Chapter 59 Wild Night
There are no stars or moon in the early spring night, and the rolling foothills in the distance are reflected eerily in people's eyes.
A few desolate wolf howls occasionally sounded in the distance.
Su Chen took the drink from Dian Wei next to him and took a swig to drive away the chill in his body. He turned his head and saw Guo Jia staring at the wine bag in his hand. He smiled and was about to hand it over. past.
Guo Jia reached out to take it, but Dian Wei coughed and reminded him. Su Chen retracted his hand, returned the wine bag to Dian Wei, and said with a smile:
"It's better not to drink the sacrificial wine, or you will die young!"
Dian Wei also nodded: "Shizhong Xun said that."
"You two!" Guo Jia couldn't laugh or cry, pointing and singing in harmony. Su Chen and Dian Wei, but there was nothing they could do. He had to turn his face away and talk about the war to cover up his embarrassment.
"At this moment, the Huaizhou governor should have received a call for help to rescue people. Once the troops are divided, Lu Bu and Wenyuan will have the opportunity to give them a fatal blow. Once the food and grass are burned and the supplies are gone, they can only Go back and this journey will be over. As for Qizhou, haha..."
Guo Jia chuckled.
"Without the long-distance response and heavy losses, morale will definitely be at the bottom, and we can no longer fight. Two of the three armies were cut off. The governor of Rongzhou heard that he had an old relationship with the father of Changsheng. Knowing that the soldiers and horses of the two states had retreated, he naturally followed the trend. Soldiers."
Su Chen followed his words and kept analyzing and comparing in his mind. No wonder Cao Cao cherishes talented people. With these people by his side, he can save himself trouble and effort.
"Changsheng, this matter is not over yet. The most difficult thing is the soldiers and horses of the Yan Kingdom. After this battle, you only have a little time to recover. Jia recommends recruiting these surrendered troops!"
Guo Jia said with a serious face.
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The night wind blew for dozens of miles.
To the southeast of Ji County, the troops stationed lit up bonfires with speckled lights. The soldiers remained vigilant and sat around the fire to keep warm. The archers on the sentry tower kept scanning the field.
When it was time to go to bed, Jiang Fengyi, the governor of Huaizhou, did not take off his armor. He sat in the tent and flipped through a military book written by his predecessors. His mind had long drifted to a distant place. Since the two men under his command The general left with ten thousand soldiers and horses, and he never felt at ease.
I always feel like something is wrong.
"I wish I was overthinking it." He murmured, looking at the oil lamp.
At the same time, in the dark wilderness, groups of cavalry dismounted, holding the reins and walking quietly, directly bypassing the military camp that accommodated more than 20,000 people, and went to the rear.
As early as when the Huaizhou soldiers and horses entered Ji County, the cavalry scouts had already targeted them. Now they were going to the most important place for the Huaizhou soldiers and horses: the baggage camp.
Several miles away, between the two hills, you can see the bright fire in the dark night.
The faint light of fire shone in front of our eyes, and the quietly moving cavalry began to mount their horses and line up in formation.
While his cloak was stroking, Lu Bu held up his painted halberd and stroked the restless Qianli horse. He narrowed his eyes and looked at the figures walking around in the camp in the distance. "Who are you looking down on with such a small number of soldiers and horses?"< br>
He raised his hand, and the hoofs of the horses behind him pressed through the low-lying grass and sank into the soil. The marching cavalry team spread forward silently, rows of horse heads breathing heavily and pawing their hooves uneasily.
Zhang Liao was dressed in thick black scale armor and wore a long white single-sleeved robe on his left. He rushed forward and looked at the camp in front of him with Lu Bu. He slowly lowered the yellow dragon hook sickle in his hand and hung it on the ground, speaking in a relaxed tone.
"Fengxian, should we use the old method?"
"Haha, I'll break the formation, Wen Yuan will lead the army to fight!" Lu Bu pulled out a red scarf and held the halberd pole to his right palm Wrapped together. His voice was soft: "Let's go."
