Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 3 Turbulent Central Plains

Chapter 3: Sweeping away the chaos and making meritorious contributions

Section 6 Overnight Attack (I)

At nightfall that day, Luhun Mountain.

Liu Yunwei sat at the foot of Luhun Mountain and quietly looked at the camp of thieves in the distance, the dark color was a little grim, and he didn't know what he was thinking. And the two thousand dragon warriors behind Liu Yunwei were silently hidden in the dense forest, and even the war horses stood quietly in the woods, waiting for the master's order.

It had been two hours since Liu Yunwei led his troops to the foot of Luhun Mountain, but he saw that the army of thieves guarding the grain and grass was well defended, and all the grain and grass were hoarded on the mountainside, and he couldn't get hold of it for a while. So Liu Yunwei led his troops to quietly retreat and hide in the woods, wanting to wait until after nightfall before making a move.

However, after Liu Yunwei observed for a long time, he found that the 10,000 thieves stationed in the Luhun Mountain camp were very well defended, and the entire camp was very tightly arranged, and there was no opportunity to take advantage of it. Although Liu Yunwei tried his best to lead the army to attack, he could also successfully capture Luhun Mountain, but in that case, the casualties of Long Xiang's iron cavalry would definitely be very huge, which was unacceptable to Liu Yunwei.

Thinking of this, Liu Yunwei jerked the branch in his hand, scolded angrily in a low voice, and was about to order a retreat to the heralds around him, but before the words could be spoken, he was suddenly shocked, and then laughed and said: "Haha, since this Luhun Mountain is not easy to fight, then we won't fight." But it's all here, and it's a little unwilling not to attack. ”

So Liu Yunwei put the armor-piercing steel gun in his hand and said: "Pass the order, and the whole army will attack immediately!" ”

A moment later, two thousand dragon horsemen, under the leadership of Liu Yunwei, roared down the small hill in the woods, and roared towards the camp of thieves at the foot of the mountain. Like ghosts in the night, the 2,000 Iron Cavalry soldiers kept rushing back and forth outside the camp of thieves, shouting loudly, and from time to time shooting rockets into the camp. The camp of the thieves was suddenly in chaos, and many of the thieves and soldiers poured down from the mountains and lined up in the camp to meet the enemy.

Liu Yunwei looked at the camp of thieves while galloping wildly, and said secretly in his heart: "Fortunately, I didn't kill it directly, otherwise this battle would really be difficult to handle, these thieves are really much more elite than the previous army of hundreds of thousands of thieves." ”

"Soldiers, speed up, speed up! Give the thieves another wave of ruthlessness! After speaking, Liu Yunwei shouted excitedly, and led the iron cavalry soldiers to sweep past the edge of the thief camp and wipe over, and suddenly many soldiers threw ropes and put them on the wall of the camp, and then directly dragged down the wall of the thief village with the power of the war horse.

Seeing this, the thieves couldn't help but be shocked, and they shouted and stepped forward to block the gap in the camp, and the thieves' camp was extremely chaotic.

North of the town of Muju.

Zhao Zhenren looked at the Hanwei camp in the distance through the fire in the battle array, and his heart was anxious. The two sides fought from the afternoon to the middle of the night, and it was always Zhao Zhenren who took the initiative to oversee the onslaught, wanting to repel the other party as soon as possible, and also to fight Lu Hunshan. However, the large array of the Hanwei battalion has always stood still, but the casualties of Zhao Zhenren's subordinates have been increasing; And just now, Lu Ying even pushed out the four cannons and fired a few shots towards the thief array, causing a commotion in the thief array, but because the night was too dark, the momentum of these guns was far greater than the actual results.

"Come on, mobilize two more phalanxes to attack! I don't believe it, these officers and soldiers are heavenly soldiers! Zhao Zhenren yelled angrily.

At this moment, a team of thieves and sentry scouts hurriedly rode their horses over, and after seeing Zhao Zhenren, they said anxiously: "Qi Zhenren, thousands of horses of the official army are storming the camp of Luhun Mountain, and the brothers are defending the camp, but the situation is very critical, please support the real person as soon as possible!" ”

Zhao Zhenren suddenly felt dizzy when he heard this, and his carefully arranged strategy turned out to be such a dangerous situation: his nearly 100,000 troops were pinned down in two places by the official army, and the grain and grass camp as a bait was attacked by the official army, could it be said that this battle was about to be defeated?

"No! I will not admit defeat! This battle must not be lost! Zhao Zhenren roared resentfully in his heart, and then said loudly: "Immediately give the forward general Zhao Jin an order, ordering him to immediately repel the officers and soldiers in front of him, and quickly support the Lu Hunshan battalion without delay, otherwise he will be punished as collaborating with the enemy!" ”

At the same time, the army of thieves stationed in Zhaobao Town still stuck to the camp without the slightest sign of pulling out the camp. Although the main general Zhao Jin had received several times from Zhao Zhenren and ordered him to immediately lead his troops to support Lu Hunshan, in the face of the mortal threat of the thousands of elite officers and iron cavalry nearby, Zhao Jin still ordered the army to strictly guard the camp after careful consideration. After all, being raided by thousands of elite iron cavalry in the dark of night would be a catastrophe for the army of thieves composed entirely of foot soldiers.

