On the first night when he was about to enter the mountainous area of Mangdang Mountain, Yuan Tiangang didn't sleep well for most of the night, and the reason for not sleeping well was not how to leave Meng Rang's team, in fact, Yuan Tiangang had already prepared a plan for himself to get out, but the only thing that was worried was that Meng Rang's army was stronger than expected, and the still relatively weak Qianjun army was not sure of victory, and maybe it might be self-defeating, but it was taken advantage of by Meng Rang's team.

"Forget it, it's not something I can worry about, I'd better worry about how to get out tomorrow." It wasn't until he still figured this out that Yuan Tiangang fell asleep steadily, and slept until it was dark, and finally was woken up by Meng Rang's own soldiers, so he woke up yawning and led four entourages to meet Meng Rang.

When he saw Meng Rang, Yuan Tiangang's entourage each received a dry food from Meng Rang's own soldiers, and Meng Rang also personally handed a dry food to Yuan Tiangang, and said very politely: "Mr. Chunfeng, let's eat some dry food, our scout report, Zhang Xutuo's old dog crossed the Bianshui overnight last night, with the old dog's habits, he has already sent troops south, we have to hurry up and leave, so we won't bury the pot to cook." ”

"As it should be." Yuan Tiangang nodded, and asked with concern: "Great King, what is the situation on the other side of Chen Gouguan and Mangdang Mountain?" Did you find anything out of the ordinary? ”

"There's no movement over there." Meng Rang replied casually: "I haven't found anything abnormal on the side of Mangdang Mountain, so it should be fine." ”

"Didn't find anything out of the ordinary?" Yuan Tiangang was a little worried, and he didn't dare to dare that Chen Yingliang had already arranged the ambush in advance, or had not had time to arrange the ambush, but the matter had come to this point, and it was useless for Yuan Tiangang to worry about it, so he could only take the dry food and follow Meng Rang's elite team to Mangdang Mountain in the southeast.

Meng Rang's team strictly implemented the transfer plan pre-booked, Meng Rang's lifeline elite army walked in the front, led by Meng Rang himself, in the Central Plains battlefield more expensive than the gold cavalry team also followed Meng Rang around, Cao Wei led the baggage grain team to walk in the middle, and the yellow-faced and thin miscellaneous soldiers and women, children, old and weak walked at the end of the team, for the whole army behind the palace. - Meng Rang's intention must be clear to everyone, that is, once he is caught up by Zhang Xutuo, he will use these huge numbers of old and weak miscellaneous soldiers to block the road, consuming the body and time of Zhang Xutuo's team, and Meng Rang will lead the elite team to take the opportunity to slip away, and then rely on the backbone team to easily recruit the homeless people to join the army and regain the momentum.

In view of Zhang Xutuo's pursuit attitude was very resolute, Meng Rang's army walked very fast, and it only took more than an hour to complete the open official road of more than 20 miles, and arrived at the edge of Mangdang Mountain. But things have come to this point, the surrounding area of Mangdang Mountain is full of lush primeval forests, there is no road to go, and if you want to bypass the mountainous area in a roundabout way, you will only waste more precious time, and there is no choice, Meng Rang can only let the army go into the mountain road, and at the same time secretly comfort himself in his heart, "It's okay, this road is difficult for us to walk, and Zhang Xutuo's old dog's team is also difficult to walk, as long as we go through this mountainous area, it's fine." ”

Fortunately, although the mountainous area of Mangdang Mountain is relatively vast, the peaks are not high, and the road is not narrow, even if Meng Rang's cavalry team is like a life, there is no hindrance in walking on the mountain road, and the marching speed can still be guaranteed, and at the same time, the scout sentry team who stepped forward to open the road did not find any abnormality, so as the front, middle and rear teams entered the mountainous area along the way, Meng Rang gradually put his mind at ease, and began to consider whether to arrange an ambush in this area, and warmly entertain the old opponent Zhang Xutuo who drove himself around?

