In the afternoon, on the road from Lishan to Shuxian, more than ten knights were galloping on horseback. The knights' faces were pale, beads of sweat were falling constantly, and their bodies were staggering on their horses, as if they would fall to the ground at any moment.

They were the people sent by Koji Yi to look for Tian Fan on the mountain, but the result was very frustrating, the mountain was huge, and they searched for a whole day, but they did not find any valuable clues. They set off yesterday morning, and after arriving at Qishan, they immediately searched for a moment, and until today, they have not rested for more than ten hours, have not slept, just drank a few sips of water and ate a few mouthfuls of food. At this time, they were tired and sleepy, but the breath in their hearts supported them and kept them from falling, but each of them could feel their hearts beating irregularly, which was a sign of exhaustion exceeding the limit.

When he was still thirty miles away from the camp, the leader stood up and shouted: "Brothers, work hard, we are almost at the camp!" ”

His voice was hoarse and undevoid of breath, and they would not have heard it had it not been for a breeze that brought his voice to the ears of the brothers behind him.

As soon as his voice came out, suddenly several tripwires jumped out of the road, and the knights and horses were so tired that they didn't have time or ability to react, and several of them hit the tripwires in a row, and for a while the sound of people shouting and neighing continued. Before a few knights could figure out what was going on, they were killed by a few feathered arrows that suddenly flew out of the woods.

Immediately afterwards, dozens of soldiers rushed out of the forest, came forward, and tied up several knights who had fallen to the ground.

They led the knights less than a mile to the foot of a mountainside, and brought them to the two generals. The two are Lei Bo and Chen Lan.

A few soldiers pushed these knights to their knees and made them kneel, but the knights were so tired that they fell not lightly just now, and they were pushed down and rolled directly to the ground, and none of them knelt.

When Chen Lanlei's corporal saw it, he was immediately furious! They howled and drew their knives, and they were about to kill one or two Liwei.

Chen Lan hurriedly shouted: "Stop! ”

Looking at the tired descriptions of several people, Chen Lan and the two glanced at each other, and Chen Lan said: "You are a soldier of the Xuzhou Army?" Where are you from? ”

The cavalryman at the head resisted the urge to faint and whispered, "We...... It is the soldiers of Xuzhou, we ...... We came back from Longshu County, and General Koji sent us to ...... Grain was collected, but I was busy for a whole day and night, and I didn't get a grain of grain! ”

The rest of the knights were a little stunned when they heard this, but they still nodded in a daze, and said nonsense: "We are collecting grain, well, collecting grain!" ”

Lei Bo and Chen Lan glanced at each other, and their intuition made them believe that the two didn't seem to be telling the truth, but what they said was reasonable, but it didn't look like a fake. Chen Lan was about to ask them again, but she heard a burst of snoring, and when she looked again, she saw that several knights were already asleep!

The two couldn't help crying and laughing, this ...... These people are too fierce, right?

Chen Lan shook her head and said, "No matter how much, let's advance another ten miles and camp twenty miles away from the Xuzhou army!" ”

Lei Bo nodded and said, "Well, however, we also have to be careful not to be attacked by them!" ”

Chen Lan smiled and said, "I don't think the Xuzhou army will go out of the camp!" In the battle the day before yesterday, their losses were not small, and they dared to go out of the camp there? ”

After a slight pause, he said: "Besides, this part of the materials we robbed, grain and meat, these two days the soldiers have celebrated the New Year every day, and there is meat in a meal, and their physical strength is far beyond the previous two days, and their morale is also unprecedentedly high. Hehe, even if they come to sneak attack, we don't have to be afraid! ”

Lei Bo thought of the dreamlike life these days, and couldn't help laughing. Xuzhou Army, really rich, those bacon and fish, as well as mutton and the like, are abundant in quantity, it seems that the rumors that they have one meat in three days in the army are not false! …,

Thinking about it, he said: "There will be a war about tomorrow, so that the soldiers are well fed and drunk, have a good rest, and leave some people on guard." Tomorrow will definitely be good, and it will win enough food for the cottage! ”

The knight of the Xuzhou Army led by him was called Peng Yong, and his nonsense under his whims made Lei Bo and Chen Lan lose the opportunity to end this battle from the roots, but it also won them a new life, and things in the world are so wonderful.

At night, in the Xuzhou military camp.

Since the grain robbery two days ago, Koji has heightened his vigilance, allowing the scouts to expand their surveillance to a range of fifty miles.

Naturally, they discovered Chen Lan and Lei Bo's army. At the same time, in all directions, they found more than a dozen armies one after another, the farthest one was fifty miles away from them, and the closest one was the army of Chen Lan and Lei Bo, which was only twenty miles away. According to preliminary statistics, the total strength of the other side is no less than 30,000, which is really not negligible.

If there are satellites, or aerial photography technology, you will find that all the ways out around the Xuzhou military camp are surrounded by enemies, and if they want to be sudden, they must go through a battle.

After hearing the news, Koji Yi and other generals suddenly calmed down. No matter what, the unknown is always more terrifying than the known, just as the knife and axe are always hanging over the head, it is always more terrifying than the addition of a knife and axe. It's just that they are worried about Tian Fan. Tian Fan still didn't have any news coming, they didn't know Tian Fan's specific location, they didn't know how Tian Fan's affairs were doing, and they didn't know what happened to the people sent to find Tian Fan.

The only thing they could do was to guard the camp and not go out when they died, and at the same time pray secretly in their hearts if they were religious! They only hope that Tian Fan can come back safely, preside over the overall situation, and bring them a glimmer of life.

Perhaps, their hearts moved the heavens, and Tian Fan in the east of Lishan Mountain is acting.

