Chapter 3422 Advance and retreat
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The rocket fell.
The alarm sound in Xu Huang's camp almost rang out at the moment when the rocket appeared.
『Enemy attack!Enemy attack!』
『Pick up the weapon! Get ready to face the enemy!』
The on-duty military academy shouted loudly.
Although some Sichuan and Shu soldiers were a little panicked, they soon got out of the tent and lined up under the command of the military academy.
Among the central army of the camp, Xu Huang did not remove his armor at all, but just loosened his silk ribbon and then lay halfway and rested halfway.
This is the norm for generals in war. Although they have guards and duties, many times, good generals are not interested in how to enjoy and how to rest. Instead, they need guards to persuade them to take a short rest.
This is true for Xu Huang, and so is Zhuge Liang.
I didn't have a rest at night, and even with my eyes closed, I was still thinking about the situation in my mind.
When Xu Huang heard the warning sound, he opened his eyes without waiting for the guard to remind him and confirmed that it was not his hallucination in his sleep. He grabbed the bag on the side and buckled it on his head, got up and tied the silk ribbon on his body, and walked out.
『Stand the flag! Beat the drum!』
Xu Huang ordered in a deep voice.
The guard immediately answered and left.
If you raise the flag, the whole camp will immediately feel at ease.
From time to time, military academy came to report the situation to Xu Huang and request instructions.
Xu Huang also dealt with it immediately without delaying it, and there was nothing he could sleep halfway and then get upset.
As the saying goes, the less capable a person has, the bigger his temper, and there may be some truth. A big temper does not mean that he has great ability, but often because he cannot solve the difficulties in front of him, he will get angry.
However, when the Hussars were lined up to fight, they found that the Jiangdong Army had no follow-up actions...
Xu Huang frowned, turned around and climbed up to the platform. When he looked left and right, he suddenly screamed badly!
The flames spread in the grass and gradually came towards the camp with the night wind!
『Prepare to put out the fire!』
Xu Huang pointed to the ignited grassland and shouted to his soldiers.
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Zhou Yu also found it difficult to sleep in Jiangdong Water Village.
Zhou Yu's body was originally weak, and he was worried, so he couldn't rest well every day. The more vicious cycle it became more difficult to recover.
Zhou Yu himself also knew this.
But he had no choice unless he let go of all obsessions.
The reason why obsession is called obsession is that it can be picked up and cannot be let go.
When Zhuge Liang's technique of flowing along the water tank arrived at Jiangdong Water Village, some Jiangdong soldiers discovered something was wrong, but unlike the Sichuan and Shu army, they did not immediately warn.
Perhaps because there was no open fire, the clay pots that flowed from the top and the cracks on the water fences outside the water village did not immediately alert these Jiangdong soldiers.
Even though some people had already suffered this kind of attack last time...
The so-called "not being defeated twice by the same move" is not the patent of Saint Seiya, but the level of elementary school students in later generations.
All primary school students understand that they can’t make mistakes again and again.
But many times, some people are not as good as primary school students.
Jiangdong has no special cultural heritage or experience teaching, so the experience and lessons learned last time cannot be the nutrients for the next battle growth.
It was not until the second wave of earthenware, which brought some open flames to the ground, that the soldiers in Jiangdong felt something was wrong.
『What are those?』
"Stop! Stop those things!"
"Come on now! Don't let those fires get close!"
There is nothing wrong with shouting, but the wrong thing is that there is no direction.
It’s like shouting for help on the street, saying that pedestrians and passers-by don’t know what to do if they want to save them. After all, it’s impossible for everyone to be Conan. Seeing blood and casualties is as ordinary as meeting classmates and teachers every day, so directive instructions are needed so that other people can know what to do.
Jiangdong soldiers shouted in a mess, but few people moved. They could see those open flame jars lit the turbulent oil on the water fence, and then the flames spread on the water surface and soared into the sky!
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Water overcomes fire.
