Fang Bao was stunned for a moment, then he said happily: "Great, I knew you would have a solution!"
The two of them were about to cross the street, and Yu Meng finally said, "Are you really planning on transporting food? I have no choice."
Li Boxen said: "Don't worry, I won't embarrass you."
They walked around the streets to the backyard of Qijin Pavilion, opened the door and went in. Fang Hao pointed to a room and said, "They are all in there. I bought five thousand catties of rice and wheat."
Li Boxen said: "Open the door and have a look."
Fang Yu opened the door of the room, and Li Bochen saw that it was filled with sacks. At a rough count, there should be fifty bags. Although it looks like a lot, there are thousands of people in Mengjiatun and hundreds of people on Jinghu Mountain. These five thousand kilograms can only last for half a month at most. When I get to my own realm again, I don’t know what it will be like.
Li Bochen reached out and took the boy Ajiao down, walked into the house and said to Meng, "Brother Yu, please wait for me outside for a while."
Before he even opened his mouth, he closed the door.
Fang Bao quickly pulled out the short blade and said, "Yu, please don't move!"
Yu Meng sneered and was about to speak, but Li Bochen opened the door and walked out again, saying: "Long wait."
He walked back to the white horse and placed Ah Jiao on it. Both of them were stunned. Fang Yu took two steps away and looked into the house. He found that all fifty bags of rice and wheat were missing. He widened his eyes and listened to Li Boxen say: "Brother Fang, don't ask too many questions."
Fang Yu took a breath and said, "Oh...oh, okay."
Yu Meng listened to them talking and wanted to take a few steps to have a look. But Li Bochen stopped him with his horse head and said: "Brother Yu, let's go."
They went back to the street, Yu Meng didn't say anything, he just frowned in thought. Li Bochen was afraid that he would really come up with something, so he said, "Brother Yu, I want to ask you something."
Yu Meng didn't say anything, so he continued: "Look at it, what if your people keep sealing Mengjiatun until the people inside have nothing to eat or even starve to death?"
Yu Meng said: "If you are a good citizen, you will naturally find a way to escape when you get to that point. If you are a bandit on the mountain, you will deserve to die."
Li Bochen nodded and said: "What if the bandits don't allow good people to come out? Or, more seriously, the bandits first confiscate the good people's food. What if the food is gone and people are treated like two-legged sheep?"
Fang Cheng was stunned after hearing this and said, "Huh? Is this really possible!?"
Li Bochen didn't answer him, only looked at Yu Meng. Yu Meng frowned: "How could it get to that point? We would have killed them long ago when they were too hungry and had no strength."
Li Bochen smiled and said: "At that time, you won't be able to fight in?"
Yu Meng hesitated for a moment and then said: "There will always be a way."
After hearing what he said, Li Bochen felt that he might have guessed.
What he guessed was that the reason why they had been surrounded for more than ten days was because the Sui army could not enter Mengjiatun and Jinghu Mountain.
Because Sui is always here. When Sui Buxiu went to Wuliang City, it was because he was responsible for building the Zhongzhou barrier. Gao Tianzi wanted to connect Wuliang City with several other cities in Dangtu Mountain to keep the demon army out for a long time. Although Dang Tushan was later breached, Sui Buxiu should be very familiar with this type of formation. When he arrived at Mengjiatun, the entire city of Xuantu sent troops to capture him, but they only surrounded him but did not attack him. This must be because they could not attack him.
Yu Meng just said that he didn't say "impossible" but said "there will always be a way", so this is indeed the actual situation.
But that was not the only thing he wanted to ask, so he added: "Then, what if there is really no other way out? Do you plan to trap everyone inside?"
Yu Meng frowned and said, "What exactly do you want to ask? Can you please be more relaxed?"
Li Boxen said: "I already know what you want to ask."
Yu Meng snorted: "Pretend to be a ghost."
Li Bochen breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He actually wanted to know whether he should release Yu Meng as promised or break his promise and detain him. But Yu Meng didn't answer his words just now, which probably meant that he didn't know how to answer either. In his heart, he also felt that it was unacceptable to trap good people and bandit soldiers to death together.
Since he has such thoughts, he will not be a treacherous and evil person, so he can indeed be asked to leave when the time comes. It is better to have such an opponent in the Sui army than those who ignore the life and death of the people. Although he already knew that Zheng Zhao was somewhat involved with him, he would not cause any trouble for Zheng Zhao in the future.
