Early the next morning, Dunshe immediately ordered his army out of the city.

There was a lack of civilian staff in his army, so Guan Duo took "special care" of the party to supplement the truth and accompanied the army, and ordered him to be responsible for the grain and grass baggage, so that Deng She could "concentrate on the war without distractions".

On the battlefield, it was very hard to be the main general, and Guan Duo "was very considerate and specially instructed" him that he could take Li Jixiu to accompany him, so that he could relax a little after the military plane. Deng She was naturally grateful and complied with them one by one.

The Taizi River is not far outside the city, 5,000 men and horses out of the city, along the river to the northeast, in the evening of the same day, arrived at the predetermined camping site, is between Dongmu Mountain and Liaoyang, side to Shenyang City.

On the one hand, he ordered the horses to be released from afar, and the armies rested; While riding his horse, Dunsher went up to a high ground and watched from afar.

The method of going down to camp is to choose the place first. He read a lot of military books and knew the importance of choosing the right camp site. A good stronghold can both consolidate itself and stifle the enemy.

Zhuge Liang slashed Ma Jian with tears, and the defeat of Ma Jian Street Pavilion was defeated in the wrong place where he camped. He did not camp at the mouth of the two mountains, but ran to the top of the mountain, where there was no water. If you don't defend the pass of the two mountains, you will lose the key points of transportation and cannot strangle the enemy; Running to the top of the mountain, as soon as it is surrounded, there is a lack of water, unable to self-consolidate, and An can not be defeated?

This story is what Deng She usually tells to the officers, Yang Wanhu learned it well, he took the horse around to inspect it, came back to report, stood on the high ground, raised his head, and said: "General, Lao Guan chose this place is good, near the water and back to the mountain,...... Look over there, there's a big patch of water and grass, and the mounts are also fed. ”

Deng She looked at it for a moment, but saw that the sky was clear, the white clouds were blooming, and his location was two or three miles away from the river, and behind him was a low earth mountain, with lush trees. In the distance, on the plain of a flat river, he saw a little black cluster in the east, he raised his horsewhip, nodded, and asked, "Lord Fang, where is Dongmu Mountain?" ”

Fang Buzhen said: "Not bad. ”

Deng She nodded, turned around, across the river, and looked northwest for a while, the distance was too far to see Shenyang. Looking at the terrain and seeing that Yang Wanhu was still waiting below with his head up, he smiled and said, "Order the three armies, and set up camp on the high ground in front of this mountain." ”

Yang Wanhu received the order, hit the horse and galloped away.

Time was in a hurry, and there was no time to build the city camp; The trench camp is also not successful, and digging a circle of trenches outside the camp is time-consuming, and the other is not conducive to travel. The only choice is to camp in a tent. Yang Wanhu and He Guangxiu ordered them to go down one by one, and the officers of the main base battalion were in charge, and 1,000 people were assigned to guard them, and the remaining 4,000 people went up the mountain to cut down trees.

There are few sergeants, and one person has to cut down two trees. There were not enough trees on the mountain, but fortunately there was a forest not far away, and they were selected to meet the requirements and cut down one by one, and in the evening, 8,000 trees were dragged back, and they hurriedly ate some food, and continued to build camp overnight. Deng She also started, first digging a small pit on the ground that could be erected, and then cutting off the branches and leaves of the trees, the piles were connected, leaning against the mountain and water, and using wood as a fence, which soon became a semicircular camp.

and erected watchtowers and enemy towers; Outside the fence erected horse repellents, thistles were sprinkled, and horse traps were dug out. After a night of non-stop, the camp was completed when it turned white in the east.

The march did not stop, and the encampment was still encamped, and the soldiers were not lightly tired, leaving enough defenders, and the others went back to the tent to rest. Deng She also worked all night, his hands and body were full of mud, and He Guangxiu was by his side with a gray face, his red eyes were bloodshot, and he couldn't resist yawning one by one, and he was ready to talk to Deng She with a smile on his face.

Facing the rising red sun, Deng She smiled, nodded to the soldiers who walked by him, occasionally saw acquaintances, said hello, and smiled and talked to each other. The so-called love for soldiers is like a son, I have to say that Deng She has always done a good job in this regard.

