One day in late April, it was just dawn. It was located fifteen miles west of Hufu Township. On the only way to Daliang, people were already coming and going in the grass swamps on both sides of Tu Road, looking towards Zhou Shi and Chen Yu who were hiding in the forest.
Report what they saw in Hufu Township.
"The grain from Hufu Township has been loaded onto carts of cattle and horses, packed full of grain, and lined up on the road outside the city."
"The Qin officials from the Qin army's camp came out with thirty people, and also took a child into custody."
Hearing this, Chen Yu clenched his fists and said, "It must be my nephew!"
"The officials of Qin and the soldiers of Qin said goodbye to the Zhang family outside the town. They took more than a hundred young men from the town and escorted the grain carts to set off. The child was tied to one of the carts..."
Hearing this, Zhou Shi also said to Chen Yu: "Those more than a hundred young men will not die for the Qin people. Then we will only have to deal with the more than thirty Qin soldiers."
He turned around and looked at the heroes of Wei who had followed him around in the past two months and continued to fight against the violent Qin, as well as the dozen knights from Zhao brought by Chen Yu, and smiled.
"This time, the Qin army in Daliang City must not get a grain of food!"
Then, when the sun rose high, the information obtained by his subordinates broke Zhou Shi and Chen Yu's plan...
"The Qin officials escorting the grain truck suddenly changed direction on the side road and headed towards Waihuang County!"
"What!?"
Zhou Shi and Chen Yu were all shocked.
"Could it be that they realized that we were going to intercept here?" Zhou Shi looked at Chen Yu with some suspicion. Although Chen Yu's words that day changed his impression of this person a lot, Zhou Shi did not completely trust him.
Chen Yu then guessed: "Perhaps the Qin officials were worried that the grain truck sent to Daliang from Yangwu County had an accident on this road, so they planned to take a detour?"
There are two roads from Hufu Township to Daliang. One is to go directly to the west. It takes a hundred miles to reach Daliang. On the way, you have to spend the night in Xiaohuang Township. Zhou Shi and the others ambush between Hufu and Xiaohuang.
The second option is to go to Waihuang to spend the night first, and then walk west from Waihuang, which still takes two days.
The Qin people chose to take the second route, which disrupted the ambush plan. Zhou Shi began to hesitate and planned to cancel the attack.
But Chen Yu refused to give up and persuaded him: "It is better to go to Waihuang. That is my brother's hometown. Although the Qin people occupied Waihuang and searched for light heroes everywhere in the city, they were still hiding in the countryside outside the city.
There are many young knights with me. They have been favored by my brother, and several of their leaders are still in contact with me. Why don't you lead people to the only road from Waihuang to Daliang and continue to ambush, while I quickly go to the outskirts of Waihuang
, contact Qing Xia, and you may get dozens of people! When the time comes, we will join forces to attack, and we will destroy the Qin invaders and burn their food and crops!"
Chen Yu's words made Zhou Shi feel excited again. Even if he gave up his plan and attacked Humo Township, he would not have a good chance of winning against the remaining Qin soldiers and Zhang's boy servants.
But if he can use this matter to attract Waihuang Qingxia, he can gather more people and do greater things!
Zhou Shi immediately unfolded the map he had brought when he was an official in Yangwu County, and saw that less than thirty miles south of their location was the road from Waihuang to Daliang, and it had to pass through a dense forest...
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Nowadays, the Qin people's control over the Wei region still only occupies towns as strongholds and barely maintains communication lines, but they are powerless to control the vast rural areas of Lilu.
Therefore, it is not difficult for the locals who are familiar with the local roads and rivers to avoid the eyes and ears of the Qin people. Moreover, most Wei people do not willingly submit to the rule of the Qin army. Not every county and township, both sides
The relationship was as harmonious as in Hufu Township. In Waihuang, Chenliu and other places, the atmosphere was almost tense, and the local Wei people were happy to assist Zhou Shi.
"I will take my people and wait for Chen Sheng here."
