Bosses like to use waiting to torture their subordinates' sharp angles and tempers. Businessmen like to use waiting to tease customers' hunger bottom line. Young women also like to use others' waiting to show their importance...
But first of all, there is a premise that there must be value in waiting. The boss has a salary, and the merchant has a supply of goods. If there is no value in waiting, then whoever you want will go.
Gong Jun and the twenty scouts around him were waiting.
Strictly speaking, they have been waiting for nearly a day.
Looking at Han Sui's camp across a river, fifty or sixty steps away, and listening to the patrol questions and answers between the night patrol and the guards, even Gong Jun, who had participated in similar operations many times, still felt his heart beating.
accelerate.
Nervous, a little bit, but more excited.
Gong Jun liked this feeling very much. Especially when he was hiding in the darkness, he felt like a master on the battlefield, deciding the life and death of others. This made Gong Jun a little intoxicated.
Twenty scouts, plus Gong Jun and Ling Jie, as well as some weapons, equipment, crossbows, etc., two small boats are just right.
These twenty scouts have been following Gong Jun for more than a day or two. They are not allowed to ask Gong Jun for many things. They are making preparations automatically and spontaneously. Some are gathering and placing the crossbow arrows, while others are touching
They took out wax strips to wax the rack of the winding machine, and some quietly visited the strung-up crossbow by the side of the ship, waiting for any movement in Han Sui's camp.
The expression on Gong Jun's face didn't change much, but he was still a little uneasy in his heart. Although it was wrapped in oil paper and packed with sheepskin bags, there was no such thing as a contingency? If the thunderbolt bullet got into water, there would be no chance.
played……
The starry night is lonely.
The sparse wind blew the reeds, just like raindrops falling on the leaves, which had a strong hypnotic effect, but Gong Jun stared at the other side with his eyes wide open.
"boom!"
At this moment, there was a flash of fire in Han Sui's camp, and then there was a loud noise!
Huge flames soared into the sky, and the sound waves that hit us even shook the reeds.
"Do it!"
Gong Jun suddenly shouted loudly.
The boat was quickly pushed out of the reeds and floated slowly downstream along the river. The boat had just been carried along the hull by the current. When it was relatively stable, Gong Jun and the others had already started to shoot the first round of arrow feathers.
and crossbow arrows.
Although equipped with a simple cocking device, the firing speed of crossbows is still slower than that of longbows in battle, so Gong Jun and others did not use strong crossbows.
There is a clear stipulation in the military laws of the Han Dynasty that if at night, except for the guards and patrols on duty, any soldier who wanders outside the tent for no reason will be punished with a rod or beheaded. If there is a sudden noise after everyone has fallen asleep at night.
Basically, they were beheaded on the spot to prevent the camp from roaring.
Camp roaring is a thing that may happen anywhere, at any age, in any season, as long as it is a place where a large number of people gather. Prison roaring occurs, and even youth boarding schools occasionally have such a phenomenon. However,
In the army, because there are strict military disciplines at all times, either whipping, caning, or beheading, and in the era of cold weapons, facing death directly, the psychological pressure is greater than that of ordinary people, so it is easier to have problems and be destructive.
Also bigger.
Until the era of hot weapons in later generations, camp roars still did not happen. In the largest camp roar in modern times, the army of 40,000 people was in chaos and killing each other, and only 4,000 people were left when they woke up.
Therefore, the sudden loud noise at night was like stabbing the hornet's nest of Han Sui's camp, causing chaos. The soldiers in the camp started shouting in panic, and the whole camp suddenly became chaotic.
The camp was filled with various sounds, figures were shaking rapidly, and even the sound of the alarm gong was lost in the noise.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
Large numbers of Han Sui soldiers were shouting and banging their heads.
The utensils and torches in the tent were brought down to the ground, and soon several fires appeared, adding to the chaos.
"Quick! Faster!" Gong Jun roared loudly, then fired the arrow that ignited the wrapped cloth strips, and stuck it high on the top of a tent.
The crossbow bolts and arrows streaked across the night sky and penetrated into the bodies of Han Sui's soldiers who were disturbed on the other side. Flowers of blood bloomed. After more than a dozen people were shot down one after another, Gong Jun and others were killed by Han Sui's soldiers.
