Not long after, the large battalion of officers and soldiers woke up to the sound of a warning gong, and the dazed officers and men were awakened from their sleep, and one by one they did not know what was happening, and many officers and men rushed out of the camp tents in a hurry, looking in all directions, and some officers and men screamed in panic and scurried everywhere in the camp.

At this time, the sound of shouting and killing sounded everywhere in the camp of officers and soldiers, and there was also a roar during the period, and after the flash, there would often be a group of officers and soldiers screaming and falling, and after a while, torches were lit everywhere in the camp, and these torches flew everywhere and were thrown on top of the camp tents of officers and soldiers, and the cloth camp tents coated with tung oil to make waterproof stuck to the flames, and they would soon burn, and a large fire would rise, and individual officers and soldiers who hid in the tents and did not dare to come out were immediately burned into turkeys, and the flames that were wrapped in screams jumped out. The chaos in all directions ignited more tents and at the same time caused even more chaos.

In the middle of the night, the battalion of officers and soldiers immediately opened the pot, filled with all kinds of screams and screams, occasionally mixed with one or two roars, no one at all figured out what was going on, how many enemies were coming, some officers tried to suppress the chaos under their men, but this kind of chaos at night was simply not something that could be suppressed by human bullets, and tens of thousands of officers and men were caught in the chaos at this time, and there were fires in many places.

Cao Wenyao and Yu Fuxiang were both awakened by the sudden sound of the warning gong in their dreams, as soon as they heard the chaos in the camp, they realized what had happened, so they immediately rushed out of the big tent, and quickly ordered to gather the soldiers and horses, search for the enemy's traces and clear the enemy who entered the camp, but in the chaos their military orders could not be transmitted, they could only watch this chaos spread like waves to all parts of the camp, and the angry Cao Wenyao stood in front of the big tent and scolded.

Cao Wenyao took his family members and immediately entered the camp to personally suppress this chaos, as long as he saw a panicked soldier rushing to them, Cao Wenyao immediately raised his knife and cut it to the ground, and ordered his family members to shout in unison: "General Cao is here, all stabilize and not allow chaos!" Sit down! Sit down! ”

In this way, a group of chaotic officers and soldiers were contained, but even so, this chaotic situation was not something that he could suppress by himself, and Cao Wenyao was angry with the seven tricks and scolded the thief army for lacking morality.

Later, the attack on the camp began to gradually evolve into a battalion roar, in the darkness many officers and soldiers who rushed out of the tent could not distinguish whether they were friendly or enemy, so some people in order to protect themselves, they waved the weapons in their hands, and greeted the people around them regardless of the enemy, once someone began to do this, more people began to follow and do so, in order to save their lives, they couldn't care who was around them, as long as there was a black shadow close to them, they would cut it down with a knife, so that once the camp roar happened, You can't control it.

Seeing that the situation was out of control, Cao Wenyao was really helpless, so he had to take those who had already been him

Fortunately, the number of these thieves who stole the camp was very small, and after they rushed into the camp, they quickly dispersed, passing through the camp, throwing thunderbolts and torches along the way, causing chaos in the official and military camps, and these dead soldiers did not seek to kill more officers and soldiers, but just set fire everywhere, and only waved their knives to fight when necessary, plus the official army camp was really dense, after they completed the attack on the camp, they quickly passed through the official army camp, killed from the other end, and quickly disappeared in the mountains on the other side.

If it weren't for Cao Wenyao's order to camp too far away from the official road crossing this time, with this attack on the camp, if Liu Yaoben led a large team of men and horses to follow closely to kill, Cao Wenyao would not have to fight this battle again, and he would have been defeated for hundreds of miles, packed up and went home to wash and sleep.

Cao Wenyao evacuated the camp with some of the generals, and personally led the troops to block the front of the camp, for fear that the thief army would send more soldiers to rush the camp at night, but fortunately, until dawn, the thief army did not send a large number of soldiers and horses to attack, which always made Cao Wenyao feel a little better.

Just waiting until the light of day dawned, a large number of officers and soldiers began to wake up from the roar of the battalion, and when they looked around, they found that they had fought all night, and they were fighting with their own people, and a large number of officers and soldiers could be said to have fallen innocently under the sharp blades of their comrades, but they did not see the shadow of the enemy at all.

Cao Wenyao also waited until dawn before he dared to lead his troops into the camp, and when he saw the tragic situation in the camp, his face was blue with anger, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

The originally planned crossing of the Morning Departure Officer Road, after the camp roar caused by the enemy attack this night, everything came to naught, Cao Wenyao had to abandon the plan, and instead began to reorganize the camp and count the losses caused by the night's chaos.

Yu Fuxiang is not stupid, as soon as the camp Xiao appeared, he also evacuated the camp with his family and some of the soldiers who were not wrapped in the camp Xiao, and watched the chaos inside the camp outside the camp for half the night, before returning to the camp after dawn and following Cao Wenyao to clean up the mess.

