After the sky turned white, Zhou Huai'an was able to set foot in the ruins of the camp on the other side, looking at the captives who were covered in smoke and blood and knelt on the ground with their heads in their hands. It all came so suddenly, and it was a bit of a ridiculous illusion. The enemy who had to deal with all his might yesterday has already collapsed after this night?

Compared with the hard battle during the day yesterday, the attack and defense at night were hearty, and the victory in the second half of the night was simply inexplicable. As the person in charge of the vanguard team, Huo Cun, who then reported to Zhou Huai'an, also looked a little complicated, because this victory was completely the result of a chain reaction by mistake.

When they occupied the position of the bridgehead last night, it was a quiet process. And without alarming the local camp, when they easily cleared out the more than 20 sentry posts and guards who stayed at the bridgehead, they were even regarded as friendly troops and did not have time to react at all. Then, when the defense formation was built on the spot and the signal was sent to prepare for the follow-up, there was an accident.

Because a group of men and horses from the enemy camp who had changed their guards also drove over with wind lanterns and flags; Then these are not so easy to expire, because the other party is shouting in the native dialect of Annan; So a short outflanking encounter broke out again near the bridgehead; But this time the results were not so satisfying.

Unexpectedly, there were still a few enemy soldiers who fell at the end of the line, and for some reason they opened a distance, became outflanked and fled back in the direction of the camp. At this time, Huo Cun ordered to abandon the pursuit and stand in place to wait for reinforcements, but another accident occurred; A group of knife players who were arranged to roam around the perimeter and intercept other patrols, under the leadership of the team, chased after them with a thrust for some reason.

Then the chase went far away, and when they chased and slashed the fish that had slipped through the net one by one, they found that they had already chased them outside the enemy's camp gate, and even the camp gate had been opened to wait; Then, under the leadership of this somewhat dizzy team, they simply rushed in with a muffled sound of mistakes and cut people when they saw them, but they planned to get a few heads to come back to make up for it.

As a result, this rush found that the other party was sloppy and unprepared, and completely judged the enemy who encountered it during the day; The other party did not expect that his side could be attacked at night, and the defenders near the camp gate were caught off guard and scattered and fled. Then these soldiers walked inward along both sides of the gate, seized the torches and fire cages for the lighting, and took the opportunity to set fire to the camp, and set fire to a large area; And the whole enemy camp was alarmed and clamoured.

At this time, the other three teams of jumping soldiers led by himself came to meet Huo Cun and rushed to arrive, seeing this scene and the situation, they simply did not do anything, and then attacked and killed along the wide open camp gate, this back and forth actually produced some kind of superimposed amplification effect, and most of the remaining enemy troops actually had a camp roar as if they had blown up their nests, and began to rush and trample each other like headless flies.

By the time Huo Cun and their momentum were about to run out, they would fall back into the enemy's encirclement; It just so happened that the first batch of crossbowmen who crossed the river also arrived on the other side under the leadership of Ge Cunzhou, and then worried about the safety of their righteous brothers, they chased after them with the light of fire and movement; In this way, in the erosion of the enemy camp, a large amount of firewood was added to the fire.

And after the third group of armor soldiers who crossed the river led by Chai Ping himself also threw themselves into the battle; It became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the collapse of the enemy camp was irreversible; Of course, in addition to the fluke factor under the accidental collision, through the interrogation of the captives after dawn, it was found that there were actually other reasons for this unexpected victory.

Because among the seven or eight thousand officers and soldiers who came to meet the so-called "tens of thousands" of troops, the most elite more than 2,000 people had already been sent across the river to participate in the night attack; Therefore, half of the people who stayed in the camp were mostly old and weak and new, and the other half were Tutuan troops who surrendered and annexed under the city of Jiaozhou;

Their camp was located near the gate of the camp that had been raided, so after being attacked, it was easy to get into chaos like a frightened bird, and in the midst of the fire and killing, they panicked and rushed towards the camp, and then broke up and disrupted the order and reaction of the other camps, so that they could not be effectively assembled at a time, or gathered into a numerical scale.

However, the price paid by the rebels was not small, the team of sword players who attacked the camp first were almost killed and wounded, and the three teams of jumpers brought by Huo Cun only gathered back a little more than one team; Everything else was lost in the chaos by accident. However, the losses of Ge Congzhou and Chai Ping, who were later received, were smaller, because they had enough men to form a battle formation and tear through the chaotic enemy situation step by step.

But in any case, this record of hundreds of people rushing into the camp to disrupt and defeat more than ten times the enemy's own can be regarded as a considerable and worthy of a heavy record.

But before that, Zhou Huai'an had to deal with a hand tail first. For example, as the culprit who caused this series of accidents tonight, the team leader who was escorted in front of him. He looked quite young, only in his early twenties, dark and thin, with slender hands and feet, but his body was covered in blood and a few bandaged scars, which gave him a kind of awe-inspiring air.

"What's your name?"

Zhou Huai'an asked expressionlessly

"The humble prince Ming, who was once given the word Yanzhang by the lord of the Ge army."

It was only at this moment that he was a little cramped and in awe.

"The leader can be called a humble Yanzhang."

Zhou Huai'an suddenly remembered, isn't this the one who was born in the same young rebel army as Chai Ping, because the training center likes to write the Water Margin Juyi story written by himself, and he was dug up by himself from the familiar veteran of the rebel army, Ge Cunshu, the right-wing Taofen army leader, and it can be regarded as one of the original batch of introduced talents.

