"Thank you, Dong Shuai. In addition, Dong Shuai was also asked to provide some necessary materials for the general. Zhou Bo said without saying anything.

"What do you need?" Dong Hao asked.

"Please Dong Shuai must prepare three stones of fire oil this afternoon, and at the same time hand over all the war drums of the Dong family army to the last general. Zhou Bo said.

"War drums are easy to say, but they are already very scarce in the fire oil army, and there are too many three stones. Dong Hao showed an embarrassed face.

Most of the oil used in lamps and torches in the Song Dynasty was butter, and now in the time of famine, butter is already a very valuable material. Zhou Bo asked for three stones of fire oil, which was almost all of Dong Jiajun's current storage.

Zhou Bo said solemnly: "Dong Shuai, if you use three stones of fire oil to retreat 50,000 enemies, it can't be compared, and I ask Dong Shuai to give up the light." ”

Dong Shuai sighed, since he chose to give Zhou Bo a chance, he naturally had to support him to the end, he said: "Okay, in the afternoon, Ben Shuai will send the oil and war drums to the front camp." ”

Zhou Bobai thanked him: "Thank you Dong Shuai, the last general will never let Dong Shuai down." ”

Wang Wenshou and the other two battalion commanders all looked indifferent, they wanted to see how Zhou Bo had a way to retreat from the enemy.

In fact, early this morning, after Zhou Bo received the information that the reconnaissance team had detected the dynamics of the Qi army, he already had an outline of a strategy to retreat from the enemy in his heart. He asked Bi Jin, who was in charge of leading the reconnaissance today, that the Qi army had just begun to repair the military camp, and the number of troops that had arrived on the west bank of Hanchuan was only 10,000, and the rest of the troops should still be in Yingzhou City.

He estimated that the construction of the twenty large camps would not be completed until tomorrow at the earliest, and the period before that. It's a good opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

This time, an army of 50,000 people came to attack. The reason why he insisted on fighting it. In addition to having a certain grasp of retreating from the enemy, it is more important to establish a prestige within the Dong family's army. Even if the plan to retreat from the enemy fails, at least Dong Jiajun will know that he is courageous!

Prove it, right tonight!

After Zhou Bo returned to the front camp, he immediately gathered all six escort teams under his command in the military tent.

"Dong Shuai has already given an order, we must hold on to Sizhou. ”

Zhou Bo deliberately did not say that the order to stick to Sizhou this time was proposed by him, but directly pushed it to Dong Shuai. Because he knew that these subordinates were not convinced of himself, if he let them know that he was not able to hold on to Sizhou. I'm afraid that one by one will be even more resentful.

The six escort teams looked at each other and began to discuss.

"This, this, how could Dong Shuai have to hold on to Sizhou? My Dong family's army is only more than 2,000 people, how can I defeat the 50,000 army of Qi Dog?"

"yes, yes, how is this good?"

"Once the Qi Dog army crosses the Hanchuan, we won't be able to hold it for even a day!"

Zhou Bo snorted coldly and said, "Are you still a dignified seven-foot man?" Since Dong Shuai has already given the order, we must go all out. What's more, who said that my Dong family's army is no match for Qi Dog?"

The six escorts were stunned.

Bi Jin looked at Zhou Bo. asked: "Battalion commander, isn't it that Dong Shuai has a strategy to deal with the enemy?"

Zhou Bo smiled slightly. Following Bi Jin's words, he said, "That's right. Do you know how many taboos Qi Gou committed by camping on the west bank of the Hanchuan River?"

Bi Jin hurriedly asked, "Please also ask the battalion commander to show me." ”

Zhou Bo put on a serious face and said: "The Pseudo-Qi army has won a great victory in Xiangyang, and at this time the army is strong, and I only have two thousand five hundred troops in Sizhou, and I can tell at a glance whether the strength is high or weak. Therefore, the pseudo-Qi must not have taken us seriously, and it was the jealousy of arrogance. This is one of them. Second, the puppet Qi army camped in the wilderness, but they didn't know that it was autumn at this time, the wind was high and cool, and it was the most taboo to attack. With these two points, it is not impossible for my Dong Jiajun to win more with less. ”

After hearing Zhou Bo's words, the six escort teams suddenly understood, and it seemed that they should attack the enemy camp by surprise.

After Zhou Bo saw that his subordinates had some confidence, he continued: "As a former battalion soldier, I will naturally take the position of pioneer. Dong Shuai has ordered my front camp to surprise the Qi army tonight, but I only plan to bring 300 people to go, if you don't want to go, you can tell me now. ”

The tone of his last sentence seemed very contemptuous, and it was natural that he deliberately provoked these subordinates.

