This night should have been uneventful.

The moon gradually slid from one end of the sky to the other end of the sky. It was already midnight.

Outside the Chinese army's tent, a torch stand stood there. The torches were burning brightly, illuminating a circle of light on the ground.

The soldiers on night duty gathered around the bonfire, roasting millet and eating boringly. From time to time, someone looked up at the torch stand to prevent the torch from burning out and lighting the stand.

At this moment, there was suddenly the sound of messy footsteps approaching.

Several soldiers looked at each other and stood up with a roar. The moment they stood up, their hands were already on the handle of the knife. "Who?!" the captain of the soldiers shouted sternly.

"Master Jun, save my father!" A figure hurriedly burst out of the darkness. The young man cried and fell to his knees with a plop on the ground. The old man who was carrying him behind him had no movement.

Liu Bei was sleeping soundly when he suddenly heard the noise outside the tent. He opened his eyes suddenly. Liu Bei sat up with a roar, and his hand immediately touched the long sword lying beside the manuscript table.

Just as he was wondering what was going on, a guard came in with a torch, "What's the matter?" Liu Bei's eyes were not used to the light of the torch, and he squinted slightly.

"There was a young man outside the tent who said his father had an emergency and came to seek medical treatment." the soldier replied.

If you have an emergency, you should go to the doctor's camp. What are you doing here? Liu Bei was confused. He grabbed his clothes and put them on his body. He got up and walked outside the tent.

There was indeed a young man outside the tent who was crying anxiously, grabbing the guards' hands and asking them to save him.

Seeing Liu Xuande coming out, the young man knelt down to Liu Bei and said, "General, help me! Save my father!" The young man cried and knocked his head against the ground.

The guards on the side hurriedly stretched out their hands to pull it, and Liu Bei also hurriedly stepped forward to help him.

He stepped forward and asked a few words in a hurry, and Liu Bei found out that what happened was this. The young man's father got up to urinate at night. He stood up and took two steps when he fell to the ground with a plop and fell unconscious immediately.

The young man was helpless and came here for help.

After the matter was cleared up and life was at stake, Liu Bei called his soldiers to help carry the old man to the wounded barracks and see a military doctor.

Afterwards, the young man hurriedly went back to pick up his unconscious old father, and then, led by Liu Bei, hurried to the transport camp.

Military doctor Tian Bu was disturbed in the middle of the night. He didn't even bother to put on his clothes. He asked people to lay the old man flat on the bed. Then, everyone in the circle held torches to help Tian Bu light up. Tian Bu was wearing single clothes and leaned down to reach out.

He held the old man's wrist and started taking his pulse.

Judging from the pulse condition, although the pulse condition is slightly weak, it is very stable.

Judging from Tian Bu's many years of medical experience, the old man should be fine and will wake up soon.

Sure enough, after a while, the old man woke up quietly.

Tian Bu went to the car. There was a clay brazier at the front of the car. There was a small earthen pot hanging on the brazier. The earthen pot was suspended on the brazier. The earthen pot was being heated all the time, and the pot was boiling slightly.

Hot water is always kept in the wounded barracks just in case of emergencies.

Tian Bu brought a bowl of hot water with some soothing herbs thrown into the water. He gave it to the old man and let him cool it down a little before drinking it slowly.

Looking at the worried young man beside him, military doctor Tian Bu said a few words, roughly speaking, the old man is old and must not fall again.

Everyone stayed with him, and when the old man slowly drank the hot water, he felt much better.

When the young man felt relieved and saw so many people, especially the general, staying with him in the middle of the night, he felt embarrassed and wanted to go back with his father.

"Don't be in a hurry, take your time." Tian Bu held the young man down.

Liu Bei couldn't help but yawned. At this time, he was extremely curious. After hesitation, he looked at the young man and asked, "Little brother, it's pitch dark at night. How did you find my Chinese army's tent at a glance?"

"Ah? Oh... I saw a fire, so I thought I'd try to ask, but I didn't expect to find the right one all at once." The young man answered.

"Fire? Is it fire from a high place?" Liu Bei thought, and it was indeed so.

"It was only when I saw the fire at a high place that I felt that it looked like a big tent was there." The young man scratched his head and laughed.

Liu Bei asked the answer, and suddenly felt a little emotional in his heart.

The young man found the big tent at night, and sure enough, he saw the only fire in the camp at a high place and guessed where the big tent was.

Tonight, as soon as the torch stand was erected, it came into play immediately.

The military advisor has a clever plan...

Liu Bei was extremely emotional.

Li Mengxi had just sent the torch stand to Liu Bei, and someone used the torch stand to find Liu Bei that night. It was as if Li Mengxi had anticipated that something would happen tonight and had made preparations in advance.

But in fact, it was just a very small probability that Li Mengxi happened to meet him, which made the whole thing magical.

Liu Bei witnessed with his own eyes how clever Li Mengxi was and admired Li Mengxi even more.

The fire flag worked, but it still had shortcomings.

The shortcoming is in the wounded barracks. In times of emergency at night, the central military tent must have a clear fire flag for identification purposes. In addition to the central military tent, there must also be a fire signal in the wounded barracks.

