"Boom, boom!"

There was a voice, like thunder, crushing from the eastern sky, gradually approaching. The gate of Yanshi buzzed again, and the torches behind the gate shone extremely dazzlingly, and the light penetrated through the gaps, shooting out of the city gate. The crowd standing under the torches lined up, holding their breath and staring at the slowly opening gates. Finally, when the city gate was fully opened, the prefectural magistrate who was standing at the front of the line took a step and walked outside the city gate.

The night of Yanshi City has not passed, and it seems that it will never pass.

In the first half of the night, the county commander stood on the castle tower, waiting for the people who were about to enter the city in the distance, but suddenly this group of people suddenly turned back for some reason. In the second half of the night, just after extinguishing the next fire, I learned that this group of men and horses had rushed back again, and the county commander couldn't drink a sip of water, so he took his robes and clothes and rushed to the south of the city with this group of yasi servants.

The whirring night wind blew and blew on the county magistrate, and the county magistrate couldn't help but shudder.

In order to extinguish the fire just now, he was already busy, and the sweat glands in his body were dry and wet, wet and dry, and at this time he suddenly stopped being busy, and stood in the open space outside the city, the night wind blew, and the body immediately felt uncomfortable, and a cold current rushed up and down the body, "Yawn!" ”

The county magistrate had just sneezed, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves was finally approaching, and countless torches swam outside the Yanshi City like snakes, illuminating a radius of several miles. The subordinate next to him immediately reminded the county commander: "My lord, General Zhang's men have arrived!" ”

"Yawn! Root...... I know! ”

The county commander raised his sleeve, sneezed in his sleeve several times in succession, and kept his feet and went forward. There are more and more people outside the city gate, wandering like a swimming dragon, the county commander is dazzled, and he doesn't know which one is the leading general, so he has to face these soldiers and uncles and keep talking: "Xiaguan Wu Xuan, welcome General Zhang!" ”

Wu County's order was haha, those soldiers and ruffians laughed at each other, but no one dared to pretend to be Zhang Ji at will.

It's no wonder that in the troubled times, if there are soldiers in his hands, he is the uncle, and in the face of these soldiers, even if he is the county commander, he can only be a little shorter.

These soldiers are all riding high-headed horses, and they are all in armor, and the county order is to look like one by one, but all the way down, I saw Han Sensen's swords, guns, swords and halberds dangling in front of him, but none of them was General Zhang Jizhang. It was when Wu Xian Ling had a bitter face that a horse flew out of the rear cavalry pile. Right away. The general's armor was all over, wearing a battle robe, his hand pressed on the hilt of the sword, his eyes swept over, and he said loudly: "Don't make a mistake with the county commander, this general Zhang Ji is here!" ”

got the news that Yanshi was on fire, Zhang Ji was the front team turned to the back team, and the back team turned to the front team, and rushed to this side non-stop. He was in front, but because he had turned before, he was already behind the whole army. Therefore, the county magistrate worshipped so many people, and then the real master was worshipped.

Those cavalry hula and turned around the county commander and others from a distance, and when they heard Zhang Ji's joking words, they all laughed.

The county commander raised his head and saw that the Chinese army general claimed to be Zhang Ji, so he hurriedly took his robe and went forward to bow again: "Xiaguan Wu Xuan, welcome General Zhang into the city!" ”

Although Zhang Ji was exhausted and hungry, he was not in a hurry to enter the city for a while, but he just glanced at the city, and there was no fire, so he asked, "Hmm! It seems that General Ben is a step too late, and the fire in this city has been extinguished? Wu Xianling hurriedly nodded yes, and did not dare to take credit. Zhang Ji nodded, and then asked, "Where did the fire start, and when did the thieves retreat?" ”

"Don't hide that General Zhang knows that it was the granary that caught fire, and this thief had already retreated before the general came!"

"Granary?"

Zhang Ji's heart was slightly shocked, he came from a long distance this time, and his subordinates only brought two or three days of dry food with each of them, just counting on the supply of grain and grass in Gongxian, Yanshi and other places, and now I heard that Yanshi burned the granary, how not to be frightened! He moved and hurriedly asked, "How much grain and grass is left?" ”

Hearing Zhang Ji ask, Wu Xianling felt a pain in his chest.

