At noon, a drum and trumpet sounded, Baili Yan woke up in shock, and when she opened her eyes, she saw Xiao eating horse meat, and her eyes were full of energy:

"Brother Wei, you're awake!"

"What time is it?"

"At noon, the sun is in mid-heaven."

"yes, where did you go last night?"

"There were a lot of wounded soldiers last night, Liu Langzhong asked me to go to the west of the river, Brother Wei, you were also injured."

Bai Liyan touched the wound on his shoulder, the bandage was pressed very tightly, and the bleeding had stopped.

"Who gave the meat?"

"General Yao asked people to send it, Xiao ate a piece, Brother Wei won't be angry."

Bai Liyan smiled:

"Silly boy, eat it."

"Brother Wei, you can eat it too." Xiao handed over the pottery bowl, which was rice and horse meat, and the meat was less than half a catty.

"What about you, have you eaten?"

"Not yet."

Xiao took out a piece of light cake from his arms, and held the half-eaten horse meat in his hand.

Most soldiers in the army eat meat first when they have meat, and they gnaw on cakes if they don't have meat, Bailiyan is just the opposite, eating staple food first and then eating meat, even if the taste of the light cake is really not so delicious, but you can get used to it, and you can't change it.

Picking up the rice bowl, he took a few bites, only to hear Xiao say again:

"Brother Wei, I heard that General Yao Sheng caught a prince of the Jin Kingdom last night and made a great contribution, and now the whole camp has spread it all over."

"Yes." Bai Liyan whispered and continued to eat.

Dry rice is the best treatment in the army, and white rice is even more so. On weekdays, it is generally coarse grain dry porridge, mainly light cakes, and dry rice with refined white rice is very rare, Xiao looked at the rice in the bowl, swallowed the last bite of horse meat, and his eyes couldn't help but glow. Perhaps, she has never eaten refined white rice.

While thinking about it, Xiao sat aside:

"Brother Wei, I'll be able to go home soon."

Saying this, Shi Xiao's face was full of longing, Bai Liyan was stunned for a moment, and he said:

"Who said that?"

"Many people are saying that if they catch this son, they don't have to fight, and they can go home and farm."

Bai Liyan's heart sank, and she thought that she was finished, and Zhang Jun, the Marquis of Dingyang, was too carried away.

I had calculated with Zhao Xun before, and I never thought of a prophecy. At this time, Xiao said:

"Brother Wei won't return to his hometown?"

Xiao's cheeks flushed, Bai Liyan knew what she was thinking, and said casually:

"Probably go back, after removing the armor, Brother Wei wants to open a medical hall to make a living."

Most of the Xian troops who crossed the river this time were conscripts and forced conscripts, and the conscripts had to return to their hometowns after two years, and there was no exemption from rent and tax, that is, the regular army had a reward for winning the battle and a preferential treatment of reducing or exempting the rent and tax at home.

However, conscripts can be forcibly converted into regular troops, but forced conscription is not, and when the fighting subsides, the vast majority of forced conscripts must return to their hometowns. It's not a legal issue, it's productivity and people's hearts.

The entry of large quantities of labour into the military inevitably leads to a decline in productivity, especially since agricultural output is almost entirely dependent on manpower. If you forcibly leave people in the army, those who are soldiers will also make trouble, and over time, the morale of the army will be scattered.

Perhaps many people have no intention of fighting again, just waiting for the armistice and peace talks between the two countries, and they can return home to farm alive, and then ask for a wife to live, and raise a few sons to inherit the lineage.

Life is like this, eating, living, having children, no one wants to spill blood for this country, when you can't eat, think more about how to live, of course Bailiyan doesn't want to sell her life, Xiao wants to go home, it's understandable.

It's just that Han He is afraid that he can't swallow this breath, and he is bent on fighting, and he will not give up without severely inflicting heavy losses on the Xian army. If this is the case, the Xian army is lax at this time, and I am afraid that it will be used by the Jin army in the future.

