Liu Ce stepped into his own tent, took off the spear and waist knife, took off the leather armor on his body, and placed it in front of his seat, came to the water tank, picked up a gourd scoop, scooped up a scoop of water, and poured it into his mouth, and then scooped up a few scoops of water and poured it on his face, and casually took a cloth to dry it, and then felt a little refreshed. Looking up, there were 8 people in the tent.

The man who leaned against the door to wipe the knife was called Sun Cheng, 27 years old, a sword and shield soldier, especially the waist knife was very sophisticated, and the thief army who died under his knife in several expeditions to thieves had reached 18 people, and he was silent and rarely spoke.

Sitting opposite Sun Cheng is called Yang Fan, 23 years old, also a sword and shield soldier, and Sun Cheng is also not good at communication, and 12 thieves died in his hands.

Diagonally opposite, lying on the mat with a bare shirtless strong man called Feng Chou Nian, 25 years old, height according to Liu Ce's estimate of more than two meters in the previous life, very hot temperament, using a mountain axe, once took the initiative to rush into the formation of hundreds of thieves to scare the thieves away, nicknamed the madman, died under his axe thieves up to more than 60 people, but also the highest military merit in the entire camp, but unfortunately can't be a man, good drinking, after drinking repeatedly ran to the boss's place to drink crazy, so he has been an ordinary soldier in the army for 7 years, no one can stand such a madman, And he himself doesn't seem to care, all the meager military salary every month buys wine and drinks, and one day at a time.

Feng Chou Nian sat on the mat with a scholar-like young man, 17 years old, one year younger than Liu Ce, and the youngest soldier in the whole camp, who had just joined the army for less than 3 months, and still has no military merit at hand, called Xu Hui, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, many psychologically distorted veterans in the camp and even the pipe belt are beating his idea, and he has nothing to do with holding a history book or military book all day long, saying something that people can't understand.

There are three people sitting on the innermost mat, named Wang Tong, Li Zhi, Han Feng, they naturally like to gather together from a village, the three of them make swords, shields, guns and foot bows respectively, Han Feng Orion was born 22 years old, a step bow is not a hundred shots, but there are 23 thieves who died under his bow and arrow within dozens of steps, Wang Tong and Li Zhi are nothing special, and the two heads add up to 8.

In the middle of the tent, a veteran in his 40s is the head of the battalion tent, called Zeng Yanyan, who has been in the army for 20 years, and has also participated in the campaign against foreign races, but unfortunately although he has military merits, his family is poor, he has no money to bribe his boss, and he has not been able to be promoted, so he can only be a nominal commander in this camp tent, in fact, no one in the whole camp will care about him at all, he smokes dry tobacco, and the people who choked on inferior tobacco waved their sleeves and covered their noses, and the smoke covered his face that had gone through vicissitudes.

Liu Ce glanced at them, didn't say anything, went to lie down in front of him, and squinted at the bunk next to him, which was empty. A camp tent is full of 20 people, and now there are 9 people left, the day before there was still talking and laughing, and it was gone in a blink of an eye, in this world that regards human life as a mustard and lives a day is a day, survival! It's the biggest problem. Liu Ce swept away these thoughts in his head and fell into a deep sleep.

At the same time, the headquarters of the flag regiment was in the camp......

"Do you see clearly? More than 100,000 people? "Zhu Song, the general of the Fourth Banner Regiment under the Thunder Army, once again confirmed the credibility of the news with Deng Jiao and Tanma." Returning to my lord, the sentence is true, when the little one came, the thief army had already gathered 100,000 people, and now I am afraid that it is more than this number, as expected, it will reach the outskirts of Gaoyang City as soon as tomorrow morning, and I am afraid that it will not be less than 200,000 at that time! ”

After listening to the report of the spies, Zhu Song was silent, looking down at the topographic map of the suburbs of Gaoyang, if this is the case, this battle is very hanging, his own flag regiment has been fighting for more than a year, from more than 25,000 people to less than 13,000 now, and he also divided his troops to support the Thunder Banner Regiment in Wuliang Town, and now he has no more than 6,000 troops in his hands, even if he adds the defenders of Gaoyang City, it is only more than 9,000 people, and the combat effectiveness and equipment of the local defenders of Gaoyang City cannot be compared with their own at all.

"Report!" Just when Zhu Song had a headache, another quick report came from outside the camp tent, "The military department has a secret order, please ask the general flag to open the seal personally." The person who came sweated profusely handed a secret letter to Zhu Song, Zhu Song hurriedly opened it and took a look, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly said: "The young general has worked hard, let's go down and rest first." Then asked Deng Jiao to call the management team of each department to his camp......

Not long after, all the heart-and-henchmen of each battalion were concentrated in Zhu Song's tent.

"Hello, everybody." After a pause, Zhu Song said, "I received a secret report from the headquarters that hundreds of thousands of thieves are approaching in the direction of gathering in the direction of the main formation, and the headquarters has secretly ordered us to move out and withdraw the children of the Shi clan in Gaoyang City to Caizhou City before sunset tomorrow." As soon as the words fell, the adjutant generals in the seats whispered, and the invasion of hundreds of thousands of thieves made people gasp, Zhu Song continued: "Generals, arrange your own henchmen, follow me into the city tonight, and withdraw to Caizhou City with the city defense army tomorrow, remember not to leak the slightest rumor." ”

"My lord, what about Gaoyang City?" An adjutant general asked.

"I can't hold it, there is not enough food and grass in Gaoyang City, the rich families have already left, there is no need to guard it anymore, and now the top priority is to move all the remaining children of the Shi clan to Caizhou City, as long as it is done at this time, you will be able to add officials to the knighthood just around the corner."

"My lord, hundreds of thousands of thieves are in front, how can they evacuate safely?" Another pipe band asked.

"I will give the command to the deputy commander-in-chief, you just have to lead the troops into the city with me, remember that I only need people I can trust, as for the others, ......" Zhu Song tapped his fingers on the table and said coldly, "I hope they can return to Caizhou City alive." ”