Sima Yi's Three Kingdoms Collection Collection

Chapter 286 The Controversy Between Shu and Wei (5)
"The second is to immediately send [-] soldiers to the ridges around Shanggui to plant more military flags to strengthen their prestige and confuse the Shu bandits.

"The third is to let the farmers hurry up to cut, harvest, and transport the wheat!"

Wei Ping looked at Deng Ai as if he was looking at another person, and found that he had the air of a general at the moment, his gestures were awe-inspiring, and he didn't stutter at all.I saw Deng Ai turned his head, looked at the green wheat fields all over the mountains and plains, and squeezed out a sentence coldly between his teeth: "It seems that there is a lot of ripe wheat that is too late to harvest and transport away! The five hundred soldiers who went to the various ridges to plant the military flags set fire to all the cooked wheat on the slopes that were too late to be harvested and transported away when the military flags were planted!"

"Shaomai?" Wei Ping was taken aback, "Then... the wheat in those fields was planted by the brothers hard work!"

"How can a woman's benevolence achieve great things?" Deng Ai's face was extremely dignified, and he stretched out his hand and slammed it in mid-air, "The cooked wheat we can't harvest will never fall into the hands of the Shu bandits! Burn! How much can be burnt? How much! This time must not be cheap for them!"

plot
Under the tile-blue night, on the rugged and steep mountain plank road, under the torchlight, a row of carriages full of grain bags and fodder moved forward slowly like a silent river.

Cen Shu, the grain superintendent general of the Shu Han Dynasty, and Zhang Heng, the grain guard general, each led thousands of elite soldiers to protect the grain transport convoy from left to right.They rode horses and walked side by side in front of the team, looking around from time to time, as if they were walking on thin ice.

When passing a corner on the mountainside, suddenly, as if he heard something, Cen Shu pulled the rein suddenly, restrained the mount under his crotch, and at the same time raised his left hand high, and shouted short and powerfully: "stop!"

The food convoy and food guards who were moving slowly like a river stopped immediately!

Zhang Heng, who was standing on the side of the horse, was shocked and his face changed. He hastily stretched out his hand and tightly grasped the handle of the knife at his waist. With his eyes wide open, he followed Cen Shu's gaze and looked forward!

In front, there are two cliffs standing like huge gates. Looking through the narrow pass in the middle, it is a vast night, but it looks a little gloomy. It seems that there is a beast crouching inside, and it will pounce out at any time. Choose people and eat them.

With a sullen face, Zhang Heng gestured to the food guards behind him.Just hearing the sound of "swipe", all the Shu soldiers raised their spears and iron spears, and faced the pass without fear, ready to face the battle immediately.

For a while, the arena was so quiet that only the breathing of the Shu soldiers in different thicknesses could be heard!
After a long time, several long calls of "croaks" suddenly sounded across the sky, and a group of crows "flapped" at the pass and flew away in all directions - there was still no movement at the pass.

Cen Shu frowned, waved his right hand in the air, summoned five more skilled soldiers, and ordered in a low voice: "You five go up and have a look! If there is any trouble, report back immediately!"

The five soldiers responded in unison, held their knives and swords, jumped up, swift as a spirit ape, and galloped towards the pass from five different directions.

Cen Shu and Zhang Heng fixed their eyes on their figures until they were all submerged in the deep darkness behind the pass.

After another incense stick of time, they heard several long howls piercing through the air, and the five soldiers rushed back along the plank road at the pass, and the leader rushed to Cen Shu and Zhang Hengma and knelt down , reported loudly: "General Cen, General Zhang, according to the subordinates and others, they crossed the pass and went a hundred feet to investigate, and they didn't find any Wei thieves in ambush!"

As soon as he said this, Zhang Heng couldn't help but relax. He let go of the hand that was clenched on the handle of the knife at his waist, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and smiled: "Hey! It turned out to be a false alarm!"

Cen Shu was not so relaxed, his face was still as dignified as cast iron.He stopped his horse and thought for a moment, then asked the leading soldier, "Have you looked carefully?"

The soldier nodded resolutely: "This subordinate is watching very carefully."

After hearing this, Cen Shu waved to the back, signaling the grain transport convoy to move on.

The sound of "rumbling" suddenly became louder, and all the Shu soldiers escorted the grain carriage, and began to move forward slowly again.

"Brother Cen, you are too careful!" Zhang Heng beat his horse and galloped forward side by side with Cen Shu.While walking, he smiled disapprovingly at Cen Shu and said, "We have walked this grain road many times, and you are so nervous every time!"

"Hey! Brother Zhang, it's not like you don't know how important this batch of food and grass is!" Cen Shu let his horse go, while looking ahead and sighed deeply, "They are the lifeblood of our army of more than [-] Northern Expeditions. 'Ah! Cen and Brother Zhang waited patiently in Chengdu for seven days and seven nights before the Master Shang Shuling dialed it down... Both the Prime Minister and General Jiang Wei wrote to Cen four or five times to get rid of it. It must be that Cen has a big head all the time! So Cen set off as soon as the food was available, and he didn't dare to delay at all, for fear of delaying the prime minister's great cause of the Northern Expedition..."

As he spoke, he took another deep breath and said to Zhang Heng seriously: "You and I must be careful to protect this batch of food and grass! There must be no mistakes!"

