At night, it was already late at night, and Zhang Shihua led the 3,000 Red Turban Army to rush for more than two hours. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info difficult to walk at night, even though these three thousand Red Turban troops are considered to be the elite of a hundred battles, but in this late night, two hours, only walked twenty miles.

However, when Zhang Shihua saw this, he was not in a hurry, after all, this time he was going to attack the enemy army for a long distance, not to mention that he was going to rush too fast and wasting a lot of physical strength, not to mention that if he was discovered by the enemy, it would really be worth the loss.

So after driving for twenty miles, Zhang Shihua waved his hand and asked the soldiers to eat some dry food and rest.

However, only these ordinary soldiers who were on the road were included in the resting place, and those well-trained "night guards" were no longer among them.

As you can tell from the name, this is a group of scouts who specialize in operating at night. It can be said that if the scout camp is the strongest elite soldier in an army, then the night is the strongest group of people in the scout camp.

The long-term late-night life and battles have made every late-night ranger who is not collected at night be regarded as a ranger in the middle of the night, and they are like fish in water in the dark, and under the cover of the night, their combat effectiveness far exceeds that of any other class. For example, in the night attack elite led by Zhang Shihui two days ago, the five soldiers who were responsible for assassinating the defenders of the city wall were the elite under Zhang Shihua's command.

Therefore, when Zhang Shihua ordered the army to rest in place, in order to know the enemy's movements, Zhang Shihua immediately summoned a night bully to inquire about the situation.

And the one who didn't accept it like a night owl, saw that Zhang Shihua was going to summon him over, and immediately ran to Zhang Shihua's side sensitively, knelt down on one knee and asked Zhang Shihua, "My lord, what's the matter?" ”

Seeing this, Zhang Shihua waved his hand to signal him to be exempted first, and after he got up, Zhang Shihua asked him: "Stone, did you find Tartar nearby that does not accept it at night?" ”

When the old soldier named Li Shishi of the Inspection Department, who now does not collect hundreds of household officials at night, heard this, he immediately replied respectfully to Zhang Shihua: "Back to my lord's words, after the investigation of the last general and his brothers, it was found that within ten miles of our army's front, there was no enemy army's night non-collection activities. ”

When Zhang Shihua heard this, he nodded and said, "Okay, I understand." You tell the brethren to be alert, and if you find an enemy who is not collecting at night, you must kill them as soon as possible, and never let the army be exposed. ”

"The last general understands, the last general will go." When Li Shishi heard this, he immediately lowered his head and said.

When Zhang Shihua heard this, he nodded, and waved his hand to let Li Shishi retreat.

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Two quarters of an hour later, when Zhang Shihua re-led the 3,000 Red Turban Army, he took advantage of the night to rush towards the Tartar camp twenty miles away.

As Zhang Shihua's command, Li Shishi, who did not accept hundreds of household officials at night, also rode a horse to ten miles away, and passed Zhang Shihua's order to all the night officials.

Looking at the three platoon commanders under his command, Li Shishi said to them in a serious tone: "The general has an order, let us solve the night failure of the Tartars and cover the movement of the army before the army arrives." I'll give you an hour now, and before the general arrives here with his army, I'll settle all the nights outside the Tartar camp. Listen to me, this is a military order, if you can't complete the task, military law will deal with it! ”

When the three platoon commanders heard Li Shishi's words, they were also shocked, and hurriedly lowered their heads and replied: "The last general obeys the order, and the last general will wait for this to deal with it." (In Zhang Shihua's system, platoon commanders belong to the petty officials from the ninth grade, and they are the same as the inspectors, so they are indeed qualified to call themselves the last general.) ）”

When Li Shishi heard this, he nodded, and waved his hand to let them go down.

However, Li Shishi, as Zhang Shihua's command, does not collect 100 households at night, but it is not just because he is a veteran of the inspection department, his own skills, then he is definitely one of the best in this night not collecting. So when these platoon commanders left, Li Shishi also led the nine guards under his command to join the operation of fighting with the Tartars at night.

After all, being an official under Zhang Shihua, if he didn't have certain skills, it would be impossible to convince these strong soldiers under Zhang Shihua.

As scouts who are active in the middle of the night, most of them operate in units. After all, as scout sentinels, if they are numerous, they are too easy to expose; But if the number is too small, it is too dangerous; Therefore, in this way, it is the ideal state to act in a unit.

