The flames were like a golden dragon, lighting up the dark night, not only the rebel generals and soldiers in the entire grain field were stabbed and alarmed, but even the headquarters of Huang Sui and other departments dozens of miles away were also alarmed, and they were shocked.

In Yangzhou of the Han Dynasty, the county of Lujiang County, outside the city of Shu County, at the camp of Huang Sui, most of the rebels besieging the city of Shu County had already fallen asleep, and only the few soldiers who patrolled and guarded to prevent the counterattack of the Lujiang County soldiers in the county seat of Shu County were staring at the hazy sleepy eyes and staying behind.

At this moment, the black sky in the distance was suddenly full of flames, and suddenly there was such a big abnormality outside the camp, which startled the rebel guards on duty, and hurriedly ran into the big tent of the Chinese army in the rebel camp, and called Huang Sui, the rebel thief who was napping, to explain the abnormality outside the camp and let him check it.

Although Huang Sui had already fallen asleep, he didn't sleep too well, and was woken up by the soldiers who rushed to him, after all, he was the commander of the first army, Shu County had not been captured, and it was strange that he could have a good sleep. When he learned that the southeast of the camp was full of fire, he was shocked, so he pushed away the soldiers and went out of the tent without worrying about getting dressed.

The soldier who reported the news wondered why his general was so anxious, but at this time, he didn't have time to think about it, so he found a coat of Huang Sui in the tent and followed out. At this moment, he didn't know that the place where the army was storing grain was in the southeast, otherwise he would definitely understand why Huang Sui was like this, after all, in addition to the soldiers who often transported grain in the army, only Huang Sui and other high-ranking rebels knew that the southeast was the place where the army hoarded grain and grass.

"Why? How so? Someone came, beat the drum, and ordered the generals of all departments to quickly gather their men and horses and assemble in the middle tent. ”

Outside the tent, Huang Sui looked at the fire in the distance in the southeast, his heart was shocked, and he howled and ordered the left and right to quickly beat the drums and gather the soldiers and horses, and gather the civil and military officials.

"Boom! Boom! Knock ......"

The heavy and loud war drums sounded under the vigorous beating of the drummers, and the rebel camp suddenly exploded as if the camp had been bombed, and there was a commotion in all the tents, mixed with the shouts of many women and children, who were undoubtedly relatives of these rebels. I saw countless soldiers wearing clothes and holding their precious weapons at the same time, they were divided into countless large and small troops, and under the leadership of the commanders of various departments, they assembled in the Chinese army.

Although the rebels are not well-trained elites in a hundred battles, but under the leadership of Huang Sui, after several fierce battles, they also have a lot of military experience, they know that the assembly of drums is not a trivial matter, there must be a big incident, so the assembly is also very fast, it only took a few moments of effort, the camp has gathered most of the troops here.

Putting on the coat sent by the soldiers, Huang Sui looked at the southeast firelight and was speechless for a long time, but although he didn't speak, his anxious face had already betrayed his mood at the moment. The thin coat is not cold at all at the moment, but it makes Huang Sui feel like he is wearing a thick fur, which is very hot.

It stands to reason that it's midnight, even if it's summer, you should feel cool, not to mention that Huang Sui is still wearing a coat at the moment. However, the fire in the southeast burned very much, causing the air temperature around the fire to be extremely high, and when the wind blew, it was hot wind, so with the oncoming hot wind, coupled with the anxiety in his heart, Huang Sui's body was not free to sweat, and he didn't know whether it was hot or urgent.

Seeing that everyone under his command gathered, Huang Sui said: "The place where the fire started is the place where our army stores food. ”

As soon as the words came out, except for a few people, the rest of the people were shocked, and everyone understood that something had happened to the grain storage department, and what would happen to their own rebel army. After all, in the final analysis, most of the people who attached themselves to their uprising were corrupt officials and local tyrants who had absorbed countless people's fat and people's ointment, and they had nothing to eat.

Now, if they attack the two counties and destroy the food they have looted, will the people who have nothing to eat revolt with them? In other words, the reason why the rebels have been able to grow stronger and stronger is entirely by feeding the war with war, robbing the food and goods of the local powerful and wealthy people, so as to induce and coerce those poor people who have no food to eat, no food and clothing, and no way out to join them. In this way, it snowballed a lot of strong men to have today's scale, but now if they run out of food, how much impact will it have on this rebel army, which relies entirely on food and goods to instigate soldiers to serve, and it is very likely that most of the rebels will flee, or even defect, and the army will be divided.

