Chapter 656: Divert the tiger from the mountain and sneak attack in the middle of the night
The cicadas chirp unconsciously, and the frogs rise and fall.
The night after that was cool, and the bright moonlight spread over the ground, providing convenience for the Dian Wei troops who were preparing for the raid.
In this rapid march, most of them were infantry, because in order to ensure concealment, sometimes it was necessary to avoid people, so they had to travel through the overgrown wilderness, which greatly limited the speed of the war horse, so the role of the war horse was to carry weapons and food. Secondly, in order to ensure speed, the infantry did not carry much weapons, except for the main weapons, which were dry food and gunpowder, as well as Zhuge crossbows and crossbow arrows.
Han Xin estimated the time, and the amount of dry food he carried was controlled to a reasonable amount, which maximized the speed of the march.
Therefore, most of the 30,000 people in Dian Wei are elite infantry, but it doesn't matter, as long as the 20,000 Mengjia army is annihilated, there will be war horses.
The night gave the best camouflage for the sneak attack, and Dian Wei personally led it and slowly approached the camp of the Mengjia army.
Because this is Shanyuan County, it is already in the hinterland of the Dongqi region, and then it will reach the Qinling Pass to the west, so the Mengjia army is very lax, thinking that the soldiers and horses of the Xia State are making trouble in the east and cannot come here at all. Therefore, the vigilance of the Mengjia army was very loose, and it was easy to be discovered by Dian Wei, and he was killed with one arrow, killing all the soldiers on alert.
Subsequently, Dian Wei and others approached the camp gate.
A bonfire was lit in front of the camp gate, illuminating a large area, and several deer barns were placed in front of the gate, and the barracks were surrounded by a wooden fence.
Dian Wei poked his head out of the grass and watched a few soldiers in front of the camp gate leaning against the wooden fence and dozing, the barracks were quiet, and after a while, there were guards patrolling the barracks.
Look at the time, it's already ugly, this point in time is the time when a person is most tired, I believe that the Mengjia soldiers in the camp are all in a dream, what are you waiting for if you don't sneak attack now?
Dian Wei immediately arranged for him to let the members of the Tiger Chasing Team who had been carefully cultivated do it immediately.
This tiger chasing team has a total of 100 people, it is a hundred miles of picks, trained by Dian Wei himself, although they are all second- and third-grade martial artists, but with the battle, it is not a problem to surround and beat the fourth- and fifth-grade martial artists, which is not inferior to the rash team personally cultivated by Han Xin.
In the past, Xiao Rui made a suggestion that to cultivate elite warriors among warriors, Han Xin cultivated his rash team, and Dian Wei was the Tiger team.
Hearing that Li Cunxiao and Yang Youji both have their own elite teams, Dian Wei was excited to think about it, and he really wanted to compete with them.
At this time, the 100-strong Tiger Chasing Soldiers stepped forward and immediately shot and wounded the soldiers who were dozing in front of the door and the secret sentry on the outpost of the battalion.
The warriors then moved away from the deer and opened the camp gates.
There are three barracks gates in this barracks, and the first one is opened at this time, and the Tiger Chasers continue to go deeper, and the second one is opened, and only the third one remains.
Although there were more than a dozen soldiers guarding the third gate, they seemed to be heavily guarded, but they were too careless and lax, and they were all dozing off.
The warriors of the Tiger Chase immediately stepped forward and shot them, but if they couldn't kill them with a single blow, they would give them a chance to scream.
No, after a soldier of the Mengjia Army was hit by an arrow, he was not killed on the spot, he roared loudly: "Enemy attack..."
After only one scream, he was saved by the next arrow.
But this roar was very abrupt in front of the silent camp gate, and at the same time, Dian Wei was startled, and he was ready to charge.
For a second... Two seconds...
After a while, there was no reaction in the barracks.
It seems that the Meng Jiajun slept soundly, and the patrol team had gone far away, so they didn't hear the content of the roar.
Dian Wei breathed a sigh of relief, and the soldiers of the Tiger Chaser immediately opened the third camp gate, and at this point, all three camp gates were opened.
Next, the soldiers of the Tiger Chasing Team rushed into the camp and began to walk around the tents, and began to install gunpowder and leads, preparing for a gunpowder feast for the Mengjia army. I brought so much gunpowder this time, so I didn't need to waste more gunpowder.
At the same time, Dian Wei asked the soldiers behind him to step forward, ready to attack at any time!
Time passed minute by minute, and at this time, the Meng Jiajun, who was in charge of inspecting the barracks, walked to the camp gate, and suddenly found that it was pitch black in front of the camp gate, and the bonfires were extinguished. Everyone was surprised and went forward to inspect, only to find that the gate of the camp was wide open and empty, and what about the soldiers guarding the gate?
At this time, the patrol team realized that something was wrong, and just when they wanted to make a move, the Tiger Chasers soldiers who had infiltrated the camp had already lit the gunpowder bag!
A soldier carrying two gunpowder packs, a hundred people is two hundred, can be placed next to two hundred camp tents, and a camp tent with more than ten people, this is enough to injure two or three thousand people, and directly destroy the enemy forces that are the first to react in front of the camp gate.
The fuse burned to the end, and the gunpowder pack detonated in an instant!
Rumble...
As the first explosion sounded, followed by the continuous explosions of other gunpowder packets, the sound was very loud, and the Qin Jundans in the camp were so frightened that they sat up, and their sleepiness was completely lost in an instant, and they were covered in a cold sweat.
But then, they suffered, after all, the gunpowder bag contained a large number of iron pieces, which were blown away by the impact of gunpowder and shot out, with fierce power, and they would be inserted into the body of Qin Jun, and if they were shot into the position, they would be killed directly!