"How much grass is left? Can't understand what General Ben is saying? ”

Zhang Ji's brows furrowed, and his hand pressed the handle of the knife.

"Forgive the General! This grain and grass...... All this grain and grass has been reduced to ashes! ”

Wu County Ling is really unwilling to tell this result, if he talks about distress, he is afraid that no one can compare to him, and now he has to be ruthless to let him say it in person, he has to face this heavy reality. And this reality is also unacceptable to the county order. Although he organized people to put out the fire, it was only because he found it late, and secondly, it was windy tonight, so he couldn't control the fire at all, and he was helpless to see the grain and grass hoarded in a county turn into ashes in front of his eyes.

"Ashes! Reduced to ashes! ”

Zhang Ji gritted his teeth, and the fire in his heart came up, and he was about to draw a knife to cut him. Facing the knife in General Zhang's hand, Wu Xianling's face suddenly turned like ashes, and his feet fell backwards again and again. Of course, he knew in his heart that if this result was known to Zhang Ji, he would definitely not let him go. Therefore, before leaving the city, he was also mentally prepared. It's just that when he has to face death seriously, the fear that comes from his heart hangs over his whole body, and his instinct makes him look extremely embarrassed now.

Fortunately, there was someone who knew the general situation behind Zhang Ji, and he immediately stopped Zhang Ji's move.

Zhang Ji's knife went down, although he could easily kill Wu County's order, but after all, it was the hearts of the people who were lost, let alone when the war was imminent. Zhang Ji gritted his teeth, sent the half-drawn knife back again, looked up to the sky and closed his eyes, but did not speak for a while.

Before leaving, he Zhang Ji had already calculated that this encounter with Chen Nuo was bound to take place in Yanshi City. Because there has been no war for a long time, Yanshi City has been given a short opportunity for development, the city has been repaired, the people have been stabilized, and a lot of grain and grass are bound to be accumulated. Thinking that if he led the troops to come, he would be able to supply the expenses of the army by relying only on the grain and grass of the Yanshi, so he pinned all his hopes on the Yanshi. It's just that now that Yanshi's grain and grass have been burned, the grain and grass brought by his army are not enough to use for two or three days. If you don't fight, you will be defeated!

Zhang Ji suddenly opened his eyes and said to a personal soldier behind him: "You, go to Gong County overnight, pass on my general order, let Gong County order open the warehouse, and transport all the grain and grass in the warehouse to Yanshi City, there must be no mistake!" ”

"No!"

The personal soldiers were shocked, and they rode three or five horses, beating their horses and heading towards the east.

Zhang Ji didn't know how much grain and grass there was in Gong County, so he turned to look at Wu County Order.

"Wu County Order! Listen, as soon as the morning dawns, you immediately send troops down to collect grain and grass for the whole city of this general, can you understand? ”

"This ......"

Wu County's order is big, and it has not been two months since the last grain levy, and now it is levied again, I am afraid that the people will complain again. But looking at Zhang Ji's eyes, his heart sank, and he didn't dare to say more, so he hurriedly agreed. After Zhang Ji finished speaking, he reined in the horse, suddenly remembered something, stared at Wu Xianling, and asked him: "No!" This granary is inside the city, and the thieves are outside the city, and how did the thieves enter the city and set it on fire? ”

Wu Xianling was shocked, and hurriedly said, "This ...... It's the negligence of the lower officials! The thieves sneaked into the city, then secretly set a fire, and secretly escaped from the city! ”

Zhang Ji was stunned for a moment and shouted: "Nonsense! The army of thieves is forcing the city, why take this risk! Besides, his thousands of troops suddenly came to Yanshi City, how could no one know? Could it be that you are blind or deaf, or is the other party using some kind of trick to let you ignore it and get it easily? You are a good deceitful when you are a general! ”

"Thousands?"

Wu Xianling's body sank, and he glanced left and right, obviously there were not more than a dozen thieves coming, how could Zhang Ji say that it was thousands? This kid is sleepwalking, isn't he?

In Zhang Ji's imagination, he was deceived by Chen Nuo's design and went around in a circle, and the centaur who was leading them by the nose suddenly disappeared again, and at the same time the Yanshi was on fire, so this missing centaur was nothing more than throwing them off and pounced on Yanshi City again.

