Chapter 18: A Snowy Night (continued)
The hunter finally touched the vicinity of the tiger that was napping, and was about to shoot a crossbow, but suddenly a wild boar came, what should the hunter do at this time?
Shoot a wild boar, and the tiger wakes up; Shoot the tiger, and the wild boar goes berserk.
Do nothing, the boar will wake up the tiger, and then the hunter's hard work is over.
As the leader, Tian Liuhu needs to make a decision as soon as possible, the cavalry who suddenly called the door will inevitably wake up the defenders of Qiaonan, and if they attack again, they will encounter a lot of resistance, which will not only increase their own casualties, but also cause the sneak attack to fail.
If you don't do it, it's the middle of the night, and if the defenders who have fallen asleep again are asleep, the sky is almost dawn, where can you touch it to kill people and set fire to break the pontoon bridge?
Everyone is busy tonight, and the next move may not be so smooth to approach the enemy camp.
If it drags on like this, I'm afraid that the Hulin army retreating south won't be able to return to Guangcheng!
Tian Liuhu was a little anxious, he was like many "volunteers" leaders, often led the team to catch slaves, raided various cottages to arrest people, and had a lot of experience in sneak attacks.
Originally, they could not come, but the guest army of the Sanhao clan from Lingnan was not used, and they were not suitable for fighting in the snowy plain area for the time being, so Tian Liuhu and others took the initiative to ask for the war to share the worries of the officers and soldiers.
There were more than 4,000 soldiers and horses in the headquarters of the Hulin Army, plus soldiers and horses from other departments to help in the battle, and the 'volunteers' led by Tian Liuhu and several leaders lurked in Fuguang Mountain on the south side of Song Ping and the south bank of Huaishui.
When the enemy pursues the Hulin Army south, they will find a way to attack the opponent's rear road, forcing the opponent to divide their troops and be suspicious, so as to buy time for the Hulin Army to retreat south.
The Tiger Forest Army's feint attack was to lure the snake out of the hole, but the snake was attracted, but it was a big python.
The vast majority of the enemy troops were cavalry, and the momentum of tens of thousands of horsemen was very huge, Tian Liuhude and others originally wanted to carry out a sneak attack, but seeing the astonishing number of enemy troops, where they dared to move, they could only shrink back in Fuguang Mountain to avoid the limelight and wait for an opportunity to retreat south.
The Hulin army retreated to the south, the enemy cavalry pursued closely, and did not pay attention to Fuguang Mountain, Tian Liuhu just breathed a sigh of relief, and the Song Ping defenders actually sent soldiers to Fuguang Mountain to search.
Fortunately, the scope of the Fuguang Mountain Range is not small, and Tian Liuhu's volunteers are very good at sneaking in the mountains, and they have escaped the search of the enemy soldiers without danger, and what to do next has become a problem.
The volunteers' ability to survive in the wild is very strong, and it is not a problem to hide in the wilderness, go out to Guangcheng day and night, but Tian Liuhu opened his eyes, and he is no longer a young village master who can only hunt, he discussed with several leaders and thought of a plan.
There are so many infantry in the Tiger Forest Army, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get rid of the enemy cavalry, so they have to help.
Burn the pontoon bridge on the Huaishui River on the outskirts of Song Pingcheng, so that the enemy troops pursuing the Hulin Army thought that there was a change in the back road, and thought that there was an enemy outflanking behind, so they had to divide their troops to defend and slow down the pace of pursuing the Hulin Army.
After careful planning, Tian Liuhu took people to the camp on the south bank of the Huaishui pontoon bridge tonight, and specially chose to approach the target from the downwind.
His eyesight is good, even in the dark of the night, he can roughly see people or things not too far away, at this moment, the nocturnal cavalry is divided into two groups, the front group of more than ten horsemen approached the camp to shout, and the latter group of dozens of horsemen waited behind.
Acting in this way, probably for fear that the defenders would misunderstand and fire arrows indiscriminately in the dark...
Tian Liuhu observed while thinking, and suddenly his eyes froze.
At the gate of the camp, the defenders were talking to the cavalry outside, and someone came to call the door in the middle of the night, and the defenders were of course suspicious, they shouldered the responsibility of guarding the bridge, and if they let people destroy the pontoon bridge, they would definitely suffer afterwards.
And that is for the future, and now if the enemy opens the camp gate and kills him, he will be unlucky immediately.
The two sides asked and answered, tossed for a long time, the defenders gradually let down their guard, and the guards who came in a hurry found that the person who came turned out to be the prime minister's pro-army Huanglongbing, and the other party claimed that there was urgent military affairs to cross the river into Songping.
The guard found that there were a few familiar faces among these yellow dragon soldiers, and after weighing the pros and cons, he asked people to open the camp gate, and Wei Chi Dun, who had been blowing the cold wind for a long time in the distance, was slightly relieved to see this, he did not let the person who shouted to identify himself, mainly for safety reasons.
The heart of defense is indispensable, and only by entering the city smoothly and gathering reliable soldiers by his side can he truly rest assured.
After a while, the gate of the camp slowly opened, but only the gap that allowed two horses to enter side by side was opened, and the yellow dragon soldiers who called the gate rushed in, and Wei Chi Dun immediately rode forward.
Seventy, sixty, fifty steps from the camp gate...
Just forty paces away from the camp gate, a shout suddenly sounded in the field on the side of the road, and then many figures rushed towards the camp gate.
"Enemy, it's the enemy who steals the camp, we're fooled!!"
The defenders shouted in panic, and then began to shoot arrows, and the soldiers at the camp gate struggled to close the door, and the Huanglong soldiers who had already entered the camp were anxious: Lord Lang is still outside!
