"General, I am willing to lead the troops into battle."
Everyone looked around and saw Song Xin standing up.
"Song Xin is willing to be punished if he cannot defeat the enemy."
When the generals saw that Song Xin was just an unknown young man, many of them had suspicious looks in their eyes. Many people whispered to each other and inquired about Song Xin's origins. When they heard about Song Xin's previous achievements in Baiya Mountain and Kaihua County, some people had a look of understanding, some were disapproving, and some nodded secretly.
When Niu Gai heard that Song Xin was actually asking for a fight, he waved his hand and said, "Song Xin, I know you are eager to achieve great results. It's just that your men are all reduced soldiers and have not been fully trained. If you continue like this, you will inevitably lose your troops, so why don't you just follow me." "
Seeing that the other party had misunderstood, Song Xin wanted to speak again, but Yu Jin suddenly turned around and smiled and said, "Hmm, General Niu, maybe this little general has something he can do, why don't you listen?"
As soon as this statement came out, Niu Gai, Zhang Liao, Zhang He and other generals were all shocked. Why did Yu Jin suddenly start to support Song Xin?
Zhang He nodded and said, "Let's listen to his plan."
Niu Gai waved his hand, "Although Song Xin has made many military exploits, attacking Shazhou this time is no small matter."
Yu Jin looked disapproving when he heard this, "Niugai, are you worried that Song Xin will take away your credit?"
Song Xin frowned, there was a strong hint of provocation in his words. He seemed to understand why Yu Jin suddenly started to support him. It turned out to be to sow discord between him and the generals of Jizhou and Bingzhou.
Yu Jin did not sit down, but looked at Song Xin and said, "Okay, let me hear what you have in mind, general."
"It's very simple, attack with water."
Song Xin didn't care about Yu Jin's attitude and said calmly.
Niu Gai said loudly: "Haha, Song Xin, water attack is not advisable. The water level of the river is too low now, and the enemy camp is still built on the stone platform."
Yu Jin stared at Niu Gai and smiled slyly, "I think this method is good. Why don't you let him try it? Anyway, they are just some pawns." In the second part of the sentence, he wanted to say that if you reduce the pawns, it will be a loss, but still The scruples remained unspoken.
"Song Xin, are you really willing to lead troops into battle?" Yu Jin ignored Niu Gai and others and turned to Song Xin again and asked.
Song Xin nodded, "Exactly."
"What if we lose?"
"Song Xin is willing to deal with him in accordance with military law."
"What a spirit!" Yu Jin laughed loudly, looked at Zhang Liao and said, "Wen Yuan, since he is so heroic, why not let him give it a try. Otherwise, Chen Lan and Mei Cheng on the mountain will probably laugh at our army's retreat. As timid as a rat."
Yu Jin glanced at Song Xin contemptuously, "How can I be a general if I don't know the geography of mountains and rivers?"
Then he changed the topic, "But it is up to Wen Yuan to decide how to arrange it. The prime minister has appointed me as the governor of the army. It is of great importance. I will not waste my time here with a group of cowardly and unintelligent people, so as not to miss the important event. Farewell!"
As soon as this statement came out, a group of generals in Jizhou and Bingzhou looked angry.
Yu Jin took one last look at Niu Gai and saw that his face was not kind. Then he sneered proudly and led everyone in Taishan out of the tent.
An hour later, Yu Jin returned to his camp. Yu Gui immediately greeted him and asked, "Father, how was the discussion today?"
Yu Jin smiled and said, "Zhang Wenyuan ordered Song Xin to go out and attack the Shazhou camp."
"What!?" Yu Gui was shocked, "Didn't father want to stop him from going to war?"
"If he doesn't go to war, the credit will probably fall on Niu Gai and others." Yu Jin couldn't help but snorted when he thought of Niu Gai, "This guy is always at odds with me, and every time we meet, we have to talk to each other. I'm sure I won’t let them take away this credit.”
Then he changed the topic, looked at Yu Gui and said with a smile: "Song Xin will definitely lose if he goes to war, so I encouraged him to go to war."
