When the neighing sound of the Mongolian horses faded away, everyone sat down and panted, and everyone was silent in the darkness. Only Li Shuang was still cursing in a low voice from time to time. He was cursing the damn Tatar soldiers and Cheng Zhixian of Yongkang County.

and Cao Xianwei. He was injured by an arrow and ran very hard.

He was able to escape because of his strength. Fortunately, Ouyang Xuan and Yu Zhu held him up just now. However, the running just now made his wounds hurt even more. The two soldiers who were wounded by arrows also grunted in pain from time to time.

One person was hit by an arrow in the arm, and the other person was hit by an arrow in the buttocks. They were lying on the ground at the moment.

From the time they set out in the morning to the present, in addition to running around and being chased by the Mongols, the soldiers were already trapped. Li Shuang felt hungry and asked everyone to bring out food and water. Ouyang Xuan took out only half a box of compressed dry food from his backpack in the dark.

I took out another bottle of sports drink

After taking a bite of the dry food, he suddenly remembered the smile of old man Wang compressing the dry food. With a thought in his mind, he took off two small pieces, handed them to Li Shuang and Yu Zhu respectively, and whispered: "Try this

"Food used in remote valleys of Buddhism". In ancient times, sugar has always been

Food containing sugar is something only the rich and powerful can enjoy, and it must be extremely rare for these sallow-looking soldiers. As Ouyang Xuan expected, Li Shuang and Yu Zhu both exclaimed happily after a moment of entrance,

It attracted everyone to gather around.

Ouyang Xuan simply cut the compressed dry food into very small pieces and distributed it to everyone, and drank the remaining two bottles of sports drinks, which naturally caused bursts of cheers. Ouyang Xuan drank the water and drank it.

The wheat cakes tasted particularly sweet even when I was hungry.

After the meal, everyone started chatting one after another, but they were afraid of the return of the Mongolian cavalry, so they just whispered. Ouyang Xuan, Li Shuang, and Yu Zhu talked in low voices, and there were many people listening. During the conversation, Ouyang Xuan repeated what he had made up.

He was born as a wandering monk. Everyone was moved by his filial piety to pray for his parents and fulfill their wishes after going through all kinds of hardships to return to the war-torn Chongqing Mansion. They suddenly had a good impression of him.

There were so many mosquitoes in the mountains in early summer that the bites caused everyone to swat and they couldn't sleep at all. Ouyang Xuan was also bitten and itched all over his body. He couldn't help asking: "Why doesn't Yongkang County open the city gate?" "Since this is a common practice in the military,

The reason for not opening the door after dusk is because the Tatar soldiers are fast and good at raiding the city, so Xie Zhixian and Cao Xianwei did not violate the rules.

", Yu Zhu replied. "Those two are just cowardly rats. How can the huge Yongkang City be afraid of more than a dozen northern soldiers?" "It's just that Xie and Cao have always had a rift with the Chongqing Mansion, and they just refused to save them!" Li Shuang

He said with lingering anger. Li Shuang's words caused everyone to curse. Ouyang Xuan learned from everyone's words that Yongkang County has a large population due to its location on the mountainside.

It is easy to hide, so during the four raids of Shu by the Mongolian army in more than 20 years, the population was the smallest among the four counties of Chongqing Prefecture. There are still more than 1,000 households in the county, and there are 2,000 people and 500 soldiers in the village alone.

, if the whole city fights to the death, the Mongolian cavalry will definitely not dare to enter the city and will retreat in anger. However, in this year of war and famine, the Chongqing Prefecture’s grain collection sergeant

Those who are often disliked and sent to do the hard work of collecting grain are mostly marginalized people. The hard work and risks are secondary, and they are also subject to constraints everywhere. For example, Chongqing Prefecture is located in the plains of western Sichuan, and rivers are crisscrossed to allow navigation of ships.

It was extremely convenient. It was safe and labor-saving for Li Shuang and others to collect grain by water this time, but Pan Tongzhi insisted not to send a ship to go with them.

"If we fight based on the city, our soldiers of the Song Dynasty will not be afraid of the Tatar soldiers. They will never come back." All the soldiers said in various directions.

