In the northern mountainous area at the junction of Mii County and Yamamoto County in Chihoku, under the hazy night, the dark mountains are like monsters lurking in the dark night. At this time, a low sound of "screws, ropes" suddenly sounded in the dense bushes at the foot of the mountain.

Soon, a group of black heads poked out of the bushes.

The visitor was naturally Zhengliang and others. With the help of the firelight in the enemy camp and the small flashlight in his hand, Zhengliang quietly touched the vicinity of the enemy camp. The enemy camp was very clever in choosing the camping place, deliberately choosing an open area, and deliberately cleaning up the shrubs and weeds near the camp. The shrubs where Zhengliang and others were already the closest to the enemy camp.

Through the gaps between the bushes, Masara carefully looked at the Otomo family and the Oui family coalition camp hundreds of meters away. The two camps seemed not far apart. This made Masara's originally a little worried and improved.

Originally, Masayoshi was a little worried that the Otomo family and the Ouchi family deliberately set up their camps a little further away because of their mutual guard against each other, but now they did not expect that they were almost together. This is exactly what Masayoshi thought. Otherwise, if the two armies were too far apart, the gap between them would be a bit unfavorable to the subsequent attack effect.

At this time, the camps of Otomo's family and Ouchi's family were silent, and several fires were piled up outside the camp tents of both families. The fires lit up almost illuminated the area within ten meters of the outside of the camp. Occasionally, the figures of night watchmen were seen walking around in the military camp. Looking at this situation, as Masayoshi had expected before, both families were fully prepared to deal with the night attack of the Luo family army.

But what neither Otoyo Yoshiki nor Sugi Yoshiyuki expected was that the Luo family did not come to attack at midnight as they expected, but instead approached quietly as dawn approached.

At this time, the soldiers in charge of the guards had already collapsed for a full night, and the soldiers in the big tent who had been unable to sleep and were ready to fight the orders were a little tired, and could not even stand the fatigue of their bodies and fell asleep. In short, as dawn approached, everyone began to relax. It was this time that Masayoshi chose.

As he thought about it, Masayoro suddenly felt a pain in his neck. He instantly stretched out his hand and reached into his collar. Sure enough, he touched an object with a smooth body. With a little force on his right hand, he grabbed the object directly. In the night, although he could not see the specific appearance of the object carefully, he could feel from the feeling between his fingers that the "criminal" was struggling hard between his fingers.

Obviously, this is a leech that fell from the shrub to Zhengliang's collar. Zhengliang is not unfamiliar with leech. When he was a child in his previous life, his family was poor, and he followed his mother to the fields to work when he was very young. In this process, the biggest fear of him was the leech that hid in the water. When it was the rice planting season, when you were still trying to plant rice in the paddy fields, these leechs would quietly stick to your legs and suck a full blood. The most terrifying thing is that because in the water, these leechs were very slippery all over, and the exaggerated suction cups on their mouths were added. So it usually took you some time to pull them off your feet.

When he grew up, he once traveled to the forests of Tibet with his friends. The drought-land leeches that fell on you like rain on the trees left a deep impression on him.

Compared with leeches in the water, leeches in the dry land appear more blatant. They often climb onto you from dry land or from trees, and then give you a hard bite if you don’t want to die. Then they bite them tightly. Because the wild environment at this time is much better than the wild environment in the previous life, it also provides more convenient conditions for the reproduction of these leeches. Therefore, there are often many leeches in the woods. This brings great inconvenience to ambushing in the wild, especially during night attacks.

In the military power of the Luo family, several soldiers had been infected by leeches and eventually died. Masayoshi was also helpless. After all, it was not his previous life, his medical level was still very poor, and it was impossible to have antibiotics and other drugs. The only advanced drug is the cold medicine that Masayoshi brought when he came to this world. It’s just that time has passed, and these medicines have long expired. What’s more, these medicines are still protected by the territorial doctor Qu Naose Dao like a rare treasure. No one can easily obtain these expired medicines from him.

"Lord, the military formation behind is ready." Just as Masara quickly threw the leeches in his hand, Kato Duanzo's soft report came from his ears.

Zhengliang nodded, then led everyone back to the bushes and quickly walked towards the location where the Luo family army was.

The Luo family's military formation is actually less than 800 meters away from the camp of the Otomo family and the Oui family. Due to the uncertain night, coupled with the deliberate concealment of the Luo family's army and the arrival of quietly in batches, the enemy guarding the camp seemed a little negligent (even if he heard the sound, he would probably think it was a sound made by wild boars and other animals in the woods). Therefore, even now, the camp in the distance has not yet discovered the abnormality here.

Before he could walk to the military formation, Zhengliang saw a large group of huge guys from afar being arranged in a linear formation. Some short figures were busy working around these huge figures.

Yes. Those huge figures were the oxen that Zhengliang ordered to forcefully collect from villages near Gaoliang City overnight. For ordinary leaders, these oxen were almost their most precious property. This forced levy order did cause great complaints from the leaders.

In order to transport these oxen quietly to their current predetermined locations in the night, the Luo family also tried their best. First, they tied the oxen's mouth with thatch. At the same time, in order to prevent the ox from rubbing off the thatch on their mouths, they also brought them some small bamboo cages made during farming to avoid them eating crops randomly to cover the entire mouth. Finally, they tied cloth strips to the four feet and hooves of the oxen.

Of course, the biggest difficulty during this period was how to solve the problem of night blindness for everyone at night. Fortunately, because Masarara implemented a strict nutritional diet strategy in the army, the night blindness symptoms of some people in the army were greatly alleviated. In addition, with the help of Masarara's artifact "Solar Flashlight" (with the deliberate publicity of the Intelligence Pavilion and the assistance of the Shrine Temple, this small flashlight was promoted as a magical artifact given to Masarara by Hachiman Great Bodhisattva), the military formation of the Luo family could reach the position in front of him in a relatively secret manner.

"Lord, all the cloth strips on the legs of the ox have been removed, and fire is being tied to these oxen." When Zhengliang came to the front, the Guodao house, which was responsible for managing the oxen, came to report.

"Yeah!" Zhengliang nodded. In fact, Zhengliang felt a little heartbroken at this time. This heartache was not about the damage these plowing oxen suffered next, but about the losses invested by the territory in this war.

Just by tying cloth strips on these four long hooves of these plowing oxen, I don’t know how much cloth in the territory warehouse was consumed. If it weren’t for the support of the shopping malls of several wives and concubines in my family, it would probably be difficult to collect such a large number of cloth in such a short time.

As for why not forcibly collect from nearby people, the reason is very simple. First, the problem of plowing oxen has already aroused dissatisfaction from the people. If the cloth is still forced to be requisitioned, it is estimated that the people will riot; second, even if it is collected from nearby people, it is difficult to meet the actual needs in a short time (after all, for ordinary people, cloth is also valuable property, and the current income level of the people is not much, even the bad cloth will not be too much); third, avoid the careful work mixed with the people and the people will smell the wind in advance and cause unnecessary variables.

In addition to cloth, there are also tincture oil, weapons, food, etc. After a big battle, it can be said that it consumes a lot. It can be said that the economy is fighting in war.

"Let them speed up the binding action to prevent the sentries in the military camp in front from discovering abnormalities." After looking up and scanning the large formation of plowing oxen that had been lined up again, Masayoshi ordered again. After the order was cleared, Guodao immediately stepped down and executed the order.

The binding of these oxen is very simple. First, put on a simple quilt, then tie a sharp knife on their corners, and tie the grease-filled weeds to the ox tail. This is done.
Chapter completed!