Liu Zunlong gritted his teeth: "This has divided more than half of the people to go to Zatoichi. The camp is empty. What should we do if we are attacked by more than a hundred to hundreds of water ghosts?"
Lin Zihao smiled slightly: "Isn't there smoke? There is beacon fire. You can ask them to come back for reinforcements according to the number of smokes lit. The enemy troops in our own camp are enough to deal with an enemy army of less than 100 people. If If there are more than 300 enemy troops and less than 1,000 people, we need them to come back to help. If there are more than 5,000 enemy troops, let them quickly wave flags and shout outside, spread more flags and drums, think that they are suspicious, and at the same time, quickly respond to our friendly forces to support us. , or to support our evacuation, isn’t that the end of it?”
Liu Zunlong nodded and looked back at the deputy general following him: "Jin Fu, did you hear that?"
This officer named Jin Fu was Ma Jinfu, the deputy general of Liu Zunlong's Wulindu garrison. He nodded: "I have recorded them all. According to the different colors of the smoke, come to support."
Liu Zunlong said in a deep voice: "Let's set off now. I will lead the Chinese army guards and personal guards to guard the beacon tower here. By the way, I will take three days of food and grass with me when I leave. There will be no food in Zutoichi."
At night, on the beacon tower, Lin Zihao and Liu Zunlong sat opposite each other. The ferry camp, which was still noisy during the day, had been quiet for a long time. All the torches were extinguished, and only the stars in the sky shone on this not-too-distant camp. In the large camp, in the river a mile away, the sound of waves is still there, the sound of the river water lapping against the rocks, one wave after another, and the river wind with a fishy smell blows the two people's helmets, and the helmets are The four bright eyes below all looked towards the northeast, the distant river bank.
Lin Zihao breathed a long sigh of relief: "There are no beacon warnings in the north. It seems that we can get through today safely. Old Liu, do you think that this kind of waiting before a war is the most torturous."
Liu Zunlong smiled slightly: "Now I wish that the demon thief would come earlier and fight early, so that after the fight, I won't be bothered anymore. Jiankang can defend it, and Jiangling also defended it last time. This time, I think we can still defend it."
Lin Zihao curled up his lips: "You still can't be careless. The demon thieves have always been elusive. They are even stronger than Brother Wuji and Brother Xile. We, Brother Daogui, also fell into their ambush and suffered a lot of losses." People and horses, so this time, we have to be extra cautious. The target of this camp is too conspicuous. I am afraid that the demon thieves have used the people and traders traveling between Jiangling and Changsha in the past year to find out the situation here. Woolen cloth."
Liu Zunlong sneered and said: "The fine work cannot escape my eyes. Look at the forty-seven heads stuck on the wooden piles by the river. This is the fate of these fine work!"
Lin Zihao smiled and waved his hand: "Old Liu, don't get me wrong. I don't mean to belittle your work. I just want to say that not only those who want to destroy and assassinate are called fine workers. Those who only observe with their eyes and look like Passers-by, inquiring about military information, may also be craftsmen, or even some fishermen and common people who have been bribed by them to come and see the location of our camp, estimate the number of defenders, and see where there are arrow towers and watchtowers. How to defend against it?"
Liu Zunlong's face became unsightly and he remained silent.
Lin Zihao said sternly: "This time our three hundred guardsmen came to help. The enemy should not know this information, because before we came to help, you closed the ferry and entered the alert mode. At most, they only knew that there were six people here before. 700 garrison troops. I don’t know that we have strengthened our defense. Most of your subordinates are local soldiers in Jingzhou. Their training and combat capabilities are not as good as my 300 elite troops. If the enemy troops attack rashly, we will give them a head-on blow. "
Liu Zunlong laughed: "All of your brothers are indeed good, but my subordinates are not vegetarians. They once defeated Huan Qian and defeated Gou Lin. If the demon thief really comes, within a thousand people , I am confident that I can defeat them."
Lin Zihao sighed: "Old Liu, don't underestimate the enemy. Huan Qian's men are just a mob, and Gou Lin's men are a bunch of horse thieves. They were ambushed by us after they had robbed enough and wanted to go home. Many of the demon thieves and water ghosts are old thieves from Sanwu, or fierce barbarians from Lingnan. These people are highly skilled in martial arts and are good at group combat. Three or five people form a small sword formation and fight in the style of jumping soldiers. The methods we use in battle may not work."
Liu Zunlong gritted his teeth: "Brothers of your guards, it seems to me that the formation is not like our regular army. The combat mode of a team of fifty people seems to be a small group of several people, with a combination of long and short weapons. Is it just to deal with these demon thieves? "
Lin Zihao nodded: "Yes, if the demon thieves attack the stronghold, they are unlikely to use the conventional tactics of forming a formation, releasing arrows first, and then charging. It is likely that they will swim from the river and attack us at night. , so I ordered the lights in the camp to be extinguished, and all the brothers lurked in the secret posts and were not allowed to appear at will, just to hide themselves. It looks like an undefended empty camp, but in fact, murderous intent is everywhere."
Liu Zunlong smiled slightly: "You are indeed Brother Daogui's guard captain. I have you. By the way, how long have you been following Brother Daogui?"
Lin Zihao said calmly: "After the success of Jianyi, I defected to Brother Daogui from the Chu army. Thanks to him, he never gave up and took me with him. It turned out that most of his guards were from Jingkou. Later, the first two The guard captain was promoted due to merit and transferred to another place, so I am in charge here."
Liu Zunlong softly said "Oh": "Are these brothers from the old Beifu in Jingkou, or are they local soldiers in Jingzhou?"
Lin Zihao smiled slightly: "Of these three hundred brothers, more than two hundred are from Jingkou, less than a hundred are local brothers, and there are more than twenty gang leader sergeants I brought with me, all local, they burn The fish and meat rice balls are delicious. Just now I saw that the brothers were all very happy eating, but you didn’t eat them, Lao Liu. It’s a pity. Do you want to have one now?”
As he spoke, he took out a fish rice ball wrapped in lotus leaves that was lying next to him and handed it to Liu Zunlong.
Liu Zunlong smiled and waved his hand, picked up a helmet-like noodle cake and started to nibble on it: "That's all, I don't like fish very much, and this Guokui cake is what I always like to eat, but I still have to Thank you. The rice balls made by Huotoujun are really good. My brothers still want to eat them. Oh, by the way, the brothers from Zatoichi will also send them to them tomorrow to try. "
Lin Zihao shook his head gently: "I'm afraid they will never have the chance to taste it again."
(End of chapter)
