Chapter 2 Tiger Chick (six strokes) "Have you come out? Hurry up, hurry up, have you come out yet?" Zhang Xiu led more than a hundred soldiers who covered their nostrils with white cloth and urged them angrily outside the herd of horses.
"It's coming, it's coming, Mr. Captain, please wait, it will be ready soon, it will be ready soon!" The groom leader shouted excitedly, his voice sounded like he had just picked up a gold ingot and hundreds of auxiliary soldiers, struggling.
The prisoners dragged the straw bags with their hands and stared pitifully at the butts of the war horses. Finally, a few horses were embarrassed by their stares, and their tails were raised high.
He caught the fresh and hot horse manure, gathered it together, made a big manure bag, and carried it to Zhang Xiu's feet at a sprinting speed.
"Send it forward, send it forward before, Lieutenant Li is waiting in front!" Zhang Xiu checked the thickness of the horse dung with a branch, and commanded the two auxiliary soldiers to lift the horse dung bag and ran quickly to the mouth of the valley.
The shadow is blocked by lush trees, leaving behind a strong stench along the way.
Before the smell of horse manure was blown away by the wind and the shadows of the trees cleared, several soldiers with black faces ran over again, shouting as they ran: "Captain Zhang, hurry up, hurry up, General Lang"
Your Excellency orders you to hurry up, the supply is running out, the supply is running out!"
"Hurry up, hurry up, it's coming out, it's coming out!" Zhang Xiu's reply was drowned out by the laughter.
"Hurry up, hurry up, replace the war horses that have finished pooping, and replace the horses that have not pooped today!" The head groom ordered while laughing.
Amidst the noise, the auxiliary soldiers pulled up the reins of the war horses and drove the horses that had made their "contribution" to the distant hillside to graze. Seeing that there was an open space in front of them, the soldiers of the rear camp drove more than a thousand war horses into the valley.
forward
"Only the last thousand horses are left. They are really gone!" the soldier who delivered the horses reported in a low voice.
"Go and pick in the fields. Pick as many as you can. There are also poisonous wormwood, heartbroken grass, etc., pick as many as you can!" Zhang Xiu yelled unwillingly.
The auxiliary soldiers laughed and ran away. Under the leadership of the marching commander Shi Zhao Ziming, they continued to search for poisonous plants all over the mountains and plains. General Lang invented a brand-new tactic. It is unlikely to be recorded in history, but the effect is absolutely first-class.
As soon as they came out, the Goguryeo people retreated steadily, and the Sui soldiers did not suffer any casualties.
"What's going on? You can't fight with horse dung! It's a low-level technique!" Someone in the horse group wearing the clothes of a prisoner slandered in a low voice.
"This is called going to war, do you understand? You don't care if he is a low-class person or a high-class person, whoever wins is the first-class person!" Another fat and tall prisoner retorted loudly.
"You know, you know, you know you are still here as a prisoner!" Another prisoner retorted angrily. Hundreds of people surrounded thousands of horses waiting to collect horse dung. It must be the first time in the history of military use.
But most people are happy with it. At least, although the trick of using horse dung to defeat the enemy is a bit smelly, it is easier than letting them go forward with a knife and fight hard.
"Humph, I was also the queen of Zhou Gong back then. If it weren't for the bad luck..." The tall man blushed and defended himself, but he provoked a series of contemptuous laughter.
"You, move more sharply, horse dung will fall on the ground. What about you, a big man, with a straight head, you are not looking for a slap!" Zhang Xiu's voice came from afar, interrupting the words of all the prisoners.
He couldn't wait any longer for the battle. He took a few guards and rushed into the horse group to supervise the "dung collection" work. At the feet of the tall prisoner who had just applauded the army's plan, Colonel Zhang saw a few scattered horses.
Damn it, immediately, he raised the riding crop in his hand high
The tall prisoner quickly bent down and, regardless of the filth, picked up the horse dung with both hands and said, "I'll pick it up right now, I'll pick it up right now, General Zhang, please bear with me, please bear with me!"
