During the evening break, Qi Wan, a native of Mengcheng, finally had time to untie the rounds of kudzu cloth leggings, take off the badly worn linen shoes, and with the help of his robe, he picked off the blisters on his feet with thorns, so that his feet were full of hard calluses.

This kind of leggings that the brigade commander let everyone beat is indeed a useful thing when rushing, which can effectively reduce the soreness of the legs, according to the brigade commander, this is something that Shennong's clan used when he traveled all over Kyushu, and he just re-turned it out of the classics.

Qi Wan looked at the hemp shoes that had exposed his big toes with some distress, his feet were big, and he had worn out a pair from Daicheng to Cao Guo Taoqiu, and now the second pair was about to be scrapped.

Qi Wan calculated that he had already followed the brigade commander for more than 200 miles, which was more than ten times the scope of his activities in the past 20 years or so. He never thought that he would be so far away from home, and he also left the Song Realm, went to a foreign country, and saw countless cities and mountains.

When they were stationed in the lively and wealthy Taoqiu, they were arranged by the brigade commander to build several sites, and then they were driven back to the barracks, and those below the commander were strictly forbidden to go out. Zhao Wuxian was afraid that they would be corrupted by Tao Qiu's extravagant life before they had experienced the battle array...... Expecting these new soldiers of the Song Kingdom who have never seen the world to be sentinels under the neon lights is tantamount to a fool's dream.

"When the time stipulated in the book is completed in three years, I must come here for a good time!"

Some people swallowed their saliva as they looked at the extravagant place in the distance, but Qi Wan was worried about the body of his father and mother who were far away in the Song Kingdom, hoping that after getting enough fundraising, he would go back and find a way to let them relocate.

That night, some people made a faint cry, and before the crying could spread, they were dragged out by the two chiefs and the chief of Wu and severely reprimanded.

"Silence! If it causes a roar, you will never be able to escape the blame! ”

The next day, after learning that some Song people were homesick, Zhao Wuxian immediately improved their food, each of them ate two pieces of fat in the Shangqiu-flavored soup, and asked the commanders to take the soldiers to play in the camp, and the more noisy the better.

After two days of relaxation. The mood of the new pawn was high again. On the night of the third day, everyone was ordered to pack their bags, and the baggage guards also let the horses take the title, and the whole brigade of more than 700 people quietly left Taoyi. Conceal the north along the Tu Road.

At first, it was a rapid march, and it only took a day and a half from Taoyi to the border of Cao, because of the customs clearance charm given by Cao Bo, so the cities on the road could be unimpeded. After the final repair and replenishment in the territory of Cao State, everyone continued on the road. From the eastern foothills of Lishan and the west of Leize entered the territory of Weiguo.

"Shun cultivates in Lishan, Tao in the riverside, and fishes in Leize, which is what we are talking about." The pawn commander told Qi Wan so much, and these crepe words, Mu Xia also heard from the conversation between Zhao Wuxian and Zhang Zi.

After entering the territory of Weiguo, the whole brigade began to move in concealment, taking the path that Feng Rin had explored a month ago. Of course, the Tu Avenue could not be walked, but only the secondary paths that could accommodate a cart to move forward, and bypassed the small towns of Weiguo that were surrounded by low walls and fences. Witnesses encountered along the way were to be coerced and handed over to the baggage guards to take away.

Fortunately, this area belongs to the gap between Cao and Weiguo, and the bandits in the area of Razawa and Onozawa are rampant, so it is sparsely populated. In the early morning of the fourth day after leaving Taoyi, they arrived at the shore of the babbling Pushui River, and rested in seclusion on the back of a hill on the south side of the river, and rested all day.

The trees here are full of trees and grow extremely vigorously, and under the shade of the trees and the sun-drenched mounds, the heat of midsummer fades, and the water in the Pu River tastes good when it is boiled.

The only creepy thing is. When the soldiers were digging a stove under the mound to cook, from time to time they would dig out a piece of Bai Sensen's bones, which was terrifying. The black hole in the skull eye socket made Qi Wan break out in a cold sweat on his back, besides. Broken and rusty heads and rotten arrows can be picked up anywhere.

