Chapter Forty-Six: The Middle

In the dark, an army of more than 3,000 quietly opened the gate of Tianshui, sneaking out of the city, originally burning and looting all the fierce and evil people, but now they are silent, from time to time I heard a small colonel roaring: "If anyone makes a loud noise, Lao Tzu will kill him." "It took half an hour for the whole army to get out of the city, and no one noticed the whole process. As soon as the army went out, a general of about 40 men said to the young general: "My son, immediately close the gates of the city until our army returns, no one is allowed to enter or leave, and those who violate the order will be beheaded." The army vanished into the darkness, leaving no trace, as if nothing like this had ever happened.

At dawn on the second day, the people in Tianshui County began to be forbidden to enter and leave the county, and the guards posted a notice saying that the enemy army was coming, and no one was allowed to enter or leave during the period. Many of the people who were about to go out of the city to cut wood shook their heads and returned, and at this time, thirty miles away, in a col that was rarely brought, thousands of soldiers and horses were lying in a mess, all sleeping in the shade of trees. This group of people is the Tianshui soldiers and horses, I saw Li Gang say to Yang Fu: "Yishan, this is a good idea, march at night and hide during the day, the enemy army will definitely not be able to find it." ”

Yang Fu viciously took out his saber and slashed at the tree, slashing a few times in a row, and said: "I can't wait to eat his flesh and drink his blood." Yang Fu was still angry about Jiang Xu's surrender, Li Gang smiled in his heart, and said: "Yishan, your family will be fine, don't worry." Yang Fu then put away the knife and sat down, sighed, and stopped talking. Thousands of troops were silent for a day, capturing a few people who passed by, and Li Gang tied them all up so as not to reveal their whereabouts.

Soon it was evening again, and Li Gang and Yang Fu secretly discussed: "Yishan, if you speed up your pace tonight, you will be able to go to Jixian before dawn tomorrow." Yang Fu picked up a branch on the ground and gestured on the ground: "General, look, this is the county seat, and there is a forest here, which happens to be the only way to Tianshui in Ji County." Tomorrow, our army will lie in ambush in this wood, and the lower officer will go to Ji County, pretending to ask for an explanation, and then the lower officer will run from this path to the woods with his subordinates, as long as the enemy enters the woods, it is where they are buried. ”

Li Gang looked at Yang Fu's red eyes, and could see how much Yang Fu hated the soldiers and horses of Yizhou, or Jiang Xu. The box drawn by Yang Fu is the county seat of Ji County, and the circle is the forest that Yang Fu said, and the forest is only five miles away from Ji County. This distance is just right, it is not very far, so as not to be caught up by Yizhou soldiers and horses if Yang Fu can't run at that time, and it is not too close, so as not to be recognized by the enemy army in Ji County. Li Gang nodded and said kindly: "Yishan, just in case, you should go on horseback, so as not to be caught up by the enemy's cavalry." ”

Yang Fu shook his head: "No, the general, the lower official is the defeated army of Ji County, where does the horse come from, if you ride a horse, maybe you will be seen through by Jiang Boya's anti-thief, you can't do it." Li Gang admired it very much, and said loudly: "Yishan did not hesitate to risk his life in order to defeat the enemy army, if he succeeded this time, he would definitely report to his brother truthfully, and let his brother give you the water for the day." Yang Fu hurriedly knelt down and shouted thanks, which made Li Gang very useful.

The army began to set off again at night, and Yang Fu kept shouting in the back: "This, pick it up, don't let others find out that the army has come here, pick this one up too-" Li Gang, who was riding on a horse in the distance, saw Yang Fu like this, smiled, and didn't know what it meant.

Not long after the army left, the three black shadows didn't know where to come out like ghosts, and kept wandering around the place where the Tianshui army had rested, looking at the tree, and the stone overturning. Suddenly, one shouted, "Chief, here." The other two floated over with a shout, leaning against a tree, touching the scars on the tree, and the leader said, "Five miles, go." The three figures disappeared again, and in the moonlight, the tree followed stoutly, and there were a few knife wounds.

"General, it's almost dawn, this is it." It is the woods that Yang Fu said, Li Gang and Yang Fu's army have already come here. Yang Fu continued: "General, if the lower official only has these dozens of people to go to Ji County, I am afraid that even if the defenders of Ji County come to chase, there will not be too many people, so the lower official asks the general to bring two or three hundred more people to the lower officials, so that the defenders will have to come out with hundreds of people, and the general can destroy these hundreds of people in an instant, and then put on their clothes and go directly into the city. ”

When Li Gang heard this, Yang Fu had been thinking about himself all the way, Li Gang was very moved, so he waved his hand without hesitation and called a small colonel, saying: "You, lead two hundred soldiers and horses, go with Yang Zhubo, everything is under the command of Yang Zhubo, if it is bad for me, you look good." Li Gang sternly said to Xiao Xiaoxiao, Xiao Xiao should be in a hurry.

The sky was bright, and Yang Fu and the others were the same tattered appearance as before, and some people limped towards Ji County, looking weak. Yang Fu and the colonel walked in front with a smile, Yang Fu: "When did the general join the army?" "The official position of the junior school is small, but he is older than Li Gang, and seeing that Yang Fu is so approachable, he can't help but get acquainted with Yang Fu, and almost answer any questions. Yang Fu: "When the general goes back from this battle, he will have to be a military commander, and maybe he can be a captain." Xiao Xiao laughed, and said in his heart that this Yang Fu is really a good person.