Yuan Tiangang followed Meng Rang almost inch by inch, constantly pointing out to Meng Rang various places of interest and historic sites in the historical mountain Mangdang Mountain, what is the quarry of the Yellow Emperor Chiyou era, Confucius Mountain, the Confucius Mountain where Confucius took shelter from the rain, the Northern Zhou Mountain where Mozi lived in seclusion, and the ruins of the cottage built by Zhang Fei when he was a bandit, the Mangdang Ancient Road that Qin Shi Huang walked through during his parade, the first in the world to shout out the location of Chen Sheng's tomb where the prince and general Xiangning had a kind of, and introduced the historical allusions, and gradually relieved Meng Rang and others listened to it with relish. I almost want to visit the famous scene.

As an ambitious and cultured thief, Meng Rang was of course most concerned about the scene of the old-timer Liu Bang's snake uprising, and took the time to ask Yuan Tiangang: "Mr. Chunfeng, you said that Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was the one who killed the snake and rebelled on this road, where is the place where he killed the white snake?" ”

"It's just ahead, not far away." Yuan Tiangang pointed ahead and said casually: "At that location, legend has it that Liu Bang was next to a small lake to kill snakes and revolt, but unfortunately the river has been diverted for hundreds of years, and that small lake has become a small pond...... huh?" ”

The reason for Yuan Tiangang's startled voice was that it happened to be in the direction he was pointing to, and a puff of green and black cooking smoke actually rose, and it seemed that the location was the small pond introduced by Yuan Tiangang, Meng Rang also noticed the cooking smoke, so he hurriedly sent someone forward to check the situation, and at the same time asked the army to be vigilant and prepare for battle. As a result, it didn't take long for a little minion to run back and say to Meng Rang: "The king, it is a small group of vagrants, there are only more than twenty people, and they don't know that they have stolen a big fat sheep from there, and they are killing sheep and cooking meat next to a pond. ”

"Damn, scare Lao Tzu!" Meng Rang scolded a swear word, and then said happily: "Okay, there is meat to eat, go quickly, go over and see the situation." ”

Yuan Tiangang knew that something was wrong, but he didn't dare to say it, he just followed Meng Rang's personal army and stepped forward quickly, and after walking more than a mile, he came to the site of the legendary Liu Bang's snake uprising, which has turned from a small lake to a small pond, and there are really more than 20 ragged rebels who are confronting the forward sentinel of Meng Rang's army, and there is really a boiling tattered iron pot next to the pond, and you can vaguely hear angry shouts, "It's our sheep, we borrowed it with great difficulty, I want to divide the meat, dream!" ”

"King! It's someone again, a lot of people! ”

"Damn, it's bad luck for the old men! Walk! Come on! ”

Shouting, the group of homeless people seemed to see Meng Rang's brigade arrive, knowing that they would die if they were outnumbered and resisting, they ran to the southeast in fear, and the sentinels of Meng Rang's army did not chase after them, but cheered and rushed to the side of the iron pot to fish for mutton with knives and guns, and some people shouted: "Wine! And two jars of wine! ”

Hearing that there was wine and meat, Meng Rang's personal army was suddenly overjoyed, and hurriedly stepped forward to share the wine and meat, Meng Rang also happily sped up his pace, knowing that the Qianjun army was going to arrange an ambush in this area, Yuan Tiangang was suspicious, and while hurriedly following, he whispered to his four entourage: "Don't go to divide the meat and wine, it's weird." ”

When I arrived at the scene, the sentry soldiers began to pour wine into their mouths, and some people were so scalded by the meat that they had just fished out that they screamed, Meng Rang strode forward, grabbed a wine jar, smelled it first, and praised it loudly. Then he also praised: "Good wine." But the wine from the deep mountains and old forests, the gang of thieves? ”

"Song Cheng Lu Ji firm?" Meng Rang noticed the red envelope on the wine jar and said with a smile: "That group of thieves just now, eighty percent of them were lucky to rob some caravan, and if they were unlucky, they ran into us again, good wine, quickly call Li Chou and Wang Xinxi, and let them drink some too." ”

Ordered people to summon the generals under his command, Meng Rang stopped the meat grabbing behavior of the pro-soldier team, ordered the soldiers to cut the mutton into small pieces and distribute it to everyone, and he also fished a fist-sized piece of mutton to eat, and then invited Yuan Tiangang to eat mutton together, Yuan Tiangang, who had already found that the situation was wrong, quickly continued to excuse himself to be a vegetarian, and thanked Meng Rang for his kindness, Meng Rang also remembered Yuan Tiangang's habit of never eating meat in the past two days, and did not have the slightest suspicion, but just distributed the mutton that fell from the sky to the team of cronies.

