The ambush in the camp is most suitable for using the five elements intricate array. That is, to divide the army into twenty squads. Sixteen teams were arranged outside, in all directions; Four teams are placed inside to correspond to the four corners. As long as the four corners of the interior are not chaotic, even if the enemy makes trouble in the camp, there is a basis for advancing and retreating, and it can be attacked and defended. Enough to outwit the enemy.

It's just that before setting up the formation, Qing Qianxing had to arrange the matter of "Yingxiao" first.

How is it arranged? The "camp howling" for no reason is obviously unreasonable. The Yidu army and horses have won several battles in a row, and their morale is like a rainbow, how can they suddenly "roar"? You have to find a cover.

Qing Qianxing ordered someone to find a cow, took out the dye, and dyed it cyan. The scalper became a green cattle. Then they were released far out of the camp and placed on high ground. Cattle are commonly seen, but green cattle are very rare. When the two armies were fighting, a rare green bull suddenly appeared, which created a suitable soil for the spread of rumors. At the same time, it also created a suitable cover for the "night terrors" of the Yidu Army's battalion.

In the afternoon of the same day, a green cow appeared outside the camp of Yidu.

But I saw it spinning around, slowly soaring, and turned half a circle outside the camp. Then, driven by three or two people in secret, they headed in the direction of Yanzhou. The main camp of Yidu is not far from Yanzhou, only a dozen miles away. Although the green ox did not walk quickly, it appeared under the city in the evening. It immediately attracted the attention of the city guards. Of course, the few people who drove the cattle had already avoided in advance.

"How's the cow?"

"Or cyan?"

"It seems to be coming from the direction of the thief camp."

The guards looked at each other, and someone said, "This must be reported to the general." "Whether it is a camp in the field or a garrison, if you see anything strange, you must immediately report it to the Lord. Then the generals who were on duty that day went down to the city and rushed to the Shuaifu to report to He Zongzhe.

When He Zongzhe heard the news, he also personally climbed to the top of the city and watched from afar. Twilight falls, enveloping the wilderness. In order to prevent the Yidu army from burning the city and building a ladder, and in order to have a wide field of vision, the trees and even shrubs outside the city have already been cut down, and on the empty field, a lonely green ox is very conspicuous.

"What is this?"

"Green Bull."

"A blue cow? It's rare. Did he come from the camp of the thieves? ”

"Exactly."

"But it's weird!"

Although he felt strange, He Zongzhe didn't think much about it. A general suggested that it would be better to go out of the city and catch the green cow? He Zongzhe pondered for a moment, suspecting that this was a trick to lure the enemy for the Yidu army, so he categorically refused. and because the ox was out of range, there was no arrow. After looking at it for a while, he went down from the city.

The twilight is getting deeper, and the night is coming.

The guards at the head of the city changed their guards and lit torches one after another. In a blink of an eye, a soldier suddenly shouted: "Huh? Where did the cow go? "You can't always have someone staring at the cow, and when the freshness passes, no one pays attention to it. When they heard the soldier's cry, they went to look at it, and sure enough, the ox was gone.

Where did the cattle go? But it was the Haidong soldiers lurking on the side who took advantage of the unpreparedness of the city and pulled it away. The soldiers at the head of the city were all staring at each other, and it was originally very lively, but it suddenly quieted down. After a long time, someone said, "This, isn't this cow able to fly?" It's really weird. I have to report it to the general. ”

He Zongzhe was eating, and when he heard the news, he couldn't help but be surprised. It is indispensable to go to the city again to watch. Tonight there were clouds that obscured the starry sky, and it was dark near and far, and by the light of the torches you could see two or three miles outside the city. He Zongzhe squinted his eyes and looked at it for a long time, the cow was really gone.

