Chapter 599: Different General Skills
At this time, Huang Cheng and some men and horses had secretly taken advantage of the night to grope for about eight miles outside Xianbei's camp.
Bali is a relatively suitable distance, and if you find a slightly higher small dirt bag, you can see the fire at the camp, but it will not be a gap between the night patrol and the night rangers.
Under normal circumstances, for the sake of safety, most of the night posts set up lookouts, and the movements of large-scale and blatant enemy troops can basically be discovered from a distance of ten miles, while the reconnaissance rangers who circle outside the camp are not willing to be placed far away because of the number of people, otherwise the loopholes between each other will be too great, so at night, the range of the rangers is mostly about three to five miles.
There are benefits to the night, but there are also drawbacks.
On the march at night, there are not many people with him, and it is inevitable that there will be some inconvenience in command, so Huang Cheng only brought about 500 soldiers, although these 500 soldiers may not be called fierce soldiers, but there is no problem at all in saying that they are elite soldiers, whether in terms of physical fitness, equipment or skills, these soldiers are far beyond the ordinary peasant soldiers.
But it's a pity that it's not easy to form such a strong soldier, first of all, three meals a day is enough to make people unbearable, plus a fine iron armor, spear, crossbow, ring sword, small round iron shield and some bits and pieces, the value of such a soldier's complete set of equipment, if it is replaced with some ordinary equipment, at least three or five peasant soldiers can be assembled......
However, relatively speaking, in some special times, the comparison between elite soldiers and peasant soldiers is simply the difference between heaven and earth, just like now, without Huang Cheng's order, and without special instructions, the five hundred soldiers are like silent statues, silently waiting, under the cover of the night, if it is not approaching, there is no one here.
Just like a gambler waiting for the cards to be revealed, Huang Cheng is also quietly waiting......
In the quiet night, in addition to the sound of the wind in my ears, it seems that only the sound of my heart beating is puffing, some apprehension, and some anticipation.
It's a pity that with Huang Cheng and Fei Qian coming to Bingzhou, they found that although their forces were strong, they could basically fight around Ma Yan and Xu Huang if they fought on foot, but if they got on the horse, let alone Ma Yan, even Xu Huang's three axes were very difficult, and the same was true for commanding the cavalry, he was born in Jingxiang, and he rarely touched horses since he was a child......
There's no way, maybe I can't catch up with Ma Yan and the others in terms of cavalry, but in terms of foot soldiers, no one wants to surpass me!
Just when Huang Cheng was a little distracted, suddenly a commotion came out in the Xianbei camp, the chaotic figures were shaking, and there were more fires, and gradually the whole camp was in chaos, and the sound of people shouting and neighing even Huang Cheng, who was eight miles away, felt quite loud when he heard it......
"Haha! It's done! Huang Cheng high-fived happily. If it is said that the elite soldiers who are standing behind him now are the elite soldiers who have been taught by themselves, then it is the elite under his command who has infiltrated the Xianbei camp, and now the Xianbei camp is suddenly chaotic, and it is undoubtedly his own elite who has succeeded!
"Someone! Light the torch and make a big splash! Huang Cheng gave an order, and suddenly the five hundred people behind him lit the torches that had been prepared a long time ago, in fact, there were not many, three torches per person, two were tied with wooden sticks and inserted in the distance behind them, one was holding it by himself, and they were also scattered among themselves, and suddenly it seemed that a huge team appeared here.
With such a huge formation, Gong Jun and the others could naturally see it, and hurriedly turned the horse's head and ran here.
I have to say that the horses on the grassland have a very good habit of living in groups, and when I saw the leading horses in front of me turning, the horses behind almost didn't need to use any shouting, so they all brushed and turned to ......
Huang Cheng didn't say much nonsense, on the one hand, he commanded Gong Jun to retreat around the edge of the formation, and on the other hand, he ordered his soldiers to prepare to meet the Xianbei pursuers who were following Gong Jun.
Although Gong Jun is pretending to be a Xianbei person, he is not a Xianbei person after all, and the war horse he is riding now is frightened, and some of them are at a loss and only know how to run, but if the Xianbei people chasing after him give these familiar orders on the war horses, they will run back with Gong Jun and others......
Huang Cheng raised his fist high, ordered the soldiers to start a dense formation, and suddenly an idea arose in his heart inexplicably, the Han army was the same as himself, forming a formation against the cavalry of the Hu people?
Xianbei's pursuers arrived in an instant, this army was actually not sent by the big family, but just happened to be in the camp when a tribe cavalry commander passed by Gong Jun by mistake, he recognized that some horses belonged to his own tribe, so he subconsciously chased people out, and suddenly found a large area of torches in front of him, and the Xianbei cavalry who was pursuing couldn't help but hesitate to slow down the speed of the horse......
"Throw torches! Bow and crossbow ready! Huang Cheng ordered.
Immediately, the soldier threw the torch in his hand far away in the direction of Xianbei's pursuers, and suddenly his figure looked a little blurred under the cover of the night.
The Xianbei Qianqi Commander looked at the dark figure nearby, frowned and looked at the torches in the distance, hesitated for a moment, and still ordered one of his Baichang to rush with his men to take a look first......
Huang Cheng had already untied the longbow from his body, gently pulled the bowstring and tried it, looking at the Xianbei people looming in the firelight, he couldn't help but smile lightly, yes, slowing down the horse under unknown circumstances and sending someone to test it is the best choice, but it also loses the strongest aspect of the cavalry.
Huang Zhong's bow and three arrows, Huang Cheng couldn't learn it, but Huang Cheng also had his own methods, under his feet, there were about ten arrows shallowly pierced in the soil, lined up in a zigzag.
The Xianbei cavalry also knew that it was extremely dangerous for them to be exposed to the light of the torches, so most of them bowed down, and a few of them who thought they were agile still hung on their horses' sides, using their swords to pick up the torches scattered on the ground......
Huang Cheng took an arrow and put it on it, aimed it slightly, and then shouted: "Shoot!" ”
The snow-white arrow feathers drew an almost straight line in the night, and then it stopped on the body of a Xianbei cavalryman, and the huge impact force generated by the three-stone strong bow instantly knocked this Xianbei cavalry down from the horse!
But the power of ordinary archers is not as strong as Huang Cheng, although some Xianbei cavalry were shot by archers, they still gritted their teeth and hung arrows and still rushed forward!
A "boom" that was different from the bowstring sounded, and it immediately sounded like fried beans, and rows of crossbow arrows shot out angrily......