Chapter Seventy-Three: A Long Night
The smoke was so thick that Gou Chun covered his mouth and nose with wet wipes in the camp halfway up the mountain, squinting his eyes and looking down at the bottom of the mountain.
Seeing that Liu Tai was not ready to attack until dark, he just smoked himself and the others with smoke.
Although his eyes were quite uncomfortable, as the sky darkened a little bit, Gou Chun couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Because Gou Chun knows that it becomes more difficult to attack the mountain in the dark, and if the black light is blind, the opponent's strength advantage is even more difficult to expand in the mountains, even if he wants to raid, it will be a big trouble for the follow-up troops to just keep up.
Therefore, as long as it is a normal general, he will not come to attack the army halfway up the mountain in the dark night, it is really not the right time and place.
Sure enough, as the sky darkened a little bit, the smoke below became more and more sparse.
As the evening breeze became stronger at night, it blew for a while, and the smoke and fire immediately dissipated.
Even so, Gou Chun was not careless, he still arranged the sentry, and then prepared to let the soldiers have a good rest.
During this period, a general under his command came over and proposed to Gou Chun, "It's better for me to rush down the mountain to kill a wave and frustrate Liu Tai's spirit!" ”
After Gou Chun heard this, his heart was quite moved, but in the end he restrained his impulse and said seriously:
"Brother will be here for as little as three days, and as many as five days, we will go down to attack Liu Tai now, if we don't win, it will further weaken our morale, and when Liu Tai attacks, it will not be easy for us to resist.
Even if the victory is only a small victory, Liu Tai will still rely on Laiwu to resist us, but it will take three days, and when he wants to retreat, we can also chase and delay all the way. At that time, create conditions for my brother to defeat Liu Tai in one go, and be a big general with a small fight! ”
"Teachable!" When the soldiers under his command heard Gou Chun's words, they also nodded in a sudden understanding.
Gou Chun's eyes looked at the swarthy mountain, where he couldn't see anything clearly, and couldn't help but think about what kind of means Liu Tai would use next after the smoke couldn't have the effect it should have.
After all, he was waiting for Gou Xi to bring the main force to gather with him, but what was Liu Tai waiting for, could he not wait for death? !
Liu Tai, who was at the bottom of the mountain at this moment, watched the sky completely darken, and also asked the soldiers to stop the burning smoke and retreat to the barracks in an orderly manner to rest.
At the same time, he ordered his own guards to keep vigil today, and the other troops must recharge their strength today and make final preparations for tomorrow's decisive battle.
"Liu Ming, I'll leave it to you in the first half of the night, and I'll come in person in the second half of the night!" Liu Tai said to Liu Ming.
"Shaojun, you have a good rest, leave it all to me!" Liu Ming couldn't help but speak when he heard Liu Tai's words.
When Liu Tai heard this, he shook his head at Liu Ming and said, "I am full of energy, so I can rest for two or three hours."
And we can at least sleep down here, but Ge Xin still has to survive this long night with his soldiers! ”
"No!" When Liu Ming heard Liu Tai's words, he was silent for a moment, and then nodded.
Liu Tai didn't make too many arrangements, but let the soldiers rest in their usual state, of course, the time to rest was about an hour earlier than before.
After all, Liu Tai knew very well that the key to the victory or defeat of this war was not himself, not even the soldiers under the mountain, but Ge Xin, who hid in the mountains and forests with the help of fireworks, and then climbed towards Gou Chun's camp under the cover of night.
How far they can go will determine the outcome of this war.
So Liu Tai slept very peacefully, almost when it was time, Liu Tai woke up, and after a little freshening, he went to change shifts with Liu Ming, Liu Ming looked at Liu Tai's arrival, and said, "Shaojun, there is no movement this night!" ”
"No movement is the best movement, take a good rest, the fifth watch is dawn, and the attack will be launched!" Liu Taidao.
"No!" Liu Ming nodded, didn't say much, but took the soldiers back to his camp and began to rest.
Liu Tai's eyes were on the mountains, and Liu Tai knew that for Ge Xin and them on the mountain, this night would be extraordinarily long.
Ge Xin raised his head and looked at the sky, the sparse shrubs covered the traces of himself and others, but they couldn't hide the bright moon in the sky.
