Chapter 179: Poking the hornet's nest
After the two guards, a man and a woman, turned around and went downstairs, they got into a carriage.
Then it was General Nahan who rode the long street to escort the grass sprouts back, and then continued to write love poems for her.
No one noticed that among the crowds of bitter people on the street, one person turned around and picked up the flat shoulder that had been taken off.
After Xie Shence returned to his residence, he launched the Tiqi hidden in Quyang City to investigate the Qing Qi'er he had seen in Daba City.
Two days later, Xie received the news.
This beautiful girl came from Xianbei because she was transporting a batch of jade artifacts to the Northern Army. Because he was a merchant and held a business certificate from the Xianbei Royal Court, he received a certain amount of courtesy, whether it was in the Great Jin Dynasty or in the territory occupied by the Yan people at this time.
Xie Shence seemed to have grasped something important. And at this time, the grass sprouts were already ready to leave
On the seventh day of the ninth lunar month, Xie Shence and others finally ushered in their moment.
The Yan army's supervision of military rations is not as strict as that of the Central Plains army, although there are also ten steps and one post, but it is always a lot lazy. In addition to people, the most important military food for the Yan people is dogs.
It's not because of the sense of crisis or anything else, it's just because most of the Yan people are still Xianbei people, although the Murong Department has a deep degree of sinicization, animal husbandry still occupies a considerable weight in the total production of the entire country. Therefore, based on dietary habits, the military rations carried by the Yan people on the march were much less than those in the Central Plains, and the less part was replaced by cattle and sheep. Cattle and sheep do not consume much food and travel on their own, and cattle can also be used as animal power.
The care of cattle and sheep is undoubtedly much easier than that of grain and grass. So dogs are a lot of animals. Because of its vigilance and loyalty, it can timely alert anything that invades it, and the Yan people's military rations are generally tight on the outside and loose on the inside.
And on this day, the reason why Xie Shence set out to burn the grain and grass of the Yan Army was because of the water source.
The carcasses of some animals, several snakes and two dogs were found upstream of a water source dedicated to the Yanren Tun Grain.
According to the information finally determined by Yan Jun, these two dogs are the two dogs that guarded the military rations that were lost before.
The dog bit the snake, and the snake bit the dog, and then they all died. It has been soaked in water for a long time, which has caused dysentery and dizziness in some people.
The Yan Army's grain and grass transfer officer finally decided to borrow water from another water source, and after a few days, the water source was purified and then resumed.
The other water source is far away from the grain storage field, so people are needed to carry the water. So after that
On the night of the seventh day of the ninth lunar month, most of the soldiers in the grain storage department fell into a deep sleep, and the dogs that had been well bred were also paralyzed next to the grain pile and the cattle and sheep pen, and watched dozens of black-clothed people swagger in.
Then, a huge fire broke out in Quyang City, the grain and grass center of Murong City, where 50,000 stone grain and grass and 10,000 cattle and sheep were hoarded.
The fire burned for two days and two nights, devouring all the grain, grass, livestock, and 800 soldiers.
When the Yan army found that the fire was impossible to extinguish, when Murong Cheng received the news that the grain and grass had been burned, Xie Shence and the others had already returned to Taihang Mountain and burrowed into the dense forest.
This time, the big bags and small bags that Xie Shence and the others had originally carried were gone, and they were walking in the mountains and forests with swords brought in and out.
But it wasn't easy.
Because they're in trouble.
The fish pond of the Yan Kingdom.
The hive people of the Qin State.
and the haunting Erli.
The three major spy agencies in the world met in Taihang Mountain, plus an extremist terrorist organization, Xie Shence, looked at the sun overhead, and said in his heart that he really didn't get together.
When Xie Shence set fire to the grain and retreated in time, he was finally discovered by the fish pond of Yan Kingdom.
It's not hard to find out why. Judging from the fact that not a single soldier came out alive in the heavy grain storage area, and not even a single dog sounded the alarm, the person who burned the grain must have used poison. And if poison is used, such a large scale can only be placed in the water source. And it just so happened that yesterday's water was picked from another source, and the people who drank it in the other place were fine, but all the people on this side were put down, and there was only one explanation: the water was poisoned during transportation.
Contacted the roster of pickers requisitioned by the Yan army, and searched them one by one until it was determined that a group of porters were no longer in the city, and after leaving the city this morning, Yuchizi acted quickly.
This was actually expected by Xie Shence. The water source of the grain storage department is living water, and the effect of poisoning is equivalent to nothing, so the method of "polluting" the water source with animal carcasses was designed to poison some people, especially cooks, and then forced the grain and grass transfer officer to change the water intake place, so as to poison it halfway.
With such a large grain land, there are thousands of people in total, and the water needed will definitely not be less.
And because several of the cooks in the Yan army's grain department were incapacitated, the Yan army temporarily recruited a few cooks from the city, and then the fire broke out from September 7 to September 9.
