After listening to Geng Wu's words, Bai Zhong walked to the gate and looked out, and sure enough, he could see dozens of torches, swaying and swaying in the distance.

He narrowed his gaze and saw dozens of Yue soldiers, standing under torches.

There is no one else but that.

"Come and have five hundred sharps out and have a look."

Bai Zhong said.

Geng Wu quickly selected five hundred people to come out, personally led the team out of the gate, and walked in the direction of the torches.

However, the vigilance of the enemy was very high, and as soon as Geng Wu and the others approached, they shouted twice in an unintelligible word, turned around and fled.

Geng Wu still wanted to capture one or two people alive and go back, so he picked up his knife and strode after him.

But the enemy was a local, who knew everything about it, and before he could get closer, he disappeared without a shadow, and the torches were extinguished by them as he went.

Outside the barracks, silence quickly returned.

"Spread out and look for it."

Geng Wu did not return to the camp immediately.

Five hundred sharps, divided into five queues, went deep into the nearby mountains and forests.

After looking for a while, the five queues came back one after another, and they all said that they couldn't find anything, and those enemies should all have run away, or hidden, they are not familiar with the environment, and it is difficult to find.

Geng Wu didn't dare to go deeper considering that he was not familiar with the place, so he hesitated for a while and ordered all of them to go back and report the situation to Bai Zhong just now.

But as soon as his report was over, enemy torches appeared outside the barracks.

There were more enemies this time than just now, and there were more than a hundred torches.

"Here we go again!"

Wang Li was unhappy and said: "Please Wu Anjun order, I will lead the army to battle and kill them all!" ”

This is a provocation by the enemy, and they can't help but want to go to war.

Now that the night is big and it is fighting in the enemy's territory again, Bai Zhong will not let them take risks, and said in a loud voice: "Just pay attention to the vigilance, everyone else will go back to rest, if the enemy approaches within one hundred and fifty steps of the camp, shoot crossbows, and sound the drums within a hundred steps." ”

"Yui!"

They answered.

The soldiers in charge of the night watch, staring at the outside, with the crossbow in their hands, were ready for battle.

"Love, will it be too close to beat the drum within a hundred steps?"

Yingshu was a little worried.

Bai Zhong explained: "It won't be too close, I bet that the enemy won't dare to walk into the range of a hundred steps, they are probably here to test, it should be fine tonight, you go back to rest first, I will continue to patrol for a while, as the coach can't be lazy." ”

Ying Shu did not rest, accompanied Bai Zhong, and inspected the barracks, and the time entered the second half of the night.

They were about to go back to their tent when they suddenly heard the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air in the direction of the gate.

"One hundred and fifty steps closer?"

Bai Zhong walked over and asked.

More than a dozen soldiers armed with strong crossbows looked out vigilantly, and one of them said: "Closer, we shot two people, and the other enemies all retreated, and soon disappeared into the night." ”

"Keep on the defensive!"

Bai Zhong was not much surprised by this.

Since the enemy came to probe it, he would try to get close to the camp, and within a hundred and fifty paces, he could be accurately killed by a strong crossbow, and the enemy was afraid to go any closer to this range.

After briefly looking at the situation for a while, Bai Zhong continued to go back to rest, unaffected by this incident.

As he guessed, two enemies were shot, and there was silence outside the barracks, and no more torches appeared.

It's dawn.

When the king left them, he saw only two pools of blood on the ground.

"There was a fight last night?"

Zhao Tuo asked in surprise, he didn't have a vigil last night, and there was not much movement, so he didn't alarm him.

Bai Zhong said: "I almost fought, but it doesn't get in the way, Gengwu, you select two thousand people, and they will leave the barracks with me, and the others will continue to be on guard in the camp." ”

Zhao Tuo asked puzzledly: "The enemy has come to provoke, why can't we fight back?" ”

"Now is not the time, the enemy's provocation is only a provocation, and he does not dare to attack on a large scale."

Bai Zhong is not impulsive, he is not Tu Sui, and he will not jump into the enemy's trap.

After the two thousand people were elected, Bai Zhong called Shi Lu and other people from the Shaofu and walked out of the barracks together.

Bai Zhong didn't remember much about the direction of the Ling Canal in later generations, but the Ling Canal to be excavated must be excavated from a flat place, and the specific direction and route of the Ling Canal must be determined from the flat ground.

Shi Lu is not a water conservancy expert like Zheng Guo, but he has served as a Shaofu for so long, so he is no stranger to these.

Out of the camp, they headed southwest.

Along the way, Shi Lu took a map and recorded and marked various locations.

When he encountered a suitable place, he felt that it could become a river channel of the Ling Canal, and he also asked people to insert a wooden pole on it as a simple positioning, but most of the landforms here are karst, and sometimes it is not easy to find.

In addition, there are some nearby small rivers and rivers, as long as they are dredged, they can be used, and it is also convenient for digging spiritual canals.

"Wu Anjun, can you go to the mountain peak in front of you and have a look?"

Shi Lu raised his head as he spoke, looking towards the peak of a mountain range.

In the flat ground to study the specific location, it is not convenient to stand on a high place to watch, and you can easily see the whole picture.

It was already afternoon.

They left the barracks, some distance.

There was no enemy nearby, and there were two thousand soldiers around him to protect him, Bai Zhong was not worried at all, and nodded: "Go to the mountain and have a look." ”

Half an hour later, they came to a mountain peak.

Shi Lu looked from top to bottom, took out a map, and kept recording, it was not easy to design the specific location of a canal.

Bai Zhong didn't bother, and stood quietly watching from the sidelines.

I don't know how long it has been, Shi Lu put away the map and said with a smile: "Wu Anjun, I'm almost done, whether to go back to the camp or continue to go south." ”

"Continue to the south, the northern section of the canal, Shaofu has been determined?"

Bai Zhong said and asked.

Shi Lu nodded slightly: "Now it's a matter of the specific location of the southern section, since Wu Anjun has decided to go to the south, then we will determine the southern section tomorrow, and we can start digging in two days." ”

"Trouble Shaofu!"

Bai Zhong said.

So they went down the mountain.

Two thousand soldiers brought enough food and tents.

They chose a flat place, dug a trench for soil, and cut down trees to make horses, and spent half an hour making a simple camp as a place to rest for a while.

When everything was done, it was dark and it was evening.

When they went out to investigate, all they could eat was dry food, and they could cope with a casual meal, and it was nightfall.

"Two or five hundred lords arrange for people to keep vigil, pay attention to the enemy's movements, and rest the rest."

Bai Zhong said again.

However, around the third watch, there was movement outside the camp, and the warriors immediately woke Bai Zhong up.