At night, the sky was full of stars, and the stars (Milky Way) ran across the sky. Yu Wenwen looked up at the stars, then looked down at the surroundings, and saw bonfires everywhere. He looked up at the stars as if the sky was full of stars fell into the world.

The endless plains cannot tell where the skyline is at night. In an instant, Yuwen Wen had an illusion, as if he was floating among the starry sky, with stars everywhere and no ground.

‘This is unscientific’

Yuwen Wen was chanting the "Four-word Mantra" in his heart. He blinked and returned to the "world" from the illusion. He looked at the piles of bonfires and the soldiers sleeping by the bonfires. No matter how beautiful the starry sky is, it is still illusory. Only when the soldiers who are waiting for the game make him feel fulfilled.

It looks romantic at first glance if you don’t set up a tent and sleep in the wild, because if the weather is good, you can see the stars in the sky when you lie on your back. This is the best environment for picking up girls. After you get up, you will be able to do it naturally.

However, for soldiers who have been forcibly marching for a day, it is the most important thing to go to bed quickly.

After walking for 100 miles a day, the infantrymen who were hiking on foot would be sore even if they had leggings. So they just took a bowl of hot broth, ate a few filling cakes, soaked their feet in hot water, and then took a good night's sleep. It felt so comfortable.

Hiking in the simple sleeping bag, exposing his feet to the bonfire, his head facing outward, and his weapons were placed beside him. Every soldier just slept on the ground, snoring one after another, echoing in the wilderness.

Yuwen Wen, who was temporarily planning to patrol the camp, actually had no camp to patrol because there was no tent in the camp, except for the camps surrounded by horse and carriages, there was not even an arrow tower. All the soldiers of the army were sleeping on the ground in the camps, and he was no exception.

When setting up camp during the march, it will take a lot of time to pull out camps. Although it saves time without setting up tents, it will lead to a very troublesome problem, that is, it is difficult for soldiers to find their own camps.

It is a little better during the day, and soldiers can use the flag to find the camp. At night, the light is poor and it is easy to get lost if they can't see the flag clearly. This is particularly troublesome for soldiers who are convenient to get up and go to the night.

Urination and defecation are not allowed in the military camp to avoid hygiene problems. So it is no small problem for those who get up at night to find their own camp after it is convenient for people to go to the designated cesspool.

In this regard, the Hulin Army has accumulated a lot of experience, that is, the campsites are divided according to a certain organization when camping, and then each campsite has night-time people, holding the camp diagram to guide soldiers who are convenient to get up at night to "return".

The overall layout of the camp should not only consider the convenience of concentrated defecation, but also consider how the enemy defends during night attacks. Therefore, before the entire army camps, it should be arranged well, and then divide the labor for each team to let them know that once an attack occurs at night, their teams are responsible for attacking or defending.

These experiences were not thought out by Yuwen Wenkong, but by the continuous training of the Hulin Army in the wild. When marching in the wild, as long as it does not rain or guard the outside of the camp, even if the camp is not established, there will be no danger for the soldiers of the army to sleep on the ground.

Of course, if you march in the snowy winter, even if you are in a hurry, you will let the soldiers sleep in the snow, which will lead to a large number of non-combat attrition.

Yuwen Wen looked up at the sky. There were stars and no clouds. It shouldn't rain these days. Now it's autumn. Even if there will be dew in the early morning, the soldiers sleeping in their sleeping bags will not catch a cold.

After walking around the camp, Yu Wenwen returned to his resting place. Instead of removing his armor, he opened his simple sleeping bag and fell asleep on the ground.

Today is the first day of forcing the army. The entire army traveled 100 miles a day and camped on the Wuping area west of Xiaohuang to rest. The camping site is about thirty miles away from Wuping to the north and about 40 miles away from Luyi to the east. It is not close to both, so the entire army can only camp in the wilderness.

The soldiers were not wearing armor when marching, but when they were sleeping, they were wearing armor to sleep just in case. If they were safe overnight, they would take off their armor and put them on the carriage before marching the next day so that they could rush onto the road with light clothes.

Yuwen Wen was riding a horse all the way, and he was not tired, but his spirit was always tense, so he was also tired.

However, he sat up before he could not sleep because he couldn't sleep.

It’s not that he misses women or that he doesn’t feel comfortable sleeping on the ground. Yuwen Wen feels unsafe. Even though he strongly advocates not to set up camps and sleep in the open in order to hurry up, the insecurity in his heart makes Yuwen Wen unable to sleep.

Without a tent, it means that the vision is wide and there is a bonfire lighting. Then the assassin can see his figure clearly. As the commander of the entire army, it is easy to be shot to death by an unruly person who hides somewhere.

In other words, Yuwen Wen always felt that there was a pair of eyes staring at him somewhere. As a "patient with paranoia", he didn't like this feeling very much, but it was absolutely necessary to let this feeling affect his reason.

