Following Dao Dao Brother Da Niu's order, these more than a hundred sergeants with pockets on their backs rushed to the front of the battle line. On the entire front, there were nearly a thousand sergeants doing the same. After they rushed out of the shield formation, they quickly relieved themselves. He opened the mouth of the cloth bag and poured it on the ground. A pungent smell of wolf dung hit his face, along with the smell of kerosene and saltpeter. A large pile of dry firewood appeared in front of everyone. A group of three to five people quickly gathered the dry firewood together, forming a firewood pile ten or twenty steps away.
Daoist Brother Da Niu raised his right hand high and made it into a fist. The auxiliary soldiers who had piled the firewood quickly retreated behind their shields. From each group of firewood pilers, a guy stood out and rubbed the flint, igniting it. He picked up a torch, and as Brother Dao Niu and the captains of other teams suddenly dropped their raised fists, these torches were also thrown out one after another. When they reached the pyres, raging flames immediately burst into flames.
Along with the flames, there was thick black smoke and the choking smell of fireworks. As the flames were ignited, a burst of cheers erupted from the Tianshi Dao sergeants, but before they could continue to yell and curse, these The cheers turned into coughs one after another, because the wind was facing them!
Fellow Taoist Sangkun was coughing and wiping his eyes. Tears and snot had now become streams on his face, and his originally waxy face was now smoky. It was completely pitch black. Except for a little bit of white in his two eyes, his whole body looked as if he had taken a bath in black water. He could hardly even make out his human form.
Fellow Taoist Sangkun said intermittently: "What, ahem, what's going on, ahem, what's going on, ahem, why is this smoke, ahem, blowing towards us, we, ahem, ah."
He could hardly even open his eyes. He almost instinctively inserted the knife in his hand on the ground. He stretched out his hand and touched everywhere. He suddenly touched Brother Da Niu next to him. He only heard a roar in his ears. It sounded like a thunder: "Asshole, what are you touching, ahem. I still have a knife in my hand. Turn around."
Taoist Brother Sangkun quickly turned around and turned his back to the smoke. This made him feel better. He opened his eyes and saw that one step away from the side, Taoist Brother Danniu also turned around, with his back to the smoke. Yan, his face still had a normal color, his eyes were slightly squinted, and he was looking at himself.
I heard Taoist Brother Da Niu say in a deep voice: "Didn't you learn how to smoke in front of the enemy when you were in the Jin army?"
Sangkun shook his head quickly and said, "I've never tried it before. In the past, the soldiers in the front row stepped forward to take over after the smoke. I am a jumping soldier, and I only joined when the people behind were almost killed. I have never given smoke like this." I choked. However, I think in previous wars, the smoke would not blow back to our own people."
Daoist Brother Da Niu cursed bitterly: "You are so stupid, you didn't even look at the direction of the wind when you attacked, so you let me charge, just fucking smoke, whoever gave this order, you are really fucking..." "
At this point, he suddenly stopped talking, because he realized that if Xu Daofu hadn't personally ordered the charge, how could those conches sound? If these words reached Xu Daofu's ears, his head , I'm afraid he can't keep it, so he could only scold Xu Daofu in his heart, eat back the words that came to his mouth, and then said: "That's all, on this battlefield, the situation will not change suddenly. Maybe they just smoke when the wind is favorable. We have never encountered this kind of thing. Fellow Taoist Sangkun, can you see me?"
Sangkun opened his eyes wide and looked in the direction of Taoist Brother Da Niu. A few steps away, he could no longer see his hand. He could only hear his voice but not see his person. He shook his head and said, "I can't see you. , Brother Da Niu!"
Brother Da Niu said with satisfaction: "Very good, if you can't see me even a few steps away, the Jin army will not be able to see us hundreds of steps away. Okay, now everyone listens, follow the previous instructions For training, take out the rope for me and hold each other, everyone spreads out in three rows, five steps apart from each other, and each row leads everyone forward based on the sight of soldiers."
Sangkun threw out the rope and asked doubtfully: "Brother Dao Niu, can we visual soldiers really see the situation ahead?"
Brother Da Niu wiped his eyes proudly: "Haha, this trick of visual soldiers is specially practiced. We are in water and fire. With a pair of blazing eyes, we can see dozens of people in the thick smoke." Buwai, the reason why we are always so successful in fighting the Jin army is that we, the visual soldiers, listen now, all follow me. When I tell everyone to lie down, they all lie down, and use shields to cover their heads and backs. Back, do you understand?"
All the Tianshi Dao disciples in the same team shouted in unison: "Understood."
Sangkun felt the rope wrapped around his wrist move and pulled it forward quickly. He gritted his teeth, thrust the sword into his back, held the shield in his left hand, and ran forward quickly. While running, he followed Dao Brother Da Niu and other soldiers in the team and shouted loudly: "The Beifu Army will go, cough, and die today. The Beifu Army, cough, cough, will die today!"
In the front line of the Jin army, under a commander's flag with the word "tan", Tan Zhi looked coldly ahead at the black smoke that had filled the air and spread even against the wind to more than ten steps in front of his phalanx, and said with disdain The corner of his mouth curled up: "It's the same trick again, smoke attack."
Captain Axiba stood next to Tan Zhi, looked at Tan Shihuai on the other side, and said: "We have never fought against the main force of demon thieves. Do they always use smoke to become invisible in battles? Isn't it said in the Art of War? , is the smoke released only when retreating and escaping?"
Tan Shihuai smiled and said: "Yes, this is their way of fighting. The demon thieves are not like ordinary troops, marching in formation and fighting one after another. Instead, they attack quickly with short soldiers and use smoke to cover themselves. , to avoid being killed by our army’s arrow rain. Listen, they are yelling like this now, sometimes closer and sometimes further away, just to confuse us. In fact, the people who are actually charging don’t scream very much. It is often the people in the back row who are shouting. We If the arrows are released, they will hit the open space behind and avoid the demon thief in front. Often, after the archers go out and fire a few rounds of arrows, they will find that the demon thief has actually killed them in front of them."
Captain Asiba stuck out his tongue: "According to this, we should shoot randomly at a place about a hundred steps in front of the formation, so that we can kill the demon thief."
Tan Zhi shook his head: "No, the demon thief is cunning. Sometimes he rushes forward for a while and then retreats. He just tricks us into shooting like this. It's a waste of arrows. Give me the order and follow the drill. The enemy is close to 30 steps." When you hear footsteps inside, you immediately respond to them, and you are not allowed to fire arrows without my order!"
