Everything was arranged, and Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) led everyone to quietly hide, waiting for the Jin cavalry patrol to pass by. According to past experience, the cavalry patrol of the Jin army consisted of thirty people per outpost, with a shift of two quarters of an hour, responsible for the outermost realm of the camp.

If it is a grain road, the cavalry has 100 to 150 people per outpost, and now the Jin army is already in the hinterland of the Xian country, and it is difficult to increase the number of people per outpost to 150, if so, this battle is very dangerous.

Anxiously waiting, time passed minute by minute, and about an hour passed, and the sentinel west of Horseshoe Ridge galloped in:

"Lord Qiyu, the Jin Army, the Jin Army Cavalry. Looking at the torches, there are no less than 100 people, and it is less than two miles away! ”

The soldier panted and said quickly, frightened out of his body. Bai Liyan thought quickly and said:

"That is, one hundred and fifty people!"

"I think so."

"Good! Listen to my orders, everyone is ready to fight, ready to go! ”

"No!"

Under an order, Baili Yan picked up his spear and stepped on the war horse, and led the baggage carriage to slowly pull out, stopping and walking while walking, intending to encounter the Jin army under the north slope of the Horseshoe Ridge.

At the same time, the Jin army patrol cavalry found the traces of the Xian army rushing towards them, and the centurion of the leader faintly found a firelight in his field of vision, which was coming towards him, and then ordered the troops behind him:

"There is a difference in the front, the teams obey the order, the front team outflanks my left flank, the squadron and I go around the front hill and the back side, and the rear team follows me."

"No!"

All the armies spoke in unison, and the brigade was divided into three, outflanking the unknown team in front and back, left and right. At the same time, Bai Liyan discovered the Jin army early in the morning, so he immediately ordered:

"The armies obey orders and act according to their plans."

"No!"

Everyone spoke in unison, and then stopped directly under the horseshoe, waiting for the Jin army to come.

The distance between the two sides was rapidly shortened, and the cavalry of the Jin army surrounded them in the front and rear and left directions, and the centurion at the head saw that it was the baggage team of the Xian army, and the old, weak, sick and disabled were almost defenseless, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, so he urged the horse to step forward and shouted:

"Who's coming!"

Baili Yan urged the horse forward with a gun, and reported to himself thirty meters away from the centurion of the Jin army:

"Wei Xian, the grain officer of the Xian Army, I don't know if the general can give way."

"Hehaha......" General Centurion spontaneously laughed and said: "Persuade Er to surrender as soon as possible, otherwise, it will be a short time before Er and Wait will die without a place to be buried." ”

"Hmph, what a big breath, if you want to rob the grain, you need to pass this level, are you willing to come forward and fight!"

Baili Yan pointed at the spear, and the centurion of the Jin army said unashamedly:

"I'm afraid that you will give your life in vain, ah, kill!"

As soon as the words fell, the centurion of the Jin army single-handedly urged the horse to kill.

The fierceness of the cavalry of the Jin army, the Central Plains region is famous, especially after subduing the Song State, obtaining a large number of war horses, the cavalry of the Jin army is out of control.

The qualifications of the cavalry centurion are equivalent to the five hundred men of the infantry commander, and he enjoys the treatment of the captain. Therefore, the cavalry attachés who can be promoted to centurions are basically veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time.

At this moment, the centurion of the Jin army rushed to kill, and Baili Yan held the reins of the horse, his eyes were sharp, and he stood still in place, his eyes clamping the opponent's movements.

Seeing that the centurion horse pistol stabbed close at hand, Bai Li Yan leaned back, and the opponent's horse pistol stabbed in the air, and without waiting for the centurion to collect the gun and stab again, Bai Li Yan jumped up and stabbed backhand.

Burst!

When the horses of the two sides were staggered, the centurion's back was cold, and his chest was shocked, and before he could react, Baili Yan picked the centurion and lifted it in the air, and a heart-rending sound of horror resounded in the sky:

"Ahh......hh

After a while, Bailiyan waved his hand and crossed the gun, and the centurion fell to the ground in response, the sound of pain in his mouth was endless, and blood spurted out of his mouth, and he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything.

At this time, the Jin army was stunned, and saw Bailiyan standing still with one person, one gun, and one horse, just like that, he picked his centurion to death, obediently, this is a killing god.

But before the Jin army came back to his senses, Bai Liyan shouted:

"Kill me!"

Suddenly the sound of killing was everywhere, and more than 800 people rushed up, some with weapons, some with wooden sticks, and even kitchen knives, most of them were bare-handed people and hard laborers.

The reason why Bailiyan wanted to pick the centurion was to deter the Jin army and embolden the Xian army. Otherwise, one hundred and fifty cavalrymen would have dealt with more than 800 people who were almost bare-handed, and the result would have been predictable.

