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However, there was silence in a jungle a few miles away from Shijing Village, and after the fourth watch, it was broken by a call one after another, and the night sentry walked into the crowd and gently woke up one by one, including Xiao Tianjian, and soon the woods were resurrected. *..!。 *

Xiao Tianjian stretched his waist widely, stood up and moved his legs and feet, which were a little numb, and with the help of the iron head, he put his scale armor on his body, tightened the rope tightly, reached out and grabbed his spear from the tree, and looked up at the sky in the woods, there was a thin layer of clouds in the sky, which blocked the bright moonlight, and could only make a small amount of moonlight sprinkle on the land through the clouds, so that people's eyesight could not reach far, but they could still see the situation under their feet clearly.

"It's heavenly! Thankfully, there is still a thin cloud! Hehe! Xiao Tianjian stretched his body vigorously, checked the armor and weapons on his body, the iron armor was cold to the tentacles in the winter night, and the cold air could directly penetrate the inner layer of the cotton robe, penetrating into the human skin, and even seemed to freeze through the bone marrow, but it also made the wearer quickly sweep away the drowsiness, raised his legs and walked to the edge of the forest, looking in the direction of Shijing Village.

Not long after, Yan Chongxi and the others gathered in front of Xiao Tianjian and reported to Xiao Tianjian: "General, everyone is ready, please give an order!" ”

Xiao Tianjian nodded and said, "Very good!" Just follow the plan! As he spoke, he took a piece of white cloth handed to him by the iron head and tied it to his left arm, and someone at the edge of the forest began to distribute pieces of white cloth to the hands of many people, and these people also tied the white cloth to their left arm, although the vision was not good at night, but this white cloth could make people tell who was their own at a glance.

After a while, more than two hundred black figures quietly walked out of the woods, and walked quickly in the direction of Shijing Village in the dark with only the faint moonlight in the sky, all of them did not raise fires, and silently followed behind their respective officers, the armor on their bodies was also tied as tightly as possible, and the knives and guns also tried not to touch the armor on their bodies, so as to avoid making any unnecessary sounds, and could only hear the creaking footsteps of their feet on the dead branches and leaves in the near distance, even so, it made people feel very nervous to hear.

And Shi Ran, Wang Chengping, the cavalry and scouts, took off the bell under the horse's neck and brought a halter to the war horse, so that the war horse could not neigh, and they also jumped on the horse's back and walked slowly in the direction of Shijing Village.

Although there are many northerners in this era with night blindness, there are also some people with mild symptoms, and the Xingtian Army has maintained the supply of food in the army for a long time, and at the same time, there will be meat supply for the soldiers and generals from time to time, and the nutritional conditions are much better than that of ordinary people, so now the night blindness of some people in the Xingtian Army has not been cured.

And tonight's operation is to select the best people in the army to participate, so for them, the night has not become an obstacle to their night attack, but has become their best cover, although some of them because of the forced march on the first day, tired and sore back, but still insisted on joining the action, not for anything else, just to be able to rescue those brothers in Shijing Village from the hands of the official army.

And just after the fourth watch, that is, around three o'clock in the morning, it is the time when people are the most sleepy and the most relaxed, the officers and soldiers have nothing to do in the middle of the night, and the soldiers and generals on duty at night have already been dozing up at this time, if it is not because the weather is too cold, I am afraid that many people will fall asleep by some random things, even if they are not asleep, they have also found a place to escape the cold by the wind, so the entire camp of the official army is basically silent.

It may be that the officials and soldiers did not expect that this group of surrounded thieves would have strong reinforcements, so the main attention of the officers and soldiers was also on the side facing Shijing Village, but they were negligent in guarding against their backs, so that when Xiao Tianjian and his party reached 200 steps outside the camp, they still did not find their arrival in the official camp.

Looking at the string of dead wind lanterns and the dotted torches coming out of the door of the official barracks, everyone's bodies began to accumulate strength like a leopard, Xiao Tianjian raised his hand, and everyone who followed behind him stopped, and followed Xiao Tianjian to squat in the dark place where the torches in the camp could not reach the light.

Xiao Tianjian squatted on the ground and looked towards the gate, only to see that there were only three or four officers and soldiers on duty at the gate, who kept stomping their feet at the gate to keep themselves warm, and on the low arrow towers on both sides of the gate, there was also a soldier leaning on the pillar with his hands and dozing off, and the entire camp of the officers and soldiers seemed very quiet, which could confirm that the officers and soldiers did not notice their arrival.

As soon as Xiao Tianjian beckoned, several soldiers with hard crossbows came out of the crowd and came to the front of the team.

