At night, the first night of the counterattack, it was also the first time for many Julu commanders to camp out with their troops overnight. Just like they did during the day march, the Julu commanders walked on thin ice and were cautious and meticulous, not daring to make any mistakes.

Negligence, at night, when everything was pitch dark and they couldn't see, the commanders became even more frightened.

The combat manual issued to each ministry details every aspect of setting up camp at night. When each individual leads an independent battle, the combat manual becomes the reliance of each ministry.

The combat manual states that if you are camping on a road, you should choose to set up camp at a crossroads. At the crossroads, you can shrink your troops and block all four directions, making it the best place to camp on the road.

The situation of each department's camp is different. Some commanders have already memorized the combat manual and are well prepared. These commanders have considered it carefully. They sent scouts to scout the route when it was still dark, and waited until they encountered a suitable location.

At intersection 10, we dropped into the camp directly on the spot. When the camp was set up, it was getting dark. The commanders who handled this well were without exception the ones with the best literacy level in the army. The level of literacy is positively correlated with the commanding ability.

It's easy to understand -

With a high level of literacy, you can have basic reading and memorizing skills, so it is easier to memorize the contents of the combat manual and memorize all the camping knowledge, so that you can use it with ease.

As for those who are not well-literate, they cannot even read the words, and usually have to ask literate people for help to understand the contents of the manual. It is difficult for such commanders to read, and it is even more difficult to memorize the contents of the manual.

It's even more difficult to be familiar with it. If you don't remember something, you can't remember the relevant content without reading the manual. It's a luxury to hope to be able to use it skillfully.

According to the level of the commander of the Julu Army, although riding is not something that poor people can master, those who are proficient in riding are probably from a good background. Therefore, the cavalry has the highest literacy rate in the entire army. Even so.

, there are still a considerable number of people in the cavalry whose literacy skills are worrying, and these people represent the average level of the cavalry.

It’s good to be able to set up camp soon after dark. Other conditions are various. Some teams neglect to think about it and wait until it gets completely dark before even thinking of setting up camp. In the absence of lighting,

Next, discrediting the encampment will inevitably lead to trouble and chaos. It is difficult to mobilize the command at night. In addition, the encampment will cause chaos among the personnel. If the enemy situation happens to happen unexpectedly, it is estimated that none of the troops who are encamped in the dark can withstand the enemy's surprise attack.

The smear camp is average, but there are worse ones.

It is written in the combat manual that it is best to set up camp at a crossroads. This is just to provide the best consideration. However, some commanders are too arrogant and their understanding is too rigid. It is already dark, and when they think of setting up camp, they look at the manual.

, we have to find a crossroads to camp, and there is no crossroads nearby, so we can only continue walking forward until we find a crossroads.

God, what kind of courage do you have to march at night? Even the headquarters of the Julu Army is very cautious about marching at night. If there is any trouble, not to mention encountering the enemy, if a wild beast suddenly jumps out on the roadside, the one in front will

People who didn't know the situation were so frightened that they ran away. When the person in front panicked, the people behind him also panicked. In the blink of an eye, the situation was out of control.

Let a group of novices command the army, and there will be so many problems just in the camp. However, this is already good. No matter how many problems there are, these first-time commanders at least know how to handle military affairs so that they can follow suit.

Not good is the difference between 1 and 100, and ability and inability is the difference between 0 and 1.

In addition to setting up camp, there are also night discipline, guarding, patrolling, etc.

In the combat manual, regarding camping at night, there are methods such as "drawing the ground as a prison", "raising fire as a flag" and "using fire as a wall".

Drawing the ground as a prison means that when camping in the wilderness, the terrain is often complicated, the camp has no boundaries, the soldiers have no place to follow, and discipline is easily broken. And if you really spend a lot of effort to build a stronghold wall, it will take too much effort, if it is just for seriousness

For the purpose of discipline, it is not necessary to use the camp. Hanging a few lanterns at the four corners of the camp, pulling a rope around the camp, and using lights or ropes as boundaries can still restrain the soldiers. This is "drawing the ground as a prison".

The reason for raising a fire as a flag is that it is pitch dark at night and it is impossible to see anything. Ordinary flags are useless at night, so fire is used instead of flag signals. There are also other considerations here. In case of a night attack, if the soldiers are panicked and cannot see anything,

When there is light, no one knows where to gather, and it is easy to collapse. But as long as there is a little light, the soldiers will definitely not collapse all over the camp. This is called "fire as a flag".

At night, in addition to replacing flag signals, firelight also has many functions such as early warning and stabilizing people's hearts. For early warning, bonfires are lit around the camp. No matter which direction the enemy attacks from, they will be exposed to the firelight.

