Chapter 20: The Raid

Here is an introduction to the camping practices of the people at that time:

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On the other hand, it would be too risky and too dangerous for an army to stay in a place where there are no fortifications.

Officers and soldiers tasked with stockpiling food often had to go to various places to collect food and grass, so they were vulnerable to attacks by enemies in ambush.

The darkness of the night was a cover, and the soldiers were always sleepless, especially the cavalry horses were often scattered across the pastures, which were the perfect time for the other side to carry out a surprise attack.

It is not enough to set up camp in a place of general acceptable condition, but it must be the best of the neighbourhood, otherwise we will suffer great losses by our omission to occupy the best place by the enemy.

Attention should be paid to not getting too close to polluted water sources and too far from good water sources in summer; In winter, do not look for places that lack fodder and firewood, and places that are prone to flooding during sudden storms; It is not advisable to set up camp on steep cliffs or in places where roads are difficult to pass, because it will be difficult to break out in case of siege by the enemy.

It is better that the arrows thrown by the enemy from a slightly higher place will not be able to fall.

After all the measures have been taken carefully and carefully, it is possible to set up square, round, triangular or rectangular camps according to the characteristics of the terrain.

In fact, you don't have to think too much about the form of the camp, you should pay attention to practicality. However, it is generally believed that a length of more than a third of the width is more attractive.

The size of the camp should be measured by geodesics, who know the actual situation and know the number of troops in mind, if it is narrow, the defenders will feel congested; If it is wider than it is actually needed, the personnel will be too scattered.

Military experts have proposed three ways to build it:

First of all, when you only need to camp for the night, or when you only need to occupy a simple camp on the way, you can spread a row of shoveled turf and cover the soil.

But to put up a fence, you need to make dense stakes or cloth with traps (a four-pointed apparatus, three of which are pierced into the ground, and the fourth is pointed upwards). The turf is shoveled with a shovel, and the turf is made up of roots and soil that are held together, and each piece of turf is cut into half a foot, half a foot wide, and one foot long.

If the soil is too loose to remove the turf, then try to enclose a wall-like fortification, and quickly dig a trench five feet wide and three feet deep, and then put an earthen embankment on the inside of the trench so that the troops can rest in it, which is the second option.

If a camp is to be stationed for a long time, whether in summer or winter, against two enemy battalions, it must be very cautious and require greater effort.

Each hundred-man squad was given a measured space to camp according to the distribution of the Overseers and the rank and file.

They set up their shields, placed their baggage around their banners, and soldered swords around their waists to dig trenches of 8, 11, and 134 feet wide. If the enemy is too strong, there are also trenches dug up to 17 feet wide, and usually the trenches are always in odd numbers.

This is followed by an earthen embankment, which is reinforced with stakes or poles and sticks in order to prevent the mound from collapsing.

The earthen embankment shall be built into a pheasant moat, and there shall be arrow windows, just like a real city wall. The work was supervised by the captain of the hundred, who took turns every 10 feet of digging, so that the trenches would not be shallow, narrow, or otherwise mistaken because of the laziness of some men.

The attentive generals will go from place to place, and the most diligent of them will not leave until the project is completed. In order to prevent a surprise attack on those who were working, all cavalry and infantry who were not engaged in the operation were to stand in front of the trench in full armor, ready for battle, and to repel the enemy when he really came to attack.

Secondly, there is also the big thing, which is to find a place in the camp to put up the flag. In the eyes of soldiers, there is nothing more revered and greater than their flag.

After this, tents are to be set up for the commanders and his retinue; Tents were also to be arranged for the generals, and water, firewood, and fodder were to be prepared for them by the miscellaneous soldiers assigned for this purpose. Battalions are then assigned to legions, auxiliaries, cavalry, and infantry according to rank.

Each hundred-man squad was to designate 4 cavalry and 4 infantry to serve as night guards. Considering that it is difficult for a person to be on duty all night at all times, the night guard is divided into 4 shifts, and the time on duty at night does not exceed 3 hours per shift.

All the sentries were to be taken to work according to the trumpets of the commanders, and the generals were to select some of the most suitable and experienced people to check the sentry, so that they could find out what was wrong and report it in time.

These people are called "sentinels." Nowadays this has become a military position, called a sentry officer.

