Chapter 1077: Two Sheep
Although the new Shangshu Ling Gao Daren roughly explained the principles of this operation in Feixin, it still depends on these people to implement it.
For half a month, if you keep the charcoal stove and chat about the day, maybe it will be too slow, but if you go inside to catch people and bring them out from the enemy city, people feel that this matter is a little difficult to start.
Jin Huanming is not a sheep, he will carry it and leave, even if it is a sheep, it will bark and struggle, and the owner of the sheep will roar. Jin Huanming is not just a bag, he can put it on his shoulder, and he can't scream, but the soldiers guarding the door always have to turn it over.
Lu Xiaoyu only has Gao Chengxiang's shepherd team in his hands, and he can't use the defenders of Crested City unless he has to, that's what Gao said.
Because it is now the winter season, as soon as the regular Tang army is dispatched, it means that it will officially meet the battle with the Goryeo Iron Urn City, so the disparity in strength between the two sides is huge, and things are not very easy to do.
And with the strength of the shepherds, it is not easy to catch the well-guarded guards of Goryeo!
Gao Chengxiang said, Master Lu, why don't I bring a few capable men into the city, find a way to pick up Jin Huanming, and then take him down!
Lu Xiaoyu said, "This is a solution, but it is a stupid way." Not to mention how many twists and turns you have to spend in the city, whether you can succeed, and how to get out of the city after taking Jin Huanming? Do you want me to take someone outside the city to pick me up? As soon as I answered, this hostile position was made clear! β
Lord Gao's requirements are: to catch Jin Huanming, but also to let Gai Suwen find no trace of Tang Jun's action, and to let him know that this is what Tang Jun did, because of what talent.
Gao Jun said, "It's better to have a plan to deceive the enemy, in the name of our Han Gui Lou Department, please invite Jin Huanming to Sunan City and catch him here!" β
This is not good, Han Gui Lou is pro-Tang, Gai Suwen's eyes are not a day or two, he doesn't dare to make any moves against Han Gui Lou, he doesn't come to find fault, he is just afraid of the might of the Tang army.
Jin Huanming entered Sunan City, and then didn't go back, what did Gai Suwen think? You must know that in such a season, the Goryeo side occupies a favorable position and the military is close to the military, so it is not impossible for him to launch a ruthless attack.
This doesn't work, that doesn't work, whoever comes up with an idea is rejected by Lu Mujian.
Someone asked, "Master Lu, then you can say a way, after today, it will be tomorrow!" Half a month is not a few days! β
Lu Xiaoyu knocked on his knee, "If you don't say that you and I can't do Shang Shuling, I don't have any strategy at all!" β
"Lord Lu, you should say it quickly, the order of the chief pastor has been issued, and Chang'an may not know how many pairs of eyes are looking at him! If the chief shepherd's cowhide is blown open, we won't have a good time! β
Lu Xiaoyu hehe, "That's a bit of a point." β
After that, he straightened his waist and raised his voice and commanded, "All the shepherd teams, herdsmen, group heads, and records of the Datang Longxing Ranch are all assembled!" β
Gao Junqiu asked, "This is to concentrate troops and have a big operation, Lord Lu, we still have 2,000 men and horses in the Han Guilou Department, and we are ready to dispatch at any time." β
Lu Xiaoyu said, "Everyone goes to the rear countryside overnight, whoever raises sheep will go in, I want everything that will 'bleat', I want to sell it for cash, I don't want to sell, I rent it if I don't want to sell it, and I will never owe it on credit for three days." β
"Lord Lu, how much?"
"10,000, enough in five days, not too fast, not too slow, two or three thousand a day, all sent to the sheep ranch outside the crested city."
"But our army has already been classified, what are we doing with so many sheep?"
"Hehe, when the army left, according to the instructions of the tall man, he left some money for our pasture, which was used for us to buy forage, but the more the money was used, the less it was, couldn't I make some money and go to the mainland to make some money?"
Gao Chengxiang said, "Lord Lu, maybe it's just you beating the rabbit with grass, but the real intention is probably from Master Gao!" The defenders of Crested City, it's better to give them something to do, it can't just be tossed by us shepherds! β
Lu Xiaoyu said, "You speak! β
Gao Chengxiang said, "Let them send a cavalry to the mountains and forests behind the side, no matter what method they use, in short, the more smoky the better, like how many Tang troops are in ambush!" β
Lu Xiaoyu said, "It's a bit of a way, but it's not the more lively, the more lively it is, Lord Gao said in the letter, it's too lively, and Gai Suwen came over!" We want Jin Huanming, not him! β
The people immediately went into action and went to the village day and night to buy sheep.
Since the last war, the local people have seen a way: sheep are a good thing, they can live if they have grass, and they grow meat when they eat grass, and they will become sheep for 120 big dollars a piece, and the Tang army did not bring a counteroffer.