Taking a free time, he asked Ha Guangxiu, "Is the Tanma sent out back?" Shenyang's Naha, has there been any change? ”

He Guangxiu was excited, and he was responsible for sending the Tanma, rubbing his eyes vigorously, and he said, "Go back to the general, the Tanma who went to Shenyang has not come back yet." Within a radius of nearly twenty miles, there was no trace of the Tartars. He paused and said, "Not only are there no traces of the Tartars, but the common people are also rare. When they saw that there was going to be a war, they all fled, right? ”

Deng She hummed, there is no trace of the Tartar in a radius of twenty miles? It's a little strange, he doesn't believe that Naha has no spies in Liaoyang, and 5,000 men and horses went out of the city to support Dongmu Mountain, it is estimated that Naha has already known, but he has not seen any movement for a long time, and he has not even sent a probe horse.

Deng She's heart went up and down, thinking about Shenyang for a while, and then thinking of Guan Duo. For no reason, suddenly let him out of the city, how do you think, how do you think it's weird here. What exactly does Guan Duo want to do? He pondered for a moment, unable to guess. He stretched his waist and made a decision: "When the Tanma who went to Shenyang comes back, I understand the specific reality of Shenyang, and then make a decision." ”

He Guangxiu has been in tens of thousands of households for a few months, and his ability to lead troops to fight has not increased, and his ability to move qi and raise his body has been thousands of miles a day, and he has not done hard work or stayed up all night for many days. Now the sun was rising, and he couldn't support it, and he stood on his back in a languid state, looking at Dunshe, expecting to get him back to sleep.

Deng She was in good spirits, and he didn't pay attention to the appearance of the river Guangxiu, and when he heard a commotion from the riverside, he turned around to look. Seeing that it was a group of soldiers taking a shower on the shore, they saw Yang Wanhu surrounded by them in the middle, and they didn't know what they were doing, which caused cheers and cheers from the soldiers from time to time.

The wind with moisture blows, and it is cool and refreshing. Deng She was covered in mud, sweaty, and uncomfortable, so he suddenly became interested, greeted He Guangxiu, and said, "Let's go, Lao He, take a look." ”

Ha Guangxiu beat his spirits, trotted and followed, as soon as the person was sleepy, his attention dropped, he only looked at the top, did not pay attention to the ground, mixed with a stone, and almost fell. Bi Qianniu, as the captain of the personal soldiers, was also by Deng She's side, and he couldn't look at it, so he reminded Deng She, "General, the river is ,...... ten thousand households."

Deng She just came to his senses, laughed, lifted his foot, and gently kicked He Guangxiu's buttocks, and said, "Look at your bear-like, dog-day return to the river and ten thousand households?" your balls and go back to sleep! ”

The generals in the army have different tempers, and after a long time, Deng She figured out their personalities, so he naturally treated them differently.

Like Wen Huaguo and Chen Hu, he is a generation taller, he is dependent and kind. Like Zhao Guo and Zuo Che'er, he reuses and is intimate with the old department of horse thieves. Like Zhang Ji'er, in the promotion army, he has a civil and military posture, and he attaches importance to and respects it. Like Yang Wanhu, Monk Li, He Guangxiu, etc., they are rough people, and they treat them seriously as a national scholar, but they can't stand it, and the tone they like is nothing more than "beating is kissing, scolding is love", especially Heguangxiu, who is really a cheap bone, the more he scolds him, the happier he is; Deng She laughed and scolded each other to enhance their feelings for each other.

Sure enough, when He Guangxiu heard this, he fell to his knees with his buttocks pouted, kowtowed a few times, and shouted again and again: "The general's grace, the general's grace." He smiled and went to sleep.

