"Ambassador! Go to Mangdang Mountain! Go to Mangdang Mountain! Hysterically roaring, the scout galloped to Zhang Xutuo's handsome banner before dismounting, and then almost rushed to Zhang Xutuo, and shouted before he could salute: "Ambassador Zhang! Mangdangshan found the traces of Meng Rang's thief army, and the thief army was in chaos and stagnant, and the front army seemed to have been attacked! ”

Zhang Xutuo's eyes, which were already full of bloodshots, suddenly shot out, and Qin Qiong, He Tingyu and others next to him were also surprised, and couldn't wait to ask, "Are you sure it's Meng Rang's team?" What kind of attacks did they receive? It's our friendly hand?! ”

"Confirm it's Meng Rang's team!" The scout gasped and replied: "The mountain road is too narrow, I can't find out the specific battle situation, I only see the chaos behind his team, and I hear them shouting and charging, it seems that they want to break through and intercept!" ”

"Breakthrough interception? The team that came to intercept them? Qin Qiong, He Yanyu and other generals were even more pleasantly surprised, and hurriedly turned to Zhang Xutuo, and hurriedly said: "Commander, this is a good opportunity, you can't miss it, you should enter the army, you should enter the army immediately!" ”

Zhang Xutuo did not rush to order the troops, first closed his eyes and made a little calculation, and then opened his eyes angrily and shouted: "Order, Tang Wanche led an army of 1,000 to guard the grain and grass, and the rest of the army, the troops sent to Mangdang Mountain, and went all out to break the enemy!" ”

"No!" In the neat sound of agreement, the Sui army of Qi County, which had been ready to rest on the spot, restarted the big pursuit, Luo Shixin, Qin Qiong, Helan Yi and Mulan four fierce generals rode in the lead, and the four teams under their command also lined up into four columns, following behind them, galloping towards the Mangdang Mountain battlefield, side by side, scrambling, Zhang Xutuo personally led the main force to follow, and the army of 10,000 people marched in line, fast but not chaotic, fast but not scattered. Only Tang Wanche, who was named by Zhang Xutuo, led the army to stay, guarding the grain and grass with an unhappy face.

Joy and excitement hung on the faces of every Sui army soldier, making them forget the hard work and fatigue of the pursuit of thousands of miles, and also filled them with excitement and fighting spirit, Luo Shixin, who was at the forefront, also joked with Mulan, saying that it was a competition to see who killed the most enemies on the battlefield, and those who lost must be rewarded with the military merits of this big battle. Immediately fly to Mangdang Mountain to kill the enemy and cut off the head of his old opponent Meng Rang with one sword!

Zhang Xutuo's face didn't have too much excited expression, judging from the geographical location, Zhang Xutuo had already guessed that it should be the Qianjun army that was intercepting Meng Rang's thief army in Mangdang Mountain, but Zhang Xutuo already knew the situation of the Qianjun army from Mulan's introduction and Chen Yingliang's letter, and knew that Chen Yingliang's command currently only had twelve regiments of combat strength, and the strength was far inferior to Meng Rang's team, and the formation time was not long, and the experience was even worse than Meng Rang's thief army! And his old opponent Meng Rangtong Guò has been practicing in actual combat for more than a year, burning and looting and seizing the battlefield like locusts crossing the border, and has armed an elite team with equipment that is by no means under the regular army, and the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

"Chen Yingliang, I heard that you are not only a fierce general, but also a wise general." Zhang Xutuo said in his heart: "I hope you use your brains to fight, and take advantage of the narrow and long mountain road, the old man doesn't want you to break the enemy, as long as you can hold on until our army arrives at the battlefield, the old man will give you the first credit!" ”

Throwing down the heavy grain and grass at full speed, it only took more than half an hour, the undulating peaks of Mangdang Mountain had already appeared in front of the Sui army of Qi County, and what made the soldiers of the Sui army of Qi County ecstatic was that they not only immediately saw the banner of the old opponent Meng Rang thief army, but also saw that the enemy's rear team was completely chaotic, and it seemed that they had lost their command and control. There was a quarrel on the spot.

