Chapter XXIX

Qin Zhen asked Xue Yuan beside him, "How is it?" ”

Xue Yuan nodded: "Very powerful!" ”

"How do you compare?"

Xue Yuan was eager to try: "That's going to be better than you know!" ”

Meng Xuan said coldly: "With your skills, there is no problem with taking my three moves with one hand, you shouldn't have lost so quickly, but your mind is too poor, and you are easy to get angry. ”

Han Cheng said angrily: "If you lose, you lose, you don't have to find a reason for me, I, Han Cheng, am not a person who can't afford to lose, don't worry, from now on, I will admit your identity as a deputy team, and I will obey your orders." ”

Meng Xuan looked at Han Cheng, shook his head and said: "You still don't understand what I mean, I don't care if you can afford to lose, you don't need me to worry about disobeying my orders, you have your own military law constraints; What I want to say is that you are a soldier leader, and your irritable personality can easily fall into the trap of others and bring your subordinates to the point of no return, I hope you will pay more attention and don't regret it too late when that time comes. ”

Han Cheng was stunned for a moment and said: "If you say something similar, the captain has also said it, so he has always asked me to be the deputy captain and not let me command the cavalry to fight alone." ”

Meng Xuan said: "If it weren't for the needs of the next battle, I don't want to say more, in the past, with Captain Wang and Team Li being pressed, you couldn't do anything too rash, but now the two of them are dead and injured, and you don't really agree with Qin Zhen and me in your heart, usually it's okay, but if you come to wartime, you are provoked by the enemy, you are likely to ignore Qin Zhen and my orders to do something rash, because you affect the entire strategic layout, resulting in the failure of our operation, even if you die, you can't make up for such a mistake." ”

Hearing Meng Xuan's words, Han Cheng was silent for a long time: "I do have the idea of avenging Lord Captain and Team Li, you are very powerful, okay, I, Han Cheng, promise with a head, I will obey orders in the next battle with the party." ”

Meng Xuan nodded and did not speak again.

Xue Yuan said with admiration on his face at this time: "Better than me!" What is the origin of this Meng Xuan, not only is he skilled, but his ability to look at people is also a top one, not under you! ”

Qin Zhen said: "I don't know the specific origin, I only know that he must have been a soldier before, and he was also a soldier, not only is he skilled, but he also has a very good grasp of tactical arrangements and battle rhythms." ”

With Han Cheng's example, everyone knows how powerful Meng Xuan is, and of course no one will challenge it anymore, and Meng Xuan's matter as the deputy team member has been decided.

At this time, the scouts came to report that Tuoba had withdrawn to camp two miles down the mountain, but there were still scouts and secret sentinels of the party members on the mountain.

Wen Han said with a smile: "It seems that Tuoba Jue continued to go up the mountain and was afraid of being ambushed by us, and camped halfway up the mountain for fear that we would attack at night, so he could only set up the camp at the bottom of the mountain, which just provided us with convenience to go up the mountain." ”

Meng Xuan said: "We can't be too optimistic, after all, now Tuoba's strength is still much stronger than ours, and we still have twelve seriously wounded, and we are unable to move, now our only advantage is that Tuoba Jue doesn't know our details, if he finds out when we transfer, he only needs to send a team of men and horses to entangle us, then our details will be all exposed; So I suggest that we act secretly, wrap our horses, try not to be discovered by them, if they are discovered, the seriously injured will go first, and Han Cheng and I will lead a break and then block it. ”

Asagawa Wu came over and said, "The wounded have basically been bandaged and treated, and the stretcher has been prepared and ready to go at any time." ”

Qin Zhen nodded: "Okay, except for the scouts and guard posts, everyone will rest and eat in place, replenish their strength, and we will set off when we are ugly; Wen Han led Ershi to explore the way, Xue Yuan led Sanshi to assist Chaochuan Wu in transporting the wounded, and Meng Xuan and Han Cheng led Yishi to break the rear. ”

"No!"

After everything was arranged, Qin Zhen was able to sit down with Xue Yuan, Ma Xuan, Chen Luosheng and others to catch up on the past, each of them seemed very excited, what they had been planning in the racecourse finally came true today, and many of the ten of them came out, and finally gained freedom at this moment.

Among the ten people, Yang Xiaoqi was the most active, and he was telling the others how Qin Zhen discovered the ambush in advance, how to dodge the arrows, and how to analyze Wang Sheng in Tong'an Town and give ideas, which not only saved the people in Tong'an Town, but also thwarted Tuoba's spirit, and let them escape from the control of the party members.

Ma Shun was the most honest, and at this time he said with a grateful face: "Fortunately, Qin Zhen let us practice martial arts and horsemanship, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to escape today!" ”

Yang Xiaoqi said proudly: "That is, Qin Zhen not only let us practice martial arts, but also let us learn cultural knowledge, I have never understood, today I finally know the importance of knowledge, you look at Qin Zhen, in such a short time in Tong'an Town, I haven't understood what's going on, he came up with so many ghost ideas." ”

Chen Luosheng said disdainfully: "Qin Zhen is called smart, his brain is a few more turns than ordinary people, if you are replaced, even if you learn so much knowledge, you will be as stupid as a cow." ”

Yang Xiaoqi was not angry, and pulled Wang Tiezhu: "You say that I am like a cow, so what is he like?" ”

Chen Luosheng didn't raise his head: "Don't look at it, it's a bear!" ”

After gathering together and chatting for a while, everyone went to rest, recuperate, and prepare for the evening march.

