The Jin soldiers deployed the periphery of Taiyuan City very strictly, they invested 3,000 patrol cavalry within 50 miles of Taiyuan City, and formed 60 patrol teams to defend the periphery of Taiyuan City, which was also to prevent Taiyuan City from obtaining grain and grass support, so even if they rushed at night, it was difficult to escape the monitoring of the patrol soldiers.

On the official road from Jiexiu County to Taiyuan City, a team composed of two hundred ox carts is slowly heading north, the carts are full of forage, this is a team transporting 30,000 loads of forage, the current place is the northern battalion of the Jin soldiers, the carts and coachmen are requisitioned from the people, followed by two hundred escort soldiers on both sides, all are Han soldiers, led by a Han army leader, he is riding on a horse with a big gun in his hand, and his eyes are looking at the front indifferently.

The Jin soldiers have established a logistical supply line between Jiexiu County and Taiyuan Prefecture, and there are constantly a steady stream of material convoys coming and going on the official road, continuously replenishing the Jin Bing camp with grain and grass materials.

The size of this forage transport team is relatively small, so there are not many guards, only two hundred soldiers, and if it is a large grain transport team, the escort team will exceed a thousand people.

At this time, they were still eighty miles away from Taiyuan City, and when they reached the south of Taiyuan City, there was a northward dividing road, where they would turn east and walk north.

The hay on the cart was piled up, and two long ropes fixed the hay on the cart in the shape of a cross, and the cart swayed slowly and walked very slowly, and when the capital saw that the sun had set, and there was a forest on the left, he shouted: "Go to the woods and rest!" ”

The soldiers had walked more than 100 miles, and they were already exhausted, and when the order to rest was given, everyone rushed to the woods.

The soldiers rushed into the woods to take off their armor, throw away their weapons, wrap themselves in old sheepskins, and find a dry place to sit down, the soldiers had eaten dry food on the way, they were exhausted, and fell asleep, while the coachmen fed their donkeys, and gathered together, drinking wine and munching on dry food, and whispering about the latest situation of the war.

These coachmen were timid and cowardly ordinary people, and the Jin soldiers forcibly requisitioned their carts and manpower, and they could not even go home to worship their ancestors in the New Year, and of course they were dissatisfied in their hearts, but they did not dare to show it in front of the soldiers, for fear of causing death.

But it would be wrong to say that they don't care about the war situation, after all, the war situation in Hedong is related to the vital interests of each of them.

"I heard that the Jin soldiers attacked Taiyuan City unfavorably, and tens of thousands of casualties were killed, and Taiyuan City was not even taken down."

"Of course, don't look at who is guarding Taiyuan City, when Li Dutong guarded Taiyuan City, we were one of the 80,000 people, that scene was exciting! Everyone just hates that there are so few places to serve, and if I hadn't been a little older, I would have been qualified to fight in the city. ”

"Lao Zhangtou also participated in the defense of Taiyuan?" Everyone looked at the old man's eyes and was full of respect.

The old man said a little proudly: "At that time, my son and I both participated, and my son also went to the city to operate trebuchets, and I was responsible for transporting arrows and oil, and the barrels of oil and bundles of arrows, now I think about it, it is still so exciting." ”

The old man closed his eyes, full of memories of the good past.

"Old Zhangtou, tell us about the big battle!"

A young man said enviously: "I heard from my parents that more than 40,000 Jin soldiers died in that battle, and finally retreated in a crushing defeat, so I knew that our army can also defeat Jin soldiers." ”

"Li Dutong has never been defeated, and in the two battles of defending Tokyo, the casualties of the Jin soldiers were also fifty or sixty thousand! The city of Tokyo was never taken. ”

"Hey!" In the distance, the leader of the Han army shouted, "Shut up, don't gather, let me sleep!" ”

Everyone had to curse a few words and walked away.

Just deep in the woods, fifty Song scouts had quietly arrived, and they had been tracking the forage convoy from afar since noon, and this team was small enough to suit them.