It's just that when he saw Wu Xianling's surprised gaze, he suddenly felt cold all over.

No?!

If the group they were following didn't come, then where did they go? Who set the fire in Yanshi?

Sky! Zhang Ji's head instantly became bigger, and when he thought about it carefully, he had been being played with all day long, and he didn't stop for a moment. Sadly, he still doesn't know where the enemy is and what their purpose is!

"Giggles!"

His fingers gripped the hilt of the knife and slashed down inch by inch, the nails were lifted, and blood was running down between his fingers.

"Woohoo!"

A series of neighing sounds of horses roared from a distance, waking Zhang Ji up from his panic and anger. As he pondered, the cavalry around him barely dared to speak, enveloped by the strange atmosphere. There was no human voice, and the neighing of the horse was deliberately controlled, and it would not suddenly neigh wildly. Zhang Ji's body was shocked, and he was about to get angry. At this time, on the other side of the forest in the distance, three or five soldiers shouted and reported to Zhang Jiyu: "General, there are more than a dozen horses here!" ”

If you have a horse, it's a rare horse!

Zhang Ji turned around and saw that these horses were all lonely and tied to the edge of the forest with ropes, and at this moment they were restless because of the fire and the crowd. Of course, these horses were not Zhang Ji's, Zhang Ji looked at Wu Xianling suspiciously, and asked, "What's going on?" ”

"Oh, this isn't the county's horse!"

Wu County's order was immediately cleared. Although there are more than a dozen horses in the temple in his county, none of them are the size of these horses. Besides, even if it is from the county temple, it will definitely not tie them outside the city, isn't this full of food? But he thought about it carefully, and suddenly clapped his hands and said, "General Zhang, don't worry! Although it is not from this county, the lower officials know that these horses may be ......"

"What is it?" When is it, he doesn't want to listen to this county order.

"It was left behind by the arsonists!"

When Wu Xian Ling spoke, Zhang Ji was suddenly stunned and said, "You mean, this ...... There are only a dozen thieves in this gang who set fires? Zhang Ji saw him nodding, frenzyed, and shouted, "Is there really only a dozen?!" ”

"Yes......"

Wu Xian Ling turned his eyes to those horses very innocently, I said a dozen, don't you believe it, don't you know how to count? How many more times do you want to ask? Wu Xianling said that he was very hurt, but when he saw Zhang Ji's crazy appearance, he suddenly became timid again, and could only respond extremely carefully.

"Since there are only a dozen people on the other side, then let me ask you, how did you let them run away?!"

Zhang Ji rushed upwards angrily, and no longer thought about the whereabouts of the thousands of men and horses, but he couldn't figure out whether this granary was papier-mâché, whether these guards were muddy, and actually let more than a dozen people come and go freely, burned down the granary, and the people ran away without a trace!

When Wu County heard this, he raised his eyebrows, but replied confidently: "General Zhang, you misunderstood!" General Zhang, you weren't there at the time, if the general was there, maybe you wouldn't have said that, General. Well, don't be angry, for what the commander says is the truth. General, listen to me, although there are only a dozen of these thieves, they are all very good, especially the one they lead. ”

"I think that at that time, after this group of thieves set a fire in the city, they also wanted to jump off the city with a rope, but they were discovered by the defenders of our Yanshi in time, cut the ropes of the thieves, and killed both of them on the spot. Because of the urgency of the situation, after discovering the thieves, one part of the city fired arrows on the city, blocking the thieves' escape, and the other immediately opened the city to pursue, and someone came to inform the lower officials. When the lower official arrived, the group of thieves was half surrounded by the lower official's defenders, and they were almost about to make dumplings. ”

"It's just that I didn't expect that the leader among them, killing people is like chopping vegetables and chopping melons, and he has killed several times my men and horses. If General Zhang doesn't believe it, look over there, yes, the blood in that place is...... It's the previous thieves and the subordinates of the subordinate who left it for you to see. Good boy! Xia Guan now thinks of that scene at that time...... That thief held a pair of iron halberds in his hand, and chopped and killed him wildly, and the next official was ......"

"A pair of iron halberds?"

