Chapter Twenty-Four: Into the Enemy Camp

After Wang Liang and Lao Hei entered the enemy camp, they led their horses and walked slowly in the forest.

"Lao Hei, in your opinion, where are we going to find out the target information of the enemy army this time?"

Lao Hei thought for a moment and pointed to the east: "The land in the east is the most fertile, according to the law of the past few years, the enemy army is very likely to send troops in the east, but the four counties in the east are not yet certain, we only need to determine which county they are mainly attacking on this trip." ”

Wang Liang knew that he had just arrived here, and he didn't know the specific situation, so he could only follow Lao Hei all the way to the east, and three days later, he could reach the east.

The two stood on a small hillside and looked into the distance, because they had to avoid the enemy's detection during the day, most of them rested during the day and hurried at night, and it was also thanks to Lao Hei's rich experience that they did not get lost in the night, but it also took the two of them three days.

Lao Hei used a tree branch on the ground to constantly draw the places he had passed in the past few days to deduce where the two were now.

"Wang Liang, come and see, we are now in this position, continue to the east for about fifty miles, there is a water flow, it is very likely that there is a large army stationed, even if there is no station, the general march through this place, will choose to stop for a moment to rest, we can go here to wait for the rabbit. ”

Wang Liang continued to walk eastward for a long time, and walked to a dense forest, Lao Hei pointed to the cooking smoke in the sky in the distance of the dense forest and said: "Sure enough, as I expected, it is now noon, when the army is buried in the pot for cooking, the smoke coming out of this dense forest proves that there is a camp here, and looking at this situation, there are obviously a lot of people stationed here." ”

Wang Liang nodded yes, and then asked, "Then we should now identify the specific number of people?" Is this smoke all right? ”

Lao Hei nodded and said: "That's naturally not, this smoke can only judge how many people there are, the enemy army is very likely to have a small number of men, but it pretends to be tens of thousands of people and horses, you and I go back to report like this, isn't it the enemy's trick?" ”

Wang Liang knew that Lao Hei must have a way to find out the number of enemy troops, so he humbly asked: "Please ask Lao Hei for advice." ”

Lao Hei nodded with satisfaction before elaborating: "This is the most dangerous action of our trip, we need to move separately, walk around the barracks from both sides, carefully observe the situation of each tent, and the movement of the soldiers, and then we can determine how many people there are in this barracks, and deduce their general marching direction." ”

Seeing that Wang Liang was thoughtful, Lao Hei continued to explain: "Because you are acting for the first time, we will act together, and I will teach you how to observe, but only this time, next time we need to act separately." ”

Wang Liang also knew that it was because of himself that he had caused the shortage of manpower, and he was also a little embarrassed: "Okay, just do it." ”

The two hid in the dense forest for another half a day, during which the enemy patrol passed by many times, but they were easily dodged by the two, seeing that the night was gradually rising, and there were more torches in the barracks, Lao Hei took Wang Liang to approach the barracks.

"At this time, it is the time of day and night, when people are most relaxed and upright, and the number of people is concentrated outside the tent, which is conducive to us to find out the actual number of people."

Lao Hei carefully explained to Wang Liang how to distinguish, although he had said it several times before, but after all, talking on paper was not as good as practice, Wang Liang followed Lao Hei and walked all over the barracks.

Although Lao Hei took Wang Liang, who did this for the first time, he was still not discovered by anyone, and no one in the entire military camp found Lao Hei and Wang Liang, Lao Hei's move shocked Wang Liang, and half an hour later, the two returned to their original places.

Lao Hei looked at Wang Liang, who was a little shocked, and asked playfully: "We have observed a circle, do you know how many tents there are in the military camp here?" ”

Wang Liang said without hesitation: "There are sixty-seven tents in total, and there are sixty places where pots are buried and cooked. ”

Although Wang Liang was a scout for the first time, Wang Liang had been practicing the Burning Flame Sutra for a year, and at first he was only clear with his eyes and clear mind when he was running the exercises.

Over time, Wang Liang's eyesight and memory have long been different from ordinary people, so he can also record how many tents there are.

Lao Hei wanted to tease Wang Liang, but he didn't expect Wang Liang to be able to record how many tents there were, and how many places to bury pots and cook meals, and his evaluation of Wang Liang in his heart went to a higher level.

"It is indeed sixty-seven tents, and the places where the pots are buried and the rice are also similar, so it can be judged that there are about 600 soldiers and horses here. But the first time you can remember it so clearly, it's a gift. Lao Hei praised Wang Liang, and then continued to talk about other information.

"One hundred war horses, three generals."

Wang Liang listened again, took out the paper again and again, and wrote down all the information about the military camp here.

After talking for an hour, Lao Hei finished speaking, and Wang Liang also wrote them down one by one.

"Alright, I've told you all the precautions you need to be a scout, and we'll rush to the next place where we might be stationed in the barracks at night, just in case anyone finds out."

In the blink of an eye, it was already half a month later, and the two of them walked to the last place, since the two of them visited the first military camp, they began to rush to the next place non-stop, because there were many places that were not sure if there was a military camp stationed, and the two of them could only go to one side.

