At the Zhuozhou Army Camp, Liu Bei and Li Mengxi, who were standing at the gate of the camp with eager anticipation, finally heard the faint sound of horse hoofbeats in the darkness, indicating that Guan Yu was finally back.

Asked Guan Yu how the march was going at night and how the car formations were arranged.

Guan Yu said, "It's okay to march, and it's okay to make arrangements. It's just... too slow."

"It takes a moment to go back and forth. There are only thirty or forty people in one trip, and there are tens of thousands of troops. I'm afraid they will be busy until dawn and not even half of them can be mobilized."

Guan Yu suggested, "Make a team of two hundred men."

The matter was really difficult. Not only did we have to arrange military operations at night, but we also had to light torches and quietly touch them. We also had to arrange tens of thousands of troops in one night.

If there are two hundred people in one round, the army's new recruit team is composed of thirty-one people per team. If six teams are not enough for two hundred people, seven teams are required.

The seventh team consists of 217 people, including seven recruit instructors and flag bearers, 210 spearmen, and two vehicles per team, for a total of fourteen carts.

Mobilize people and give them long ropes to tie the head and tail ropes together.

There is a problem. When a team acts alone, a long rope is enough for thirty or twenty people to hold on to the rope and move together. However, after hundreds of people move together, there is no such long rope.

In order to prevent someone from getting lost, Li Mengxi thought that someone must hold the end of the rope in front with one hand and the rope behind with the other hand to connect the front and rear.

However, the new recruits all held wooden guns in their hands and grasped the rope with both hands, so there was no place to put the guns.

The first thing Li Mengxi thought of was that the recruit who grabbed the rope could hand over the gun to someone else for help.

Then I thought again, maybe I was stupid. Why would I need a gun when I was carrying a cart?

The road is not easy to walk at night, so if you make somersaults while walking, if you lose your hand and drop your gun, it will take a long time to find it, which will be a delay.

If you put the gun on the car, whoever falls down can just get up and there is no need to worry about losing the wooden gun. As long as the car does not overturn, nothing will happen to the gun.

So, Li Mengxi ordered each team to put their guns in the car and bolt them up, and then divide the guns when they got to the ground.

Then, more than two hundred people used eight ropes and connected them from front to back.

Next to it, the carpenters were responsible for handing out small sticks one by one.

"They all bite the stick in their mouths and cannot speak on the way, nor can they speak when they arrive.

Anyone who dares to disobey will be killed without mercy!"

Li Mengxi walked beside him, repeating the ban on traveling at night.

Look, everyone is ready.

Li Mengxi waved to Guan Yu, "That's it!"

Guan Yu got on his horse. The person next to him handed him a rope and took it. "Let's go!" Guan Yu ordered in a deep voice.

The number of people in this second wave was much larger than that in the first wave. Guan Yu did not dare to walk too fast. If the front walked fast, the back would have to run. If there was chaos, it would be easy to make mistakes.

For the Zhuozhou Army, the timing is favorable tonight.

Fortunately, it is approaching the twelfth lunar month, and the sky is dark nine out of ten days, and the night is dark and windy. There are no stars or moon in the sky, and I can't see my fingers with my hand, so I am traveling at night.

In the rebel camp, Li Mengxi looked up at the pitch-black sky, his brows furrowed and he was calculating.

(With a strength of 40,000, one wave can mobilize 200 men and horses. Two hundred waves are required.

One round trip, not counting traffic arrangements, preparation time and travel, takes a moment. It is roughly around ten o'clock at night, so it is calculated as ten o'clock.

Winter is approaching, and the sky will be slightly brighter at six o'clock.

In other words, there are only eight hours left, and there are thirty-two quarters in total.

If there are two hundred people in one wave, there will be a maximum of thirty-two waves, and a maximum of 6,400 people can be mobilized...)

Li Mengxi frowned, not having enough time.

Each wave of manpower must be increased at least five times to be able to do it.

That is, a wave of thousands of people.

But when there are many people, it is easy to make noise and be exposed.

Caught in a dilemma.

Li Mengxi discussed with Liu Bei and asked Liu Bei how to reduce the noise.

Liu Bei thought for a moment and said, "You can take off your shoes and walk barefoot."

Li Mengxi suddenly realized that this was an excellent method.

The sound of bare feet can be much quieter.

So, the whole army ordered everyone to take off their shoes, whether they were tied around the neck, tucked under the armpits, or stuffed into clothes, in short, they could not be worn.

A moment after the order was issued, Li Mengxi ordered the military judge to go down and examine the person. If he encountered someone who had not taken off his shoes, he immediately pulled the person out and whipped him.

