“…… Brothers, there is a wrong, and there is a debtor......"

Before the guerrillas of the standard battalion could finish a word, they were shot down by the platoon guns of the invading army, and at this time, a sharp-eyed guard of the standard battalion saw the flag and military uniform of the invading army, and let out a heart-rending scream: "It's a thief!" ”

The Ming camp suddenly made a big noise like a fryer, and the officers ran away and threw their helmets far away. Originally, they had planned to gather around to watch the lively standard battalion soldiers flee in all directions. The standard battalion officers guarding the other camp gates opened the camp gates and retreated, and many soldiers could not wait for the camp gates to open or were too far away, and jumped out of the camp walls in desperation. In the dark night, many people broke their legs, and the people behind were still jumping down and smashing on the former's body. There were shouts everywhere: "100,000 thieves are in, 100,000 thieves are in." ”

Yang Wenyue slept late today, and he had been in a good mood for the past few days, because he was immersed in joy when he heard that the soldiers of each battalion cherished their weapons and horses. In the afternoon, Yang Wenyue had just sent another sum of horse feed silver, fantasizing that the soldiers would polish their weapons and feed the horses to their heart's content, and then sweep away the tens of thousands of troops near Kaifeng in one fell swoop. Yang Wenyue, who was so excited that he couldn't sleep, had nothing to do, so he lit a candle in the tent and drafted a chapter for the imperial court after the victory. This draft Yang Wenyue has been revised again and again, and he feels that it is full of emotion and perfection, and I believe that the emperor will be moved when he sees it. Looking at his own hard work, Yang Wenyue was once again intoxicated with the fantasy of triumph. When the army entered the camp, Yang Wenyue just thought of a few things that could be improved, so he picked up his pen and planned to polish this draft again.

After hearing the shouts of "capture Yang Wenyue alive" outside the battalion, Governor Yang's reaction was much faster than that of those stupid standard battalion officers. Without saying a word, he flew up from the bookcase and ran to the back of the tent, leaped over the man lying on the marching bed, and rushed to the edge of the tent with lightning speed. Yang Wenyue bent down and held the foot of the robe with one hand, and lifted the tent with the other hand, and in an instant, he had already drilled out from below, and the whole set of actions was completed in one go.

Lying on the marching bed behind the tent was the concubine brought by Yang Wenyue with the army. She opened her eyes in a daze when she heard the shouting, and saw a dark shadow passing over her. After watching the old man get out from under the corner of the tent in a daze, Yang Wenyue's concubine understood. After shouting "Master" a few times and not getting any response, she hurriedly got up and got off the ground, grabbed the sheet and ran to Yang Wenyue's bookcase. The young woman grabbed the seal on the case, wrapped it in a sheet, and ran out of the tent to call for her cronies to protect the governor and seal the seal.

Just as she was about to leave, the woman remembered one more thing, she didn't care about the pain of her little feet, she hurriedly ran back to the tent, found the Shang Fang sword given to Yang Wenyue by the emperor in the dark, wrapped it in the sheet and fled again. Because the guards of the standard camp were far more familiar with the terrain than the intruding troops who rushed in, before the enemy could find Yang Wenyue's big tent, they had already covered the little lady and escaped from the camp over the wall.

The soldiers who escaped from the standard camp rushed to the surrounding barracks to seek refuge, and in the darkness, the surrounding barracks did not know how many people had come. Hebei General Xiahou Kuanfu's military camp was next to the standard camp, and in the dark night, I saw people surging everywhere outside the camp, which shocked Xiahou General Soldier into a cold sweat, and howled vigorously: "Defend to death!" Defend the camp! ”

The soldiers in the Xiahou camp saw the flames in the standard camp, and the shouts of killing were endless, and they were already panicking. After Xiahou Kuanfu gave the order, the soldiers on the camp wall shot indiscriminately into the darkness like splashing water, they didn't know how many intruding soldiers were hidden in the surrounding night, and the sound of the cannon not only failed to strengthen their courage, but made the soldiers even more frightened. Seeing that there was a panic in the camp, the soldiers grabbed the ropes around them, tied one end to the wall battlement, and tied the other end to their waists and walked out of the camp, and more soldiers followed their example and fled.

