"Torch more."

After distributing weapons and motivating everyone, the first thing Heifu did was not to rush forward, but to ask everyone to take out all the torches hidden in the arsenal, and even let Wu Chen and others hold machetes in their hands, chop pine wood, and wrap rags stained with pine resin at the top to help burn, so that the torches can be burned for a while.

Then, he formed the army into three formations, and set out in turn, unveiling the poles as flags, and each person with a torch, deliberately lengthening the marching procession, and from a distance, it was like a sea of fire, where did it seem that there were only 20,000 people? That's 40,000 or 50,000!

Not only did he have to deceive the enemy, but Heifu even deceived his own people.

"The general said, the 100,000 troops in Lingnan are behind him, and they can come to the aid in the morning! We are not alone! ”

Heralds kept shuttling to spread the good news. The 20,000 soldiers of the Southern Expedition, who were originally playing elite with miscellaneous cards and were still a little timid, were all in good spirits, even though the array was not in order, but with the general's banner, they still mustered up their courage and began to follow the three thousand short guards in the center and march forward.

At this time, it was already the fifth watch, and there was still some time before sunrise, and the soldiers had to keep the array as much as possible in the faint light, avoiding the ravines and canals, so they could not get up fast, and from the Yellow Crane Tower to the dock for several miles, they walked through the wilderness of the Tuntian on weekdays, crossed the muddy path, and got closer and closer to the enemy.

"The enemy army is afraid of no less than 8,000 people, and after reorganizing the array, he went to the riverside and hesitated for a whole hour, because he wanted to wait for work?"

Hefu could see the direction of the docks, and thousands of torches were burning silently, but he didn't take a step forward.

From the dispatch of cavalry to gather stragglers, to the Yellow Crane Mountain to distribute weapons, the two full hours are their most vulnerable moments, if the opposite Qin general is ruthless, people under the cover of the night, maybe the 20,000 people who have gathered with great difficulty will be scattered as birds and beasts.

He looked at the team around him, which looked like tens of thousands of troops, and knew in his heart: "I know him, but he doesn't know me, for fear of being surrounded by a rash attack, so he is timid." ”

In the Art of War, it is said that to control chaos, count also; Courage and cowardice, momentum also; Strength and weakness, shape also.

Now because of the fire, the desire to survive has been stimulated, and the opposite from the commander to the soldiers, have been a little panicked by the slogan of "the first emperor has been killed" and "it is difficult to quell the rebellion with the edict of the edict", and the dock has no high walls and deep ravines, and there is still a chance of victory.

But just then, the scout in front came to report that there was a new change at the docks!

"General, we ventured closer, but saw that the enemy's torches were tied to the poles and remained motionless, while their men quietly withdrew and boarded the ships! There are only two or three thousand people left! ”

"Is this going to run?"

There is no good landing site except for the dock around, and the enemy can't be stupid enough to divide his troops around, Heifu can't cry or laugh, he just wants to bluff, strengthen his morale, and make the enemy suspicious, did he go too far, and scared them directly into not daring to fight?

This is different from Heifu's expectation, the army of the Wuchang battalion must be annihilated! Otherwise, the next plan will be completely disrupted, even if his own backhand works, the army successfully crosses the river, and after An Lu lands on the shore, in addition to Feng Jing, there will be thousands more enemies, which will make the task of rescuing An Lu's father and fellow villagers doubly difficult.

"Speed up the whole army!"

Heifu didn't care about anything else, and beat the war drums on the command car with all his might, countless horns joined the ensemble, and bunches of torches smelling of pine resin passed him with rustling footsteps, and went straight to the docks!

But on the battlefield, accidents happen all the time, especially an army that has just been recruited, and it is not surprising that there are any moths.

The crowd had just picked up speed, and when they arrived at the wharf, they could clearly see that the torches at the wharf were gradually extinguished, and there were fewer and fewer of them, and almost all the Qin soldiers and guards had boarded the ships from Xiakou and wanted to go offshore.

"Don't let it get out of the way!"

Just as he was about to regroup the array and launch an attack, Hefu found that something had happened on his right flank......

A field of torches, numbering in the thousands, suddenly broke away from the ranks without Heifu's orders, and slammed towards the east!