At this time, Li Chou, Wang Xinwei and others had also arrived at the scene, and after learning what had happened, they all laughed, scrambling to share the meat and drink, and their pro-soldiers also cheekily stepped forward to share the soup, and soon divided the mutton, and a large pot of mutton soup was not left. Then Meng Rang noticed that there was grass and water here, and the terrain was open, so he simply let the army rest here for a while, replenish drinking water, and wait for the front, middle and rear armies, which were already a little disjointed, and at the same time sent people to reconnoiter the movement ahead, wanting to see if there were similar good things in this area.

After the order was delivered, the thief army, who had already walked dozens of miles, was not polite, or sat or lay down on the spot to rest, drink water and eat dry food, and let their war horses gnaw the dense grass nearby, as a result, the thief soldiers almost drank the small pond with a radius of several zhang, and nearly a thousand war horses also gnawed the green grass and young leaves around it.

It was also at this time that Yuan Tiangang, who had been on high vigilance, was pleasantly surprised to find that there were a large number of cute little beans of unknown origin scattered in the surrounding grass, and at the bottom of the clear small pond, there were also some glassy red and white stones sleeping quietly - Yuan Tiangang, who had a certain amount of research on alchemy, dared to bet his head that these red and white stones were definitely the legendary red and white stones, the raw materials for making arsenic, and the natural poison with slightly weaker toxicity than arsenic! There may even be natural arsenic, but that thing is not easy to handle, so Yuan Tiangang is not sure if Chen Yingliang has used it to entertain Meng Rangjun's elite team.

Secretly admired Chen Yingliang's heart is more poisonous than arsenic, Yuan Tiangang was not polite, in order to let the thief team rest here, Yuan Tiangang quickly introduced to Meng Rang the allusion of Liu Bang's snake uprising here, and talked about what Qin Shi Huang found that there was a royal spirit here, so he specially came here to tour the story of the town, and the result also received some effect, allowing Meng Rang and others to rest here for a while, and then ordered the army to continue to move forward.

Yuan Tiangang soon understood that he was wasting his strength, and the army had just begun to continue to march, when the scouts who had arrived at the front of the sentry suddenly rushed to report, and shouted from afar: "Oh no, the road ahead, it is blocked, and it has been blocked with stones and wood!" ”

"What?!" Meng Rang, Wang Xinwei and the others were all taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Have you found any enemies?" ”

"Nope." The scout replied loudly, adding, "But that part of the road is very narrow, and the wood and stone are so tightly blocked that it is impossible to cross." ”

Meng Rang's face changed a little, and he hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up, go over and see the situation!" ”

"King Meng, you can't go!" Yuan Tiangang hurriedly expressed his loyalty, grabbed Meng Rang, who had already eaten meat and drank wine, and said, "King Meng, have you forgotten the story of Sun Bin and Pang Juan?" Sun Bin blocked the road with wood and stones, deceived Pang Juan into coming forward to check the situation, and then took the opportunity to shoot Pang Juan to death in the Maling narrow road! ”

"That's right! How did I forget about this big thing?! Meng Rang's face changed suddenly, and he hurriedly ordered Wang Xinwei: "Wang Xinevil, you take a team up to check the situation, and pay attention to searching the high ground on both sides of the mountain road!" If you find out that the situation is not right, withdraw it for me immediately! ”

Wang Xinwei received the order, and quickly led a team to stride forward to check the situation, Yuan Tiangang said to Meng Rang pitifully: "King Meng, you have to investigate, I really didn't know that such a thing would happen, I led you to this road to avoid the interception of the official army, I really didn't know that there would be such a thing here." ”

"Mr. Chunfeng, you don't need to worry, I didn't doubt you." Meng Rang said impatiently and casually: "If you really deliberately led us here, you would have run away a long time ago, why are you still staying here?" Besides, if you really don't have good intentions, you won't remind me to be careful of the ambush just now. ”

Yuan Tiangang hurriedly thanked him, and openly asked his four entourages to stay by his side and not run around indiscriminately, in order to prove his frankness and selflessness, and in his heart he hoped that Meng Rang would take effect of all the wine he drank, so that he would have a chance to escape for his life.