Although the Xiahou Department was shooting indiscriminately, the soldiers who escaped from the standard camp still came to seek refuge in waves, and the defenders of course believed that these people were all breaking into the army to deceive the camp gate, but the army was pouring up in batches, and who was not frightened. Listening to the noisy shouts of soldiers outside calling each other to flee, as well as the sound of cannons like raindrops around them, beads of sweat the size of soybeans flowed down Xiahou Kuanfu's forehead. When the heavens and men were fighting in his heart, a family member stumbled in, hugged his leg and cried loudly: "The master of the family, you can't hold it, there are thieves in all directions." ”

Xiahou Kuanfu sat down and sighed weakly: "Alas, pity me for my brave reputation in my life, and I ended up like this." ”

Seeing that Xiahou Kuanfu was quite self-abandoned, several family members jumped up one after another, hugged his legs and cried in unison: "The thief is powerful, the head of the family does not have to blame himself, the future will be long." ”

Xiahou Kuanfu immediately decided to break through, and as soon as this remark came out, a family member immediately took out a set of small soldiers' clothes, helped Xiahou General Soldier change into it, and broke through to the north gate surrounded by Jia Ding. In order to cover the breakthrough of the head of the family, several loyal family members went straight to the south gate at the same time, one of them dressed up as Xiahou Kuanfu, wearing his gold helmet and silver armor, and shouted in unison, and the others opened the camp gate and shouted in unison: "Cover the adults to break through, kill, kill out!" ”

In order to enhance the effect, each of these family members carried a small drum on their bodies, and at the same time shouted loudly, they beat several small drums to the earth, lest the people around them not notice their actions. The soldiers next to him couldn't tell the truth from the fake in the chaos, even if there were smart people who saw some flaws, but Xiahou Kuanfu's escape was definitely true. The soldiers who thought that it was really General Xiahou who led the team to break through rushed outside with this small team, and none of the officers and soldiers in the whole battalion were willing to stay and wait for death, so they went their separate ways and scattered.

Before and after Xiahou Kuanfu's battalion "lost", the generals of several other battalions also escaped under the cover of their families, and tens of thousands of chaotic soldiers and standard battalion soldiers who poured out like headless flies were mixed together, and they either added swords in the dark and launched a fierce fight, or they rushed to the Ming army battalions that had not yet been "lost", which of course immediately intensified the pressure on the remaining battalions. Soon, one Ming army camp after another fell, and the Ming army generals invariably figured out a truth: as long as their battalion is still there, it will become the target of countless thieves outside.

After escaping outside the camp, none of the Ming troops dared to raise fire, so they could only slash and slash at everyone who approached them in the dark. At the beginning, there were generals who told them to pay attention to the accent, if it was a Henan accent, it would be a thief, and if it heard the Zhili accent, it was probably their own person. But after discovering that there were Zhili everywhere, these generals also became empty-hearted: "It's all pretended to be a thief, kill me!" ”

Xiahou Kuanfu was crouching in the grass on the side of the road with dozens of cronies at this time. After rushing out, he was blown by the wild wind, and his mind was much calmer, and he immediately thought that since the intrusive army could enter the standard camp in the middle of the joint camp in one fell swoop, it was unlikely that there would be no ambush on the periphery. When General Xiahou thought of this, he was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat, and hurriedly led his relatives to hide to the side, and after blocking the horse's mouth, they all fell to the ground. The shouts of 100,000 people in the wilderness when they were fighting for life and death were really earth-shattering, and the general soldiers of Xiahou were so frightened that they didn't even dare to spit out the atmosphere, and at the same time there was a trace of pride, if it wasn't for their own discernment, let the other Ming troops go to lure out the ambush of the intruding army first, I am afraid that at this time I am already a dead person.

