Chapter 499: Night Raid (Second Update)

"The victory of this battle must belong to our Great Qin soldiers, those soldiers of the Peacock Dynasty are really no different from the mountain bandits of my Great Qin, what I want in this battle is not just to defeat them, what I want is to destroy them, and then leave their warships, after my Daqin captures the Peacock Dynasty in the future, these warships will definitely not be enough, and these warships docked here can carry hundreds of thousands of people, whether it is to transfer troops or transport materials, it is very beneficial to my Daqin."

Peng Yue's lieutenant understood as soon as he heard it, and Peng Yue didn't take the 150,000 Peacock Dynasty troops in his eyes at all, and he had already crossed them and aimed at their warships.

"If it is only in terms of numbers, my soldiers in Daqin are really a lot less than these people in the Peacock Dynasty, if you forcibly attack, I am afraid that some damage will be inevitable, I wonder if the general already has a good strategy?"

"Tonight, while the sergeants are resting in the camp, I will lead a detachment of men......"

At that moment, Peng Yue arranged with his lieutenant, and the two talked for more than half an hour, before Peng Yue's lieutenant went out with a nod on his face, and he also had a confident look on his face, obviously quite recognizing Peng Yue's arrangement.

After sending off his lieutenant general, Peng Yue let out a long breath and clenched his fists tightly, he knew that this was actually the first time he had used troops so formally since he joined the ranks of Great Qin's generals.

This time, it was him, Sima Xin and Han Xin's three-way army, after Peng Yue, Yinggao must be the most bottomless for himself, otherwise he would not have let himself start recruiting and training in Jiujiang County, and when he was canonized, he was just the deputy commander of the naval army of Daqin.

Although this position is also quite high, and the position of the orthodox leader is still vacant, Peng Yue knows that it is Yinggao who is leaving a way back for himself, in case his ability is not capable of doing this, Yinggao will replace himself, which is also justified.

And in the end, Yinggao chose to believe in himself, so Peng Yue also knew that if he wanted to prove that the emperor did not believe in him wrongly, he had to come up with something different from others in this battle.

It was precisely because of this determination that Peng Yue rejected the easier way to win proposed by his lieutenant, as he said, he knew how laborious it was to build Daqin's warships, so with so many warships in front of him, it was impossible for him to be indifferent.

At that time, if his merits were written to annihilate tens of thousands of enemy troops and capture dozens of warships, this would be enriched, as for attacking the capital, in Peng Yue's opinion, Sima Xin and Han Xin would not give up, and it would not be advantageous to compete with others for that kind of credit.

It was night, and the barracks of the Mauryan Dynasty were almost snoring, and they all knew that they were about to embark on a journey that was not short, but according to the description of their main general, the dynasty they were about to attack was really unbearable, and even only tens of thousands of people were needed to attack it, and the relics sent a full 150,000 people, just to make it easier for them.

Not only that, but there are also a lot of treasures and beauty there, according to the description of their generals, once they attack that place, they can enjoy it there for a while, so these sergeants are very relaxed for this expedition, basically without a little pressure.

Even Xu Fu fell asleep groggily after a full meal, although he had several successful voyages, but Xu Fu was also more experienced than others, he knew that anything could happen at sea, although his ship also had experienced sailors at the helm, but after he got on the ship, he estimated that he would not be able to sleep much peacefully, and even after arriving in Daqin, he had to take advantage of the chaos to find a county or village as quickly as possible to collect some good women and objects, Otherwise, how can you fool the relics when you come back?

On the outskirts of the barracks, there were sparse groups of men patrolling at night, but they were basically all reluctant, yawning and not paying attention to the situation around them.

In fact, there are more types of weapons in the Peacock Dynasty than in the Great Qin, there are forty or fifty kinds, and all kinds of long and short weapons are also equipped, but there is one point, these soldiers are equipped with equipment, but how long they have not been systematically trained even they don't know, in this case, the sensitivity in the face of real enemy attacks can naturally be imagined.

"Whoosh......"

Just as a group of men and horses had reached almost the farthest point from their camp, and were about to turn and walk back, all of a sudden, they heard the sound of breaking the air for a while, as if they had a slight impression of this sound, but they could hardly remember it.

Eventually, when the voice suddenly reached their own ears, they all felt a chill on their bodies, and when they looked down again, they finally remembered what it was, wasn't it the sound of an arrow breaking through the air? But when I think about it, it's obviously useless, because the arrows are already stuck in their chests.

It was nothing else that took their lives, it was the Qin crossbow unique to Great Qin, and I didn't dare to say anything else, but the Qin crossbow that had been modified by Yinggao and Zhang Kai successively, even if you look at the entire era, it was a very advanced thing.

"Quick, change into their clothes and keep walking along their route!"

Seeing that this group of men and horses had been shot down, several Daqin soldiers came out of the shadows at that time, they were all wearing thin clothes, and they had already prepared to directly take off the clothes and armor of this group of patrol soldiers of the Peacock Dynasty and put them on their bodies, and then learned their routes, and slowly patrolled around the promised perimeter.

After walking two or three times, they saw another team, and under the moonlight, they all found that the other team had a black strip of cloth tied to their arms, which could show that the other team had also been disguised by the soldiers of Great Qin.

