In the camp of the thief army, Zuo Yunshan had already written a letter, looked for his henchmen, handed the letter to him and instructed: "You immediately go to the camp of the Sui army, find Zhang Xutuo, tell him that I have completed his mission, and let him release my wife and children——"

"Ignorance, understood!"

His henchmen took the letter and left, Zuo Yunshan grabbed him and said viciously: "I haven't finished my words yet, what are you anxious about?" ”

His subordinates lowered their heads in fright, and Zuo Yunshan said again: "After you come out of the Sui army camp, immediately return to Squaogou Mountain, and tell my five concubines that Zuo Xiaoyou is going to be finished, and ask them to bury my gold and silver treasures first, dress up as a sloppy woman, and prepare to accept the repatriation of the Sui army, and when the war is over, I will naturally go to them." ”

Zuo Yunshan said again, "Remember?" ”

"Humble, remember!"

His men left the camp and hurried away, and Zuo Yunshan paced back and forth with his hands in his hands, his heart full of anticipation for the future life of a rich man.

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Last night, there was a raid on the Sui camp, Zuo Xiaoyou's army was defeated by the Sui army's bow and crossbow array, with a loss of nearly 10,000, plus the fatigue of the challenge for several days, the morale of the thief army was very low, and they had no intention of fighting.

At this moment, a group of defeated soldiers fleeing from the north brought a more frightening news to them, their grain trucks were intercepted, the grain route was interrupted, and all kinds of news quickly spread in the camp, some said that the old nest of the squatting dog mountain was ended, some said that their families were slaughtered, their property was robbed, and some news said that their food was only enough to support them for three days.

The generals of the rebellious army rushed to the tent one after another, crowded outside the tent, and everyone whispered, full of worries about the future.

In the big tent, Zuo Xiaoyou's face was extremely gloomy, and on both sides sat his four generals, Xie Xiang, Wang Liang, Zheng Dabiao and Li Wan, and the military advisor Zuo Yunshan also sat down.

Zuo Xiaoyou glanced at Zuo Yunshan coldly, Zuo Yunshan was so frightened that his heart was pounding, and his heart was weak for a while. He lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Zuo Xiaoyou.

Zuo Xiaoyou said in a hoarse voice: "Since Zhang Xutuo sent troops to the East, I have made many mistakes, first sitting back and watching Meng Rang not save him, resulting in Zhang Xutuo having the opportunity to break through. Secondly, Qin Qiong led 5,000 troops to build a camp, but I ignored it, as if I wanted to wait for the arrival of the other party's main force, but in fact, I missed the opportunity, and once again I actually gave up the dangerous place of Squatting Dog Mountain. Running to fight a positional battle with Zhang Xutuo, it seems that I am ambitious, and I can defeat Zhang Xutuo in one fell swoop and occupy the entire territory of Qingzhou, but in fact? ”

Zuo Xiaoyou's sharp gaze stared at Zuo Yuanshan, "I think about it carefully, it seems that every mistake I make is the result of the instigation of the military advisor, the military advisor, I originally wanted to go back to Squatting Dog Mountain, why did you stop me from going back?" ”

Zuo Yunshan was so frightened that his legs trembled. With a trembling voice, he said, "I think that our army is three times larger than the Sui and Sui army, and we can defeat them in a dignified manner." ”

"Dignified?"

Zuo Xiaoyou slowly walked in front of Zuo Yunshan, looked at him coldly, and said, "Do you dare to swear that you think so?" ”

"I dare to swear!"

"I advise you not to swear, or I will fulfill your vow."

Zuo Xiaoyou waved his hand, "Bring it to me!" ”

More than a dozen personal soldiers pushed a soldier in, Zuo Yunshan was suddenly frightened, this soldier was his henchman who was sent to secretly see Zhang Xutuo, and he actually fell into the hands of Zuo Xiaoyou.

The soldier fell to his knees and said tremblingly: "I confess, it was Zuo Yunshan who asked me to find Zhang Xutuo!" ”

There was an uproar in the big tent. Several generals stood up and glared at Zuo Yunshan with their hands on the hilt of their knives, and Zuo Yunshan was suddenly frightened, and his lips trembled. Can't say a word.

Zuo Xiaoyou took out Zuo Yunshan's letter and said with a sneer: "If it weren't for the outer patrol to catch your henchmen, I wouldn't have dreamed that my uncle actually secretly collaborated with the enemy and betrayed me." ”

"Virtuous nephew, listen to my explanation!"

"Explain my knife!"

Zuo Xiaoyou pulled out the knife. A knife stabbed into Zuo Yunshan's chest, Zuo Yunshan screamed and died on the spot.

Outside the big tent, hundreds of generals heard the screams of the military division, everyone looked at each other, not knowing what was happening, at this time, Zuo Xiaoyou walked out with Zuo Yunshan's head, and he raised the head high.

"Brothers, the reason why we have suffered repeated defeats is because we have enemy spies among us, it was Zuo Yunshan who betrayed us, it is not that everyone is ineffective in fighting, nor is it that my Zuo Xiaoyou is incompetent, I killed him today just to give an explanation to all the brothers who died in battle."

