Chapter 148: Temporary Commander
The general who came out of the battle was Cao Jian, who led the team under Liu Jiwu. At this time, Li Yanzhao and several hundred commanders were not in the army, so the team leaders were at a loss for each other. Cao Jian saw this scene, his heart was anxious, and after thinking about it, he raised his arms and exhaled, Dong Liang's department was ranked behind Cao Jian, and at this time, seeing that Cao Jian was willing to preside over the overall situation, he was not allowed.
Song Qing's subordinate team led Liang Siqin and Han Liancheng, although they had a slight complaint about Cao Jian's transgression, but at this moment when the situation was a little critical, they themselves were unwilling to force their heads out, thus bearing the responsibility for failure, so when Cao Jian stood up to arrange the action, the two of them did not object, and they acquiesced to Cao Jian's command of them.
The remaining two teams also expressed no objections. So Cao Jian became the temporary supreme general here.
Cao Jian told Li Yanzhao's previous arrangement again, and it was still Cao Jian who led his own department, and served as the front team together with Dong Liang's department. The rest of the soldiers followed them. When the order is given to rush out of the valley, the rate of these teams must be fast. As soon as they rushed out of the valley and reached a slightly open place outside, they immediately dispersed.
At the same time, after Cao Jian asked to hear his whistle, he blew the bamboo whistle in his mouth with the whole army, so that the enemy army could not distinguish between the reality of our army. The soldiers who carried small drums and gongs then brought these things with them. After sending five waves of arrows into Zhao's camp, these things were all sounded.
After the arrangement, Cao Jian rushed out of the formation first, and then stabbed to death the Hun cavalry who had just whistled to warn, and then, with more than 200 cavalry, rushed out of the valley, arrived at the spindle-shaped Xiaoping where the Zhao army was encamped, and blew the bamboo whistle in his mouth. More than 200 horsemen listened to the sound and also blew the bamboo whistle one after another. At the same time, these cavalry soldiers scattered separately, forming a large arc, and surrounded the Zhao army's camp.
In the camp of the Zhao army, after hearing the first bamboo whistle blown by the Hun sentry before death, the chief general of the Hun cavalry in the camp, who had been in battle for a long time, immediately made a decision and ordered all the torches and bonfires in the camp to be extinguished. His soldiers followed the order, and in the blink of an eye, the temporary camp of the Zhao army, which had just been brightly lit, was pitch black in an instant.
Seeing this sudden situation, many Zhao Jun's foot soldiers who were going back and forth between the mountains and forests and the camp fled in panic towards the mountains and forests. They ran as fast as they could until they fled to the depths of complete safety in the forest, still gasping for breath and listening cautiously to what was going on outside.
These extremely tired soldiers can't afford to toss again. The Hun cavalry who were supervising the work on the side did not care about whipping and scolding them at this time, but went through the camp fence that had not yet been surrounded, and went to the temporary camp to find their own brigade.
The foot soldiers who had gathered around the camp fence before also entered the camp one after another, most of them hid under the camp wall, listening to the endless whining of bamboo whistles outside, and they did not dare to take a breath. They huddled together, as if huddled around the robe could add a sense of security to their hearts.
After about half a pillar of incense, the whining of the bamboo whistle outside the camp gradually stopped, and the quiet night returned to its original quietness, as if nothing had happened. However, this silence only lasted for a few breaths, and the chaotic sound of horses' hooves reached the ears of these Zhao soldiers in the camp.
Hearing the chaotic sound of horses' hooves outside, it sounded like a thousand horses, but it was scattered across a vast flat land, echoing back and forth through the valleys, like thousands of horses.
The Zhao army in the camp all changed color when they heard it. Although they were defeated outside Jincheng County in the afternoon, the main force was basically still there. Moreover, in order to avoid the possible pursuit of the Liangzhou army, the Xiongnu commander still ordered his subordinates to retreat for twenty miles, and chose this narrow spindle-shaped plain to set up camp.
Although after setting up camp, the Xiongnu general also sent several Xiongnu cavalry to the north to reconnoiter and guard. However, under the interception and killing of the sentry cavalry of the Liangzhou army, these scattered Hun cavalry were either wiped out or fled, but they could not break through the interception of the Liangzhou sentry cavalry and return to the camp to report the news.
