Under the moonlight, Xuanchi sparkled, and from a distance, it looked like a huge jewel.

Farther away, the golden mountain runs from southeast to northwest, like a giant dragon, sleeping next to the orb. Like the dragon's two whiskers, the river runs through the center of the pond. Then one floated towards the dragon's right cheek, and the other floated to the left.

"Seongjong's tent is on the other side of the river, near the southeast corner of Xuanchi. The Qarluqs respect black, so his royal tent is easy to find, pure black as ink, and the one with a silver wolf's head in front of the tent is. "After a hill more than 500 steps away from the west bank of the Luhui River, Luo Huaizu drew on the ground by the moonlight and a measuring scale, and in the blink of an eye, he drew the outline of the Qarlu base camp.

"Is there a bridge, and is there a defender at the bridge?" Zhou Jianliang asked unceremoniously with a helmet full of dirt and Pixiu. The rapid march of more than 200 miles, although he had rested several times along the way, was still so tired that he was a little sluggish, and there was a wheezing voice in his voice.

"Yes, there is a rope bridge on the river on the north and south sides of Xuanchi. On the east bank of the rope bridge, there are three wooden houses each, and samurai are stationed in them. The samurai on duty change every four hours, and each shift is about thirty people. With an axe and a machete in his hand, he can cut the rope bridge at any time when the situation is not good. "Worthy of being a famous hero on the rivers and lakes in the past, although Luo Huaizu only arrived half a day earlier than Zhou Jianliang, he had already felt the basic situation of the enemy army clearly.

"If you kill from the rope bridge in the south, at most seven or eight hundred steps, you can kill under the king's tent of Chengzong. However, there will be two barracks in the middle, the outer one is set up by the shepherds from all walks of life, and there is no wall outside the barracks, but some branches are temporarily inserted. The second is the original camp of the Qarlu royal court, the wall of which is made of pine wood smashed into the ground and put together vertically, and there is a layer of yellow mud on the outside! ”

"How high, how wide, is there a gate? How many? Zhou Jianliang frowned and continued to dig into the roots.

Luo Huaizu didn't think about it, and responded like a few family treasures, "One and a half feet high, the width is not accurate." In the evening, I lay on the mound and looked at the grass with a telescope a few times, and it was about the thickness of a sheep from head to tail. There is one gate facing the riverbank, one to the south, and a small gate facing the lake, presumably for the convenience of getting water. Both gates are fences made of wood, and I estimate that they can be blown open directly with gunpowder bombs. ”

"Did Seongjong try to escape? When will you be lazy? ”

"How lazy I crossed the river yesterday afternoon at about a quarter of the hour. Half an hour later, Chengzong's royal tent sounded the horn of the generals. However, the Qarluqs showed no sign of packing up and leaving. It should be that time is in a hurry, and Chengzong and the clan elders under his command have not yet been able to reach an agreement. ”

"How long will it take for the next shift of the samurai on duty to be handed over?"

"The last shift was a sub-hour. The next shift, according to my calculations, is the time of the hour! According to my observations on the road, it is a quarter of the hour when it dawns here. ”

"It's about an hour and a half before the hour!" Qiu Ruofeng looked up at the positions of several stars in the sky, then looked down at the hourglass hanging on the horse's back, and interjected in a low voice.

"Captains of each regiment, tell the brethren to rest for an hour, and then get up and put on their armor and arrange their mounts." Zhou Jianliang paused, quickly looked up at the sky, and then made a decisive decision.

"Yes!" Ren Wu, Zhou Quji, Guo Jin and Geshu Daoyuan promised in a low voice, and then turned around to settle their respective subordinates. Soon, four regiments and more than 1,200 elites got off their mounts behind the hills, and began to recharge their strength with their backs on their backs.

"Today is the moon on the shore, and before dawn, the moon will set, and the night will be the darkest, and the people will be the most sleepy." Nodding at the brothers with satisfaction, Zhou Jianliang quickly returned his gaze to Luo Huaizu, and discussed with the other party in a low voice, "I am ready to launch an attack at that time, but I need to send someone to swim over in advance to control the other side of the bridge." lest the Qarluq people cut down the rope bridge in a hurry. ”

"South Bridge or North Bridge?" Luo Huaizu thought about it and asked quickly.

"Nanqiao, Nanqiao is close to Chengzong's royal tent, I don't have time to delay. On the north side of the bridge, I will send a group of brothers to act as suspicious soldiers and force the enemy troops over there to cut the bridge myself. Zhou Jianliang reacted very quickly and immediately gave an answer.

"The river is only about 20 paces wide, and it is easy to swim across. However, it takes a few good hands with bows and arrows to prepare on this side of the bridge. If something is wrong, immediately suppress the Qarluqs on the opposite side with bows and arrows. "Luo Huaizu has extremely rich experience in sneak attacks, and he does not hesitate to check and fill in the gaps.

When Zhou Jianliang heard this, he immediately nodded slightly, "In the regiment I brought, I can find three or four good hands with bows and arrows, and within sixty steps, I can basically make no arrows." ”

"In the teaching group, there is a team leader named Yang Chengliang, who is first-class in archery." Luo Huaizu thought about it and took the initiative to recommend talents to Zhou Jianliang. In addition, in the pro-corps, Ren Shiyuan and Ren Zhongheng can also achieve ten arrows and nine hits within sixty steps. ”

"Count me in, I can too, but with a crossbow." Qiu Ruofeng listened to the test, and decisively took the initiative to ask for help.

