As night fell, after dinner, Ge Luofeng sat in the residence of the Yangji Bacheng Palace and pondered. At this time on weekdays, Princess Aluo is by her side to talk and chat, but today Princess Aluo has not appeared by her side. Ge Luofeng was in a very bad mood, on the one hand, because of the fact that the Jiannan Army was pressing, and on the other hand, because he had a bad attitude today and reprimanded A Luo.

This young sister has loved her very much since she was a child, and Ah Luo is smart and clever and loved and respected by the people in the country. When the first lord of the country, Pi Luoge, died, the second prince Cheng tried to compete with him for the throne and framed himself for not being the first king's own son, and the subjects of the country were suspicious, it was Ah Luo who stepped forward to refute the rumors and crush the plot. Then he maneuvered between himself to persuade the two to reconcile, so as to ensure that he successfully took over the position of the lord of the country and ensured that there was no incident between his brother Ni Wall.

Ah Luo is very protective of herself, which Ge Luofeng knows very well. That's why Ge Luofeng apologized for the over-the-top words he said today. At the same time, Ge Luofeng didn't want to make Ah Luo's heart unhappy at this time, which affected the already frightened hearts of the subjects in the country.

"Someone comes." Ge Luofeng spoke in a low voice.

A close-fitting barbarian woman with half of her upper body bare hurriedly came over and bowed and said, "What does the lord of the country command?" ”

"Go and ask someone to invite Princess Arlo, and say I'll talk to him." Ge Luofeng said in a deep voice.

"Yes!" The barbarian soldier bowed down and agreed, and walked out of the hall silently on the thick felt blanket barefoot, and Ge Luofeng sat quietly in the hall and waited.

Not long after, the barbarian girl came back in a hurry, and replied with a slight breath: "Lord Qiqi, Princess Aluo is not in her residence, and the people who serve her say that Princess Aluo came back in the evening and left, and she has not come back yet. ”

Ge Luofeng was stunned for a moment, frowned, and said, "Not at the residence?" Where can you go so late? Asked General Ahsan, the pro-guard battalion, to immediately lead people in the city to find the whereabouts of the princess. ”

The two thousand barbarians of Ge Luofeng's personal barbarian guard battalion quickly dispatched to look for the traces of Princess Aluo in the Yangjiba City, and half an hour later, General Ashan hurried back and forth.

"Lord, the princess is no longer in the city, and I heard from the guards at the city gate that she will leave the city in the evening."

"Out of town?" Ge Luofeng was surprised: "Are you angry with me and go back to Taihe City?" ”

"Lord of the country, it seems that Princess Aluo did not return to Taihe City. The guard at the north gate reported that in the evening, Princess Arlo had gone out of the north gate with her three hundred guards. If you go back to Taihe City, why do you have to go out of the city from the north gate, and go out of the city directly from the east gate for dozens of miles, isn't it the dragon's head pass? The North City Gate has to cross the Peach Blossom Creek outside the city, why bother? General Ahsan said busily.

Ge Luofeng frowned and paced, suddenly stopped and asked, "She took all the guards with her?" What else did you bring? ”

"It is said that he received more than 300 crossbow arrows from the armory, and also received ten jars of fire oil."

Ge Luofeng was shocked and exclaimed in shock: "Oh no! ”

General Ahsan looked at Ge Luofeng in amazement and said, "Lord, what's wrong?" ”

Ge Luofeng didn't answer, waved his hand and shouted loudly: "Prepare your horse to go to the west city wall immediately, and inform General Ah Hu to go to the west city gate to meet me immediately." Ah Luo, Ah Luo, you are too willful, hey, I am angry. ”

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The crescent moon hangs like a hook in the eastern sky, on the slope of the north mountain of the sheep and the city, on the rocky slope of the forest, under the brilliant sky of the galaxy, a vigorous and graceful figure stands on a raised stone on the rocky slope. The night breeze blows, and the waist-length hair flutters gently, and the ribbon tied on the forehead also flutters gently with the wind.

She is Ruan Luozhu, the princess of Erhai in the Nanzhao Kingdom, after being reprimanded by Ge Luofeng at the head of the city, Princess A Luo was in a depressed mood, and she felt that the strategy of Ah Brother and the general Ah Hu was really ridiculous. The Tang army is actively building siege equipment, rather than watching them build these equipment, it is better to take the initiative to surprise the Tang army, the purpose is not to destroy the Tang army, but to burn the equipment built by the Tang army and the wood cut down.

It is the best strategy to delay the progress of the Tang army's siege and let the Tang army spend energy and food and grass materials here in vain. Although Ah Luo is not a general who leads the army, he also understands that the supply line of the Tang army is so long, and the road is so difficult and difficult to travel, and the food in the army will definitely not exceed half a month. Delaying the pace of his army's attack would force the Tang army to attack unprepared, which would be of great benefit to the defenders.

However, Brother Ah said that he was messing around, and said those hurtful words, Ah Luo felt that Brother Ah was becoming less and less like the Brother he used to be. But Ah Luo can't sit back and watch the situation get worse and worse, even if Ah Brother doesn't agree, she has to give it a try herself. So in the evening, she took her three hundred barbarian guards, received ten barrels of fire oil and three hundred pairs of crossbow arrows in the armory, and went out of the North City Gate and infiltrated the dense forest of Beishan. She was going to personally attack the Tang army camp.

Time passed bit by bit, and as the night deepened, the noise in the Tang army camp gradually subsided. Only the ubiquitous bonfires and torches are still as bright as day. Reflecting the figures of a group of Tang Army night patrol soldiers.

