At night, the lights on the tower of Yongcheng City were bright, Cai Qianqing, who was standing downstairs in the city, calmly looked at the soldiers patrolling above the city wall, and waited for the soldiers to walk by and stayed on the bonfire, and then turned to the left side to look at the torches hanging on the other side.

"There are campfires every thirty steps." Qiu Gubo on the side pointed to the top and explained, "There must be torches within ten steps, take whatever you want." ”

After Qiu Gubo finished speaking, Cai Qianqing said coldly: "From tonight onwards, no more bonfires are allowed, one fire lamp is erected every ten steps, five unlit torches are stacked every five steps, soldiers are not allowed to carry any open flames on patrol, except inside the city tower, soldiers on patrol outside are not allowed to speak." ”

Qiu Gubo was very surprised, and just wanted to say something, Cai Qianqing continued: "The guards of the four gates of Yongcheng City change shifts with the guards in the city every nine hours, and the guards on the four gates of the city are divided into three groups, one group of patrols, one group of guards stationed in situ, and the remaining group rests, rotating every hour, do you understand?" ”

Qiu Gubo looked at Cai Qianqing with a puzzled expression.

"It seems that I don't understand, I'll explain it in detail, you pay attention." Cai Qianqing glanced at Qiu Gubo, and said, "Every three hours, let the patrol replace the guard, let the original guard go back to the city tower to rest, and then let the patrol that rested before, is it clear enough?" ”

Qiu Gubo immediately nodded: "I understand the shift matter, but I don't understand why you don't let the torch be lit?" Can you see clearly without lighting a torch? ”

Cai Qianqing didn't pay attention to Qiu Gubo, but just turned around and ordered the other soldiers around: "Put out all the lights around, and then order the city tower to turn off the fire and keep quiet." ”

Soon, the surroundings and the city tower became pitch black, and at this time, Cai Qianqing said: "Qiu Zhutan, you look up at the city tower now, can you see clearly?" ”

Qiu Gubo looked up and found that he could clearly see the soldiers on the castle tower, even if someone raised his finger above now, he could count how many were erected.

Cai Qianqing said again: "I worked hard to go to the city tower. ”

Qiu Gubo glanced at Cai Qianqing, didn't say anything, climbed up in one breath, stood at the place where the arrow was stomped, and said down: "I came up, and then what?" ”

Cai Qianqing asked loudly below: "May I ask Qiu Zhutan, what do you see now?" ”

Qiu Gubo shook his head: "It's pitch black, there is no light, of course I ......"

Before he finished speaking, Qiu Gubo suddenly realized what Cai Qianqing was referring to, nodded to himself, and ran down the city tower again, returning to Cai Qianqing.

Cai Qianqing asked calmly: "Now, do you understand?" ”

Qiu Gubo nodded: "Understood." ”

"Light the lamp." Cai Qianqing gave an order to the surrounding soldiers, and then said word by word, "There are five keys to night fighting, first, bright and low, it is not easy to find it when you look from high to low at night, and it is clear to see high places from low places; Second, small but unclear objects are easy to misjudge the distance, while large, bright objects are easy to misjudge the distance; 3. Look at the light from the dark place, see far away, and see close on the contrary; Fourth, you can see close to the place where you face the light, and you can see far away with your back to the light; 5. High-speed people or objects are easy to find, and stationary or low-speed people or objects are extremely difficult to find. ”

Qiu Gubo listened and repeated in a low voice, and then said, "I understand, is there anything else?" ”

Cai Qianqing looked around: "There are many more, I can't finish it at once, and then in the process of inspection, I will tell you if I find a problem." By the way, gather veterans with experience in the army to be trained, and then send them to various squads and platoons, and grant military positions, those who can be squad leaders will be squad leaders, and those who have the ability to be platoon commanders will be platoon commanders. ”

Qiu Gubo asked again: "Sir, as for the training, did you teach it yourself?" ”

"No, most of them have to be experienced in combat." Cai Qianqing looked at Qiu Gu Bodao and said, "Let the people of the trench train them, don't forget, the commando team under Sun San is from the hand of the trench, but before that, I have to talk to them first." ”

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In a residential house in Nancheng, Zhang Dingfeng, who was in a room on the second floor, walked to the window, took out a pistol, checked it, put it aside, carefully pushed open the window, and looked at the soldiers patrolling the street below through the gap.

Zhang Dingfeng watched the soldiers go away, and was about to push open the window to look a little farther away, when he heard the sound of the door being opened.

Zhang Dingfeng looked sideways, and at the same time picked up the pistol next to him, but heard the man who came into the house say in a deep voice: "It's too late to get the gun now, I want to kill you, I don't need to come in at all." ”

Zhang Dingfeng put down his pistol and smiled at the man standing at the door, with his hands behind his back, wearing a Mao suit and a face mask on his face.

"Under Zhang Dingfeng, I have long admired the name of the night owl in the trench." Zhang Dingfeng clasped his fists and saluted, "I don't know which one of the night owls Your Excellency is?" ”

Zhang Dingfeng saw clearly when he spoke, the man's mask was painted with Zhang Fei's face in Peking Opera, and in the faint light, the originally terrifying mask looked even more terrifying.