The six escort teams are all northern men, people of temperament, and when they heard these words, they immediately stepped forward and took a step, and they all bowed their hands and said: "A certain wish!"

Zhou Bo showed a satisfied smile and said, "Very good, tonight I will wait for a surprise attack, and I will definitely not make a big move, and once I succeed, I will retreat immediately." ”――

In the afternoon, Dong Hao sent four war drums and three stones of fire oil from the Chinese army camp to the front camp.

Zhou Bo put away the war drums, and ordered an escort named Zhou Zuo to go to the county seat of Sizhou, collect some gongs and drums and other sounding instruments from the people in the city, and receive them in the front camp. None of his subordinates knew what they wanted to do, but since the battalion commander didn't say anything, they were too embarrassed to ask.

In the evening, Zhou Bo once again summoned six escort teams to begin to assign tasks, and he explained his plan in detail. After that, he ordered the army to make rice, so that the soldiers could eat first.

Late at night, seven teams were quietly dispatched from the front camp. The seven teams left the camp in complete darkness without any lighting. After arriving at the bank of the Han River, they split into two routes, two of which were led by Bi Jin and went upstream along the Han River to the north, and the other five were directed by Zhou Bo to the opposite downstream.

After walking five or six miles upstream, Bi Jin began to cross the Hanchuan River. Upon arrival on the west bank of the Han River, he immediately ordered all the cavalry to light a torch each.

"Isn't it exposed if we light torches in the middle of the night?" said one of the horsemen, worriedly. The light of the fire is extremely easy to spot in the dark, especially in this unobstructed wilderness, where it is said that the camp of the Qi army is only about ten miles away from the bank of the Hanchuan River.

"It's to let Qi Dog find us. You can rest assured, we just need to attract Qi Gou's attention, and once they send troops to chase after us, we will retreat immediately!" Bi Jin said with a somewhat calm smile.

This is naturally in accordance with Zhou Bo's plan. Zhou Bo asked Bi Jin to pretend to be a patrol of the Song army. deliberately exposed his whereabouts under the eyes of Qi Jun. It doesn't matter if the Qi army will kill it or not. At the very least, focus on this. And at this time, the other five teams approached the Qi army camp from the opposite direction, waiting for the opportunity to set fire to it.

Just when Bi Jin was swaggering back and forth on the west bank of the Hanchuan River, Zhou Bo and his party had already come to the woods in the south. They groped east along the woods and soon saw the large camp of the Qi army. The camp of the Qi army was built very well, divided into three columns, the first column of ten camps lined up, and the second column was six camps lined up. The last column must be the Chinese army camp and the baggage battalion.

Because the Qi army only began to repair during the day, until now only the ten battalions in the first column and the Chinese army battalion and baggage battalion in the last column have been completed, and all sergeants have been stationed in it. The six battalions in the middle are still just skeletons, and it is obvious that the troops are not in a hurry to attack the east bank of Hanchuan, so they did not ask for overnight repairs.

Zhou Bo squatted behind the bushes and observed carefully for a while. Although the soldiers of the Qi army's night vigil were very relaxed, and many of the people standing guard dozed off, there were many queues patrolling back and forth, and it was still difficult to sneak into the barracks.

At this time, Chen Tai, who was following Zhou Bo, looked at the sky. frowned and said, "Battalion commander, this is Dongnan Feng." The wind isn't going well!"

Of course Zhou Bo knows this, he is not Zhuge Liang who can call the wind and rain to borrow the east wind, as long as there is wind tonight, it is already good, no matter what direction of the wind he has. He said, "It doesn't matter, I don't want to burn all twenty camps tonight, even if only one is done." ”

Chen Tai said: "Camp commander, there are a lot of teams patrolling the night with dogs, how can we get closer?"

Zhou Bowei smiled and said, "Don't panic, it's still early before dawn, we have a chance, we have to learn to be patient!!"

In this way, the soldiers of the front battalion lurked in the forest of the Qi army camp gang, and waited silently for nearly an hour. In fact, Zhou Bo was not waiting, before carrying out this night attack, he had already negotiated a plan with Bi Jin to cooperate. If there was no chance to attack the Qi camp, he would not move, and Bi Jin, who was in the upper reaches of the Han River, would lead the cavalry to lure the enemy more deeply.

It didn't take long for a group of cavalry with torches to rush to the front of the Qi army's camp, thinking that Bi Jin was tentatively chasing after him.

At first, Bi Jin swayed upstream for a long time, but the Qi army camp thought that they were too far away and would definitely not be able to catch this group of scouts, so they had to ignore it. At this moment, Bi Jin followed the plan agreed with Zhou Bo: if the Qi army camp had not been attacked within an hour, he would lead the cavalry to pretend to rush towards the Qi army camp and shout for killing.