Two hundred gunpowder packs were blown up in half a minute, more than 200 camp tents were blown up, and there were heavy casualties, and the successive explosions also woke up all the Qin troops.
"Not good! Xia Jun! "The general of this team is named Chen Kai, he immediately realized that the enemy was attacking, and it was the Xia army attacking, he couldn't care about wearing a coat, and his head was full of doubts, that is, how did the soldiers and horses of the Xia Kingdom come here! How could it be here!
And at this time, as the explosion ended, Dian Wei shouted: "Attack!" ”
Immediately, he led the Great Xia soldiers who had long been eager to rush into the camp, and 30,000 soldiers rushed into the camp one after another, and began to destroy the Qin army. Before many Qin soldiers got dressed, they were shot by the Great Xia soldiers standing outside the camp tent with crossbow arrows, first harvesting in a wave, and then breaking in to continue harvesting.
For a moment, the entire barracks was in mourning.
Chen Kai, the general of the Qin army, rushed out of the camp tent and saw that the entire military camp was in chaos, although the Mengjia army was trained in an orderly manner, but this time it was caught off guard, and it was also blown up by gunpowder, causing them to be unable to take out an effective defense at all.
Chen Kai's subordinate generals came: "General, it's not good!" A large number of summer troops entered the camp, and it is estimated that there will be forty or fifty thousand people! There are too many enemies, too fierce! Our soldiers have suffered heavy casualties! ”
When people are at a disadvantage, it is easy to exaggerate the strength of their opponents. Moreover, according to Han Xin's request, Dian Wei also deliberately created the illusion of a large number of people, and specially left people outside the camp to create a false image, the purpose of which was to attract Meng Fang for the follow-up plan.
"So many people! How did they get here! Chen Kai said angrily: "Fuck, are the defenders of Tonglu County and Zhaodu County stupid?" The enemy walked past their eyelids, and they didn't know it! ”
After scolding, Chen Kai's face changed greatly, and he shouted: "It's not good! They are going to take the South Leave Pass! Hurry up and send a message to General Meng Fang! Let him come to the rescue, I will lead people to resist the Xia army, it really can't work, I will retreat to Nanli Pass and defend there. ”
"Yes!" The lieutenant was immediately ordered to leave.
Subsequently, Chen Kai organized troops to fight the enemy, but they lost the opportunity, and when he organized two or three thousand people, Dian Wei had already led people to the center of the barracks, and also saw Chen Kai.
Chen Kai is worthy of being born in the Mengjia army, he knows that the enemy is strong and weak, he only has 20,000 troops, and now the people who are killed are out of proportion, it is impossible to fight, and confrontation is a dead end.
So Chen Kai fled directly with his people to avoid being surrounded by Dian Wei's soldiers and horses.
Han Xin had already guessed that the other party would escape, so he specifically warned Dian Wei that he must set a trap in the west.
Sure enough, Chen Kai retreated westward, wanting to escape to the south.
It's a pity that they encountered Wei Guang, who was in ambush, and the crossbow arrows harvested the Mengjia army, and the general Chen Kai was also killed by Dian Wei's halberd, which caught up behind.
When the sky dawned, the war ended.
The entire Mengjia military camp was in shambles, and this sneak attack was a big victory, although a small part of the Mengjia army escaped, but it was harmless. After all, it's a sneak attack at night, and you can't wipe out all the enemy troops.
Subsequently, Dian Wei ordered people to clean up the battlefield, especially the equipment and food of the Mengjia army, which happened to supplement Dian Wei.
At the same time, Chen Kai's deputy general led more than a dozen people to the north to inform Meng Fang, who was stationed in the middle lane.
The journey of more than 200 miles arrived in two hours.
When Meng Fang received the news, he suddenly stood up from his seat and asked in shock, "What did you say?" Your military camp was attacked by Xia Guo's soldiers and horses? Forty or fifty thousand people on the other side? ”
The adjutant general knelt down on one knee: "Yes, General Meng, it's true!" The Xia army was like a ghost, and it appeared suddenly, and we were caught off guard by a mistake, and the other party also used gunpowder, and our army suffered heavy losses. When the humble post arrived, General Chen was gathering his forces to prepare to resist, and if he couldn't resist, he would evacuate to the south! ”
"South Departure!"
Meng Fang's face changed drastically.
The reason why Meng Yi transferred him back to Shanyuan County to garrison was to protect the three passes of the Qinling Mountains. After receiving the military order at that time, Meng Fang couldn't help but ask his cousin: "The soldiers and horses of the Xia State are all in Dongqi County, how can he cross the five counties to kill Qinling Pass!" ”
Meng Yi said: "There is nothing impossible in this world, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, be careful." ”
Meng Fang was reluctant, but he had to come back, but he never expected that Xia Jun was really in danger and killed.
"What's going on with Zhou Yi there?" Meng Fang asked.
The other generals said: "Everything is fine there in Zhou Yi, and there is no news of being attacked." ”
Zhou Yi was the general of the defenders of the North Road.
Meng Fang is not stupid, and he is also worried about whether it is the enemy's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, but now that he hears that everything is fine with the army on the north road, his worry has decreased a lot, and now the situation on the south road is urgent, if the south pass is really lost, it will be a bad thing.
"Immediately notify the army, and prepare to march. In addition, Zhou Yi was notified to retreat to the west and retreat to the North Pivot Pass. Meng Tian immediately gave the order.
Let Zhou Yi's soldiers and horses retreat to the North Hub Pass, and the safety of the North Hub Pass can be ensured, so that he can go to the south and leave the Pass with confidence.