In fact, Lu He also knew that he was sad tonight and even more sad tomorrow, but he already had the consciousness of dying in battle, and his mood was relatively relaxed. The red sun was sinking in the west, and a fire rose in the camp, and the pot was buried, and Lu He had eaten the meal, dragging the scars all over his body to inspect the teams, and he saw that most of the soldiers were exhausted and depressed, and the whole camp was filled with a heavy and oppressive atmosphere.

The Jin army fought bravely during the day, and there were few cowardly escapes, this was because of Pei Gai's daily brainwashing, and the second was that although he gave the regular soldiers a lot of money, he also had strict military laws, and the rules and regulations were required to be memorized, and everyone was very familiar with them. You must know that most of these Xuzhou soldiers are from displaced people, their families are in Xuzhou, and many of them have already divided the land. If you escape, you will not be forgiven, and you may also implicate your family - if you run away without a trace, and you cannot cut off your head, then your family's land and property will be confiscated, and your wife and children will be reduced to official slavery.

Therefore, the Xuzhou soldiers were able to burst out with the courage that was rare in this era and fought fiercely against the superior Hu army. It's just that when the battle of the day was over, the Hu army returned to the camp, and everyone fell down, and as soon as this anger was released, the string that had collapsed tightly in the head was immediately broken. Therefore, morale is difficult to drum and easy to discharge, and once the drum is high and drummed for a long time, it will be discharged faster. There was a sense of pessimism and disappointment in the camp, and even Lu He vaguely saw someone talking to each other in the shadows, maybe he was planning to run away......

What should I do? Lu He went around twice, but his mind was full of paste because he was very tired, and he couldn't think of any clever plan. He subconsciously turned his head and asked a personal soldier, "Do you have a way to boost the morale of your soldiers?" ”

The pro-soldier has always been smart and loved by Lu He, so he immediately smiled: "Why don't you sing that song?" ”

When Lu He heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up: "Okay, you get up, I'll come and play the song!" ”

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Pei Gai once thought of many ways to boost morale, and make the soldiers have a sense of belonging and honor, not like most of the army in those days, when soldiers only eat food to survive, or even coerced. It is one law for each battalion to raise numbers and award flags, and it is also one law to compile military songs.

In fact, all dynasties have military songs, such as the most famous "Qin Feng Wuyi", but not all generals know the role of military songs in inspiring the morale of the army, and there is no official military song in the Jin Dynasty. Pei Cai thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to plagiarize Li Bai's famous article "Hu No Man".

The poem says: "The severe wind blows the frost and the seaweed withers, and the muscles are strong and strong." There were 300,000 soldiers of the Han family, and the general was also the leader of Huo Yao. The meteor white feather is inserted around the waist, and the sword flower autumn lotus light is out of the box. The heavenly soldiers shine on the snow under the jade pass, and the captured arrows shoot golden armor like sand. The clouds, dragons, winds and tigers are all handed back, and the enemy can be destroyed when Taibai enters the moon. The enemy can be destroyed, the head is destroyed, and the intestines of the beard are involved in the blood. Hanging Hu in the sky, burying Hu Zi plugged around. Hu no one, Han Daochang! ”

It's just that in this era, five words are still popular, and seven words are rare, and if it is too long, I am afraid that the illiterate soldiers will not be able to remember it, so Pei should have to revise it. In particular, Li Baiyuan's poem "Hu no one, Han Daochang", although it is very exciting, it cannot be used in these years - the name of Han is actually Hu Ren - and the words must be changed.

After he had been reformed, he sought out people to compose music to teach the generals and asked them to sing it in the camps. Even when he was in Xuzhou, Pei Gai also ordered two military song competitions to be held, and each battalion sang with 100 people, and the winner was rewarded with ten pieces of auspicious money and three pigs, and the whole battalion shared the profits - all of them were "strong wind battalions" who won the first place.

So tonight's morale was low, and Lu He's personal soldiers remembered the method of singing. He immediately raised his head, Lu He responded first, and the surrounding soldiers soon joined in, and the singing became louder and louder, and more and more uniform, until even the Hu camps on both sides were faintly audible.

The song says:

"The wind blows the frost urgently, and the bow is strong. There are warriors in China, the general Huo Yao.

A white feather is inserted in the waist, and a long knife is about to come out of the box. The heavenly soldiers are as dense as clouds, and the sand shoots golden armor.

The cloud dragon wind and tiger will be crossed, and the mountain will fly. The forward outpost probed back, and the enemy was destructible.

The enemy is devastating, the heart is like iron, walking on the intestines, and stepping on the blood.

Hanging Hu in the sky, burying Hu Zi plugged around. Hu no one, China Chang! ”

In fact, the song "composed" by Pei Gai was quite flawed, and when Lu Zhifu heard it that day, he ran to ask Pei Wei: "Chuyun's 'China has warriors', and Youyun's 'Hu no one, China Chang', isn't it complicated?" If it is easy to avoid revenge, it is enough to change one of them to 'Jin' - so that Jun Dacai, why can't you see this? ”

Pei Wei glanced at him: "Do you think China is not as good as Jin?" Flicked his sleeves and went to take care of himself, leaving Lu Zhifu stunned on the spot.

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The singing came to Hu Ying-although the lyrics couldn't be distinguished-Liu Dan heard it, but he couldn't help but change his color miserably.

Today's battle situation is fierce, the enemy army is tenacious, even if Liu Dan is a general of Hu Han, he has never seen it after many battles. More than 700 casualties were counted at dusk, and more than 700 people were killed and seriously wounded, and twice as many were injured - this is only the headquarters, not counting Di and Qiang, nor counting Liu Guang's army from the east. It is estimated that the damage of the Jin army is smaller than that of his own family, about 400.