Zhang Xiu heard this man speak respectfully, and the riding crop in his hand could no longer be used. Just as he removed the pretended scowl from his face, he suddenly saw the face of the big prisoner clearly, and immediately raised his arms high again.
stand up
"Aren't you that...?" Zhang Xiu jumped half a step away and hid his body between the two soldiers. He had seen this guy holding horse dung before. It was the guy who tried to steal him and Li Li on their way to Liaodong in the spring.
The descendant of Xu Ling’s Zhou Gong, who was a descendant of a famous family with “generational ministers and ancestors who once served as important ministers of the Zhu Kingdom”, clearly said at that time that he was going to Zuoyiwei to seek refuge with a relative who became a high-ranking official, but he did not know why he ended up in the Xiongwu Xiaoguo camp!
"I've met Mr. Zhang, I'm familiar with you, I'm familiar with you!" The auxiliary soldier surnamed Zhou held two hands of horse dung and smiled sarcastically. It would be difficult to salute, but it would also be difficult not to salute. His embarrassing laughter quickly attracted several nearby prisoners.
Come here, Zhang Xiu still remembers every face inside. It was the group of thieves who helped "Mr. Zhou" to block the road and rob him that day.
The soldiers who followed Zhang Xiulai also noticed that the atmosphere between the two sides was somewhat mysterious, and a few of them who were smarter immediately pressed their hands on the handles of their swords. In the entire Xiongwu Xiaoguo camp, although the official position of the captain Zhang Xiu was not high,
But he is a relative and direct descendant of Mr. Lang. If a spy injures Xiaowei Zhang, all the soldiers will be implicated.
"Mr. Zhou" was a very clever man. When he saw the soldiers holding the hilts of the swords, he quickly knelt down and said, "General Zhang, you don't remember the villain's mistakes. We originally wanted to come to apologize, but your identity is different from ours."
It's a thousand miles away, and I still can't get close to you!"
"General Zhang, please don't get dirty. We didn't open our eyes at that time!" Behind Mr. Zhou, several younger brothers also knelt down one after another. The current status of the two sides was too different. If Zhang Xiu avenged his private revenge at this time, they would have no strength to resist.
Zhang Xiu is now a sixth-grade captain with a national salary. Naturally, he will not take it seriously when he sees the other party holding horse dung in his hands and looking servile during the festival.
Qi Nan used the whip handle to knock Mr. Zhou on the shoulder, and asked in a long voice: "Old Zhou, how did you get to this point? If you had told me earlier, I wouldn't have let you do it."
This is so wronged!”
"It's a long story, it's a long story!" Mr. Zhou held horse dung in his hands and his smile was as bright as the sunset.
"It's a long story, but it's just that you can't find relatives, and you can't be kind to friends, right?" Zhang Xiu concluded proudly, "Put this treasure in a straw bag. It's a pity for a big man like you to be a groom. You can follow me from now on."
If I am Zhang Xiu, I will definitely not treat you badly!"
"That feeling is good, that feeling is good!" Mr. Zhou was instantly overwhelmed by the great happiness. He looked around and quickly ran to the nearest straw bag to put down the horse dung.
With envious eyes, he turned his head and saluted Zhang Xiu with crossed hands: "Little Zhou Daniu, thank you, the captain, for your cultivation!"
"Go, go, go, follow me first to collect the manure and go to the front to rush. We will rely on it to defeat the enemy today!" Zhang Xiu pointed at the horses with his whip, high-spirited.
"I obey, little man!" Zhou Daniu bowed his head and stood solemnly, looking majestic.
After a while, the auxiliary soldiers, under the supervision of Zhang Xiu, collected five or six bags of fresh horse dung. In order to show off in front of his new boss, Zhou Daniu personally carried a large bag, lowered his head and ran forward. He is experiencing a fleeting year this year.
Unfavorably, first, someone "robbed" his mount on the way, which delayed the time to gather in Liaodong and went to Zuoyiwei to join his relatives. The gifts he collected were too thin, which diluted the already fragile family ties. He had no choice but to become a
An ordinary Xiaoguo, but unlucky enough to be assigned to the Xiongwu Xiaoguo Camp. When he was in the Xiaoguo Camp, he took the lead in fighting and causing trouble. He was sentenced to hard labor by joining the army, and was sent to the prison group to feed horses along with several small followers.