"Herald! Luo Shixin is the pioneer and leads the advanced mountain road! Zhang Xutuo, who knew that the mountain road was not easy to walk, decisively ordered, "Qin Qiong is second!" He Yanyu and Hua Mulan followed, and the rest of the team assembled in the open area! Again, take some prisoners, and I'm going to interrogate the confession! ”

The order was conveyed, Mulan roared in disappointment, Luo Shixin, who was only fifteen years old, laughed wildly, and led his team to rush into the mountain road first, Qin Qiong quietly led the headquarters to follow, and then He Yanyu, who was full of reluctance and a cold expression, Zhang Xutuo asked the Chinese army brigade to stay in the open area outside the mountain road, while letting the soldiers rest for a while, while waiting for the news of the enemy situation, silently praying in his heart, praying that the old opponent Meng Rang had not had time to break through Chen Yingliang's interception.

Noisy shouts and cries came quickly, and became bigger and more chaotic, judging from the distance of the sound, Zhang Xutuo found that Luo Shixin's team advanced extremely fast, and did not encounter any decent interception, it was completely overwhelming and killed into the dense place of Meng Rang's team, and the result also made Zhang Xutuo feel very surprised, and said secretly: "Isn't it? Why did Meng Rang's team become like this, and there was not even a single one who led the army? ”

Zhang Xutuo's question was quickly answered, Qin Qiong sent someone to escort several prisoners, all of them were ragged and yellow-skinned, and as soon as they met, they knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, crying bitterly and praying for their lives, at a glance, they knew that it was Meng Rang who was pulled to be cannon fodder for the dead ghost of the homeless miscellaneous soldiers, and suddenly in addition to the reason why Luo Shixin advanced so quickly, Zhang Xutuo's face also changed a little, guessing that the old opponent Meng Rang deliberately let these homeless miscellaneous soldiers behind the palace, with their huge number to block the narrow mountain road, and delay the pursuit speed of the army, His elite team went all out to attack the defense line of the Qianjun army, and the self-army still did not have the absolute certainty of completely annihilating Meng Rang's backbone team! There is still a good chance that the old rival Meng Rang will slip away from under his nose again!

Worried, Zhang Xutuo hurriedly asked a few captives for confessions, but the confessions given by several captives made Zhang Xutuo dumbfounded-these captives confessed that they had never seen half a shadow of the officials and soldiers of the county from beginning to end, and they didn't even know what was happening in front of them, but they heard the sudden sound of gongs, drums and horns in the mountains and forests, and then heard that the mountain road was broken, and Cao led the organization of people to come forward to dredge the mountain road, and then Zhang Xutuo's team killed them in front of them and arrested them here for interrogation.

"The mountain road is broken?" Zhang Xutuo was shocked and asked, "Where did it break?" ”

Several prisoners shook their heads and couldn't say clearly, only one prisoner timidly said that it seemed to be the position of the baggage team, someone pushed down the rocks and fallen trees from the mountain, and a large number of baggage carts were blocked on the mountain road, so it was difficult to dredge. Zhang Xutuo was even more shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Then how did your family march?" Where are Meng Rang and your cavalry going? ”

"Master Huiguan, King Meng, they are at the forefront." Several captives rushed to reply: "King Meng led the cavalry and ironclad soldiers to the front, the baggage team walked in the middle, and we, the recruits, walked in the middle!" ”

"Ahh Bastard! ”

Zhang Xutuo suddenly roared, and slammed the horsewhip in his hand on the ground, scared a few captives into crying wolves, and quickly kowtowed and begged for life, Fan Hu and Zhang Zhizhi next to him were shocked to ask the reason, Zhang Xutuo was furious, and roared, "Chen Yingliang, this kid!" Do you want to intercept Meng Rang, or do you want to give Meng Rang a chance to escape? Meng Rang put the elite in front, and he even cut off the connection between Meng Rang's front army and the middle and rear army, what did he want to do? You want these miscellaneous soldiers, baggage carts, and rolling stones and fallen trees to block our pursuit, and let Meng let the elite take the opportunity to escape for their lives?! What is the use of these miscellaneous soldiers, no matter how much they kill? ”

"Marshal, Chen Yingliang may want to cut off the contact between Meng Rang's front army and the middle and rear army, so he can take the opportunity to deal with Meng Rang's elite soldiers with all his might, so that his pressure can be less." Zhang Zhizhi hurriedly analyzed.