That's two thousand...... Maybe it's not yet, according to the convention, three or four hundred people should collapse, why don't you want to collapse?!

In fact, Liu Dan was already cowardly, only worried that he would not be able to win the first battle, and his morale would be depressed, so how could he help His Royal Highness the imperial brother to expose Liu Cang and Jin Zhun's treacherous schemes? In addition, he decided that as long as he broke the elite of Xuzhou on the opposite side, dealing with Pei Cai's main force would be like chopping melons and vegetables, so he gritted his teeth and worked hard. But several times it seemed that he was about to win the game, but the Jin people were brave and did not retreat, until the sun set, they fell short, and they could not be satisfied...... Maybe if the fight continues, our own army will collapse first.

In fact, before the last charge, he already had a premonition that today's battle would not be finished, so he sent someone to report to Zhao Gu, who was going to take Yangwu, and ordered him to lead his troops to come to help as soon as possible - it is estimated that Zhao Gu will be able to arrive by tomorrow afternoon at the latest. When Liu Guang sent an envoy to deliver a message, saying that Pei should be the main force and couldn't come anywhere, we still have one night, or even half a day, hoping to try a night attack, Liu Dan was already frustrated, so he replied: "Don't have to fight, and rest for one night, and try to destroy Jin Kou tomorrow morning." ”

I'll try to hit it again tomorrow at dawn, but if I still can't beat it...... was thinking about countermeasures, and suddenly heard neat singing from the camp.

Liu Dan couldn't help but sigh secretly, he thought that the enemy army had reached the end of the crossbow, listening to this song, the tune was high-spirited and exciting, and the morale was still strong...... That's it, just rush one last time tomorrow at dawn, forget if you can't rush, I'll have to retreat to Yangwu.

So he ordered the old and weak soldiers who had not yet been able to arrive at the back to wait on the west bank of the ditch water, and did not have to cross any more, and ordered the soldiers to collect all the boats, and to build two pontoon bridges as soon as possible before it was completely dark, so that they could retreat at any time.

Liu Dan is almost sixty after all, his body and bones are getting weaker and weaker, and his energy is low, this night march, and he commanded a whole day's battle, all the instructions have been completed, and as soon as his anger is released, he sits a little shaky, and the whites of his eyes are bloodshot. Liu Yi said worriedly: "Uncle, let's go and rest, if you don't raise your spirit, how can you fight again tomorrow?" ”

Liu Dan sighed lightly and replied, "I don't want these Jin Kou to be so difficult...... Such an elite, Xuzhou has two thousand, then Yuzhou is probably not less than five thousand, fortunately we did not go to face Zu Ti. I'm afraid that even if Da Shan Yu personally leads the elite to Henan, it will not be easy to win...... Although I ordered Liu Guang not to move lightly tonight, I knew that he was brave, but I may not be willing to obey his orders. If his night attack does not make a contribution, His Royal Highness should be careful not to move lightly, if he can step into the Jin base, His Royal Highness can urgently call the old man to get up and wave his master to respond. ”

And when he had finished giving the order, he went to wash and sleep. The old man couldn't sleep well, and he woke up at the slightest hint of wind and grass, and wanted to ask what time it was, when he heard someone outside the tent report that "there was a fire on the pontoon!" ”

Liu Dan turned over and sat up, and asked anxiously, "Why did the fire start?" "There's no reason for the Jin people to go around my back, could it be that the guards accidentally caught fire? The soldiers outside the tent replied in a panicked tone: "It's the water master of Jin Kou...... Liu Dan couldn't help but be surprised: "Jin Kou has a water master?!" "Did I cross the Yangtze River and go up? How can there be a sailor in this narrow gutter water?!

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Of course, Pei Gai did not have a sailor, and the big war ships could not drive into the Bianshui, Jishui and Gutter water, and the small warships patrolling these rivers were of little significance to the war situation, so how could he organize a sailor to join the expedition? But he did ask for a lot of civilian ships from Jiangdong through Sima Li for the purpose of transporting grain.

So when discussing the rescue, Tao Kan said: "As the monarchs said, this place is nearly a hundred miles away from the water in the ditch, that is, our army will set off immediately, and it will not arrive until noon tomorrow." And tired of walking at night, if Xiong Yi and others are still fighting with the enemy on the banks of the gutter, it will be enough, if they have been defeated, and the thieves will work at ease, or even set up an ambush to wait, then our army will be defeated.

However, Tao had surveyed the hydrology of Bianshui, and only then did he find the surrounding residents and inquire about the width and speed of the gutter water. The grain ship is outside the city, from Xiaohuang to the ditch water, less than forty miles, follow the ditch water to the north, fifty miles to the battlefield. Although the distance is similar to the land route, it is all along the water, if you add a radial and oars, it is not difficult to sail 150 miles in a day and a night. In particular, there are no dangerous shoals in the water of the gutter, and the sailors all come up from the river, even if they are not familiar with the hydrology of this place, there is little risk of capsizing, and they can sail at night when they light torches......

In this way, you don't have to wait until dawn to copy behind enemy lines. The king led a large army from the land steadily, and even if Xiong Yi and others were all killed, we could echo the east and west, so as not to suffer the risk of defeat. And if the striker is still on the edge of the gutter, he will be able to inflict heavy damage on the thief! ”

When Pei Gai heard this, he was really surprised, and hurriedly asked: "Fighting on the water, there are few people in the army who are familiar with it, I don't know if Tao Jun is willing to take on this heavy responsibility?" ”

Tao Kan arched his hand and said: "Since he is a Sima in the army, he naturally has an unshirkable responsibility. ”