Yu Gui asked blankly: "Father, what do you mean by this?"
"I once asked him what he could do, and he actually said to attack with water." At this point, Yu Jin showed a contemptuous smile, "I thought he had some clever plan, but it was just a child's opinion. I Having been in battle for a long time and well versed in the art of war, how could he not know how to attack with water?
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"Father, why did you let him go?"
"My father was once the commander of the navy, how could he not know water warfare?" Yu Jin looked at his son and shook his head. "As a general, how could he not know the geography of mountains and rivers? How high or low is the water level of the river now? What about the enemy general? Build the camp on a stone platform, which is more than ten feet high, and you don’t have a warship, how can you attack it?"
Yu Jin sneered, "Are you brazen enough to say you want a water attack? Humph,"
Yu Gui laughed loudly after hearing this, "Haha, it seems that Song Xin will definitely be defeated. When he comes back from defeat, we will go to the Prime Minister to file a complaint against him!"
Yu Jin smiled and patted Yu Gui on the shoulder, "Let's go back and reorganize the army. If we lose, we will be reprimanded and given some salary. But if Song Xin loses, there will be no chance for him to rise in the future."
At the same time, 1,500 soldiers in front of Song Xin were ready to go, waiting for his order.
But when they saw the mountains of linen bags in front of them, they were stunned.
"Each person, carry two bags on your back and head upstream for the dive." Seeing their confused faces, Song Xin gave the order directly without further explanation. At the same time, the five hundred elites that Song Yu took away also received the order and began to take action.
"Go quickly! If you delay General Chen's military orders, I will kill you!"
Late that night, one of Chen Lan's Supervisors of a Hundred was scolding his soldiers. They all came from camps hidden in the hidden mountains and were driving horses and carriages to transport food at night. It was a cold night, but the soldiers, mules and horses were panting heavily and covered in sweat.
Chen Lan ordered them to deliver 10,000 dendrobium grains to Tianzhu Peak as soon as possible. As soon as the order came, the camps hidden in the hidden mountains took action. In half a month, these camps had sent thousands of dendrobium grains up the mountain.
Relying on their familiarity with geography, they could always avoid the detection of Cao Jun's scouts. Once the food arrived at the sandbank camp, it would be loaded onto ships and hoisted up the mountain. Just like a group of dedicated worker ants, they continuously deliver nutrients to the ant nest. Everything went smoothly, and many soldiers gradually lost their guard.
Suddenly, the leading Governor of a Hundred frowned and looked at the dark mountains and forests around him.
Just now there were occasional night owls chirping, but now it was as quiet as a tomb.
But before he could react, a rapid burst of wind came, followed by a burst of screams. The Governor of the Hundreds was shocked when he saw it. The fallen people had sharp arrows stuck in their bodies.
"Be careful of ambush!" the Centurion shouted, and the soldiers responded quickly. They hurriedly put out the torches. The enemy is in the dark. Lighting a torch is equivalent to telling the enemy your position.
Sure enough, as soon as the torch was extinguished, the screams became much sparser. The enemy seemed to realize it and stopped firing arrows.
The Governor of the Hundreds drew his sword and ordered: "Protect the food and grass!"
The soldiers immediately used their carriages and horses as cover and looked around cautiously. It's just that the surroundings are too dark and I can't see anything. But after waiting for a long time, no enemy troops came out.
The soldiers looked at the Governor of a Hundred and asked him what to do next.
The Governor of a Hundred was also puzzled. If the enemy attacked at night, why did they not rush out to seize food for so long?
After waiting for a full quarter of an hour and seeing no movement, the Superintendent of Hundreds felt that it was just a small group of enemy troops harassing them. "I'm afraid they are scouts looking for our army's camp. Seeing that there are so many of us, they dare not approach."
The Governor of a Hundred said something, and the tense nerves of the soldiers suddenly relaxed.
According to their experience, this is just harassment by a small group of enemy troops.
"Military rations are urgent, speed up!" The Governor did not dare to stay for a long time, for fear that the enemy would have reinforcements, so he quickly ordered to set off. He stood up and scolded them. When he saw a few soldiers still huddled behind the cart and did not dare to come out, he walked over and kicked them a few times.
