Chapter 120: Night Ambush
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The location that Li Yanzhao pointed to was an unnamed valley more than ten miles north of Didao City.
This valley is rugged and difficult to navigate, and after penetrating into the valley mouth, the widest point between the two mountains is only a hundred steps. It's a godsend, perfect ambush place. Li Yanzhao chose this ambush site and used more than 40 elite cavalry soldiers from Liangzhou to deal with more than a dozen people in this area, precisely in an effort to completely annihilate this group of men and horses and prevent a single person from escaping.
Li Yanzhao was now desperate to seek an understanding of the enemy's situation through the interrogation of the enemy's prisoners. After all, his current status class is completely incapable of forming an intelligence network that he can control. However, the fake hand in Xin Fei made him unable to rest assured.
Therefore, the only way to obtain first-hand information about the enemy is through interrogation by the enemy's generals. Li Yanzhao made a slight arrangement, and then ordered Shao Lei to lead twenty cavalry to go out of the valley in advance to ambush, and Wu Bin, the commander, led seven cavalry selected by his subordinates to continue to advance with the sentry cavalry in front, engage the enemy sentry cavalry, and lure the enemy into the valley.
And Li Yanzhao himself led the remaining dozen cavalry to ambush in a dense forest on the north side of the entrance of the valley, and once all the enemy cavalry chased into the valley, he led these dozen cavalry to block the valley mouth, so as to encircle and annihilate the enemy sentry cavalry.
Seeing that all the seven horsemen led by Wu Bin had disappeared into the deep night, Li Yanzhao ordered the dozen or so horsemen he was now bringing to enter the dense forest as soon as possible, leaving only one person at the edge of the forest to monitor Wu Bin's movements. Another horseman, at Li Yanzhao's orders, abandoned his horse and climbed to the top of the hill on the north side of the valley mouth, and then took out a bamboo whistle to signal that he was in position.
Ambush warfare is one of the most challenging ways for a general to plan and organize. All units need to work closely together and be in place on time in order to block the enemy's escape and launch a devastating blow to the enemy. Although Li Yanzhao still has little experience in war, his experience of reading military books and careful thinking have helped him complete this series of plans.
Although "Sun Tzu's Army Controversy" Zeng Yun: "Siege the teacher is gone." "To the effect that in order to surround the enemy, we must leave an exit, and the encirclement is missing one, so as not to trap the enemy in the encirclement and cause heavy losses to the soldiers besieging on our side.
However, this time, with several times the enemy's forces, and forcing the enemy into a desperate position, his soldiers have developed the quality of an elite division after these years of hard training. Therefore, Li Yanzhao was almost determined to completely annihilate this small group of enemy cavalry.
Moreover, for this enemy sentry cavalry, they had to be intercepted in full. In case a few escaped, Shi Wu would definitely be alert to a possible threat from Liangzhou. Whether it is to lead the troops to wander, or to stick to Didao and Sangcheng, it is definitely not a good thing for today's Liangzhou.
Therefore, after the arrangement was completed, Li Yanzhao led his troops to hide in the forest, staring nervously at the possible situation ahead. Around him, the soldiers who scattered around him either climbed the tree to guard it, or tied their horses to the trees, and took out the dry and hard cakes and fried soybeans from the dry food bag to satisfy their hunger, or went to find some tender green branches and leaves, and fed the horses with the bean cakes taken out of the bag, so that the war horses could recover a certain amount of strength.
Nowadays, these cavalry soldiers have relatively rich experience in going on expeditions, after all, crossing the river to the sentinel cavalry operation of the Longxi territory has almost become the normal task of the Guangwu cavalry. Even the recruits who only joined the army early last year know what to do at this time. The horsemen who rested in the woods occasionally whispered to each other or closed their eyes, and never made any noise that would alert the enemy.
After lurking for half an hour, Li Yanzhao found that the guard soldiers on the edge of the forest not far from him suddenly lay down, put their ears on the ground, and then listened attentively for a while, then got up and ran towards him, and he didn't care about wiping off the dirt and dust on his ears, and when he arrived in front of Li Yanzhao, he clenched his fists and knocked on the ground and said: "Report to a hundred generals, I only heard the sound of horses' hooves below, about twenty or so rides, less than two miles away from me." โ
Li Yanzhao stretched out his hand and gently brushed away the dust from his ears for the soldier, and then turned his head and whispered to the soldiers resting in the forest: "All of them, check the weapons, get on the horse, and prepare to attack!" โ
Hearing Li Yanzhao's angry shouting, the cavalry put down their chores one after another and began to check their weapons and armor. With the occasional clattering sound of the collision of the armor leaves, the dozen or so horsemen here have all mounted their horses, and they are looking excitedly and slightly nervously in the direction of the hundred generals, waiting for him to give the next order.
The waiting time was very short, not even half an hour, and several horses and more than a dozen horses had already rushed into the valley. It wasn't until their slightly sparse sound of horses' hooves gradually moved away to the valley that Li Yanzhao ordered: "All of them, attack!" โโโ
With Li Yanzhao's order, Peng Ze, another commander of Shao Lei's subordinates who followed him to ambush here, blew the bamboo whistle in his mouth, on the one hand, to convey to his subordinate cavalry scattered in the forest, and on the other hand, to convey the signal of attack to the cavalry stationed on the top of the mountain.
Sure enough, not long after Peng Ze's bamboo whistle dissipated, there was also a whining bamboo whistle from the top of the mountain. Seeing that the cavalry on the top of the mountain, who served as an observation post and a herald and signal soldier, understood his side's intentions, Li Yanzhao put his mind at ease, and immediately drew his sword out of its sheath, pointed the tip of the knife obliquely into the valley, and said, "Brothers, follow me!" โ
After that, Li Yanzhao didn't wait for the left and right horsemen to respond, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and the horse had already neighed and rushed into the valley.
