It's hard to seal a fool

The frontier fortress, Xiagu Pass, is located between the valleys and is easy to defend but difficult to attack.One hundred thousand troops have five posts and one battalion, and one battalion has a thousand people.

Now it is spring and April, and the cattle and horses of the barbarians have survived the bitter cold winter, and it is the time when they are too weak to withstand the exhaustion.It is not unreasonable for the saint to choose to fight back against the barbarians at this time.

Song Qingming was originally the son of the Duke of the State, a family of military generals. Along the way, he took office as a new official three times, caught a few soldiers, punished them with small punishments, and intentionally showed his hand in front of his subordinates from time to time, hunting some prey to improve food.This is a slap and a slap for Tianzao. Within a few days, all the thousand people under his command are obedient to him.

After Song Qingming arrived at Xiagu Pass, he dispatched scouts out of the city every day to investigate. The elder grandson Youguang next door saw it but felt disdainful. He only thought it was Huangkou's first time to come to the battlefield, and he was too nervous.

That day he made a point of saying, "I said, Third Young Master Song, you have worked so hard to come out of Ningjing, you don't want to sleep in the kennel with your brothers instead of the warm, fragrant, soft jade, gold and silver nests, it's really extraordinary. "

"Serving the country is a matter of course." Song Qingming looked at him lightly, slandering him in his heart that if he doesn't know how to use idioms, don't use them indiscriminately.

"I don't know what news your scouts have found out?"

"There is no wind."

"That's right, I think Captain Song is so diligent every day, it's a waste of work."

Instead, Song Qingming nodded and replied, "Indeed."

Sun Youguang chuckled and walked away.

Within a few days, the commander led dozens of cavalry out of the city and galloped on horseback.

When Song Qingming heard the news, he smiled lightly. "The city is really tied, let him go, as if we don't know."

Never thought that at dusk, Sun Youguang would come back in despair alone.

It turned out that he met five barbarian soldiers on the road, and he chased them when he was excited, and wanted to take the head back to receive the reward. Unexpectedly, most of the dozens of cavalry lost half, and even Sun Youguang met the scout sent by Song Qingming , and fled back with injuries.

"Evil door, really evil door," Sun Youguang yelled loudly, "Lieutenant Song, you don't even know that there are only five barbarian soldiers. When drawing a bow and firing an arrow, one arrow is more accurate than the other. Our people fall down before they get close. I got off, but they chased me away! Hunbarians are really not to be underestimated, no wonder our Dawu dare not fight back these years! Let me see..."

"Sun Qidu! Be careful."

Song Qingming stopped him with a yell, it was the time when the soldiers were sitting around eating a big pot of rice, Sun Youguang's words reached the ears of many people, he glanced past them, their faces were more or less fearful psychology.

Song Qingming snorted softly: "If you don't observe military discipline and lose dozens of cavalry, and when you come back, you will shake the morale of the army. I'm afraid you don't want your head."

Sun Youguang had a lump in his throat, so he had no choice but to keep his mouth shut and let Qin Shou bandage him.

It seems that this ass can only be wiped clean by him.Seeing the low morale, Song Qingming thought for a while, with a calm smile on his face, he stood up and looked around, and shouted loudly: "Have everyone finished eating slowly? Come out and follow me after eating. Out of town!"

Sun Youguang was shocked, "No, Captain Song..."

Song Qingming personally ordered a hundred cavalry, and led the scouts who had scouted the way before, and they left the city with horseshoes amidst flying yellow sand.The gatekeeper reported the news to General Zhuangwu, and Jiang Chongshi's face turned black.

"Nonsense, this must be the vulture archer of the barbarians, is he going to die like a playboy?"

The eagles on the prairie can fly hundreds of meters high. Ordinary archers simply don't have the strength to shoot their arrows so far. Even if they can reach this height, if they are not strong enough, they can't hit the flying eagles.