They knew that they and the defenders were friendly troops, so when they saw the changes outside, their first thought was to stop the door from closing and let the lord come in quickly, but the defenders thought that they were impostor enemies at this time, and cut them without saying a word.
There was chaos at the camp gate, and the lieutenant Chi Dan and his party outside the camp were shot by the defenders, and the archers on the camp fence were afraid that these close cavalry would rush in directly, so they gave priority to firing arrows at them.
Tian Liuhu, who muddied the water, saw the chaos at the camp gate, and led his men to fish in the muddy water, and everyone ran forward quickly, like an excited hound pounced on the target.
Their target was the dozens of cavalrymen who were stranded outside the camp.
These cavalry were judged by the defenders to be the enemy, after shooting a round of arrows, many horses were hit by arrows, and they were in a mess, Tian Liuhu led the volunteers to rush up to "mend the knife", and the archers shot a round of arrows first, targeting the war horses to avoid the other party from escaping.
This is the choice Tian Liuhu made.
He had just discovered that many of these cavalrymen had light-colored mounts, and even white horses, which were more conspicuous in the dark, and Tian Liuhu could vaguely see that these mounts were wounded.
The enemy chasing the Tiger Forest Army has a large number of cavalry, and there is a clear advantage in strength, if they send people to the north to spread the word and transfer troops, how can these people ride wounded war horses?
Although Tian Liuhu didn't have any credentials, he intuitively thought that these cavalry who went north late at night must be unusual, and there may be generals or officials of no low status among them.
If you kill it, the effect is the same as burning the pontoon, and it will make the enemy angry.
The volunteers rushed to a distance of more than 20 paces from the cavalry, first threw a short spear, then drew a short axe from their waists, and rushed towards the chaotic cavalry, a distance of less than ten paces.
Suddenly, the enemy who appeared on the flank, the layered attack, so that the Yellow Dragon soldiers of the guard Chi Dan suffered heavy casualties, seeing that the camp gate had been closed, they complained in their hearts, and could only protect Captain Lang Chi Dan to escape.
It's too late to turn around and run back, everyone is in a mess, and they will be caught up by the enemy before they get up to speed, which is very dangerous, so the Yellow Dragon soldiers escorted Wei Chi Dun to the other side and wanted to get out of the battlefield.
However, there are also enemies on the other side - the volunteers carry out sneak attacks, and they are always divided into two groups, cooperating on the left and right.
Caught off guard, more than ten Yellow Dragon Soldiers' mounts were stabbed over by the other party with short spears, and they were about to be surrounded, and the friendly troops who were close at hand thought they were enemies, so the Yellow Dragon Soldiers could only grit their teeth and forcibly break through.
The meaning of the existence of the trilogy is to ensure that the lord of Lang is thorough, the Yellow Dragon soldiers howled and fought hand-to-hand with the enemy soldiers, and finally fought a bloody way, desperately protecting Wei Chi Dun to continue to escape.
Some crossbowmen rushed towards him, and shot a few arrows at the head, but the lieutenant Chi Dan's mount was hit by an arrow, and he fell to the ground on the spot, and he fell off his horse, and his head was knocked on the ground by a stone, and he felt dizzy and dizzy, and he could not get up in a hurry.
In the midst of the crowd on his back, several enemy soldiers rushed towards him.
The faces of the enemy soldiers were a few shades of blue, and the short axes in their hands shimmered in the light of the flickering fire.
Lying on the ground, Wei Chidun had not yet come to his senses, and watched helplessly as an enemy soldier rushed in front of him, slashing it with an axe, and with a poof, blood splattered everywhere.
A yellow dragon soldier who fell beside him was beheaded off by the other party, and the man raised his head high, excitedly shouting words he didn't understand.
Before ordering someone to call the door, Wei Chi changed his clothes with a yellow dragon soldier to prevent accidents, so at this moment, he was dressed as a yellow dragon soldier, and that yellow dragon soldier was his conspicuous dress, which attracted the attention of the enemy for him.
Several Yellow Dragon soldiers pounced, struggled to repel the enemy soldiers, brought a horse for Wei Chi Dan to ride up, the only remaining ten cavalry escort Wei Chi Dan continued to break through, and finally ran around the periphery of the camp to the Huai Shui, seeing the enemy soldiers approaching, he gritted his teeth and rode his horse into the river.
In the middle of winter, the river is bitterly cold, and the scarred horses wade through the river with difficulty, and the water is so deep that even the waists of the people on the horses are submerged in the water.
At this moment, the group didn't care about the depth of the water, just wanted to cross the river by feeling the stones and try to escape to the north bank, but before they reached the center of the river, Wei Chi Dan's mount suddenly stepped on the air and lost its balance, and even the people and horses fell to the side.
He was taken into the water by his mount, choked on a few mouthfuls of water in a hurry, and his foot was stuck in the stirrup and could not break free, and he struggled in the water for a while, and a large amount of river water poured into his mouth and he could not breathe, and the feeling of suffocation became heavier and heavier.
After a lifetime of fighting, he drowned in the river...
Just when Wei Chidun was desperate, his hand was grabbed, and then he was pulled out of the water by several people, breathing in the cold air, and the feeling of suffocation was swept away.
Several Yellow Dragon soldiers helped him onto another war horse, desperate to protect Lord Lang and continue to cross the river, some people suddenly slipped and sank under their feet and never came up again, but the rest of the people still struggled forward.
In the cold wind, the drenched Wei Chi Dun shivered several times in succession, and he looked back at the south bank, his eyes becoming cold.
One day I will do...
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