"You?" Zhou Jianliang looked Qiu Ruofeng up and down, with obvious suspicion on his face.

The other party is one of the readers who came to the broken leaves to throw a pen from Rong in the spring, and his performance has always been low-key. So Zhou Jianliang has always treated him as an ordinary scholar. This attack on the King of Qarluq was also because of Zhang Qian's strong recommendation, so he took this person with him without embarrassment. Unexpectedly, this person actually changed his personality and wanted to show his hand everywhere.

"After half a goal." Knowing that Zhou Jianliang didn't believe in himself, Qiu Ruofeng blushed and bowed his hand, "It's just that my parents think it's too dangerous to be a military general, so it's better to study and be stable, so I started dancing and writing since I was a child." However, I haven't been very enlightened in the next book, but I can shoot archery and ride a horse, and I will learn it as soon as I learn it. If you don't believe it, Zhou Duwei can order someone to erect a target to test the school, and within sixty steps, he doesn't dare to say that the arrow is not missing, and nine out of ten will definitely be able to do it. ”

"You don't have to take the school exam, it's Qiu Lushi. However, you have to be wronged by Qiu Lushi to listen to others' orders! Zhou Jianliang waved his hand and made a decision with a smile.

"If you swim across, you can use sheepskin to blow the drum as a raft. You can save more than half of your strength, and you can also hang armor and weapons on rafts. Qiu Ruofeng was greatly encouraged, and immediately took the initiative to give advice to Zhou Jianliang.

"Well, it works!" Zhou Jianliang nodded with a smile, and then turned his gaze to Luo Huaizu, "Secretary Zhang, you still have enough physical strength......

Before he finished asking, Luo Huaizu had already understood what he meant, and nodded decisively again, "Swim to the other side and kill a few small soldiers is not a problem." However, when attacking the Qarlu king's tent next, Luo estimated that he would not be able to keep up. ”

"Then hand over the task of swimming across and seizing the bridge to the secretary, and Zhou is responsible for leading the team to rush across the bridge and go straight to the king's tent." Zhou Jianliang smiled slightly and waved his hand vigorously.

The two nodded to each other, and then, while they still had enough time, they discussed other details of the attack on the sketch drawn on the ground. A moment later, the four lieutenants, Ren Wu, Zhou Quji, Guo Jin, and Geshu Daoyuan, also settled their brothers under their respective commands, and hurriedly returned to pay the order. Zhou Jianliang had no choice but to re-tell everyone about his plan, and then let everyone go separately to prepare.

Time flies by in a hectic way. Almost in the blink of an eye, the moon fell in the grass, and the sky became darker and darker, while the stars in mid-air became bigger and clearer, almost reaching out to pick them up.

With the starlight above his head, Yang Chengdong lay behind the rust-colored stones, frowning, and observed a wooden house on the west bank of the river. In the wooden house, the faint light of torches casts through the cracks in the walls made of tree trunks, illuminating the surroundings vividly.

Two thick tree trunks were rammed into the hard ground of the riverbank. There are also many rust-colored stones piled up around. Through the starlight and faint light, Yang Chengliang could clearly see that several arm-thick ropes were tightly tied to the trunk of the tree.

Beside her, there were tree trunks of the same thickness and rust-colored stones of the same size. The same rope is also tightly tied to the trunk of the tree. Between the ropes and the ropes, there were thinner hemp ropes, which were braided into fishing nets. The surface of the fishing net is covered with wooden planks, from this bank to the other bank, which is to form a two-horse wide rope bridge, and it is also one of the two important passages connecting the east and west banks of the Luohui River.

Qiu Ruofeng, who was in charge of the merit test, gasped and opened the three loaded hand-cranked crossbows beside her in a row. At the same time, he kept secretly looking at her neck that was peeking out under her helmet. wanted to speak, and knew that it was not appropriate to ask questions at this moment, and the green tendons on his head were jumping wildly.

"You guessed it right!" Yang Chengliang glanced at the other party coldly, and took the initiative to explain in a low voice, "I am the poplar tree who is dressed as a man." However, your eyes should be on the other side of the river at this point. ”

"Shhh The river was only five or six zhang wide, and the group was only thirty paces away from the wooden houses on the other side. If the enemy soldiers in the wooden house heard the voices from this side, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Idiot! I read a belly of books in vain! Yang Chengliang rolled his eyes disdainfully, while muttering quietly in his heart. Immediately, stretch out your finger and gently point to the surface of the river.

The river is pitch black, and you can't see how deep it is. However, the water is turbulent and loud like a drum.

In an instant, Qiu Ruofeng knew what mistake he had made, and he suddenly felt a fever on his face. was about to explain a few words in a low voice, but saw Yang Chengliang suddenly prick up his eyes, and then, he took out a feather arrow and firmly put on the bowstring.

On the opposite bank, there was a wooden house on the side, and suddenly there was a light on it. A Qarluq warrior came out with a torch and made his suspicious rounds of the bridge. However, he found nothing except a few toads that came out at night to feed. He muttered a few words of swearing, yawned and turned back.

A wet figure, clinging to the corner of the wall, followed him like a ghost. The samurai holding the torch vaguely sensed that something was wrong, and turned his head hesitantly. The wet figure decisively raised his hand and smashed his Adam's apple with a stick.