Seeing that the hundred people would not agree with each other, they personally took the lead in the charge, and the soldiers on the side were still the slightest fear at this time, and they all shouted and followed the hundred people to rush to the valley. A general who has done everything himself may not be a good general, but his behavior of not being timid in the face of battle and taking the lead in the charge is undoubtedly a great inspiration to his soldiers. So that they all forgot their fears at this time, and only knew to follow the person in front of them and rush to the unknown fate.
Seeing that the cavalry led by the hundreds of people rushed into the mouth of the valley, on the top of the mountain, a ball of fire suddenly appeared, which was particularly dazzling in this slightly noisy and quiet night.
The fire was the signal from the signalman on the top of the hill. With the flash of this fire, Wu Bin's subordinate cavalry, who had fled into the valley in a panic, were not as flustered as Fang Cai at this time. They galloped for dozens of paces, and it was not until a flash of fire appeared more than twenty paces ahead that they gradually slowed down.
The light of the fire made two circles in the air, then deflected, pointing to the right. It was to signal Wu Bin's subordinate cavalry to turn to the valley and go around to the right. Wu Bin followed the order, flicked his horse's head, and led his subordinate cavalry to the right.
However, at this time, more than thirty steps away from the rear, with a shout of nonsense, there were several sounds of breaking the air in the air, and then there was a muffled snort at the firelight, and it had fallen to the ground.
Shao Lei was beside him when he saw a wave of arrows fired by the opponent's sentry horse, and shot down his own soldiers who raised their fire. The torch used as a signal has also fallen to the ground. In order to prevent the enemy from firing arrows again according to the instructions of the firelight, Shao Lei quickly ordered more than 20 of his men to retreat quickly, and he himself stepped forward quickly, stepped on the torch, and then carried the soldier who fell to the ground with the arrow on his shoulder, and ran to the rear.
At this time, the more than 20 people who were responsible for intercepting them had already concentrated their horses in the rear, each holding a bow and arrow, and drawing a bow and ready to fire. Hearing the order of Shao Team, they got up one after another, and retreated to the rear in an orderly manner. Just after Shao Lei picked up the injured soldier and ran out of more than ten steps, there was a sound of arrows breaking through the air behind him, all of which shot to the left of the place where the fire torch had just been extinguished, and listening to the muffled sound of the arrows entering the ground, Shao Lei couldn't help but rejoice.
The horsemen took a dozen steps back, then turned in the direction of Fang Cai, and continued to draw their bows. Their expressions were solemn, and fine beads of sweat appeared on the foreheads of many people.
Shao Leifang retreated into the formation and put the wounded soldier down, and the sergeant in the formation withdrew his bow and arrow, and came to carry the wounded soldier to the rear, ready to be treated later. The wounded soldier was still snorting in pain, apparently fine.
Shao Lei saw that the soldier was fine, so he strode back to the formation, also took out his bow and arrows, pointed a little in front of the place where he was standing, and drew his bow and prepared to fire. Listening to the sound of the horse's hooves getting closer and closer, Shao Lei's palms were also dripping with a lot of fine sweat.
The sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, mixed with all kinds of chattering nonsense. However, in the next moment, with the sound of "poof" and the sound of people and horses falling to the ground, those babbling nonsense came to an abrupt end. I don't know if I couldn't stop the horse, or what, then there were several pops, pops and falls to the ground.
This is the moment! Shao Lei's reason prompted him to shout out the second order of the enemy here: "Prepare!" Twenty-five steps in front of the target, three rounds of salvos, put! โ
With Shao Lei's order, after a rather tooth-squeaking squeak in the formation on his side, there was a neat "swish" sound. The arrows in the hands of these horsemen were carrying the message of death, and they were flying quickly towards the overwhelmed Hun sentinels in front.
In front of the place where Shao Lei and the others were standing, a temporary tripwire was set up made of several lassos. Hearing that the Hun sentinels who were chasing and killing fell to the ground one after another, Shao Lei would not let go of such a good opportunity, and in the blink of an eye, the three waves of arrows went down, and only the sound of "poof" arrows into the flesh could be heard, as well as some incomprehensible nonsense.
Faced with this situation, Shao Lei still didn't dare to be careless, he withdrew his bow and arrows, and then ordered to his side: "The front team, come forward with a knife, and the back team, get on the horse and prepare to pursue!" โ
When the soldiers heard Shao Lei's order, they all followed the order, and the front team stepped forward, withdrew the bow and arrow in their hands, and then pulled out the ring knife at their waist, and pressed towards the direction of the tripping horse rope step by step.
As the night was already dark, and the horsemen did not dare to raise fire, they pressed in the direction of the stumbling rope, smelling the thick smell of blood in the air, and listening to the humbling and shouting of the fallen Huren whistlers on the ground not far away, which they could not understand.
Even though they were still more than a dozen steps away, the despair conveyed in those shouts still unscrupulously drilled into everyone's ears, making everyone's hands holding knives can't help but clench a little tighter.
Just as the soldiers of the front team were moving forward step by step, pressing straight towards the Huns who had fallen to the ground, suddenly a few nonsense shouts came from the night.
Then the horsemen heard the sound of horses' hooves coming briskly in their direction. Before they could make a series of effective responses, a horse had already carried the knight on horseback, and rose up with the momentum of wind and thunder, and crossed the tripping rope that had tripped several Hun sentinels, and a spear had already penetrated into the chest of one of the horsemen with a cold light......