The army was able to rest on the spot for five days in order to wait for the thousand soldiers who had returned to the food bags.

After a long journey, the soldiers were now able to recuperate, but many of them began to fall ill one after another, most of them were stomach upset or minor illnesses such as colds and colds, and the ranks of military doctors began to get busy again.

Su Jiudong knew that there were more or less psychological factors in this.

Modern medical research has shown that when people are determined, they can affect the working state of immune cells in the body.

Therefore, even if the soldiers travel long distances, their bodies are overloaded for a long time, because the immune cells play a role similar to "placebo", they will not get sick.

As soon as it relaxes, the immune cells also relax, so there are various minor illnesses and pains that "invade" the human body. But fortunately, it is only a minor illness and a small pain, which can be solved by simply prescribing one or two pairs of medicines, so it does not affect the overall morale of the army.

During the day on the fourth day when Wen Yiheng selected people to return to get grain bags, the army suddenly became busy, and many captains of guards were called into the main tent by Wen Yiheng in turn, and they didn't know what to say.

At night, just after dinner, Su Jiudong had just walked out of the military doctor's tent, and immediately noticed that there seemed to be more than half of the people in the barracks.

Before Su Jiudong could think more, Wen Yiheng called Su Jiudong to his side, and did not explain any important military information, only asked her to ride on the horse as soon as possible and walk with Mo Mingshan:

"Remember, you must follow Mo Mingshan, and you will always follow him wherever he runs. When the dust settles, I will seek you. ”

"What dust has settled?" Su Jiudong was confused by Wen Yiheng's unfinished words, "Could it be that the enemy army is coming?" You asked Mr. Mo to take me to run away first? So what do you do? What should I do with my daddy?! ”

Su Jiudong asked again and again and did not get Wen Yiheng's answer, only in exchange for his understatement of four words: "Don't worry, it's okay." ”

Wen Yiheng only told Su Jiudong that he helped her onto a jujube red tall horse.

Wen Yiheng patted the buttocks of the red horse in a row, and the horse took the initiative to approach Mo Mingshan and touched the black horse under Mo Mingshan affectionately.

"Without further ado, let's go." Wen Yiheng urged the two to leave, and then transferred to the main tent without looking back.

Su Jiudong, who was galloping his horse at a gallop, turned around and only saw Wen Yiheng's tall and straight back in the evening glow.

The jujube red horse that Wen Yiheng chose for Su Jiudong was a female pack horse, and it seemed to be very affectionate to the male horses under the seat of Mo Ming Mountain, even in the galloping rush, it followed closely on Mo Ming Mountain's side, and did not fall behind.

"Mr. Mo, what is the situation now? Where are we going? Su Jiudong's question was blown away in the galloping wind and did not reach Mo Mingshan's ears.

Wen Yiheng didn't explain clearly, and Mo Mingshan didn't say a word, so Su Jiudong, who didn't know what to do, could only follow silently. The horses swept past the tent in the barracks, and Su Jiudong was surprised to find that there seemed to be no trace of soldiers in the tent.

When the horses galloped out of the camp, Su Jiudong finally saw that the soldiers of all branches who were supposed to rest in their tents were gathering outside the camp one after another.

Mo Mingshan didn't stop at all when he saw the assembled team, and only led Su Jiudong to gallop towards the end of the team.

Su Jiudong's little head couldn't help but have many doubts:

"I said how the barracks have been so quiet since the afternoon, and it turns out that they have all come to gather outside the camp... But isn't assembling the same as marching? Ah Heng only asked me to follow Mr. Mo, is it really to escape? ”

"But today is the fourth day of the departure of the thousand-man soldiers who returned to the grain bags, and they have not yet returned, if they rashly start the army now, will they not ignore the thousand soldiers and the number of grain bags they have brought back?"

“… However, the soldiers only gathered together, and did not even pull out the tents, and it did not seem to be a sign of leaving. What the hell is going on? ”

Su Jiudong was dizzy by Wen Yiheng's operation of the cloud mountain fog cover, but the jujube red horse under him followed closely behind the war horse under Mo Mingshan, getting farther and farther away from the assembled soldier team, and Su Jiudong also noticed the end of the team, and actually gathered a large number of slightly thin horses.

According to the arrangement of the marching team, most of the cavalry and war horses were placed in the middle of the team, and there was no reason to put rare war horses at the end of the team... Could it be that the horsemen made a mistake in their busyness and drove the horses to the wrong place?

There are many questions today, and now no one seems to have time to answer them for Su Jiudong, Su Jiudong can only hope to wait for Wen Yiheng to explain to her after "everything has settled". Fly Lu

"Mr. Mo? Are we going in the wrong direction? Su Jiudong tried his best to call out to Mo Mingshan, who was a horse in front of her: "Our direction seems to be moving away from the assembled team!" ”

Mo Mingshan finally received Su Jiudong's doubts, and replied without looking back: "It is only because you have to stay away from them that you are safe." ”

Su Jiudong couldn't help but exclaim: "Why is this? "Could it really be that the enemy army has killed her, and Wen Yiheng asked Mo Mingshan to escape and hide with her? The so-called "dust settled" means waiting until the battle is over to find her?

Under the increasingly deep sky, Mo Mingshan continued to lead Su Jiudong to run wildly in the direction of Altay Mountain for nearly an hour, and finally stopped in a small canyon with more and more rocks and boulders.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and the cold moonlight was the source of light reflecting the entire Gobi Desert. Su Jiudong turned around and disappeared from the garrison's camp and the assembled soldiers.

