Chapter 42: Stealing the Camp (I)
Halim stared at Sharina in disbelief with a pair of white dead fish eyes, and roared:
"Tell me, where the enemy is camped?"
"Set up camp in front of a sand dune near the river."
Halim, who was angry, yelled at Sharina to "get out", and then said to his henchmen beside him:
"The idea is a bit prickly, brothers should be careful, the commander of the enemy has some ability, you cheer up Lao Tzu, and then give Lao Tzu a bright spot."
When one of Halim's henchmen saw that the boss was angry, he immediately asked in a low voice:
"The owner of the village, whether the idea is prickly or not, we don't know, since those dogs dare to come to our realm to step on the plate, then we have to give them a good look."
"Give them a good look? How do you look good? β
"Kill them directly with your brothers! As far as the riding skills and kung fu of our brothers are concerned, I still don't believe that I can't clean up those turtle sons. β
"You bastard, you know a **, others have thirty bed crossbows and twenty catapults, so let's rush up and be a target for others?"
"Then what should we do, we can't just wait for the enemy to fight!"
Halim then gritted his teeth and said:
"Prepare to steal the camp at night and let the brothers bring more rockets."
In some places in the Western Regions, a kind of black whirring thing will come out of the ground, which will burn at one point, and the flame will be fierce, and this thing will emit black smoke after it is ignited, and the people of the Western Regions call this kind of thing fire oil.
Of course, Qingfeng Village also has fire oil, and the horse thieves use fire oil for lighting, so the horse thieves don't have much fire oil in stock, but there is absolutely no problem in making thousands of rockets, and these rockets are the sharp weapons of Halim's camp.
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Yun Mo is the first time to lead the troops to fight, Chen Cang, who has rich combat experience, went to verify the map, there are only a few disabled veterans in his team who are good at actual combat, these veterans have rich experience in actual combat, but they do not have the ability to command the whole army and the military aircraft of the counselor, everything can only be decided by Yun Mo himself.
This time, sending troops to eat black can only succeed, and failure is absolutely not allowed, and failure means that Yun Mo has lost the opportunity to rise in the Western Regions.
Therefore, since the dispatch of the army, Yun Mo has been cautious everywhere, not daring to have the slightest carelessness, from marching to camping, Yun Mo has personally inquired.
After Yun Mo chose a place to camp, he immediately urged the whole army to camp, and it was also very particular about camping in the desert, there were not many trees for them to camp here, and the only inexhaustible thing was the long yellow sand.
Camping in the desert, Yun Mo took it into account when he sent out his troops, he carried a large number of sacks, and with sand, he could quickly build a sack earthen wall half a meter wide and one meter five high.
It's not that Yun Mo doesn't want to build the sack earthen wall higher, but the average height of people at this time is only about 1.5 meters, in order to facilitate everyone to put crossbow arrows behind the sack earthen wall, the sack earthen wall can only be built so high.
If the war horse charges, it should be able to cross a height of one meter and five, even if the war horse can't cross, the impact of a war horse can easily break down the sack earthen wall.
Yun Mo was not helpless as a crosser, he asked the soldiers who were camped to only take sand in front of the sack earthen wall to fill the sack, and after the sack earthen wall was built, a trench with a width of one meter and a half meter deep would be formed in front of the sack earthen wall, which invisibly increased the height of the sack earthen wall.
It is no longer possible for the charging war horse to cross the sack earthen wall, but the sack earthen wall still can't withstand the impact of the war horse, so it is extremely important to block the sneaking enemy army fifty meters away from the sack earthen wall.
Tonight the sky was not beautiful, the sky was dark, there was not a trace of moonlight, and even the stars shyly hid in the clouds.
After the sack was built, Yun Mo sent some soldiers to the poplar forest to cut some wood back, and then lit a bonfire a hundred meters in front of the sack earthen wall, and a bonfire was built every hundred meters.
In this way, if someone wants to take advantage of the dark moon and high wind to steal the camp, it will never be possible. In Yun Mo's opinion, it is impossible to be too careful, because it is only less than half a day away from Qingfeng Village, and the golden eagles hovering in the sky during the day are the reasons why Yun Mo is cautious.
"There must be demons when it is abnormal." On duty at night, Yun Mo arranged double guards, and all the people who did not stand guard slept with weapons in their arms.
When the camp was completed, Yun Mo squinted in his tent for a while, and when it was completely dark, he got up to patrol the camp, tonight was the most critical time, negligence, the horse thieves were the masters here, they could only be regarded as outsiders who were not familiar with everything here.
Whether the bed crossbow has been placed, whether the vehicle-mounted catapult is placed in the combat position, whether the horse-drawn carriage is not parked next to the vehicle-mounted catapult, whether the sentry is on the post, Yun Mo has carefully inspected, once the problem is found, it will be rectified immediately, and there is no room for the slightest delay and slackness.
After several months of training, it was not in vain, these more than 1,000 Han soldiers, there is no problem in camping and defense, whether these soldiers can withstand the test of actual combat, Yun Mo has no bottom in his heart, I hope that the bed crossbow and earth-shaking thunder can give these recruits the courage to defeat the enemy.
If Yun Mo had enough veterans of actual combat in his hands, he would not be willing to bring these recruits to the battlefield, but he didn't. Gaochang is in chaos, this is the time of the stormy meeting, the time is not waiting for anyone, if Yun Mo wants to make a difference in the Western Regions, he must take these recruits to take this difficult step.
Two o'clock in the morning is when people are most tired and sleep deepest, and Halim chose that time for the sneak attack.
In order to get close to Yunmo's camp without knowing it, the horse thieves tied the hooves of all the war horses with thick fur, and the horses also had locks on their mouths, and people led the horses forward early.
Trained war horses, marching in such conditions, do not make any sound.
Halim's plan was perfect, but the reality was that when the horse thieves sneaked up three or four miles outside the camp, they found that there was a bonfire around the enemy camp.
Halim couldn't help but curse:
"Holy shit, this enemy commander really doesn't let Lao Tzu worry."
More than 100 bonfires were like a string of shining pearls in the night, illuminating the entire camp around, and in such a situation, it was impossible to quietly approach the camp.
Abandoning the camp means that the enemy army must be under the Qingfeng Village, and where to conduct urban offensive and defensive battles.
If it is advantageous to defend the city, Halim will definitely choose to hold out, but Qingfeng Village only has a three- or four-high earthen fence, and such a city defense can only be regarded as better than nothing in front of the enemy army with bed crossbows and catapults.
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