Volume 3 The Beginning of Sorrow Chapter 108 Thousands of miles to attack the enemy's grain camp
"Master Mei, how could it be you!" When Mei Siyuan drove to the city gate, Xu Ding'an's eyes widened, unable to believe what he was seeing. He never thought that the first person to bring in troops to help would be a civilian official in charge of salt administration!
"General Xu, let's go into the city and talk. "The battlefield under the city is a mess, and it is definitely not a place to talk," Mei Siyuan said with a smile. He knew that he had repelled the Shatuo army at the right time, but he used a suspicious tactic, and there was really a lot of luck in the process. It won't be long before the scouts of the Shatuo army will be able to find out the truth here, and Chihedan will definitely lead his troops to attack the city again. Xu Ding'an came to his senses, rode in front, and led Mei Siyuan inside.
In the Chinese military tent, the generals drank and ate meat for the rest of their lives, and it was rare to laugh heartily. Except for the minor or serious injuries on each person's body, it didn't look like they were trapped in a dangerous city.
At this time, everyone already knew that Mei Siyuan's cavalry was only more than 3,500. Compared with the 200,000 troops on the opposite side, these more than 3,500 people are really a drop in the bucket. However, they were also very happy. The number of people rushing to the aid is naturally important, and to say that they are not disappointed with only 3,500 people who have come to the aid must be false. However, there are those who are willing to fight alongside them, so that they feel that they have not been forgotten, and that the more than 20,000 people at the Anham outpost are not a pitiful outcast. What Mei Siyuan brings is hope and respect, which is what they lack most at the moment.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Siyuan has something to say. During the meal, Mei Siyuan slowly stood up from the wooden bench, raised a bowl of wine with both hands and said: "The Anxian outpost is in danger to receive orders, defend the city alone, and resist several times the enemy, which is really a model for today's Dahua army! Siyuan admires it in his heart! Take this thin wine to toast everyone and show respect!" After speaking, he raised the bowl to everyone and gestured, and then took a sip and dried it.
The dozen or so generals in the tent were all tough men, listening to Mei Siyuan's words, their hearts were excited, and they immediately left their seats and stood up, raising their bowls and doing it all.
Mei Siyuan came here, first of all, not to join forces with the outpost soldiers to resist the enemy, but to stabilize the morale of the army. I only heard him say again: "Ladies and gentlemen, it has rained heavily in the southeast of Anxian for several days, and the traffic is blocked, and it is difficult for cars and horses to travel. The post troops sent by the post post were blocked, and they arrived at the garrison barracks and the county government office on the 20th. Mei Siyuan could tell the news of Sha Tuo's invasion a day later.
At this time, everyone in the tent, including Xu Ding'an, was taken aback, and they all hated and scolded: "Oh, thief, that's the case!" They all thought, "It turns out that the military information has not been transmitted, and it is definitely not that the rest of the outposts and garrison troops have not come to rescue us! Hey, they are to blame." ”
Mei Siyuan continued: "I discussed with General Guo Zimu and decided to lead the cavalry over to help first. General Guo is preparing for the march and baggage, and he will definitely be able to arrive in the next few days!"
At this time, the generals could no longer hold back their joy, and they jumped for joy, and the laughter came out of the camp far, far away.
"There is still a team of people who are in camp with Siyuan, led by my son-in-law Mei Yuanchen, who has led the light cavalry to Xiaoxiankou in the territory of the Turkic country. This little immortal mouth is the storage place for the rations of the Shatuo army's march this time, once their rations are burned, they will definitely retreat without a fight!" Mei Siyuan said in a solemn voice to everyone.
"Bang!" Xu Dingan slammed his fist on the case, and shouted: "This plan is great!"
Seeing this scene, Mei Siyuan suddenly closed it in his heart, and thought heavily: "Chen'er, you must do this! The life and death of more than 10,000 people depends on the success or failure of your trip!"
The sky is beautiful, these days the wind is peaceful, although the day is six hours, but the people and horses have not been overworked. The riders were light, and the daily journey had reached more than 700 miles, and the original five-day trip arrived a day and a half in advance.
Shatuo country is vast and sparsely populated, and Xiaoxiankou is located in the remote area, Mei Yuanchen's department has arrived at Katuta before the time, until two o'clock in the morning, follow the light to find here.
"General Mei, how is it now?" Gao Facai approached Mei Yuanchen and asked softly. At this time, the people had been on the road from the last hour to this time, and they had been traveling for more than seven hours, without resting or eating, and the men and horses were all hungry.
Mei Yuanchen looked at the group of soldiers sitting or lying on the ground behind him, and he couldn't bear it in his heart, so he had to say: "Rest on the spot first, I and all the Taoist leaders sneak into the enemy camp at night, and you follow behind." With fire as a trumpet, when a fire breaks out in the enemy camp, you rush in and pour oil on the fire when you see it. When the fire starts, hurry away!"
"General, aren't you going to replenish the rations?" Wu Shengnan asked.
"The rations we have left can last for more than two days, so let's leave it alone, burn the enemy's grain and grass and walk quickly!" Mei Yuanchen replied with a frown. The crowd was a little unhappy, but they said nothing.
