At the end of the day, the lonely clouds crossed.

Hundreds of generalissimos of the Western Road Guards were lined up in dark soft armor, each with a huge tortoiseshell in front of him. Wei Chengxuan ordered 20 elites to be the first march, only with strong bows and light arrows, the ends of the arrows coated with white phosphorus wrapped in wet cloth, near the north shore of Guyundu, they set up bows and arrows, igniting the camp tent and dry grass, so that the Tulun army was caught off guard at both ends. The remaining tortoiseshell sergeants tied the ends of the arrows with fire oil linen cloth and shot out of the fire. All the sergeants only brought enough combustibles and bows and arrows, and with the help of the north wind and the dry grass on the ground, they must plunge most of the Tulun camp into a sea of fire in the shortest possible time, so as to provide the conditions for the general attack of the Dachen army.

At this time, it was a winter day full of dead grass, and after many days of strong winds, the ground atmosphere became drier and drier. None of the tortoiseshell sergeants' fire arrows were missing, and a spark ignited in an instant in the tent of Tulun on the north bank, and the sound of panicked shouting gradually mixed with the north wind came into the ears. The Tulun garrison guards on the north bank of Guyundu quickly found the location of the night attacker, and instantly shot arrows like locusts and rain, and the night attack sergeant instantly escaped in the tortoise shell, dodging the arrow attack again and again. At the same time, with the help of the cover of the tortoiseshell, the fire bolts were fired more quickly to the north shore, and the position of the Tulun archers gradually burned into a sea of fire, and the time for Dachen's general attack was about to come.

It was Night's raid, which was no different from any of the night raids that Wei Chengxuan had experienced at the beginning, but at the end it was very different from the previous experience.

His tortoiseshell elite successfully seized Guyundu, infiltrated the Tulun camp under the cover of night, and the fire arrows ignited the dead trees and grass all over the river, and when the fires were lit everywhere and gradually surrounded into a sea of fire, the lookout post on the south bank of Guyundu suddenly raised fire and issued a retreat order, and in the camp tent of Dachen's army far west of the sentry, there seemed to be a fire lit.

The Weibei General's Mansion in Wushi City is the garrison of the Chinese army marshal of Dachen's expedition to Tulun. At this time, the sky was gray, and a group of subordinates entered the main room Mingtang with food boxes in their hands, and the three people in the house seemed to have been arguing for a long time, and the air was full of the cold anger of the master. The servants set the meal, silently extinguished the remaining candles, and streamed out of the hall in good training.

There is a man sitting at the head of the hall, wearing a group-collared scarlet robe and silk embroidered unicorn supplement, his thin facial features are quite elegant, only a pair of female hanging eyes and the snake pattern on his face make him more unpredictable. Li Chongwei's face looked extremely tired, and he was angrily glaring at Wei Jinglin's father and son, who were sitting in the first row.

Wei Jinglin sneered in his heart, this person has been standing in the past year, has no military merits and no ancestors, and now he has become an official to the imperial capital and is staying in the capital to command the envoy, and he was awarded the hussar general at the beginning of the year. In this Northern Expedition to Tulun, when the three armies opened the royal car to inspect in person, they were awarded the Dragon and Tiger General, and the emperor's grace and power were magnificent! It's just that this young general at the pinnacle of power, when the enemy is pressing, as the commander of the three armies, he has no way to deal with the enemy, and he only wears official clothes and no armor. Who is this Chu Chu dressed for? A night attack that had taken the lead was urgently stopped, and in the middle of the night the Chinese army marshal's palace still did not know what its intentions were.

Thinking of this, he thought of the little child who had dragged a bamboo horse behind King Lin and himself when he was a child and claimed to lead the army to fight, the little child who looked like King Xue and called his brother, and the little child who was blinded by such a fool as the son of today, he couldn't help but feel a deep pain in his heart.

