The arrival of Yang Dayi's team was a surprise to Tan Zhongxiao. He had just returned from observing Yin Tuo's camp, and was worried that his five hundred men were too weak and that they would not be able to stop the enemy's retreat to Jiyang Mountain.
The newly arrived victorious army of five hundred not only brought good news about killing Sun Gu, but also had strong morale.
Tan and Liu, on the other hand, were stumbled and regretted that they should have left later because they had no choice but to catch up with the battle to kill Sun Gu.
Hearing that Yang Dayi was the messenger of Li Sanlang's mother and also had the status of a hundred households in the army, Tanzhong Xiao was not only treated with great courtesy, but also relieved, and immediately proposed that Yang Dayi would unify the command of the three troops here.
No matter how you say that year, the government and the army still had a certain influence, and they were not as miserable as described in some later generations.
From a private perspective, they represent the government after all. If there are bandits, one or two officers and soldiers stand up and call for help, which is enough to pull up a small group of militiamen to respond.
Since he was in front of the enemy and the military situation was urgent, he had no time to be humble. Yang Dali didn't say much. After seeing the terrain, he convened a meeting.
I had just introduced myself, and suddenly a famous sentry commander came to report that three cavalrymen were coming from afar, and they seemed to be coming from the enemy's hard disk. He asked if they wanted to intercept them?
"Leader Xin, Leader Liao, you two go and have a fight. But... don't reveal Xingzang, who is being trained by our regiment, and say that you are soldiers of the Lou family. I will hold him down and ask them what they do, and then report back. , I will do the reasoning again.”
After Yang Dayi finished his instructions, Xin Chi and Liao Sanqing went down the mountain. Here Yang Dayi continued: "Sheng Qian asked me to wait here to stop the enemy from retreating to Jiyang Mountain. I just looked and saw that there are two ways to go.
One way is to go north to the foot of Fengshan Mountain, but there is an army stationed there, and the rebels may not have the courage to take risks.
The other is to take the road on the west bank of Shatang, where we will set up an ambush to intercept. There are many hills to the west of this area, and the woods are dense and suitable for hiding soldiers. A few steps to the east of the road, you will reach the pond. Even if the enemy wants to resist, there will be no room for maneuver. how? "
"Okay, just as Baihu said!" Tan Zhongxiao nodded, Liu She had no objection, and the general strategy was decided.
The arrangement of the three teams is: Yang Dayi, who has the largest number, attacks from the west, Tanzhongxiao is responsible for blocking the road in the north, and Tie Linglong and Liu She set up an ambush in Zhangjiatang to prevent the enemy from escaping to Fengshan Fort.
At the same time, Yang Dayi wrote a brief letter to the officers and soldiers of Fengshan Fort, asking them to help reinforce Liu Shebu to prevent the enemy from escaping.
As soon as the decoration here was completed, Xin Chi suddenly ran back excitedly.
"How?" Yang Dayi asked him.
"Master Baihu, unexpectedly I caught a big fish!" Xin Chi told everyone with a smile.
It turned out that these three cavalry were Yintuo's central army Deng Huzi and two of his men. When Xin Chi and others jumped out to block the road, Deng Huzi took a look at their clothes (the surrender soldiers had no time to change) and he really thought they were fellow rebels and cursed:
"You're blind, I am a lieutenant under Yin Shuai, and I was ordered to go back to Jiyang Village to see Mr. Lou. Get out of the way quickly. If something happens by mistake, you won't be able to bear the consequences!"
"Ouch, that's not a bad tone!" Liao Sanqing was originally very cold towards Yin Tuo. When he heard him talk about it like this, he didn't even bother to get into the act and became furious.
"How dare you call yourself master in front of grandpa? I tell you that it won't work here. Grandpa is a subordinate of the third general. What kind of official business are you doing that has nothing to do with us?"
The people around him acted together: "Hey, that's it! Don't show off your silver tuo, or you won't recognize him in front of me!"
"Yes, yes!"
"Which one is Yin Tuo? I don't know! Hahaha...!"
Deng Huzi was so angry that he almost fainted. The soldiers around him hurriedly pulled his reins and persuaded him softly: "General (Deng Huzi is one of the three lieutenants), don't be angry. We have business matters and we don't dare to delay Yin Shuai's important event. Why bother with these little crabs?" ?」
After enduring it again and again, Deng Huzi slowly softened his face and said, "It turns out that it was Hua Zuibao (he deliberately used the nickname, which was neither polite nor respectful) who was responsible for the verbal conflict and offended him!
However, I am indeed sent by Marshal Yin to see the Second General. Please, for the sake of our fellow rebels and family, please let me go. Deng was grateful. "
After saying that, he ordered a soldier to come forward and hand over his waist badge.