Deng She's personal soldiers are all brave and bloody men, and many of them are not used to seeing Heguangxiu, some people shook their heads and said disdainfully: "The general has not rested yet, and he is embarrassed to leave?" Aren't you afraid of the official title of ten thousand households given to him by the general? The mud can't hold up the wall. ”

Deng She smiled and said, "Isn't it good to be innocent and have no scheming?" ”

Another person nodded and said, "What the general said is that although He Wanhu can't lead troops, the tasks assigned by the general are all done with all his heart." A while ago, the general asked him to be in charge of the supervision of Tuntian, and the villain saw it in person, and he lost more than a dozen pounds in just a few months. Even though he is a Korean, he can be called loyal. ”

They are all close people around Deng She, and they have no scruples when they speak. However, there were many beautiful people in this army, and Deng She frowned and said, "These words will not be said again in the future." As I have said many times, Korea and China are one family, so where are the Koreans? Are they all Han Chinese? ”

This is a good statement, the Mongols are divided into four people, and the Goryeo people are originally a kind of Han people. The pro-soldiers bowed down to the order.

Deng She remembered something, and after occupying Pyongyang, he began to comprehensively promote Sinicization among the Liying army, and asked: "How did you learn the Chinese dialect of Liying?" ”

Bi Qianniu knew a little and said: "Ten masters and above can already have simple Chinese conversations; Some of the soldiers were smart, some were stupid, and their level was uneven. ”

Deng She thought about it, to be completely sinicized, language and writing are the first, the text is easy to say, Goryeo has no writing, and the Chinese language is used; Focusing on language, he said: "Set military rules, and in the future, if you promote Liying officers, you must speak Chinese as one of them." ”

"Yes."

Let's talk about it, and the group came to the river. The Taizi River is not too wide, it is the end of summer, the rain is sufficient, the river water rises very high, on the clear water surface, the sun shines with ten thousand golden rays, the wind blows, the ripples are undulating, the surging south, the sound of water is endless.

There is a lot of sand on the shore, and it is very soft when you step on it. When I got closer, I could see clearly that Yang Wanhu was wrestling with a few soldiers. There were many people around, who were elated and applauded.

Deng She did not have many followers, so he didn't alarm them, so he stood outside and watched for a while. Yang Wanhu was shirtless, skinny, and his body was full of skin and bones, and he barely had half a pair of flesh. Two embroidered dragons on his arms, the dragon's tail extends to the back of the hand, the dragon's head is backwards, winding along the arm, stretching his teeth and claws to the back, where the dragon's kiss is facing, he has a big pearl tattooed on his back, but it is a picture of two dragons grabbing pearls. It should be a master's handwriting, and it is drawn vividly.

I saw him hunched his waist, twisting his opponent's waist and arms, his face turned blue when he exerted his strength, he snorted, and swirled under his feet, the opponent was caught off guard, and he was lifted over his head lightly and skillfully, slightly sideways, and thrown to the side.

Everyone in the audience applauded. Deng She looked fixedly, although he knew that Yang Wanhu was born with divine power, he couldn't help but sigh secretly, his opponent was a tiger's back, and he was tall and long, this body was really rare in the army, not to mention two or three hundred catties. And Yang Wanhu is thin and small, and he can't exceed sixty or seventy pounds when he folds his head to the sky, and the weight difference between the two sides is three or four times, which is really like a grasshopper shaking a tree.

He couldn't help but applaud: "Good! ”

The soldiers didn't know his voice, but Yang Wanhu knew it, heard it, raised his head, and smiled at Deng She. After several battles, Deng She had no defeat, he had already subdued him, and he was acting like a joke at the moment, without waiting for the opponent to get up, he took a few steps up, grabbed the back waist with one hand, raised his eyebrows, squatted half-squat, shouted, and raised him with one arm.

Bi Qianniu smacked his tongue and said, "It's so fierce!" General, he has the strength of his arms, and he is afraid of a thousand catties! Over there, Yang Wanhu held the man and circled the field a few times, the man kicked his legs and struggled, shouting and begging for mercy again and again, as if Wu Dalang lifted Wu Erlang, everyone looked interesting, and they laughed for a while.

Yang Wanhu turned around twice, dropped the man, bowed in the direction of Deng She, and said, "The villain has seen the general." ”

Only then did everyone discover Deng She, and they hurriedly bowed down, and they bowed down by the river. Deng She walked through the crowd, helped Yang Wanhu with his own hands, and said with a smile: "Ten thousand tigers, ten thousand tigers, I think, with your divine power, even if you really come to ten thousand tigers, it is not as good as you!" ”

Yang Wanhu stood up, his face was not red, his heart was not beating, and he said: "A little trick, a little country manpower, is not worthy of the general's praise." That being said, he looked proud.