Suddenly, a sharp arrow shot out of the darkness, silently, but with fierce killing intent.
The Governor of a Hundred was caught off guard and was pierced into the ear by a flying arrow. The arrow continued unabated and penetrated directly through his head and out of his cheek. A ball of dirty blood was splashed on the faces of several soldiers, frightening them silly.
"Puff!" The Governor of Hundreds fell to the ground without even letting out a scream.
"My lord has been killed!"
"ah!"
The soldiers were so frightened that they screamed, causing those who had relaxed to tense up again.
"Swish, swish, swish!" Immediately afterwards, another dense rain of arrows fell from the sky, and those who were caught off guard were pinned to the ground.
After the rain of arrows, the rustling sounds of the trees in all directions were heard, and then nearly a hundred figures that looked like humans and ghosts rushed out of the dense forest. Almost at the same time, these hundreds of people raised a small crossbow and released a hail of death arrows.
Amidst a burst of screams, dozens of Chen Lan nobles who were transporting grain were nailed to death on the grain truck. After releasing the arrow, the man in black armor flicked the crossbow back and pulled out the long knife from his waist. This long knife was different from the straight-edged ring-headed knife used by ordinary Han soldiers. The blade was slightly curved and extremely sharp. The men in black armor rushed into the food transport team in a few seconds. The soldiers who were transporting food were chopped to the ground before they even had time to draw their swords.
At this time, the moonlight shot out from behind the clouds, covering the mountain road with a silvery white color. Only then did someone see the black shadow clearly, and they suddenly exclaimed in fright, "Mountain ghost, mountain ghost!"
Among the black figures rushing towards them, there were more than a hundred of them covered in jet-black armor, with ghostly faces, and only one pair of eyes that were completely white in the moonlight. Their swords, bows and crossbows struck the black armor, only to produce a ball of sparks.
The swords of the men in black armor are also very sharp, and they can often cut off the weapons of Chen Lan's soldiers with one blow.
Invulnerable! Indestructible! It must be a mountain ghost! Chen Lan's soldiers had an idea in their minds at the same time.
Hearing that it was a mountain ghost, those who originally wanted to resist peed their pants in fear, and instantly lost all will to fight.
But there wasn't much time left for them. The last images of many people's lives were the white sword light and their broken weapons.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the entire grain transport team was wiped out.
The black shadow stopped killing, and one of them came out, took off his mask, revealing Song Yu's handsome face. These black shadows were the five hundred elites that Song Xin gave him. After more than ten days of training, coupled with the tempering of monster meat, they have undergone earth-shaking changes from the inside out. Following Song Xin's instructions, Song Yu mobilized a hundred people from among them to form a special force called Xuanjia Guard.
The Xuanjia Guards were all issued with black Xuanjia and swords and crossbows, all of which were taken from Shanshui Lingze's arsenal. These are very common weapons in the arsenal, but even so, if you take out just one, it will be useless in the mortal world. It can be regarded as a magic weapon.
Song Yu organized the remaining four hundred people into a trap camp and divided them into four teams. As the reserve force of the Xuanjia Guards, their equipment and treatment were not as good as those of the Xuanjia Guards. If they accumulate military exploits or the Xuanjia Guards are damaged, they can quickly replenish them.
"Dispose of the body and retreat."
The Xuanjia guards immediately took action, throwing the bodies down the hillside and clearing away the traces of the attack. Then they entered the mountains and forests in batches and disappeared, as if they had never been there before.
Song Yu took out the storage ring, collected the food, grass and weapons from the chariot and horse, and then turned around and went into the forest.
In the next few days, Song Yu and these hundreds of elites appeared and appeared, constantly attacking Chen Lan's grain transport team.
Soon the enemy troops on the mountain also noticed that the food transport team had disappeared inexplicably, and the military rations were also missing. Gradually, the legend of mountain ghosts eating people at night began to spread among Chen Lan's army, and the soldiers did not dare to transport food at night.
