Ye Jing's city walls are really high and thick. After half a day of fighting, Ye Jing's city was still not broken, but it was already riddled with holes. Another day's fierce attack would surely cripple Ye Jing's city.
After nightfall, Jingjun set up camp and rested in the village.
That night, the moon and stars were sparse.
Xun Yu personally took Zhu Ling and secretly headed towards Jingjun's camp. When the Jing army set up camp today, Xun Yu sent people to observe. Ma Chao was in charge of the front camp, Zhang Liao was in charge of the middle camp, Li Yan and Yang Bai were in charge of the two battalions on the left and right, and the baggage and grain and chariot camps were in the rear.
"General Zhu!"
In the dark night, Xun Yu pointed to the baggage camp in front, "You lead two hundred people outside the baggage camp. Wait for me to arrive near the chariot camp, then launch rockets and set fire to the food. It's best if you can get in. Use fire as a sign, your side As soon as the fire started, I led people into the chariot camp and burned their equipment."
Zhu Ling nodded: "Prime Minister, don't worry, I will be able to burn his food and grass."
Xun Yu warned: "The Jing army has opened the road from Jingxingkou to Yejing. The food and grass are not their fault, but the ordnance is our fault. The purpose of tonight is not to burn their food and grass but to burn their ordnance. Of course, It would be best if you could get in and burn the food and baggage."
"Okay!" Zhu Ling nodded.
The baggage camp is on the left and the chariot camp is on the right.
After arranging the work for Zhu Ling, Xun Yu led a hundred people around the five-mile road and touched the outside of the Chebing camp. It was already the beginning of the ugly hour (one o'clock in the morning in later generations), and the Jingjun camp was quiet, with only The burning wood made a crackling sound. The patrol team patrolled every half a stick of incense, and there were fixed guards around.
Xun Yu observed carefully and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "I heard that Zhang Xiu was strict with his military skills, and tonight I saw that he really lived up to his reputation." But at this midnight, everyone will feel sleepy.
It was still early and not yet the most sleepy time. Xun Yu ordered the army to rest where they were and wait for the fire signal from the camp on the right.
Zhu Ling on the left is also waiting for the opportunity.
At the first quarter of Mao hour (five o'clock in the morning), Zhu Ling finally got his chance. Several soldiers on the periphery leaned against the fence and fell asleep, so sleepy that they could hardly hold their eyelids up.
Zhu Ling waved his hand and ordered.
A few agile soldiers sneaked over and wiped the necks of those soldiers silently. They captured another soldier alive and killed him after getting the password. After prying a hole in the stockade fence, Zhu Ling immediately led everyone into the stockade fence and headed towards the place where the supplies of food and grass were stored.
In order to ensure that this matter goes smoothly, Xun Yu specially puts on Jing Jun's clothes.
At this moment, Zhu Ling dressed up as Jingjun's patrol team. With the password, they walked towards the baggage swaggeringly.
A few Jingjuns who woke up raised their heads and glanced around. When they saw it was their own family, they just wondered why there were so many people patrolling. They were so sleepy that they didn't care, closed their eyes and continued to sleep.
Zhu Ling was so nervous that her palms were sweating.
Finally, he successfully approached the place where the grain and grass were piled, and immediately ordered his men to start preparing to light a fire.
"What are you doing?"
Suddenly, an ordering voice came from behind, "Which camp are you from?"
Zhu Ling was so frightened by this sound that his soul almost flew out. He panicked and quickly calmed down. He turned around and walked over with a smile and said: "This scared me in the middle of the night. You ask me which part it is about? Well... …We are…doing it!”
Before he finished speaking, Zhu Ling struck preemptively and already drew his knife and touched the neck of the Jingjun captain who was three steps away. Other Wei troops reacted quickly and killed in all directions. Another group of Wei troops quickly placed igniting objects and ignited the grain and grass.
Suddenly, a fire burst into the sky.
After lighting the grain and grass, Zhu Ling did not dare to stay here and immediately led the army to fight out the same way. The fire that shot up into the sky immediately attracted all the attention of Jingjun, who all rushed to put out the fire. After all, it was their own food. If it was burned out, they would starve or even be defeated. All the soldiers joined the team to put out the fire, and had no intention of paying attention to the Wei army who set the fire.
Li Yan was the first to react, first organized troops to put out the fire, and then personally led the personal guards to find the arsonist.
Later, Zhang Liao, Zhuge Liang, and Zhang Ren were all alarmed.
Zhang Liao came in a hurry, looking at the fire that was about to be extinguished, and he was secretly relieved. Fortunately, the burned grain and grass were only the first few stamps, and most of the grain and grass were intact.
Zhang Ren breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately it was discovered early, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous."
Zhang Liao snorted coldly: "This must be Xun Yu's trick."
Zhuge Liang said with some confusion: "According to today's situation, if Xun Yu sent five hundred or even a thousand men and horses to burn the camp, he should be able to completely destroy our army's food and grass. Why did he only come with a few hundred men?"
Everyone suddenly frowned.
Think deeply.
"Oops!"
Suddenly, Zhuge Liang clapped his hands and shouted: "Chebing camp!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a fiery red light lit up over the car barracks, and the fire broke out instantly. Because of the presence of kerosene and other combustion-supporting materials, the wooden lathe burned first, along with the entire frame.
Suddenly, the Che Barracks burst into flames, and the fire was fierce.
Zhuge Liang, Zhang Liao and others' expressions changed greatly.
Zhang Ren scratched his neck and shouted: "Fight the fire! Everyone go to the Chebing Camp to put out the fire!"
When Sergeant Jing saw the fire in the Che Barracks, they were more anxious than the grain and grass futures. If the food and grass are gone, they can still be transported from the rear, but at worst they will be hungry for a few days. If the chariot barracks were destroyed, the siege would have to be filled with lives. Along the way from Jingxingkou to Yejing, relying on the power of the chariot battalion, Sergeant Jing's soldiers did not suffer much loss.
Destroying the Che Barracks would simply cost them their lives!
Everyone ran desperately to put out the fire. Before Zhang Ren finished shouting, the soldiers here had already rushed to the Che Barracks to put out the fire.
Qian Chun was even more anxious and angry. The Che Barracks is everything to him. Without these big guys, he would have lost the basics of meritorious service. Relying on the Che Barracks, the Qian family has become a noble family from three generations of farmers. If they make further achievements, they may even be granted the title of general. These big guys are the support of the Qian family.
The fire in the transport camp just now attracted everyone's attention, allowing Xun Yu to sneak in and set fire to more than a dozen trebuchets and several Kecheng heavy crossbows. Fortunately, Qian Chun took great care of these equipment. He was afraid that they would be damaged and was not afraid of fire. He placed large fireproof buckets filled with water around the Che Barracks.
These fireproof barrels played a big role when the equipment was ignited.
But the fire was unstoppable, and more than a dozen trebuchets and Kecheng heavy crossbows were burned into a pile of black charcoal.
Xun Yu set the fire and retreated quickly.
Qian Chun ordered people to put out the fire and at the same time ordered people to pursue Xun Yu.
When Li Yan was halfway through his pursuit of Zhu Ling and others, Wei Jun Lu Zhao led thousands of cavalry to meet him. The situation in the camp was unclear, and Li Yan did not dare to fight, so he had to lead his troops back.
The fire was extinguished and the burned food, grass and ordnance were counted. More than 3,000 stones of grain and grass were burned, sixteen trebuchets were burned, nine heavy crossbows in Kecheng were burned, and almost half of the ordnance was burned.
Qian Chun looked at the burned ordnance with red eyes and almost cried.
