"Lord Mei, how could it be you!" When Mei Siyuan rode to the city gate, Xu Ding'an's eyes widened and he couldn't believe what he saw. He never thought that the first person to bring in troops to help would be a civil servant supervising the salt administration!
"General Xu, let's go into the city to talk." The battlefield below the city was in a mess and was no place for conversation. Mei Siyuan said with a smile. He knew that he had just used a trick to defeat Shatuo's army, and there was actually a lot of luck in it. Soon, the Shatuo Army's scouts will be able to find out the true situation here, and Chihedan will definitely lead his troops to attack the city again. Xu Ding'an regained his composure, rode on horseback, and led Mei Siyuan toward the city gate.
In the central military tent, the generals spent their remaining days drinking and eating meat, and rarely laughed happily. Except for the minor or serious injuries on each person's body, it didn't look like they were guarding a dangerous city.
At this time, everyone already knew that Mei Siyuan's cavalry and soldiers only numbered 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 help is naturally important. To say that they are not disappointed with only 3,500 people coming is definitely a lie. However, there are people who are willing to fight alongside them, making them feel that they have never been forgotten, and that the more than 20,000 people at Anxian Post are not a poor abandoned son. What Mei Siyuan brings is hope and respect, which is what they lack most at the moment.
"Everyone, Siyuan has something to say." During the dinner, Mei Siyuan slowly stood up from the wooden stool, raised a bowl of wine with both hands and said: "Anxian Post took orders in the face of danger, and defended the city alone, with many times the strength. The enemy is indeed a role model for the Chinese army today! Siyuan admires him very much! I would like to use this thin wine to toast everyone and show respect!" After saying that, he raised his bowl to everyone and drank it in one gulp.
The dozen or so generals in the tent were all tough men. After hearing Mei Siyuan's words, their hearts were filled with excitement. They immediately stood up from their seats and drank all the food from their bowls.
The main reason Mei Siyuan came here was not to join forces with the soldiers at the outpost to resist the enemy, but to stabilize the morale of the army. I heard him say again: "Everyone, it has been raining heavily in the southeast of Anxian for several days. Traffic was blocked and it was difficult for vehicles and horses to move. The post soldiers sent by the post were blocked and they only arrived at the military camp and the county government office on the 20th. "Mei Siyuan deliberately delayed the news of Shatuo's crime for a day.
At this time, everyone in the tent, including Xu Ding'an, were shocked and cursed: "Oh, God, that's how it is!" They all thought, "It turns out that the military information failed to spread, not to other outposts and stations. The army won't come to rescue us! Alas, we must have wrongly blamed them."
Mei Siyuan continued: "I discussed with General Guo Zimu and decided to lead the cavalry to come to the rescue first. General Guo will prepare the marching equipment behind, and he will definitely arrive in the next few days!"
At this time, the generals could no longer restrain their joy and cheered, and their laughter spread far and wide from the camp.
"There is still a team that broke out of camp with Siyuan to rush to the rescue. It is led by my young master Mei Yuanchen. At this time, he has led his light cavalry straight to Xiaoxiankou in Jue Kingdom. This Xiaoxiankou is the ration for Shatuo's army to march this time. Once their rations are burned in their storage place, they will definitely retreat without a fight!" Mei Siyuan said seriously to the crowd.
"Bang!" Xu Ding'an punched the case hard and shouted: "This is a great plan!" All the generals, you looked at me, I looked at you, tears couldn't stop flowing.
Seeing this scene, Mei Siyuan's heart trembled, and he thought seriously: "Chen'er, you must accomplish this! The life and death of more than 10,000 people all depend on the success or failure of your trip!"
God has been kind to us, and the wind has been gentle and clear these days. Although we have been traveling for six hours a day, the people and horses are not overworked. The riders carried light equipment and had traveled more than 700 miles a day. The original five-day journey arrived a day and a half ahead of schedule.
The Shatuo Kingdom is vast and sparsely populated, and Xiaoxiankou is located in a remote area. Mei Yuanchen's troops arrived at Katu Pagoda not long after, and at 2:00am, they found the place by following the light.
"General Mei, how are you doing now?" Gao Facai approached Mei Yuanchen and asked gently. At this time, everyone had been on the road since the end of Mao Shi for more than seven hours. They had not rested or eaten, and both the people and horses were exhausted and hungry.
Mei Yuanchen looked at the soldiers sitting or lying on the ground behind him, and felt very unbearable, so he had to say: "Rest on the spot first, the Taoist priests and I sneaked into the enemy camp at night, and you guys followed. Use the fire as a signal. Once a fire breaks out in the enemy camp, you will rush in and pour oil on the tent and light it on fire. When the fire starts, run 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 we don't care about it for now, burn the enemy's food and grass and walk quickly!" Mei Yuanchen replied with a frown. Although everyone was a little unhappy, they didn't say anything.
Mei Yuanchen walked in front of all the senior brothers and nephews and said: "Brothers and nephews, we are sixteen people and will sneak into the enemy camp in a short while. We have not visited this place before, and we really don't know what is true and false, so we sneaked in rashly It’s really dangerous to go in.”
