Chapter 26: The Qin Army's Attack on Birds
"Zuo Shuchang, it's not good! The Vaithites began to harvest the wheat"! Li Tie hurriedly came to tell Qin Feng. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Let's go, let's see!" Harvesting wheat? At this time, the wheat is not yet full, and the wheat is not yet ripe. Qin Feng was quite puzzled in his heart.
When they arrived at the city wall, Mengxin and Mengjing Sima were all there, and everyone looked outside the city of Bolun. I saw that in the wheat field in the distance, scattered Vidian people were cutting wheat one by one, and there were some cavalry around to act as guards.
Everyone hurriedly saluted when they saw Qin Feng coming.
"Zuo Shuchang, they are harvesting wheat at this time, and the wheat is not yet ripe"?
Qin Feng thought for a while and said, "Yes! If the wheat is harvested before it is ripe, and the harvest loss is not less than 20 percent, are they out of food"?
Meng Jing said: "The enemy army should be out of food!" Zuo Shuchang, you think, our army burned the city of Mengsa, and the enemy's grain and grass transportation is inconvenient, plus our army attacked the camp a few days ago and took some grain and grass from him, the enemy army must be out of food"!
Li Quzhi looked at the Vidian people who were harvesting the wheat, and said quite anxiously: "If this wheat is collected by the Vidian people, then even if we repel them, within a few months, we will have to starve to death!" Li Quai's illness was the history of the Qin army's treatment of millet, and grain and grass were naturally his greatest concerns. In fact, the Vidian people harvested wheat at this time, not only the Qin army, but also the Vidian people in a radius of hundreds of miles, either starved to death or moved to other places, and there was no other way to live.
Li Tie was anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly asked for his life: "Chief Zuo, I'll take someone to collect wheat too!" You can't let the Vitas take it all!"
When Qin Feng heard this, he flatly refused: "No!" The Vidian people harvested wheat at this time, one was to grab the military rations, and the second was to lure our army out of the city! If our army goes out of the city to collect wheat, and there are few people who go, they will be ambushed by the Vidians! There are more people going, isn't it just falling into their trap and forcing us to fight a decisive battle in advance! The enemy army is 70,000 strong, and it is still holding the city at present, and forcing them to retreat is the best policy"!
"But the chief of the left, you can't watch the Vidi people harvest wheat and ignore it!"
Qin Feng lowered his head and thought for a long time: "There is!" Call Mon Spirit"!
Meng Xin's frowning brows relaxed: "Chief Zuo, do you have a way?"
Qin Feng laughed: "Now that the wheat is about to ripen, the sky is dry and dry, and it is just the right time to attack!" Didn't the Vitas harvest the wheat? Then I'll burn his granary"!
When Li Tie heard this, he immediately asked for an order: "Zuo Shuchang, let me go!" You give the last general 2,000 iron horses, and the last general will be able to burn his grain and grass clean!"
Qin Feng smiled slightly: "Tiezi! How can the enemy army be defenseless? But I don't need to wait for this fire to be put out!"
When the generals heard Qin Feng say this, they were all curious, "The Art of War" has a cloud: there are five fire attacks: one is called the fire man, the second is the fire accumulation, the third is the fire carature, the fourth is the fire store, and the fifth is the fire team. Whatever fire attacks will be responded to by the changes of the five fires. These five methods of fire attack are all forced by the army, and then the fire attack is carried out by the secret crossing of Chen Cang. Zuo Shu's long fire attack didn't require manpower, and all the generals couldn't figure out the trick.
Qin Feng saw everyone's expressions and said with a smile: "The Tiger Bell Sutra has clouds: the finch apricot, grinding the apricot in the hollow, with Ai Shizhi, tie the finch on the foot, add fire, and fly into the city fortress to live in Bo Moqun, and its accumulation must be on fire!" This fire attack, we will use the method of finch apricots"!
The generals were amazed when they heard it, this fire attack still uses birds! Praise again and again for the clever plan. Meng Jing looked at Qin Feng and said, "Zuo Shuchang, the last general can be regarded as a full reader of military books, but who wrote this "Tiger Bell Sutra"? The Admiral has never heard of it"!
Qin Feng was stunned for a moment when he heard it, and then remembered that "Tiger Bell Sutra" is a military book written by Shen Kuo, a famous scientist in the Northern Song Dynasty, and his second uncle Xu Dong, hundreds of years later, how could the generals of the Qin army know! I had to lie that it was written by an unknown name of the Warring States soldiers, and I had a coincidence, so I just read some fragments.