And Li Shishi, who is an officer who does not collect at night, is naturally very familiar with the tactics of not collecting at night. I saw that he first led his men to hide the war horses on his side, but then quietly touched the direction of the unexplored enemy camp.

"A bunch of idiots." Almost six or seven miles away from the enemy camp, Li Shishi, who had sharp eyes, looked at the bonfire that the Tartar sentries had built in the middle of the night, and scolded disdainfully.

"Solved them." Li Shishi waved his hand and whispered to his subordinates.

Seeing this, the nine people beside Li Shishi nodded their heads, then clenched the weapons in their hands, and followed Li Shishi quietly towards the bonfire.

Li Shishi and the ten of them were divided into two groups, and they outflanked left and right towards the bonfire, and the long-term night life made the movement of these people in the action very small, until they were already close to the bonfire, and the sleeping officers and soldiers around the bonfire did not notice it at all.

Looking at the more than ten officers and soldiers lying horizontally next to the bonfire, Li Shishi made a gesture to wipe the necks of the nine people under his command, and the nine people nodded when they saw this. Then I saw Li Shishi and ten of them, carrying a steel knife, like a cheetah, quickly rushed towards the officers and soldiers lying by the bonfire, with their knives in their hands, there were no shouts of killing and exclamations, only the sound of blood flowing.

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An hour later, when Zhang Shihua led a large army to arrive here, Li Shishi, who had been waiting here for a long time, did not wait for Zhang Shihua to ask, and took the initiative to say to Zhang Shihua: "General, the sentries near the Tartar camp have all been resolved. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Shihua's calm face couldn't help but have a smile, and after he praised Li Shishi, he turned to a herald behind him and said, "Send the order, let everyone speed up, and send troops with me to raid the Tartar camp in half an hour." ”

When the herald heard this, he bowed his head and answered, and hurriedly went down to give the order, and then saw the 3,000 Red Turban Army in the middle of the night, under the leadership of Zhang Shihua, rushing towards the Tartar camp not far away in an unstoppable attitude.

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"Kill! ~~" The loud shout of killing rang out violently, and the silence of the night was immediately broken. Three thousand red turban soldiers, under Zhang Shihua's order, frantically attacked the camp of officers and soldiers, and chaos and war suddenly became the main theme of this camp of officers and soldiers.

"Kill!" Zhao Jiu, who was riding a war horse with an iron spear, led dozens of cavalry under his command and frantically attacked the camp of officers and soldiers. Because of the night attack of the Red Turban Army, the current battalion of officers and soldiers has completely fallen into chaos, and these farmers and soldiers who have never seen the battlefield and are seriously malnourished have forgotten what resistance is at this time, except for holding their heads and running away.

For such an enemy, the formation is naturally unnecessary, so after attacking the camp, Zhao Jiu followed Zhang Shihua's order and led his elite cavalry to attack the Chinese army camp in Tartar frantically. After all, at this time, there is nothing more demoralizing than the death of the enemy's main general.

And I have to say that although ninety percent of the soldiers in this battalion are the kind of people who can't be attacked, there are indeed a lot of elite soldiers and generals who are good at fighting and daring to die among the 5,000 Tartar officers and soldiers, but because of Zhang Shihua's sudden attack, these people are defenseless.

Therefore, in the chaotic situation at this time, they simply could not organize enough troops to compete with the Red Turban Army, and the generals of the Red Turban Army were not stupid, after entering the camp, the Red Turban Army gave priority to this kind of people, once it was found that the enemy had a tendency to gather, the Red Turban Army would immediately use the harshest means to suppress these non-commissioned officers and soldiers who dared to resist.

Therefore, when Zhao Jiu led his army to defeat two groups of enemies who wanted to resist him in a row, no Tartar officers and soldiers dared to stop Zhao Jiu's footsteps.

However, just when Zhao Jiu led his cavalry and frantically rushed to the camp of the Chinese army, at the camp of the Chinese army, Yin Yang Wenqing, who was the chief general of 5,000 officers and soldiers, came out of the camp in a hurry, looked at the chaotic battalion soldiers and the raging flames around him, and suddenly understood that he was attacked by the red turban thieves at night.