At this time, nearly 300 Guangwu cavalry soldiers who were quietly approaching were already holding bows in their hands, bending their bows and ready to attack. The three-edged arrowhead with the tip of the arrow shining a little cold in the moonlight was pointed at the temporary camp of the Zhao army.
At this time, the formation of the Guangwu cavalry had been dispersed, and it was no longer possible to effectively command by the password alone, so Cao Jian switched to using bamboo whistles and passwords to coordinate the actions of the cavalry.
As Cao Jian blew the first bamboo whistle, a rain of arrows brought the sound of a whistling wind, crossed the low wall of the Zhao military camp, and flew straight towards the Zhao army camp.
In the deep night, there was a sound from time to time, the sound of the horsemen's arrows hitting the wooden camp wall. However, there were still more arrows, crossing the camp wall, with a fierce murderous aura, harvesting the lives of the Zhao army in the camp who could not dodge.
In the darkness of the Zhao army's camp, where the flames had been extinguished, only the faint popping sound of arrows entering the human body was occasionally heard, and soon after, wails and curses in various languages could be heard throughout the camp.
The soldier of Zhao, who had not yet been hit by the arrow, could only prostrate on the ground, curl up as much as possible, reduce his projection area, and secretly begged all the gods and Buddhas in his heart, just asking for those arrows that would come in the dark at some point, not to shoot themselves.
After a wave of arrows that lasted for a short time, there was no longer the audible whistling sound in the air. However, the soldiers of Zhao had just raised their heads, and with a faint bamboo whistle in the quiet night sky, the terrible roar of those arrows sounded in the sky.
In this way, after several rounds of repetition, the outside of the camp quieted down. However, these Zhao soldiers still stayed on the ground, behind the camp wall, inside and outside the tent for a long time, and did not dare to move.
It wasn't until there was no longer the sound of arrows breaking through the air in the sky, but there was a noisy noise of gongs and drums outside the camp, that these Zhao Jun, who had been lying on the ground for a long time in fright, got up and looked outside the camp.
However, in the night of the black hole, I couldn't really see the figures swaying outside the camp gate. It's just that not long after, the general in the Zhao army jumped up in anger, and then shouted and scolded in Hu for a while. When the Zhao cavalry beside him heard his words, they all got up and went to look for their horses, but only those who had been hit by the arrows still fell to the ground and wailed.
However, as soon as these horsemen got on their horses, they saw that on the other side of the temporary camp, the Zhao army foot soldiers who had been cutting timber in the forest poured in from the cracks in the camp wall. They are outside logging, and their weapons are not around, and even if they do, they are mostly ring-headed knives. Short axes used for logging are basically not used in combat.
Seeing the influx of those miscellaneous soldiers, a subordinate general next to the Xiongnu general stepped forward on a horse, intercepted a foot soldier, and saw that it was a Han soldier in leather armor, so he asked in stiff Chinese: "Say, what happened?" ”
The Han soldier looked at the Hun general in front of him with palpitations, his voice trembled, and he said with palpitations: "Cool ...... The Liangzhou soldiers are here! They...... They're all over the place! ”
Hearing the soldier's stammering report, the Hun general was also stunned, he pricked up his ears and listened attentively, and indeed heard the faint shouting of killing from the other side outside the camp outside the noisy gongs and drums. The large number of foot soldiers who poured into the camp also came from that direction.
After several waves of arrow raids, Cao Jian saw that there were many Zhao army foot soldiers hiding in the woods next to the temporary camp, so he made a temporary decision and ordered Shao Lei and Dong Liang to take their men and cavalry to go back to that side and launch a surprise attack on the Zhao army foot soldiers hiding in the forest.
Shao Lei and Dong Liang followed the order, they scattered in formation, and then rushed straight to that side. Anyway, the position they were in at this time was also on the north side of the Zhao army's temporary camp, and if the situation changed, they could even withdraw in time.
However, Shao Lei and Dong Liang, who were well prepared to deal with the stubborn resistance of the Zhao army's soldiers, were surprised to find that they scattered in the forest, and then the commanders formed their own columns, selected the attack route and then attacked those Zhao soldiers, but they did not encounter any decent resistance, obviously they had become frightened birds at this time.
There were no more than 100 soldiers in Liangzhou, but they chased after the Zhao army, which was several times larger than their own, until they drove those Zhao soldiers into the temporary camp they set up. Along the way, those who rushed to trample because of their escape were caught up and killed by the Liangzhou army, and there were countless people.