"He's dreaming!" Zhang Xutuo roared with a blue face: "Even the rabble under his hands, he also wants to stop Meng Rang's main elite? Whether Meng Rang sends Wang Xinwei or Li Chou, a single charge can overwhelm his interception! The group of elites under Meng Rang's hands, you haven't seen it, even the frontal impact of our Eight Winds Battalion, they can barely withstand it, not to mention the more than 2,000 recruits under Chen Yingliang's hands? ”

No matter how angry he was, it was useless, in order to fight for the last chance, Zhang Xutuo immediately sent someone to give an order, ordering Luo Shixin and Qin Qiong and the others to rush forward with all their might, no matter how many enemies they killed, and they didn't have to pay attention to those stragglers who fled for their lives, and they went forward with all their might at any cost, as long as they could bite Meng Rang's elite team! At the same time, in order to let Luo Shixin and Qin Qiong and others understand the importance of time, Zhang Xutuo had to let the herald tell Qin Qiong and others about the important situation that Meng Rang's elite soldiers were in the front team.

Finally caught up with the old rival Meng Rang, but was blocked by the friendly team taking the wrong medicine to block the pursuit road, learning this news, Qin Qiong and He Yanyu, who had a better temper, were inevitably so angry that they roared, not to mention Luo Shixin and Hua Mulan, who were in a hurry, especially Luo Shixin, who rushed to the front, his leading soldiers completely became a slaughter of innocents, although there were many enemies who died under his spear, they were almost all miscellaneous soldiers and women and children who resisted, killing them was not only useless but also sorry for conscience, but it was not okay not to kill, Luo Shixin could only slash these miscellaneous women and children with a desperate spear, march forward and pursue with their corpses, rush to the denser crowd of miscellaneous soldiers in front, and continue to kill innocent and forgivable people, stepping on their corpses and blood to move forward with difficulty.

It wasn't until he got to the vicinity of the road blocked by the rocks that Luo Shixin ran into some bandit soldiers who could barely fight, and as a result, after three times and five divided by two to kill these thieves who escorted grain and grass to the heavy baggage, Luo Shixin, who was covered in blood, had to organize soldiers to clean up the road, but this place has not only been pushed down by the Qianjun team and blocked by the rolling stones and falling trees, but also blocked by Meng Rangjun's heavy grain trucks, how could it be evacuated in a hurry? Luo Shixin was so angry that he screamed, but he was helpless.

Qin Qiong, Mulan and others also led the army to this place to help clean up the road for Luo Shixin, but the mountain road was too narrow for the army to carry out, and the clean-up work was still slow. ”

"The shouts of killing up front?" Luo Shixin paused, listened attentively, and then exclaimed, "No! No shouts of killing! ”

"Oops! Meng Rang may have slipped away! Zhang Xutuo shouted bitterly, and then yelled: "Don't move, pile things up, pile them up into a ramp and cross here!" You don't want these heavy grains and grasses, it's important to hunt down and kill Meng Rang! ”

After receiving Zhang Xutuo's order, Luo Shixin and the others found that they had drilled the tip of the horns, and forgot in a hurry that since it was difficult to clean up the debris in a short period of time, it was better to step directly on the debris! After patting their foreheads and being annoyed, the soldiers of Qi County hurriedly piled up the ramp with all their hands and feet, threw all the military tent grain bags on the sundries, and piled up the ramp to cross the obstacles.