The horse's hooves took a step slowly. In the next moment, the red horse stirred up the mud and galloped directly out. One after another, the cavalry in full gear lit torches and rode in unison. Running behind.
On the other side, the yellow gelding slowly moved its hooves. Zhang Liao looked at the figure rushing towards the camp with a faint smile on his face. He did not talk about his own affairs after Lu Bu's death, let alone Xiaoyaojin.
Because there is no need at all. Being able to be together again is better than anything else.
Zhang Liao urged his horses forward, and the five hundred cavalry behind him also stepped forward and raised their spears.
He opened his mouth and whispered the simple words.
“Kill!”
Murderous aura filled the air from the words, and the faint voice seemed to contain thousands of corpses.
Soon the earth woke up from the dark night. One thousand one hundred cavalrymen were divided into two groups, the front and rear. The dense wilderness was undulating and advancing. The churning iron hoofs dug into the soil. When they stepped out, they brought up mud debris and made a deafening sound. Voice.
Rumble, the earth trembled slightly.
Standing around the dark Zizhong camp, the sentry lurking in the wilderness was lying on the ground listening. The sudden vibration of the ground made him raise his face, and the light of a torch continued in his eyes.
"Night attack..." The spy murmured, running back crazily, pulling out a noisy arrow, and buckling the bowstring. Before he could shoot into the night sky, a whistling sound followed closely, and he immediately felt a sharp pain in his vest. .
A feather arrow was nailed straight into his back, and the huge force penetrated his chest. He pushed the body forward two feet with all his remaining strength.
The red horse was galloping, Lu Bu hung his bow and arrow in his left hand on the horse, and there were many scouts running in his eyes.
But in his field of vision, there was only the closed camp door.
The sounding arrows were still shot into the night sky from the hands of the scouts. The archer on the sentry tower looked at the undulating sea of fire in the field and spread quickly towards this side. With a panicked expression on his face, he turned around and faced the hysterical sounds in the camp. Shout: "Cavalry! Enemy attack -"
The high-pitched and frightened voice came. In the military camp, the resting soldiers hurriedly picked up their weapons and stood up. Some people were lying on the ground listening to the movement. Most of them There was panic on his face, and noisy and shouting sounds hurriedly sounded. The general who was resting in the tent rushed out of the tent and issued orders to resist while putting on his armor. Some people stepped forward to form a formation, and some ran to the camp gate to fight with the The fellow guards on the side worked together to press against the doorpost.
The camp was in chaos, with figures running around in panic in the camp.
"Guard the gate!" someone shouted.
"Formation! Don't mess up, follow me -"
On the sentry tower, the archers lined up their bows and nocked arrows, nervously looking at the cavalry getting closer and closer, raising their arms. .
Boom...
The iron hoofs seemed to shatter the ground, and the roar they caused made the earth tremble. With his red cloak fluttering, Lu Bu drew his bow again and aimed an arrow at the figure on the arrow tower. The archer screamed and fell to the ground.
A group of Huaizhou soldiers who came forward to form a formation were trembling and holding their spears. They saw their comrades on the archery tower were hit by arrows and fell to the ground. Some of them tried to escape and left the formation, but were beheaded by the general supervising the battle. They raised their swords fiercely. He yelled: "This is the rear camp of the baggage train, there must be no loss! All the soldiers try their best to resist the enemy!"
At the end of his field of vision, in front of the stretching sea of fire, a figure like a red cloud rushed towards him.
“Hold the gate!”
The roar of horse hooves shook the air, “Hurry up and hold it——” The Huaizhou soldiers near the gate bravely hugged the doorpost, ten Many people were shouting, and the panicked soldiers kicked off the ground, struggling to hold the camp gate firmly.
In the flickers of fire, figures with fiery red horses, painted halberds, and golden crowns galloped forward, and Lu Bu grinned and let out a sigh of relief.
Fifty steps!
Tighten the halberd pole!
Ten steps! The halberd was raised suddenly, Lu Bu urged the horse to speed up again, the look of ferocity on his face became even more fierce.
