Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law

Chapter 204: The military strength increased sharply and made a fortune

Chen Mo originally planned to defend Chuima City, but these days the division army really disappointed him. The number of people who escaped and were killed by the supervising team actually exceeded the number of people killed by the enemy army.

Moreover, their morale has been extremely low. If they continue to defend, he will have to stay here.

As the saying goes, a dead Taoist friend will never die a poor Taoist. These Tianshi troops at Houchengmen have been given up by Chen Mo.

As for those people specially selected by Qianchengmen, Chen Mo thought they could be trained.

It was a quiet night, and while these people were asleep, Chen Mo took the remaining three guards to the front city gate.

Because Chen Mo didn't tell anyone in advance that he was leaving.

So Sun Meng was very surprised when he saw Chen Mo and his party coming, thinking something big had happened.

As a result, Chen Mo said: "Wake up all those who are resting and seize the time to retreat."

The Tianshi Army is useless, which means that if Chen Mo were to defend the city, he could only capture the city with less than [-] men. Under the general trend of the main force of the Tianshi Army being defeated like a mountain, if he continued to defend it, It's like a mantis trying to block a car.

All the resting people woke up. According to Chen Mo's order, there was not too much noise. The torches were only lit in two rows and they quietly left the Falling Horse City.

There is a distance between the front city gate and the back city gate, so even if the people at the front city gate leave, the people at the back city gate will not be able to find it.

"If you don't have armor or weapons, quickly take off the armor from these corpses and replace them with weapons."

Outside the front city gate, there was devastation everywhere, and so many Tianshi soldiers died.

Under Chen Mo's instructions, the soldiers of the Heavenly Master who had thrown away their armors during their escape took off their armors from the corpses and replaced them with them.

"By the way, don't forget to take away the rations they brought with them." After Xia Zhining's reminder, Chen Mo thought of the Tianshi soldiers who each carried several days' worth of rations with them, and he quickly ordered again.

Chen Mo only gave them a quarter of an hour.

When the quarter of an hour is up, no matter whether anyone is wearing armor or not, they can no longer stay in the Falling Horse City and leave immediately.

Winter is coming soon, and the night in November is extremely dark and cold. Many soldiers on the mountain road hold up torches and connect them to each other, like a flaming dragon.

Among them, many people in the Tianshi Army still suffer from night blindness, so their marching speed is particularly slow.

It has been at least an hour or two of walking now. Chen Mo estimated that he might not have walked ten miles.

Based on this calculation, I might not be able to walk thirty miles before dawn.

Chen Mo led the cavalry to clear the way ahead. Looking at the soldiers of the Heavenly Master who were like bereaved dogs, even the morale of the three guards was relatively low, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

He had read so many novels. People who traveled through time were killing people in all directions, but when they got to his place, they all retreated.

"We can't go on like this. When daylight comes, the enemy will know that we have left, and they will definitely catch up. Our marching speed is too slow, and we will be caught up sooner or later. We are still a few days away from Tianshui Town. distance."

Chen Mo looked at Xia Zhining, then at Sun Meng, Shao Jinneng, and Han Wu, asking them if they had any ideas.

After everyone thought for a while, Xia Zhining suddenly said: "There is a method in the military book called Hanging Sheep Drumming, which can use false momentum to create the enemy's illusion."

Chen Mo asked Xia Zhining to explain.

The so-called hanging sheep drumming is to tie the hind legs of the goat and hang it on a tree, with a war drum placed under the front hooves. In this way, when the goat is hungry, it kicks its front hooves wildly, and the war drum will sound.

In this way, when the enemy hears it, they will think there is an ambush and will not dare to move forward, thus creating confusion and giving their own army time to march.

Chen Mo thought about it and thought it was feasible, so he asked someone to follow this method.

And several command flags were erected next to it.

As for goats, they are considered one of the livestock that accompany the army, and there are still some in Chen Mo's logistics.

I don’t know how long they walked, but it was already dawn. The army came to a stream. Everyone felt as if there was a fire in their lungs. They couldn’t walk anymore. There were shouts and wailing all around.

Some people just smashed them and lay on the ground, gasping for air, shouting that if they don't leave, they will die.

And for this, Chen Mo really can't blame them anymore.

The human body has really reached its limit. Yesterday, we fought for a whole day. We didn't eat anything or rest at all. We also traveled all night. The whole army was almost made up of ordinary people. How could we do this?

Chen Mo ordered the entire army to rest for two quarters of an hour, eat quickly, and casually ordered the scribes accompanying the army to count the number of the entire army.

……

Half an hour ago.

Falling into the city.

At the border of Yuzhou, the mountains are already foggy, and winter is about to come. The entire city inside and outside Zhuima City is almost shrouded in fog, and visibility is extremely low.

The braziers set up every few steps on the city wall had already gone out after burning for a night without adding fire.

A Celestial Master soldier was sleeping soundly behind the battlements with his spear in his arms. He had been tired all day yesterday, so he slept very deeply. The war drums were standing next to him, which were originally played by a dedicated brave guard soldier.

But now, the drummer has long gone.