After wasting a lot of time, the soldiers of Qi County finally paved a ramp over the barricade, the impatient Luo Shixin was the first to cross the barricade, Zhang Xutuo also followed to the top, looking down at the bottom of the mountain road, but he didn't even see a single figure, only countless loaded ox carts and donkey carts were left on the mountain road, and many of the cattle and donkeys on the carts didn't even have time to untie and take them away, it was obvious that these people who set up the carts were in a hurry. Seeing this scene, Zhang Xutuo inevitably had a glimmer of hope, and said: "The enemy didn't even have time to take the donkey away, he should have retreated in a hurry when he found us approaching, Meng Rang may not have gone far!" Chase! ”

Hope that the surviving pursuit began again, this time Zhang Xutuo simply walked in front on foot - the war horse had no way to cross the barricades, Hua Mulan and Qin Qiong hurriedly protected him left and right, and Luo Shixin couldn't wait to rush in front of Zhang Xutuo again, and the soldiers of Qi County followed closely on foot. However, Zhang Xutuo and the others had not walked forward for more than three miles, but suddenly heard a noisy sound of singing in front of them, and when they listened carefully, they were even more surprised to hear that these songs turned out to be extremely obscene and obscene songs-such as eighteen touches and the like.

Walking forward quickly, after turning a small hill, Zhang Xutuo and the others were stunned to see that under the sunset, on an open ground in the mountains, countless Sui soldiers who had been killed and stained with blood were resting on the spot, and next to the open space were mountains of human heads and ordnance, as well as countless precious war horses that were more expensive than gold, in addition to many soldiers were salvaging something in a pond, and a Sui army general wearing Mingguang armor was shouting next to the pond, "Are you fucking blind?" You step on that rock, just pick it up! Such an expensive thing, we will use it in the future, don't waste a piece! ”

It's not that no one in this area saw the arrival of friendly troops, but what kind of people brought what kind of soldiers, after these soldiers saw Zhang Xutuo and others appear, not only did they not get up to greet the guard, but they also laughed loudly one by one, laughing very happily, and some people whistled frivolously, at the same time, Mulan finally recognized the Sui army general by the pond, and exclaimed: "Ma Sanbao, why are you?" ”

"General Hua, why are you here now?" Ma Sanbao had already found out about the arrival of Hua Mulan and the others, but he deliberately pretended to be surprised, and said with a hippie smile while coming over to salute: "General Hua, I'm sorry, you're late, we've already done a big deal, you can only do a small deal." ”

"I'm Zhang Xutuo, who are you?" Zhang Xutuo asked with a straight face.

"You're Zhang Xutuo?" Ma Sanbao, who was originally going to say a few jokes, was startled, quickly changed his strict face, and arched his hand to Zhang Xutuo and said, "Ma Sanbao, the captain of the military academy of Qiaojun Township, has met Ambassador Zhang. ”

"Sure enough, it's your Qianjun team." Zhang Xutuo nodded, and asked again, "What about Meng Rang's main team?" Where did it go? ”

"Ambassador Huizhang, some of them were killed by us, and some of them took off their armor and ran into the forest." Ma Sanbao replied truthfully.

"It's over!" Zhang Xutuo slapped his forehead, knowing that with the temper of his old opponent Meng Rang, he must have escaped into the deep mountains and old forests, and it would definitely not be long before he would make a comeback.

"Ran partially? Then why don't you chase it? Mulan asked angrily.

"General Hua, it's going to be dark soon, how can you chase it?" Ma Sanbao pointed to the sun that was already slowly setting, and said, "Besides, the brother has been fighting so hard, and he has to take a rest." ”

Mulan raised her eyebrows, and was about to make a squall, on the mountain road in the southeast, but suddenly sounded a neat and loud military song sound, singing the already famous "Jing Zhong Serving the Country" military song, hearing this voice, the soldiers of the Sui Army who were still lazy and lazy immediately jumped up to assemble the queue as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and lined up in a neat queue at almost the same speed as flying, but it was also at this time that Zhang Xutuo and others were surprised to find that Ma Sanbao's team here was only more than 1,000 people in five regiments.

In the singing of the loud army, a team of Mo knife soldiers took the lead in front of Zhang Xutuo and others, these Mo knife soldiers all seemed to have just been fished out of the blood puddle, everyone was covered in blood, and the Mo knife in his hand had been cut into a gap in the blade, stained with hair and blood, and the number was also not much, and there were only two regiments in the banner. Then I don't know who gave an order, the military song stopped, the Mo sword soldiers separated left and right, giving way to a narrow road, a handsome young man in a white robe and silver armor came out of the crowd, silver armor like a mirror, white robe like snow, not stained with a little dust, pretending to be forced to sell to the extreme!