And this time, when the class teacher left, the army took most of the sheep away, so what about the next time?
Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, don't wait for the next time people come to buy again, you are only left with the sheepfold!
Therefore, there is a war here, and the local people are not going to flee the famine, but to develop the sheep industry. Every household may lack salt and cloth, but there is no shortage of sheep, as long as there are sheep in the pen, then there will be any salt and cloth.
Even a lone old woman in her seventies or eighties always has a pair of sheep tied to her yard.
It's just that this time the interval between the withdrawal of the Tang army is a little short, and a pair of sheep in my mother-in-law's house have not yet been produced. Take it to Crested City and feed it to you in the pasture for a few days. β
So there was a record of Longxing Ranch coming, listing and registering the sheep, and the big money was advanced first.
Although they don't know the specific intentions of Lord Lu, this matter must be related to the head of Jin Huanming in Iron Urn City, and it is the death order of Lord Shangshu Linggao!
The number of sheep in the sheep herd in Juntou City is increasing day by day, and the white flowers are baating, and the observation post on Goryeo City in Anzhou City has already discovered something strange across the river.
Lu Xiaoyu strictly ordered the blockade of the news along the Qingchuan River, and not a single Goryeo spy was allowed to come over, and the western front was in charge of Fengtou Town, and the eastern line was in charge of the Han Gui Loubu and Longxing Ranch.
Gai Suwen can only look through the river.
The Tang army of Fengtou City only sent 300 cavalry, tossing back and forth in the dense forest fifty to seventy miles behind the city, running with branches tied to the tail of the horse, looking murderous from a distance.
During these five days, Gao Junqiu also had a mission.
Lu Xiaoyu asked him to go back to the city, select two hundred strong sergeants in the army, ask the locals, have a fluent local accent, prepare two hundred sets of military uniforms that are exactly the same as the iron urn, and prepare a flag of the iron urn city, if it is broken, it can be recognized by Gai Suwen.
These things are not difficult for Han Guilou's department, some of the people in the ministry hate Gai Suwen, the humiliation of bullying the land, the hatred of displacement, and some people still have their lives on their heads.
The military uniform of Iron Urn City is not difficult, and it is not uncommon to see it in ordinary times, and it is only slightly different from the military uniform of the headquarters. Gao Junqiu gathered dozens of tailors in the city, and women who knew how to make handicrafts from each family also came to help, and the military uniforms were also ready.
And the flag of the iron urn city is better said, after it is done, the place that is not very recognizable will be scratched with a knife, smoked with smoke, sprayed with chicken blood, and then put in the mud to step on it.
Five days is enough time for such a thing, and people ask Lu Da Pastoral Supervisor for a task, "What are we going to do next?" According to this progress, it is estimated that when his subordinates take Jin Huanming back to Chang'an, they may be able to have more room on the road! β
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Jin Huanming, the guard of Goryeo in Iron Urn City, still didn't know that the arrow he shot at Tang General at the head of the city would have such a big reaction.
When Gai Suwen scolded him for having nothing to do, Jin Huanming just thought that Gai Suwen really scared Tang Jun. Later, it turned out that Gai Suwen was indeed afraid, because General Tang did not come to find fault, and Gai Suwen's attitude towards him also eased.
Jin Huanming thought that his archery skills had reached the level of a hundred steps through Yang, but in the end of this battle, he couldn't meet Tang General Xue Li, which was a bit regrettable.
Otherwise, you can also compare with Xue Li to see who is more capable.
It is said that Xue Li can take the lives of people on the city head from the city with arrows, the target is condescending, the city is clear at a glance, and there are battlements to avoid, this shooting method is indeed a little difficult.
However, Jin Huanming thought that his ability was not small, otherwise at such a long distance under the city, so many Tang troops were galloping on horses, and there was chaos, how could he just shoot that Tang general?
In addition, he also has a unique skill, which is to use poison. Xue Li may miss the key point if he shoots an arrow, and he will not die. But the tip of his arrow is poisonous, and he can't be healed when he sees blood.
Jin Huanming's recipe is also very unique, using seahorses and leeches to dry and twist the powder, adding honey locusts and living alone in a closed clay pot, and then raising centipedes in it, catching some insects every day and feeding them.
The centipede is raised for three years, then it is caught alive and thrown into the wine, causing it to vomit and empty its stomach, and the wine turns red and sticky like oil. All it takes is a dip in the tip of the arrow, and whoever is shot will never heal again.
Iron Urn City is far away from Fengtou City, and Jin Huanming didn't know about the Tang Army's rapid raising of sheep in Fengtou City at first, but Longxing Ranch has been moving outside the city in the past two days, which has attracted Jin Huanming's attention.
There had just been a snowfall now, and the grass on the hillside was covered with snow, Jin Huanming judged that Longxing Ranch definitely did not come out to graze.
