At six o'clock in the afternoon, the Xian army began to pull out the camp, and the 5,000 people who collected the corpses under the surprise of the guards began to flee again, and the news was quickly reported to Du Ruixun, and he was also taken aback when he heard the news. I only thought that Bailiyan had rebelled, so he immediately ordered his troops and horses to rush to ten miles west of Hukou Bay.

"General, look, the Xian army seems to be pulling out the camp."

Zhao Cuo pointed to the direction of Hukou Bay and said carefully, Du Ruixun carefully observed in the telescope, and also confirmed that the Xian army was pulling out the camp, and did not pursue the fleeing guards, nor did he fire artillery.

"Strange, what are you doing in the camp!"

"Will it be that the Xian army will withdraw to the east bank?"

Wang Xie guessed, and Du Ruixun asked:

"How so?"

"In terms of time, the envoys of the Zhiguo should have arrived in the camp of the Xian army on the east bank, and should know that the Zhijun is about to take over Dekang, if they continue to attack me, as long as our army delays until the Zhijun arrives, even if the Xian army crosses the river, it will only get an inch of land, and it will still not be able to advance westward."

"No, not really." Du Ruixun shook his head in denial, and then said: "Bailiyan is because he learned that the Zhi army intervened, so he crossed the river in advance to seize the westward passage to block the Zhi army south of Dekang.

Besides, the two armies have been fighting, our army has suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties, and Wang Yan can let go of Xianguo, and a major war between the two countries is inevitable, so why should Bailiyan withdraw because he was just reinforced yesterday. In my opinion, Baili Yan must have another plan.

Wang Xie, the Xian army on the east coast can have an abnormal situation today, where did the reinforcements of the Xian army come from? ”

"Back to the general, the reinforcements of the Xian army came from Feixiaqi, twenty miles northeast of Hukou Bay, and a temporary wharf was built the day before yesterday, which can dock small boats below 3,000 stones."

"Docks! Repaired the day before yesterday? Du Ruixun asked, hurriedly took out his binoculars and looked northeast, and vaguely saw signs of ships gathering forty miles away.

At this time, Wang Xie said:

"There is no abnormality in the Xian army in all parts of the river, only the Xian army in Feixiaqi has frequent activities, but it is not clear how many Xian troops there are in Feixiaqi."

Du Ruixun was taken aback when he heard the news:

"Shhh...... It is difficult for the Xianjun army to set up a pontoon bridge in Feixiaqi to open up the east and west banks! ”

"This ...... I'm afraid it can't be. The river section of the two counties of Sishui River Dekanggan Province is the most turbulent, when the river water rises sharply in this heavy rain, how can the pontoon bridge be erected on the river, even if the pontoon bridge is erected, the Xian army is no matter how miraculous it is, and it will take ten days and a half months to erect the pontoon bridge. ”

The site selection and construction of the pontoon bridge are very complicated, the same is two miles wide, one is a large river with a huge flow, and the other is a river with a gentle flow rate and shallow water, assuming that the difficulty is very different. In addition, the construction standard of the heavy pontoon bridge and the daily circulation is also an important factor restricting the erection cycle of the pontoon bridge.

If it is a simple passage of tens of thousands of infantry, a simple pontoon bridge can be built temporarily, if it is hundreds of thousands or even millions of cavalry and heavy baggage, the required pontoon bridge is stronger and the construction period is longer.

In view of the "enigmatic" strength of the Xian army, Wang Xie estimated with his greatest imagination that it would take at least ten days and half a month for the Xian army to build a strong pontoon bridge on the Sishui River that was enough for millions of people and hundreds of thousands of horses and millions of baggage to pass.

But Du Ruixun faintly felt a hint of foreboding enveloping his heart, he said:

"Today's Xian army is by no means beyond our means, with Baili Yan's temperament, it must be to cross the Sishui River before the Zhi army takes over Dekang. From this calculation, the Xian army must cross the Sishui River within five or six days of four or five hundred thousand people, and then immediately march westward, and arrive at Yuanshan before the Zhi army cuts off the westward advance to Jin. If this is the case, the bridge of the Xianjun army must be completed within five or six days. ”

"How is this possible, how can the Xian army build a two-mile pontoon bridge over this turbulent river in five or six days."

"If this is not the case, why not choose to do something elsewhere in Feixiaqi to repair the temporary wharf. Obviously, Feixiaqi is the narrowest place between the two counties of Sishui Jiang, Dekanggan, and the most convenient to build a pontoon bridge, and there is no other possibility. ”

"If this is the case, how can our army talk about a decisive battle with the Xian army!"

