Chapter Forty-Three—Fighting from Two Sides

"Who are you? Why are you here? Are you soldiers of the Qi Kingdom?" The group of soldiers who rushed out of the East Linguan was about 500 people, and they saw at a glance more than 200 soldiers in Qi costumes who were urgently retrieving the matches they had wanted to light outside the Donglin Pass. The more than 500 people who came out to patrol from the East Linguan immediately realized that something was wrong, and one of the 500 or so soldiers, led by a general who was on a horse and holding a halberd, asked sharply.

"This is the army that General He Yu sent to Ruocheng to sneak attack, we are back to report the news," the general who came to Donglinguan with more than 200 soldiers lowered his head and explained in a hurry to hide the strong ups and downs of his inner emotions. He just wanted to be there as best he could, trying to figure out how to stall for time to get by. And the general tried his best to block his figure in front of his soldiers while talking about the topic, and his soldiers immediately understood, and quickly picked up the haystacks that had been piled up outside the East Linguan Pass and put them in their arms, and tried their best to stand there with a very natural appearance, knowing that if there was any change in their expressions, it would definitely lead to a cruel battle. They were already small in number, and most of the troops that rushed out of the eastern border were cavalry on horseback, so they had a great disadvantage in frontal combat. More than two hundred soldiers quietly waited behind their generals for possible opportunities.

The general, led by the cavalry team that had rushed out of the eastern pass, looked around at the army, and the general was surprised to see the incomparable calmness on their faces. The general asked with a somewhat solemn face: "Do you have the token of our Bright Moon Heavenly Kingdom?" If not, it will be difficult for us to identify your identity, and it is obvious from your current clothes that you are the army of the Qi Kingdom. Well, we're going to have to do it to you, and I hope we're not enemies. ”

"Some of some of some please look at this token" with more than 200 soldiers came to the east of the pass of the Qi country Ruocheng general immediately groped out a piece of white jade from his arms and handed it to the general riding on the horse in front of him, in the middle of the token made of white jade painted a white moon, this piece of jade tied to a thin red rope, in the bright moonlight against the background of the extraordinarily white and flawless. Under the moon of this piece of jade, there is a small piece of black jade, and on this black jade is engraved the four big characters "Bright Moon Heavenly Kingdom". Obviously, this piece of jade is the tool used to communicate between the high-level leaders of the Bright Moon Heavenly Kingdom.

"Well, this is indeed a token unique to our Bright Moon Heavenly Kingdom, but didn't General He Yu send you to attack Ruocheng secretly?, then what are you doing here?" The general wearing black armor on a horse took the white jade token, and already recognized that these more than 200 people were subordinates of their Bright Moon Heavenly Kingdom. However, he still asked them about the purpose of this army, which somehow suddenly returned to the East Linguan in the middle of the night.

The general's lips clenched tightly in front of him with two double knives, but the expression on his face was very calm and normal. As he spoke, he could almost hear his pounding heartbeat clearly. "That's the case, we were attacked again in that bamboo forest, and when we finally arrived at Ruocheng, we were attacked by the defenders of Ruocheng, fortunately, we were outnumbered, and we barely defeated this army, but we also suffered heavy losses, and the remaining army is stationed outside Ruocheng, more than 200 of us urgently came back to gather rescuers, hoping that General He Yu could send troops to support us, as far as we know, there are not many troops in Ruocheng, as long as there are reinforcements, we will be able to capture Ruocheng"

The general of the Qi State was beating extremely fast when he spoke, but he tried his best to make the expression on his face look very indifferent. It also made the Bright Moon Heavenly Kingdom General on a horse in front of him unable to distinguish the real from the fake.

The general of the Bright Moon Heavenly Kingdom who was riding a horse and holding a halberd couldn't distinguish the identities of the more than two hundred soldiers in front of him, and he couldn't find a place to prove that they were fake identities, and the token in the hand of the general wearing the official uniform of the Qi State was indeed a token that could prove that it was their Bright Moon Heavenly Kingdom. So the general on horseback had to believe it, if not believing.