He wondered, "What does this green cow mean?" Puzzled, he noticed that some of the soldiers on the left and right were already muttering, his face sank, and he ordered: "Although green cattle are rare, they are not nothing. What's all the fuss? Tell the three armies, don't talk about it! ”

Turning back to the Shuai Mansion, the more he thought about it, the more wrong he became, and he guessed: "Most of the people in the villages outside the city have already been moved into the city. Those who did not move into the city would have fled elsewhere. The camp of the thief army is more than ten miles away, within a radius of twenty or thirty miles, and I am afraid that there will be few people for a long time. How could a cow appear out of nowhere? And it's still a green cow? There must be something weird in it! Could it be? ......, is it the thief army who is deceiving? ”

But he thought of going elsewhere, suspecting that this cow was deliberately released by the Yidu military horse to shake his morale. Although the "Mao Hulu Army" is elite, but the soldiers are all transferred from agriculture to the army, there are many legends in the countryside, these soldiers are illiterate, have not read any books, it is inevitable that superstition. When you see something strange, especially when the enemy is pressing, you will definitely be suspicious, and maybe there will be rumors.

"That's not right." He circled the room a few times, summoned the herald, and ordered, "The commander will search the city, and forbid the soldiers to discuss the green ox in the evening." If there is a violator, cut it! ”

The herald took the order and left.

He was on his own side of the soldiers, and one of them smiled and said, "It's just a green cow." Why should the general be so cautious? ”

"Not really. Thousands of people are stationed in one place, how can there be a trivial matter in the army! During the former Southern Qi Dynasty, there was a story of night terrors caused by the appearance of foreign bodies, and almost the entire army collapsed. Now that more than 10,000 thieves are approaching the city, our soldiers are already demoralized, and if they are careless, they may not be able to suppress the bullets. This must be guarded against. ”

The night is getting deeper.

The night patrol in the city beat the drum. Because it was to defend the city, He Zongzhe implemented a night ban. The streets are deserted. Only the sound of more drums resounded throughout the city. There was a strong enemy outside, and although reinforcements from the rear were coming, He Zongzhe couldn't sleep at night. I heard the first drum, and it didn't seem to be long before the second drum sounded.

At the third watch, a rush of footsteps broke the silence of the Shuai Mansion.

He Zongzhe was looking down on the map, and when he heard the footsteps, he hurriedly raised his head. The soldiers outside came to report: "The city guards are coming, and there is an urgent military message to the general." He Zongzhe let out an "oh" sound, and hurriedly said, "Hurry up and order him to come in." He put away the map, walked back to the hall, and sat down to wait.

After a while, a sweaty Qianhu walked briskly into the room.

"What's the emergency?"

"Around the second watch, the camp of the thieves in the south of the city suddenly made a noise, and it seemed that there was a camp roar."

"Yingxiao?"

"Yes."

"Are you sure?"

"Although there is chaos in the camp of thieves, it is a little far away from me after all. The last general did not see it clearly, but as far as what was observed, it should be 'camp roaring'. ”

He Zongzhe Huo Ran got up, wanted to say something, swallowed it again, lowered his head and thought for a while, muttered to himself, and said, "Could it be the green cow?" "A stack of voices called for the guards, put on their cloaks, and ascended to the top of the city three times. On the watchtower, looking from afar, I saw the southeast of Yanzhou, the fire soared into the sky. There, it is where the camp of the Yidu Army is located. If you listen closely, there seems to be a faint noise coming from the wind.

"General?"

"How can you 'camp howling' for no reason?"

"From the point of view of the last general, eighty percent is because of the green cow in the evening."

"Not true. The thief army has won two battles in a row, and its morale is high, and it will never cause night terrors when it sees a green ox. ”

"Although the thief army was lucky to defeat me two times in a row, the thief general Monk Li has always been known for being rude. If you want him to lead the army as a monk, what can he do? Maybe it's because he's not good at managing the army? I heard that the last time he took me Jinan, he caused discord among the generals, and Yang Wanhu, Wang Guoyi and others were also beaten by Deng Thief's board because of this. The more the thief army wins, the more discord among its generals will be. couldn't be suppressed for a while, and there happened to be a green cow, which caused panic in the army, and eventually led to 'night terrors'. Maybe there is. ”

