At this time, Li Xian didn't seem to care about the worries of Xue Rengui and others, but led the army all the way to the east, first looting the rich families in several villages, forcing them to hand over grain and grass, and robbing some war horses by the way, but no longer slaughtered those civilians who did not dare to resist. When the rest was finished and the food and grass were ready, the scouts who had gone to the front to inquire about the news had already returned.

"King Qiyu, there is a military camp twenty miles ahead, it looks like there should be more than 2,000 people, and the last general looks at it from a distance, and sees that the camp tent is high and wide, and it looks like it should be the place where the Goguryeo army stores supplies and grain." Yang Mingyuan, the team leader in charge of investigating the news, came to Li Xian, saluted respectfully, and then said.

"Good work, eat something first." Li Xian ordered the soldiers to give Yang Mingyuan and his Tanma soldiers some food first, and then came to Cheng Yanjin and told Cheng Yanjin the news.

"I wonder what the king has planned?" Cheng Yanjin saw that Li Xian was not simply saying the news, as if he was a little moved, so he asked.

"I'm going to take this enemy camp to the end, if it's just a garrison, why kill it? If it is really a place where supplies and grain are stored, it will be burned down, which will definitely help our army's main force in the battle.

"The king's plan is very good, but we need to be cautious, we must find out in advance, whether there are still enemy troops nearby? How many people are stationed? Where are you? So that we can withdraw smoothly before the reinforcements arrive, and ensure that our army will not be surrounded by the enemy's superior forces on the way to retreat. Cheng Biting Jin stroked the white beard on his chest and said with a serious face.

"General Cheng is thoughtful, and Xiao Wang admires it." Li Xian bowed his hand to Cheng Biting Jin, then stood up, gave a few instructions to Yang Mingyuan, and ordered the army to camp by the river five miles away.

Two hours later, Li Xian got the exact news from Yang Mingyuan, there was a military camp twenty miles away from this camp not far away, and it seemed that there were tens of thousands of horses in the camp, which should be the troops recruited by Goguryeo to fight on the front line, and this military camp should be used to reserve grain and grass for the battalion of tens of thousands of horses, but the tens of thousands of horses and horses had not yet arrived at the baggage camp, which would lead to such a strange phenomenon.

"In that case, then we will start an operation tonight, burn down this baggage battalion, leave those 10,000 soldiers and horses without food and grass, delay their dispatch time, and maybe be able to help our army." After listening to Yang Mingyuan's report, Li Xian thought about it for a while and made up his mind.

So he ordered the army to immediately bury the pot and cook, rest well, and bring fire in the evening to prepare for the burning of the baggage camp.

At the second watch of the same night, these more than 200 people stopped early, wearing helmets and armor, holding weapons, carrying fire, horses wrapped in hooves, and human titles, and marched all the way under the leadership of Li Xian.

"Everyone, please listen to my order next, take the fire as the number, General Cheng Lao is the left army, Lin Dian army is the right army, this king will kill the Chinese army into the camp, Zhang Lang will (Zhang Deyu) bring thirty people to beat the drum in the rear formation, remember, we are only waiting for this time to burn the enemy's baggage, not to kill, so as long as the task is completed, you can calmly exit, don't delay the military aircraft, after all, the enemy's main force is only twenty miles away from here, and the fire will be together, and the army will arrive immediately, and we will have other important things to do together."

Outside the enemy's baggage camp, Li Xian announced the battle plan to the generals with a serious face, these plans were all finalized after he carefully considered and slightly modified in the process, it can be said that it contains the wisdom and experience of him and Cheng Jin, I believe that as long as the generals strictly follow the plan, this fire attack is definitely a sure thing, and now it has penetrated hundreds of miles into the enemy's territory, he believes that all the soldiers, even Lin Cheng, who is not the same heart as himself, can only fully cooperate with Li Xian at this time, There is hope of survival.

And the fact is indeed as Li Xian predicted, the matter has come to this point, those loyal palace guards and Zhang Deyu, who deeply felt Li Xian's life-saving grace and swore allegiance to the death, needless to say, even Lin Cheng can only be sideways now, temporarily handing himself over to Li Xian, and only then can he seek a glimmer of life, in the face of hope, whether he is loyal to the queen or the king of Zhou, everything is not so important.

So the 200 or so people were divided into three armies, left, center, and right, and came to the west, south, and north in front of the three camp gates, and there were more than ten drummers on each side, who were responsible for creating momentum and confusing the enemy, and specially vacated the east gate, so that the enemy could not fight and flee from here, which was also a famous tactic in siege warfare, called "encircling three and missing one".

"King Qiqi, the left army and the right army have been prepared, just waiting for the king's order." Herald Lu Xicheng came to Li Xian and slowly arched his hand and said.

Li Xianyan nodded when he heard this, and said softly: "Raise the fire." ”

"No, raise the fire."

With Lu Xicheng's order, I saw a fire lit up at the west gate of the Chinese army, and then Li Xian led the Chinese army, Cheng Yanjin led the left army, and Lin Cheng led the right army into the camp.

"General, general, no, the Tang army attacked the camp."

