The night is deep, but the Sushui River is full of traffic and people. ◎◎
A long fire dragon stretches from south to north, all the way into the depths of darkness. You can't see the end in front of it, and you can't see the end of the team behind it. You can't notice anything from a distance, but if you look closely, you will definitely be noticed.
The team's momentum was startled.
Most of the people in the team were old, weak, women and children. These people were not strong enough and had many things to do. Even in the daytime, they could not get up quickly. But at this moment, everyone gritted their teeth and looked at the unpredictable road ahead with firm eyes.
Darkness, as if attracted by something there, moved forward silently.
Echoing under the light of the stars and moon, apart from the braying of cattle, horses and livestock, and the sound of wheels rolling, there was only the continuous sound of rustling footsteps.
The fire dragon seems to be moving slowly, but those who are truly informed and knowledgeable about the military certainly don't think so. Since the battle ended three days ago and started overnight, the huge team has advanced more than a hundred miles, averaging close to forty miles per day.
The speed is advancing.
This speed may seem inconspicuous, but if you think about the 300,000 people who made up the team, supporting the elderly and the young, it should be clear what an amazing miracle this is.
The huge queue stretched for dozens of miles. The forward team had already passed Zhou Yangyi, and the rear team had not yet arrived at Wenxi City. In order to keep the team in order and arrange the itinerary of each team, Han Xian and Yang Feng, who were in charge of the organization work, spent a few days.
, and lost a lot of weight.
Of course, others were not idle either, such as Pan Zhang and Ma Zhong who stayed behind the team.
The last fire shadow swayed away, and the grass on the roadside suddenly shook, and a head suddenly popped out.
Pan Zhang spat out the blades of grass in his mouth and complained very dissatisfied: "Hey, Yuan Zhi is really good at calling people. He didn't even have a celebration party. He just drove people on the road and let us break up... Speaking of which, he does things
It’s not very reliable, why not? It’s not simple. It’s him who is in the limelight, and we are the ones doing the hard work. What kind of truth is this?”
His complaints were not unreasonable. When he was digging holes in Dongshan, Xu Shu was sitting in a high seat in Anyi City. He was eating and drinking well. When he was deceiving people everywhere in the jungle, Xu Shu casually used a few tricks to kill people.
Li Jue and Mrs. Guo were plotted by two idiots. After tricking others, they worked hard to meet up with Shou En, and together they caught cattle and horses, and became a groom.
In the end, Xu Shu enjoyed the glory after the victory and was sought after by everyone. Who remembers him as an unknown hero?
We are all human beings, so why is there such a huge gap?
There was also a slight sway in the tree canopy above his head. Ma Zhong hung his legs on the branches and rolled down. Hanging there like a bat, he swayed and said disapprovingly: "Didn't he announce in public that the first achievement is yours?"
? What else do you have to complain about?"
Ma Zhong was a bit of a hermit. If he hadn't made careless friends, he might not have become an official at all, but would have been enjoying himself in the mountains as his woodcutter.
During this battle, he investigated the transaction between Guo Tai and the Huns. He determined the time and searched for the location. Then he also investigated the movements of the Huns, and also found several buffalo herds by the way. The workload and credit were no less than anyone else's, but he was
He doesn't argue about anything, but the contrast with Pan Zhang is very clear.
"Bah, bah, bah, credit is credit, scenery is scenery!" Pan Zhang spit out the remaining grass juice in his mouth several times, and said with hatred of iron, "I say Shou En, as a general of the Hussars,
, I am a close friend of Pan Zhang, can you please be more motivated?"
"But I still don't think there's any difference." Pan Zhang's excitement was obviously a joke, while Ma Zhong remained the same.
"You..." He sighed to Niu. With Pan Zhang's rap, he was still a little speechless. He simply stopped trying to persuade his friend, and instead said lyrically to himself: "Rescue danger, destroy powerful enemies, and then do this in front of everyone.
What a feeling it is to make an appearance and receive the cheers of tens of thousands of people! If three days ago, hundreds of thousands of people had called my name, Pan Zhang..."
"Then you're doomed." Ma Zhong Lengding continued, and he made a big splash: "Your achievements are so great that when you return to Qingzhou, you will be cooked to death by a dog."
"Kill you, you crow's mouth!" Pan Zhang was furious and kicked the tree trunk with great force. The poplar tree that had been growing for decades shook wildly, and countless branches and leaves fell down, but Ma Zhong was the one who shook it.
It's swinging back and forth, but it doesn't mean it will fall down.
