At the same time that Li Jiancheng led his 30,000-strong army into Jingcheng, a small Sui army appeared near Shiai County in the eastern part of Taiyuan County, this Sui army of about 300 people, which was the elite selected by Shen Guang from his army of 2,000 scouts, led by Shen Guang himself, they secretly infiltrated Bingzhou from Fuyang Road in Shangdang County.

They marched day and night, marching rapidly between the mountains and mountains, and even the woodcutters and herb pickers did not know their existence, and in only three days they quickly approached the West Ancient Pass, and at this time, they were still twenty miles away from the West Ancient Pass, hiding in an inaccessible valley.

The valley was quiet, and the soldiers were hurrying to sleep, and they needed to recuperate themselves in order to ensure the success of the mission ahead.

The sentry on a large tree at the mouth of the valley suddenly noticed two figures running towards him, and he immediately raised his crossbow arrows and aimed at the figures that were getting closer and closer.

The sentry put away his crossbow arrows and whistled, and the spy beckoned to him, and pointed to the valley, meaning that he was going to report it, and the sentry then fired an arrow into the valley, and in a short time several soldiers rushed out, and they asked a few words, and then led the spy and the villager into the valley.

There is only a small tent for marching in the valley, they marched lightly, only brought a small tent for command and decision-making, in the small tent, Shen Guangzheng stood in front of the map and drew the route with an ink pen, his task was to sneak into the well to attack and disturb the Tang army's grain road, so that the Tang army's food could not be supplied normally, although he brought not many soldiers, but all of them had extremely strong combat effectiveness, although there were only three hundred people, but enough to be used by two thousand people, and it should not be a problem to attack the Tang army's grain road.

Then. A soldier reported outside the tent, "General, Li Zhi is back." ”

Li Zhi was a scout brigade commander who was sent by Shen Guang to investigate the situation of the enemy camp, Shen Guang was also waiting for his news, Shen Guang hurriedly said: "Let him in!" ”

Moment. Li Zhi walked into the big tent and knelt down on one knee to salute, "See the general!" ”

"How's it going over there?"

"Returning to the general, Li Jiancheng's army just entered Jingcheng at noon today and went east, and there are about 50,000 stone of grain in the camp at present, which is closely defended by Wang Bodang's 8,000 troops."

Shen Guang was a little strange, could the Tang army transport 50,000 stone of grain from Taiyuan to Jingcheng in a short period of time? What kind of strong transportation capacity is needed, water transportation is almost the same, is Taiyuan such a strong transportation force?

"Have you found out where the Tang Army's grain came from?"

"General Hui. He found a woodcutter who lived near Jingchengkou, and he was familiar with the recent situation of the Tang Army. ”

"Where are the people?" Shen Guang hurriedly asked.

"The man has been brought, and now he is outside the tent."

"Bring him to me."

The scout went out, and in a moment brought in a young villager, who knelt down and saluted, "Xiaomin Zhang Saburo greets the general." ”

Shen Guang asked him to get up and asked with a smile, "Where are you from?" ”

"Xiaomin is a native of Feiyun Village, Xiguguan, and he chops firewood for a living."

"Then do you know where the grain in Xiguguan is transported from?"

The woodcutter thought for a while, and said a little timidly: "It should be transported from Shiai County." I heard that it was originally Song Jingang's food, after Song Jingang fled. The food did not have time to be transported. ”

Shen Guang suddenly realized that it was Song Jingang's grain, that's right, it wasn't transported from Taiyuan, and it was impossible to transport 50,000 stone of grain in such a short time.

He beckoned to the woodcutter, pointed to the map and asked, "Enter the well." Is there any other way other than the West Ancient Pass? ”

The woodcutter stepped forward, looked at the map and said, "There are still a few paths, but they are difficult to follow, and you need to climb the rocks." The mule didn't go right away, and there were too many things to take with them. ”

Shen Guang was overjoyed, as long as there was a path, he could sneak into the well.

At this time, the woodcutter glanced at the brigade commander Li Zhi, and whispered: "Just now this military master asked me if there was a way to climb above the camp in Xiguguan, and I said no at that time, I just remembered that there is actually a road to climb up, and I forgot to tell this military master." ”

Shen Guang was stunned, and above the camp of the West Ancient Pass, a bold thought suddenly flashed in his heart

The logistics camp of the Tang army is stationed outside the West Ancient Pass, backed by a steep mountain, the mountain body is like a knife, and a stone wall with a radius of dozens of zhang hangs above the camp like a mirror, so this mountain is called Yujing Mountain.

