This year's winter in Liaodong came earlier, this is just August, the wind in the valley is like a knife, even if Pei Xingjian wraps the cotton clothes on his body tightly, he still feels a biting cold, although it is a valley here, but not only can not avoid the wind, but there is also a mountain wind through the valley, which makes people feel that the whole body is going to be frozen numb.

However, Pei Xingjian still braved the cold wind and inspected the valley, this valley hides two thousand Tang troops, and it is Su Dingfang who leads the troops, according to the news they get, tomorrow there will be a team transporting grain passing near the valley, and their purpose is to burn the grain in the grain transport team.

In recent years, Su Dingfang has been constantly sending troops to attack and harass Goguryeo, and at first he used the most simple and crude method, that is, to directly enter the territory of Goguryeo and destroy the grain that is about to ripen, after all, many grain fields are connected together, and when they are about to ripen, they are relatively dry, and as long as a fire can cause great losses.

However, in the past two years, Goguryeo has also learned a lesson, began to station heavy troops in some grain-producing areas, and even built some simple fortresses on the main transportation routes, which can be said to have invested a lot of money, but this is also a helpless thing, because Goguryeo not only has the external trouble of the Tang Dynasty, but also has internal disputes, coupled with natural disasters and other reasons, so that food is also extremely scarce, if Su Dingfang is allowed to destroy it like this, I am afraid that they will not need the Tang Dynasty to attack, and they will fall themselves.

Goguryeo's above practices also added a lot of trouble to Su Dingfang, and it became very difficult to set fire to Goguryeo's grain, so he changed his approach this year, no longer focusing on the grain growing in the field, but on the transportation of grain after harvest, after all, the core of Goguryeo is in Pyongyang, and after the grain on the border is harvested, it must be transported to the northeast, destroying the grain of a transport team, which is almost equivalent to destroying hundreds of tons of fertile land.

This valley is relatively hidden, but the Goguryeo people are also very careful, and they have been constantly sending spies to inspect before, so Su Dingfang is also very careful, for example, now they can't even raise the fire, just for fear of being discovered their traces, Pei Xingjian came out to inspect, and mainly to see if any of the soldiers raised the fire to keep warm, or made a loud noise, etc., so as not to expose their whereabouts, and then not only failed in the ambush, but even might attract a large number of Goguryeo troops, maybe they all have to stay here, After all, this place has penetrated deep into the territory of Goguryeo, and it is difficult to escape if it is surrounded.

The two thousand people in the valley are all veterans under Su Dingfang, some of them have followed Su Dingfang since they first attacked the Turks, and they have not gone deep into Goguryeo once or twice, so these people all know the rules, and at this time they all stay in the tent silently, or wipe their weapons, or eat dry food in cold water.

Speaking of which, with the abundance of the Tang Dynasty, the soldiers in the army also enjoy the blessings, in the past, there was only one kind of dry food in the army, that is, baked dry cakes, which were hard enough to be used as shields, but in recent years, the variety of dry food in the army has increased a lot, and ordinary soldiers can also eat dried meat and the like, and even occasionally there will be delicious canned food.

After Pei Xingjian walked around the camp, he then went to ask the soldiers who were patrolling the periphery, and he didn't find anything abnormal, so he returned to the camp with confidence, because this time the army was lightly armed and simple, and the things they brought were as few as possible, for example, the soldiers below were all twenty people crowded into a tent, and it could be said that they couldn't even stretch their feet when they lay down.

And Pei Xingjian and Su Dingfang also took responsibility, and the two of them also lived in a tent, after all, compared to ordinary soldiers, they needed to discuss countermeasures, plan the route of the march, etc., and there must be a relatively quiet environment.

Pei Xingjian returned to the camp and found that Su Dingfang was drawing a map himself, speaking of which, this valley was the farthest boundary they had penetrated into Goguryeo, and there was no map here before, so after arriving here, Su Dingfang began to draw the nearby terrain, and if he attacked Goguryeo in the future, he might be able to use it.

"The map drawn by the gentleman is really standard!" Pei Xingjian walked to Su Dingfang's side, looked at the map he had drawn, and couldn't help but praise at the moment.

"Hehe, it's not that I'm good at drawing, but it's good at teaching in the military academy, speaking of which, the standard for drawing maps is still set by the horse, as long as you draw according to the method he set, there will generally not be any big problems." Su Dingfang said with a smile at this time, he also studied in the military academy, and this method of drawing maps was taught in the military academy.

"It turned out to be the work of a colt, no wonder the gentleman painted it so well." Pei Xingjian couldn't help but smile again when he heard this.

"By the way, is there a situation outside?" Su Dingfang put down the pen in his hand at this time, and then looked up and asked, although the information he received said that the team carrying grain would pass by tomorrow, but it was not ruled out that the other party would pass by a day earlier, so he also planted a lot of spies near the valley, and every once in a while, someone would send the situation outside the valley over.

"Not yet, and I see that it's getting dark, I guess the other party won't come today!" Pei Xingjian immediately replied that it was very windy outside, the sky was also covered with dark clouds, and it was almost dark, so he estimated that the team carrying grain should also camp and rest at this time.

Su Dingfang also nodded when he heard this, then rubbed his stomach and said with a smile: "It just so happens that I'm hungry too, let's have some food together, otherwise we can't light the lights at night, and I can't find my mouth to eat!" ”

Hearing Su Dingfang say that he wanted to eat, Pei Xingjian smiled bitterly, because only he knew what the other party meant when he said to eat, I saw him helplessly turn around and come to the place where he was sleeping, and then took out a special container from the things he brought, then put a bag of things inside, took out a bottle of canned food and put it in, and finally poured water, but after a while, steaming heat came out of it.

"Haha~, it's a blessing for you to keep the promise, you actually married a student of the horse, you can really be called talented and beautiful, and now we can all eat hot meals!" Su Dingfang laughed and praised at this time, because he couldn't raise the fire, he couldn't even eat a hot meal, but now thanks to Pei Xingjian's newlywed wife, they can finally eat a mouthful of hot rice.

"Actually, this method is very simple, it's nothing more than quicklime heating up when it meets water, but unfortunately we didn't think of it before." Pei Xingjian heard Su Dingfang praise his wife, and he also showed a very longing expression at the moment.