The grasshoppers and the swaying strips dragged their footsteps one after the other, and around noon, they entered Yifeng Town.

Yifeng Town is on the edge of Chaohu Lake, the land of fish and rice, and it is very rich.

At this time in previous years, there were at least three or four big operas in Yifeng Town, and those who walked on the dock were relatives, and those who were playing incense were crowded one after another.

Now, the town of Shifting Wind is empty, and homes are closed.

Grasshopper and Channeling found a group of beggars huddled on the dock south of town, and squeezed in.

In the month of the New Year, the beggars also celebrate the New Year, and they can eat enough almost every day, and from time to time, they can also get some meat foam broth, and if they are lucky, they can get half a bowl of fatty meat!

But at this time, the town of Shifting Wind is empty, and most of the beggars in Shifting Wind Town have empty stomachs, so they have to stay on the dock where they are still a little popular, and they are weakly holding out their bowls.

The grasshopper looked at the old beggar for a while, and then stabbed the old beggar, "What's going on?" Where have all the people gone? Last year, there was food everywhere, and there were copper coins, but this year, what's going on? ”

"As soon as I heard you say this, I know that you are no more than thirty years old." The old beggar was obviously not very hungry, and was quite idle, "I don't understand, do you?" Lao Tzu, let me teach you, have you passed the army, do you understand the soldiers? ”

The grasshopper kept shaking her head with a stupid face.

"I know you don't understand, look at your stupid face.

Look over there, do you see? Is that ship big? It was all a warship, used for war, and it had been transporting troops and horses for several days.

Over there, I'm calling! It's time to fight! The old beggar shook the broken bowl happily.

"Huh? The blind man in our village said that it was very scary to fight in the army, and he said that he would die. The grasshopper craned its neck to see everywhere.

"This is a soldier, not a war, and it hasn't been fought yet. We're not afraid to fight, what are we afraid of? Just run farther. The old beggar looked fearless.

"If you don't want food, last year in this town, half a month, there was meat every day!" The grasshopper sucked in his saliva.

"Well, that's too." The old beggar was discouraged.

He didn't get anything this day, so far, but fortunately he ate enough yesterday.

"When did this soldier come? The eldest nephew and his uncle, who came from this town in Chinese New Year's Eve, also asked for half a pocket of white noodle steamed buns, all whole! The grasshopper hunched its neck.

"I am also in the town at Chinese New Year's Eve, and I am good at Chinese New Year's Eve, and I am also good at the first year of junior high school.

Early in the morning of the second day of junior high school, the morning was fine, and there were two big dramas at noon.

Riding a tall horse, bright helmet and bright armor, a long line, hundreds of people, hula and ran here.

Alas, the drama is no longer sung, the people are gone, and there is nothing. "The old beggar is so good, the broth is so fragrant!

"It's over! Come on! ”

The first of a long line of beggars shouted and ran as fast as they could.

A group of beggars hula and ran around.

The grasshoppers and stalkers were neatly hidden behind a pile of vats.

A group of twenty or thirty light cavalry rushed into the town, knocked on a house, asked a few questions, and went straight to a compound near the dock.

Not long after, two light cavalry led the horses and pushed an old man about fifty years old out.

The old man looked panicked, and the two light cavalry smiled and looked quite kind.

"Aunt Cao, you have to have someone in your family." The old man stood at the door of the first house and shouted in a trembling voice.

"Two meals a day, open the tube to the full! Give five more big bucks! The little leader standing next to the old man shouted.

Channeling moved to the grasshopper's side and said in a low voice, "This is the husband." ”

"Huh, shall we?" The grasshopper blinked.

"Mmmm, let's not be together, I'm thinner than you, I'll go out first." Channelling took a few steps and cowered from behind a pile of vat where they were hiding.

After looking at it for a while, he moved out little by little, holding his hands, shrinking his neck and shoulders, half-opening his mouth, a standard second fool look, and his eyes looked lively.

