The staff officer said happily: "If this is the case, it will be simple, Zilu must still be in the hands of the imperial court now, there should be three hundred defenders in the city, and there should be many squires organized by the villagers, there should be no less than a thousand people in total, if our army attacks the thief army, the defenders in the city are not fools, they must come out of the city to attack on both sides, maybe they can swallow these two thousand thieves in one fell swoop." ”

I have to say that his analysis is still reasonable, not only does he think so, but the thousands and hundreds of households next to him are also general ideas. It is very likely that the thief army will divide the troops and advance together, and in terms of the total army of the thief army, the strength of a flank is also reasonable at 2,000 people, and the status of Ying Shanhong in the Zhu army is not very high, so it is reasonable for her to bring 2,000 troops.

With the 3,000 men and horses led by the crossbow general Zhang Ling, and with the defenders and village warriors in Zilu, it was effortless to eat these two thousand thieves, and the thousands and hundreds of households under Zhang Ling were all excited.

At the same time, in the ravine on the other side, Xu Renjie, Wang Er, Xiao Cao and others were hiding in the ravine, looking at the red part of Yingshan that was acting as a bait in front of them. Because the Yingshan Red Division was traversed on the hill in front of them, blocking the scouts of the officers and soldiers from continuing to advance, the 3,000 black pole soldiers and 3,000 Shaanxi soldiers led by them had not yet been discovered by the officers and soldiers.

Wang Er was a little worried about Ying Shanhong, he grabbed the iron rod tightly and said: "My mother-in-law's martial arts are not very good, and her brain is not very good, I am afraid that she will be killed by mistake for a while, once the fight starts." Gotta rush out to help her as soon as possible. ”

Xu Renjie next to him immediately smiled: "I said second brother, don't you often say that your mother-in-law has no other use, just to help you fight?" Now that your mother-in-law is out fighting, what are you worried about? ”

Wang Erlao's face was slightly red, when he was married to Ying Shanhong, he did say something similar, saying that women are useless, they can't help him fight or something, and he watched Ying Shanhong because she can fight. More useful than other women. At that time, he had nothing to do. really looks at women like this, but over the past many years, he has also entered middle age and has more life experience. Naturally, there has been a change in the perception of certain things. It was brought up again. couldn't help but said embarrassedly: "Damn, Lao Tzu still expects her to give me a fat boy to inherit my martial arts...... I don't just expect her to help me fight. ”

As soon as he said this, he couldn't help but feel a little depressed: "Hey." Brother, do you think there is something wrong with my family...... I've been married to my mother-in-law for almost ten years, and her belly hasn't moved at all, what kind of demon moth is this? ”

Xu Renjie smiled: "Who called you so stupid, only married one, let me tell you, if a man wants a son, he has to marry a few, one chicken will not lay eggs, we have a second chicken...... Look at me, when I was eighteen years old, my father asked me for a daughter-in-law, and then he successively accepted seven or eight concubines, as well as Xue ...... Cough...... I'm now a father of four. You are right to listen to me, when I go back, I will take twenty more concubines, catch two of them and enter the house every night, and ensure that I will have my third son in a year. ”

Xu Renjie was born in a wealthy merchant family, so marrying a wife and taking a concubine is normal in his opinion, but for a person like Wang Er, who was born in poverty, he is already very satisfied to be able to marry a daughter-in-law in this life, although he can now be regarded as rich, but he has never thought of accepting a concubine, at this time, Xu Renjie said, his face suddenly turned purple, and he gasped: "This ...... Piece...... Don't ......"

Seeing Wang Er's face red and his heart beating with an embarrassed look, Xu Renjie couldn't help laughing, he liked to bully an honest person like Wang Er, and it was particularly interesting to see an honest person blushing and embarrassed. So he said in a low voice: "I said second brother, you have to think clearly, if you and Yingshan Hong have a son, it is not good that you will give birth to an orangutan, but if you accept a beautiful concubine to give birth, maybe you will give birth to a son who looks like Pan An, for the sake of your son's appearance, you really have to think about it." ”

Wang Erhan said: "But the orangutan can fight, I want to give birth to a son who looks like a scholar, and see if I don't pinch him to death." ”

Xu Renjie: "......"

