Chapter 178 Rainy Night

On the third night of Bai Guangen's defeat and fled back to Shunde Mansion, the whole Jindi River looked unusually quiet. Suddenly, there was a spring rain in the sky, and many lights and torches in the army camp were gradually extinguished, and it became dark from afar. After the spring rain arrived at night, it fell more and more. The bigger it got, the more muddy the battlefield became, and the water gradually began to accumulate in the trenches. The people on duty braved the rain and were blown by the night wind in the night, and they were shivering with cold.

Xiao Tianjian stood at the door of the tent and looked at the rain falling from the sky. His face began to become awe-inspiring. At this time, Li Xin walked to Xiao Tian's fitness, looked at the rain outside, and said, "Handsome! But are you worried about the rain?"

Xiao Tianjian turned his head and looked at Li Xin, nodded and said, "That's good! Sun Chuanding will definitely not surrender. He will definitely find a way to break through again! And the rain today is undoubtedly a big help for them. Sun Chuanting will not easily let go of this opportunity!"

It is not surprising that Xiao Tianjian has such concerns. Although Xing Tianjun has now changed a large number of self-fired fire guns, that is, flimps, and flimps can also be used in the rain, it will undoubtedly seriously affect the ignition rate of flimps. On sunny days, after such a long time of use. After improvement, the firing rate of Xing Tianjun's flimps can basically reach about 80%, which is already a great thing in this era. However, once it rains, or the rain is too heavy, the flimp can't be said to be completely useless like a flimp, but the ignition rate will be serious. The impact is that the fire rate can reach 30%, and it is impossible to reach more than 40% at most. Therefore, in case of rainy days, it will have a considerable impact on the Xingtian Army, which relies more on firearms.

Of course, if it rains heavily, the bows and arrows in the enemy' hands are also not easy to use. After the bow string and bow arm are immersed in water, they will be weak, and the forced use will immediately cause degumming and scrapping. However, for the officers and soldiers who want to secretly take this opportunity to break through, the impact of the use of bows and arrows is not great.

So the rain can be said to have helped Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui a lot. Xiao Tianjian expected that they would break out at night tonight, which made him a little worried.

Li Xin nodded slightly and said, "The general should expect it to be good. If the inferior position is Sun Chuanting, he will also choose to break through tonight!" However, the general doesn't have to worry too much. After all, we have made a thorough arrangement during the day. Even if Sun Chuanting wants to break through, he may not be able to tear his mouth and protrude. The commander should have a rest!"

Xiao Tianjian paced in the big tent with his hands behind his back, shook his head and said, "Rest? Ha ha! I'm afraid I can't rest tonight! Although we have made arrangements, we are not sure in which direction Sun Chuanting will break through, so our troops cannot be concentrated. In this way, the pressure on the generals will be great in the direction of his breakthrough!

In addition, the water of the Jindi River may rise tonight because of the rain. Will Sun Chuanding break through the downstream of the Jindi River? After all, no one can stop them on the water!"

Li Xin shook his head and said, "I don't think so. As the marshal said, after the rain on the Jindi River, the water will rise. They go down the river and can walk a few people, but they can't break out in large numbers. Officials like Sun Chuanting will not give up so many soldiers under his command. Therefore, it is expected that even if Sun Chuanting broke through the siege, he would not escape alone with a small number of guards! In that case, even if he escapes, he will be arrested and punished by today's emperor!"

Xiao Tianjian thought for a moment and nodded and said, "It makes sense. Well, if we are not wrong, Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui are likely to break out in the northeast corner tonight. These days, we have the fewest people left over there, and they can break through the encirclement and go straight to Dongchang Mansion. Can you solve it? If you want to kill them, it's up to tonight!"

Like the officers and soldiers, the position of Xing Tianjun has become dark at this time, and the lanterns and torches have been extinguished a lot. It seems that because of the arrival of this rain, people have exhausted their energy. The continuous cold cannons have completely calmed down.

But in the army camp, it was not as quiet as it seemed at this time. The officers and soldiers were driven out of the camp in batches. Sun Chuanting recruited the generals into his coach tent, personally gave a strict instruction, encouraged the generals, and told them that they would break out of the siege tonight and take them to escape from this place. He warned everyone not to make noise, so as not to expose their actions. At the same time, he asked them to mobilize their morale and fight out of the siege after going down.

Looking at Sun Chuanting's full of confidence, the generals regained their anger more or less. They cheered up a little and quickly bowed to take orders.