. When the system was first established, only leaders above the rank of captain had waist badges.
"Oh, it's true. You're still a general. Disrespect, disrespect!" Liao Sanqing looked at it carefully and then clasped his fists and handed over his hands. He turned back to look at Xin Chi: "Look, chief, how about we make it easier?"
"Ahem, in that case, we don't have much grudge against Yin Shuai, so just let them pass." Xin Chi waved his hand nonchalantly: "The men lined up to give gifts to General Deng."
Everyone responded and formed two rows facing each other by the roadside. Deng Huzi put away his waistband and thought:
I have never seen someone so ignorant of the rules, that is, the man with the flowery arms, but he came to the village today and wanted to file a complaint and make these boys suffer!
He had bad intentions and urged his horse forward. When I passed by Xin Chi, I saw the nonchalant look on his face, and my heart became angry again. I looked up and saw that there were only two or three steps ahead of me before leaving the queue. Suddenly I suddenly swung my riding whip hard and hit Xin Chi's face with the tip of the whip.
Unexpectedly, he was not the only one with bad intentions. Liao Sanqing took the time to pick up a pebble in his hand.
Seeing the fierce gleam in Deng Huzi's eyes, he knew that this boy was not good. He shouted "Hey!", and the pebble hit the horse's ear, causing the horse to jump to the side in shock. Deng Huzi had lost his center of gravity and fell over.
Xin Chi shouted: "Take it!" He stepped forward to hug him, and the two of them fell into the dust at the same time. Liao Sanqing and two other members of the group rushed over to hold him down and tied him up in a mess.
Looking at the two followers, they were also tied up tightly by others.
"Brother, brother, it's all a misunderstanding. I'm really Yin Shuai's lieutenant general, really!" Deng Huzi didn't dare to say harsh words and quickly apologized: "It's true that Yin Shuai sent him, there is urgent military affairs!"
"Really? But why do I always think you are a spy for the army?" Xin Chi squatted in front of him, tilting his head and looking at him doubtfully:
"You, a lieutenant general, are not in Marshal Yin's army, so why are you here? You are either a spy of the army or a deserter!"
"Oh brother, how can there be such a neatly dressed deserter in armor!" Deng Huzi couldn't laugh or cry.
"Then tell me the truth, where are you going, who are you meeting, and what are you talking about? You can't tell the truth, huh! My little brother, for the sake of your whip not hitting the right spot, I'll help you stay in Shen Tang for a long time. corpse……!"
"So, he did it all?" Yang asked with a careless smile.
"Then you dare not to recruit?" Xin Chi said with excitement. He had not been so happy for a long time. He was able to grind Yin Tuo's lieutenant commander into the dirt. Not everyone has this experience.
After he finished reciting Deng Hu's words, Yang Dayi stroked his beard and said nothing. Tan Zhongxiao asked Liu She: "Tie Linglong, what do you think is going on here? What happened on the mountain?"
"Hey, I can probably guess that Sima Qian is unwilling to give up his territory, and Lou Er and the others don't want to have a fight when the outcome is not decided, so they are waiting and watching." Liu She said.
"Wait and see, what are you waiting for? Are you all watching the scenery on the mountain?" Tan Zhongxiao still didn't understand.
"It's not about watching the scenery, it's about waiting for the outcome of winning or losing," Liu She said.
"What's the point of waiting? We'll know when the war is over. We can't just wait around without cooking until the war is over."
"That's not what you said." Yang Dayi had already understood what Liu She meant: "You won't understand since you are a regiment training Ying Zheng, but it will be easier to understand if you stand from the perspective of Qian Sima.
What Brother Liu means is that Sima has selfish motives. If Yin Tuo wins, the Lou brothers will naturally not dare to let him go down the mountain with his baggage and family members.
But if he was defeated and he kept the camp and did not hand it over to the Lou family, Yin Tuo would have more trust in him.
Lou Shiming probably has his own ideas. If Yin Tuo wins, he will be happy to let Qian Sima take his family and baggage down the mountain to sell favors. But if he loses, he will swallow everything on the mountain in one gulp, not even spitting out the bones! "
"Hey, so that's it?" Tan Zhongxiao suddenly realized: "These rebels really have no faith at all!"
"Yang Baihu, what should we do with the lieutenant named Deng? Should we release him or kill him?" Xin Chi asked with concern. Liao Sanqing was still waiting for a reply at the ambush site.
"I was thinking about this just now." Yang Dayi waved his hand.
Someone called him over and said, "You see, Yin Tuo sent a Chinese army to actually tell Qian Sima: Stop making trouble and quickly come back to meet me with the troops and baggage. If the man named Deng succeeds in mediating, what will be the result?" ?」
"Is that necessary?" Wei Zhou'er, who was not yet twenty and had a quick mind, immediately replied: "Yin Tuo has received reinforcements, and his morale will definitely be greatly improved!"