Zhou Shi pointed to the forest on the map and looked at Chen Yu, who had changed into a pair of coarse brown clothes and was about to set off, but his enthusiasm for book business remained unchanged.
"If everything goes well for Chen Sheng, he will bring the young knight with him to meet me in this forest before dawn tomorrow! If he doesn't arrive before three o'clock in the morning, please forgive me for not waiting!"
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Chen Yu did not break the contract. Before dawn the next day, he followed the rural guide assigned to him by Zhou Shi and came to this dense forest in the dark.
The people he brought were not the only ones who came, but behind Chen Yu, there were forty or fifty people! They were all light warriors wearing short back clothes, holding torches or carrying swords, all with unkempt heads.
On the temples, he spoke loudly, saying that he wanted to see "Master Zhou" who had caused countless troubles to the Qin army in the past two months.
"In just one day, Chen Yu actually recruited so many people! How is Zhang Er's reputation so great?"
Zhou Shi suddenly frowned. As a soldier who has been a soldier for generations, he actually looked down on these light knights. But now, the fall of Wei is imminent, and he must unite all those who are enemies of Qin, even though
Most of them were motivated by personal grudges and were not on the same page as Zhou Shi, who was bent on protecting Wei.
He could only suppress his temper and praised the young heroes, saying that they did not escape after the fall of Waihuang, but stayed to continue to fight against the Qin army, and they were also "heroes".
After comforting all the young heroes and asking them to go down and close their eyes to rest for a while, Chen Yu sat next to Zhou Shi. Zhou Shi noticed that his face seemed unhappy.
"Chen Sheng, what did you find out about the outside world?"
"That Qin official Heifu who is stationed in Hufu Township is really hateful!"
Chen Yu punched the tree and said angrily: "That black man not only forced my sister-in-law to death and kidnapped my nephew, but after arriving in Waihuang, he also swaggered through the market, publicizing his achievements in capturing Zhang Er's son. He also insulted my brother.
The foreigner Huang Qingxia is a dog who has lost his family. He only uses his wife's wealth to recruit scoundrels, violates prohibitions with force, and disturbs national laws. Once something happens, he can't protect his family and the country, and he can't protect his wife and children. He can only run away in embarrassment. Really
They are rats."
"He also threatened that he would take Zhang Ao to Daliang today to receive a reward in exchange for a gold reward. He also said, 'This little young knight may be taken to Guanzhong, castrated and entered into the palace, and become a little eunuch to serve the king.'
How can a hero be subjected to such humiliation? It's really unbearable, but what can't be tolerated! I will kill this thief!"
The news spread rapidly, and in less than a day, all the villages and towns near Waihuang knew about it. That's why Chen Yu was able to recruit forty or fifty people so smoothly.
These people were either light knights or local warriors who had been favored by Zhang Er. When they heard that Chen Yu was going to cooperate with Zhou Shi to ambush the Qin people, they all geared up and said they were willing to help rescue the young gentleman...
There was also a young man who raised his arms and shouted: "These days, we have had enough of Qin Kou's anger, so if we just kill him, we will be worthy of the favor of Master Zhang!"
Zhou Shi nodded without much suspicion. The Qin people were not arrogant for a day or two. Usually when the Qin army in Yangwu County captured his men, they would parade them through the streets and then behead them and abandon the city to make a warning to others. But they didn't
Do you know that the men of Wei are inexhaustible?
He was just worried that when the Qin official Heifu came out of Waihuang with the grain team, would there be more escorts?
As a result, Zhou Shi breathed a sigh of relief. The spies reported that the Qin officials were too confident and did not send more people. They were still more than thirty people, with more than a hundred civilians to escort the grain. After dawn, they had left Waihuang County.
Come slowly this way...
Seeing that it was getting dark, Zhou Shi, as the commander of the ambush, began to assign tasks to Chen Yu and others.