The more you fear something, the more you have to face it. Yuwen Wen simply sat up and looked at the notes in the bonfire. If there were really an assassin, he would definitely be able to distinguish his unique identity.

Yuwen Wen's notebook is a river trend chart in Henan. He is now fighting in the plains and the cavalry does not have an advantage, so he has to think about the direction of rivers in various places so that he can use these natural trenches to avoid possible assaults by enemy cavalry.

Bozhou Prefecture is located on the south bank of Wo River. The flow direction of Wo River flows from northwest to southeast. The Zhengzhou and Bianzhou areas in the upper reaches of Wo River are now controlled by the Yuchi family. The other party can send troops to take a boat down the Wo River and attack the Bozhou area in the lower reaches.

Even if the soldiers do not take a boat, the baggage and food can be carried by boat, and the army will travel south together, saving time and effort.

Thinking of this, Yuwen Wen turned to the entry "White Water", which was copied from "Shui Jing Zhugu Water", and the original author was Li Daoyuan.

As mentioned in the book, the gully water comes out of the Langdang Canal in Yangwu County, Henan Province and flows southeast. It is called Wo Shui (Bi Shui) in the Peihe Fu Gully area. Wo Shui passes Fu Gully, Wuping, and Luyi to Qiao (Xiao Huang, Bozhou at this time), and continues to flow southeast.

Therefore, the upstream of the vortex water is called gutter water. The "gutter" of this gutter water is different from the gutter where the gutter capsizes.

A gutter capsize means that impossible things can happen, which is really unlucky. The gutter in it refers to a hidden drainage ditch, which corresponds to a gutter (open drainage ditch). The "gutter" and "gap" of the gutter water is the name of the river, just like the "gap".

After the gutter water passed through Fugou, it was clearly called Whishui, and the flow was southeast. However, Yuwen Wen's march route was from east to west. He could not use Whishui to transport soldiers and baggage, so the infantry could only march with his feet.

Zhengzhou Prefecture governs Changshe and Bozhou Prefecture governs Xiaohuang. Two cities are one in the west and one in the east. Yuwen Wen's troops are in Xiaohuang. Yu Wenming leads troops outside Changshe City. Yuchi Shun is stationed in Xuchang not far north of Changshe.

The distance between Changshe and Xiao Huang is more than 200 miles and close to 300 miles. If you travel 30 miles a day, Yuwen Wen's army would advance westward to Changshe and Yu Wenming join forces, which would take ten days.

This is based on common sense. Yuchi Shun, who is in Xuchang, will have such a judgment, and Yuchi Dun, who is in Caozhou, north of Bozhou, will also think so.

Yuwen Wen felt that if he used this mindset to lead an army, and used three days to force his army to march westward, suddenly appeared in the east of Changshe, and then joined forces with Yu Wenming to attack north, would Yuchi Shun, who was in Xuchang, feel "very surprised"?

Yuchi Dun, who was in Caozhou, was eager to capture Suiyang and Xiao Huang. If he wanted to advance westward to reinforce Yuchi Shun at this time, he had only time to send cavalry. If the cavalry that had galloped 300 miles a day and night could not succeed in a sneak attack, he would not be able to reverse the situation at all.

Therefore, Yuwen Wen's tactic is to detour in front of the enemy, fight a time difference, turn the two-on-two situation into two-on-one, first solve Yuchi Shun, and then again two-on-one, deal with Yuchi Dun.

This tactic of using the enemy's mind to break the enemy was inspired by the battle example of Sima Yi's defeat of Meng Da during the Three Kingdoms.

Meng Da occupied Shangyong and rebelled against Wei and returned to Han (Shu Han). Sima Yi, who was in Wancheng at that time, was preparing to lead troops to quell the rebellion. The two places were 1,200 miles apart. The terrain of Shangyong area was rugged. According to common sense, it took Sima Yi's army a month to reach Shangyong.

So Meng Da was not anxious and waited for the troops sent by Zhuge Liang to come to Shangyong. As a result, Sima Yi only took eight days to lead the troops outside Shangyong City. Meng Da was caught off guard and was at a loss and was defeated and died.

Yuwen Wen wanted to learn from Sima Yi and gave his father-in-law Yuchi Shun, who was in Xuchang, a "surprise", so he divided his troops north to station Suiyang, the gateway of Xiaohuang, so that Yuchi Dun's attention was focused on the direction of Suiyang-Xiaohuang.

He unexpectedly led his troops westward and worked with Yu Wenming to defeat Yuchi Shun with all his might. At that time, Yuchi Dun, who was still trying to take Suiyang, would become an isolated army.

Yuchi Dun could neither get out of Xiao Huang quickly nor save Yuchi Shun. He was in Caozhou in the east, and was seven or eight hundred miles away from the Luoyang defenders in Luozhou in the west. The two sides could not support each other, and would only be defeated by Yu Wenming and Yu Wen Wen one by one, and sooner or later it would be over.

