Chapter nine hundred and ninety-eight of the art of camouflage
The breakout of Liu Xiu and others did not go smoothly. The more they rushed out, the more enemy troops there were. Gradually, there were fewer and fewer people on Liu Xiu's side, and the pressure he endured became greater and greater.
Just when everyone was about to give up the breakout and turn around and go back, a large group of Han troops suddenly rushed into the enemy's army and quickly gathered towards Liu Xiu.
When everyone looked up, they saw that the leaders were Long Yuan, Long Zhun, and Long Bo. Behind them, there were also a large number of Yu Lin Army and Hu Ben Army.
Seeing Long Yuan and others at this time was like seeing a savior. Everyone in despair showed a look of ecstasy on their faces.
Long Yuan took the lead to come to Liu Xiu, raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty!"
Liu Xiu nodded and looked behind Long Yuan. He only saw Long Zhun and Long Bu. He asked, "Where are Xu Ying and the others?"
"Your Majesty, we have broken up. I guess Xu Ying, Xu Ting, Xu Fei and others are also breaking out."
Liu Xiu raised his hand and pointed in the direction outside the Western Camp, and said urgently: "Fire the trumpet arrows!"
Long Yuan responded immediately, took a crossbow machine from a Hu Ben soldier, then wrapped a piece of cloth around the arrowhead of the crossbow and lit it. After that, he raised the crossbow machine and fired an arrow in the direction of Xiying.
The burning crossbow arrows flew high into the sky and were extremely eye-catching in the sky. The crossbow arrows were like shooting stars and flew westward. This was telling the Han soldiers that they were going to break through to the west.
After firing the arrows, Long Yuan returned the crossbow machine to the soldiers of the Huben Army, and then he took the lead in breaking out with his sword.
Currently, the places with the largest number of enemy troops are in the East Camp, South Camp and North Camp. Relatively speaking, the West Camp has the smallest number of enemy troops.
Liu Xiu, Long Yuan and others led the Yulin Army and Huben Army to rush out with all their strength. Although the other side's soldiers tried their best to encircle them, they were unable to block them in the end. Liu Xiu and his party fought to open a bloody path and finally succeeded.
Rushed out of the camp.
Wei Xiao's army refused to give up, and a large number of soldiers came out to pursue them. Liu Xiu and others fought and retreated. During this period, they also gathered their own soldiers who broke out from time to time. The two sides were running and fighting, fighting and running, without knowing it.
, the sky was already dark, and it was only at this time that Kaixiao's army stopped pursuing.
Liu Xiu and others ran a long distance again. Liu Xiucai ordered a rest and counted the number of people on his side.
Whether they were ordinary soldiers or generals like Long Yuan, they were all exhausted by this time. People were lying on the ground, not wanting to move.
Originally there were 10,000 people in the Han army's camp, but now the soldiers who followed Liu Xiu were less than 1,000 all together. More than 9,000 elites were all killed in this half night.
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Of course, this does not mean that all the more than 9,000 soldiers were killed in battle or captured by the enemy. A considerable number of them also broke out. It is just that they ran away from Liu Xiu and it was impossible to contact them in a short time.
Liu Xiu sat on the ground, pulled off the sweat towel wrapped around his neck, and wiped his face vigorously. After wiping his face twice, he put down the sweat towel and saw that it was dyed red.
He threw the sweat towel aside. Today's battle was too useless. Not only was he defeated in a mess, but until now, he still hasn't figured out where the enemy army came from and why it suddenly appeared at the beginning.
On the mountain, why did they suddenly come from behind our own camp? These enemy troops couldn't have come from Sanfu, right?!
"Your Majesty, drink some water!" Luo You walked up to Liu Xiu and handed him a water bag. Liu Xiu wanted to refuse, but seeing the expectation on Luo You's face, he took the water bag and pulled off the lid.
, and drank a large amount of water.
After taking a sip of water, Liu Xiu's throat, which was about to be on fire, finally felt better.
He looked around and saw Zhang Kun lying not far from him. He looked as if he had just been fished out of the water. His face was pale and motionless, but beads of sweat kept dripping from his head.
