Chapter 9: Night Attack on Beiwu
There are many requirements for camping at night, and now it is just after the end of the day, which is the most difficult time for people. There was silence in the Beiwu camp, no one moved, only the sentries were still keeping watch for the night.
The night was as dark as ink, and there were only a few lights in the Beiwu camp not far away.
Xia Qingchen led the four thousands of people to walk cautiously all the way, bypassed several scouts, and arrived at the predetermined location. With an order, led by Xia Qingchen, four thousand people roared and rushed to the granary of Beiwu.
The sneak attack was caught off guard, coupled with Xia Qingchen's unstoppable offensive, and led people all the way into the Beiwu camp.
The Beiwu camp was in chaos in an instant, the shouts of killing were mixed with the shouts, and I don't know how many soldiers were cut off by Xiaolin Jun before they could open their hazy eyes.
Chaos, chaos!
The entire Beiwu army is boiling, and in the time of decades or even longer of fighting, I have seen Xiaolin sneak attack, but when have I seen such a lone army really rampage in the Beiwu camp!
Countless soldiers touched their weapons in the dark, came out of the tents everywhere, and gathered towards this side, and all of a sudden, the four soldiers brought by Xia Qingchen were besieged by the group, and the pressure increased sharply.
"Set fire!" Xia Qingchen saw that most of them had already rushed to the vicinity of the granary, and knew that he couldn't delay it any longer. At the sound of an order, Xiaolin and the others dispersed, took out the flint and steel in groups of two, one covered and one lit the fire, and in a short time the granaries were set on fire in all directions.
The fire rose into the sky, billowing smoke, and everyone in the Xiaolin Army took out the wet cloth they had prepared in advance to cover their mouths and noses, basically unaffected by the smoke; And Beiwu is different, the soldiers who failed to take precautions in time have a trace of riots, and this trace of riots has given Xiaolin Army a little buffer time. The Xiaolin army quickly gathered, attacked fiercely towards one point, and began to break through.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the general of the Beiwu Left Army hurriedly commanded people to put out the fire. With this firefighting, there were many fewer people left to stop Xia Qingchen and them, and the people of Xiaolin regarded this night attack as death, killing people as if they were dying.
So soon, the encirclement was torn out, Xia Qingchen took the lead, the gun danced like a dragon out to sea, took the lead, led people to kill a bloody road, and broke out of the encirclement.
When Xia Qingchen led people to break into the Beiwu camp, the news was reported to Jing Ceyu layer by layer, and Jing Ceyu hurriedly transferred people to the left army to support. As a result, before the people were dispatched, they heard someone report that Xia Qingchen had withdrawn with people.
Jing Ceyu hurriedly changed his strategy, ordered people to hurry to the left army to extinguish the grain and grass, and then went back to the tent to sit.
According to the report, the number of people who rushed in was not large, and there were only two people in the Xiaolin Army who could do this. One is Mu Changchuan, but he is the commander, and it is impossible for him to lead troops to attack at night; The other one is that Mu Zijin.
I couldn't sleep for a while, Jing Ceyu simply sat in the tent and lit the fire, looking at a picture scroll sent by his subordinates, the people on the picture scroll were picturesque, with thin lips slightly pursed, although they were a little immature, but they could also see that they were bright and handsome when they grew up. At the bottom of the scroll is written the words "Mu Zijin", indicating the identity of the person in the painting, which he ordered his subordinates to draw urgently overnight.
He stared at the scroll for a while, and finally flicked his fingers at the scroll and chuckled, "Heh, just burn me a granary and withdraw?" There are three granaries in my army, and if you burn one, there are other things that can be used, and although there is a problem, the impact is not too great. Mu Zijin, you are nothing more than that. ”
It's a pity that he was wrong, the purpose of Xiaolin this time was not to attack the granary, it was just a trick.
Jing Ceyu no longer had the heart to continue sleeping, thinking about what Mu Zijin did during the battle, a nameless fire arose, and he pulled out his sword and slashed at the person on the scroll.
Before the sword could be cut down, he heard the sound of shouting and killing coming from outside, Jing Ceyu suddenly stopped the movement of his hand, and stared at the outside of the tent with a pale face.
In the next second, he slashed his sword downward, and the scroll cracked in response, and the person on the painting split straight down from his head, breaking in half.
Jing Ceyu rushed out of the tent, and was about to catch someone to come over and ask, when he looked up, he saw that everything was already in chaos, and finally a herald rushed over and said breathlessly, "There is a team of Xiaolin in the rear army!" ”
Jing Ceyu was a little unsteady, and muttered, "Is the sneak attack on the granary just a trick, and the target is in the rear army grain road?" ”
Thinking of this, Jing Ceyu yelled, "Transfer troops to the rear army, quickly!" ”
He still expected it wrong, the target was not the rear army grain road, but the big tent of the Chinese army, and there was not only one team, but three!
Before this order could be passed down, two more messengers stumbled in front of him, "Your Highness, the front army (right army) has also appeared in Xiaolin's men!" ”
Three directions, three lone armies, the Xiaolin army rushed in from the right army, the rear army, and the front army, and there were flames in all directions, and the changes in an instant made the people in Beiwu have no time to react.
If the previous fire only messed up the left army, the current night attack is to mess up the entire Beiwu army.