"Who are those people who cook rabbits to death and dogs to cook? They are all heroes! Who is our lord? He is the proud little overlord of Tarzan! Can he do such a dishonorable thing as rabbits to death and dogs to cook? Can he?
Can it be done? Can it be done?"
Ma Zhong replied coldly: "Who knows."
"You damn crow, even my lord dares to trick you. If I don't take care of you, you will definitely get into trouble in the future because of this mouth!" Pan Zhang became more and more angry and simply stood up, showing his arms and rolling up his sleeves. Looking at that posture, there was a lot of trouble.
If you don't agree, you will be violent.
It's just that his last words were a bit unconscious. Ma Zhong was usually a boring gourd. It was not his turn to cause trouble with his mouth. Pan Zhang himself was in danger.
Ma Zhong had no intention of correcting his friend. He said expressionlessly: "He is the overlord now, he will be the hero in the future, and in the future... Didn't you hear it the day before yesterday? Purple air comes from the east, and the sun rises from the east."
Pan Zhang said disapprovingly: "What's the matter? Qin lost his deer, and the whole world expelled him. Only the virtuous can live in it. My lord is so wise and powerful, what's the big deal about becoming an emperor in the future? Today I am Dong Zhuo's puppet.
The late emperor caused chaos in the world, and my lord loves his people like his own son, so why is he not better than them?"
Ma Zhong sighed and said: "It doesn't matter whether you can be the emperor or not. The problem is that once you become the emperor, the lord is no longer the lord."
"What do you mean?" Pan Zhang didn't understand.
"As the emperor, you have to use the emperor's mental skills to rule. Once the emperor's mental skills are used, you will be unlucky; if you don't, the lord will not be able to suppress other people. There will always be people who use conspiracy or other things to challenge him and rebel.
At that time, Emperor Gaozu used the imperial mind trick, so Han Xin and Ying Bu were unlucky one after another, and Xiang Jui refused to use it. As a result, they all rebelled against their relatives and were besieged by the heroes."
Menghu Ma Zhong spoke a lot in a rare breath, and in the end, he calmed down the talkative Pan Zhang.
"What you said does seem to make sense." Pan Zhang took off his leather helmet with his left hand, scratched his head with his right hand, and said to himself distressedly: "But fighting the world is not just about fighting, but winning is
Is it enough to recruit talents for management and wait until you have money and food to fight and win the war? Why is there such a complicated truth? I can’t figure it out, I can’t figure it out.”
"If you can't figure it out, don't think about it. In short, just don't make a fuss about it." Ma Zhong warned in a serious tone.
"I..." Pan Zhang was about to agree subconsciously, but suddenly he came to his senses. He raised his hand and pointed at Ma Zhong, scolding: "You boring slut. What did you say in the first place? Why did you go around and around?
Have you come to this topic? What does it have to do with me whether my lord will be the emperor or not? Do I have the right to worry about this matter? Besides, didn’t Yuan Zhi say it? You can ask your lord about this in person."
"Do you dare?" Ma Zhong curled his lips.
"What's wrong..." When the words came to his lips, Pan Zhang swallowed them back. He really didn't dare. He was no older than Wang Yu. The latter had experienced hundreds of battles and had thousands of troops at his disposal. His momentum overwhelmed him.
I dare not say a word, how dare I ask such a sensitive question face to face?
But this didn't bother him. He rolled his eyes. He changed the subject and said with a smile: "This is not simple. I don't dare to ask. Aren't Yang Feng and the others going to ask? I'll listen along with him later."
Haha. What else can you say, you lazy guy?"
Ma Zhong did not speak, but it was not because he was asked by Pan Zhang, but because of other circumstances.
He waved his hand suddenly, spreading the five fingers of his right hand. Then he curled up his index and ring fingers and gestured to Pan Zhang. He put his left hand to his lips and made a loud whistle, which sounded like the cry of a night owl.
.
After completing the two movements, he exerted force on his waist and abdomen, and actually made a carp-like movement on the tree, standing silently in the tree crown! At the same time, his left hand reached towards his shoulder, and his right hand touched his waist.
, a pair of bows and arrows are already in hand.
Pan Zhang also did not neglect at all. He crouched down, put the grass-green helmet on his head, and fell back into the grass.
From the time Ma Zhong noticed something was wrong and sent out a signal until the two of them took cover again, it only took a blink of an eye. Even if someone saw their figures, they would probably mistake them for the wind blowing, the trees swaying, and the grass darkening.
