At night, the autumn wind blew, and the camp outside Zuocheng was pitch black except for the scattered flames. Since the commander rectified the military discipline a few days ago and severely punished a group of soldiers, the military discipline of various troops has obviously improved a lot. No one dared to make fire without authorization at night and make noise.

In order to prevent the camp from roaring, the lights were strictly controlled at night in the military camp and soldiers were strictly prohibited from walking around. Except for getting up at night to go to the toilet and defecate, no one could run around in the camp for no reason.

Before, although the lights were also controlled at night in the military camp, the implementation was not strictly implemented. Sometimes people secretly set fires to keep warm, or secretly roast some prey to satisfy their hunger. Although the generals of the patrol camp stopped them when they discovered it, they often cursed a few words.

It’s different now. Anyone who dares to violate military discipline will have to be beaten or whipped.

The camp under the night sky was almost silent, with only the sound of gurgling water coming from Wuzhanggou on the south side. The ditch water flowed slowly from west to east, and finally flowed into the big zodiac called "Heze" dozens of miles east.

Zuocheng is the capital of Caozhou Prefecture and is also the capital of Jiyin County. The so-called "mountain, south and north are called Yang". The name of Jiyin comes from "south of Jishui". Zuocheng is located south of Jishui, but in fact it is sandwiched between two Jishui Rivers.

The Ji River passes through Xingze from west to east and continues to flow eastward. It is divided into two branches, north and south, known as Beiji and Nanji in the world.

The north of Ji Xingyangwu, Fengqiu, Jiyang, Yinju, Zuocheng, the north of Dingtao, the south of Ji Xingyangwu, Fengqiu, Jiyang, Yinju, Zuocheng, and the south of Dingtao, and the Nanji ancient Tao was named "Zishui" in the former Han Dynasty.

The Lishui River was a branch of Ji River. During the Later Han Dynasty, the government governed the river and changed the way of Lishui to the way of Nanji. The name of Lishui disappeared from this and was replaced by Nanji. The Heshui River flowed into the east of Nanji, and was also called "Wuzhanggou", which means that the width of the river surface is about five zhang.

However, there is a lot of rain in summer and autumn, and the water level of rivers in various places has risen sharply, such as Beiji and Wuzhanggou (Nanji). Today, Wuzhanggou has a river width of more than ten zhang, so it is a bit troublesome to cross the river.

But these troubles are nothing in front of portable bridge devices.

In the autumn wind, Yuwen Wen, covered in clothes, stood on a small mound by the river bank on the south bank, looking at the five simple floating bridges crossing the river in front of him. These specially built floating bridges can be folded and installed in a carriage to move with the army. When they arrive at the destination, they can be easily opened and laid.

Five floating bridges were built in one hour, and a large number of soldiers and horses crossed the river at night. Although they did not light a torch and were pitch black all around, the soldiers held their horses in one hand and groped with straightened ropes on the floating bridge, and could still cross the river calmly.

In late autumn, the night wind was a little cool. Yu Wenwen felt the coolness, but he did not tighten the cloak. The battle was about to happen, and he felt very excited. His whole body was getting hot, so how could he feel cold?

The enemy of Caozhou is the last field force that the Yuchi family can organize and invest in combat in the near future. There is another army south of the Yellow River, stationed in Zhengzhou.

For Yuwen Wen, as long as he resolves the enemy in Caozhou and the situation in Henan is settled, the Yuchi family will no longer be able to organize an army to fight back in the short term.

Even the field troops to defend Yecheng could not be enough.

This does not mean that the Yuchi family lacks people. On the contrary, Hebei's wealth is now the leader in the world. When it comes to manpower and material resources, it is stronger than other places. However, such manpower and material resources cannot be mobilized by the end court.

In the era of aristocratic families, the central court had little control over the local area. If the court was powerful, local tyrants would still obey. The government had to recruit manpower and material resources, so they could only honestly submit.

But if the situation in the court was not good, these local snakes would not even bother to do anything to disobey the emperor. When Zhou State attacked Qi and the troops were approaching Yecheng, they saw Gao family in various parts of Hebei, so they would not say anything about the army of kings. As long as the Zhou army appeared in the boundaries of the prefectures and counties, the wise men from all over the country would rush to surrender.

This is what is recorded in historical books: "Shandong's clothing and hats are mostly welcome to the Zhou army."

Yuwen Yong, the Emperor of Zhou, who was personally invading, entered Yecheng. Many well-educated people were excited and waited for the winners to recruit them to become officials. The change of artifacts was not a big problem for everyone.

