Nine hundred and fifty seventh chapter escape opportunity
In a large forest to the west of Yazhou, 20,000 young and strong Han people were captured and felling trees under the supervision of the Tibetan cavalry. Towering trees fell one after another and were dragged by civilians to the storage yard. Thousands of large trees were already piled here.
, many people are pruning away the branches and leaves, leaving only the trunks. At dusk, everyone will drag these big trees back to Yazhou City.
Zhou Fei also led his men to cut trees in the forest. They were a team of one hundred people. Eighty of his men and twenty other common people formed a logging team. Zhou Fei was appointed as the leader of the team.
The Tubo people were very strict in managing these civilians. At the end of a day's work, a head count was required. If there was one less person in the team, the entire team of 100 people, including the entire team, would be killed.
At present, more than 500 people have been killed, making the people very nervous and monitoring each other, lest the other party escape and harm themselves.
Zhou Fei was thinking hard yesterday and today about how to report the news. Yesterday morning, they discovered an important piece of information. A Tibetan army of more than 10,000 people was coming from the west. They were obviously enemy reinforcements.
Zhou Fei didn't know whether it was just this batch of reinforcements or whether there would be more reinforcements in the future, but the strength of the Tibetan army in the city had reached 30,000. This was a turning point in strength. An army of 30,000 could carry out a wilderness battle.
Zhou Fei must find a way to send this extremely important information out.
But the Tubo people also prevented this and did not give them any chance at all. They set out after counting the number of people every morning and came back after counting the number of people at night. Anyone missing would be massacred. How to break this situation? Zhou Fei has been thinking of a way
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"It's down! It's down!"
A big tree was cut down and fell with a creak, and the people below moved out of the way.
At this time, one of his subordinates said to Zhou Fei: "Brother Zhou, my stomach feels a little uncomfortable. I'll go find someone to squat."
"Go! Be careful not to be picked up by wild beasts."
The men chuckled, turned around and ran deeper into the forest.
At this time, one of his subordinates said to Zhou Fei: "Last night, I thought of a way. We could fake a scene where a brother was dragged away by a beast."
Zhou Fei shook his head, "Don't think the Tubo people are so stupid. Being dragged away by wild beasts must leave traces. If they can't trace these traces, they will doubt us. The lives of our brothers are at stake, and we can't take risks."
At this time, the subordinate who had just gone to have diarrhea came running back with excitement on his face. He whispered a few words in Zhou Fei's ear, and Zhou Fei's eyes lit up, "Where are you?"
"Just in front of the creek!"
Zhou Fei quickly followed with a few of his men. They found a corpse by a creek. From the clothes, it looked like a Qiang man, not like a captured civilian husband. There was a backpack not far away.
They were all herbs, and it must have been a herb gatherer. He lay down by the stream and wanted to drink water, but he died in the end.
Zhou Fei stepped forward and turned him over. His face was dark. It looked like he had been dead not long ago. He should have died last night.
Zhou Fei checked again and soon discovered the cause of death. He said to his subordinates: "He was bitten by a poisonous snake. You see there are still wounds on his calf."
Everyone couldn't hold back the excitement in their hearts and whispered: "Boss, this is an opportunity!"
Zhou Fei nodded, this is indeed an opportunity.
"Which of you is willing to change your clothes?" Zhou Fei asked.
Captain Liu Zhidao: "Let me do it! His figure is about the same as mine."
They immediately took off the Qiang man's clothes and put them on Liu Zhi's clothes, and Liu Zhi also put on Qiang clothes.
Zhou Fei saw that the Qiang man still had two short knives in his waist, so he also took them out and handed them to Liu Zhi, "Use these two knives to defend yourself. You have to be careful."
Liu Zhi nodded, "General, is there anything else you want to explain?"
Zhou Fei thought for a while and then said: "If the intelligence is received, the army had better fire twenty-four consecutive arrows outside the city, and we will know."
"I understand the humble position, the general needs to take care of himself!"
He cupped his fists and saluted, turned around and ran away, quickly disappearing into the dense forest.
Zhou Fei and others carried the body back to the lumberyard and sent someone to report the news to the Tibetan supervisor. In a moment, more than a dozen Tibetan cavalry rushed over.
One man dismounted and looked carefully, and said something, which meant that he had been bitten by a poisonous snake. The leader of the Tibetan general said: "Bury him and continue working!"