Deng She praised a few more words, told everyone to get up, and chatted with everyone with Yang Wanhu's divine power, and said a few words to the defeated man, it is not a shame to lose in the hands of Yang Wanhu.

He didn't have a fight, and soon everyone mingled, laughing and scolding, and while he was talking, there was a sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and someone was heard shouting and asking: "Where is the general?" The two soldiers who stayed behind in the tent ran over, Deng She knew that he must be visiting the horse and returning to the camp, and he didn't have time to take a shower again, so he hugged his fist at everyone and said: "I will go first, you are tired for a night, rinse up earlier, go back to the tent to rest." If you have enough strength, you can fight in the future, and let the Tartars see how powerful our Shuangcheng military horses are! ”

The soldiers agreed loudly, they had not received the salute of the Shangguan taking the initiative to hug their fists, one by one they were excited and excited, Deng She had been away for a long time, they were still excited, all of them were gearing up, waiting to go into battle to kill the enemy.

"Where did the Tanma come from? Shenyang? On the way to the tent, Deng She asked.

The soldier replied, "The two groups of horses have returned." All the way to Shenyang, all the way to Dongmu Mountain. ”

"Good!" Dunshe's spirits lifted. Shenyang is the other, Dongmu Mountain is his own, he knows himself and knows the other, this battle, he will not be dizzy. I hope to get some useful information that will help to analyse the current situation.

In the handsome tent, in addition to the returning Tanma, Fang Buzhen is also there. He didn't participate in the camp at night, and he had a good night's sleep and was in good spirits. Deng She walked into the handsome tent, he got up to greet him, sniffed his nose, Deng She and Bi Qianniu smelled of sweat, he said, "The general bathes first?" ”

"No need, military matters."

The handsome tent is heavy inside and outside, inside Li Bouxiu came out, fetched water, Deng She hastily washed his hands and face, adhering to the consistent habit, talking about military aircraft, there must be no idle people present, waved Li Bouxiu out, sat down and asked: "How is the situation in Shenyang?" ”

One of the horses replied, "The gates are closed, and the villains can't get in." Half of the military horses in the camp outside the city entered the city, and half were guarding a mountain outside the city, forming a horn with Shenyang. ”

Deng She asked, "Isn't there a spy of our army in the city?" Didn't get in touch? ”

"The Tartars are watching closely, the walls are very well defended, and there is no chance to contact the spies in the city." As he spoke, he took out a map from his bosom and presented it to Deng She, "The five miles outside the city have been marked as a no-man's land by the Tartars, and the villain has sneaked in at the risk of death and written down the defensive area map of their various city gates. ”

Deng She unfolded the drawings, this Tanma painting skills are not high, but he can see clearly, the square city wall, the sub-sections, the external visible defensive equipment, and the leading generals responsible for the defense of each section are clear and leap into view.

He took a closer look, and Shenyang's defenses were very effective, full of heavy equipment; Among the armies guarding the walls were the main army, including the Naha lineage. Fang Buzhen said: "The main force is on the city wall, and they don't care about the military strength. It seems that the Tartars are really defense-oriented. ”

Although he didn't know much about military affairs, he also felt strange, and said: "Naha is not like a mouse-eyed person, doesn't he know that once our army defeats Liaonan, it will break the current deadlock in Liaodong and completely occupy the initiative?" At that time, it will be difficult for his Shenyang to be saved, how can he not be saved when he dies? Could it be that he lost his courage because he was raided and occupied by our army? ”

"Even if he loses his courage, in Shenyang City, there are other Liao Kings and others, and they will not all be so cowardly." Deng She categorically denied Fang Buzhen's speculation, and after pondering for a long time, he said, "This matter is strange, and our army will sit and watch the changes." "Guan Duo gave him an order, Dongmu Mountain is in a hurry, just support; Other things, such as Shenyang, are expected to be Guan Duo will not be without a response.