"Send people to Helong County immediately, contact the Zhijun, and urge them to enter the country immediately, and if it is too late, there will be changes!"

In fact, Du Ruixun himself did not believe that the Xianjun army could build a pontoon bridge on the Sishui River in five or six days, but when all the logical clues point to this judgment, any abnormal conclusion may occur.

Further, the strength of the Xian army and the national conditions of the Xian country are completely beyond the scope of Du Ruixun's cognition, and he has reason to believe that his judgment is correct, and at this time, he would rather overestimate the Xian army than underestimate it.

About an hour later, the Xian army quickly moved to the north of Hukou Bay in the rain, but Du Ruixun still sent people to hold him accountable to cover up his next deployment. After the Xian army left Hukou Bay, the guards resumed collecting the corpses and boldly entered the camp left behind by the Xian army, searching for items and all useful information.

In the afternoon, the Xian army arrived at the camping site, and at the same time drove piles on the west bank, and used boats to cross the river by setting ropes from Feixiaqi on the east bank, and fixed them on dozens of iron piles on the west bank. The scouts sent by Du Ruixun successively confirmed the previous speculations, and by the night of the same day, the pontoons erected by the Xian army on the side of Feixiaqi had begun to take shape.

However, that night, Du Ruixun got a report that the guards who collected the corpses only counted the corpses of more than 41,900 people, less than 1,800 people.

"What, only forty-two thousand!"

"Yes, General, before nightfall, the last general ordered people to count carefully, and there were only more than 41,900 corpses of brothers, and the rest were missing."

Ge Tao said quickly, and Wang Xie hurriedly said:

"Have you seen it by the riverside, whether it was abandoned into the river by the Xian army!"

"There was no sign of throwing corpses by the river, but the Xian army on the side of Hukou Bay built a pontoon bridge and wharf, leaving a large area of blood stains and bloody clothes, it should have been transferred to the east of the river from then on, and the last general doubted whether the missing brother was still alive and was coerced by the Xian army to the east bank."

"Highly likely!" Du Ruixun agreed with Ge Tao's statement, then got up and paced back and forth for two steps, and then said: "More than 60,000 soldiers should not all die in battle, there must be a mouthful, and since yesterday, our army has not received a live mouth, it should be rescued by the Xian army." ”

"General, what does the Xianjun mean by this, and why do you want to treat the soldiers of our army. If it is killed, it will not be more beneficial to the Xian army! ”

Wang Xie said, Du Ruixun shook his head and said:

This is the foundation of why Xianguo has been able to become strong for 20 years, and it is also the wisdom of Bailiyan. Xianguo can have today, Bailiyan is indispensable, but how can one person turn the tide, the real people who make Xianguo rich and strong, it is thousands of Xianguo people, Bailiyan is the country's talent to survive and be strong, how can it not be prosperous. Now it is holding 20,000 wounded soldiers of our army, which seems to increase its burden, which is not good for it, but in fact it also makes our army even more fearful.

Second, the Xian army has given a helping hand to the enemy's wounded soldiers, with the intention of breaking the morale of our army, and if the two armies fight again in Japan, if the soldiers of our army learn of the Xian army's life-saving move, I am afraid it will be difficult to fight to the death. Third, the Xian army treats each other with courtesy, and if our army treats them with brutality, it will be extremely unfavorable in the future.

In the end, the Xian army has abundant financial resources and excellent medical skills, even if there is a sharp increase of 10,000 or 20,000 wounded and killed, the cost is probably only a drop in the bucket. ”

"Even though the Xian army has a thousand benefits, now that the younger 20,000 brothers are being held hostage by the Xian army, if the news comes out, the army's heart will be shaken, and it must be guarded against!"

"But at this point, thousands of soldiers already know the news, and how can they hide it from the master. You and I have unknowingly fallen into the trap of Baili Yan, but I am afraid that if we can't wait for tomorrow, there will be dissent in the army! ”

The structure of the Guard was divided into three parts, the aristocratic army, the common people's army, and the untouchable slave army.

In the early days, the military composition of the princes of various countries was mainly nobles and nobles, and the commoners and untouchables were not qualified to join the army to fight. First, at that time, metal weapons, armor and horses were expensive, not enough to be installed in large quantities, and the status of the magnates was high, and taxes needed to be levied to suppress tax resistance, and the "high-level" weapons were generally concentrated in the elite class, so in the early stage of the construction of the Central Plains army, the nobles and the people generally joined the army, rather than the impression that the magnates were greedy for life and afraid of death, arrogant and lascivious.