"Amu, Ashui, are you ready?" Princess Arlo turned and whispered into the shadows behind the rocks.

"Princess Qiyu, it's already ready." The voices of the two guards came from the darkness.

"Okay, it's the third watch, and the time is almost up. Down. Arlo jumped off the rock and sank into the trees, and behind her, hundreds of dark shadows followed her and weaved through the trees.

In the lower part of the hillside, the trees have been cut down by the Tang army in the past few days, and the thick trees have been cut down, leaving only some low and crooked shrubs and small trees. Under the faint crescent moon, the roots of the trees left behind by the felling trees were like scars all over the hillside. Princess Aluo walked gently past these stumps, reaching out from time to time to caress the scars of these mountains and forests, and muttered a curse in her mouth: "These wicked people invade our borders and destroy my mountains and forests, and sooner or later they will be punished by the gods of heaven and earth." ”

The barbarian guards also walked silently and slowly through the ruined woodlands, their expressions full of anger and pain. For the Nanzhao barbarians, the mountains and forests are their home. Although they also cut down trees, they have always been very restrained, and they will never destroy large areas of mountains and forests like the Tang Army. With such a level of damage as the Tang Army, it is impossible to restore its original appearance within at least twenty or thirty years.

On the grass below the hillside, Arlo and the three hundred guards hid behind the long grass rocks on the side of the mountain. This place is close to the Tang army camp, and from here, the light of the bonfires and torches in the Tang army camp illuminates half of the sky. Even the starlight above the Tang army camp looked very dim. Not far away, the figures of the sentinels in the Tang army camp were swaying around the bonfire, and long black shadows were dragging back and forth on the ground.

"To get close to the Tang army camp, we must first solve the outpost of the Tang army five hundred steps away. The direction we were in was the northeast corner of the Don Army barracks. As long as we kill the Tang Army sentries in front, we will have a chance to slowly approach the firing range. Who is going to deal with those fifty or sixty Tang soldiers? ”

"Princess, I'll take someone." Amu patted his chest and whispered.

Ah Luo nodded slowly and said, "Be careful, shoot with blow arrows, and never make a sound." ”

Amu nodded, and with a dozen gestures, more than a hundred barbarian soldiers put on camouflage clothes woven by vines and grass leaves, and after a while, more than a hundred barbarian soldiers slowly squirmed on the ground like a handful of moving long grass on the ground, and crawled forward foot by foot.

Outside the Jiannan Army barracks, hundreds of night patrol outposts were set up around the barracks. Especially after the construction of the Shenwei cannon began, the Shenwei cannon was placed on the periphery of the camp, and someone had to take care of it at night, so the manpower of the peripheral night guard doubled, originally only twenty or thirty people were on duty at one place, and now it has increased to about forty or fifty people.

Although it was only early March, the sun on the plateau was peeling off the skin, and the air was extremely hot. Coupled with the fact that the camp was busy cutting wood and chiseling stones to make Shenwei cannons during the day, these soldiers who were on duty at night did not have to participate in the work, but they were unable to sleep at all by the scorching sun and noisy noise. You must know that the soldiers and horses on night duty are reversed day and night, and they rest during the day and can only keep vigil at night. I couldn't get a good rest during the day, but at night, everything was quiet, the air was cooler, and I sat by the campfire for a while and fell asleep.

Although each team on night duty has a leader in charge, and the responsible team is scolding the soldiers for cheering up and staring at the vigil, most of them don't really want to do that. Because no one believed that anyone would dare to approach the barracks of the Great Army.

There are fifty-three Tang Army soldiers in the stronghold of the night watch in the northeast corner of the army, and the team in charge is named Chen Shilang, who is quite responsible and has a very flexible brain. Unlike other teams, who often beat and scolded his soldiers, he prefers to use his brains to solve problems. Seeing that his soldiers couldn't rest during the day, but they had to carry out the task of vigil at night, they were very tired one by one, so Chen Shilang used his brains to come up with a clever trick.

Chen Shilang proposed that the soldiers be divided into two teams, one for the first half of the night vigil and the other for the second half of the night, so as to ensure that each soldier can sleep and ensure night patrols and vigilance. This proposal was immediately echoed by all the soldiers internally, and after two nights of experimentation, it worked, and the soldiers kept their mouths shut.

Tonight, before the second watch, everyone blew cowhide together and talked for a while. After the hustle and bustle in the camp gradually disappeared and the surroundings became quiet, without waiting for Chen Shilang's orders, more than 20 soldiers began to sleep by the campfire, while the other 20 soldiers began to consciously endure fatigue and watch the night. After a while, I walked around to see the movement, but most of the time I sat by the campfire and chatted quietly.

After the third watch, the time came to check again, Chen Shilang got up with more than 20 soldiers, walked around the periphery of the area he was responsible for, listened with his eyes wide open and his ears wide open for a while, and everything was as silent as usual. The group sprinkled a few bubbles of urine on the sand in the dark night, and turned around and walked back with a smile.

Just as he turned around and walked back, Chen Shilang seemed to hear the strange sound of a rope in the darkness behind him, and the sound of a stone rolling on the ground. Chen Shilang turned around in surprise and looked at the dark sound with wide eyes. His eyesight was very good, and he could see in the darkness after staying in the night for a long time, so he really saw a pair of sparkling eyes looking at him under a raised piece of turf.

Chen Shilang's frightened hair stood up and he was about to exclaim, when suddenly his neck went numb, as if he had been bitten by a mosquito. Instantly, I felt my tongue stiffen, then my whole body became numb, and then my mind was in chaos, and my body fell to the ground like a wooden stake.