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The Banner Enters the Yanyun Chapter 93: Night Attack

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    At midnight, after the hard fighting during the day, the soldiers in the camp were already exhausted, and they lay on their bedding and slept soundly.  Since Li Bao stood beside Zhou Ping to protect him during the day, he did not go into battle, so it was his turn to be on duty at night.  He was holding a long-handled bone in his hand as a cane and wearing iron armor. He sat by the fire beside the village gate. He stood up every once in a while to patrol to see if the soldiers on duty at night were lazy and dozing off.  "Why is there something wrong with the banging sound?" A follower had a puzzled look on his face.  "What's wrong?" Li Bao asked.  "Let me tell you, Tian Qi, the villain's fellow villager, is on night duty at this time. Three fingers of his right hand were cut off when he was beating the water thieves, so when he was playing the clapper, he couldn't knock it for a long time, otherwise it would fall off.  But now the banging sound is exactly the same as usual!" "Really?" Li Bao stood up, his face full of chills.  "Seriously, but maybe there is a temporary substitution!" The attendant showed an uncertain look on his face.  "Pick up the guy and go over there and have a look!" Li Bao stood up, picked up the bone and walked towards the direction where the banging sound came from.  "Someone is climbing over the wall!" After walking about forty or fifty steps, a sharp-eyed follower had already seen a figure climbing over the fence, which looked particularly clear in the moonlight.  A man next to him took out a bow from his back and was about to shoot, but Li Bao stretched out his hand to hold it down and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, you go and report, you two will occupy the high place, and the rest will follow me!" Li Bao  The seven or eight men under his command were all strong men in the personal army, and they all followed the orders and left.  Li Bao then took out the saber from his waist, held the long-handled bone in one hand, and walked towards that side with half-bent body.  After walking for more than ten steps, Li Bao saw a dozen figures in a corner not far away, busy doing something next to the fence of the earthen barrier. He rushed forward without saying a word, and with a knife in his hand, he killed the nearest person.  His head was chopped off, and a shrill scream broke the silence. The attacked party screamed and resisted desperately. Listening to the Wu language in his ears, Li Bao shouted: "A certain Kaifeng Li Bao, who dares to come and fight with me?"  Someone is right!" Seeing the ferocity of his attack, the Manichaeans surrounded him, but Li Bao was not afraid. He had a bone in one hand and a sword in the other. Those who dared to face him fell like reeds, and there were also wounds on his body.  He took a few blows, but he relied on his thick armor to survive.  Seeing this, the Manichaeans fled one after another, but Li Bao's personal followers caught up and stabbed them to death one by one. Several of them climbed up the earthen ramparts nimbly and tried to escape over the fence, but they were also captured by Li Bao who had already occupied the high ground.  The archers shot down, and only one out of ten could escape.  "Report to the capital, Tian Qi who was on duty was killed. It seems that he was killed while sleeping. These are here to set fire. They all have torches and clear oil on their bodies!" A soldier searched for the dead and prisoners.  After getting on his body, he reported to Li Bao.  "Well, search carefully to see if there are any who have slipped through the net. Keep Haosheng alive and wait until the prisoner wakes up before questioning. Capture Tian Qi's team and give them twenty whips. Tian Qi's body is hung in front of the door.  Everyone shows up!" "Li Bao!" Zhou Ping came over wearing only a robe and asked, "How is the situation?" "It's okay, I have killed several Mani thieves who came to steal the camp!"  Bao smiled.  "Hey!" Zhou Ping suddenly pointed at the opponent's right rib and asked, "What's wrong with you here?" "Hey!" Li Bao then felt a stinging pain in his right rib, and even the outer burqa was wet when he touched it with his hand.  It turned out that he was just in the middle of killing, and he didn't notice the arrow hit his right rib. The tip of the arrow penetrated the iron ring. Fortunately, it didn't penetrate deep into the flesh and did not hurt the internal organs.  He gritted his teeth and pulled out the arrow. The men on the side quickly helped him sit down. Zhou Ping carefully untied his iron armor, sucked the blood from the wound clean with his mouth, and took a clean cloth to wrap it up.  , sighed: "Fortunately, the opponent's bow is soft and did not shoot through. Otherwise, it would be troublesome if the arrow hurt the internal organs. Next time you go into battle, you have to be careful and don't go too deep into the battle." "The prisoner is laughing.  !" Li Bao said with a smile: "I am a rude man. When I see the critical situation, I can't think of so much!" At this point, Zhou Ping's face turned gloomy and he asked in a low voice: "Brother Li Bao,  Do you think we should withdraw all our brothers to the city?" Li Bao was stunned and asked, "Aren't reinforcements coming?" "Yeah!" Zhou Ping nodded.  Under the light of the moving fire, his expression was uncertain and he looked a bit scary: "But who knows when they will come. If the Mani thieves continue to do this day and night for a few days, the brothers will be exhausted without fighting.  Besides¡ª" At this point, Zhou Ping's voice dropped a little lower.  "I'm afraid the reinforcements won't come for a while." "Can't come?" Li Bao asked in surprise, "How is that possible? Didn't it mean that the army had already crossed the river, and it was only a few days' journey from Jingkou to Xiuzhou?"  "Keep your voice down, don't let anyone hear you!" Zhou Ping whispered, looking at no one around him, he whispered: "Li Bao, there are outsiders around during the day, so there are some things I can't say. I've been careful these past two days.  After thinking about it, if I were Wang Dutong, it would be better for the army to arrive later! " "Later?" When Li Bao heard this, the brave man who had just faced the enemy suddenly felt a chill.  Climbing up along the spine, I couldn't help but shiver.  "How is this possible? We are the only 800 people who can fight in Xiuzhou City. There are tens of thousands of Mani thieves outside. Over time, Xiuzhou City will definitely not be able to defend it. If the emperor knows about it, he will definitely¡ª¡ª" "  Abao! The emperor appointed Tong Guan as the pacifier of Jianghuai, Jingzhe and Jiangnan. Many cities in Jiangnan were lost, including Hangzhou. What does it mean to have one more Xiuzhou? As long as Tong Guan can finally level Fang La, all these things will be over.  It doesn't matter." When Zhou Ping said this, his face became more and more gloomy: "We have also seen in the past few days that the Mani thieves are actually a mob. It's just that Jiangnan has been used to the peaceful life in these years, and people are not used to fighting.  In this situation, the local tyrants in Anyang can give these Mani thieves a drink. With the elite of the Western Army, it is just a matter of idleness.  The combat power is average, but if it is allowed to flee in all directions or escape back to its lair, it will be troublesome. " When Li Bao heard this, his face turned as pale as a dead man, and he asked in a trembling voice: "Could it be,  Are we here¡ª" At this point, his voice suddenly stopped.  "Yes, we are the bait!" Zhou Ping whispered: "Think about it, when the king was in Guangling, he had tens of thousands of troops, so why did he send a few hundred of us here? He gave us three hundred divine arm archers.  , and also warned that it can only be used in emergencies. This is obviously to prevent Xiuzhou City from being captured immediately, and to prevent the Mani thieves from finding out that the army is coming and escaping back to their lair." At this point, Zhou Ping stretched out his finger.  He drew a few words on the ground, pointed to it and said: "This is Xiuzhou, this is Jingkou, and this is Hangzhou. If I were that king, I would show weakness and send troops to cross the river from the upper reaches to cut off the road to Mani."  The road to the thief's lair, and then attack from the front and back to catch all the thief army!" Hearing this, Li Bao collapsed to the ground. After about half a while, he asked in a low voice: "Then, when do you think reinforcements will come?  "I don't know, but when the partial army cuts off the Mani thieves' retreat to their lair, reinforcements should arrive." At this point, Zhou Ping's face showed a wry smile for the first time: "  As for us and Xiuzhou City, it¡¯s good if we can¡¯t. Anyway, if we can defeat the Mani thieves, who will care about our five hundred soldiers?¡± Li Bao sighed: ¡°Incarceration.  Have you told anyone else about this? " "No!" Zhou Ping shook his head: "I just figured it out, how dare you be the first to know.  Tell him, he is from the Western Army and he is not of the same mind as us. Who knows if he will report me for disturbing the morale of the army?" At this point, Zhou Ping sighed: "We warriors are just like Hu Luli?  Just shoot whatever you want!" "Then let the brothers withdraw immediately?" When Li Bao heard this, his whole body became cold and he wished he could all withdraw into Xiuzhou City immediately.  Zhou Ping shook his head and said: "Let's wait until daytime. Just a few thieves come to attack the camp and then enter the city. It doesn't make sense. Wait until tomorrow when we can't hold on during the day and then retreat. Set fire to the camp and burn it down. There will be no Mani thieves."  Come up!" "You're right!" Li Bao felt that everything Zhou Ping said was right. Zhou Ping looked up at the stars in the sky and said with a smile, "Look, it's almost the fourth update, and I can't sleep anyway.  Come on, let¡¯s go to my tent and have something to eat!¡± ¡°Thank you for the detention!¡± Time passed quickly, and it was already the next morning, and Zhou Ping was thinking about an excuse to have people transport some of the supplies back to the village.  In the city, he saw Chang Zongtian running toward him with a smile on his face. He was far away and shouted loudly: "Juncheng, Juncheng! What a happy event, Tong Shuai has sent reinforcements!" "Reinforcements?  "Zhou Ping was stunned for a moment, and turned his head just in time to see Li Bao's doubtful eyes.  He quickly squeezed out a smile and said, "That's great. Chang Yuhou told me what's going on. Let me hear it!" "Tong Shuai sent five hundred people, all of whom are first-class veterans. It's in the military order.  He said, let us hold on to Xiuzhou City. The army will arrive in a short time and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!" At this point, Chang Zongtian showed an envious smile on his face and said: "Zhou Jian, Wang Dutong really values ??you.  , The soldiers sent from the capital have even commanders, but they are only soldiers without generals. They are obviously afraid of fighting for power with you. It is rare to be so considerate of the gentleman below. " Zhou Ping couldn't help but secretly thought to himself when he heard this!  Complaining, these five hundred reinforcements were clearly for fear that Xiuzhou City would be captured by the bandits too quickly, and evenThe circuitous partial division had no time to arrive and cut off the enemy's return route.  As for saying "reinforcements will be here soon" to coax people like Chang Zongtian, in Zhou Ping's view it is clearly "you take the blame".
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