The crackling of the whip had a great effect in frightening the monkeys. Those who refused to take off their shoes because the ground was too cold immediately took off their shoes.

Li Mengxi also ordered fifty teams of new soldiers to march out. That is, fifty teams came out at once, with more than 1,500 people.

People lined up together, from the school grounds, to the village gate, and outside.

More than seventy ropes were used to pull the people and the vehicle frame from front to back. Li Mengxi found that the single-person queue was too long, too long.

I had no choice but to change it again.

It was changed to a two-person queue, with the cart as the core. Behind the cart, two ropes were tied to the left and right of the rear of the cart, which shortened the march by half.

After they had finished pulling the strings and giving everyone the sticks to bite, Guan Yu came back.

After waiting for a while, the third wave of people was finally arranged.

On the way back, Guan Yu also figured out that if there were only three to two hundred people in a wave, they would not be able to complete the encirclement until dawn.

I was originally going to come back and discuss with the military advisor to increase the number of people, but unexpectedly, the military advisor made arrangements first.

Guan Yu originally wanted to discuss the details, but seeing that all the soldiers were holding their feet, Guan Yu did not intend to ask any more questions.

The eldest brother must have made a solid arrangement with the military advisor.

This third batch included more than 1,500 people and hundreds of bicycles. The number of people suddenly increased a lot.

There were too many people, and Guan Yu was afraid of making any noise, so he said sternly, "Bite the stick in your mouth tightly, don't say another word, dare to violate it! Military law will be followed!"

He glanced at the long team and said, "Let's go!" Guan Yu took the lead and set off.

There were too many people, and Guan Yu knew very well that he had to walk slower this time. If the front was a little faster, the people at the back would not be able to keep up.

It took a long time for the long team connected by long ropes to completely walk out of the camp.

Guan Yu took the lead, and Li Mengxi immediately ordered fifty new recruits to line up, and immediately began to coordinate the next wave of manpower and arrange the teams.

Vehicles, ropes, and chews issued to each person, none of them should be missing.

This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Next to it, there are more than hundreds of people helping Li Mengxi. Carpenters are constantly making mouth chews. Although it is just a small stick, the number is too short.

If you don’t do it quickly, it will be useless later.

There are also soldiers who are responsible for vacating and transporting vehicles. There is a constant flow of teams transporting vehicles.

There are also military judges and Liu Bei's soldiers who are responsible for pulling up the queue and pulling the ropes. Most importantly, they are responsible for checking whether the ropes are tied tightly, whether the guns on the vehicles are tied tightly, and whether the mouthpieces are in everyone's mouth.

They all bite, and check to see if everyone has bare feet.

If he saw someone taking off his bit and talking nonsense, the angry military judge would immediately take the person out and give him a severe whip.

It is true that tonight's operation requires too much discipline. There are tens of thousands of people, but one person's shout may cause the operation to fail. There are tens of thousands of people, and there can be no sound. This is a shocking difficulty.

On Li Mengxi's side, he was pulling in the follow-up team. Guan Yu led more than 1,500 people and slowly arrived at the place where they continued to connect with the car formation.

Because there was no light, no talking, and no walking around, Guan Yu had to personally direct and mobilize teams one by one and vehicles one by one.

Realizing that just arranging the more than 1,500 troops that came over could not be accomplished in a short time.

Guan Yu then went to call the deputy general, and ordered the deputy general to quietly arrange the people in the car formation bit by bit, "Remember, you are not afraid of being slow, but you are afraid of being loud. Take your time, there will be no big noise."

After leaving the arrangement of troops to his lieutenant, Guan Yu mounted his horse and headed towards Zhang Fei, who was calling for formation.

Zhang Fei blocked the army outside the gate of Beizhai, shouting until he was tired.

Guan Yu came, called Zhang Fei, and whispered to Zhang Fei. After listening, Zhang Fei turned around and looked back in surprise.

Huh?! It's pitch black behind you. How can there be any movement of the large team of people?

This was done silently and a great thing was done!

Zhang Fei had a sinister smile on his rough face, "Leave it to me, Lao Zhang!"

Then, Zhang Fei shouted to the riders with great vigor, "Let's go! Keep disturbing him for a while! Don't let Mr. Huangfu sleep peacefully!"

"drive!"

"drive!"

"Come on!"

"Kill!"

…

The Zhuozhou cavalry, which had been dormant for a while, suddenly began to move again with shouts of killing, and the rumbling of horse hooves made the silence of the night very noisy.
To be continued...