddenly said: "Come on, take this guy down, take care of it." ”
"What about this house?" The adjutant general on the side asked.
"Leave them alone, first convene the leaders of each family to discuss the matter, and then come to clean them up after the official army is finished!" The god walked down the mountain without looking back.
The old camp of God.
More than a dozen chiefs sat around the brazier, and although each of them was wearing thick leather jackets, the north wind from the Mongolian plateau still came in through the cracks in the doors, chimneys, and all other places that were not tight, and the cold was like an invisible worm, crawling up from the ground along the feet, making people's hands and feet stiff.
"Damn, bring me two more jugs of wine!" He shouted loudly as he slammed the empty flask on the table.
"Don't drink it, God Yikui called us to come and there must be something important to discuss, how can you say something after drinking so much wine?" One of the people next to him dissuaded.
"Damn, this house is like an ice cellar, how can you say anything if you don't drink wine to warm up?" He retorted without sticking to the mud, handed the flask to the guards who came in, pointed to the half-empty brazier and said, "Add some more charcoal, it's almost all burned!" ”
"Don't get muddy, you still have to drink two or three layers of skin on your body now, I really don't know how you spent the winter back then." The other laughed.
"It's as if you're wearing less than Lao Tzu! Damn, aren't we just trying to tie our heads to our belts just for good wine, good meat, and good mother-in-law every day? “
The non-muddy retort caused everyone to laugh, and the people in the room laughed and talked to each other easily, while Liu Donkey sat in the corner a little embarrassed, silent. Like all human organizations, the Rogue is also divided into upper and lower ranks, and according to the unspoken rule among the Rogues, he is in the lowest rank of the crowd after just taking the place of the Two Faces of Light, and is not qualified to participate in this kind of casual conversation.
didn't stick to the mud and laughed with everyone, just saw Liu Donkey in the corner, and smiled casually: "I don't know why, I haven't sent wine for a long time, Liu Donkey, you go out to urge, see where that short-lived ghost went!" ”
Liu Donkey stood up, a little overwhelmed to look at the mud, and for a while he didn't know whether to refuse or agree, but in the end he turned his head and walked outside the house, as soon as he walked out of the door, he heard a burst of laughter in the house. He slammed his feet and scolded in a low voice: "Drink, drink, let you all rot your stomachs!" ”
"The big boss, don't bake the fire in it, what do you come out to do?"
Liu Donkey turned his head and saw Liu Cheng leaning against the corner, squatting or standing behind him, seven or eight men, all of whom were escorts who came with him. He hurried over, recounted what had happened in the house, and said hatefully: "These fellows treat me like a slave, and they are so hateful! “
"Don't be angry!" Liu Cheng replied with a smile: "Actually, this is a good thing, the more they look down on you, the more convenient it will be for you to act at that time." They're just paying lip service now, so why do you have to be like these dying people? “
Liu Donkey listened to Liu Cheng's words, the anger in his heart disappeared a little, and he nodded: "You're right, I'll give them a good look when the time comes!" “
As he was talking, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves outside the courtyard, followed by the sound of Shen Yikui's arrival. Liu Donkey's face immediately showed a panicked look, and he nervously grabbed Liu Cheng's arm: "Shen Yikui is here, what should I do?" “
"Don't talk nonsense, if you are asked, you will say that several other people died fighting each other for the position of leader, and the big leader passed the throne to you before he died of his injuries!"
"Pass me the seat!" Liu Donkey repeated Liu Cheng's words, Liu Cheng saw that he looked frightened, so he took out something from his waist: "I asked for a miracle medicine from the temple, and I can calm my mind when I eat it." ”
"Don't give it to me yet!" Liu Donkey snatched the things in Liu Cheng's hand, stuffed them into his mouth without looking, swallowed them whole, and calmed down a little after a while before going back to the house.
"My lord, where did you get the magic medicine, give me some too." Du Gu on the side looked greedy and asked with a sad face.
"That's it, do you want to eat it?" Liu Cheng sneered and opened his palm, but in the palm of his hand was a handful of black beans fed to the horses.
Shen Yikui rushed into the house quickly, his eyes turned slightly, his brows furrowed, everyone in the room was laughing and guessing fists, and many of them had red faces, obviously they had drunk a lot.