After many years of training, Hunyi's eagle archers have enough arm strength and amazing accuracy. They can often shoot cold arrows at enemy generals from a long distance, and undertake the tasks of assassination, reconnaissance and attack in the Hunyi army. .

Jiang Chongshi only came to the army at the beginning of the Song, Qing and Ming Dynasties. He was young and frivolous, and didn't know the existence of the eagle archers.

Suddenly there was a sound from outside, announcing that Song Qingming's personal guards had something to present, Jiang Chongshi waved his hand to let him in, and saw Wangwang leaning over to present a military order.

"Lieutenant Song said that the matter should be done in a hurry. He must put all the five heads of the barbarians in front of the general's case, so as to boost the morale of the army."

"Hmph," Jiang Chongshi sneered, slapped the table and said, "I'm afraid I want to exchange the lives of a hundred cavalrymen for the arrows on these five men's backs. When the arrows are exhausted, the heads will belong to him. That's right, the Duke's mansion came out." What can you do with your dandy?"

"General," Wang Wang knelt and cupped his fists, "please trust him."

Outside the city, Song Qingming rode their horses and overlooked the vast yellow sand, and a ray of beacon smoke from Xiagu Pass was slowly rising.The river in the distance was glowing red under the setting sun, and suddenly the red sun was about to sink into the river.Isn't this just like the lonely smoke in the desert and the sunset in the long river.

Song Qingming held the rein in his hand, looking for the direction to go.

"Yi Sun said that the five barbarians were walking, and we can catch up to them in a short time."

"But, I'm afraid our people were shot off the horse before they rushed in front of these five people..."

"No one else needs to do anything. You, you," Song Qingming pointed, "Spread left and right, outflank them in two directions, don't let them have a chance to escape, and leave the rest to me."

Several cavalrymen looked at each other in blank dismay, and finally gritted their teeth.

In the distance, Song Qingming saw the five black dots in front of him. With a wave of his hand, a hundred cavalrymen scattered to the left and right, riding horses to encircle the five people separately.Song Qingming charged forward on horseback, and when he was still two hundred steps away, he raised his bow.

"Hoo--" The arrow from the string was shot, and one of the barbarian soldiers fell down in response.

The remaining four immediately woke up, two looked left and right, and two drew their bows.Song Qingming had a stern face, with two long arrows on his bow.His palms were slightly sweaty, but his eyes were fixed on those two people.

But in an instant, the body of the arrow left the bow, Song Qingming bent down, and the arrow shot by the archer flew past his ear, the force was astonishing.

But still a bit worse than him.

When Song Qingming raised his head again, those two fell down too.

A calm smile appeared on his face again, and he raised his voice and shouted at his subordinates: "What are you afraid of! The barbarians are nothing more than that! When you go to the battlefield in the future, just let me charge!"

He took out the arrows from the quiver again, and the morale of the cavalry on both sides was greatly boosted. They all called the captain to be mighty, and rushed towards the two eagle archers.

When the setting sun was almost sinking, Song Qingming had four heads hanging on his horse, and his men captured the remaining barbarian alive and tied him to the horse.

From a distance, the people standing on high ground saw thousands of barbarian cavalry coming towards here.

"Master Captain..." The scout Li Gou'er's face turned green, "What, what should we do? Is there still time to escape?"

The faces of the cavalry around him showed fear, and they were about to flee back while holding the horses. Song Qingming panicked, and soon sank down.

"Wait," he stopped them, now they are dozens of miles away from Xiagu Pass, if they run, it will be too late.

He watched the cavalry on the other side of the hillside ready to move, but saw that they did not have a big battle, as if they were testing.

Song Qingming's mind was flashing through Zhou Chongguan's teachings these years. He was silent for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "Don't run away, pretend that we are cavalry to lure the enemy."

"what?"

"If we go back to Ma Ce and escape now, we will be exposed." He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, "Go forward!"

The cavalry immediately became agitated, hesitated again and again, and decided to listen to the young captain.

