"The little girl who picks mushrooms, carrying a big bamboo basket on her back, walks barefoot in the early morning, walking all over the woods and hills ......."

As we all know, summer is a good season for mushroom production, especially after a thunderstorm, in the woods, in the grass and in the fields is almost everywhere you can see all kinds of mushrooms that are growing vigorously, large and small appearances, the small ones can be as small as the size of a fingernail, and the big ones can be more than a foot, like a small umbrella, but also colorful, green, yellow, red, white, gray, orange and brown, flowers and flowers have everything, many kinds of mushrooms are colorful, and they can be completely comparable to flowers.

But that's not all, the real connoisseur of mushroom picking, or the favorite summer thunderstorm after the weather is fine, the temperature suddenly rises in a straight line, at that time all kinds of mushrooms in the mountains and forests and fields that are really called more, dense nests and bushes, almost comparable to the stars in the sky, in the mountains or grass casually turn around, it is easy to pick a large basket full of mushrooms, take back a pot of fresh soup for the whole family to enjoy. - Of course, you have to pick mushrooms that are not poisonous.

The soldiers of the Han army who went out of the camp to the west overnight caught up with such a good time, the thunderstorm fell in the middle of the night, and when it was dawn, it suddenly became a clear sky, the sun was shining, and the temperature that had dropped because of the rain rose sharply, and in the woods, grasses, hillsides and fields, and even on the trunks and rocks in the Puyang area, you can see all kinds of mushrooms that grow new everywhere, they are fresh and tender, and the number is so large that it is impossible to count at all.

That's not all, because of the destruction of the war and the abandonment of a large number of fields, at this time, even the original farmland has grown all kinds of mushrooms, large and small.

It was also at this time that the 500 commanders of the Han army, who led the westward march last night, each announced to their officers and soldiers that they would go out of the camp this time - picking mushrooms!

"It turned out that we were asked to pick mushrooms (mushrooms)." Suddenly realized, almost all of them were children of peasant families, and the soldiers of the Han army immediately burst into cheers, and many people scrambled to say: "I am the best at picking mushrooms, whether they are poisonous or not, I can see it at a glance." ”

"Don't worry, general, I will collect mushrooms since I can remember, and I will never pick a single poisonous mushroom, and I can take it back to ensure that I can eat it with confidence."

"There are mushrooms (shiitake mushrooms)! Look, there are a lot of mushrooms there, pick them back and give them to our king! ”

"A bunch of idiots! Hear me out! The five hundred commanders of the Han army who led the team hurriedly interrupted and roared: "Listen, we are not here to pick edible mushrooms today, but poisonous mushrooms!" Don't eat any mushrooms, just pick those poisonous mushrooms for me! The more the merrier! When the wooden urns and bamboo baskets are full, they should be covered with cloth so that they cannot be dried in the sun! ”

"Collecting poisonous mushrooms?!" The soldiers of the Han army present were in an uproar, and they had never heard of such a strange thing, specializing in picking poisonous mushrooms?

"General, you're not kidding, are you? Picking poisonous mushrooms? A Han soldier also picked up a roadside mushroom and said to the 500 Han army leaders who led the team: "General, do you know that this kind of cole fungus (cholera mushroom) can poison a person if you eat it casually, and there is no antidote." ”

"Less nonsense! When Lao Tzu started picking mushrooms, you hadn't given birth yet, how poisonous the mushrooms were, can Lao Tzu know how poisonous they are? ”

The five hundred elders of the Han army interrupted rudely and angrily, and shouted: "Don't be wordy, start it immediately, and pick poisonous mushrooms for me!" The more the merrier, go back to our king and have a reward! The more you pick, the more you get! But remember for me, when you go back, keep your mouth shut, no one is allowed to say what we have done here, who dares to leak the slightest rumor, watch your head! Do it! Pick! ”

The military order is like a mountain, forced to be helpless, no matter how incomprehensible, the soldiers of the Han army can only obediently dodge immediately, go into the grass and woods to look for mushrooms everywhere, and pick the kind of poisonous mushrooms with bright colors and thick juices, and this situation does not only happen in this team of 500 teams of the Han army, 10 teams of 500 people of the Han army scattered in the area of Puyang Baima, all of them are picking poisonous mushrooms. The cheerful singing resounded in the far west of the Han army camp in the land of Puyang......