"General, the last general asks for orders to help save him."

"The last general is also willing to go."

"The soldiers are fast, please make a decision as soon as possible!"

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As Huang Sui revealed the truth about summoning everyone to come, countless generals suddenly came to ask for his life, most of them were Huang Sui's henchmen, his hometown party classmates, relatives and clansmen, these people and Huang Sui were both prosperous and lost, so they naturally decisively asked for help, hoping to keep most of the food.

Of course, there are people who are loyal to the rebels, and naturally there are still some people who are waiting and watching, and do not speak out to support, ready to preserve their strength. As long as the rebels run out of food and grass, they may not hesitate to sell Huang Sui, use Huang Sui as a vote, surrender to the Han army, and save their lives.

In this regard, Huang Sui, who had been observing the armies in the tent, naturally knew in his heart, and after observing those hesitant characters, he immediately ordered a few of his henchmen to bring the soldiers and horses of his headquarters, and named the hesitant rebel commanders to lead the soldiers and horses to support together, and he took the remaining soldiers to guard the camp.

The Qu Shuai who was named, reluctantly said "no" to several of Huang Sui's henchmen, and then led the soldiers and horses to support, and secretly said in his heart that he was unlucky and was sent by Huang Sui to exterminate the Han army. I hope that they will not have a hard fight with the Han army, otherwise their idea of preserving their strength will definitely be in vain, and when the time comes, they will release the water, the grain will really be burned, the rebel ship will definitely sink, and they can't be buried with Huang Sui and those people.

Seeing that everyone was ordered to leave, Huang Sui in the middle tent had a cold face, in fact, the reason why he convened this emergency meeting was completely to test the morale of the army. He knew that even if he could wipe out all the Han troops who came to attack the grain storage place, it was estimated that the food saved would not be enough for the army to eat, so for this big thief marshal who controlled Jiangxia and Lujiang Han barbarians and plundered the two counties with the strength of one person, the top priority was to consider how to deal with how to deal with the problem of how to stabilize the morale of the whole army after the grain was burned.

Therefore, this is the matter of Huang Sui holding a meeting just now, in fact, can he not know the importance of the speed of the soldiers and the rescue of the grain storage office? In fact, Huang Sui knew it completely, but the reason why he did this was actually just to test the reaction of his subordinates, and Huang Sui didn't believe that his subordinates were all loyal people.

Since he commanded an uprising rebel army that wanted to rebel against the orthodoxy of the Han family, Huang Sui naturally accepted all kinds of characters in the early days of the uprising as long as they were willing to oppose the Han Dynasty, resulting in different parts of his generals. It is precisely for this reason that Huang Sui will make this decision, testing whether there are people under his command who have different intentions when they see that the army is unfavorable at this moment.

Sure enough, after some temptation, Huang Sui really found a few people with two hearts, so he sent his henchmen and faces to bring those two half-hearted Qu Shuai to lead troops and horses to support. Huang Sui's purpose in doing this is actually very simple, on the one hand, it is to keep them completely away from their own camp, not to let them have the opportunity to contact other Qu Shuai to rebel, and stabilize the situation in the camp more safely, on the other hand, it is to let his henchmen "monitor" them, and at the same time, it is also to remind them not to make any changes, after all, they are on the same road as their henchmen, even if they have two hearts, they must weigh whether it is suitable to defect now.

Huang Sui had already expected these people to rebel, if it wasn't for the wrong time now, he was ready to find the right opportunity and reason to completely annex a few people's subordinates. Because those people didn't start with Huang Sui at the beginning, they were originally the bandit leaders of Jiangxia and Lujiang, and after hearing about Huang Sui's wanton plundering of the two counties, they were determined to join the rebels with a big vote, so their loyalty was naturally limited. And Huang Sui also knew that more strength means more insurance, so he accepted them unreservedly, just because he needed their military strength.

Of course, Huang Sui knew that there must be more than just a few Qu Shuai who hesitated just now in his army, and there must be other people under his command who felt hopeless about the prospect of rebellion because their food was burned. However, Huang Sui couldn't find these people for a while, and all he could do was to transfer the rebels who had already shown their faces, and try to reduce the opposition within the battalion, so as not to make a big mistake in the future.