"Cang'er." The man replied coldly, "Mr. Zhang, we have arranged it according to your plan, and we can start at any time." But I have to say that tonight's action, we will accept it when we see it, and the relationship between us night owls and you is cooperation, not an alliance, let alone a hire, but you still have to give what you should give, one less, kill your whole family, and dig your ancestral grave! ”

Zhang Dingfeng said with a smile: "Brother Cang'er, just rest assured, the remuneration is only a lot more, but tonight's action, there must be no mistakes, you must do it in four places at the same time, do you have enough manpower?" Not enough, I can send someone to help, rest assured, this is not an excuse to reduce the pay. ”

Cang'er snorted coldly: "Trench work, never rely on external forces, our night owl is even more alone, before the third watch, it must be over, you prepare things!" ”

After Cang'er finished speaking, Zhang Dingfeng caught up and asked, "Dare to ask, what is the purpose of the night owl coming to Yongcheng?" It stands to reason that Zhang Dashuai, who you worked for for him, is now an ally with Commander-in-Chief Sun, and Fu Guodong is under Commander-in-Chief Sun, so he should not be an enemy of him. ”

Cang Er stood in place, did not turn around, and his voice was cold and murderous: "What do you have to do with it?" Listen clearly, our cooperation is once on it, as for whether there is a next time, it depends on the mood of our boss, you ask so much, do you want to live? ”

Zhang Dingfeng endured it and suppressed the fire, he knew that he was not Cang'er's opponent: "I'm sorry, it's me who is too talkative, I wish you all a smooth night." ”

"No need to wish." Cang Er opened the door and left, throwing a sentence in the corridor, "It must be smooth!" ”

Zhang Dingfeng, who was standing in the empty room, frowned.

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On the way back to the Governor's Mansion on horseback, Cai Qianqing explained to Qiu Gubo in detail the precautions for night battles, but Qiu Gubo was a little absent-minded.

"If the enemy adopts the tactics of harassing the enemy, sends a squad to take turns to sneak attack every night, and shoots the guards under the city, no one will dare to go up to the city tower within ten days. Even if the enemy comes to disturb us, we will send cavalry to chase after us, not to mention that we will not be able to take advantage of it, but on the contrary, we will be ambushed. Cai Qianqing pulled the reins and looked ahead, "The most important thing is that it has a great impact on morale, orderly defense, rest and training will greatly improve the soldiers' confidence in themselves and the army, on the contrary, blindly indulgent and casual, the soldiers will also get by, gradually relax their vigilance, and eventually become bandits...... ruffians"

When Cai Qianqing said this, he suddenly changed his words and asked, "Qiu Yutan, are you thinking, why do I want to talk to the people in the trenches?" ”

Qiu Gubo was stunned for a moment, he was really thinking about this, so he asked, "What does Mr. want to talk to them about?" ”

"Remuneration." Cai Qianqing said two words, and looked forward again, "I have to know what they want, even if this group of Yaksha works hard for Sun San, and Sun San asks them to help Fu Guodong because of the overall situation, but just like this, it is not enough for them to be so desperate, so I have to talk to them in detail, after all, in the face of life and death, there are reservations between alliances, that is, to harm others and themselves." ”

Qiu Gubo was about to say something, when a fast horse galloped from the front, and immediately the soldier was wounded, and shouted as he ran: "Adjutant Qiu! Adjutant Qiu! ”

Qiu Gubo immediately rode his horse to meet him, and the soldier came to the front and back, did not dismount or salute, and hurriedly said: "Adjutant Qiu, the Governor's Mansion has been attacked!" ”

Qiu Gubo was shocked and asked, "Is the handsome okay?" Who did it? ”

"According to your instructions before, the marshal has been withdrawn to the back hall tunnel." The soldier gasped and swallowed, "I don't know how many people have been stabbed, I always come out of nowhere, and I killed many of our brothers, but they only killed people, and they didn't attack, for some reason." ”

Qiu Gubo clenched the reins: "Go!" ”

Cai Qianqing raised his hand to stop him at this time and asked the soldier: "In addition to the Governor's Mansion, are there any other places in the city that have been attacked?" ”

At the moment when the soldier shook his head, an explosion was heard in the distance, and the skyrocketing flames rose into the air, illuminating the top of Yongcheng.

"What's that?" Cai Qianqing asked.

Qiu Gubo gritted his teeth and said, "Yongcheng Police Station." ”

After saying that, Qiu Gubo looked at the soldier from the Governor's Mansion: "You hurry back, you must be strictly guarded tonight, and don't take half a step out of the Governor's Mansion." ”

"Yes!" The soldier answered, turned his horse's head and slapped his horse away.

Qiu Gubo worried: "I'm afraid that this is a sound attack, in case Chen Bozhong leads people and soldiers to the city......"

"Impossible." Cai Qianqing shook his head, "There are eyeliners all over the city, and I have arranged people on the land and waterways outside Fenghua City, if Chen Bozhong transfers troops, we will receive the news early in the morning." ”

At this moment, there were bursts of gunfire from the other side, looking in that direction, looking at the red ballistic trajectory that crossed the air, shaking his head and saying, "Something happened to my family too!" Keep up with me, sir, I need to go home! ”

"We can't go." Cai Qianqing looked ahead, "Someone won't let us go." ”

Qiu Gubo looked forward, only to find that there seemed to be a person standing a hundred meters ahead, because he couldn't see clearly because of the darkness.

And the one who was 100 meters away was none other than Cang'er of the Night Stalker team.

Wearing Zhang Fei's face mask and wearing a Zhongshan suit, Cang'er raised his hand high.

With this action, he immediately asked the soldiers around Qiu Gubo to surround Qiu Gubo and Cai Qianqing - in order to protect Cai Qianqing's safety, Qiu Gubo would definitely bring a guard platoon of soldiers to follow whenever he went out.