When I arrived less than two miles away from Ji County, I had already seen the figure on the city, and the little school said solemnly: "Lord Yang, it's here." Yang Fu snorted coldly, the colonel was helpless, the army has always said that this Yang Zhubo is very resentful of Jiang Xu in Ji County, it seems to be true. Yang Fu really looked resentful, pretending not to know and yelling at the city: "How has the city become the banner of the enemy army, open the door, open the door, a certain Ji County Lord Bo." Yang Fu only pretended not to know that Chen Lin had taken Ji County, thinking that Ji County was still in the hands of Li Dao.

At this time, a person appeared on the head of the city, it was Jiang Xu, and Jiang Xu smiled and said: "Yang Yishan, this city is already used by my lord, do you also want to abandon the darkness and turn to the light." When Yang Fu saw it, he jumped up and yelled and scolded at the city wall, and the wind and clouds of the direct scolding changed color, and the sky and the earth were dark, which made the defenders of the city and the colonel and others stunned, and they all opened their mouths to look at Yang Fu, who was originally polite and polite, and they were all speechless.

In the end, Yang Fu said to Jiang Xu: "Jiang Boya, you are a thief with no king and no father, go to Tianshui and let General Li send troops to destroy you." After that, he turned around and left, and when he passed by the school, he said to the schoolmaster: "Run, the defenders are out." Sure enough, I saw a loud bang at the city gate, but it was the rumbling sound of horses' hooves rushing out, and when the little school reacted, Yang Fu had already run out more than 20 zhang away, and Yang Fu's original dozens of subordinates.

Jiang Xu shook his head on the wall and whispered: "This Yang Yishan, lord, you have hurt me." Then he ran down quickly, jumped on his horse and chased after him, and hundreds of cavalry swarmed out.

Seeing that Yang Fu was suddenly running so fast, the junior colonel outside the city hurriedly shouted: "Withdraw, Lord Yang and wait for the last general." But he found that Yang Fu was running faster and faster. In the wild run, Yang Fu smiled slyly and continued to run forward. At this time, it will be found that the cavalry that rushed out of Ji County was killed directly at the Xiao Colonel, while the foot soldiers who came out of Ji County City bypassed the battlefield and chased Yang Fu. The colonel didn't find this unusual place in his panic, it stands to reason that the cavalry should have chased Yang Fu in front, and the infantry stayed to deal with the colonel, but now it's the opposite.

The people sent by Li Gang in the bush pile saw that Ji County had sent troops, and that Yang Fu and others had no life to run to the ambush place, so the scout hurriedly got on his horse and ran back. If he left a little later, he would find that the foot soldiers rushed out of Ji County quickly caught up with Yang Fu, but there was no expected fierce fight, and the strange thing was that the foot soldiers who rushed out of Ji County got into the bushes with Yang Fu in a blink of an eye and disappeared. The little colonel had the heart to chase Yang Fu and wanted to protect Yang Fu, but he was killed by the cavalry. I saw that Jiang Xu also saw that the colonel and others were left behind, and shouted, Jiang Xu left two hundred cavalry, and he led the remaining three hundred people straight to Yang Fu, and shouted in his mouth: "Capture Yang Yishan alive." ”

In the dense forest five miles away, Li Gang was anxiously waiting for Yang Fu, and the scout rushed back from the horse: "General, success, success, Yang Zhubo is running this way, chasing after him, cavalry, there are cavalry." Li Gang was shocked and overjoyed, the credit for killing the cavalry was much greater than killing the foot soldiers.

After a while, I heard a roar in the distance, getting closer and closer, the sound of weapons and iron colliding, everything was so clear and more obvious. Li Gang's hand holding the steel knife was sweating, staring straight at the way it came. saw a group of about 200 people, running towards Li Gang in a panic, and the first person was Yang Fu. Li Gang looked at Yang Fu's galloping footsteps and was amazed, he couldn't imagine that a scribe could run so fast, no wonder he didn't even want a horse, Li Gang thought to himself. The furious roar of the enemy army came directly behind Yang Fu, and there were at least five hundred people in the crowd, Li Gang was nervous, excited, and did not dare to come out.

Yang Fu ran closer and closer, and at this time Li Gang could clearly see Yang Fu's face. The deputy general beside Li Gang snorted and said to Li Gang: "General, what about the old words? "Lao Yan is the little school. When Li Gang saw it, he really disappeared from the school, and Li Gang said suspiciously: "Maybe it's falling, it's in chaos." ”

No, no, it's okay if the colonel is gone, but now the crowd of Yang Fu running back together seems to be a little more than two hundred, can Yang Fu run back without a single soldier, but there is one less colonel. "That's not right." The adjutant general exclaimed: "General, no one around Lord Yang knows anyone, trap, general." ”

With the screams of Adjutant General Li Gang, there was also a roar of shouting around the dense forest, and there was a whining horn, "Yizhou Military Trumpet" Li Gang said four words, and saw a sharp arrow like a cold grim reaper, flying from the big iron bow in the hand of a soldier behind Yang Fu. What a big bow, this was Li Gang's last consciousness, and he only felt a pain like a mosquito bite coming from his nose, and then he didn't know anything.

The adjutant general exclaimed in his ears: "Zhongji-"