On the one hand, Sun Caixing had to admit that Song Hui's siege of the mountain was the most effective content, and on the other hand, Sun Caixing could not adopt Song Hui's siege of the mountain. After thinking about it, Sun Caixing decided to combine it, on the one hand, to continue to suppress Song Hui, and on the other hand, to increase his influence and mobilize the soldiers' desire to fight.

"I know that the generals have a sense of revenge for their comrades, but Song Shuai is right, the bandit village is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if we forcibly attack the village, in the face of the bandits' rolling stones, even if we break through the mountain gate, we will pay a heavy price. Sun Caixing stopped the generals' quarrel and said.

Just after Sun Caixing said this, Song Hui and the others naturally felt incredible, this Sun Caixing took the wrong medicine?

The generals who have already deviated from Song Hui's faction are quite excited, we followed you Sun Caixing to help you suppress Song Hui, just thinking about fighting a war and making contributions, at this time you told me that you agree with Song Hui?

Under this kind of thinking, Song Hui and the others were still silent, while the other generals questioned Song Hui's plan one after another, and still clamored to lead the army to the battle, and the tent was suddenly in chaos.

Sun Caixing patted the table and said, "But we don't know how much food there is in the bandits, and we don't know if there are other paths to go down the mountain, but it is not enough to besiege the mountain gate." Therefore, I think that Song Shuai will lead a group of people to besiege the mountain gate to prevent the bandits from escaping from the main gate, while the other generals will lead the army to investigate the surrounding area of the bandit village, showing a trend of encirclement, taking the bandit village at the minimum cost, and avenging the soldiers who were killed. ”

The quarrel in the tent quieted down with Sun Caixing's speech, and after listening to Sun Caixing's plan, the generals thought about it, isn't this just letting Song Hui work for a day? Let Song Hui himself face the mountain bandits head-on, bear all the firepower, and we will besiege from the flank, break the village and kill the enemy, this is a military merit given for nothing, and it can suppress Song Hui's strength again, which is really a way to kill two birds with one stone.

After figuring out this joint, the generals of Sun Caixing's family naturally agreed very much. And the generals under Song Hui just wanted to oppose it, but Song Hui glared back.

My comrade has just been killed, and you are the one who proposed to close the mountain, and when you see that you are going to work for a day, you want to refute, isn't this lifting a stone to shoot yourself in the foot?

Although the other generals were unwilling, Song Hui said directly: "Mr. Sun's plan is very good, then I will take 5,000 soldiers to block the mountain gate of the bandit village, and I will definitely not let a thief escape." ”

Sun Caixing shook his head and said, "We have less than 10,000 main combatants left at the moment, 5,000 is not good, how about 1,000?"

When Song Hui's subordinate generals heard that they were only given 1,000 men and horses, did they not know if they were bullying people?

Song Hui held him down, shook his head, and signaled not to engage in pointless quarrels.

"Although a thousand is a bit stretched, just blocking the mountain gate should be enough, and a thousand is a thousand. "Song Hui responded to the request to bring only 1,000 soldiers to block the mountain gate.

Song Hui's softness made the generals of Sun Caixing's faction even more domineering, and they didn't even look at Song Hui squarely, which made the generals under Song Hui very angry, but helpless.

Song Hui had no objections here, so Sun Caixing began to arrange the overall action: "General Guo and General Li, give you 2,000 men to attack from the west side of the bandit village; General Sun and General Liu, give you 2,000 men to attack from the north side of the bandit village; General Yu and General Gu, give you 2,000 men to attack from the east side of the bandit village." Song Shuai, you only need to bring a thousand people to guard the gate of the bandit village. Set off tomorrow, as long as you see Song Shuai scolding in front of the mountain gate, you will also start to act. ”

"Yes!" the generals glanced at Song Hui defiantly and left their seats one after another.

Back at the camp, one of Song Hui's generals slapped the table and said: "This Sun Caixing is really too deceitful! Give those straw bales a surprise attack of two thousand men and horses, we will guard the front, and fight with the thieves, and give us a thousand people! And after those straw bales followed Sun Caixing, now they are all above the top, and they don't even take Song Shuai and us seriously!"