The lines are actually very clear, since Yan Guo Yuchizi is the third largest spy agency after Jin Guo Tiqi and Qin State Beehive, there is naturally no shortage of smart people, this kind of "accident" as long as you put yourself in their shoes, and then push back, you can still get some clues, not to mention that all the evidence obtained from the investigation can be consistent with the conjecture, then what happened is obvious.
Only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves?
Even if Xie Shence is mentally prepared, Xie Shence, who is heavily defended by Ticai, can be suddenly assassinated in Taihu Lake, and there is no reason for the fish pond in Yan Kingdom.
After that, things became simpler, Murong Cheng urgently adjusted food on the one hand, and contracted the front on the other, while Guo Fei took the opportunity to counterattack, pressing step by step.
Due to the unfavorable war on the western front, the offensive momentum of the Yan army was severely contained, and there were many contradictions between the patriarchs of many leaders on the eastern front, coupled with the deliberate indulgence of the Yan Emperor, the Yan army's battle line was stretched too long, and it was stormy for a while.
Many Jin troops saw the dawn of victory at this time.
As the driving force behind the reversal of the entire battle situation and a direct participant, Xie Shence did not have a good time at this time.
As mentioned earlier, the fish pond of Yan Kingdom has found traces of Xie Shence and others, and they are behind them at this time, although it is certain that there is still a long distance, but in a few days, there will be absolutely no contact.
And the other two forces, the Qin State Beehive and the Erli people, are more headaches for Xie Shence.
When he got out of the city, he suddenly remembered that the girl with green grass sprouts seemed to be from Qin
Then Xie Shence was recognized shortly after leaving the city.
After a fight, get rid of them for the time being.
The grass sprouts are doing business, and the escort is still jade, of course there are enough people, and of course the thugs are enough tigers! Because of the timely preparation, no one was killed.
Qingcao Ya'er came to transport jade to Sima Bi, which Xie Shence believed, because he had seen the other party in Sima Bi's General's Mansion, and Sima Bi really liked jade.
As for the people of Erli, God knows how lucky Xie Shence was, and he was actually recognized before entering Taihang Mountain.
and he was recognized.
It's special that you can actually meet the killer of Erli who assassinated him in Taihu Lake.
Xie Shence hated the sentence that meeting in the vast sea of people is fate. In the end, there are still many acquaintances
It was definitely an unexpected surprise for Erli people to bump into themselves this time. Who knows what these terrorists are doing in the Jinyan war zone.
But it's not a good thing to think about.
This chance encounter also successfully helped the Erli people to deal with the object, at least the Erli killers here will definitely spare no effort to hunt down Xie Shence.
Xie Shence believes that he can be ranked in the top ten on the must-kill list of Erli people.
Then Xie Shence went on a frantic escape.
Nonsense, in the face of the tripartite forces, the number of people is small, the equipment is not enough, and it is stupid to fight if you don't run!
Do you think you're a nine-life cat demon?
So Xie Shence resolutely marched towards the depths of the mountain after synthesizing the information.
On September 9, the day when the fire in Quyang City was extinguished, Murong Cheng came to Quyang and personally cut off the head of the "dereliction of duty" transfer officer.
The fire in the grain storage place has been extinguished, but the invisible place inside is still burning, and this batch of grain is completely finished. And the cattle and sheep were also scorched. Previously, because of the Jin army's strong walls and clear fields, coupled with heavy rain, the grain on the front line of Dingzhou was not harvested, and there were few residents in the city, so the life of the Yan army suddenly became difficult.
Then Murong Cheng sent an order to Fan Yang in Youzhou. By the end of September, see reinforcements with enough food and grass.
Also on September 9, Xie Shence had traveled hundreds of miles in Taihang Mountain.
"Lord Admiral, the reconnaissance manpower is back, and it is conservatively estimated that there are no pursuers within ten miles of the rear."
Xie Shence nodded, pouted his butt and pulled a few of the ashes in front of him, then took out two slightly pasty tubers, divided a piece for He Ruoque, carefully peeled off the skin, blew it cold before taking a small bite, and then ate it.
The tubers of this plant taste very much like sweet potatoes, sticky and rustling and a little like potatoes, Xie Shence likes it very much. But at this time, there are no sweet potatoes and potatoes.
After everyone had eaten, Xie Shence gathered everyone together and decided to make a small trap.
When it was dark, the group of people closest to Xie Shence caught up.
"My lord, Tiqi has stopped here, and he has made a fire. Judging from the direction of the green smoke I saw at noon, it should be them. ”
The man wrapped in black robe nodded, and then said: "Presumably we are not the first group to catch up, yesterday we found that there were still two groups of people chasing after them, there are still traces of fighting around them, and the fire is not buried, it seems that we left in a hurry, we must have been caught up by someone during the meal." Well, let's take a break tonight and let them fight first."
So the group stopped, and prepared to camp on the western slopes.
(PS: There is another chapter later)