"Are you out, hurry up, hurry up, are you out yet?" Zhang Xiu, with more than a hundred soldiers who covered their nostrils with white cloths, urged them angrily outside the 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. Hundreds of auxiliary soldiers,
The prisoners dragged the straw bags with their hands and stared pitifully at the butts of the war horses. Finally, a few war horses were embarrassed by their stares, and their tails were raised high. The nearby grooms cheered, pounced on them, and sprayed them with wet water.
The straw bag caught the fresh and hot horse manure, gathered it together to form a large 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 ordered in a pretentious manner. The two auxiliary soldiers picked up the bag of horse dung and ran quickly to the mouth of the valley.
, the figure was blocked by lush trees, leaving a strong smell all 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 roar of laughter.
"Hurry up, hurry up, replace the horses that have finished defecating, and replace them with those that have not defecated today!" the head groom ordered while laughing.
Amidst the noise, the auxiliary soldiers pulled up the reins of the war horses and took 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 other war horses.
In front of the valley.
"Only the last thousand horses are left. They are really gone!" the soldier who delivered the horses reported in a low voice.
"Go to the fields and pick out as many as you can find. And those poisonous mugworts, 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, which will probably not be recorded in the history books, but the effect is definitely first-rate.
As soon as this move was used, 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 lousy technique!" Someone in the horse group wearing convict clothes slandered in a low voice.
"This is called attacking with an army, do you understand? It doesn't matter whether he is a low-ranking person or a high-ranking person, the one who wins is the first-class one!" Another tall and strong prisoner retorted loudly.
"You know, you know, you know you are still a prisoner here!" Another prisoner retorted angrily. Hundreds of people surrounded thousands of horses waiting to collect horse dung. It is estimated that it must be the first in the history of military use.
However, 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 for their lives.
"Huh, I was also the queen of Zhou Gong back then. If it weren't for the bad luck..." The tall man defended himself with a red face, 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 and rushed into the horse group with a few guards to supervise the "manure collection" work. At the feet of the tall prisoner who had just applauded the army's plan, Captain Zhang saw a few
The scattered dung eggs immediately raised the riding whip in his hand.
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!"
When Zhang Xiu heard this man's respectful words, he could no longer whip the riding crop in his hand. Just as he removed the pretended scowl from his face, he suddenly saw the face of the big prisoner clearly and was shocked.
"Aren't you that...?" Zhang Xiu jumped half a step away and hid his body between the two soldiers. He had seen the guy holding horse dung in front of him before. It was the guy who tried to steal him and him on the way to Liaodong in the spring.
The descendant of Zhou Gong who carried Li Xu's luggage. This famous descendant who "has been a minister for generations, his ancestors once served as important ministers of the Zhu Kingdom" clearly said that he went to Zuoyiwei to seek refuge with a relative who became a high-ranking official, but he did not know why he ended up in Xiongwu Xiaoguo camp.
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"I've met Mr. Zhang, I'm an acquaintance, I'm an acquaintance!" The auxiliary soldier surnamed Zhou held two hands of horse dung and smiled sarcastically. It was difficult to salute, and it was also difficult not to salute. His embarrassing laughter quickly made several nearby prisoners laugh.
After being attracted, Zhang Xiu could still remember every face inside. They were the same group of thieves who helped "Mr. Zhou" block the road and rob them that day.
The soldiers who followed Zhang Xiulai also noticed that the atmosphere between the two sides was a bit mysterious, and a few of them who were smarter immediately pressed their hands on the handles of their swords. In the Xiongwu Xiaoguo Camp, although the official position of Captain Zhang Xiu was not high,
Quelang added the lord's relatives to his direct lineage. If a spy hurt Captain Zhang, all the soldiers would 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 faults of villains. We originally wanted to come to apologize, but your identity and
We are thousands of miles apart and have never been able to get close to you!"
"General Zhang, don't get your hands dirty. We didn't open our eyes at that time!" Behind Mr. Zhou, several younger brothers also knelt down one after another. The status difference between the two sides is too big. If Zhang Xiu publicly avenged his private revenge at this time, they would have no strength to resist.
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Zhang Xiu is now a sixth-grade captain with a national salary, so naturally he won't take it to heart. Seeing the other party holding horse dung in his hand and looking servile, it is not easy to lower his status and embarrass him. Use
The handle of the whip knocked on the shoulder of "Mr. Zhou", and he 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 suffer here.
What a grievance!”
"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. Just follow me from now on.
.I, Zhang Xiu, will definitely not be able to treat you badly if I am with you!"
"That feeling is good, that feeling is good!" Mr. Zhou was instantly struck down by the great happiness and replied nonchalantly. He looked around, then quickly ran to the nearest straw bag and put down the horse dung in front of everyone.
With envious eyes, the groom turned his head and saluted Zhang Xiu with his hands crossed: "Little Zhou Daniu, thank you, the captain, for your cultivation!"
"Go, go, go, follow me to collect the manure first. The rush ahead is urgent, we rely on it to defeat the enemy today!" Zhang Xiu pointed his whip at the horses, high-spirited.
"I obey, little man!" Zhou Daniu bowed and stood solemnly, majestic.
