"The general has an order to enter the camp before the sun goes down, and everyone enters the camp according to the number, and it is not allowed to be crowded, and those who violate the order are engaged in military law. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 This was already the evening of the second day of their departure, and the whole team of 12,300 people had walked more than 100 miles, but they were still 50 or 60 miles away from the predetermined front-line fortress.

"Yingzheng, why did you ask us to supervise the delivery of grain and grass to the front line this time, but the garrison battalion on the front line did not send anyone to greet us?" Zhao Mingta, the captain of the fifth battalion of the first town of the Tiger Wing Army, led the men and horses to open the way in front, smoothly entered the camp left by the previous army, and arranged for the men and horses to maintain order, and then came to the side of the battalion official Cao Xinglai and said suspiciously.

"Take care of your own business, why do you worry about so much?" Cao Xinglai dismounted while looking at the surrounding environment, and then nodded with satisfaction, these camps were built when the army stayed overnight in the past, and the location was not bad, but the place was a little smaller, after all, the army did not have so many people on the march, and their 1,500 soldiers brought tens of thousands of people, all of them were crowded in.

"Let the rear team prepare, arrange for one to sleep first, and then change the guard in the middle of the night, yours will be scattered first, put the four gates on duty, and the rest will be scattered out to arrange for the people to enter the ranks, remember to disassemble the east gate into the west gate, so that it is convenient for livestock and grain teams to enter." After Cao Xing came to see the camp, he quickly arranged for the soldiers and horses under his command to deploy, although this was not a war, but the necessary preparations were certain.

"Okay, I'll go down and arrange it," Zhao Mingta took the order to go down and work hard, and Cao Xinglai took a few cronies to the main account.

"Don't mess up, line up to enter, don't spill the grain, see that there is no big open space in the south, arrange for these people to push all the grain trucks into a row, pay attention to fire prevention." This is a grain transportation team of tens of thousands of people, involving as much as 50,000 stone of military rations, they don't dare to make it easily, once there is any problem, they will lose their heads.

However, it must be difficult for the strongmen to let these soldiers in the barracks do this kind of thing, fortunately, Datong Yamen has been prepared early in the morning, and more than 20 documents of the logistics capital of the Tiger Wing Army are commanding the battalion with the men and horses of the supplementary capital at this moment, and each one enters, a special number must be arranged, this is the Arabic numeral number specially made by Li Jing, each person has a small wooden plate, and there is also one on the car, which is clearly visible as the vehicle number plate of later generations.

"My lord, what about these porters?" A soldier looked at the militia team that had entered the camp in an orderly manner, and suddenly felt a sense of satisfaction in his heart, but looking at the porters who entered the camp gate on one side, he was a little puzzled, these people did not give instructions on how to arrange it, and the sacks they carried on their shoulders were not pleasing to the eye, and looking at the situation, it seemed that the weight was not right?

"When I came, the governor gave an order that these porters should find a place by themselves, but they are hard, this is a full two hundred catties of grain, and they have to carry it all the way!" The clerk of the logistics department shook his head, and watched them enter the camp and go to the other side, and he didn't care, anyway, it was all his own family, and there were other instructions before leaving, so he was too lazy to meddle with things.

"Lord Commander, we've arrived at the predetermined location! Is it the abandoned camp marked on the drawings? "After a strong man in the porter team put down the burden on his shoulders, he suddenly came to one of them, if Cao Xing came here, he would be shocked to find that this was not Zheng Jianjun, the chief military officer of their town? Why did he appear here in such a dress and leaving Datong?

Zheng Jianjun is now dressed like this, looking like a simple man, wearing a sweatshirt and a hat, and the feet are straddling rough straw sandals, because he has walked a long way, he is stinky and sweaty, and now he is still holding a corner of the sweatshirt and struggling to fan himself.

"It should be this, we have been walking for two days and one night, and we are almost inseparable, by the way, have all our brothers followed?" Zheng Jianjun saw that the surroundings were all his own family at this moment, so he began to bow his head and sort out the cloth bags he was carrying, which were not all grain and grass, except for the dry food they carried for more than five days, the rest were all weapons, armor and clothing.

"Back to the commander-in-chief, all the 1,500 officers and men of the second battalion have arrived." Zhang Huichang, the head of the second battalion, immediately stepped forward to report.

"Chief soldier, the three hundred members of our personal guard team have also arrived, but the war horses have not been brought out because they are too conspicuous." Zhou Shiqi, the captain of his personal guard, also immediately came up to pray.

"It's okay, inform the brothers to change their clothes quickly, the people should be properly settled, all the grain and grass convoys will be taken down and the livestock will be locked together, don't get lost, and notify you to go down, don't change your clothes tonight, and rest for another day, Zhou Shiqi, you bring a few cronies with me to meet Cao Yingzheng, who protects the grain." Left and right are the generals under him, Zheng Jianjun has no fear at all, this battle, but to hold it firm, the top still has to wait and see.

