『ps: I am a little uncomfortable with the words I coded at my father-in-law’s house, so I spent a little more time than at home, but I still insisted on coding this chapter. Tomorrow, my mother-in-law’s 60th birthday, if I have time, I will insist on coding. If I don’t have time, I can only ask for leave again and make up for it after I go back. I hope my book friends will forgive me. I will be ready to go back on the morning of the 7th, well, a six-hour drive."

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That night, Lian Po was responsible for night patrols in the camp.

After explaining the night patrol and on duty to Simas at all levels under his subordinates, Lian Po brought more than a dozen guards to Zhao Bao's camp in Yangwenjun and made an appointment with Zhao Bao's assistant Sima Zhao Ben.

When Zhao Ben learned of the report from his subordinates, he was very surprised by Lian Po's appointment. After all, they had not had any contact before, Zhao Ben was a general of the Handan clan, while Lian Po was a general of the Jinyang clan. Although he had met several times in the past, at best, he was just a nod and could not have any friendship.

Not to mention that the two have some differences in their identities and backgrounds. Zhao Ben is the cousin of Yangwenjun Zhao Bao, and he is the assistant to the Sima. If nothing unexpected happens, Zhao Ben will replace Zhao Bao's military power in the future. Lian Po was previously just a Sima under the command of Yangjun Li Dui. Although the military positions of the two are actually only one level different, considering that there are generally only two Simas in the organization of an army, but there can be as many as eight Simas, you can know that the gap at this level is really big.

However, since Lian Po defeated the two generals of Hu Qian and Peng Zhi under Gongzi Zhang and rescued King He from Jize, no one has regarded Lian Po as an ordinary Sima. After all, everyone understands that King He was moved by Lian Po's rescue. In the future, Lian Po will definitely rise to the top in Zhao State and is limitless.

Because of this, when Zhao Ben met Lian Po, he was polite and regarded Lian Po as his own level.

"I don't know that Sima Lian came and never met him. I will forgive my sins."

"Zhao Zuo and Sima Yan are so serious."

Lian Po smiled and hugged his fists, then explained: "I originally wanted to discuss something with Yang Wenjun, but I heard that the affairs of General Yang Wenjun were handed over to Zuo Sima..."

"Um." Zhao Ben nodded and explained: "A while ago, Yang Wenjun and Junshang and his group were trapped in Jize, with no water and food. In addition, Yang Wenjun is already old and is inevitably a little weak recently, so I will take charge of the army..." Speaking of this, he asked curiously: "I don't know what Sima Lian wants to discuss with Yang Wenjun, so I will tell you the same."

“That’s natural.”

Lian Po nodded and immediately said to Zhao Ben: "I just suspect that the rebels are likely to attack at night, so I want to discuss with Yang Wenjun..."

"Night attack?" Zhao Ben chuckled and said, "Is it Meng Zhong who is guarding against Lian Sima?"

“Some.”

Lian Po did not hide it, nodded and said truthfully: "You have also seen the war today. As far as I know, Meng Zhong brought three thousand soldiers to this day, but from the beginning to the end, Meng Zhong did not order to assist Gongzi Zhang. According to my guess, I am afraid that Meng Zhong did not intend to attack for force, but hoped to attack."

"Um." Zhao Ben hugged his arms and pondered.

I have to say that he also found it strange to Meng Zhongjun's actions today. Gongzi Zhang's rebels fought and killed them, while Meng Zhongjun was watching from afar on the edge of the battlefield. Apart from restraining Zhao Ben's thousands of troops, he made no contribution to Gongzi Zhang's rebels.

No matter how he thought about it, Zhao Ben felt that Meng Zhong had other plans.

However, Zhao Ben was not worried about Lian Po's night attack. Of course, he knew that Meng Zhong was good at leading his army at night attacks, so he naturally prepared corresponding defenses early. If Meng Zhong really dared to attack, Zhao Ben would definitely make him pay a heavy price!

Seeing that there was nothing else at hand, Zhao Ben simply asked the soldiers to prepare some wine and dishes, and invited Lian Po to drink in the tent to exchange feelings. After all, Lian Po was destined to be valued by Fengyang Jun Li Du and even Zhao Wang He. To establish a relationship in advance, it might be of great use in the future.

