Chapter 52: Night Attack
Cao Rong also frowned and recalled the scene at that time: "At that time, everyone was indeed dominated by that military division, whether it was an old bandit like Liu Guineng, or a Ming Dynasty general like Cao Wenzhao, they were very respectful to that person, and in my opinion, the red lady and the military division had a close relationship, which was unusual!" ”
"It's definitely not just because of the relationship between the Red Lady, how to say that the sky is also a character, Cao Wenzhao alone is enough to reach 10,000 male soldiers, and it is not simple for the Red Lady to shake the world with a woman's body, and it is not easy to subdue these characters, it seems that the military advisor must be not small!" Cao Xing had no different color on his face, and sighed softly.
Cao Rong nodded, he had known countless people over the past few decades, and although he had only had a short contact with that military advisor and said a few words, Cao Rong was undoubtedly very jealous of him.
"It's just a million taels of silver and hundreds of thousands of stone grain, in that case, give it to them! The grain will be collected in millions of stones, which is the intention of our waiting! Cao Xingjian waved his hand indifferently and was extremely generous.
The other three family patriarchs also had no objections, and a million taels of silver was not much for them, let alone four families sharing it equally. Yangzhou is their base camp, and those families are their roots, and no one wants to take them to fight with the rogues. It's naturally great to be able to spend a lot of money and food!
"This matter is settled, Yangzhou trade route was blocked by them, we still support tens of thousands of people, every day to spend a lot of silver, if you can use silver to solve, then it is naturally better. Let's share these things evenly with the four of us, prepare it today, and tomorrow Cao Rong will run again, personally send them over, and let them retreat! Cao Xingjian gave the order.
"Yes!" Cao Rong gave up his hand and bent down to exit the lobby.
At dawn the next morning, Cao Rong took a large carriage to transport silver taels and grain to Xiao Xuan's camp, things went more smoothly than Cao Rong imagined, Yang Su immediately agreed to withdraw as soon as he got something, and after the soldiers had breakfast, they began to pack up their ordnance in an orderly manner and prepare to retreat.
"The generals are really believers, let's say goodbye, Cao has to go back to report to the patriarch, please forgive Cao for not being far away! We'll see you again in the future! Cao Rong rode on his horse and watched the army start to move, and greeted Yang Su and the others.
"Since the Cao family is full of sincerity and specially sent millions of stone grain, we are not people who don't know what to do, so we will return to Hubei!" Yang Su said with a righteous hand.
Xiao Sui had already reorganized his army, and with an order, the army immediately set up camp. The 100,000 captives were carrying the military supplies and began to march northward!
The army is not slow, half a day later marched thirty miles, at this time Yang Su ordered the army to stop and repair, on the ground to dig a stove to make a fire to cook broth, there is Yang Su to provide jerky, plus enough food can be free to eat, although the conditions are difficult, but in this era of often not enough to eat, the soldiers are very satisfied.
At this time, Xiao Sui was sitting next to Yang Su with a bowl of meat porridge and drinking it in a small sip, Yang Su was naturally a primordial god who came to eat, but Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao, and Liu Guoneng were directly holding a big wooden barrel. Even the meat porridge that Xiao Xuan drank was not simple, it was boiled with spiritual objects, even if it was a small bowl of blood.
The more you eat, the better your body is, otherwise Cao Xingjian would not say that three million stone grain is not enough for Yang Su and others to eat for a long time, after all, there is not so much oil and water now, just relying on food, it is normal for ordinary soldiers to eat ten catties of rice in one meal, if it is a martial artist who practices tendon realm, he can't beat it for dozens of catties!
"It's better to have a good life with Yang Gong, and you really have to grab a big account! In the past, sometimes if I couldn't grab something, I wouldn't even have enough to eat, let alone these spiritual things! Liu Guoneng sat down on the chair, touched his round belly, and smiled with satisfaction.
"Yang Gong, are we really going to leave like this?" Cao Bianjiao asked.
"Cao Wenzhao, did the scouts you sent out see the people from Yangzhou?" Yang Su asked Cao Wenzhao.
"Yes, they're watching us from afar!" Cao Wenzhao replied.
"It seems that this play has to be played out for a while, and when we withdraw from Yangzhou, they shouldn't be following!" Yang Su smiled indifferently.
Yangzhou is not a fool, naturally he will not easily believe Yang Su's words, and he will definitely see it with his own eyes before he is convinced that Yang Su and they are really leaving.
"At the current speed, we should be able to get out of Yangzhou tonight!" Xiao Sui asked Yang Su again, "What is Yang Gong going to do?" ”
"This matter is sooner rather than later, we have taken the opportunity to find out the location of the 10,000 cavalry in Yangzhou, they should not leave today, tonight Cao Wenzhao will lead the team to attack at night, we must destroy them!" Yang Su assigned the task.
"We are all clear about the situation in Bali Town! Surrounded by water on three sides, the remaining road is a mountain road that is very tortuous, easy to defend and difficult to attack! There are 8,000 defenders in the city, we can only take that road if we want to attack Bali Town, fortunately, our actions should be to paralyze the defenders, Cao Bianjiao, you selected 800 elites from the whole army as the vanguard, I will lead the army behind, wait for 10 in the morning to attack Bali Town, take advantage of the night to go to the city, and guard the gate of Bali Town, and wait for my army to enter the city! ”
"The last general obeys!" Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao hugged their fists to receive their lives.
"Yang Gong, what about me?" Liu Guoneng looked at Yang Su with a blank eye and asked, he really wanted to make meritorious contributions!
"You also have a heavy responsibility, you will guard the camp tonight! These nearly 100,000 prisoners and the baggage of our army, I have handed them all over to you! I can only leave you 5,000 soldiers and horses, and the rest of the soldiers will be taken away by me!" You have a great responsibility and can't afford to lose! Yang Su commanded.
Liu Guoneng was not disappointed that he failed to go into battle to kill the enemy in person, after all, guarding the camp really has to be something that only real cronies can do, so he hurriedly received the order; "The last general must guard the camp for Yang Gong!"
Yang Su looked at the sky and decided to let the soldiers rest for a while: "Order, repair for another hour, let's go!" ”
By the evening, the army had gradually left Yangzhou and began to set up camp and build bonfires. The Yangzhou spies, who had been hanging behind the surveillance, saw that Yang Su's army had been retreating without movement, and at this time they were about to leave Yangzhou again, so they finally left with confidence and went back to report the news.
Wait for them to leave shortly. After dinner, Cao Wenzhao, who had two days of dry food, left the camp with the Guanning Iron Horse and headed for Yangzhou. Cao Bianjiao also took the eight hundred elite soldiers selected from the whole army, and rushed to Bali Town on horseback, these eight hundred people are not simple, not only all of them have experienced a hundred battles, but they are all martial arts cultivators who practice the tendon realm, the trail in Bali Town is indeed very steep, even if it is a sneak attack at night, it is difficult for no one to guard the team and want to pass quietly. Only when this group of martial cultivators personally comes on the field can they walk on the ground.
I seem to have discovered a great event, after Yin Zhiping defiled the little dragon girl, did the little dragon girl get pregnant? After the ---, Xiaolongnu was eager to marry the lord of the Love Flower Valley, and the scenes at the bottom of the Love Flower Valley where she wanted to vomit but did not vomit were poisoning reactions or pregnancy reactions? The wedding scene was bumped into by Yang Guo, who jumped off the cliff and disappeared for 16 years after seeing the plan was revealed, and 16 years later, Yang Guo saw at the bottom of the cliff who called herself the little dragon girl???