After eating, he walked out of the camp tent and looked around, and the wounded soldiers who had been evacuated last night were piled on the ground, and the casualties were quite heavy. The vast majority of the three or four thousand people who attacked the cave did not return, and most of them were all killed in battle. The injured camp was too busy, and Bailiyan saved the dead from the old business.

I don't know what time it was, but it was still very bright anyway, and there was a drum sound from the front camp, very loud, accompanied by the sound of trumpets from time to time, as if it was from the front camp. The wounded camp is far away in the back camp, and you can see the army wall on the city wall from a long distance, as if you are facing a great enemy, and you can faintly see that there are generals standing at the head of the city, although it is too far away to distinguish, but it is certain that it is either Han He or Wang Shuo.

Presumably it was the Marquis of Ding Yang who was smug and asked Han to speak under the city, showing off that Xi Chang was captured, and hitting the morale of the Jin army with humiliation. If this is the case, Bai Liyan thinks that he will be clever.

Bowing his head and continuing to deal with the wounded, Xiao was still afraid of blood when he saw it, and his face was the same as white paper when he saw the stump and broken arm. This reminded Bai Liyan of the medical autopsy back then, many girls saw corpses as if they were ghosts, and even all kinds of ghost jokes were rumors all over the world, and the most outrageous thing was the weird legend.

In the evening of the afternoon, Zhao Xun rode a horse to inspect the wounded camp, and most of the people here were from his left camp:

"General Zhao!"

Bailiyan saluted, and Zhao Xun was very attentive:

"Excuse me, how is the situation of the soldiers of the left battalion."

"Back to the general, three or four out of ten people were seriously injured, and more than half were lightly injured. However, at present, there is a lack of medical treatment, and the lightly injured are afraid that they will not be cured for a long time, so it is recommended that they should be sent to Feicheng for recuperation as soon as possible. ”

"I also talked to Ding Yang Hou about this matter today, Ding Yang Hou thought that retreating to Feicheng now was to show weakness to the Jin army, so he decided not to withdraw his troops for the time being."

"That being the case, the general should take precautions as soon as possible, thinking that Han He will not attack the battalion in the next few days, so as to relax our armament and war, and in a few days it will definitely attack with a fierce attack, which will catch our army by surprise."

"Well, I have ordered the two generals Zhong Heng and Yao Sheng to set up the carriage in the left camp to prevent the Jin army from sneaking attack."

"It's just that there are few carriages at the moment, and even the carriages of the whole army are difficult to defend the huge left battalion, and it is difficult to last for fear of it."

"Alas...... It's okay not to mention it. I am worried that your Excellency explored the cave by the river last time, and now that Jichang has been captured by our army, I think the Jin army will not dare to attack my camp with water, I don't know what your Excellency thinks. ”

"What the general said is not unreasonable, I hope I think I have to worry too much."

Ji Chang was detained in the middle of the Xian army, and it was naturally impossible for the Jin army to lead the river to impact the underground karst cave to attack the Xian army camp, but in case the focus of this cave was outside the rear camp, once it was launched, it was bound to destroy the dry and decay and cut off the way for the Xian army to retreat westward, and then it could only be evacuated to the north or south. In this way, the cavalry of the Jin army will be cut off again, divided and surrounded, and the Xian army will be finished.

In the next few days, the two armies did not fight, and there was no night attack, the two sides even photographed each other's messengers to test each other's intentions, and the army had even begun to rumor that the armor was disarmed and returned to the field, and Han He did not seem to have made the Jin army enter a state of imminent battle, perhaps the news that Ji Chang was captured by the Xian army did hit morale, and five days passed in a row, and the two armies were safe and sound until the night of the sixth day.

Bai Liyan has been sleeping for an hour, and has been busy dealing with the wounded recently, turning around for more than ten hours a day, and closing her eyes as soon as she falls. Xiao also lay on the side, but they were wrapped in bedding, and she was still squeezing Baili Yan, as if she couldn't rush into her arms.

Suddenly, there was a sound of killing, and Bai Liyan sat up in shock:

"What's the matter!"

