At night, Yulin Fort was pitch black, and occasionally the Houjin scouts who sneaked up on them stepped on mines and ran, and occasionally a ball of fire broke out in the open field, leaving a bright afterimage and then returning to calm.

Yulinpu is five miles away from the north and south, but it is a brilliant light, both sides have gone down the camp, and the lanterns are dotted with the wilderness, like the sea of stars on the ground.

Chen Xin reviewed the operational deployment of the Military Command Department for the last time in the Chinese military camp, and then got up to patrol the camp after sending the night number, and when he left the camp, he happened to see the light point of the rocket launched seven or eight miles away, Chen Xin smiled proudly, this kind of rocket imitation from the British Congreve has a range of about three miles, and the Houjin soldiers are obviously unable to defend such a wide front at night without sending the main force.

The rocket company sent by Chen Xin is covered by the 1st Dragoon Thousand Headquarters and the special service team this time, and will carry out continuous harassment at night, the rocket is not accurate, but the scope of harassment can spread throughout the Houjin camp, affecting the Houjin soldiers to rest at night, creating an atmosphere of fear, thereby depleting the morale of the Houjin soldiers. After watching for a while, Chen Xin led the team out of the village and began his usual night camp inspection.

Dengzhou's Ming camp is like the Qi family army in general, the lantern is the flag of the night, the lowest layer is the flag team, each flag team sets a light signal, the system is all the same, in order to be easy to identify at night, all are marked by each flag team by themselves, each battalion can not be repeated, so Dengzhou Town has the most patterns, is the lantern mark, Chen Xin does not limit the pattern of each flag team, both the flying dragon and the tiger unicorn and the like. There are also the blessing words and Yong characters that cut flowers, etc., and the most exaggerated ones are beautiful pictures.

Accompanying the patrol was Liu Pojun, the officer on duty of the Chinese army tonight. The two of them took a team of guards, turned on the night patrol signal of the Chinese army, and walked to the first battalion of the guards in the south.

Before they reached the camp gate, a man in the field shouted, "Night trumpet." ”

Chen Xin replied loudly: "Brave! ”

There was no sound there, Dengzhou's night number is generally one word, there was no sound after answering, Chen Xin and his party arrived at the camp gate, and after the side door opened, a guard came out. After checking the waist cards of Chen Xin and others, they saluted and let them go, but still only opened the side door, allowing Chen Xin and others to enter through the side door, Chen Xin left the guards outside the camp, and only brought a few staff officers and Liu Pojun into the camp.

The battalion officer of the 1st Guards Battalion did not come to the camp gate to greet them, Chen Xin and others patrolled the camp by themselves, and the tents in the camp were neatly arranged. There is a toilet pit between every two tents, which also comes from the Qi army, when they are only stationed for one night, they get up early on the second day to bury them with soil, and when they are stationed for a long time, they get up early to clean them, and send them to a distant place to discard after opening the camp door.

Officers patrolling the camp can still be seen throughout the camp. According to the military law of Dengzhou, in addition to the battalion officer, the general or deputy general must also inspect the area of the headquarters every night, and after the general rest, the military judge and the sergeant major will take turns to patrol the night. Generally, it is enough to bring a plasination army, and when the battle is about to take an army or a small group of soldiers. The requirements for night patrols are very detailed, and all fires, camp roars, and spies that occur in their departments at night will be investigated and held accountable, so all the divisions are very careful.

When he walked to the south, Liu Pojun asked in a low voice, "My lord, do you want to patrol the night and check the night?" ”

Chen Xin shook his head slightly, the night patrol arrow is also a kind of arrow, sent by the night patrol officer, after the arrow is sounded, the night patrol officer will designate the starting flag team nearby, and the night soldiers on duty of each flag team will send arrows and pass the horn in turn, and those who do not pass the horn during the war will be beheaded. There are often temporary inspections in Dengzhou's weekday training, but there is a lot of harassment, and the first battalion of the guards at this time is in the rear, and Chen Xin is reluctant to make the soldiers nervous.

Chen Xin said to Liu Pojun: "Let's only check the first battalion of the guards, the other battalion heads will not go, there will be a big battle tomorrow, you will go back and rest early, the general who can't sleep well on the battlefield is not a good general." ”

Just as he was about to walk up, a small group of calmers came out of the front, and the leader shouted, "Who is coming?" ”

Liu Pojun hurriedly responded: "Come some." ”

Chen Xin immediately responded, this is also the rule of the night camp in Dengzhou, when you meet in the night camp, you can only say the word "so-and-so", and you can't say your name, whoever says the name will be arrested by the sentry first, even if you know it, you can't let it go, and the Shangguan will also take it, until the night officer on duty has seen it, and the Shangguan of the headquarters will hold the flag to pick up people. Although Chen Xin is the supreme commander of Dengzhou, the rules are set by himself, and it will be quite embarrassing if he is released by the night officer of the guard battalion.

