It's getting dark, and the last rays of sunset red are still faintly visible on the western horizon.

The thousand-year-old tiger prison is under the red light of the sunset, which looks majestic and majestic.

Outside the vast Tiger Prison Pass, a cavalry troop smashed earth and rocks, kicked up smoke and dust, and soon headed east.

Dou Jiande's Xia army came from Hebei, but its heavy grain and grass were plundered from Henan. According to intelligence, there are four warehouses for the Xia army's grain baggage, which contain nearly 100,000 stones of grain and grass. Among these four places, the nearest is Liucun, which has 30,000 stones of grain and grass hidden to supply the army nearby. In addition, there is Xuzhuang Village, which stores 20,000 stone of grain, which is also for the army; Liu Zhuang, 20,000 stone of grain; Renli Village, 30,000 stone of grain storage. Between several villages, grain convoys shuttled back and forth, transporting grain and grass from the two villages behind. In addition, a team of grain collectors shuttled through various parts of Henan, and the collected grain was also gathered here.

Liu Village and Xu Zhuang Village, Zhang Yunwen did not dare to make up their minds. The two Lixia army camps were too close, one south and one north, and the camp was in the middle. If you attack one of them, you will be surrounded by a large army. Therefore, the targets he chose were Liuzhuang and Renli villages, which were far away from the Xia army's camp.

led 200 cavalry to go straight behind the Xia army like a ghost, and the 100,000 people of the Xia army were suspicious because of Li Shimin's letter, and did not dare to knock on the pass with all their might, but camped on the front line of Liucun, and entangled with the small group of harassing troops sent by Li Shimin every day.

Interspersed in the gap behind the Xia army, because it was at night, there were very few rangers encountered, and most of them returned to the camp. With their nowhere to hide, they were always able to avoid the eyes and ears of these Rangers.

When they arrived at the outskirts of Liuzhuang, it was already three o'clock. Through the low earthen walls, you can clearly see the sparks in the village.

"Lei Wu, you go to the tree and see the situation in the village!" Zhang Yunwen instructed Lei Wudao.

At this time, they were on the hills outside Liuzhuang, and under the cover of the night and the woods, more than a hundred people stood in the forest, and all the horses were already tied to the woods under the hillside, leaving a group of people guarding the horses.

"Yes!" After Lei Wu agreed, he sneaked forward, and did not stop until he was less than ten feet away from the village, quickly and silently climbed a big tree, squinted his eyes, and swept every house in the village.

"Yes, Chief!" Some Zhiguo Lieutenant Sun Jin, who was not used to this kind of title, said, "What's the point of this, look at me leading my brothers to step in, kill from the front to the back door, put two fires, and soon everything will be over!" ”

Sun Jin is one of the hundred Xuanjia guards transferred during the day, and he is also the highest official among them, and is now the deputy of the first team, partnering with Li Yang.

Zhang Yunwen glanced at him obliquely and asked rhetorically, "Do you know how many people are hidden in this village, and how many bows and arrows are there?" Where is their granary? How can you start a fire without setting off a second fire? Also, we didn't have much food with us when we set out, so at least we had to wait until we had replenished it before we burned it! ”

Sun Jin shook his head embarrassedly. The rest of the newcomers were thoughtful.

Zhang Yunwen turned his head and looked at the village again.

After a short time, Lei Wu quietly returned. He pointed to a village not far away and said, "Chief, this village is really well defended!" At first, I didn't see it, until a pair of archers came down from the roof, and I saw that there were dozens of archers lurking on these roofs! ”

Zhang Yunwen frowned: "There are so many archers, what should I do?" Thinking in his heart, he asked, "How many soldiers are there in that village?" ”

Lei Wu said: "According to the method taught by the leader, I counted the lights in the village, and there were a total of thirty-three lights. If all the thirty-three houses were inhabited by soldiers, and each house could accommodate ten people, then there would be three hundred and thirty people in total! ”

Zhang Yunwen said: "There are also some houses that are not lit at all, and it is possible that there are more than ten people living in one house. Therefore, when calculating the number of people, it must be calculated in the direction of many. Well, even if there are 500 defenders in this village! As he spoke, he paced slowly, and after a moment, he looked up and said, "Now listen to my instructions." Order: Liu Cheng and Lei Wu, each of you took ten skilled hands to sneak into the village, and after finding out the location of the granary in the village and the arrangement of troops, you lurked down, and when you heard the sound of gongs and drums, you began to burn the grain! Then take advantage of the chaos to come out. Zhao Yi listened to the order, you took the twenty people who dug the tunnel that night and the new brothers who joined me today to dig a trench one zhang wide and three feet deep at the entrance of the village, and buried sharpened bamboo chips in it! ”

As soon as these words came out, several soldiers who fell into Zhang Yunwen's trap during the death contest suddenly remembered the situation at that time and broke out in a cold sweat.

"Besides, the rest of the people will go with me to the hillside to cut bamboo!"

After the soldiers received their tasks, they went their separate ways. And Zhang Yunwen and the soldiers cut down bamboos one by one.

Some of the cut bamboo was sharpened and buried in the trap, while others were cut into pieces and planted in the open space behind the trench. It is required to be level with the ground, and the length of the horse's tread should be taken into account when arranging. The sergeants immediately understood the use of this thing.