The generals behind sighed secretly, Zuo Xiaoyou obviously put all the blame on Zuo Yunshan, no matter whether Zuo Yunshan is a real spy or innocent, anyway, he is destined to be a scapegoat.

"King, we ask to squat on Dog Mountain!"

The generals shouted: "Our family is on the mountain, go back!" ”

Zuo Xiaoyou happily agreed to everyone, "Since everyone has this intention, then go back and inform the brothers not to pack up the camp, we will get up overnight and quickly return to Squaogou Mountain!" ”

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Zhang Xuan's army arrived at the next afternoon, the mountain is 100 miles in circumference, the mountain is high and dense, the valley is deep and the slope is steep, the foot of the mountain is surrounded by endless wheat fields, and the farmland is full of busy figures, mostly old people and women, who are sowing winter wheat in the last season.

More than 2,000 troops marched slowly on the official road at the foot of the mountain, and in the farmland there were sometimes patches of small forests, and beside the woods were small villages with smoke curling from cooking, generally dozens of households living together, these were all farmers controlled by Zuo Xiaowu, and belonged to one of his 130,000 bandits.

Because Zuo Xiaowu has occupied Squatting Dog Mountain for nearly a year and a half, and there have never been officers and soldiers encircled and suppressed, the surroundings of Squatting Dog Mountain appear very calm and tranquil, like a paradise.

However, the peace of Squagging Dog Mountain was still broken by the arrival of Zhang Xuan's army, the old people and women working in the farmland were terrified, and they fled to their homes one after another, and the black smoke that squatted on Gou Mountain also burned into the sky, which was a warning to Zuo Xiaoyou's army in the distance for help.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves sounded in the distance, and the yellow dust was rolling on the official road, and in a moment, several cavalrymen galloped from a distance, and one of the cavalrymen carried an old man on his horseback.

"General!"

The first team is rushing forward and saluting: "We brought a Lizheng, he knows the situation here very well. ”

The old man slowly dismounted, knelt down and kowtowed to Zhang Xuan, "Lao Er is squatting in the dog mountain, meet General Zhang!" ”

Zhang Xuan felt that this title was quite strange, what is the squatting dog mountain is zheng, so he asked with a smile: "You are the official of the Great Sui, or the official of Zuo Xiaoyou?" ”

"Both! This place was originally called Jinxi Township, Lao Er was the township chief appointed by the county order, and later Zuo Xiaoyou occupied the squatting dog mountain, the county order ran away, and Lao Er became the squatting dog mountain. ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, the name of Jinxi Township is so good, it has to be called Squatting Dog Mountain, he asked again: "Let me ask you, how many people are in this radius, and how many troops are there on the mountain?" ”

"General Huiyu, there are 10,000 or 20,000 families under the mountain, all of them have moved from all over Donglai County, and the houses are basically newly built, mainly for Zuo Xiaoyou to farm the land, and the army is on the mountain, how many are there, Xiao Lao'er is not clear, and he can't talk nonsense."

Zhang Xuan actually knew a little about the situation of the army, Zuo Yunshan revealed to them that Zuo Xiaoyou took all the troops down the mountain, and the army guarding the mountain was less than 2,000 people, which made Zhang Xutuo and Zhang Xuan have the idea of ending Zuo Xiaoyou's nest.

Zhang Xuan took out a map from the horse bag, which was the deployment map of the Squatting Dog Mountain army that Zuo Yunshan asked his brother-in-law to give to Zhang Xutuo, and Zhang Xutuo gave it to Zhang Xuan.

The map identification is very clear, there are actually nine mountains in Squatting Dog Mountain, and Zuo Xiaoyou's nest is on the third mountain, he pointed to the old nest on the map and asked the old man: "This should be their old nest, where is it?" ”

"That's where the smoke comes from the top of the mountain!"

The old man pointed to the top of the mountain with his hand, "The road up the mountain is a hundred steps ahead, and the road is very spacious, you can see it at a glance." ”

Jang Hyun was more concerned about a path drawn on the map, and he asked, "Is there a path up the mountain?" ”

"This little old man really doesn't know, otherwise I will find a woodcutter or medicine man for the general, they must be very familiar."

"Thank you very much."

Zhang Xuan asked several cavalrymen to follow the old man to find the woodcutter, and he gathered all the captains together and said to them: "We have two things to do, one is to go up the mountain to end Zuo Xiaoyou's lair, and the other is to seize Zuo Xiaoyou's granary at the bottom of the mountain. ”

"Is Zuo Xiaoyou's granary at the foot of the mountain?" The crowd asked, puzzled.

Zhang Xuan pointed to the map and said with a smile: "There are signs on the map, but think about it, it should also be under the mountain, otherwise how can he give the front a lot of food, every time he moves down from the mountain, it is definitely unrealistic, but there is also a granary on the mountain, and these two granaries are the target of our attack." ”

"The general commands! How do we do that? Pei Xingyan grinded his fists and said.

Zhang Xuan had a detailed plan and whispered to everyone: "Our troops are divided into four routes, and we will act separately, and each road is very important and cannot be lost." (To be continued.) )