Chapter Seventy-Six: Fire Attack Succeeds
"Your Highness, have you ever led soldiers?" Mu Shang immediately felt that he was mentally retarded after asking this question. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoPrincess Zhaoying nests in the palace every day, and she is only seventeen years old. How can there be any reason to lead soldiers?
However, how could a royal girl who had lived in the palace for a long time come to the front line for the first time, and how could she know so many art of war and be so decisive?
Hearing his question, Shen Lanying couldn't help but be stunned, half a month ago, Sikong Yan also asked her a similar question. At that time, she used a hidden weapon to precisely aim at the killer's heart, and she almost succeeded. Sikong Yan asked her, have you ever killed someone?
Before the crossing, she chose an acting career in order to escape from that kind of life, and she still couldn't escape this fate if she went around and around.
"Necessarily not. She shrugged her shoulders and replied the same as last time.
Mu Shang did not doubt that he had him, and deployed it with Shen Lanying.
Previously, Shen Lanying had taught more than 200 people a lot of common sense of life in the wild, as well as the method of quickly changing formations during battle. Everyone felt that Shen Lanying was a foreign aid invited by Mu Shang from the Central Plains, and they fully complied with Shen Lanying's instructions.
This time, the formation was a small group of eleven people, and a total of twenty-five squads were dispatched, and only about thirty people were left around Mu Shang. The twenty-five squads arrived at their assigned positions and began to ......
Ploughing!
The camp of 2,000 people is actually not very large, the area is a playground with a 400-meter runway. The task of these fifteen squads was to fill the first layer of the enemy's camp with hay, and leave a grass-free area with a width of 10 meters on the outer layer of hay, and control the fire through artificial barriers.
Each team is responsible for the task of weeding and stacking in the designated area, and then moves clockwise, continuing the weeding and weeding operation until they see the hay stacked by the previous team, and then return to the original designated position. The agreed time is an hour, and after an hour, Mu Shang will release a rocket as an ignition signal.
Of course, if a team is exposed in the process of weeding, the first task is to ignite the combustibles that have been centrally placed, and the hay on one side is burned, and then like a beacon signal, the other teams will also ignite the fire, and then launch a surprise attack.
Before the twenty-five squads set off, Mu Shang promised them a bounty after the successful operation, and their morale soared for a while. Shen Lanying couldn't help but nod secretly. A commander who can mobilize the morale of the army is a qualified commander, and there is no doubt that Mu Shang has mastered this skill at this time.
Minutes and seconds passed, and an hour had passed, and there was no sound in between, the only thing that had changed was that the campfire in the place had gone out, and it was clear that they had found nothing, and had fallen asleep peacefully.
During this time, Shen Lanying once asked Fengshuang to inspect the situation, and the result was that everything was normal. And Mu Shang also brought a strange news, that is, the enemy does not seem to have a few sentinels in charge of guarding at all.
"It's weird. Are they completely unguarded?Could it be that the leader of the team is a novice?" Shen Lanying muttered suspiciously.
The two-hour time was up quickly. Mu Shang ordered the archers, and three flaming arrows shot at the enemy's tent at the same time. In the distance, the soldiers who had been lying in ambush outside the enemy's tent saw the surprise signal and lit torches one by one.
From a bird's-eye view from a high place, you can find that fifteen fire points suddenly appeared around the Nanban military tent, and after just a few breaths, the fifteen fire points were connected into a fire ring, which tightly enclosed the enemy army, and the burning arrows shot from the periphery of the fire ring to the big tent in the middle almost at the same time. For a moment, the flames rose into the sky.
That's it?
Everything went much smoother than expected, but Shen Lanying suddenly couldn't believe it. This is an army that has been fighting against Mufu for hundreds of years, how could it be so easy for them to succeed?
Originally, she only planned to leave with the army of Mufu with one blow, and then go back to report the news, but she never thought that the sneak attack would be so successful.
Or do they have a back hand?
The answer, of course, is no.
When there was a chaotic shouting in the distance, Shen Lanying knew that the other side was really finished. But a sense of crisis suddenly rose from her heart, the enemy army could not be in such a situation anyway, and she suddenly thought of a terrible possibility.
The whole area was lit up by the raging fire. At this time, Mu Shang could already see the opposite side clearly, but the form of the enemy really surprised him.
After choosing the fire attack, Shen Lanying told him that it was impossible to burn more than 2,000 people to death with this combustible, and this bit of flame was just to cause chaos, and when they rushed out of the fire ring, the twenty-five squads played a role.
In fact, the ring of fire was not strictly uniform, and in some places there was very little hay, and after a while, it burned out, revealing a vacuum. One by one, the soldiers of the Nanban ran out of the vacuum.
However, what awaited them were the long-prepared Mufu soldiers.
The two shield-bearers in the front row retreated, hiding in the middle of the formation, and the three spear-wielding soldiers were immediately revealed. Before the soldiers of the Nanban could react, they had already died under the spears, and the four men with long knives in the rear barely had to make a move, and only corpses were left on the opposite side.
This feeling is really like chopping melons and vegetables.
Of course, there were also enemy troops who escaped from the onslaught of the small detachment. But as if they hadn't seen it, the team let him flee into the distance. After all, it is impossible for them to completely annihilate the other party, and a considerable number of people will inevitably escape.
In fact, as long as the enemy army lost their armor and collapsed, Mu Shang would get military merit, and Shen Lanying's goal would be achieved, as for how many people they fled, it didn't matter.
Moreover, the strength of this formation actually lies in its defense, and active pursuit will inevitably affect the formation, so the advantage of the formation does not exist.
Therefore, the task of the squad is to stay put, kill as many escapees as possible, and not leave the designated position unless their own safety is seriously threatened. Even if it's moving, it's moving together as a whole.
"It's a great formation. Mu Shang's eyes lit up, "Is this formation original to His Highness?"
Shen Lanying was still thinking about the enemy's suspicions in her mind, and replied a little absentmindedly, "No, someone else's original, I changed it and used it." The formation she used was the "Mandarin Duck Array" formed by Qi Jiguang in the Ming Dynasty. It's very suitable for a small number of people to fight, so she uses it directly.
While they were talking, the squad closest to them suddenly changed. Dozens of people from the enemy's tent rushed out together, and at once the one-man squad was scattered.