I found out, yelled and pointed here, but still didn't have much strength to fight back.
Some of the flaming arrows and crossbow bolts were stuck on the felt, and some fell on the grass. The flames swayed and added a lot of fire heads.
Killing people is not Gong Jun's primary goal. What is more important is to destroy the camp and cause riots. Now that the riots have obviously broken out, Gong Jun and the others will make this destructive force stronger and more lasting.
Without Gong Jun's urging, the twenty scouts excitedly lit the fires, cocked the strings, and fired the arrows and crossbows to the best of their ability.
With a "swish" sound, an arrow was shot from the other side of the river, and it immediately knocked over a scout on the boat!
I saw Ma Chao standing in front of a tent on the other side of the river, with his bow and arrow aimed at it.
"Shoot! Shoot him!"
Gong Jun shouted, and then shot an arrow at Ma Chao. The scouts on the side also changed their targets and shot at Ma Chao. But it was a pity because the boat was floating on the water and was unstable. If it were to shoot some tents, etc.
There is no difference between large targets, but it still has a great impact on accurate shooting. Therefore, although more than a dozen arrows and crossbow bolts were shot at a time, the accuracy was not very good. It only shocked Ma Chao and shrunk.
Later, Ma Chao did not suffer any damage. Instead, Ma Chao shot back another person with an arrow.
However, due to the current, the boat gradually moved away from the tent where Ma Chao was. It was also in the dark night. After a certain distance, it lost sight. Ma Chao chased after a few steps, but he could only pause and look angry.
He threw the long bow on the ground.
"Damn it! Damn it! Blow the trumpet! Blow the trumpet! Let all the leaders assemble their own troops! Anyone who causes trouble will be killed! Behead them all!" Han Sui also shouted angrily, surrounded by layers of soldiers, "Damn it!
Damn it! Where did they come from!? What happened?!"
…………………………
"What's going on?" Cheng Gongying stared at the sentinel and said, "Didn't you say that Zhengxi's troops have arrived near Fanxudao? Why is it that after waiting for so long, no one has entered Fanxudao?"
"This..." The sentry was covered in sweat, but he still couldn't figure out what the situation was. He said, "Little one, I don't know either... I did see someone under the banner of conquering the West.
The cavalry is coming towards Bansu Road...but why no one has come in till now, I really don't know..."
"Hmm..." Cheng Gongying frowned and stared at the sentry for a while, then waved his hand to let the sentry go.
Basically, there was nothing wrong with the sentry, but Cheng Gongying had no idea, so he had to call the sentry again to confirm.
When the Zhengxi Cavalry was discovered, it was forty miles away from Fansu Road, less than fifty miles away. According to the normal marching speed, it would only take one day. Even if the Zhengxi Cavalry was in a hurry, it would only take half a day.
But at the west entrance of Fansu Road, Cheng Gongying waited for a day and a half, but there was still no movement in Fansu Road, not even a single person was seen.
Where did the cavalry go in the expedition to the west?
Cheng Gongying's heart was in a state of confusion, and his thoughts were ups and downs.
Longdi Road has not been repaired for many years and is damaged and difficult to navigate. Therefore, although the distance is short, it is not suitable for cavalry to travel, so it is impossible to walk on the same road. However, if you do not take Longdi Road, and there is no human figure on Fanxu Road,
Could it be that he took a detour to Chicken Head Road?
Could it be that the layout at Bansu Road was discovered?
Cheng Gongying couldn't help but look back. Although there were some soldiers coming and going, once it was discovered that Banxudao had entered the Zhengxi Army, he would definitely hide, and there were no flaws in the surrounding layout. How could he be discovered?
what to do?
Cheng Gongying thought about it for a long time, and still took the risk of being discovered and sent out scouts again to detect the movements of the Zhengxi Cavalry, because if he didn't know where the other party was, there would be no targeted arrangement at all, and even if he was caught
When the opponent learns his position, the purpose of ambush is lost, but it can still delay the expedition to the west.
…………………………
"what is going on?"