Xiao sat up in a daze:

"Brother Wei, what's the matter!"

Baili Yan frowned:

"The Jin army has attacked the camp!"

"Ahh

Xiao was taken aback, Bailiyan didn't care about dressing, and went straight to the outside of the tent, and saw from a distance that the left camp and the front camp were already on fire, and then there was a fire in the direction of the right camp, and the Chinese army still had no movement.

"Han He really attacked the camp!"

The words fell, Bai Liyan's right hand pressed towards the sword, and at this time, Xiao hurriedly wrapped his battle clothes and rushed out of the camp tent:

"Brother Wei, isn't there a truce?"

"Not yet, it's a sneak attack by the Jin army. You have to be careful, the Jin army is very likely to sneak up on the rear camp. ”

Han attacked the left, front, and right battalions at the time, and it took 40,000 or 50,000 people to launch such an offensive, and all the cavalry had to be put into battle to achieve miraculous results.

It's just that the stealing battalion should always have a main direction of attack, and now attacking the left, front, and right battalions at the same time, the momentum is so huge, it can't help but make people feel that the left, front, and right battalions are the main attack, and it is difficult for Han He to force it to push it.

Han He's soldiers and horses are afraid that there are less than 80,000 at the moment, and it is reasonable to divide 40,000 or 50,000 people to attack at night. It's just that if it is an all-out attack, why doesn't Han He simply suppress 70,000 people?

At present, the strength of the Xian army on both sides is less than 100,000, the Jin army is also about 80,000, the cavalry is 30,000 smaller, 10,000 more than the Xian army, and the combat power is basically the same.

His Chinese army has been exposed before, and the Xian army has no plans to attack for a while, waiting for peace talks, the existence of the two Jin army camps outside Duyang City is not of great significance, then Han He should strike a thunderous blow, leaving only 10,000 people to defend Duyang City.

But now there are only 40,000 or 50,000 people attacking the camp, so what are the other 30,000 people doing? Sneak attack on the rear army?

"No, Han He wants to attack the Chinese army!"

Bai Liyan was taken aback, there was nothing to fight in the rear camp of the Xian army, they were all wounded battalions and baggage battalions, there were not many people, and most of the baggage was in Feicheng, and there were not many camps after burning, only a sneak attack on the Chinese army to rescue Ji Changfang was the best policy.

The attack on the left, front, and right battalions was just a feint, and Han He planned to use the twelve tunnels dug by Ding Yang Hou to prepare for a counterattack on Ding Yang Hou's own Chinese army camp.

Although the tunnel is blocked, it is impossible to block it completely, only a distance between the two ends of the tunnel is blocked, and a large section in the middle is still empty. Of course, the remaining more than 30,000 people of Han He could not all attack the Chinese army of Ding Yang Hou from the tunnel, at most there could be three or five thousand, as long as Xi Chang was rescued, the Jin army would immediately die down.

It's just that the left, front, and right battalions can't be broken, and even if the Chinese army robs Xichang, they can't escape. Thinking of this, Baili Yan's back was cold:

"Rear camp!"

He thought about it, Han He was afraid that if he didn't fight the rear camp, he would also confuse the Xian army, and he neglected to guard against the rear camp, once he rescued Xichang, the Jin army would have cavalry from the rear camp to meet Xichang's escape. Thinking of this, Bailiyan pulled Xiao:

"Xiao, come with Brother Wei!"

"Where are you going?"

"Let's go!"

Xiao is very lightweight, and when Bailiyan pulls it violently, he drags it in his hand.

Rushing all the way to the baggage camp, many pack horses were locked in the side of the trough or eating or lowering their heads, and Baili Yan untied a horse and jumped up:

"Quick, come up!"

"Xiao can't ride a horse."

She was a little scared, Bai Liyan didn't care about this, dragged her up, glared at the horse's belly with her feet, and rushed out of the baggage camp with a roar.

Most of the pack horses in the baggage camp are short horses, extremely slow, and have no saddle or bridle, only a leash, which is very frightening to drive.