The Record of Swordsmen in the Late Sui and Early Tang Dynasties

Chapter 257 Chapter 240
The old prince Qiu Rui led a few people back to his tent of the Chinese army, only to see his two lieutenants busy packing things.

Qiu Rui nodded in satisfaction.

"Fan Zhang, Zhou Tai, you two have worked hard, let's have dinner with the king in this big tent later.

There are some things we have to discuss and discuss carefully. "

After hearing this, the two bowed their hands at Qiu Rui.

"Thank you, coach, for your kindness. Let's have a good meal with the coach today."

Qiu Rui looked at his two lieutenants and said: "Fan Zhang, Zhou Tai, it doesn't matter if you eat well or not, you two must keep this Dulongguan with this king, only in this way can we keep our wealth and lives, you two understand ?"

The two lieutenants bowed their hands.

"Commander, the general understands. I will obey the command of the commander and swear to keep this Dulong Pass to the death."

"Well, that's all right. Alright, let's order dinner, let's go to bed early, and tomorrow you can follow the king to discuss matters."

The time was not long, and the food was served. Duan Wuji saw that the chef brought up a large plate of boiled meat, a large plate of steamed buns, and a large plate of vegetable soup.

Xin said: This life is hard enough, the commander is like this, the life of an ordinary soldier can be imagined to be even worse.

Hey, it looks like life in the military is hard enough.

The old prince looked at several people and said, "Come on, sit down and eat. It should be pretty good to eat this in this military camp.

Hey, Promise, Tieniu, hurry up and sit down.This place is no better than home, and it would be nice not to go hungry in this army. "

Several people listened to the old prince's order, and they were not polite, and they all sat down and ate wildly. After dinner, everyone went back to their tents to rest.

Not bad, Duan Wuji and Tie Niu shared a small tent, the two put their horses on the open space in front of the tent and gnawed on the green grass, and they entered the tent early to rest.

In the morning of the next day, after breakfast, the two of them entered the big tent early and waited for Lord Qiu to go.

After breakfast, the old prince looked at several people and said, "Fan Zhang, you stay here to guard the camp. I'm not here. You are the leader here, and you have the final say on everything.

Fan Zhang, if you don't have any other skills, it shouldn't be a problem to guard the barracks, right? "

Fan Zhang bowed his hands.

"Commander, don't worry, with me, Fan Zhang, this barracks is safe."

"Well, that's good. Mrs. Zhou, Tianbao, and the two of you, let's go, let's go to the former enemy's camp to discuss matters."

After finishing speaking, the old prince led a few people straight to the front enemy's large tent of the Chinese army, entered the big tent, and saw that the defenders of Dulong Pass had all arrived. There were a total of more than ten people. When the staff came over, they quickly stood up and bowed their hands to salute.

"I've been waiting to see the prince for thousands of years."

The old prince smiled.

"You don't need to be too polite. Take a seat quickly."

The old prince took a roster from the table and looked at it carefully for a while, and then began to roll the names according to the list of people on the roster.

"Jin Zhaoxiong, the commander-in-chief of Dulong Pass."

A tall man in his forties stood up.

"The end is here."

"Well, sit down.

Yu Dapeng, the deputy commander of Dulong Pass. "

"The end is here."

A young general in his early thirties also stood up immediately.The old prince glanced at him and waved his hand.

"sit down."

The old prince counted the names one by one according to the roster, and after the counting, the old prince looked at the commander-in-chief of Dulong Pass and asked, "Jin Zhaoxiong, tell me, do you have any difficulties in this barracks?"

Jin Zhaoxiong said with a smile after hearing this: "Of course there are a lot of difficulties. First of all, our army camp is running out of rations. How do you think the army is short of rations?"

"Then, how many days will the food and grass in your military camp last?"

"Well, it can last for about 20 days."

"Oh, it's time to urge food and grass. How can the army do without this? But it doesn't matter. We brought more than two months' worth of food this time. At worst, I'll distribute some to you first to solve your urgent needs. "

Jin Zhaoxiong was overjoyed.

"Thank you, coach, I am here to thank you on behalf of the soldiers of the Manchu battalion."

"It's all family, thank you?
Hey Jin Zhaoxiong, do you have any other difficulties in this army? "

"Yes! My lord, after these several battles, the arrows of the soldiers in my camp are extremely short, and all the arrows combined are less than [-].

Guarding this Dulong pass, how can you do it without arrows?I think these arrows are only enough for one or two more uses. If this problem is not solved, how do you keep this level? "

Prince Qiu was also stunned when he heard this.

"Building arrows can't be done in a short period of time. Even if you send a document to transfer, I'm afraid you won't be able to transfer it back in a short time. This, this, what should I do?

If it doesn't work, I have to give you some from my army first, but the key point is that my army doesn't have too many arrows, ouch!Here, what can we do? "

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "My lord, why don't we go up to this pass for field inspection first, and see if we can find other good ways to do it.

I think there is no unparalleled road that day, and there is always a way. "

"Well, all right. Let's go, generals. Let's go up to the city tower first. Let's do some on-the-spot investigation before we talk about it. Let's see if we can come up with any other good solutions."

When everyone heard this discouragement, they thought to themselves: If we could think of other ways, then we would have thought about it a long time ago, so why bother with you?

The coach had no choice but to speak, and the generals had no choice but to follow.

The old prince led all the generals up to the tower of Dulongmen, Duan Wuji stood on the closed tower and looked down.

Hey, I saw that this section of the pass is more than twenty feet long and eighty-nine feet high. This pass was built at the narrowest part of the mountain pass, and to the west of the pass is the boundless prairie.