The cavalry on guard at night were to be on duty outside the camp walls. During the day, if the camp is set up, some sergeants go to duty early in the morning, others go to work in the afternoon, depending on the fatigue of the man and the horse.

One of the commander's first tasks was to keep an eye on whether the troops were already encamped, or were already in the city; The grazing of livestock, the transport of grain and other grains, and the supply of water, firewood and fodder should be able to ensure safety from enemy attacks.

The only way to do this was to choose the right places along the way of our convoys and to deploy them in fortifications, in cities, or in walled forts.

If there are no ready-made old fortifications along the way, then a suitable location should be chosen, small fortresses should be quickly built, and wide trenches should be dug to surround them. In these small forts, which served as guard posts, there should be a certain number of infantry and cavalry, whose task was to protect the unimpeded passage of the roads that carried our food.

When the enemy learns that there are opposing forces in front of them, on the right and on the right, they may not necessarily make up their minds to come to these places.

And for the Guards, who were determined to establish their prestige, it was a good opportunity to surprise the enemy's negligence.

Before deciding to raid, he asked the adjutant to wait outside the small gate at the back with 500 guards, while he led 10,000 guards to the camp.

Before leaving, Yajie was still worried about what kind of ambush they would encounter, and turned his hand to Wei Yun only waved his hand and smiled: "How did we first arrive, the other party is not familiar with our tactics, and they definitely didn't expect us to go back to raid tonight." ”

In fact, it is really according to the plot of turning hands into clouds, and the scouts around the enemy are limited to reconnaissance around the camp, and they basically selectively ignore the bushes where they are hiding.

It wasn't until he turned his hand and led people into the camp gate that the other party reacted.

However, it was already too late to do anything, and the guards, all armed with flints, set fire to the passing camp.

Before long, half of the camp was on fire, and a dizzying smoke was emitting everywhere.

At this time, the imperial soldiers still had the heart to resist them, and they fled to the rear with the supplies around them.

At this time, the unrestricted war (the deputy general and second-in-command of the Imperial Fox) in the big tent of the Chinese army was already stunned at this time.

It is said that Liu Xu has a mysterious team in his hands, which is invulnerable, and now he has seen it.

This group of guards did not care about the roaring flames around them, and they turned on the acceleration attribute of the flaming knives one after another, and slashed at the soldiers who were holding their heads and scurrying.

On the other hand, most of their camp was almost burned, and people were constantly falling to the side of the road in thick smoke.

Unrestricted Warfare sighed and said to the generals around him: "Now the fire is too big for the soldiers to resist, you can lead people to retreat!" ”

"Okay." A group of generals took orders one after another.

A pro-soldier captain looked at unrestricted warfare and asked, "General, why don't you leave!" ”

He looked at the captain of the pro-soldier and smiled, and said: "This defeat is because I underestimated the strength and determination of the other party, I won't leave, you can withdraw with General Liu!" I'll be able to fend off each other for a while! ”

"No, let's wait to protect the general to the death!" The captain twitched the sword at his waist and shouted at the enemy who was rushing in front of him, and at the same time called the brother Ichidan together.

Unrestricted Warfare looked at the NPC soldiers in front of him and sighed in his heart.

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By the fire, the other side did not resist much and surrendered on their knees, or desperately fled to the rear.

Seeing that this group of people had no heart to resist, he led a group of people to search around the camp, hoping to find a high-ranking general.

Suddenly, he met the gaze of a man, who looked at him calmly, as if what was happening around him had nothing to do with him.

Turning his hand over for Yun knew that he had found the right master, he immediately led people to rush towards him.

There were only a few soldiers in front of him, and these people could not resist the charge of the guards at all, and this general was in his own pocket.

Just as he was thinking, a soft sword stabbed from the diagonal side.

Turning his hand into a cloud, it seems that he can hear the sound of a sword piercing into his body!

Then he lost his instincts and disappeared in a cloud of white light.

"Ahh A group of guards around was shocked who had assassinated the general.

But just now, everyone seemed to only see the cold light emitted from the sword, but no one paid attention to who that person was.

Now that the general is dead, there is no backbone for the handling of the camp.

At this time, another adjutant of the Guards stood up, thinking of the crowd and shouting: "The general has been assassinated, and we avenge the general!" ”

As he spoke, he raised his knife and slashed towards unrestricted warfare.