The rest of the soldiers, not much stronger than Zhang Kun, were lying on the ground one by one, as if they had to use all their strength to even breathe, their throats were like bellows, making a hissing sound.
At this time, Lai She limped up to Liu Xiu. Before Lai She could speak, Liu Xiu raised her head to him, looked at his legs, and asked, "Doctor Lai, is he injured?"
Lai She quickly waved his hand and said, "Wei Chen only has a few blisters on his feet, it's not a problem." As he spoke, he handed the roll of linen in his hand to Liu Xiu and said, "Your Majesty, please take a look!"
Liu Xiu took the roll of linen and shook it open. It was a big piece, khaki in color. He looked at Lai She puzzledly and asked, "Doctor, let me see what it is doing?"
Lai She took the linen cloth back, draped it over himself, and then lay down directly on the ground.
Seeing this, the soldiers who had fallen down from exhaustion all around sat up one after another, stretched their necks one by one, and looked at Lai She in confusion, wondering what the Taizhong doctor had suddenly lost his mind about.
Liu Xiu also had a puzzled look on his face. Lai She looked around, then at Liu Xiu, then scratched his head, touched the edge of the linen cloth, and pulled it upwards. His whole body was covered here.
Under a piece of linen cloth.
Seeing this, Liu Xiu couldn't help but squint his eyes, and he stood up. He first took two steps forward, then stepped back continuously, retreated twenty meters away, and looked again. Where else could he find Lai She?
The piece of khaki linen covering his body was completely integrated with the surrounding yellow soil. If you didn't come closer, if you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't realize that this small raised earth bag is actually a person.
Brilliant! What a brilliant disguise! Liu Xiu stepped forward quickly, grabbed the linen covering Lai She's body, then bent down, helped Lai She up, and asked in an excited tone: "Doctor, what are you doing?
Did you think of such a disguise?"
Lai She smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, Wei Chen did not think of this. This piece of linen does not belong to Wei Chen, but Wei Chen touched it from the corpse of an enemy soldier." Lai She was a civil servant and did not know how to fight.
He will fight hard with others. When others are fighting to break through, he will only hide in the crowd. If he sees the corpses of his own soldiers, he will pull down the military badges. If he sees the corpses of the enemy soldiers, he will also touch them.
Touch and look around to see if there is anything available.
As a result, he found that most of the enemy troops were carrying such a piece of linen cloth. He did not expect to understand the specific use of this piece of linen cloth. However, he heard Liu Xiu ask why the enemy army could hide on the mountain at the beginning, but his own side had no trace of it.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and he thought of the purpose of this piece of linen cloth, which is to disguise people as loess soil, and disguise thousands of soldiers and horses as loess slopes.
Liu Xiu looked down at the khaki linen in his hand and asked, "Every enemy soldier has this?" "Most of the enemy soldiers have this, but some don't. Maybe they lost it when they stole the camp!"
He nodded, subconsciously grasped the linen tightly, and said quietly: "The enemy troops passed through this and hid on the mountain at the beginning, but our soldiers were not aware of it."
The mountain at the beginning is a loess mountain with no grass growing on it. As far as the eye can see, the mountains are continuous, but they are all yellow.
There is no way to hide people in this kind of barren mountain without vegetation. Even if there is only one person hiding, it can be seen from a long distance.
But this time, tens of thousands of enemy troops were hiding in the mountains, and our own troops were not aware of them. Isn't this abnormal? Now, the piece of hemp cloth discovered by Lai She can explain why our soldiers did not notice the enemy troops on the mountains.
Already.
Covering the body with this kind of earthy jute cloth makes people completely integrated with the loess mountains. Even if they walk close to them, it will be difficult for others to find any trace of them without stepping on them.
Liu Xiu shook the piece of linen in his hand and said in a solemn voice: "Kui Xiao is really smart, he actually thought of such a move!"
Lai She lowered his head and did not answer. Even if he figured out the reason for the sudden appearance of Kai Xiao's army, it was too late. Our camp had been captured by the enemy. Our soldiers died and escaped.
There are currently less than a thousand people.
Long Yuan asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, what should we do next?" Their retreat has been cut off by the enemy, and the enemy may pursue them at any time. This is not a place where they can stay for a long time.
