Song Dynasty

Chapter 253

The leader of the scouts: "Your Highness, the little ones don't know. The Yueyun monster's camp was originally set up in an open space, and many bonfires were lit, which illuminated all sides white. The little ones didn't dare to approach, so they hid in the distance to watch. However, after monitoring in the middle of the night, the little ones always felt that something was wrong, and the other end was too quiet. After a long time, those fires went out one by one, and the little ones boldly approached and found the 100 fires. Many monsters don't know where to escape."

"What, you don't even know, what do you eat?" Zhong Ziang was furious.

All the generals breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and said one after another: "His Royal Highness, since Yue Yaoren has disappeared, there is no need to fight tomorrow!"

"That's right, that's right, Yue Yun and his subordinate Baibeiwei have gone somewhere to hide, we must prevent them from playing tricks, and it's better to go to see the King of Chu earlier." Everyone agreed.

Zhong Ziang: "It seems that you are all cowardly wastes who don't want to fight." Just now everyone mentioned Yang Yao's great respect, which made him angry and jealous, and he had nowhere to vent his anger.He grabbed the scout leader's chest and shouted: "Since you don't know where the enemy is now, why don't you go and search, what are you doing when you come back? I really think my military law is a vegetarian?"

There was a fierce light flashing in the eyes: "Come here, kill this fellow!"

Seeing that his head was about to be beheaded, the scout leader hurriedly shouted: "Your Highness, Your Highness, please spare me! It's not because of a villain's dereliction of duty, but because there is another urgent military situation that needs to be reported to you, that's why I came to report in a hurry."

Zhong Ziang: "What urgent military situation do you have?"

The leader of the scouts: "Although Yue Yun is missing, the little ones have discovered another group of officers and soldiers."

"Another group of officers and soldiers, what's going on?"

The leader of the scouts: "It seems to be a heavy team. There are about a hundred people and ten carts loaded with a lot of good things. Now, the officers and soldiers of that team are camping at a place 23 miles away from our army. Look They look like they are going to transport grain, fodder and supplies to Dingzhou."

Zhong Ziang lifted his spirits: "100 people, twelve large carts, what are they carrying?"

"It's all cloth, ten carts full of cloth, so many good things. The little one knew that the army was short of winter clothes, so he didn't dare to delay, so he hurried back to report."

"Cloth, ten carts...silk..." Everyone, including Zhong Ziang, took a breath and realized what these ten carts of cloth meant to the "Rebel Army" at this moment.

Since the uprising of the rebel army in February this year, they and Li Chengjun have repeatedly seen-saw in the Dongting Lake area, and both sides have used scorched-earth tactics in unison.Every time I go to a place, I will first rob and take away everything that can be taken away. If I can't take it away, I will burn it with a fire or hack it to death with a knife. Anyway, I must not leave it to the enemy.

This is already a pure tactic of killing one thousand enemies and harming oneself by eight hundred. It depends on who can persist until the end.

In this way, you kill it, I burn it, and slaughter the counties south of Dongting Lake into a wild world.

At the beginning, the "rebel army" lived a nourishing life by robbing, and they also took a large number of young men, but gradually, as the supplies could not be replenished, life became more and more difficult.They didn't think too much about it when they were soldiers. Anyway, they just took one step at a time.The first half of the year was fine, but when autumn came, the weather suddenly turned cold.Most of the poor believers were wearing summer clothes, but this set of clothes was already in tatters after half a year of war.Maybe another month or two will pass, before the officers and soldiers come to fight, everyone will freeze to death.

The wet and cold winter in the water town of Zeguo in the south is more terrifying than the cold weather in the north.

Suddenly there are so many top ten clothes in front of him, it would be a lie to say that he is not tempted.

Besides, didn't everyone come out this time to rob?I opened this mountain, and I planted this tree. I want to pass here and leave money to buy roads.

Zhong Ziang's eyes were full of light: "It's true, did you see clearly?"

The chief waiter: "His Royal Highness, the villain has the courage to go to the reeds twenty steps away from the officers and soldiers to see for real. Pull off the cloth from the car and wrap it around your body to keep out the cold."

"Hahaha, well, well, very well, the money is in front of you, don't grab it, I don't understand." Zhong Ziang laughed happily: "I don't care about Yue Yun. At dawn tomorrow, I will wait for the whole army to dispatch. Grab the ten carts of linen."

A general worried and said: "Your Highness, could this be a bait set by the officers and soldiers to lure me into a trap. Didn't Yue Yun's department suddenly disappear, and could they just lie in ambush?"

"Yes, it is necessary to guard against it." The officers were all nodding.

Zhong Ziang was furious: "It's all useless things, so what if Yue Yun is in ambush, maybe his 100 people can still surround our more than 1000 soldiers. I'm going to find Yue Yun's bad luck, if he doesn't come Fortunately, it happened to be wiped out at the same time."

Everyone was still full of worry, and just about to persuade them, the chief servant suddenly interrupted: "His Royal Highness, all generals, in my humble opinion, these ten carts of linen cloth may not be a trap set by Yue Yun."

Zhong Ziang: "How to say?"

The scout leader said carefully: "His Royal Highness, generals, you also know the skills of villains. They were born on this water since they were young, and they ate fish and shrimps all day long. They are very good at water, not just bragging. Three days and three nights is nothing to worry about."

Zhong Ziang looked at his round body covered with white flesh, and nodded: "Your water skills are good, otherwise you wouldn't be a scout, let's go on."

The leader of the scouts: "The prince and the generals know that the villain is always careful in doing things. When he saw so many carts of linen, he was also worried that it was a trap set by the officers and soldiers. He was not in a hurry to come back and report, so he hid aside and eavesdropped. In the middle of the night, I found out the origin of this team. It turned out that they were also a team of the Sizhou Army. However, they were not regular troops, but the township army. They did not come from Anlu, but Jiankang."

"Jiankang, why did you come from Jiankang?" Someone asked curiously.

The leader of the scouts replied: "It turned out that this pair of men and horses were sent by Wang Shen to Jiankang to give gifts to Du Chong a few months ago, and they brought ten carts of cloth with them when they came back. I guess they came here when they heard that Wang Shen was in Hunan. Meet him. And..." He said excitedly: "Also, there are two incredible big men in this team."

"What big man?"

The leader of the scouts: "One is Du Shu, the prefect of Ezhou, the judge of the Sizhou Army, and the other is Wu Tuo, the former deputy commander of the Shengjie Army and the current commander of the Shui Army."

"Ah!" Everyone was dumbfounded, a magistrate, and a commanding officer.Not to mention the ruler, the magistrate is a member of the fourth rank!

Zhong Ziang was overjoyed and giggled: "Very good, indeed we caught a big fish. It will be dawn in an hour, so I ordered everyone to get up and take a boat to kill the team. It was the prefect of the dog who caught me. Don’t worry about any traps. Even if Sizhou thieves want to set up a mansion, they can’t use the dignified prefect and the governor as bait. I have made up my mind. amnesty!"

"Yes, I would like to obey His Royal Highness' orders!" Everyone still couldn't stand the temptation of the ten carts of cloth, and they clapped their hands in agreement at the same time.

(End of this chapter)