With a knife cut down, looking at the wet and muddy grain in the bag, Liu Santong was silent for a moment, "Where are they now?" ”

"It's about thirty miles away from where we are now, and there's a place called Niujia Village."

"How many people?"

"About a few hundred soldiers, and a few hundred other civilians, according to the scouts, they should have saved some of their food."

"Yay!" Liu Santong laughed: "Fu Cheng, preparing to attack Niujia Village, we need these grains, and in the same way, we will not let a single grain flow into the Tang Army camp." God forbid, a heavy rain made it impossible for the Tang army to attack, tens of thousands of troops, people eat horses and chew, how much does it cost per day? Let's see how long they can last? ”

"General, we won't be able to last long on our own." Fu Cheng said with a wry smile: "We are about to run out of food, thousands of people and horses, and we have to consume it every day, the key is the general, it is us who need to hide everywhere now, such a thing, we only need to do it once, I am afraid that there will be a large group of Tang cavalry to encircle and suppress us next." ”

"Are you scared?" Liu Santong looked at him coldly.

"Of course the last general is not afraid, it's just ......" Fu Cheng sighed: "I just feel that the general trend has gone, and no matter how hard we try, we can't change the overall situation, and I'm just a little tired." ”

"Maybe this rain will fall for another ten days and a half months, and the Tang army will not be able to hold on and will withdraw, maybe the commander of Qingzhou Hou can organize a large army to counterattack, or the Tianping army, the Gon navy can transfer a large army to help, in short, as long as there is no complete defeat, there is always a chance." Liu Santong was silent for a long time, and said: "Where there is a glimmer of life, we always have to struggle." ”

"Yes!" Fu Cheng nodded.

"Take these grains and wash them, let the big guys have a full meal, and then we will go to Daniujia Village, slaughter those Tang troops, take the grain, and then wait for the opportunity to act!" Liu Santong commanded. "General Liu arranged for us to come out, originally saving the hope of what happened, as long as we are not dead, we must continue this hope."

Niujia Village.

Ren Xiaonian and his subordinates are building a defensive position, although there are not many of his people, but fortunately, the place that needs to be protected is not large, and it is also on a high ground, using the houses in this village, skillfully setting up a defensive line, he has no way to fight hard with the opponent, but using these arrangements, it is still possible to kill and injure the opponent in large quantities.

"General, these arrangements are all for foot soldiers, what if the opponent's cavalry charges?" One of the officers asked, a little worried.

"Cavalry?" Ren Xiaonian snorted, "Do you think this place is useful for cavalry?" Look at this place, as soon as we go down, the mud can reach the knee bend, and from below to this high ground, the soil is soft, and when we carry the grain here, how many falls did we fall? Liu Santong is not stupid, he uses cavalry to charge here, ha, first, he can't run, second, even if he can run, the horse's hooves go down and step on the air, and the war horse will be finished with a bang. Do you think he's willing? ”

"Oh yes!" The officer thought about it and thought it was true.

"So, when Liu Santong arrived at this place, he could only dismount and fight. On such a ground, we can't run fast, so let's lie in the shadows, inflict a lot of damage on them with our bows and crossbows, and then rush out. Ren Xiaonian waved his fist: "Although Lao Tzu, this tiger has a few broken teeth now, it is not something that a few wild dogs can bully." If he had tens of thousands of people, Lao Tzu thought he was unlucky, and he would die here today, if he only had a thousand people, Lao Tzu would still have a chance to win. ”

"We're going to win." The officer thumped the breastplate vigorously: "The sixth battalion, it has never lost." ”

"Of course, Lao Tzu will never lose, even if it is one ear, he is very convinced of Lao Tzu."

The officer was stunned for a moment, and then he reacted, Ren Xiaonian said Jose, the former Ren Xiaonian called the other party why the fat pig, Jose called Ren Xiaonian Ren Dagou, but after the battle, the nicknames of the two were changed by the other party.

The officer burst out laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Ren Xiaonian said angrily.

"Didn't laugh at anything!" The officer shook his head again and again: "I just thought that we could slaughter the enemy next, so I lived quickly." ”

"Well, let's go down and take someone to look around again to see where we need reinforcements? The young and strong people are lined up around the granary, and until the last critical moment, it is better not to engage them in battle. Ren Xiaonian said.

"Understood." The officer saluted with a fist, turned and strode away.

Ren Xiaonian glanced at the sky that was still raining, but sighed. It's not that he's worried that Liu Santong will attack, it's just a fight. Whether they win or not, such a small army is not a big deal for the Tang Army. But if the rain doesn't stop, and the roads are so muddy all the time, the food supply will have a big problem, and it's not the enemy's attack, but God's obstruction, and it's not something that can be overcome by manpower. If it is really the next ten days and half a month, the impact will be great. With tens of thousands of troops and so many war horses, the daily consumption is extremely amazing.