After hearing this, the team leader got closer, and when he saw that it was Chen Xin, he hurriedly saluted, Chen Xin smiled and looked at the person in front of him, recalled and pointed to the person: "Your name is Chen Ying, a native of Phoenix City, Liaodong, and ...... at home."

Chen Xin stopped again when he said this, and the officer opposite whispered with some excitement: "It's the subordinates, it's hard for Lord Chen to remember it so clearly, and the subordinates are terrified." ”

Chen Xin waved his hand slightly, pulled Chen Ying's sleeve and motioned him to go together, and Chen Ying immediately followed Chen Xin's right side, looking like he was listening. Chen Xin looked up at the lanterns hanging in Chen Ying's department, most of the patterns on them were cold weapons such as big knives and spears, and some of them also drew a drop of blood, which looked very imposing.

"If there is murderous spirit, the army should be like this." Chen Xin couldn't help laughing.

"Lord Xie praised that the subordinate officer came out of the suicide squad, and the musketeers under him also had to train cold soldiers on weekdays, so he used this picture with love."

Chen Xin nodded, and after walking a few steps, he said in a low voice: "Phoenix City has been recovered now, have you gone back home to see?" ”

"Not yet, I originally wanted to ask Lord Wang for leave, but later I heard that Phoenix City is still a war zone, and there are Zhenfu soldiers on the road who are strictly inspected, and they can't go without dispatching, so my subordinates have not been able to make the trip."

Chen Xin sighed, "That's true, even if you go, you will be stopped halfway, and you are not in a hurry, Jiannu is ten miles away, as long as you defeat them tomorrow, Liaodong can be recovered, and you can go back to Phoenix City at any time in the future." ”

Chen Ying hurriedly responded, and Chen Xin continued: "Your family's previous housing and real estate can be recovered after the recovery of Liaodong." ”

"My subordinates heard about it, and it is said that if the veteran is willing to stay in Liaodong, there are also thirty acres of land to divide, and everyone is waiting, and there are those who say fifty acres or one hundred acres."

Chen Xin laughed in a low voice and said: "There are at least thirty acres, but Liaodong is in the hands of Jiannu, and we can't figure out how much land there is." After measuring the exact number, at least not less than 30 acres. However, career officers will also earn a lot in the future. You are an old man in Dengzhou, you were there when you were fighting Jiannu, and it is more promising to stay in the army. ”

"My subordinates understand."

At this time, he had already walked to Chen Ying's department, Chen Xin patted Chen Ying on the shoulder, "Tomorrow is the time for me to repay the blood debt for the Liao people, fight hard, your family is watching you from the sky." ”

Chen Ying nodded heavily, and then saluted Chen Xin. After Chen Xin returned the salute, he continued to go to the next flag team, Chen Ying watched Chen Xin go away, raised his head and looked at the dark night sky, and after looking at it for a long time, he clasped his hands and said in a low voice: "Tomorrow you are all watching from the sky, I will recover the blood debt for you, and when Liaodong is recovered, I will go back to Phoenix City to see you." ”……

In the military tent in the 2nd Guards Battalion. Zhong Laosi secretly lit a stick of incense in the tent, he didn't worship, he directly took a bowl of wine and sat on the ground, and then raised it towards the incense, "Zhao Xuan, I will go into battle tomorrow." Lao Tzu will take revenge on you, today I will give you incense, don't be too little, I originally brought three notes, I don't know which dog day to Lao Tzu is missing. Forget it, dry a bowl of wine. You work hard for Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu will beat out the Huang Taiji eggs tomorrow. ”

The tent was quiet, Zhong Laosi held the wine bowl and tilted his head and said: "When you are in the dog day, you can talk for a long time when you drink some wine, and now no one says it is boring, why does Lao Tzu not even know who to give a suicide note before every war, so I can only find you Zhao Xuan to say a few words, your mother, Lao Tzu is not as good as Zhou Shaoer and Liu Yue, and Lao Tzu is married to ten or eight." ”

Zhong Laosi tilted his head and poured the wine into his stomach, poured it directly on the bed, and snored loudly after a while......

In the tent where the snoring was heard one after another, Tang Wei couldn't fall asleep, and there was a faint whistling of rockets outside from time to time, as well as the footsteps of the night patrol officers and the pacification soldiers.

Tang Wei lightly kicked Xie Fei next to him, and said in a very low voice, "Xie Fei, are you asleep?" ”

Xie Fei's voice immediately said: "Fall asleep, Lao Tzu didn't sleep well before the last war." ”

"I didn't sleep either." Huang Shan's voice came from the other side.