『Open the gate quickly!』
『Turn the river water!』
The sluice was opened.
The river water flows along the not-deep trenches!
The soldiers in the camp were running along with the water flow.
If someone sees that the water flow is blocked by some stones and soil, someone will immediately jump out of the trench and dig the places that block the water!
A good habit is difficult to develop, while a bad habit can often destroy something within a few days...
Xu Huang's land camp was built on the ground. Even if it was a temporary village and did not live here for a long time, all the details were not saved.
When choosing a camp, there is a special "law" in the martial arts lecture hall, which is called "the method of retreating to the camp".
Fei Qian did not deliberately create any number of seven or eight or nine to show that the "battle" is written in several ways, but it is divided according to time and purpose, including temporary camps during short-term marches and medium- and long-term military camps that may take more than one month, all of which are involved.
For short-term garrisons, you can choose four types: standing guns, snatch guns, chariot camps and resist horses.
When you are stationed in medium and long term, you can choose to choose Chaiying, Digging, Building Camp, etc.
As for the arrangements in the camp, there are generally regular configurations, and some additional fortifications are added as needed.
The "Second Camp Law" of this martial arts lecture hall will even be distributed to the level of the Duwei. After the Duwei received the report from the martial arts lecture hall, many middle and lower-level officers will come to borrow it. Therefore, some people in Shandong who use military knowledge as the promotion level to hate Fei Qian's approach and feel that their personality is insulted by Fei Qian.
These people from Shandong swear that they will let their descendants carry forward the spirit of Yugong. As long as they regain the authority of education in one day, they will do their best to delete, cut, and adjust these knowledge systems, and call them "optimization", with a simple purpose...
Therefore, after the Song Dynasty, in the prosperous dynasty of Confucianism, ordinary people did not want to "enlightenment" without their disciples!
Making the people stupid is of course beneficial to rule, but when encountering emergencies, if you have knowledge and ability, you will naturally have more ways to deal with dangers, rather than just knowing how to scream in place.
Xu Huang's camp, according to the requirements of the following camp law, has camp gates, wooden fences, and trenches and earthen walls. Although it is impossible to be as strong as a permanent military camp, there are not many things that should be there.
Of course, the war will definitely not let the other party wait for them to set up a camp before fighting, so normally, the way to build and reinforce the camp while fighting has become a conventional choice.
However, if all the knowledge and abilities are mastered in the hands of the upper class, then once the upper class generals have some negligence, the result will be devastating. For example, although some generals also understand, they are immersed in the battle as they fight, forgetting the daily task of sending additional camps, and then they will remember it when the other party attacks...
Of course, it is impossible to build a solid military camp in Xu Huang's camp in an instant, but all infrastructure is under construction, and soldiers who did not go to the battlefield on that day would be assigned some such work.
Therefore, there are trenches around Xuhuang's camp, but they were not fully completed, so the sluice has not put water in. Now, as the flames from the distant weeds gradually spread into the camp, the easiest and most effective way is not to rush out and use sand and gravel or wooden rake clothes to slap them, but to directly lead the river water into the trenches to isolate the flames. And if something in the camp is really ignited by Mars, it can also be easily obtained to extinguish the fire.
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On the other side, water is helping the fire.
The reason why water can help fire is that oil is lighter than water, and it is that Fei Qian generally knows some principles and knowledge of refining crude oil. Although Fei Qian doesn't understand it very well, let alone master it, it doesn't matter. As long as Fei Qian knows the direction, his subordinates can do the right thing.
The ignition point of crude oil is relatively high and heavier, but after refining the turmeric oil can float on the water.
This made some ignorant Jiangdong soldiers panic, thinking that the entire river was burning!
"The river is burning!"
"The magic! The magic!"
"They have the Taoist Dharma of the Heavenly Master! They are doing the Dharma today!"
"There are unjust souls under the river! There are unjust souls!"