At this time, black smoke suddenly rose from the depths of the road ahead, the smoke first faded and then thickened, and gradually rose straight into the sky, Meng Rang was shocked, and was just about to send someone to inquire about it, but the deep forests on both sides of the mountain road were already drumming, the gongs were ringing loudly, and there were people shouting to kill, Meng Rang's team was taken aback, and quickly raised bows and arrows to look around, but the woods on both sides of the mountain road were quiet and silent, and there was no half of a figure, and the scouts who went up the mountain to search also said that they had not found the enemy.

The sound of drums, gongs and trumpets still echoed in the valley, deafening, but the army of Meng Rang could not even see the shadow of half of the enemy, and the panic of the army could be imagined, at the same time, Wang Xinxi's messenger also rushed back to report, saying that they also did not find the enemy, but someone had ignited the trees and weeds blocked in the mountain road, so the front was full of smoke, and at the same time, the road of Meng Rang's army was completely blocked by fire and smoke.

Blocking the way forward with fire, the war drums in the valley in the distance shook the sky, but there was no half of the enemy in the vicinity, such a strange ambush Meng Rang didn't say that he had seen it, but he hadn't even heard of it, and under the shock, Meng Rang didn't know whether to move forward or retreat for a while. And the house leak happened to rain overnight, but at this time, Meng Rang suddenly felt abdominal pain, and he couldn't bear to say anything, so he had to quickly untie his pants and squat to the side to make physiological movements, shouting while pulling, "Order the whole army, be on guard on the spot, search both sides of the road, find traces of the enemy, and report immediately!" ”

"Gross!" Probably smelling the smell of Meng Rang's excrement, a thief soldier next to him suddenly bent down and vomited, but his actions also made Meng Rang angry, and roared: "Spit on your mother's head!" I think Lao Tzu's stinks, Lao Tzu told you to eat all the, do you believe it or not? ”

"Wang, the small one is not smelly, but the stomach is uncomfortable." The soldier's aggrieved explanation, but before he finished his explanation, several soldiers next to him couldn't help but vomit violently, and at the same time, many pro-soldiers also followed Meng Rang's example, unbuttoned their pants and squatted on the side of the road and pulled up.

"What's wrong?" Seeing this scene, Meng Rang was of course shocked, Yuan Tiangang pretended to cover his stomach and scream in pain, unbuttoned his pants and joined the ranks of open defecation, the four entourages brought by Yuan Tiangang were originally capable soldiers personally selected by Kan Liang, and they had been guided by Yuan Tiangang, seeing this scene, of course, they did not hesitate to squat beside Yuan Tiangang, pretending that everyone had been recruited to share weal and woe.

At this time, Li Chou in the back ran over with his stomach covered, moaning and shouting, "Wang, the situation is not right, there are many brothers who vomit and pull, and I also pull hard, I have already pulled twice, and my stomach ......is still hurting, ouch." ”

Saying that, Li Chou squatted on the ground again and had severe diarrhea, and at the same time, more Meng Rang's own soldiers also squatted on the ground and unbuttoned their pants to excrete, and ordinary soldiers who had never eaten mutton bent over and vomited, as well as Meng Rangjun's precious war horses, which basically began to have diarrhea. Seeing this scene, Meng Rang finally came to his senses and screamed: "It's a trick!" We've been tricked! The wine and meat just now are poisonous! ”

"King, we didn't eat meat or drink?" Several soldiers who were vomiting asked in surprise.

