Xu You's heart warmed, for him, the title of "Ziqing" had been lost for a long time. Most people call his cousin "Ziyuan", and "Ziqing" is his nickname. There are not many people in this world who call him like this, except for his parents and elders at home, only Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Chun Yuqiong, Luan Yi, these old friends call him "Ziqing".

Now that Yuan Shao has been estranged from him, he hasn't called him that for many years, and as for Chun Yuqiong, because his official position is lower than him, he is embarrassed to call him by his nickname again. Cao Cao and Luan Yi have not seen each other for many years, and they heard the word "Ziqing" from their mouths again.

Therefore, when he heard Luan Yi calling himself "Ziqing", Xu You suddenly felt very cordial, and greeted Luan Yi with a smile on his face.

The two held hands and were excited. Subsequently, Luan Yi greeted Xin Ping, Xin Bi, Xun Kan and the rest of the strategists and generals from Yuan Shao's tent.

Pulling everyone to go to Guandu Dazhai. Along the way, Luan Yi briefly inquired about the current situation in Hebei. When he learned that it was Fu Zhu who deciphered the ciphertext and helped Yuan Shao intercept the church's secret letter, Luan Yi was secretly ashamed for a while.

He originally thought that it was Guo Tu's betrayal of the church that caused the information to leak out, but he didn't expect that he had wronged Guo Tu. Guo Tu is still lurking beside Yuan Shao, risking his life to work hard for the church and himself.

Look, the more than 20 veteran generals of the Yuan army in the current account are the results of Guo Tu's efforts.

For this, Luan Yi is deeply grateful.

When Luan Yi and Xu You returned to Guandu Dazhai, it was already Shen time. As soon as he entered the gate, Luan Yi handed over Xin Ping, Xun Kan and others to Xun Yu, so that he could properly settle these future colleagues. And Luan Yi led Xu You straight to the big tent of the Chinese army, asking if there was any important information brought by this trip to the south.

Xu You smiled smugly, didn't answer directly, sold a pass, and said, "Bring a pen and paper!" ”

Luan Yi saw that Xu You had gained a lot, so he naturally didn't dare to slack off, and obediently asked people to take the four treasures of the study.

Taking the pen and paper, Xu You groaned slightly, and with a wave of the pen, a huge map jumped onto the paper. It is marked with the location and number of soldiers and horses stationed in various parts of the Yuan army, and even the retreat route after the defeat is also marked. What made Luan Yi most pleased was that the map clearly marked the location of Yuan Jun's baggage and grain and grass.

"Ziqing, Yuan Jun's grain and grass are in the old city?" Luan Yixi asked.

Xu You nodded, "Yes!" ”

Luan Yi asked, "Who is the guard?" ”

"Chun Yu Zhong Jian!"

"Chun Yuqiong?" Luan Yile, I didn't expect Yuan Shao to change the location of the grain storage, but the general was still the same person.

Luan Yi asked again, "Ziqing led Xin Ping, Xin Bi, and Xun Kan to cross the river, will Yuan Shao change the location of the grain storage for fear of the leakage of military information, or set up an ambush to invite you into the urn?" ”

Xu You gave Luan Yi a reassuring look, "Over the past few years, our army's meticulous work has penetrated extensively in Hebei, which has brought a lot of trouble to Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao was wary of our army's meticulous work, and the location of the grain storage was very secret. Except for a few cronies of Xianpei, Tian Feng, Feng Ji, Guo Tu, and Fu Zhi, few people know the specific location of the grain. Don't say that Xin Ping, Xin Bi, Xun Kan them, even I don't know that the city is where the grain is stored. In front of the sect leader, this map was secretly written down by Guo Gong and told me. Therefore, when I waited for this time to leave, Yuan Shao did not know that the location of the grain had been exposed. The Sect Master doesn't have to worry about this. ”

Luan Yi stroked his palms and laughed, "Yuan Shao is broken, and the king and the princess (Guo Tu) should be the first to take the lead." After saying this, he immediately decided to risk going deep behind enemy lines to attack the old city at night and burn the enemy's food.

In the past few years, Luan Yi has read a lot of military books. Sun Tzu Youyun: "There are five fires, one is called the fire man, and the camp and soldiers are burned; Second, it is called fire accumulation, which burns grain, grass, and livestock; The three are called fire baggage, which burns the baggage; fourth, the fire storehouse, and the burning of tents; The five fire teams burned the ranks. "He's using fire now.

The art of war is cloudy: "There is a time to get angry, and there is a day when a fire starts." The time is dry. The sun, the moon is in the kei, the wall, the wings, and the wings. "The implementation of the fire attack must choose the appropriate time, both the month of dry weather and dry things, in the month of the moon through the four stars of the "Kei, Wall, Wing, Zhen" any one of the days - this day must be a windy day, go to set fire can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

The Art of War also said: "There must be a cause for fire, and there must be a tool for it." "When attacking with fire, it is necessary to take care of flammable materials such as hay, sulfur, and anointing oil.

Luan Yi acted in accordance with the art of war, and after preparing the necessary ignition materials. He adopted the fire-ignition technique commonly used in the Han Dynasty, and prepared "firebirds" and "apricots" in advance. The so-called firefowl is actually a hollow walnut tied under the neck of a pheasant, and the walnut is full of flammable substances. The so-called finch apricot is actually a sparrow that carries hollow almonds. The almond shell is filled with sulfur and stuffed with lit wormwood. Because the ignited wormwood burns slowly and does not burn at a high temperature, it is very similar to a fuse, with the help of which it does not burn the bearer, the sparrow, but can fly with the sparrow for a short distance and ignite the grain of the dry day.