A small leader looked at the order that Zhao Zhenren had just sent, and said to Zhao Jin: "My lord, is it really appropriate for us to stick to it like this?" If anything happens to the grain and grass in Lu Hun Mountain, we will be used by real people to use the marching method. ”

Zhao Jin frowned and said coldly: "Support Lu Hunshan? How can I help? Now there are thousands of officers and soldiers who come and go like the wind outside the camp! And it's late at night, and while our tens of thousands of troops are marching at night, there are thousands of enemy iron cavalry who will raid and kill at any time, this is a certain death, you know? I can't joke with the lives of all the soldiers of the army! ”

The little leader thought for a while, and said with some uncertainty: "But after all, we have an army of 50,000, as long as we are careful, there shouldn't be any problems, right?" ”

"It's more than 40,000 people, we have lost thousands of soldiers and horses when we attacked Yiyang City, and now there are no more than 50,000 troops." Zhao Jin shook his head and said.

"That's not too much."

"Much! On the battlefield, a small gap can change the entire tide of battle, and a few thousand more people can play a decisive role at a specific time! Keep in mind that the soldiers in our battalion are foot soldiers, and they are not capable of resisting the attack of elite iron cavalry when marching at night. Zhao Jin said.

At this moment, a sentry entered the tent and said, "General Qiyu, the official army has withdrawn. ”

Zhao Jin didn't care when he heard this, and said: "Maybe the official army ran away to hide somewhere, so there is no need to make a fuss." ”

The sentry said: "General Hui, I have carefully investigated, and the place where the officers and soldiers rested before was scattered is full of artifacts that the officers and soldiers did not have time to take away, and the officers and soldiers should have withdrawn suddenly in a hurry." ”

"Oh?" Zhao Jin fell into thought when he heard this, and didn't speak for a long time. The little leader on the side thought for a moment and said, "General, could it be that the real people have beaten the officers and soldiers, so these thousands of iron horsemen rushed to Mushu Town to support?" ”

"Well, it's possible." Zhao Jin thought for a moment, and then asked the sentry, "Have we searched our neighborhood carefully?" ”

"Back to the general, the camp has been explored within a radius of ten miles, and there is no trace of the official army's iron cavalry."

"Good!" Zhao Jin was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "It seems that these thousands of officers and soldiers have really gone elsewhere!" The order was given, and the army immediately set off and went to the camp of Luhun Mountain to support! ”

A moment later, the camp of thieves was full of people, and everywhere there were hastily assembled thieves. After a while, an army of more than 40,000 thieves left the camp and headed south, heading for Luhun Mountain.

When the army of thieves marched for five miles, seeing that nothing unusual was found along the way, Zhao Jin's heart relaxed his vigilance, and when he saw that the night was already deeply worried about what would happen on the side of Lu Hunshan, he ordered the army to speed up and rush to the camp of Lu Hun Mountain as soon as possible. The army of more than 40,000 people quickened its pace in an instant, and the army of more than 40,000 people ran fast in the dark night, and the formations of the various divisions began to be chaotic during the march.

On a small hill six miles away, Liu Yunwei had successfully joined Wen Poyu, and the two were sitting on the ground enjoying the beautiful scenery of the night sky.

It turned out that after feinting to attack the camp of Lu Hun Mountain and confirming that the thieves had asked for help from the other two army of thieves, Liu Yunwei sent iron cavalry to block the contact between the camp of Lu Hun Mountain and the outside world, and on the other hand, he sent a military order to Wen Poyu, ordering him to come and join his division, preparing to ambush the army of thieves who came from Zhao Baozhen here.

"Big brother, this strategy of yours is really a stroke of genius, let's run down this time and play the army of thieves around, I guess Zhao Zhenren should be crazy now, right? Haha," Wen Poyu said with a smile.

Liu Yunwei also smiled and said: "No way, I just wanted to cut off the grain and grass of the thief army at first, but who knew that Lu Hun Mountain was well defended, and he couldn't get it in a hurry." Therefore, I just thought of this method, using our iron cavalry advantage to attack the army of thieves overnight, if you don't come here to join me, it is estimated that the thieves in Zhao Baozhen will not dare to take a step south. I hope that this time we can completely defeat the army of thieves, we have been delayed in Henan for too long, and I always have a bad premonition, as if we can't return to Sichuan. ”

Wen Poyu was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "How can you say this, eldest brother?" Did you hear any bad news? ”

Liu Yunwei sighed, shook his head and said, "That's not true, I just have a hunch......" Liu Yunwei was about to say something more, when he saw a team of night guards hurrying back, and before he could get to the front of him, he shouted: "General!" The army of thieves in Zhao Baozhen is coming, and there are still two miles away from here, and the army of thieves is more than 40,000! ”

Liu Yunwei was overjoyed when he heard this, took a deep breath and exhaled the depressed mood just now, and said to Wen Poyu: "Okay, let's get ready to act." ”

Wen Poyu looked at Liu Yunwei, and stopped talking a little, but in the end he didn't say anything, and directly led the order to mobilize troops and horses.