When the scouts who were ordered to supervise the battle on the right flank came to report, their faces turned pale: "General, three or four thousand people on the right flank, flee from the battle!" ”

……

The three or four thousand people who fled were Huainan soldiers who were instigated by Fu Liren Ge Ying.

As early as a few months ago, Ge Ying, who had been serving for four years, had been instigating the township party to flee with him, but he was horrified by the Qin army's orders, except for a few people, no one dared to obey.

But tonight's fire burned the last bit of everyone's expectations and concerns, and Ge Ying's proposal suddenly became tempting.

Although when Heifu sent his cavalry to gather everyone, they also blindly followed the crowd to Yellow Crane Mountain and picked up their blades, but when they got closer and closer to the dock and saw that there were many torches over there, they muttered in their hearts......

"We haven't trained for a long time, even if we wear armor and fight with those well-trained Guanzhong soldiers, even if we kill a thousand enemies, we will lose eight hundred, will I die here?"

Under this thought, the legs seem to be rusty, and the steps are not so neat.

And Ge Ying didn't intend to die for that Marquis of Wu Zhong at all, he kept instigating on the right flank:

"Don't look at what this general said nicely, he is also a Qin general after all, the two Qin armies are fighting, but let us Chu people fill the ravines, why bother?"

"And the so-called 100,000 army, if there really is, why not just pull it out?"

"Instead of dying here, let's go! Listen to me, go to Huze in the east to hide, and then find a way to go back to Huainan! ”

The closer they were to the battle, the more timid they became, and about three or four hundred people listened to Ge Ying's words, they were all in the middle of the array, and they couldn't see the situation on the dock, and as soon as the footsteps of the army stopped, they heard Ge Ying shout:

"Run!"

Ge Ying took the lead, and the three or four hundred people immediately ran away, during which many people fell and were trampled underfoot, but they struggled to get up and limped to follow.

The neighboring township party robes looked at them dumbfounded, and after a little hesitation, they also joined the fleeing team......

Checkmate? Court? Honor? Promise? It was not as good as a bag of bad wine for him, at least the bad wine could temporarily drown out their fears.

After all, there are only 3,000 people in Heifu's lineage, and most of them are in the Chinese army, and Wu Chen and others in the overseer army can't stop it, only half a moment of effort, and the right flank has a full three or four thousand people, all of whom throw torches, and run everywhere with the help of the dark cover before dawn.

They don't know where they're going, whether they're going home or going into exile, they just want to stay away from this bloody battlefield!

……

The scene of escaping from the battle not only caught Heifu off guard, but also Yang Xiong and others, who had boarded the ship and were preparing to leave the shore, also saw this strangeness from afar.

Xin Yi's spirits perked up, and he pointed to the thousands of torches that were separated from the sea of fire and immediately extinguished: "General Yang, could it be that the rebels have made a mistake?" ”

Yang Xiong shook his head: "I'm afraid this is still a trick of Marquis Wu Zhong, he saw us evacuating, and knew that it could not be stopped, so he deliberately made people pretend to escape, pretending to be in chaos in the army, in order to lure us to land and fight again!" ”

From the time he evacuated the Wuchang camp and came to the dock, since he knew that the opposite side was indeed under the banner of Wuzhonghou, Yang Xiong did not plan to fight hard with the "rebels".

In the face of Xia Kou Sima's questioning, Yang Xiong Zhenzhen said: "Do you know how many people are on the other side? What if in addition to the three or five thousand that the scouts saw, there were ten thousand, twenty thousand, or even one hundred thousand? ”

Marquis Wuzhong came back from the dead, and appeared in Wuchang with an army in a grand manner, which made Yang Xiong frightened, feeling that something must have happened in the south, and the worst plan might be that General Li You had been killed, and the entire Changsha County had fallen......

He is in control of his own reality, but Yang Xiong can't even find out how many enemies there are.

Reason told him that this kind of battle cannot be fought!

In addition to the unclear situation, in fact, Yang Xiong also has a deep fear of Heifu in his heart.

"When the world is in conflict, the world often says that the army is the best, and now the four generals have all passed away, and the best use of soldiers in the world, except for Wang Ben and Feng Wuxuan, the generals are old and strong, and the prime generation is nothing more than two people."

"Lee, Captain!"

"General White Horse and General Black Dog!"

