Chapter 37: Clever Scheme
In front of Qingshui Pass, the general standing on the pass saw an army coming in the distance and rushed to report the situation to Zuo Ye, the main general stationed at Qingshui Pass.
Zuo Ye came to the Qingshui Pass and looked into the distance, but when he saw a camp in Wuyangyang, the weapons in the hands of the sergeants were shining with cold light, and he couldn't help but sink his heart, and sent the military academy Pegasus to spy on it.
The military academy went to Li Shimin's barracks, and after asking about the situation, Pegasus came back to report.
The Qingshuiguan Military Academy presented Li Shimin's letter of surrender, which was nothing more than a kind word about wanting to pass through Qingshuiguan and punish the ministers around Emperor Yang of Sui, and please switch the pass.
Zuo Ye slammed the table: "Good Tang Guogong, good Li family, the saint treats you well today, and your wolf son rebels ambitiously, which is really chilling." Pass on my generals, the whole army is ready to fight, and the Li family will fight to the end! ”
A whining horn sounded over the clear water pass, and all the sergeants were on standby.
The deputy general Qi Yun gave Zuo Ye an idea and said, "General, we will rob the camp at night." The enemy is tired here, we can give the soldiers a full meal, send 500 military academies to burn all the enemy's grain and grass in the evening, and then we will clear the field and fight a war of attrition with the enemy. ”
Zuo Ye nodded approvingly.
At dusk, the paper-like sun sets the horizon, and the icy wind rolls up the yellow dust and wanders on the ground.
After eating, Xia Yu and Li Shimin discussed in the military tent.
The two of them believed that the enemy's first battle must be the robbery of the camp, and on this point, the hero saw the same thing.
"I have issued an order to order the whole army to be on alert to deal with the enemy's raid of the camp at night!" Li Shimin said.
Xia Yu shook his head lightly: "Brother Li, it's not practical. If you are a general of Qingshui Pass, where will you focus on attacking the camp? ”
Li Shimin thought for a while, according to the number of troops, they had 10,000 people, while the enemy only had 3,000 people.
Even if the camp is successful, it will not be able to move the foundation of the army, and it will only strengthen the morale of the enemy.
However, there is one place that will be fatal if it is successfully robbed by the enemy.
This place is the grain and grass storehouse!
Thinking of this, he broke out in a cold sweat, and there were only a dozen or so old sergeants who took care of the grain and grass storehouse. He immediately planned to get out of the military tent and strengthen the supervision of the grain and grass storehouse.
Xia Yu stopped him and said, "The enemy robbed the camp, and the number of people must not be very large. All we have to do is ......"
Five hundred Sui Dynasty sergeants armed with broadswords stood in a row, and these people were all Zuoye's personal soldiers, all of whom were brave and good at fighting.
Before leaving, Zuo Ye raised his wine glass, drank a glass with them, and looked up at the sky, it was overcast, it was a good weather for the camp.
Zuo Ye said emotionally: "Tonight, everything is up to you." ”
Five hundred sergeants shouted together: "No! ”
Led by a general named Xue Qiu, they quietly left Qingshui Pass and attacked Li Shimin's camp all the way.
The camp was dark and silent.
Xue Qiu waved his hand, and four sergeants had already cut the wooden fence outside the gate, and the group passed quickly.
"A stinky boy who has not dried up dares to lead his troops to fight, which is really laughing off people's big teeth."
Xue Qiu secretly thought that General Qi was right, these people had traveled for a day and a night, and they slept like dead pigs. He planned to burn the grain and grass, and then kill again, and then lead his troops away.
Standing in the camp and looking at the northwest corner, there were a few fires there, and Xue Qiu thought that it was where the grain and grass warehouse of the Li family's army was located.
When they got closer, they saw that there were only a dozen old sergeants there, and when they suddenly saw the Sui soldiers coming, they were so frightened that they threw away the torches in their hands and fled for their lives.
Xue Qiu lit the torches and walked to the grain and grass stacks, they didn't expect to be able to succeed so easily.
Just as he was about to give the order to burn the grain and straw stacks, a sharp blade suddenly protruded from the grain and grass, and a sergeant fell to the ground.
Immediately afterwards, hundreds of soldiers jumped out of the grain and straw stacks one after another, all of them fighting with the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty.
All of a sudden, the sword light and sword shadow flickered, and the sound of shouting and killing shook the sky.
The sergeants under Li Shimin found that they were much stronger than the sergeants of the Sui Dynasty, thanks to the training of the centurions.
The most touching thing is Xia Yu, if it weren't for Xia Yu's theory of "more sweat in training, less bloodshed on the battlefield", they wouldn't have such an effect!
Those soldiers of the Sui Dynasty fought and retreated, and just retreated back dozens of meters, the sound of shouting and killing behind them shook the sky, and the torches were bright, illuminating the surroundings.
Five hundred soldiers of the Sui Dynasty fell into a heavy siege and fought hard for half an hour, and all of them were annihilated.
Xue Qiu, who was left to lead the team, looked at the corpses lying on the ground, grief and indignation, and when he raised the long knife and was about to kill himself, Xia Yu shot like lightning, and picked off the long knife in Xue Qiu's hand with one move.
"Why do you want to dishonor me?"
Li Shimin picked up Xue Qiu: "The general is loyal to the country, so I really want to admire him, and go to the military tent to talk about it!" ”
Hearing Li Shimin praise him from the bottom of his heart, Xue Qiu was a little fluttering.
After being invited to the military tent, Li Shimin persuaded him and promised that he would definitely win the official position in the future and glorify his ancestors.
Xue Qiu pushed the golden mountain, poured the jade pillar, and bowed down in front of Li Shimin.
"There's one more thing, please ask the general for help!" Li Shimin's face was embarrassed.
Xue Qiu patted his chest and said: "General Li has an order, Xue Qiu will be willing to die in revenge." ”
When the time was ripe, Xia Yu said to Xue Qiu: "The general led our five hundred Li family sergeants to pretend to be your people, and to open the city gate, and the people behind us followed to kill. ”
Xue Qiu's eyes lit up: "This plan is wonderful!" ”
Outside the camp, five hundred Li family sergeants changed into the clothes of the Sui Dynasty sergeants and were waiting for Xue Qiu there.
Xue Qiu gave an order, and they headed towards Qingshui Pass.
Behind them, the sergeants led by Li Shimin and Xia Yu followed.
Li Shimin said with emotion: "Brother Xia's fairy-like strategy is really beyond my reach. ”
Xia Yu waved his hand and said, "Brother Li, you don't need to praise me, the reason why this plan was successful is because the enemy didn't expect us to anticipate their plan a long time ago." All of this is thanks to the carelessness of the guard general Zuoye. ”
After marching forward for nearly an hour, Li Shimin ordered his 2,000 soldiers to bully the Qingshui Pass city wall and ambush them under the wall.
The officers and soldiers defending the city looked down and asked, "Tonight's slogan?" ”
Xue Qiu took a deep breath, put on the slogan, and the city gate rolled open.
"Kill!"
The two Sui Dynasty sergeants who opened the door did not understand what was going on, and they were killed by the disguised Li family sergeant.
A deafening shout of killing sounded in the dark night!
Li Shimin and Xia Yu took the sergeant to kill the general first.
The sword light and sword shadow rise in the dark night!
The surging murderous aura permeates the entire Qingshui Pass!