The reason why Zhang Jiao's Taiping Taoism was able to develop rapidly was that in addition to the incompetence and corruption of the court, local officials were corrupt, and the people were corrupt, this primitive belief was still very common. Especially the five-way God Cult in Jiangdong, which almost squeezed a lot of living space for foreign Buddhism, which made many people in Jiangdong believe in Taoism.
Buddhism emphasizes the birth of the world, emptiness, destruction, and reincarnation. However, after the five-way God religion improved by Fei Qian and Zuo Ci, it does not compete for "emptiness" with Buddhism, but seeks "reality". From being born to entering the world, it is an important transformation of the five-way God religion.
This transformation made many people in Jiangdong immediately change their "faith" and become "believers" under the God's religion in the five directions.
It's very simple, the elderly at home are sick.
When I asked for Buddhism, the bald man said, this is karma, retribution, original sin, you have to see through the world, understand that white is emptiness, let go of everything, and naturally there is no illness, Ami Tofu...
Then I asked the Five God Cults, and Changmao said, "This is a disease. I have herbs, so I'm not sure what the efficacy is. The important thing is to replenish the central qi and eliminate the evil qi, so that the elderly don't 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 they do not hinder the development of the five-way God Church in Jiangdong, all the Han, and even in the foreign domains.
As it develops a lot, some unexpected effects will occur sometimes.
Some Jiangdong people knew that their five-way God Cult was spread from Guanzhong and from the Cavalry, so they wanted to fight the Cavalry Army, and they felt a little bit confused. This emotion was generally not too obvious, but in the current situation that they could not understand, it erupted.
The most critical point is of course the means of fooling the people in Jiangdong. Although Jiangdong did not deliberately make the soldiers of the people stupid, the Han Dynasty's conventions have also made many children of the gentry and generals in the military academy like to see the foolishness of the people and soldiers, and even used as a joke after dinner.
Now these generals couldn't laugh. When they shouted to put out the fire and stop the turmeric oil, indicating that those were ordinary fires, some soldiers from Jiangdong were shouting "Demon Fire"...
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Zhuge Liang's calculations were correct, but he also made the calculations incorrectly.
He expected that Zhou Yu would come to attack, but he did not expect that Zhou Yu did not go to the water, but instead used the grass outside the camp to set fire...
If it weren't for the military rules of the Cavalry Army, or Xu Huang's cautious personality at the moment, it would be said that the camp would be burned or destroyed more or less.
After dawn, black smoke filled the fire and the flames burned all the things that could be burned. As they gradually went out, everyone was still scared when they looked at the embers on the wilderness in the distance.
There are losses, but not big.
The soldiers in the camp were sorting out the artifacts.
Zhuge Liang and Xu Huang stood on the platform and looked into the distance.
"It's a mistake." Zhuge Liang sighed, "I couldn't expect this matter... I was negligent!"
Xu Huang waved his hand, "Why do Kong Ming blame himself? There are many reeds on both sides of the river, and they are common every day, and they all think they are ordinary things..."
The weeds on the riverside are relatively lush due to geographical reasons. After all, the silt wrapped in the river water gives these thatch a lot of nutrients. And because these areas on the riverside are similar to swamp wetlands, there are few large herbivores coming to forage, so that these reeds can grow almost unscrupulously.
These things may be a little surprised and strange at the beginning, but they are all the way down the river, so they naturally won’t pay attention to them specifically, and the brain will even subconsciously exclude these things from the project of thinking.
It’s like a sand pile, everyone is commonplace. Who would have thought that a sand pile could kill people?
It's OK under specific conditions.
Everyone knows that sand is not piled high, and once it is piled high, it will inevitably collapse. However, in construction sites, you can often see piles of sand piles. Sometimes they are not piled on open spaces, but for the sake of convenience of management, they are piled up against simple walls outside the construction site. Then, one day it rains, the weight of the sand absorbs water greatly, the wall collapses, and the people who just happened to pass by are buried...