While talking some boring words, they watched the situation on the battlefield closely, just waiting for a chance to make a move, but after waiting for a long time, they never saw the officers and soldiers rushing up.

Wang Er couldn't help but wonder: "It's weird! Why didn't the officers and soldiers attack? ”

Xu Renjie also said curiously: "Yes! They were obviously blocked by us as scouts, and they couldn't detect the ambush soldiers here, so it stands to reason that when they saw the two thousand thieves in front of them, they should take the initiative to eat them...... Isn't Zhang Ling in a hurry to rush back to Chengdu? There's no reason to be so inked. ”

At this time, Ma Xianglin, who had been taken behind him by Cao Wenzhao, snorted coldly: "You think of the crossbow general Zhang Ling too simply, the second general in Sichuan, how can he be so simple as a ......"

At this time, the situation in the ranks of the officers and soldiers was different, a large group of thousands of households, hundreds of households, were ready to move, wanting to rush up to beat the Yingshan Red Department, they believed that as long as they fought with the thief soldiers, the Zilu defenders and Xiangyong on the other side of the thief army would take the initiative to come to cooperate.

Officers and men have a habit of rushing forward to get a little credit if a friendly force has an advantage, or if a friendly force has an advantage, they tend to be afraid to move forward.

They believe that there is absolutely no problem for 3,000 Sichuan soldiers to fight 2,000 thief soldiers, it must be an advantage, since it is definitely an advantage, there is no reason for the Zilu defenders and Xiangyong not to come.

Hearing his subordinates shouting to go up, Zhang Ling shook his head with a serious face, a sixty-nine-year-old veteran, how can he fight more than a hundred battles in his life? What's more, not long ago, he had dealt with extravagant Chongming's 100,000 rebels, Zhang Ling's combat experience was incomparably rich, and he would not easily fight a battle with insufficient intelligence. Although the staff officer's analysis just now was well organized and looked very similar to that thing, Zhang Ling knew very well that "what was analyzed" and "what was reconnoitred out" could not be equated with each other, if he had accurate information to prove that the thief army was divided, then he would not hesitate to order to eat the 2,000 people of the Yingshan Red Division, but he didn't have any information now, and he couldn't even figure out whether there were ambushes behind the 2,000 enemy troops.

Those who dare to rush forward in this situation are not rookies. It's a novice, but it won't be him Zhang Ling!

Zhang Ling suppressed the voices of the generals and said with a calm face: "Don't attack, transfer the army to the small hill next to it, and prepare to defend the hill...... The scouts will come and find out the ravines behind these two thousand thieves no matter what......"

"What else is there to explore here...... a young general of Baihu muttered, but another Qianhu next to him immediately came over, stretched out his hand to his head, patted his helmet to the side, and shouted: "General Zhang Ling's order must not be wrong." Give me obedient orders. ”

"Yes!"

Not only did the officers and men not rush towards Yingshanhong. Instead, he began to run towards a small hill next to him that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, this time it was really a surprise to Xu Renjie, he couldn't help but snort, and exclaimed: "Fuck! Have we seen through our scheme? ”

Cao Wenzhao shook his head: "No." Not recognized! If Zhang Ling really finds out, there are 8,000 of us. He had already ordered a retreat. With the mountain marching ability of the Sichuan soldiers, we don't even want to catch up...... He had only ordered the troops to move up the hill now, indicating that he was not sure if there were any ambushes on our side...... This is a policy that belongs to the old and serious. Occupy the hill that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and then come to reconnoiter our situation...... If I'm not as expected, the scouts on the other side will immediately turn over the treacherous hills on both sides......"

After listening to Cao Wenzhao's words, Xu Renjie and Wang Er took a closer look at the left and right, and sure enough, the scouts of the Sichuan soldiers shook in the woods, obviously wanting to go over the mountain from the two wings to bypass the Yingshanhong in front and spy on the ravine behind Yingshanhong.

