Chapter 41: Burning the Granary
"My lord, it's not good, it's not good......
The general guarding Happy Valley was already exhausted that night, but at about midnight, he suddenly heard a noise outside the camp, and hurriedly put on his armor to take a look, but saw a group of more than 20 soldiers stopped outside the Happy Valley Camp like refugees. m.
"What's so noisy!?" The general asked angrily.
A soldier on the side hurriedly stepped forward to report: "General, these soldiers said that they were sent by Lord Niu Fu to urge food, and they all said that they encountered an attack by the Alliance Army on the road, and their leader had already sacrificed ......."
After listening to the soldiers' reports, the general's face became cloudy, and he came to the gate of the camp and shouted angrily: "You keep saying that you were sent by Lord Niu Fu, but is there any evidence?" ”
These twenty or so people are naturally the raid team led by Xu Yang, but their appearance at this moment is really miserable, and Xu Yang himself touched some dirt on his face on the side of the road. As for Gan Ning's dissolute boy, he has been arranged by Xu Yang into the follow-up team, if there is only such a wave of defeat, the coach may be suspicious.
Facing the general's questioning, Xu Yang was the actor's upper body, and while answering, he looked behind from time to time, and said with a sense of fear in his tone: "General, what evidence do you want!" There were still thousands of people in our team, and we had originally come to transport grain on the orders of Lord Ushifu. But on the way here, we encountered an enemy ambush, and those enemy's bows and arrows were like eyes, and the officers who specially picked our attack in the dark night, and we were left with these twenty brothers who survived......"
The more Xu Yang said that, the more miserable it became, and the soldiers he brought this time were not elite troops, but death squad-like existences selected from the seventh-order troops in Bright Moon City. Such people don't need strength, they only need loyalty, and only such people are in line with Xu Yang's strategic goals this time.
The general listened to Xu Yang's report little by little, although the other party meant that they couldn't prove it, but the general looked at the miserable appearance of these soldiers, plus the strength of each one was only about the seventh order, which was also in line with what they said.
At this moment, a herald came again to report: "Newspaper! General, there are more than thirty embarrassed soldiers outside......"
At this time, even if the herald didn't say anything, the general had already seen that the deserters and these soldiers were almost the same, and their eyes were a little scattered, obviously they had just suffered a huge blow. As soon as he asked, the general immediately understood that these people were on the same road as the more than 20 people just now, and he also saw that the two groups of people were stopped outside the camp together, and there were actually people who knew each other.
"General, should we let these people in?" The adjutant general who was watching from the sidelines had fully believed the words of these soldiers, and asked with a hint of worry in his tone.
How can it be said that everyone is Dong Zhuojun's, and since these people are from the Tiger Prison Pass, they are in line with the phenomenon that there is a problem with the sentinel cavalry. Although I don't know how these enemies got behind the Tiger Prison Pass, it is certain that there are not many enemies in this group, but they should all be elite. Only in this way was it in line with the basic principles of fighting behind enemy lines, and with the fact that these soldiers had fled, their officers were apparently the first to be beheaded by the enemy......
All kinds of signs have already surfaced a "fact" in the general's mind, but for some reason, the general is still a little confused, and he never opened the door to let them in.
After a delay of half an hour, two groups of deserters gathered in front of the camp in Happy Valley, and when asked, it was actually the same group. These deserters all came from the Tiger Prison Pass, but none of the generals survived, and these soldiers could not have any strong identity evidence.
"General, let us in! We will be killed by the enemy outside, everyone is the subordinate of Lord Xiangguo, the enemy is now, you can't see death without saving it! Xu Yang saw that the general was still hesitating, and hurriedly knelt down and shouted.
His shout drove nearly 100 people behind him, kneeling on the ground one by one and kowtowing, shouting "General help".
Even the adjutant guarding the camp admonished: "General, these people look like ordinary soldiers, and they don't have any strength at all, so let's let them in!" It's a big deal to find a team of elites to watch over them......"