After the population grew and the scale of the war grew, the children of the nobility and the upper citizens finally accounted for a very small minority, and when they were consumed in large quantities, the soldiers became overstretched, and then the soldiers turned to the lower common people, and even the untouchable slaves.

Up to now, before the reform of the Xian State, the military system was roughly divided into two types, the military system of the Liang Dynasty and the Western Navy, and the Western Navy system and the Liang Dynasty military system were actually the same, but the difference was that the military composition was more important.

At present, except for the Xianguo Defense, the rest of the vassal states are mainly garrisons, assisted by county soldiers, and recruit ordinary people as supplementary soldiers, among which slaves and lowly people can also join the army to fight on the front line in exchange for personal freedom, but the proportion will not be very large.

The reason for the decrease in slaves is the development of productive forces, and the slaves have restricted the scope and enthusiasm of labor, and when there are more and more workshops, slaves have changed from simply doing bad and hard work to skilled workers in the workshops.

When the value created by slaves is higher, it increases the losses caused by the death of slaves, and the "simple" identity of slaves is not suitable. Therefore, slaves will eventually disappear indirectly due to the development of the productive forces, and will be transformed into economic slaves, that is, the proletarian workers and peasants under the exploitation of capital, and a small number of real oppressed slaves.

The personal treatment of the untouchables is higher than that of the slaves, so the slaves are more willing to work hard, while the untouchables are less motivated, so the proportion of the two is much smaller.

On the contrary, there are no less than five or six million slaves in the country, accounting for more than one-twelfth of the population, and there are more slaves than lowly people, so a large part of the garrison comes from slaves, accounting for a considerable proportion, and a very small number of establishments account for fifty or sixty percent, and slaves account for seventy percent of the first to fight.

Because slaves enjoy the same treatment and conditions as ordinary soldiers, and can exchange the number of beheadings for the freedom of their families to redeem themselves, the combat enthusiasm of the guard slaves is higher, but the premise is that the slave army takes the lead.

The slaves of other princes' armies did not account for a large proportion, so the military merit incentives for slaves were not as generous as those of the guards, so the will to fight of the guards slave army was not easy to shake.

But now when you run into the Xian army, it's over. The Xianjun pays attention to the equality of everyone and is people-oriented, you don't need to do anything at all, as long as you hand over your weapons and surrender, you can get all the freedom of life, even the land, and even the Xian country has many men and girls, as long as there is labor, the land and property are given for free according to the head, and it is easy to ask for a few wives.

In the face of the temptation of the Xianjun money woman, the captured slave army of the Wei army was not allowed to fight back, and the slaves of the old people of Sun Guo had not been naturalized for a long time, and the Wei Guo did not dare to use it, so the slave soldiers who were pulled to the eastern front were all from the four small countries of the West Sea, many of them were from the Qiguo country, and Baili Yan raised his arms and shouted, and these slave troops would be thrown into the arms of the Xian army in a blink of an eye.

This is not the most fatal, what is even more fatal is that there are everyone in the Xian army, the Sun State of the Defending State, the Qi State of the Qi State, the Yan State of the Zhi State, the Xu State of the State of Xu, basically except for the Jin State, there are people from all countries, if each one shows up to say, the Wei army will have to collapse.

This is only the wounded soldiers, looking at the garrison troops in various parts of Dekang, the slave army accounts for three or four percent, once the news spreads, coupled with the propaganda machine of the Xian army, once the Xian army crosses the river, no one will be allowed to change banners.

In fact, it is not possible, but the public opinion intelligence propaganda work of Yuke, under the guidance of Bailiyan, it has been done at the grassroots level of defending the country two years ago. So Du Ruixun, who suddenly woke up, warned all over the world overnight, but it was too late to react at this moment.

Started two years ago, to be precise, three years ago, Bai Liyan began to use commercial channels, sect organizations and Xianguo spy agencies in a planned and organized manner to carry out comprehensive infiltration of the country, Du Ruixun's every move, and even the character of the guard's troops, logistics generals, whether there are stains, are well understood.

The news of the defeat of the guards had already spread to various places at this moment, and there was no way to wait for Du Ruixun's warning message to arrive, the army's morale would be chaotic, and its Huwei River camp would not be able to escape its doom.

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