Ouyang Xuan liked reading when he was in college, especially history. Although he knew that the Mongolian soldiers were extremely powerful, especially their cavalry and archery, and that the Southern Song Dynasty army was good at water battles and city defense. Once they fought in the field, they were often defeated. But

Witnessing a fifty-man food collection team being chased by a Mongolian Rangers team of only ten people, some people saw it with their own eyes.

The five hundred soldiers of Yongkang City were so frightened that the city gates were closed, and they were still secretly frightened. From the history books, I knew that the Southern Song Dynasty regime was weak and corrupt, but now after listening to everyone's conversations, I realized that the Song army's repeated defeats were not only because of the weakness of the soldiers.

The main reason for the unfavorable situation in military affairs is political corruption, and they still refuse to stop fighting in the nest even in the face of a powerful enemy.

The temperature on the mountain slowly dropped, but mosquito bites were still severe. Although everyone was sleepy, they could not sleep. Someone was about to light a fire, but Yu Zhu stopped him because he was afraid that the Mongols would follow the light of the fire to attack. Hearing the word "night attack",

Ouyang Xuan's heart moved and he said to Yu Zhu: "The Tatar soldiers are no better than horses and bows. Now that it is dark, their riding and shooting skills cannot be used. Why don't we attack the Tatar soldiers at night?"

"The elder didn't know something. He didn't bring any lighting equipment when he went out to collect food this time. It was pitch dark and we couldn't see. How could we find the Tatar soldiers? We made a hasty torch, and the fire was unstable and short-lasting. How could we attack at night?

"Although most monks in the Southern Song Dynasty were not concerned with worldly affairs, there were many monks who rose up to fight against the Mongols' cruelty, so Yu Zhu was not surprised by Ouyang Xuan's proposal.

"Although it's dark, we can still move forward gropingly. The Tatar soldiers must have a fire in the camp, and there must be a faint light. We can follow the light." Ouyang Xuan felt that the road at night was difficult, but it was not completely impossible. As a senior

He also walked in the mountains at night. "You can't march when it's dark, so why are many wars in the world fought at night?" Thinking of this, he couldn't help but secretly criticize Li Shuang for being a coward.

"Can you travel in this weather?" Seeing Ouyang Xuan's answer, everyone asked in surprise.

"Can't you all see the road clearly?" As soon as Ouyang Xuan said this, he suddenly remembered that the volunteer soldiers in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea suffered from night blindness due to lack of vitamin A. In the early days of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, due to the blockade of the US military, our army's supplies could only guarantee the food of the volunteer soldiers.

Fullness, severe lack of animal foods such as meat and eggs, and vitamin A is only contained in animal foods. As a result, frontline soldiers generally suffer from night blindness. They cannot see at night, which is serious.

It affected the combat effectiveness. Later, in addition to increasing the supply of meat and eggs, night blindness was solved through folk remedies such as soaking in pine needle water, which later led to the night fighting and melee combat that frightened the US military. The soldiers next to me today are sallow and thin. I guess they can usually eat enough.

That's right, animal foods such as meat and eggs are probably not available. Ouyang Xuan estimated that most of these soldiers suffer from night blindness. Once it gets dark, it will be difficult for them to see without torch lighting.

"I can see the road clearly, and I also have this Buddhist artifact!" Ouyang Xuan took out the waterproof headlamp from his backpack. This outdoor headlamp can be used in low-light mode for 8 hours. Yu Zhu carefully took the headlamp

, carefully looked at the glowing light bulb, and discussed a few words in a low voice with Li Shuang.

"Okay, with this Buddhist artifact to help us, we will be even more powerful. Once we find the location of the Tatar soldiers and wait for them to fall asleep, we can take advantage of them and attack them." Li Shuang, who had been silent just now, fiddled with his headlamp and decided immediately.

At that moment, everyone sat in a circle to discuss: Ouyang Xuan and Yu Zhu would first find the Tatar camp, then return and lead everyone to sneak nearby, and wait until the third watch before taking action. Except for four who were thin and two who were injured by arrows,

The personnel stayed outside. The people who participated in the night attack were divided into two groups: Yu Zhu led two people to kill the Tatar vigil sentry first, and Li Shuang led the rest of the personnel to cover up the killing. Ouyang Xuan strongly requested to go to the sentinel with Yu Zhu
Chapter completed!