In the end, the general nodded and said: "Send a team of people to watch over them, tonight's events are a little unusual, wait for tomorrow dawn to send more sentry horses in the direction of Tiger Prison Pass, and then confirm the truth of what they said!" ”
Why not send out the Sentinel now? Just kidding, this team barely survived so many hundred people because of the large number of people and the darkness of the day, and there were only a few sentinels in his camp, and those who had been sent out might have died. The best way now is to wait until dawn, and then send a few more sentry cavalry, as long as there are those who can run to the Tiger Prison Pass, then the enemy on this road will not need to worry about the general.
Xu Yang and the others, who finally mixed into the Happy Valley Camp, were led by several soldiers to a relatively remote camp tent, and the soldier may have looked at his "robe" pitifully, and said after leading the way: "You guys take a rest here now, and when the adults confirm your identity tomorrow, they won't take care of you like this." Remember, don't wander around for a while, especially the two high warehouses over there, if you pass by, you won't even know that you're dead......"
Hearing the soldier's words, Xu
Yang Na nodded yes repeatedly. Originally, he thought that he would have to put some effort into knowing where to store food, but now it seems that this is too easy, right?
In fact, Xu Yang didn't know that this Happy Valley was originally behind the Xiongguan Tiger Prison, and belonged to the enemy's iron wall. As for the defense here, as long as the Tiger Prison is not broken in the hearts of the Happy Valley soldiers, what does the war have to do with themselves? If the Tiger Prison is broken, then what's the point of them defending here.
In this kind of heart, the guards of Happy Valley can be said to be loose to the extreme, and Xu Yang has obtained the location of the key granary so easily. However, the news was obtained so easily, but Gan Ning, who was mixed with the deserters, quietly came to Xu Yang's side and asked: "Master Hou, these guys said such important news so easily, could it be that the guard general deliberately tempted?" ”
"I can't rule this out, look at the guards here, can you go over and check it out?" Xu Yang looked at the soldiers who were constantly patrolling around him and asked Gan Ningdao.
Looking at each patrol of about ten people, Gan Ning nodded and said, "Master Hou, if I just touch it myself, there should be no problem." It's just that if the granary, will there be a master......"
To say that Gan Ning is also bold and careful, after seeing the scene of the battle between the two armies in front of the Tiger Pass, he gradually learned to be cautious and think more.
Regarding Gan Ning's invisible growth, Xu Yang nodded with a smile and said, "If there is really a master over there, you will come back immediately." Remember, all probing must be done without revealing your identity! ”
Gan Ning took the order and left, but the defenders of Happy Valley Ridge did not find that there was one less person among the hundred or so. Shuttling between the black shadows, hidden under the swaying firelight, Gan Ning relied on his superb strength, but disappeared from Xu Yang's sight after a while.
The next thing to do is to wait, and Xu Yang is not in a hurry about it. The two suspected granaries should be more than 300 meters away from me, but there are many patrolling soldiers in the camp, and it takes time to pass through them under the lighting of various torches. Taking advantage of this waiting time, Xu Yang began to think about the next battle plan in his mind......
A quarter of an hour later, Gan Ning quietly returned with a smile on his face. Seeing that there was already a misty light in the sky, it was finally time.
"Master Hou, those two high warehouses are undoubtedly granaries. And look at the inside should be a new pile of grain, although there are some defenders outside, but at this time people are the most tired, and many soldiers have begun to doze off......" Gan Ning said excitedly.
"You go and let the brothers prepare, one will be divided into two teams, one team will be responsible for dragging the blocking soldiers, and the other team will just rush over! Also, tell your brothers who are blocking the enemy that you can use secret weapons directly...... After the matter is done, everyone escapes, and their family Mingyue City will be well settled! Xu Yang said at the end, and there was inevitably a sad atmosphere in his tone.