"The big head of the mushroom picker, carrying a large bamboo basket on his back, walked through the woods and hills in the early morning with his bare feet. He picks the most mushrooms, as many as the stars in the sky, and the mushrooms he picks are the most poisonous, so poisonous that no one dares to eat them, hehe! ”

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At the same time, under the personal leadership of the Han army general Guan Ying, the Han cavalry once again increased the intensity of the scout war, and the time did not arrive to go out of the camp, unscrupulously rushed to the West Chu army camp to wander around and wait, as long as they saw the West Chu army scouts out of the camp, they immediately rushed up to greet with the sabers, most of the West Chu army scouts did not dare to fight, but quickly patted their horses and ran into the distance, the Han army cavalry was divided into layers into depth to block the front and chase back, in order to deal with a West Chu army scout sentry composed of ten cavalry, do not hesitate to use one or two hundred cavalry troops, surrounded the Western Chu army scouts on all sides, either killing the Western Chu army scouts, or forcing them back to the camp, saying that they would not let the Western Chu army scouts expand the reconnaissance range.

The combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Western Chu army is actually not bad, even if the weapons suffer immediately, as long as they dismount and fight on foot, it is absolutely not a problem to deal with the cavalry of the Han army with the same strength, but it is useless, the number of cavalry of the Han army is too much, a team of twenty people can't kill the cavalry of the Western Chu army, and immediately two or three, or even four or five or even more, even if it is a pile, the scouts of the Western Chu army will be piled to death, and they can't resist the unreasonable brute force of the Han cavalry, and the scouts of the Western Chu army who have suffered losses can only flee for their lives as much as possible, It was also constantly compressed by the Han cavalry, and at the end of the morning, the scouts of the Western Chu army did not say that they went out ten miles away to investigate the enemy's situation, but there were very few sentinels who could break out of the camp five miles away, and the number of casualties rose sharply again.

The situation was reported to Cao Ji, the acting commander of the Western Chu Army, who still believed that the Han cavalry was deliberately provoking, trying to provoke himself and lure him into sending troops to fight.

It is precisely because of this that the scouts of the Western Chu army failed to find out another important situation of the Han army - on this day, the Han army sent more troops and vehicles to the surrounding area to cut timber and transport it back to the camp, and it was not possible to find out that in the rear camp of the Han army, there were countless Han soldiers who were helping the craftsmen and technicians of the Han army to make various offensive weapons, from last night the rain stopped until early morning, and then from early morning to evening, without the slightest stop.

When the night came, seeing that the weather was fine and the moon was as bright as day, it was obvious that it would be a sunny day in the coming day, and Li Zuoche, who was a guest minister, in order to repay the kindness of the Western Chu army for allowing him to eat and drink in their army, took the initiative to find Cao Ji, just like Kuaiche last night, and persuaded Cao Ji to send scouts to lurk in the distance overnight, so as to directly detect the enemy situation of the Han army the next day, and repeatedly pointed out to Cao Ji that the Han cavalry was so crazy to strangle the scouts of the Western Chu army, it must have other plans, and the only way to find out the intention of the Han army was to figure out as soon as possible, the Western Chu army can take precautions and prepare in advance, so as not to be caught off guard by the Han army.

It's a pity that Cao Ji has never seen Li Zuoche before, and insists that the Han cavalry is just deliberately provoking himself into battle, and he is too lazy to bother to leave the camp at night, and he is also worried that the camp scouts will be discovered by the Han cavalry after leaving the camp, resulting in more cavalry losses for his own army, but he still refuses to listen, and still plans to wait a few more days.

Seeing that persuasion was useless, Li Zuoche, who had neither real power nor status, had to be disappointed and resigned, but when the account was issued, Li Zuoche happened to meet Kui Che again, Kui Che asked about his words to Cao Bla, Li Zuoche did not answer, but shook his head helplessly, Kui Che saw that he was even more helpless, and changed his words and comforted: "Duo Cheng Guang Wujun wasted his heart, if he can't listen to it, forget it, fortunately, our Da Sima has always remembered the king's advice, and he is determined to stick to the camp, as long as he does this, the Han thief will play more tricks, We can all adapt to change. ”

"I'm afraid it's not that simple."