The other generals also said to Song Hui: "Yes, Song Shuai, that surnamed Ke with three thousand elite horsemen were wiped out at the mountain gate, give us a thousand to guard the mountain gate, and scold the war to buy time for them and attract the attention of the thieves, this Sun Cai Xingming is clearly going to trap us, why should you go down Song Shuai?"

Of course Song Hui knew what these generals said, but what could he do?

Taking off his hat and helmet and throwing it on the ground, Song Hui turned his head to look at these generals and said: "Okay, I don't know what you said, but at the moment there is really a shortage of manpower in the camp, General Xiong Ju and they took away 10,000 people, General Ke lost another 3,000 fine cavalry, we still have to expand the camp, and there are less than 8,000 people who can be used. It is true that they don't need to take so many people to raid, but you also know that the soldiers in the camp are all being pushed by Sun Caixing's belligerence, how many support us? Who doesn't want to make a career and follow the prime minister?"

What Song Hui said was very realistic, but the general still couldn't accept it, and lowered his head and said, "But if you only give us a thousand people, how can you guard the mountain gate?"

Song Hui patted him on the shoulder and sighed: "Okay, go back and prepare, it's not impossible for a thousand people to guard the mountain gate, have you all forgotten that I am the best at guarding?"

Under Song Hui's comfort, the generals dispersed. After they left, Song Hui sat on the desk, his fingers in his hair and sighed, and the whole person seemed to be a little older.

Although he is good at guarding it, it is really difficult for some strong people to use a thousand people to guard the mountain gate, and to scold and fight against each other, and delay time for others.

In the bandit village, the big boss and the second boss sat on a high position, and thousands of mountain bandits below were celebrating the victory in the afternoon.

The second master raised his glass and said to the big boss: "Big brother, this Xu army is not very powerful, we used to let them, but I didn't expect it to be a bunch of straw bales, and in the afternoon, the general actually led 3,000 cavalry to attack my mountain gate head-on, which really made people laugh off their big teeth!"

The big boss laughed, touched a glass with the second boss and said: "Yes, I haven't dealt with Xu Jun before, and now it seems that there is no need to be afraid at all, as long as they dare to come, they will kill as many as they want!"

The voice of the big boss was loud, and when the thieves below heard it, they also raised their wine glasses and shouted: "Kill as many as you want!"

"Hahahaha. Listening to the shouts of the gang of bandits under him, the big boss was very useful, laughed and raised his wine glass and said: "Brothers, drink openly, let's go to Xu Jun's camp to live in Ming'er!"

The big victory in the afternoon gave these mountain bandits full confidence, and in their eyes, Xu Jun was already synonymous with straw bales.

In Fan Zhe's house, the scout, who had been paying attention to the movements of the bandit village for a day, was reporting everything he had seen today.

After hearing the scouts say that the generals of the Xu army attacked the mountain with 3,000 cavalry, and all of them died under the rolling stones of the mountain bandits, the generals of the Qin army were stunned for a moment.

Qian Jiang was the first to react, slapped the table and said, "Okay! The general of the Xu army is really interesting, which buries 3,000 cavalry and reduces the resistance when we attack the camp." ”

Shen Congrong didn't expect that the Xu army would actually send 3,000 cavalry to attack the mountain, or from the front.

Originally, Shen Congrong planned to wait for the arrival of the army before attacking the camp, but now it seems that there is no need at all, Xu Jun's way of killing consumes his own vital strength too much, coupled with the disagreement within the army, as long as they go to exterminate the mountain bandits again, they don't have to wait for their army to arrive, they can attack the camp in advance.

"We have gone all the way, in Yunmeng Mountain, in addition to nearly 10,000 Xu troops, Xu Jun himself buried 3,000, from our previous intelligence, at this moment Xu Jun should have less than 10,000 fighters, under the loss of 3,000 men and horses, they will inevitably attack again, and it will never be less than 3,000. General Bai, how long will it take for our army to arrive?" Shen calmly analyzed the remaining strength of the Xu army, and then asked.