The reason why he only chose the seventh-order soldier this time was because this was a battle that dared to charge to the death. The goal of this operation is to destroy the enemy's granary, and they also carry a large number of secret weapons, but even so, even if the hundred people can escape through chaos, they are afraid that less than one in ten. However, before coming, Xu Yang had already explained the situation to them this time, and everyone was ready to take action at hand.
Seeing Gan Ning gesture with his hand that he could act, Xu Yang did not directly rush to the granary with everyone, but took out the dragon snake token and held it in his hand.
"Dragon Serpent Guard, summon!"
Airplanes!
Under a water-blue light curtain, ten dragon snake guards holding halberds descended directly in front of Xu Yang.
"Brothers, rush!" Xu Yang raised the Beginningless Lance, shouted loudly, and led the ten dragon snake guards to take the lead in attacking.
The Dragon Snake Guard has the strength of one grade lower than Xu Yang, and with the tacit cooperation of ten people, he instantly killed the patrol team in front of him. Xu Yang directly picked up the fence blocking the way with the beginningless lance in his hand, and ran directly to the granary like a killing god.
The hundred people in the rear did not all follow, but divided into two parts, one followed closely behind Xu Yang, and the other directly met Dong Zhuojun who came to support.
Hearing that there was something abnormal in this area, the nearby soldiers hurriedly organized nearly a thousand soldiers to surround this suspicious friendly army, or at this time, it was no longer suspicious, but a real spy.
Bang!
Just when the soldiers of Happy Valley thought that they had surrounded the small group of soldiers with their superiority in numbers, a deafening explosion completely woke them from their slumber.
Looking at the more than ten robes on the ground who were killed and injured at once, the white ground with a killing radius of five meters, and then looking at the enemies in front of them, each of whom was holding two or three strange things that were dark and black, these soldiers were really frightened.
"Kill...... Come on...... Give it to Lao Tzu! A general was urging his soldiers in the rear, but he was retreating step by step.
Just now, he clearly saw a soldier throw a pitch-black ball over, which caused the explosion just now. More than a dozen soldiers died like this all at once, and they were all his soldiers, and they were all gone all of a sudden. At this time, although he was still urging, his legs were extremely honest.
"My lord, those things...... What is ......?" one soldier asked, swallowing and panicking.
At this time, the soldiers who kept coming from all directions rushed again at the enemy who were mixed in their camp. And what greeted them was still the thunderbolt in his hand, there was nothing wrong with it, this thing was the firearm that Xu Yang got after rescuing the guy from the prison in Youzhou in the Northland. There may be many people in the entire sky who can make firearms, after all, the Western world allows firearms to exist, but in the entire territory of China, Xu Yang felt that his throwing of high-explosive grenades might be just that.
After rescuing Tianruo Youqing that time, both Bright Moon City and Yanhuang Dragon City have been quietly and silently hoarding thunderbolts to prepare for possible battles in the future. For today's sneak attack, Xu Yang specially allocated five hundred thunderbolts, ranging from four or five to each person, in order to give the enemy a ring.
These broken soldiers also know that they have no way to live, but their idea is very simple, as long as they drag the enemy army in front of them, and wait for the big thing on Hou Ye's side to be completed, if they still have extra thunderbolts in their hands, then it is not impossible to escape while they are in chaos.
However, there are too many enemy troops in Happy Valley, even if he blows up a few waves of soldiers who are not afraid of death, the new soldiers behind will still rush up regardless of the corpses in front of them. This situation lasted for a quarter of an hour, and finally there was a continuous sound of explosions in the direction of the granary, coupled with thick black smoke, and at this time the general of the garrison also understood completely that the enemy had been busy all night for this granary.
Hurriedly organized the soldiers to start fighting the fire, you must know that the thunderbolt is a firearm, and the explosion is not only powerful, but also very flammable on the dry granary. Xu Yang and Gan Ning led ten dragon snake guards to pounce directly on the location of the granary, and along the way, it can be said that the gods blocked and killed the gods, and the Buddhas blocked and killed the Buddhas.