"Ahhhh!!" The soldiers holding the camp gate widened their eyes, opened their mouths and shouted in fear.
A Huaizhou Army primary school commander was still shouting: "Push hard..."
The oncoming cavalry closed the distance instantly.
The moment the rumble of the horse's hooves stepped into the camp gate, Fang Tian's painted halberd whipped out a big circle from the horse's back, and slammed into the huge camp gate. The gate shook, and more than a dozen people who were resisting the gate The soldiers were so shaken that they immediately retreated, and the last few people even flew backwards. Then there was a huge cracking sound. In the sight of the surrounding soldiers, the camp door was shattered and flying, and the comrades who were approaching the door were also flying. , the fiery red figure stepped over the person's body and rushed in without any pause.
Above the collapsed camp gate, more than a thousand black horsemen swarmed in like a long dragon, stepping on debris, sawdust, and human bodies. Following Lu Bu who was charging ahead, they spread into the camp, holding the sword in their hands. The torches were thrown out one after another, falling into tents, carriages, and grain bags, and lighting them all.
Flames lit up the military camp, and black smoke rose into the sky.
The next moment, more cavalry followed Zhang Liao into the camp with long spears. The weapons collided with each other and made a sound. The weapons penetrated the flesh and rubbed against the armor, and blood burst out. Sparks continued to flicker and splash, spears pierced like a forest, and a figure wearing scale armor and a one-sleeved robe rushed out of the cavalry team with lightning speed, using a hook and sickle to knock a forest of spears upside down.
"You dare to stop me——"
Zhang Liao roared loudly, his horse's hooves stepped down heavily, stepping over a screaming body, and exerted force with both arms, "Bang" With a loud noise, a school captain was slashed backwards from his horse.
He reined in his horse and turned his head, looking at the camp guard who was mounting his horse in front of the tent, his eyes filled with murderous intent.
The latter shivered directly on horseback.
......
In the camp where the Huaizhou Army was stationed, Jiang Fengyi held the scroll and propped up his chin, his head dozing off little by little, and he vaguely heard the chaos outside the tent. noisy.
The curtain was suddenly opened, and a general strode in, "Prince, it's not good, the back camp is burned!"
The sleepy figure was so shocked that his palms moved away from his chin, He almost knocked on the table, but when he heard the general repeating a sentence, he was frightened out of his sleep. He quickly got up and pushed aside the other man, rushing out of the tent. The soldiers in the camp ran around in panic, or stood there blankly looking to the east.
The night in the east was bright red by the firelight.
“You guys, go to the rescue!” The governor of Huaizhou stamped his feet angrily and shouted, his tears almost falling from his eyes. He called to the remaining three generals, Zhang You, Xu Zhen, and Xu Qinghu, two of them. People quickly led their troops over.
The three of them did not move. Among them, Xu Qinghu's young general explained to the governor: "There will definitely be no baggage left. If we send troops to rescue, we may be able to divert the tiger away from the mountain!"
A general named Zhang You He also took a step forward and agreed with his hands: "I am reporting to the governor. The enemy is in darkness and we are in the dark. It is important to defend the camp at this time. Wait until daybreak to worry about it!"
"I am the governor, or you are the governor!" If we don’t save them, what will our army eat? There are still 3,000 people over there. How many can we save? There are still more than 10,000 people in this camp, including the two of you!”
Jiang Fengyi's face turned red, he cursed hysterically, and took out his identity as the governor to press him over. Xu Qinghu and Zhang You could only nod, and each led two thousand people from their headquarters out of the camp and rushed to the rear camp where they were stationing food and crops.
At this moment, the fire was blazing into the sky, showing how powerful the fire was. You could vaguely see the raging flames from a mile or two away.
‘Oh! Zhang You pulled the reins and stopped the horse. He raised his hand to stop the soldiers behind him, "There is a problem."
Xu Qinghu also raised his hand to stop the soldiers and horses from moving forward, turned his head, and glanced around , the night wind slowly blew through the grass and trees in the wilderness, and in the rustling sound, there was an uneasy atmosphere spreading.