Bai Ren calculated the time and said, "The army should have passed the Yunmeng Daze Hundred Miles at this moment, and it will be there in about two days." ”

"Two days. Shen Congrong thought for a moment and said: "Call everyone tomorrow, bring the armament out of the city, as long as the Xu army has 5,000 bandits, after they leave, they will attack the camp, so that the army can directly stay in the Xu camp." ”

Although Shen Congrong's decision was improvised, the other generals had also experienced large and small wars, so they could naturally understand why Shen Congrong made this decision.

"Yes, follow Qin Shuai's order. The generals responded to Shen calmly's military order.

Qian Jiang looked at Shen Congrong and said, "Eh...... , Qin Shuai, can I go tomorrow?"

Shen Congrong knew what Qian Jiang meant because he and Bai Ren were still under the surveillance of Xu Jun, and if they left the city, it was very likely to alarm Xu Jun.

"Fix the nails and go out of town tomorrow. Shen calmly explained the premise of Qianjiang going out of the city.

Qian Jiang clenched his fists excitedly and said, "Yes." ”

Nodding, Shen calmly dispersed the generals: "Go, rest early, get ready, and go out of the city tomorrow." ”

The next day, the beginning of Mao.

Qian Jiang and Bai Ren walked out of the courtyard gate and walked around the street, there were not many pedestrians on the street, although the doors of various breakfast restaurants were opened, but only a few people were eating sporadically.

The two of them dangled to a stall and ordered something to eat.

While eating, Qian Jiang's eyes inadvertently glanced to the side, and at the stall at the entrance of a breakfast restaurant not far away, two people in coarse cloth clothes were drinking porridge, but their eyes were looking at their side.

Retracting his eyes, Qian Jiang gave Bai Ren a look, finished the breakfast in his hand in a hurry, dropped a few big coins, and the two got up and walked towards an alley.

As soon as they moved, the two people picked up the porridge bowl and poured it into their mouths, drank it in three or two sips, threw the bowl and a few big coins from their arms on the table, and the two hurriedly caught up with Qian Jiang and their footsteps.

Turning into the alley, the two found that they had lost their traces of Qianjiang, and walked a few steps forward in confusion, and the two found that it was a dead end.

"Not good!" they realized that Qian Jiang had left them behind, and were about to go back to report it, but when they turned around, they saw Qian Jiang and the others standing in front of them.

"What's wrong, what are you doing with us?" Qian Jiang asked with a grin.

The two glanced at each other, knowing that they had been recognized, and they didn't want to say anything, so they looked left and right for a while, and then wanted to climb the wall and run.

But how could Qian Jiang and Bai Ren give them this opportunity, step forward, the two stretched out their hands to clamp the spies' necks, covered their mouths, and put their feet on top so that the spies could not move, and with a twist of their hands, they sent the two spies to see the king of Hades.

Carrying the bodies of the spies to the wall, they placed them on the roof to one side, and after making sure that no one could see from below, the two clapped their hands and returned to the house.

changed into civilian clothes, hid the armor and ordnance under the car, and at the right time, they went out of the city with Shen Congrong.

After leaving the city, he urged the carriage and horse to move forward quickly, and when he was ten miles away from the border town, the carriage and horse turned to Yunmeng Mountain.

Changing into armor and equipping the ordnance, Shen calmly said to Fan Zhe: "If we haven't come back at the beginning of Youchu, it proves that we have succeeded or we can't come back, you can rush back by yourself, if we succeed, we will send someone back to contact you as soon as possible, if no one comes back within three days, you decide for yourself what happens next." ”

Fan Zhe saluted and said, "Yes, Qin Shuai." ”

"Let's go!" Shen calmly greeted and led the soldiers to the direction of Xu Ying.

Seeing Shen Congrong and their figures being swallowed up by the woods, Fan Zhe wiped the tears on his face with his sleeve and said, "Let's go too." ”

Shen calmly asked Qianjiang and them to advance in the direction of Xuying to ten miles outside Xuying, while he and Bai Ren traveled all the way to the peak where the Xuying deployment map was drawn.

When Shen Congrong and the others arrived at the peak, the last group of Xu Jun had just left the camp.

