Chapter 40: The Suspicious Soldier's Strategy
"General, why don't you rest at such a late hour?" Xu Ming had just finished inspecting the barracks when he saw that Xu Huang's main tent was still lit, so he came over to take a look.
"It turned out to be Xu Ming, sit down, General Ben is restless today, I'm afraid something will happen." Xu Huang put down the bamboo slip in his hand and replied to Xu Ming with a smile.
"General, the old nest of the Xiliang Army has been copied by General Zhengbei, and the defeat is decided, what are you afraid of?" According to Xu Ming's thoughts, the baggage of the backup is gone, how can he fight?
"You have a point, but Zhang Baiqi has always been eyeing our army's military rations, if he hadn't succeeded in raiding our army's military rations, the lord would not have designed it, and Zihe would not have died." Xu Huang remembered Cao Chun as he spoke, if he hadn't wanted to counter Zhang Baiqi, Cao Chun would not have fallen into the trap and died on the battlefield.
"General, please rest assured, I have already inspected the barracks, everything is normal, if Zhang Baiqi dares to come to raid, I will definitely let him go and not return!" Xu Ming clenched his right fist and swung upwards to show his determination.
At this time, to the west of Xu Huang's military camp, Zhang Zhong, the commander of the Yellow Turbans, was observing the surrounding terrain, and the west side was a very gentle slope, which could be easily climbed by soldiers who had been on the battlefield for a long time.
"Commander, our people have infiltrated Cao Jun's barracks, as long as the arrow sounds, we can act." A Yellow Turban soldier made a statement to Zhang Zhong.
"Okay, if the arrow is fired again in half an hour, then Cao Jun's people should all be asleep, and we just caught him off guard."
"Yes, Commander!"
Gojogahara is located on a plateau slightly above ground level, with steep slopes on three sides, except for the west, which is relatively gentle. So. This is also the only external passage in Gojogahara. Xu Huang arranged for Xu Ming and 500 soldiers to be stationed here.
"Oh no, it's on fire, it's on fire!" Suddenly, a soldier's shout came from the rear camp, and the forage in the rear camp was on fire.
"What?!" Xu Ming, who had just fallen asleep, heard the shouting, woke up, immediately put on his armor, and rushed out of the barracks.
"Big brother be careful!" Suddenly, a cold arrow shot out from the gentle slope to the west. Xu Ming's personal soldiers hurriedly pushed Xu Ming away, and the cold arrow hit the personal soldiers, and the personal soldiers were killed on the spot.
"Hu!" Xu Ming supported his own soldiers, but unfortunately he was already dead.
Whoosh! Several more cold arrows flew towards Xu Ming from outside the barracks, and Xu Ming drew his long sword and shot down the cold arrows.
"The front part went out of the camp to search, and the rear part followed me back to the rear to fight the fire!" Xu Ming saw that the rear camp was on fire, and knew that military rations were important, so he hurriedly led people to rush to the rear camp.
"There's a fire in the north, too!" Xu Ming had just led people to the back camp, and the place where the grain and grass were stored in the north caught fire again.
"Quick. Come with me to put out the fire! As soon as Xu Ming extinguished the fire in the back camp, he rushed to the military camp in the north.
"The front camp is on fire!"
"Nanying is on fire!" Then Xu Huang's military camps were on fire. This made Xu Huang's soldiers very busy, they just saved the north and ran to the south, just saved the south, the west caught fire again, saved the west, and the north was burned by the Yellow Turban Army again.
In this way, Xu Huang's military camp was on fire on all sides, and it was not completely extinguished until early in the morning.
"General, the fire has been extinguished." Xu Ming reported to Xu Huang weakly, last night's fire had exhausted all the sergeants.
"Xu Ming, you come to the military tent!" Xu Huang glanced at Xu Ming, then at the nearby sergeant, and called Xu Ming into the military tent.
"General?" Xu Ming snorted and looked at Xu Huang.
"Xu Ming, you go and investigate immediately, what happened last night!"
Xu Huang is a battle-hardened general, although the fire last night was fierce, but the loss of Cao Jun's grain and grass was not large, how could this make Xu Huang not suspicious.
"What do you mean?"
"There were fires everywhere last night, but they only burned some grain, grass and baggage, and the Yellow Turban Army only set fire everywhere and did not attack the barracks, why is this?"
After listening to Xu Huang's analysis, Xu Ming nodded, if the Yellow Turban Army really raided, it should have been fought last night, but why did it just burn a little bit of the baggage that was not strange. If you want to destroy the support of the Cao army, you should also destroy them all, not make a small fuss. The Yellow Turban Army is really incomprehensible.
"No!" Xu Ming figured out the reason for the incident and immediately took the order.
"General, his subordinates are incompetent, and nothing has been found." Xu Ming let out a heavy sigh and replied to Xu Huang.
Looking at Xu Ming's tired appearance, he knew that he couldn't investigate anything in this way, so he had to let Xu Ming go down and rest first.
"Someone, report the situation here to Lord Sikong, and ask him to send a military advisor to investigate!" Xu Huang handed over the written bamboo slips to the soldiers, who arched their hands, took the order, and went straight to the former army camp in Chen Cang.
The second, third, and fourth days were all repeated, and from time to time people came to harass Xu Huang's military camp and burned some baggage, which made Cao's army in the rear army uneasy.
"Gongda, what the hell is going on?" On the night of the fifth day, Cao Cao recalled Xun You back to the barracks of the former army.
"Lord, this matter is a long story, please allow your subordinates to report carefully to the lord."
Subsequently, Xun You reported his investigation in the past few days to Cao Cao in detail.
In the past few days, the raids on Xu Huang's military camp were all a detachment of the Yellow Turban Army, which should have only 500 people, distributed near Xu Huang's military camp, and every night it sent a signal to the internal response in Xu Huang's military camp, burning the baggage in the army, and disturbing Cao's army.
The signal of the Yellow Turban Army is the Taoist song of the Yellow Turban Road, the grace of the Yellow Turban, this is a song that all the Yellow Turban soldiers will know, which is created by Zhang Jiao and belongs to the ancient military song.
There were a lot of Qingzhou soldiers in Xu Huang's army, and these Qingzhou soldiers were originally Yellow Turban soldiers, and they were unwilling to help round up the Yellow Turban Army because of Zhang Jiao's kindness, which made Xu Huang very passive.
"The grace of the Yellow Turban?" Cao Cao heard the repertoire written by Zhang Jiao and immediately became interested.
"Brought the Yellow Turban Grace track to this company?"
"Yes, my lord!" Subsequently, Xun You handed over the lyrics of the Yellow Turban's grace that had been sung by the soldiers of the Xu Huang military camp in the past few days to Cao Cao.
"Hahahaha! I can't imagine that Zhang Jiao is still a wonderful person, in addition to medical skills, he actually learned to arrange repertoire, but the grace of this yellow scarf is really not very good, the rhetoric is rough, the front part is easy to understand, and the back part is a bit anticlimactic. After Cao Cao finished reading Zhang Jiao's repertoire, he laughed out loud, as a famous composer of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao is still very qualified to order.
The first half of Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Grace is written in the repertoire characteristics of the countryside and Qingxu area, and is written in the minor key of Jianghuai, but the latter part is written in the grand tone of the land of Yan and Zhao. This is related to Zhang Jiao's travels, from Qingzhou to Xuzhou, and then to Jizhou, this song of the Yellow Turban should be made by Zhang Jiao's travels, mixed with the characteristics of various places, but it is not like four. After all, Zhang Jiao is not as cultured as Cao Cao!
"Lord, now is not the time to discuss the repertoire, this matter is still up to the lord!" Xun You saw that Cao Cao's old mistake had been committed again, and immediately reminded Cao Cao that this time was not the time for wind and snow, but a confrontation between the two armies!
"Gongda rest assured, this company naturally knows." Cao Cao looked at the yellow turban track in his hand and thought in his heart. (To be continued......)
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