Chapter 3448 Crossbow Starter
Some people always think that wars are simply about size, more people, or stronger, and then they take it for granted that those wars should be won, those wars will definitely lose, those wars are PY transactions between the two sides of the war, or their brains will be reduced, otherwise they should be like that.
People who really think so should be happy. Because these people must have not experienced much pain, and may not be able to understand that even if they make more efforts, they will still be a pain in the end.
Zhou Tai never thought he was lucky. On the contrary, everything he had put in great effort, but only one or two points of return.
The night is deep.
The dark night, the dark mountains, the dark forests.
It's like what Zhou Tai cannot see in his eyes, his own future.
The black future merges with the dark night in front of you.
Others say that Zhou Tai is brave.
Zhou Tai knew that he was not brave, but afraid.
Because of fear, I have to be brave.
It may sound a bit contradictory, but this is Zhou Tai's rule of survival.
He was not afraid of death, but he was afraid that he would live a hungry and poor life again, a life where there was no food and clothing, not to mention any land and idle vehicles could be rented.
Some people can write and calculate, while others can speak and speak, so how can these people make some money, but what can Zhou Tai have?
He can't do anything, nothing, only a body of brute force, and the battle experience accumulated by years of fighting between each other at the bottom, so what can he do besides working hard? He can't even cry out for pain and lie down to rest. Because it's very simple, in the lowest environment where Zhou Tai once lived, as long as he showed a little bit of fear of pain and a little bit of weakness, more people would pounce on him...
Before and in the current environment, he could only scare other opponents by gritting his teeth and persevering, being fierce, and even showing injuries.
This point was often used in the war, and the effect was quite good.
But now, Zhou Tai felt that he felt a little overwhelmed with fighting and war.
Why?
Zhou Tai thought, but his brain lacked the necessary accumulation of knowledge and related logical thinking skills, so he couldn't figure it out.
Perhaps it was because the pain was too much that the body could no longer hold on?
Zhou Tai stretched out his hand and clenched his fists hard.
He no longer remembers how many injuries he suffered from since childhood. He just knew that there were many things, food, drink, clothing, and other people's flesh and blood.
『It doesn't hurt..." Zhou Tai whispered to himself, 『It doesn't hurt at all...』
It's like looking in the mirror in the bathroom, talking to yourself that you are the strongest and most beautiful.
If the brain believes it will be useful.
In the night wind, Zhou Tai's hand trembled slightly.
At this time, the black shadow in front of him swayed, and the Jiangdong Army sentry was back.
The Jiangdong sentry came to Zhou Tai to report the situation.
『How?』 Zhou Tai asked, 『Is there any movement?』
The scout in Jiangdong shook his head, "Nothing was found."
Zhou Tai nodded and asked the scout to rest.
It has been a day or two since I came here to ambush. It was fine at the beginning, but today it started during the day. For some reason, Zhou Tai felt that he was being targeted by some wild beast...
He is very familiar with this feeling.
There are many rivers and swamps in Jiangdong, so there are many pirates.
Zhou Tai has lived in the pile of pirates since he was a child, so he is very familiar with this feeling, as if he had taken something and was targeted by someone.
When I was young, it might be a piece of steamed cake, but when I grew up, it might be a little gold and silver.
Now, it's probably my own head?
Zhou Tai stood up suddenly.
Zhou Tai's guard was startled, "Master, what's wrong?"
Zhou Tai looked around.
All around are covered with darkness, with only the stars and moons in the sky, spreading across the world.
"What's wrong."
Zhou Tai muttered.
"ah?"
The guard failed to understand.
Zhou Tai couldn't tell what was wrong, but he couldn't sleep anymore. He felt that at least he had to figure out what made him feel a little uneasy.
Zhou Tai walked towards the top of the mountain, and the guards hurriedly followed behind.
Night, quiet.
Even when walking and stepping on the ground, you can make some slight sounds.
Zhou Tai reached the top of the mountain and looked around.
"Master, what are you looking for?" The guards arrived beside Zhou Tai and looked at Zhou Tai. "There is no fire, and there is no other abnormality..."
"No, there is something abnormal." Zhou Tai was silent for a moment, "Didn't you hear it?"
"What?"
The guard quickly listened.
The surroundings were quiet, only the mist of mountains whistled past, rustling with treetops and shrubs.
After a long time, the guard looked puzzled, "I...I heard nothing... except some wind..."
Zhou Tai's face was a little gloomy, "Yes, it's this...this is the problem..."
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Instinct, knowledge.
Innate, acquired.
Which one is more important?
The mountains and forests in the night are all sleeping.
Under the faint starlight, a shadow swayed and passed through the bush.
With the tiny friction sound, the place he walked was immediately covered in darkness.
Gan Ning finds it very interesting now.
He was also a water thief, but his mentality is much easier than Zhou Tai.
In the Sichuan and Shu army, he never shy away from being a water pirate, and sometimes even talked to others about some things when he was a water pirate, and then laughed together.