Lian Po was also a drinker, and he did not refuse when he saw Zhao Ben's invitation. Anyway, he had already told the Simas under his command about the night patrol. Unless the rebels really came to attack, he didn't have to do everything himself.

So, Zhao Ben and Lian Po were in the tent, drinking wine while talking about the situation of the two armies' confrontation today.

As it was almost the hour of Hai, Zhao Ben and Lian Po suddenly heard a commotion in the camp, as if many soldiers were running back and forth, even chatting and wondering what they were saying.

Looking at each other, Zhao Ben and Lian Po immediately put away the smiles on their faces when they were talking and laughing, stood up at the same time, and walked out of the tent.

I saw outside the tent, in the southeast camp area of ​​the camp, vaguely there were many soldiers running back and forth with torches in their hands, for some reason.

Seeing this, Zhao Ben immediately ordered the soldiers guarding outside the tent and said, "What happened there? Why is it so noisy? Please go quickly and ask the reason!"

However, before the soldiers he sent out had left, several soldiers hurriedly came to report.

Among those soldiers, the person in charge was a "brigade commander", the general who commanded 500 people. He rushed to Zhao Ben and reported with his fists: "You are the one who knows that you are the one who is in charge of Sima. Just now, a shout of killing suddenly sounded on the southeast side of the camp. It is suspected that a rebel army attacked our camp at night."

『Night attack?』

Zhao Ben and Lian Po looked at each other and immediately arrived at the camp on the southeast side.

After a careful look, Zhao Ben and Lian Po did not find signs of being attacked by rebels in the camp. Instead, many soldiers who were awakened were holding torches and running back and forth with fear and anxiety, searching for the so-called rebels in the invading camp.

"What's going on?"

Zhao Ben asked.

Even after a soldier explained, "Reporting to Sima, there seemed to be signs of rebel attacking the camp, but the soldiers checked the various parts of the camp, but found no abnormalities."

"Where is outside the camp?" Zhao Ben asked again: "Have you ever sent troops to search outside the camp?"

Some soldiers may reply: "Report to the sir Sima, Zhou Ge Sima has led his troops out of the camp to search for traces of the rebels."

"Have Zhou Ge gone?"

Zhao Ben nodded slightly.

Zhou Ge was the Sima in his army. He was steady and brave, and was a general that Zhao Ben valued more.

After waiting for about half an hour, Sima Zhouge led a team of soldiers back to the camp. After seeing Zhao Ben and Lian Po, he hurriedly walked to Zhao Ben and bowed with his fists.

Zhao Ben nodded and asked immediately: "Zhou Ge, have you ever found the whereabouts of the rebels?"

"No." Zhou Ge shook his head and then told the story at that time: "I just heard the sound of killing outside the camp and the snare drums. I immediately summoned the soldiers who were watching the night, but there was no sign of the rebels attacking the camp. Therefore, after the drum sound stopped, I led a team of soldiers out of the camp to find out, but there was no trace of the rebels outside the camp."

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment and then added: "However, during this period, I found the bodies of a team of night patrol soldiers. It was suspected that they were ambushed by crossbow arrows, but there were no arrows on the corpse, and there were traces of dragging the body."

“…”

Zhao Ben frowned when he heard this.

Since there were soldiers patrolling outside the camp were killed, it was obvious that there were rebels operating in this area. However, this group of rebels killed more than just a team of soldiers patrolling outside the camp, then beat the sermon drum and shouted, and then evacuated?

Is this move profound?

If you can't figure it out, Zhao Ben really can't figure it out.

At this time, Lian Po interrupted, "If it is the southeast side, it should be that Meng Zhong, right?"

"Um."

Zhao Ben nodded slightly.

As for the present, the rebels are divided into three branches: Zhao Zhang, Meng Zhong and Pang Nuan. Among them, Pang Nuan is far away in Xindu. No matter how you think about it, it is impossible to bypass the camp of Anping Jun Zhao Cheng to attack them. As for Gongzi Zhang, Gongzi Zhang's camp is about twenty miles away. It takes at least two hours to travel at night. Is it that Gongzi Zhang full and full? After the fierce battle in the daytime today, the soldiers will not be allowed to rest. It takes two hours to lead the soldiers to their side and shout?