For example, if someone attacks the camp, there will be casualties at this time, and military doctors will be urgently needed at night. Therefore, there must also be a fire flag here in the wounded barracks.

So Liu Bei suggested to the military doctor Tian Bu that Tian Bu also find a long pole and hang a torch to serve as a fire flag.

Tian Bu nodded, "Well, the military advisor told me to hang up the fire flag, but I am busy today and will not have time to be busy in the future."

Liu Bei was immediately slightly surprised. He thought that this was an omission that Li Mengxi had not expected, but it turned out that the military advisor had already anticipated it.

Because it was late at night, Liu Bei stayed for a while and then went back.

When walking back to the Chinese army's tent, Liu Bei looked around. He saw that somewhere, not far away, there was a tall torch stand. This torch stand was not big, and it was not as big as the one in front of the Chinese army's tent, but at night

, a cluster of high firelight is conspicuous enough.

Liu Bei thought for a moment and understood that this must be the carpenter camp under Li Mengxi's management. Only the carpenter camp had the convenience to install torch frames for its own camp first.

The actual situation was just as Liu Bei guessed. Because the carpenter's camp was convenient for work and had enough materials, they casually tied a torch with a long wooden pole and put it there.

Then, on this first night, the Chinese military tent and the carpenter's camp were the only places with conspicuous fire signals from above.

On the first night when the fire flag began to be promoted in the military, another important matter was officially on track.

After setting up camp at the fishing camp today, I went out to fish and didn’t come back at night.

With the addition of isinglass, the Osprey boat finally stopped leaking and was able to support operations on the water surface.

According to Li Mengxi's military order, in order to catch as many fish as possible, the fishing camp must make full use of the time and fish all night long.

Therefore, the fishing camp was busy with fishing all night.

The place where the scouts discovered fish today was a village with many ponds. The ponds were connected to small rivers and ditches that passed through the village. There were seven large and small ponds in the desolate and dilapidated nameless village.

Because the pond was owned by an owner, Guan Yu sent people to collect money and covered all seven fish ponds at the price of three guan for one pond.

The fish cannot be sold on weekdays, and the fish meat is as cheap as dirt. Even if all the fish in a pond are netted, they will not be sold for two guan. Guan Yu told the owner that he would only net them for one night and then leave. He would pay three guan for one night, and the price was very generous.

, so everyone in the village agreed.

It was night, and in the latter part of the night, fishing was still going on.

Only two osprey boats were built in time. Two fishermen stepped on the boats and swayed on the pond. The torches were tied to short sticks, and the short sticks were inserted into the cabin to provide the necessary light.

In the pond at night, the reflection of the torch on the surface of the pond broke into rippling debris.

The ripples on the water surface are very messy.

From this, we can see from the side that the nets are cast so frequently and busily that the water surface cannot be calm for a moment.

The fisherman in the fishing camp who had packed the net took the net rope into his hand and threw it out with all his strength. The net fell to the water with a splashing sound.

The net sank slowly. After a while, the fisherman pulled the net out of the water with force.

A skilled fisherman can tell whether a fish is caught in the net by the movement of the net.

The net is moving, and there are fish, not many, but not small.

Sure enough, after the net was fully pulled up, there was a large carp as long as an arm in the net.

The fisherman held the net and placed it at the end of the fishing camp boat. He untied the net skillfully and threw the fish into the cabin. He let the fish jump and ignored him.

This is a fisherman with a fishing boat, fishing on the largest and deepest pond.

There were about thirty people in the fishing camp. Except for the Osprey boat, everyone else took off their clothes in other small shallow ponds, pulled the nets, and went into the water to collect the fish.

Even though it was late at night, it was very lively.

"Go! Go left and go!"

"Pull! Pull! Pull east!"

Going into the water to collect fish requires the cooperation of many people, and there is no good communication method, so we have to rely on shouting.

By the pond, the adults and children in the village were not sleeping anymore, watching the fishing team netting fish with great interest.

Beside a certain pond, there were several straw mats spread out on the ground. All the fish caught by the fishing team were brought here. There were a lot of lively fish piled on the straw mats.

The women and children in the village were busy killing fish with scissors.

Throw the killed fish into a basket, and the gills and internal organs into another basket.

After killing the fish, people from the fishing camp carry it to the waterside to clean it.

Guan Yu is still rigorous enough.

It's hard to see clearly when it's dark, so killing fish and removing scales is not suitable for doing it at night.

But Guan Yu had considered that if he really started killing fish at dawn tomorrow morning, how long would it take to kill so many fish, and would they stay here to wait and delay the journey of the army.

It is not possible to take the fish away and kill them again in the army.

Because there was no water in the army, the fish had to be washed away with blood after killing it, otherwise the fish would be unpalatable.

Therefore, Guan Yu took this into consideration and spent some money to hire people in the village to help kill fish.

Guan Yu himself did not go down to cast the net himself. He was chatting with the village elders at the pond while staring at it.

Because the villagers got a lot of money from Guan Yu, they had a good impression of Guan Yu and Guan Yu's tribe. They were also full of curiosity and asked all kinds of questions.

Guan Yu's etiquette is strict. If the elders of the clan ask questions, and it does not involve serious military matters, he will definitely answer them.
Chapter completed!