The most useful props I brought this time were neither the blankets that were disguised on my body, nor the naan cakes hidden in my chest, but the empty gourd that Liu Tai forced everyone to carry.
I have to say that General Liu was really prescient, it was not difficult to climb in with the help of smoke, and it was not difficult to touch the Gou Chun military camp not far from the camp step by step, and it was not difficult under the blessing of the night.
But then the real difficulty is to lurk and wait until tomorrow morning to attack.
In this process, the soldiers must remain prostrate, although the body needs to squirm slightly in order to avoid paralysis, but there must not be any movement that arouses the vigilance of the Gou Chun military camp.
At this time, Liu Tai insisted that the empty gourd brought by everyone came in handy.
Because without this little gourd, the soldiers are afraid that they will lie in their own yellow pools, and this smell of urine will definitely arouse the vigilance of the enemy.
The distance between the current people and Gou Xi's military camp is not far, as Liu Tai said, about a hundred meters away.
It didn't take even a dozen breaths for everyone to get up and sprint over, and at this moment there were still guards in the barracks standing on the sentry posts, looking vigilantly towards the foot of the mountain, if there was any change in our army at the foot of the mountain, they would know.
It's just that these people who stood on a high sentry and looked down at the foot of the mountain did not realize that Ge Xin had led people to lurk at their feet, and then waited patiently for the dawn to come, waiting for the smoke to ignite!
Time passed little by little, but the originally dim sky was also a little brighter, and no one dared to sleep among the soldiers lurking on the mountain.
Because no one can guarantee whether they will snore after falling asleep, and as long as they snore, all the warriors will die.
It's just that none of the fighters are silent at the moment, and the silence here seems to be just a large normal lawn.
But Ge Xin understood that the soldiers did not necessarily have the same respect for the Han family as Liu Tai and wanted to revive the Han family.
After all, the Han family is too far away for these warriors, and the story on the "Book of Han" is too long.
But all the fighters are willing to continue to be tenacious here for Liu Tai's sake and create opportunities for tomorrow's attack.
Although Liu Tai is a little unusual, everyone is willing to believe Liu Tai.
Because all the soldiers can really feel that Liu Tai treats them as people and respects them as people.
In the barracks, Liu Tai encouraged the soldiers to read the Book of Han so that they could understand that they once belonged to such a glorious country.
This is very important, because without your own history book, there is no glory of your own.
When they realize the greatness of the Great Han, they can give justice to what they have done in the name of the Great Han.
For anyone to do anything bad, they need to dress up what they have done in the guise of fame.
There may be one or two people who are purely evil, but for the vast majority of people, there is no reason to convince themselves of their hearts, and very few people will do bad things without psychological burden.
After all, even if Eagle Sauce is rampant, when bullying people, he has to take out laundry detergent to protect his face, which is the famous teacher.
And Liu Tai used military history to constantly imperceptibly cultivate the soldiers' sense of honor for the Han Dynasty and their collective sense of honor.
This sense of honor will make them more will-bless than other armies in the face of hardships and obstacles.
This kind of will blessing is naturally not as brilliant as the army on Shangganling, but in this feudal era, it is still a dimensionality reduction strike-like existence.
Therefore, this mission is also the acceptance of the results of Liu Tai's will training for the elite of his army!
"Have the soldiers under his command really established their own ideological armament?" Liu Tai was apprehensive but silent.
There are no superpowers in this world, and I can't see the will of the soldiers manifest.
But how to see where the willpower of the soldiers has reached is that these soldiers need to use their willpower to survive a night and go to war after dawn tomorrow to test the willpower of their troops.
Therefore, Ge Xin is boiling on the mountain, and Liu Tai is staying at the bottom of the mountain, but Ge Xin's goal is Gou Chun's camp, and Liu Tai's goal is to verify that the method he has been cultivating and training soldiers is not wrong.
Liu Tai took a deep breath, and there was a bit of hope in his eyes.
Because Liu Tai knows that he is fighting with the Sima clan now, but when he crosses south and the reform of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom fails, he is afraid that he will fight with the Xiongnu Han State.
But in the final analysis, I need to fight with the glorious family of this era, so I need a force that is completely my own.
Cold? The poor family is the family, but it is just a group of down-and-out families.
