At the beginning of March, there was no moon at night, and while the sky was not yet dark and a little dark and green, Li Duofu sent three battalions of soldiers to conduct an intensive search for ten miles around the camp, but he captured more than a dozen Tibetan spies, and the rest were also driven away by alarm. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This is the first part of the night attack on the enemy, and it must be secretive, but after severe interrogation, confessions and scouts have sorted out the information they have spied before, and finally deduced some important information.

Zuo Jichang and Zuo Shangon Khenblang Wang, who had led 20,000 elite soldiers of the tribe to Zongge City ten days ago, left two large thousand households in Kuozhou with about 8,000 troops, and Huangshashu and Diaoyao City each had a small thousand household chiefs, leading 1,000 old and weak troops. Shudun City and Dafeichuan each have a large thousand households, and the strength of the army is unknown.

In the absence of the enemy's situation, everyone was a little worried and fearful, and these confessions were too timely, which greatly increased the confidence of the officers. That night, Li Duofu arranged for a night guard and a patrol, and ordered all the soldiers not to disarm, and to go to bed early in their clothes.

In the early hours of the morning, under the faint light of the fire in the large camp, when the soldiers on duty patrolled the camp to report the time, the commanders of each battalion and the battalion waited for the soldiers to summon the soldiers out of the camp with combat equipment to assemble and report the number in line. A camp tent generally houses 20 people, and a soldier has five tents, and there is an open space in front of every five military tents, and the soldiers gather together to occupy a large area.

After the counting, they all gave an order, and ten drinking orderlies carried over five large buckets of warm water and ten small copper basins, and laid them out in the open space in front of the queue. As soon as the bucket was lowered to the ground, the orderly took the water hanging from the edge of the bucket and filled the ten small copper basins.

The two men who stood at both ends of the stare looked at each other, waved their hands in tacit understanding, and the soldiers took out their spare towels and cups, and took turns to go forward to wash their faces and mouths, and after finishing quickly, they poured the water into the drainage ditch next to them, and the copper basin was sent back to its original position, and each returned to his team.

There are 20 part-time orderlies in each city, and at this time they are temporarily wearing white armcages on their right arms, with a big word "diligence" on them, but they are also soldiers with swords and bows, and they are also two personal soldiers of the capital, and they are responsible for giving orders, coordinating the whole team, protecting their own heads, and arranging miscellaneous chores such as bathing and meals when camping.

The soldiers in the front row stood in the back after finishing their work, and then the second row stepped forward to wash, these ten orderlies were only responsible for fetching water at this time, and they had to take their turn to the back, and finally the two heads, this was the gauge set by Zhang Yue.

"Your mother's bath! Leave some ...... for labor and management" There is a scar on the head of the head here, scolding is very fierce, he can't help it, the soldiers are all rough people, watering and sprinkling, although each person is a float at a time, but there are only so many in the bucket, this is all quantitative, otherwise there are thousands of people in the whole army, and then boil the water until when it will burn.

Then, ten other orderlies came over with small wooden barrels, and the steaming mutton corn porridge was put down on the ground, and the soldiers each took out wheat tooth sugar, cheese-bound fried corn sugar cakes, and flour fermented and baked biscuits from dry food bags, but these instant military rations were dry and hard, but it was just right to add a small box of meat porridge.

"Fuck it...... It's a scald! "Each soldier had a small tin box, and he took turns to come forward to receive it, and then he returned to his place to eat while standing, and he didn't want to sit at the door.

The iron box is the lunch box, and the military industrial city of Guangxiangbao in Huining has not learned the metal stamping technology, which is handmade by the blacksmith. Although it has a small curved handle, it is also iron that can transfer heat, and the soldier keeps changing his left hand to his right hand.

"Grass! Although this iron lunch box is better than the pottery bowl, it can be steamed, boiled and baked, but it needs to be improved, it seems that the handle is best wrapped with a layer of cowhide insulation...... "Scarface looked at the soldiers, some of them pulled up the corners of their clothes and wrapped the handle, and they were eating with a horn, and some of them were so hot that they screamed, and they suddenly felt the same way, and took out a booklet and a bamboo charcoal pen from their arms to quickly record this problem.