Tang Wei ignored Huang Shan, and continued to say to Xie Fei: "In case I am killed tomorrow, you remember to tell Guan Xiaomei, I am really a soldier for her, and I have to help take care of it." ”

Xie Fei whispered, "Fatty, you are stupid, you can't say unlucky things before going into battle." ”

"My eyelids are jumping, I don't have brothers and sisters, you are a brother, even being a soldier accompanies me, better than my own brother. Anyway, you should help me, and then find someone like Yuan Guzi and be an adopted son for my father. ”

Xie Fei was silent for a while and said, "Okay, but I don't think you will die." ”

"Who the hell knows, tens of thousands of Tartar soldiers." Tang Wei turned over and lay on his back looking at the tent, "If Jiannu is destroyed tomorrow, and I don't die, how can I have a medal...... Although it's not first-class, I'll go and tell Guan Xiaomei, it's a medal anyway. ”

Xie Fei laughed loudly, Huang Shan over there also laughed in the dark, Tang Wei kicked Huang Shan, "Xie Fei is handsome, it's easy to find a daughter-in-law, he just laughs at me, you Huang Shan still dare to laugh at me." ”

Huang Shan didn't kick him back, and said with a smile: "I don't think so much, veterans have fields after the war, I have thirty acres of land, and then a daughter-in-law can hold it, no matter what she looks like, I must raise three babies, I used to have three in my family." ”

Tang Wei twisted his chubby body and leaned towards Huang Shan's side, "Sleep, sleep, as long as Lao Tzu doesn't die after the battle tomorrow, he should retire at the end of the year, and I don't want to come to the battlefield again in this life." ”

"Sleep." Xie Fei over there took a look at the quilt, and then stopped talking.

In the dark, Huang Shan opened his eyes in a daze, and recalled the corner of the battlefield outside the Lushun earthen wall, which was also so dim.

"Zhang Zhongqi, if you don't vote for Dengzhou Town, are you still alive?" ……

Zhang Zhongqi shrunk into a ball outside the tent, his eyes were dull and looking at the dark night sky, every winter in Liaodong was a test of life and death for him, every time at this time, he had to find ways to let himself get more supplies to live, but this year Zhang Zhongqi didn't think of any way, just followed the army like a log, and tonight it was his turn to be on duty.

"Dog minion! Stand up! An angry shout sounded, and then he was kicked, Zhang Zhongqi still didn't react, choked on the sound of a knife out of the sheath, Zhang Zhongqi's whole body was agitated, his head slowly turned over, and several tall figures stood in front of him, only then did he stand up slowly and looked at a few people blankly.

The white-armored soldier who patrolled the night scolded in stiff Chinese: "You Nikan dog, I don't know if the military is more important than the military discipline, Lao Tzu can kill you with one knife right now." ”

Zhang Zhongqi's flag captain quickly ran out of the tent, and Ai Ai stood next to him, and when he saw the Zhenyi master angry, he trembled with fright.

Zhang Zhongqi faced the blade of the white-armored soldier, but he still looked sluggish. When the white-armored soldier's eyes showed a fierce light, a figure next to him gently pushed the white-armored soldier's knife away, and then stood in front of Zhang Zhongqi.

"Taktan...... Master. Zhang Zhongqi muttered.

Taktan said to him coldly: "I gave you food to eat, not for you to be in a daze, the war is imminent, how can you be so worthy, and you will not be spared if you commit it again." ”

The white-armored soldier glared at Zhang Zhongqi fiercely when he heard this, put away the knife, and Taktan said to the captain of the banner: "Change someone to be on duty." ”

Zhang Zhongqi grinned slightly: "Thank you, young master." ”

Taktan looked at him for a moment and shook his head and left, the flag captain wiped the sweat from his forehead, kicked Zhang Zhongqi twice, and scolded: "Don't go back yet." ”

Zhang Zhongqi shook twice, looked at the flag captain and smirked, the flag captain was about to kick again, and a shout came from the camp wall, "All battalions are trustworthy and must not trespass!" ”

"Here we go again." The captain of the flag hurriedly went back to the tent to get a knife, ready to maintain order, Zhang Zhongqi slowly turned back to the south, more than a dozen bright points of light dragged a long tail flame across the night sky, and the sharp whistling gradually sounded.

It's the rocket soldiers of Dengzhou Town again, their rockets have a range of about three miles, although they are not accurate at this distance, but they are accurate enough to deal with such a huge target as the Houjin camp.

More than a dozen rockets smashed into various camps in Houjin, and after a moment of explosion, two fires were triggered, and a gong was struck in the distance, and a small commotion occurred in each camp, and Houjin's officers were bombed one after another.

Before the two fires were extinguished, more than a dozen tail flames rose from the other direction, pulling an irregular trajectory in the air and shooting towards the Houjin camp.

Zhang Zhongqi watched the rockets dive after the elevation with his mouth wide open, and said happily: "Good-looking, good-looking!" ”……

The whistling sound of the rocket sounded intermittently in the middle of the night, and the Houjin soldiers had to send a large number of men and horses to search, and also had several skirmishes with the Dengzhou army in cover, and finally drove the Dengzhou rocket soldiers out of three miles away.

An hour before dawn, the armies of both sides began to raise fires and make meals, and the camp became a sea of lights in the darkness, and the advance teams set out ahead of the army and marched towards their respective targets.

Soon after, after the Dengzhou Zhongjun light trumpet waved, the drums sounded, and the camps and camps immediately blew one after another to get up, the noise and passwords in the camp sounded, the quiet army woke up from its slumber, and the day of the decisive battle came.