Chapter 139: Night Attack (4)
The camp of Zhang Lu's army is about twelve or thirteen miles away from Xicheng County.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led five hundred horsemen, quietly passed through Phoenix Mountain, and then slowly touched the vicinity of Zhang Lujun's camp.
At this time, it was already the second half of the night, and the half of the bright moon had already slept, and the sky and the earth were dark.
Only the nearby Phoenix Mountain, as well as Zhang Lujun's camp, have a trace of fire shining through.
But this glimmer of light could not illuminate the dark night.
"Rest for an hour, and the horse will step on the enemy's camp before dawn!"
About three miles away from Zhang Lu's military camp, he found a small valley downwind, and Guan Yu issued a military order to rest.
Before dawn, it is the darkest time, and it is also the time when people are most tired, when the night attack will be able to maximize the results of the battle.
As for the fact that if you stop for an hour at such a close distance from the enemy, will you be alerted by the enemy?
Guan Yu was not worried.
The five hundred cavalry were all elite, so they naturally knew that the order was forbidden. Even the war horses have chews on their mouths, and their hooves are wrapped in thick linen; As long as the enemy's sentinels did not patrol here, it would be difficult for their five hundred horsemen to be exposed.
For tonight's night attack, Guan Yu still likes it very much.
Kong Ming's military advisor once said that there were no Ninggang Realm warriors in Zhang Lu's army.
In this way, tonight's night attack, as long as the two brothers are not besieged by the army, they can't play how they want?
It's not that he Guan Yu didn't dare to fight against the Condensing Gang Realm martial artists.
Single-handedly beating a group, even if it was Lu Bu, who was the first in the world in the past, he Guan Yunchang was not afraid.
But, in the enemy camp, go head-to-head with the enemy Condensation Realm generals?
It was not the time to show courage and strength, but a purely brain-dead act of seeking death!
In the night sky, the stars twinkled, and the stars of Li also rose in the eastern sky.
Guan Yu, who closed his eyes and recuperated, got up and said in a low voice: "Check the weapons, and the whole army will get on the horse." ”
In an instant, five hundred knights also followed Huo Ran, checked the war knives in their hands, and then turned over and mounted their horses one after another.
"Third brother, I will be the sword for my brother later, and the third brother Lao is behind the left rear wing."
The five hundred cavalry set up the arrow formation, Guan Yu held the Qinglong Yanyue Sword in his hand, and stationed his horse at the top of the arrow.
Zhang Fei originally wanted to follow the one who stood at the top of the spear, but Guan Yu was thinking that after killing the enemy camp later, the five hundred cavalry could still change formations, and when the time came, with the left rear wing as the tip of the spear, maybe they could kill the enemy camp again!
"Second brother, don't worry, we will definitely guard the left rear wing!"
Zhang Fei happily accepted the second brother's arrangement.
Although Zhang Fei has muscles in his brain, he is not completely brainless. Soon, Zhang Fei figured out the purpose of the second brother Guan Yu's arrangement.
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Zhang Lu military camp village, the gate of the village is closed.
On the left and right sides of the building, on the wall, the night guard is sleepy at this time, many people either rely on the wood behind them to doze off, or simply lie on the wall and fall asleep, occasionally a few straight eyes, but also the upper eyelid and the lower eyelid are fighting.
In the camp, the patrol soldiers who had been patrolling around for a while, had not been patrolling for a while.
The sound of horses' hooves broke the silence of the night, and the guards on the walled wall and the arrow tower woke up.
At the campfire in front of the camp, the defenders soon noticed that a cavalry was charging in the dark.
"Enemy attack!"
The terrible roar instantly woke up the entire camp.
However, these poignant voices were quickly stifled.
In the distance, Guan Yu threw a few javelins and shot the guards on the arrow tower.
Then, Guan Yu did not stop, and directly burst out of true qi and smashed the gate of the camp with a knife.
Incidentally, a section of the wall near the left side of the camp gate was also knocked down.
Under the leadership of Guan Yu, the five hundred horsemen did not stop, and they entered the camp like a gust of wind.
At this time, many of the Hanzhong troops in the camp were awakened, but they failed to organize a defense at the first time.
Guan Yu's long knife swept away, and the dozens of Hanzhong soldiers who were in front of him, who were not even dressed neatly in armor and weapons, were killed in an instant. Behind him, the cavalry on the left and right flanks waved the long knives in their hands and harvested the heads of the enemy army.
When they passed through the bonfires, the soldiers used their long knives to stir up bonfires and smashed them on the tents nearby.
Soon, dozens of tents were set on fire.
The enemy troops in the tents did not have time to dress up neatly, and many of them fled with flames all over their bodies; Then, what greeted these people was the blade of Guan Yu's five hundred horsemen.
Guan Yu's 500 horsemen rampaged through the enemy camp, and everywhere they passed, they were invincible, and many tents were set on fire.
The camp of 100,000 troops is compact, but it is only five miles in size.
Soon, Guan Yu led the team to kill the entire camp, and did not encounter decent resistance along the way.
Rushing out of the enemy camp for more than 100 steps, Guan Yu reined in his horse, and looked back, the five hundred cavalry behind him had not suffered much.
"Change formation, charge again!"
Guan Yu shouted the order, and the five hundred horsemen quickly turned, and in an instant, Zhang Fei on the left rear wing was the sword edge.
"Kill!" Zhang Fei burst into tears.
Five hundred horsemen followed the gap that had just been killed, and once again returned to the camp of Zhang Lujun.
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In the camp, Zhang Lu, who was awakened, had a hideous face.
The night attack came too suddenly, and the enemy army was a cavalry that moved like the wind, from the enemy breaking the camp to the enemy killing the entire battalion, the soldiers under his command were still unable to organize a defense.
It's not that our army is too incompetent, it's that the enemy is moving too fast!
Zhang Lu really didn't expect that the enemy army would actually play night attacks.
Of course, Zhang Lu didn't think about whether the enemy would attack at night.
It's just that in the first half of the night, when he Zhang Lu attacked Phoenix Mountain at night, he was really worried that the enemy army would also attack at night.
At that time, Zhang Lu also ordered people to be on guard.
It's a pity that he Zhang Lu's night attack on Phoenix Mountain failed, and even his brother Zhang Wei didn't come back.
However, the enemy army remained silent.
After the bright moon sank in the west, Zhang Lu felt that it was unlikely that the enemy would attack at night tonight.
After all, there is no moonlight, the sky and the earth are pitch black, and you can't even see the road clearly, so how can you play night raids?
However, Zhang Lu didn't expect that the enemy army would really play a night attack in the second half of the night!
Zhang Lu's main tent is in the middle of the camp. When the enemy attacked the camp, Zhang Lu was not in the big tent. Because, that poignant "enemy attack" made Zhang Lu alert, and then quickly moved to other camps.
The enemy army killed the camp thoroughly, and the officers and men of the Hanzhong army finally organized.
Regiments and battalions began to assemble; Shieldmen, spearmen, and crossbowmen, under the organization of their respective generals, began to form military formations to withstand the enemy's resurgence.
The enemy is cavalry, and they have already killed the battalion, and they will definitely charge and kill again, or several times.
This is common sense on the battlefield, and the generals in the army know it.
At this time, if you don't quickly form a military formation to defend, will you have to wait for the enemy to kill it again?