"Brother Sheng, what a means to boost morale!" Back in the camp, Su Dingfang gave Xia Hongsheng a thumbs up and said.

After being besieged for several months, and recently there was no water, the soldiers had a lot of ideas. Even though the military discipline of the Datang army is strict and the Datang soldiers are resolute, they are still popular in the end. It is inevitable that the human heart will have many thoughts. Even Su Dingfang has often been uneasy recently.

But today, seeing Xia Hongsheng downplaying, he solved the water problem with a casual smile, which made the soldiers' trust in Xia Hongsheng suddenly rise a lot, and then take the opportunity to throw out the news that reinforcements are about to arrive, it will be much more credible. If they say that reinforcements are coming, I am afraid that the soldiers may not believe it, but will think that they are comforting and coaxing them. If you have solved the water problem in the first place, it will be much easier to believe it if you say this.

This is human nature, and it is also a common psychology - because you have seen a person's ability to solve problems, you believe that he is capable, and because you believe that he is capable, you believe what he says.

"If there's hope, you can hold on." Xia Hongsheng was silent for a moment and said softly: "The soldiers need a hope. ”

"How long will it take for the poison of those white smoke to dissipate?" Su Dingfang asked again.

"At least three days!" Xia Hongsheng thought for a while and said, "Three days later, if the big cannibal hasn't discovered the problem of water, we can fight back." ”

"This time, Lao Su must go out of the city in person!" When Su Dingfang heard this, he immediately said.

Xia Hongsheng nodded and said: "The wind direction is good these days, and prepare a few hot air balloons, the ropes are longer, let them out to see the situation of the enemy camp, and compare them with the maps brought back by those Persians. ”

Su Dingfang went to prepare, and Xia Hongsheng stayed alone in the tent, but the sorrow in his heart did not dissipate.

Although the Great Food was severely damaged this time, and the soldiers and people in the city had water to drink, if it could not be defeated and the siege of Tabuk could be relieved, the soldiers in the city would still be in danger. After all, the food is almost finished. At present, the soldiers have only one meal a day left, but fortunately, there are still some milk powder and meat floss, and each soldier distributes some, and they can last for a month. But if this goes on for a long time, not to mention the birth of variables, hunger alone can kill them.

Reinforcements shouldn't be so slow.

Not to mention that before the siege of Tabuk, the next batch of reinforcements and supplies should have already departed from Mumbai. Even since the siege of Tabuk, it has been five months. Even if the reinforcements had not yet arrived when the city of Tabuk was besieged, it should have arrived now.

At the beginning, Xia Hongsheng knew that reinforcements would arrive, so he chose to stick to Tabuk City and contain the army of Da Shi here. Xia Hongsheng originally planned to hold out for three months, and after three months, reinforcements arrived, and then the reinforcements were behind, and the soldiers in the city were in front, flanking the Dashi army in front and rear.

But now, five months have passed, and reinforcements and supplies have not appeared.

This made Xia Hongsheng worry about whether there was a problem in Mumbai or something at sea.

There is a lot of food in the barracks outside the city, and if you can grab it, it will be excellent. However, there are many big food troops outside the city, and there are few Tang troops in the city, so it is not easy to go out of the city and charge the camp, and it is even more difficult to load the grain and grass from the big food army camp onto the board car and then transport it out.

Xia Hongsheng also thought about stealing food by hanging a bamboo basket at night through a hot air balloon, but unfortunately the change of seasons led to a change in wind direction, and he had no choice but to give up.

You can't steal food, you can only burn it.

The Great Cannibals have already been plagued by the polluted waters, and if there is no more food, it will be even more chaotic.

Three days are fleeting, it is night, thin clouds cover the moon, it is a good time to steal camp.

"Brother Dingfang, you can bring more people!" Xia Hongsheng sent Su Dingfang to the door, looked back at the group of people behind him, and said.