A gust of breeze blew and hit the Tianshi soldier on the face. He was also woken up by a splash of urine. He opened his eyes in a daze, but suddenly found that the breeze seemed to carry a slight sound. abnormal noise.

Maybe it was because he was still sleepy, and he just wanted to finish peeing and go back to sleep, so he didn't think too much or notice that there was no one around him. He stood up, unbuttoned his belt towards the outside of the city, and then fell asleep.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew away the fog outside the city. On the originally empty wilderness, a large group of people suddenly appeared, like dark soldiers emerging from the ground.

The urinating soldier was so frightened that he had no time to fasten his belt.

"Whoosh!"

Then the sound of breaking through the air appeared next to his ears, his pupils suddenly dilated, and then he fell down with a thud, with an arrow stuck in his head.

Even so, the other Tianshi soldiers nearby did not wake up. It wasn't until a ladder was set up on the city wall and soldiers from Yuzhou climbed up the city wall and came to their faces that someone woke up and shouted: "The enemy is attacking."

At this time, someone discovered that half of the defenders on the city wall seemed to be missing.

"dong dong dong"

The sound of war drums sounded loudly outside the city, and the Yuzhou Army began a full-scale attack.

Hearing the sound of drums, the soldiers of the Heavenly Master below the city woke up in a daze and hurriedly took the weapons aside.

Then, all of them noticed something was wrong.

Where have people gone?

What about Chen Mo and the people under him?

But the Yuzhou army would not give them time to think. The siege truck had already hit the city gate.

The Tianshi army without a general under their command suddenly became a panic.

"The Song army is mighty!"

"The Song army is mighty!"

"The Song army is mighty!"

The next moment, a majestic sound like a roaring mountain and a tsunami came from outside the city and slapped on the wall of Chuima City.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the city gate was breached.

The Tianshi army fled towards the front city of Zhuima City.

When they arrived, they found that the front city gate was wide open and there was no one around.

At this time, everyone realized that they were abandoned.

this afternoon.

Liang Song looked at the goat brought in front of him by Shi Meng and the war drum held by the soldiers next to him, with a gloomy and terrifying expression on his face.

He fooled the army for most of the afternoon with the trick of hanging sheep and drums and the surrounding command flags. It was not until the chariots were brought over and they fired two rounds and found no response that they realized that they had been tricked.

As a member of the Liang family, he felt that he had been greatly humiliated.

He wanted to order the Black Leopard Cavalry to continue chasing, but his reason made him give up the idea.

Knowing that after so long, the other party must have run far away.

And from the prisoners' mouths, he knew that the rebels still had people left in Tianshui Town.

For the sake of the entire army, he ordered the entire army to rest until reinforcements from Shiling County arrived.

……

November fourteenth.

Chen Mo arrived at Tianshui Town with [-] troops (the three guardsmen had more than [-] troops, the Tianshi soldiers had more than [-] soldiers, and the black cavalry troops had [-] troops.).

Chen Mo was one of the four lieutenants. After Lu Yonggang, Song Niu, Huang Da, and Li Gan died in battle, he undoubtedly became the top officer of the five armies.

Lu Yonggang originally left [-] troops in Tianshui Town to guard logistics supplies and prevent the enemy from cutting off his retreat.

And these five thousand troops were all drawn from the armies of the four directions.

After Lu Yonggang and others died in the battle, they became rootless duckweeds. Chen Mo successfully took over Tianshui Town and the five thousand troops.

For a time, Chen Mo's military strength surged.

These five thousand men and horses were able to be mobilized by Lu Yougang to guard the rear. They were also the elite of the four armies. In addition, they had not participated in the Battle of Chuima City and had not seen such a tragic scene, so their morale could still be used.

Of course, before that, Chen Mo had to report what happened in Yuzhou and ask the people above him what to do next.

If you want to continue attacking Yuzhou, you must send reinforcements.

In addition, in the letter he reported, he revealed his intention to recruit this remnant army.

After writing the battle report, Chen Mo showed it to Xia Zhining for review to see if he could polish it up.

At this moment, Han Wu and Sun Meng came over excitedly. Han Wu could not hide the excitement on his face and said: "County Magistrate, we have made a fortune."

When Chen Mo saw the logistics warehouse of the Quartet Army, he couldn't hide his surprise.

According to Fang Quancai, the general who stayed behind in Tianshui Town and a seventh-level warrior, there were a total of [-] shi of grain in the warehouse, as well as many livestock for transporting grain, such as cattle, sheep, donkeys, and poor horses.

In addition to food, there were also a siege vehicle, several catapults, several spears specially designed for bed crossbows, more than ten crossbows, bundles of feathered arrows wrapped together, and boxes of copper coins.

Just no weapons or armor.

Also, one piece of armor is not enough for everyone, so where can I get spares?

And the reason why there are so many is because a large part of them is Lu Yonggang's family background.

Because most of the Tianshi Army has no base, they will station wherever they attack, and naturally they will bring their family wealth with them.

Chen Mo quickly asked the scribe to count them and register them.

(End of this chapter)