Chapter Forty-Nine: Trying to Catch the Dead

After cleaning the battlefield and burying the corpses, the Jingsui camp was stationed on the spot. The soldiers set up their military tents, buried pots to cook, and experienced a big battle for most of the march, so it was time to rest for a while. The first to follow Xu Wei has already put on the appearance of a veteran oil, what should he do. Only the raw melon and eggs, who had experienced the battle for the first time, would get together and talk excitedly about Fang Cai's battle.

After Xu Wei arranged the sentry patrol, he returned to the tent, returned the big knife to the leather sheath, and put it on the table. Sit back and quietly reflect on the lessons learned from today's battle. Although the incident happened suddenly, the troops reacted fairly quickly, but the training of the troops was not enough, and the military quality of the non-commissioned officers was not high, and it needed to be further strengthened. The lack of equipment is still the problem that bothers him the most at present, and in today's battle, there is no need for strong soldiers and heavy armor, even if there is a batch of bows and crossbows, the results of the battle will be at least doubled. However, the strong bow and crossbow are the most strictly controlled weapons in the Song Dynasty, and they are still unreachable for the Jingsui camp.

"Deputy Envoy Xu, Li Guan." Outside the tent, the guards reported loudly.

Xu Wei ordered him to come in, and Li Guan and his group defected to Xu Wei and were incorporated into Zhou Xiong's subordinates. Xu Wei knew that Li Guan had some skills, and he was never willing to be an ordinary soldier, so he deliberately pressed him. Sure enough, as soon as Li Guan came in, his face was full of gloom, and after saluting the commander, he stood aside and didn't let out a fart.

Xu Wei didn't pay attention to him, poured a bowl of water for himself, and took a big sip. He took out the method of marching and arranging the formation written by Xu Sheng and studied it. When Li Guan saw it, he stared at his small eyes, and asked, "I don't know if the deputy envoy summoned the villain, what is the send?" ”

Xu Wei continued to look at the book and asked casually, "How about today's gain?" ”

When Li Guan heard this, he said quite proudly: "Three thieves in hand, two horses." ”

"Well, it's okay." After Xu Wei said this sentence lukewarmly, he didn't talk anymore, and still concentrated on reading. Li Guan couldn't advance or retreat, and when he saw his posture, he was unpredictable, so he cautiously probed: "The deputy envoy summoned the villain, and only asked about the capture?" ”

Xu Wei folded a page of the book, put it on the table and sighed: "There is something important, I wanted to hand it over to you, but I was afraid that you would ......"

Before he finished speaking, Li Guan hurriedly said: "With a word from the deputy envoy, the villain can also go in the water and drill in the fire!" ”

Xu Wei looked directly at him and said solemnly: "It's really in dire straits, a mountain of swords and a sea of fire." This matter is going to be done, and I will ensure that your position is not under the capital, but if it is done badly, your own life will not be guaranteed, and the whole camp will be affected. How, do you have the guts? ”

Li Guan heard him say this, and did not respond for a while. It can be seen that this matter must have great risks, and it is still life-threatening. But wealth and danger seek, in this world, support the bold, starve the cowardly, don't fight, do you keep being this promising soldier?

As soon as he thought of this, he said impassionedly: "Please give the deputy envoy orders!" ”

"Good!" Xu Wei took the case, "I didn't see the wrong person!" Listen, I'll let those thieves go after nightfall. Most of them will inevitably return to Wang Shan, and you will choose capable people to mix in and go to Wang Shan's thief camp to spy on the news. Remember, the first task is to find out the layout of its defense, troops, equipment, grain and grass location, and pay special attention to the place where the bandit leader Wang Shan is. After the discovery, you come back alone, and the rest of the people are left to do the internal response. ”

Li Guan's face tightened, and he lost his voice: "The deputy envoy wants to rob the camp?" "There are only more than 600 people in the Jingsui camp, and the other party has more than 10,000 people, and the difference in strength is too great!

Xu Wei sneered: "You must know the combat power of that thief, he hit me in an ambush today, and if he returns from a big defeat, his morale will inevitably be frustrated." Surely he would not have expected me to rob the camp tonight, as long as you find out the situation, then I should join forces with the outside of the camp, and he will have 100,000 horses? ”

Li Guan thought secretly, if he defeated 10,000 people with hundreds of soldiers, this credit is really not small! If you can succeed, you will be the first person to be promoted, and you will be reused! Done! Immediately received the task, Xu Wei repeatedly instructed that he must be cautious and not careless, Li Guan should say goodbye to Xu Wei and go to select people.

Xu Wei immediately ordered all the officers above the head of the battalion to enter the tent to discuss the robbery of the camp. Yang Yan Matai killed happily today, and when the thief attacked, the two of them were still a little afraid, after all, the other party besieged with two thousand people, several times more than me. However, once the battle began, the thief cavalry actually rushed straight into the middle of the battle, and did not even make a detour, and after the offensive was blocked, it became a mess and was wrapped in dumplings alive. The foot soldiers behind him were even more unbearable, so that Brother Jiu led less than a hundred horses and horses and Ma Tai's cavalry, and beat more than 1,000 thieves to flee in embarrassment. With this face, you still come to eat with a knife and rice? So the two of them strongly supported the robbery camp!

The head of Zhang Hongcheng Fang Erdu, both of whom were veterans of the former Western Army, fought many battles, and after carefully analyzing the situation of the enemy and us, he also expressed his support. After all, this temptation is too great, just imagine, if you can defeat more than 10,000 thieves with 600 men and horses, what a great achievement it will be? The two brothers, Zhou Xiong and Zhou Ji, have always been the only ones who look forward to Xu Wei, and they will do whatever Xu Wei lets them do, and they have nothing to say.

Zhang Qing has always been steady and cautious, and after considering it all, he also expressed his support. At present, Jingsui Camp is in an awkward situation, and it needs a big victory to attract enough attention from the higher-ups, so that it can have a chance to come out. At the moment, the plan was decided, Xu Wei made arrangements, and just waited for it to get dark and started to do it.

Today is August 14, and it is said that the full moon should be high. For some reason, the sun is still shining during the day, but it is pitch black at night. In the Jingsui camp, there was neither a lantern nor a fire, only the guards on patrol walking back and forth. The rest of them slept in the tents.

That Zheng Cheng was a group of soldiers, guarded by more than 20 men, and all sat on the ground. In today's battle, he was really frightened, and he still hasn't figured out how can more than 2,000 people not be able to beat a few hundred? And we are still fighting a surprise attack, according to the surprise, the attack is unprepared, it should be hit with one blow, but I didn't expect to fall into a defeated prisoner. It seems that Xu Jiu is really not an ordinary person.

The guards were strictly forbidden to speak, but a few still took advantage of the distraction of the guards to whisper.

"Where's the brother?"

"My ancestral home is Qingzhou, and I have been messing around in the rivers and lakes in the past few years, and I heard that Shandong rushed to defect, but the result was ......"

"yes, that's a bad luck! I don't know if it's dead or dead. Hey, why don't we take advantage of the darkness ......."

"Silence! You want to kill me?! ”

While he was talking, he heard a man shouting, "Come here!" The commander has something to do with you! When the twenty or so guards heard this, they leaned in on the place where they had spoken. Among the thieves were shrewd, taking advantage of the darkness of the night, and with great courage, they crouched on the ground and crept forward to eavesdrop.

"The commander has an order...... Damn thief...... Can't stay...... It will be a long time to be in turmoil......"

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Although there are still not many tickets, I thought about it silently and thought, since the words have come out, I have to honor them. No, the fourth watch is coming.