The same is true for Xu Huang and Zhuge Liang to go to camp here.
I originally thought it was convenient to use these thatch here, but I didn’t expect that this thatch could kill people!
If it weren't for digging a trench...
Even half of the trenches that were not too deep were dug, and they could become fire barriers, saving the camp from fire.
『But...』 Zhuge Liang frowned and thought, 『Would you take this opportunity to retreat with a deception?"
"Failed to defeat?"
Xu Huang repeated.
Zhuge Liang nodded.
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Zhou Yu's calculations were correct, but he also made an error.
For Zhou Yu, he was familiar with the geographical environment of the Yangtze River, but he was not familiar with what the ordinary Jiangdong soldiers under his command were thinking.
He sent Jiang Qin to ensure the success rate of sneak attacks, but because the main camp lacked Jiang Qin's connection between the past and the future, some obstacles appeared at critical moments.
Although Zhou Yu almost immediately noticed something was wrong and sent out his own guards to act as commanders and coordinators on the front line, these guards in Zhou Yu's headquarters were separated by a layer and were not so smooth.
The water fence did block most of the oil tanks flowing down from the upper part.
But blocking the can doesn't mean that the turmeric oil is also blocked.
When Zhou Yu ordered to use a denser fishing net to block the tincture oil, some ships outside the water village had been stained with a lot of tincture oil and were ignited.
Fortunately, Zhou Yu immediately ordered to abandon the ship and push the ignited hull out, otherwise the hooked hull would ignite each other...
The tower ship was in the center of the water village and was protected by the outer small boats, so it did not suffer any losses.
However, several battleships on the periphery were lost.
This loss made Zhou Yu very uncomfortable.
Because prevention has been taken and fishing nets and fork hooks are also equipped with outer ships. As long as the soldiers in Jiangdong can warn in time, and then stop the fishing nets and ignite them directly, they will basically not burn the ships, let alone damage these fighting ships meaninglessly.
What opponent did the Jiangdong Army face in the past?
The chariot and the road bully.
Well, it was wrong, it was the South Vietnamese barbarian among the mountains and forests.
The battle with Cao Cao had already revealed some problems. The reason why Zhu Zhi was able to conquer Jiangling was not because of how powerful Zhu Zhi was, but because Cao's army and Jingzhou were all on the northern line at that time!
Cao Ren used the temporary township hero to suppress Zhu Zhi back to Jiangling City. When Cao Ren even transferred some genuine Cao troops back, Zhu Zhi could not hold on and was about to give up...
The Jiangdong naval army is strong, which is indeed true, but once it is on land or when the ship stops, there will be problems...
It's the same as when a cavalry dismounts or stops the 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, but instead focused their attention on the battle situation in front of him.
Losing some fighting ships is indeed a problem, but the problem is not very big.
There are still quite a lot of boats in Jiangdong, which is barely enough.
Morale has been a little sluggish, but the problem is not big.
At dawn today, Zhou Yu had already ordered the execution of the military academy that was not on duty before, resuming the soldiers who were on duty last night, and also rewarding the soldiers who bravely put out the fire and were honorably injured, successfully reversing the attention of the Jiangdong soldiers...
After dealing with these things, Zhou Yu was extremely tired.
"Go and get the golden elixir." Zhou Yu ordered the guard to say.
The guard was a little hesitant, "Governor... It's better to use less golden elixirs... The Governor might as well go to the land camp and have some rest..."
『Go.』 Zhou Yu said, 『I can't rest now... Jiangdong, I can't retreat... Go and take it, it's okay...』
The guard had no choice but to take the golden elixir and then take the water to let Zhou Yu take it.
The burning sensation in the abdomen gradually spread, and Zhou Yu's face became slightly rosy.
『Report!』 A scout from Jiangdong naval army came to report, 『Governor! Sichuan and Shu army are retreating!』
Chapter completed!