This is the territory of Iron Urn City, Jin Huanming did not go to Sunan City and Mudi City to cause trouble, that was to consider Gai Suwen's attitude of calming people.
But the other party ran to his own one-third of an acre to harass him, and Jin Huanming always had to cough twice.
He met him with a sword, a bow, and a thousand horsemen, and the shepherds fled as soon as they were within a stone's throw on either side.
Jin Huanming boasted on the horse, "Finally, these calves know how powerful Jin's arrows are!" β
But Kim Hwan-ming still didn't dare to be careless, the iron urn city is located ninety miles northeast of Pyongyang, and it was originally only a middle town in the hinterland of Goryeo. However, with the reoccupation of the two cities of southern Jiangsu and Mudi by the pro-Tang Han Guilou tribe, the strategic position here has been virtually elevated.
Unlike Anju Fortress to the west, Iron Urn Fortress did not directly confront the Tang army of Fengtou Fortress, but it was an important barrier to defend the eastern part of Pyongyang City.
If the general can't judge the situation, he is mediocre! The Longxing Shepherd Team was first established and had not been tempered in actual combat, but this did not mean that Jin Huanming had not heard of the prestige of the Datang Shepherd Team.
Jin Huanming ordered: Strengthen the defense in the iron urn city, especially at night at the head of the city to increase patrol shifts, deep ditches and high fortifications. In addition, he cleared the countryside outside the city, and everyone moved to the iron urn city, and not a grain of grain was left! Especially sheep!
Under the compulsion, the people outside the city pushed carts and abandoned their ancestral homes to enter the city.
There are not many people in the mountain village outside the city, so Jin Huanming has moved cleanly, and it should be foolproof. The shepherd team, you go shopping, three or five trips a day, take care of my! But you won't have a grain or a sheep in the city!
Jin Huanming doesn't even need to go out of the city.
Subsequently, he also learned the news of the sheep in the Fengtou City Ranch, and the two contacted each other, and Jin Huanming vaguely felt that his defense was already ahead of Anzhou City. He thought that perhaps in two days, someone from Pyongyang would come and convey the order of Marshal Gai Suwen.
But Kim Hwan-myung waited for the left and Pyongyang in the iron urn city, and no one came, and the right waited, and it was not yet.
Jin Huanming smiled secretly, Gai Suwen, you are just playing some conspiracy and engaging in nest fighting! Take a look at the previous battles between you and the Tang Army, which one has taken advantage of Ben Jiang like this!
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On the third day of Lu Xiaoyu's raising of sheep, the spies on the high post of Anju City noticed that this was abnormal, and they quickly sent people to report to Pyongyang City.
Gai Suwen hurriedly ordered to probe again, and after the fifth day, the number of sheep in Crested City did not increase, and the total number was about ...... There are more than 10,000 of them.
He didn't dare to be careless, guessing the intention of the Tang Army to farm sheep in winter.
According to the last experience, Gai Suwen thought that these sheep could only meet the military operations of less than 10,000 people and of medium and lower scale at bestβwhat was the Tang Army going to do? People have just withdrawn and come back?
It shouldn't be.
"Send someone to cross the river in disguise, and let me investigate!" The men took the order and left.
But the people who went crossed the Qingchuan River and none of them came back, but a message was sent from the outpost of Anzhou City: Ambush soldiers are stationed in the dense forest north of Fengtou City! Visually inspect the smoke and dust, and you can't pass 10,000 people.
Gai Suwen had the intention to immediately increase his troops along the Qingchuan River, but he was worried that this would leave some truth for the Tang army.
After thinking about it, Gai Suwen allocated 20,000 troops to lurk in Hutian Town, forty miles behind Anzhou City, once the Tang army really wanted to cross the river, then his 20,000 reinforcements would arrive in an instant.
The only thing that made Gai Suwen a little worried was the arrow shot by Jin Huanming, the defender of Iron Urn City, before the Tang army withdrew.
Jin Huanming's use of poison Gai Suwen knew about it, if ...... If General Tang later died of an arrow wound...... "Come on, go to Iron Urn City quickly, take a look at the defense there, and let Jin Huanming not be careless!" But we can't provoke southern Jiangsu and Mudi City, we brake quietly! β
The legend did not dare to slack off, and immediately set off for Iron Urn City with twenty sergeants.
On the road, the mountains are steep, the mountain road is steep, they walk with dry mouths, and finally come across a village on the way, and want to go in to beg for saliva to drink, but when they go in, every household goes to the house empty.
Not to mention the water, the water tank is smashed.
The envoy took people out of the village, but he couldn't think of what the situation was, the ninety miles of mountain roads were straightened for one hundred and ninety miles, and when he encountered a mountain village, there was still no one.
More than 20 people walked listlessly, and one of his subordinates pointed to a col not far away and shouted, "My lord, that's a sheep!" Someone is herding sheep, why don't we ask! β
So someone shouted at the shepherds across the mountain beams,