"Are you from Shouzhang, Yunzhou?"

Hearing the last two words, Zhou Huai couldn't help but move, this can't be the person he knows: he saw this person with the same name on the local celebrity on the Yunzhou tourism website.

"Humble is exactly..."

He still didn't lift his head in response.

Then Zhou Huai'an asked a few more words, and he was more and more sure that it was eight or nine and ten, but he was a figure of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, and he actually worshipped the Water Margin and the Song River more than 300 years later, which is too much of a dislocation of time and space.

That's right, it should be him, the last famous general and pillar stone of Houliang, known as the Iron Spear King, one of the first-class generals of the five generations, dozens of generals who once defeated and killed the Tang Dynasty in one go, and Wang Yanzhang, a generation of famous generals who dared to fight with the cattle man Li Cunmiao, who was nicknamed "Li Yazi", actually appeared under his own hands by mistake with the background of the young rebels.

In the Zizhi Tongjian, it is said that he "Yanzhang is brave and powerful, and can walk a hundred steps on thorns." Holding an iron spear, riding and galloping, fighting like flying, and others can not lift it. The king of the army is the iron spear". There are even deeds of crossing the river on a single horse and scaring off tens of thousands of troops.

The famous saying: 'The leopard dies and leaves its skin, and the man dies and leaves his name.' It is from his mantra ("The History of the New Five Dynasties: The Biography of Wang Yanzhang": "Yanzhang martial artists, who do not know books, often say to people in slang: 'The leopard dies and leaves the skin, and the person dies and leaves the name.'" Even if he was still fighting in front of the enemy at the age of sixty, and then Liang perished and was captured by the Later Tang Dynasty, but he always refused to give in and died, it can be regarded as a microcosm of a character of the times who was born vigorously and died a tragic and resolute character.

The rebel army of Huangchao is really the soil and hotbed of the later five generations of generals, and this can't help but pop up. Even if the trajectory of his life may have been inadvertently deviated by himself, he can still survive in a chaotic war, and he still has a little bit of luck as a man of the year in later generations.

Thinking of this, Zhou Huai'an couldn't help but feel a little happy and happy, is it because of the initial scale of strength and the potential to attract people, he also has to come and go; After he came under his command, the new version of the Southern Han regime that he expected had laid a solid foundation for some potential.

Although according to his set ambition and expected goal 3.0 version, he does not expect to become the real version of the Southern Han Dynasty in history in the future. The eunuch paradise that needs to be castrated to be an official, or the minister who wants to treat his wife and concubine to the palace banquet to play, and even perform heavy programs such as humans and beasts, but it is not a problem at all to collect a large number of harems of various colors and customs by taking advantage of this corner of peace and sitting on a unique sea trade profit.

Therefore, it is really necessary to fight more battles and give people more opportunities to perform and stand out, so that it is possible to discover and attract these future figures who may be hidden in the opposition or dormant inside and outside the system.

"Where is the military law?"

Although he was happy in his heart, after thinking about it in an instant, Zhou Huai'an still shouted without changing his face

"Do as you are told."

"The prince of the team is brave enough to attack the enemy and break it bravely, and when it comes to Class A third-class merit, he can be rewarded with ten sections of silk, and his promotion can be reduced by one round."

"But if you don't follow the order, you should be the marching law. Thirty military sticks were punished. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Huai'an shouted righteously

"Captain Huo Cun responded effectively afterwards, and he also had the ability to remedy, and his promotion could be reduced by two rounds."

"In addition, assign Wang Yanzhang's team to your command and urge it to be completed."

Hearing this, Huo Cun couldn't help but glance at Wang Yanzhang with a little surprise on his face, but he didn't speak but nodded slightly.

"If there is merit to be rewarded, there is a punishment for the fault, and after the merit is offset, the guest will postpone the punishment at his discretion, and redeem it before watching the battle."

Then Zhou Huai looked into his eyes and said word by word.

"Have you ever been convinced by such a judgment?"

"The villain is convinced, and there is no objection to receiving it. . . ."

He knelt on the ground without hesitation and said loudly, which saved Zhou Huai'an's next thoughts and efforts.

After all, as an army with vitality and enterprising spirit, the most important thing to pay attention to in this kind of thing is to distinguish rewards and punishments, rather than being vague or muddy, leaving too much room for people to reverie, suspicion, and speculation.

And his behavior is at best too subjective and active, and at worst it is a solitary behavior that makes his own decisions and has no military discipline; Even if the results are good, they are not worth encouraging and preaching.

As the leader of an emerging power, he does not place too much hope on the probability that the enemy will make a mistake every time; I also don't want this kind of uncertainty and hidden danger that is easy to cause accidents to appear frequently under my command.

Even if he is a future celebrity with potential worthy of his own cultivation and appointment, there is no need to appease and indulge. Although this person is not well-known in the history books, he also showed some kind of calm, decisive and capable characteristics in this night's battle, and he also did a good job in dealing with the enemy;

It is more appropriate for him to supervise and restrain Wang Yanzhang, who has a tendency to go alone, regardless of his previous suspicions and taking the initiative to help, regardless of his previous suspicions.

After a little more effort to deal with this temporary episode, Zhou Huai'an found that after this battle, he also obtained a few special prisoners.

(End of chapter)