After days of hurrying and mental tension, even Wang Liang felt extremely tired, but Lao Hei did not change much, except that his clothes were a little shabby and his beard was a little long.

"This is the last place we've been exploring." Old Black pointed to the military camp in the distance.

Wang Liang finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and hurriedly said, "Then why don't we go and explore it now?" ”

Lao Hei smiled and shook his head: "No, let's rest for one night today, and then explore tomorrow night, and when we find out this military camp, we need to rush back to the army non-stop and pass the information back, and we can't rest during the period." ”

At this time, Wang Liang just wanted to end the trip as soon as possible, but since he didn't understand anything, he could only listen to Lao Hei and rest in the same place for a night.

The next night, after Wang Liang, who had rested for nearly a day, said goodbye to Lao Hei, he went to explore the military camp separately and studied with Lao Hei for half a month, Wang Liang was already a qualified scout.

Wang Liang was observing the military camp in the dark, and kept writing down information in his heart, when suddenly there was a commotion in the distance, followed by the shouts of soldiers, and almost all the soldiers got out of their tents and ran to the west.

"Not good! Something happened to Lao Hei's side. Although Wang Liang didn't know why the always steady old black was suddenly discovered, but he would only die if he followed him now, watching the tents in the barracks keep coming out of the tents, Wang Liang hesitated again and again, gritted his teeth, and quickly rushed to the west while the chaos was in chaos.

Wang Liang was galloping in the dense forest, and before he could get close to the west, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and it appeared in front of Wang Liang's eyes in a blink of an eye.

When the man on the horse saw Wang Liang who suddenly appeared, he was startled at first, and then immediately turned his horse's head and was about to flee, but he was pierced in the chest by a silver needle and fell to the ground.

Seeing that the man had fallen to the ground and died, Wang Liang walked up quickly, groped around on his body for a while, but did not find anything, and when he was curious, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves, and Wang Liang hurriedly hid in the dark for a while.

The sound of horses' hooves approached, and there were dozens of people coming, and the first one found the body lying on the ground, and exclaimed: "Go back and tell the marshal, there is still a spy in my military camp." ”

One of them turned around and returned the same way, and the leader did not stop for long, but drove the horse away with a few people.

Wang Liang saw everything in the dark, knowing that he had been discovered, if he still insisted on saving Lao Hei, I am afraid that he would die without a place to be buried, looking at the horse left in place, he made a decision in his heart, walked out of the shadows, got up and got on the horse, and left the barracks.

Because Wang Liang knew that the generals in the army would inevitably send men and horses to chase after him after learning of his existence, he hurried back to the army.

Taking advantage of the cover of the night, Wang Liang ran until dawn in one breath, until he was a little thirsty, he had to stop, drink saliva and rest for a while.

After walking like this for three days, Wang Liang barely stopped for a moment before he reached the junction of the two armies, although there was no one chasing him these days, but Wang Liang knew that he could not escape so easily, and the greatest danger was likely to be in the last place.

Wang Liang picked up the map given by Lao Hei before, observed it for a long time, and finally decided to return from a small road, although the distance is far, but it is safe, even if someone is ambushed here, Wang Liang can use the terrain of this place to escape.

Half a day later, Wang Liang had already walked half the way, and when he was happy to return to the army safely, he suddenly encountered a group of people blocking the road, although there were only dozens of people, but a few people saw Wang Liang without saying a word and sent a signal directly, Wang Liang didn't expect these people to be so decisive, and scolded secretly, but he was clamped between his legs, holding a dragon, and rushed towards several people.

These more than ten people were not afraid at all, shouting and rushing towards Wang Liang, showing a situation of encirclement, surrounding Wang Liang, Wang Liang knew that once he was surrounded, it would be difficult to escape, so Wang Liang saw the person in red robe who had just given the signal, and accelerated to rush away.

The man saw that Wang Liang immediately approached him, danced the spear, and stabbed it by Wang Liang with a sword, the two of them had not fought a few moves, and the rest had already surrounded Wang Liang, and for a time dozens of stabs were stabbed together, Wang Liang couldn't dodge, and was drawn out of the wound behind him, Wang Liang suffered pain, and the strength in his hand was weakened by a point, the man took the opportunity to pull away the dragon, and was about to stab Wang Liang, but was possessed by Wang Liang and dodged, and the dragon was picked up in his hand, and a scar was drawn on the chest of the red-robed man, making him take a few steps back.

Ignoring the formula behind him, Wang Liang swung his sword forward again, cutting off one of the arms of the red robe, but Wang Liang himself was stabbed in the shoulder with a spear. The red-robed man had a broken arm, screamed in pain, and fell off his horse without paying attention for a while. Wang Liangda finally tore open a hole, shouted, and rushed out of the encirclement, and the rest of the people saw that Wang Liang was so brave, and he was not afraid of pain, and his heart was timid, and he hesitated for a while.

Not long after Wang Liang escaped from the encirclement, two teams of more than 20 people arrived, saw the red-robed man in pain on the ground, scolded loudly, and chased after him again.