Chapter Thirty-Seven: Brother Zhen Joins the War
Mama Li looked at Brother Zhen and didn't speak for a while. She had to admit that Brother Zhen at this time was quite like his mother, Sister Zhen, bold, pungent, and responsible, which made people unconvinced. Although Mama Li has a feud with Sister Zhen because of Sister Li Li's affairs, she still recognizes Sister Zhen's personal charm and ability.
"Have you ever fought?" After a pause, Mama Li asked, "Do you know how the battle is now?" ”
"Nope!" Brother Zhen replied truthfully: "I don't know the current battlefield situation. ”
"Then what are you talking about fighting?" Mama Li smiled: "Fighting is not about bragging, it's about fighting for life!" ”
"So I just want to go to war and do something!" Brother Zhen asked at the right time: "I heard that the battle situation is not good for us, but I just heard that what is the current situation of the war, please let Li Ma know." ”
"You want to know?" Mama Li looked at Brother Zhen in front of her, with a serious face, and pointed to a map and said, "Come on, take a look, this is the current situation of the two sides, tell me your opinion!" ”
Brother Zhen went to the map and looked at it for a long time, Zheng Xiaojie and Li Linger were afraid that Brother Zhen would make a fool of themselves, so they hurriedly came up to take a look. They pointed and pointed, seemingly discussing, but in fact, they were secretly instructing Brother Zhen how to look at the map and understand the layout of the two sides.
"Well, what do you think?" Mama Li saw that Brother Zhen was silent for a long time, so she asked in a slightly contemptuous tone. When she asked, Zheng Xiaojie and Li Linger were sweating for Brother Zhen.
Brother Zhen didn't answer, but still looked at the map intently.
"What's wrong, I don't know what to do?" Mina, who was on the side, also began to joke in a contemptuous tone: "Do children think this is a play house, joking!" ”
Brother Zhen suddenly slammed his fist on the map, startling everyone in the city. Zheng Xiaojie hurriedly grabbed his hand: "What are you doing?" ”
"yes, the temper is not small!" Mina said, "What kind of table?" ”
"I'm sorry, Aunt Mina!" Brother Zhen grinned and said, "I don't have time to be angry, please don't mind...... Let me tell you my opinion: it's not right to fight like this! ”
"You say, what's wrong?"
"Now the opponent is attacking from three sides," Brother Zhen said, pointing to the map, "We are defending on three sides." As a result, we are passive defensively, they are pressing step by step, very passive. ”
"There are so many people that we can only defend," Mina said, "Could it be that we have to fight them again?" Doesn't that die faster? ”
"They are ten times as many as us, if we just fight like this, even if one person fights ten of them, the result will still be a lose!" Brother Zhen said, "What's more, can we fight ten of them alone?" ”
was asked by Brother Zhen like this, and everyone was speechless. In the face of an opponent who is dozens of times his own person, if he fights a war of attrition, the final result is undoubtedly defeated. It's not that these people don't know about this account, but they are in it, and they only think about how to withstand the opponent's attack, and they don't think too much.
"Then how do you say to fight?" Mama Li asked. She suddenly found that Brother Zhen really seemed to have some ideas: "Let's talk about it!" ”
"We have a small number of troops, we must fight a quick battle, and we can't fight a war of attrition!" Brother Zhen said: "Look for opportunities to hit the opponent's vital parts, so that you can defeat the opponent." Even if it can't be defeated, at least it can force the other side to withdraw and save itself. ”
"Theoretically, what you said is a solution," Zheng Xiaojie couldn't help but interject: "But how can you hit the opponent's vital parts?" ”
"Give me a hundred, I'll have my own way!"
"A hundred? A hundred people want to hit the opponent's vital parts? Mina smiled: "You are impatient, when the opponent is muddy?" ”
"Of course, the opponent is not muddy, but the opponent is a temporary alliance of several major tribes," Brother Zhen said, "The characteristic of the alliance is that it will have its own interests to some extent. With our own interests, we will be suspicious of each other, hoping that others will contribute more and benefit ourselves, and this is the weak link that we can take advantage of. ”
"That's right," said Mina, "but it's all on paper!" You haven't fought before, but you've fought well! ”
Mina's sarcasm was very strong, and Brother Zhen was naturally angry in his heart, but he held back: "That's right, I'm talking on paper now, but there is always a first time for everything!" If we continue to fight like this, even if the opponent fights one of us out of nine, there will be only one of them left in the end, and they still win! So, just look at it! ”
His words made everyone dumbfounded, and the truth is indeed as he said, there is no chance of continuing like this.
"What I want to know is, what are you going to do?" Mama Li pondered for a long time and asked.
"I don't know exactly how to fight or who to fight first," Brother Zhen said, "What I know now is that we first have to cross the line of fire and go to the rear of the opponent." Their troops are overwhelming, and the rear must be empty, and only some old and weak remnants are left. After we interspersed the past, we looked for an opportunity to let their backyard catch fire, and see if they could be saved! ”
"They're surrounded like buckets on the line of fire, can you get through?" What Brother Zhen said is indeed a solution, and Mina is also a little tempted. was pressed and beaten by her opponent, and she also felt helpless and wanted to change the situation.
