Chapter 3423 Advance and Retreat
Chapter 3422 Advance and Retreat
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The rocket falls.
The sirens in Xu Huang's camp sounded almost as soon as the rocket appeared.
"Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! 』
"Take up arms!" Prepare to meet the enemy! 』
The military academy on duty shouted loudly.
Although some Sichuan and Sichuan soldiers were a little panicked, they quickly got out of the tent and lined up in armor under the instructions of the military academy.
Among the soldiers in the camp, Xu Huang didn't take off his armor at all, he just loosened his silk ribbon and then half-lyed and half-reclined to rest.
This is the normal situation for generals in war. Although they have guards and duties, many times good generals are not thinking about how to enjoy themselves or rest at all. Instead, they need constant persuasion from their guards before they can rest for a while.
Xu Huang is like this, and Zhuge Liang is like this.
He didn't rest at night. Even if he closed his eyes, his mind was still thinking about the battle situation.
Xu Huang heard the warning sound and opened his eyes without waiting for the guard to remind him. After confirming that he was not hallucinating in his sleep, he grabbed the bag beside him and buckled it on his head. He stood up and tightened his armor. The silk sash was worn, and he walked out.
"Put up the flag!" Drum roll! 』
Xu Huang ordered in a deep voice.
The guard immediately responded and left.
As soon as the flag was raised, the whole camp immediately felt at ease.
From time to time, a military academy would come to report the situation to Xu Huang and ask for instructions.
Xu Huang also dealt with it immediately, without delay, and he didn't get up in the middle of a sleep and then get disturbed.
As the saying goes, the less capable a person is, the bigger his temper will be, and there may be some truth to that. Having a strong temper does not mean that you are powerful, but it often means that you get angry because you cannot solve the difficulties in front of you.
However, when the hussars lined up to fight, they found that Jiangdong Army had no follow-up actions...
Xu Huang frowned, turned around and climbed onto the high platform. Looking around, he suddenly screamed!
The flames spread in the grass and gradually moved towards the camp with the night wind!
"Get ready to put out the fire!" 』
Xu Huang pointed in the direction of the burned grass and shouted to his soldiers.
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In Jiangdong Water Village, Zhou Yu also had trouble sleeping.
Zhou Yu's body was originally weak, and coupled with deep worries and being unable to rest well every day, it became a vicious cycle, making it even more difficult to recover.
Zhou Yu himself knew this.
But there was nothing he could do unless he let go of all his obsessions.
The reason why obsession is called obsession is that you pick it up and can't put it down.
When Zhuge Liang's technique of using water cans along the water arrived at Jiangdong Water Village, some Jiangdong soldiers discovered something was wrong, but unlike the Sichuan and Shu troops, they did not immediately raise the alarm.
Perhaps because there was no open flame, the sound of the earthen jars flowing down from the top and the cracking sound on the water fence outside the water village did not immediately alert these Jiangdong soldiers.
Even though some people suffered this attack last time...
The so-called not being knocked down twice by the same move is not the patent of Saint Seiya, but the level of elementary school students in later generations.
As all primary school students know, you cannot make the same mistake again and again for the same type of questions.
It's just that many times, some people are worse than primary school students.
Jiangdong does not have any special cultural heritage or experience, so the lessons learned from the last battle cannot become nutrients for growth in the next battle.
It wasn't until the second wave of earthen jars swayed down with some open flames that Jiangdong soldiers felt something was wrong.
"What are those?" 』
"stop! Stop those things! 』
"Someone come quickly!" Don't let those fires come near! 』
There is nothing wrong with what I shouted, but what is wrong is that it has no direction.
It’s like shouting for help on the street. It’s impossible for passers-by to save people but they don’t know what to do. After all, not everyone can be Conan. Seeing blood, death and injury is as common as seeing classmates and teachers every day, so direction is needed. instructions so that others can know what to do.
Jiang Dongbing shouted in a circle, but not many people moved. Before his eyes, he saw those open fire jars igniting the kerosene on the water fence, and then the flames spread on the water and rose into the sky!