In the first half of the night, countless soldiers who had been sent out to carry out missions were rushing back in a steady stream. They worked in pairs and carried jars with a stick of two feet in diameter, three feet deep, and about the same thickness from top to bottom, tightly covered with wooden boards.

Everyone was dressed strangely, on a hot day, but with gloves on their hands, torches in one hand and sticks in the other, and walked cautiously towards the assembly area.

The distance traveled by each group was different, but after the various paths were determined, Tian Fan asked them to walk back and forth every day, from their specific location to the assembly place of the army, more than three times a day. At first, they walked during the day, then at night, and after walking a lot, these soldiers became familiar with the road conditions, and did not trip over the stones, grass and trees that were everywhere on the road.

On those paths, Tian Fan asked the soldiers to remove the small shrubs and grasses along the way, forming paths one after another, and drawing various markers on the places where there were rocks and no grass and trees. The soldiers followed the path or looked at the markers, not worrying about getting lost.

Every time a group of people came back, Tian Fan greeted them personally, took the things in their hands with concern, and asked, "How is it, is there an accident?" ”

The soldiers shook their heads and said, "It's okay, everything is going well!" ”

Tian Fan nodded and said with relief: "That's good!" Well, all right, you go and rest, and when all the soldiers are here, we'll go! ”

The two soldiers saluted and left, but Tian Fan took Pang De and a few people to continue to wait.

In this way, until midnight, all these soldiers, who had set out at noon, rushed back!

Pound said with emotion: "General, if you hadn't insisted that the soldiers walk these deserted paths several times a day and make many markers, I'm afraid they wouldn't have come back so smoothly!" ”

Tian Fan nodded and said, "It's good to be familiar with it, okay, don't say more, everyone is here, let's go!" ”

Pound clenched his fists and turned to call the soldiers. …,

Half an hour later, the crowd set out. More than 1,300 people, almost all of whom had torches, ran in the direction of Shuxian County like a fire dragon in the night.

This time, Tian Fan did not walk slowly as he came, but let the horse jog at a medium speed. In order to prevent accidents, there have been dozens of probes reporting road conditions back and forth ahead. Before midnight, everyone had arrived at a position more than twenty miles away from the camp.

Suddenly, the Malay newspaper was in front of them, and a simple camp appeared in front of them, blocking everyone's way.

Tian Fan and Pang De glanced at each other, and said in their hearts, sure enough, something happened!

Pound asked, "General Tian, what should we do?" ”

Tian Fan looked at the scout and said, "What's the situation with the other party's camp?" ”

The little colonel hugged his fists and said: "General Qiyu, the other party's Dazhai is simple, under the reflection of the torches, the soldiers are also very poorly dressed, not like Yuan Shu's soldiers, but more like mountain bandits." But they were careful, and there were still people patrolling the camp at this time. ”

Tian Fan frowned and shook his head, and said angrily: "It's really unlucky! ”

After a slight pause, he asked, "Are there any traps outside the camp, can you find out?" ”

The scout blushed and said, "General, we didn't have time!" ”

Tian Fan nodded, turned to look at Tang Xian and Tang Feng brothers, and said, "Tang Xian Tang Feng, you two lead the people who are good at shooting in my personal guards, give me up, you know how to do it!" ”

looked at Pang De again and said, "Ling Ming, you lead two hundred brave knights to take the lead, just wait for the door of the big camp to open, and we will rush over!" ”

Finally, he looked at Brother Tang and He Yi and He Man, and said, "The four of you will bring the rest of your own soldiers to help, guard the entrance, and catch up immediately after the army passes through the camp!" ”

Several people hugged their fists and took orders, and they went to arrange without mentioning it.

A few minutes later, the crowd set out again.

It didn't take long for everyone to rush outside the camp of Lei Bo's army. After careful observation for a while, there were no traces of excavation on the ground, and the preliminary judgment was that there was no pit. Then, Tang Feng and dozens of others changed to the earthy yellow side, and slowly crawled forward, until the distance was less than fifty steps, and multiple arrows were fired in unison, killing a group of soldiers patrolling the other side.

Then, Tang Yi and the four of them ran forward, and the mace went up and down several times, left and right, and a door about one zhang and five feet wide immediately appeared on the simple wall.

Pang De led two hundred good cavalry to take the lead, roared into the camp, and slashed and killed all the soldiers who rushed to hear the news.

Tian Fan and the others immediately followed, passed through the camp, and came to the gate of the front camp.

Pound didn't have any extra nonsense, Pegasus came to the gate of the wall, slashed with a big knife, and then dozens of knights behind him jumped off the horse, chopping the horse sabers all over the place, and pushed hard, and there was a hole in the wall.

The army roared by, and it took less than half an hour in total, and most of the soldiers on the other side did not react.

Chen Lan and the others finally arrived when Tang Yi and the other rear team came out of the camp, and before they could give the order to pursue, the two of them were beaten by Tang Yi and Tang Er, He Yi and He Man in a few consecutive bats, and after taking a hard stick in a hurry, they wisely chose to avoid the edge for the time being.

In this accident at the beginning and the rapid battle at the end, the two forces suffered a total of no more than 100 people, and Tian Fanfang was lucky that one person was not damaged, and only a few dozen were slightly injured.

Half an hour later, in Tian Fan's camp, a tun chief on the wall saw a light coming over, and hurriedly shouted vigilance, his words had just been finished, only to hear a voice say: "Don't release arrows, General Tian is back, don't release arrows!" ”

When the people on the wall heard this, they did not immediately release their arrows, but drew their bows and took aim, waiting for the knight to approach.

At this glance, he immediately judged that it was his own person, and it happened that the knight and the tun chief still knew each other. So, Tun Chang said: "Don't let go of the arrow, it's your own people!" After a slight pause, he shouted: "General Tian is back, go to the Chinese army to inform the generals to open the door!" ”

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