Meng Rang was stunned again, and then immediately screamed: "Pond! The enemy also poisoned the pond! Those who drink wine and eat meat have diarrhea, and those who drink pond water vomit, the enemy has two kinds of poison! ”

"I'm cāo fucking it!" Li Chou scolded bitterly, "In the end, that son of a bitch, so lacking in morality, actually poisoned the old sons!" ”

Noticing that Meng Rang's personal army was almost squatting on the ground, most of the surrounding soldiers began to moan and vomit, and the thief soldiers who did not show symptoms of poisoning were in chaos, and the army's heart was even more panicked to the extreme, Yuan Tiangang had a bottom in his heart, so he also screamed: "Chen Yingliang! It must be Chen Yingliang's dog officer! I heard that when he arrested Yang Xuangan, he poisoned Yang Xuangan's wine! King Meng, we have been tricked, Chen Yingliang, that dog thief, deliberately did not move, just to make us take it lightly, so that he could arrange an ambush here to deal with us! It's over, I drank too! ”

"Chen Yingliang, I'm your mother!" Meng Rang almost didn't vomit blood, clutching his stomach and screaming, "Tell the whole army, turn around immediately and go back!" ”

The herald who was vomiting agreed, but he couldn't move to run for the order, and Li Chou also screamed hysterically, "Wang, are you crazy? Zhang Xutuo's old dog is chasing us behind, we are in this situation now, aren't we looking for death when we go back? ”

Meng Rang for a while, and then hurriedly drank the heralds, Yuan Tiangang quickly calculated and analyzed, feeling that Chen Yingliang had not yet refused to show up to attack, he must have wanted to make the effect of the medicine more attacked, and he also hoped that Zhang Xutuo would rush to the front in time to block and chase after him, so he groaned and said loudly: "King Meng, you should continue to move forward, Chen Gouguan lit a fire to block our road, proving that he was ...... in front of him, ouch, his stomach hurts again, proving that he may not have an army in front of him." ”

Feeling that Yuan Tiangang's analysis was reasonable, Meng Rang decisively ordered that the soldiers who were not poisoned or not deeply poisoned stepped forward to put out the fire and clear the passage with all their might, and then squatted on the ground and scolded Chen Yingliang with severe diarrhea, Yuan Tiangang also pretended to be poisoned, stood up and squatted down and groaned.

It was also at this time that the rear of Meng Rang's team finally sounded a decent shouting and killing, and at the same time heard the sound of stones and trees falling to the ground, Meng Rang was anxious, and hurriedly sent someone to inquire about the situation, when someone from the rear had already come up to fly the report, saying that the Chinese army escorting heavy grain and grass was attacked, and was pushed down the mountain with rolling stones and falling wood, killing and injuring many soldiers, and also blocking the retreat road of Meng Rang's front army, and blocking Cao Wei behind, Meng Rang was shocked when he heard the report, but he still didn't understand Chen Yingliang's tactical intentions. I don't know where the officers and soldiers are going to kill from.

In this case, Meng Rang's most correct response is, of course, to let the army break into pieces, cross the mountains and mountains to break through and evacuate from both sides of the mountain road, but in this way, Meng Rang's proud team of elite soldiers in a hundred battles must be scattered, and at the same time, Meng Rang, who has been unfortunately poisoned, is also difficult to escape the search of the official army, so Meng Rang has no choice, so he can only order the army to step forward as much as possible to open the road, put out the fire and clear the road, and strictly order the soldiers to prohibit the movement of the team, so as not to be broken by the enemy who has not shown up so far.

Relying on many actual combat training in the past two years, Meng Rang's orders have been firmly implemented, and almost all the soldiers who have not been poisoned or not deeply poisoned have stepped forward to clear the road, leaving the generals and soldiers who have been deeply poisoned to vomit and diarrhea in the same place, and some soldiers who have drunk more water and have a weaker physique have begun to have convulsions in their limbs, showing symptoms of arsenic poisoning, and Meng Rang and Li Chou, who have drunk a lot of alcohol, are unable to stand on their feet, and their bodies quickly show symptoms of dehydration and weakness.

