The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 73 Long Night

The smoke was misty and endless. Gou Chun covered his mouth and nose with a wet towel at the camp halfway up the mountain, squinting and looking down the mountain.

Seeing that Liu Tai did not prepare to attack until dark, but only used smoke to smoke himself and others.

Although his eyes were quite uncomfortable due to the smoke, Gou Chun couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief as the sky got darker.

Because Gou Chun knew that it would be more difficult to attack the mountains at night, and it would be more difficult for the opponent's force advantage to be deployed in the mountains. Even if he wanted to make a surprise attack, it would be a big trouble for the follow-up troops to just keep up.

Therefore, any normal general would not come to attack the army halfway up the mountain in the dark of night. That would really be the wrong time and place.

Sure enough, as the sky got darker, the smoke below became increasingly sparse.

As the night wind got stronger at night and blew for a while, I saw that the smoke from the fireworks dissipated immediately.

Even so, Gou Chun was not careless. He still arranged sentries and prepared to let the soldiers have a good rest.

During this period, a general under his command came over and suggested to Gou Chun, "Why don't we charge down the mountain and frustrate Liu Tai's spirit!"

After Gou Chun heard this, he was quite moved, but in the end he restrained his impulse and said seriously:

"Brother, we will definitely arrive here in three to five days. Let's attack Liu Tai now. If we fail, our morale will be further weakened. 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 he will have to wait for three days. When he wants to retreat, we can pursue and delay him all the way.At that time, I will create the conditions for my brother to defeat Liu Tai in one go, and he will become a general with a small amount of effort! "

"I have been taught a lesson!" When the soldiers under his command heard Gou Chun's words, they nodded in sudden realization.

Gou Chun looked towards the dark mountain where he couldn't see anything clearly. He couldn't help but think about what kind of methods Liu Tai would use next after the smoke failed to have the effect it should have.

After all, he was waiting for Gou Xi to gather with him with the main force, but what was Liu Tai waiting for? Could it be that he was waiting to die? !
Liu Tai, who was at the bottom of the mountain at the moment, saw that the sky had completely darkened, and he also asked the soldiers to stop the burning smoke and retreat to the military camp in an orderly manner to have a good rest.

At the same time, he ordered his personal guards to keep vigil today, and other armies must recharge their batteries today to make final preparations for tomorrow's decisive battle.

"Liu Ming, I will leave it to you to guard the first half of the night today, and I will come in person in the second half of the night!" Liu Tai said to Liu Ming.

"Young Master, have a good rest and leave everything to me!" Liu Ming couldn't help but said after hearing Liu Tai's words.

When Liu Tai heard this, he shook his head and said to Liu Ming, "I have plenty of energy, so I usually rest for two or three hours.

And we can at least sleep down here, but Ge Xin is still leading his soldiers to survive this long night! "

"No!" When Liu Ming heard Liu Tai's words, he was silent for a moment and nodded.

Liu Tai did not do too many arrangements, but let the soldiers rest in their normal state. Of course, the rest time 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 actually himself, or even the soldiers at the foot of the mountain. It was Ge who used fireworks to hide in the mountains and forests, and then used the cover of night to climb towards Gouchun's camp. letter.

How far they can go will determine the outcome of this war.

So Liu Tai slept peacefully. When it was almost midnight, Liu Tai woke up. After freshening up a little, he went to change shifts with Liu Ming. Liu Ming looked at Liu Tai's arrival and said, "Young Master, there will be no news tonight." What’s going on!”

"No movement is the best movement. Have a good rest. At dawn, we will launch an attack!" Liu Tai said.

"No!" Liu Ming nodded and didn't say much. Instead, he took the soldiers back to his camp and began to rest.

Liu Tai cast his gaze towards the mountains. Liu Tai knew that for Ge Xin and the others on the mountains, the night would be particularly long.

Ge Xin raised his head and looked at the sky. The sparse shrubs covered the traces of himself and others, but they could not cover the bright moon in the sky.

