At night, around Hai hour, Li Mengxi, who was waiting quietly by the bonfire, raised his head and watched the moon slowly moving in the sky. About time, he suddenly stood up and said to Liu Bei, "It's getting late."

, so and so went first."

Liu Bei hurriedly got up and saw him off.

If Li Mengxi wants to mobilize troops, he still needs someone to cooperate.

Zhang Fei put on his armor, picked up his zhangba snake spear, and went out.

Soon, the quiet night became noisy.

Zhang Fei took the lead with three thousand infantry and cavalry, rushed out of the earthen fortress, and headed towards the official camp to surround them.

The sound of three thousand soldiers and horses neighing and neighing alarmed the entire camp.

When Huangfusong hurriedly came out to take a look, he saw Zhuozhou soldiers in chaos outside the camp, not far away from the camp. The torches were bright, and he couldn't count them at the moment. There were also a large number of cavalry galloping around the camp, with the sound of horse hooves rumbling.

, there is great potential to attack.

Huangfu Song thought that the Zhuozhou Army was going to attack the camp, so he was very nervous and ordered the army to be on alert.

But after waiting for a long time, they saw Zhuozhou Army cavalry running around the camp, but no one came to attack.

Just when he was doubting, Zhuozhou's army suddenly approached.

Surrounded by a group of infantry, Zhang Fei walked to the gate of the official camp. In the light of the torch, the armor on Zhang Fei's body shone brightly in the firelight. Zhang Fei held a spear and shouted towards the official camp, "I'm afraid your officer

The army counterattacked at night, so we came here to be on guard. If anyone refuses to accept it, come out and fight!"

Zhang Fei's soldiers also shouted, "Whoever is dissatisfied, come out and fight!"

"Come out and fight!"

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Who dares to risk his life to fight? No one.

Unexpectedly, during the day, Huangfusong took the initiative to provoke the generals to fight, but it gave the Zhuozhou army an unexpected surprise.

Without the fighting generals during the day, without the majestic danger of Zhang Fei defeating nine generals in a row, if we approach and encircle the army camp at night, the army will inevitably come out to fight.

If it hadn't been for the chance to fight with generals during the day, which happened to suppress the restless thoughts of the officers and soldiers, now that Zhang Fei was approaching Huangfu Song's camp, Huangfu Song would have come out to resist, and the way of resistance was probably to use fighting with generals.

Zhang Fei's approach to the encirclement was deliberately to engage in a major war, in order to provide cover for Li Mengxi's large deployment of troops. Once the officers and soldiers came out, it would greatly interfere with the secret operations of the Zhuozhou Army.

The unexpected surprise is here.

Zhang Fei's advance attack during the day frightened the officers and soldiers. At night, the officers and soldiers' camp was closed and surrounded. Huangfu Song's best strategy was to use the name of a fighting general to force Zhang Fei back.

As a result, the battle had been finished during the day, and neither Huangfu Song nor the generals had the courage to leave the camp to fight Zhang Fei.

Furthermore, according to the agreement, the Zhuozhou Army would withdraw from the encirclement in the morning, and the 30,000 officers and soldiers would be able to escape safely. Huangfu Song did not want to cause trouble, so he could only endure the noisy and aggressive move of the Zhuozhou Army around the camp.

The whole battalion of officers and soldiers was thinking of guarding carefully to prevent the Zhuozhou Army who was close to Chichi from suddenly attacking.

There was only one person among the officers and soldiers. Cao Cao stood on the arrow tower and climbed up to watch the enemy. The Zhuozhou army cavalry was outside the village wall, just under the arrow tower, surrounding the village wall. Cao Cao's attention was not on Zhuozhou, which was close to Chi Chi.

The army cavalry looked towards the dark place in the distance.

Looking into the distance, it was quiet and pitch black, and nothing could be seen.

Thinking back to last night and the night before, behind the Zhuozhou Army's front line, there was still the light of torches at night, but now there is no light at all.

As the saying goes, when something goes wrong, there must be something strange.

The Zhuozhou Army suddenly sent troops and horses to surround the stronghold, and there was a sudden change in the rear line, which made Cao Cao feel that something was not good.

Then I thought about it, just three days ago, the Zhuozhou Army's cavalry blocked the camp at night, unable to advance or retreat. Unexpectedly, overnight, the Zhuozhou Army actually used a car formation to surround the entire official camp.

As a result, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers were in dire straits.

At that night, the Zhuozhou Army cavalry galloped around the camp and shouted loudly as they did at night.

In retrospect, the Zhuozhou Army used the sound of galloping horses to cover up the sound of the mobilization of large groups of people, so that people would not notice it, and it became a secret plot.

Having already suffered a big loss, he had learned from the past and saw the Zhuozhou Army make a sudden move tonight. Cao Cao was keenly aware that the Zhuozhou Army wanted to repeat its old tricks.

