Chapter 4 Night Disturbing War Horse
Everything is ready. Qian Xiaoxing and Lu Shengzhong stood on a small slope three miles away from Juma City, staring at the official road leading to Juma City through a telescope...
At noon, Lin's 10,000 cavalry troops ran out of Huju Pass in a mighty manner. The main general Ma Hua rode in front with a machete in his hand. He led 10,000 cavalry to fight this time. Although the troops were not large, he learned that Si State had no cavalry troops at present. If he dealt with spearmen and swords, he could kill the opponent with one or two cavalry sprints. It felt very easy to defeat Si Army.
From Huju Pass to Juma City, only more than twenty miles away, when Ma Hua saw that he entered the territory of Siguo, he also ordered the troops to advance at a medium speed. After a while, he arrived at the fork in the road. On one side of the road was the Juma City and on the other side was the Cangqiong Pass.
His deputy general asked from the side of Ma Hua: "General Ma, should we go to Juma City first or go directly to Cangqiong Pass?"
Ma Hua has led troops for many years and has already led a lot. He said: "We agreed with Hu to launch an attack at noon tomorrow. It is too early to go now. Go to Juma City first. If there are a small number of soldiers, we will clean up first. If there are a large number of cavalry, our cavalry will suffer too much loss in the attack. Then go back to Huju Pass before making plans."
Ma Hua led 10,000 cavalry toward the direction of Juma City. Qian Xiaoxing, who was hiding in the distance, was clearly seen in the telescope by the cavalry, and the cavalry held a flag, and the huge word "Lin" showed their identity.
"Brother Zhong, they are heading for a refusal, and this plan is half successful." Qian Xiaoxing said excitedly.
Lu Shengzhong also held up his telescope and replied: "These guys who take the blame will make them come and go!"
Ma Hua led his troops to the front of Juma City, but saw that the city gate was wide open and there was no figure in the huge city. He said in confusion: "Deputy General, you can lead a hundred cavalry into the city to take a look."
"Yes!" After more than a hundred deputy generals, they rode into Juma City and wandered around. There was no one on the street, and even the dogs and chickens were not seen. They found several houses of people to check, but there was no one in them. So they came back to report to Ma Hua and said, "General Ma, Juma City is already an empty city, and there is no one in the people, let alone Si Jun."
Ma Hua laughed and said, "I didn't expect that the news of Si State is quite well-informed. I know that we are coming to run so fast, and such an empty city is good. When the time comes, our Lin State will migrate some people over, and the surrounding fertile fields are all ours. Then everyone will enter the city!"
Ma Hua led the troops into the city, but he did not see a single person. It seems that Si Guo really gave up on this refusing Ma City. Thinking about it, Si Jun didn't dare to resist, and he felt ashamed of Si Jun's cowardice.
"Deputy General, immediately assign soldiers to lead the horses out of the city to eat grass. After the horses are finished eating, they will pull up the suspension bridge and arrange for the soldiers to guard and prepare for the officers to attack. They will spend the night in the city of Juma tonight." Ma Hua ordered.
"Yes!" The deputy general took the order and left.
This time, the Lin Kingdom went to war with 10,000 cavalrymen, and did not bring food and grass teams, because this battle did not take long, but each soldier brought food for three days, and he could immediately return to Huju Pass for supply as soon as the war ended. The troops without food and grass are also the advantage that the cavalry can quickly reach the battlefield.
In the evening, all the war horses were taken to the grass and were led back to the Juma City. Qian Xiaoxing looked at the movements in the Juma City from afar. Seeing that the war horses returned, the suspension bridge was pulled up. Seeing Lin Jun preparing to spend the night in the Juma City, he was secretly excited. It seemed that his plan had a chance to come true.
The sunset was low, and after the last bit of red sunset reached the foot of the mountain, the sky quickly darkened. The suspension bridges of the four gates of Juma City had been pulled up. In the dark, the entire city was like a large black stone, placed flat on the plain.
Qian Xiaoxing was anxiously waiting for the night to come soon. Lu Shengzhong saw Qian Xiaoxing anxiously and said, "Seventh brother, it's still early to move, let's have supper first."
In order to avoid exposure and dare not make a fire to cook, Qian Xiaoxing took the dry food handed over by Lu Shengzhong, bit it hard, and after eating, Qian Xiaoxing lay on the grass on his back, with stars in the clear night sky, and the waning moon was slowly rising. The breeze blew on Qian Xiaoxing's face, which was extremely comfortable. Thinking that Lin Jun had successfully entered Juma City, he was in a good mood.
Qian Xiaoxing looked at the night sky bored with a telescope. Lu Shengzhong asked, "Seventh brother, what are you looking at?"
Suddenly, a meteor passed by the sky. Lu Shengzhong was stunned and hurriedly picked up the telescope and looked at it, and said, "Seventh brother, you are so powerful. When you look at the sky, you will knock down the stars."
Qian Xiaoxing smiled and said, "I have always been very accurate in shooting the cannon. Hongyue's belly is big. Why is Biyao's belly not big yet? Brother Zhong, you have to work hard."
When Lu Shengzhong heard this, he lowered his head and said, "Who is like you? You will come when you encounter an opportunity, and Bi Yao and I haven't had a few times."
"Haha, when the war is stable, I will let Hongyue let Bi Yao come over. Then it depends on whether you can hit it." Qian Xiaoxing said with a smile.
Lu Shengzhong said embarrassedly: "That is natural."
The two chatted, and the sky gradually darkened. Seeing that the sky was almost the same, Qian Xiaoxing ordered the cavalry company commander Yang Qing and said, "You go and notify the troops in the valley so that they can go out. Hidden in the half-mile position of Juma City first, and do not expose the target."
"Yes!" Yang Qing led a few people to take the order away.
The night gradually became deeper. At about ten o'clock in the evening, a few bonfires were burning in the city of Juma. Ma Hua found a big house to prepare for rest. Most of its 10,000 subordinates went to the houses in the city to go to bed. Only a small number of people served as the guards in the city.
In the south corner of Juma City, war horses gathered quietly, but occasionally made a few noises. Ten thousand war horses occupied a huge area, and some soldiers were patrolling carefully around.
Suddenly, a loud neighing sound in the middle of the war horse broke the quiet night sky. One of the war horses ran around and ran. Soon, the war horses became restless and started to chirp from time to time.
When the soldiers patrolling around saw this, they immediately walked into the horses and checked carefully. However, they saw that the horses were irritable and had no other abnormalities. They had to hold the restless war horses one by one, soothe the horses for a long time before slowly calming down.
As soon as Ma Hua fell asleep, he heard the neighing of the war horses and the noise was quite loud. He immediately got up and walked towards the horses. When he saw the inspectors, he asked, "What happened?"
When the soldiers saw many people coming over, they hurriedly replied: "Report to the general, there are a few war horses that have become restless for some reason, which has caused other war horses to make trouble."
Ma Hua said in confusion: "It's strange. War horses are well-trained. Generally, this situation will not happen in the middle of the night. Pay attention to observation and don't make any mistakes. Everyone else will go back to sleep."
Chapter completed!