The Tubo people did not care about the life and death of the civilian husband, so they buried the unfortunate herb gatherer, and everyone began to continue logging, but the information about the Tubo people was leaked out by this chance.
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The 50,000-strong main force led by Guo Song entered Yazhou. In the afternoon, the army arrived at Mingshan County. Mingshan County is only thirty miles away from Yazhou City. It is only a small county with a population of less than 10,000. All the young and strong men were captured by the Tubo people.
When they went to work as civilian husbands, the old, weak, women and children basically fled, and the entire county was almost an empty city.
However, because it was a border county, the city wall was fairly solid and solid. It was getting late, so Guo Song ordered the army to camp on the spot.
He led hundreds of cavalrymen into the county town to inspect. The county town had been severely damaged by the Tibetan army and half of it was burned. There were almost no wooden houses left, and only some mud and stone houses remained.
At this time, a lieutenant general rushed over, clasped his fists and reported: "Your Highness, we searched the entire county and found a total of 655 people, but they refused to leave."
"Where is the person?" Guo Song asked.
"Just in the open space in front of the North City Gate."
"Go and have a look!"
Guo Song urged his horse to run towards the North City Gate. From a distance, he saw hundreds of people sitting in the open space in front of the North City Gate. They were all very excited and yelling at the soldiers.
When Guo Song got closer, he found that most of them were old, weak, women and children, about five to six hundred people. Many of them were crying and seemed unwilling to leave their homes.
Many soldiers were trying to persuade them, but when Guo Song arrived, the soldiers all stepped aside.
Guo Song got off his horse and asked a general: "How many people are willing to leave?"
The general shook his head and said, "No one wants to leave."
"What are they afraid of?" Guo Song asked again.
"They are much more afraid. Some are afraid that they will not be able to come back, some are afraid of dying on the way, and some are afraid that they will be ignored after leaving the city."
Guo Song nodded, stepped forward and said to hundreds of old, weak, women and children: "Dear fellow citizens, I am Guo Song, the King of Jin. I came from Chang'an. We want to fight the Tubo people and drive them out of Yazhou. Unfortunately, Mingshan
The county will become a battlefield. Once the war breaks out, everyone's life safety will not be guaranteed, and they may die here, so I want to move everyone to a safe place, to Linquan County in the north, where we will set up camp.
After setting down the tents, we will arrange for everyone to be accommodated, ensuring that everyone has food and clothing, and that military doctors will provide treatment if they are sick."
Guo Song's words were very frank and spoke directly to everyone's hearts. An old man said loudly: "Now that you are talking nicely, what should we do if you coax us out of the city first and then leave us alone?"
Guo Song laughed, and he clasped his fists at the old man and said: "My father-in-law, after all, I, Guo Song, am the king who governs thousands of miles of territory. Although I dare not speak eloquently, I will never break my word. I will do it for this."
Ruining your reputation over small things?"
He loudly said: "I can give you a promise. After the war is over, I will rebuild Mingshan County and give you a new home!"
Guo Song's words finally convinced everyone, and more than 600 people began to get up and leave the city. Guo Song ordered the soldiers to send them to the resettlement site in Linquan County, a hundred miles away.
At this time, there was no more common people in the county, so Guo Song ordered all the houses in the county to be razed, and then large warehouses were built. This city with a circumference of fifteen miles became their logistics center.
In order to prevent the Tibetan army from shooting rockets outside the city, Guo Song also ordered two deep moats to be dug 150 steps away, and the top of the city was covered with patrol sentries.
At night, all the soldiers who had been marching for a day had fallen asleep, but Guo Song was pacing back and forth in the tent with his hands behind his hands. He was thinking about how to fight this battle.
First of all, he ruled out the idea of fighting the enemy in the wilderness. These Tibetan troops would fight to the death. Even if they were defeated, it would be a tragic victory with too many casualties.
To defeat the Tibetan army, we must use technological advancement to minimize the casualties of the soldiers.
It would be best to gather them together and use a large iron fire thunder to wipe them out in one fell swoop. Thinking of this, Guo Song suddenly felt that if the enemy troops gathered in a group in the wilderness and several iron fire thunders exploded in the crowd, it would be better.
A very interesting thing.
The key is to have a moving trebuchet. Guo Song thought for a moment, then took a piece of paper and drew it on it.
At this time, a soldier said outside the tent: "Your Majesty, Scout General Zhou has sent someone to report the situation."
Guo Song was waiting for this news! He quickly ordered: "Bring him in quickly!"