So with such a killing, the Jin army was frightened, plus the cover of the night, there were many people, and the shouting was extremely deafening. Bai Liyan personally went out and killed a few more people on the horse, seeing that the situation was very good. But it is estimated that it won't last long, thinking of this, Bailiyan decisively ordered:

"Evacuate, evacuate quickly!"

At the sound of an order, everyone retreated, rushing to Horseshoe Ridge. The Jin army followed and pursued, but unexpectedly there was a hillside ahead. When Bailiyan rode uphill, the Jin army was still halfway uphill, and at this time, Bailiyan saw the centurion of the baggage team, and said quickly:

"Prepare to block, fight and retreat, don't fall in love."

"Order!"

After some instructions, Bailiyan organized soldiers to stand firm on the southern slope of the horseshoe ridge, and led the people to retreat to the back slope. Bailiyan rushed down the hillside to open the gap, and ordered the people to retreat to the grove first.

At the same time, the centurion who was responsible for blocking the Jin army's baggage team quickly withdrew, and the Jin army's climbing cavalry engaged the Xian army after the break, and the Xian army was defeated and defeated. Later, he scattered all the way, fled in battle under the organization of Bailiyan, and always maintained contact with the Jin army.

It is estimated that the Jin army was caught off guard by Bailiyan, and the centurion was also killed as soon as he came up, and the Jin army suffered a lot of losses, and he was holding back the fire in his heart.

Unexpectedly, just after escaping from the horse's hooves, more than 200 meters away, hundreds of cavalry members of the Jin army rushed up, chasing the "horseback" in front and shouting:

"Kill the rider in front of you and avenge the centurion. Kill me! The Jin army shouted loudly.

Bailiyan rode a horse and ran in front, but the horsepower was not enough, and the distance was shortened to less than fifty meters. But it's okay, the cavalry is coming towards him, and the probability of survival of the others is high, and there is a small forest less than a hundred meters ahead.

"Drive!"

Baili Yan urged the horse to gallop wildly, this time Zhong Heng led a thousand people to hide in the woods, and when he saw hundreds of cavalry coming in front of him, Zhong Heng decisively ordered:

"Tripping Horse Preparation!"

"Order!"

Pulling up the tripping rope, Zhong Heng and the others were ready to go.

Bailiyan knew that there was a tripping rope ahead, so when she was less than five meters away from the woods, she calculated the speed, kinetic energy and inertia, jumped away from the war horse, climbed the horizontal branch of the big tree, and lived like a horizontal bar athlete, jumped on the branch with a big loop and shouted:

"General Zhong Heng, the Jin army has arrived!"

"Very good, the sword has no eyes, you hide, don't die by your own sword."

Zhong Heng responded, and the cavalry of the Jin army was killed in a blink of an eye.

Seeing Bailiyan's horse rushed into the sparse woods, the Jin army didn't want to chase anymore, but the chase was too fast, and the horse didn't have time to brake the inertia, so he killed in front of the woods, and the Jin army rushed into the forest for a distance, not waiting to brake the war horse, and had stepped on the tripping horse rope and knocked down a large area. Seeing this, Zhong Heng shook his arms and exhaled:

"Kill!"

"Kill ......" everyone responded and killed together.

For a while, people shouted and neighed, and more than 1,000 people jumped up and killed the Jin army by surprise. Bailiyan squatted on the tree, and his heart was also frightened. If you want to say that you are a doctor, it is your duty to save lives and help the wounded, and it is really a last resort to kill people, but you have to live, so you have to eat.

Maybe this is the sin of reciting Amitabha Buddha in your mouth and drinking wine and eating meat behind your back to prostitute women. On the one hand, he kills people, and on the other hand, he saves people, and killing people is called protecting the family and defending the country, and saving people is called saving the dead and helping the wounded.

In fact, there is no moral standard, any power in the world is an axiom, that is, no matter how high your medical skills and technology are, no matter how good your medical skills are, no matter how developed your technology is, even frozen tofu can kill you.

Dozens of people in the Jin army were surrounded by Zhong Heng's regiments, and the battle lasted no more than half an hour, and more than half of the Jin army was killed or wounded. Because the Jin army took advantage of the unrest in Xian to sneak attack first, Xianguo hated Jin more than Zhiguo, and did not give a chance to surrender at all, except for a few live questions, all others were killed.

At the end of the battle, the casualties were counted, Zhong Heng commanded 1,000 people, 11 killed, and 36 wounded. When he saw Bailiyan, Zhong Heng Dayue:

"Wei Xian, this battle is a big victory, and when the Jin army's grain and grass are intercepted, I will definitely ask for credit for you."