The smoke in front of them finally began to thin out, and the sound of passing through could be faintly heard, without waiting for Meng Rang and the others to be overjoyed, in the depths of the road ahead, an earth-shattering noise suddenly sounded, as huge as thunder, Meng Rang and the others, who had never heard such a loud noise, were of course shocked, but Yuan Tiangang, who knew that this was the gunpowder explosion, was overjoyed in his heart, knowing that this must be Chen Yingliang's general attack signal.

Sure enough, when the loud sound of the gunpowder explosion was still echoing in the mountains, the front and rear directions of Meng Rang's team sounded a real shouting of killing, Meng Rang was frightened and covered his stomach and got up to look, but he couldn't see the situation from a distance, and finally when the shouting and killing was boiling, the front and back directions came to report separately, saying that Wang Xinxi's front army was attacked by the official army from the front with bows and arrows, and blocked the road with bows and arrows, let alone take the lead in boosting morale. In the rear, it was reported that there was a group of officers and soldiers with leaves tied all over the body from the trail to the official road and were killing at this position.

"Block the back! Rush to the front! Meng Rang shouted in despair and ordered, still refusing to give up the last glimmer of hope for a collective breakthrough.

Those who can move have gone to the front and rear, leaving only a few hundred thieves who are spitting and pulling at the scene, and some soldiers who have begun to roll on the ground and foam at the mouth, Meng Rang is anxious, but the front is still full of bad news, saying that the thief army rushed to the front of the official army at any cost, and was hit head-on by the long knife team of the official army, was killed and wounded heavily, and still could not highlight the encirclement, Meng Rang was furious, roaring and ordering the front army to charge with all their strength, and highlight the encirclement at any cost.

The herald ran away again, but as soon as the herald walked away, Meng Rang found that someone patted him on the shoulder, and when he looked back, he saw that it was Yuan Tiangang, and he was busy asking what was the matter, Yuan Tiangang covered his stomach and said sincerely: "King, I don't drink much, I don't have deep poisoning, we are already surrounded, or I will take you to take a small road, I am familiar with this area and know the terrain." My retinue is not deeply poisoned, and can carry you away. ”

Yuan Tiangang said this, of course, it was a typical cat and mouse, and his four entourages had already quietly clenched their unsheathed horizontal knives, who knew that Meng Rang only hesitated, considering that the defeat was decided, and following the brigade to break through would definitely be pursued by the officers and soldiers with all their might, so he immediately nodded and said: "Okay, let's retreat by small road, but wait a while, I will send someone to gather some brothers who have not been poisoned." ”

"My lord, there's no time! It's better to go first! Yuan Tiangang urged, and ordered: "Quick, set up King Meng and go!" ”

"I'm not leaving! What do you want to do? I'm not going! Meng Rang was shocked, and when he hurriedly wanted to draw his knife, two of Yuan Tiangang's two retinues came up and grabbed his arms, snatched his weapon, and set him up and walked up the mountain.

"What do you want to do? Do? Meng Rang's personal soldiers next to him were shocked, and they all got up to stop them, but unfortunately they were either weak or spitting up, even if they barely stood up and couldn't take a step, only Li Chou, who had a better physique, stumbled over and shouted: "Let go of the king!" Let him go! ”

The answer to Li Chou was Yuan Tiangang to a retinue of glances, and then to Li Chou, the entourage understood, raised the knife and strode forward to meet Li Chou, Li Chou was frightened and hurriedly raised the knife, but his arm was weak, and the horizontal knife was only halfway raised, Yuan Tiangang's entourage was already decisively stabbed down, hacked him to death, and cut off his head, and then Yuan Tiangang yelled at the screaming thieves: "Run for your life, if you dare to follow up and be discovered by the official army, Li Chou is your fate!" ”

The thieves and soldiers, who vomited and vomited and weakened their hands and feet, did not dare to step forward again, and could only watch as Meng Rang, who had passed unconscious, went up the mountain under the back of Yuan Tiangang's entourage, disappeared into the depths of the dense forest, shouted and screamed, and chased after him, but basically he couldn't even climb the hillside next to him, and occasionally a few poisoned soldiers caught up, and were all cut down by Yuan Tiangang's entourage.