Traditionally, after the camp was set up, the lights in the camp would be extinguished as much as possible at night, and the whole camp would become dark and dark, in order to prevent it from becoming a target for enemy night attacks.

This kind of common sense that almost as long as a general can know, Zhang Kejiang does not think that the officers and generals who can block Yang Xun's attack in Shengzhou City will not know.

For this reason, Zhang Kejiang felt that the officials and soldiers must have some kind of purpose in doing so. So, he opened his mouth and asked Yang Xun beside him: "Brother Yang, when you were in Shengzhou, this person was also considered to have fought against you, you see the current ......"

Yang Xun knew what he wanted to ask, however, Yang Xun didn't know much about Xu Chen's approach, so he naturally couldn't answer Zhang Kejiang's questions.

"Xu Chen is very cautious, don't look at the fact that today is just the first time to come here, I am afraid that I have made sufficient preparations when I set up camp, and the idea of stealing the camp at night is still avoided, and I will lose the people and horses in vain when I get it. ”

Hearing what the main general said, Zhang Kejiang also put out the idea of stealing the camp. Just now he saw that Xu Chen was just a teenager, although he pretended to be an old man on his face, but Zhang Kejiang didn't believe that the other party would show his feet when he first arrived here. So he wanted to take advantage of the night to steal the camp, even if he couldn't inflict heavy damage on the enemy, he could take advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of it, and he could also disturb the opponent's army.

But since the chief general said so, even if Zhang Kejiang still has the mind, he can't mobilize troops and horses, and there is no possibility of implementing it.

For such a trivial matter, it is obviously not worth breaking your consistent position.

After arranging the night watchman, Yang Xun also left the city tower.

On the part of the mountain trail, in the camp of the officers and soldiers, Xu Chen, who had dinner, carried out his daily patrol.

Dozens of tall lampposts, bright lights illuminate the entire camp as bright as day, and the slightest can be seen.

At the beginning, Zhou Kang, who was in charge of military training, also questioned Xu Chen's practice of setting up lampposts in the camp, and Zhou Kang has been able to get in touch with more knowledge since he became literate, and Zhou Kang has naturally read a lot of some popular so-called military books on the market.

Xu Chen's approach was obviously very different from what was said in the soldier's book, so it was no wonder that Zhou Kang was puzzled.

However, after Xu Chen's explanation, Zhou Kang also carefully observed and analyzed the march and camp for so many days, and Zhou Kang gradually understood the eldest brother's approach.

The pitch-black barracks are said to be to prevent the enemy from attacking at night, but trying to hide a huge barracks is tantamount to a fool's dream. In the dark, although there is some effect on resisting enemy snipers, soldiers often suffer more accidental injuries in the dark.

At the same time, the camp roar, which can be regarded as a catastrophe for the army when camping at night, is triggered by the fear induced by the soldiers in the dark, and the lights set up in the camp to illuminate the camp as bright as day, which can almost cut off the occurrence of the camp roar. Light always gives people who are nervous more security......

Xu Chen checked the past one by one, this is what he must do every night, and when this kind of thing becomes a habit, it is difficult to tell whether it is contrived or sincere.

It took almost an hour to carefully inspect the camp, and then Xu Chen returned to the tent with Zhou Kang.

Speaking of which, tomorrow will be the first battle of this group of newly recruited soldiers, and Xu Chen originally hoped to find a few decent bandit and bandit strongholds along the way for the recruits to practice their skills. Xu Chen felt that the huge Wuyi Mountain area could not be a place of Datong that was left behind, and it was not difficult to find a few bandit dens.

Who knows, Wuyi Mountain was actually run by the Yang family like an iron bucket, and all the armed forces that did not want to submit were wiped out by the Yang family. Since entering Wuyi Mountain, Xu Chen's plan to take the opportunity to train troops has to be shelved in order to find a little sign of bandits.

Now and tomorrow will officially go into battle, for these recruits, Xu Chen is inevitably still a little worried.

"Fourth, do you have any views on tomorrow's battle?" Speaking of commanding operations, Zhou Kang, who had experience in defending Shengzhou, was really more experienced than Xu Chen. What's more, it was Zhou Kang who resisted Yang Xun's attack in Shengzhou, and Zhou Kang knew more about Yang Xun's soldiers and horses.

Hearing the eldest brother's inquiry, Zhou Kang thought about it and replied: "Yang Xun's soldiers will come back immediately, I have seen them in Shengzhou, they are all rare elites, speaking of which, if there were no many organs and equipment prepared in advance, it is really difficult to say whether Shengzhou City can be defended." ”

At the beginning of the battle of Shengzhou, Yang Xun and the others could almost be said to have been specially "invited" by Xu Chen to Shengzhou to help him cover up the appearance of the cultivators, if Xu Chen had not made some preparations in advance, how could he dare to attract the rebels. In case of setting himself on fire, the rebels will really take Shengzhou City, and the responsibility of losing the city, even with Xu Fan's help, will have a great impact on Xu Chen's next career.

"Yang Xun is also a general, cautious by nature, and refuses to be fooled. When I first attacked the city, I didn't dare to covet small profits, but now I have the responsibility to defend the city, but I'm afraid that it will be more difficult to use the plan to get things done......"

