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Chapter 39 Preparation for War

People usually make mistakes in their judgments, which lead to accidents, which lead to panic, behavioral disorders, and mental and physical collapse.

Psychologists two thousand years ago perfectly demonstrated the psychological characteristics of the two thousand Wu cavalry.

When the left and right armies separated and surrounded Yanjia Village in a fan shape. In advance, they were told that there were only a hundred households in the village, and it was not difficult to occupy this small village. Just a charge could solve the battle. When would the households who took the manure fork be the opponent of the cavalry?

When they had just rushed to two hundred steps, hail-like rain of arrows came to their faces. Many people were shot down before they could take off their shields hanging on their horses. The sprinting cavalry seemed to be slapped on the shore, and they were instantly smashed to pieces.

The sudden blow stunned the cavalry. They didn't understand the hundreds of households. Even women and children could not shoot so many arrows. This was seriously unscientific.

Before these cavalry could react from their initial ignorance, the second wave of arrows was poured down. The wailing knights were enough to prove that these people in the village were not using soft bows from the Zhuanghu, but hard bows from the army.

Only bows and arrows have such a fast firing rate, which can shake the charging cavalry. The sound of puff arrows piercing through the armor kept ringing, and the cavalry in the front row fell one after another, while the cavalry in the back row was still charging forward. The speeding horse hooves stepped on the body of Xiri's robe. The broken bones and whispered robe can still be heard as the sternum was broken, and the skull was scattered like a broken watermelon. The gray brain and blood splashed like watermelon.

The bloody smell in the air suddenly became stronger, and Luan Bu took a deep breath, as if every cell in his body was awakening.

"It's so satisfying. The last time I endured so many cavalry charges was in the clouds. The cavalry of the Huns was much stronger than these people. If it were the cavalry of the Huns, they would not stop once they launched the charge, nor would they retreat halfway. If they wanted to repel their charge, they could only kill them all. Besides, what kind of fool would let their subordinates do this to Zhuangzi, which was not conducive to the cavalry charge." Luan Bu stood on the stack of firewood and looked at the retreating cavalry with his beard and said to Luan Ling beside him.

"Grandpa, the only one who can control so many cavalry in the Wu army is probably your old friend General Xiang. You said that, but it's a bit..."

"You ghost girl, but I'm very surprised. Why did Sanqiu launch such a large-scale charge without reconnaissance, causing heavy losses. It seems that this failed attack caused him to lose at least 500 cavalry, but our army has not suffered any casualties. This is not like his actions."

Luan Bu looked at the battlefield where corpses were everywhere with some suspicion in his eyes.

In contrast, Yun Xiao became much more free and easy. After the initial panic, the order had been restored in the military camp. The old man Yu and a group of Mo family disciples comforted the village households and set up a spare military tent for everyone to live at night. He also picked out some farmers and women to cook a steaming lunch for everyone.

The three-bow bed crossbow shot and killed several Wu cavalry who came to test, but the Wu soldiers did not move any more.

Yun Xiao put down his telescope and walked down the military camp that was only three feet tall with some ease.

"Old Yu, after nightfall, let the farmers go home to move things. Everything has to be moved into the military village, food, bedding, etc., and they must be moved here for a few days."

"Juzi, how could so many Wu soldiers suddenly appear?"

"It wasn't that it suddenly appeared, someone had already found it in advance. These cavalry were just reinforcements. If I was right, I guess the reinforcements would arrive in a few days. We killed so many people and snatched so much wealth. It is impossible to expect them not to take revenge."

"But we were very careful, and the military camp was burned down. The back road was swept by the Cang brothers himself. How could it be?"

"The Cang brothers also swept the ruts. The heavy ruts of gold have already crushed two deep ditches on the road. These deep ditches are like two thick arrows, pointing at us. What if it is better, man's calculation than God's calculations. Lao Luanbu came to show off his power with his men of a thousand or hundreds of men, otherwise the cavalry would have occupied the village and cut off our supply."

"Fortunately, Juzi had the foresight and dug a well in the military camp, otherwise we would be trapped by them to death by just one source of water."

"Okay, the cavalry's attack has been repelled by Luan Bu. I asked the farmers to go home to get things. Fortunately, I robbed Changyi Hou's grain transport team a few days ago. Otherwise, it would be really hard to survive. Even if our food is added to Luan Bu's people, it will be enough for us to eat for more than a month. But the Wu army...hehe."

Yun Xiao knew that once Yan Ruxin told Zhou Yafu the news that the Wu Chu army was raising food in Huai Sikou. Zhou Yafu would not miss this opportunity. Once the food and grass of Wu Chu army were cut off, it would be a matter of how many days they could last.

Now I have to think about how to prevent Luan Bu from entering the military camp. The things in the warehouse must not be known to the old guy. With so much gold, maybe this old guy will be a gangster.