The people next to him looked at each other and rushed forward after him.

"Huh." Unrestricted War smiled bitterly, I thought that killing the other party would disintegrate the cohesion of the other party, but I didn't expect the other party to be so well-trained, and it was not something that could be defeated by killing the general.

In the midst of his inner horror, a machete fell on him.

Unrestricted Warfare also closed his eyes, and guessed in his heart that there should be no pain in this game!

After a while, he didn't feel any weapons fall on him, much to his surprise, as the game had felt when it died.

However, when he opened his eyes again, he was stunned by the scene in front of him, a large group of soldiers surrounded him, and a golden circle of light appeared around him, leading the people to not take a single step, and those sword weapons that wanted to slash at him were also bounced back by this circle of aura.

At this moment, Unrestricted Warfare was surprised, when would he be able to keep this group of tiger and wolf divisions out of his body with this kind of strange treasure.

Without thinking about it, Unrestricted Warfare immediately retreated to the rear of the camp.

Seeing this, a group of guards approached him with knives, but the weapons of the crowd did not do him any real damage, and the blades were bounced off before they touched the unrestricted war.

The adjutant who was blocking the back door of the camp was nervously stationing when he suddenly saw a man with a golden light running out.

"Stop him, don't let him run!" The adjutant hurriedly shouted.

A group of officers and soldiers around him immediately took up arms and surrounded this man.

Unrestricted warfare, on the other hand, didn't care so much, and rushed straight to the rear of the camp.

Seeing that he was ignoring his encirclement, the adjutant immediately called for men to attack him.

It was obvious that all the arrows that had been shot had been bounced off, which surprised them, no wonder they were able to break out of the camp.

The adjutant looked at the unrestricted warfare and smiled: "Maybe it's a strange treasure!" Brothers, don't let him run away! ”

"Haha, good!" A group of officers and soldiers chased animals like this, and slowly surrounded the unrestricted warfare.

Although Unrestricted Warfare has shield protection, he doesn't have any means of attack, and the opponent knows that physical attacks are useless to him, so they throw ropes one after another, trying to trap him.

After a while, the unrestricted battle rushed left and right, and was gradually surrounded by a group of guards.

Looking at the approaching guards, Unrestricted Warfare smiled bitterly in his heart, although a protective shield suddenly appeared, it didn't seem to be of any use.

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The breeze of the night came through warm, itchy, and tickled, making people lazy and soft.

Qi Celadon blew the fan after taking a bath, and couldn't help but sneeze, afraid of catching a cold and turned off the fan.

Liu Tingting slept with the air conditioner on in the rented apartment, and sneezed in a daze, but subconsciously pulled the thin quilt up, curled her whole body and turned around to continue to sleep.

In the morning, the sky was blue to near-flawless perfection, and the path of the sun's beams was so bright that it looked like a trail covered in a translucent film.

"Chirp Chirp ......"

The iron door opened, and there was a girl wearing a small chiffon dress standing outside the door, the dress was plain and elegant without pattern decoration, but the neckline, cuffs and waist skirt were intricately embroidered with flowers, lace was connected with lace, each pink flower was different, and the color of the petals was also dark and shallow with the gradient, reflecting on the snow-white background of the dress like a colorful decoration on a fresh cream cake, cute and beautiful.

The feet are covered with transparent white stockings and sunk into the skirt, and the stockings are covered by pink doll shoes, which are light and pleasing to the eye.

The girl's long hair is neatly combed in the middle, the inner bundle of hair hanging down next to the cheek is fixed with a straight clip, the bangs are lightly spread in front of the forehead, and the hair at the back is fastened into a long ponytail with a large hairpin decorated with brocade flowers.

The face is covered with a thin powder to modify the already snow-white skin to be more crystal clear, the curved thin eyebrows are enhanced with eyebrow pencils to enhance the depth of color, the big watery eyes are hidden by the long eyelashes and cascading double eyelids, the small nose is connected with the cherry moist round lips, and the light lip gloss makes the delicate lip shape a little more flying.

"Celadon, your doorbell is so old-fashioned, it is still an electronic birdsong."

The girl giggled.

"Cut, this is retro, okay?"

Qi Celadon took Liu Tingting's pink travel bag and beckoned her into the living room of the house.