After hearing this, Xu Chen gradually fell into contemplation, and only said after a while: "So, then you can only come hard?"

Zhou Kang nodded and said: "I can only come here in a dignified manner!" Fortunately, our equipment is well-equipped, although the newly recruited soldiers are a little inexperienced, but our old brothers are all good at battle, with them with them, fight one or two, gradually, I feel it, and the recruits will soon be able to adapt to the battlefield. ”

"It's okay!" Xu Chen thought for a while, and said: "Then tomorrow, the veterans will take the lead, show the recruits a demonstration or two, and then let the veterans take the recruits to the field to experience, we are not in a hurry to attack the city, we will experience some experience first." ”

"Experience, experience in the battle array?" Zhou Kangwei was slightly startled by the eldest brother's words, and then wondered: "I'm afraid that the other party won't give us such an easy opportunity, right?"

Xu Chen smiled and did not explain in detail, but said slightly mysteriously: "Yang Xun will give us this opportunity......"

At dawn on the second day, after breakfast, the officers and soldiers, led by the generals and veterans, walked through the mountain path towards the enemy city wall.

The new recruits were inevitably a little nervous, holding the blades tightly with both hands, sweating on their hands, and some of the recruits who couldn't grasp the blades became more and more nervous.

When the veterans on the side saw this, they motioned to the recruits to grab a handful of dry powder from the cloth belt around their waists, rub them with their hands, and then hold the blades. In this way, the recruits who can regain their grip on their weapons are also a lot more at ease.

After such a mood swing, the recruits also had some experience of nervousness, and after hitting the road again, their steps were much more steady.

Under the rebel army of the official army Chen Bing, Xu Chen also brought out a lot of auxiliaries this time, the auxiliaries were wearing cowhide armor and holding the sapper shovel equipped by Xu Chen in their hands.

The rebels on the city tower saw that the officers and soldiers downstairs were divided into two columns, in front of them was a piece of black iron armor, which was actually a soldier whose whole body was covered with iron sheets, and only a pair of eyes were exposed, and in the rear was a group of more sturdy men, all of whom were also wearing armor and sharp.

At a glance, the entire official and military camp is rigorous and extraordinary.

What's more important is that the number of officers and soldiers is really large!

Yang Xun only estimated slightly, and found that the number of officers and soldiers was at least 7,000 or more, which had already surpassed the number of rebels in the Hulu Valley. Not to mention, standing on a high place, Yang Xun obviously saw that there were traces of people on the other side of the mountain path.

According to Xu Chen's cautious character, how could he not send someone to stay in the camp?

Yang Xun naturally couldn't tell the difference between the soldiers and the auxiliaries on Xu Chen's side, and he didn't know that behind the official formation, those big men who looked strong were actually just some honest farmers who only had the strength of their handles.

In Yang Xun's eyes, three thousand soldiers in full body armor and more soldiers in cowhide armor have already made Yang Xun sigh at Xu Chen's financial resources.

Now it seems that the astonishing words Xu Chen said that day are really true!

For Xu Chen's wealth, Yang Xun was indignant, and the turmoil in his heart was indescribable.

I don't know what kind of expression he would have if he had known the money Xu Chen had spent on these three thousand soldiers.

At this moment when Yang Xun was angry, in front of the official formation, those soldiers wearing full armor began to gradually move towards the city wall.

At first, about a thousand men were armed with large shields, which were very large, but of the finest steel, strong enough but relatively light. The teenagers who had been training with medicinal materials did not take much effort to lift these big shields that were taller than themselves with one hand.

According to Xu Chen's established plan, the first to go into battle were all veterans with rich battlefield experience, and after many battles, they were not stage frightened at all.

The officers and soldiers lined up in a column, slowly approaching the city wall, and they held huge shields, but they did not show any flaws on their bodies.

On the castle tower, the archers of the rebels spent a lot of effort, and they never found the slightest loophole in the young man.

The officers and soldiers marched to the bottom of the city wall, and the archers on the city wall, even if they could not find a flaw, could only shoot the long arrows in their hands under the order of the commander.

The sound of steel crashing was endless, and the progress of the teenagers was also blocked by the dense rain of arrows.

The power of the bowstring was transmitted to the giant shield in the hands of the boys.

The teenagers had no choice but to stop, lean together, borrow each other's strength, and at the same time, under the cover of their companions, the dense shield array revealed small openings one by one.

Taking advantage of the gap between the rebel archers changing arrows, delicate crossbows and bows poked out of the small gap in the shield array.

A burst of crumble sounded, crossbow arrows flew out in succession, and an even denser rain of arrows rushed towards the rebels on the city walls.

In those days, archers mostly used longbows, and crossbows and arrows were only found in small quantities in the military's most elite troops.

It is not easy to make a bow and crossbow, and the cost is even more unbearable for ordinary troops, and the Tang military is simply unable to fully equip it, let alone the rebels whose financial situation is even more unbearable.

Even with the longbow in his hand, only Yang Xun's army could have these numbers in the rebel army.