When he met Zhang Xiu at this moment, he was able to put aside his past grudges, which immediately gave Zhou Daniu the happiness of meeting an old friend in a foreign land. Therefore, he secretly determined to work hard and win the favor of his boss as soon as possible, so that his little brothers could also escape from the sea of misery.
"Go forward, go forward, the fire here has been extinguished!" With his head lowered, Zhou Daniu heard someone beside him ordering him to speed up his pace, and continued to run forward, passing row after row of fires that had been doused with cold water.
Heap, before he almost fell to the ground from exhaustion, someone finally took the dung bag on his shoulder.
"Right here, go back and urge Colonel Zhang to hurry up and get three to five hundred bags of horse dung, and we can capture the entire valley!" Someone kindly ordered Zhou Daniu in his ear to support his thighs with his hands and use the help of
While taking a breather, he looked at the surroundings. The valley that was already deep into the valley was quite far away. Judging from the situation, the Goguryeo people had to abandon their outer fortifications due to the poisonous smoke offensive. However, the soldiers on their own side were unyielding and took advantage of the wind to blow the poisonous smoke away.
The birthplace moves deeper into the valley step by step
Several waves of soldiers ran forward carrying horse dung with still burning embers in earthen baskets. Zhou Daniu was suffocated by the faint smoke in the dung basket. The poisonous smoke that was almost extinguished was still so smelly. No wonder those Goguryeo people had to retreat.
Why weren't the brothers on his own side afraid of the smoke? He looked around and saw that except for the man who was delivering the dung bags with him, everyone around him had a thick layer of wet kudzu cloth wrapped around his face.
"The fires in the back are almost extinguished. Put in more water. The brothers in the front can't stand it anymore! Move quickly and push the unburned horse manure forward!" Someone shouted loudly in his ear.
"Hurry up and call Dr. Sun, is the detoxification soup here? Hurry up, someone over there is poisoned again, hurry up, carry it down, carry it down!"
"You, you guys, why don't you wrap yourself in a wet cloth!" Someone spotted Zhou Daniu and others who were breathing heavily while watching the excitement, and rushed over and asked loudly
Zhou Daniu wanted to answer, and opened his mouth, but he felt drool dripping down his chest. He felt his head began to feel dizzy, and his feet began to spin. "I'm poisoned! Help, help..." He stretched out his hand to call for help, but before he could wait,
The person rushed to his side and fell to the ground.
The person who scolded him was a school captain. When he saw Zhou Daniu and others collapsed, he quickly called a few brothers and carried them down in a hurry. "Someone has been poisoned. Hurry, clean up the fire outside the valley!"
Zhou Daniu, who was dizzy, heard many people shouting around him and saw many legs running around. The next moment, he completely lost consciousness.
When he opened his eyes again, Zhou Daniu found himself lying on the river beach outside the valley. There were hundreds of brothers lying nearby, each with wet Gebu on their heads. A dozen soldiers with relatively agile hands and feet were under the command of a doctor.
, after giving everyone the medicinal soup and drinking the medicine one by one, some people kept getting up and ran to the river to vomit and listen to the noise. They almost vomited out their bile.
"What a sin!" Zhou Daniu heard the doctor sighing loudly near his head.
"We were able to capture half of the valley without any blood because of Mr. Sun's ingenious plan. How can this be considered a crime? Mr. Sun doesn't count. Judging from the situation this morning, this move is equivalent to saving many lives!" Someone said
Zhou Daniu trembled as he chatted with a smile on his head. He knew that the speaker was Qin Gang, who joined the army in Mingfa. All the auxiliary soldiers in the Xiaoguo camp and those who made mistakes and were sent to the prison group were controlled by this person. Is it suitable for everyone to change?
Soldiers, when the hard labor will end depends on this person's words. Therefore, many people are more honest when they hear Qin Canjun's name than mice when they see cats.
"Alas!" Sun Jin, the doctor who accompanied the army, lamented with a wry smile, "Qin Junjun didn't know something. How could this plan come from Sun?"
Hearing this, Zhou Daniu pricked up his ears instinctively. He stayed in the valley for a short time, and his fear of being poisoned was gone. His curiosity was immediately aroused by the conversation above his head.