A person’s origin is often not determined by oneself.
From origin, you can probably only determine the lower limit of a person.
The lower limit of some people is sometimes much higher than that of ordinary people.
However, a person's upper limit can be determined by many aspects, such as the environment, mind, and learning opportunities...
Gan Ning may not be much better than Zhou Tai in other aspects. For example, he is also impatient and rude. He is almost always silent and does things, and may not be as meticulous as Zhou Tai. However, what he is much better than Zhou Tai is that he has the opportunity to study.
No matter what, there is a copy of the newspaper in the martial arts lecture hall.
At first, Gan Ning didn't like to read this thing very much. After all, these words are dead and cannot move. It would be better to look at more beauties who can move when they have time. How good is it?
But later I had to watch it.
Because the generals of the military academy around them are watching, and they also discuss and study on weekdays. If Gan Ning doesn't read it, then he can only be um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um um
Half forced, Gan Ning started to learn.
And what’s interesting is that not liking to study is often mentally, not physiologically. As long as the mentality changes, learning or reading becomes a pleasant thing.
Now the knowledge learned and the efforts made by this have begun to give back to Gan Ning.
Just like this time, Gan Ning chose to stare at Zhou Tai instead of rashly going forward and fighting.
Because there was a special report in the document that specifically wrote what is "the momentum is a crossbow, and the joint is like a starting machine"...
Unlike the scouts of Jiangdong, these people from Gan Ning were covered with linen under their feet. They walked slowly but had a light voice. Although they would inevitably bring out some grass and shrubs, they were very similar to the sounds of the mountain mist blowing and the sounds of small animals walking around. In addition, there was some distance, so even if these slight sounds were made, they would not attract the attention of the scouts of Jiangdong.
When the scout came back, Gan Ning was sitting on a tree branch, grinning with a small piece of yak jerky.
Yak jerky, a specialty in snowy areas.
The snowy area has enough sunshine and has a long drying time. This naturally air-dried meat strip is not only salty, but also very hard.
People who don’t know how to eat will even loosen their teeth.
Seeing that the scout came back, Gan Ning slammed down from the tree, took out a small piece of dried meat, and stuffed it to the scout, "How is the Jiangdong Army?"
Although there is insufficient light in the forest, I will know what it is when I take it in my hand and smell it. The scout smiled and said, "Thank you, General... Jiangdong is still waiting. I guess I am waiting for the signal in the river..."
Gan Ning yelled and patted the scout on the shoulder, "Thank you for your hard work, go find a more stable tree branch to sleep... Don't fall down again..."
The scout also laughed, "Hey! I just fell out like that!"
Perhaps to divert his embarrassment, the scout said again, "I don't see that those Jiangdong men don't know how to sleep in the mountains and trees, they all sleep on the ground... Do you want me to go to the forest far away and catch some snakes and insects... and then, hehehe..."
Gan Ning thought about it for a while, "Forget it, there is no need for the time being. If they notice something is wrong, it will be bad..."
Perhaps Gan Ning liked to do these things before, but when he understood what "the momentum was a crossbow, and the joint was like a launcher", he realized that sometimes, the attack should be as short and rapid as pulling the joint.
The scout's suggestion was rejected by Gan Ning, but he didn't insist, so he laughed and turned around and was about to leave.
『Wait...』 Gan Ning suddenly called the scout, 『What did you... say just now? The forest in the distance?"
The scout was stunned for a moment and nodded, "Yes. What's wrong? The general changed his mind?"
Gan Ning waved his hand, "No... I suddenly thought of something... someone came and sent a message to everyone... We will evacuate here early tomorrow morning..."
"Why?" the scout asked, "The angle here is the best, we were not discovered by the Jiangdong Army..."
Gan Ning pointed to the sky, "Listen..."
The scout listened with his ears.
"Nothing happens..."
Gan Ning smiled, "This is the problem... I neglected before... I heard from me anyway... I will be safer if I stay away...
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Among the Jiangdong navy, above the tower ship.
Ordinary Jiangdong soldiers only need to fight to fight, and Zhou Yu has more issues to consider...
No matter what, as the commander of the Jiangdong Army, Zhou Yu will obviously have higher command power than Zhu Zhi and others, but he also has to put in more effort.
Zhou Yu stared at the blood-filled eyes, looked at the map, and looked at the surrounding situation.
I was tired, but I could only hold on.
As Zhou Yu, born in the Jianghuai region, he has been studying this river all his life.
When he became famous, he led Sun Ce through Liu Yao's defense line and directly attacked Liu Yao's core, so that although Liu Yao arranged the front line and arranged heavy troops to defend, he did not play the role he deserved in the end.
Now, Zhou Yu is preparing to drill through the defense line of Sichuan and Shu army again...
War is indeed just a few routines, repeatedly used.
Thanks to the ancestors of China, the hundreds of years of love and killing each other during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in addition to the differences in weapons and armor, almost all the war patterns and means have been used. From simple village fighting to large-scale massacres, small-scale interspersed raids, large-scale encirclement and encirclement, almost all war tactics in later generations can be found in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
This is like the final word of Go.