"Still not right. Monk Li and Yang Wanhu thieves do not have generals, but Qing Qianxing, known as a famous general in Goryeo, will not make this mistake. ”

"A famous Korean general? Goryeo is a country of projectiles, and when I couldn't be an army with the strength of the country, what kind of famous generals can I have? If he is really a famous general, how come the last general has never heard of how famous he is? 'Known as a famous general', but just boasting. Moreover, even if he is a famous general, he has always been in Haidong, and this is the first time that Yidu has appeared. Yang Wanhu and Li Monk are all unruly, once the thief army camp has a 'night terror', I am afraid that even if he wants to suppress it, no one will listen to him. ”

He Zongzhe looked at the southeast of the city from afar and was silent.

"General, now that the little lord has arrived in Juye, although he said that he has mobilized the Henan army and horses, and the reinforcements are coming, I don't know if the general has thought about it? Since engaging with the thief army, our army has been defeated in a row, losing Jiyang and Zhongfuwen. If you defend the city and only wait for reinforcements to break the thief, then after the thief is broken, please ask the general, how to deal with himself? ”

"......, what do you mean by that?"

"The last general asked for an order, and led five hundred cavalry out of the city at once, far away from the camp of the thief army, and watched from a distance. If the thief army's 'camp roar' is true, then set off fireworks, and the general can immediately lead the main force out of the city and take the opportunity to copy its camp! If the thief army's 'camp roar' is fake, the cavalry and horses brought by the last general will be fast, and they will turn around and return to the city. ”

He Zongzhe frowned slightly, calculated in his heart, and did not answer the man's words.

The person who spoke was He Zongzhe's confidant, and there was an unfinished meaning beyond his words, needless to say, He Zongzhe also understood it. The "Mao Hulu Army" is the elite of Richard Han, but not the elite of He Zongzhe. He Zongzhe gave up Ningyang and did not save him, he had already offended the "Mao Hulu Army"; Wenshang was ambushed, which made its prestige in the "Mao Hulu Army" drop greatly. Therefore, he can barely stabilize the army and defend the city, one is the current enemy, and the other is that the king has arrived. If he really waited for the reinforcements to relieve the siege, and he still did not make an inch, then it is conceivable that there is no need to wait for Wang Baobao to punish him with military discipline, only the generals in the "Mao Hulu Army" will definitely not let him go, and they will 100% attack him in groups.

He Zongzhe turned his eyes to look at the soldiers around him, the light of the torches reflected on their faces and bodies, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, and it was a little difficult to see clearly in the distance. He hesitated.

The man who spoke approached him, lowered his voice, and said, "General, although it is said that there are often winners and losers in decisive battles, the first two defeats of our army are actually nothing. However, what if the 'night terrors' of the thief army are real? But the general did not move, turning a blind eye. If it is passed into the ears of the little lord by whom? ”

He Zongzhe was shocked.

He doesn't save Ningyang, at best, he is old, but at worst, he is afraid of the enemy like a tiger; On Zhongfuwen, at best, he barely hit the enemy's plan, but at worst, he was rash and moved. If this time, seeing the enemy's night terrors, he did not move, and he would inevitably tell the truth, and then add another charge of arsoning with the enemy and missing the plane. "Fearing the enemy like a tiger", "recklessly moving forward", "indulging in the enemy's misses", his cronies did not ask a sentence: "May I ask the general, how many heads do you have on your neck?" Can you afford military law to cut? ”

Yidu Army "night terrors", he has to go if he goes, and he has to go if he doesn't go.

To say that He Zongzhe is also a decisive figure, after thinking about this, he no longer hesitated, laughed, and said: "In this way, I will do what you say." ”

His cronies were ordered to go down to the city, and when he gathered five hundred ironclad cavalry, he opened the gates of the city and roared out of the city. More than ten miles came in a flash, and it didn't take a quarter of an hour to come to the outside of the Yidu military horse camp. This cronie was also careful, refused to go deeper, stopped at the foot of a small hill a few miles away from the camp of Yidu, took two or three people, rode up the mountain, and watched from a high place. Originally, there were all Yidu sentinels outside the city, but he didn't see half of the enemy all the way, and his heart was already moved. At this time, I climbed high and looked into the distance, and saw that the camp of the Yidu army was in a mess, and the dust and smoke were rising; Closer, the noise was clearer.