Just like a business goes bankrupt, the shopkeeper and the guy go to another business to do things. For them, they are just changing their boss.

If it were the Yuchi army who attacked Shannan and continued to Shangwan, Rangcheng, Xiangyang, and Anlu, and were about to approach Xiyang, probably many people in Xiyang City would wait to compete with the winners.

By then, Yuwen Wen would spend all his wealth and carry all kinds of gold, silver and jewelry to the top of the city to spread it. He wanted to reward the defenders and encourage morale, but there were probably not many people who would work hard for him.

This is the reality. Any ambition or ambition must be based on military victory. If you cannot win a battle, you will not be able to win a good reputation. At most, like Dou Jiande in the late Sui Dynasty, you will become a stepping stone for the winner and then be missed by the people of Hebei for hundreds of years.

The King of Xiyang will become a tragic figure missed by the people in the future, or a master with great success. It depends on whether he can win the battle and whether he can laugh to the end.

Therefore, for Yuwen Wen, the battle tonight must be won. Only in this way can he solve the Yuchi family and bring his prestige to a new level.

At the critical moment, of course, we have to tell the signs. Although Yuwen Wen doesn’t believe this, auspicious signs are better than evil signs. Now that he is in the bank of Wuzhanggou, he can forcefully contact auspicious signs.

Wuzhanggou is also known as Nanji. Yuwen Wen is now between Zuocheng (west) and Dingtao (east). The Nanji River channel was originally the Zishui River channel. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, heroes competed for the Central Plains. After the Han King Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu, he became emperor at the Yang of the Zishui River south of Dingtao (the north bank of the Zishui River).

This kind of auspicious omen sounds very auspicious, but it is just a far-fetched and meaningless. At the same time, it can also be far-fetched and bad omen.

At night, the autumn wind is five zhang, that is "the autumn wind is five zhangyuan."

This evil omen is too cunning. Yuwen Wen dared not think about his "Star falls in autumn wind, Wuzhanggou", so he calmed down. Seeing that the team crossed the river for most of the time, he walked down the mound and hiked up the bridge to cross the river.

When Shu King Yuchi Dun died in battle, people in Yecheng would inevitably be panic. The situation on the Yuchi side was unfavorable, so there would definitely be someone who wanted to change his course. Such people would definitely be in the army stationed in Caozhou.

Yuwen Wen has been "inciting rebellion" for a while, hoping to instigate some enemy generals to fight back from inside and outside to eat up the enemy in Caozhou. Then, south of the Yellow River, only the troops in his father-in-law Yuchi Shun's hands will be left, and the other party will definitely be unable to turn the world back.

When the Yellow River is lost, everyone knows that the Yuchi family is about to be finished. Even if there is still the Bingzhou army controlled by Yuchi Qin from Hedong, the situation is over. The noble families and powerful families in various parts of Hebei will not pay their lives for this dying court.

The local snakes abandoned Gao Qi back then, but now they will sit down and watch the destruction of the Yecheng court.

Therefore, as long as the enemy in Caozhou is resolved as soon as possible, the Yuchi family can be resolved as soon as possible. Yuwen Wen tried his best to "climb relatives" and finally "climb relatives" and contacted "cousin" Helankuan.

Helan Kuan's father Helanxiang was the nephew of Taizu Yuwen Tai, and the cousin of King Qi Yuwen Liang, now Qi, so according to relatives, Helan Kuan was Yuwen Wen's cousin.

Although this kind of kinship relationship is similar to that, at least it can bring the relationship closer. Starting with this relationship, we can further talk about the interests.

Yuwen Liang was familiar with Helankuan when he was young. The two were old friends, old relationships, and Yuwen Wen's handwritten letter analyzing the interests. He finally said that the other party "abandoned the dark and turned to the light."

The two sides agreed that in the early morning of this day, Helankuan would cooperate with Yuwen Wen as an internal response.

After crossing the river, Yuwen Wen took out his pocket watch and looked at it. Because there was no moonlight, he looked at the black hands on the white dial for a long time before he could barely see it clearly. It is now one o'clock in the middle of the night, and there are still two hours (an hour) before the agreed time.

From the crossing of the river to the enemy camp outside Zuocheng west, it took about two hours to walk at night.

After a short rest, the vanguard had already set out to open the way for the night-attacked army. Yuwen Wen looked up at the sky again and saw that even a trace of starlight could not be seen in the night sky in the autumn wind.

The stars in the sky have been blocked by dark clouds, as if they have fallen to the earth and can no longer hang high in the sky, shining brightly.
Chapter completed!