The rebels outside Shu County responded quickly, and there were also Han soldiers guarding the city tower in Shu County, and the soldiers of the Han army who were guarding the city found the fire in the southeast of Shu County, and hurriedly notified the generals who defended the city.

At the city tower, Lu Kang climbed the city tower under the guidance of the main book, and then looked at the fire in the southeast of Shu County, with a puzzled face, not knowing what happened outside the city.

Not only Lu Kang himself, but also the civil and military officers of the Lujiang County Bureau who were woken up next to him were also unaware of the accident outside the city, after all, in order to ensure the secrecy of his actions, Fuquan led his troops to the place where the rebels were sheltered alone, and the fundamental reason was to ensure that the news would not be leaked.

"Ming Gong, did you send someone to investigate outside the city?"

"Hmmm! Let go of scouts and make them more careful, the thief army camp is so vigilant, there must be a big event! ”

"No!"

Looking at the rebel camp outside the city, which had suddenly changed from chaos to abnormal vigilance after the fire had changed, the master bookkeeper hurriedly proposed to Lu Kang beside him, and Lu Kang quickly allowed it. Everyone knows that intelligence is the most important thing in the battle between the two armies, and the rebels must be connected to the fire outside the city if they are so abnormal, and no one can figure out what the rebels are trying to do without investigating it clearly.

Of course, Lu Kang, who is generous by nature, treats his subordinates with sincerity and cares about the soldiers, still advises, after all, the situation outside the city is unknown now, and it is likely to encounter rebels, so he must be cautious.

Soon a large basket hung with a rope was put down on the castle tower, and when he reached a dark place at the foot of the city, he saw a Han scout who had changed into a tattered people's clothes, and left quietly in the night. Then, several scouts pretending to be ordinary people, concocted the same method, and were sent out of the city to find out the news.

The dark place in the corner of the city is a blind spot of the rebel camp opposite, which was found by the soldiers of Shu County after wasting a lot of energy and human lives, and it was very safe for the Han army scouts in the city. Otherwise, without this blind spot, Shu County is surrounded by the rebels, and if the city gate is directly opened to let the scouts enter and exit, it will undoubtedly give the rebels a chance to attack.

It can be said that the dark corner of this city wall is the link between the Han army inside Shuxian County and the outside, without him, I am afraid that even Lu Kang's letter asking for help from Fuquan has no hope of being sent.

Looking at the figures of those scouts who were equivalent to those who dared to die gradually disappearing in the dark night, Lu Kang on the city tower sighed in his heart, the Han has such a loyal and strong man, why worry about the uncertainty of the society and the injustice of the thieves. It's just that I don't know what this fire is, and will the rebels on the opposite side change their offensive after this incident? At that time, will the less than 10,000 county soldiers in his city be able to resist? I don't know if the Bajun Taishou will come to the rescue after receiving his letter......

All kinds of thoughts were tossing and turning in his heart, and it was destined that after Lu Kang was woken up, he would lose sleep when he saw the abnormality caused by the fire outside the city, of course, he was not the only one who had insomnia tonight......

When Huang Sui urgently dispatched troops because of the fire in the grain storage outside the camp, and Lu Kang judged abnormality because of the fire, at the same time, in the rebels' grain storage, the Han army under Fu Quan was desperately blocking the rebel soldiers who tried to break through the Han army to the rescue, and the other side continued to set fire everywhere.

It is precisely because of the unremitting arson of the Han army that the fire can be made less and bigger, and it seems to light up the entire night sky, and finally alarm the rebels in the rebel camp in the distance, otherwise it is just a little bit of a small flame, and it is obviously a little reluctant to let the rebels in the distance see it, not to mention the fire that makes the rebels stunned.

On both sides of the mountain, four or five thousand rebel soldiers were hurriedly assembled on each side, and this time, whether it was the rebel soldiers stationed in the cottage on the surface of the mountain, or the hidden soldiers hiding in the mountains, they were all attracted to support by the fire.

However, although their support was very timely, the long and narrow mountain path was very unfavorable for the attack of large troops, so even if they were numerous, they could only divide into small groups and advance in waves.

In this way, it is destined that their offensive effect is not too good, and they can only rely on numbers, use human lives to fill the bows and crossbows of the Han army, and then fight hand-to-hand with the Han army hiding behind.