At a distance of thirty meters from the granary, Xu Yang directly issued a transparent order: "Throw out the thunderbolt in your hand!" ”
Under a series of explosions, Xu Yang directly pulled Gan Ning onto the Golden Wing Kunpeng, and the more than 50 people below were sinking and began to flee in all directions. If it is said that before the granary caught fire, they fled like this, it was a live target of the enemy, but with such a fire cover, they were wearing Dong Zhuojun's military uniform, as long as they pretended to fight the fire and slowly wanted to escape.
Just as Xu Yang left in the Golden Wing Kunpeng, he was overjoyed to receive a system prompt:
Bite! System Prompt: Due to your surprise attack on the granary of Dong Zhuojun in Happy Valley, you successfully burned down the granary of Happy Valley, with excellent combat command and outstanding results, the system will reward you with a chance to draw a lottery. Due to your excellent tactics, the food and grass of Dong Zhuo's army in Tiger Prison Pass were burned and their morale was low, and the morale of the alliance army and the troops of Mingyue City increased.
Xu Yang did not immediately conduct the lottery, but looked at his results this time. Since the outbreak of the Battle of Tiger Pass, he has been forced by the system to set up a task, that is, to kill 10 million soldiers from each side of Dong Zhuojun and the alliance. With the granary that had just burned down Happy Valley, Xu Yang found that the number of people needed to kill Dong Zhuojun suddenly dropped by two million.
That's right, Xu Yang felt that this might be the original intention of the system, and it wanted to constantly weaken the strength of Dong Zhuojun and the alliance army. As for the number of 10 million troops, it is actually just a relatively quantitative performance. Now that he has burned down the Happy Valley granary, it can be said that it has greatly damaged Dong Zhuojun's morale, so it is understandable to drop this number by two million.
As for kills? Xu Yang didn't think that the hundred people he sent would be able to kill so many soldiers, you must know that even if these hundred people were equipped with infinite thunderbolts, the soldiers of Happy Valley Ridge would not resist and let them lose, it was estimated that the hundred people would not be enough to kill so much.
Riding the Golden Wing Kunpeng, Xu Yang returned directly to the Dragon and Snake warships along the Yellow River. The purpose of this operation has been achieved, all that remains is to see how many of these soldiers sent can come back, Xu Yang did not leave the soldiers in cold blood, because he couldn't do this kind of thing. A total of 1,500 soldiers were sent this time, and Xu Yang felt that in addition to the 100 death squads, it was still very likely that the others would come back, after all, there was only an ambush and harassment next to the official road of the Tiger Prison Pass, and the sacrifice should not be so great.
Xu Yang, who returned to the Dragon Snake Battleship, directly asked Gan Ning to deal with the matter of gathering troops, thinking that those troops had already begun to retreat when they saw the fire in the direction of Happy Valley. At that time, as long as all the snake ships return, Xu Yang can return to sail back......
Then Xu Yang had just returned to the cabin, ready to check the lottery rewards, but a phantom appeared in front of him.
"Great sages?" Seeing Zhang Jiao, who was dressed in a yellow Taoist robe and holding a ninth-order tin staff, appeared in him, although he was a little surprised in his heart, Xu Yang was quickly relieved.
If Zhang Jiao doesn't have some means, how can he be called Zhang Jiao! However, Xu Yang was curious about what this corner was looking for him now?
"Master Hou, the old man is polite!" Seeing Xu Yang, although Zhang Jiao was the head of a sect, he also saluted respectfully.
Xu Yang knew that Zhang Jiao must have something to do with him, so he asked straight to the point: "The great sage and good teacher are busy with teaching affairs, so let's talk about it if there is anything to do today!" ”
Zhang Jiao was not surprised by Xu Yang's attitude, and said with a smile: "Master Hou, Lao Dao is being dragged by others this time, and he wants to hold off Lord Hou's army for a few days......"