Chapter 35: Burning Grain and Grass

As soon as the words fell, a hearty voice sounded: "Gang Master Xue, I'm back!"

Everyone stood up together, their faces full of surprise, this was Xiao Yuzhang's voice.

Then, Xiao Yuzhang's tall figure appeared at the door of the Juyi Hall, his face full of joy.

Xue Chong greeted him, hugged him, patted him on the shoulder twice, and turned his head with a smile and looked at Chen Mengnan: "I know that Brother Xiao is a believer." ”

Chen Mengnan's expression immediately became very ugly, and he suddenly knelt down with an ordinary voice: "Helper, Chen Mengnan has insulted your majesty, please cut off my pig's head!"

Xue Chong hurriedly let go of Xiao Yuzhang and pulled Chen Mengnan up: "What did Leader Chen say, although your words were a little fierce, but you were also thinking about the safety of Baiyun City, I don't blame you!"

Chen Mengnan had tears in his eyes and wanted to get out, and grabbed Xue Chong's hand tightly: "Helper, you are strong in martial arts, the big guys are admired, and there is nothing to say about the war, the last battle with the pioneer battalion, if the command is determined, I really admire it, but it's just ......"

Xue Chong smiled and said, "It's just that I'm too young to look like a big gang leader, so I look down on me a little?"

Suddenly, the leaders in the righteous hall laughed together, and the little misunderstanding just now disappeared.

"The helper is ambitious, not old. ”

"Heroes have been teenagers since ancient times!"

"Helper, I'm really convinced of you now!"

Several of the leaders spoke their minds.

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The Hall of Justice.

Xue Chong summoned all the leaders to discuss the matter together, and first spoke: "In today's situation, our gang will win a big victory!" Xu Ming's most fatal mistake was to fall into our aggressive tactics and attack rashly, which led to today's defeat. I estimate that he suffered heavy losses in this battle, and it will be difficult for him to form an effective offensive in the short term. Our top priority in Baiyun City now is not to defend the city, relying on the strong city, condescending, Xu Ming wants to attack, this battle can't be fought, we can say that we can sit back and relax. However, the enemy army is large, and once Xu Ming combines Jiao Xun's troops and attacks them frantically, it will be difficult to hold the two cottages of Baiyun City and Snow Mountain's old nest. For today's plan, Xu Ming's biggest loophole is the division of troops. So what we need to do now is to seize the opportunity to win before he joins forces, and you may as well express your opinions. ”

As soon as these words came out, the leaders of Baiyun City immediately discussed.

After a long time, Xue Chong said: "Pang Xiu, you are the champion of Shengjing's scientific expedition that year, I want to hear your opinion." ”

Pang Xiu bowed his head, stood up, and saluted Xue Chong: "Thank you for helping the master to appreciate your face! In my opinion, the helper has analyzed thoroughly, Xu Ming is confident that he can fight well, and his current strength is much better than my Baiyun City, so he should not think of attacking with a combined army. So, now is the perfect time to deal with him. We might as well quietly send out the elite soldiers in the city, rush to the old nest of the snow mountain, and join Gu Yuelou inside, defeat Jiao Xun first, and then turn back to surround Xu Ming. ”

Wugun shook his head: "I don't agree with Pang Xiu's words." Jiao Xun's army has 15,000 people, and the strength of the Snow Mountain Lair is only 10,000. Even if I can draw out 3,000 troops in Baiyun City, it is not as good as Jiao Xun in terms of quantity, and Jiao Xun's army is familiar with the method of group warfare, and they are all camped according to the art of war, there are no loopholes, once we are entangled, if Xu Ming desperately attacks the city, Baiyun City will be easily broken, not to mention, it will also fall into the enemy's attack on both sides. ”

Xue Chong nodded: "What you both said makes sense. The key disagreement is whether he can deceive Xu Ming and defeat Jiao Xun by surprise. General Xiao Yuzhang, I want to see what you think. ”

Xiao Yuzhang said: "Back to the gang leader, my opinion is that the deep ditch and high fortress, avoid the enemy without fighting, use the strong city to consume Xu Ming's strength, and when the time comes, find the right time to defeat the enemy army in one fell swoop." ”

Xue Chong Daqi: "General Xiao, if I don't remove the threat of Baiyun City as soon as possible, once the imperial court increases its troops, we will be the turtle in the urn, and the situation will be even more difficult?"

"Helper, I will see you in advance. Since Xu Ming is my father Xiao Jun's favorite general, this time Yuan Hong is in charge of the power of the court, he will not be happy that my father has any credit, and he will definitely not increase his troops in a short time. ”

As soon as these words came out, Xue Chong let out a sigh of relief: "This is the best, now it seems that the best way for our army to be defeated is to exhaust the enemy, so that he can't attack and attack, and he can't go, and when his army is exhausted, we will attack him again, and Xu Ming will be captured by me." Xiao Yuzhang listens to orders!"

"The last general!"

"You are familiar with the situation in Xu Ming's army, tonight, you will lead five hundred men and horses, each with fire, oil, dry firewood and other things in their hands, steal into Xu Ming's back camp where he is hoarding grain and grass, and after burning it, return to the city immediately!"

"Order!"

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It was dark clouds all over the night, and he couldn't see his five fingers, and Xu Ming wandered alone in the camp. After the powerful attack failed, the morale of the army was greatly damaged. But after all, he was a man accustomed to fighting, and he knew the basic method of marching and arranging, and he had already sent the soldiers of the night watch to patrol the night, and ordered all the soldiers not to disarm while sleeping, and to get up immediately to meet the enemy when there was any trouble.

