It was midnight, and the rain finally stopped. At this time, it was supposed to be the time when humans were wandering in the land of sleep, but no one slept in the two opposing military camps on the plains near the abyss.

Yelumo is still waiting for good news to come back, while Zhao Weiji is preparing to create some "good news" for Yelumo.

"How much dry firewood have you gathered?" Tie Zheng was directing the soldiers to keep picking up dry firewood.

"Back to the general, there are not many." The soldiers, who were already exhausted by the Assassin's incident, were unable to speak at this time.

Tie Zheng looked at the pile of dry firewood that was not very high in front of him, and sighed helplessly, asking these soldiers who were already a little unable to support it to hurry back to rest.

At this time, Zhao Weiji walked over: "How is it?" How many can there be? ”

Tie Zheng helplessly pointed to the pile of dry firewood on the ground: "Back to the prince, there is only a little bit, basically not enough." ”

Looking at the firewood in front of him, Zhao Weiji patted Tie Zheng's shoulder and said, "It's okay, this is enough, now you find someone to dismantle the tent, and tear down one-third of the tent to make a fire." ”

As soon as he heard that the tent was going to be demolished, Tie Zheng was a little confused, didn't the previous meeting simply say that it was simply to create an illusion for the Liao army that their assassins had succeeded? As for doing it so realistically?

Seeing that Tie Zheng was still stunned, Zhao Weiji patted him on the shoulder again: "Why are you still stunned?" Hurry up. ”

Tie Zheng, who was slapped on the shoulder by Zhao Weiji again, came back to his senses, but he didn't do it immediately, but asked a question: "Lord Wang." Where do the soldiers live after the tents are dismantled? ”

"Let the soldiers crowd in. Those who can't squeeze in are placed in the generals' tents. Anyway, the generals are all single-person and one-person military tents, and some of them are spaces, and my military tents can also accommodate people in. ”

Tie Zheng, who originally wanted to say something, heard that Zhao Weiji's own military tent could accommodate soldiers to come in, and the other generals didn't dare to say anything more, so they didn't ask too many questions, but went to call the soldiers in the tents that were going to be demolished again, and moved to dismantle the tents by the way.

After about half an hour, all the tents to be burned had been dismantled. The dry wooden support pillars were split into the size of firewood and piled on top of the original firewood pile. The tent cloth was set aside because it was still wet.

At this time, after everything was basically ready, Zhao Weiji ordered the firewood pile to be lit, and put the firewood that was still wet aside, and add it to the firewood pile while drying it.

According to Zhao Weiji's requirements, this fire must burn vigorously and for a long time.

In this way, the sky-high flames came out of the Song army's barracks, and they could be seen from a long distance.

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When the Song army camp was in flames, all the officers in the Liao army camp who were arranged by Yelu Mo to keep an eye on the Song army camp were excited. In their opinion, the fire in the Song army's barracks means that the warriors they sent for the night attack should have succeeded, although they don't know why they did so late. But it's better than doing nothing.

So some of them immediately ran to Yelumo's tent, wanting to tell them the good news as soon as possible.

"Mizumire-sama, good news, good news." Before the curtain of Jerumo's tent could be lifted, the person who reported had already begun to shout.

Hearing the words good news, Yelumo hurriedly ran over to lift the curtain, only to see a soldier standing at the door panting and about to lift the curtain.

"What's the good news?" After Jermo let the man in, he hurriedly asked.

"Gotta take it, they got it."

As soon as he heard it, Yelumo naturally knew what he was referring to: "Really fake?" How do you know? ”

The soldier didn't know how to explain it to Yelumo, so he took Yelumo's hand and pulled him out of the tent, and as soon as he arrived outside the tent, Yelumo was attracted by the distant fire.

"Over there is the military camp of the Song Army?" Looking at the raging fire, Jeremia asked the soldiers beside him.

"That's right, that is the military camp of the Song army, looking at this fire, our people should have succeeded."

Yelu Mo is actually not sure whether he has succeeded on his side, but looking at this sky-high fire, it shouldn't be fake. Song Jun shouldn't be stupid enough to set fire to play by himself.

However, Yelumo still did not dare to jump to conclusions, he asked the soldiers to continue to stare to see how long the fire could burn, and prepared to send scouts to reconnoiter the Song army's military camp early the next morning to see what it was burned to.

The fire probably didn't stop until dawn, and at the moment when the fire was extinguished, the scouts of the Liao State were dispatched, and they quickly advanced towards the Song army's camp with the help of the fish belly white on the horizon.