Liu Xiu thought for a while and said: "Go to Longguan and meet Ziwei."
Now, Liu Xiu has no choice. Although Jiequan and Qingshui have been captured by our own side, and the number of soldiers and horses left behind in the second city is only 5,000 soldiers. Now Liu Xiu and his party are not safe whether they go to Jiequan or Qingshui.
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As for Longcheng, there are 60,000 enemy troops there. If our remnant troops are defeated, doesn't it mean that we are on the edge of a knife?
There are still a large number of enemy troops at Qin Ting, and there are more than 30 enemy camps set up by the enemy. It will not help if our own people pass by.
After thinking about it, the only place Liu Xiu could think of was Longguan. Relatively speaking, the terrain of Longguan was steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the number of enemy troops stationed at Longguan was relatively small.
Although it was difficult for Fu Jun's troops to attack Longguan by force, the soldiers and horses inside Longguan did not dare to take the initiative to attack.
Liu Xiu led his troops to go south to Longguan. Along the way, Liu Xiu's troops encountered many soldiers of their own who had been scattered. The largest group was soldiers and horses led by Xu Ying, Xu Ting and Xu Fei. Among them
There are more than 300 horsemen from the Yulin Army, more than 500 people from the Huben Army, more than 800 soldiers from the Capital Army, and there are also hundreds of Benminglang men. Taken together, there are more than 1,000 but less than 2,000 people.
After reuniting with Xuying and others, both Liu Xiu and the soldiers below breathed a sigh of relief. Now that there are more than 3,000 people on our side, we finally have the initial ability to protect ourselves.
Even so, this battle was terrible enough. Of the 10,000 soldiers, only about 3,000 were left, which can be said to be a loss of more than half.
On the way to Longguan, it was peaceful, and the Han army no longer encountered ambushes or pursuers. More than 3,000 troops arrived at Longguan successfully and joined Fu Jun's troops outside Longguan.
After listening to Liu Xiu's battle report, Fu Jun was also shocked and said in surprise: "The enemy actually ambushed 20,000 to 30,000 people at the beginning of the mountain, under the nose of our army?" This is incredible.
"It's because of this." Liu Xiu handed Fu Jun the piece of khaki linen he found in Lai She. Fu Jun took it and looked over it carefully, but found nothing unusual about the piece of linen.
Liu Xiu asked a Yulin Army to demonstrate it. The Yulin Army draped the yellow linen cloth over his body, then lay down on the ground and covered his whole body with the linen cloth.
Fu Jun is also a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time. After seeing it, he immediately understood the function of this piece of linen cloth. He said in surprise: "It turns out that this is how the enemy army hid on the mountain at the beginning!"
"Yes, I was negligent. All of us were negligent. No one thought that the enemy's disguise was so simple and clever!" The key is that it is effective.
Liu Xiu said meaningfully: "Ziwei, you must pay more attention in the future and never make the same mistake again and fall into the enemy's trap!"
Fu Jun nodded slowly with a solemn expression and said, "Yes! Wei Chen has written it down!"
Seeing the tired look on Liu Xiu's face, Fu Jun quickly said: "Your Majesty, you have worked hard all the way, go and rest first!"
"Okay!" Liu Xiu nodded and ran all the way from Kaichuan Mountain to Longguan. He was indeed very tired. Even Liu Xiu's good physical strength was exhausted, so one can imagine the soldiers below.
Fu Jun gave up his tent as Liu Xiu's sleeping tent. He also ordered his soldiers to boil water for Liu Xiu to cleanse himself.
Liu Xiu's armor was red. When he took off his armor, the clothes underneath were also red. When he took off his outer coat, the white inner coat was dyed dark brown.
He took off his middle coat and was shirtless. You could see several bloody wounds on his body.
Some small wounds have scabbed over, and some larger wounds are still bleeding from time to time.
Luo You, who was waiting for Liu Xiu to change clothes, grinned secretly. Along the way, she only heard the injured soldiers shouting for pain, but she never heard Liu Xiu cry out for pain. She thought Liu Xiu was not injured!
"Your Majesty has so many wounds on his body, he needs to be treated by a medical officer immediately!" Luo You said in a trembling voice.
