Chapter 376: Late-night rush
At night, both sides of the Yellow River are hidden in darkness, and tonight's night sky has no bright moon, only stars.
The sky was full of stars, and the armies of both sides on earth seemed to be much more numerous than the stars in the sky.
It seems that they knew that there would be a big battle tonight, and neither side set up another camp, and all the Wei troops were crowded into the large camp that Sima Yi had built before, and the Shu Han army was also mostly gathered in Wang Ping and Chen Yin's camp.
"Sleep, sleep, sleep." Under Ge Liang's orders, the sergeants were urged to spread out the tarpaulins and sleep on the ground, anyway, the stars were shining tonight, and it should not rain.
Only some of the sergeants led by Wang Ping, who had already been stationed here, strengthened the guard around the camp, and at the same time checked whether the other sergeants were all in position according to the deployed positions, and in the second half of the night, they had to get up and leave, and then there was no time to form a team.
Ge Liang, Xu Shu, Gao Xiang and others were also crammed into a military tent, lying in their clothes, ready to attack at any time.
Thinking that after the battle tonight, there will be no Cao Wei's army in this Guanlong area, and from then on, it will officially be under Liu Bei's rule, everyone has made a great contribution, and everyone can't sleep, and they can't help whispering.
"I don't know what route Cao Zhen and they will take to return to Luoyang after they crossed the river? When we arrive, should we hurry to Tongguan and get on the boat to attack Luoyang? Gao Xiang asked Xu Shu softly.
He felt that Xu Shu and Ge Liang had a very good relationship, and after Ge Liang left, Xu Shu was all in charge, and he must know the plan of action behind.
Xu Shu also felt that now was not the time to attack Luoyang in an all-out way, so he said, "I don't know. If you want to know, go directly to Da Sima. ”
Gao Xiang didn't ask, didn't this just order everyone to hurry up and rest.
"Ahh
Well? Xu Shu frowned. He remembered that this Ge Liang did not snore when he slept.
"Can you really sleep?" He didn't believe that at such a critical time, Ge Liang was really not excited at all.
"Do you want people to sleep?" Ge Liang turned over, "You guys, chasing after other people's butts like that, although you took a boat on the first day, haven't you also walked such a long way?" Aren't you really tired? ”
"Not tired at all." Gao Xiang hurriedly answered, seeing that the great work was in front of him, who could sleep.
Ge Liang reproached slightly: "Even if you can't sleep, you should talk less and close your eyes to recuperate." Who knows what will happen next, isn't it good to keep a little more energy? ”
"I'm thinking, we're so close to them, will they be able to cross the river tonight? You won't send someone to attack us first, and then you can leave with peace of mind after a small victory, right? "Xu Shu is Xu Shu at the bottom, you won't mention it when you say this.
"Probably not." Ge Liang really could only answer, "Cao Xiu used this trick at the beginning, but we saw through it, and this was only more than two months ago." That Sima Yi was determined to go back quickly, even Cao Zhen hadn't arrived in Chang'an yet, he was in a hurry to seize this ferry first, and he had already returned to his heart like an arrow, right? ”
But don't be too absolute in everything, Ge Liang immediately said: "Forget it, don't talk about this, even if the enemy really comes to attack at night, Wang Ping and they have already been prepared." Besides, aren't all our sergeants all dressed and ready to attack? If they do come to attack at night, that's just right. Then it will be much easier for us to run them away and follow them into the enemy camp. ”
At this time, in the Wei military camp, everyone was also discussing this matter.
"This enemy is too close." Fei Yao couldn't understand, this enemy's camp was only three or four miles away from his own camp, and as soon as the army came out, he arrived at the gate of his own camp, didn't it mean that Sima Yi occupied the ferry before the enemy, and had already set up the camp? At that time, the enemy's army was still in Chang'an, how could they force their homes to camp so closely, and how could they make them waste their efforts by attacking a few times while the enemy was camping.
All the generals also understood this: "Yes, when our army is halfway through, the defensive forces in this battalion will be even more empty, and when the enemy attacks, the remaining soldiers will not be able to pass." ”
Someone suggested: "Our reinforcements have arrived, stopped the arrogance of the enemy, why don't we launch another night attack on the enemy tonight, keep them busy with self-defense, and then we hurry to cross the river?" ”
Sima Yi was too lazy to listen to their discussions, it was really easy to say, you were tightly bitten by the enemy, and when you arrived here, you still relied on my camp to temporarily stop the enemy's pursuit, and then you took a breath, and at this time, you are all smart.
Sima Shi was very humble, because there was no place for him to speak here, so he bowed to everyone at this time: "Since General Zhengxi has arrived, my father is seriously ill and unable to move, and he can't discuss military plans with everyone, I want to escort his old man across the river to the east first, I wonder if Lord Zhengxi can agree?" ”
He now feels that his father pretended to be sick too well, and at this time, he just took the opportunity to cross the river first, and he didn't have to worry about Cao Pi's investigation, everything was Cao Zhen's own business.
Cao Zhenxin was already discouraged, and the enemy was at war, he didn't please, he only had less than 10,000 horses left to arrive at the Yellow River, and he was still talking about what kind of counter-impact, and he just ordered: "Arrange the crossbowmen to stop the enemy from pursuing, and the army should hurry up and cross the river, and if it continues, I am afraid that the enemy's reinforcements will arrive again." ”
Fortunately, in order to deal with Ma Chao's cavalry pursuit, he and Sima Yi coincidentally prepared a large number of bows, crossbows and arrows.
Since Cao Zhen said this, all the generals stopped talking, and they had already expressed their courage anyway. In fact, everyone also understands in their hearts that after retreating all the way, they have already reached the Yellow River, where will the sergeants still have the fighting spirit, and it would be good to remember to cross the river in an orderly manner.
This way was defeated, thanks to the brave Cao Zhen who led the army, if he changed to a timid one and ran away first, I was afraid that the army would have been scattered long ago.
In the middle of the night, the army began to cross the river in batches, and the generals were very nervous, strengthening the inspector force, at this time, there must be no chaos, no loud noise.
However, all the troops were like arrows, and as the first batch of ships disappeared into the darkness, only the sound of the surging Yellow River remained in their ears, and there was boundless darkness in their eyes, and the sergeants standing on the shore only felt that the waiting time for the ships was so long that they could not seem to see hope, and gradually some people lost control and could not help but make a noise:
"Why haven't we seen the ship come back yet, they won't leave us alone and just run for their lives, right?"
"yes, why have you waited so long and still haven't moved?"
"I'm going home......" Someone couldn't help but cry.
The generals hurried to stop it. Guo Huai was about to raise his knife again: "If you make a loud noise, correct the Fa on the spot!" ”
Finally, the ship returned to the west coast, and the sergeants couldn't manage so much anymore, scrambling to squeeze into the boat, where could they still control Guo Huai's on-the-spot rectification.
Guo Huai was unceremonious, he really even beheaded two people, but few people saw it under the starlight, and everyone was still desperately trying to grab the boat. (To be continued.) )