Turning around and walking into the house, the room had been completely turned into a granary, full of grain. The women, children, and elderly people from some other houses were also gathered here. Like the hostess and children of this house, these people have not eaten for a few days, and at this moment, Niu has already boiled some porridge, and these people are crowded in a side room, eating deliciously.

Seeing Ren Xiaonian come in, Niu glanced at Ren Xiaonian with some worry, and wanted to say something, but he didn't speak. It's that half-grown boy who has been messing around with Ren Xiaonian for a long time, and he is quite bold.

"Uncle Ren, are you going to fight?"

"Yes, it's going to be a fight!" Ren Xiaonian smiled and touched his head.

"You're a good guy, and it's definitely a bad guy who will beat you!" ate Ren Xiaonian's canned food, and Ren Xiaonian also gave him two bottles for him to hide under the bed, and more importantly, there was a whole bag of food, so now he has decided that Ren Xiaonian is a good person, as for biting Ren Xiaonian's front teeth and now he is leaking to speak, he has long forgotten it. For him, these foods, of course, are more important than his teeth.

"Of course it's the bad guys, the same people who robbed your family of food a few days ago." Ren Xiaonian said.

"Those bad guys should be killed!" The boy gritted his teeth and said, "Uncle Ren, can I also be a soldier?" ”

Ren Xiaonian laughed: "Of course you can, but now you are too young, no, where are we, if you want to be a soldier, you have to be at least sixteen years old, are you eight years old today?" ”

"I'm ten years old. It's just a little shorter. The boy puffed out his chest and lied, but his face did not change and his heart did not beat.

"Even if you're ten years old, you're still six years away from being a soldier." Ren Xiaonian really likes this doll, "So, you should eat well, study hard, and when you grow up, you can become a soldier again." ”

"What is reading?" The boy asked.

Ren Xiaonian was stunned, and then couldn't help but feel sad for a while, in Zhenzhou, such a big doll should be in the school, right? This kid doesn't even know what reading is.

"When this battle is over, you will have a new parent official, and at that time, you will know what it means to read. When the battle is over, your father will be able to come back. ”

"My mother often cries at night, saying that my father can't come back." The little boy looked a little sad.

"I'll be back." Ren Xiaonian said: "I will definitely be able to come back." ”

"Uncle Ren said that if he can come back, then my father will definitely be able to come back." The little boy raised his face with a look of longing.

"Of course." Ren Xiaonian touched his head again: "If the bad guys come and a fight starts, you can hide in the house with them and don't come out, and don't look outside." ”

"I know, I won't make trouble for Uncle Ren." The little boy nodded repeatedly.

Looking at the sensible doll, Ren Xiaonian sighed, and took out a few pieces of mutton jerky from the clip bag, "Well, what I gave you is compensation for Uncle Ren's broken teeth." ”

Smelling the smell of meat, the little boy jumped up, called his sister's nickname all the way, and rushed into the small house on the side.

As the sky gradually darkened, the soldiers of the 6th Battalion, who had eaten a full meal, sorted out their equipment and walked silently to their posts under the leadership of their respective commanders.

It seemed to smell the smell of battle, and the rain actually stopped at this time.

Ren Xiaonian ate three bowls of rice, and strode out energetically with his horizontal knife.

When night falls, in Niujia Village, there are piles of bonfires burning, like fire in the dark, coupled with the occasional call of mules and horses, reminding people with hearts in the distance that there is a different existence here.

The leader of the people was a little apprehensive, walked to Ren Xiaonian's side, and said in a low voice: "Battalion captain, with so many bonfires, aren't you pointing the way and lighting the enemy?" Do you want to turn it all off? ”

Ren Xiaonian glanced at him with a smile and said, "Old man, the enemy must know that we are here, hundreds of us are staying here, but there is not even a little light, do you say that you are telling the other party that Lao Tzu already knows that you are coming, and Lao Tzu has prepared a trap waiting for you to come?" ”

The leader of the people laughed dryly.

"Dude, this is the norm!" Ren Xiaonian pointed to the fires, "It is beneficial for us to make the enemy mistakenly think that we are defenseless, and these fires illuminate the road, the enemy is really coming, they are in the light, but we are in the dark, it is beneficial to us." ”

"The battalion lieutenant is smart, but I don't know how to pretend to understand, and I'm thinking nonsense." The leader of the people was a little embarrassed.

"Old man, this battle may not be easy to fight, you must also be prepared to kill the enemy at any time, really let the enemy kill in, I'm afraid none of us will survive." Ren Xiaonian said.

"Yes, the brethren are ready."