Everything is ready, and the first day of the day is coming soon. Since this is a covert operation, not a large-scale invasion, you can't bring too many troops and horses. Therefore, Luan Yi specially selected the strongest men of the 8,000 in the army, these people have more or less military merits in the past wars, and they are very brave in battle, and each of them can be one against two or even more fierce soldiers. In addition to them, 200 special combat personnel were also among them.

Eight thousand soldiers and horses completed the assembly at dusk, changed into the uniform of the Yuan army, marked the banner of the Yuan army, led the army by Luan Yi himself, and took the relatively unfamiliar generals such as Yu Ban and Xu Huang to Yuan Shao's subordinates to cross the river at night and take the remote road to the old city.

After walking for about an hour, a team of Yuan Jun came up to him. When the eight thousand guards under the command of Luan Yi saw the enemy coming, their faces suddenly showed a fierce expression, and they clenched their blades as if they were facing a great enemy.

Luan Yi hurriedly ordered the generals to calm the emotions of the soldiers, and ordered everyone to relax their minds and not to be seen by the other party.

At this time, the team of Yuan soldiers came closer, and the leader sat on a tall horse and shouted: "Trumpet - whirlwind."

Obviously, this is Yuan Shaojun's code words. In this case, if Luan Yi can answer the code language, he can pass smoothly. and this pair of Yuan soldiers did not hinder each other, and staggered. If you can't answer, you can only pounce on the battle with Yuan Bing, and thus expose your whereabouts and lose the great opportunity to burn grain and grass.

Fortunately, Luan Yi and Xu You considered this issue before coming. According to Xu You's understanding of Yuan Shao, this overlord from a famous Han family is very vassal, so the code he uses has a characteristic, he likes to extract words from ancient poems. Divide the four-character short sentence in the poem into two, of which the upper two words are "please sign" and the lower two words are "line answer". "Please number" and "line answer" are changed once a day. At some time, the generals of each battalion will go to the big tent of the Chinese army to ask for a number, and Yuan Shao will randomly check a sentence in the poetry book, and then the clerk will distribute it on the transcription paper to the generals and colonies of each battalion, and then pass it to the army.

Last month, Yuan Shao used the "Drumming" on the "Book of Songs", which poem is not known this month, but it must be from the "Book of Songs".

Hearing Yuan Shao's code words from the Book of Songs, Luan Yi smiled. He studied at Yingchuan College since he was a child, and studied hard for more than six years under the hellish cramming education of his enlightenment teacher, Master Cen, and memorized the four books and five classics backwards. There is no need to prepare, just pick out two words from the "Book of Songs", he can not only easily read the whole sentence, but even the whole poem can be recited word for word, and at the same time, he can also say the background of the writing and the connotation of the poem.

This is also a compulsory part of the annual coursework assessment of Yingchuan Academy, and almost all students from Yingchuan Academy can do this.

Taking the "Book of Songs" to test him is simply ridiculous and generous.

Therefore, when he heard the generals of Yuan Jun ask each other with "Kaifeng", Luan Yi immediately remembered that the word "Kaifeng" came from the "Book of Songs" and "Kaifeng", and he asked: "The Kaifeng comes from the south, blowing his thorny heart." The thorny heart is dying, and the mother's family is laborious. The triumphant wind comes from the south, blowing the thorny salary. Mother's holiness, I have nothing to do. ”

Luan Yi replied: "South wind." Subsequently, people on both sides breathed a sigh of relief. The general of the Yuan army immediately clasped his fists and saluted Luan Yi, and Luan Yi returned with a salute.

"This general, it's easy to go south!" When the two armies staggered, the general of the Yuan army did not forget to send peace wishes to Luan Yi. Luan Yi sneered in his heart, but with a gentle smile on his face, he thanked him, "There will be a period later!" ”

"Goodbye!"

After bidding farewell to the "kind" General Yuan, the army turned to the northwest. During the period, he encountered two waves of Yuan soldiers, and Luan Yi easily dealt with them with a code, and did not fall into a flaw. Half an hour later, the army arrived more than 300 steps outside the old city.

Here, Luan Yi ordered the release of the "firebirds" and "finches" that had been prepared early. These pheasants and sparrows have been starving for a day. After being out of the cage, it rubbed straight into the sky. Out of the animal's instinct to forage, a few pheasants and sparrows circled in the air and quickly found that there was grain and grass in the old market to fill their stomachs, so they reported this information to their companions. So, flocks of pheasants and sparrows fell from the sky and landed on the granaries in the old city.

At this time, the wormwood hidden in the peach pits and apricot pits that they carried with them had already ignited, and now it had taken a lot of time to peck after flying and landing, and the wormwood had burned to the roots, quickly igniting the flammable material in the pit. The pheasants and sparrows were ignited by the flames, and they could not stand the flames, so they scurried around, plunged on the granary, and set the grass-made granary on fire.

Just when Luan Yi's "Air Force" brigade brought the flames to the granary of the old city, Chun Yuqiong, the guard general of the old city, was holding a small-scale banquet in the camp.

Speaking of this Chun Yuqiong, he is also Luan Yi's old friend. I think that when he entered Beijing for the first time at the age of twelve, he encountered a lot of trouble when he participated in the Weihe Poetry Club. At that time, it was Chun Qiongzun Cao Cao's intention to help him solve the siege.