At this time, Mo Mingshan finally had the opportunity to solve Su Jiudong's puzzles one by one:

"Xiang Wen ordered his ministers to take Miss Su out of the camp overnight, not to escape, but to avoid the limelight temporarily, just because there is indeed a battle with Su Jinjun tonight. But Miss Su doesn't have to worry, I believe that Wenxiang will not disappoint us. ”

"Are you really going to fight?" Su Jiudong was a little indignant about the upcoming battle: "We are still only stationed at the outermost end of the Altay Mountains, and we have not taken the initiative to provoke, how can Su Jin's army take the lead in attacking us?" ”

Mo Mingshan was amused by Su Jiudong, who was stupid and didn't react: "Miss Su seems to have forgotten that the Altay Mountains where we are now are already within the territory of Su Jinguo, and are no longer the territory of my Dayin Dynasty." ”

"Now that it is our Yin army that has infiltrated the territory of other countries, it is understandable that the Su Jin army will take the lead in attacking us."

Su Jiudong, who had clarified his thoughts, finally turned back to his thoughts, smiled awkwardly, and continued to ask the questions that popped up in his mind:

"I remember that there were a lot of soldiers in the barracks in the afternoon, and it was very quiet, presumably you had received the news that General Su was going to fight before noon, so you began to let the soldiers of all branches go out to the camp to gather in the afternoon."

"It is Wen Xiang's order to start secretly gathering in batches in the afternoon." Mo Mingshan's expression was very serious when he talked about the military situation: "We received the news early in the morning that Dalantai was going to take the Su Jin army to attack our camp tonight, and then Wen Xiang began to go out to inspect the war horses. ”

Su Jiudong nodded thoughtfully, as if he understood the meaning of seeing the emaciated horses gathering at the end of the marching team at that time: "So those emaciated war horses at the end of the team are Ah Heng... Is it specially arranged by the warm phase? ”

"Those are not war horses, they are just pack horses and auxiliary horses." Mo Mingshan knew that Su Jiudong's arrangement of the marching team was not very clear, so he could only patiently explain: "The pack horse is used to transport herbs, military rations and other goods, and the quantity is less than that of war horses, but it is not valuable. ”

"In peacetime, a cavalryman carries a total of three horses, divided into two secondary horses and one war horse. In the case of war, the auxiliary horse can be used as a riding substitute when marching, and the war horse has to be led, and it is not allowed to ride rashly, and it is only left for the battle to ride the war horse to charge. ”

Mo Mingshan pointed to the black horse beside him: "The horse I am riding is a secondary horse." Excellent war horses are more valuable than people, and cavalry rely on strong war horses to kill the enemy. On weekdays, I cherish the war horses very much, so I am naturally reluctant to starve them..."

Wen Yiheng's layout should use thin horses as an introduction. Since the precious and sturdy horses are not hungry, they can only make the other pack horses and auxiliary horses suffer, starve, and make some sacrifices.

Su Jiudong didn't know Wen Yiheng's plan, and wondered: "Why do good horses let them starve?" I remember when the sacks of grain began to be thrown and the supply of food and grass was dangerously low, the grooms would not let the horses go hungry, even if the soldiers themselves ate less. ”

Mo Mingshan showed an unfathomable expression: "The reason why I have to starve the pack horse and the auxiliary horse is only to prepare for today's battle." ”

Su Jiudong thought for a moment: "Hungry and thin horses can't be done in a day or two. So Wen Xiang had already expected General Su to surprise our military camp one day, so he wanted to use those hungry and thin horses as bait? ”

"Not bad." Mo Mingshan finally smiled slightly at this time: "Dalantai, the prime minister of Su Jinguo, has learned the news that our soldiers are throwing food bags in the middle of the march, so they want to take this opportunity to besiege us outside Zhuote City and starve us to death. ”

The current grain bags and grain and grass stored by the Yin army are only enough for an army of nearly 400,000 to support a little for ten days. If the Su Jin army sent by Dalantai really wants to besiege the Yin army for more than ten days and drag down the Yin army, which has no source of military food, the probability of success seems to be very high.

Mo Mingshan said in a deep voice: "Therefore, after Wen Xiang received the news of the secret guard's inquiry earlier, he had his own plan and decided to make the plan go according to the plan, deliberately making Dalantai think that the supply of food and grass for our army was insufficient, and it was even so serious that he couldn't even feed the horses. ”

Su Jiudong couldn't help but think of what Wen Yiheng said, because the Gobi was unobstructed, in order not to expose his traces, Su Jinguo's spies only came to the vicinity of the military camp at night to investigate the situation, so they deliberately chose to summon soldiers to return to get food bags during the day.

Su Jiudong finally stretched his frowning brows: "It is estimated that Xiangguo didn't expect that Wen Xiangguo would take advantage of the fact that Su Jinguo's spies could not investigate during the day to send someone back to get the grain bag." ”

I don't know how many grain bags the thousand soldiers can get back, and how long it will be enough for the entire Yin army to support.

Mo Mingshan nodded: "It was precisely because he knew that our situation could not be delayed, so Wen Xiang deliberately let the groom starve the horses, and then placed the obviously thin horses at the end of the marching team, creating the illusion that our army was tired and weak, and the supply of food and grass was insufficient, and led the Su Jin army to take the bait." ”