The thunder-like sound at night made Han Sui both frightened and confused. What he was afraid of was such inhuman power, fire and loud noises. How many other methods could be used to conquer the west? Are there any special conditions for its use? If it were to conquer the west.
If General Feiqian can be used unlimitedly, then what the hell?
What is confusing is how such an offensive can be created, and how do the saboteurs sneak in? Could it be that the art of war and military experience I have studied for many years are all fake? The guards in the camp are
Are the eyes just for decoration?
The other Qiang heads in the tent all looked a little pale, and they didn't know who they were. They muttered something, but Han Sui heard it and asked.
"Master Han," a Qiang-headed man glanced at Ma Chao, and then said cautiously, "this Zhengxi... the last time Ma Shaojun was in Chang'an, thunder exploded the horses..."
"Is there such a thing?" Han Sui turned his attention to Ma Chao.
Ma Chao hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes, uncle. That day..."
After Ma Chao roughly described the situation at that time, he continued, "...But my nephew still doesn't understand what methods were used to conquer the west... In addition, the people who conquered the west this time should have come from the Qingni River.
Coming..."
"Qingni River?" Han Sui suddenly realized, reaching out and hitting his head, "How could I forget that there is a boat in Zhengxi..."
Ma Chao's eyes moved, and he followed it as if to add an explanation: "...it's the ship Jiang and Yang from Tianshui gave to Zhengxi."
"So, it's what people sent from Zhengxi did..." Han Sui glanced at Ma Chao, then calmly withdrew his gaze and ordered, "Come here, burn all the reeds on the other side of the river!"
It is obviously unrealistic to avoid the Qingni River. The march of the army is not a matter of a day or two. Leaving aside the convenient water supply route and choosing a higher-risk road in order to avoid the immediate risks is not stupid. Because there are
Separated by a green mud river, even if a fire spread over the mountain, it would not reach this side. Therefore, the Qiang people who started setting fires had no scruples, and soon black smoke billowed from the other side of the river.
Burning the reeds only solves half the problem, leaving half the problem...
Han Sui looked at the black smoke rising from the shore, his eyes flashing.
…………………………
Just after Han Sui made a series of adjustments, Fei Qian also received the rewards of scouting.
"What on earth is going on?" Fei Qian couldn't help but asked doubtfully, "Did you really go back? Give up? Stop chasing? Doesn't Han Wen's promise to Ma Mengqi hate someone to the core?"
The scouts detected that Han Sui had been reorganizing for half a day, then led his team to the north and did not continue to pursue Fei Qian.
"Did the Xiliang bandits suffer heavy losses in yesterday's night attack?" Xu Huang said, "So they had to retreat?"
Fei Qian nodded and said: "It is also possible... But is this Hanwen Yue willing to go back like this? Or are reinforcements from Guanzhong coming?"
"The Xiliang rebels were hit hard, and the reinforcements from Guanzhong were coming, so they retreated to avoid being attacked from both sides..." Xu Huang said slowly, "...but if this is really the case, where are the reinforcements?
"
Fei Qian frowned and thought.
The current situation on the entire battlefield is very complicated. All forces are tied together, separated from each other, and distributed unevenly. Of course, in terms of number of people, Xiliang, Han Sui, and Ma Chao still have the larger number.
Xu Huang was silent for a moment and said: "Junhou, should we continue to retreat to Yangping, or..."
Or quit?
Or enter?
Fei Qian gently tapped the table with his fingers. Han Sui, an old fox, was really unexpected. With such a light retreat, he actually threw the problem here.
If Fei Qian continues to retreat to Yangping Pass, although Han Sui will suffer some losses, the problem will not be big. I believe that Han Sui's ability will soon make up for it from other aspects. The easiest way is to go to Tianshui Jiang Family
Trouble with the Yang family...
Fei Qian then retreated to Yangping Pass. Although he was personally safe, he also lost a potential development base in Xiliang.
Of course, you can also choose to stay here, wait for the reinforcements from Yangping to arrive, then turn back and join the reinforcements from Guanzhong, and then decide the winner with Han Sui and Ma Chao at Longyou...
