Chapter 796: Smoke is poisonous
In order to save the patrol effort and make the defense effective, the Tubo battalion was much smaller than before, and it was built by the lake, relying on the huge lake as a natural danger to resist the enemy in the east and north.
In order to prepare for tomorrow's battle, Tibet, which had been marching for several days, had already slept as soon as night. Suddenly, a desolate and majestic trumpet sounded outside the camp.
The sound of the horn "woo woo woo" sounded in all directions, which alarmed the soldiers of the whole battalion, and they got up one after another and stood on guard, but the horn sound outside came and went in a hurry. When a group of soldiers rushed out of the camp, there was not even half a ghost.
"What's going on?" Lu Dongzan, who was discussing the military situation with Dazan Gampo, Nong Zhunbao, Drepung Nasheng, and Ba Dianzebu, rushed out of the Chinese army's tent when he heard the news.
"Back to the general, the Sui army is blowing the horn outside." A centurion replied.
"Be on your guard."
"Yes." The centurion departed.
"Coming so early?" Lu Dongzan frowned, and it was just a matter of time when he calculated the time, but the bold Sui army had already begun to harass, how could he do it all night?
After thinking about it, he said to the generals around him: "General Bu has worked hard tonight, everyone should rest early." ”
"Yes." The congregation dispersed according to the command.
As soon as the generals returned to their tents, undressed their armor, and prepared to sleep, the earth-shattering horn outside the camp sounded again.
Dazan Gampo was a spirit, raised his knife out of the tent, but once again pounced, he roared angrily: "What do these Sui troops want to do? ”
Lu Dongzan smiled bitterly: "The prince Hugh wants to be angry, this is the tired strategy of the Sui army, the purpose is to make us sleep well tonight, and we don't have the energy to fight tomorrow's battle." If the prince was angry and sent troops, he would fall for the tricks of the Sui army. ”
Dazan Gampo pointed to the soldiers who rushed out one by one, frowned, and said: "General Geer, although General Bu has 10,000 soldiers to be on guard, but you see, the soldiers don't dare to sleep at all, do you have any way to deal with these Sui troops?" Otherwise, we'll simply send an army to ambush all around. ”
"This is a trick that can't be cracked, if we send fewer people, there will be no return; Too much, in vain; If the whole army is exhausted, it will be in the hands of the enemy. Lu Dongzan shook his head helplessly.
The initiative is in the hands of the Sui army, even if they have the intention to fight back, they are helpless. The Sui army clearly wanted to consume their energy and physical strength in this way, but the problem was that there were few soldiers, even if they didn't sleep all night, it would not have any impact on the main force of the Sui army. And they have no effective way to counter it.
"Damn..." Dazan Gampo said angrily.
"The advantage of our army is that there are sufficient troops, in addition to General Bu's 10,000 patrol posts, there are 60,000 soldiers." Lu Dongzan pondered for a moment and said, "We will draw another 10,000 people and divide them into two teams, one team will first be under martial law in the camp, and then the other team will be transferred after two hours, and the others will only need to sleep in peace." ”
At the moment, according to Lu Dongzan's method, the Tubo army led 10,000 soldiers to patrol the night outside, and there were two teams of soldiers on guard inside, and the other soldiers had a sense of security in their hearts, and when the horn sounded again, everyone did not care about continuing to sleep.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the sound of the horn to fall silent again.
This continued one after another until the end of the day, and Lu Dongzan finally put his mind at ease and fell asleep deeply. The two patrols, inside and outside, no longer took the sound of the horn outside, and the time came in the intermittent sound of the horn.
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"General, the Tibetan barbarians are numb." Once again, Cheng Zhi, who led the team to blow the trumpet, slipped back to the jungle where Wang Xiong's birthday was.
At first, he was quite energetic, but after Tubo didn't react, he felt like a fool who sang a solo show.
"Another way." Wang Xiongtan said.
"In what way?"
"Look..." Wang Xiongtan pointed around.