The three of them saw the north gate from a distance. Li Bochen had been sending the Yin soldiers a hundred steps away to be on guard, but he found that the four people who had been shouted away by Yu Meng appeared again and followed them from a distance. But apart from these four people, there was no one else.
There were much fewer people at the north gate. When they reached the door, the sergeant guarding the door stretched out his hand and said, "What are you going to do?"
Li Bochen stood down and turned to look at Yu Meng.
Yu Meng stepped forward with a straight face, took out a waist badge and said: "Business."
The sergeant took the badge, turned it over and looked at the inscriptions on it, compared it with Yu Meng, then handed it back with both hands, and said: "Oh, General Yu, are they going out together too? Why is there still a child? "
Yu Meng said: "General Xue told me to take them out. I can't ask anything else."
The sergeant thought for a while, then looked troubled and said: "General Yu, this... there is a strict order on the top of the mountain. You are not allowed to enter or exit from my place without a warrant -"
Yu Meng said: "Don't worry. I will come back from doing business outside the city and ask for a warrant from General Xue so that I won't embarrass you."
The sergeant breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "Okay, please."
The three of them went out. Li Bochen felt even more relieved when he saw Yu Meng's appearance just now. It is rare for a general like him to be kind to his soldiers. In fact, he is very popular with him, but it is a pity that he is still his opponent now.
After leaving the city, you hardly see anyone. Li Bochen then hugged Ah Jiao and jumped on the horse, saying: "Brother Fang, Brother Yu, I have to forgive you and run away."
After saying this, he rode forward. Fang Yu and Yu Meng are both cultivators. They are no slower than horses when running, but they are just a little more tiring. But at this time, Li Boxen didn't care about being polite anymore. The two of them ran away at once, and Li Bochen slowed down his horse and told them to rest. Seeing that Yu Meng's face was getting more and more ugly, he seemed to be about to curse.
He didn't mean to humiliate him, but now that Yu Meng's son was caught, and he had to run after a villain like himself, no one would curse in his heart.
Li Boxen said: "Brother Yu, can you tell me what grudge you have against Zhu Hou?"
Yu Meng was on the verge of bursting into anger at this moment. After hearing his words, he immediately spat and said, "What does it have to do with you!?"
Li Bochen sighed and said: "I didn't know Zhu Hou at first. I went to Mengjiatun to visit his relatives. I thought he was pretty good there - Brother Yu, don't worry - but I asked around along the way a few days ago. Only then did he realize that he had done all kinds of evil in the past. Brother Yu, was it Zhu Hou who harmed someone in your family before? "
Yu Meng stared and said nothing, but still glanced at Ah Jiao.
Is it...did he have a child killed by Zhu Hou in the past? No wonder he was so nervous about his son. Li Boxen felt that he was simply bullying others. He then looked at Fang Cheng and said, "Brother Fang, this child hasn't woken up yet. Is it okay?"
Fang Bao said hurriedly: "You have to smell my antidote to wake up. After you wake up, your head will feel dizzy. I still have medicine here. I will smell it again every day. It will be fine in two or three days. It will be fine like everyone else." "
Li Bochen then said to Meng, "You should be relieved."
Yu Meng finally yelled: "Bah! Why are you pretending to be a good person!"
His anger was getting bigger and bigger. Li Bochen sighed in his heart - he originally wanted to sell Yu Meng a favor. Jinghushan and Houcheng will not continue to fight, and if they meet again in the future, they will not become eternal enemies. But now it seems that the more he talks, the angrier Yu Meng becomes.
He thought to himself, if Xiaoman was here, he would definitely do this better than me. Even Sister Meng is probably better at socializing than me. He originally had the intention of becoming a general and recruiting future subordinates, but now it seems that he has failed.
But I also thought, if I really did something, you don’t need me to do these things. I just need to know who should be used and who should not be used, right? Someone will do the rest.
He didn't say any more and just said: "Okay, you two, let's work harder."
The three of them covered the nearly twenty-mile journey in an hour. It was just after noon, and you could see a white mushroom on the horizon in the distance, its top shining brightly in the sunlight. Li Bochen knew that it should be a large camp of the Sui army.
I haven't seen such a scene for several months, but now that I saw it at first glance, I felt familiar and friendly. It's just that he is now becoming the enemy of these former colleagues.
He stopped his horse and looked into the distance - at the foot of Jinghu Mountain was Jinghu Lake, and next to Jinghu Lake was Mengjiatun. These two places are actually in a depression. Going out from the depression, there are no high mountains blocking the way, but there are only about four or five easy-to-walk trails. If the Sui army wanted to surround these two places, they should have blocked the roads and sent scouts or rangers between several large camps. Once a large group of enemies came out, they could easily respond.