"General Xie Zhongheng. However, at the moment, the prisoners of war should be interrogated as soon as possible, find out where the Jin army brigade is, and then plot to rob the grain. In my opinion, it is better to rob the grain tonight. ”

"If what is said is reasonable, I will act accordingly."

Bai Liyan was worried that he did not kill all the cavalry of the Jin army, it is possible that he ran a few, if so, there will be pursuers arriving soon, it is still the first half of the night, it is better to take advantage of the fact that the Jin army did not come, first rob the grain, and then take a detour to hide, and wait until tomorrow night to hurry.

Moreover, the Jin army could not figure out the number of Xian army attacks for a while and a half, so they would not rashly dispatch a large army to attack, but would wait for dawn to find out the situation, and then mobilize cavalry to chase and kill. In this way, it is just right to make a time difference and shift positions.

After finalizing the plan, Zhong Heng immediately interrogated the Jin prisoners, and Bailiyan threw people and rode back to Horseshoe Slope, and after fighting and killing the ten cavalry of the Jin army who were sticking here, he quickly gathered the baggage vehicles together and moved north. About a quarter of an hour later, Zhong Heng led the people to the convergence.

According to the confession of the Jin army's prisoners of war, Han He's rear guard camp was less than 20 miles away, and a batch of grain and grass was being transported to the rear guard camp tonight, and the cavalry patrolled Horseshoe Ridge in order to prepare for the grain and grass to go to the rear camp.

The baggage team of the Jin army passing by tonight has 1,500 defenders alone, and 5,000 people with minfu.

"So much!" Bailiyan was also startled.

"At this point, I'm afraid I can only rob and kill the heavy grain and grass."

"Nope! We can't do it so brutally, the Jin army is 5,000 people, and there are more than 1,500 escort soldiers, and our army will not be able to win. But our army can borrow a knife to kill. ”

"Killing with a knife, what is killing with a knife?"

"General Zhong Heng, you think, at the moment, the cavalry night patrol of the Jin army only found one hundred and forty-three corpses, except for the four who were captured, where are the other three."

"I ran back to the camp to ask for help." Zhong Heng said.

"That being the case, the Jin army learned the news. At the first time, we will send a horse to search for the whereabouts of our army, and then we will send a cavalry to receive the heavy grain and grass, if so, our army should pretend to be the cavalry of the Jin army, and rush to the Jin army before the reinforcements arrive at the heavy grain and grass, first attack and kill the Jin army's heavy grain and grass, and then defeat the retreat, to the Jin army's rear guard camp is defeated.

At the same time, our army sent another person to lie to the cavalry of the Jin army, falsely claiming that the Xian army had seized the grain and grass baggage, pretending to be the Jin army to carry the grain, and then ordered the two groups of Jin soldiers and horses to meet, wouldn't it be fratricidal. ”

When Zhong Heng heard the news, his heart moved, he said:

"Clever plan, really good plan, but what if it is found out by the Jin army."

"Therefore, it is necessary to kill the heavy grain and straw officials and the generals who escort the grain and grass, so that the Jin army cannot confront each other, and our army will provoke them again. The lights were dim under this dark, and how could the two sides not attack each other. ”

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Note: Regarding the technical aspects of night raids, there are specific technical obstacles to night warfare, both ancient and modern. In ancient times, due to low productivity, cognitive and conceptual barriers, there were many constraints on launching night raids, the most common problems such as night blindness, the sortie and retreat of troops, the gathering and regrouping of men and horses, and so on.

First of all, night blindness is a common physiological disorder in ancient times, but where the night camp, the so-called selection of "eye-sighted" people, in fact, are a night vision screening, because the proportion is not high, so this group of people after a little training, equipped with advanced equipment, it has become the so-called field combat elite soldiers, in fact, the essence is a lack of taurine.

Second, it is very easy to talk about a sneak attack at night, but in fact it is very difficult, and it involves the organization, discipline, and tactical coercion of the army, and at the same time, how to attack, how to retreat, and how to respond are all important tactical issues of night raids. Among them, the direction of retreat and the route of retreat at night, how to gather men and horses again, instead of stragglers, is an important question, for an army with no organization to speak of, attacking a well-equipped, well-tamed old army, there is no chance of victory.

Finally, the situation of the night attack is extremely complicated, including attacking the camp, attacking the tail, attacking the east and attacking the west, intercepting the grain route, encircling the point to send reinforcements, and so on, all of which are the tactical logic combination of the above two factors, and the lack of any necessary conditions and improper application of tactics may cause a devastating blow to one's own side.

All in all, people today are not much smarter than ancient people, and the real advantage of modern people is their ideas and cognition beyond the times.