"Brother Cen is right!" Zhang Heng nodded, pondered for a moment, seemed to think of something, and said, "That's right! This time when I went back to Chengdu to adjust the grain, Zhang always felt that Master Shang Shuling was a little bit weird, and put The two of us stayed in the air for seven days and seven nights without paying any attention to them. If Lord Jiang Wan and Shangshu Dong Yun hadn’t personally brought us to his residence to press for the matter... I don’t know how long it would take for this batch of food to be distributed to us... ..."

"Well... don't mention these things after the past! Speaking of it, Cen's heart is full of evil fire! However, since Brother Zhang also knows that it is not easy to get this batch of food and grass, he must be very energetic. Don't betray the great trust of the prime minister!" Cen Shu nodded repeatedly, but his expression was full of worry, "I'll tell you the truth, Cen has been holding this batch of grain and grass in his hand all along the way. A lot of cold sweat!"

When Zhang Heng heard this, he couldn't help opening his eyes wide. He looked at Cen Shu, and was stunned for a moment. Then he gave a "puchi" and laughed a little while on his horseback, saying, "Brother Cen, you are really...you and I are careful. Be careful, don't be timid!"

"Where! Where!" Cen Shu shook his head hastily, "You don't know, Cen has always been a little restless along the way, always feeling that something might go wrong..." Speaking of this, he He stretched out his hand and slapped himself on the mouth, and said, "Look at my crow's mouth!" Looking at Zhang Heng, who looked a little surprised, he smiled faintly: "Cen naturally hopes that his feeling is wrong. , I scared myself..."

"Stop it! Stop it! Brother Cen, if you keep talking, even Zhang will get nervous!" Zhang Heng pulled out the precious sword from its sheath and held it in his hand with a "Zheng" sound, looking forward solemnly, " Zhang knows that he should be careful! Don't get confused at this time, it seems that there will be a pass or two ahead, and you will reach the plains, and you will not be far from Qishan..."

Cen Shu didn't talk to him, he was still looking forward and backward, looking left and right, as if he was always on guard against the Wei thief coming from any corner.

After walking forward cautiously for half an hour, there was another pass ahead.After passing this pass, it is the plain road leading directly to Qishan.

"It's all right! It's all right!" Zhang Heng looked at the pass more than thirty feet away, his heart hanging in his chest finally let go, and said to Cen Shu with a slight smile, "We're going to the safe zone soon, You don't have to be afraid anymore..."

Cen Shu frowned and looked at the pass with a gloomy face, pondered for a moment, said "Huh", and asked Zhang Heng, "General Zhang, Cen remembers that there are always guards when passing through this pass on weekdays! What happened tonight?" There are no traces of these guards?!"

"Yes!" Zhang Heng heard it, and immediately reacted, "There are usually hundreds of soldiers guarding here. It's strange, why is there no one tonight?"

When the two of them were wondering, they suddenly heard a "Dang Dang Dang" sound of a gong, and suddenly a torch was lit up at the pass, illuminating the surroundings like daylight.They looked intently, but they saw hundreds of Shu soldiers "falling from the sky", jumping out from behind the cliffs on both sides of the pass, cheering and waving towards them.

"Hey! Ge Laozi said where did they hide?" Zhang Heng breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, clamped his legs around the horse's belly, and whipped his mount to go straight up, "So I wanted to jump out Scare us! I have to go up and teach them a lesson—these unruly guys!"

He was talking to himself, when he suddenly felt a pain in his chest, he couldn't help but look down, and a sharp arrow flew out of nowhere and shot through the bronze mirror on his chest, and penetrated deeply into his heart!

In astonishment, Zhang Heng stretched out his hand to cover the place where the arrow was shot in his chest, and blood flowed from between his fingers—he looked up and saw a "Shu soldier" standing at the pass under the shadow of the torch. He is bending his bow and aiming at himself!

Zhang Heng suddenly understood, and with a hoarse voice, he hurriedly turned his head and shouted the last sentence to Cen Shu, who was about to follow behind him, with all his strength: "Don't follow—they are Wei thief in disguise... "

The strong wind swept across the wheat field in Shangyu, the center of the battle between Wei and Shu, and the yellow, yellow and green wheat waves that could not be seen to the side rolled and rolled, which were bright and dazzling in the sun.Looking down in mid-air, you can also see that in the wheat field on the hillside around Shanggui, there are patches of scorched black and withered yellow here and there. Needless to say, those are the ashes of cooked wheat that Deng Ai ordered to burn.

Facing the howling wind, Zhuge Liang put on a cloak, walked out of the camp, and walked quietly on the wheat field. Jiang Wei, who was wearing a long sword at his waist, followed him like a shadow, never leaving.Facing the two of them across the plain was Xiaolong Mountain, the gateway to Shangbi. On that long mountain ridge was a [-] army stationed, and this army was exactly the troops of one of his strongest opponents in his life.Ten days ago, he resolutely left tens of thousands of troops to surround Qi Shan as bait to lure the opponent to take the bait. At the same time, he traveled day and night to rush to Shanggui to snatch the opponent's "granary" to replenish his own vitality.Unexpectedly, the other side was well aware of all these plots, and followed them in time. With the cooperation and support of the original left-behind soldiers in Shanggu, they quickly entered the Xiaolongshan camp, controlled the commanding heights, and formed a downward attack on the Shu army. , which greatly restricted and compressed the combat space of the Shu army in Shanggui, and put the Shu army in a state of being completely monitored.

(End of this chapter)