The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1456 Set fire to the mountain
"General, since there is fraud ahead, shall we go back or..." the person next to the deputy commander asked hesitantly.

"How could you go back so easily?" The lieutenant smiled and said, "Look at how beautiful the night is tonight. It's near the sea, and the wind blows comfortably."

"What does the general mean?"

"Since someone is waiting for us in the valley, we can't let them down, let them wait for nothing." The deputy commander smiled, stretched out his hand, and took the cloth wrapped in dry biscuits from his arms. He took it out and held it in his hand: "Look at the direction of the wind."

"Is there something wrong with this wind direction?"

The deputy commander shook his head, it's not wrong, it's just that God is helping: "You go and ask people to prepare some firewood, both dry and wet, and let 200 people go to the forest ahead and cut down some trees. Light him a fire."

This season, the valley is still lush and green. Now that the wind direction is just right, the deputy commander is planning to burn the mountain, but he doesn't want to burn it all, so he will let people enter the forest and cut down some trees first.

"The general wants to smoke out the people who are lying in ambush on the mountain?"

"Exactly, since we don't know how many people the other party has, let the other party tell us how many people they have." The deputy commander said.

It is a big taboo for military strategists to rush forward without knowing the details of the opponent. No matter what the situation between Liu Renyuan and the 1000 people is now, he must also be responsible for the [-] brothers under him, and he cannot rashly give them their wealth and lives. Die here.

After preparing for about a quarter of an hour, the scouts behind came here, holding Xuan Shijing's token token in his hand.

"General, Duke Xuan led the army to support the general in the back." The scout reported: "Grand Xuan said that the situation ahead is unclear, general please proceed carefully."

"Go back and report to Duke Xuan. The wind direction is just right now. Those people should be lying in ambush on the mountain, waiting for the army to enter the valley, and attack the army in the valley. They will eventually set fire to the mountain."

"Yes." After the scout got the news, he rode on a fast horse and rushed towards the army behind.

Now only Chang Le is left by Xuan Shijing's side, and Gao Jun was sent out by Xuan Shijing with a team of elite troops to look for Liu Renyuan's trace.

The navy's troops were divided into three parts, one part was the large force led by Xuan Shijing and the deputy commander of the navy, the other part was the 1000 people led by Liu Renyuan, and the other part was to stay in the camp to guard the camp Soldiers, among these three parts, there is only Liu Renyuan's part, which has not yet been contacted.

Xuan Shijing was also uncertain and worried, but he was the chief general, so he should not panic or panic, he had to be calm, if he kept calm, the whole team would be able to keep calm, and whoever could not keep calm would lose.

About half an hour passed, and under the order of the deputy commander, the people in front lit the firewood they had prepared, and directly lit half of the forest, and the thick smoke drifted along the direction of the wind towards the valley.

The people in ambush in the valley smelled it and panicked.

"My lord, the people below the valley did not enter the valley, but set fire to the mountain below. The fire below is very fierce, and it may burn up soon. Let's retreat first."

"I'm really not reconciled." The middle-aged man called an adult clenched his fists: "It's the only way to go."

Now it's just smoky choking, and when the fire really burns up, there are so many of them, none of them can escape.

The fire takes advantage of the wind to burn so fast that people cannot run away.

"Retreat!" The leading middle-aged man ordered, and the people ambushing in the woods on the valley began to withdraw one after another.

"General, there is movement in the valley."

Deputy Commander Shao Shan was just putting on a show, in order to scare them out.

"It's time for us to go." The deputy commander said with a smile: "Go around and intercept them. You don't need to ask more questions, and you will kill them!"

When the night is dark and the wind is high, ordinary people will not appear in this valley. Those who can be on both sides of this valley are enemies who are ready to ambush them. Since they are enemies, there is no need to show mercy.

Along the edge of the felled forest, with the help of the fire on one side, the soldiers of the Navy quickly began to covertly cover the lower side of the valley, waiting for those people to come down from the valley.

The scouts in front sent the news to Xuan Shijing. Xuan Shijing made a decisive decision and led people around from the flanks to assist the deputy commander to complete their outflanking.

With the troops brought by Xuan Shijing, it is more than enough to face those people.

When these people on the island retreated from the mountain, they confronted the soldiers of the navy, who had been waiting at the foot of the mountain for a long time.

All of a sudden, the two people fought into a ball, and afterward, the people led by Xuan Shijing surrounded them tightly.

"Be careful to leave a few alive, I still have something to ask them." Xuan Shijing ordered.

"Yes!"

The battle suddenly turned into a one-sided massacre. After the fight, the soldiers of the Navy began to clean up the battlefield. Except for the few survivors they caught, the rest lay on the ground.

"Check carefully. Those who are still breathing will be given a ride, and those lying on the ground will not be left alive." Xuan Shijing said.

After this battle, Xuan Shijing no longer had any expectations for the people living on the Ryukyu Island. Originally, he surrendered to the former Sui Dynasty because they were scared of being beaten and the country was destroyed, so he could only surrender. After so many years Having no contact with the Central Plains, living on this island, it seems that it has swelled again.

These foreigner people in the borderlands are like this. Once the imperial court of the Central Plains relaxes a little bit here, they will become so inflated that they don’t know what their surname is, so they have to be cleaned up.

That's why Xuan Shijing will be ruthless this time. Since he has fought, he should fight hard. After the fight, he will not even take the prisoners. After several fights, they are scared and convinced Only then can they be used smoothly, otherwise, if you press the gourd and lift it up, who can control them all the time on this island.

But now that we have arrived on Ryukyu Island, the flag of Tang Dynasty must be planted on this island. After returning, we have to write a letter to the imperial court to set up a state capital on Ryukyu Island and make it truly belong to Datang. In the history books, engraved on the stone tablet, the stone tablet stands on this island in a serious manner, and some people in the province have bad eyesight.

In the southeastern coastal area, there are the most storms on the sea, which are almost uninterrupted. Pirates are one thing, and so are some ronin who floated from the Japanese kingdom. When I was in Quanzhou, the pirates I faced were raised by the government. , but if pirates appear on the sea in this area, their identities will be much more complicated.

(End of this chapter)