However, above the stone wall was overgrown with shrubs and vines, and the woods were dense, and at night, the woodcutter took Shen Guang and his team from the other side of the Jade Mirror Mountain to the top of the stone wall, and the woodcutter pointed to the cliff in front of him, and whispered to Shen Guang: "Below is the big camp." ”

He pointed to the woods in front of him again, "If you go all the way from the front, you can bypass the West Ancient Pass and enter the Jingcheng Mountain Road." ”

Shen Guang walked quickly to the edge of the cliff, grabbed a vine, leaned down and looked down slowly, his whole body was standing on the cliff, and everyone, including the woodcutter, pinched a cold sweat for Shen Guang, this was too dangerous.

Shen Guang was bold and bold, not afraid at all, he could see very clearly, only to see that under the stone wall was a dark camp tent, although there was no light, but he could still see clearly under the moonlight, surrounded by a circle of camp fences.

During the day, they observed, there are hundreds of big tents in the innermost, and there are some houses made of giant trees, which should be the grain tents and grain depots of the Tang army, and there is a circle of big tents on the periphery, where soldiers are stationed, and the outermost is the sentinels who are constantly patrolling back and forth, which can be said to be heavily defended.

But the Tang army never seemed to think that danger would come from above, on the one hand, they may think that there is no way up the mountain, on the other hand, they also think that it is impossible for the Sui army to penetrate deep into the western pass, but tonight, one of the most elite Sui scouts appeared above them.

Shen Guang's target was not the Tang Army Grain Battalion, but now that they had the opportunity, they might as well give it a try.

Shen Guang returned to the woods, took out three black rope net bags, each soldier knew what he meant, each took out a ball of fire algae from his backpack, this was originally a kind of algae in the river, it was a good material for making wicks, after being exposed to the sun, it was soaked in the lamp oil for two days, and then taken out to dry, it became soft and dry, very easy to catch fire, and very resistant to burning, each soldier brought fifty regiments, compressed in the backpack.

Three hundred balls of fireweed were put into three rope net bags, and soon three big balls were formed, Shen Guang said with a smile: "Under the cliff is the big camp, I have estimated, even if the wind blows off, it will still fall in the big camp, let's give it a try, if it doesn't work, we will retreat immediately." ”

Although it can also have the same effect with rockets, it is easy to expose their numbers, and with three fireballs, the Tang Army can't figure out what is going on,

Everyone pushed the big ball of net rope to the edge of the cliff, a soldier lit three big balls with a torch, the flames suddenly ignited, spread rapidly, the three soldiers threw the fireball off the cliff hard, everyone did not look at the effect, so they quickly followed Shen Guang to the depths of the woods, to the Jingcheng Mountain Road.

A Tang Army sentry soldier was the first to find three fireballs falling from the sky, he suddenly shouted in shock, the fireballs fell on the big tent one after another, one of the fireball nets was burned through the air, countless clusters of burning algae were scattered and scattered by the wind, dozens of big tents were lit one after another, the fire spread rapidly, the fire borrowed the wind, the flames soared, and the blazing fires rolled out like tongues of fire, devouring the food and materials in the big tent.

Wang Bodang, the commander of the Tang Army, was woken up by the soldiers while he was asleep, and the soldiers shouted in horror: "General, the grain camp is on fire." ”

Wang Bodang was so frightened that he turned over and sat up, he didn't even bother to put on his shoes, and ran out of the tent barefoot, only to see that the fire in the inner tent was monstrous, and the entire grain camp was engulfed in flames, and the soldiers shouted and ran to fight the fire, and even the barracks were ignited by the fire.

At this time, the soldiers shouted, only to see a burning tent blown up by the wind, towards Wang Bodang head-on, the soldiers hurriedly pulled Wang Bodang to run away, the big tent just covered the Chinese army tent, the Chinese army tent was also ignited by the fire.

Wang Bodang finally reacted from the extreme shock, he saw that the fire was about to engulf the entire barracks, and he was so anxious that he shouted: "Don't put out the fire, everyone quit the barracks." ”

The soldiers retreated outside the camp one after another, and Wang Bodang also escaped from the camp on horseback, but hundreds of sleeping soldiers could not escape and were burned to death in the barracks.

On the high ground outside the barracks, thousands of soldiers stared blankly at the raging fire engulfing the grain camp and the barracks, and all the food, military supplies and equipment were burned, what should the 70,000 troops who had already set off for the Eastern Expedition do?

The huge stone wall above the barracks also reflected a raging fire, transmitting the information of the fire to dozens of miles away, and the three hundred Sui soldiers who were descending the mountain hugged each other excitedly, silently celebrating this unexpected victory. (To be continued.) )