It Starts With A Mountain

Chapter 866

Li Xingzai came to Ma Meng to get up and stopped the horse. He was in a state of embarrassment at the moment, his face was haggard, but his eyes were very bright.

"How did General Ma get here and what did he do?"

Ma Mengqi and Li Xingzai met each other, and naturally they were not familiar with each other. At this moment, Li Xingzai's words touched Ma Mengqi's heartache, and he sighed:

"The general of the defeated army is ashamed of His Majesty's trust. Ma is now a lonely soul without a master, leading a remnant army of defeated generals, wandering here like a lost dog."

Hearing this, Li Xingzai also sighed and said, "Victory or defeat is a matter of the military. General Ma doesn't need to blame himself too much. Speaking of which, the situation of this king is not much better than that of General Ma."

Ma Mengqi suddenly regained his energy and said, "Dare to ask why the lord is here?"

Now Ma Mengqi is disheartened and needs someone to comfort him. And the best way to comfort a person is to let him know that someone is worse than him.

I had long heard that the allied army of the feudal lords was defeated by the Rong tribe, and the feudal feudal lords were all defeated and fled like a lost dog. But what the specific situation is, he is not very clear. There happened to be a witness in front of him, and he just asked how miserable he was.

Ma Chao desperately needs comfort now.

Although he suffered a crushing defeat, Li Xingzai didn't have much desolation in his eyes. He waved his hand and said, "It was a big defeat anyway, and now it's lingering. What is General Ma's plan for the next step?"

Ma Chao's expression was a little embarrassed, and he lowered his head and said, "I'm thinking about avoiding the edge of the Rong clan for a while, and then thinking about supporting Chang'an."

There was a fight not long ago, and Ma Mengqi had no more than 500 soldiers. With these people, they can't even withstand a single charge of the Rong tribe. Based on this, what to use to support Chang'an City is just an excuse.

"Come on." Li Xingzai gave a high five: "General Ma and I coincide, it is better for you and me to be a family, and we can take care of each other, and then we will make plans."

Ma Mengqi was really desperate today, and he didn't feel bad about Li Xingzai either. In any case, Li Xingzai was also a member of the Li royal family. To take refuge with him by himself is not a betrayal of Li Letian. Moreover, looking at Li Xingzai's manners, his behavior is open and aboveboard, and he is not a villain like Guan Yu.

He clasped his fists with both hands, and immediately gave a respectful salute: "Everything is at the command of the lord."

Ma Mengqi probably didn't know one thing, Li Xingzai once worked as a bandit in Toad Village for a while. In terms of the shamelessness of chicken thieves, it is no worse than Guan Yu.

Recently, Li Xingzai was wandering around, and when he saw the troops of the Rong tribe, he avoided them far away. When he saw the Empire's collapse, he leaned over to fool around.

Now that he has successfully fooled a general, Li Xingzai is full of energy and begins to look for the next target of fooling.

Li Xingzai fooled people in this area, looking for available talents from the defeated armies of other lords. His behavior is like picking treasures in the trash can.

At this moment, the Rong tribe's attack on Chang'an City did not stop. After defeating the allied forces of the feudal lords, in fact, the Rong clan already controlled the entire Jingzhou. No worries, you can free up your hands to attack Chang'an City.

Judging from the current situation, it is only a matter of time before Chang'an City is breached.

Bai Wushuang walked Fang Bu into the royal tent of the Rong clan. Ye Yuanhuo was fiddling with the brazier in front of him to keep warm, and there was a very thinly sliced ​​barbecue on the side of the basin. This is also the method he learned when he was wandering. At the beginning, he always tried his best to save energy, and he needed to plan carefully for everything around him.

"Your Majesty, the whereabouts of the Liangzhou group have been found. They are currently hiding on Hulu Mountain. I have already sent people to see the terrain. , I'm afraid it will cost a lot."

Ye Yuanhuo used tongs to pick up the charcoal, and the sparks lit up and extinguished in the air.

"What's the elder's plan?"

"Forcibly attacking the loss is huge, it is better to wait for it. The meaning of the subordinates is to besiege without attacking. When they run out of food and grass, our army can naturally win."

"Hulu Mountain is dangerous. If we encircle the entire mountain, how many people and horses will be mobilized? How much food and grass supply will be needed. Our main energy is Chang'an City, and we don't have any extra troops to fight a group of bandits." Ye Yuanhuo said lightly.

Bai Wushuang looked at the expression on Ye Yuanhuo's face, he was wearing a hood, and his face was indescribable against the light of the fire. Bai Wushuang wondered in his heart: Could it be that the King wants to let them live. But if that's the case, why bother to deal with them so much.

Guan Yu guessed that he was being targeted by the Rong clan, but he never imagined that it was the Rong clan Wang Ye Yuanhuo who was behind the scenes commander and mobilized. The people who were sent to hunt down Guan Yu were all the elites of the Rong tribe. Even Guan Yu could feel it. He fought against the Rongs several times, and the enemy became more and more difficult.

Bai Wushuang's heart moved, and he said, "Has the king already made up his mind?"

"Isn't it over after a fire?"

Nohara let go of the fire, the charcoal smashed into the charcoal basin, sparks scattered, and the flames in the charcoal basin suddenly became vigorous. The barbecued meat squeaked with hot oil by the side of the basin, and the air in the tent became hot and dry.

When winter comes to spring, although everything is revived, the mountains and rivers are still covered with thick withered grass and shrubs. This spring, the earth has not had time to breed creatures, and the mountains and forests are still desolate.

There was a fire from the southeast that night.

"Big head, big head..."

Someone woke up the sleeping Cheng Dalei: "Big head, there are Rong tribes setting fire under the mountain."

Cheng Dalei rushed out of the house with a big axe, looked to the southeast, and saw a fire blazing into the sky. In the surrounding mountains and forests, there are also sporadic firelights.

"Here." Cheng Dalei shouted: "This is to kill us all. Who came up with such a desperate plan, isn't it afraid of retribution?"

"Master, what should we do next?" Guan Yu asked.

"Withdraw, it's not advisable to stay here for a long time, the wind is screaming."

In fact, without Cheng Dalei's instructions, Guan Yu has also gathered the soldiers together. Under the leadership of Cheng Dalei, the army retreated to the northwest.

Cheng Dalei secretly said in his heart that he was lucky, thanks to the timely response of the scouts, he was aware of the fire before it started. If there are fires on all sides, there is only a dead end waiting for everyone, and the meat may be roasted in the end.

Now that the fire is not yet full, Cheng Dalei is leading the way. The reaction speed of Liangzhou Five Hundred Riders is fast, but unfortunately the group of people who joined later are already panicked.

They have only joined for a short time, and they have not received much training, and they cannot reach the level of prohibition.

When going down the mountain, they collided with the team of the Rong tribe who set fire to it. They probably didn't expect Cheng Dalei and others to react so quickly, and they were a little caught off guard.

The two sides fought for a while, Cheng Dalei and others finally broke through the siege and fled to the northwest.