The two of them stayed up most of the night, nor did they follow the large group of people on the road. Of course, they were not out to enjoy the cool weather. In fact, the two of them were responsible for the most important and dangerous tasks in this evacuation operation, vigilance and separation.
During this retreat, Xu Shu adopted the tactic of hiding during the day and traveling at night.
The scale of the retreat was too large, and nothing could be done on the route of action. We could only move along the Sushui River, and we could easily be targeted.
Guo Tai was not afraid, and the Huns were frightened out of their wits, but the Xiliang army refused to give up.
Xu Shu's original intention was to attract more Xiliang troops and strike hard to frighten them. But Li Jue was too cunning. Although he hesitated to fall into the trap, he was unwilling to invest too much. As a result, his cavalry was lost.
Although it was not small, the infantry did not even hurt a single hair, so the threat was still great.
As a last resort, Xu Shu ordered a retreat overnight and waited for daybreak before letting the troops set up camp. This move greatly surprised Li Jue. When he came up with the remaining cavalry to harass him, he found that he was facing a group of soldiers waiting behind the temporary camp.
Because of the elite Bai Bo, the opportunity to harass them was immediately shelved.
Li Jue was also a man of perseverance, and of course he would not give up easily. Since Xu Shu camped during the day and had no chance to take advantage of him, he simply came to attack at night. Anyway, his purpose was not to swallow up the entire Baibo army in one go. He just wanted to delay the other party's schedule until Guo Si
, Fan Chou came to meet up and it was successful.
Of course, Xu Shu would not let him succeed easily, so a battle between sneak attack and ambush began between the two armies. As experts in this way, Generals Pan and Ma were of course the vanguard against the enemy's attack.
By today, Pan Zhang could no longer count how many times this was a night battle. He only knew that this kind of battle had been going on for a long time and would not last too long.
"Dede..." The horse's hooves were covered with cloth, and the sound of the hoofs was very soft, but Pan Zhang could judge the number and direction of the enemy through the vibration of the ground. Ma Zhong's sensitive ears could even detect enemies from a long distance.
A very slight sound was caught.
"Bang...bang!" The sound of the rope tightening suddenly came from the official road, followed by the loud sound of falling to the ground, which spread far and wide in the silent night.
Later, bursts of noises were heard in the woods on both sides of the official road, including suppressed exclamations, muffled groans, the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, the crisp sound of hard objects colliding, and the violent shaking of vegetation.
A 'squeaking' sound.
Soon, the woods and official roads returned to silence. Ma Zhong shook his head and lowered the bow and arrow in his hand, while Pan Zhang let out a sigh of disappointment without concealing it.
The place where the noise was closest was still more than a hundred steps away from where the two of them were, which was the front line of the Hidden Mist Army's ambush circle. Today's enemy gave up too early.
"But is General Pan Wengui in person?" someone shouted loudly on the official road.
"It's a certain family! Who's on the other side? Why don't you come over here while the moon is shining brightly tonight and have an upright fight?" Pan Zhang responded without hesitation, but as soon as the words came out, he turned around and made no sound.
The breath was hidden behind the tree.
"Last General Hu Feng, I have heard about General Pan for a long time. I have learned from you today. I have the honor to see you again in the future. Farewell!" In the three days of pursuit, more than five hundred Xiliang elites died in Pan Zhang and Ma Zhong's trap. Hu Feng
He also had the courage to catch up.
Ma Zhong was a low-key person, and Xu Shu was happy to hide a trump card, so no one knew about him, and all the achievements were attributed to Pan Zhang. In this way, the latter's intimidating power was naturally doubled, knowing that Pan Zhang was here, and where was Hu Feng?
Do you still dare to show off? Tonight, the moon is dark and the stars are dim. It’s so dark that I can openly step on your trap? I’m not stupid!
After throwing away more than a dozen corpses, Hu Feng turned around and ran away. Even though Pan Zhang appeared and shouted provocation, he refused to look back.
After scolding the old man for a long time, Ma Zhong's cold voice sounded again. He said lightly: "Wen Gui, stop shouting. Everyone has ran away for several miles. Pack up and go back. When the army passes Zhou Yangyi, we have to go back."
Go back to meet the brothers who are staying in Anyi. There is still a long way to go."
"It's bad luck, it's bad luck, these cowards are really mad at me!"
His reputation alone intimidated his enemies, but Pan Zhang didn't feel good about it at all. He hated Xu Shu to death. If Xu Shu hadn't ordered his army to hide day and night, how many spectators would there have been in the dozens of ambush battles he fought?
What a limelight.
It’s really heart-wrenching just thinking about it!