"General, look!"

Following the fingers of one of his own soldiers, this cronie saw the north of the Yidu camp, which stretched for several miles, and suddenly a puff of smoke rose in it. Even though it was night, the black smoke was extremely noticeable. Roll up into the sky. He was overjoyed and said, "It's the thieves who are walking in the camp and are on fire!" ”

The fire came together, and the camp became brighter and brighter, at least the north of the camp was as bright as day. He concentrated his gaze, saw clearly, and saw the north camp of Yidu, just like a chaotic exchange of horses, countless people running around. There were even a large number of soldiers who fell to the ground, and blood was faintly flowing everywhere. Others rushed to the gate of the camp, drew their swords and raised their guns, cut down the guards, snatched the gate of the camp, and fled in all directions, shouting and screaming.

The shouting in the Yidu camp became louder and louder, and the distance was several miles away, and Wu felt deafening.

"What are they calling?"

"It seems to be shouting something, 'Wang Baobao is coming to Yanzhou, Yanzhou reinforcements have arrived', and it seems that someone is shouting 'green cow and white horse'?"

"'Green Ox and White Horse'?" This cronie of He Zongzhe had also read the book, and he was slightly stunned, then remembered, and said with a smile, "The Khitan people claim that their ancestors rode white horses and women rode green oxen, and they became husband and wife, and there was a Khitan. Han'er doesn't know the difference between Mongolia and Khitan, can't say, or thinks that the green cow is my auspiciousness. ”

Legend of the Khitan people said that a man riding a white horse and a woman riding a green ox in a small car met at the foot of Konoha Mountain and became a couple, which is the ancestor of the Khitan people. He gave birth to eight sons, who were located in various places, and were called eight tribes. This legend was spread in the Han land as early as the time of the former Liao. The Han people know a lot. It's just that the legendary green cow is actually a black cow. Because of cyan, sometimes it refers to black. Because most people don't know this difference, this He Zongzhe's cronies said: "Wangwen business." Han'er is unlearned. ”

Sixty percent of the 'night terrors' in the Yidu army were believed.

When I went to look at it again, I saw that the north side of the camp was on fire everywhere, and black smoke filled the air, gradually enveloping the entire camp. One of the soldiers said, "It looks like it's real." If it's a drama, there's no need to be so realistic. If you burn down the camp, aren't you afraid that you won't be able to attract our army tonight, but will be attacked by our army tomorrow? ”

He Zongzhe's cronies were not in a hurry, and pretended to be overdone again, looking towards Yang Wanhu's camp on the other side of the river.

Because the distance was too far, he couldn't see clearly, but the shadows were enough, and he saw that the fire in Yang Wanhu's camp was first little by little, and it soon became full of lights. There were muskets and horses, rushing out of the camp in an endless stream, as if they were also alarmed by the camp in the south of the city, and planned to cross the river to find out.

At this point, he has believed ninety percent.

"General! The army of thieves who had broken out of the camp came to our side. ”

He hurriedly turned his head, and hundreds of Yidu soldiers were just running towards this dirt mountain. The running team was sparsely pulled, and some people fell, and quickly got up, as if some monster was chasing after them, and there was no room to turn back.

Ten percent sure, ninety percent faith, it's enough!

This cronie of He Zongzhe turned around the horse's head, ran down the hill, laughed long, and said: "The thief is dizzy, and he throws himself to death!" The whole team obeys the order and sets off fireworks! Come with me. He drew his saber, gently pinched the horse's belly, took the lead, faced the night, his cloak was sassy, and ran to and from the enemy. Behind him, five hundred people shouted in unison, making a mighty and threatening sound of "ho, ho", and rushed out of the fire.