Thousands of miles of yellow clouds, the north wind withers the white grass.

A crescent moon hangs alone above the dark night like a scimitar.

At the beginning of October in the north, it was already a cold night even wrapped in a jacket.

On the north bank of Baishui River, Lijialing of Baishan Mountain.

There is a dense poplar forest growing on the hillside, and the slope is covered with a thick layer of dead leaves.

The north wind blows, and there is a rustling sound of fallen leaves in the forest.

Among the thick tree trunks, there are shadows and shadows dormant in it.

Lu Yanchen led ten people and had been squatting in this forest for two hours.

This is the first task he received after coming to Yunzhou——

Rescue Gu Haiwang.

He Qingchang was not surprised when he took the imperial decree to report in the army, but he just gave him a vain post to join the army and asked him to follow him.

Three days after arriving in Yunzhou, he suddenly summoned Lu Yanchen alone and showed him a secret decree.

Before the expedition, Ye Qinghuai issued an imperial edict to him alone, asking him to secretly rescue the captured Gu Haiwang.

This decree was issued in a very bizarre way.

Both rescue and secret.

It can be said that the strong are difficult.

He Qingchang once felt a headache for this secret decree.

When discussing strategy in the account one day, He Qingchang discovered that Lu Yanchen knew the terrain of this place very well, so he made a sudden plan and decided to entrust this arduous task to Lu Yanchen.

Lu Yanchen didn't say anything, and even complied.

He Qing was overjoyed when he grew up, and from then on he asked for whatever he wanted.He also gave him the authority to check the confidentiality, assigned him the scouts, and assigned the equipment to him.

Ten days later, Lu Yanchen suddenly asked him for fifty people who were skilled and not afraid of death, saying that he wanted to cross the river.

He Qingchang hesitated for a day and agreed to him.

Lu Yanchen led these people across the river on bamboo rafts at night from the narrow river.

According to the report from the scouts, the main camp of Beidi's rear army was set up in Lijialing, and Gu Haiwang was being detained here.

The rear army was in charge of logistics and supplies, although the combat power was not strong, they guarded Gu Haiwang very closely.

Lu Yanchen then formulated a strategy to encircle Wei and save Zhao.

This large army expedition in Beidi brought a lot of food, grass and equipment with them, and a small Lijialing was far from enough to store them.Therefore, Beidi built another garrison in a mountain valley ten miles away to store grain and grass.

Lu Yanchen divided the fifty people into two teams, leaving ten people to follow him in Lijialing to wait for an opportunity to rescue people, while the others went to the cols and mountains to set fires along the road.

He didn't ask for a lot of food and grass to be burned, as long as it could be densely covered with smoke, creating the illusion of burning the company camp, mobilizing the troops stationed in Lijialing, and giving him a quarter of an hour's rest.

However, Beidi controlled all the places where tung oil was stored in the mountains. It took Lu Yanchen half a day to capture the nearest tung oil station.

He asked his brothers to make a lot of hay balls drenched in tung oil, and each grass ball was half the height of a person.

Then, he used ropes to net these burning fireballs on both sides of the hillside along the valley. At that time, he only needed to ignite the ropes, and the fire would burn along the ropes, burn these rope nets, and ignite the fireballs at the same time. Burning fireballs will roll down the road in the valley.

After everything is arranged, he just needs to wait until.

Waiting for the arson team to succeed.

The team following Lu Yanchen were all young men, and only one of them was from Yunzhou.

It was the first time for the others to see the knife-like north wind and the freezing night in Yunzhou.

From the middle of the month to the middle of the day, the hands and feet of the young men were already numb from the cold, and the hot air they breathed seemed to be frozen in ice around their mouths, and they couldn't breathe on their hands at all.

Lu Yanchen seemed to be more adaptable to this kind of weather.He hid behind a tree, bowed his body, and focused on the movement in the camp not far away, as if he didn't feel the cold.

In the dark valley in the distance, a little light suddenly lit up.

Soon, that little light turned into many flames.The flames were connected together, like a fire snake stretching for several miles, entrenched in the depths of the valley, and finally merged into a sea of ​​fire in the mountain depression.

That's where Beidi stored grain and grass.

Lu Yanchen's heart was half relieved.

He had previously estimated that there were at least 3000 troops stationed in Beidi to guard food and grass, but there were only forty brothers who set fire to the camp on their side.

For a while, he was worried that he would miss it.

If there was a mistake, it would probably alert the snake, and it would be difficult to rescue Gu Haiwang.

Now that the fire is lit, the plan is already half successful.

Sure enough, there was chaos in the main camp of the rear army.

For Beidi's expedition this time, the coach is Luodi, the second prince of Beidi, and the military adviser is Chu Boliang.

This person has some reputation. He has led the army to the south many times and fought against the Dajing army many times. It can be said that he is the one who has the deepest grudge against the Dajing army in the Beidi army.

It was precisely because of this that Lu Yanchen predicted that once he learned that Dajing's army was attacking the rear grain and grass, he would never sit idly by and send troops to fight.

Sure enough, with the frequent entry and exit of personnel from the main tent, the main camp of the rear army stationed in Lijialing soon took action.

The army blew the horn, and soldiers from each camp came out one after another in armor, lit torches and gathered into troops, some on horseback and some on foot, heading towards the col.

"Join the army, shall we move?" Seeing the soldiers and horses in the barracks walking out slowly, the young man behind Lu Yanchen clenched the knife in his hand and leaned forward to ask.

His voice trembled.After all, in the face of an enemy hundreds of times larger than oneself, no one is not afraid.

"Wait a little longer." Lu Yanchen looked up towards the col.

Almost at the same time when he looked up, a cloud-piercing arrow sounded in the forest.

The arrow was like a faint cry among the fire-shining mountains, and it disappeared into the night sky in the blink of an eye.

But Lu Yanchen still keenly caught the arrow.

Because what he has been waiting for is this arrow.

The sound of this arrow meant that the arson team had already begun to retreat.

He must act.

The enemy would soon discover that it was a feint.

Lu Yanchen stood up suddenly, and a figure appeared from behind the tree.

The long knife beside him was also out of its sheath.

Under the moonlight, the long knife glowed with a cold light.

It seems like another crescent moon on the ground.

Lu Yanchen didn't speak, but took a false step along the downhill direction.He held the knife in both hands, and the tip of the knife pointed directly in the direction of the main tent of the rear army. His upper body leaned back slightly, like a bow that was slowly drawn.

Then, he turned his head and said to the young men holding knives behind him: "Everyone, success or failure depends on one move. There is no joining the army today, only brothers."

After saying that, he looked back at the enemy camp. A cold light flashed in his eyes, and the people were rushing down the slope like arrows.

A group of people rushed towards the main camp of Beidi's rear army like blades tearing through the cold night.

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