Chapter 20: Exploring the Camp
"General Li, after the people entered the city of Weng, he issued a message at the patio of the city and ordered that all the people should enter the city and not rush into battle, and if anyone who did not obey was punished by the enemy. After the people entered the city, all the old and weak women and children were allowed to go on the spot, and the young and strong men were all escorted into the barracks, and the names and addresses of the people in the city were to be released. ”
Lin Muzhi was also afraid that there would be spies among the people, in case he would kill him again at night. Saving twenty or thirty people has even affected thousands of people outside the city. If the people outside the city are implicated in the rescue of the people outside the city, then the fun will be great.
Lin Muzhi continued:
"Release a hundred scouts, alert the county within a radius of five miles, and report it immediately if there is any trouble. By the way, what about the civil officials of the government? Why haven't you seen it for so long? ”
Li Guanshan replied sonorously:
"The civil officials of the government have been ordered by the regimental training envoy to pacify the people in the city before the general comes, so as not to cause panic." Then he said to the adjutant on the side, "Sun Zhen, according to General Lin's order, quickly execute it, and save the people outside the city first." ”
It didn't take long for the drawbridge to be lowered, and the people outside the city were also let go of the moat. The purpose of the Qiguo cavalry was achieved, so they did not kill anyone. It may be that Marshall had enough, and the enemy led by him rode up to the drawbridge, and immediately gave a thumbs up on the bridge, and slashed it from the neck, arrogant arrogance, how fierce and fierce.
Lin Muzhi slapped his hand on the battlements again, but he was helpless.
"Boom..."
It exploded, which is rare. The house is all made of wood, how can it explode? The frightened people outside the city rushed into the city, and the enemy withdrew in this riot.
"What's the situation? How could there be gunpowder outside the city? ”
Looking at Lin Muzhi's puzzled expression, Li Guanshan explained:
"General Lin, there is a fireworks workshop in the west of the city, and the sound of the right talent must come from there."
Lin Muzhi sighed:
"Damn, that is, two legs can't run on four legs. Otherwise, kill these bastards. ”
Li Guanshan replied:
"Alas! Timid! What a fucking shit! ”
At this time, Shen Gongzi said:
"They didn't leave the territory of Shouzhou, they just went back to rest, if they want to retreat today, unless they give up the four horses."
Hearing what the surnamed Shen said, Lin Muzhi asked:
"Exquisite?"
Shen Gongzi then replied:
"Dahua's cavalry has been very few in the past hundred years, so many people don't know much about horses. This enemy attack was largely related to horses, and it was also a kind of necessity. Horses, in fact, did not have as much stamina as people thought, and the cavalry was much faster than the foot soldiers, but the long journeys could not catch up with the foot soldiers. Wild horses on the grassland only walk ten to twenty miles a day when there is no danger, so the physical wear and tear of horses is related to the speed of horses. Walking 200 miles in three hours without galloping will not hurt the horse, but it is necessary to rest. In less than two quarters of an hour, the horse will be exhausted of all its physical strength, and if it is overdepleted, the horse will be exhausted to death. ”
Taking a breath, Shen Gongzi continued:
"When we were chasing us, the enemy's horses were already too depleted, so we had to rest our horses. When evacuating, the enemy will travel more than ten miles before he can cover his figure. The greatest intention of the soldiers in the city was to cause chaos in Shouchun City, so that they would be given a chance to breathe, and the enemy would return to the camp today, rest their horses for the night, and evacuate early tomorrow morning. ”
The surname Shen said that Lin Muzhi understood that animals are always animals, unlike four wheels, if they don't give it enough time to rest, they will have to stumble.
Sen Han's smile appeared on Lin Muzhi's face, come if you want, leave if you want? It's really not possible to think that the Great Chinese Dynasty is your back garden! Since you're here, stay here!
"General Li, don't call me a general in the future, I'm not a general, just call me Muzhi. Please lead the way, and we will go to the barracks to deal with the young and strong people who have just entered the city. That's right! Does the general want to do a vote and avenge the people outside the city? ”
"Brother Lin, let's go out to the barracks, let's go, I'll take you there." So what do they do? ”
Li Guanshan's words only changed the name of Lin Muzhi, and asked the group of scholars in the academy behind Lin Muzhi, but did not answer the question of whether Lin Muzhi was willing to go out of the city to do a vote. Although you have to be a soldier to have the consciousness of being a soldier, you are not blindly sending you to death! At least Lin Muzhi's current prestige in the military camp has no ability to convince the public except for the courage to kill the son of Shangshu just now, so he wants to take people out of the city to fight, who wants to go with him.
Lin Muzhi didn't care, Li Guanshan was unwilling to answer about sending troops, naturally he had a lot of concerns, Lin Muzhi's command was originally obtained out of thin air, why should people believe that he had the strength to fight the 200 cavalry outside the city? When you go out of the city to fight, it's all your head pinned to your trouser belt, and it's not a child's house.
"They! All of them were brought into the barracks and went out of the city to kill the enemy, and none of these people should be missing, they provoked it, and they had to wipe their butts themselves. As he spoke, he smiled maliciously at the people behind him, "If you don't comply, you will end up with a little white face, and you will sacrifice the flag with them, Lao Tzu can save them, and dare to kill them!" ”
Under the guidance of Li Guanshan, a group of people soon came to the barracks, and there were few young and strong people left in the barracks, there were originally many old and weak women and children.
