Chapter 3 Sun En 5

We defenders are like sitting on a high platform watching a play, killing people in front and beating gongs and drums in the back. The play is very lively, but it seems to have nothing to do with us. All we need to do is look at it this way, whether we understand this play or not.

I looked at it for a long time and nodded and said, "General Liu and General Xie's marching are really very similar."

Liu Jingxuan understood that I meant the array they laid out of the city and explained, "That's the array laid by General Xie Xuan that year. His generals will all appear in the same formation. General Sun Wuzhen was also a general under General Xie Xuan in those years. Hasn't he ever made this battle?

I shook my head: "I haven't seen it before."

Since joining Sun Wuji's army, I haven't participated in a decent battle. How can I see him arrayed?

Liu Jingxuan then asked: "Liu joins the army and seems to have done a lot of research on the battle. I don't know if there is any way to solve this array created by General Xie Xuan?

When I watched the array, I was thinking about this problem. I thought about it for a while and said, "At present, I don't think well. However, if the enemy also has archers, then the power of this array is not easy to exert. The enemy suddenly encountered cavalry disturbance and messed up their own positions.

"Yes."

"When encountering a cavalry attack, you can't avoid it, but let several infantry attack a cavalry or a horse at the same time. As long as you concentrate on cutting down more than a dozen people in the initial rush, it is naturally difficult for the cavalry array to advance. In this way, it can greatly weaken the power of the cavalry. It's just that the initial sacrifice is inevitable, and the death squad must do it. If you mess up and let the cavalry rush into the battle, it will not be easy to deal with. This chaos, of course, is like a sheep entering the mouth of a tiger and being slaughtered by others.

"Liu Sanjun really has a lot of eyesight." Liu Jingxuan said that there was sincere admiration in his eyes. In this way, my idea may have hit the point.

Sometimes I deliberately keep a low profile in front of Liu Laozhi's son, but what I'm afraid of is his unprovoked admiration. Since I fought thousands of thieves outside Wujun City, he and He Wuji have been idle and brag about how powerful I was that day, making other generals, captains and soldiers awe me like gods when they saw me. It makes me uncomfortable.

Just as we were talking, we suddenly heard a noise in the enemy camp on the right, and the sound of weapons collided endlessly. Soon, the same is true of the enemy camp on the left. Suddenly, the drums in the city and the Xie camp resounded to the sky again. In such a night, the sound of war drums is intertwined with the sound of weapons and screams, which adds fear.

In the dark, I couldn't see the situation in the distance, and I could only see the enemy's camp fire scattered into a little spark. The Mars was swildering, which puzzled our people watching the battle in the city.

The enemy camp occupied by Xie and Liu was dark and silent.

When we were speculating about the development of the situation, we heard someone calling for the door. When I sent people to check it, I didn't know that it was Liu Laozhi who led the army back to the city.

Liu Jaozhi's return this time is not as melancholy as the day before yesterday. He was in an unusually good mood. As soon as he walked out of the cave, he shouted at the people who greeted us in the city, "We have got it. Let's go and go up town to wait and see.

We hugged Liu prison and went up the city. He pointed to the intact camp he had occupied before and smiled at us, "Look over there."

Not long, there was a sudden noise in the quiet camp. Then, the sound of the blades intersect.

Liu Laozhi laughed when he heard this. It's rare to hear this soft speaker laugh so loudly! It seems that only such laughter can match his powerful appearance.

"Do you know what I did in the enemy camp?" Liu prison asked.

We shook our heads and said we didn't know.

"I made some delicious food. I ate part of it myself, and the rest was left to the hungry soldiers under Sun En. After saying that, he laughed again.

Everyone is puzzled when they hear it.

Liu Jaozhi insisted on not saying the reason. I would be surprised. I stabbed Liu Jingxuan with my finger and asked him with a smile, "Do you understand? What is the most lacking in the thief army now?

He was stunned and understood for a moment and said, "So it is. After all, he is a thief. It's a big fight to grab food.

General Daojian is really clever. He has long expected that thief soldiers are not as good as regular soldiers. I'm afraid that the riots in other thief camps are not the work of our army, right? My previous sentence was to the generals around me, and the last sentence was to ask Liu Zhenzhi.

"Those who know me, moral public opinion. The reason why we have to wait for the sky to be completely dark is to let the enemy attack each other. By dawn, they will understand who is attacking them. What we did was to take off our armor and pretend to be a thief and cut down a few thief soldiers and light a few fires in front of the camp.

Although the food and fodder of the thief army have been destroyed, their food must be enough to eat today and tomorrow. Why do you still fight to grab food? A general was puzzled by this.

I said, "The thief can only be replenished again after arriving in Shanghai. At this time, it has been more than two days away from Shanghai. Therefore, one or two days of food is definitely not enough. This is the way to prepare for a rainy day.

When I said the last sentence, I turned my face to Liu Zhenzhi to ask if my opinion was correct.

Liu Jaozhi said: "There is a certain reason. However, the food and fodder of the thief will last less than two days. Because I didn't find any surplus food in the occupied thief camp.

The generals suddenly realized.

I asked again, "General, there is something unclear about the last general. At the beginning of the battle, why did the two generals rush with cavalry first instead of bows and arrows first? Some new generals didn't understand the truth. After listening to my question, they also shifted their eyes from the enemy camp and stared at Liulao zhi.

"At the beginning, General Xie Xuan set up this array and put the cavalry in front to protect the archers. Cavalry has high mobility and can quickly open the arrow path, which is convenient for archers to shoot. And if the enemy attacks, the cavalry can quickly harass to protect the archers. Do you understand this?

"Hmm. This is understandable." I nodded.

"As for why it is the first to sprint with cavalry instead of archers, it depends on the situation. If the enemy soldiers are ready to fight and attack with cavalry, they may be damaged, and the assault may not be effective. At this time, the archers shot first for a while, which made the enemy soldiers morale first.

"Yes. This is an ordinary method of warfare.

"Yes. However, when the enemy soldiers are not formed, or have not formed a formation, such as scattered soldiers, it is mostly easy to succeed with cavalry. Such a surprise, aggressive, and limited self-damaged. Although the thief soldiers lined up, they did not form a formation and dispersed with cavalry. When the thief is at a loss and shoots with bows and arrows, the enemy will naturally lose their resistance.

"So it is." The array of General Xie and Liu is actually the simplest square array. Unexpectedly, it is so exquisite to be applied. I can't help admiring it.

This battle was really wonderful. While admiring the fire outside the city, everyone chatted left and right, with great interest.

The city was windy, and everyone stayed for two nights, both cold and tired. Liu Laozhi told the generals guarding the city of tonight's curfew order and told them that Xie Yan would send someone to escort food and fodder into the city in the middle of the night. At that time, we must be vigilant to prevent thieves from robbing food.

After the delivery, we handed over our respective responsibilities to the soldiers who changed their defenses and went down to the city to rest one after another.