Chapter 183: Raid
Thousands of miles of yellow clouds, the north wind withered white grass.
A crescent moon hung lonely like a scimitar over the dark night.
At the beginning of October, it was already a cold night in the Northland.
On the north bank of the Baishui River, Lijialing, Baishan.
The hillside is covered with a dense forest of poplars, and the slope is covered with a thick layer of dead leaves.
The north wind blew, and the rustling of fallen leaves sounded in the forest.
Between the thick trunks of the trees, there was a dark shadow of shadows lurking in it.
Lu Yanchen led ten people and had been squatting in this forest for two hours.
This is the first task he received after coming to Yunju-
Rescue Gu Haiwang.
When he went to the army to report with the holy decree, He Qingchang was not surprised, but he only gave him a false position to join the army and let him follow him.
It wasn't until three days after arriving in Yunzhou that he suddenly summoned Lu Yanchen alone and showed him a secret decree.
Before setting out on the expedition, Ye Qianhuai gave him a holy decree alone, asking him to secretly rescue the captured Gu Haiwang.
The decree was given in a very bizarre way.
It is necessary to save and secret.
It can be described as a strong man.
He Qingchang once felt a headache for this secret decree.
It wasn't until one day when the strategy was discussed in the tent that He Qingchang found that Lu Yanchen actually knew the terrain of this place very well, so he suddenly came up with a plan and decided to hand over this arduous mission to Lu Yanchen.
Lu Yanchen didn't say anything, and even responded.
He Qing grew up happy and asked for him from then on. He also gave him access to confidential information, assigned scouts to him, and allocated equipment to him.
Ten days later, Lu Yanchen suddenly asked him for fifty people who were good and not afraid of death, saying that he wanted to cross the river.
He Qingchang hesitated for a day and agreed to him.
Lu Yanchen took these people from the narrow part of the river to cross the river on a bamboo raft at night.
According to the scout's report, the main account of Beidi's rear army was set up in Lijialing, where Gu Haiwang was detained.
The rear army is responsible for logistics and supplies, although the combat strength is not strong, but the guard of Gu Haiwang is very strict.
Lu Yanchen then formulated a strategy to encircle Wei and save Zhao.
Beidi's expedition to the army, with a lot of food, grass and equipment, a small Lijialing is far from enough to hoard. Therefore, Beidi built another station in the col ten miles away to store grain and grass.
Lu Yanchen divided the fifty people into two teams, leaving ten people to follow him to wait for the opportunity to save people in Lijialing, while the others went to the mountain col and the mountains to set fire along the road.
He did not ask for much grain and grass to be burned, as long as the smoke was thick enough to create the illusion of burning the company camp, so that the troops stationed in Lijialing could move, and he could make a quarter of an hour of space.
However, the place where tung oil is stored in the mountains is controlled by Beidi, and it took Lu Yanchen half a day to take the nearest tung oil station.
He had his brothers make a lot of hay balls drizzled with tung oil, each half a man tall.
He then used ropes to net these igniting fireballs on both sides of the slopes along the valley road, and then he only needed to light the ropes, and the fire would burn all the way down the ropes, burning the nets, and at the same time igniting the fireballs, and the blazing fireballs would roll down the road in the valley.
Once everything was arranged, he just had to wait.
Waiting for the arson team to succeed.
The team that followed Lu Yanchen was all young men, and only one of them was from Yunzhou.
The others were the first to see Yunju's knife-like north wind and freezing cold nights.
By midday, several young men had frozen their hands and feet numb, and the heat that came out seemed to be frozen in their mouths, and they couldn't reach their hands at all.
Lu Yanchen seemed to be more adaptable to such weather. He hid behind a tree, hunched over, intently watching the movement in the camp not far away, as if he could not feel the cold.
Suddenly there was a little light in the dark valley in the distance.
Soon, that little bit of light turned into a lot of fire. The flames were connected like a fiery serpent that stretched for miles, entrenched in the depths of the valley, and finally merged into a sea of fire in the col.
That's where Beidi stores grain and grass.
Lu Yanchen's heart was half relieved.
He had previously estimated that there were at least 3,000 troops stationed in Beidi to guard the grain and grass, and that only forty brothers had set fire to the camp on their side.
At one point, he was worried about missing out on that side.
If he misses over there, he is likely to startle the snake, and it will be difficult to rescue Gu Haiwang again.
Now that the fire is lit, the plan is half the battle.
There was a real mess in the main camp of the rear army.
Beidi's expedition this time, the commander is the second prince of Beidi, Luodi, and the military advisor is Chu Boliang, both of them are on the front line, and the rear army is a veteran of Beidi, named Niga.
This person has some reputation, he has led the army to the south many times, and has fought with the Dajing army many times, and it can be said that he has the deepest resentment against the Dajing army in the Beidi army.
It is precisely because of this that Lu Yanchen expected that once he learned that the Dajing army was attacking the grain and grass in the rear, he would never sit idly by, and would definitely send troops to meet it.
Sure enough, with the frequent entry and exit of personnel in the main account, the main battalion of the rear army stationed in Lijialing soon moved.
The trumpets sounded in the army, and soldiers in various camps came out one after another in armor, and formed troops with torches, some on horseback and some on foot, and marched in the direction of the mountain pass.
"Join the army, shall we move?" Seeing the people and horses in the barracks slowly walking out, the young man behind Lu Yanchen clenched the knife in his hand and came up to ask.
His voice trembled a little. After all, there is no one who is not afraid of an enemy hundreds of times larger than himself.
"Wait." Lu Yanchen raised his head and looked in the direction of the mountain pass.
Almost as soon as he looked up, a cloud-piercing arrow rang out in the mountains and forests.
The arrow made a faint cry in the fiery mountains, and in the blink of an eye it dissipated into the night sky.
But Lu Yanchen still keenly caught this arrow.
Because what he had been waiting for was this arrow.
When the arrow rang out, it meant that the arsonist team had begun to retreat.
He had to act.
The enemy forces will soon find out that this is a feint.
Lu Yanchen suddenly stood up and appeared from behind the tree.
The long knife at his side was also unsheathed.
In the moonlight, the long knife glowed with a cold glow.
It's like another crescent moon on the ground.
Lu Yanchen didn't speak, but took a false step in the direction of the downhill. He held a knife in both hands, the tip of the knife pointed directly in the direction of the main tent of the rear army, and his upper body leaned back slightly, like a bow slowly pulling out.
Then, he turned back to the young men holding the knives behind him and said, "Everyone, success or failure is here. Today, there are no soldiers, only brothers. ”
After saying that, he looked back at the enemy camp, a cold glint flashed in his eyes, and the man had rushed down the slope like an arrow.
A team of men and horses was like a blade tearing through the cold night, and pounced on the main camp of the Beidi Hou Army.