Chapter 18: Night Attack

The team is built on the slope of a large mountain, with two general flags living at the foot of the mountain and one general flag living on the mountainside. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

With the guards, first inspect the sentry posts, and then inspect the makeshift fortifications, and at the outermost part is a rather hidden small trench, two feet deep, behind which a few wooden stakes are sparsely driven, and then connected by two iron wires and two large ropes.

Behind the trench is a simple fortification fenced by more than a dozen wheelbarrows.

Due to the light weight of the wheelbarrows, each unicycle is filled with mud and sand, making it difficult for even the brave to pick it up.

Behind the camp, seven or eight small tents were set up, and the firearms general flag and Guo Chonglie's second general flag lived in it.

A hundred meters behind the trench, there is the third general flag of Yao Zhijiao, hidden in the jungle, and in the middle there is mainly grain, baggage or something, if you don't hesitate to look at it, you can't find the mystery at all.

Winter is about to begin, the weather is cold, seeing Yang Xuan passing by, the sentry who was hiding in the dark on duty hurriedly came out to report, looking at the thin clothes on everyone's body, Yang Xuan felt a heartache.

Returning to the small tent, lighting the kerosene lamp, the man hurriedly brought a pot of hot water, washed his feet, picked up a book from the book basket under the muddy kerosene lamp, and silently wrote down the contents of the book while breaking sentences with difficulty.

I don't know how much time passed, but I felt a sore shoulder, and I used a long stick to lift a kerosene lamp and slip around.

The dark nights in late autumn are getting longer and longer, and for Yang Xuan, who is accustomed to nightlife, the nights are long and at a loss, in order to pass the time, he often only passes the time by reading books and only idle chat.

There are armies within a radius of two or three miles, and during the flooding of large and small camps, there are bonfires everywhere in the mountains, which are staggered with the stars in the sky, and they are clearly visible in the distance.

Looking around again, it seems that everyone has fallen asleep, and looked at the waning moon in the sky, which has turned westward, and it is about past the hour of the day.

Yang Xuan shrunk his neck, stretched his waist again, and carried the lantern to walk back.

Before he got into the quilt, he suddenly heard a shout from the left, Yang Xuan was shocked, immediately lifted the quilt, put on cotton armor, rushed out of the tent, and saw the figure in front of the left flickering from a distance, and from time to time there was a low scream.

Night attack, night attack of the local thug? Yang Xuan immediately waved his drumsticks, frantically hitting the big drum outside the tent, and then sent people to each tent to follow everyone.

The weather in late autumn was quite cold, so it took half a pillar of incense to gather and complete, and the situation was already very obvious at that time, the Liukou attacked the camp from the front, left, and right directions, everyone rushed to the battle, and the whole barracks were in chaos.

The soldiers looked panicked one by one, two months ago, many of them were just farmers, just because life forced them to join the army, everyone just wanted to receive military salaries every month, who would have thought that they would go to the battlefield and face the test of life and death.

In order to give everyone confidence, Yang Xuan did not panic at all, and walked in front of everyone one by one with both hands clutching the hilt of the knife, and then ordered Guo Chonglie to lead a small flag to the outer fortifications to contain the remnants of the defeated soldiers of the other departments.

Suddenly, there was a night attack, and some departments could not cope with it, and chaos ensued, and deserters began to appear.

Yang Xuan commanded the 1st General Banner and the 2nd General Banner to rely on the defensive line built by the wheelbarrow to prepare for possible changes.

Ling Yao Zhijiao led the 3rd General Banner to dig a trench with more than 20 hard laborers to complete the second fortification.

Guo Chonglie led a small banner man with a torch to the left side of the position to set up a post on the path to intercept the deserters.

More than ten standing with the burning wooden sticks, more than ten meters around are clearly visible, just after settling in, I saw four or five disheveled men running this way, one foot tall and one foot short, suddenly intercepted by Guo Chonglie and others, very annoyed.

Pointing to the sky-high fire in the distance, a soldier shook his head and said: "Brother, the local rioters attacked the camp, you don't know, they suddenly came out in the middle of the night, you don't know how terrifying it is."

You are from the left department, the left department, the left bureau, and we are different from the department, so don't be difficult for the brothers, the younger brother has the old and the young. ”

Guo Chonglie was furious, pulled out his treasure knife, cut it to the ground, and then stepped on the other party's still squirming body, and said viciously to everyone: "More than 3,000 brothers, isn't that one old and young?"

The local rioters attacked the camp, everyone's lives hung by a thread, those who went along prospered, and those who rebelled died. Are you obeying Lao Tzu's orders, or are you like this crumb? ”

Seeing that Guo Chonglie said that he would kill him, he would kill one person in a moment, and the other people kowtowed in fear and begged for mercy.

Guo Chonglie asked people to write down their names, and then led everyone back to the formation.

But more and more people fled, especially Wang Gui led the soldiers and horses of the two bureaus to withdraw.

Due to the arduous daily march, everyone did not dig fortifications at all, and now the local rioters suddenly attacked the camp, and could not defend at all, and when they were anxious, they suddenly heard that the fortifications had already been established in the left bureau, so in a panic, they led everyone to arrive.

With a pale face, Wang Gui tightly grabbed Yang Xuan's hands and said: "Zixiu, it's too unbelievable, in the middle of the night, the local tyrant actually led his troops to attack the camp, everyone is in a mess, for today's plan, how is it good?" ”

Pointing to the chaotic camp in front of him, Yang Xuan said, "General, since the night attack of the local rioters, I have been observing the movements of the fighting.

This time, there were only more than 2,000 soldiers and horses in the night attack of the local rioters, and even with the troops who followed them, their strength was limited.

As long as we can temporarily stabilize the situation and see that our army is ready for battle, it will not be difficult for the local rioters to retreat. ”

Although it was late autumn, beads of sweat fell from Wang Gui's cheeks one by one, and he said in a hurry: "Zixiu, you are from a sub-list background, and of course your knowledge is extraordinary, you tell me, what should you do for today?" ”

Looking at Wang Gui, who was still in shock, Yang Xuan secretly shook his head again and again, pointed ahead and said: "General, we have a small mountain behind us, even if the local tyrant kills it, it can be completely defended, so it is completely invincible."

You see, the right side of the front is close to the Jialing River, and there are many paddy fields, all of which have water, and it is about to start winter, and it is unlikely that the local tyrants will attack from the right side.

But the left side is completely different, not only is there a road leading to the capital city of Shunqing, but it is basically dry land, which is convenient for marching. ”

Wang Gui was shocked, shook his head and said: "Zixiu, you won't launch a counterattack, there are two thousand people in the local riots, all of them kill people without blinking, how can we counterattack with such a few people?" ”

Yang Xuan smiled and said: "General, each ministry is in chaos, everyone is fighting on their own, if we fight back, we will not only support other ministries and departments, but also deter each other."

I'll fight back with the first game, and you just need to put the three musket flags in the middle game under my command. ”

Although Wang Gui felt quite bold, but the general Wang Chaoyang was his uncle, if he could turn the tide, it could be said that he commanded Ruo Ding and made a contribution.

If it is a heavy loss, it can be pushed to Yang Xuan, or a scapegoat can be found.

immediately found Chen Yingzong, the head of the previous game, and decided to carry out a counterattack.

Yao Zhijiao led a general flag to walk on the right side to protect the safety of the right wing, Chen Yingzong led the front game on the left, Yang Xuan led the main force in the middle, and everyone took the road as the middle to search and advance.