In the previous big night operation, the Zhuozhou Army completely surrounded the army camp overnight.

Now the Zhuozhou Army has another plan, so what will happen? Will they still be encircled?

However, the Zhuozhou Army has formed an encirclement, built deep earthen barriers and trenches, and has made it clear that they will withdraw from the encirclement in the morning.

Since the siege will be withdrawn in the morning, why should the Zhuozhou Army make another move at night?

Is the encirclement tomorrow morning a fake? Is it a delaying tactic?

Cao Cao fell into deep doubts.

No matter how you think about it, Cao Cao couldn't understand how much advantage the Zhuozhou Army could gain by delaying the troops for a day and a night? Could it dig more trenches?

It couldn't be possible. The Zhuozhou Army wanted to evacuate the whole army at night. They were afraid of making too much noise, so they used cavalry to cover it.

As soon as this idea emerged, Cao Cao felt that it was absolutely impossible.

There is no reason for the Zhuozhou Army to have the entire army evacuate overnight.

Cao Cao almost guessed it right, and almost all the Zhuozhou Army retreated during the night.

At the same time, on Li Mengxi's side, in the darkness with the lights out, a long marching column was formed, with ropes connected in front and back, and there were more than a thousand people.

In the team, people held their titles and horses wrapped their hooves, making no sound, holding on to ropes and walking forward in the dark at night.

It seems that this second night operation is already familiar.

I have previous experience. When we had to deploy troops and horses at night, we had to arrange personnel, emphasize discipline, and collect a large number of ropes. At that time, everything was in a hurry. Now, the manpower has been arranged in an order and formation in advance, and discipline has been arranged early.

I have emphasized that there is no shortage of ropes. Both Li Mengxi and the soldiers have experience in night operations. Compared with the night three days ago, they are now not a little bit more proficient in maneuvering.

Because the official camp was in the middle of the camp, and the destination was a few miles to the east past the official camp, there was a military camp blocking the way, so we had to take a detour.

Li Mengxi was familiar with all the roads and alleys within a ten-mile radius. He had a map in his hand given by Zhang Jiao. It was just a detour. He led the people to follow the map and follow the map.

Two-quarters of an hour later, Li Mengxi led the people around in a long circle. They arrived at an unknown place, and everything was pitch black.

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But it was all dark, and there were no landmarks to judge the direction. Li Mengxi was not sure where he had arrived.

In the wilderness, according to common sense, there are no landmarks, but a few days ago, there were man-made landmarks.

Li Mengxi called the cavalry behind him and told him, "Light the torch, go forward, go straight along the road, stop at the intersection and look to see if there are any poplar trees on both sides.

There should be a poplar tree on either side. If there is one, come back and report it."

The cavalry lifted up the linen cloth on the cart. Under the linen cloth was a brazier, and in the brazier were burning coals.

The torches were lit with a bang, and the cavalry moved forward with the torches.

In the silent night, the monotonous and brisk sound of horse hooves flew away and soon disappeared.

It's just a few miles, and the infantry will take a long time to walk, but the cavalry will arrive in a short time.

The cavalrymen who were ordered to leave walked for a while and finally arrived at the said big crossroads.

Stop and look to the right.

It was completely dark and there were no poplar trees in sight.

After thinking for a moment, the cavalrymen rode their horses and trotted towards the right branch road.

Less than a hundred paces away, I saw, as expected, a dead poplar tree growing on the roadside.

Then, take the left-hand fork.

There is also a dead poplar tree on the left fork of the road.

If encountering a poplar tree in the wilderness is an accident, then encountering two symmetrical poplar trees, one on the left and one on the right, both on the roadside, there is no doubt that Li Mengxi found someone to dig them up and bury them two days ago.

The poplar trees there.

The cavalryman turned around and reported to Li Mengxi that there was a crossroads and two poplar trees ahead.

It seems that we are on the right track. The map given by Zhang Jiao is very accurate.

Li Mengxi glanced behind him, "Let's go, keep up, don't fall behind!"

A moment later, Li Mengxi and others arrived at the destination.

When Li Mengxi ordered all the torches to be lit, the wilderness became bright in an instant.

The first group of more than a thousand infantrymen who followed were also followed by many vehicles. In addition to the infantry's wooden guns, the vehicles also contained braziers and many torches.

It was originally too dark to see anything, but with torches, planning became much easier.

Li Mengxi and the centurions led the people, team by team, to the pre-arranged ambush points to set up their positions.

Two hundred steps away from the main road, you can find shallow trenches dug with shovels, hoes and other tools in the fields.

Li Mengxi was inspecting these ditches. He took a torch and walked more than forty steps from one end of the ditch to the other end and back again.

Looking at the soldiers around him, Li Mengxi explained to everyone.

"Look below, behind this ditch is the ambush.
To be continued...