The sour jujube barracks, which was originally stable, suddenly became boiling because of unexpected visitors.

In the big tent, Chen Shi's eyes were wide and almost wanted to breathe fire, and he glared angrily at the more than twenty soldiers below who were tied with their arms tied and hung their heads, and shouted angrily: "Is there anything missing?" ”

Seeing that the main general was so angry, the commanders of the soldiers who were silently standing under the tent were all awe-inspiring, and one of them stepped forward and whispered: "The last general will wait for the emergency patrol of the camp, and there is no omission in the camp, as for the outside of the camp, the scouts have been dispatched to patrol, and there will be a return later." ”

When Chen Shi heard this, his anger subsided slightly, but his eyes still flashed with fierce light. The more than 20 people under the tent broke into the camp at night, and also publicized the emergency military situation, causing great chaos among the other troops, and even some villagers in the peripheral private camps took the opportunity to flee out.

In anger, Chen Shi did not have time to verify the truth of the news, and directly ordered people to arrest and kill these soldiers who broke into the camp. Despite this, the news of the attack on Huting has also spread in the camp.

"Chen, General Chen, I'm really waiting for the Huting defenders to come to report urgently......"

Among the arrested soldiers, one of the soldiers looked up and said in a trembling voice.

"Whoever disturbs our army's heart deserves to die!"

Chen Shi interrupted the soldier's words with a loud shout, and then said in a condensed voice: "What happened, tell me in detail!" ”

From his heart, he hated to kill all these people who rushed to the camp. However, the commander who spoke out happened to know him, and he was one of the people sent by Tian Ni to the upper Huting before, and he had also followed the general of the Huting Pavilion to visit him before, so he could be sure of his identity. In this way, the military information transmitted by the other party is very important to Chen Shi.

When the commander heard this, he hurriedly recounted the matter intermittently.

The Duke of Xinle County was the title of Tianni, and his people sent 3,000 soldiers to guard the Huting in Xingyang, but they were besieged the night before, and they were unable to defeat it, so they sent people to Yanjin downstream for help. As for the so-called Xinle Gong's order, it is naturally impossible for Tian Ni to directly order it, and his people are now sitting in Ji County, Hebei, so it is naturally impossible to get the news so quickly and order Chen Shi to reinforce him.

But when the other party says this, there is nothing wrong with it. Because the Wei king's command of the next step should be used in the next division of the dispute, so the south bank of the Yellow River stationed troops are not much, Chen Shi is his own initiative to come south, and in the downstream of the Xiaqiu originally there were nearly 10,000 troops to meet Liu Zheng who went north, as a result, Liu Zheng's troops were completely annihilated in Xuzhou, and there was no response to return to Huaibei in the short term, so most of the troops were withdrawn, and only more than 3,000 garrisons were retained.

Therefore, the military forces deployed by the Wei forces on the south bank of the Yellow River were only more than 10,000 troops combined. Among them, Chen Shi's department accounted for more than half, and the 3,000 garrison of Xingyang Huting was Tian Ni's private garrison after finding out that Chen Shi had gained a lot in Henan, and he also made a special trip to inform Chen Shi earlier that he hoped that he would give him some shelter.

Although Chen Shi was not angry with Tian Ninan to compete for the interests that should belong to him, he really did not have the confidence to turn against Tian Ni at the moment. After all, Tian Ni led more than 20,000 people to sit in Ji County, Hebei Province, and tightly choked Chen Shi's retreat. Therefore, Chen Shi not only had to endure Tian Ni's intervention in Henan, but also had to express his flank to assist the Huting people.

Originally, this was just a polite empty word, after all, there is no too strong opponent in Henan now, the Huainan army is making every effort to encircle and suppress Chen Guang, and Xuzhou is beyond the reach of the whip, as for the old ghost of Heluo Taobao, he is still nominally subordinate to the King of Wei at the moment, and he will never dare to send troops against the King of Wei. So at the moment, there are no strong opponents at all, and what they need to do is to plunder as much Henan Yuan Qi as possible to replenish their strength.

But now the Huting defenders are actually in a hurry to ask for help, which has to make Chen Shi's heart frenzy suddenly. He also believed to ask who the attacker was, but these people who came to report the news were vague and unclear, but they only said that the other party's army was strong, and it was definitely not an enemy of Huting, and they came to ask for help while the other party had not yet formed a close situation.

Will there be fraud?

After listening to the soldier's narration, this thought first came to Chen Shi's mind. Because in his cognition, there are really no strong opponents in this realm in the short term. He is also a person who has been traveling from Rong for a long time, and he has been trained from the Wei Wang's trilogy, so he naturally has no lack of confidence in his judgment.

Huting itself has more than 3,000 defenders, and the back of the Yellow River, the retreat is worry-free, if someone really launches an attack, at least to gather more than 10,000 people, in order to crush the Huting defenders, to break through the siege at the first time for help.

Of course, it does not mean that there are no such opponents, the most likely of which is the Huainan Army, Chen Shi knows that the Huainan Army has gathered tens of thousands of troops in Xuchang, known as 100,000 people. But there must be water in it, Chen Shi guessed that the Huainan army should be between 30,000 and 40,000, on the one hand, it was judged by the law of deception, and on the other hand, because the Huainan army has not been able to solve Chen Guang so far, if it can really gather 100,000 people, it is impossible, even if the number of people alone can crush Chen Guang, and it will not be a confrontation so far.

