Chapter 3 Southern Expedition Sun En 3

This Sima is a veteran who has experienced the battlefield. Although he is Xie Yan's deputy general, his military rank is higher than Liu Laozhi. It can be seen that Xie Yan's army is full of talents.

While leading me around the barracks, Sima explained to me the placement of ordnance, grain and grass, horses, stoves and ladens. At the same time, he also explained to me in detail how to advance, retreat and defend in spare time and wartime.

Although the deployment is quite comprehensive, in my opinion, Xie Yan's army is far from as meticulous as Liu prison, and even has the suspicion of hasty response in some places. In front of this Sima, I can't say anything. I just implicitly talked about my views in an exploratory tone about several important matters. I don't know if he can understand my intentions.

However, Xie Yan's management of the army may not pay attention to Sun En's group of thieves at all.

After looking around the front and back of my camp, I returned to the Chinese army tent to say goodbye to Xie Yan and others. Xie Yan repeatedly told me to send a letter in time to inform me of the timing of the attack after the successful grain robbery. I repeatedly stressed that three red flags would be erected at the main gate of the tower as a signal. Everything was settled before he left the camp and returned to the city.

Early the next morning, the detective sent by Liu Laozhi came back to report that there were two food lanes for the thief army, one was the road between Ludu and Wu County; the other was the waterway between Wu Xing and Wu County through Taihu Lake.

"There is only one way to desecrate officials, which is easy to say. But the waterway is too wide, so I don't know how to sail? Liu prison asked.

The spy said, "The most convenient waterway taken by the thief. It's the mouth between Dongshan Mountain and Xishan Mountain.

"Oh." I smiled at Liu Laozhi.

The mouth between Dongshan and Xishan of Taihu Lake is indeed the closest waterway between Wuxing and Wu County, and it is also the most convenient way to transport grain and fodder by this route. However, because of the confrontation between the two mountains, the waterway is like a canyon, and more than half of the waterway in the canyon is surrounded by reeds. This is an excellent terrain for ambush. Once you are ambushed, it is not easy to escape from the mouth full of reeds. With the largest Taihu Lake, the thief soldiers actually chose the most dangerous food lane. It's really unexpected.

The detective also told us that there is no fixed date for the thief to transport grain, and the amount of transportation is irregular. Sometimes a large fleet of grain boats come one day, and sometimes it's just a few scattered.

This matter should not be too late. Liulaozhi immediately ordered the navy to take a boat to set up in the reeds of Dongshan and Xishan, while the other navy guarded in the water bay near Wujuncheng. The first-class thief's grain ship drove through the mouth, and the east and west mountains raised flags and gongs at the same time, driving the grain ships into the encirclement in the bay.

The official road of Shanghai is not only the grain road for thief soldiers, but also the way for thief soldiers to transfer soldiers. It is very difficult to seize grain and grass, and it can only be destroyed. Liu Laozhi gave this task to He Wuji and asked him to prepare more flint, fire arrows and flammable materials to act according to the opportunity.

Liu Laozhi personally selected 500 dead men and formed a death squad to prepare to attack the granary of the thief soldiers at night. He ignored me and several generals' self-recommendation and insisted on going in person. Liu prison asked me to defend the city for him, and he rested in the house and waited for dark.

These days, the thief soldiers still attack once sooner or later according to the usual practice these days. The guards in the city have also formed a habit and are busy for a while sooner or later. Such a regular battle made the soldiers follow the step as if they were sitting in the government.

The thieves attacked the city for a long time and gradually became tired, not as energetic as the original days. Although the soldiers were damaged, the morale of the thief soldiers was very high because of the increasing number of soldiers and always suppressed the two Jin armies inside and outside the city. The thief camp is full of gongs and drums every day.

It's dark early. Just after dinner, Liu Laozhi took 500 dead men out of the city.

As an example, after patrolling the city at night, the matter of guarding the city is handed over to the generals on duty, and Sima and several of us can go back to rest. Because tonight is not a small thing, I have to be more careful, so I stayed in the city with the soldiers just in case.

At midnight, in addition to the cold air, there was also a murderous atmosphere.

Like most cities, the torches on Wujun City are placed outside the city wall. On the one hand, it is convenient to observe the enemy outside the city, and on the other hand, it is also convenient to hide the activities in the city. Like the soldiers in charge of reconnaissance, I hid behind the women's wall and paid attention to the dynamics outside the city from the lookout. Although the enemy camp can be seen from the head of the city, it is not true and it is impossible to determine what the situation is there.