They rode their horses and walked two miles away from the Hunyi soldiers. The Hunyi soldiers were still a little ready to move, but now they showed a timid and hesitant attitude.At this moment, Song Qingming had no room left, so he could only be bolder. Song Qingming simply ordered a hundred cavalrymen to jump down and unsaddle their horses.

"Captain!"

"Don't worry, the more relaxed we are, the more nervous they will be."

One hundred people lazily rested under the mound. It is up to God how much the chance of winning this empty city plan is.

As time passed, Song Qingming leaned on the horse to eat food and drink water, but his eyes were fixed on the slope.I hate myself for being young and frivolous, and I don't want to fold here at the beginning.

If the news spread back to Ningjing, the school lieutenant who was rewarded by the sage was captured alive by the barbarians before the battle started, and the whole Duke Wei's mansion would be ashamed.His proud mother was afraid that she would go crazy.

What a shame.Song Qingming was thinking wildly.

The group of barbarian cavalry hesitated, really hesitating.

"Master Captain, you are really good!" Li Gou'er excitedly said, "Then what should we do now?"

It was already dark, and the temperature in the desert dropped rapidly, Song Qingming was already a little cold.But as long as the group of barbarian cavalry didn't retreat, they couldn't leave.

The army in Xiagu Pass did not know where they were going, but the enemy was only two li away from them, their lives were at stake, and the backbone of a hundred cavalry was on him.

Song Qingming, you can't panic.

Song Qingming breathed lightly, until when he raised his head, he showed a confident smile towards the cavalry. "It's okay, just wait until they take the initiative to retreat."

They stared at the captain in a daze, and felt relieved for a while.

After waiting until midnight, Song Qingming's men and horses lay down casually. Seeing this, the barbarian cavalry couldn't stand it any longer, and sent a deputy general to test it out.

Song Qingming was already on alert all the time, so he immediately picked up his bow and arrow, and waited for the general to charge a hundred paces away from them. He got on his horse and drew his bow to shoot. The lieutenant fell far away.

The barbarian soldiers behind him immediately lost their battle and dragged him back in a hurry.

Song Qingming calmly put down the bow and arrow in his hand, and lay down again.

Later, when the sky became slightly brighter, the hands of Song Qingming and others were about to freeze, and the barbarians didn't send any new ones, and the opposing generals were also hesitant.Song Qingming was also betting that they couldn't be sure whether the hundred people had escaped from the army or they were luring the enemy in.

There are mostly high and low sand dunes here, and their positions are very wonderful, maybe a few hundred steps away from the yellow sand, there is an ambush for Dawu's army.

After a night of stalemate like this, the barbarians gradually began to stir up trouble.Song Qingming and the others looked at the movement of thousands of enemy troops on the opposite hillside from afar, as if they were about to retreat.

Li Gou'er, who was guarding a high place, watched carefully, and suddenly shouted softly: "They are really retreating!"

After all, this empty city trick deceived the enemy. Everyone couldn't hold back the excitement in their hearts. They waited until they disappeared completely. The cavalrymen who pretended to be asleep jumped up one after another, shouting excitedly:

"We survived!"

"The captain is mighty!"

Song Qingming smiled, and then found that they rushed up one by one, you lifted your legs and I held hands, lifting Song Qingming up from the sky.He was still a little at a loss at first, the cavalry shouted and threw Song Qingming into the air amidst the noise.

Later, even Song Qingming laughed and started a fight with them.

At daybreak, a hundred cavalrymen returned to Xiagu Pass intact.Hearing that they encountered the barbarian army, all of a sudden, the gatekeepers spread everywhere about the appearance of the boy with curly hair coming from behind his back, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted.

"Good guy." Jiang Chongshi couldn't help smiling. "It is indeed a good seedling, but it is a young man with high spirits and lacks polishing. I am afraid that he will suffer a big loss in the future."

Jin Lang will be expressionless. "That's the kid's life too."