"General, will those camels be sheepskin rafts?" One of his men asked in a low voice. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Sun Ying wasn't sure, but before he set off, he specially found a few soldiers who were proficient in rafts to follow, and he turned back to the two soldiers and asked, "What do you think?" ”

The two soldiers observed for a moment and said: "The Turks did not cover them with cloth, but tied them directly to the camels, it must be a leather raft, and judging by the size of the curl, most of them are small rafts, and a dozen camels are medium rafts." ”

"How many people can a small raft transport?" Sun Ying asked again.

"The general river can seat ten people, if the cavalry, at most three people and three horses, but the Yellow River is too fast, and the small raft is easy to overturn, but the Yellow River also depends on the location, the small raft on the Hetao can cross the river normally, and the Qin-Jin Grand Canyon is definitely not good."

"Where's the middle raft?"

"The middle raft can go on the Yellow River, and there is no problem in transporting twenty-five people at a time, and the cavalry is five people and five horses."

"And a big raft like a big ship, is there here?"

The two soldiers glanced at each other and laughed, "General, the middle raft is only one size bigger than the small raft, but the large raft that the general said is really not the same thing, it folds up like a house, and the workmanship is not the same thing at all, the bare bottom of the tight cowhide should be at least five layers, very strong, and the stones at the bottom of the water are also difficult to cut through, not many small rafts can be spliced together, until now, we have not seen such a large raft at all, even if there are not many middle rafts, but small rafts can be put together into a medium raft, Four of them could cross the Yellow River, but their raft was too small, and it would take at least a month for an army of 100,000 to be transported. ”

Sun Ying looked back at the camel team for a moment, just saying this is just a guess, it is best to get a camel, and if you have a physical object in your hand, then everything is easy to say.

It's just that the other side is very heavily guarded, and there are about 5,000 people guarding these camels, and there is no chance.

At this time, Sun Ying suddenly thought of a question, the Turkic army in the distance was eating barbecue, and it was impossible for these five thousand troops not to eat a bite, and then set off, they must also have lunch.

Sun Ying's mind turned and he understood that the Turkic army must take turns to eat, and there will be an army to replace the 5,000 army later, so will it be an opportunity to replace it?

Sun Ying hurriedly looked around to observe the terrain, and not far to the east of the herd of camels was a forest, about a mile or so from the nearest camel, and the grass and shrubs on the ground grew luxuriantly, and he immediately had an idea in his heart.

Although it was very risky, thinking of the humiliation brought to them by the Turkic sneak attack, Sun Ying gritted his teeth, he wanted to give it a try anyway.

Sun Ying immediately gathered his subordinates and explained a few words to them, and everyone nodded and went their separate ways.......

Sure enough, as Sun Ying expected, half an hour later, a group of about 3,000 soldiers had eaten and drunk enough, under the general's drinking order, lazily walked towards the camel caravan, the defenders on the camel caravan were already hungry and thirsty, and without waiting for the replacement soldiers to come, they got up and ran to the campfire in the distance, the mutton was piled on the ground, and there were a lot, the soldiers themselves had salt and spices, and each carried a bag of mare's milk wine.

The best chance was for the old guards to leave before the new guards arrived, and at that moment a dozen Sui soldiers in Turkic uniforms jumped up from the bushes, each carrying a few bags of high slave oil and running into the camel herd.

The guards did not notice that the herd of camels blocked their view, and suddenly, the bushes around the camels began to crackle and burn, and then the herd of camels also inexplicably burned, and black smoke billowed out, which was particularly pungent.

More than 1,000 camels were frightened and fled in all directions, avoiding the smoke and fire.

The Turkic soldiers were taken aback, ran up together, and pulled the frightened camels, and the scene was chaotic.

In the confusion, no one noticed that a camel loaded with a sheepskin raft had left the group, and two soldiers in Turkic uniforms dragged it towards the woods a mile away, and in a moment they ran into the woods, the scene was chaotic, the smoke obscured the vision, and no one even noticed a camel entering the woods.

The commander of the Hou army was Wen Mutie, the confidant of Chu Luo Khan, who only led less than 1,000 soldiers to break through and returned to the Turkic camp, and Chu Luo Khan felt very guilty about him, so he promoted him to the chief general of the Hou army, commanding an army of 20,000.

Wen Mutie ran over and shouted, "Put out the fire first, use soil to extinguish the fire!" ”

The Turkic soldiers, who were looking for water, suddenly woke up, and thousands of people dug up the earth to extinguish the fire, and in a short time the two fires were extinguished, and at this time, the frightened camel herd was also calmed down.

