Chapter 116: Night Melee
The quiet night was suddenly shattered, leaving deep shoe prints on the ground where the boots had stepped on. The soldiers of the Song Kingdom remained silent, and the guns in their hands were wet with sweat.
remembered that his commander had said that General Ji had asked someone to cast a spell, and the ghosts and gods invited by the Yanzhou army would not come to help tonight.
In the faint moonlight, the scouts of the Yanzhou army could not see the figures quietly touching in the distance, and even the footsteps were muffled by the soft soil.
The scouts could not make a fire to cook at night, so they had to spend the long night nibbling on dry food. Suddenly, a Yanzhou scout suddenly sensed that something was not quite right nearby, which was the experience of being a scout for many years of danger.
"Hey, everyone's cheering up. I had a bad premonition. ”
After hearing his captain's words, the remaining four people stood up suddenly, "Captain, have you found anything?" ”
"No, I just think it's too quiet tonight. Not even the sound of birds and insects. ”
"Captain, it's early spring, and the insects are still in the soil."
Hearing the retort of his soldiers, the captain also fell silent. Is it really that I am thinking too much, and the pressure has been too much to see recently.
No, no, it's early spring, but it's impossible not to have no sound.
After all, it had just rained, and the moonlight was still very hazy. The faint moonlight reflected in the field, shining dark shadows one after another.
"Look, those black shadows should be the army of the Song Kingdom, hurry up and report it, just say that the Song army is coming to attack the camp."
"No."
Just as one of the scouts was about to get up and mount his horse, he was shot in the back by an arrow and fell down.
The soldier got up and mounted his horse just now and was noticed by the enemy who was sneaking up, and the remaining four people were undoubtedly exposed.
The scouts of the Song army also quickly surrounded it, and the Yanzhou scouts hiding in the bushes did not dare to make any moves. Because there are countless sharp arrows outside aimed at the bushes where they are hiding, the slightest movement of the wind will attract countless feathered arrows.
"Captain, what do we do now?" A soldier lowered his voice, hoping to get an answer from his trusted captain.
"Xiao Wu's action on the horse just now has exposed us all, and we can't escape anymore." The captain paused for a moment and then said: "But even if we die, we will pass the news back to the camp, and the brothers in the camp don't know the news of the Song army's sneak attack."
The scouts of the Song army also gradually leaned over, and the crossbow arrows in their hands were aimed at the bushes not far away. Even a hare jumping out of it will be shot into a hornet's nest.
Suddenly, four figures burst out of the bushes, and all four figures were shot.
The scouts of the Song army shot several arrows at these corpses, so that even the gods could not save them after that. After leaving with the footsteps of the Song scouts, a soldier hiding in a bush ravine slowly climbed up.
"Captain, Xiao Wu, Ah Jiu, Lao Huang, Lao Jing, I, Chen Lao Si, will definitely avenge you."
The reason why Chen Laosi didn't die was because the captain had an idea. Generally speaking, scouts are in a team of five, and the little five who got on the horse before were naturally regarded as dead by them, and one of the four figures that came out was the body of the little five who was thrown out.
Fortunately, these Song scouts were just like the captain said, in order to deal with the next batch of scouts and sentinels outside the big camp in a hurry.
The area that was considered to have been cleared up would naturally not be noticed by anyone, and Chen Laosi ran to the camp all the way to the camp with his body on the road illuminated by the moonlight.
The war horses were all led away by the scouts of the Song Kingdom, and now they can only run to the camp on their legs. On the way, he also saw the corpses of several comrades-in-arms, all of which urged Chen Laosi to keep running forward.
A large battalion with torches appeared in the eye, and the originally small battalion gradually became tall and clear.
"Stop! What are you, password! The soldiers guarding the gate of the camp saw an embarrassed scout running over, but scouts were not usually equipped with horses.
"Quickly inform the Song army to come and attack. The scout brothers on the periphery were all killed. He said breathlessly.
When the guard sentry heard this, he immediately brought the scout to the commander.
Lu Zhan, who was asleep, was woken up, "What happened, I just fell asleep not long ago." Lu Zhan opened his heavy eyes hard.
"News from the scouts that the Song army has come to attack!" Duan Xiaohan roared at the sleepy Lu Zhan.
I don't know if I was awakened by Duan Xiaohan's voice, or by the information in the words.
"What do you say? Quickly ordered the whole army to get ready to fight. Lu Zhan immediately put on his shoes and armor and prepared to fight.
Duan Xiaohan continued when he helped Lu Zhan put on his armor: "General Chen has already begun to set up, and the musketeers are ready."
The Song army outside the camp gate was still marching towards the Yanzhou army camp in front according to the plan, and the advancing Song soldiers were willing to muster up the courage to attack the Yanzhou army camp because they heard that their general Ji had invited a master to do so.
"Soldiers, now that the Yanzhou Army has no ghosts and gods to help, today is the time for us to make contributions." The officers of the Song army continued to tempt these soldiers with their high-ranking officials.
The temptation of high-ranking officials and the loss of fear of the Yanzhou army led these Song soldiers to prepare for action.
Seeing that the patrol was still the same as usual, Ji Qingquan, the commander of the Song army, pulled his sword out of his waist.
"Attack."
The originally silent Song army suddenly began to become restless, and the sound of war drums and trumpets sounded in the dark night. However, the defenders on the wall kept beating gongs and drums like frightened birds.
The Yanzhou soldiers in the camp were stirred up like headless flies, and the fighting spirit of the attacking Song army was even higher.
The soldiers of the Song Army in the dark night couldn't see that the muzzles of those black holes were aimed at them, and the soldiers were stunned for a moment.
The crackling of gunfire drowned out the sound of war drums and gongs and drums, and the light of the guns in the dark night intimidated the soldiers of the Song Kingdom like ghost fire.
There were four more loud bangs, and the four cannons began to roar.
The Song army's original pace of progress is constantly retreating, didn't it say that it was good to invite a master to do it? So what's the situation, it seems that the Yanzhou army still has ghosts and gods to help.
The morale of the Song army collapsed at once, and Lu Zhan deliberately put the Song soldiers closer to fight. The dense rain of bullets instantly killed the fighters in the first few rows.
The superstitious ancients were naturally very frightened of these ghosts and gods, and the fire from the muskets and the accumulated and neat gunfire broke the psychological defense line of the Song army.
"Damn, it seems that this Lu Zhan has been prepared for a long time, and ordered the death squad to rush forward, if anyone takes a step back tonight, there will be no mercy!"