Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume III: The Turbulent Central Plains

Chapter 2 The Crisis of Gathering Hungry People Begins

Section 11 Raids and Ambushes (I)

At three o'clock in the middle of the night (about half past two in the morning), five miles northeast of Longmen Pass, the camp of thieves.

In the dark night, Liu Yunwei was leading the Longxiang Iron Cavalry soldiers to hide in the woods to the west of the thief camp, and the dim starlight sprinkled in the dense woods, forming a mottled imprint, and nearly 2,000 iron cavalry soldiers were shrouded in it. Liu Yunwei was sitting under a dense poplar tree at this time, holding a broken branch in his hand and constantly tapping on the ground.

"Why haven't these thieves moved? It's the middle of the night, and it's going to be dawn if the thieves don't go out again. ”

Liu Yunwei thought to himself in his heart, looked up at the stars, sighed slightly, and said secretly: "If the thieves don't move tonight, then we can only wait for Wu Xing to lead the main army to arrive." In that case, I will be completely dragged down by these thieves, and I'm afraid that Yiyang City won't last long! ”

At this moment, a man who did not receive the night came and whispered: "General Qiyu, there is movement in the camp of thieves. ”

Liu Yunwei was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly tiptoed to the edge of the woods and looked towards the camp of thieves in the distance. I saw that the camp of thieves was in chaos, and it seemed that countless people and horses were mobilizing, but the entire camp was still pitch black, and no torches were lit.

"Humph! These thieves also know the truth of not raising the lamp at night, but these rabble have no hidden consciousness at all, such a noisy assembly, the night is not closed a few miles away can detect the movement! Liu Yunwei thought in his heart.

After a while, Liu Yunwei saw a large group of soldiers and horses from the camp of the thieves, driving towards the direction of Longmen Pass, and in the dark night, these armies like black tides, like ghosts in the middle of the night, rushed to Longmen Pass.

Liu Yunwei looked at the army of thieves marching in the distance, his heart was extremely excited, and he roughly estimated the number of thieves who left in his heart.

"There are more than 50,000 people, and it seems that these thieves have invested a lot of money! Thankfully, I'm prepared, otherwise I'd have suffered a big loss tonight! ”

Liu Yunwei secretly rejoiced, and then waved his hand to the soldiers behind him, and nearly two thousand iron cavalry soldiers began to sort out their equipment, and put a mouth mask on their war horses, and wrapped the four hooves of the war horses in thick cloth, ready to attack at night.

After about a stick of incense, the army of thieves had all gone away, and the camp of thieves in the dark night was quiet again. After Liu Yunwei waited patiently for a while, he looked up at the sky, and saw that it was already past the beginning of the hour (about three o'clock in the morning), so he raised the armor-piercing point steel gun in his hand, and beckoned to the iron cavalry soldiers who had been prepared behind him, and nearly two thousand soldiers walked out of the dense woods with blades in one hand and horses in the other.

Liu Yunwei led the Longxiang Iron Cavalry soldiers to walk a distance of about three hundred steps, then turned over and got on the horse, and the iron cavalry soldiers behind him also got on their horses together, and the movements of the army were uniform, without making the slightest sound in the dark night, and followed Liu Yunwei silently towards the thief camp.

Seeing that the camp of thieves in the distance was still very quiet, and he didn't notice that death was about to come, Liu Yunwei raised the steel gun in his hand violently and roared: "Long Xiang!" Kill the enemy with me! Come on! ”

"Wan Sheng!" Nearly two thousand iron horsemen roared in unison, like a thunderbolt that exploded in the dark night before dawn, suddenly waking up the originally silent bandit camp, and countless rogue soldiers rushed out of their camp tents in panic, looking at the dark night outside the camp and looking at it in horror.

"What's going on?"

"What was the sound just now?"

"Listen! What was that! ”

I only heard a dull roar from far and near, and the sound became louder and louder, like a muffled thunder in the spring, beating on the hearts of the terrified thieves.

Finally, the thieves who gathered in the camp and watched helplessly outside saw the movement in the night, only to see about two thousand tigers and wolves rushing out of the darkness of the night and rushing over in a dense formation. The sharp blades in the hands of the iron cavalry soldiers reflected the cold light of the cautious people under the illumination of the moonlight, and completely woke up the thieves who had fallen into a sluggish state.

"It's an officer!"

"Enemy attack!"

"Run!"

Everything came too fast, and almost in an instant, Liu Yunwei had already led Long Xiang's iron cavalry to rush to the thief camp. At the forefront of the iron cavalry were ten heavily armoured, unridden horses, and they had been tied together by heavy chains, and the tails of these ten horses had been covered by fire!

I saw that the ten horses neighed and slammed into the gate of the thief camp, and immediately smashed the gate apart, and the thieves standing around were instantly knocked to the ground by the splashing of wood; And the ten war horses, which had been burned mad by the fire, had already rushed into the camp, and they were rushing and trampling with impunity in the dense crowd, knocking the nearby rogue soldiers into chaos, and fear spread among the rogue soldiers.