He turned his head to look at Wei Chengxuan, who was sitting beside him, and bowed his head slightly. Cheng Xuan understood, got up and saluted, and said loudly: "Governor, this time the water in the west corner of Wushi Fort is not caused by the night attack on the Tulun camp by the young general. The Tulun garrison camp is separated from Wushi Fort by the Suonian River, and the riverbed is more than ten miles wide. The Junior asks for a confrontation, or shows the flaming arrow as evidence. ”

Li Chongwei didn't look at him, as if he was trying his best to hide his anger, and only said to Wei Jinglin: "Wei Shuai, nephew Xuan is so eloquent, let's fight until dawn when it's dark, and he won't let me do an inch." When I said this, I actually meant that I deliberately framed it! ”

I saw that he stood up suddenly, and the sleeves of his robe brushed over the bowls placed by the servants on the desk, and the porcelain bowls fell from the table to the ground, and the seawater cliff-patterned velvet carpet made a dull sound, implying that the sleeves seemed to have great anger between the waves.

"The fire burned for two hours, and the scene was already in shambles. Xuan's nephew is going to ignite the arrows in the city at this time, which shows that it is very difficult for me. This fire was not set by you at night, but do you know if it was not your night attack on Tulun that angered them, and also turned around and attacked us at night to do a fire attack? ”

Wei Chengxuan almost wanted to laugh out loud, he really didn't know why the son of today would trust this stupid thing in front of him so much, he saw the doubt on his father's face flashed, and sighed in his heart, but he also had to answer: "Dudu, Wushi Fort has a lookout post on the cliff that is nearly a foot high, if Tulun tries to cross the river on the ice and set fire, he will be found immediately." Even if he was lucky enough to go ashore, how did Dachen jump in and set fire to the city gate that had never been broken by the enemy army in northern Xinjiang since the founding of the country nearly a hundred years ago? ”

Li Chongwei sneered again and again when he heard this, and shouted three times in a row.

"You have tortoiseshell, and Tulun can make it the same way. You use tortoiseshell night attack, how can Tulun not do it. Xuan's nephew has made many quibbles, and it seems that he has not taken me, the commander of the Chinese army personally appointed by His Majesty, in his eyes! Going to war without asking for orders, you Huaiyuan Army have such rules?! Regardless of the fire in the city, I will have a book to uphold justice for me if I go to war without authorization this time! ”

Wei Jinglin's face was even more suspicious, and he waved his hand to interrupt Wei Chengxuan, who was about to step forward to speak, and only said lightly: "How should the governor deal with this matter?" ”

Li Chongwei faced Wei Jinglin, the anger in his tone disappeared, and he said with a sad face: "I have my own ideas to resolve the dilemma of Tulun this time, and the details have been explained to Your Majesty. In order to prevent changes in the army before the arrival of the fighters, which ruined my plan, I had to aggrieved that the right wing of the commander of the guard was all withdrawn to Wushi Fort and then made plans. If we are in one place, there will no longer be any subordinate generals who have the wrong idea to send troops without authorization and make the mistake of startling the snake. As he spoke, he glanced at Wei Chengxuan, who was sitting at the bottom, and said, "Don't mention the incident of sending troops without authorization yesterday and causing a fire in the city." Li also pointed to Wei Shuai to earn military merit for me! ”

That night, the right wing army of Dachen stationed ten miles east of Wushi Fort all pulled out the camp and withdrew to the city, and all military affairs were controlled by the governor of the Chinese army, and Wei Jinglin and his son temporarily lived in the inner courtyard of the Weibei General's Mansion, which was actually under house arrest.

At three o'clock that night, the sentry guarding the city saw that the gate of the Five Stone Fort was slightly open, and the three of them rode out of the city quickly, and the torches and other lighting objects were not brought, and it was difficult to distinguish who the person who came out of the city was under the thin moonlight.

Just listening to the sound of hooves, a sergeant who was familiar with the horses could tell that this was a very rare famous horse in Dachen, Hulei Leopard, whose hooves quickly swept over the original garrison of the Right Wing Army like the wind, and then to the east, until Guyundu. After one person silently raised fire to the opposite bank three times, two people dismounted and stepped on the ice to the north shore of Guyundu.