"It's okay, I'm going tonight, it's not good to bring too many people." Su Dingfang smiled and said, "There are a lot of people in the big eater, although there was a fiasco, there are still a lot of people. Even if I brought all the soldiers from the city, it would still not be enough. Hehe, since the big food campaign, it's all up to Brother Sheng'er's methods, and tonight I'll ask Brother Sheng'er to also look at Lao Su's methods. ”

"A hundred is too little." Xia Hongsheng said again.

"It's really hard to have too many people." Su Dingfang said with a smile: "Brother Sheng, do you know that the soldiers have not learned anything before, and when they don't recognize one of the big characters, what are they most afraid of in the army?" ”

"What?" Xia Hongsheng asked.

"Bomb the camp!" Su Dingfang smiled and spit out two words.

Xia Hongsheng was stunned: "Bomb the camp!" ”

"Not bad." Su Dingfang nodded and said in a deep voice: "Once the camp is bombed, all the officers and soldiers in the army will be stunned, and no one will recognize them. The comrades who usually sleep in a camp tent are also cut down casually, even if the commander is current, he doesn't recognize it, and a group of people come forward to cut it. He who has no knife in his hand tears it with his hands and bites it with his mouth, like a madman. It is not difficult to induce the bombing of the camp, and sometimes in the middle of the night, someone suddenly cries a few times, and the camp may be blown up. There was a sudden epidemic in the Great Food Army, and he was burned by the green fire, poisoned and smoked, and he was not lightly frightened, and his mind was unsettled at this time, and it was easiest to blow up the camp. Lao Su only took advantage of the night to touch in, rushed a few times and shouted a few times, which shocked their hearts, and after provoking them to blow up the camp, he took advantage of the chaos to burn the grain and grass and ran away, and it was easy to run out when there were few people. ”

As soon as Xia Hongsheng's mind moved, he remembered what he said about bombing the camp. Immediately, he secretly said in his heart, he really forgot to say this.

Back then, Li Jing once told Xia Hongsheng about the phenomenon of bombing the camp, saying that the barracks were an authentic place of slaughter, and the military discipline in the army was strict, and the 17 and 54 orders were hung on their heads, and those who served as soldiers lived in fear. The mental depression accumulated over the years can be imagined. In addition, the ranks in the army are strict and relatively closed, and only the officers are tyrannical and the soldiers are ignorant can they be convenient to command, and they rely on military discipline and ammunition on weekdays. Before the war, everyone's life and death were uncertain, and they didn't know if they would be able to come back alive tomorrow.

At this point, the slightest stirring of nerves, which had already tensed to the extreme—perhaps just a soldier's nightmare scream—might have detonated the hysterical madness of the battalion. The soldiers fell into a state of madness, military discipline was all left behind, and some people picked up the guys to avenge their grievances, chased and killed officers, enemies, and comrades they didn't know, and the next day only left a corpse in one place. According to superstition, the bombing of the camp was a bad omen and foreshadowed the destruction of the troops. When the bombing of the camp occurs, the army, in order to avoid a disaster, generally takes a defensive position and cancels all offensive plans.

Xia Hongsheng thought at the time that this was actually the same reason as the students in the third year of high school after the college entrance examination yelling, tearing books, and smashing things, all of which were a kind of psychological release under extreme depression and tension, which was contagious, and would quickly infect groups in the same high-pressure psychological environment, resulting in a kind of collective psychological relief. It's just that the bombing of the camp is deeper and more harmful.

In ancient times, without psychological explanation, the bombing of the camp was a special kind of supernatural event, and thousands of soldiers would sometimes scream and scream at the same time, falling into madness.

Obviously, Su Dingfang is planning to exert a stimulus on the big cannibals tonight, which will stimulate the suppressed tension in the big cannibal army, detonate their psychological pressure, and form a bombing camp.

"So, with a flare as a signal, if you are in trouble, release a red flare, and I will send someone to meet you." Xia Hongsheng said.

"Good!" Su Dingfang nodded, pulled the reins of the horse, and shouted to the hundred people behind him: "Sons, go, go to the camp with Ben and burn the grain and grass of those big cannibals!" ”