"Stop, who's who?" Guarding this part of the main tent was a regular soldier, who immediately stood up to block it when he saw four or five people walking this way.

"This is our waist card, if you have something urgent to see Cao Yingzheng, please go to the communication quickly." Zhou Shiqi, who got the signal, immediately took his waist card and handed it over, and the other party was shocked when he saw it, this is the waist card of the captain of the pro-guard team, so he didn't dare to slack off, and said directly and carefully, "Please wait a moment, captain, I'll go in and tell you immediately." ”

This Qin Army's waist card is a proof of a person's identity, each piece corresponds to the number, and the captain and above have a gadget built-in, a small number wooden card that can be pasted at will, every time it needs to be verified, the corresponding small number will be stained, this time the grassroots officers of the fifth battalion who went out to protect the grain are all known, so when they look at this, they immediately confirm the identity of the person who came.

"What kind of wind blew you here, Captain Zhou? You don't take care of the chief soldier in Datong City, what are you doing here? Cao Xinglai came out immediately after receiving the report, originally thought that Zhou Shiqi came with some order, but when he saw his dress, he was suddenly shocked, looking at the familiar figure of the person around him, he was even more frightened, what is this going to do?

"Go in and talk, this is not the place to talk." Zheng Jianjun, who lowered his hat, glanced at the curious soldiers around him, so he hurriedly lowered his voice and said.

"Please, please~!" When Cao Xinglai heard this familiar voice, he knew that it was the chief soldier who had arrived in person, so he hurriedly invited them in, and when he entered the camp and waved off unrelated people, he made a military salute and said, "The last general will meet the chief soldier." ”

"Okay, don't mention this kind of false courtesy, I am ordered by the governor to personally come here to command the battle against the Mongols, don't make a noise now, you should know, I will tell you all, you now find all the four lieutenants under your command, I have an order to announce." Zheng Jianjun suppressed what he was going to say next, and ordered directly and quickly.

"The last general commands." Cao Xinglai whispered, then turned around and left the big tent, and after a while, his roar sounded outside, "Go and call the four captains to the big tent immediately, I have a military order to announce." ”

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"The situation is roughly as we judged, the Mongolian cavalry left from the Tianchengwei garrison yesterday morning, about 20,000 people, all marching on horseback, there are reports from our military forts along the way, the target is us, I estimate that tomorrow morning, we will meet us not far ahead." When the generals of the second and fifth battalions arrived at the captains and above, Zheng Jianjun said unhurriedly.

"What? Mongol Tartar 20,000 cavalry pounced? "The generals of the second battalion are okay, after all, they knew the purpose from the beginning, but the fifth battalion was concealed at first, and now they suddenly heard the news, and the enemy is menacing, which makes them panic in their hearts.

"Flustered about what? The movement of the Mongol Tatars has been in our overall consideration for a long time, and this time I have brought a full 2,000 elites, plus your fifth battalion, can't you even hold the camp? Zheng Jianjun looked at this group of panicked generals with great displeasure, and immediately shouted, this time, everyone stopped talking, because it seemed that this was a premeditated arrangement by the upper echelons of the Qin army.

"Now listen to me, first, immediately arrange for the transfer of military rations, you have done a very good job at this, among the thousands of trucks of military rations, only the number 101 to 301 cars are really military rations, the others are all tricks, we deliberately stuffed straw outside our pockets, in order to prevent being seen flaws, all listen to me, early tomorrow morning, everyone will strictly guard the camp, but the first of the fifth battalion is fully equipped with horses, and 400 strong men were selected to escort 200 carts of grain and grass out of the camp to continue eastward," Zheng Jianjun commanded loudly, Although the people below were puzzled, no one refuted it.

"If you encounter a Mongol ranger and repel it, if you encounter the main force of the Mongol cavalry, immediately drop the rations and run back, remember, the Mongol Tartars will definitely want rations, but they will not let you go, so you must hurry back to the camp before their main force surrounds them, there are 10,000 men and more than 3,000 elites, and don't you see? The tent was surrounded by supplies to keep in reserve, and we had already prepared them. ”

"Lord Commander? There are more than 3,000 people in total, and this camp can't last long? If there are no reinforcements outside, no food and grass inside, won't we be able to hold out for a day or two? As soon as he heard that the transportation of military food was a disguise, Cao Xinglai's heart relaxed a little, after all, the Mongolian Tatars came to rob it, and they couldn't rob much, but on the other hand, without grain and grass, how many days could they last?

"Humph! How many more days do you want to last? We have a good plan, foolproof, as long as the Mongols get these 200 carts of grain, they will definitely besiege the camp! (To be continued.) )