; Used to stabilize people's hearts. If the surroundings are dark and there is no light, the soldiers will feel panic at the slightest disturbance. However, when there is light around, if there is any noise around, the soldiers will turn around and look, although they may not be able to see.

It was unclear what the noise was, but seeing that there was nothing in the place illuminated by the fire, the soldiers thought that it might be rats barking, so they felt relieved.

And if, without this light, the noise of the rat was heard in the ears of the soldiers, the soldiers would think that it was a ferocious beast approaching, that it was a poisonous snake crawling over, or that the enemy was sneaking up on it. In short, there was no such thing.

When the fire is completely dark, the probability of bombing the camp is several percent higher.

The garrison, command, enemy preparedness, and early warning of camping at night all require fire. To use fire, you must at least have firewood. When it comes to firewood, it involves logistics.

The Julu Army Headquarters has a complete set of logistics methods for using fire at night. The fire at night must last all night. Therefore, it is best to use burn-resistant pine wood as the fire starting material to reduce the number of replacements of torches. In the fuel reserve,

Pine wood is relatively scarce, so there is a co-ordination method. When making fires and cooking, other wood is used first, and the pine wood is saved and used exclusively for lighting. Pine wood is both fire-resistant and bright. Sometimes, the fire light covers more than two steps, and at critical moments

, the effect is completely different.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! To meet all the camping requirements written in the combat manual, take a rural soldier team of 500 people as an example. Five hundred people camp, and the camp is a hundred paces wide.

For such a camp, it is necessary to erect an elevated torch in the center of the camp, and there must be a roof to protect the fire when the wind and rain come. The camp also needs to light a bonfire ten steps apart around the camp. A bonfire is required.

At least dozens; for a more efficient early warning, it is best to leave a bonfire far away from the camp in the direction where the enemy may come. In this way, if the enemy wants to sneak into the camp, they will be exposed to the light of the fire from a long distance.

, the sooner the enemy is exposed, the more time our own side will have to react, and the more calmly we can respond.

To complete all the arrangements required in the combat manual, the rural soldiers must have sufficient reserves of wood, heavy torch racks must be prepared with the army, a basic number of qualified night watchmen, etc.

Among logistics supplies, wood is of low importance, and torches and stands are even more marginal. Many rural soldiers have difficulty collecting food. Who has the energy to take care of things like torches and stands?

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To the north of Hejian County, somewhere in the wilderness, at the crossroads, a team of rural soldiers was stationed on the road.

It was already late at night, and it was not until midnight that this team of rural soldiers finally set up the camp.

As mentioned before, marching outside is difficult everywhere. As for setting up camp, only a few can do it well. Some commanders did not think enough about it and waited until dark before ordering the camp. Then when they set up camp, they had no experience and could only

I looked through the combat manual to find out how to set up camp. When I looked at it again, it was written that I should camp at a crossroads. It was not a crossroads at my feet. Some straight-headed guys just led the team in the dark to find the crossroads.

Don't know how to adapt.

In this unknown place in Hejian County, this is the situation of this team of rural soldiers who only set up their camp in the middle of the night. The commander in charge of this unit of rural soldiers was inconsiderate and rigid. The soldiers had traveled all day, and then

Tired and sleepy, he refused to camp on the spot and insisted on finding a crossroads. Not to mention how dangerous marching at night was, he also blamed bad luck. There were very few forks in the road ahead. He walked several miles before finding a crossroads. Waiting

When we finally found this camping spot that was exactly the same as the one in the battle manual, the night was already very deep.

Under normal circumstances, you can just arrange the layout of the camp casually. The combat manual issued by the Julu Army is as detailed and complete as possible. The combat manual is for reference, and the rural soldiers do not need to imitate it exactly.

, but some rigid and ignorant people insist on being exactly the same as the combat manual. The combat manual says to set up camp at a crossroad, so they walk several miles in the dark and insist on finding the crossroad; the combat manual

It says that the perimeter of the camp should be surrounded by a formation of vehicles, forming a circle, and the vehicles are best connected with ropes. The commander complied with this exactly, and he strictly required the soldiers to arrange the formation of vehicles into a circle. It cannot be askew at all, and the soldiers

We were tortured by this harsh requirement and were cursing in our hearts.

All the tactics of the Julu Army are accumulated bit by bit on daily basis, so there are many details. It would be extremely complicated for the commander to follow the manual completely.

Being assigned a rigid commander made the country soldiers feel very uncomfortable. They were already tired after a long day's journey. It was late at night and many of them had dozed off. They had to be busy all the time. The country soldiers were worried.