"General, there are ambushers in Zhuangzi. As soon as our army approached, arrows flew like locusts. Our army suffered heavy losses and lost more than 500 horses. According to subordinates, there were at least one thousand ambushers in Zhuangzi."

Xiang Sanqiu was so angry that he threw a whip hard on the scout's face yesterday. The scout didn't dare to hide, and Yin Hong's blood flowed down her cheeks and didn't dare to wipe it.

"Come on, drag it down and kill it." Xiang Sanqiu used too much force, and the mount under his crotch screamed and turned around the ground.

"God of life, general, please spare me..."

The scout howled and was dragged away by Xiang Sanqiu's personal soldiers. After a scream, a bloody head appeared.

"Damn, I've been pecked by the family birds today. I sent an order to encircle the village with my generals, and I would not be allowed to attack without me."

"General, our army's rations are not available for a few days."

"Don't be afraid, the infantry will support us in three days. Five thousand infantrymen, and I, five thousand cavalrymen, are still afraid that I can't take over a small farm."

Xiang Sanqiu glared at Yanjiazhuang fiercely, then rode his horse and headed towards the hillside. He was about to set up the central army tent in this easy-to-observe place.

"Old Luan, the Wu army suddenly came here and it was probably because the drunken man was not drinking. Could it be that the Wu army had leaked the news about your old Yan family? The King of Wu is trying to cut off General Dou's arms in one fell swoop. This plan is very poisonous."

Yun Xiao was with Yan Qing and analyzed the reason for the sudden arrival of Wu army this time to Luan Bu. As for the fact that he stole the gold of King Wu, he used the Spring and Autumn style to ignore it.

Luan Bu was wearing a beard, and he also thought that the Wu army was coming to attack him. Yun Xiao lived here for more than a month, and Yan Qing's daughter had nothing to do. As soon as he showed off his power, thousands of cavalry rushed out. This was clearly for him, and he was a little embarrassed to see why he was so arrogant. This time he attracted the wolf. Xiang Sanqiu is his old friend for many years, and he still knows his abilities.

Escape is a way to die. More than a thousand people cannot go far and they are defeated by the cavalry's charge. Five thousand cavalrymen will eat up one thousand of their infantry and will never win. For the sake of the present, the only way to defend the Yan family Zhuangzi is to defend the road.

"Haha, it's true that I have brought disaster to the Yan family. I have to work with Hou Yun in the current situation. I wonder if Hou Yun has a wonderful plan to fight the enemy?"

"Old Luan praised the boy. How dare I speak nonsense in front of the old general? I still listen to the old hero's teachings."

Yan Qing and Luan Bu both nodded and smiled with beards, and they deeply agreed with Yun Xiao's attitude.

But after half of their laughter, they couldn't laugh out loud because they had no way to deal with the situation in front of them.

Seeing the two old guys with bitter faces, Yun Xiao said, "I'm a little stupid, I wonder if the old hero is willing to listen."

"But it's okay."

"One of this is to quickly send a confidant knight, Pegasus, to report to General Dou to know, and ask General Dou to send troops to help."

"Don't ask you to tell me this, I have already sent someone to go."

"Oh, the second is to divide the troops to defend. The old hero has many subordinates and the military camp cannot be occupied. He should be stationed in the village. One is to support each other, and the other is to ensure the water source of the military camp."

Yun Xiao deliberately did not explain the fact that there was a well in the military camp. The reason for protecting the water source was enough to allow Luan Bu to defend the Zhuangzi."

"Well, this husband has no objection, but my military rations are only enough for ten days. Please ask Mr. Yun..."

"Now Yun Xiao and the old hero are in the same boat, so naturally they won't let the old hero go hungry. How about the boy raising 3,000 kilograms of grain and rice for the old hero?"

"I thanked me here."

The intense preparations for the war were fully launched in Yanjiazhuang. Yun Xiao asked the villagers to dig a deep and wide trench around the military camp overnight, and all the digging soil was piled onto the side of the military camp.

The soil in early spring is soft and sticky, and quite slippery. Not to mention walking on such a mountain, you will be lucky even if you climb up. Luan Bu turned around with his hands behind his back, nodded in surprise at Tushan, and turned around and left.

Many trenches were also dug in the village, and as for the traps with bamboo sticks, they were everywhere. Luan Bu also carefully sent people to the battlefield to pick up the feather arrows that were shot. It would be better to have one more arrow before the battle.

Rows of wooden stakes were cut into sharp tips and penetrated deeply into the soil. This was a good way to deal with cavalry and were invented in the pre-Qin period.

Yun Xiao made another idea outside the village and the cavalry charged the route of the cavalry. If the galloping horse accidentally stepped in, the horse's legs would be broken in an instant. It is also conceivable that the knight's fate would be lost while sitting on the war horse, and there was no other result except being broken by a broken tendon.

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