After entering the camp tent, Lin Muzi spoke:
"General Li, bring me a map."
In addition to the group of forbidden academy disciples who had just been brought in by Lin Muzi, there was also a group of large and small capitals.
The lieutenant named Sun Zhen came with a map and spread it on the table. Lin Muzhi circled around the table a few times before finding Taoxi Village on the map. It is so large that the scale of the map is confirmed, and Taoxi Village is used as the center of the circle, and a circle is drawn in the direction of Bagong Mountain.
A group of academy disciples didn't dare to squeak, and the generals in the barracks didn't know what medicine was sold in Lin Muzhi's gourd, and they couldn't speak. But it was the son surnamed Shen who opened his mouth and said:
"Little master, the proportions are wrong, the coachman said that he walked more than fifty miles, and what you drew was only thirty miles."
Lin Muzhi looked at Shen Gongzi, but he didn't expect that he was a talent, but he actually knew that Lin Muzhi was calculating the approximate location of the enemy's camp according to the map.
Lin Muzhi smiled:
"Can't be wrong, if according to what you said, the range of about fifty miles to catch up with our Shangguan Road, the horses have already run more than thirty miles from the nearest place, even if the two horses change lanes, they will almost run so far, although the other horse is not heavy, but at least it has run empty for twenty miles, and it is impossible for four hundred horses to be safe and sound when chasing to the city, so the enemy's camp tent is not so far from Taoxi Village. The front and rear of the pursuers were no more than five miles, and they would certainly not be too far. Moreover, if you see that kind of unclean thing like Uncle Wang, will you look at it stupidly all night? Therefore, the last path that Uncle Wang took was not to discover the enemy's position. ”
As the two spoke, Shen Gongzi had already drawn an arc in the direction of Bagong Mountain with Shouchun City as the center of the circle.
What a fucking talent! Not only did he guess Lao Shi's intentions, but he also calculated the horse's driving half-longitude, and the intersection of the two arcs was the place where the enemy had the greatest probability of hiding.
Shen Gongzi says:
"What the little master said is that the students have been taught." Then he pointed to the map and said, "Little Master, the enemy is most likely hiding in this valley. The terrain of this valley is more than 30 zhang higher than the fields, and the annual rain washes it, so I think there will be no soil accumulated here, and there should be no fields. The mouth of the valley is narrow, and three or five people can observe the wind and grass at the mouth of the valley. It seems that the valley is a Jedi, and there is no water source, but behind the valley is two mountain waistsides, which are no more than 200 zhang high, and there are mountain springs flowing down to the Cai realm at the mountainside. Turning over the mountainside is only a few miles to the territory of Xia Cai, once you hear the sound, you can react quickly, as for the water source, it is not difficult to come up the mountain to draw water. If I were an enemy, I wouldn't have made a second choice. ”
If you say that you are a talent, you are a talent. Just a glance at the map, you can analyze the head of the road. Look at you every day without saying a word, you can't beat a fart with a stuffy stick. I didn't expect it to be a blockbuster. This little braincase is very bright!
Lin Muzhi asked out loud:
"General Li, where is this?"
Listening to Shen Gongzi's remarks, Li Guanshan was like seeing the enemy army in the valley with his own eyes, he had seen these two people write and draw on the map like fools, but he didn't expect that he had already determined the location of the enemy army in a few words. Looking at the locations marked on the map, General Li had a difficult face.
"Here... This is the place where Shouchun and Xia Cai people meet... On weekdays..."
Okay! If Shen Gongzi's clarity made Lin Muzhi believe that there was a sixty percent chance that the enemy would hide here, let Li Guanshan say this, Lin Muzhi could conclude that the thieves would definitely hide here. The time, place, people and occupy all!
"General Lee! Disperse all the remaining scouts, come back before dark, focus on observing this valley, and once you find it, don't startle the snake. If they really dare to stay in Dahua, I, Lin Muzhi and them, will only have one who can live to see the sun tomorrow. ”
"Yes!"
The scouts who dispersed returned to the city before it was dark, but as Shen Gongzi said, they found traces of the enemy in the valley, but they didn't dare to approach for fear of startling the snake. The situation observed back was just as expected by the son surnamed Shen, there were signs of retreat, but he had not left immediately.
Lin Muzhi, who had hastily eaten lunch, looked at the general distribution of the enemy camps on the table, and said loudly:
"How many people are willing to go out of the city with me to kill the enemy?"
None of the soldiers and disciples in the camp responded. Lin Muzhi's fury:
"! It's all going to make people ride on their heads to and pee, what are you hiding in your crotch? Are you still a fucking man? Isn't it as good as me, a teenager under twenty? ”
Hearing Lin Muzhi's scolding, Li Guanshan's deputy Sun Zhen opened his mouth to explain:
"General Lin, it's not that we are unwilling to send troops, infantry against cavalry, we are already inferior, and the enemy has more horses than men, once the formation is too weak, the cavalry will charge and chisel the formation, it will..."
Lin Muzhi did not answer the question of how to solve this dilemma, but asked another question in a surprising voice:
"What if the cavalry has no horses?"