"Great General. Fortunately, my subordinates have not been humiliated. We have burned all the food and supplies of the official army in a fire." Song Meng retreated with the cavalry and saw Pei Xiaoer laughing and reporting.

"Okay. You have made great contributions to this battle. Write it down first. After this battle is over, you will reward them together." Pei Xiaoer said with a smile.

"Thank you General." Song Mengyi was happy. You should know that the Pei family army has the most important military merits, and promotion and rewards are all due to military merits. It can be said that military merits are the hard currency among the Pei family army. Only with military merits can you hold your head up and stand up in the Pei family army. Not only that, the Pei family army will reward you for any merits, but also the rewards are extremely generous.

"Well, next, what we have to do is ambush the only way for the officers and soldiers to retreat, and wait for the officers and soldiers to retreat in a hurry, and up and down the troops. I don't believe that if there is no food or clothing, what other tricks can the officers and soldiers make?" Pei Xiaoer walked forward and patted Song Meng on the shoulder with a smile.

In the following two days, Pei Xiaoer placed the main force south of Jiexiu, on the necessary passage to the Pingyang Prefecture governing Linfen, waiting for the officers and soldiers to retreat to Linfen due to insufficient food and grass, and all the ambushers rose up and attacked them in one fell swoop.

However, after waiting for two days, there was no sign of officers and soldiers passing by. Instead, the frequency of officers and soldiers attacking Jiexiu suddenly increased, as if they were about to take Jiexiu off before the food was completely used up.

"This is not in line with common sense!" Pei Xiaoer paced slowly, his brows frowned into the character "Song Meng, are you sure that most of the food and grass of the government army have been burned down?"

"The subordinates are sure." Song Meng promised decisively, "Most of the food and grass of the officers and soldiers have been burned. When I left, he checked it out and confirmed that all the food had been burned down before leaving."

"What's going on with the reaction of the officers and soldiers?" Seeing Song Meng's decisive statement, Pei Xiaoer could believe that he would not falsely report his military achievements, but this made him even more confused. "Does the officers and soldiers have food reserves that we don't know in other places? Otherwise, why would the officers and soldiers be so abnormal? "

Hearing Pei Xiaoer's analysis, all the generals present fell silent.

Liu Changle said: "It's not impossible. Maybe the official army is in the three holes of cunning rabbits, putting some of the food and grass on the surface, but in fact it hides most of the food and grass."

"No! The officers and soldiers should not have thought that we would suddenly raid his food and grass. Besides, even if they thought about it, they should have to strengthen their defense and not confuse us in this way, because the losses would be too great and there would be no benefit to them." Pei Xiaoer shook his head and said.

The few people present fell silent again, pondered for a long time, without any clues.

Pei Xiaoer could only say helplessly: "Forget it, wait for another day. If the officers and soldiers have not yet retreated, then we will return and fight with the officers and soldiers. During this period, Song Meng, you must carefully monitor the officers and soldiers' every move. If there is any abnormality, come and report it to me immediately."

"yes."

On the other hand, there were no soldiers under Jiexiu City, and Zuo Liangyu was still persuading Wang Ji. However, Wang Ji was hesitant and unable to make the final decision, which was really impatient.

"Mr. Wang, if you stop, you will suffer from chaos. Now the army is about to lose food. Do you know what will happen if the food is out? In the past two days, in order to appease the soldiers, the soldiers below believe that there is still a lot of food in the camp. We have taken out all the stored food and let the people below eat it. If the adults do not make a decision, I am afraid that I will not be able to leave even if I want to."

"I think about it again, you can go back first." Wang Ji was also bored when he heard Zuo Liangyu chatting in his ears the past two days.

"Sir..." Zuo Liangyu wanted to say something else, but Wang Ji raised his hand to stop him, "You go back first."

"The courage of an ordinary man and the kindness of a woman." Zuo Liangyu returned to his tent, got angry and scolded Wang Ji for nothing.