In the end, in just a short period of time, all the guards patrolling around several large battalions of the Peacock Dynasty were taken down by Peng Yue's subordinates in this way, of course, this was not a whim, but Peng Yue had already sent people to study their patrol routes and the situation of the changing of the guard for several days.

When they found that the surrounding patrols had all been replaced by their own people, they began to approach the Mauryan camp under the cover of night under the cover of each other.

Finally, they almost all touched the door of the camp not far away, which was also the location that Peng Yue had arranged in advance. After arriving here, they took down a huge Qin crossbow from their backs, and then neatly loaded something on the head of the Qin crossbow's arrows.

At this time, an object like a Kong Ming lantern suddenly rose in the distance, and everyone knew that it was time when they saw it, and in the next second, everyone's arrows were lit with fire, and then, one by one, the lights lit up the night sky, and shot at the camp of the Mauryan Dynasty in unison.

The heavy arrows are full of fire-igniting things made of animal fat, which Peng Yue ordered people to prepare as early as the Great Qin, and his combat characteristics are that he is very good at using these foreign objects, so his team is quite complete with everything.

Qin crossbow alone, everyone is equipped with at least two models, which caused a lot of criticism in the army at the beginning, but now, with the start of the first battle, these things he carries are really very useful, which makes the soldiers under his command very admired.

The heavy animal fat had all melted when it fell on the dense tents in the camp with the scorching flame on the tip of the arrow, and had penetrated into the already flammable tents, igniting the tents one by one.

"Withdraw quickly, the next step is the general's own arrangement!"

After these arrows were released, the Great Qin soldiers saw that a considerable part of the camp tent was ignited by their own arrows, I don't know who gave the order, these people all disappeared into the night, and the Peacock Dynasty's promise was still quiet outside, as if no one had come.

The rapidly burning tent finally woke more and more Mauryan soldiers from their sleep, originally they all thought that it was just their own tent that was on fire, but after people ran out, they found that many of the tents were on fire, and the fire was not small, and finally realized that their camp may have been attacked.

As the commander-in-chief of this war, Pologyro always felt something wrong in his heart, so he didn't sleep very sincerely, and after hearing the noisy movement outside, he immediately walked out, but after seeing a large piece of firelight, he immediately thought of a possibility, an enemy attack.

"Quickly integrate the troops and horses, and follow me out of the camp to find the enemy army!"

The reason why Pologyro was able to be appointed as the commander of this expedition by the relics is almost enough to show that he can be regarded as a pretty good general within the scope of the Mauryan Empire, but the funny thing is that the Peacock Dynasty has not fought seriously at all over the years, and their army is basically doing something like eliminating heretics in addition to enjoying life, and the experience on the battlefield is basically nothing.

A total of 150,000 people, Pologyro directly ordered about 70,000 or 80,000 people, and followed him out of the camp. The rest of the people stayed in the camp to put out the flames that were not too big or small.

At this time, Xu Fu and the people he brought over from Daqin saw that things were not good, and they almost ran on the boat, but when they saw that there was no shadow of the enemy army at all, they were relieved again, and their tents were not set on fire, so they simply fell asleep again.

Pologyro led his sergeants around the camp, and unfortunately, they found the bodies of some dead patrol soldiers, which made Polo Gyro even more convinced that they had been attacked.

But after thinking about it a little, he was not so worried, because in his opinion, if the number of enemy troops was enough, he would probably be difficult to resist while all the soldiers under his command were asleep, but the enemy did not do that, which means that the number of enemies must be far below them, so they can only attack them by setting fire.

Under normal circumstances, his idea is indeed fine, but now, the enemy he encountered is Peng Yue, although he is not very famous in Daqin, but in the era of Yinggao, this guy is the pioneer of guerrilla warfare, in other words, winning more with less is Peng Yue's favorite and best at it.

"General, I found a team of people fleeing over there, it should be the same person who set fire to my barracks before!"

While the Polo Gyro was analyzing, suddenly a lieutenant general came up from behind, claiming to have found traces of the enemy.

"Good! They must be much worse in numbers than we are, so hurry up and catch up! ”

After finishing speaking, he didn't take a closer look at whether the arrows shot at the soldiers under his command were the usual things commonly used by those old opponents of the Mauryan Dynasty, so he directly threw down the corpse and led people to chase after the enemies who were fleeing in a hurry in their eyes.

Those who escaped, of course, were arranged by Peng Yue, and Pologyro took the lead in the front of the team to take a look, and sure enough, there was a team of people and horses fleeing to the beach in the other direction, and he didn't say a word, and directly chased after the people and horses.

He was indeed chasing the enemy, but the escape route had already been planned by Peng Yue, with tens of thousands of foot soldiers, if Pologyro really wanted to catch up with this team of about 1,000 people, it would really take a lot of effort.

It didn't matter if he chased this one, he chased him directly for almost more than an hour, and the sergeant was so tired that he couldn't do it, but he didn't even catch up with him.

When Polo Gyro saw that the sky was bright for another hour or two, and he still had to go on the expedition, he could only give an order to withdraw his troops, and temporarily gave up this pursuit, because there was no damage to them left and right.

It took more than an hour, they finally returned to their camp, but after looking at the camp from a distance, Polo Gyro felt a little wrong, it stands to reason that tens of thousands of people should have been extinguished a long time ago, but now several hours have passed, and the sky is a little brighter, but the fire is still not extinguished, but it is even bigger, such a situation appeared in front of his eyes, so that he had a bad feeling.