Chapter 429: Grain and Grass Snatching
The shopkeeper raised his finger and shook it: "The weapons needed by the military camp have a special place for them, if there is such a large number of weapons transactions in the private sector at once, not only will no one dare to accept it, but it will also be suspected and investigated by the government, to see if you are raising the army in private, maybe you will be charged with a trumped-up crime, after all, the people don't need you more weapons, unless you want to rebel." ”
The shopkeeper explained simply, even if the merchants in the city customized weapons to protect their property, the number did not dare to exceed 100 figures, and they had to report to the government, in short, there was no need to think about this matter.
After Lin Wan'er listened, she felt helpless in her heart, if it was so troublesome, forget it, she could only find a way to trade from the secret little by little.
The problem of food shortage is not only on the Central Plains, the situation of the Xiongnu is not very good, although they have prepared a lot of things during the period of free time for peace, but they did not expect that this war with the Central Plains could last so long, that half a year, in addition to recuperating and recuperating, they did not spend special energy to prepare materials, although they adapted to the cold climate than the Central Plains soldiers, but they could not solve the food problem, so they paid attention to the Central Plains.
This time the Huns came with a fierce momentum, Fang Yunxiao led the troops to meet the battle, but did not forget to let the deputy general take precautions, according to his observations in the past few days, he learned that the situation on the Huns' side did not have to be much better than them, if the stalemate continued, it would depend on the material support over there to be in place first.
"General, it doesn't feel like it's all their main force." A lieutenant general in armor stood beside Fang Yunxiao panting, the long sword in his hand still had blood down.
"There is General Cai guarding the barracks, there should be no accidents, and the enemy in front of you will be eliminated as soon as possible." Fang Yunxiao also felt that their battle today seemed to have ulterior motives, the attack was very fierce, and the retreat was also very fast, one after another, it was more like delaying time.
There was the sound of swords on the battlefield, General Cai and his subordinates were defending in the barracks, and Fang Yunxiao specially told him to guard the barracks before leaving to prevent the Huns from raiding.
Just as he was thinking about whether it would be Fang Yunxiao's excessive nervousness, an exclamation suddenly came from outside: "It's on fire!" ”
General Cai hurriedly went out to check, only to see that the direction of the camp where the military doctor was located was rising green smoke, and there was a burst of fire below, he expected that this was the means of the Huns, and immediately sent someone to put out the fire, and at the same time sent a team to search for suspicious figures in the barracks: "All checked carefully, the Huns must not be allowed to take advantage of the chaos to come in!" ”
"Yes." The soldiers also knew what it would mean if the Huns came in, and they began to take action, but the team of people he sent to search for them went directly to the place where they placed the grain and grass after sparing two circles around, and at the same time, a large number of Huns directly broke into the camp and went directly to the valley area where the grain and grass were located, with a clear goal.
There was such a loud noise, General Cai now reacted that there was a spy who let the Huns in, and after he sent someone to report to Fang Yunxiao, he led the soldiers stationed in the camp to start a counterattack.
Knowing that his actions had been exposed, the Huns were not hiding it, and they were directly divided into two teams, one pair of snatching their food and moving it out, and the other team was used to block General Cai's manpower, Fang Yunxiao heard that there were spies in the army, his face was gloomy and terrible, and he decisively ordered to return to the camp, it is not important to win or lose this battle, protecting the grain and grass is the top priority.
Although Fang Yunxiao was very prescient to leave the manpower to take precautions, but he was scattered by the Huns, and there was no way to break through the siege to protect the grain for a while, General Cai was also stabbed twice, and seeing that the next sword was about to pierce his heart, he closed his eyes with a white face, he thought that it was here, but the imaginary pain did not come, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was Fang Yunxiao who came back, and the Huns who attacked him also lost their lives at this moment.
Fang Yunxiao returned with a large army, and the Huns also had to retreat, this time they not only took away half of the food, but also captured the generals who guarded it, for the Hun army, this is an exciting event.
"Lord Wang, it's all my fault for guarding the unfavorable." After the Huns retreated, the soldiers cleaned up the battlefield silently, and there were still fallen grains scattered on the ground, and General Cai did not go to treat his injuries first, but came to confess to Fang Yunxiao.
"There was a spies in the army, which we didn't expect." Fang Yunxiao's eyes were like a silent pool, and his tone was cold as if it was the current season: "The most important thing now is to heal from your injuries, and we still have to rescue General Lu." ”
General Lu was the one who was captured, and after a preliminary investigation, he learned that the spy was still a soldier under him, how sad it must be.
"Yes." General Cai closed his eyes, clenched his fists and led the order, Fang Yunxiao approached the big tent and began to write a letter to report, and at the same time asked the secret guard to secretly investigate whether there were still Hun spies in the army.
The battle report was rushed for eight hundred miles, and it was delivered to the emperor after more than ten days, looking at the content on it, the emperor angrily slammed the desk directly: "Spy, good, very good, I don't even know the spies who have mixed in the army with the Huns, what is Fang Yunxiao doing to eat!" ”
Finally, there was a reason to scold people in a bright light, and the momentum on the emperor's body frightened the palace people who served in the palace to kneel on the ground in fear, trembling and not daring to speak.
After venting, he still had to order to arrange for officials to prepare grain and grass to send to the front line for support, although he was dissatisfied with him, but he was even more afraid that the Huns would take the opportunity to fight.
The matter about the frontier naturally aroused the keen attention of the people, and the big guy soon knew that the emperor finally sent supplies to the border pass, Lin Wan'er also received the news, and a few days later, the escort team set off, and she secretly followed to see it if she was suspicious, and then found that the prints left by a few cars were not as good as the first few cars, and the horseshoe prints were also different, she hesitated for a moment, and followed all the way to the outside of the city.
The escort team stopped at the post station outside the imperial city in the evening, they didn't seem to be in a hurry at all, they hadn't left the scope of the capital for a day, Lin Wan'er looked at their laxity, and wanted to throw them to the battlefield, so that these people could feel the cruelty of society.
After everyone went up to rest, Lin Wan'er secretly entered the house where the grain and grass were placed, found a batch of boxes at the back, and opened it with wide eyes, followed by full of anger, it was not grain at all, but cotton, and it was cotton of poor quality, yellow and white mixed and placed in the box, is this planning to let the soldiers on the front line fight with cotton?