Cheng Chumo took a closer look and found that it was full of dry dung from cattle, sheep and horses, and hundreds of soldiers had cut a large number of branches from the bushes several miles away and dragged them over by horses. Suddenly, he said: "The general plans to change to smoke?" ”
"Not bad." Wang Xiongdan stared at the flaming camp in the distance, and smiled: "We are in the upper hand of the Tubo camp, so we will wake up the smoke with thick smoke, so we have to make them unable to sleep tonight." ”
Cheng Chumo said: "Ordinary cigarettes, I'm afraid they won't be alert, right?" ”
"When there is no light in this kind of tree, it produces a lot of white smoke, and the smoke is very smelly."
"Is it toxic?" Cheng Chumo was even happier.
"It's not toxic, but if it's you, do you dare to believe that the stinky smoke burned by its enemies is not toxic?"
Cheng Chumo was deflated all of a sudden, and said dejectedly: "Of course I don't dare." ”
"That's enough." Wang Xiongdan said to Ma Hua and Cheng Chumo: "Before the smoke is released, I plan to send a strange army to sneak from the lake to their north camp, and then choose the opportunity to set fire to their horse pens and let the frightened horses rush to the camp." ”
Ma Hua nodded and said: "Together with the stinking smoke, the enemy army will be chaotic, and it is indeed a good way to burn the camp with strange soldiers, and you can change to a water-based brother to lead the team." ”
Wang Xiongdan laughed: "Speaking of water, I am naturally the only one, and the master of the strange soldiers is naturally none other than me." ”
"The general is the chief general of our army, how can he take such a big risk?" Ma Hua and Cheng Chumo were taken aback.
"There is no need to fight, in fact, the brothers may not be able to succeed, and if they encounter any changes, they will not be able to make a quick decision. I'm good at water, and I know when the best time is. If I go, I will succeed. Wang Xiongdan said solemnly: "I will take two hundred brothers with me." After an hour, let out the smoke again. ”
"General be careful." Ma Hua and Cheng Mu saw Wang Xiongdan's insistence, so they had to agree.
"Once the smoke reaches the camp, the Tibetan soldiers will definitely come to destroy it, and if there are fewer soldiers than our army, you will destroy it; If there are too many enemies, retreat to a temporary station. ”
After Wang Xiongdan's explanation, he was not very relieved and advised: "The task of destroying the enemy is to be completed by the main force of our army, and our mission is to use a small force to consume the energy and physical strength of the enemy, as long as they can't sleep, it is a great achievement; Don't carry the offensive of tens of thousands of troops and do useless hard fighting, understand? ”
"The last will understand." Ma Hua and Cheng Chumo responded awe-inspiringly.
Wang Xiong ordered 200 soldiers, everyone took off their armor, changed into the clothes of the Tubo people, carried dozens of bundles of firewood, quickly walked to the lake, slowly swam south with the bundles of firewood, after more than half an hour, they swam to the vicinity of the Tubo camp, Maron Cuogen Lake is like spring all year round, some trees on the shore are dense with branches and buds, can block the sight of the Tubo patrol post, they hid under a tree, seeing that the Tubo people also set up dense patrols by the lake, Wang Xiongdan is not in a hurry to go ashore, silently waiting for the opportunity by the water.
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During this period, Cheng Chumo took people to blow the horn four times, but the Tubo army was no longer serious about them, those who should inspect were still inspected, and those who should sleep were still sleeping.
But soon, billowing white smoke drifted upwind, and clouds of smoke drifted downwind to the Tubo camp, and only for a moment, the morale of the patrols outside began to cough violently, and the foul-smelling smoke made people retch, and many soldiers were dizzy from the smoke, their limbs were weak, and their chests were stuffy, and some soldiers who inhaled the smoke could not bear it and fell to the ground and convulsed. They didn't know that this was a reaction to inhaling the smoke, and instinctively thought that the foul-smelling smoke was poisonous, and they screamed in fear.