You can rely on them, but if you take them as the basic plate, then there will be a time when you will be abandoned by the cold.
Shu landlords? Well, I'm afraid that this will have to wait until the imperial examination system is taken out in the future, so that it can slowly enter the political arena.
So there are really not many choices that you can make, or that you can make.
The military is the place where we can train the corresponding talents the fastest, but we must let them build up the correct thinking.
At least in the future, when you govern the grassroots level, don't be corrupted and assimilated by the family on a large scale, and then turn around and be a dog for the family!
Therefore, Liu Tai asked the soldiers to read history, let them read and write, and hoped that they could grow up and become his helpers.
After all, you can't kill the family alone, you need a political force that can compete with the family.
"Ge Xin, come on!" Liu Tai took a deep breath and continued to pray to Ge Xin.
Finally, on the fourth watch, Liu Tai's corporal began to get up, but in order to avoid the smoke from arousing the vigilance of Gou Chun and others on the mountain, everyone also nibbled on the naan cake that was prepared yesterday, although the hard ones were really not very good to eat.
As the day dawned, Ge Xin narrowed his eyes, because the protective color brought to him by nature faded little by little.
The more you get to this point, the more dangerous it is for yourself and others.
Because of the loss of the cover of the night, even if he and the others have done their best to the best in terms of the place they have chosen, or the blankets covered by grass and trees, no one dares to guarantee that the sentry posts of Gou Chun will not see themselves and the others.
After all, in the final analysis, the more you are exposed to danger in the daytime, the greater the room for exposing yourself!
So the next wait is the most unbearable for Ge Xin, even after a night of exhaustion, it is still dangerous at the moment.
"Captain Ge!" A tun chief beside him suddenly lowered his voice and said, "You, look behind you!" ”
At this moment, Ge Xin turned his head and looked behind him, only to see billowing smoke spreading towards the mountain!
Seeing this smoke, Ge Datou's eyes couldn't help but glare angrily, and he lowered his voice and said,
"When the smoke rolls up, let the military history blow the suona, and I will seize the gate of Gou Xi's army as soon as possible!"
As everyone's order was given, the soldiers nodded silently and did not respond.
But the military historians have already received their own orders, and they are holding the suona in their hands one by one, and they are ready!
At this time, the sentries of Gou Chun's army did not expect that Liu Tai's army had taken advantage of last night to climb step by step to an ambush less than 100 meters away from the camp, so they were ambushed all night.
At this moment, they saw the billowing smoke spreading from up and down to the mountain again, and reported to Gou Chun as soon as possible!
"What Liu Tai came to this hand early in the morning!" Gou Chun's face remained unchanged when he heard this, and he said calmly,
"Arrange for the soldiers to get wet wipes, don't inhale fire poison, Liu Tai has no plan and only this hand left.
When we survive these few days, it will not be him who fights around us, but we chase him and fight! ”
The soldiers who came to report heard Gou Chun's order so calmly, and naturally carried it out very quickly.
Compared with the chaos of Gou Xi's army yesterday evening, Gou Xi's army was much more orderly at this time.
The living water had been beaten last night, and it had been placed here early to prepare for the soldiers to soak their own cloth.
And compared to yesterday, I don't know what happened, and the Gou Chun soldiers, who have already experienced it once, have adapted to it.
As long as it is a normal army, it is basically able to use local materials to constantly overcome battlefield problems.
This is often the same trick against veterans, I dare not say that it is completely useless, but at least it can be effectively controlled.
At this moment, Gou Chun, who was controlling the hazards of smoke to a certain extent, couldn't help but squint his eyes.
He looked at the breakfast delivered to him, and with his experience of being born and dying with Gou Xi, he vaguely felt that something was wrong.
Because it was normal meal time at this time, but Liu Tai's army attacked at this time, indicating that Liu Tai's army got up early and had breakfast in advance......
"But why is that?" Gou Chun could guess that something was wrong, but he couldn't guess Liu Tai's purpose.
At this moment, Gou Chun suddenly heard that not far from his camp, there were suddenly several bursts of extremely rapid but passionate vocal music, which gathered together, as if waves were beating towards him!
"Kill!" At this moment, Ge Xin shouted loudly to his soldiers.
(End of chapter)