Xu Renjie was stunned, and couldn't help sighing: "General Dacao really lives up to his reputation, and his judgment of officers and soldiers is really accurate, and I am really inferior to this." "Xu Renjie knows his own problems, he is good at formulating some strange strategies, but if he opens the army to fight in a dignified manner, he does lack some experience compared to Cao Wenzhao and Zhang Ling, who are veterans of a hundred battles. Take this time as an example, his strategy was seen through by Zhang Ling, no, or it has not been seen through, but when he encounters the old and serious Zhang Ling, the strategy is ineffective, and his control over the next move of the officers and soldiers is not as good as that of a general like Cao Wenzhao, who came out of a formal channel.

Xu Renjie is a very humble person, he was able to humbly learn from Zhu Yuanzhang back then, and now he can also learn from Cao Wenzhao, and hurriedly asked: "Do you want to send scouts to intercept the other party's scouts and ......attack and kill them?"

Cao Wenzhao shook his head and said, "Don't...... If we kill these scouts and don't let them climb the mountain, wouldn't it tell Zhang Ling that there are ghosts on our side! Zhang Ling was afraid that he would immediately abandon that hill and lead his army to retreat deep into the mountains, and then he would become a thorn in our grain route...... He may come out of the mountains at any time to intercept our grain, and Bai Yuzhu, who is in charge of the grain, is not his opponent, and when the time comes, the situation will become very tricky. ”

Xu Renjie picked his head: "Then what should I do?" ”

Cao Wenzhao's face was covered with a cloth, and he couldn't see his face, but there was a gleam in his eyes: "A veteran like Zhang Ling, it is difficult for us to deceive his eyes, but fortunately, he is not a god, it is impossible to see everything with his own eyes, we can't deceive him, but we can deceive a few scouts under him......"

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and then said: "Second Leader Wang, please quickly take off the purple robe on your body, take a thousand people, take off the purple robe on your body, let the soldiers change into the ordinary clothes they usually wear as quickly as possible, and hold the weapons indiscriminately, don't make it very neat, and then go south for a mile, and touch it slowly from there...... Pose as if you are going to attack the red part of Yingshan. ”

Wang Er's brain was relatively stupid, and he didn't understand what this meant at all, so he asked honestly, "What is this going to do?" Why should I make a picture of someone attacking myself? ”

Cao Wenzhao said: "There's no time to explain, you go quickly!" In fact, with Cao Wenzhao's status in the Zhu army, he is not qualified to give orders to Wang Er, and even Xu Renjie has to use a letter to give orders to Wang Er, fortunately, Wang Er has no desire to fight for power and profit, nor does he have that kind of calculating temper, he knows that he is stupid, and he is very willing to listen to the opinions of his companions in this kind of military strategy. Hurriedly took a thousand people, took off the purple robes on their bodies, put on ordinary linen clothes, and then walked south with a messy weapon.

Cao Wenzhao said to Xu Renjie again: "Generalissimo Leader, please order the black pole soldiers and the remaining Shaanxi soldiers to use the protective color." Try to hide as much as possible, you don't have to stay in formation, you can just retreat into the bottom of trees or grass. ”

Xu Renjie also said curiously: "Even if they all shrank into the grass, it is impossible for a full four thousand people to completely avoid the eyes of the scouts." ”

Cao Wenzhao nodded and said, "Try your luck, see if the scouts can be attracted by the people led by the second brother Wang, so they ignore the reconnaissance under the ravine." ”

The Zhu army was in a hurry, and the scouts sent by Zhang Ling were struggling to climb the mountain...... Since the 2,000 men of the Red Tribes of Yingshan had choked a very important hill, and there were steep cliffs on both sides, it took a lot of effort for the scouts to climb over this cliff, and when they reached the top of the cliff. Zhu Jun has been rearranged according to Cao Wenzhao's instructions.

Several scouts had just reached the top of the cliff. I saw that in the distance on the other side of the cliff, there was a chaotic army of about 1,000 people, which was moving towards the red part of the thief army. This army moves slowly. It looks a bit hesitant. It doesn't seem to be too much of a desire to attack the Red Division......