After thinking about it, Meng Zhong is even more suspicious.

At first, Meng Zhong's army's headquarters was located on the east side of Quliangyi. Although it was about twenty miles away, Meng Zhong was familiar with military tactics and his strategy was far beyond the reach of Gongzi Zhang and those of you. Maybe there would be some deceit behind his actions.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ben reminded Zhou Ge: "Anyway, Meng Zhong has many tricks, you need to be careful. Now, let the soldiers go back to the tent to rest."

"Here!"

Zhou Ge held his fists and took the order, and immediately ordered the soldiers standing in the camp to return to the tent to rest.

Seeing this, Zhao Ben took Lian Po back to his tent.

After the two sat down face to face, Zhao Ben snorted: "Well, Meng Zhong, don't know what the intention is..."

As soon as he finished speaking, before Lian Po could respond, he vaguely heard another commotion in the Southeast Camp that had just calmed down.

"Damn it!"

The wine bowl that Zhao Ben had just picked up was put back on the low table, and then stood up and walked out of the tent.

Lian Po frowned and followed closely.

Just like before, when Zhao Ben and Lian Po ran to the southeast camp, the shouts of killing and snare drums outside the camp stopped. There were only a group of alarmed soldiers in the camp holding torches and weapons, either panic on their faces or confusing to search around the camp to check whether rebels attacked the camp.

However, the search result was that everything in the camp was normal.

Then, Sima Zhouge, who led his army out of the camp to search again, returned empty-handed and reported to Zhao Ben without any results: "Assisted Sima, I have not found any trace of the rebels outside the camp."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Ben frowned and said, "Since it's just a false alarm, please ask the soldiers to return to the tent to rest."

As he said that, he turned his head and looked southeast and sneered: "I am so leisurely. In the middle of the night, I ran twenty miles away and ran outside our military camp and shouted... Do he think that this scare will make our army scare you?"

Lian Po did not follow up because he was also thinking about the intention of Meng Zhongjun's actions.

Is it really just trying to scare them?

A moment later, the alarmed soldiers in the military camp returned to their respective military tents again.

Seeing this, Lian Po clasped his fists to Zhao Ben and said, "It's not too early to assist Sima, so I'll say goodbye first... I'm also a little worried about whether our army was harassed by the rebels."

Zhao Ben nodded, and also hugged his fists and said, "Indeed, then I won't leave Sima Lian."

The two parted ways, Lian Po returned to his camp, while Zhao Ben returned to his military tent.

At this time, the night was already dark, and after drinking a lot of wine, Zhao Ben felt a little tired, so he fell on the straw couch and closed his eyes, ready to rest.

But unexpectedly, just as he was drowsy and about to fall asleep, he suddenly heard riots coming from the camp again.

"Your mother!"

Zhao Ben, who was usually well-educated, suddenly opened his eyes and cursed, then put on his coat, lifted his sword and rushed into the tent.

This time, he simply stopped going to the camp on the southeast side and led a team of guards to the camp on the east side.

On the way, Zhao Ben met Lian Po. After asking, he realized that Lian Po and he had thought of going with him: When Lian Po returned to his camp, he saw the sound of killing outside the military camp of Yangwenjun Zhao Bao again shouting, so he decisively led the guards straight to Dongying Gate, wanting to find out what happened in person.

Unlike the previous two episodes, this time Zhao Ben and Lian Po did hear the sound of killing outside the camp and the sound of snare drums that were shocking. However, these shouts and snare drums disappeared again when they arrived at the Dongying Gate. The reason was that Sima Zhouge, the officer in the camp, had led hundreds of soldiers on duty on night to the outside of the camp.

Walking outside the camp with Lian Pui, Zhao Ben saw Zhou Ge and hundreds of soldiers under his command searching in the distance with torches. He shouted loudly: "Zhou Ge."

"So Sima?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Ge immediately came to Zhao Ben and Lian Po, and bowed to them with fists.

Zhao Ben nodded as a return gift, then frowned and asked, "Can the traces of the rebels be found?"

Hearing this, Zhou Ge raised his hand and pointed to the dark distance, and said with a serious expression: "It seems to be coming from that direction. I am preparing to lead the soldiers forward inch by inch."
To be continued...