One of the light horsemen on the horse looked back at him, laughing and stabbing his companion, "Look at these two fools. ”

"Don't say it, these two fools are okay, and there are two taels of meat, hey! Which of these two fools are they? The companion looked at the dumb squirting and smiled.

These two fools, looking stupid, wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, and didn't seem to understand what they were saying.

"That's a begging guy." The old man is the town's Lizheng, and he knows everyone in the town.

"This little body is really good." The little leader next to Li Zheng walked over and pinched his arms to his thighs.

The body that was pinched by him was twisted around, "I'm afraid of itching......"

"I'll take you to eat big white steamed buns, will you go?" The little leader asked, patting the strip.

Channeling nodded hurriedly.

The grasshopper hurriedly slipped out from behind the vat, "I, I also want to, eat white steamed buns, I, I'm also afraid of itching." ”

A group of horsemen burst out laughing.

"You two know each other?" The little leader asked, patting the strip.

Channeling kept shaking his head, "No, I don't know, you said you brought me, the white steamed bun is mine, don't take him, you said you brought me!" Don't take him! You take me! ”

"It's all there! Bring him with you, too! The little leader waved happily.

A team of light horses, driving Lizheng, walked around the town, pressed out nearly a hundred people, and hurried to the camp.

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In the evening, dressed as a pilgrim and carrying a sachet on her back, Li Sangrou got out of the boat and folded her hands together like everyone else, chanting words as she went.

The lake was full of Nanliang's boats, and on the dock of Yifeng Town, there was a team of Nanliang soldiers.

The group of pilgrims that Li Sangrou followed were all laymen.

Early in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, this group of lay people set off to burn incense in major monasteries, and they just rushed back at this time, and they were good when they left.

The soldiers of Nanliang looked very kind, but after a few glances at the group of pious women with frightened faces, they waved their hands and signaled to leave quickly.

Such women who burn incense everywhere and worship everything, there are many women in their houses, and women all over the world are like this!

Li Sangrou was sandwiched between the women and hurried into the town.

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It was dark, Li Sangrou, dressed in black, jumped out of the backyard of a house, squatted in the corner, and listened attentively to the surrounding movements.

Today, the sky is beautiful, from around noon, it is gloomy and cloudy, and it is so dark that you can't see your fingers, and the military camp not far away is more and more brightly lit.

In the evening, when Li Sangrou passed by the wharf, she had already seen the mark left by the grasshopper, and went straight to the east of the town along the root of the wall.

Out of the town, a small fuel-saving lamp was lit in the low earth temple, and a very inconspicuous small fish was painted on the bricks next to it.

Li Sangrou followed the direction of the fish head, went forward along the road, arrived at the intersection, squatted in front of a bush, took out the fire fold, unscrewed it, and shook it gently, the fire fold lit up instantly, like a ghost fire in the dark night.

Li Sangrou saw the small fish painted on the boundary stone of the road, and immediately covered it with a fire fold and went in the direction of the fish's head.

Li Sangrou looked as she walked, and found a large open space outside the barracks with piles of forage and wheelbarrows.

Between the open space and the barracks, there is a high watchtower, and at the four corners of the watchtower hangs a huge air dead wind lamp, and the lamp is covered with a circle of extremely brightly sharpened copper cover, forcing the light to the ground.

Li Sangrou dodged the lights of the watchtower, listened to the movements of the patrol team, slipped into the wheelbarrow, felt a small whistle from his belt, and blew it three times.

The whistle was sharpened by Xiao Luzi, and the sound of blowing it was indistinguishable from the unknown insect chirping in winter.

Xiao Luzi is good at sharpening all kinds of whistles.

After waiting for a while, Li Sangrou blew again, waited for a while, and blew again.

After blowing four or five times, the grasshopper was really like an inconspicuous grasshopper, and it jumped out of nowhere and jumped next to Li Sangrou.

"Right here." Li Sangrou approached the grasshopper, and her voice was so low that only the two of them could hear it.

This piece of unicycle, she has already checked it once, the wheelbarrow is empty all around, the blessing of the headlights of the watchtower, Li Sangrou can clearly monitor the surroundings, someone comes, you can see it from a distance.

