Chapter 44: Burning the Company Camp
"It looks like they're going to attack us day and night in batches, fighting a long war of attrition." Chen Cheng Road;
"Even if the rescuers come as soon as they receive the news, it will take at least ten days later, and we will last five or six days at most, which is why I think their strength is so strong." Gongsun Ce exhaled a cool airway;
At this time, the other party's drum sounded.
The shield-bearers emerged from the gap between the wooden fences and lined up neatly in front, followed by sappers and archers.
Zhang Xiaotian saw that it was already dark at this time, so he asked Chen Cheng for a rocket wrapped in an oilcloth, and ordered: "You are responsible for the defense here.
I went around behind enemy lines to burn their grain and grass and drive away their horses, and see what else they could do. ”
Everyone looked at him in amazement, wondering how he could get into the enemy camp.
Zhang Xiaotian immediately returned to the camp to change into night clothes, buckled up the tools for climbing the mountain, put on the bow and arrows on his back, and said goodbye to Mrs. Fen and walked towards the camp.
"Knock knock..."
The drums of war became more and more urgent, and it was clear that the enemy was about to launch an attack on the mountain, and the shouts of killing and shaking the sky sounded at the edge of the camp, and the enemy began to attack the slope, and the shouts of killing and arrows broke through the air, rising and falling like a tide.
At this time, Zhang Xiaotian had already disappeared into the darkness behind the camp, the north wind was whistling, Zhang Xiaotian exerted all his skills, relying on his amazing memory, relying on the sense of far surpassing others, along the rope tied earlier, climbed the cliff of the back mountain, entered the rear of the enemy army without knowing it, and then sneaked towards the enemy camp unconsciously.
Zhang Xiaotian once received the most rigorous military training in the 21st century, and attacking the camp in the dark at night like this is a pediatric matter.
He didn't need to bear nearly a hundred pounds of armor, he grew wings like a bird, and when he moved, he was as fast as a civet cat, and in less than half an hour of incense, he reached the enemy's rear.
The battalion formation formed by the thieves is called the "goose-shaped formation", which is a kind of battle formation that spreads horizontally and arranges the left and right wings forward or backward.
Forward is a "V" shape, like an ape's arms stretched forward, a formation used to outflank roundabouts, and the defense in the rear is relatively weak.
The backward arrangement is an inverted "V" shape, which is to protect the security of the wings and the rear to prevent the enemy from detouring, and the camp tent for grain is located in the rear, followed by two large fences, which hold hundreds of war horses.
The situation on Zhang Xiaotian's side is becoming more and more tense and intense, while the thief camp is becoming more and more peaceful and quiet, and the lights are dim. It seems that it is not yet their turn to attack the thieves who are fighting for time to rest.
Zhang Xiaotian smiled secretly in his heart at this time: Zhang can guarantee that your dreams will not come true tonight, and some are just a cruel and bloody nightmare.
Immediately, under Zhang Xiaotian's careful observation, he found that the security of the enemy's camp was lax, and some of the guards even sat down to doze off and fell asleep.
When Zhang Xiaotian came to the stable, he found that the twenty-four or five enemy soldiers on duty at night had gathered around to gamble and have fun, and they did not care at all about the tense stalemate between the enemy and us in front of them.
As long as these more than 20 thieves are solved, Zhang Xiaotian can set fire to the grain and camp.
The question is how can we kill these more than 20 fierce and experienced enemy soldiers without allowing one of them to escape?
Zhang Xiaotian had a headache at this time.
At this time, one of them walked in the direction where he was hiding.
Zhang Xiaotian was startled, thinking that he had been discovered by them, but fortunately he saw the man untying his pants while walking, so he knew what the other party was going to do, and hurriedly hid behind a tree.
As soon as the man entered the forest, he saw a flash of blade light, a slight cold throat, and he fell down instantly.
Chunjun was put away by Zhang Xiaotian, quickly took off the man's outer armor, put it on his body, walked over in a big way, and came straight behind two of them,
The probe grabbed them by the hair, slammed their heads together with great force, and then raised their palms and slashed at the sides of the necks of the other two with great speed.
These two techniques were done in one go, crisply and neatly, and when a few people fell to the ground, the remaining thieves felt that something had happened.
At the flash of the blade, Zhang Xiaotian, who was holding a pure jun in his hand, jumped onto the stone that was temporarily used as a gambling table, and in an instant, he cut the throats of five or six people.
I just smell "Bang! With a bang, Zhang Xiaotian kicked out a kick and hit the front door of another big man who had just pulled out half of the knife, and directly kicked him unconscious.
The remaining thieves were now gone, rolling away on both sides. Zhang Xiaotian laughed secretly in his heart at this time, Chunjun came out of his hand and killed one of them with his back.
Seeing that he had no weapon in his hand, the remaining enemy soldiers reversed and drew their swords and turned around and pounced on Zhang Xiaotian.
Zhang Xiaotian reached out to his waist at this time, and felt out some flying needles that had been shot and injured by the Marquis of Qinzhou, only to see that his wrist flicked, and the flying needles flashed out, straight into the eyebrows of those enemy soldiers.
When their corpses landed, Zhang Xiaotian had already picked up Chunjun and walked into the darkness.