In the second half of the night, I clearly heard the sound of weapons colliding outside the city intertwined with human voices. Soon, I saw a fire in the enemy camp. At first, the fire was just a star, and soon burst into flames. The fire became more and more fierce and soon swallowed up the whole enemy camp.

The fire lit up half of the sky, and everyone in the city quietly stared in that direction. Our mood sank like a flare.

After about half an hour, everything fell silent again.

The people in the city waited until nearly dawn before one of Liu prison's pedestrians came back.

When I rode down to the county, Liu Baozhi had even changed his clothes, and a military doctor was leaning over to dress him.

Liu's look looks very complicated. As soon as he saw us come in, he said to us, "I didn't expect that the enemy soldiers changed their deployment last night. It seems that I knew that my army was going to rob grain and added a thousand more guards to the grain camp. Alas."

Hearing his sigh, we looked at each other in con's sight.

He added: "Thanks, the soldiers fought tenaciously and forcibly broke into the enemy's camp and set fire to the enemy's grain. Fortunately, it was late at night that the enemy did not dare to go out of the camp, so they finally escaped. Nearly half of the dead soldiers I brought were also broken, and dozens of others were seriously injured.

Listening to Liu Laozhi's description, everyone's expressions are as happy and sad as Liu Laozhi's.

After the soldiers helped Liu Fuzhi back to the inner room, everyone and I also dispersed.

After staying overnight, although half of the 500-person death squad died, it finally got the result we wanted. After the grain storage is destroyed, the thief soldiers will definitely fall into a panic. However, it will not reach the point of getting out of control. Once you learn that the two grain roads have been lost, it will inevitably distract the army. What we have to wait for now is the news from two food lanes.

Waiting is a temper of the will. Whether it is a good result or a bad result, it is impossible to calm down the anxiety in the heart. In such a situation, everyone has a completely different performance, either playing the piano or playing chess; or carrying water, or watering the garden; or talking, or whispering; or drinking, or pretending to go to be.

Liu Zhenzhi's fake stay in the house was to relieve fatigue, but my fake stay in the city was just waiting.

Although the soldiers defending the city have not slept all night, they still perform their respective duties: expectations for good news will make sleepy people full of infinite energy.

I sat on the chair in the tower with my eyes closed, and my mind suddenly remembered Bai Qi of the Warring States Period.

Bai Qi is a famous general of my generation. He attacked the city and the land without urging. He was known as the first general of the Warring States Period and was known as the "God of War" in later generations. However, it was not his art of war that fulfilled the myth of Bai Qi, but the number of people he annihilated the enemy. During the Warring States period, there were fewer people and fewer soldiers, but Bai Qi led the army to kill millions.

A successful achievement is pitiable and pathetic!

Liu Laozhi brought two or three hundred soldiers who were killed in the battle by robbing grain. Aren't the thousands of thieves damaged by Sun En's siege in the past few days all like the ghosts under Bai Qi's knife? Most of them, perhaps like when I first joined the army, are just for three meals a day and to support their families.

We have only saved our lives and survived until now because we rarely have the opportunity to go to the battlefield in person. If I died in a battle, in addition to the meager pension left for myself and my family, it is just a dead body.

If I unfortunately die, it will be a corpse; and I am lucky enough to live as a Sima or join the army. Whether you are successful or not often depends on whether you can survive.

The military books I have read have always been about how to be a general, not about how to be a soldier. As generals, if they are not forced or uncertain, they will rarely go to danger in person; while soldiers, whether dangerous or safe, always charge forward and retreat behind. In an army that decides to act by order, a soldier can't decide his life and death and fate at all. Isn't it lamentable?

At the same time, I also thought of the soldiers who died outside Wujun City to investigate the enemy with me. In these days, just because I broke away from the siege of thousands of thieves, I was regarded as a hero, emitting dazzling brilliance all over my body. But no one has ever asked about those dead soldiers. Perhaps, this is the cruelty of war; perhaps, this is the numbness of soldiers who are used to life and death.

Just as I was thinking nonsense, I received a war report sent by He Wuji: they had successfully burned a team of grain trucks sent from Shanghai. We are currently moving in the direction of Shanghai, hoping to find another opportunity to destroy other grain vehicles.

After lunch, Liu Jaozhi came to the city in armor and helmet. He has already learned the news of the success of the grain blaspence in Shanghai, so he came to the tower to sit with me and wait for the news of Taihu Lake.