Chapter 180: Short Knife
After Qin Cheng and the generals discussed their next actions, the generals returned to their respective camps.
If you carefully observe the camp of the Han army at this time, you will find that the entire camp is very empty, except for a few night sergeants and patrol guards, there is basically no trace of people. In addition, the entire barracks was surprisingly quiet, even if there was a yawn, the sound sounded very abruptly in the barracks.
The Han army has been encamped here since it got dark, and it has always been like this, because all the sergeants have been ordered to sleep!
They have to take a break because there isn't much time left for them to rest.
If there are any soldiers in the Han cavalry, it is a large number of hundreds of cavalry troops. These hundreds of rangers were ordered by Qin Cheng to guard the range of twenty miles, and once there was a wind and grass, they blew the horn as a signal and transmitted it all the way back to the barracks.
When the entire barracks were resting, without such a large team of rangers and a meticulous warning mechanism, safety could not be guaranteed.
After Qin Cheng returned to the big tent with the maps, he did not hang them up, but wrapped them up and carried them by his own soldiers and put them on horseback.
It wasn't that he treasured the two maps, but that they were about to leave the place—with their owners, of course.
In the middle of the hour, the number of people walking in the barracks suddenly increased. The men, dressed in armor, emerged from the tent and marched to the front of the barracks. During the whole process, these sergeants tried not to make a sound, they were like ghosts, quietly eating dry food, quietly leading war horses, and quietly assembling at the designated place.
They could not make a sound, because there were still many comrades sleeping, because their actions at this time must not be perceived by the Huns!
The west wind was a little cold, and some of the soldiers looked up at the dark sky and habitually shrunk their necks.
After the team was assembled, Qin Cheng and Wei Qing walked side by side and arrived at the front of the military formation together.
Wei Qing led the horse, and Qin Cheng was empty-handed—his war horse was still sleeping peacefully.
After stopping in front of the military formation, Qin Cheng smiled at Wei Qing and said, "Brother Wei, have a good trip." ”
"Don't worry, Brother Qin." Wei Qingdao said, "With your map and guide, if Wei can't win, he won't have the face to be this leading general anymore!" ”
The two maps of Qincheng had been copied before the expedition, and this time they brought them with them, and they just gave Wei Qing, Li Guanggong, Sun He and others a set.
As for guides, there is naturally no shortage of such people.
Qin Cheng hugged his fist at Wei Qing, who was on the horse, and said, "Brother Wei, be careful!" ”
"Gone!" Wei Qing hugged his fist back, said a word, and led more than 7,000 soldiers out of the barracks.
The 30,000 Han troops who could still continue to fight, in order to meet the needs of the next operation, were divided into four parts, each with about 7,500 people, under the command of Qin Cheng and others.
The more than 7,500 people of Wei Qing's headquarters quietly assembled and quietly left the camp, and it was not until a few miles away from the camp that they let go of their hands and feet, slowly accelerated, and galloped towards their goal.
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The moonlight is hazy.
The Han and Hungarian armies camped forty miles apart, and each sent a large number of rangers to guard against the other party's night attack.
When Wei Qing led the Han army out of the camp, the military minister Shan Yu had already fallen asleep.
Sleeping early does not mean that the military minister is lazy, nor does it mean that the military minister is inactive, on the contrary, after learning more about the first confrontation between Han and Hungary today at dusk, the military minister Shan Yu already has a plan in his heart.
In the Battle of the White Sun, the total number of casualties above exceeded 40,000. Such a tragic result naturally means that the battle is fierce, and the battle is fierce, and the sergeants who survived the battle are naturally tired.
And fatigue gave the military minister a chance.
Unlike the 30,000 Han cavalry who survived the half-day battle, the army brought by the military minister from the royal court has not yet experienced the war, and its energy is naturally much fuller than that of the 30,000 Han army.
Therefore, the military minister Shan Yu had already decided to gather 30,000 troops and attack the Han army camp at night.
With 30,000 elite cavalry full of fighting spirit and spirit, and attacking 30,000 tired divisions at night, Junchen Shan Yu felt that even if the Han army was prepared, it would be difficult to escape the fate of defeat! Besides, the Huns' battleable army was not 30,000, but 40,000!
It's a fact!
Now that the plan had been decided, there was no need for the military minister Shan Yu to waste any more time, so on the premise of sending a large number of rangers, he ordered all the soldiers to hurry up and rest. Of course, he himself inevitably has to rest.
It is precisely because of this that when the military minister Shan Yu was woken up in the middle of the night, he was very unhappy!