He pointed to the west and said: "We pass between the two camps - Brother Yu, it all depends on you."
Yu Meng gritted his teeth.
Li Bochen urged his horse forward and walked around the camp on a ridge. After walking for a while, there were camps in the distance on both sides. At this moment, a bird flew from the distant horizon, hovering in the air hundreds of steps ahead. As Li Bochen walked, he raised his head and squinted at it, and his heart suddenly jumped - was that a bird or a feathered man? Sui Wujiu's group of personal guards are all from the Yu clan, and maybe they are the Yu people who followed Sui Buxiu.
Thinking of this, he raised his hand and waved to the bird.
Sure enough, after a while, the bird flew away again.
He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw three people suddenly standing up on the slope about ten steps ahead, shouting: "Who are they!?"
Those were three Sui soldiers. They all wore cloth armor, one held a sword and shield, one held a spear, and the other held a short bow. Li Bochen immediately looked over to them and saw the faint reflection of iron weapons down the slope, guessing that there were still two soldiers lying in wait. When he was in Wuliang City, he served as a ten general and had two troops under his command. If you want to send someone to patrol, there should be three sword and shield soldiers, one spearman, and one archer. Looking at it now, it turns out that the tactics are still familiar.
He turned and looked further away, guessing that there should be another group thirty or forty steps away. These two corps are in the same shape, and they are about sixty or seventy steps apart. This is the standard configuration method in the Sui army's military strategy.
If they forcefully rush over now, three or four people will be able to gather here in a few dozen breaths. If they wait a little longer, reinforcements should arrive from the camps on both sides.
After entering Li Kingdom, Li Bochen looked down upon the local army because the local government only guarded the city and ignored the affairs outside the city. But now that I saw this formation, I realized that the generals leading the troops here may not be famous generals, but at least they know some rules.
He then looked at Yu Meng and said, "Brother Yu."
Yu Meng took two steps forward with a straight face, showed his waist card, and shouted: "Who gave you the courage to block my way!?"
The three soldiers were stunned, and Li Bochen was also stunned - after leaving the city, Yu Meng became more and more angry. But does he intend to use his official power to coerce people in a place like this? I'm afraid it won't work.
One of the soldiers frowned and said, "Who are you?"
Yu Meng spat in his face and said, "I'll blind you! Make way!"
The soldier was also angry. After hearing what he said, he laughed angrily, straightened the steel knife in his hand, and said: "Where did this bastard come from? Brothers, take it down!"
But as soon as he finished speaking, Yu Meng raised his hand, suddenly jumped up, and hit the buckler in his hand with a bang. The shield was made of wood covered with iron, but it couldn't withstand his force. A deep pit suddenly sank on the surface, and the board behind it was also cracked. The sword and shield soldier cried out in pain, and was knocked back two or three steps by him, and the steel sword almost fell out of his hand.
Seeing Yu's fierce move, the crossbowman on the side raised his hand to shoot, and the spearman also raised his spear horizontally to hold his arm. But Yu Meng should have been wary of the crossbowman when he took action. Before he pulled the trigger, he ducked down and the crossbow arrow missed his scalp. He jumped forward two more steps, and with a sudden shake of his arms, two pieces of tissue paper slipped out of his sleeves. Their surface glowed with green light, and they immediately turned into two large shields half as tall as a man.
He shook it again and held the two shields in his hands.
He still has this ability! ? I didn't use it when I was in the city. Li Bochen thought back to the iron ring on his wrist before, and immediately understood that the way this man used the iron ring should be the same as his Kaifeng boxing technique. His boxing technique was actually a sword technique. The moves he used with the iron ring should actually be like this. Plant a shield method.
But at this moment, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind. He immediately grabbed the horn off the saddle and stuffed it into Fang Bao's arms, shouting: "Brother Fang, leave quickly!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Meng raised his hand and struck the two large shields hard, making a loud roar, like thunder. He shouted again: “These two are bandits!!”
At this time, Li Bochen understood what Yu Meng'an was thinking - this man must have been afraid that innocent people would be hurt if they fought in the city. So he pretended to send them all the way to the front of the formation, and just now he deliberately attracted the attention of the surrounding sentries, hoping to catch himself and Fang Cheng here!
Damn it, this man doesn’t even want his own son! ?
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