"That's right!" Tan Zhongxiao clapped his hands: "We have a small number of people, so it's hard enough to deal with Yin Tuo. How can we deal with him without reinforcements? I don't think this man named Deng can let him do it no matter what. He goes to Jiyang Mountain!"
"Master Baihu, there is another reason why we can't let Deng Huzi go." Liu She said suddenly, wiping his mustache: "He went to mediate. Didn't that make Yin Tuo and the Lou family laugh away their grudges?
If Qianzhong and Ertian Wang were allowed to continue fighting like this, Yin Tuo would win, and the Lou family would not say it but would actually be at a disadvantage, and they would definitely be dissatisfied;
If defeated, as long as the Ertian King gets his hands on Yin Tuo's tribe and food, he can't expect Yin Tuo to listen to the Lou family again in the future.
Moreover, if other Qu Shuai heard about it, they would definitely feel chilled. I don't think we can let him go. The discord between them will only benefit us! "
"Tie Linglong, you are really a sweetheart. The inspection did not mistake you at all!" Tan Zhongxiao said, patting Liu She's chest, and everyone laughed.
"Then, I'll kill that lieutenant officer!"
Xin Chi rolled up his sleeves and was about to leave, but was stopped by Yang Dayi. "I think there's no need to kill him." Yang smiled carelessly:
"Just beat him up and send him back. Let the big boss speak. Jiyang Mountain belongs to the Lou family now, so Yin Tuo doesn't need to worry about it."
"Is Baihu's move... to create trouble for Yin Tuo?" Wei Zhou'er was the first to understand.
Yang Dayi glanced at him and nodded: "You won't even let him see anyone, and you won't even let him step on the foot of the mountain before blasting him back. What should Yin Tuo think? What will his men think?"
"He's definitely going to be angry!"
"I think it's even more powerful than this. His military rations and women are all in Lou Shiming's hands, so how can he still think about fighting at the front?"
"That's right, I can't turn around and go back to fight with the Second Heavenly King first!"
"It doesn't matter whether he wants to fight or not, just ask him to look at his head instead of his buttocks. If he's upset, he'll have to make some stupid moves!"
Everyone was talking, and they all understood Yang Dayi's intention.
"Okay, just do what Mr. Baihu said. I will ask this man named Deng to go back and cry to Yin Tuo, and you will see!" After Xin Chi finished speaking, he happily ran out to continue acting.
Yang Dayi sent out several groups of sentinels one after another, some to Jiyang Mountain, some to observe the movement outside the north wall of Shuizhai, and some to contact Fengshan Fort. At the same time, various units began to enter ambush positions for concealment and battlefield cover.
Regardless of whether they came out of Jiyang Mountain or were sent by Yin Tuo to Jiyang Mountain, capture or kill them all. They must not let any news pass between them.
But their actions were quickly detected by the cunning Lou Shiming.
At dawn, Lou Shiyong had already left Jiyang Mountain on the pretext of having other military duties (according to He Zhang's arrangement, he went to Chashan to lead a team to prepare for a raid on Yushan County). Captain Hu said he wanted to inspect and also left, leaving only Lou Shiming and Qianzhong.
Knowing that the way to the ferry had been blocked by a team of a thousand people, Lou Shiming narrowed his eyes and guessed what was going on.
It seems that Yin Tuo is falling into a big net, and the one who weaves this net is the little thief in green who laughs and chats with him about business!
But thinking about it carefully, Lou Shiming didn't believe that Li Dan was so capable of swallowing Yin Tuo cleanly and completely. After all, the team he led only had less than a thousand officers and soldiers and about 1,500 regiments, and the rest were all They were just surrendered soldiers and civilians with dubious combat capabilities.
If he didn't understand the situation a few days ago and was even a little careless, now he has a clearer understanding through reconnaissance and conversations with the released prisoners.
But despite this, he has no intention of sharing this information with others (including his handsome father), so that they can imagine that the little thief in green is more difficult to deal with.
Lou Shiming planned to let Mo Xueyi leave quietly to take care of business matters. It was not a problem to rely on his father to allocate military pay these days!
Although he didn't find it difficult to defeat Li Dan, and he could even send a thousand people to break the blockade at the foot of the mountain immediately, he didn't want to do that.
The opportunity to weaken this disobedient Yin Tuo is exactly what he, the Second Heavenly King, wants! The only thing Lou Shiming did was to send a few small teams down the mountain to search along the western and southern slopes on a sentry scale.