If you don’t understand the fixed pattern, it’s not that you can’t make it, but it’s very likely that you will suffer a loss at the beginning because you take a wrong step, and then accumulate small mistakes and become big mistakes, and eventually lose the entire battle situation.
But even knowing the fixed pattern may not necessarily win.
Because there are changes in the fixed form...
Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang are now like two chess players, making a standard pattern, and then immediately knows that the other party has a certain chess ability, and then starts to think about related changes and arrange subsequent traps.
Normally, if the players on both sides have equal strength, then there are two points on the board.
The environment around the river is the advantage that Zhou Yu has gained now.
Compared with the Sichuan and Shu army, it looks like taking the general trend.
But this was just a brief balance. As the two sides began to interlaced, the spikes screamed and the war would spread throughout the board.
Zhou Yu rubbed his red eyes, and his unspeakable fatigue surged. Zhou Yu shook his head, and then someone fed a basin of water. After rubbing his face, he felt that his spirit had recovered a little bit.
"Governor, it's late at night, should you rest?"
The guard persuaded.
Zhou Yu smiled and said nothing, but walked to the map and continued to plan.
The performance of the Sichuan and Shu army really surprised Zhou Yu.
New type of ship, excellent impact angle.
Zhou Yu had already asked the craftsmen who followed the army to modify it as the Sichuan and Shu army, but the problem was that the raw materials were short of, so they could only be installed on some ships.
In addition to the issues on the ship, Zhou Yu was also considering the strategies of the Sichuan and Shu army.
He has a speculation.
Zhou Yu stood up and walked out of the cabin.
Zhou Yu's guard quickly grabbed the cloak, took two steps, and helped Zhou Yu put it on.
Zhou Yu's attention was all focused on the mountain in the distance.
On that mountain, there is an open space where soldiers can be hidden.
Zhou Tai had occupied the place and could leave the army at any time to attack the Sichuan and Shu army. At the same time, he could also attack the Sichuan and Shu army when the Jiangdong army was attacked on a large scale. Because there was also an open space at the foot of that mountain, which was most suitable as the forefront position to attack the Jiangdong army...
But now, Zhou Yu feels that the planning needs to be changed.
Because Zhou Yu felt that the Sichuan and Shu army should have guessed his original plan.
The battlefield is still the same battlefield, and the chess pieces are still the same, but the order and arrangement can produce millions of changes.
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『Jiangdong will change soon.』
Zhuge Liang's shadow swayed under the oil lamp, as if showing the master's thoughts jumping.
Xu Huang sat aside, also looking at the map, and nodded when he heard this.
Zhuge Liang smiled, he liked this feeling.
It's like gambling.
Gambling was already very popular in the Han Dynasty, but unlike later gambling that violated physics, most gambling has not yet developed the means to cheat on their own people, and they all rely on their personal abilities and skills.
For example, throwing a pot.
Zhuge Liang likes to throw pots.
Because when throwing a pot, you need to calculate not only the score you get after you throw it in, but also how to create trouble and obstacles for your opponent. This is somewhat like snooker billiards in later generations. Scoring is one aspect, and creating obstacles is also the highlight.
Now, Dajiang is the pot.
Although it is impossible for both sides to play cards in turn and make interlaced, each person spends twelve hours a day, and what he can do is within these twelve hours, so to some extent, it is fair, it depends on who can make more preparations and arrange more means within the same time.
『Jiangdong burned us a fire, but it exposed some things...』 Zhuge Liang smiled and said, 『Jiangdong was more familiar with the terrain than us... so they took the lead...』
The first move for the terrain.
The water camp where the Jiangdong Navy is located is very well located. It is built on a hill and has a natural harbor, so even if Zhuge Liang attacks with a tinder tank, it does not achieve good results. At the same time, it is difficult for the Sichuan and Shu army to observe the layout of the Jiangdong Navy from the outside. There is also the Jiangdong Army's observation post on the hill, and soldiers are on duty day and night.
After the last interaction between the two parties, we both understood that the opponent was not that simple, so now we need to prepare some more complex and hidden means.
"Xingba was slowing down," Xu Huang clicked on the map, "If this place can be occupied, the Jiangdong naval army will be attacked from both sides."
Zhuge Liang nodded, "There was delayed on Xingba Road... However, what needs to be judged now is whether the Jiangdong Army would guess that we also had a side army... I think Jiangdong should have guessed...
"Guess?" Xu Huang's beard moved slightly, "Isn't Xingba so much..."
『There is indeed danger, but...』 Zhuge Liang said with a smile, 『But the target of the Jiangdong Army should still be us...or our ship!"
Xu Huang thought for a moment, nodded and said, "It's true, Kong Ming can see it thoroughly."
Knowing the opponent's goal is equivalent to knowing the direction of the opponent's travel, but when will the opponent come back and take action is still a question.
Chapter completed!