Then Sun Chuanting told him that they should not bring easy-to-carry things such as war tents, grain, weights and artillery. If you take these things to break through, it is looking for death. There is mud everywhere, and the Xing Tianjun has dug gullies around them these days, even if they take them, except for blocking themselves. Outside the way, you can't take it away at all, so throw away everything that can be lost to ensure that you can get out of the siege tonight.

All the generals also obeyed their orders immediately, but they were still a little hesitant in private. If the food was thrown away, what would they eat after breaking out? On this point, Sun Chuanting told the generals that as long as they could break out, they could get to Liaocheng in one day. After getting there, they would have food to eat! As his supervisor, he ordered Liaocheng to provide them with a batch of food, which can still be done.

So the officers and soldiers immediately began to act, touched the black clothes neatly, threw away what they didn't need, and began to gather in the camp. Everyone spoke with their voices as much as possible, for fear that the sound would be too loud to disturb the Xingtian thieves outside. All the soldiers were ordered not to make noise. The horse picked the bell, and then gradually gathered in the northeast corner of the army battalion. At this time, Wu Sangui had already been neatly dressed and gathered the Liaodong soldiers he brought in at the gate of the battalion.

After looking at the glimmer of expectation in the eyes of the officers and soldiers, Sun Chuanting turned his head and looked at the black camp behind him in the rain. Those countless military tents and cannons and cannons have been lost here now. This is the materials that the court finally spent a lot of money to hoard, but now it is because of him. The carelessness was abandoned by the thief army. Thinking about him, he felt unwilling, but there was nothing he could do. After all, it is the most important thing to save the lives of these officers and soldiers to break out of the siege, and everything else is not important now.

At this time, Wu Sangui walked to Sun Chuanting and said to Sun Chuanting with his fist, "Your Excellency! The last general is ready! Just wait for the order of the adults!"

Sun Chuanting looked at Wu Sangui. At this time, he saw that Wu Sangui was wearing a set of the most exquisite fine steel mountain armor of Daming, wearing a red cloak that had been wet by the rain on his back. There was a sword hanging around his waist and a long gun in his hand, which seemed majestic and had a strong momentum. After looking around at the surrounding soldiers and horses, Sun Chuanting sighed slightly and then nodded and said, "Let's go! Whether it's done or not, it's only up to tonight..."

In the darkness, the door of the official and army's battalion was creaked open, and a large number of officers and soldiers stepped on the mud on the ground, squeezed their lips tightly one by one, followed one by one, and began to fish out of the camp.

Generally speaking, officers and soldiers dare not take such a large-scale action at night. Even if they are playing torches in the dark, sometimes it is chaotic, and it is impossible to go out of the camp in rainy days. In this way, once they leave the camp, it will be dark and rumbling, and the ground will be wet and slippery. Soon the formation will be chaotic, and the soldiers can't find a general. Generals can't control troops, so in ancient times, heavy rain and night battles rarely occurred.

But now Sun Chuanting and Wu Sangui can't care so much. Now if they don't take this opportunity to break through, I'm afraid that Tianyi Xingtian Army will launch a general attack on them. At that time, even if they want to leave, they will have no chance at all.

And they all know that Xingtian's weapons are extremely sharp. Now they can't face their full suppression of their firepower during the day. They can only take advantage of such a rainy day and make such a last try under the cover of the night.

A large number of officers and soldiers lowered their voices as much as possible, swarmed out of the battalion, and rushed towards the position of the Xingtian Army in their respective designated directions. They were still headed by Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses, and the rest of the soldiers and horses were either guarded by left and right. As soon as a large number of officers and soldiers left the camp, they became chaotic in the dark and rooted each other. It was impossible to maintain their own establishment. Fortunately, before they set out, the generals also said that once they could not find their own team, they would follow the crowd nearby. After breaking out, they would find their own generals. The provincial shouting sound shocked the thief army, so although it was chaotic, in order to escape for their lives. The officers and soldiers still tried not to scream as much as possible. Anyway, they lowered their heads in the rain and continued to walk forward in the dark night.

But there are also some officers and soldiers who have other plans. As soon as they leave the camp, they begin to take advantage of the darkness to break away from their team and carefully touch in the opposite direction. Some people find a pit or trench to hide, while others simply touch the positions in other directions of Xing Tianjun. These people are all smart people, and After making up my mind, I won't work for the court. Everyone knows this dark breakout, and I don't know how to die, so it may be the safest place to hide.