Liu Yunwei took the opportunity to lead the Longxiang Iron Cavalry into the thief camp, and followed the "Fire Horse" behind the cover killing, and showed no mercy wherever he passed, and the surrounding thieves were killed one after another under the killing of the Iron Cavalry soldiers, screams, angry scolding, and cries were intertwined, making the thief camp extraordinarily lively.

At this moment, Wang Kuilu ran out of the big tent of the thieves in a panic, wearing only a single coat, but holding a war knife in his hand. Wang Kuilu looked at the chaotic battlefield in front of him in horror, knowing that since the official army had already attacked the camp, the tens of thousands of troops under his command were definitely defeated! So, Wang Kuilu hurriedly gathered his subordinates, gathered about 2,000 soldiers and horses, and hurriedly fled to the north, and disappeared into the night after a while.

The remaining tens of thousands of thieves in the camp did not take long to completely lose resistance, and under the blow of the Longxiang Iron Cavalry led by Liu Yunwei rushing back and forth, the thieves could not organize an effective counterattack at all. Everything came so fast, and the two thousand iron horsemen were like a group of ghosts in the night, as if they were everywhere but could not be touched; It was like a hurricane that blew rapidly, and countless lives were swept away in a roar, leaving only the thief with the fear of death and deep despair.

Liu Yunwei rushed to the front of the cavalry formation, the steel gun in his hand had already become slippery and greasy, and the armor on his body had already been stained red with blood. At this time, Liu Yunwei saw that the army of thieves had completely collapsed, and there were thieves fleeing in panic everywhere, so he roared, led the dragon horse to quickly turn, and killed the big tent of the thief army.

However, when Liu Yunwei led his troops to kill, he only saw an empty Chinese army tent, and the leader of the thieves had long since disappeared.

"Bastard! If you can't fight, you can run away, but you're quite clever! Liu Yunwei scolded angrily, and then led the iron cavalry soldiers back into battle, and continued to kill the army of thieves who had already collapsed.

At the same time, the army of tens of thousands of thieves who had left the camp and rushed to the direction of Longmen Pass had already walked for a long time and came to a hillside two miles away from Longmen Pass. Yu Shiqian looked at the sky and ordered the army to rest on the spot, wanting to wait until the army recovered its strength before taking advantage of the night to raid the official army camp.

With Yu Shiqian's order, the army of tens of thousands of thieves began to rest in the same place, after all, it was already very uncomfortable to be woken up by Shangguan in the middle of the night, and now they have driven several miles to this ghost place where there is no village in front of the village and no shop in the back, almost all of them are very reluctant in their hearts. Moreover, the place where the army of thieves stayed happened to be a depression, with undulating mountains on the left and right, and the trees were very dense, and the army of tens of thousands of thieves was distributed into a long dragon and gathered on the narrow road in the middle.

Yu Shiqian took a big sip of the water in the water bladder, then looked at the sky again, and said secretly in his heart: "Wait a while and it's time to go, I hope that tonight's operation will go well, so that tomorrow you can take advantage of the victory to capture Longmen Pass!" ”

At this time, Yu Shiqian put down the water bladder and looked at the surrounding situation, and suddenly a trace of ominous premonition appeared in his heart: "The terrain here is really dangerous, if there are ambushes in the woods on both sides, my tens of thousands of troops will suffer a big loss." ”

Thinking of this, Yu Shiqian was stunned suddenly, and suddenly felt as if he was being held around his neck with a sharp blade, and a sense of urgent crisis instantly filled his body. Yu Shiqian immediately jumped up, pulled out his waist knife and shouted: "Enemy attack!" Prepare for the enemy! ”

The surrounding thief soldiers all looked at Yu Shiqian in surprise when they heard the shouting, as if they were looking at an idiot, and everyone couldn't understand why the dignified right-wing general suddenly shouted and shouted, where did the enemy come from in such a quiet night?

"Bastard thing! All move for General Ben! After speaking, Yu Shiqian hacked an indifferent thief beside him to death on the spot, and the hot blood suddenly woke up the rest of the thieves, and tens of thousands of thieves took action one after another, arranging the formation with Yu Shiqian as the center, and a narrow formation was slowly forming.

Suddenly, a sharp crack pierced the night sky, and one of the thieves fell to the ground. Immediately afterwards, countless sharp arrows shot out from the dense forest on both sides of the road, and the thieves close to the dense forest fell to the ground one after another. The terrible screams came and went, especially piercing in the night, and the thieves looked at the pitch-black jungle on both sides, as dark and terrifying as the entrance to hell. The sharp rain of arrows kept shooting towards the large array of thieves, forcing tens of thousands of thieves together, crowded together in a chaotic manner, and turned into a large area of immovable targets.