Li Zuoche muttered in his heart, and he always had a premonition that the strange actions of the Han cavalry were not so simple. Then, Li Zuoche remembered one more thing, and hurriedly said: "Doctor Kuai, it's hot in summer, there is too much water in the barracks, and the wells in our camp are a little insufficient. The foreign minister believed that in order to prepare for a rainy day, we should take advantage of the opportunity when the Han thieves were still preparing offensive weapons, and dig more wells in the barracks as soon as possible to prevent accidents. ”

Kuaiche thought about it, so he thanked Li Zuoche for reminding him, and after entering the account, he saw Cao Ji, and quickly mentioned this matter to Cao Ji, but Cao Ji was not ambiguous in this matter, and immediately nodded and agreed, but it was late, and Cao Ji did not send someone to act overnight that night, but just decided to send someone to dig a new well the next day.

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In fact, there is still hope for the Western Chu army, if Li Zuoche and Kuaiche continue to insist on persuading Cao Zhi to send scouts out of the camp overnight, and Cao Zhi also arranges it this way, then in the middle of the night, the scouts of the Western Chu army who lurk out of the camp overnight may be able to discover some important situations.

It was the third watch of the night, the Han army camp suddenly quietly opened the east gate, two thousand Han soldiers in the case of no torches, all relying on the moonlight lighting, quietly pushed a full of wooden urns of manpower carts out of the camp, quickly assembled into a team, and by the cover of the night, rushed to the northwest of the West Chu army to protect the camp trench water inlet, during which the Han army officers and soldiers still had stones in their mouths, everyone was light-footed, for fear of making a loud noise, alarming the enemy who may be lurking in the field.

The bright moonlight helped the soldiers of the Han army a lot, although the path leading to the diversion of the Western Chu army was narrow and difficult to walk, but at the beginning of the fourth watch, the Han army team still successfully arrived at the downstream trench section of the diversion of the Western Chu army, and after basically confirming that there was no one around, these Han soldiers hurriedly moved the wooden urn on the manpower cart and carried it to the side of the Western Chu army's camp trench whose flow can be comparable to that of ordinary rivers, and poured the chopped or chopped mushrooms in the wooden urn into the trench, and scattered and dumped as much as possible to avoid excessive accumulation. attracted the attention of others, fortunately, the trench dug by the Western Chu army was half a foot deep, and after scattering and spilling the broken mushrooms, it really did not accumulate too much in the trench.

Urns after urns of broken mushrooms poured into the trench, quickly floating or sinking to the bottom, the mushroom juice oozing out after crushing was also quickly mixed with the river water flowing in the trench, and under the impetus of the water flow, it slowly flowed downstream, silently and gradually surrounded the camp of the Western Chu army on three sides, but even so, the water quality in the trench still did not change much, and there was no difference between it and usual.

During this period, all battalions and departments of the Western Chu Army generally used well water filtered by soil or yesterday's stored water, but inevitably, in order to save effort or save time, of course, the men gave priority to using up yesterday's stored water, and they were not busy going to the well to draw supplements, so unconsciously, the water stored in the Western Chu Army was almost consumed.

When the time was approaching, as in the previous three days, the Han army sent half of the cavalry out of the camp as usual, and ran to wait outside the camp of the Western Chu army, preparing to strangle the scouts of the Western Chu army, and the Western Chu army who had just finished breakfast was also accustomed to this, and they didn't bother to pay attention to it at all. lest the Han army suddenly block the water intake of the camp trench of the Western Chu army and cut off the water source of the Western Chu army.

Time flies quickly, in a blink of an eye, it is already full of light, and then it is the same as the moonlight omen last night, today is really a cloudless good weather, the sun is shining, the temperature in Puyang is rising rapidly, and the water consumption figures in the camp of the Western Chu army have also risen sharply, in order to be lazy, there are also more soldiers of the Western Chu army out of the camp with buckets, to draw water from the trench outside the camp and return to the camp, and because it has always been like this, from beginning to end, there is no fear that a general of the Western Chu army will stand up to stop and drink, Even the resourceful Kui Che and Li Zuoche didn't notice anything wrong.

With the gradual passage of time, the sun rises higher and higher, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter, correspondingly, there are more and more Western Chu soldiers who go to the trench outside the camp to draw water, especially when it is almost noon, because the scorching sun is like fire, the well is not enough, and there are naturally more Western Chu soldiers who drink a lot of water in the trench.

During this period, some Western Chu soldiers also began to have abdominal pain or diarrhea, but because the number was not very large, the grassroots generals of the Western Chu army did not report the situation, and Cao Ji and others in the Chinese army camp never knew about it.