Wen Mutie's face turned pale, and he slapped each of the five commanders in the face, and scolded: "Will you die if you eat later?" One by one, like starving ghosts, they actually caught fire, who set the fire! ”

The five commanders did not dare to speak, and one of them trembled and said, "No one dares to set it on fire, and this fire will burn inexplicably." ”

How could it be that it burned on its own, there must have been a soldier who was hungry and took the fire breaker and accidentally burned it.

Although Wen Mutie guessed this, he was still a little suspicious, and he walked quickly to the bush where the fire had started in the first place, which had been burned black by the fire and was covered with splattered dirt.

Suddenly, Wen Mutie found some fine yellow crystals on the ground, he squatted down, carefully picked up a few bean-sized yellow crystals, gently twisted them with his fingers, and put them in his nose and sniffed, his pupils suddenly contracted into a line, this turned out to be sulfur.

Just then, a soldier rushed over and shouted: "General, one camel is missing!" ”

Wen Mutie suddenly understood, he pulled out his war knife and shouted: "There are Sui army scouts around, search for me!" ”

Thousands of soldiers mounted their horses and rushed to the forest in all directions to search for the Sui scouts, and a commander led a thousand cavalry to the nearest forest, and they found the footprints of the camels on the edge of the forest, so they shouted and followed the footprints of the camels into the depths of the forest.

The Turkic cavalry ran out of more than 20 miles, in front of which was a ravine several zhang wide and more than ten zhang deep, which frightened the Turkic cavalry to restrain their horses, at this time, a cavalry pointed to the bottom of the ravine and shouted: "Look, there it is!" ”

Everyone looked around, only to see that in the ravine, a camel's flesh and blood fell on a pile of rocks, blood flowed all over the ground, but the materials carried by the camel were missing.

The commander hurriedly ordered his men to search everywhere, but after searching for a while but found nothing, the commander had no choice but to lead the soldiers back to the camp.

In fact, Sun Ying had already prepared, just as the camel was led into the forest, everyone started together, unloaded the raft on the camel's back, and carried it away on horseback, while the two soldiers continued to drive the camel forward to attract the pursuit of the Turkic cavalry, until more than twenty miles later, the camel fell into the deep ditch, and the two soldiers quickly withdrew from the other side.

At this time, more than 100,000 Sui and Tang allied troops had passed through Jingle County and were marching towards the Luliang Pass, and the Sui army also carried a large amount of grain and grass, and the marching speed was not fast, and the Turkic rear army maintained a one-day marching distance.

Since the Turkic army still has 90,000 troops, it can also wipe out the Sui and Tang coalition forces, so Zhang Xuan is more cautious, he sent Huyalang to lead Sun Changle with 3,000 troops as the vanguard for 50 miles, and sent hundreds of scouts to keep an eye on the Turkic army in front.

In this way, Jang Hyun will be able to control the situation, will not be ambushed by the enemy, and will not let the enemy flee easily.

In the morning, the main force of the coalition army entered the mountain pass, on both sides of the undulating mountains, the mountains were extremely high, but not steep, the slopes were very gentle, the slopes were large meadows and forests, Zhang Xuan was in the middle of the group, he looked at the mountains, while urging the horses to move slowly.

At this time, a group of cavalry rushed ahead, and the cavalry led by him clasped his fists and said: "Qiyu Marshal, Scout Lang General Sun Ying urgently asks to see him!" ”

"Let him come to me!"

After a while, the soldier led Sun Ying up, and Sun Ying bowed and saluted: "See the big marshal for your humble position!" ”

"What's your urgency to see me?"

"Marshal Qiqi, we found the sheepskin raft of the Turkic army, which was consigned by five hundred camels, and we luckily stole one camel and got the sheepskin raft."

Zhang Xuan was overjoyed, this was a very important piece of information, he urgently ordered his guards to find the military advisor Fang Xuanling, and after a while, Fang Xuanling hurriedly arrived and asked with a smile: "Your Highness has information on the sheepskin raft?" ”

Zhang Xuan nodded and said to Sun Yingling: "Say it!" ”

Sun Ying recounted in detail how they found the sheepskin raft, and finally said: "We seized the opportunity of the exchange of guards and stole a camel by creating a fire, but the camel could not be brought, so we only brought the sheepskin raft that the camel was consigned. ”

After speaking, Sun Ying waved his hand behind him, "Lift it up!" (To be continued.) )