has reached a certain degree of tacit understanding with his younger brother who is in the camp of the Jin army, which makes Zhao Yin have greater confidence in the next sneak attack on the Jin military camp and the dilemma of relieving the righteous teacher.

However, how exactly to implement the strategy of sneaking up on the camp?

The next day, that is, on the sixth day of the first lunar month, Chen Miao, Cheng Zhou, Wu Yi, and Zhao Yin discussed the matter of 'sneak attack on Jinying'.

During the meeting, Chen asked Zhao Yin about specific strategies.

Zhao Yin replied: "I think that we should first try to cut off the eyes and ears of the Jin army and attack the patrol soldiers sent by them......

Hearing this, Chen Miao hesitated and asked, "Will it startle the snake and make Xue Ao see through our intentions?" ”

"There's nothing to worry about." Zhao Yin explained: "When attacking the patrol guards of the Jin army, the righteous master may wish to organize several troops to go to the Jin camp to fight, so that Xue Ao may have a misunderstanding, and mistakenly believe that our attack on his patrol soldiers is to force him out of the camp to fight with us...... This should delay for a few days. ”

Speaking of this, he seemed to think of something, and comforted the other three people present: "The three of you can rest assured, Xue Ao thinks that he has an advantage, and then he just needs to sit and wait for my righteous master to collapse by himself, so no matter how much my righteous master attacks the patrol guards of the Jin army, it will most likely not arouse Xue Ao's anger, and the only thing he will do is only to strengthen the defense." ”

"Hmm."

Chen Miao nodded approvingly, and then said with a smile: "The scouts of the Jin army are the most difficult for the wolves in Kunyang, but fortunately, this group of people has been transferred to Kaifeng...... Oh, it seems that even Heaven is on my side with the righteous teacher. ”

『…… Your 'heaven' is now in the Jin camp, maybe you are still talking and laughing with that Xue Ao."

Zhao Yin chuckled secretly, not exposing this 'God-given' coincidence.

He coughed and said, "In response to the attack of the Jin army scouts, I suggest that it be handed over to General Xiang Xuan...... I heard that he fought with the wolves in Kunyang in Yingyang, and I believe that he must have mastered some of the tactics of the wolves in Kunyang. ”

"Good idea."

Chen Miao's eyes lit up, and he immediately ordered Xiang Xuan to be invited left and right.

A moment later, Xiang Xuan came to Chen Xuan's barracks.

After a brief greeting to each other, Chen Miao asked Xiang Xuan: "General Xiang, do you have any understanding of the way the 'Kunyang wolves' act?" ”

Xiang Xuan was confused, and nodded puzzled: "I know a little bit about it." ”

Seeing this, Chen Miao briefly explained the matter, and immediately asked Xiang Xuan: "After our discussion, if we want to attack the Jin army camp first, we must do our best to attack the Jin army's patrol guards......

Xiang Xuan suddenly realized and said happily: "I understand." Be sure to leave this matter to the last general. ”

Seeing his confident look, Cheng Zhou asked curiously, "Is General Xiang sure?" ”

Xiang Xuan said with a smile: "I and my generals have fought with the wolves under Zhou Hu's command many times, and we know very well the tactics they adopt, but those wolf cubs are all battle-hardened black turban pawns, immersed in this way, experienced, and not afraid of death, which has repeatedly caused the scouts under my command to suffer." Now that the group of wolf cubs has been transferred to Kaifeng, only a group of ordinary Jin army scouts remain...... Scold. ”

Seeing that Xiang Xuan was full of confidence, Chen Xuan, Cheng Zhou, and Wu Yi all showed satisfied looks.

Immediately, Chen Miao said solemnly to Xiang Xuan: "Since this is the case, this matter will be handed over to General Xiang." …… This matter is related to whether our righteous master can reverse the disadvantage, please General Xiang must be cautious. ”

"Yes." Xiang Xuan retreated with his fists clenched.

Looking at the back of Xiang Xuan's departure, Zhao Yin pondered for a moment, and then said: "It should take a few days to attack the Jin army scouts...... Chen Shuai, I don't know how many days can Xiaohuang County and the food hoarding in the camp be supported? ”

Hearing this, Chen Miao said with a little palpitation: "Fortunately, the grain and grass were transported several times a year ago, and there should be no problem in supporting it until the beginning of February." ”

"That's it...... Almost twenty-five days? Zhao Yin pondered.

"Hmm."

Chen Miao nodded, and then his face became heavy: "If the Jin army in Kaifeng really stuck the grain road from Xianping to Xiaohuang, after twenty-five days, my 180,000 righteous teachers will fall into a desperate situation of running out of food." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Yin pondered for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Twenty-five days, it's not long, but it's not too short, at least my righteous teacher still has a chance to turn the situation around...... In contrast, the Jin army in Kaifeng and Kao counties, I am afraid that the military food situation is even worse than that of my righteous division. As he spoke, he turned his head to Chen Miao and said, "Anyway, it's okay for the time being, Chen Shuai might as well send someone to set up a camp on the east side of Liangcheng to cut off the connection between Liangcheng and Kao County." …… The Jin army intercepted the grain route of my righteous division in Kaifeng, let's cut off the grain route of the Jin army in Kao County, if nothing else, the Jin army in Kao County will run out of grain earlier. ”

"Good idea." Chen Miao and Cheng Zhou spoke in agreement.

On the same day, according to Zhao Yin's suggestion, Wu Yi, the general of the Jiangdong Righteous Division, sent his general Zhong Yi to lead 10,000 Jiangdong troops to the east side of Liangcheng and set up a camp about 20 miles away from the city.