But he can't abandon Wang Ji and retreat alone, otherwise, what if Wang Ji, as the chief, died in battle, and Zuo Liangyu, as his subordinate, fled alone and survived, what do you think about the court?

Will the court think that it was you, Zuo Liangyu, who killed his commander? At that time, the responsibility for defeat was attributed to him, Zuo Liangyu, who claimed that he could not bear the anger of the court.

On the contrary, if Zuo Liangyu took Wang Ji out, it would naturally be another scene. At that time, the responsibility for defeat could be thrown over Wang Ji's head. After all, he was a civil servant and was responsible for commanding. He was just a martial artist who obeyed orders. In addition, he asked his benefactor Hou Xun to help him to use the Spring and Autumn style to polish the memorial. This level might be easily passed.

Thinking of this, Zuo Liangyu suddenly ordered the generals beside him: "You go find a few soldiers, follow me, and let's go find Wang Ji. If Wang Ji has not made a decision tonight, then you will rush over and knock Wang Ji out while it's dark. As long as he is still alive, the responsibility for defeat will not be overwhelmed."

The general smiled and nodded and left.

On the other hand, Wang Ji was still thinking about Zuo Liangyu's suggestions. In fact, Zuo Liangyu's suggestions were very simple and rough. His meaning was to keep Wang Ji's soldiers and other soldiers, order them to continue attacking Jiexiu, pretending that the main force of the army was still there. Then Wang Ji and Zuo Liangyu fled back to Linfen with the remaining elite troops.

However, although this suggestion could make Wang Ji run away, it defeated his reputation completely. That was a army of nearly 40,000 to 50,000 to 50,000 people, and he gave it to the bandits for nothing. Wang Ji was unwilling to accept it.

Besides, if he lost his troops and insulted the country, then could he be on duty as the prefect? ​​He did not have such a deep background, otherwise he would not have gone to Jiexiu to work hard for the Fan family because of a illusory promise from the Fan family.

To be honest, Wang Ji regretted it now. If he had known that he would have been less greedy, he would not have had the 100,000 taels of silver provided by Fan Yongdou and the unmarked promise he made. Then he is still an honest and decent prefect and would not be in such a dangerous situation. It is just that there is no medicine for regret in the world.

Just as Wang Ji was struggling again and again, a soldier hurriedly ran over and said to Wang Ji: "Sir, please go out and have a look!"

"What's wrong?" Wang Ji asked impatiently.

"When it's time to have supper, the chefs in the army did not make enough food for all the soldiers. They still counted money and couldn't eat. Now the brothers below were hungry and wanted to ask for an explanation."

"What?" Wang Ji was shocked after hearing this, and hurriedly followed the soldier out, praying silently in his heart, "Don't leave food at this time, if the food is out of stock, the entire army will be in chaos immediately."

When we arrived at the place where the army had a meal, we saw thousands of soldiers clamoring and shouting.

"Why didn't there be any food when it was our turn? Everyone worked hard in front of us, but when they came back, they couldn't even have a full meal."

"Yes, why do the people in front of you have food to eat? Only when it's our turn will there be no food. How can it be such a coincidence?"

"Has our food been burned by the thief army? The army has run out of food?"

"Yes, I also feel that, two days ago, how could Tsiejun's large-scale raids only burn a little? Maybe it's all burned."

"They are definitely lying to us."

Wang Ji, seeing the soldiers below telling him that the closer they are to the truth, he can't help but feel panic. He hurriedly sorted out his official uniform and appeared in front of the soldiers. For the sake of the current plan, he had to rely on this official uniform to temporarily scare these soldiers.

"What's going on? Who is making noise here? Don't you want to live anymore?" Wang Ji stroked his beard and appeared in front of the soldiers with a majestic look on his face, pretending to be angry.

When the soldiers saw Wang Ji coming, especially his bright official uniform, they seemed to awaken the fear hidden deep in their hearts. They were so scared that they dared not speak out, and their bodies couldn't help but shrink into the crowd behind them, as if only hiding in the crowd could bring them a limited sense of security.
Chapter completed!