Originally, he was old, and the quality of sleep was not very good, and he was woken up not long after he fell asleep. He was so angry that he threw the tiger skin and didn't put on his robe, and he got out of the military tent in a hurry, grabbed the Hun sergeant who came to disturb him by the collar, lifted him up from the spot, stared at his eyes and said viciously: "Say! If there is no suitable reason, Ben Shan will kill you now! ”
"Greatly...... Big order, not ...... Oh no! The sergeant who was mentioned by the military minister Shan Yu spoke ill of each other, looking at the appearance of the military minister Shan Yu eating people, was frightened and stammered a little, and it took a lot of effort before he reluctantly said the news to be reported, "The Han army is coming to attack at night!" ”
"What did you say, the Han army attacked at night?!" The military minister threw away the sergeant, stepped forward, and shouted, "Tell me clearly, what the hell is going on!" ”
The sergeant lay on the ground for a long time, and finally told the story of the matter, "The rangers in front came to report, and the Han cavalry was found ten miles away, and they were killing the big camp, and now they are not far from the big camp!" ”
"Bastard!" The military minister scolded Shan Yu, and he didn't know whether he was scolding the sergeant or the Han army, "Order, the whole army assembles!" ”
The Hun camp, which had been quiet before, immediately made a commotion, and thirty or forty thousand sergeants rushed out of the tents and ran to lead the horses, and the centurion and the thousand-sized commander shouted loudly throughout the camp, and some sergeants knocked over the brazier in a panic, which immediately attracted the centurion's cold horsewhip! There are also some people who keep complaining: Didn't you say that I was waiting to attack the Han army at night, why did the Han army come to attack us at night?
Although the camp was a little chaotic for a while, it didn't take long from the order of the military minister Shan Yu to the completion of the assembly of the army, after all, they were all elite horsemen of the royal court, and some panic was just because they had not encountered a similar situation before.
After the army was assembled, countless Han troops with torches had rushed to a mile away in front of the camp, and the earth-shaking shouts of the Han army were like lonely ghosts in this night, which had a great shocking effect!
But looking at the posture of the Han army, it doesn't look like it has just gone through a big battle in the daytime, all of them are alive and vigorous!
"Captain Wan, you take people out of the camp to meet the battle, and touch the reality of the Han army!" The fully clothed military minister Shan Yu ordered to one of the generals beside him.
When the commander received the order, he ordered all the cavalry of his department, slaughtered out of the camp gate, and rushed towards the Han army, which was trained in torches a mile away.
Ixher was silent, watching the captain kill out of the camp, her eyes indifferent as if what was happening in front of her had nothing to do with her.
She was bored with a short knife. It was a short knife with not very ornate decorations, but it was very sharp, it was easy to carry, and it was easier to pull out than a long knife, so it was a sharp weapon for killing.
But I'm afraid only Yi Xue'er herself knows, she doesn't remember how many people this knife has killed, the only thing she remembers is that this knife once killed a bear, and it was thrown out in the form of a flying knife, and directly inserted into the vest of a black bear.
To this day, Icher can still clearly recall the picture at that time.
Icher fingers gently stroked the blade of the knife, and the gentle movements seemed to caress her lover's face. At this moment, her eyes were a little misty.
When she raised her head and saw the military minister Shan Yu, and saw the captain who rushed out of the camp gate, her eyes immediately turned into a look of mockery and indifference.
It's not that she's cold-blooded, it's not that she doesn't care about the life and death of these people, but I'm afraid that the entire camp, only she knows, tonight, there will be no fighting.
So, she ignored it.
What she ignores is a stupid act, some stupid people.
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Captain Wan led a group of cavalry to rush out of the camp gate, and was about to confront the Han cavalry outside, when a scene that made him stunned happened.
The group of Han cavalry who were still violent, shouting and killing the sky, in the blink of an eye, turned a big corner and ran to the side, ignoring them at all The Hun cavalry who had just rushed out of the camp gate!
The two armies did not have time to make contact at all!
After the Han army made a big turn, they instantly extinguished the torches, galloped wildly, and disappeared into the night in a short time.
Captain Wan was stunned for a while, but finally decided to follow hard. After all, he didn't even touch the other party's face, so I'm afraid it's a little difficult to explain to the military minister.
Fortunately, the military minister Shan Yu was quite understanding, and sent someone to inform the commander at this juncture: In order to prevent the Han army from cheating, there is no need to pursue.
Then the captain led the men back to the camp.
When he entered the camp gate, he saw Shan Yu, a military minister with a gloomy face.
"Da Shan Yu, those Han people are so cunning, but they run fast, they turned a corner without meeting, and ran away after extinguishing the torch...... "Commander Wan said to the military minister Shan Yu.
"Shut up!" The military minister Shan Yu snorted coldly, interrupted the report of the captain, frowned and thought for a while, and then said to Yu Dan beside him: "Yu Dan, what do you think?" ”
"This ...... According to Da Danyu, these Han people originally wanted to launch a night attack, but we were aware of it in advance and prepared. And they did not dare to charge us head-on, so they had to retreat. The crown prince Yu Shan analyzed in an orderly manner, and after speaking, seeing that the military minister Shan Yu still had a cold face, he added: "However, it cannot be ruled out that the Han people have set a trap and want to lure us out of the camp." The Han people are scheming, but it is better to be cautious, and it is a wise move to order Captain Wan to return in time. ”
Yu Shan thought that King Zuo Xian had said today: The Han people are scheming, and it is reasonable to use it at this time.
Echo turned her head when she heard this, she was really in no mood to look at this idiot again.
The military minister Shan Yu walked towards his big tent, leaving only one sentence to everyone: "The prince is right, be careful in everything, and strengthen the guard of the sergeant on duty tonight!" ”