When the cavalry after all launched a charge and shouted to kill, the Qi army camp immediately became nervous. In the darkness, they could see only the light of a hundred torches, but it was not clear how many enemies there were. What's more, the Qi army was attacked at night as soon as it landed, and the Song army was bound to be prepared to dare to act like this, so everyone did not dare to take it lightly.

Soon, the ten large battalions of the first column of the Qi army all sounded the warning gongs and drums, and the Qi troops who were resting in the camp immediately ran out of the camp tent and lined up on the school field in front of the camp, ready to meet the enemy.

The ten battalions in the first column all burst into gold, and the ten battalions in the back two columns naturally did not dare to slack off, and all the battalions immediately turned on their lights, closed the camp gates, and observed the situation of the first battalion in front.

It's just that the six battalions in the second column have not been repaired, and only a few conscripts and patrols are stationed in them, and when they hear the alarm from the first battalion, they all retreat to the third battalion. Now there are only about 10,000 Qi troops stationed in the wilderness, and the fourteen military camps that have been repaired are too many for them, and the strength of each battalion is very weak, so there are no extra troops to guard the six unrepaired barracks.

Of course, the Qi army expected that even if the Song people were killed, they would never be able to break through the first ten battalions. They all knew that the Song army on the other side of the Hanchuan River had only one army's strength, and could 2,500 men break through 8,000? Moreover, these 8,000 men were still guarding the camp and waiting for work. So the six battalions in the second column don't have to worry at all.

Zhou Bo, who was hiding in the flank forest, saw this scene, and immediately secretly rejoiced, he turned around and ordered his subordinates: "Brothers, wait a minute, go out quietly with me, and use fire oil to burn the barracks in the middle column, burn as many as you can, don't fall in love with war, and take it as soon as you get it!"

The soldiers nodded one after another, taking Zhou Bo's words to heart, after all, this is a major matter related to the life of the family.

Zhou Bo looked up again and looked out of the woods, and after making sure that all the soldiers guarding the six unrepaired barracks in the second column had retreated, he immediately lowered his body and rushed out first.

The other soldiers followed Zhou Bo's example and followed one after another. They came out lightly this time, except for the guys and fire oil, all the other burdens were lifted, so they moved very quickly.

The six battalions of the second column were about two or three miles away from the rear battalions of the third column.

When they came out of the woods, the rear camp of the Qi army in the distance could not see what was happening here clearly without lights. In this way, the soldiers of the Song army approached easily.

"Quick, sprinkle oil on the wood and the tent. Chen Tai, Zhou Zuo, you take a hundred people to another big camp, remember, just destroy the wood for building the barracks, and you will light the fire with me here!" Zhou Bo said instructed.

Chen Tai and Zhou Zuo received the order and led a hundred people to quickly run to the next military camp.

Zhou Bo urged the soldiers here to sprinkle fire oil in the camp, although the camp is just a skeleton, but the materials prepared in advance and some military tents are already in place, as long as these things are burned, it can still make the Qi army suffer a lot of losses.

After a moment, Zhou Bo's side was already ready, and he could ignite the fire at any time.

At the same time, to the east, the cavalry led by Bi Jin had already begun to retreat, and it was naturally impossible for them to rush too close. As they retreated, the first battalion of the Qi Army immediately sent more than 300 cavalry to start tracking. Although the Qi army knew that it was the Song army that was tempting just now, he must not let them come and go so easily, not to mention that he wanted to catch a few spies and torture the current situation of the Song army on the east coast.

Zhou Bo waited for a while, and then decisively ordered the ignition. The soldiers took out the fire breakers, lit the fire, and began to light fires everywhere. Therefore, the camp was already sprinkled with fire oil, and the weather was dry, and the fire soon burst into flames.

"Brothers, withdraw to the woods and wait for them. Zhou Bo shouted.

Then he hurried out of the camp with his men and returned to the woodland where he had been hiding.

Not long after the first camp burned down, the second camp also burned down. With the help of the autumn wind, the fire suddenly became more and more intense and monstrous. The soldiers of the rear camp and the front camp of the Qi army were stunned when they saw this scene, and they did not know for the time being whether the burning camp was caused by improper fire prevention or because of the enemy's night attack.

The rear battalion sent cavalry to the scene to put out the fire, but there was no water source in the vast wilderness, and the nearest river was the Hanchuan River about ten miles to the east. At this time, the fire could no longer be controlled, and Yuanshui could not save the fire, so he had to start digging fire tunnels around the burning camp to prevent the fire from spreading.

And just as the Qi soldiers were busy digging the tunnel, Chen Tai and Zhou Zuo slipped out from the side with a dignified attitude. They returned to their woodland hideout and joined Zhou Bo's team. (To be continued.) )