One of the scouts immediately shouted, "That should be Zihua's village warriors!" ”

Another scout also exclaimed, "Well, it's like ...... The Township Warriors are almost like this, a picture of timidity. They didn't dare to advance, they were waiting for our officers and soldiers to fight with the Yingshan Red Department first, and they had the advantage before they rushed up to pick up the advantage. ”

Of course, they won't know that this army is actually a Shaanxi soldier led by Wang Er.

As a result of the discovery of this country warrior, the attention of several scouts without exception was turned, and in the ravine at their feet, the black pole soldiers did not dare to take a breath, and cowered among the rocks and trees, hiding themselves as much as possible...... In fact, this kind of hiding is not rigorous, if these scouts had not paid attention to the "village warriors" in the distance, they would have discovered the anomaly at the bottom of the cliff long ago.

"Thanks to fighting in the mountains and forests." Xu Renjie looked at the few scouts on the cliff above his head who didn't find him, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and said to Cao Wenzhao next to him in a low voice: "If it was on flat ground, we would have been discovered a long time ago." ”

Cao Wenzhao also said in a low voice: "If it is on flat ground, the Zhu army will not worry about the Sichuan soldiers, and there is no need to use strategies at all, just fight head-on." ”

The two only said these few words, and a scout on the cliff said, "I'll go back and inform General Zhang Ling first, and you will continue to monitor ...... here."

The other scouts nodded, "Good! ”

One of the scouts left the scout team and headed for the way they came. As soon as he walked away, Cao Wenzhao rolled out of his hiding place, and with both hands, a big bow appeared in his hand.

Several scouts on the top of the cliff saw a person suddenly appearing at the bottom of the cliff, and were about to see it clearly, when they suddenly heard a few "buzzing" sounds, and Cao Wenzhao's arrows had been fired...... A good Cao Wenzhao, with a bow and arrows, only in an instant, a series of arrows were fired, like a meteor catching the moon, an arrow biting an arrow, as if it was shot out at the same time.

Before the scouts could react, they felt a pain in their throats, as if they had a sharp weapon piercing their throats...... I couldn't roar anymore, and my body fell down limply. They were horrified in their hearts, they didn't expect that there would be such a sharpshooter in the thief army! The power and speed of these arrows are comparable to that of the crossbow general Zhang Ling...... Oh no! It seems to be even better than the crossbow general Zhang Ling! When did there be such a talent in the army of thieves?

"Wow!" The soldiers of the Zhu army couldn't help but exclaim, although they had seen Cao Wen Zhaosheng's martial arts in capturing Ma Xianglin, but they didn't know that he was so powerful in archery.

Several small leaders banged drums in their hearts: "Oh my God, what is the origin of the big grass leader?" That's a bit too powerful. ”

Although Ma Xianglin is impulsive and irritable, he is easy to provoke, but his insight is not shallow, he has participated in the battle of the Hunhe River seventeen years ago, and he has traveled south and north, and has a lot of life experience. He knows that there are some talents at the grassroots, who are strong in martial arts......

But archery is different, archery is not something that martial arts people like to practice, but martial arts scholars will only let their descendants practice when they educate their descendants from an early age, and the generals who charge into battle like to use it. Because the rivers and lakes are different from the battlefield, you have a gun, a sword and a knife on the rivers and lakes, as long as the martial arts are strong, you can run rampant, but archery is of no use in the rivers and lakes, and the use of archery to hurt people will be looked down upon by the people in the rivers and lakes. Therefore, the strong martial arts at the grassroots are often a shortcoming in archery.

For example, Wang Er, this person is also a good man, and his martial arts are also great in Ma Xianglin's opinion, but Wang Er's archery skills are really not very powerful, at most it is the level of a good hand among hunters. For example, Liu Zongmin under Li Zicheng, Li Dingguo under Zhang Xianzhong and others are all strong in martial arts, but weak in archery, which is almost a common feature of grassroots heroes! Characters like Li Guanghuarong in "Water Margin" are only available in the storytelling book.

He couldn't help but say in a deep voice beside him, "This kind of archery ...... You are from the ranks of officers and soldiers, and you are also a general among officers and soldiers? Why are you masked? Who exactly? (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )