Chapter 2: The Tiger Chick (Part 6b)
"Is it out, hurry, hurry, is it out!" Zhang Xiu led more than 100 pro-soldiers who covered their nostrils with white cloths, and urged angrily outside the herd.
"It's coming, it's coming, Captain, you're waiting, it's going to be right away, it's going to be good right away!" The groom leader shouted excitedly, and his voice sounded like he had just picked up a gold ingot. Hundreds of auxiliaries and prisoners dragged straw bags and stared pitifully at the buttocks of the horses. Finally, a few of the horses were embarrassed by their staring, and their tails were pouted high. The nearby horsemen cheered, pounced, caught the fresh and hot horse manure with wet straw bags, gathered them together, made a big dung bag, and carried them to Zhang Xiu's feet at a sprint speed.
"Send forward, send forward before, Captain Li is waiting in front!" Zhang Xiu checked the thickness of the horse manure with a branch, and ordered with a fake tiger. The two auxiliaries lifted the horse manure bags and ran quickly towards the mouth of the valley, blocked by the verdant trees, leaving a strong stench all the way.
Before the smell of horse manure was blown away by the wind and the shadow of the trees was divided, several soldiers with black faces ran over again, shouting as they ran: "Captain Zhang, hurry up, hurry up, Lord Lang ordered you to hurry up, the supply is not available, the supply is not available!"
"Hurry up, hurry up, this is pulled out, this is pulled out!" Zhang Xiu's answer was drowned out by the laughter one after another.
"Hurry up, hurry up, replace the war horses that have finished pulling dung, and replace them with a batch of those who haven't pulled dung today!" The groom leader laughed and commanded.
In the midst of the commotion, the auxiliaries pulled the reins of the war horses and sent the war horses that had completed their "contributions" to graze on the distant hillside. Seeing that there was an open space in front of them, the soldiers of the rear battalion drove more than 1,000 other horses to the front of the valley.
"There's only a thousand horses left, it's really gone!" The soldier who sent the horse reported in a low voice.
"Go and pick in the field, and pick as many as you want. There are also poisonous artemisia seeds, broken intestine grass or something, you can pick as much as you can! Zhang Xiu shouted unwillingly.
The auxiliaries laughed and ran away, and under the leadership of the marching commander Shi Zhao Ziming, they continued to search for poisonous plants all over the mountains. General Lang has invented a completely new tactic, which is not expected to go down in history, but the effect is absolutely top-notch. As soon as this move came out, the Goguryeo people were defeated and retreated, and the Great Sui soldiers did not suffer any casualties.
"What's the matter, how can you fight with horse manure! Lower ninth-rate techniques! "Among the horses were men dressed in prisoner's clothes, and they whispered slander.
"It's called a military strategy, you know? You don't care if he's lewd or upper, if he wins, he's the first rate! Another chubby, tall prisoner retorted loudly.
"You know, you know, you know you're still a prisoner here!" The other prisoner stumbled back. Hundreds of people gathered around thousands of war horses waiting to collect horse manure, and it is estimated that it must be the first time in the history of military use in ancient times. But most people enjoy it, at least, the trick of destroying the enemy with horse manure is a little more stinky than having them carry a knife and go forward desperately.
"Hmph, Lao Tzu was also the queen of Zhou Gong back then, if it weren't for the unfavorable ....... of the passing years" The tall man blushed and defended himself, but provoked a string of disdainful laughter.
"You, move neatly, the horse manure has fallen to the ground, say you, big man, head upright, looking for pumping!" Zhang Xiu's voice came from afar, interrupting the battle of words among the prisoners. He couldn't wait any longer, and personally rushed into the herd with a few guards to supervise the "dung collection" work. At the feet of the tall prisoner who had just cheered for his army's strategy, Captain Zhang saw a few scattered dung eggs, and immediately, he raised the horsewhip in his hand.
The tall prisoner hurriedly bent down, regardless of the dirty, and picked up the horse manure with both hands, "I'll pick it, I'll pick it, General Zhang, you have a lot of forbearance, you have a lot of forgiveness!" β
Zhang Xiu listened to this person respectfully, and the horsewhip in his hand couldn't go down. As soon as he removed the pretended anger from his face, he suddenly saw the face of the big prisoner clearly, and his arms were immediately raised high again.
"You're not that .......?" Zhang Xiu jumped half a step away, and his body was hidden between the two pro-soldiers. The guy in front of him who was holding horse manure in his hand had seen it was the descendant of Duke Zhou who had tried to snatch his and Li Xu's luggage on the way to Liaodong in the spring. After this famous family of "generations of ministers, ancestors once served as important ministers of the Pillar State", it was clearly said that he went to Zuo Yiwei to defect to his relatives who were high-ranking officials, but he didn't know why he fell into the Xiongwu Xiaoguo camp!
"I've seen Master Zhang, acquaintances, acquaintances!" The auxiliary soldier surnamed Zhou held his hands of horse dung and smiled wryly. It's hard to give gifts, and it's hard not to give gifts. His embarrassed laughter quickly attracted several prisoners nearby, and Zhang Xiu, every face in it was still fresh in his memory, it was the gang of thieves who helped "Zhou Gongzi" block the road and rob that day.
The soldiers who followed Zhang Xiulai also noticed that the atmosphere between the two sides was a little mysterious, and a few clever ones immediately pressed their hands on the hilt of the knife. In the entire Xiongwu Xiaoguo Battalion, although the official position of Zhang Xiu, the captain of the pro-soldier school, is not high, he is a relative of Lord Lang and his descendants. If a spy injured Captain Zhang, the soldiers would not be implicated.
"Zhou Gongzi" is very clever, and when he saw the soldiers holding the hilt of the knife, he quickly knelt down, "General Zhang, you don't remember the villain." A few of us originally wanted to come to the door to apologize, but your identity is 108,000 miles away from us, and we have never been able to get close to you! β
"General Zhang, don't mess with your hands, we didn't open our eyes at that time!" Behind Zhou Gongzi, several younger brothers also knelt down one after another. The current status of the two sides is too different, if Zhang Xiu declares a personal vendetta at this time, they will not have the strength to resist at all.
Zhang Xiu is now a six-grade lieutenant who eats the country's money, and he naturally won't take it to heart if he doesn't suffer anything at all. Seeing the other party holding horse manure in his hand and the appearance of being a servile knee, it is not good to surrender his identity and embarrass him. He knocked on the shoulder of "Zhou Gongzi" with the handle of the whip, and asked in a lengthened voice: "I said Old Zhou, how did you get mixed up to this point." Tell me earlier, I won't let you be wronged here! β
"It's a long story, it's a long story!" Zhou Gongzi has horse manure in both hands, and his smile is as bright as the sunset.
"What's a long story, it's just that you can't get married, and it's not nice to meet friends, right?" Zhang Xiu triumphantly came to a conclusion. "Put this treasure in a straw bag, it's a pity that you are such a big man as a groom, and you will follow me in the future." With me Zhang Xiu in one day, I will definitely not be able to treat you badly! β
"That feeling is good, that feeling is good!" Zhou Gongzi was instantly struck down by great happiness, and replied with a fart. looked around, quickly ran to the nearest straw bag and put down the horse manure, and in the envious eyes of the horsemen, he turned his head and saluted Zhang Xiu's forked hand: "Little Zhou Da Niu, thank you for the cultivation of the school captain!" β
"Go, go, go, follow me to collect the dung first. The front is urgent, we rely on it to break the enemy today! Zhang Xiu pointed at the horses with a leather whip, and he was in high spirits.
"The villain obeys!" Zhou Da Niu is long, solemn, majestic and majestic.
After a while, the auxiliaries, under Zhang Xiu's supervision, gathered five or six more bags of fresh horse manure. In order to behave in front of his new boss, Zhou Daniu personally carried a large bag and ran forward with his head down. He had a bad year this year, first he was "robbed" of his mount halfway through, delaying the time to assemble in Liaodong. When he went to Zuo Yiwei to join his relatives, he diluted the already fragile family affection because the gifts he made up were too thin. had no choice but to be an ordinary Xiaoguo, but he was lucky enough to be assigned to the Xiongwu Xiaoguo Camp. When he was in the Xiaoguo camp, he was sentenced to hard labor by Mingfa because he took the lead in fighting and making trouble, and was sent to feed the horses in the bitter prisoner group with several small followers.
When he met Zhang Xiu at this moment, the other party was able to ignore his past suspicions, and immediately gave Zhou Daniu a sense of happiness when he met his old acquaintance in another country. Therefore, he secretly decided to work hard to win the favor of his boss as soon as possible, so that his little brothers could also get out of the sea of suffering.
"Onward, forward, the fire here is extinguished!" With his head down, Zhou Daniu heard someone next to him order. He quickened his pace and continued to run forward, running past rows of fires that had been doused with cold water, and before he was too tired to lie on the ground, the dung bag on his shoulder was finally taken.
"That's it, go back and urge Captain Zhang to hurry up. With another three or five hundred bags of horse manure, we can take down the whole valley!" Someone commanded kindly in his ear. Zhou Daniu supported his thigh with his hand and looked at the surrounding environment through the gap between breathing. The valley had been deep for some distance here, and the Goguryeo people had to abandon the outlying camp under the poisonous smoke offensive. However, the soldiers on their own side were unforgiving, and with the help of the wind, they pushed the birthplace of poisonous smoke step by step to the depths of the valley.
Several waves of soldiers ran forward with earthen baskets carrying the embers of unextinguished horse dung, and Zhou Daniu was so smoked by the faint smoke in the dung basket that his stomach turned into a river and a sea. The poisonous smoke that had been nearly extinguished was still so bad that it was no wonder that the Goguryeo people had to retreat. But how are the brothers on their own side not afraid of smoke? He looked around and saw that everyone around him, except for the person who was delivering the dung bag with him, was wrapped in a thick layer of wet kudzu cloth.
"Put out the fires in the back and put more water, the brothers in front can't stand it anymore! Move quickly and push the unburned horse manure forward! Someone shouted loudly in his ear.
"Hurry up. Shout Dr. Sun, is the detoxification soup coming! Hurry up, there's someone poisoned over there again, hurry up, carry it down, carry it down! β
"You, you guys, why don't you wrap yourself in a wet cloth!" Someone found Zhou Daniu and others who were panting and watching the excitement, and rushed over and questioned loudly.
Zhou Daniu wanted to answer, but opened his mouth, but felt saliva dripping down his chest. He felt his head start to get dizzy and his feet began to spin. "I'm poisoned! Help, save ......" he stretched out his hand to call for help, but before anyone rushed to his side, he fell headlong to the ground.
The person who scolded him was a school captain, and when he saw Zhou Daniu and the others softening, he quickly called a few brothers and carried them down. "Someone has been poisoned, hurry up, the fire outside the valley is cleaned up quickly!" Zhou Daniu, who was dizzy, heard many people shouting around him and saw many legs running around. The next moment, he was completely unconscious.
When he opened his eyes again, Zhou Daniu found himself lying on the river beach outside the valley. Hundreds of brothers lay nearby, each with a wet arrowroot cloth on his head. More than a dozen soldiers with neat hands and feet, under the command of a Lang Zhong, poured medicinal soup into everyone one by one. After drinking the medicine, people kept getting up, running to the river and vomiting heavily. Listening to the movement, they almost vomited all the bile.
"Iniquity!" Zhou Daniu heard the Lang Zhong sigh loudly near the top of his head.
"The half of the valley that we were able to take without bloodshed relied on Mr. Sun's clever plan. How can this count as a sin, and it doesn't count sir, according to the situation this morning, how many lives have been saved! Someone laughed overhead. Zhou Da Niu shuddered, he knew that the person who spoke was Qin Gang, who had joined the army in Mingfa. All the auxiliaries in the Xiaoguo camp and those who made mistakes and were sent to the Prisoners were controlled by this person. Whether everyone is suitable to turn into a soldier, when can end the hard labor depends on this person's words, therefore, many people hear the name of Qin Senjun more honest than a mouse seeing a cat.
"Alas!" Sun Jin in the army smiled bitterly and lamented, "Qin joins the army and doesn't know, how can this strategy come from Sun's hands!" β
Hearing this, Zhou Daniu instinctively pricked up his ears. He had been in the valley for a short time, and the poisoning was not deep. As soon as the fear was gone, the curiosity was immediately aroused by the conversation overhead.
Such a vicious strategy is definitely not something that a doctor can come up with. Zhou Daniu is convinced of his own judgment. From the casual chatter between Qin Senjun and Sun Lang, he slowly learned the whole story of the "poison plan".