After a day's cleanup, Cao Wenyao was even more angry and a little dizzy, and after the whole inventory, they only found the corpses of more than 30 thieves in the camp, and their officers and soldiers were stunned that more than 600 people died overnight, and hundreds of people were injured at the same time, not to mention, the cart that pulled forage with the army was also set on fire by the thieves who attacked the camp, and more than half of it was burned, and by the way, they also detonated a cart full of gunpowder in the official army, killing and injuring a lot of officers and soldiers, and even with a few cannons of officers and soldiers were also lifted into the sky. A medium-sized cannonball was even blown out of the camp and landed on the outside of the barracks, and the barrel was twisted into twists, which seemed impossible to repair.

What made Cao Wenyao even more angry was that the thousands of people who came with the army fled from the official army camp at night, and hid in the mountains on all sides, only a small part came back after dawn, and the rest either simply smeared oil on the soles of their feet, or were so frightened that they hid in the mountains and did not dare to come out.

Such a heavy blow was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the morale of the officers and men, which made these officers and men lose confidence at once, and one by one they cleared the camp under the command of the officers.

"The thief will deceive me too much! Lie to me too much! Standing on the arrow tower of Yuanmen and watching the team carrying the corpses of officers and soldiers outside the camp, Cao Wenyao's lips trembled and he muttered.

Yu Fuxiang stood behind him, listening to his words but was silent, because he really had nothing to say, Cao Wenyao was careless, even he was just as careless, no one thought that the thief army would launch such a surprise attack before they arrived, and they were caught off guard, which made him worry about the future war, can this battle continue? This is not only a problem in Yu Fuxiang's mind, but also a problem in the minds of all officers and men.

"No troops can be withdrawn! It must not be withdrawn! Cao Wenyao stood in the big tent that had just been cleaned up, and slapped his palm on the big case, and even the quiver with the arrow on the desk was shaken under the big case by his palm, and the arrow fell to the ground.

The generals in the tent couldn't help but get nervous, and they all intervened and bowed their heads, and two of them were wounded, obviously injured by their own people when the Xingtian army attacked the camp and caused the camp roar, all of them had a depressed face, and they felt a little depressed.

It's not that they haven't heard of the strength of the thief army when they came, but after Cao Wenyao reported the enemy's situation, they were still relatively optimistic, thinking that their strength far exceeded the thief army a lot, and there should be no problem in defeating Lushi County, 10,000 people fighting 2,000 thief army, it is not as easy as swatting flies, who would have thought that before they arrived in Lushi County, the thief army gave them a dismount first, and attacked the camp at night to cause them to have a camp roar, so that before the battle started, they lost more than 10% of their troops.

So many people had the idea of retreating, and some people proposed to temporarily withdraw the army, first return to Hanguguan to stay, and after the rectification, it is not too late to attack Lushi County, but I didn't think that as soon as someone put forward this opinion, Cao Wenyao became so angry.

"Absolutely no more mention of troop withdrawal! I don't care who you followed before, now this is the official in charge! Whoever dares to mention the withdrawal of soldiers in the camp again, this officer will punish him for the crime of confusing the army, and ask for his head!

This time the thieves attacked the camp, which was indeed beyond our expectations, but why did the thieves do this? Have you guys thought about it? It is precisely because of the lack of strength of the thief army that they will use this trick against us! I just want to use this kind of trick to disrupt our military morale and force us to withdraw our troops ourselves! How can I, Cao, let them get their way!

Although it is true that the Xiaoying Bandit Army caused us some losses the night before, but we are not injured, at least you are still standing here, we still have 7,000 available soldiers, as for the lack of auxiliaries, what are you afraid of? As long as you break through the defense line of the thief army at the official road entrance, you can enter Lushi County and have a civilian husband!

You are all people in the army, we are here for wealth, how can we be a small setback and have the idea of retreating? Today, the official explained that if anyone wants to return to Hangu Pass again, don't blame the official for being ruthless! Now we all go down immediately to pack up the soldiers and horses, and we will send our troops to the official road tomorrow morning! This official doesn't believe that just 2,000 thieves can stop our army, it's really beyond the power of a mantis arm to be a car! ……”

After hearing this, the generals didn't dare to say anything more, they all peeked at the Yu garrison standing next to him, and where Yu garrison stood at this time as if the old monk had settled down, looking at his nose and nose, as if this matter had nothing to do with him, so the generals had to bow down to receive the order, shook their heads and withdrew from Cao Wenyao's big tent, and began to follow the instructions to go down to prepare the troops and horses, and prepare for tomorrow's battle.

"Yu Garrison, do you think there's anything wrong with this official doing this?" After seeing that all the generals had withdrawn from the big tent, Cao Wenyao asked Yu Fuxiang, who had not spoken.

Yu Shoubei bowed down and replied: "What Lord Cao said is timely, although we have suffered a small setback, but our troops are still far more than the thief army, and the main force of the thief army is still hundreds of miles away in the Ruyang and Yichuan areas, we can't return to help here in a short time, we still have time to break through the official road crossing and recover Lushi County!" ”

Seeing Yu Fuxiang answer like this, Cao Wenyao nodded slightly and said, "It seems that the thief army is indeed worthy of its reputation, and it is sinister and cunning!" In the future, it seems that we need to be more careful! Yu Garrison, you also go down and quickly raise some soldiers, and get ready for tomorrow's battle! The key to this battle is to attack Lushi County as soon as possible, and recover Lushi County before the main force of the thief army returns to help. ”

Yu Fuxiang nodded and bowed and said, "Obey orders!" ……”