By then, Yuchi Dun would have to retreat back to Hebei in shame. The Luoyang defenders were alone and could not defend the city at all. In this way, the situation in Henan would be "as stable as a dog".

The tactic carefully planned by Yuwen Wen, there are only two problems that need to be solved. First, the enemy cannot find out the direction of his forced marching too early; second, Yuchi Shun cannot die at his hands.

As a son-in-law, Yuwen Wenruo personally killed his father-in-law Yuchi Shun, so how did he face Yuchi Chifan and Yuchi Mingyue in the future?

Yuwen Wen is not an idiot and will not order the soldiers not to hurt Yuchi Shun before the war, but he does not want to get the opponent's blood with his own hands, so he does not intend to charge in the battle, otherwise there will be a bloody duel between the father-in-law and son-in-law, and anyone who kills him will be a tragedy.

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At night, Fugou City by the gutter water, many soldiers lined up on the pier to wait for boarding the boat. Torches were everywhere, illuminating the pier as if it were daytime.

Shipping at night is very risky, but now the autumn water is abundant and the water level of the gutter has risen sharply, so the ship has no worries about bottoming out. Although the sight at night is not good, it is easy to bump into the ship or get stranded on the curved river channel, as long as the torch is lit to light it, this is not a big problem.

On each ship, boatmen light a torch and insert it on the bow and stern of the boat so that boatmen can use the flames to see the distance between their ships from the front and back ships, and also see clearly the water surface, that is, the situation on both sides of the straits. At the bend of the river, measures can be taken in time to avoid collisions or strandings on the shore.

The torches illuminated the water surface and the cabin, illuminated the blades with cold light, and illuminated the soldiers wearing iron armor. There were many soldiers sitting on each ship, wearing sharp edges, leaning against the cabin, bowing their heads and dozing.

After rushing for a day, many soldiers were quite tired. Even if someone was seasick, they fell asleep on the boat. The boatman who was driving the boat carefully looked at the river surface, holding bamboo poles from time to time, allowing the boat to avoid the rapid and dangerous shoals.

In order to avoid hitting the ship in front, a troop transport ship turned a little fast. When pushed by the turbulent river, it quickly crossed the river surface. The ship behind could not dodge and hit it head-on, knocking the ship in front in half.

The sudden capsizing caused many soldiers on the ship to fall into the water unexpectedly. Some struggled to float to the surface, while others were dragged down by heavy armor. They struggled on the water for a few times, choked a few mouthfuls of water and then sank into the water, and they never showed up again.

The boatman on the back boat quickly jumped into the water to save people, and some boatman stretched out bamboo poles to get the struggling soldiers on the water to catch them. The subsequent boats bypassed the river and followed the ships in front to continue moving forward.

The ships connected to the head and tail formed a fleet of several miles, slowly sailing downstream, while the length of the fleet was still increasing. The ignition lights on each ship gathered into lines, outlining the shape of the gutter water channel.

From a distance, it looks like a fire dragon formed by countless torches, swimming on the dark earth.

It is natural to use torches to illuminate the ship at night to ensure safety, but this will expose the size of the fleet. Under normal circumstances, there will be no such large-scale fleets among the people who sail at night. Anyone with discerning eyes will know that the army is operating at a glance.

And based on the direction of the fleet, you can determine where the army is going.

The gutter water passes through Fugou and is clearly called Wo Water. Wo Water continues to flow southeastward and passes through Yangxia, Wuping, and Luyi, and then flows north from Xiaohuangcheng, Bozhou Prefecture, and turns to the southeast to continue flowing.

It takes about 100 miles from Xuchang to Fugou, and from Fugou to Yangxia, the distance is more than 80 miles on the water. For soldiers who take a boat at night, this distance is all within their own control areas, so even if the boat makes such a big noise at night, there is no need to worry about being discovered by the enemy.

When the people along the way saw each other, they couldn't even hide, so who dared to do anything?

The gutter water (vortex water) flows rapidly and is blowing northwest wind. The fleet with smooth sailing can reach Yangxia at dawn the next day. This is much faster than land marching, which does not delay rest and saves energy.

From Yangxia to the east is Wuping, controlled by the enemy. In broad daylight, whether to fight or not, the enemy can detect the appearance of the fleet.

At that time, the fleet that was traveling alone on the river would be easily shot by the enemy's archers on both sides of the left and right sides. Once the opponent shoots rockets, the entire fleet is in danger of destruction. Therefore, it is not enough for the army to march alone to go through water.

Outside Fugou City, cavalry lit torches and gathered into a considerable team, galloping forward along the dirt road heading to Yangxia. While they were rushing, they also guarded the flanks of the fleet.
Chapter completed!