"Okay, General He Yu is in the general's mansion in the city, you can go to him now. However, I'm not sure if General He Yu has gotten up now, originally at this hour, General He Yu would have taken his own soldiers to train in the East Linguan, okay, you guys go in, we still have things, we still have tasks, so let's go first" The general on horseback raised his whip and took more than 500 soldiers under his command to make way for the pretending more than 200 soldiers, while he quickly left Donglin Pass with his subordinates. The deceitful general breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to lead the people to retreat, but their eyes stayed on the army of more than 500 people who had left.

"General, do you think that the direction in which this army is moving is a little strange? The two soldiers standing behind the general of Qi saw that something was wrong and reported to the general in a low voice.

The general of the Qi State also sensed that something was wrong from the departure of the more than five hundred soldiers, and the expression on his face gradually became solemn. His eyes were fixed on the cavalry of more than five hundred men until the army disappeared from his sight. He turned around slowly, and his voice was very serious and solemn.

"The direction in which their army is advancing seems to be Huicheng," the general returned his sword to the sheath, but his face became more and more solemn.

The general's face was a little worried, and he turned his head to ask the two soldiers behind him, "How many defenders are there in Huicheng now, and will they be able to cope with a possible surprise attack by this army?"

The two soldiers behind the general arched their hands and said, "General, please rest assured, although the defenders of Huicheng are not numerous, they are all elite soldiers who can fight well. Although the number is only more than 1,000 people, there should be no problem in dealing with this army of more than 500 soldiers. What's more, the city is thick and the cavalry is not good at attacking fortified positions. There is basically no pressure to hold the castle. Please rest assured, our goal now is to go back and cooperate with the plan of General Chen Jie and Jiang Mingcheng's alliance leader, and eliminate the entire rebel army from both sides. ”

The general nodded deeply, he actually thought about it, it was really difficult for their army, which only had more than 200 people, to defeat this elite army with more than 3,000 people. Therefore, it is necessary to cooperate with the army that is still in Ruocheng to attack from both sides and directly destroy the entire rebel army.

"Okay, let's leave this place of right and wrong, and go back to the bamboo forest to ambush well, in fact, I also want to know how they know that this area looks like a poplar forest, but in fact, there is a road in the bamboo forest that leads to the outskirts of Ruocheng." Although this general was a little entangled in this is a big secret for their Qi country, he still quickly left the land of right and wrong in Donglinguan with his men, and quickly retreated to the bamboo forest to set up an ambush circle, just waiting for He Yu to take his rear army to attack Ruocheng, and their army could cut off the enemy's rear route. Although the number of troops is small, it should not be too much of a problem to cut off the grain route of He Yu's army.

More than 200 soldiers quickly followed their general out of Donglinguan, and quickly returned to the bamboo forest between Ruocheng and Donglinguan, and began to wait quietly for the opportunity to attack from both sides

"What! The Chinese army has also been defeated? Is it really so difficult to take Ruocheng? Do you have to go out in person?" Of course, this army is still the army of the Bright Moon Heavenly Kingdom both on the surface and in name. But in fact, they had already secretly killed two of their commanders, Chen Jie, the general of Ruocheng, and now the two envoys they sent back were actually here to lure out He Yu and his last army, and the entire Chinese army had surrendered to Qi and re-became soldiers guarding the eastern pass. Of course, it will be after the recapture of Donglinguan.

The two envoys kneeling there pretended to have a snorting expression in their voices, and defended in a low voice: "General Confession, in fact, we have been stationed outside Ruocheng, but we lack reinforcements, if the general is willing to bring the rear army to help, we will definitely be able to take Ruocheng." Besides, General Fei has already led his troops to threaten the southern Huicheng, and when the time comes, our Bright Moon Heavenly Kingdom will definitely revitalize the general, and now it is a rare opportunity!"