There are complaints. In the eyes of the rural soldiers, it’s just a matter of arranging the cart array or lighting a bonfire. These are all useful, but the carts must be arranged in a circle and the bonfires must be placed every ten steps, no matter how far or how close they are.

, this made the rural soldiers feel that it was the commander who was deliberately causing trouble, and the rural soldiers felt very unhappy.

The things written in the combat manual were too detailed and complicated, and it was inevitable that I would have to finish everything meticulously until the middle of the night.

Beside the bonfire, the commander carefully studied the almost tattered combat manual in his hand. After reading for a while, the commander raised his head and looked left and right, "No, we haven't finished the torch stand yet..." The commander immediately stood up and started.

I have to go back to gather people and be busy.

At this time, the other officers of the Julu Army who were accompanying him felt that it was a bit much, and everyone advised that it was already late at night, so it was almost over, and if they kept going for a while, it would be daybreak.

What the comrades said made sense, but the commander made more sense. The commander threw the combat manual and said without giving in, "It's all written above, how can we not make arrangements?"

Several Julu soldiers who were in the same group as the Julu Army, and now the deputy commander of the rural soldiers, looked at each other helplessly.

It is rare to find such a stubborn person.

In this way, amidst the complaints from the rural soldiers and the forced military orders, the rural soldiers had to turn over the cart full of wood, and then sort through it one by one to pick out the pine wood and wait for the torch stand.

Put it up and plug in the pine torch. During this process, the commander walked around the torch stand twice, looked up, raised his foot and kicked the stand twice. The stand was kicked crooked, and the commander wanted to

The village soldiers dug the hole again and buried the shelf again, making sure it didn't tilt at all.

Faced with such harsh demands, the rural soldiers almost exploded.

The commander thought he had reason to request this, because it was written in the combat manual that when the torch stand was buried, it should be as deep and straight as possible, because the torch stand was waiting for the Chinese army's flag at night, and if it was buried too shallow

Or it is tilted. In a critical moment, if the stand falls down, the entire army will lose command and order in an instant. The flag is the most important thing, because if the fire buries the stand just an inch shallow, it will lead to a great defeat. This is definitely possible.

possible.

By the time the rural soldiers had completed all encampment, garrison, early warning, etc. in accordance with the requirements of the combat manual, there was less than an hour left before dawn.

It can be seen in the details, such as torches and shelves, that even the most minor supplies are prepared. It can be seen that the commander of this rural soldier is stubborn and rigid, and he is really meticulous in the execution of orders.

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No one expected that the main force of the enemy army would suddenly attack at this time as the night was almost over.

More than a thousand elite enemy troops suddenly attacked a team of less than 600 rural soldiers in the dark. The attacking enemy troops were exposed to the light of a bonfire arranged in the distance when they were still dozens of steps away from the rural barracks.

The soldiers were able to respond in time. In addition, it was too late that night. The country soldiers had just gone to bed and were generally not asleep yet. They got up as soon as they heard the noise.

Night battles are unfavorable to both sides. The visibility at night is too poor and the bows and crossbows are weakened to the greatest extent. This will undoubtedly greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the rural soldiers who lack armor and rely on bows and crossbows as their main means of combat.

When the fighting reached its peak, the enemy overturned the vehicle formation - if the vehicle formation had not been tied together with ropes to support each other, the formation would have overturned long ago.

The enemy soldiers rushed in through the gap in the car formation and fought their way to the center of the camp. They reached the torch stand. The enemy soldiers had obviously received the military order to raise the flag and kill the general. The enemy soldiers were clanging around the torch stand.

He cut it, raised his foot and kicked it hard. The fire buried the frame deep enough that no matter how hard he kicked it, he couldn't knock it down.

If the torch stand falls down, the consequences will be - at the most dangerous and anxious moment of the battle, the torch stand suddenly falls down. With little impact, the most eye-catching firelight in the camp is gone, and the country soldiers lack a gathering point.

The huge impact was that the torch stand was knocked down, and the only spot of fire that could gather the whole army was gone. They could only fight in a melee and fight on their own. They had already been killed until the center of the camp was extremely weak. They fought on their own and were defeated.

Not far.

Fortunately, this worst-case scenario did not happen. The torch stand was very strong and the enemy was not able to knock it down immediately. Due to such a delay, the commander and his men fought hard to regain the position.

The night battle ended with the rural soldiers winning with difficulty, but they were just about to be killed. As long as they were killed, the rural soldiers would face the end of the entire army being annihilated.
To be continued...