"The one who holds the plate is back!" Seeing Shen Yikui without mud, he stood up, he was already three or four points drunk, although his brain still understood, but his feet were already a little staggering, he greeted him with a smile: "You are back, presumably Li Guo's little boy has been captured alive, little brother here to say hello!" He staggered as he spoke.
Shen Yikui's cheeks showed an angry flush, but he still endured it, and said in a deep voice: "No, Yang He's old man has already led the troops to this side, I don't care about Li Guo, first summon all the brothers to come over to discuss the countermeasures, whether to fight, or run?" “
"Hit, of course it's hit!" Bu Mu shouted loudly: "There are sixty or seventy thousand people on our side, and more than 10,000 officers and soldiers have died on their side, and we are afraid that we will not be able to beat one of them?" “
The shouts of non-muddy caused a chorus in the crowd, perhaps because of the alcohol, and their approval was so loud that it almost tore off the roof.
Shen Yikui turned his face slightly to avoid the heavy smell of wine in his mouth from rushing directly to his face, in fact, he usually likes to drink and have fun with his companions, but I don't know why, at this time he is extremely disgusted with the behavior of others.
"The one who holds the plate!" A somewhat trembling voice came from behind everyone: "Whether you fight or not, you have to agree on the order of the formation first!" “
"Not bad!" Shen Yikui was in good spirits, and he was happy to find that there was another person who was not confused by alcohol, but his voice was a little unfamiliar. He looked at Liu Donkey who squeezed out from behind the crowd with some confusion, and asked, "This brother, please forgive me, why do I think you are very angry." “
"Under Liu Donkey, I used to work under Liu Dawei, and the leader of my family was seriously injured two days ago and has passed away."
"Liu Dawei?" It took a while for Shen Yikui to match the name with the nickname "Two-Sided Light", and he looked Liu Donkey up and down with an admiring gaze, and decided to test what this newcomer was capable of.
"Brother Liu, how should you line up?"
"So many family leaders are here, where is there a villain to speak!" Liu Donkey hurriedly replied.
"Hey, since you took the plate of the Liu brothers, you are the same as us, why don't you have the right to speak?"
"That's a big deal!" Liu Donkey coughed lowly, and said according to what Liu Cheng forced him to memorize in advance: "Although there are few officers and soldiers, we have a lot of people, and the war with soldiers is different from fighting in the township, so we have to talk about the order, otherwise the side with more people will clash with each other, and it is common for them to trample on each other." As you can see below, everyone separates the cavalry and the cavalry, and divides them into the front and the rear, the cavalry is the front and the infantry is the rear, and the distance between the front and rear is one or two miles. “
Hearing this, he couldn't bear it anymore, and interrupted Liu Donkey'er's speech: "Donkey, you're talking nonsense again, how can the front and rear formations be so open, and besides, the team and the cavalry are so separated, how can the leaders of each family command?" If you are timid to pee on the plate, and change to a brave man, don't fool around here. “
The non-muddy words provoked a burst of laughter in the crowd, and Liu Donkey'er's face immediately turned pale, his lips trembled slightly, but he didn't dare to refute. However, Shen Yikui heard a little taste and shouted: "Right or wrong, let's talk about it after listening to Leader Liu's words first." After that, he turned his head and whispered to Liu Donkey: "They are all full of yellow soup, they are nonsense, don't pay attention to them." “
Liu Donkey nodded gratefully, and said in a low voice: "We have a lot of people, few officers and soldiers, to put it bluntly, as long as we can fight with the officers and soldiers, we will win." I'm afraid that if we fight, the teams will not be aligned, and once the front team loses, the back team will run and trample on each other, even if there are more people, it is useless. There are two advantages to this formation, the distance between the front and rear formations of the subordinates is opened, and even if the front formation is defeated, there is enough space to regroup and fight again; Secondly, the old capital of each family is in the front, and it will never be a situation where the back team will turn around and run when it sees that the front is unfavorable. If the leader does not touch the mud, it is not easy to command, so you can let the second leader command his own team, and the big leader can command the cavalry. "Not bad!" Shen Yikui nodded, he was sensitive, and he had already heard the subtext that Liu Donkey did not say, like the vast majority of ancient armies, the elite of the peasant army was the cavalry, and the vast majority of the cavalry were just synonymous with rabble and baggage soldiers.