Outside the city of Wanling.

In the 25-person battalion of the Wu army, soldiers carried buckets of water and ran around the camp, struggling to water and extinguish the fire, shouting loudly and vigorously to fight the fire.

The soldiers of Wanling City stood at the head of the city, watching the fire, and they were all cheering and boiling.

This fire is many times more fierce than yesterday, which means that their reinforcements are stepping up the offensive.

At dawn.

The fire, which burned more than 20 large camps, was finally extinguished by the soldiers of the Wu army.

Wu Wang Xiang Bi and his son Xiang Xian, the two fathers and sons stood outside the main camp, their faces full of black fireworks, and their boots were full of mud.

Last night's fire burned the main tent. The main account was burned, and the father and son led the generals to desperately put out the fire and rescue all kinds of account books and documents.

Looking at the camp, there was a mess.

Both father and son wanted to cry without tears.

This damn enemy army is out of nowhere. After firing a gunpowder arrow at the Wu army's camp, they fled, and they did not even see a shadow.

The hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Wu army tensed their nerves all night, and were busy fighting fires and rescuing heavy supplies, and by dawn, they were exhausted and unable to fight.

During the day, the battle could not be fought.

A few hours later.

All the generals came to the main tent one after another and reported the losses of each 10,000-person battalion to King Wu.

Without tents, they could only stand in the mud and report to King Wu.

The baggage battalion lost more than 500,000 catties of grain and grass, and the grain and grass of Wu's army were burned for several days.

In the rest of the battalions, most of the tents of thousands were burned down, and nearly 1,000 soldiers were burned to death. The number of dead and wounded was not too much, but the blow to the morale of the Wu army was extremely heavy, and the entire Wu army's hundreds of thousands of troops could not raise their morale.

"Father!"

Xiang Xian pouted, knelt on the muddy ground, and pounded the ground angrily, "Father, the camp tents of our army were burned down thousands of them overnight, almost all of them.

I am afraid that the army can only sleep in the open air, and in this wilderness, there is dew at night, and it is too cold, and I am afraid that it will be very unfavorable to the soldiers. If you don't sleep well at night, how can you have the energy to attack the city during the day?

They will continue their night raids. If this continues, within five days, the morale of our army will be weakened, and there will be no strength to fight during the day.

It's so vicious! Except for Xiao Duhou, no one can come up with such a ferocious fight! Father, let me lead the troops and attack Danyang County again! ”

"Xian'er, don't be impulsive!"

King Wu Xiang Bi's angry muscles burst out, and with his anger, the ministers and generals asked, "What is the opinion of the ministers, can we defeat this enemy army attacking at night?" ”

"King, Xiao Duhou has only been harassing outside for two consecutive days, but he has not forcibly attacked my camp, it must be that the number of people is too small, it is estimated that the number of cavalry is only one or two thousand, and he does not dare to fight hard with the 10,000-person battalion of our army! can only use such despicable night attack methods to sneak attack our army.

All our army needs is an ambush outside the camp with a soldier and horse capable of fighting at night, and he can be inflicted a heavy blow. ”

Xiangguo arched his hand and said.

"Can anyone dare to lead the troops and ambush the little dusk?"

King Wu asked in a deep voice.

The generals looked at each other.

They led their troops to fight for many years, and never fought at night. Even, I have never heard of the existence of troops who are good at night battles in this world.

Their soldiers came out of the camp at night and were a group of blind people, how could they ambush them?

"Great King, the night attack camp of the little dusk marquis is extraordinary. They have fireworks as signals, and they have firearms such as gunpowder arrows with extremely long ranges, which are by no means comparable to idle troops.

Our army is not good at night fighting, and when we engage the enemy at night, I am afraid that we will hit a stone with an egg.

The old nest of the little dusk marquis is in Danyang County, and the night attack camp must be based on this, so it is better to directly send troops to attack Danyang County! Breaking Danyang City is to break the night attack camp of Xiao Duhou! ”

The general said.

The generals nodded.

Although the night attack camp is haunting, it is based in Danyang County, a hundred miles away.

Defeating Danyang County is the best way to break the night and attack the camp.

"Who wants to lead the troops to attack Danyang City?"

Wu Wang Xiang Bi asked.

"Uh..."

“...”

The generals fell silent again.

Although Danyang is a small county town, it is much lower than Wanling County.

However, there were 50,000 elite soldiers of the imperial court who were transferred from Jinling City.

In addition, there were 6,000 Danyang gunpowder gun soldiers, all of whom were equipped with the most advanced gunpowder guns and small steel cannons.

Plus this mysterious night raid battalion.

The difficulty of attacking Danyang County is probably even more difficult than attacking Wanling City.

Wanling City only has 10,000 elite soldiers and 20,000 miscellaneous soldiers, and the total strength is only 30,000.

It's better to attack Wanling City first.

With this base, if you go to attack Danyang County, which is a hundred miles away, you will also have a safe city to store grain and grass.

Now the problem is back.

Xiao Duhou's night attack camp harassed the Wu army so violently that the Wu army couldn't sleep all night, and in the daytime it was sluggish, and it was difficult for them to attack Wanling City with all their might.

The 250,000 troops of the Wu army took turns to attack Wanling City for six or seven days, and they have not been able to attack it so far.

This becomes an unsolvable problem.

"Father, my son will take an army of 100,000 to Danyang City! In this way, Xiao Duhou can only save himself, and he will definitely not take care of Wanling City. ”

Xiang Xiandao.

"Don't... You go alone with an army of 100,000, but I am afraid that you will repeat the mistakes of the king of Chu. The king of Chu has suffered a big loss, your experience is far from the king of Chu, how can your father rest assured. ”

Xiang Bi shook his head.

He saw that all the veterans were reluctant to lead the troops to fight Danyang County, and he also knew the difficulty.

"There's really no way, there's only one stupid way!

The gunpowder arrows of the night attack camp had a range of 300 paces, nearly half a mile.

Our camp, half a mile away, dug a long ravine, and added horses and bonfires. Each battalion of 10,000 people, each with 2,000 troops, was in charge of the vigil of the camp.

In this way, the night raid camp could not get within half a mile of the main camp! The night attack of their gunpowder arrows, of course, could not burn the camp of our army. ”

Xiang Bi said in a deep voice.

The generals looked at each other, a little worried.

In this way, every 10,000-strong camp is safe, and you can finally have a good rest at night.

But these 2,000 soldiers, because they are alone and half a mile away from the main camp, will be in danger. It's easy to be attacked.

However, this is the best way to deal with it.

"Since the generals have no opinion, let's act accordingly."

"The last general obeys!"

The generals of the battalion of 250,000 men immediately returned to their respective camps and began to dig ditches half a mile away from the outskirts of the camp.

And cut down the wood, and make simple horses, and put them on the inside of the ditch, to resist the light cavalry.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers dug at the same time, a ditch half a meter deep and one meter wide. This width, the horse can cross over.

Therefore, there is also an obstacle on the inside to reject the horse and circle around the Wu army camp. In this way, the hussars could not rush in. Forcibly impacted, it will definitely hit the head and break the blood flow.

Strictly guard against the night attack camp of the little faint marquis.

Of course, the Wu army was busy preparing for the night attack on the camp, and they had no time to attack Wanling City for a while, but let the tens of thousands of guards of Wanling City get a chance to rest and recuperate.