Moreover, Huainan is not only the opponent of Huainan, but also the peach leopard on the west side has to be defended, and the Huainan commercial center of Runan must have enough troops to maintain stability, not to mention that Huainan is said to have sent more than 20,000 troops to participate in the battle in Xuzhou.

In such a situation, not to mention whether Shen Weizhou of Huainan can still mobilize enough troops to attack Xingyang, even if there is, with Huainan making many enemies, unless Shen Weizhou is crazy, how dare he provoke King Wei again. You must know that the King of Wei has tens of thousands of people, even if he can gather fifty or sixty thousand men and horses in a short period of time, once he is provoked and puts these troops on the battlefield in Henan, it will definitely be a fatal blow to Huainan.

If Huainan is impossible, then which side has such a strong military force? It is impossible for Peach Leopard, and it is impossible for Chen Guang.

But there is one more person who maybe, and that is Tenny himself! It is very likely that after tasting the sweetness, Tian Ni coveted himself who came south first, and wanted to transfer Chen Shi away from the sour dates and then swallow them. This is absolutely possible, you must know that Chen Shi himself is the general of the Wei King Shikan, Tian Ni has always regarded himself as the heir of the Wei King, and seeing that Chen Shi gradually has the strength to stand on his own, he wants to engulf it with a trick.

If it happens, presumably King Wei will not blame Tian Ni for this. Even if it doesn't work, Chen Shi dares to turn his face directly with Tian Ni now?

Chen Shi himself was dissatisfied with Tian Ni, and these messengers were vague, the key is that these people said that they broke through and rushed to ask for help, but first of all, there was no trace of a fierce battle on their bodies, and if Hu Ting was really in danger and needed to be solved, there was no doubt that the waterway was much faster than the land route, because the Yellow River waterway was still under the control of the King of Wei.

Although he has consciously understood Tian Ni's sinister intentions, but Chen Shi really does not have the strength to turn his face with Tian Ni at the moment, even if he has recently surged, but it is only more than 7,000 people, of which more than 1,000 people control the retreat of the ferry on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the south bank is also equipped with 1,000 people to guard the waterway, and now there are only more than 5,000 people in Sour Zao, and nearly half of them are new recruits.

As the slave of King Wei, Tian Ni also served as the Taishou of Ji County, and he commanded more than 20,000 people, and he could also levy nearly 10,000 strong men in the future, and his strength was far from being matched by Chen Shi. What's more, if he really dares to have a conflict with Tian Ni, the so-called inseparable, even if it is in front of King Wei, it can only be Chen Shi himself who suffers, even if King Wei will not harm him if he cares about the old feelings, it is absolutely impossible for him to be independent of his own tribes in the future!

After a little silence, Chen Shi immediately ordered that all these messengers be detained in the army, and he did not dare to kill them all, but he could never be stupid enough to throw himself into the net. Then he ordered the army to shrink in the base camp of sour jujube, and temporarily give up and plunder the countryside of Henan. At the same time, he was not sure that his judgment was true, so he still sent hundreds of rangers, on the one hand, to go upstream to find out the news, and on the other hand, to recall the few people who had not returned after the deadline.

In addition to rectifying the men and horses of the headquarters, Chen Shi gathered more than a dozen boats on the banks of the Yellow River, and at the same time secretly sent hundreds of cronies to cross the river to the north to warn and defend, fearing that Tian Ni would cut off his retreat.

Throughout the night, the sour jujube camp was in a state of nervous preparation, and Chen Shi also wore the night, not daring to relax, lest he would suffer a catastrophe if he slacked off, and he was worried that his judgment would be wrong, if Hu Ting was really besieged, he would lead the crowd to not save him, and he would inevitably offend Tian Ni completely. As a result, he had a tormented night, just anxiously waiting for the scouts to hear back.

After dawn, there were finally soldiers outside the sour jujube camp, these soldiers were from the north along the Yellow River, but the news brought back made Chen Shi directly stunned on the spot.

"W-This is all salvaged on the river?"

Seeing that the soldiers sent dozens of stumps and broken arms that were soaked and white, as well as the debris of boats and ships, Chen Shi's eyes widened, and he asked in disbelief.

After receiving the affirmative answers from the soldiers, Chen Shi was already cold, and he felt that a huge crisis was coming from the top of his head. Hu Ting was really attacked by the enemy, wasn't Tian Ni deceiving himself?

Of course, there is also the possibility of counterfeiting these things. But soon Chen Shi realized that nearly half of the scouts sent last night had not returned, and there were still several routes of nearly 1,000 men and horses that had not returned after the deadline, as if they had disappeared out of thin air. If this is an ordinary situation, these anomens are not without explanation. But if there is really a powerful enemy who will encircle and annihilate the people of Huting, it means that during this time, Chen Shi has been blocked and has become deaf and blind!

"Gather your men and horses quickly and move to the ferry!"

Chen Shi roared, he didn't dare to make any clever judgments, if Hu Ting really lost, and the other party still had the strength to block his ears and eyes, he could imagine what a powerful opponent was approaching him. Although his strength is slightly better than that of Hu Ting, if the other party really has the strength to encircle and annihilate Hu Ting, then his current situation is already extremely dangerous!

What's more, Hu Ting is Tian Ni's people, and thousands of people have been surrounded and suppressed while he has sat idly by, how can Tian Ni come to the rescue without suspicion and even provide a way out for himself! The top priority is to quickly cross the river to protect his people, and then cross the river to warn the King of Wei!