Chapter 369: Igniting Grain and Grass

This night, lightning and thunder in the air, big drops of rain sprinkled on the wet land, this is a night that is not suitable for outdoor activities in a place like Jiangdong, but inside and outside the camp of the Poyang defenders, it is still crowded, and the number of sergeants patrolling is not only not less than in the past, but has increased a lot.

Obviously, Zhuge Liang's previous raid on Jiangdong on a stormy night made LĂź Meng and Lu Xun remember it vividly, and Zhuge Liang's ability to observe the sky and judge the climate was also known to the people of the Central Plains, including Jiangdong, through that raid.

Therefore, this night was the time when Lu Meng and Lu Xun judged that Zhuge Liang was most likely to attack Poyang, so not only did the sergeants not get a rest this night, but even the two of them were sitting opposite each other in the tent, and the strategy was already in the hearts of the two, they did not speak, but were always ready to meet this crucial battle.

The situation in the Jiangdong garrison camp has all fallen into the eyes of Guan Ping, who is dressed lightly in the dark, Guan Ping is lying on a mound two or three miles away from the Jiangdong camp at this time, looking at the pitch-black camp from a distance, he can't help but have a little more admiration for Zhuge Liang in his heart, what Zhuge Liang told him in his ear before, it is this rainy night Jiangdong sergeant will definitely step up the guard, and how to break into his camp in this situation.

When he looked back, Guan Ping saw that the thousand dead soldiers behind him had all changed into tight night clothes, and under the background of the rain, if you didn't look closely, you couldn't see that this was a thousand soldiers lying on the ground.

The purpose of Guan Ping's raid this time is obvious, that is, to make Lu Meng and Lu Xun think that they are the vanguard sent by Zhuge Liang, and the purpose is to burn the grain and grass in the Jiangdong camp, so that as long as the fire can be ignited, it can cause some chaos in the Jiangdong camp.

And from this time, Guan Ping's task has just begun, he wants to retreat in one direction purposefully when the Jiangdong camp is chaotic, so that Lu Meng and Lu Xun think that he wants to lead them to one place, and then place some suspicious soldiers in that place, so that once the suspicious soldiers are discovered by Lu Meng and Lu Xun, the two will think that they have seen through Zhuge Liang's breakthrough, and when they want to fight with the exposed suspicious soldiers, they will be regarded as falling into Zhuge Liang's calculations.

Such a complex strategy, Guan Ping really has not experienced before, just thinking about the whole process in his mind, Guan Ping is a little big, but he has become the most important part of this, so that his heart is pounding until this matter, he can only try to leave those processes that have nothing to do with him temporarily behind, at this time, the only calculation is how to successfully bring this thousand dead soldiers into the Jiangdong camp where the grain and grass are.

In the blink of an eye, midnight has passed, and the sergeants around the Jiangdong camp have changed one shift after another, just to ensure that all the people who stay in the camp are the most energetic, and after the replaced sergeants returned to the camp, they hurriedly began to rest, recuperate and prepare for the next patrol, or Zhuge Liang's army that may come at any time.

Although the battalion has strengthened the garrison and patrol, but the target, but most of the surrounding areas of the camp, as well as the direction of Zhuge Liang's troops, Lu Meng and Lu Xun firmly believe that if Zhuge Liang's army has a large range of movement, it will definitely let themselves be noticed, so as a place to store grain and grass at the back of the camp, compared to the front, it is a relatively weak place to garrison.

As time went on, the wind and rain became heavier, and the two groups of sergeants who approached each other could not see their companions until they were only a few steps away, but they had already opened their eyes very wide according to the orders of the two governors, for fear of missing the outsiders who had infiltrated the camp.

At this time, Guan Ping was moving around the mound two or three miles away from the camp, moving to the rear of the camp little by little, and a thousand black-clothed and short-bladed dead soldiers were all scattered, and crawled forward, in the heavy rain, under the cover of night, they could not see each other, and could only inform their companions of their existence by imitating the shrill birdsong that was common in Jiangdong.

Relying on this way, Guan Ping and the people came all the way to the rear of the Jiangdong army camp one or two miles, Guan Ping left five hundred people on the periphery at this time, and personally led five hundred dead soldiers, and no one carried two or three points of fire, after all, it is not easy to ignite the grain and grass on such a rainy night, but in this era, there is nothing more effective than the fire to create chaos.

Tiredness has already begun to attack Lu Meng and Lu Xun, who have been sleepless almost all night, but both of them are still sitting upright in the tent, they know that the more at this time, the easier it is for Zhuge Liang to attack, Zhuge Liang's grasp of the timing is undoubtedly superb.

Even if Zhuge Liang didn't hit as imagined tonight, they believed that this night was not wasted, because giving up such a good opportunity can only show that Zhuge Liang is not as confident as they seem.

However, such thoughts had only just formed in their minds, and less than an hour before midnight, the peace of the camp was finally shattered, as they had expected.

"Governor, the rear of the camp was attacked, and the enemy army somehow mixed into the tent where the grain and grass were stored, and carried a large number of fire-starting things, and half of the grain and grass had already caught fire!"

"This ......"

The grain and grass caught fire, the two of them did not panic, this is very close to Jiangdong, there is no shortage of grain and grass, but the back of the camp was infiltrated, what is Zhuge Liang's intention, this is what they think at this time.

"There won't be too many enemy troops there, immediately dispatch three thousand sergeants to investigate with me, and the rest of the people are not allowed to move without authorization, and listen to the orders of Governor Lu Mengdu!"

After Lu Xun and Lu Meng glanced at each other, they gave orders to the sergeant, picked up their weapons and walked quickly to the outside of the tent.

At this time, after paying for the lives of two or three hundred dead soldiers, Guan Ping finally completed this first task, but he did not withdraw immediately, because in addition to the original guards, there were no new reinforcements here, and he had to wait until the weighty people found out about himself before he could start to retreat, and now, what he had to do was to hold on until that time and not die here.