Due to the presence of scouts from Liangcheng in the vicinity, Tong Yan, the governor of Liang County, soon learned of the rebels' movements, and sent someone to send the news to the Jin camp in the western suburbs, and reported it to Xue Ao, the general of the chariot cavalry.

"The rebels sent people to set up camp east of Liangcheng?"

After learning the news, Xue Ao showed a little surprise on his face.

After a while, he said with a bit of abruptness and appreciation: "This trick is amazing." …… It can not only cut off the connection between the Kaoxian garrison and Liangcheng, cut off its grain route, but also help to attack Liangcheng in the coming days. Gee...... I thought that the rebels would try their best to recapture Kaifeng and Kao County, but I didn't expect that he didn't plan to recapture any of them...... Clever! This Chen Miao is really not simple. ”

After thinking for a while, he instructed left and right: "Send someone to inform Tong Yan and ask him to harass the rebels and set up camp." …… The dignified lieutenant of a county can't even do such a trivial matter, right? "Shih Tzu literature

"Yes."

Left and right in response.

I have to say that although Xue Ao has realized that the rebels on the opposite side are carrying out operations, the advantages he has achieved make him not pay much attention to the various movements of the rebels.

In his opinion, as long as the Jin army in Kaifeng County can ensure that the rebels' grain routes are cut off, they don't have to succeed again and again, as long as they succeed five times out of ten, the rebels of 300,000 people are destined to usher in the end of self-collapse, during this period, he just needs to wait and see what happens.

He would never have imagined that the rebels' counterattack would be so ferocious.

That night, Xiang Xuan sent 2,000 soldiers and divided them into 20 teams to search for the Jin army's scouts and patrols on the snow within a radius of 20 miles between the Jin camp and the Yishi camp.

During this period, Xiang Xuan adopted various tactics learned from the brigade wolf.

The tactics of the brigade wolf can be roughly divided into two types, namely guerrilla and ambush.

Guerrilla, to put it bluntly, is to look for traces of the enemy everywhere and strike at them when they find them.

The ambush is much more clever, in addition to using the wolf howl to transmit messages to each other, the brigade wolf will even use the wolf howl to lure the enemy, and even more, the brigade wolf will deliberately hold a torch at night to attract the attention of the enemy, and wait until the enemy hurriedly comes to take a look, and several litters of wolves are guarding the side, and the result is that the whole army is annihilated.

At the beginning, the scouts under Xiang Xuan's command were beaten by the brigade wolf and almost didn't even dare to get out of the city, until Xiang Xuan himself learned well, and thought of the method of 'light and darkness', and asked a larger number of scouts to follow a scout who was normally holding torches, and suddenly attacked after the brigade wolf appeared.

And tonight, Xiang Xuan used the ambush tactics he learned from the brigade wolf, as well as the ambush tactics he came up with himself, to the scouts and patrol guards of the Jin army.

So much so that at dawn the next day, Li Meng, the governor of Henan, was shocked by the exaggerated casualty figures.

In disbelief, he asked the generals who had come to pay their respects: "What did you say?" Of the scouts sent out by our army last night, out of a full 400 scouts, only about 30 of them escaped alive? Even, the rebels inflicted heavy losses on five patrols of our army? Killed more than 300 people? ”

"Yes, yes." The subordinate general who came to pay the prayer lowered his head and said.

Six hundred people died in one night, which made Limon unbelievable.

What kind of situation would it take to lose 600 scouts and patrol guards at once? Could it be that the rebels dispatched a large number of soldiers last night to hunt down and kill his Jin soldiers on the entire snowfield?

"What about the wolf warriors under the command of Zhou Duwei? I remember that there were three hundred wolf warriors in this snowfield...... Didn't they help our soldiers? ”

"I don't know this general." The general who came to pay his respects said unconfidently: "But according to the scouts of our army, they did not encounter the wolf soldiers of the Yingchuan army. ”

"......" Li Meng frowned slightly, then nodded and said, "Okay, I know, you go down." ”

"Yes!"

After the general left, Li Meng pondered for a moment, then summoned the left and right and ordered: "You two go to Wang Qing, the commander of the subordinate under the command of Zhou Duwei, and ask about the situation of the wolf soldiers, and see what the reason is, the wolf soldiers did not assist our army's scouts last night...... Remember to be polite. ”

Left and right asked in confusion: "Shouldn't you ask Captain Zhou face to face about this matter?" ”

Li Meng rolled his eyes angrily.

Of course, he also knew that it was better to ask Zhou Hu directly, but if he did this, wouldn't this seem a bit suspicious of asking the teacher?

"Go!"

"Yes."

About a moment later, the two guards went and returned, and replied to Li Meng with strange expressions: "Captain, why didn't we support our army scouts last night...... It turned out that the three hundred wolf soldiers had been transferred to Kaifeng County the day before. ”

"Ahh

Li Meng suddenly realized.

Of course, he understood what that Zhou Duwei was doing when he transferred the three hundred brigade wolves to Kaifeng County.

He just felt a little depressed, depressed that the rebels' noses were so sharp, and only two days after the three hundred brigade wolves were transferred, the rebel scouts launched a counterattack against his Jin army.

"I can only strengthen the night patrol......

Li Meng thought with a frown.

After all, the camp of his Henan army is higher than that of the Yingchuan army, and the number of his Henan army far exceeds that of the Yingchuan army, so his Henan army should assume greater responsibility in camp defense and night defense.

"However, the rebels suddenly began to attack our scouts, which is not a good sign......"

Muttering to himself, Li Meng thought that Xue Ao should be informed of the rebels' movements.