Fang Buzhen said: "What the general said is very true. He asked another Tanma, "What happened to General Dongmu Shanpan?" ”

The tanma glanced at Deng She, Deng She nodded, and then he spoke: "The villain arrived at Dongmu Mountain in the middle of the night last night. General Pan built a camp on the mountain, the barrier was strong, and I heard General Pan say that since the capture of Dongmu, the Tartars have only symbolically harassed twice, and have not taken over the battle seriously. ”

"How's the morale in the army?"

"The villain sees it, and the morale is not low."

Fang Buzhen interjected: "General Xiao Pan is a tiger, and there is still a set of rules for governing the army. The morale of Dongmu Mountain, the general does not have to worry about it. ”

Deng She bowed his head and continued to ask, "How did General Pan's camp get rooted?" ”

"The whole army was divided into three sections, and the main force was stationed on the mountain; one guards the water source; The partial division is located in the key place of the road under the mountain. ”

Guarding the key points and stationing on the mountain, this is a typical "strangulation of the enemy" and "self-consolidation", similar to Deng She, Pan Mei's camp is also a mountain and water, and the camping of the two has the same effect. The only difference is that the two of them have different tasks, Pan Mei guards first, so he builds a camp on the mountain; Deng She's aid is the first, so he builds a camp under the mountain.

The two armies together, 20,000 people, and then the Liaoyang army can arrive in half a day. Deng She touched the saber placed horizontally on the case, and looked at the map of Shenyang presented by the horse, and did not say a word for a long time. With Guan Duo's conviction, the war in southern Liaoning began three days later, and somehow, on the eve of the war drums, a little uneasiness suddenly rose in his heart.

He has fought so many battles, never once, like today, completely unable to figure out the enemy's clue, as if caught in a heavy fog, he subconsciously looked outside the tent, hundreds of miles away by the Yalu River, I don't know if Chen Hu arrived on time?

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1. City camp.

Due to the different methods of construction of peripheral defense facilities, there are several types of camps, such as city camps, trench camps, shed camps, car camps, and gun camps.

A city camp is a wall-like fortification built on a necessary strategic point for the army to defend the enemy, but it is smaller than a city. Generally, the wall is four feet high, the bottom is three feet thick, and the wall should build a war tower, set up various equipment to defend the city and watch towers and watchtowers and watchposts to watch the enemy's situation; Trenches were dug outside the city, and protective measures such as deer barricades and horse traps were set up. The city camp thus built was actually a military fortress that could be used for a long time.

During the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao's war horses were more than on both sides of the Weishui, and every time Cao Cao crossed the river to attack Ma Chao, he just gained a foothold, and was attacked by Ma Chao's army. The local area is mostly sandy soil, which is not good for building a city, and the strategist Lou Zibo offered a plan: take advantage of the cold weather to build a city with sand, and then water it, and the city camp will be strong. Sure enough, that night, "the wind was blowing, the water and the sand were frozen", the sky was bright, the city was standing, and "as solid as iron stone", and the effect of "guns could not be attacked" was achieved.

2. Trench camp.

In cases where the construction of a city is not permitted, this method can be used, with the moat as the main body of defense. Generally, the bottom of the trench is required to be one zhang and two feet wide, the mouth is one and five zhang wide (the mouth is large and the bottom is small), the trench is more than one zhang deep, and the excavated soil pile is patted tightly on the inner bank, and it can be four or five feet above the ground without building a city. If conditions permit, deer barriers should also be set up outside the trench.

3. Wooden shed camp.

One of the most common forms of camping. As long as there are trees, you can cut down trees and erect fences, and quickly set up camps. If there is time and possibility, you can also dig some more fortifications and even trenches under the shed, and this kind of wooden fence becomes a "trench fence", which is actually a combination of a trench camp and a fence camp.

4. Car battalion, gun battalion.

Most of them were camps built for temporary accommodation during the march or between wars. The chariot battalion, or "the second chariot as a domain", connected the larger chariots one by one to form a barrier to block the enemy's advance.

The gun camp uses the spears in the hands of the soldiers as the dividing line of the barracks. This kind of battalion has no boundaries and no defensive functions, and is only used as a sign and boundary to distinguish between inside and outside, so that non-commissioned officers are not allowed to go out at will, and outsiders are not allowed to enter at will. The troops left the camp in the morning, and this military camp ceased to exist.