Just when everyone was looking at the bones in the pit and guessing, Cheng Cheng, the pawn of the heavy pawn, happened to bring people over to distribute new shoes to the soldiers.

"Chief Cheng, what is this place?"

In the eyes of the soldiers, Cheng Xuan, who could speak the Song dialect in just two months and could read and hyphenation, was also an omniscient figure, so Qi Wan leaned over and asked curiously at the instigation of his fellow soldiers.

Cheng Tong, who was short and thin, also grew a beard after coming to the Song Kingdom. Looking a little more majestic, he looked up at the tall Qi Wan, and said lightly: "This place is called Chengpu, and it is said that there was a big battle more than a hundred years ago......"

I see, this is the reason why there are so many corpses and damaged weapons here, and Qi Wan is also faintly weak in his heart. Although the life in the lacquer garden is harder but stable, he was recruited as a soldier, will he also die in a foreign land like these people, abandoned in the ravine?

Qi Wan didn't have time to think about it, so Cheng Yan solemnly handed him the larger hemp shoes, and instructed: "This is the last pair distributed on the road this time, don't break it again, you wait to put it on and get familiar with it quickly, so as not to rush to grind your feet for a while." ”

……

The soldiers were recuperating, and Zhao Wuxian took Zhang Mengtan and others to ride their horses on the ancient battlefield of Chengpu.

A group of people rode horses or rode a car, came to a bare hill, from which to the north, across the Pushui River, is the densely populated Pubei land of the patriotic people; Looking south from here, it is the vast wilderness of the flat river.

Zhang Mengtan was familiar with the classic history, he recalled the description in the history book of the Jin Kingdom and compared the mountains and landforms here, and said: "Brigade Marshal, the Duke of Jin Wen should have stood here and watched the battle between the two armies of Jin and Chu. ”

Riding on a horse without shirts, you can even feel the scene of the killing sound that shook the sky.

"Zhangzi, tell me, in the battle of Chengpu, why did Jin win and Chu lose?"

Zhang Mengtan said: "Back then, the state of Chu ordered Yin Ziyu to be angry and begged for war, and led the army to attack Taoyi. In order to exhaust the Chu army, Duke Wen of Jin induced Ziyu to light the enemy in depth, so as to fight a decisive battle with Chu on the predetermined battlefield, so he retreated and stopped at Chengpu. ”

"The Jin State previously used the strategy of Hu Yan to win over Qi and Qin to help, and the Jin army had won one percent; The king of Chu and Ziyu had a dispute, the Chu people were divided, and the Jin people worked together and won another one; deliberately created a situation where the king was forced by his ministers, so that the Jin soldiers insulted the ministers, swore not to retreat, and won another one; Finally, the enemy army was introduced into their predetermined battlefield, and before the battle began, the battle had already been won by forty percent. ”

"On the first day of the fourth month, the Chu army entered Chengpu. On the second day of the first month, the two sides faced each other, and the tired division of the Chu army faced the people waiting to work in the Jin State. The Jin army won another 10%. ”

Zhang Mengtan was dressed in white with a cloth crown, holding a sword in his hand, pointing out the mountains and rivers here, trying his best to restore the battle that took place more than a hundred years ago for Zhao Wuxian and the soldiers behind him.

"The Jin army is configured as upper, middle, and lower armies; The Chu army took Chen and Cai as the right army, and Shen and Xi counties as the left army. The main elite of the Dou clan is the Chinese army. The Jin commander Xianzhen ordered to first defeat the weaker Chu right army; And let the Jin Shang army feint to retreat, drag firewood and dust behind the battle, and create the illusion that the rear army has retreated, so as to lure the Chu left army to attack, so that it can expose its flanks, and then the return army and the Chinese army carry out a joint attack, and the Chu left army is defeated. As a result, the Jin army Chengpu won the battle, and the Jin Wen Gong dominated the world! ”

Zhao Wuxian bowed his head and said: "That's right, this battle is the most beautiful battle of the Jin army, and it uses the concentrated superior forces to attack one of its wings. Tactics such as feints to retreat and lure the enemy, combined attacks, etc., are worth learning from. ”

He also secretly regretted in his heart that the commanders under him were only military officials, and they were not yet the generals who were in charge like Xianzhen.