At this time, the shouting of killing became more intense. The sound of falling stones rumbled, which showed that the enemy had approached the top of the slope, and Chen Cheng and the others were forced to put down the rolling stones and attack the enemy who came up.
At this time, Zhang Xiaotian had successfully demolished the stable in the rear, hurriedly untied the big bow, walked between the horses, and came to a place close to the grain camp.
Peeking at the enemy camp from this angle, I just saw more than 40 camp tents located in the outermost part of the rear two feet away, each tent was hung with wind lanterns, swaying in the north wind, the camp was cold and cold, only a few enemy soldiers who were on vigil were dozing, and the defense was scattered.
And they are not to blame for this,
This was their rearguard, and it was at the back of the camp, and they thought that the people who were Zhang Xiaotian were all besieged in a desperate situation, and no one would come to sneak attack, so they relaxed their vigilance.
This morning, Zhang Xiaotian was exposed to the light of the terrain, and he could clearly see that the more than 40 camp tents in the last two rows were all used to place grain, so he saved the trouble of re-investigation.
The camp of this goose-shaped array, the head and tail of which face north and south, and the north wind blows at this time, if he succeeds in burning these grain camps at the north end, the fire will follow the wind.
Maybe it will soon sweep over the entire vast camp, especially now that the camp is still full of weeds, which is extremely easy to cause a fire to the camp, and it is out of control.
Zhang Xiaotian thought secretly in his heart at this time: After Guan Yu was killed by Eastern Wu in the history textbooks of the 21st century, Liu Bei tried his best to avenge Guan Yu's murder.
Who knew that he was burned by Lu Xun of Eastern Wu for 800 miles, and finally died of illness in the White Emperor City. The current situation is so similar, except that the protagonist has changed from Liu Bei to red eyebrows, but the status of the two of them is different, one is the emperor and the other is a horse thief.
After making up his mind, he saw Zhang Xiaotian kneeling on one knee and igniting the rocket first, (this rocket is not a rocket that lifted off in the 21st century, but a weapon in ancient times) and shot it at the grain camp closest to him.
Zhang Xiaotian chose the side of the camp with the camp on his back, and unless the flames spread, it would be difficult for the enemy to find it for a while.
After setting fire to the outer granary, he used the tinder to light the forage for the horses in the stall, and only then did he find one of the particularly strong horses without saddles.
Circling the woods next to the camp, luring the horses to the middle of the camp.
At this time, thick smoke rose from the north of the camp, and the flames were scattered, and some of the enemy soldiers who had already noticed the mutation shouted for help and rushed towards the direction of the fire.
What made the enemy even more disturbed was that the horses neighed wildly, and the whole camp was in chaos for a while.
Zhang Xiaotian rode slowly, while constantly shooting rockets, shooting at the barracks that were all on the periphery, as long as the periphery was on fire, the sleeping people in the camp tent inside would not be able to escape.
Taking advantage of everyone's attention to focus on the fire at the northern end, Zhang Xiaotian put on the armor of the thief soldier again, brazenly walked through the camp, and galloped to the periphery on the other side.
At this time, the enemy camp was already as chaotic as the end of the world, and the enemy troops who were about to seize the rest time to prepare for the next round of attacks came out of the camp with sleepy eyes, not knowing what was happening.
Some of the enemy soldiers thought that someone was coming, and they rushed out with their weapons in disheveled armor.
Everywhere there were chickens and dogs, panicked enemy soldiers.
At the north end, the sound of hooves suddenly changed from sparse to dense, and it was obvious that the war horses were frightened and fled in the direction of the grassland at that end.
Zhang Xiaotian rode past at this time, but no one came to suspect him, and some people even called out to him, the man who owned a horse, to chase after those who escaped.
Zhang Xiaotian casually agreed, pretended to turn around, and still galloped towards the periphery of the other side, at this time, the camp tent at the edge of the rear had all been involved in the fire, and the fire spread to the surrounding grass and trees, and quickly became a prairie fire.
Zhang Xiaotian had run out of rockets at this time, so he simply threw away the longbow, pulled out the pure Jun sword, and when he saw the wind lamp, he broke it, and the oil fell to the ground and burned immediately, which was more effective than the rocket.
Suddenly, there was a sound of the air breaking behind him. Zhang Xiaotian hurriedly lay on the horse's back, and three powerful arrows passed by, which was a fraction of a second, making him break out in a cold sweat.
I saw Zhang Xiaotian laughing, clamping the horse's belly, already galloping away, and then picked more than ten wind lanterns, and found that the enemy soldiers near and far were running towards him, no longer hesitated, rode the horse quickly away, and ran towards his own camp.
At this time, the enemy troops attacking the camp were retreating in a panic, and in a panic, they thought that a large number of enemies were coming, so they were in chaos. Except for Chimei, Liao Hua and the other four leaders, all of these enemy troops were infantry, and when they rushed back, Chimei and other horsemen were far ahead.
Zhang Xiaotian was bold, put away the pure Jun sword, took out the flying needle with both hands, and hid it in the palm of his hand.
In the dark night, they could only rely on the firelight in the distance, and they couldn't see it really, and the red eyebrows and others thought that they were here to report to themselves, and asked from afar: "What's wrong?" ”
Zhang Xiaotian responded loudly at this time: "Oh no! The chief doesn't know who burned down the grain and grass tent! “
Hearing this, the thieves were taken aback and sped towards him.