After a cursory look at the direction and number of troops of the Xu army, Bai Ren said: "Qin Shuai, it seems that the Xu army is almost pouring out, these four roads of men and horses, a total of more than 7,000 people have been dispatched, and the rest of the people except for the logistics are expanding the camp, these people's combat effectiveness is very low, and there should be less than one or two thousand people on the periphery and in the camp." ”

Among the four people, Song Hui's team of only 1,000 people was very conspicuous, Shen Congrong pointed to Song Hui's team and said: "That team of only 1,000 people looks like there are a lot of generals, so many generals, only 1,000 people, it can't be Song Hui, right?"

Bai Ren looked at it carefully and said: "It should be Song Hui, as the commander, there are only 1,000 people, you can imagine the current situation in this camp." ”

The two waited on the top of the peak for a while, observing the overall situation and distribution of Xu Ying's current defenses, and when the four groups of men and horses left the distance where they could not return to help, the two returned to the place where they were hiding in Qianjiang.

"It's done, the Xu army is almost out of the nest, only the head soldiers and construction soldiers are left, and they can't form effective resistance at all, there are nearly 100 people on the periphery, and there are more than 1,000 people in the camp, we have to be fast, we must not let them react. Shen calmly said about Xu Jun's situation.

Bai Ren spread out the latest deployment map on the ground and said: "This is the latest deployment map of the Xu Army, and our main offensive position is here." ”

As he spoke, Bai Ren pointed his hand at the edge of Xu Ying, which was expanding, a large gap, and there were only some construction soldiers.

Shen said calmly: "Qianjiang, give you a hundred people, touch me in from the periphery, clear out the Xu army on the periphery before we launch an attack, and advance to fifty steps outside the Xu camp." The others touched the gap with me and attacked an hour later. ”

Everyone nodded, indicating that they understood their duties.

"Okay, let's go. Shen calmly handed over the defense map to Qian Jiang, and took the others to touch the gap in Xu Ying.

In front of the bandits' village, Song Hui led a thousand men and horses to display at the foot of the mountain, looking at the looming mountain gate and the steep mountain road, thinking about how to attract the attention of the bandits.

A partial general looked at the mountain road, frowned and said: "Such a mountain road, General Ke actually dared to take three thousand elite horsemen directly up the mountain to attack, is he crazy?"

Another general said to Song Hui: "Song Shuai, this mountain road is narrow and steep, the bandit village is in a high position, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if you go on the mountain road, I am afraid that you can only end up with General Ke, how can you attract the attention of the mountain bandits to us in this case?"

Song Hui frowned and looked at the mountain road, what the generals said was right, if they went up, they would be sent to death, not to mention General Ke's 3,000 elite cavalry, even if 10,000 people attacked the mountain head-on, most of them would be killed or wounded. If you can't retreat, you can only end up with the annihilation of the whole army. If a thousand people set foot on the mountain road, I am afraid that they will not be able to survive a round of attacks.

After thinking about it for a long time, Song Hui thought of a way to wait for work.

He summoned the generals and said, "You take turns riding our fastest horses to fight, and if the other side pushes down the rolling stones, you will quickly retreat, and the others will hide in the woods at the foot of the mountain, and if the bandits want to escape from the front, they will all be shot." Remember, don't cross the halfway up the mountain, or you won't have time to come down. ”

After hearing Song Hui's thoughts, the generals' eyes lit up, yes, it's just to attract attention, and it doesn't have to really attack, as long as they keep scolding and fighting, they can't come down in love, anyway, we don't go up, if you come down, I will have a bow and crossbow to serve.

"Song Shuai is scheming. The crowd was full of praise and admiration.

"Alright, alright, you go first. Song Hui waved his hand, stuffed the letter cannon arrow into the hand of a general, and said: "When scolding the war, fire the letter cannon arrow to remind the others that they can start acting." ”

"Yes!" the general took the letter cannon and fired the arrows, mounted his horse and went along the mountain road.

Under the command of Song Hui, the others hid in the woods on both sides, waiting for the mountain bandits who could not withstand the attacks of others and rushed down.