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Water overcomes fire.
"Open the gate quickly!" 』
"Draw the water from the river!" 』
The floodgates were opened.
The river water flows gurgling along the trench which is not deep!
A group of soldiers in the camp were running along with the water flow.
If you see a place where the water flow is blocked by some rocks and soil, someone will immediately jump into the ditch and dig out the places blocking the water!
A good habit is difficult to develop, but a bad habit can often destroy something within a few days...
Xu Huang's camp on land, even if it is a temporary camp and he will not live here permanently, but all the details have not been spared.
There is a special "method" in the martial arts hall for choosing a camp, which is called the "lower camp method".
Fei Qian did not specifically come up with any numbers of seven, eight or nine to show how many ways to write "camp". He just divided it according to time and purpose, including temporary camps during short-term marches, and medium and long-term garrison that may require more than a month. The military camp is all involved.
For short-term stays, you can choose from four types: standing gun, holding gun, car camp, and horse-fighting.
When stationed in the medium and long term, you can choose firewood camp, dig camp, build camp, etc.
As for the layout of the camp, there are usually regular configurations, and then some additional defensive fortifications are added as needed.
The "camping rules" of the Military Academy will even be distributed to the first level of the military academy, and after the military academy gets the court bulletin, many middle and lower-level officers will come to borrow it. Therefore, some people in Shandong who use military knowledge as a step for promotion hate Fei Qian's practice and feel insulted by Fei Qian.
These Shandong people swear and let their descendants carry forward the spirit of Yugong. As long as they regain the power of education one day, they will do their best to delete, cut, and adjust these knowledge systems, and call it "optimization". The purpose is very simple...
So after the Song Dynasty, in the dynasty where Confucianism flourished, ordinary people can't think of "enlightenment" without a teacher!
Making the people dull is of course beneficial to governance, but when encountering emergencies, those with knowledge and ability will naturally have more ways to deal with danger, instead of just screaming on the spot.
Xu Huang's camp, in accordance with the requirements of the camping method, has a camp gate, wooden fences, and trench walls. Although it is not as solid as a permanent military camp, it has everything it should have.
Of course, war will definitely not let the other side wait for the camp to be set up before fighting, so normally, the method of building and reinforcing the camp while fighting has become a conventional choice.
However, if all knowledge and ability are in the hands of the upper level, then once the upper level generals are negligent, the result will be devastating. For example, some generals understand it, but they are immersed in the battle situation while fighting, forgetting the daily task of building the camp, and then wait for the other side to attack...
Of course, it is impossible to build a stable military camp in Xu Huang's camp in an instant, but all the infrastructure is under construction, and soldiers who do not go to the battlefield that day will be assigned some such tasks.
Therefore, there are trenches around Xu Huang's camp, but they have not been fully completed, so the sluice gates have not yet released water. Now, seeing the flames of the distant wasteland gradually spreading to the camp, the simplest and most effective way is of course not to rush out and use sand and stones, or wooden rakes and clothes to beat them, but to directly lead the river water into the trenches to isolate the flames, and if there is really something in the camp that is ignited by sparks, it is also easy to get water to put out the fire.
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On the other side, water is helping the fire.
The reason why water can help the fire is that oil is lighter than water, and the reason why it is lighter than water is that Fei Qian generally knows some principles of refining crude oil. Although Fei Qian does not understand it very well, let alone master it, it doesn't matter. As long as Fei Qian knows the direction, his men can do the right thing.
The ignition point of crude oil is relatively high and heavy, but after being refined, kerosene can float on the water.
This made some ignorant Jiangdong soldiers panic, thinking that the entire river was on fire!
"The river is burning!"
"Magic! Magic!"
"They have the Taoist method of the Heavenly Master! They are performing magic today!"
"There are wronged souls under the river! There are wronged souls!"
The reason why Zhang Jue's Taiping Dao was able to develop rapidly was that, in addition to the corruption of the court and the corruption and abuse of power by local officials, this primitive belief was still very common, especially the Five Directions God Religion in Jiangdong, which almost squeezed out a lot of living space for foreign Buddhism, and made many people in Jiangdong believe in Taoism.
