Chapter 233: Before the Great War
At about a quarter of the second day, the soldiers in Prince Xiao's camp began to get up.
As soon as they began to get up, the camp was filled with cacophony of sounds.
The whispers of the soldiers as they get up, the grinding of metal in their armor, the cold sound of holding their weapons, the sound of their swords unsheathed when they try their swords......
Then came the shouts of the soldiers from their tents to the west.
As soon as Aoeda was awakened, he heard a shouting voice, and then heard the sound of soldiers running to assemble somewhere.
Perhaps infected by the pre-war tension in the camp, she felt something indescribable.
She immediately thought, and she didn't know if Lu Shikang would also get up and follow the troops? Will His Royal Highness the Crown Prince go to the battlefield to watch the battle this time?
After all, she is very closed about this.
She wondered if he would be in danger if he went.
Thinking of this, she got up, didn't light candles, and walked to Lu Shikang's tent.
When I walked to his tent, I saw that it was quiet, and I couldn't see him in bed in the darkness, so I decided to find a flint and light a candle first.
In the past, flint was often placed on the edge of the tent, next to Lu Shikang's box. So she straightened her hands and groped her way inside.
Unexpectedly, after only a few steps of fumbling around, his hands touched a person.
She was startled and asked, "Who are you?" ”
Could it be that someone was standing in Lu Shikang's tent?
I heard Lu Shikang's voice say, "Shouldn't I ask why Dr. Kong came to my tent at this moment?" ”
He was awakened by the sound of soldiers running out of their tents. He also just learned that today was the day of the Great War.
He decided to go to His Royal Highness the Prince's tent and ask if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would go to the battlefield in person.
If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince went down, he was determined to follow.
Since he would have left the tent soon, he didn't bother to light a candle.
He just didn't expect that as soon as he got up from the bed, a figure got into his tent, and after walking a few steps, he put his hand on his chest.
When Qingzhi heard Lu Shikang's voice, a trace of embarrassment flashed in his heart, and he replied, "I am here because ...... I just heard a noise outside and went out and came back to the wrong tent. ”
As she spoke, she withdrew her hand from his chest.
"Dr. Kong, your tent is on the other side." He said in a deep voice.
"I know!" As she spoke, she turned and walked towards the curtain of his tent.
She heard his footsteps behind her and followed.
When she lifted the curtain and came out, he also lifted the curtain and walked out.
She was a little surprised, thinking that he was going to go with the troops, so she stood still and watched his back go away in the night.
When she returned to her tent, she couldn't sleep again.
There was silence in the surrounding tents, and the sound was in the distance, and she heard it from Xiyingmen.
Soon after, in the already empty camp, there was the sound of another man's footsteps, which stopped at the tent on her side, and then she heard the curtain of her tent being lifted.
Then a figure flashed in.
She sat up abruptly and asked, "Who?" ”
"Ben Gongzi just wants to tell you the result you want." It was Lu Shikang's voice.
"I ...... What results do I want? ”
"This time, Ben Gongzi will not go with the troops. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will not go, because there is no suspense in today's battle, and there is no need for him to be present at the scene to boost morale, just wait for news here. Do you have any other questions? ”
The word "other" in his mouth is somewhat intriguing.
"I ...... When did you have this kind of doubt? ”
"Without any other doubts, Ben Gongzi left." He didn't answer her, but just left her tent with a few words.
After he left, she thought to herself that she had not hidden from him, and that he had guessed the reason for appearing in his tent.
But also, if you say that you really went to the wrong tent, you won't believe it. After all, the direction of the curtain opening is different.
So how can he deceive someone as smart as him?
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After the soldiers were assembled, the champion general Qin Shi began to lead the troops to the bank of the Ji River.
When they arrived at the bank of the Indhu River, some heavy soldiers had already set up their boats in the woods five hundred meters near the riverbank, and waited for the soldiers to come, so that they could carry the boats to the river bank together.
When the soldiers arrived, they lifted a boat for every ten men and headed for the riverbank.
When they reached the riverbank, the soldiers threw the boats one by one into the near shore of the river and began to board them.
When Zhou Jing sent people to guard the patrol cavalry on the bank of the river, when they saw that the black pressure people suddenly came to the bank of the river and began to get on the boat, they knew that it was Prince Xiao's troops who began to attack, and hurriedly rushed to the camp to report.
When the patrol cavalry came to the camp, he hurriedly blew his horn, and then shouted: "Everyone is getting up, Prince Xiao's troops are coming!" Right now, they're on a boat on the banks of the Ind's River! I'm afraid I'll be here right away! Everyone got up quickly and fought! ”
Zhou Jing was woken up by the soldiers outside her camp, and after the soldiers entered, they hurriedly said: "Your Royal Highness, the big thing is not good, just now the patrol cavalry said that Prince Xiao's troops have reached the bank of the Fu River!" ”
Zhou Jing was a little panicked when she heard this.
Originally, she had been thinking about it for half the night last night, and planned to retreat early this morning away from the vicinity of Prince Xiao's camp.
The reason why she didn't consider Zheng Hangsu's second method, which was to retreat to an easy-to-defend and hard-to-attack place, was because she felt that maybe as long as the soldiers began to be strictly quarantined, not too many people would get sick anymore.
At that time, there were only 7,000 sick people in the army.
The number of sick people was only 7,000, and the quarantine had already begun, so she thought that the number would reach tens of thousands at most.
She didn't expect that in just two or three days, more than half of the people in the army were now sick.
The number of patients had grown so rapidly in a way she never expected.
So in the middle of the night last night, she decided to retire first and let the soldiers recuperate.
Unexpectedly, before the time came, Prince Xiao's troops had already begun to attack.
She was still a step too late to evacuate.
There was no time for her to regret it at the moment, and she said to the soldier: "You go and inform everyone, let them get up and assemble at the training ground!" ”
When the soldier had gone, she got up in a hurry, began to put on her armor, took her sword from the bedside, and went out of the tent.
Outside the tent, she saw that the camp was in disarray, and every soldier looked like a headless fly.
She knew that what was needed most at the moment was to reassure the soldiers, which was why she had all the soldiers gathered on the training ground.
After all the soldiers had gathered on the training ground, she knew that Prince Xiao's troops were probably coming soon, and she didn't have any more time to appease them, so she could only pacify them briefly.
She said in a high-pitched voice: "Don't panic, everyone! Although many of our soldiers are sick, more than 40,000 people are healthy! It's not impossible to win more with less!
You must know that we are a border guard who has won every battle! They are paper tigers without any combat experience! If we mess with ourselves now, we will definitely lose this time!
But if we lift our spirits and work hard, we still have a chance to win! I'll say one last thing, if we find out that the signs are wrong! If you can't beat it, run away! ”
As soon as she said this, the soldiers who were already nervous suddenly plucked up their courage, and they said in unison: "Your Royal Highness the county lord rest assured! We will fight hard! ”