The soldiers finally took turns washing their water, and both of them made the last move and began to eat, but also stood. If you want to have privileges, you must at least be promoted to the camp to enjoy the treatment of staying alone in the military tent and waiting for the washing and eating by the soldiers.

As soon as the soldiers finished eating, the battalion Yuhou brought ten gendarmes wearing red armbands to check the discipline, and Scarface was afraid of getting into trouble, so he hurriedly shouted: "Don't mess up the formation, give the labor and management inspection equipment, and if you don't bring it, come over and report it!" ”

Ying Yuhou led the gendarmes directly through the ranks of soldiers, looking around as he went, looking at the wet water stains on the ground and snorting, but he didn't say anything, and went straight to the next small camp.

After a while, a group of heralds pressed their waist knives, and one person in front of them carried a small red flag with a big "order" character and the number of the battalion, trotted over and shouted "assemble" and continued to rush through, without stopping at all.

"Stand upright...... Keeping up with the ...... March! Scarface lowered his head and shouted the order, and the soldiers followed in a series of reactions, and the camp was filled with the sound of clattering nails.

Scarface turned his head and walked forward, twenty orderly soldiers have taken off their white sleeves and turned over, the inside is the red "guard" word, this is the officer's personal soldier's logo, the capital level is not specially set up herald, but the personal soldier also serves as the standard-bearer. At this time, they carried the banner and hugged the head forward, and the left team was five straight forwards in parallel, and then the right team was behind.

When they arrived at the open space in front of the battalion commander's tent, the four senior officers of the battalion were standing with their swords pressed, and two of them had already arrived first, but they were arranged in columns, not squares.

"Stand! Assemble in columns! Scarface lowered his head and walked to the side with his own soldiers to supervise.

The team is also trained and is very familiar with the queue movement, so he immediately leads a group of soldiers first, and the team behind follows. Wait until the soldiers of Pontus are in place, and Scarface walks to the battalion flag to report to the commander, then he takes his own soldiers and the battalion to return to the team, and then the whole team is on standby.

After a short time, the senator of the higher army came to inspect it, and there was a herald coming from behind, and the battalion commander personally led the team out of this small camp area, and went to the empty passage in the middle of the camp.

The night outside was dark, and the sound of the wind whistling in the mountains in the distance, perhaps the howling of a wild wolf. The only light was the lantern in the hands of Li Duofu, the military capital, who was facing the military formation, and all the soldiers naturally focused their eyes there.

The first to arrive was the five infantry battalions of the Changsong Army, with no auxiliaries, and all the equipment was brought by itself. What came out of the back was the Wucheng army, one battalion stayed behind, four horse battalions went out to fight, the war horse had already wrapped the horse's hooves first, and strangled the horse's mouth with a strip of cloth, and now it was leading the horse forward.

"Ready!" Li Duofu's voice was not loud, but it was heard far away in the silent and cold night. There was a buzz between the battalions, followed by a wave of commotion backwards, which soon spread to this side.

"Take it!" The spears of the soldiers in the front row suddenly turned upside down and handed the handles of the guns in unison, and the soldiers in the back row immediately stretched out their left hands to grab them, and the spears in their right hands were also handed back, and then the same was true for the ones behind.

This is also trained, marching in complete darkness at night, with no traction in front and behind, it is easy to walk disjointedly and in chaos. In case of difficult road conditions, it will cause unnecessary sacrifice.

Until the whole army had been affected, and all battalions had heralds who had reported to the past and returned to the team, the lanterns in front of them flickered, and the army began to set off one after another, and the teams slowly extended forward, and the slight footsteps and the sound of the nails and leaves gathered together, forming a dull and rhythmic sound. The four battalions of the Ma army could only be left behind, in case the horses were out of order.

From the soldiers going out of the tent to eat, to the march out of the battalion, the whole process was orderly, and there was no chaos or accidents. It seems like a long time, but it's actually only half an hour. (To be continued.) )