"They went to Yifeng Town to recruit husbands, and I got mixed up with Channeling." The grasshopper whispered as she looked around.

"Use this wheelbarrow to carry the ship's grain, fodder, and many arrows into the camp over there.

Rushed over to work, kept urging, and whipped in a hurry, and didn't let go until after the third watch. ”

The grasshopper's report was concise and clear.

"When did you get to Shifting Wind? Is there a boat on the pier? Li Sangrou asked in a low voice.

"I arrived at noon, no, the nearest ship, five or six miles away."

"Deliver this hay tomorrow morning?" Li Sangrou looked at the hay piles around her.

"Our group is like pushing forage, and the grass is the most.

Yesterday I shouted to go to bed early, saying that Yin was going to get up and work, what a fuck. The grasshopper snorted.

"That's right, I'll wait on the hay side, and you and Channeling will push me into camp." Li Sangrou squinted and smiled.

"Okay." The grasshopper happily agreed, "Then I'll go back, when I just fell asleep, I ordered people, I'm afraid that there will be people again in a while." ”

"Hmm." Li Sangrou watched as the grasshopper slipped back quickly against the ground, and quietly slipped into the hay pile along the darkness.

The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, the grasshoppers and the stalkers spitted at me, and I snorted you, and while arguing, I piled the bundle of hay wrapped in Li Sangrou into the hay pile in the camp.

Li Sangrou was half-asleep in the hay pile, waited until it was dark, quietly got out of the hay pile, smoothed out the traces, and carefully inspected the entire military camp in the quiet barracks.

Before and after Yinzheng, Li Sangrou determined the handsome tent, pasted it to the edge of the handsome tent in the gap between the soldiers and the guards, and drilled into the mezzanine from under the tent.

Li Sangrou checked the barracks at night, hid in the mezzanine of the handsome tent during the day, listened to the movement for a while, squinted and slept for a while, after the second day, listening to the silence in the handsome tent, Li Sangrou smoothed the traces, drilled out of the mezzanine, went straight to the outside of the barracks, found the swaning strips and grasshoppers, and went straight back to the northwest in the dark night.

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The Northern Qi army has begun to assemble in the northwest of Hefei, Li Sangrou and the three of them, running all night, when the sky is bright, has passed through the middle ground, into the continuous Northern Qi army camps.

found a downwind delivery shop, the three of them asked for a horse, took the letter handed over by Da Chang, and went straight to Gu Xi's station.

The place where Gu Xi was stationed was less than 100 miles away from the garrison of the Southern Liang army.

They had already run more than ten miles, so they had to turn around and go back again.

Li Sangrou took dozens of steps outside the gate, jumped off his horse, and shouted at the soldiers guarding the door: "My surname is Li, please see General Wen!" ”

The soldiers guarding the door hurriedly went in to report, and after a while, Wen Shunzhi hurriedly came out and greeted Li Sangrou and the three.

Li Sangrou is followed by authentic beggar grasshoppers and channeling strips, of course, she is no different from grasshoppers and channeling strips, she is also the same dirty and broken beggar appearance.

The three beggars greeted the generals who retreated from the handsome tent, Li Sangrou smiled and bowed, and the grasshopper and the skull kept laughing and hunched their waists, and entered the handsome tent against the current.

"You're back!" Gu Xi strode up to meet him, looking Li Sangrou up and down, "It's okay, right?" ”

Her hair was unkempt, full of grass and black and yellow, she didn't know what it was, her clothes were dirty and torn, her face was dirty and she couldn't see her face, only her two eyes were still black and bright.

"Bring a piece of paper first, bigger and bigger, the better." Li Sangrou waved her hand at Gu Xi, signaled that she was okay, and looked at Wen Chengdao.

Ruyi didn't wait for the order, the action was extremely fast, and immediately pulled out a piece of fine cotton paper that had not been cut and brought it over, the paper was too big, so it had to be spread on the ground.