He was extremely panicked in his heart, and he didn't care about the 5,000 officers and soldiers in this large camp and the possible punishment of the imperial court in the future.

But just as he was about to flee from here, he heard a sudden shout behind him, and when he turned around, he saw a red scarf thief general dressed in iron armor, holding an iron spear, with a horse under his hip, leading dozens of horsemen, roaring and rushing towards him.

This red scarf thief general is naturally Zhao Jiu, who came to kill the chief general of the officers and soldiers. I saw that after Zhao Jiu frantically rushed to the camp of the Chinese army, he found that the Tartar master wanted to escape, so he hurriedly urged the war horse under his crotch with his legs, and shouted: "The thief will leave!" Then he shot at Yang Wenqing with a gun.

When Yang Wenqing saw this, he couldn't help but panic in his heart, and hurriedly shouted to the guards beside him: "Quick, stop this fang!" ”

And the guards beside Yang Wenqing, after hearing Yang Wenqing's words, also showed their blades in their hands, urged their crotch with their legs, and rushed over to kill Zhao Jiu.

Seeing this, Zhao Jiu on the opposite side clenched the iron spear in his hand, and the man took advantage of the horse's momentum and threw the spear in his hand violently with a roar. The powerful iron spear, with unrivaled strength, pierced the body of one of the guards in front of him and carried them away, and at the same time, it actually smashed the war horse of another guard behind the guard to the ground.

After killing two people in a row, he saw Zhao Jiu wave his hand and draw the steel knife on his waist, and the light of the sword flashed with the horse's momentum, but the heads of the two guards fell to the ground, and the blood on the necks of the two people rushed out of the sky.

After killing four people in a row, Zhao Jiu also killed Yang Wenqing's personal guard cavalry. After killing through the cavalry, Zhao Jiu didn't care about the rest of the terrified enemy cavalry, but urged the war horse and rushed towards Yang Wenqing, who turned around and wanted to flee.

"Come here, you!" After catching Yang Wenqing, Zhao Jiu, who saw him, shouted loudly, and actually held Yang Wenqing's belt in one hand and lifted it to his horse like a chicken cub.

Looking at the frightened Yang Wenqing, Zhao Jiu smiled hideously, pulled Yang Wenqing's hair with one hand, and with a flash of the knife in his hand, Yang Wenqing's head was separated.

Zhao Jiu, whose face was covered with blood, rode on a horse, holding Yang Wenqing's bloody head in his hand, and shouted at the frightened faceless officers and soldiers and guards around him: "The thief surnamed Yang is dead, and you will not surrender!" ”

Hearing this, except for a few loyal and stubborn guards, the rest of the officers and soldiers all threw down their weapons and chose to surrender.

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At dawn more than an hour later, the 5,000 officers and soldiers stationed here were completely defeated by the Red Turban Army under Zhang Shihua's command. According to Zhang Shihua's statistics after the war, less than 500 were beheaded in this battle, but the number of prisoners exceeded 4,000.

Zhang Shihua was not surprised by this situation, after all, for a group of peasant troops with no training at all, what else can you ask them to do after defeat except surrender.

However, the disposal of these captives has also become a problem, after all, so many captives are composed of Han Chinese, and they must not be able to kill them all, and it is too unrealistic to accept these captives, after all, their number is too many.

Therefore, Zhang Shihua simply decided to use 800 more superb soldiers to supplement the consumption of the army in the past few days, and as for the remaining officers and soldiers, he would conduct an all-round criticism and education for them, so that they could understand how bad the Yuanmeng Tartars were and how righteous the Red Turban Army was, and then give them some travel expenses and let them go.

After all, this method was used by the Red Army in the future, and it worked very well, as long as the fool was good, eighty percent of these released prisoners would not join the officers and soldiers to fight the Red Turban Army as enemies. And more importantly, this can also spread and establish Zhang Shihua's reputation for benevolence among the people at the bottom, which can be described as a double benefit.

However, just when Zhang Shihua was about to hand over this matter to Xu Ming, the great god under his command, to let him deal with it, Guo Yu suddenly took an embarrassed officer and soldier to find Zhang Shihua.

The general was none other than Bai Xi, the deputy of the Zhenyang garrison who had just escaped from True Yang City. (To be continued.) )