Jing Ceyu's armor had not been removed, and when he heard this, he raised his long sword and wanted to fight, but he saw several soldiers with blood stains running over in a row, "Your Highness, Nanchen's people have rushed over!" ”
In fact, there is no need for him to say it, Jing Ceyu has already seen a red shadow in the distance driving a horse, carrying a knife, opening and closing widely, and each knife can kill a Northern Warrior. That touch of red was extremely dazzling in the dark night, Jing Ceyu stared at the figure with a gloomy face, and knew that it was Mu Zijin without thinking about it.
Jing Ceyu gritted his teeth and spit out three words from between his teeth, "Mu!" Child! Jin! ”
The soldiers beside him saw that Mu Zijin was menacing, and they couldn't help but drag Jing Ceyu back and retreat. Jing Ceyu knew that he couldn't entangle the other party if he faced Mu Zijin directly, and the other party could evacuate at any time, and if he gritted his teeth, he could only retreat with a few personal soldiers around him.
Halfway through the retreat, I saw a person holding a double mace, and he smashed it when he saw someone, and it was also majestic, it was Liao Jie, the former commander of the army. Jing Ceyu's eyes were heavy, but he didn't want to touch his head now, so he turned around and yelled viciously, "Withdraw!" He snatched a horse and galloped back.
Ran to the rear army, the rear army was also in chaos at this time, Xia Qingchen took a detour, and took four thousand people to kill the rear army, killing the Beiwu was frightened, and there were countless soldiers who fled.
Jing Ceyu almost bumped into Xia Qingchen head-on, but fortunately, he was sharp-eyed, and hurriedly led people to take a detour, avoided Xia Qingchen, and fled in embarrassment with people in the direction of Beiwu.
Over there, the three of Xiaolin also began to converge, and the three of them took their soldiers to make a fuss in the Beiwu camp for a while, and then turned around and fought a bloody way back to Xiaolin.
In fact, after the killing, those Beiwu soldiers saw that the commander had fled, and saw Mu Zijin, Xia Qingchen, and Liao Jie The three of them looked like gods, and the army was in turmoil, and they had no intention of resisting.
After withdrawing from the Beiwu camp, the bloodstained group returned to the camp. The sky was faintly white, and the first rays of sunlight in the morning shone on the soldiers who were exhausted after a night of fighting.
The outcome of this night attack exceeded all expectations.
Beiwu retreated 100 miles overnight, and only after escaping for a day did he barely collect the remnants of the soldiers, and when he counted them, he died and fled, and there were more than 10,000 soldiers missing, and the losses of military funds were innumerable, and his vitality was greatly damaged. Forced to be helpless, Jing Ceyu retreated with his entire army, and this retreat, almost quickly withdrew from the territory of Nanchen, which was enough to see how big the blow was.
After Mu Zijin returned to the camp, he counted the casualties and lost nearly 4,000, and basically those who could return to the camp were slightly injured. Mu Changchuan heard that the night attack was successful, so he ordered Mu Xuyun to take the left army to the end, obtained more than 7,000 enemy heads, captured more than 1,000 enemies, and rescued more than 100 seriously injured soldiers.
On the same day, Xiaolinjun slaughtered pigs and sheep to celebrate the achievements of Mu Zijin, Xia Qingchen and the former army.
With the blood of 4,000 soldiers, he forced back the 100,000 Beiwu army, which was the first time in the history of the Dachen army!
The battle report arrived in Beijing, which was inspiring, and His Majesty added another reward: Feng Mu Zijin was a loyal general from the fifth grade, Xia Qingchen was the captain of the sixth grade Huben, and the soldiers were all promoted to one level.
When the holy decree arrived at the camp, there was another burst of jubilation, and the Xiaolin army who got the news was overjoyed outside the tent, but the atmosphere inside the tent of the Chinese army was not like this.
Mu Zijin stood in front of Mu Changchuan with his head bowed and didn't say a word.
Mu Xuyun stood beside Mu Zijin with his hands down, his expression was strange, revealing a trace of embarrassment.
Mu Changchuan sat in his position with a solemn face.
After a long time, Mu Changchuan raised his eyes and looked at the person in front of him, "Why do you want to refuse the reward?" ”
"Because I'm a daughter."
Mu Zijin's words were not finished, but Mu Changchuan already knew the meaning of his words: although Dachen did not explicitly stipulate that women could not be officials, Mu Zijin had always dressed as a man, so that even the word "second son" was written on the holy decree, that is to say, His Majesty was convinced that Mu Zijin was a man, if Mu Zijin's identity as a daughter was revealed in the future, then the Mu family would be charged with bullying the king.
"Dad, it's come to this... I'm afraid there is no other way, I'm afraid, I can only refuse the reward. Mu Xuyun said in a low voice.
Mu Changchuan sighed, "I shouldn't have promised you to stay." After a pause, Mu Changchuan closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair, "You go and write a recital." ”
Mu Zijin bowed, exited the tent, and did not forget to drag Mu Xuyun out before leaving. Mu Xuyun enjoys the reputation of "military advisor" in the army, and it is only fitting for him to draft the chapter.
Mu Zijin's letter was presented to His Majesty in front of the current dynasty, saying that he did not want to be an official; After His Majesty received the recital, he issued an edict to reprimand him, and even said that Mu Zijin would be dealt with as a protest if he refused to reward him again.
Mu Zijin had no choice but to accept the order, Mu Changchuan was transferred to the former army general Wei Yuchen to the left army general, Mu Zijin was transferred to the former army general, with Xia Qingchen as the deputy general, and the former army of Xiaolin was 30,000.