Their mission is to take in Yin Tuo's subordinates who have fallen behind and escaped as much as possible, and then bring them back to Jiyang Mountain.
Lou Shiming secretly guessed that if Yin Tuo was defeated, he would indeed choose to take the team back to the mountain first. However, the little thief in green could think of sending someone to intercept him, but that was because he had no intention of letting him return to Jiyang Mountain to join his old camp.
From this point of view, the little thief was so ruthless that he didn't even give the opponent any chance to breathe and regain his fighting strength in a short period of time!
Lou Shiming knew everything, but said nothing. Why talk so much? Could it be that if Yin Tuo cannot come back, wouldn't it be an opportunity for him? As he thought this, he quietly glanced at Qianzhong, who couldn't help but take a nap.
"Come here." He called Mo Xueyi and pointed to Sima, who was leaning in the chair: "Go and get some porridge, water and side dishes. It's hard for this master to stay up all night like this."
He always thought that Yin Tuo was just using these scholars and did not understand their role, so he wanted to show his difference from Yin Tuo and make Qian Zhong feel grateful first.
The smell of food awakened Qianzhong. When he opened his eyes, he saw a small table in front of him, with a bowl of porridge, two or three side dishes mixed with sesame oil, and a drawer of steamed dumplings.
"This...?" He looked at Lou Shiming and saw that he was eating well, and in front of him were the same things as himself.
"Sima is awake? Come on, come on, have something to eat first!" Lou Shiming greeted him warmly.
Qianzhong instinctively thought that he was a subordinate of Yin Shuai, how could he...? But his stomach seemed a little unsatisfactory. He covered his abdomen with his hands and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
Lou Shiming laughed loudly: "You scholars, you pay too much attention! Some things should be paid attention to, and some have to be flexible. Like this bowl of porridge, does every grain of rice have the word 'Lou' written on it?
What do you care about it? If you put rice in anyone's bowl, wouldn't it end up in everyone's stomach? "After he finished speaking, he urged with a smile: "Eat quickly, I won't wait until the battle report comes later and I will be busy again."
"Then, I would like to thank the second young master for the meal." After Qianzhong finished speaking, he picked up the bowl and chopsticks and couldn't help but put them into his mouth.
After a few mouthfuls of porridge and a steamed dumpling, I calmed down. Qianzhong couldn't help but sigh. Lou Shi knew exactly what he was sighing about, but he smiled without asking.
It wasn't until he finished eating in a hurry that Lou Shiming asked with concern: "Have you eaten, Sima? Do you want another bowl of porridge?"
"No, no, this is good!" Qianzhong bowed and replied.
"Before I entered the village, I heard that each person on Jiyang Mountain was only given one liter (approximately one pound and two taels, 595 grams) of food per day, and the family members were given half of the food, and the children were only given 40%.
At that time, I thought it was someone who was maliciously belittling Yin Shuai, but I didn't know that it was true until I went up the mountain. "
Lou Shiming pondered for a moment and asked, "May I ask Qian Sima why this is happening? Did my father, Commander-in-Chief, fail to allocate food and grass in time according to the establishment, so that the expenses were insufficient?"
Qianzhong felt embarrassed by his question and could not answer, so he could only reluctantly say: "The commander-in-chief did not deduct or delay, it was actually Yin-shuai's habit of eating eight cents that he developed when he became a monk.
Uh..., this makes sense, because the team continues to expand and has already exceeded the designated number of people. If we don't work hard, this little food and grass won't be enough. "
"Haha, that is to say, your camp has a staff of 7,000 people, but it actually supports more than 9,000 people, right? The extra people are civilian husbands and family members."
Lou Shiming asked someone to remove the tableware and replace it with tea. While drinking his favorite leaf tea, he glanced at Qianzhong playfully and said:
"Shuai Yin still has such a Buddha-like temperament. When he sees a poor person, he wants to give him a bowl of food. His aunt and daughter also stay in the army without any objection." His tone suddenly changed:
"But we, father and son, can't stand it. 30% or even more than 30% of such a huge team are not soldiers, and these people have to rely on us to find food to feed them, but they don't
Willing to obey orders and arrangements. Does Sima think this is fair? "
"Qianzhong dare not discuss the rights and wrongs of Shangguan."
"Hahaha!" Lou Shiming looked at Qianzhong's pale face and laughed: "Ziqian Sima, what are you afraid of? Yin Tuo is not here, you are just talking to me."
As he spoke, he pointed at Qianzhong with his finger: "It's a pity that others call you 'Sitting Tiger'. Why are you sweating like this in front of me?"
"Second Young Master is the King of Heaven. In front of you, I, a tiger sitting on the ground, am nothing more than a kitten." Qianzhong hurriedly left his seat, went to the front to salute, and said with a bow.