"What do you say? This is not a battlefield, where did the Tang army come from? The camp commander beggar Zhongman was shocked when he heard this, and asked with a look of disbelief.

But how did the captain of the pro-soldier know all this? I had to say helplessly: "The last general doesn't know where he came from, but the other party is indeed playing the banner of the Tang Army." Now the enemy has broken into the camp, kill people when they see them, according to the analysis of the drumbeat, there are at least three or four thousand people on the other side, our army is not familiar with the battle formation, it is not an opponent at all, fortunately, there is no enemy army at the east gate, the last general thinks, I might as well withdraw first, Xu Tu protects himself, and then report to the beggar Zhongxiang, please send soldiers to suppress, I don't know what the general wants? ”

"How so?" After listening to the words of the captain of the beggar army, he sighed softly: "I am entrusted by the beggar Zhongxiang to guard this baggage camp, and I have a heavy responsibility, so I must not be careless, how can I flee without seeing the enemy's trace now?" If you see a beggar in the future, how should you explain it? ”

But I heard the captain of the pro-soldier say: "But this is also a helpless thing, after all, all the generals and soldiers in our army are old and weak, and now they are outnumbered by the enemy, if they are at war with the enemy, it is useless to die, it is better to maintain their strength first, not to mention that the beggar Zhongxiang is the general's uncle, even if he asks for the crime after the war, he will not die, but if the general insists on staying here, even if the beggar Zhongxiang wants to rescue, I am afraid that the whip is beyond the reach of the whip, the beggar Zhongxiang is now only the general's nephew, if the general has any accidents, my clan will be leaderless in the future." Isn't it even more bullied? ”

"It seems that this is the only way to go." The beggar Zhongman couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, and then waved his hand helplessly and ordered, and the personal army escorted him from the east gate of the camp.

The soldiers in the camp were suddenly attacked by the Tang army, it was originally chaotic, the soldiers had no will to fight, and they had no will to fight, but some soldiers were afraid of military discipline and still insisted on resisting, although this resistance was actually very weak for the Tang army, from beginning to end only more than ten Tang soldiers were slightly injured, but after all, they were still resisting, but later the main general beggar Zhongman led the crowd to flee first, which made all the soldiers no longer have a trace of resistance, and immediately scattered and fled, and those who really couldn't escape abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

Li Xian led his soldiers to run rampant in the camp, and although many of them were able to escape, three or four hundred people were killed, and more than two hundred surrendered.

Li Xian ordered the acceptance of the surrendered troops, and ordered Lin Cheng to lead the army, except for leaving the necessary supplies and supplies, and burning all the rest. At the same time, he ordered Lin Cheng to kill all the prisoners and throw them into the fire to destroy the corpses, and then led the army to slowly withdraw.

Soon after Li Xian's army left, he was shocked when he saw the beggar Zhongman on fire in the west, and immediately sent someone to investigate the news, and the beggar Zhongman came back before he left the barracks, saying that the beggar Zhongman had an important military report, and the beggar Zhongxiang saw that the beggar Zhongman came back at this time, and he was even more worried in his heart, and hurriedly ordered the beggar Zhongman to come to meet him immediately.

"Uncle, it's a big deal, our army, our army was attacked by the Tang thief army, tens of thousands of troops surrounded the nephew's military camp, and the nephew fought hard, so he escaped a way out, but the baggage of our army was robbed by the Tang thieves, and I hope that my uncle will be the master of the nephew and snatch the baggage back from the thieves......"

"Humph! How dare you talk nonsense? Before the beggar Zhongman finished speaking, he saw the beggar Zhongxiang snort coldly, interrupted him, and said coldly.

"Nephew, nephew doesn't dare to talk nonsense, uncle Mingjian."

"Okay, I'll let you see if you're talking nonsense today." The beggar Zhongxiang sneered, dragged the beggar Zhongman out of the tent, pointed to the sky to the west and said, "Can you see? The western sky is on fire, and the direction is the camp where you are staying, if the enemy army loots the supplies, they will directly rob it, so why set it on fire? In this way, the enemy army must not be many in number, such materials can not be used, and do not want to let us take back, so they set fire, you said that you fought bravely from the enemy group, this is even more nonsense, there is not the slightest trace of blood on your battle robe, only sweat stains, indicating that you did not fight with the enemy at all, you were attacked by the enemy, not only did not organize defense, but fled from the wind, resulting in the destruction of our savings for several years, what face does you have today? Come on, push it out with me, slash! The soldiers under the command of the beggar Zhongman were afraid of the enemy like tigers, and fled without a fight, all of which were dealt with in accordance with military law. ”

"Huh? Uncle, uncle spare his life, the little nephew is your only nephew, and the only heir in your clan, the little nephew is dead, who else will inherit the uncle's ambition and make my people grow stronger? Seeing that his uncle was murderous, the beggar Zhongman was immediately terrified, and hurriedly pleaded.

Unexpectedly, the beggar Zhongxiang ignored it at all, and let the left and right soldiers cut off the beggar Zhongman's head and send it to the Chinese army, and then said slowly: "Yesterday, I gave up my wife's letter, I beggar Zhongxiang got a good child, and I have named it Zuorong, so you don't have to worry about my clan being uncommanded." ”