Yuan Fu Nushu

Chapter 344, anti-encirclement
Qi Tang angrily turned his horse's head to follow, but also thought with hope that General Quan had been fighting for several days, so he couldn't tell if he really picked up the leak.

Wutou Mountain is six hundred miles away from Lanyuan City. It is in the hills to avoid the surrounding cities. It is the best place to retreat after the bandits gather. Crossing the valley on the other side of Wutou Mountain will lead to the foot of Daxue Mountain.

A county king stationed in the Northwest for generations failed to put an end to the banditry. The complex terrain here is one of the reasons.

Quan San led his men and horses to lie on the side slope of the valley. He was ordered to ambush here. After cooperating with the other two bandit suppressing troops to defeat the bandits, he could not escape to the snow mountain through here.

He is a corner of the encirclement, but after ambush these days, I always feel that he is inside the encirclement.

Raising his big fingers to let his lieutenant come over, Quan San said in a deep voice, "The person who communicated hasn't come back yet?"

"Snowy slopes are not good for horse racing, and I haven't come back yet." The deputy general lay down beside him.

Quan San was silent for a while, he was familiar with the other two generals, so he should be confident: "General Lu likes to play tricks, maybe he is playing tricks on the enemy army, General Mao likes to go roundabout, maybe lead the enemy army all over the mountain, here we are the masters, We are the most familiar."

The deputy general said listlessly: "But we waited here for five days. General Lu and General Mao didn't even leave a mouthful of soup. With your friendship, it's impossible not to send a message."

"Yes." Quan San said.

Based on his friendship with the two generals, if he restrained the enemy's army in the hills, he would definitely send a letter asking him to join the battle and get some credit for cutting off some heads. Neither General Lu nor General Mao can eat alone.

But this is a group of enemy troops disguised as bandits, and Quan San and others only discovered it after they arrived, so there are some cunning and difficult to suppress.

"Wait another half a day, if there is no reply, send another messenger, this time send a small team."

The lieutenant general still can't cheer up without fighting, and his voice is more muffled than before: "That's the only way."

About twenty miles around them, there was another encirclement circle. Quan San's feeling was right, he was inside the encirclement circle.

On the snow-covered boulders, a few people who imitated local bandits and wore leather jackets instead pointed to the outskirts of Wutou Mountain. Compared with the locals, they had darker facial features.

"By keeping those two armies in check, we can eat the one inside with confidence, and give Pingxi County King a little bit of power, let him know that we can come and go as we want, and grab things as we want."

A person who seemed to be the leader pointed to the nearby terrain and said.

What he said was not his native language, and Qi Yue, who was crawling over, couldn't understand, so he forced himself to write it down, and Brother Yue, who was wearing a snow-white sheepskin jacket, went back the same way.

Yuan Yuan specially left him a bearskin to make clothes, and asked Yan to prepare a sheepskin jacket, which can be used as a quilt at night. If it is really cold during the day, the main reason is that Xinji’s winter is different from that in the Northwest. Unable to block the cold, Qi Yue can wear sheepskin.

A young man with a strong blood can't wear a bear's skin. Although the face of a horse race is cut by the wind, it is often covered with sweat. Qi Yue wrapped the bear's skin and put on the sheepskin. The surrounding snow makes no difference.

He can safely crawl upside down for a mile, and then he can squat and trot. The wind and snow cover his figure very well.

This group of enemy troops didn't dare to release too many mobile whistles here, they were well camouflaged in the snow and really confused their sight.

The fur tied under the feet made the road silent, and he huddled his head in the sheepskin, so that when he returned to Qi Tang and Song Jin, Qi Tang recognized him from the wind and snow.

Qi Yue exhaled: "We are not mistaken, no wonder there is no sign of fighting along the way, I wonder if General Quan is surrounded inside, anyway, I saw a surrounding circle, not ours."

"Did you hear what you said?" Qi Tang asked with concern, and then introduced himself: "I don't have a job and I don't want to leave. I have learned several foreign languages."

Qi Yue was overjoyed: "Hey, you haven't stayed in vain these past few years, Cheng, I've memorized part of it, you listen." He frowned and said it sentence by sentence.

Qi Tang said firmly: "That's right, General Quan is surrounded inside, they have other troops to contain General Lu and General Mao, and they want General Quan to run out of dry food before attacking."

Song Jin gave him a thumbs up: "Lao Tang, you are very capable."

The three squatted in a circle in the snow, discussing what to do?
"We are not familiar with the surrounding terrain. According to what they said, there are General Lu and General Mao's troops here, but we have traveled all the way, not to mention the sound of killing, and we have not seen a single horseshoe print. It can be seen that there are people in war. The place is still far away, at least outside the hour when the snow covers the horseshoe prints. The terrain here twists and turns, a hill has two roads on the left and right, and there are several small roads in the middle of the hill. The three of us turned back and walked alone. There is no guarantee that we will meet General Lu and General Mao once, and the three of us will die faster if we disperse."

"Brother Yue, can you stop mentioning death on the battlefield, it sounds unlucky." Qi Tang protested.

Qi Yue smiled at him, looking very calm: "I want to remind you, don't die here." Looking into the distance: "I'll stay here and try to tell General Quan not to wait any longer, rush out of the encirclement, you two Hurry up and return to the nearest military camp to rescue soldiers."

Standing here, you can't see the small high place you passed just now, where there are three towering pine trees covered with frost, Qi Yue said lightly: "Uncle treats me the best, and also let me bring Laojiao wine, as long as I bring You can climb there and light the tree with wine, all the old drunkards in the Northwest Army Camp, General Quan's nose can definitely smell it. And you take three days of dry food and leave, and leave the rest of the wine and meat to me, so that some brothers Pad the hunger."

He didn't look at Qi Tang's blocking eyes, and turned his hands to the sky: "If the enemy dares to surround General Quan, they have enough troops to contain General Lu and General Mao. General Quan has not found out that he is surrounded, nor has he rushed outside. , It can be seen that he still has dry food. I didn't see all the enemy troops, but the enemy dared to say that the dry food of the general Quan Quan was used up, which means that there will be no shortage of soldiers and horses here. There is a shortage of food and people. Don't you guys go there Let's die together."

When Song Jin was struggling, Qi Tang asked a question: "If I had been as aggressive as you, Brother Yue, would I have been accepted by the Northwest camp long ago?"

Qi Yue's face was calm: "I can't answer, but I know there's a job here, so I'll do it when I meet it."

After a while, Qi Tang and Song Jin unloaded some of the wine and meat from the horse's back, Qi Yue hid the wine and meat and his horse, took his old sheepskin and ten catties of old cellar wine, and slowly climbed towards the three towering trees Along the way, I also looked at the places that are most likely to burn, but it seems that these three big trees are the best.

The smell of firewood, smoke and wine came from the north wind, and Quan San's expression changed: "Everyone is on the horse, the situation is not right, everyone get out of here."

Twenty miles away was easy for them, and the lieutenant pointed to the front: "General, isn't that Mr. Qi?"

Qi Yue was bloody in the siege, and several months of practice had paid off. He has persisted until now and has not been injured. He doesn't know when Quan San will arrive. It is even more impossible to count on Song Jin and Qi Tang. Qi Yue will do a good job. The heart to go all out when he is found, and his ruthless head, is another shield for him not to be injured.

Quan San raised his whip without hesitation: "Save him!"

(End of this chapter)