In the bandit village, the hangover boss was awakened by the sound of the letter cannon, rubbed his eyes and sat up, "What is the sound?

A mountain bandit ran over and said, "Report, big boss, there is a general of the Xu army coming down the mountain, who is scolding the war, and has fired letter cannons and arrows." ”

Rubbing his face to sober himself up, the big boss scolded: "Damn, Xu Jun is really endless, I'll go and see, you go and call the second boss and the other brothers to get ready for defense." ”

Carrying a knife to the gate of the village, the big boss only heard someone shouting and scolding, but he could not see the trace of the army on the mountain road, only a man riding a horse and dangling below.

"Just one person?" asked the big boss, pointing to the man on the mountain road, to his men on the side.

The bandit nodded, indicating that it was indeed one person.

The big boss leaned the knife in his hand to the side, grabbed the crossbow machine he had seized from Xu Jun yesterday, shot an arrow at the people on the mountain road, and scolded in his mouth: "Damn, dare to come alone?

On the mountain road, the general was scolding, and an arrow was inserted more than a dozen steps in front of him. The general raised his eyes and looked in the direction of the gate, knowing that the other party was not very good at using crossbow machines, and it might be dangerous if he continued to be here. So while scolding the big boss for his poor archery skills, he turned his horse's head and went down the mountain.

When the big boss heard the other party say that he was not good at archery, he was so angry that he was about to take another arrow, but when he saw that the other party had already run, he took a sip and said: "It's a waste, it's very fast." ”

The second master also arrived at the gate of the village, and after hearing the words of the big boss, he asked, "What's the matter, big brother, I heard that Xu Jun is here again?"

The big boss said: "It's here, just alone, far away from the scolding war, scared away by my arrow, it's really a wreck." ”

The second boss always felt that something was wrong, and wondered: "Yesterday they just lost 3,000 people, and today they dare to come alone, I'm afraid there are ghosts, I heard that he also fired a letter cannon?"

The big boss can sit in the first position for so many years, and naturally there are some means, as soon as he heard the words of the second master, he immediately reacted and said: "Yes, I am sorry, this grandson is probably a bait, and the letter cannon is to signal other people, second brother, you take a group of brothers and go around our village to probe and see if there is any trace of Xu Jun." ”

In the direction of Xu Ying, Shen calmly touched the gap in Xu Ying, waiting for the time to attack.

With a moment left before the attack, the letter cannon rose into the sky in the distance, attracting everyone's attention.

Shen calmly asked Bai Ren, "Whose letter cannon?"

Bai Ren said: "That's the direction of the bandit village, it should be Xu Jun's letter cannon, they may have already started to attack the bandit village." ”

Shen calmly saw that Xu Jun was attracted by the letter cannon, and knew that this was a very good time to attack, so he immediately decided: "Attack now." ”

The arrow was off the string, and Xu Jun, who was looking at the direction of the letter cannon, was completely defenseless, and was hit by a crossbow arrow, and the sharp arrow pierced through the armor into Xu Jun's body, and a large number of people and horses suddenly fell, and the wail paused.

The tragic wail attracted the attention of the other Xu Jun, and immediately someone turned his head to look at the position that had been baptized by the first round of arrow rain and shouted, "What's wrong?"

But then came the second round of arrows.

After four rounds of arrow rain, there was almost no Xu Jun standing in the gap, and Xu Jun, who was lying on the ground and had not yet died, continued to wail.

Shen calmly slaughtered them out of the forest, commanding a group of people to guard against the reinforcements of the Xu army, while the others collected the arrows and killed all the Xu troops who had not yet lost their breath.

Xu Jun's wailing naturally attracted the sergeants who were still staying in the camp, and these sergeants took up their weapons and rushed in the direction where the wailing came.

Sun Caixing, who had not gone out with the army, walked out of the tent and called a soldier who was rushing to the gap and said, "What's the matter? What is this sound?"

The soldier replied, "I don't know what's going on, it's coming from the direction of the expansion site, and I'm about to investigate." ”

Waving his hand to let the soldiers hurry, Sun Caixing frowned and looked in the direction of the construction site, guessing what was happening.