Wuxian turned to everyone and said, "We were expelled from the Jin Kingdom because of the Fan family, how similar is it to the exile of Duke Wen of Jin back then, but I will not be like him, waiting for more than ten years to be able to return to China. ”

Everyone was awe-struck and quietly listened to the brigade commander's lecture.

"The commander of the Jin army, Xianzhen, once said that he would report for rescue and take prestige, so he was in charge?"

Wuxian glanced at the faces of Zhang Mengtan, Mu Xia, Su Shouyu, Sang Cheng and others. Pointing to Pushui in the distance, he raised his voice and said, "I also want to say something today, I have a place to live and return to the country." So here!? This battle is related to our future development, and there must be no mistakes! ”

Everyone promised: "Only! ”

At this moment, the sharp-eyed Xing Ao also pointed to Pu Shui and said, "Gentleman, the boat is coming!" ”

Looking back, I saw dozens of sailless narrow wooden boats slowly approaching on the slowly flowing water. Wu Jing and his soldiers stood on the boat to watch every move of the oarsman.

He smiled and instructed Xing Ao: "The second and third sons have rested enough, ride to the baggage pawn, let Cheng Tuo take the boat as a beam, and strive to cross the river in the evening!" ”

……

Pushui is the so-called "Sangjian Pushang" of Pu, this river is divided into two branches in the ancient city of Huaguo: one passes through the border of Cao Wei Leize, and then flows into the Onozawa; The other was blocked by the mountains and hills, and turned to the northeast to flow through Weijing Chengpu, which was where Zhao Wuxian and the others were.

It was nearly evening, and there were some lotus flowers in bloom in the wetland by the water, and the warriors slowly came to the riverside, and suddenly there was a sound of frogs.

After they helped the baggage guards, one plank after another was passed to the water's edge through more than 100 hands.

Unlike when he was in Cao State, he could blatantly take the right path and cross the river slowly by boat, but now he is in the territory of the enemy country, so how to cross the Pushui is also a difficult problem.

They had tried it before, and it was difficult to let the soldiers flow through it directly.

However, Feng Rin had already explored the roads along the way when he went north to Lu and Wei a month ago. He dressed as a passing merchant, carefully observed the number of boats and the number of guards guarding several ferries in Pushui, and recorded them one by one in the booklet, and presented them to Zhao Wuxian after returning to Shangqiu, and then everyone discussed and finalized the route.

At dawn today, after the branch approached Chengpu, Yu Xi and others scattered ten miles away to guard, and Wu Jing led a soldier to raid a ferry with many wooden boats and few guards, and captured all the boatmen and all the boats.

On a relatively narrow river, the wooden boats slowly sailed to the water's edge and stopped one by one, forming a horizontal line. The baggage soldiers skillfully tied the ships together with hemp rope and attached them to the planks.

When King Wen of Zhou married Tairen, he once "greeted Yu Wei in person and built a boat as a beam", that is, a pontoon bridge. When he was in Shangqiu, the baggage carried by Cheng Jian did not participate in military training, but practiced how to maintain the uniform speed of the baggage, how to deal with various road surfaces, how to quickly change wheels, how to build pontoon bridges and simple fortifications, so the movements were quite quick.

After the beam of the boat is set up, the baggage guards and one or two military guards escort the guards who are wrapped up along the way, as well as the palace of the boatmen who have been captured this time, and they will also walk slowly after crossing the river, and they will not participate in tomorrow's battle.

Naturally, it is the easiest thing to kill the dozens of "burdens" that are wrapped in it, but there are also many troubles. Zhao Wuxian did not come to raid the locust crossing this time, but wanted to lay down a territory to control, so he had to pay attention to the image of the army, if he could play the role of a "teacher of benevolence and righteousness", it would be beneficial and harmless for the long-term rule in the future.

After crossing the beam of the boat, the six hundred warriors assembled on the other side of the river, and they had re-tied their leggings and put on new shoes, and then they would run thirty or forty miles overnight to reach the destination of this expedition.

Looking at the approaching night, looking at the soldiers who could barely maintain their formation when walking at night, Zhao Wuxian secretly thought: "Presumably, at this time, Feng Rin, Yu Xi, and Tian Ben have already mixed into Zhenyi...... )

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