Chapter 9: The Hidden Camp

Pointing to the corpse, Yang He gently patted Zhang Shun's shoulder and said, "Brother Zhang, even if the men of my generation can't make meritorious contributions, at least they must ensure the safety of their families, if we keep doing this, it will be them today, and it will be our turn tomorrow." ”

Zhang Shun was silent when he heard this, and said after a while: "Brother Yang, I understand. Take care of yourself, if you can get the head of Jianyu, I will not hide your merits. ”

Yang He nodded, turned around and strode out of the bunker.

After traveling a few miles to the west, he suddenly saw a large camp tent in the distance, and Yang He knew that this was the camp tent of the Jianyu army without asking, and the west side of the camp should be Xiping Fort.

Yang He stopped, looked for a high place and took a closer look, only to see that there were at least thousands of tents stretching for miles ahead. Seeing the overwhelming military tents, Yang He finally understood what it meant to have 10,000 people, boundless, and more than 100,000 people.

Yang He observed from a distance for a while, and found that there were soldiers guarding the periphery of the camp, and suddenly knew that this direction was impassable.

Looking around at the terrain, Yang He turned around and headed southwest. After walking for about two miles, Yang He bypassed Jianyu's camp tent, and then Yang He found that there was a city in front of him, and there was a distance of about several hundred meters between Jianyu's camp and the city.

Yang He's current position is exactly a triangle with the city and the camp tent of Jianyu, and from Yang He's direction, you can see the movement of both sides, but due to the distance, you can only see the general situation.

At this time, in front of the camp of Jianyu, the army of Jianyu was divided into several teams and was looking at the city.

After a while, I saw a military flag waving in the Jianyu army, and then a group of men and horses slowly moved forward, waiting to reach a distance of one or two hundred meters in front of the city, only to hear a shout from these people, and then suddenly increased their speed and rushed towards the small city quickly.

Then I heard the sound of artillery firing in the city, and then there was a terrible scream, and I saw the siege troops of Jianyu on their backs.

Yang He couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, could it be that the defenders still have artillery?

However, Yang He immediately woke up to the fact that if the defenders did not have artillery, I am afraid that Jianyu would have captured Xiping Fort long ago.

It didn't take long for the shouting to subside, and the sound of artillery died down. Then the besieging troops were seen regrouping, and then the shouts rang out again, and so did the sound of artillery.

This was repeated several times, and the sound of artillery gradually thinned out.

Hearing the sound of artillery gradually thinning, Yang He's heart suddenly sank.

Yang He knew very well what it meant to have sparse cannon sound? This means that the defenders are running out of ammunition.

Then, the sound of artillery became less and less, and the shouts became louder and louder, interspersed with the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground and screaming.

Although Yang He couldn't see the battle in front of him, he only heard the sound and knew that the besieging troops were close to the city wall, and the defenders were fighting bloodily.

To Yang He's surprise, Jianyu launched several attacks, all of which were repulsed by the defenders.

For a while, Yang He's heart was full of doubts, could the defenders in the city really only have a few thousand? If there are really only a few thousand people, then this force is definitely an elite force.

I don't know how long it took, the siege troops finally stopped attacking, and seeing that Jianyu was no longer attacking the city, Yang He's heart finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, there was a sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and Yang He looked at the sound, only to see a large number of cavalry appearing in the direction of the west of the city.

Yang He was stunned: Whose reinforcements?

When he saw that the troops in front of the Jianyu camp did not react, his heart suddenly sank, it was Jianlu's reinforcements.

Immediately, Yang He knew what the cavalry unit of Jianyu was doing, and this army must have blocked the reinforcements of the Ming army that rushed to aid Xiping Fort.

Now that this force has returned, it is thought that it has repelled and may even have defeated the reinforcements of the Ming army, and soon this force will be joined by the siege force.

Sure enough, after Jianyu's cavalry returned, they quickly joined the siege force. However, under the stubborn resistance of the defenders, the repeated attacks of the Jianyu army were repulsed.

The sound of the fierce battle continued until it was getting dark, and soon the Jianyu began to retreat, and then there were puffs of cooking smoke in the camp, and then there was a bright light on the periphery, but it was the soldiers of Jianyu who lit a bonfire outside the camp to illuminate it, and then there were more and more lights, and then a group of soldiers patrolled around the camp tent.

Seeing Jianyu's soldiers patrolling back and forth, Yang He suddenly smiled.

If Jianyu's soldiers stood still, it was really not easy for Yang He to touch it, but Jianyu's soldiers kept moving around gave Yang He a chance.

This reason is very simple, because the closer the fire, the brighter it becomes, and when people are in a bright place, they cannot see anything far away. It's as if Yang He couldn't see Zhang Shun and the others when he stood by the fire last night, but Zhang Shun and the others could clearly see Yang He in the distance.

Seeing the patrolling soldiers slowly walking to the bonfire, Yang He quickly approached the direction of the camp, and when the soldiers gradually left the bonfire, Yang He immediately lowered his body. In this way, several back and forth Yang He approached the vicinity of the camp.

The reason why Yang He chose this time to infiltrate Jianyu's camp was because Yang He thought that Jianyu's defense was the most lax at this time. Because at this time, Jianyu was eating, and Jianyu had fought for a day, and eating was undoubtedly the most relaxing time.