Mei Yuanchen walked in front of all the senior brothers and nephews and said, "Senior brothers and nephews, we are sixteen of us and will sneak into the enemy camp in a while. We have explored here and in the future, but we don't know what is really in it, and it is really a very dangerous thing to sneak in. ”
"Senior brother, what do you need us to do?" Zhan Tong said bluntly.
"Okay, then I'll assign the division of labor. Senior Brother Zhan Tong, Senior Brother Zhan Jue, Senior Brother Zhan Xu, the three of you are casting poison gas in the air to try to cause chaos in the enemy camp. Zhi Cang and the other twelve teachers and nephews took advantage of the chaos to investigate the location of the rations, and once they found it, they immediately poured oil on fire and burned the grain. A thousand horsemen here, when they see the fire, they will rush in and meet us. Mei Yuanchen said in a clear voice, "As for me, I'll try to cut off their water source!"
"Wonderful!" Zhi Cang couldn't help but exclaim.
"Shhhh
"Senior brother and nephew, can you all understand?" Mei Yuanchen asked again.
All the Taoist priests agreed, and Zhan Tong continued: "The poisonous gas we cast is colorless and slightly spicy, once inhaled, the trachea is hot and unbearable for a while, and it is difficult to act. Our antidote is very easy to obtain, just wet the cloth with urine and cover your nose. When Mei Yuanchen heard this, he hurriedly said to the rest of the cavalry, lest they would be poisoned later.
For a while, everyone tore their clothes and wrapped their cloths, untied and urinated. At this time, I have been riding for a long time, except for the urine that has just been discharged, the rest of the people are holding half of their stomachs of urine, and they are pumping up. The urine vapor is scattered, and the smell is quite unpleasant.
Sixteen people covered their noses with diapers and sneaked towards the large camp of the Shatuo army, and finally they were less than a hundred feet away from the main camp.
"Wang, Wang!"
Everyone secretly shouted "not good", but they didn't expect that the enemy camp would be guarded by watchdogs. Mei Yuanchen ordered everyone to retreat dozens of feet, and said softly: "I'll go and try to get rid of the dogs and sentries first." Wait for an opportunity to come forward again. They all knew that Mei Yuanchen's light skills were excellent, and it was most suitable to do such things, so they naturally agreed to them one by one.
"Huh~" Mei Yuanchen gathered the internal strength of his whole body, and used the longitudinal stunt 'Qi Wu Dengchen' in the immortal martial arts, and a few leaps disappeared in front of everyone.
"Wow!Wow!Wow!" the dog barked again. A group of sentries in the camp listened to the barking of the dogs, went out of the camp to check, circled around the left and right a few times, found nothing, muttered a few words and went back.
However, the sentry had only taken a dozen breaths back to the camp, and Mei Yuanchen leaned closer again, and several dogs barked again. It was already three o'clock, when the people were at their most sleepy, and about two dozen sentries came out of the camp with a curse, and rummaged around the camp a few times, but found nothing. When he returned to the camp, he deliberately walked up to a few dogs and kicked them hard a few times. A few dogs were tied up, unable to dodge, and took those kicks hard, making a 'whine' sound. The leader of the sentries turned back to where the dogs were, shouted a few curses at the dogs, and hurled back to the camp.
"Wang!" the sentinels lay down under the covers, but they heard the dogs barking outside the account. At this time, he was already furious, and scolded a few words outside the station, covering his head and ignoring it.
Mei Yuanchen waited outside for a while, the dog barked without stopping, but he never saw the sentry patrol out of the camp, so he jumped to the camp with all his strength. The camp is 10,000 acres wide, and through more than two or three hundred tents, you can see a huge bamboo house built temporarily. Mei Yuanchen broke the lock and sneaked in quietly.
Through the extremely faint light, I could barely see that there were tens of thousands of wooden boxes stacked inside. Mei Yuanchen opened a wooden box, reached out to look inside, and felt a piece of hard things, took it out and looked at it carefully, but knew that it was the staple food of the Shatuo army: noodles, and couldn't help but be overjoyed!
Mei Yuanchen hurriedly came out of the bamboo house and looked for a water source. Mei Yuanchen knew that the water source would not be far from the place where the fire would be fired, so he looked around the bamboo house. Sure enough, many pools of water were found one after another, and wooden barrels were placed next to them. Seeing this, Mei Yuanchen knew that the water source could never be destroyed, so he had to destroy the wooden barrel used to get water. It was to go all the way, charging power in the hand and quickly palming out, breaking the barrel. About a quarter of an hour later, the barrel was destroyed, and Mei Yuanchen turned around to look for the senior brothers and nephews, but he couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw Zhicang and others coming.
"Huh~~~" The bamboo house and the nearby battalion commander lit a fire. The fire spreads rapidly through tung oil and the wind.
"Look, there's a fire!" a horseman shouted three miles away from Mei Yuanchen's resting place. Dong Dawei spat out a mouthful of saliva, jumped on the horse, and shouted, "Kill it!"
A thousand horsemen, carrying a thousand bags of tung oil, rushed to kill the place where the fire was.