The work continued for nearly two hours. Just after the ugly hour, Zhao Yi returned to the hillside with a group of soldiers covered in mud, and by this time, the soldiers who had planted bamboo tubes behind the trenches had already returned.

"Alright, soldiers, this is your first battle since joining the reconnaissance battalion. Whether you've trained or not, this mission will be a test for you! Okay, now it's up to me! Li Yang, Sun Jin, Zhao Yi and Xu Nim, you take your own soldiers and horses to attack the village from here. Don't fall in love with a fight, just shoot it with a bow. If the enemy returns fire, retreat immediately. Remember, your task is to cooperate with Liu Cheng and Lei Wu. After they have lit the fire, they will return from here because their forces are weak, and they are close to the woods, and I will bring men to meet them, and you will drag them with crossbow arrows, so that they do not return to stop them. Xiao Jiang, Chen Quankang and others will bring reinforcements to you. We'll meet here. ”

The four of them took the order.

"What about us?" The rest of the corporates asked in unison.

"We? Of course we're waiting here! Zhang Yunwen said as a matter of course.

Just when the forty people led by Li Yang shot the first arrow, Zhang Yunwen asked people to set up gongs and drums, and "clang" knocked on, and then, the whole village was in chaos, and a pair of disheveled soldiers hurriedly rushed to the entrance of the village with knives and guns. Several bonfires were also lit in the village, illuminating a large area.

Zhang Yunwen looked at these soldiers who came out in a hurry, and finally found someone in the crowd. The man, dressed in a silk shirt and carrying a long sword, seemed to be commanding his soldiers.

I visually measured the distance from the hillside to the man, and I am afraid that it is more than a hundred meters. Zhang Yunwen suddenly said: "Among you, who has the best archery skills?" ”

A moment later, more than a dozen people stepped forward.

"Can you shoot that guy?" Zhang Yunwen pointed to the man in the silk shirt.

The soldier who stood up looked at it and said, "This place is too far away from there, and we all use three-stone bows, so I am afraid it will be difficult to shoot!" ”

Zhang Yunwen said: "Then go forward a little, and then shoot an arrow at that person, be sure to shoot!" ”

More than a dozen soldiers moved forward more than ten meters, pulled out long arrows in unison, and opened their bows, only to hear a neat string sound, and more than ten long arrows flew out.

Zhang Yunwen saw that the man shook for a while, and then fell to the ground, and immediately knew that he had shot the man, and his heart was immediately relieved. Now they can't be organized.

Then, suddenly there was a bright light in front of me, and several fires rose into the sky, lighting up the entire night sky.

"It's burning!" The soldier beside him cheered.

Zhang Yunwen nodded: "Yes, it's burning!" Yuan Sugong, you take someone with me to pick up Liu Cheng and the others. The rest of the people waited for reinforcements for Li Yang's four people! ”

The more than 100 people quickly divided into two groups and rushed down the mountain.

Zhang Yunwen held a long sword in his right hand and a crossbow machine in his left, bending down and running while aiming around with a crossbow machine.

Behind him, twenty people ran in different positions.

Not far from the village, Zhang Yunwen saw Liu Cheng Lei Wu who retreated, and they were splashed with a lot of blood, presumably after being discovered. Of the twenty they had brought with them, only seventeen remained.

"Yuan Sugong, you take all the people away! Liu Cheng and Lei Wu, the two of you will go in with me and snatch back the corpses of the brothers! Zhang Yunwen saw that three people had died in battle, and he was immediately distressed, thinking of the corpses of his comrades-in-arms who were blown to pieces in his previous life in Langshan, and his blood surged, and he couldn't help but roar.

Liu Cheng Lei Wu Yuan Su Gong heard the words and persuaded each other, but Zhang Yunwen pointed at Liu Cheng Lei Wu's nose and scolded: "Fuck, you think Lao Tzu wants to take this risk!" If it weren't for the fact that the two of you were too pustuated and couldn't even bring back the corpses of your brothers, would Lao Tzu be able to take the risk!? ”

Liu Cheng Lei Wu was suddenly ashamed, didn't say a word, and returned to the village with Zhang Yunwen.

With a wave of his hand, a crossbow arrow was fired, taking the life of a Xia soldier away, and another arrow stepped forward and stabbed a sword into the neck of a person. Zhang Yunwen burst out with unprecedented energy, almost killing one person in ten steps.

Zhang Yunwen and Liu Cheng Lei Wu found the bodies of the three people as quickly as possible, each carried one on their backs, and rushed out.

However, before he could rush out, he heard a burst of killing shouts. From time to time, Xia Jun passed next to the three of them. At the beginning, the three of them also took advantage of the location to kill some, but later found that these Xia troops had no intention of attacking, and looking at the situation, it seemed that they were fleeing.

went upstream, and sure enough, I saw a group of ** people who were mighty and chased Xia Jun to kill.

Zhang Yunwen hurriedly stepped forward and made peace with the large army, and was just about to continue the pursuit when he heard the sound of horses' hooves.

"Go, retreat!"

In an instant, the officers and men of the reconnaissance battalion turned around and withdrew to the hillside. And behind them, nearly a hundred horsemen were galloping on horseback, chasing after them.