Such a vicious plan was definitely not something that a doctor could come up with. Zhou Daniu was convinced of his own judgment. From the chat between Qin Canjun and Dr. Sun, he slowly learned the whole story of the "poisonous plan".
It turned out that at noon, when he saw Mr. Li, the general of Xiongwu Lang, being anxious about not being able to deliver the news to Mr. Yuwenshu who might appear on the other side of the valley, Dr. Sun was talkative for a while, so based on his many years of medical experience, he suggested that General Li
The adults lit a few piles of horse dung in the valley on this side, and took advantage of the characteristics of the smoke produced when burning animal dung "condensed but never dispersed" to tell the nearby soldiers and horses that a large army had arrived in the northwest of the valley.
In response to the expeditionary force's operation, Supervisor Yu Wenshi and his Excellency used their father's relationship to obtain more than 15,000 war horses. Therefore, collecting some horse dung is naturally not a difficult task.
Shan, when General Li sent people to collect horse manure, he warned: "Don't collect too much. The smoke from wet horse manure is poisonous. If it is strong, it will kill people!"
The words woke up the dreamer. After listening to Sun Langzhong's words, the two adults, General Li Lang and Yuwen Supervisor, coincidentally thought of using the smoke of the Goguryeo people. The river in the nameless valley runs straight through it. It is impossible to light a fire, but it is a
A good place to smoke. There are high mountains nearby. There is only such a big gap within a hundred miles, so as long as there is smoke at the mouth of the valley, it will definitely be blown into the valley by the mountain wind.
The generals and supervisors do not care about reputation, and the soldiers below are naturally unscrupulous. Many of them were gangsters in the countryside before they were recruited into the army. They blocked chimneys, poisoned people, and sprinkled sand into people's eyes.
They are good at all kinds of destructive tricks, but soon, the wet horse manure was added with croton, heartbroken grass, five-step poison, snake grass, poisonous mugwort and other "additives" native to the land of Liaodong, and the thick smoke was released.
Rolling into the valley
At first, Li Xu and Yu Wenshiji just wanted to give it a try and did not expect the poisonous smoke to really defeat the enemy. However, within less than half a stick of incense after the poisonous smoke surged up, the two generals changed their minds one after another.
The effect of the poisonous smoke was so good, it was unexpectedly good. Even after more than a thousand steps, everyone could hear the screams of the Goguryeo people in the valley against the wind. As a result, more and more horse manure was piled at the entrance of the valley.
More and more poisonous weeds are put on the fire
Afterwards, the appearance of the poisonous fire platoon was a matter of course. Seeing that the smoke offensive could be used to step forward and fight for oneself, who wouldn't want to maximize the results of the battle? From the governor, the captain to the small soldiers, everyone worked together, and countless suggestions were put forward by everyone.
After coming out, Yu Wenjianjun and Li Lang screened the suggestions one by one, always picking the most ruthless and poisonous methods and putting them into practice.
It has only been an hour and a half since the first puff of poisonous smoke rose, but the news coming back from the front is that half of the valley has changed hands. At this moment, General Li Lang is directing everyone to move the poisonous fire forward. There is no chance of a fight.
The possibility of defeating the enemy and the price paid by the entire Xiaoguo Battalion for the poison smoke tactics was only more than 700 slightly poisoned injuries, all of which were lying on the river beach waiting for Dr. Sun to lead people to treat them.
"This strategy cannot last long. After the middle section, the valley will become narrower and wider, and the effect of the poisonous smoke will be greatly reduced!" Zhou Daniu heard someone above him summing up regretfully.
"There's not enough horse manure. If I had known that stuff was useful, I would have fed the war horses more yesterday!" Zhou Daniu raised his head while lying on his knees and added in a low voice.
"Don't worry, our General Li has been prepared to lead his men to kill him as soon as the smoke in the valley clears. Anyway, we are upwind, and the morale of our brothers is strong!" A schoolmaster who suffered burns said
Wei loudly responded. Speaking of his own General Li, the Colonel's face was filled with pride.
"Hey, I guess no one can stop our General Li's black knife!" Zhou Daniu also joined in.
"Have you ever seen General Li attack someone?" Nearby, several soldiers who were less poisoned raised their heads and asked Zhou Da
