Shi Dakai returned to the tent. Intend to continue resting.

"Lord Wang, General Zhang asks to see you!" A guard walked in and said with a fist clenched.

"Please!"

Shi Dakai sat on the bed wearing a brocade robe, wondering in his heart what happened to Zhang Suimou coming in. After a while, Zhang Suimou walked in, hugged his fists and saluted Shi Dakai. Shi Dakai waved his hand to let Zhang Suimou sit down, and said, "Suimou, come to find this king late at night, is there anything wrong?" ”

Zhang Suimou nodded and said: "Tonight, the sky is changing, and the prince's way of dealing with it is extremely clever. The last general saw the prince's treatment of the meteorite that fell in the camp, and he thought about it, so he came to see the prince. ”

Shi Dakai asked, "What do you think?" ”

Zhang Suimou dusted off the snow on his robe and said slowly: "Countless meteorites have landed, one of our camp, but there are more meteorites falling on the way to the camp in Jiangbei. The last general thinks that this is the prince's chance. Since the prince already believed that the meteorite was an omen given by the Heavenly Father, why not expand the influence a little? ”

"At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang hid books in the belly of the fish in order to build momentum, and publicized that it was the will of heaven for them to resist the tyrannical Qin. In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, Han Shantong and Liu Futong also used the stone inscriptions on their backs to make rumors to expand their influence. Now, why didn't the prince quietly lead his troops to the places where other meteorites landed, and carved words on the meteorites to prove that it was the right thing for the prince to leave Tianjing. ”

"In this way, it can be proved that the prince is approved by the Heavenly Father."

Zhang Suimou's eyes flashed with wisdom, and he said in a deep voice: "As long as the prince and the last general take the soldiers to engrave on the meteorite, and the news reaches the ears of the soldiers in the army, as well as the ears of the people around us, our strength will increase again." Lord Wang, this is a God-given opportunity, if you miss this opportunity, you will miss the opportunity to expand your troops! ”

After Shi Dakai listened, he fell into deep thought.

Zhang Suimou was thinking about the troops, but Shi Dakai was in charge of the army, and he was thinking about more problems. If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, Shi Dakai knows how much pressure there is on his shoulders.

Shi Dakai's expression changed and he hesitated.

Zhang Suimou said: "Lord Wang, the opportunity is in front of you, why do you hesitate?" ”

Shi Dakai sighed and said: "Sui Mou, you only know one thing, but you don't know the other." It's a good thing to expand our troops, but we can't feed so many soldiers, and that's a big problem. If the soldiers don't have enough to eat, how can they fight? Today, feeding the more than 50,000 soldiers in the army is already stretched. If you use meteorites to publicize it, countless people will flock to it, and the number of soldiers in the army will increase dramatically, and it will be easy to have problems. ”

When Zhang Suimou heard this, he was immediately dumbfounded.

Shi Dakai's expression suddenly became serious, and he continued: "However, the use of meteorites to make a fuss must be done, and it must be made bigger. As you said, this is a God-given opportunity that cannot be missed. However, it is also necessary to control the growth of soldiers in the army, and not to affect the support of the people for us, and this is the problem to be solved. ”

Zhang Suimou smiled and said: "Lord Wang, it's actually very simple! ”

Shi Dakai said: "What is a simple method? ”

Zhang Suimou said: "You have said that we will control the growth of soldiers, and we will directly select the soldiers who join the army. Those who are in good health will stay, and those who are in poor health will be comforted, and let the people go back. As for the surrounding people, we strictly forbid the soldiers to disturb the people, and we believe that it can be done. Lord, this matter is not suffering. ”

Shi Da laughed and said, "It seems that this king is thinking about the issue of food, but he is in the bureau but does not consider that he can choose the selection of soldiers. Okay, follow your advice. ”

Zhang Suimou said: "Lord Wang, while the army is still resting." The last general immediately went to prepare, we took a small number of soldiers to the place where the meteorite landed overnight, engraved the words and returned overnight, what do you think? ”

"Okay, there you go!"

Shi Dakai agreed, got up and put on his armor, and prepared to leave overnight.

……

Yang Banhou retreated with his soldiers overnight and walked towards the area where the meteorite landed. The soldiers hurried overnight and arrived at the place where the meteorite landed in two hours. The area is full of potholes, full of sand and gravel caused by the impact of meteorites when they hit the ground. In a few hours, the meteorite cooled down, but because the meteorite was still warm when it hit the ground, there were only snowflakes around, and the snow that fell on the meteorite melted away, and now it is not covered by heavy snow.

Yang Banhou looked at the countless meteorites, and his eyes flashed with Dao essence. He looked at the camp tent beside him, with an expression of a bamboo in his chest, and said with a smile: "I have thought of a way to disturb the morale of the Taiping army, but we people are not easy to handle!" ”

The camp tent asked, "Commander, what can you do?" ”

Yang Banhou said: "I want to go!" ”

The battalion commander rolled his eyes, and secretly said in his heart that Yang Banhou was selling Guanzi. However, I heard Yang Banhou say, "Okay, I'm just teasing you." Now, at once you take twenty soldiers and scatter them to the surrounding villages, and search for the craftsman who carved the stone tablet overnight. I'll give you three hours to bring back at least ten craftsmen. ”

The battalion commander asked again: "Lord Wang, why are you looking for a craftsman?" ”

"Mouthy!"

Yang Banhou's expression was not as kind as before, and he said coldly: "Let you do it, go immediately, how can there be so much nonsense." ”

Seeing that Yang Banhou was angry, the battalion commander didn't dare to refute anymore, and disappeared into the night with twenty soldiers.

It was dark at this time, but Yang Banhou was eager to send out twenty soldiers, which showed how anxious he was. Yang Banhou took the rest of the soldiers to stay around the meteorite, although it had been two hours since the meteorite landed, but a pile of meteorites fell with high temperature, although there was no obvious heat, it was better than standing outside the Taiping Army camp before.

Time passed, and half an hour flew by.

At this time, there was silence between heaven and earth.

Yang Banhou leaned on the meteorite to close his eyes and recuperate, waiting for the soldiers who went to find the craftsmen to come back. He suddenly opened his eyes and looked up in the direction where the Taiping Army camp was located, with a solemn look in his eyes. Immediately, Yang Banhou leaned down and listened carefully with his ears on the ground. In an instant, Yang Banhou's face changed greatly, and he said loudly: "A team of men and horses came from the direction of the Taiping Army camp, immediately put on guard, and immediately extinguished the fire torch and hid behind the meteorite. ”

More than 200 people extinguished their torches and all hid behind huge meteorites. Yang Banhou secretly said that he was careless, and even thought that nothing would happen in the middle of the night, so there were no sentry agents around, so that the team of people who rushed over didn't know what the situation was. But Yang Banhou attached great importance to the meteorite and couldn't leave, so he chose to defend.

It didn't take long for the translucent firelight to appear in sight.

A large army galloped in the heavy snow, and this army was a soldier led by Shi Dakai and Zhang Suimou.

ps: the second shift;