The most useful prop he brought with him this time was neither the camouflaged blanket nor the naan cake hidden on his chest, but the empty gourd that Liu Tai forced everyone to carry.

I have to say that General Liu was really foresight. It was not difficult to climb in with the help of smoke. Step by step, he reached not far from the Gouchun Army Camp. With the blessing of the night, it was not difficult.

But the real difficulty is to lurk until tomorrow morning before launching an attack.

During this process, the soldiers must remain in a prostrate state. Although their bodies need to squirm slightly to avoid paralysis, they must not make any movements that would alert Gouchun's military camp.

At this time, the empty gourd Liu Tai forced everyone to bring was put to use.

Because without this little gourd, the soldiers would be afraid of lying in their own yellow pool, and the smell of urine would definitely arouse the enemy's vigilance.

The distance between everyone now and Gou Xi's military camp is not far, just as Liu Tai said, about a hundred meters away.

It didn't even take more than ten breaths for everyone to get up and sprint over. At this moment, the military camp still had soldiers standing on the sentry post, looking warily towards the foot of the mountain. If there was any change in our troops at the foot of the mountain, they would know it.

However, these people standing on high sentries, looking 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 and for the smoke to light up!
Time passed little by little, and the originally dark sky became brighter little by little. No one among the soldiers lurking on the mountain dared to sleep.

Because no one can guarantee whether they will snore after falling asleep, and as long as they snore, all the soldiers will be dead.

However, none of the soldiers made a sound at this moment, and the silent place seemed to be just a large normal lawn.

But Ge Xin understood that the soldiers may not have the same admiration for the Han Dynasty and want to revive the Han Dynasty as Liu Tai did.

After all, the Han Dynasty was too far away for these warriors, so far away that the story in the "Book of Han" was really long.

But all the soldiers are willing to continue to persevere here for Liu Tai and create opportunities for tomorrow's attack.

Although Liu Tai is a bit young and shameless, everyone is willing to believe in Liu Tai.

Because all the soldiers can truly feel that Liu Tai treats them as human beings and respects them as human beings.

In the military camp, Liu Tai encouraged the soldiers to read "Han Shu" to let the soldiers understand that they once belonged to such a glorious country.

This is very important, because if you don’t have your own history book, you won’t have your own glory.

When they realize the greatness of the Han Dynasty, they can give justice to what they do in the name of the Han Dynasty.

For anyone who does any bad thing, they need to put on a coat of legitimacy for what they do.There may be one or two pure evil people, but for the vast majority of people, there is no reason to convince themselves, so very few people will do bad things without any psychological burden.

After all, no matter how domineering Ying Jiang is, he still has to take out washing powder to protect his face when bullying others.

Liu Tai used military history to constantly and subtly cultivate the soldiers' sense of honor for the Han Dynasty and their collective sense of honor.

This sense of honor will give them more willpower than other armies when facing difficulties 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-reducing strike-like existence.

So this mission is also Liu Tai's acceptance of the results of a will training for his elite troops!

"Have the soldiers under my command really established their own ideological weapons?" Liu Tai was worried but silent.

There are no superpowers in this world, and I can't see the soldiers' will materializing.

But how to check how far the soldiers' willpower has reached? It requires these soldiers to use their willpower to survive a night and go into war after dawn tomorrow to verify the willpower of their troops.

Therefore, Ge Xin was enduring on the mountain, while Liu Tai was enduring at the foot of the mountain. However, Ge Xin's goal was Gou Chun's camp, while Liu Tai's goal was to verify that the method he had been training his soldiers was correct.

Liu Tai took a deep breath, with a bit of hope in his eyes.

Because Liu Tai knew that he was fighting against the Sima clan now, but when Yi Guan crossed south and the Xiongnu-Han reforms failed, he was afraid that he would have to fight against the Xiongnu-Han.

But in the final analysis, I need to fight against the glorious families of this era, so I need a force that is completely my own.

Poor family?A poor family is an aristocratic family, just a group of aristocratic families that have fallen into disrepair.

