Xuan Shijing rode a horse and Chen Ce left Pingzhou City and went straight to the outside of the city. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It is normal for the Chamber of Commerce to have a warehouse outside the city, compared to the mixed fish and dragons in the city, choose an inconspicuous place as a warehouse in the town outside the city or in Zhuangzi, which is not only safe, but also very cheap compared to the city, anyway, as long as it is a warehouse, someone must guard it, and the warehouse outside the city is also where the guards live.

Riding out of the city, walking east for less than a quarter of an hour, he came to a Zhuangzi, the Zhuangzi is not big, at a glance it looks like there are only seventy or eighty households, entered the Zhuangzi, walked along the street for a while, turned into an alley, Chen Ce reined in the reins of a house in front of a house.

"Master Hou, this is where the materials from Chang'an are stored." Chen Ce said to Xuan Shijing.

The exterior walls of this house are very tall, almost three people high, and the gate is closed, which looks much tighter, and it is indeed a good place to use as a warehouse.

"Let's go inside." Xuan Shijing said.

"Yes." Chen Ce responded, then dismounted and walked to the gate, picked up the copper ring on the gate, and knocked on the door.

"Who?" An inquiring voice came from inside the door.

"I, Chen Ce."

There was a creak, and the door slowly opened.

"Captain Chen, why are you here?" The one who opened the door was a person dressed as a guard, with a scimitar at his waist, and when he saw Chen Ce outside the door, a smile appeared on his face, this was probably a caravan guard in the escort team.

"Don't come to these polite words, hurry up, brothers, the goods in Chang'an are going to be shipped out." Chen Ce said.

"Okay, Captain, wait a minute." After the guard opened the door for Chen Ce, he left to call the other guards.

"Master Hou, please inside." Chen Ce invited Xuan Shijing to the house: "Master Hou, those things in Chang'an are all placed in the east wing, there are a lot of things, I don't know which ones you want to transport first?" ”

"Take me to see it first." Xuan Shijing said.

"Cheng, Master Hou, please."

Entering the east wing, Xuan Shijing saw the wooden boxes neatly placed against the wall, with wooden planks under the wooden boxes, separated from the ground and used to prevent moisture.

Now the three hundred soldiers of Dongshan County are together with the vanguard army, so there is no need for Xuan Shijing to worry about food and grass, so this time, a batch of gunpowder will be transported to the camp first.

After a while, the caravan's guards had already assembled outside the courtyard, and Xuan Shijing walked to a box, unsealed the box, and opened the box for inspection.

After confirming that it was correct, Chen Ce sent someone to load the boxes into the truck.

The boxes are very heavy, and a carriage can only carry three boxes, the first batch of gunpowder, and Xuan Shijing loaded ten carriages and thirty boxes of gunpowder, which is enough to deal with Beisha City.

Ten carriages lined up, and Xuan Shijing and Chen Ce led the way in front and slowly drove towards the barracks of the vanguard army.

In the evening, Xuan Shijing and his entourage arrived at the barracks of the vanguard army, and before they entered the barracks, the carriage was stopped at the gate of the camp.

Xuan Shijing stepped forward and said to the soldiers guarding the gate of the camp: "Go and report to the general, just say that Vice General Xuan has returned to the camp, bring some things, and let the general move out to check it." ”

"Yes!" The soldiers at the gate of the camp responded.

The military camp is important, and they will not let Chen Ce and other irrelevant people easily enter the camp, they can be regarded as loyal, and Xuan Shijing will not embarrass them.

Li Daozong heard that Xuan Shijing was going to let himself out at the gate of the camp, and he was also a little curious, and then he took the deputy general to the gate of the camp, and saw the guards behind Xuan Shijing and ten carriages, and the boxes loaded on the carriages.

"Xuanhou? What is this for? When Li Daozong saw the box behind Xuan Shijing, he was amazed in his heart, and he probably thought of something in his heart, and even his name for Xuan Shijing changed.

"General, do you remember what Your Majesty took out in the hunting ground in the eastern suburbs? Among these boxes is that the general wants to forcibly take Beisha City, and these things will definitely come in handy, so if we take the sailor's ship this time, we must also bring these things. Xuan Shijing said.

Hearing Xuan Shijing's words, Li Daozong decided in his heart that it was Xuan Shijing who confirmed the idea in his heart, just as Xuan Shijing said, if he had the help of gunpowder, he would get twice the result with half the effort!

"Great, things are a weapon for attacking the city, Xuanhou, if you can successfully take Beisha City this time, Xuanhou should be the first to take it." Li Daozong said ecstatically.

"The general has won the award, since we have come to Liaodong and are both vanguard troops, that is to share weal and woe, and the last general does not want our vanguard army to be damaged in the siege." Xuan Shijing said with a smile.

"That's very good, Xuanhou, this will be arranged, Xuanhou's three hundred soldiers, what is the need? Although it is said to Ben. Li Daozong said.

In this war, for the vanguard army, Xuan Shijing showed enough sincerity, so Li Daozong would not be stingy, and although Xuan Shijing's three hundred soldiers were small, they were more than enough in the vanguard army.

In some ways, Li Daozong's ideas coincide with Xuan Shijing.

After Xuan Shijing explained the common sense of the storage of these things to another lieutenant general, he returned to the big tent with Li Daozong, and the guards of the caravan handed over the things to the sergeants in the barracks and returned to Zhuangzi outside Pingzhou City.

Two days later, Liu Hongji's sailors arrived at the port of Luanhe in Pingzhou with his handwritten letter, and more than 5,000 vanguard troops boarded the ship with Xuan Shijing's supplies and headed straight for Beisha City from the sea.

From the port of Luanhe to Beisha City, it was only two days, and when they reached the sea area of more than ten miles outside Beisha City, the fleet turned around and put the vanguard army on an inconspicuous coast.

"General, our current location is here, half a day's journey from Beisha City." The adjutant general took out the map from his bosom and pointed out the location of the vanguard army to Li Daozong.

Li Daozong nodded: "Tell me to go down, all the people, find a place to hide, rest for half a day, and in the evening, set off to Beisha City, and attack Beisha City early tomorrow morning." ”

"Yes!" The lieutenant general clenched his fists in response.

"Xuanhou, what should you do with that batch of gunpowder?" Li Daozong looked at Xuan Shijing and asked.

"The gunpowder is all ready, and it is best to make a few simple catapults outside Beisha City by early tomorrow morning."