It turned out that at noon, seeing that Xiongwu Lang was anxious that Lord Li could not deliver the news to Lord Yuwenshu, who might appear on the other side of the valley, Sun Langzhong was too talkative for a while, so based on his years of experience in practicing medicine, he suggested that Lang would light a few piles of horse manure in the valley on his side, and use the smoke produced when the animal manure burned to "condense but not disperse", and tell the nearby soldiers and horses that there was an army to rush to the northwest of the valley.
In response to the expeditionary force's operation, the overseer Yu Wenshi and his lord used their father's relationship to get more than 15,000 war horses. So, collecting some horse manure is not a difficult task. When General Li sent people to collect horse manure, he advised: "Don't collect too much, the smoke of wet horse manure is poisonous, and if it is thick, it will smoke people!" β
A word woke up the dreamer, and after listening to Sun Langzhong's words, the two adults, Li Langjiang and Yuwen Jianjun, coincidentally thought of a ruthless move to smoke the Goguryeo people. The nameless valley runs through the river, and it is impossible to light a fire, but it is a good place to let out smoke. There are high mountains in this vicinity, and there is such a big gap within a hundred and ten miles, so as long as there is smoke at the mouth of the valley, it will definitely be blown into the valley by the mountain wind.
The main general and the overseer don't care about reputation, and the soldiers below are naturally unscrupulous. Many of them were gangsters in the countryside before they were drafted into the army, blocking a chimney, poisoning, sprinkling sand and dirt in people's eyes with the wind, and they were the best at all kinds of yin damage tricks. Soon, the wet horse manure was added to the "additives" native to the land of eastern Liaodong, such as croton, broken intestine grass, five-step poison, ambergris grass, and poisonous artemisia seeds, and the smoke from the burning was poured into the valley.
At first, Li Xu and Yu Wenshi just had the idea of trying it out, and they didn't expect the poisonous smoke to really have the effect of defeating the enemy. But in less than half a column of incense after the poisonous smoke surged, the two generals changed their minds one after another. The effect of the poisonous smoke is so good, unexpectedly good, more than a thousand steps away, everyone can hear the screams of the Goguryeo people in the valley against the wind. As a result, more and more horse manure was piled up at the mouth of the valley, and more and more poisonous weeds were put on the fire.
After that, the appearance of poisonous fire wood chops is logical. Seeing that the smoke offensive can replace himself to step forward and fight hard, who doesn't want to expand the results to the maximum. From the captain, the captain to the soldiers, they worked together, and countless suggestions were put forward by everyone. Yuwen Jian Jun and Li Lang screened the suggestions one by one, and always picked the most ruthless and poisonous methods to put them into practice.
Only an hour and a half have passed since the first puff of toxic smoke has risen. The news came back from the front that the small half of the valley had changed hands. At this moment, General Li Lang is directing everyone to move the poisonous fire forward, and there is a great possibility that the soldiers will surrender without a fight. And the price paid by the entire Xiaoguo battalion for the poisonous smoke tactics was only more than 700 slightly poisoned wounds, and now they are lying on the river beach waiting for Sun Langzhong to lead people to treat them.
"This will not last long, and after the middle of the valley will be narrower and wider. The effect of toxic smoke will be greatly reduced! Zhou Daniu heard someone above his head summing up regretfully.
"Horse manure is not enough, I knew that thing was useful, and I fed the war horse more yesterday!" Zhou Da Niu raised his head prostrate and interjected in a low voice.
"Don't worry, our General Li has already prepared. As soon as the smoke in the valley cleared, he immediately led people to kill him. Anyway, we are on the upper hand, and the morale of the brothers is booming! A burned lieutenant replied loudly. Speaking of his own General Li, the captain was full of pride.
"Hehe, I guess no one can stop our General Li's black knife!" Zhou Da Niu also followed suit.
"Have you also seen General Li do things with people?" Nearby, several soldiers who were less poisoned stood up and asked Zhou Daniu enviously.
"Of course I have seen it, I have known our general for a long time!" Zhou Daniu unceremoniously braged, not caring at all that he was still wearing the clothes of a prisoner.
"On my way to Liaodong, I happened to see our general doing something with someone. There were a few guys who wanted to rob our general's war horse, and I wanted to go over to help, but before I could get to him, I saw our general pull out his sword, and just slash and slash like that..."Zhou Da Niu boasted in a gesture, and the long black scimitar flashed in front of him again.
This knife is undefeated. He is now beginning to believe
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