Biting his chapped lips, Zhang Xutuo, who was covered in dust, strode forward and asked, "Your Excellency is Chen Yingliang, the general guard of Qiaojun?" ”

"It's Xiaguan." Chen Yingliang bowed his hand, and asked tentatively: "The old general is extraordinary, could it be the famous general of the Great Sui and the ambassador of the twelve counties of Henan Province, Zhang Xutuo, the old general?" ”

"I am Zhang Xutuo, but I don't dare to be a famous general, an old pawn." Zhang Xutuo nodded slightly, and asked sternly: "Dare to ask Chen Tongshou, since you are here to intercept Meng Rang's rebels, why do you set up roadblocks to intercept our army's pursuit road?" ”

"Ambassador Hui, three reasons." Chen Yingliang replied truthfully: "First, in order to cut off the connection between the front army of Meng Rang's thief army and the middle and rear army, so as not to prevent his middle and rear army from coming up to make trouble; the second is to cut off Meng's retreat, so that it is convenient to inflict heavy damage and annihilate his main force; Third, for the purpose of training troops, we should take the opportunity to temper our new army contingent and, by the way, temper our hammer anvil tactics in actual combat. In addition, cutting off the connection between Meng Rang's troops also has the effect of damaging the enemy's morale and confusing the enemy's morale. ”

"Take Meng Rang's elite training?" Zhang Xutuo was a little stammered, and said: "What is the hammer anvil tactic, why have I never heard of it?" ”

"Yes, Meng Rang's thief army is quite elite and well-equipped, which is suitable for our army's actual combat training." Chen Yingliang replied truthfully, and said: "As for the hammer anvil tactic, it is a Western Regions tactic, which has never appeared in Middle Earth, if Ambassador Zhang is interested, I can give you a detailed introduction." ”

"Are you mistaken?" Mulan was furious and roared angrily: "Na Meng let the thief army train? Do you take the major events of the court as a child's play? ”

"General Mulan has said it." Chen Yingliang smiled and said: "If the new army team is not allowed to go through actual combat training, how can it become a hundred battle heroes who can fight well, and how can it be regarded as child's play?" I did not make a mistake in training troops to quell the rebellion, and I did not make any mistakes. ”

"Nothing wrong yet?!" Mulan was even more furious and shouted, "Where is Meng Rang? Where will Wang Xinwei and Li Chou, the thieves who have committed many crimes, be? If you don't get rid of these thieves, even if you kill more thieves, what's the use? ”

"It turns out that General Mulan is saying that Meng Rang is these thief generals?" Chen Yingliang smiled more easily, turned around and shouted, "Bring it up!" ”

"No!"

In the sound of neat singing, two of the four bloodstained soldiers of the county strode forward carrying two prisoners, and another soldier stepped forward with a person's head, and then immediately after, Mulan and Luo Shixin and other Qi county generals exclaimed, "Meng Rang! Wang believes in evil! How can it be? You caught Meng Rang and Wang Xinxi? Or did you catch it alive? And Li Chou's head? Li Chou was also killed by you?! ”

Screaming, Hua Mulan almost stared out of her eyes, only Zhang Xutuo didn't scream, looking at Meng Rang, the old opponent who was pushed in front of him in frustration, Zhang Xutuo also showed a relieved and relaxed smile, and said with a smile: "Old friend, we finally meet again." ”

Glancing up at Zhang Xutuo with difficulty, Meng Rang suddenly struggled and roared as if he was crazy, "Shameless! Vile! Despicable villain! You tyrant lackeys, one more shameless than the other, even pretended to be Du Fuwei's messenger to deceive me, digging traps and traps doesn't count! Give me arsenic back! Chin beans! Feed poison to my horses too! You shameless villains, shameless! Shameless! ”

"Arsenic? Chin beans? ”

The Qi County team was in an uproar again, only Zhang Xutuo did not scream in surprise, but just bowed to Chen Yingliang with his fists and said solemnly: "Chen Tongshou, you fought beautifully, you worked hard." ”

Chen Yingliang returned the salute with his fists and said calmly: "General Xie praised him for serving the imperial court and being loyal to the Lord, and he didn't dare to say that he was hard." ”