"Junior brother, what do you need us to do? Just tell us!" Zhan Tong said bluntly without being wordy.
"Okay! Then I will assign the division of labor. Senior Brother Zhantong, Senior Brother Zhanjue, and Senior Brother Zhanxu, you three will release poisonous gas in the air to try to cause chaos in the enemy camp. Zhicang and other twelve nephews took advantage of the chaos to check where the rations are. , as soon as they are discovered, they immediately pour oil and light fires to burn food. There are a thousand riders here, and when they see the fire, they will rush in and rescue us." Mei Yuanchen said in a clear voice, "As for me, I will try to cut off their water source!"
"Wonderful!" Zhi Cang couldn't help shouting.
"Hush!" Mei Yuanchen hurriedly stopped him and said, "We are only two or three miles away from the enemy camp, so don't let your whereabouts leak out!" Zhicang knew that he almost made a mistake, so he honestly kept his mouth shut.
"Senior brother and nephew, can you all understand this?" Mei Yuanchen asked again.
All the Taoist priests agreed, and Zhan Tong continued: "The poisonous gas we used is colorless and slightly spicy. Once inhaled, the heat in the trachea will be unbearable for a while, making it difficult to move. Our antidote is easy to use." It's very serious, just wet a cloth with urine and cover your nose." After hearing this, Mei Yuanchen hurriedly said to the rest of the cavalry, lest they also be poisoned later.
For a while, everyone tore off their clothes and cloths, took off their belts and urinated. By this time, they had been riding for a long time, and except for those who had just urinated, the rest of them were holding back half of their pee and peeing. The urine spread out, and the smell was quite unpleasant within a hundred feet radius.
Sixteen people covered their noses with diapers, squatted and sneaked towards the Shatuo Army's food camp, and finally they were less than a hundred feet away from the camp.
"Woof! Woof! Woof!" Several dog barks suddenly sounded.
Everyone secretly shouted "Not good", but they didn't expect that there were watchdogs guarding the enemy camp. Mei Yuanchen ordered everyone to step back tens of feet and said softly: "I'll try to get rid of the dog and the sentry first. You guys wait for the opportunity and then come forward." They all knew that Mei Yuanchen's Qinggong and body skills were excellent, and he could do such things. Nothing could be more suitable, so naturally I agreed one by one.
"Hoo~" Mei Yuanchen gathered all his inner strength and used the special skill of "Qiwu Dengchen" in the Immortality Kung Fu, and disappeared in front of everyone in a few leaps.
"Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!" The dog barked again. A team of sentries in the camp heard the barking of the dogs and went out to check. They walked around a few times and found nothing. They muttered a few words and went back.
However, after the sentry had only taken a dozen breaths after returning to the camp, Mei Yuanchen jumped closer and several dogs barked "Woof! Woof! Woof!" again. It was already three o'clock in the morning, when people are most sleepy. Twenty or so sentries came out of the camp cursing and rummaged around the camp several times, but found nothing. When he returned to the tent camp, he deliberately walked up to some dogs and kicked them hard with his feet. Several dogs were tied up and couldn't dodge. They were kicked hard and made a "wow" sound. The leader of the sentry returned to where the dogs were tied, yelled and cursed at the dogs, and wandered back to the camp.
"Woof! Woof!" The sentries just covered themselves with quilts and lay down, but they heard dogs barking outside the tent again. At this time, he was extremely angry. He yelled and cursed a few words outside the station, covered his head and ignored it.
Mei Yuanchen waited outside for a long time, and the dog kept barking, but he still didn't see the sentry coming out of the camp to patrol, so he gathered his strength and jumped to the camp. The camp was over 10,000 acres wide. After passing through more than two to three hundred tents, we came across a giant temporary bamboo house. Mei Yuanchen opened the lock with force and sneaked in quietly.
With the extremely weak light, one could barely see that there were tens of thousands of wooden boxes packed tightly inside. Mei Yuanchen opened a wooden box, reached into it, and touched a hard object. He took it out and took a closer look, and found out that it was the staple food of the Shatuo Army: noodles. He couldn't help but be overjoyed!
Mei Yuanchen hurriedly came out of the bamboo house to look for water. Mei Yuanchen knew that the water source was not far from the fire prevention place, so he went around the bamboo house to look for it. Sure enough, we discovered one after another many pools with a radius of ten feet, with wooden barrels placed next to them. Seeing this, Mei Yuanchen knew that the water source could never be destroyed, so he had no choice but to destroy the wooden barrels used to collect water. So he walked all the way, accumulated strength in his hand, and quickly used his palm to break the barrels. About a quarter of an hour later, all the wooden barrels were destroyed. Mei Yuanchen turned around and went to look for his senior brothers and nephews. He was overjoyed when he saw Zhi Cang and others rushing over.
"Hoo~~~" A fire started in the bamboo house and the nearby battalion commander. The fire spread quickly with the help of tung oil and wind.
"Sir! Look, there's a fire!" A cavalryman screamed at the resting place of Mei Yuanchen's tribe three miles away. Dong Dawei spat, jumped on his horse, and shouted, "Come forward and fight!"
A thousand riders, carrying a thousand bags of tung oil, rushed toward the fire and killed them.