Buddhism emphasizes transcendence, emptiness, destruction, and reincarnation, but the Five Directions God Religion, which was improved by Fei Qian and Zuo Ci, did not compete with Buddhism for "emptiness", but sought "reality". From transcendence to involvement, it was an important transformation of the Five Directions God Religion.
This transformation made many people in Jiangdong immediately change their "beliefs" and become "believers" under the Five Directions God Religion.
It's very simple, the old man at home is sick.
When he prayed to Buddhism, the bald man said, this is karma, retribution, original sin, you have to see through the world, understand that life is empty, let go of everything, and you will naturally be free of pain, Ami tofu...
Then he prayed to the Five Gods Religion, and the long-haired man said, this is a disease, I have herbs, take it, I am not sure about the efficacy, the most important thing is to replenish the middle qi and eliminate evil spirits, don't let the elderly get too tired...
So, which one do the people prefer to believe in?
Of course, most of these "believers" should be shallow believers, or even transactional beliefs, but this does not hinder the development of the Five Gods Religion in Jiangdong, the entire Han Dynasty, and even in foreign lands.
With more development, sometimes there will be some unexpected effects.
Some people in Jiangdong know that their Five Gods Religion came from Guanzhong and the Hussars, so they have some knots in their hearts when they want to fight the Hussars. This emotion is generally not too obvious, but in the current situation where they cannot understand, it broke out.
The most critical point, of course, is Jiangdong's method of fooling the people. Although Jiangdong did not intentionally make the common people and soldiers stupid, the Han Dynasty's long-standing practice also made many Jiangdong nobles, generals and military academies enjoy the stupidity of the common people and soldiers, and even used it as a joke after dinner.
Now these generals can't laugh anymore. When they shouted to put out the fire and stop the kerosene, saying that it was just an ordinary fire, some Jiangdong soldiers shouted "demon fire"...
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Zhuge Liang calculated correctly, but also calculated incorrectly.
He predicted that Zhou Yu would come for a sneak attack, but he did not expect that Zhou Yu did not walk out of the water, but used the grass outside the camp to set fire...
If it weren't for the Hussars' military regulations and if it weren't for Xu Huang's more cautious character at the moment, it's hard to say that the camp would have been burned and destroyed more or less.
After daybreak, black smoke filled the air, and the flames burned away everything that could be burned. When it gradually extinguished, everyone looked at the embers in the field in the distance, and they also felt lingering fear.
There are losses, but they are not big.
The soldiers in the camp were sorting out their belongings.
Zhuge Liang and Xu Huang stood on the high platform and looked into the distance.
"It's too bright." Zhuge Liang lamented, "I failed to anticipate this... I was negligent!" 』
Xu Huang waved his hand, "Why should Kong Ming blame himself?" There are many reeds on both sides of the river. We see them every day and think they are ordinary things..."
The weeds along the river are relatively luxuriant due to geography. After all, the silt carried by the river water gives these thatches a lot of nutrients, and because these areas along the river are similar to swamps, there are few large herbivores coming to feed, so these reeds can grow almost unbridled. .
These things may seem a bit surprising and strange at first, but as they are everywhere along the river, you will naturally not pay special attention to them, and your brain will even subconsciously exclude these things from the items you think about. outside.
Just like piles of sand, everyone is familiar with them. Who would have thought that piles of sand can kill people?
It is possible under certain conditions.
Everyone knows that sand cannot be piled high. Once it is piled high, it will inevitably collapse. But inside construction sites, you can often see high piles of sand, and sometimes the sand is not piled in the open space, but is piled against the simple walls outside the construction site for the convenience of management. Then, one day it rained, the weight of the sand absorbing water increased greatly, and the wall collapsed, burying people who happened to pass by...
The same was true for Xu Huang and Zhuge Liang when they set up camp here.
I originally thought it would be convenient to use this thatch here, but I didn’t expect that this thatch can also kill people!
If the trenches hadn't been dug...