"Don't worry about this, there must be loopholes in the junction between the tribes!" Li's mother said: "But if you bring a hundred people, is it a little less?" ”
"It's a little less, but there's a lot of pressure here, and I can't take more people away," Brother Zhen said, "But the hundred people I bring must be young and strong enough to run!" ”
Mama Li discussed with Mina and the others for a long time, and finally decided to adopt Brother Zhen's suggestion. In fact, they couldn't think of a better way to resolve the crisis in front of them. They began to select people according to Brother Zhen's requirements, and soon, a hundred people were selected, all of whom were relatively young and very capable of fighting.
But when Brother Zhen saw the selected people, he couldn't help but gasp. These 100 people are all in their thirties and nearly forty years old! Although Zheng Xiaojie told him that a person of Li Ling'er's age is the youngest person here. But seeing it with his own eyes, he realized how bad it was.
"I'm dizzy! This is your young people? He blurted out.
"Yes, how young do you think they are?" Mother Li smiled: "This is to go to war, not to choose a concubine for you!" Rest assured, they are the youngest and bravest warriors of our tribe and will not let you down! ”
Mama Li's eyes already showed appreciation.
"It seems that I don't ......have a choice," Brother Zhen sighed, and in a blink of an eye, he saw that Li Ling'er was also armed, so he said, "Don't go!" ”
"Let her go!" Before Li Ling'er could speak, Li's mother said: "You are not familiar with these people, Ling'er can help you!" ”
Since Li's mother said so, Brother Zhen couldn't refuse.
The one hundred soldiers selected, plus Brother Zhen and Li Ling'er, made a total of one hundred and two. They rested for a long day, and at midnight they disappeared into the night......
"Hopefully they'll succeed!" Mama Li muttered, as if she was talking to Zheng Xiaojie and to herself. Brother Zhen and Li Ling'er left, and Li's mother asked Zheng Xiaojie to live with her. This time, she didn't mean to take Zheng Xiaojie as a hostage, but really wanted to take care of Zheng Xiaojie.
"I hope they can succeed ......," Ms. Zheng said. Her heart was actually trembling all the time. Brother Zhen only took a hundred people, and when he crossed the line of fire and entered the opponent's rear, it was like a stone thrown into the sea, how big a wave could it make?
"Let's sleep," Seeing that Zheng Xiaojie was very worried, Mama Li persuaded: "Now we can't help them, we can only look at their creation!" ”
On the third day, the opponent's attack was very fierce, and the battle was still in a stalemate. In the next three or four days, the two sides fought each other and fought fiercely. And Brother Zhen's men and horses seem to be just like Zheng Xiaojie thought, and there is no movement at all.
"They don't seem to be able to break through......" That evening, when the fighting between the two sides stopped, Mama Li dragged her tired body back to the house, and said in frustration: "The other party's attack is becoming more and more fierce, our losses are not small, I don't know how long we can hold out!" ”
Zheng Xiaojie was silent. It's been four or five days, and Brother Zhen hasn't moved at all, how can she not worry? Although Mama Li no longer throws her face at her now, she still has palpitations. In case Brother Zhen and they fail, Mama Li may not blame her, but what about the others?
She really wants to run now! Just imagine, if Brother Zhen really dies, the child in her womb will be the only inheritance left to her by Brother Zhen. She had seen a lot of battles in the era of the agglomeration. Both sides are dead and have no mercy, so there are basically no captives. On the contrary, the corpses of the war dead of the opposing side are very popular, because they are also food. If there are not many corpses of the war dead, they can also be deliberately made, so it has become customary to kill prisoners in many agglomerations, and there are no scruples at all.
Therefore, if Mama Li's side is defeated, she knows that she will not be able to save this child!
"It's also weird," Mama Li didn't know what Zheng Xiaojie was thinking, and suddenly sighed: "Why is this person so incomprehensible?" On the day Brother Zhen left, he was surprised to find that the so-called young women were almost forty years old, and I was actually surprised. If you think about it, we people are dead, that is, all of us are dead. Now we, the hard-working women who don't have offspring, are still fighting each other desperately to live a better life, is it interesting? ”
Zheng Xiaojie listened and involuntarily touched her stomach. No children, that is, no future. There is no future, and it is not good to live, and it is really funny that you have to fight for life and death.
"Huh!" Mama Li obviously saw Zheng Xiaojie's subconscious action and smiled: "Actually, the most worthy of living now is you!" ”
"It's not interesting for me to live alone," Zheng Xiaojie said with a wry smile: "Even if my child lands safely, one day, he will become a lonely person, which is not interesting!" ”
"Give birth to him!" Li's mother said, "Since you're here, let him come...... Tomorrow I will send two men to escort you out of the sea, and perhaps you will be able to escape to the south, where there is not a dungeon!" …… Okay, now go to sleep! ”
"I'm not leaving!" Zheng Xiaojie refused.