"This thief's huge momentum looks like he is going to annihilate our army in one drum, I'm afraid there are 300,000 people coming, right?" Xiahou Kuanfu was frightened, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice: "Thanks to my hard work to get out of the encirclement, otherwise, with the thousands of sons and daughters under my command, wouldn't I have been trampled into meat sauce by these millions of thieves?" ”

The shouts of killing were getting closer and closer, and they were getting more and more abrupt, and soon there was the sound of swords striking beside General Xiahou. After realizing that he was still under siege, General Xiahou was suddenly very anxious, his mind turned, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Put yourself in the place of death and then live, let's kill Dongming." ”

The county town of Dongming is protected by a city wall, and the thieves may not carry siege equipment in this rapid attack. When General Xiahou went to Dongming to kill, he heard the shouts behind him getting farther and farther away, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that his thoughts were very reasonable: "This time the army must take Lord Yang as the primary goal, and will never attack Dongming first, so as not to startle the snake." Tomorrow, the main force of the army will definitely pursue the main force of our army and Lord Yang, and it may not be a small Dongming. ”

The fire on the side of the Ming army camp has already attracted the attention of Dongming County. As early as before Xiahou Kuanfu arrived at Dongming, there were already a large number of Ming army routs stumbling towards Dongming, and after arriving at the city, they were out of breath and shouted for the county to open the door. The Dongming County Order had been shouted from the bed by the master, and when he rushed to the city gate, the county leader ran over and reported: "Master, there are rebels outside the city shouting for the small ones to open the door, saying that hundreds of thousands of thieves have been killed and want to come in to help defend the city." The little one didn't answer them, saying that there was an order in the city, and the door should not be opened when it was dark. ”

"Well done!" The county magistrate yelled and complimented, and then spewed out a breath of cold air from his nostrils: "What kind of thief killed, still hundreds of thousands?" Why didn't the official hear the news at all? It is clear that there are rebels who mutinied, trying to open the city gate and come in to loot. Order, if anyone dares to come to the door, they will shoot arrows back. ”

The county leader also suddenly realized, thinking of his family, relatives and friends in the city, and he was even more afraid of his hesitation. He shouted viciously: "The little one knows, the big master can rest assured." ”

After receiving the order, the county guards at the head of the city were even more relentless, and immediately sent the prepared bows and arrows and wood and stones towards the rebel army in front of the gate. The Ming army was not wounded, and the rest of the people hurriedly retreated to a safe distance and cursed towards the city gate. At this time, Xiahou Kuanfu just arrived, and he rushed to the front of the city with his identity as the chief soldier, and shouted his name to the defenders: "This general is Xiahou Kuanfu, the chief soldier of Baoding, open the door quickly, otherwise he will be punished as an adulterer." ”

The county commander standing on the tower of the city saw a figure vaguely by the light of the fire, and couldn't help but scold: "You thief is so stupid, do you think that this official doesn't know the official uniform of the imperial court?" It is ridiculous that a small soldier rode a bad horse and called himself the chief soldier. ”

Xiahou Kuanfu was furious, the swaying torch faintly reflected one of his faces, and suddenly turned purple and black, he pulled out his sword, pointed to the city and shouted: "This dog official is a thief, sons, knock open the city gate." ”

A family member waved his arms and encouraged the surrounding routs to say: "Millions of thieves are behind us, and we still have a chance to survive in breaking through this city, otherwise we will die without a place to be buried." ”

Seeing that most of the soldiers were still hesitating, another family member shouted: "There are only some county soldiers in this city, and you are even afraid of them, are you still masters?" ”

After hearing this, the soldiers all felt quite reasonable, the county was afraid that he did not even have swords and guns in his hands, and armor and firearms were even rarer. The soldiers ran in a daze for half the night, and some people had just been beaten by the stones in the city and their heads were bleeding, and they didn't know who to find to vent this evil breath, and immediately many people shouted in response, and began to look around for wood to prepare for the siege.

Someone immediately demolished the houses on the edge of the city, unloaded the girders and carried them to come, and Xiahou Kuanfu's family members galloped back and forth, boosting the morale of the Ming army: "Break through this city, let the brothers plunder for three days." ”

The Ming army was preparing for the siege outside the city, and the county commanders in the city were not idle, under his strict orders, all the grooms beat the gongs and drums loudly, and shouted all over the city: "Wake up, folks, the officers and soldiers are coming to wash the city!" ”