You can rely on them, but if you take them as your base, you will eventually be abandoned by a poor family.

Common landowner?Well, I'm afraid this will have to wait until the imperial examination system is introduced in the future before it can slowly enter the political stage.

So I really don’t have many choices, or choices I can make.

The military is the place where we can cultivate corresponding talents the fastest, but we must let them develop correct ideas.

At least when we govern the grassroots in the future, we won’t be corrupted and assimilated by the aristocratic families on a large scale, and then turn around and become dogs to the aristocratic families!
Therefore, Liu Tai asked his soldiers to read history and learn to read and write, hoping that they would grow up and become his helpers.

After all, I can't defeat the Aristocratic Family alone. I need a political force that can compete with the Aristocratic Family.

"Ge Xin, come on!" Liu Tai took a deep breath and continued to pray to Ge Xin.

Finally at the fourth watch, Liu Tai's soldiers began to get up. However, in order to prevent the smoke from alerting Gou Chun and others on the mountain, everyone also gnawed on the naan cakes prepared yesterday, although the hard ones were not very easy to eat. That’s it.

The sky was getting brighter at one o'clock, and Ge Xin squinted his eyes, because the protective color that nature had given him gradually receded.

The more this happens, the more dangerous it is for you and others.

Because they had lost the cover of the night, even if they had done their best in choosing a place or using blankets covered by vegetation, no one could guarantee whether Gou Chun's sentries would see them. et al.

After all, in the final analysis, the more it is during the day, the greater the risk of exposing oneself and others to danger!

So the next wait was the most unbearable for Ge Xin. Even after a night of exhaustion, it was still dangerous at this moment.

"Captain Ge!" A village commander next to 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 the smoke, Ge Datou's eyes couldn't help but glare suddenly, and he lowered his voice and said,

"When the smoke rolls up, let the military history blow the suona, and we will seize the gate of Gou Xi's army as soon as possible!"

As the orders were given, the soldiers nodded silently and did not respond.

But all the military historians had already received his order, and each of them held the suona in their hands and got ready!
At this time, the sentries of Gouchun's army did not expect that Liu Tai's army had taken advantage of last night's darkness to climb step by step to less than a hundred meters from the camp and lay in wait all night.

At this moment, they saw the billowing smoke spreading towards the mountain from above and below again, and reported it to Gou Chun immediately!
"Why did Liu Tai do this so early in the morning?" Gou Chun's face did not change when he heard this, and he said calmly,
"Arrange the soldiers to collect the wet wipes so as not to inhale the fire poison. Liu Taiwu Mou is the only one left with this trick.

After these few days, he won't fight around us, but we will chase after him! "

The soldiers who came to report heard Gou Chun's calm and unhurried order, and naturally carried it out very quickly.

Compared with the chaos of Gou Xi's army last night, Gou Xi's army was much more orderly at this time.

The running water had been pumped up last night and had been placed here early for the soldiers to soak their own cloths for use.

And compared to what happened yesterday, Gou Chun, who had already experienced it once, had already adapted to it.

As long as it is a normal army, it can basically use local materials to continuously overcome battlefield problems.

This is often the same trick used against veterans. I dare not say that it is completely ineffective, but at least it can provide effective control.

At this moment, Gou Chun, who was controlling the smoke hazard to a certain extent, could not help but narrow his eyes.

He looked at the breakfast served in front of him, and based on his and Gou Xi's life-and-death experience, he vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Because this time is normally meal time, but Liu Tai’s army attacked at this time, which means that Liu Tai’s army got up early and had breakfast early...

"But why?" Gou Chun could guess that something was wrong, but he couldn't guess Liu Tai's purpose.

At this moment, Gou Chun suddenly heard several bursts of extremely rapid but passionate vocal music coming from not far from his camp. These vocal sounds gathered together, as if waves were crashing towards him!

"Kill!" Ge Xin shouted loudly to his soldiers at this moment.

(End of this chapter)