At this time, Meng Ling came, looked at Qin Feng playfully, and said, "Zuo Shuchang! You finally think of Ling'er! Do you want me to fight? Our female soldiers and sisters are all sharpening their knives and huhuo"!
Qin Feng laughed: "Don't worry! This time, it's for you to catch birds and play"!
Meng Ling was quite puzzled, now that the city is defending, what are you doing catching birds?
Qin Feng hurriedly told Meng Ling the middle trick, Meng Ling was very happy when he heard it, this is a big deal, and it is naturally a great achievement to do it! My sisters are holding back their strength and waiting to show their faces!
After a while, I saw that in the city of Bolun, Meng Ling took thousands of women and children, climbed to the top and was busy catching birds, and hundreds of other people hollowed out the middle of the apricot kernel and stuffed wormwood for later use.
In just half a day's effort, Meng Ling and the others caught thousands of birds, and according to Qin Feng's instructions, they tied the apricot kernels stuffed into wormwood to the birds' feet, enclosed them in cages, and only fed water, but did not feed them.
At dusk, they carried all these cages up the city wall, and set fire to the wormwood in the apricot kernels on the birds' feet, and then released them together. The birds, hungry for a day, and anxious to return to their nests, flew towards the granary of the Vida army. Some of the birds nested in the city were driven away by the Qin people, and they could only fly with other birds to the granary of the Vidian army.
Since ancient times, the soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first, and the place where the grain and grass are put is the most important. In the place where the Vita people's grain and grass camp is located, there are 5,000 armor soldiers patrolling and protecting, and even a bird can't fly in like an iron bucket that is really guarded! No, birds can fly in!
At this time, the Vidian officer who guarded the granary was drinking with a few subordinates and complaining: "The king is unfair! Let me be a granary! If the king had sent me to attack the city, the city of Bolun would have been breached by our army! The leader of the untouchables, even the white-faced scholar, was captured by me a long time ago and handed over to the king!"
Several others chimed in. At this time, one of them looked at the sky and felt that there were several times more birds returning to the nest today than usual, and he was a little suspicious: "Lord in the room! Look how many birds are there today!"
The room looked up and laughed: "I heard that those untouchables are running out of food!" The soldiers are all starting to drink porridge mush! Haha, no one has anything to eat, let alone birds! With the number of birds, how much food can it eat! I'm afraid it will do much"!
One of them flattered, "My lord! That's important information! It means that the untouchables have run out of food, otherwise how could there be so many birds! My lord, you sent a villain to report this important information to the king, and the king was happy, and maybe he sent you to lead the army to attack the city!"
The room laughed when he heard it, and urged: "Reasonable, reasonable!" Go, go, go"!
Besides, after these birds flew into the granary, the apricot kernels tied under their feet became hotter and hotter, and the more painful they became, the more they fluttered. After a while, the wormwood ignited in the apricot kernel ignited the nooks and crannies of the granary. At first, it was just a little bit of a fire.
Grain and grass are most afraid of cold and damp, so granaries are generally built in ventilated and dry places. These sparks, fueled by the wind, burned the entire granary in a short time.
The Vida sergeant was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly fetched water to extinguish the fire. But these thousands of fires burned together, and where could they be extinguished? I saw that one place was destroyed, and the others burned even more. In less than a quarter of an hour, the whole granary was ablaze with a fire, and the air was filled with a rich smell of wheat, which was intoxicating!
Seeing the granary in front of him turn into a fire field, the room and the five thousand soldiers of the Vida tribe, I still can't understand where this fire started!
Qin Feng and the others in Bolun City saw the fire in the southeast from a distance, and they knew that this plan had been accomplished.
Li Tie laughed: "Okay! What a fire! Zuo Shuchang, the enemy's grain and grass are burned, and the army's morale will inevitably be in chaos, please let the last general fight"!
Before Qin Feng could speak, Meng Jing said, "Zuo Shu can't be long!" Most of the cavalry of our army was taken by Sima Zhi, and at present, there are only 3,000 cavalry in the full battle, but the enemy army has 70,000 people.
Qin Feng lowered his head and thought for a while and said, "Marquis Meng is right! Let's wait! I think Ah Zhi should come back too! If he returns, the news of the burning of the Dhabra will be known to the enemy, and the Vidas will be in great confusion, and then it will be the time for our army to break the enemy."