"Listen to me in a moment, and get rid of those sentries for me first! Pass it on, tell the people behind you, and get ready to light a fire too! We're ready to get our hands dirty! Xiao Tianjian commanded the people around him in a low voice.

Immediately after that, Xiao Tianjian's orders were passed down one after another, and some people who followed Xiao Tianjian began to feel the fire fold in their arms and prepared to light the torch.

As Xiao Tianjian hunched up and walked towards the camp gate again, the soldiers and generals behind him also began to get up, and slowly followed Xiao Tianjian's back and took steps.

One hundred and fifty steps, one hundred steps, ninety steps, eighty steps, seventy steps, and the officers and men at the camp gate were still not the slightest alert to the impending danger, and cursed each other and gossiped and cursed that the damn ghost was so cold, that they were unlucky, and that they had to be on duty here at night.

When Xiao Tianjian led the people to approach nearly fifty steps outside the camp gate, the officers and soldiers on duty still did not notice their arrival.

At this moment, suddenly there was a scream and exclamation from the east, followed by a rush of horses' hooves, mixed with shouts of killing.

After Xiao Tianjian heard this voice, he didn't hesitate any longer, and immediately shouted to the dozen or so soldiers with hard crossbows who walked in front of him: "Release the arrow!" ”

Without saying a word, the dozen crossbowmen immediately knelt on one knee on the cold ground, steadily picked up the hard crossbow they had already prepared in their hands, and aimed at the gate.

And several soldiers at the gate were also attracted by the sound from the east, and became a little nervous and at a loss, not knowing what was happening in the east.

I only heard a string of bowstrings in the dark night, and more than a dozen crossbow arrows immediately pierced the night sky, and swooped down on these officers and soldiers on duty at the gate, several officers and soldiers did not understand what was happening, so they screamed one after another, and fell to the ground one after another, and the officers and soldiers on an arrow tower even fell directly from the humble arrow tower, and only one officer and soldier were hit by an arrow, and they seemed to fail to hit the vital point, staggered, turned around and ran towards the camp gate, shouting like crazy: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack ......" he screamed and vigorously rang the gong that was hung at the gate to warn.

The sharp sound of the gong suddenly pierced the night sky and spread throughout the barracks, but at the same time, a group of men with white cloths on their left arms also rushed out of the darkness and crashed into the camp of officers and soldiers like hammers.

Yan Chongxi screamed and rushed to the front of Xiao Tianjian, holding a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, and with one sword, he knocked the officers and soldiers who were beating the gong to the ground, and then more subordinates of the Xingtian Army rushed into the camp with the corpses of these officers and soldiers.

One by one, the torches were also lit by the people of the Xingtian Army at this time, and the people who held the torches held the torches in their left hands, but they did not hold the knives and guns in their right hands, but they all held a round thing, and rushed into the barracks with Yan Chongxi.

And this incident also suddenly became a great chaos in the camp of the officers, because two groups of people broke into their camp from the southeast and southeast directions, and one by one the sleepy-eyed but terrified officers and soldiers rushed out of the tent, in a panic trying to find their weapons and resist, in the chaos the soldiers could not find the generals, nor the generals could not find the soldiers, and the chaos of the scene made them lose a little organization at all.

As soon as Xiao Tianjian and his entourage quickly broke into the camp, as long as they saw a group of officers and soldiers gathering, someone would set fire to the round thing in their hands and throw it towards the crowd of officers and soldiers.

The sound of such explosions spread throughout the barracks, and the headless officers and soldiers could not find out the number of enemy troops attacking their barracks, and many officers and men were immediately frightened and collided with each other like headless flies, and many officers and men simply fled to the west like a tide.

Zhang Yan was sleeping well in his big tent, but in a daze, a few personal soldiers suddenly broke in, directly pulled him out of the bed, put a dress on him indiscriminately, and dragged him out of the big tent.

"What's going on? What's going on? Zhang Yan was panicked while trying to figure out the situation.

A personal soldier shouted to him: "Oh no, my lord, I don't know where a group of thieves came from, and suddenly they broke into our camp, and now the army is in chaos, the general should leave quickly!" lest you be harmed by thieves! ”

It was only at this time that Zhang Yan heard the roar from the south gate, as well as the screams and shouts of killing from the east, and the whole camp was boiling as if it was boiling, and there were officers and soldiers scurrying around like headless flies everywhere, and it was impossible to figure out how many enemies had come.

Zhang Yan, as the main general, of course knew that he was powerless in this situation, and now before he figured out the enemy's situation, he had to run quickly, so he couldn't care about asking anything more, surrounded by the pro-soldiers, climbed on his war horse, and fled towards the outside of the camp under the escort of the pro-soldiers.