Just after noon, a sudden change occurred, accompanied by the long sound of the horn, a team of Han soldiers suddenly sang a loud military song and strode out of the camp, and gathered outside the camp under the scorching sun, and because the movement of the Han army was too big, although the scope of activities of the scouts of the Western Chu army was still very compressed, they also immediately discovered the situation at the first time, and hurriedly returned to the camp to report the situation to Cao Qi.

"The thieves have sent troops?" Cao Ji was extremely surprised, and said: "Counting the time, the Han thief's offensive weapons should not be very sufficient, shouldn't they be launched today?" Could it be that troops were sent to fight? ”

"Da Sima, for the sake of prudence, let's hurry up and prepare for war." "Be prepared first, so that even if the thieves do attack, we can easily deal with it." ”

Cao Ji listened to Kuaicher's suggestion again, and immediately ordered the whole army to fight, but during the busy preparation for the battle of the Western Chu army, in order to have enough drinking water to drink in the hot weather, of course, more soldiers were divided to carry buckets out of the camp, and rush to draw water back to the camp before the arrival of the Han army, so that they could drink during the war.

Cao Ji was soon glad that he had listened to Kui Che's suggestion, because after a while, the scouts sent an urgent report, saying that they had seen Xiang Kang's banner out of the Han army camp with their own eyes, but the Han army was still out of the camp, and at the same time saw trench bridge cars and flying ladders and other offensive equipment in the Han army's ranks, it was obvious that they were preparing to launch a large-scale attack on the Western Chu army camp, Cao Ji was even more excited and nervous when he heard the news, and hurriedly urged the battalions of the Western Chu army to step up their combat preparations and prepare for this super-large-scale camp offensive and defensive battle. Judging from the time when the Han army sent troops, it was likely that a night battle would be launched, so he took precautions and asked the officers and men of the Western Chu Army to prepare dry food and torches in advance, proving with practical actions that Xiang Yu entrusted the army to him with a good eye.

At the same time, because the time was already after one o'clock in the afternoon, it was the hottest time of the day, and in addition to the need to make a large amount of dry food, the Western Chu soldiers were of course also seizing the time to drink a large amount of water and replenish the stored water, and because the water from the well in the camp was too slow, most of these Western Chu soldiers of course drank the flowing living water from the trenches outside the camp.

The Han army sent troops very calmly this time, and began to leave the camp from time to time, until about three minutes before the assembly was completed, carrying countless offensive weapons to the camp of the Western Chu army slowly lined up, and it was also at this time that the Western Chu army confirmed that the scale of the Han army's dispatch this time reached an astonishing 80,000 yuan, Zheng Bu, Ding Ji, Long and Zhong Liwu and other famous generals of the Han army also went out of battle, and it was obvious that the camp of the Western Chu army was determined to win.

When Shen was halfway through, the 80,000 Han army arrived outside the south gate of the camp of the Western Chu army in the open terrain, and calmly lined up the formation, Xiang Kang also established his command flag array on the high ground outside the camp, and then according to the usual practice, Xiang Kang first sent a messenger to play a white flag, rode a horse to the gate of the camp of the Western Chu army, and loudly invited the Western Chu army to go out of the camp for a decisive battle. ”

The herald went according to the order, and Cao Ji turned to Gongao and Huan Chu and the others next to him, and said with a relaxed expression: "The one who should come is finally here, this time, it is finally our turn to rely on the location of the camp to clean up the army of Han thieves. ”

Gong Ao, Huan Chu and the others nodded one after another, all full of confidence in holding the camp of their own army, but at this time, Xiang Han, who had gone to the camp quickly, suddenly rushed back to Cao Qi's flag formation, and said loudly at Cao Qi: "Da Sima, something happened, many of our soldiers vomited and diarrhea, the abdominal pain was unbearable, and they couldn't stand on their feet when they turned around, and many people passed out directly for no reason!" ”

"What?" Cao Qi almost suspected that his ears had heard it wrong, and hurriedly asked, "Is there such a situation in that army?" ”

"More than one army, everywhere!" Xiang Han replied nervously: "At first, I thought it was just an army that had this situation, but after asking carefully, I found out that most of our armies have such a situation!" ”

Cao Qiteng stood up as soon as he stood up, and his face immediately turned iron blue, and the generals of the Western Chu Army, such as Gong Ao and Huan Chu, were also all blue and black, and immediately understood that this matter was absolutely extraordinary, and it was definitely extraordinary! Kuaiche and Li Zuoche glanced at each other, and said together: "It's bad, we may have already been tricked!" ”