By the time the Ming army outside the city shouted the trumpet and carried the girder towards the city gate, the young men in the county had already poured out of the house. They ran up the city wall under the command of the county commander and hurriedly organized a team to defend the city. The whole city had been awakened, and the young women were hiding under the beds with their children in their arms, and there were cries of children and screams of women everywhere. The old men and old ladies in the city ran to the wall with crutches and shouted at the strong men on the wall to cheer them up. The roads in the city were brightened by torches, and the old men with white beards and fluttering old men loudly scolded the younger generations who carried wood and stones: "Be quick with your hands and feet, why are you lazy if your life is gone?" Don't think about your father and mother! ”

……

"Is this Yang Wenyue's tent?" Xu Ping walked into the Chinese military tent in the standard camp, and the guards beside him held torches to illuminate him. Xu Ping looked around, he thought that Yang Wenyue, a civil official, did not have this kind of courage, and praised him sincerely: "This official is still a little bold, he actually remembered to take all the letters away." ”

At this moment, Yang Wenyue's standard camp is like an island in the sea in the joint camp of the 100,000 Ming army, and the 2,000 troops have just cleared the resistance in the camp and controlled all the camp gates, warehouses and every section of the camp wall. After everything was arranged, the intrusive army closed the camp gate and quietly listened to the boiling fighting outside. Xu Ping, who thought he had nothing to do for the time being, sat down on Yang Wenyue's Taishi chair and said comfortably: "It's really good, ah, there is actually tea." ”

The teapot was still warm to the touch, Xu Ping lifted the lid of the teapot and took a deep breath, and praised: "West Lake Longjing, rare good tea." ”

Chi Shude laughed when he heard this: "The general knows tea very well, admire, admire, he is much stronger than the last general, I can't even tell the difference between grass roots and tree bark." ”

"Yes, not only do you understand tea, but you also understand this." Xu Ping accepted Chi Shude's compliment with a smile, and looked at the other desk in the tent, where a xylophone was being placed. He walked over and carefully picked it up, examined it carefully, and placed it gently on the table. Sitting upright on the chair, Xu Ping first put a hand on the string and slowly glided along it, then moved his fingers and plucked a few notes, Xu Ping sighed: "Ah, I haven't touched the piano for more than a year, and I didn't expect to encounter it here in Yang Wenyue." ”

"It turns out that the general can also play the piano." Chi Shude's face was full of surprise and admiration.

"yes, I used to make a living as a performer in a teahouse."

"It turns out that the general is also poor, and he is still performing in the teahouse." Chi Shu laughed.

"Who do you think I am" Xu Ping asked with a smile, "Do you think I'm a person who listens to the piano and tastes tea?" ”

As he spoke, Xu Ping pressed his other hand to the piano and played it smoothly.

"Sure enough, it's a little rusty. There used to be a time when I had to play it for a while every day. Xu Ping rubbed his hands happily, looked up and asked, "What does Brother Chi think?" ”

"It's very pleasant, but—I'm a rough man, I don't understand this, and my babbling is too soft, and I don't show the millions of male soldiers in the general's chest."

"Isn't the sound of killing outside tonight loud enough?" Xu Ping was in a very good mood, and shouted to the guards: "Leave the officers on duty, and the rest of the officers are recruited here, and I will play a few songs for everyone." ”

Chi Shu had to move a stool close to sit down: "It's rare that the general is interested today, but the last general doesn't have a qin on him." ”

Xu Ping smiled: "It's cheap for you." ”

Yang Wenyue's tent soon came to the army, and when they heard that the general was going to play the piano for everyone, they all smiled and shouted. Xu Ping waved his hand to make everyone quiet, then lowered his head and slowly bounced. Out of respect for the general, the officers were silent and listened silently.

Zhou Dongtian also came. The flames of the candles flickered, and many flickering figures swayed on the walls of the tent, and the decisive Xu Ping seemed to have changed into a different person, and the music flowing from his fingers was tender and even—even deeply sad. Zhou Dongtian's heart floated with Bai Juyi's poems: "The bottom of the warbler is slippery, the throat flows under the spring, the water spring is cold and the strings are condensed, and the condensation is not sounded for a while......"

"Good!" One officer led the applause, followed by several others.

Xu Ping gathered his arms and raised his head, the corners of his mouth gradually turned upward, revealing a smile. He was accompanied by the endless sound of slashing and slashing from outside the camp.

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