Similarly, the defenders of the city are also exhausted, and they must seize the time to rest and eat at this time, and will never go out of the city to attack at this time.

If you wait until midnight and everyone's physical strength has recovered, then Jianyu will be wary of the defenders in the city from sneaking out of the city, and then it will be the time when Jianyu is on the strictest guard.

Of course, the most relaxed time for people should be in the early hours of the morning, and it is more certain to sneak in at this time, but Yang He can't wait that long.

Because Zhang Shun and the others were still waiting for him in the rear, if it dragged on for too long, it would cause them uneasy. In addition, the time left for Yang He in the early hours of the morning was too short.

Yang He's infiltration into Jianlu's military camp is not just as simple as killing a few Jianlu, Yang He's purpose is to infiltrate Jianlu's camp and burn Jianlu's grain and grass.

In fact, after learning that he came to the Ming Dynasty, Yang He has always thought about how to survive in this strange era, never thought about what to do in the future, let alone changed the direction of history.

But when Yang He saw those innocent people dying tragically under the butcher's knife of Jianyu, especially the tragic situation of the mother and son when they died, Yang He decided to do something.

Yang He knew very well that if the Jianyu army was allowed to advance all the way west, the common people along the way would suffer the same fate, Yang He did not want to see innocent people lose their lives again, he wanted to do his best to save these poor people.

Yang He knew that it was impossible to repel the 50,000 army of Jianguo with the army of the Ming Dynasty, and if he wanted to let Jianguo retreat, the only way to let Jianguo retreat was to burn Jianlu's grain and grass, and if Jianguo had so many people, if the grain and grass were burned, it would be impossible to guarantee the supply by robbing the people, and at this time, if Jianguo did not retreat, he would have to starve.

However, it is not easy to find grain and grass in the camp that stretches for miles without being discovered by Jianyu, especially in the place where grain and grass are hoarded, Jianyu must be guarded by heavy troops, Yang He must be cautious and cautious, which undoubtedly consumes a lot of time, and after the early morning, the time left for Yang He is not enough, so Yang He knows that it is easier to do things in the early morning, and he can only sneak into the Jianyu military camp now.

Yang He is a secret worker, to put it bluntly, a spy, and the secret worker is their internal name.

Unlike other secret workers, the tasks performed by Yang He are extremely important and extremely dangerous, and most of the time Yang He acts alone, which requires Yang He to master various skills, especially combat skills. It can be said that Yang He's individual combat ability is much higher than that of most special forces.

After Yang He infiltrated Jianyu's camp, he quickly disappeared into the darkness, and then began to wait silently.

After about an hour, the soldiers of Jianyu had eaten and drunk enough to rest, and the noisy barracks soon fell silent.

Hearing a burst of snoring from inside the tent, Yang He slowly emerged from the darkness and began to search the camp cautiously.

After searching around the perimeter of the camp, Yang He found that the tents of the Jianyu were not actually completely connected, but consisted of five large camps, which were divided into several smaller camps.

These small camps are kept at a distance from each other, and then the larger camps are also kept at a distance.

Although Yang He did not understand how the ancient army camped, he also understood the advantages of camping in this way, if it was attacked, the camp would not be chaotic, and the lord would calmly gather troops to deal with it.

However, for Yang He, the scattered camps are more convenient for him to act.

To Yang He's surprise, he didn't find a place where the grain was stored after almost a round in the camp, but found a lot of places to pile up forage and many fences with a large number of horses in the camp.

Yang He knew that the forage was used to feed the military horses, and the horses were scattered in several places to facilitate the movement of the various troops.

What Yang He didn't understand was why the camp had only forage and no food. Is it just that the captives are only in charge of the horses and not the people?

Yang He observed for a while, and now he has not yet gone in to inspect the large camp in the central camp, but Yang He does not think that Jianyu will hoard grain and grass in the central camp, and the grain eaten by 50,000 people will be piled up together to form a mountain, and it is too unfavorable to the movement of troops in the middle of the camp, and once something happens, the entire camp will be in chaos.

After pondering for a while, Yang He decided to arrest a Jianyu soldier and ask.

Yang He cut open a camp tent with a dagger and dodged into it.

There was also a brazier for heating in the tent, and Yang He counted them in the light of the fire, and there were a total of six soldiers in the tent, all of whom were lying in their clothes, and their blades were also placed beside them.

Yang He sneered, these people don't take off their armor at night, they can fight at any time, this sense of battle is really admirable, but it's a pity that what these people do is that heaven and people are angry.

Yang He did not hesitate, stepped forward to cover the mouth of a soldier, cut his neck artery with a knife, and then did the same, killing four more soldiers.

Finally, Yang He covered the mouth of the remaining soldier and put the knife on his neck, and when the soldier woke up from his sleep, Yang He asked in a deep voice, "Where is the grain and grass?" ”

The soldier woke up from his sleep and suddenly saw a furry monster in front of him, and his heart was horrified, and his eyes showed fear.

Seeing that this person was frightened, Yang He gently patted his face with a dagger, and asked again: "Where is the grain and grass?" ”