Li Sangrou came to the handsome case, picked out the thinnest pen, Wen Cheng had already held the inkstone, Li Sangrou stretched out the pen in, dipped in ink, and drew from a corner, first draw a vertical, and then circle a circle. "This is the watchtower, this is the tent."

I drew two or three verticals in one breath, circled a bunch of circles, and then drew a box, "Here are piles of forage, a lot of fine materials." ”

Draw another triangle, "This is ordnance, a lot of arrows, a lot." ”

Wen Cheng stuffed the inkstone to Wen Shunzhi, grabbed a piece of paper, picked up the pen and began to count, a few verticals, a few circles, a few boxes, a few corners......

Li Sangrou drew all the way from one corner to the other, and Ruyi hurriedly spread another piece of paper to connect it, and then spread another one.

After drawing three and a half pieces of paper in one breath, Li Sangrou stood up and breathed a long sigh of relief, "This is the barracks until yesterday morning, and it is still increasing over this side."

It took me two whole nights to walk all of them, and they were very large, with a lot of people, a lot of horses, and a lot of arrows.

You two talk about it first, I'll drink saliva. ”

Li Sangrou pointed to the grasshoppers and swankers who were holding cups and drinking tea cup after cup.

"I'll say it first!" The grasshopper hurriedly put down the cup.

Ruyi has always been extremely clever, he has already taken a clean cup, and when the teapot is empty, he stuffed the cup into Li Sangrou's hand, and hurriedly took another pot of tea from the back tent.

"They recruited a lot of people to transport things, and I followed the team of two or three hundred people to transport forage.

The two of us worked for three nights and two and a half days, just the first day, let An Ansheng sleep for two or three hours, and the next day, one day and one night, only two hours of rest, and they had to take turns, half and half of them took turns.

There are often generals like Wen Siye coming over, howling and howling, looking at the anxious, like rushing to reincarnate, and whipping them.

There are so many boats in the lake that they can't be counted, and they can't see their heads.

A boat comes, dismounts first, and then people, bright helmets and bright armor, shiny and shining, and keeps going. ”

The grasshopper even said with a gesture, and the grasshopper said a word, and nodded his head.

"Finished?" Seeing the grasshopper looking at her, Li Sangrou asked, seeing the grasshopper nodding, she motioned to the two, "Go back and sleep well." ”

The grasshopper and the swaying strip answered, arched their hands and turned around, and went back to sleep after leaving the tent.

"I will sleep in the mezzanine of the tent during the day......" Li Sangrou didn't finish a sentence, Wen Shunzhi's eyes widened, he rushed out of the door, came in with a spear, and slapped the tent with the barrel of the gun.

Li Sangrou leaned at him speechlessly.

"The boss is Wu Huaiyi, full of clever people in the handsome account, I didn't dare to look in the handsome tent, it all depends on listening.

They all called him Wu Shuai, he said how he was in Jiangdu City, the two military generals in Jiangdu City, Wu Huaiguo's voice I heard, it was definitely not him, that was Wu Huaiyi.

The handsome tent is very busy, I listened to it for a while and slept for a while, and most of what I heard was grain and grass, the day before yesterday I heard that the Xiangyang army had gone north, and yesterday I heard that they had been talking about Xuzhou, and they were going to fight Xuzhou, saying that they wanted to be fast, and they were going to run thousands of miles or something.

Also, now the people who come here are all cavalry, and I said it yesterday morning, General Cao's army has arrived in Yicheng, listen to that, this General Cao should be here to take over Hefei City.

Nothing else should be there. ”

Li Sangrou's words were concise and clear.

Wen Cheng took a slight breath, his face was slightly pale.

"If it's okay, I'll go sleep for a while, I'll run all night, tired." Li Sangrou looked at Gu Xi and said.

"Ruyi took Miss Li to ...... Going to the shower first? Gu Xi was halfway through the order and looked at Li Sangrou.

"I'll talk about it when I wake up." Li Sangrou waved her hand.

She didn't think she was very dirty, so she would get some sleep first.