The sky at night is very powerful, dark clouds cover the sky, and there is no starlight; Under the leadership of Wen Han, the troops took advantage of the night to quietly move to the top of Beishan Mountain.

Because of Wen Han's familiarity with the terrain, Qin Zhen and the others did not encounter the scouts of the party members along the way, and when they reached the halfway point of the mountain, Wang Sheng woke up and resolutely opposed going on a stretcher and wanted to ride forward.

Qin Zhen persuaded: "You have lost too much blood, and now your body is too weak, you will not be able to stand it if you are bumpy immediately." ”

Wang Sheng said angrily: "I have been on horseback for most of my life, and now I just have no arm, not no legs, what I can't stand it, I don't feel comfortable lying here." ”

Then, Wang Sheng said to the wounded who were carried with him: "You are still sober, and those who can get on the horse, all give me the horse, we are cavalry, can we be regarded as cavalry when we are carried by others?" ”

When the wounded heard the captain say this, they asked to ride their horses and not lie on stretchers, insulting the name of the cavalry.

Qin Zhen knew that Wang Sheng's insistence on riding a horse did not want to increase the burden, thereby slowing down the progress of the troops, twelve wounded, had to be carried by twenty-four people, now they have no logistics, no support, if they go on like this, sooner or later they will be caught up by Tuoba Yewang, and no one will be able to run at that time.

Qin Zhen also understood this truth, but let these seriously injured people go to the horse again, reason told him that Wang Sheng was right, but emotion told him that it was a bit too cruel to let these seriously injured people go to the horse again.

Wang Sheng looked at Qin Zhen and said: "You are not a person now, but the commander of a troop, every order you give now is related to their lives, the so-called mercy is not in charge of the army, maybe some actions that you thought were impersonal in the past are the greatest kindness, but the kindness you thought would make them innocent deaths; For example, now, in order to prevent us people from suffering from turbulence, you will definitely slow down the speed of the troops, and if we are caught up by the party army, not only will we not survive, but many people here will be buried with them; If we ride our own horses, we can speed up the march of the troops, and the possibility of survival of the troops will be greatly increased, and we people will only suffer a little more, since the day we were fed and served as soldiers, we have been prepared for the horse leather shroud, so what is the benefit of suffering. ”

Meng Xuan said: "Captain Wang is right, since you are now the leader of this cavalry team, then you can't be emotional, the people of Tong'an Town are still on the way, and one mistake of ours may cause those thousands of people to not be able to enter the city." ”

Qin Zhen also understood that he had some woman's kindness just now, and he was also a decisive person, so he immediately ordered: "All the wounded who can ride horses advance on horseback, one two or three Shi stay on the top of the mountain to block the enemy, Chao Chuanwu leads the auxiliary troops to escort the seriously wounded into the mountain, and go to Weizhou along the mountain path." ”

Eight of the twelve seriously wounded were able to continue riding, while the remaining four were either too seriously injured and still in a coma, or they could not ride on their legs.

Chaochuan Wu escorted the seriously wounded away, and Qin Zhen brought Meng Xuan, Han Cheng, Wen Han, and Xue Yuan to discuss the next battle plan.

Meng Xuan looked at the surrounding environment and said: "From the halfway up the mountain, the mountain is more precipitous, from now on, we are divided into two teams, one tithe is a team, two tithes and three tithes are weaker than the other, and there are few people, form a team, the two tithes are separated by a mile, relying on the mountain, alternately covering each other to block the army of the party members." ”

Qin Zhen said: "Everyone shoots with bows and crossbows from a long distance, and when the enemy is about to get closer, we quickly retreat, our purpose this time is not to shoot the enemy, but to slow them down and preserve our own strength." ”

After discussing the deployment, Qin Zhen, Wen Han and Xue Yuan led the two tithes and three shis to stay in place, looking for favorable terrain and preparing the first line of defense, and Meng Xuan and Han Cheng led the one shi to retreat one mile back and establish the second line of defense.

At three o'clock, I had already seen the party army pulling out the camp and preparing to go up the mountain, and the scouts had already begun to search the mountain.

Qin Zhen said: "It seems that Tuoba Yewang is marching overnight and has already joined Tuoba. ”

Wen Han said worriedly: "We can only block them step by step when they go up the mountain, and when we cross this mountain, from Tong'an Town to Weizhou, there will be no natural danger to stop them." ”

At this time, one of the scouts at the front had already entered Qin Zhen's range, but without Qin Zhen's order, the soldiers did not release their arrows, but stared at this scout like hungry wolves.

The distance between the party scouts is very large, so that they can not only exchange information with each other, but also minimize casualties as much as possible, so now there is only one party scout who has entered the range of Qin Zhen.

The party scout didn't know he was being targeted, and continued to search.