After a while, the auxiliary soldiers, under the supervision of Zhang Xiu, collected five or six bags of fresh horse manure. 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
This year has been unlucky. First, my horse was "robbed" on the way, which delayed the time to gather in Liaodong. When I went to Zuoyiwei to join my relatives, the gifts I collected were too thin, which diluted the already fragile family ties. I had no choice but to do so.
He became an ordinary Xiaoguo, but was 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, so he was sentenced to hard labor by joining the army.
Feed the horses in the group.
Meeting Zhang Xiu at this moment, the other party was able to ignore the past grudges, which immediately gave Zhou Daniu a sense of happiness like meeting an old friend in a foreign country. Therefore, he secretly determined to work hard and strive to win the favor of his boss as soon as possible, so that his little brothers could also escape from the sea of misery.
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"Go forward, go forward, the fire here has been extinguished!" Lowering his head, Zhou Daniu heard someone commanding him. He quickened his pace and continued to run forward, passing row after row of fires that had been doused with cold water.
In front of the fire, before he almost fell to the ground from exhaustion, someone finally took the dung bag on his shoulder.
"Just stay here. Go back and urge Captain Zhang to hurry up. If there are three to five hundred bags of horse dung, we can capture the entire valley!" Someone ordered kindly in his ear. Zhou Daniu held on with his hands.
On his own thigh, he took advantage of the breather to look at the surrounding environment. The valley here was already some distance away. Judging from the situation, the Goguryeo people had to abandon the outer camp under the poisonous smoke offensive. However, the soldiers on their own side were unyielding.
With the help of the wind, the origin of the poisonous smoke was pushed step by step deeper into the valley.
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. But why aren't the brothers on his 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 his face wrapped in a thick layer of wet kudzu cloth.
"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.
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"Hurry up. Call Doctor 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 to ask 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 and called for help,
Before anyone could rush to his side, he had already fallen 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 up and 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 care of a doctor.
Under the command, everyone was given medicinal soup one by one. After drinking the medicine, some people kept getting up and running to the river to vomit. Listening 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. According to today's situation, this move is equivalent to saving many lives!" Someone was saying
The top of his head laughed and chatted. Zhou Daniu shuddered. 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. Are you okay?
Whether he is suitable to become a soldier or 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 a mouse when they see a cat.
"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's hand?!"
Hearing this, Zhou Daniu pricked up his ears instinctively. He had only stayed in the valley for a short time, and the poisoning was not deep to begin with. As soon as his fear went away, 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 believed in his own judgment. From the casual 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. But things went wrong because of Dr. Sun.
Too kind-hearted, when General Li sent people to collect horse manure, he warned: "Don't collect too much, the smoke of wet horse manure is poisonous, and it will kill people if it is strong!"
The words woke up the dreamer. After listening to Sun Langzhong's words, the two adults, General Li Lang and Supervisor Yuwen, unanimously thought of using smoke to kill the Goguryeo people. The river in the nameless valley runs straight through it, so it is impossible to light a fire. However,
But it is a good place to smoke. There are high mountains nearby, and 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 don't care about reputation, and the soldiers below are naturally unscrupulous. Many of the heroes were gangsters in the countryside before they were recruited into the army, blocking chimneys, poisoning people, and spreading sand in people's eyes.
, they are the best at all kinds of insidious tricks. Soon, the wet horse manure was added with "additives" native to the land of Liaodong, such as croton, heartbroken grass, five-step poison, snake grass, poisonous mugwort, etc., and the burned
Thick smoke billowed 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 have the effect of defeating the enemy. However, within less than half a stick of incense after the poisonous smoke rose, the two generals successively changed their minds.
The idea came up. The effect of the poisonous smoke was so good, it was unexpectedly good. From more than a thousand steps away, 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 up.
At the mouth of the valley, more and more poisonous weeds were placed on the fire.
Afterwards, the appearance of the Poison Fire Wood Platoon was a matter of course. Seeing that the Smoke Offensive could step forward and fight for oneself, who wouldn’t want to maximize the results of the battle? From the governor, the school captain to the ordinary soldiers, everyone worked together and came up with a plan
There were countless suggestions. Supervisor Yuwen and Li Lang screened the suggestions one by one, always choosing the most ruthless and poisonous methods and putting them into practice.
Only an hour and a half has passed since the first puff of poisonous smoke rose. 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.
It is possible to defeat the enemy without fighting. The price paid by the entire Xiaoguo Battalion for the poisonous smoke tactics is only more than 700 slightly poisoned injuries. They are all 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 change from narrow to wide again. 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 already prepared. As soon as the smoke in the valley clears, he will immediately lead his men to kill. Anyway, we are upwind, and the morale of our brothers is strong!" One suffered burns.
The captain responded loudly. When he mentioned his own General Li, the captain'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 fight against someone?" Several soldiers nearby who were less poisoned raised their heads and asked Zhou Daniu enviously.
"Of course we have, our general and I have known each other for a long time!" Zhou Daniu boasted unceremoniously, not caring at all that he was still wearing the clothes of a prisoner.
"On my way to Liaodong, I happened to see our general fighting with someone. Some guys wanted to steal our general's war horse. I originally wanted to go over and help, but before I could get close, I saw our general pull out his sword. That's it.
One chop, then one chop..." Zhou Daniu boasted while gesticulating, and the long black scimitar flashed before his eyes.
This sword is undefeated. He is beginning to believe it now. (To be continued)