It's just that they didn't expect that all their actions had already been seen by the scouts of the Song army with binoculars.

saw all this reconnaissance and quickly reported to Zhao Weiji: "Lord Wang, the people over there are here." ”

At this time, Zhao Weiji had just taken out the potatoes that had been roasted in the remaining charcoal ashes, and was about to eat them, when he heard the scout's return, he put down the potatoes and gave an order to the scout: "You go and give the order to go down, and let everyone prepare according to the previous arrangement." ”

After saying that, Zhao Weiji took the two baked potatoes and returned to his tent, and the herald also left the charred place with Zhao Weiji's order.

When the scouts of the Liao army went to the area around the Song army camp, the Song army camp they saw was lifeless, as if they had just been defeated, their morale was weakened, and their hearts were fluctuating.

A third of the barracks were devoid of tents, and the ground was also scorched, and there were more than 100 corpses on top of the scorched earth, all of which were still charred beyond recognition.

At this time, the scouts of the Khitan army saw several soldiers fighting, and one of the soldiers who was beaten with bruises on his face shouted from time to time: "The grain is also burned, and the artillery is also destroyed, how can we fight this battle." ”

Just after this person shouted this sentence, there was actually a little thin soldier on the side who squatted directly on the ground and cried, and the moment he cried, several big guys gave him to the master, feeling that he wanted to teach this kid who affected the heart of the army a lesson.

Seeing this, the Khitan scouts felt that it was enough, and they quietly withdrew two hundred meters, then turned around and quickly rushed back to the Liao army's barracks.

But the moment they turned back to the camp, a scene that should have left them jaw-dropping occurred.

The fighting soldiers all lowered their fists and began to humble the beaten soldier, who accepted the apology with a smile, and then took a cloth and wiped it on his face.

Just after he finished wiping his face, the bruises on his face miraculously disappeared.

And the little soldier who was crying for the Lord on the side also stood up with a face, and was hooked by a soldier who was originally surrounding him next to him, and the two who were still tense just now actually talked and laughed at this moment.

"You're crying well." Another soldier slapped the creep on the head from behind and laughed.

The little soldier rubbed his own trouble and said embarrassedly, "Oh, if you hadn't surrounded me just now, I would have laughed." ”

At this time, the originally lifeless military camp suddenly regained its vitality, and there was no such scene of suffering a catastrophe at all.

The charred corpses were also dragged by the soldiers to some pre-dug pits and buried. The faces of the soldiers who did the work showed no pain in the loss of their robes.

When the entire barracks returned to normal, Zhao Weiji walked out of his big tent, it could be seen that he was still in a very good mood, not only with a smile on the corner of his mouth, but also with a little chili noodles, it seemed that the two potatoes just now had entered his stomach.

Zhao Weiji, who walked out of the military tent, gathered all the soldiers to the center of the barracks, where he praised all the soldiers, saying that they did a very beautiful job, especially praising the few soldiers who pretended to fight and pretended to cry.

In Zhao Weiji's words, his acting skills are superb.

It turned out that all of this was a big drama directed by Zhao Weiji, in order to paralyze the Khitan army and make them think that the Song army's artillery was gone, the food was burned, and it was basically about to collapse.

The reason why Zhao Weiji did this was to hold the Khitan army and prevent them from retreating, and then wait until Li Jiguang came to wipe out these Khitan troops.

It can be said that the play he directed did deceive the scouts sent by Yelumo, and when these scouts returned to the Khitan military camp, the Song military camp that reflected from their mouths was a scene of heavy losses and about to collapse.

What especially pleased Yelumo was that the kind of weapon that frightened the Khitan army, which should be called artillery, had been destroyed, so that the Khitan cavalry no longer had natural enemies, and as long as the Song army dared to fight again, there must be only one way to die.

At this time, there was already a Khitan general who proposed to immediately send a war letter to the Song army and go out to defeat the Song army. However, his proposal was rejected by Jerman.

"Now when you go to call the battle, you can only see the Song army's war-free card."

Sure enough, when the general sent his men to call for battle, all he saw was the war-free card hanging on the gate that Zhao Weiji cooperated very well.

He really thought that Yi Lijin was like a god, and after he went back, he continued to ask Yelu Mo: "When will we be able to defeat the Song army, and what should we do if they retreat?" ”

For this question, Yelu Mo gave an answer unhurriedly: "Don't worry about this, they don't dare to retreat, once they retreat, they will be frantically pursued by our Daliao Iron Cavalry, and the Song army, which is full of infantry, will not be able to escape at all." Now as long as you send people to the opposite camp every day to scold the battle, the Song army will naturally respond to the battle in three days. ”

The general, who was already convinced of Yelumo, really sent someone to scold in front of the Song military camp. (To be continued......)