His two confidants, who were also Wei soldiers, were responsible for leading nearly a hundred Wei people into two teams and ambush in the grass on both sides of the road. When they heard Zhou Shi shouting, they rushed out together to disrupt the Qin people's position.
Drive away those Wei people's husband.
The trusted aide took the order, paid a military salute to Zhou Shi, led the fifty people who had gathered, ran out, crossed the road, and ambush in the woods on the opposite side.
Chen Yu was asked to lead dozens of light knights in the forest on this side. They were responsible for killing enemies and rescuing people.
"This time we still focus on burning food. We can save the young gentleman Zhang. After burning the food, we can retreat into the forest and retreat. The Qin invaders don't have to kill them all."
Zhou Shi knew very well that he could not just see the Qin people transporting grain in front of him. Although they were still on the land of Wei, they wanted to treat this place as "enemy territory" and should not be careless at all. Daliang is a hundred miles to the west.
Here, the Qin cavalry can gallop here in a few hours. If they meet them on the plain, no matter how many people there are, they will definitely die.
Finally, he left a few hunters squatting at the entrance of the forest to watch whether the Qin people's chariots and horses entered or not, using the indistinguishable sound of birdsong as a signal...
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The sun gradually rose and the dew slowly evaporated. While waiting in the woods and grass, Zhou Shi discovered that Chen Yu was actually very nervous.
Although he took off his Confucian uniform and wore a short-backed coat with a two-foot sword in front of him, and was dressed like a knight-errant, there was still a bit of a scholarly temperament on his face. He kept blinking and looking at the appearance, a little expectant and a little bit.
worrying and nervous.
"Chen Sheng said that he has killed people, I believe it."
Zhou Shi smiled and said, "But you have never fought in a war, right?"
"It's true." Chen Yu knew that his nervousness had been noticed and felt a little ashamed.
"It doesn't matter. When I first went into battle, I was just like you and like them." Zhou Shi comforted him, and then pursed his lips to the people behind him.
Among the group of people who followed Zhou Shi, how many of them had actually fought in the war?
Among these nearly a hundred people, there were no more than five real military soldiers. The rest were all soldiers from Yangwu County and Huangchi County, farmers, and even small businessmen. They may have wanted revenge because their relatives were killed by the Qin people.
, or because they were once enemies of the Qin people and did not dare to surrender, or they even followed Zhou Shi out of the city in confusion without any reason.
In the eyes of the Wei people, the Qin people were like tigers and wolves, frightened by the bad reputation of their leader, so no matter where they were, there were many people who ran away.
These people were not warriors in the past. Even after two months of hiding in Tibet with Zhou Shi, they were still immature. Now they were about to face another battle. Even though they were fighting more and less, they were still very nervous.
Chen Yu saw a boy about fourteen years old holding the handle of a wooden spear tightly, as if hugging his parents. He was about to cry. More people moved their legs or unconsciously.
Swallow saliva dryly.
"It's good if you can't help but urinate."
Zhou Shiyun said calmly, and he asked someone to pass on the message: "Listen carefully, second and third sons, this battle is the same as the last time we robbed food in Yangwu County. I will go first, and you will follow behind!"
Zhou Shi is a military soldier. He learned on the battlefield that as a lower-level military officer, leading by example is the best way to boost morale. If he is greedy for life and afraid of death, how can he convince everyone to join him in resisting Qin, just to extend the life of Wei?
?
After appeasing everyone, he taught Chen Yu: "If your hands are sweaty, just wipe them with dry soil. This will save you from dropping your sword when you rush forward."
Chen Yu was indignant when he heard this, but he still did as Zhou Shi said. At the same time, he thought in his heart: "He is indeed an old soldier who is regarded as a thorn in the flesh by the Qin army in Wei..."
As if he had read his thoughts, Zhou Shi suddenly sighed.
"There is nothing we can do. Who made us the last soldiers of the Wei Kingdom?"
At this time, a burst of bird song came from a distance, one after another, until it reached Zhou Shi's ears.
He immediately became solemn.
"The Qin people are coming!"
