Chapter Seventy-Eight: Transporting Grain Overnight
After investigating the situation again, Lin Feng summoned several generals to his side, and after a little thought, he made a decision: "Zhou Chen, Tang Yi and the two of them led people to the trail in the southwest, which is a small hill in the vein of Hongfeng Mountain, surrounded by woods, but there is a road more than ten meters wide, the two of you are ambushed there, and when you retreat, we will be cut off!" After the two of them nodded in agreement, Lin Feng waved his hand at the other five and shouted in a low voice: "Two by two, launch a sneak attack from the southwest, due west, and northwest respectively!" Don't fall in love with the fight, after opening the breakthrough, set fire and withdraw! Watch the signal action from start to finish! ”
"Order!" Everyone bowed their hands in unison, and the tacit understanding of two by two merged into a group, waving their hands and leading their respective subordinates to different directions, the two teams were like two giant pythons in the dark night, twisting their huge bodies to the southwest and northwest directions.
Lin Feng and Li Xiaofeng led the people to go due west, and after marching for a distance, they had reached the camp built by the rebels in Hongfeng Mountain not far away, and they could already see the light of the bonfire in the rebel camp from a distance of 100 meters, plus the bright moonlight tonight, you could see the open camp gate and the soldiers patrolling back and forth inside and outside.
"Brother-in-law, don't they close the camp gate at night? How does it look so lively? Li Xiaofeng leaned beside Lin Feng, staring at the camp in front of him, and asked in a low voice with doubt.
At this time, Lin Feng also muttered in his heart, it stands to reason that the camp gate should be closed at night, but the camp gate is wide open at this time, and the situation in the camp can even be described as brightly lit. Although according to intelligence, the grain and grass of the rebels are all inside a valley in Hongfeng Mountain, and the camp outside is only established at the mouth of the valley, but despite this, in such a military important place as storing grain and grass, open fire should be avoided as much as possible.
Just when they didn't know how to answer the question raised by Li Xiaofeng, the rebels' actions put the answer in front of the two in front of them in time. There was a faint sound of horses' hooves, followed by a carriage full of sacks of straw, followed by a second and a third.
"Transporting grain!" Lin Feng and Li Xiaofeng exclaimed in a low voice at the same time, and glanced at each other at the same time, both of them saw surprise and surprise in each other's eyes.
What was surprising was that the two did not expect that the rebels would transport grain overnight, and the surprise was that from the actions of the rebels, it could be inferred that the military food stocks in Chengdu Prefecture would definitely not be too much, and there might even be very little.
"Hurry up! Didn't eat enough at night? Start your spirit! There was a burst of scolding in the barracks, and near the camp gate stood an officer who should not be low, constantly pumping the horsewhip in his hand in mid-air, making a crisp sound of "pop", and at the same time scolding and scolding the soldiers who were escorting the grain and grass: "Damn! Why didn't I see you slow when I ate it? Do some work and start grinding! Damn it! ”
The soldiers who passed in front of the officer glanced at him disapprovingly, and then went about his course, as if he did not take the profanity and complaints from the officer's mouth to heart. Because just from the clothes and armor worn, you can clearly separate the front and back, the officer is the armor of Jiannan Dao, even if it is an in-service officer, but in comparison, the set of clothes and armor on the body is inferior to the ordinary soldiers who escort the grain and grass, because the identity of those people is the royal forbidden army, and the surface work is always done enough, no matter what the combat effectiveness is, the equipment and weapons they use are real and high-quality.
Seeing that the forbidden soldiers didn't seem to take themselves to heart at all, the officer of Jiannan Dao was also very angry, and waved his horsewhip a few times out of thin air again, and his eyes widened a lot, but he still didn't step forward to beat the forbidden army, just left a few crisp sounds of "pop" in the air.
Although he disdains the performance of the forbidden army, he still can't hold back the anger in his heart every time he sees it, just like seeing his own soldiers, a kind of hatred of iron and steel will always arise spontaneously.
However, fortunately, the number of forbidden troops is large enough, and no matter how much they grind, the advantage in numbers can make up for the disadvantage of slow movement. Besides, in normal times, there are still not many soldiers willing to do this kind of escort of grain and grass, especially day and night.
Watching the grain wagons slowly drive out of the barracks, the officer's tense face gradually relaxed, almost every night, he can spare time, that is, after the convoy leaves the barracks, he can take a nap, and then the next convoy will arrive, and then he will have to cheer up and continue to command the inspection.
Just as the convoy was about to leave the camp completely, one of the last carriages suddenly made a loud noise, and the wheels on one side of the carriage could not withstand the gravity and broke, and the pile of grain and grass like a small mound of earth was scattered on the ground with the tilt of the carriage.
"Damn! It's unlucky! What's wrong again! The officer whipped his horsewhip fiercely, shook his head at several of his subordinates around him, and shouted, "Go over and have a look!" Damn! These idiots are always making trouble for Lao Tzu! ”
On either side of each grain cart there would be two soldiers to guard it, and the sudden change just now caused the two absent-minded forbidden soldiers to also suffer, and they were firmly pressed against the sacks full of carts. Although they didn't die because of this, the two of them still screamed desperately on the ground.
"What are you doing! Hurry up and move away! Do you want the two of them to be crushed underneath? After the officer and his men hurried to the scene of the incident, he scolded the stunned forbidden soldiers around him. Only then did the surrounding forbidden army react, and they quickly nodded in response, and rushed up to rescue the two companions.
The officer took a torch from the side, walked to the collapsed side of the carriage to inspect it, placed the torch near the broken carriage, frowned and cursed in a low voice: "Don't you fucking know how to use a good car?" See for yourselves, can this car still work? Not to mention transporting grain and grass, I'm afraid that if you put two children on it, it will be crushed! ”
Everyone looked towards the torches, and found that the wood of the carriage was indeed as the officer said, and not only were there many cracks, but even many places had begun to show signs of decay, and I am afraid that even if the grain and grass were not transported, it would be directly broken and damaged after a while.
"That's it! Let's put this one first! I'll report it back! The officer saw that the convoy in front of him also stopped, fearing that the time for the arrival of the grain and grass would be different, so he waved his hand at everyone and shouted generously, and then turned around and beckoned to his subordinates near the camp gate: "Everyone come over first, take the handle and move these grains and grass into the camp first!" ”
"Thank you, General! Thank you, General! The forbidden soldiers in charge of the damaged carriage were not fools, and they bowed respectfully to the officer with a very good eye, and then turned to leave with a smile on their faces.
"Good opportunity! Do it! Lin Feng in the distance saw that the soldiers near the camp gate were all surrounding the pile of grain and grass on the ground, he was overjoyed, shouted at Li Xiaofeng beside him, raised his hand and waved his hand to the hands hidden in the bushes behind him, he stood up violently, pulled the reins of the war horse next to him and jumped with strength, sat firmly on the horse's back, kicked his legs, and rushed out first.