Even a half-dug trench that was not too deep could serve as a fire break and save the camp from a fire.
"But..." Zhuge Liang frowned and thought, "Should we take this opportunity to fake defeat and retreat?" 』
"Fake defeat?" 』
Xu Huang repeated.
Zhuge Liang nodded.
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Zhou Yu's calculation was correct, but he was also wrong.
For Zhou Yu, he was familiar with the geographical environment up and down the river, but he was not familiar with what was going on in the heads of his ordinary Jiangdong soldiers.
He dispatched Jiang Qin, which indeed ensured the success rate of the sneak attack. However, due to the lack of Jiang Qin's link in the main camp, there were some obstacles in the operation at critical moments.
Although Zhou Yu noticed something was wrong almost immediately, and then dispatched his own bodyguards to act as front-line commanders and coordinators, these Zhou Yu's bodyguards were separated by a layer after all and were not so smooth.
The water fence did block most of the oil tanks flowing down from above.
But blocking the can doesn't mean blocking the kerosene.
By the time Zhou Yu ordered the use of denser fishing nets to intercept the kerosene, some ships outside the water village had already been contaminated with a lot of kerosene and were then set alight.
Fortunately, Zhou Yu immediately ordered to abandon the ship and push the ignited hull out, otherwise the connected hulls would ignite each other...
Because the building boat was in the center of the water village and was protected by small boats on the outside, it did not suffer any damage.
However, several fighting ships on the periphery were lost.
This kind of loss made Zhou Yu very uncomfortable.
Because precautions have been taken, and fishing nets and hooks are equipped on the surrounding ships, as long as the Jiangdong soldiers can warn them in time, and then intercept the kerosene with the fishing nets and ignite them directly, then basically there will be no burns Not to mention the ship itself, not to mention meaninglessly damaging these fighting ships.
What kind of opponents did Jiang Dongjun face in the past?
Roadhog.
Er, that's wrong, it's the South Vietnamese barbarians in the mountains and forests.
The battle with Cao Cao has already revealed some problems. The reason why Zhu Zhi was able to capture Jiangling before was not because Zhu Zhi was so powerful, but because the main force of Cao's army in Jingzhou was on the northern front at that time!
Cao Ren only used the temporarily mobilized local warriors to push Zhu Zhi back to Jiangling City. Even when Cao Ren further mobilized some real Cao army troops, Zhu Zhi could hardly hold on and was about to give up... …
It is true that Jiangdong has a strong naval force, but once it reaches land or the ship stops, problems will arise...
It's the same as when a cavalryman dismounts or stops his horse.
"Calm down...don't be angry..." Zhou Yu closed his eyes and tried his best not to think about how "stupid" these Jiangdong soldiers were, and instead focused on the battle situation in front of him.
The loss of some battleships is indeed a problem, but it is not a big problem.
The number of Jiangdong boats is still relatively large, which is barely enough.
Morale is a little lower, but the problem is not that big either.
At dawn today, Zhou Yu had already ordered the execution of the military academy that had been poorly guarded before. He severely beat the soldiers who were on duty last night. At the same time, he also rewarded the soldiers who bravely put out the fire and were gloriously wounded. He successfully diverted the attention of Jiangdong soldiers...
After dealing with these things, Zhou Yu was extremely tired.
'Go get the golden elixir.' Zhou Yu ordered the guard.
The guard hesitated a little, 'General... it's better to use less of this golden elixir... General, why don't you go to the land camp and have a good rest...'
'Go.' Zhou Yu said, 'I can't rest now... Jiangdong, can't retreat... Go get it, it's okay...'
The guard had no choice but to get the golden elixir, and then took some water and let Zhou Yu take it.
The burning sensation in the abdomen gradually spread, and Zhou Yu's face also turned slightly red.
'Report!' A Jiangdong naval scout came to report, 'General! The Sichuan-Shu army is retreating!'
'What? !' Zhou Yu stood up, took a step forward, but stopped, then frowned and thought for a moment, suddenly sneered and said, 'Are you going to pretend to be defeated again?'