Outside the pass, there are piles of rocks and mountains of corpses, including Sui soldiers and Sui generals, as well as the Turkic people, but judging from the clothes, most of them belong to the Tuyan people.

I saw that these dead bodies had all kinds of shapes, such as missing arms, missing legs, headless, crawling, lying down, and all kinds of shapes.

As soon as the breeze blew, a stench floated up the city, Duan Wuji frowned when he heard it, and thought, this is too smelly, this place has been waiting for someone for a long time.

After watching it for a long time, Duan Wujiniu turned his head and said to the general guarding Dulong Pass: "Hey, I said General Jin, don't you see that there are arrows all over the pass city? Send a few people down to pick and choose Is there a problem?"

Jin Zhaoxiong smiled wryly after hearing this and said, "It's not that we haven't thought of your method, we have sent more than a dozen brothers down to pick up arrows, but the enemy's horses rushed over before picking up many arrows.

As a result, the brothers who picked up the arrows all died, and not many arrows were picked up. After several attempts, we no longer dared to go down.

Besides, the city gate below was blocked by sandbags a long time ago, and if you go down, you have to use a rope to send people down. Once the enemy cavalry rushes over, how can you have the slightest chance of escaping?

Brother, what do you think? "

After hearing this, Duan Wuji smiled at the old prince: "The Wang family is a thousand years old, how many scattered arrows do you see before this pass?

Can't you send a dozen people down to pick them up?Isn't this faster than the arrows? "

Qiu Rui nodded.

"Well, that's the reason. I think this method will work."

"Jin Zhaoxiong, hurry up and organize [-] daredevils to go down to pick up arrows. How can there be no arrows with so many arrows down there?

Tell the brothers, there is a reward for going down to pick arrows. "

Jin Zhaoxiong laughed and said, "Is there a reward? What is the reward for?"

Duan Wuji smiled and said: "What reward? Just tell the brothers, whoever goes down to pick arrows, won't they be finished if they have meat at noon?"

"Ah? Is there any meat to eat? Is this possible? Now there is probably no more than a catty of meat in this barracks, right?

Brother, is our army a place where words count?How can you just talk about it casually? "

Duan Wuji smiled and said: "I said General Yu, I said that if there is meat at noon, there will be meat. This time, as long as I come to command, there will be meat at noon. If there is too much meat, there will be thousands of meat. There are still some."

"Ah? Brother, this cowhide is not for bragging, and this mountain is not for beating!"

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "General Jin, why don't you help me, let's have a good fight with him today.

First, to solve the shortage of arrows, and second, to improve the lives of the brothers. "

Jin Zhaoxiong laughed out loud.

"Brother, what do you think we should do? Today I'm going all out, and I'm willing to help you."

Duan Wuji looked at Qiu Rui.

"The Wang family is thousand years old, how about it? Let's fight him together?"

Qiu Rui laughed and said: "Okay, okay, my king supports you.

Generals, let us strengthen our vigilance, and we will do our best to protect their actions of picking arrows.Promise, just let go of your arms and do it. "

Jin Zhaoxiong said with a smile: "Brother Wuji, what should you say? I'll listen to you."

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Look for forty long ropes and twenty baskets. You organize people to use the baskets to quickly hang the brothers down, and then you organize people to hang things up quickly. Note that there are people in the baskets. Anything hanging, the faster you move, the better."

Yu Zhaoneng laughed and said, "That's it? Okay, I know. I have all these things in this level. Okay, I'll prepare right away."

After a while, Jin Zhaoxiong brought over twenty strong soldiers.Duan Wuji glanced at these soldiers and said with a smile: "I think you are the ones who go down to pick up arrows. Remember, you have to obey the command when you get down there. Don't panic. If you panic, you will die. Do you remember? ?”

"Under command? Under whose command?"

Duan Wuji smiled and said: "Of course I obeyed my command. Do whatever I tell you to do, and I will protect your lives."

Tieniu listened and pulled Duan Wuji with his hand.

"Brother, do you want to go down in person?"

Duan Wuji nodded.

"Of course, you said that if I don't go down, how can I do it?"

After hearing this, Tieniu said anxiously: "Brother, since you want to go down, then brother, I will go down with you. We two brothers share life and death, and I will never let you take that risk alone."

"Okay! Brother Tieniu, you have to take your sword with you when you go down this time. It will be of great use to us when you go down."

"Okay, no problem, what else should we bring? Tell me."

"What do you bring? Bows and arrows. Let me tell you, let's bring more arrows this time. Each person should bring at least fifty."

"Okay, you can even bring a hundred sticks."

In a short time, Jin Zhaoxiong brought the rope and the carrying basket, Jin Zhaoxiong
Instruct people to fasten the basket.

Qiu Rui looked at the crowd and said with a smile, "Which one of you will go down first?"

After hearing this, Duan Wuji said with a smile: "Old Qiantui, of course we went down first.

General Jin, tell the brothers, when the brothers below us are not injured, the enemy is not allowed to shout, let alone shoot arrows, do you hear me clearly? "

"Okay, I hear you clearly.

Brothers, did you hear that just now? "

Everyone laughed in unison: "Master, we understood everything just now. Don't worry, we will follow orders."

"Well, that's good, let's put two baskets down first, and put these two brothers down first."

Duan Wuji took more than a dozen arrows from the soldiers guarding the city and put them in his quiver, and Tie Niu also took more than a dozen arrows from the soldiers and put them in his quiver. The two sat on the basket and got down.

(End of this chapter)