Zhang Ji frowned, his heart moved, and his eyes glared at Wu Xianling: "What kind of iron halberd is a pair?" ”

Wu Xianling was not interesting to talk alone, it was rare that Zhang Ji had the heart to cooperate with him to continue. When he heard Zhang Jilai ask, he immediately said, "General Zhang asked well!" Speaking of this pair of iron halberds, they are indeed different from ordinary iron halberds. How? According to the eyes of the lower officials, his pair of iron halberds were longer than the average and very sharp. It's just that he was still holding a pair of long knives before this, and then because the knives were blunt, he had to pull out the pair of iron halberds from his back. I think the iron halberd came out at that time......"

"Sure enough, it's him!"

In the past, outside the city of Jingxian County, he was entrusted by Yang Ding to intercept Chen Nuo's department with him, and he saw the pair of iron halberds at that time. Speaking of which, the shot that his nephew Zhang Xiu stabbed at Chen Nuo was destroyed by Dian Wei's halberd, and Yang Ding was stabbed to death by Dian Wei's halberd.

These are the humiliations of yesteryear, how he is not clear!

Zhang Ji's body stood up straight, no longer listening to Wu County's long-winded orders, looking at the horses left by the thieves, his mind was alive.

When he first arrived at Yanshi City, he thought that it was the thousands of horseback thieves who attacked Yanshi, so when he saw that the enemy was gone, he had the idea of giving up the pursuit. After all, all the people he is receiving now are tired teachers, and he may not be able to get good fruits to eat if he catches up. And now I heard that the thieves are not only not the thousands of people, but only a dozen people, and more importantly, this group of people abandoned their horses and walked in a hurry, so the situation is different. Since these people are all on foot, even if they run farther, if they want to catch up with them, isn't it easy to do it?

Besides, since there is such a capable general of Chen Nuo here, if he can destroy it with one blow, not only will he 'pay back' to Chen Nuo with a small 'tribute', but he can also break one of Chen Nuo's arms because of this, such a huge temptation, how can it not provoke Zhang Ji's heart?

"Hmm, General Zhang, General Zhang, are you listening?"

Wu Xian Ling has been chirping and talking, saying that Dian Wei is like a god, and he has a bit of worship. But after talking for a long time, his mouth was dry, his tongue was dry, and he suddenly raised his head and saw Zhang Ji's pair of rolling eyes, as well as his absent-minded expression, and no matter how good his interest was, it was swept away. Croak and suddenly shut up.

Zhang Ji naturally didn't look at this guy who 'boosted the enemy's morale and destroyed his own prestige', and he was not interested in continuing to listen to him at all, but suddenly asked him: "General Ben asked you, where are these thieves going at the moment?" ”

"Oh......"

Obviously, he really didn't listen, Wu Xianling was stunned twice, and then pointed with his hand: "Ran to the side road!" ”

Zhang Ji looked at it and smiled: "These guys don't have horses, but they know that it's not easy to take the road." Okay, the county magistrate doesn't need you to work here, you go back to the city to prepare some food first, and when General Ben comes back after catching these rabbit cubs, let's have a good chat. ”

“…… What does the general mean to be ready to chase past? It's just that they've been around for a long time! ”

Knowing that Wu County Ling had such concerns, Zhang Ji rolled his eyes, didn't bother to pay attention to him, and only urged him to return to the city. On his side, he didn't care what Wu Xianling thought, he suddenly buckled his horse and mobilized the soldiers behind him, hoping that they would follow him and work hard again, and be sure to take these thieves who set fires, so as to vent their anger to everyone. His soldiers had been busy for almost two nights and a day, and although they were extremely tired, they didn't care to run any more than that. If they could catch these thieves who set fire as the general said, of course, if not, at least they had heard with their own ears that the general had already instructed the county commander to prepare food for them, and as long as they came back from this trip, they would have food and rest, and it didn't matter.

Only that Wu County ordered to prepare food, his eyebrows drooped, the grain and grass accumulated in the city had just been burned by a pile of fire, even if the grain was collected, it was impossible to have it at once, could it not be robbed? Wu County's order was behind General Zhang Ji's horse's buttocks, "but, but ......" for a long time, but General Zhang Ji only pretended not to hear it.

After mobilizing the soldiers, Zhang Ji immediately drew his sword, pointed his knife forward, and ordered: "The three armies listen to my order and pursue!" ”