Wu Hailing beckoned, called the two lieutenant generals over, and whispered to them: "It is not difficult to annihilate this army, the key is not to slip through the net, the two of you each take ten brothers to ambush in the north and south to intercept the fish that slip through the net, and I will lead thirty brothers to attack head-on." ”

Both nodded, and Luo Shi asked, "When will you start?" ”

Wu Hailing raised his head and looked at the moonlight from the treetops, and said: "It's almost one shift now, let's do it at one shift, you just hear the screams anyway, remember!" I am responsible for catching the live mouth, and you can't keep a live mouth when you encircle and suppress, so be ruthless, otherwise you will kill us. ”

"Don't worry! We know it. ”

Luo Shi and Jiao Wang each took ten soldiers to ambush outside the woods, and Wu Hailing said to the thirty soldiers: "Wait a while, try to use the means of assassinating the sentry, and when they find out, it is estimated that half of them are already dead, and then you will kill with all your strength, leaving no one alive." ”

The method of assassinating the sentry was to cover his mouth and cut his throat, everyone nodded together, Wu Hailing asked the soldiers to pack up their equipment, and to see that the time was almost up, as soon as he waved his hand, thirty soldiers followed him to the edge of the woods silently.

The soldiers were all strictly trained, and their hands were very ruthless, and the thirty people moved quickly, almost all of them were a means, reaching out to cover their mouths, and the sharp daggers slashed at the throat at the same time, blood spurted out, and then got up and pounced on the other, leaving only the throat-breaker slowly struggling to die.......

It's just that in the short moment when the rabbit rises and falls, half of the two hundred Han soldiers have been killed, and finally a few soldiers woke up, saw the terrifying scene, and couldn't help but scream.

The Han soldiers woke up from their sleep one after another, and got up in a panic, but waiting for them was still ruthless and brutal killing, and they didn't even have to cover their mouths anymore, and with a wave of the dagger, blood spurted out of their throats, and the soldiers fell to their knees with their throats clutched.

The Song army scouts killed more than sixty more people in the blink of an eye, and the remaining thirty or so people finally reacted and fled out of the woods, but they were greeted by the merciless shooting of the Song soldiers on the periphery.

In just one stick of incense, the woods were quiet, and all 200 Han soldiers were killed.

At this time, Wu Hailing walked quickly to the two hundred coachmen, and said to a group of chauffeurs who were trembling with fear: "We are the scouts of the Song army under Li Dutong, we will not harm you, I will take you into Taiyuan City and let you regain your freedom!" ”

The coachmen were frightened for a moment, and then they all agreed, and then a soldier came running to report: "Commander Qiqi, one person is missing, and the leader of the enemy army is gone." ”

Wu Hailing was taken aback, this was troublesome, and he ordered: "Go and search in the woods, you must not let this person escape!" ”

The soldiers rushed into the woods, at this moment, an old coachman coughed a few times, he looked at Wu Hailing, and glanced at him, Wu Hailing's heart moved, and he looked at the old man's gaze, only to see a tall man standing next to him, about thirty years old, burly, vicious, with a long scar on his face, I saw that he looked downward, and he didn't dare to look at himself from beginning to end, and his clothes were not right, he was actually wearing a white middle coat, in such a cold weather, no one would take off his clothes and sleep.

Wu Hailing stepped forward and patted the man's shoulder, "Come out!" ”

A dagger suddenly appeared in the man's hand and stabbed Wu Hailing in the chest, Wu Hailing had already taken precautions, pinched his wrist, turned around and fell on his back, throwing the man over his head and falling more than a foot away.

The man struggled to get up, and several soldiers on either side rushed up, holding it firmly and tying him up.

Wu Hailing kicked away the dagger, squatted in front of him and said coldly: "The leader who escaped should be you!" ”

"Let go of me, you bastard!"

Wu Hailing grabbed him by the collar and slapped him twice, "Take him down for interrogation, let him taste the taste of cramping and peeling." ”

Cramping and skinning is the most cruel method of interrogation, and there was a terrible scream from the depths of the woods, and after a while, a soldier came out and said: "Commander Qiqi, he has confessed to everything, there is no password, and he passes the test with military orders and arrows." ”

At this time, Wu Hailing also found the escort arrow and military order, and he smiled at a group of coachmen: "Let's work hard, let's enter Taiyuan City early!" ”

The coachmen walked towards their respective carts, and at this time, fifteen Song soldiers also drove three hundred donkeys to converge, Wu Hailing asked his subordinates to change into the uniforms and leather armor of the Han soldiers, hid the powder keg under the forage, and continued to escort the convoy carrying the forage on the road overnight, heading for Taiyuan City, eighty miles away.