The main general, Nong Zhun Bao, was also dizzy and nauseous from the smoke, he covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves, and ordered several soldiers around him: "Cover your mouth and nose with your sleeves, the smoke is poisonous!" ”
At this time, the billowing white smoke became thicker and thicker, and began to spread in a large area, so that the soldiers' eyes could not be opened, many soldiers tore off their clothes to cover their mouths and noses, but there was no effect, some soldiers who inhaled too much smoke were stunned, and with more and more soldiers falling, many soldiers were forced to retreat.
"This smoke is poisonous, and the army must avoid it, or the whole army will be destroyed. Go to Mingjin to warn. "Nong Zhun Bao ordered loudly,
'When! While! While! The alarm bell rang throughout the camp.
Lu Dongzan had already woken up his own soldiers, and he was frightened, and his intuition told him that it must be the Sui army that was attacking in a big way.
As soon as he came out of his sleeping tent, he saw that the camp was in disarray, and all the soldiers fled as if they had encountered a wolf pack. Suddenly, he saw a group of untidy generals rushing towards him, and the man who rode the horse at the head was none other than Dazan Gampo, and hurriedly shouted: "Prince, what happened? ”
"General Geer, the Sui army released poisonous smoke, and I heard that thousands of people have been poisoned." Dazan Gampo really thought that so many people had died under the false rumors of the soldiers, and looked at the soldiers who had fallen into chaos, smelling the foul smoke, and instinctively thought that there were really so many people who had been poisoned.
"What?" When Lu Dongzan heard this, he only felt a chill in his hands and feet, and saw that the smoke was rolling towards the camp from the northwest, and immediately said: "General Lingbu led the soldiers to clear a safe area in the west to prevent the Sui army from raiding; Generals, order the soldiers to evacuate to the west, and not to run south. ”
"Yes." The generals covered their mouths and noses, shouted loudly, and directed the rebel army to evacuate to the west.
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"General, the Tibetan barbarians are in chaos." By the lake, a soldier said to Wang Xiongdan.
"Let's go." This area was swept by smoke, and the Tibetan soldiers had long since run out, so they immediately climbed ashore and pretended to walk eastward in a hurry. After walking a few hundred steps, they encountered the Tibetan rebels, but they were all wearing the clothes of the Tibetans, and they could not be seen as hidden spies in the night, and everyone rushed to flee for their lives, and no one found that this soldier was approaching with a complete formation.
They walked all the way to the horse ring, pretended to be robbing the horse and running for their lives, broke up a group of rebellious soldiers, took out a leather bag full of fire oil and sprinkled it on the horse hay, then took the fire sickle, tore off the tarpaulin, and with only a few clicks, lit the fire fold, ignited the fire oil sprinkled on the fodder, and the flames rose into the air, the fire crackled, and the smoke rolled to the southeast.
"It's on fire!" Some Tibetan soldiers shouted when they saw the flames and billowing smoke rising from the northwest.
But before they could go to put out the fire, the soldiers of the Sui army had already drawn their swords and cut down the Tubo soldiers around them to the ground, and the horses in the horse pen were frightened by the fire and ran away neighing.
Seeing this, they threw themselves into the tent area and threw the torches in front of the tent on top of the tent, which instantly turned the Tibetan camp into a sea of fire.
"Withdraw."
Seeing that the fire was out of control and there was no way to save it, Wang Xiongdan returned along the same route with 200 soldiers.
He was a thief and had a keen eye for danger, and the horse ring was already burning fiercely, and the next step was to gallop ten thousand horses. If they still stay here, I am afraid that everyone will become the burial objects of the Tibetan soldiers.
They jumped into the lake and swam northwest with bundles of firewood. When they were halfway through the escape, they came ashore and ran to their temporary station.
At this time, the smoke of the Tibetan camp was billowing and the flames were soaring into the sky, and the horses that were burned by the fire were neighing in terror, and they were scorched by the fire, making a painful neigh, frantically shaking their four hooves, and rushing towards the surroundings like a stormy wave. Viciously slammed into the dense group of Tibetan soldiers who came forward to find horses and horses, and bursts of screams and wails instantly spread throughout the camp.
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