In the darkness, Lu Bu stroked his swaying horse's mane and dragged Fang Tian's painted halberd to the ground. "Wen Yuan, let me kill again," he whispered.
The sound carried by the wind spread like ripples. There were still traces of blood and blackening on the armor of the surrounding cavalry. None of them spoke at this time. Zhang Liao, who was wearing black scales, immediately stepped forward with a human head tied under the horse's neck. Swinging, his voice was gentle: "This time, Liao will come first!"
Soon, horse hooves stamped on the ground in the darkness, and Zhang and Xu, who were stationed in the field and were vigilant, had their hairs standing on end as they shouted: "Jie" "Array!" At that moment, the sound of trembling horse hooves turned into rolling thunder in the field!
The weak firelight shone, and in the darkness, figures on horseback advanced, like a turbulent sea tide, hitting them hard in a cone shape.
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The same moment.
Going into the mountains of Qingshan County, one could faintly hear fighting. The 10,000 soldiers and horses who rushed to the rescue were ambushed. The believers in ragged clothes and yellow scarves took advantage of the mountainous terrain to rush out of their hiding positions and pounced on the opponent desperately.
Two to three hundred yellow scarf warriors followed Zhang Liang, who was riding a horse and dancing with a gun, around the mountain, and slammed into the position where the flag was erected.
Boom!
The first spring thunder sounded in the night sky in the mountains.
Standing on the large bluestone protruding from the mountain forest, with splayed horns and beard flying, between his open palms, streaks of green and white lightning flashed from time to time in the night sky. The brother next to him, a man named Zhang Bao, with disheveled hair, opened his mouth and blew out a stream of black smoke, flying towards the general who was directing the fight on the mountain road.
With his vision blocked, the general coughed and waved away the black smoke. Several yellow scarf warriors rushed towards him and crashed into the formation of guards. A war horse followed closely. Zhang Liang, above, jumped up from the horse's back with a spear in his hand. He stabbed the opponent with a swish.
Soon after, the team that asked for help from Qingshan County collapsed.
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In the wilderness.
The tumbling hooves of horses circled the wilderness on corpses.
A large number of Huaizhou soldiers were cut into two parts, and the ground was full of shot corpses. Generals Xu and Zhang, standing in the formation, watched an unknown number of cavalry surrounding them, and from time to time they shot at them with their bows and arrows. .
Although they also fought back, the cavalry had the advantage of maneuvering. Most of the arrows they fired were submerged in the darkness, or failed to keep up with the opponent's speed and fell on the ground.
The killing continued for a moment, Zhang You suddenly inserted the steel knife in his hand into the ground, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Surrender-"
"Surrender!"
General After giving up resistance, the surrounding soldiers also put down their weapons and raised their hands towards the surrounding cavalry to indicate that they no longer had weapons. On the other side of the cut battlefield, Xu Qinghu closed his eyes and cursed: "Damn it!"
He also dropped the iron gun in his hand.
The Huaizhou soldiers shouted and put down their weapons. After a moment, the second general saw a figure wearing a beast-faced head-swallowing chain armor riding over. Next to him was Zhang Liao, who was carrying a hook and sickle and wearing a scale-armored one-sleeved robe.
Soon after, Zhang and Xu rushed back to the barracks with their remaining soldiers. When they opened the camp gate, they led a sudden counterattack and killed the soldiers around the camp gate.
"Jiang Fengyi!!"
The two men galloped wildly through the camp, rushed to the middle tent, and screamed at the horrified figure: "You don't know the art of war, and trapping me is tantamount to It’s a crisis. I won’t accompany you today, and my two brothers have rebelled!”
In the wilderness, cavalry surged into the camp.
After several days of gathering, nearly 60,000 soldiers and horses from the two states were overturned overnight.
One governor died in the rebellion, and another was captured. By dawn, the news had spread at an alarming speed.
The whole country of Dayan was shocked!
(End of this chapter)