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This forest is old and has thick trunks. In mid-April, it is the season of luxuriant growth. The green leaves are like a crown, and the wind rustles through the branches and leaves.
The weeds beside the road are growing wildly, and can hide an adult in them, as long as you can resist the itching of the grass blades, and the chirping of grasshoppers and insects will also cover up the breathing of the ambushers...
However, it couldn't cover up the sound of wheels, footsteps, and the neighing of cows and horses coming from far away!
Zhou Shi, Chen Yu and his men, held their breath and crouched in the grass under the forest, motionless, only staring into the distance with their eyes. However, they saw dust began to fly on the originally empty road, and the two leading men
The horse cleared the way, and two lightly-armed Qin soldiers were riding on the horse, looking warily at the woods on both sides.
Then, there was a convoy of cattle and horses that formed a long snake. There were as many as seventy or eighty vehicles, and the distance between the front and back was hundreds of steps. Those Wei people wearing coarse clothes were responsible for leading the cattle and horses in front. Every ten steps, there were
Several Qin soldiers carrying spears were still talking happily, seemingly unaware of the coming danger...
Chen Yu raised his head slightly, trying hard to find Zhang Ao's whereabouts.
Zhou Shi's gaze was fixed on the things being dragged on the oxen and carriages. It looked like they were indeed bags of grain packed in sacks, and the wheels creaked under the weight. There were also some scraps mixed with each cart.
Probably brought to feed the cattle and horses.
At this time, Chen Yu's body froze and his eyes widened!
He finally found the whereabouts of Zhang Ao. The poor child was tied to a cart and was still sobbing. The cart was not carrying food. A black-faced Qin official wearing a crown and armor was sitting in the cart with a relaxed expression, as if he was
Looking forward to the reward for sending Zhang Ao to Daliang.
Chen Yu immediately gritted his teeth and looked at Zhou Shi, did he mean he could take action?
Zhou Shi shook his head and told him to calm down and wait until the grain truck and the Qin people completely entered the forest before launching another attack.
Chen Yu had no choice but to continue to endure, thirty steps, twenty steps, ten steps. Seeing that the car carrying Zhang Ao had passed the ambush site where he was, Chen Yu couldn't bear it anymore! Suddenly there was a voice beside him.
Shout!
"Kill the bandits!"
Zhou Shi took off his disguise and stood up. He held a sword and shield, pointed at the Qin people on the road who had not yet reacted, and shouted!
"Kill Qin!"
Following the words, Zhou Shi was the first to rush forward as he had promised everyone earlier.
"Kill the Qin invaders!"
Chen Yu also jumped up quickly and shouted after him, but because he was running too fast, he stepped on a stone, slipped under his feet, and almost fell. By the time he regained his footing, there were already many Wei people and light knights.
Follow Zhou Shi and rush in front of him!
"Save my nephew first!"
Chen Yu shouted quickly, but then he suddenly discovered that the "Wei people" who should have been frightened and dispersed did not panic at this moment, but five people gathered together, and skillfully moved from the oxen and carriages.
He pulled out the weapon hidden inside!
And amidst the sharp copper whistles of the black-faced Qin officials, in the carriages of the cattle carriages, there were also Qin soldiers wearing right or left buns who suddenly opened the grass poles. They squatted in the carriages, holding flat in their hands.
The crossbow machine has been strung up long ago and is ready to go!
"No, I was fooled!"
Only then did Chen Yu realize that this poorly prepared food transport team, and even his nephew, were just bait to catch them!
However, before Chen Yu gave the warning to retreat, all the Qin soldiers in the car were already aiming at the Wei people who were rushing over. Qingxia pulled the hanging knife...
There was the sound of strings like a clapper, the dull sound of a sharp weapon entering the body, and then the heavy sound of falling to the ground.
After a burst of screams, more than ten of those brave warriors who were not afraid of death fell to the ground in front of Chen Yu...
While Chen Yu was stunned, he couldn't help but think of those words.