This head was built up with real military exploits, although Li Xin had fought a big defeat in his early years, and lost seven captains. But he was brave after being ashamed, whether it was destroying the Yan Dynasty or conquering the Huns, he played a show, and then destroyed the Yue Clan, swept the Western Regions, and shocked the northwest, making him one of the first-class famous generals.

After reunification, he and Li Xin attacked the Huns, leveled the Zhutian Rebellion, attacked the sea, and took charge of the south alone, whether it was to seize Minyue, Dingnanyue, and defeat Ouluo, they all did it in one go, and cleaned up the mess left by Lao Tu properly.

In contrast, because of the calm in northern Xinjiang, Meng Tian did not have many opportunities to fight, and his reputation was slightly inferior.

Yang Xiong pointed at himself, Xin Yi, and Xia Kou Sima: "If it is really Marquis Wu Zhong's personal general, do you think you can defeat him?" ”

The two of them were speechless, and when they said this, they really didn't have any confidence in their hearts.

Yang Xiong sighed: "Their generation is hyping up that His Majesty has collapsed, and they are in the edict of the Emperor, and our army is in turmoil, and the decisive battle with them is in the arms of the Marquis of Wuzhong, it is better to go!" ”

Xin Yi and Xia Kou Sima were almost convinced, but they still had one last trace of hesitation.

"After losing Wuchang, the arsenal and armor were captured by the rebels, and another 30,000 people were lost, how should we explain to General Feng?"

"Those 30,000 people are rebels, not Qin soldiers."

Yang Xiong said with a smile: "I burned at least three to five thousand rebels to death, which can be regarded as beheading three or five thousand, and even made people set fire to the warehouse and burned hundreds of thousands of stones of grain to ashes, so that they would not be able to raise the enemy." ”

He pointed to the sea of fire rushing towards the shore: "What's more, we are doing this for the sake of the overall situation, no matter how many people Marquis Wu Zhong brings to the north, my next step, I have already guessed!" ”

"An Lu! He must have wanted to seize the ship and cross the river to Anlu! ”

An Lu is Heifu's lair, where there is his mother, brother, and 50,000 township party members who are about to be moved to Guanzhong......

At this time, the fifth watch was over, and there was a faint light on the horizon, and the "rebels" arrived at the riverside out of breath, but there was no longer a piece of board here, and even the long wharf was burned down by Yang Xiong's order! I can only look at the river and sigh!

Yang Xiong looked at the banner of Marquis Wuzhong, and smiled: "As long as we retreat with our whole body, join General Feng's father and son, and gather 40,000 people, wait for work, and then take An Lu people as hostages, and mess with their military morale." ”

"At that time, if the rebels advance, they will be defeated, and if they do not advance, they will be demoralized, and if they have no food, they will fall apart!"

Then, as soon as the words "collapse" in Yang Xiong's mouth were spoken, a sharp warning sounded on the ship!

"Bumped in, hold on!"

There was a violent shaking, as if a giant beast in the river hit the side of the boat, Yang Xiong hurriedly hugged the mast, but his head still knocked on it, breaking the skin and bleeding, and the unlucky Xin Yi fell to the ground!

The shaking gradually stopped, accompanied by a noisy exclamation, Yang Xiong covered his head and got up to see, but it was the left side of the tall building boat, and there was a stern that slammed into the hull of the boat, because it was going down the river at a very fast speed, and the sharp impact angle covered with copper had broken the ship's plank, destroyed the oar hole, and the river was constantly pouring into it......

There was a plain white flag on the ship, which was dazzling and ominous. What's even more frightening is that in the upper reaches of the river, there are dozens of boats coming, some big and some small, some of them are empty grain boats, and there are even more paddle wheels, as the sailors trample on them, the wooden paddle wheels are spinning, breaking through the morning mist and rushing towards them!

The Qin army officials who were about to retreat were all shocked, but everyone on the shore rang out with fierce cheers!

"It came just in time." Heifu secretly wiped his cold sweat, the thousands of people who escaped from the battle just now frightened him.

But he still pretended to be confident, and pointed to the ships that kept appearing, as if talking and laughing, and the canopy was in ashes.

"Look at that, General Ben's '100,000' army has arrived!"

……

PS: The second chapter is in the evening