He had already made up his mind that after the soldiers had rested for the night, he would make food tomorrow and attack the city with all his might.

Although he is accustomed to fighting, he really has no other way to fight such a fortified city except to attack desperately.

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In the middle of the night, the city gate was quietly opened, and Xue Chong carried a thick-backed machete in his hand, leading his three thousand men and horses, picking bells and wrapping cloth on their feet, and quietly went out of the city.

In Baiyun City, he only ordered Wugun to lead 1,500 people to defend the city with the three leaders Hua Ming, Wu Che, and Shi Hao, and Xiao Yuzhang had already taken 500 people first.

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In the middle of the night, an officer and soldier got up to relieve his hands, came to the outside of the tent, opened his pants and puffed, but unexpectedly heard a click behind him, as if someone had stepped on a dead branch.

"Who?"

Before he could come to his senses, his head was already flying, and the blood stained the snow.

It was this cry that woke up the soldiers who were on the night vigil among the officers and soldiers and roared loudly: "Robbery! Someone robbed the village!"

Immediately after, the siren sounded and the lights came on.

"Kill me!"

Xue Chong gently hissed the belly of the wind and snow, the war horse galloped, and in the midst of the shouting, he rushed towards Xu Ming's camp, making it clear that it was a robbery.

Xu Ming in the village was prepared early and shouted the order: "Everyone is in place, and those who violate the order will be killed!"

In the bright lights, he rushed out first, intercepted Xue Chong, and the two began to fight, and there were forty or fifty rounds of fighting in the firelight.

In the dark night, the officers and soldiers did not know how many men and horses robbed the village, but they just blindly guarded the fence and desperately released arrows.

Moreover, what made the officers and soldiers very fatal was that the gangs of Baiyun City were suddenly attacked, and some were still in a dream, and their heads fell off inexplicably, but fortunately, Xu Ming morning was prepared, and the soldiers who woke up blocked the offensive of Baiyun City with the help of the fence.

Dangdangdang!

The dense sound of impact came, Xu Ming hated Xue Chong to death, and the knife technique unfolded, like a windmill, vowing to kill him under the horse.

But it's not easy to say, since the last battle with Xiao Yuzhang, Xue Chong's combat power has suddenly increased by a level compared to before, and he is more calm and calm when he makes moves.

Since Xue Chong cultivated the fourth Yin and Yang realm of the physical body, he has been experiencing the skills of transportation all day long, how to be just right, and how to enter the room with no thickness.

Just now, Xu Ming's thunderbolt was like a few knives, Xue Chong resisted very artistically, the thick back knife was oblique, and the strong internal force was everywhere, resolving Xu Ming's offensive.

This time, the thick-backed machete in Xue Chong's hand was not afraid of other people's long weapons. It was carefully built for him by the craftsmen of the Snow Mountain School overnight, weighing forty-nine pounds, and cast in iron.

These forty or fifty powerful battles made Xu Ming put away his contempt for Xue Chong, no wonder, even Xiao Yuzhang, an extremely arrogant figure, was willing to surrender to him.

Not to mention anything else, this martial art is indeed rare.

Bang!

Phew!

There was a loud bang, the fire rose to the sky, and the fire in Xu Ming's camp suddenly became raging, and it burned bigger and bigger, and the crackling sound was mixed with the neighing of war horses.

"It's not good! I fell for Xue Chong's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain!"

Xu Ming couldn't care about the war anymore, and led his soldiers straight to the back camp.

The rear camp is a place to store grain, and once it is lost, the army will suddenly fall into difficulty.

Such a cunning thief, but he always thought that Xue Chong wanted to take advantage of his unstable military spirit and wanted to rob the village for the first time, but it turned out that his real purpose was to burn his own grain and grass.

Grain and grass are heavy, and he has always been stationed with heavy troops, so there would have been no danger. But what he didn't expect was that Xiao Yuzhang was born as an officer and soldier, and he knew the key point of his defense, so he led five hundred men and horses to sneak in unconsciously, until he was discovered by a soldier who got up to pee, and then he suddenly started to act.

Bags of grain and grass were heavily loaded, and Xiao Yuzhang sent someone to pour fire oil first, and then light sulfur torches, and suddenly they burned and were out of control.

Xiao Yuzhang took advantage of the opportunity of Xue Chong to lead the army to drag Xu Ming in front, and tried his best to let his subordinates help the people pour fire oil all over the grain and grass warehouse.

There was no gun in the city to see Xue Chong's profit, and he opened the city to kill and join Xue Chong's army.

In the scuffle until dawn, Xue Chong led Xiao Yuzhang and others to collect the army and return to the city, counted the number of people, killed and wounded more than 800 people, captured thousands of war horses, and destroyed Xu Ming's camp.

Xu Ming collected the defeated soldiers, cleaned up the battlefield, the grain and grass were destroyed, the war horses suffered countless losses, nearly 2,000 dead and wounded, and the total number of troops was left, and many were wounded. He no longer dared to camp near the moat, retreated ten miles, and sent a herald to Jiao Xun's army in the Baiyun Valley, asking him to bring a large army to the meeting, vowing to destroy Baiyun City first, and then deal with Gu Yuelou in the old nest of the snow mountain.