Chapter 43: The Raid on the Camp (Part I)

Wang Ansheng leaned forward on the horse's back, patted the horse's neck lovingly, and put his mouth next to the horse's ears

"Old man, bear with me, we'll be there soon, and I'll feed you bean cakes when we get to the place."

Wang Ansheng's beloved horse seemed to understand his words, his ears trembled, and he tilted his head and rubbed Wang Ansheng's hand on his neck, as if to say to him

"Don't worry, sisters, I can still hold on."

Wang Ansheng's voice was very low, but it was still heard by the Wu Commander beside him.

Wu Chang turned his head and glared at Wang Ansheng viciously, raised his index finger in front of his mouth, and then made a knife slashing motion with his hand.

Wang Ansheng didn't dare to speak, just as the commander of the army 'said', marching silently at night, talking casually is a big crime to kill the head.

Wang Ansheng honestly closed his mouth, followed closely behind his teammates in front of him, and rode slowly in the night.

I don't know when I'll be able to go home and herd the horses... Wang Ansheng lamented in his heart, he was just a herdsman in Xiangyin Village, he had never thought of going into battle to fight before, but he didn't expect that now he would not only have to fight, but also go to fight hundreds of miles away from home, and he couldn't help but feel a little resistant.

There are still many soldiers like Wang Ansheng in the ranks, and the army that Pan Xiaogu hastily established still has many problems to solve.

I don't know how long later, Wang Ansheng saw a shadow running in the direction of the team, the shadow came to the captain's side, while marching side by side with the captain, leaning into the captain's ear and saying something, after finishing speaking, he turned the horse's head and continued to run towards the back of the team, followed by several other teams of cavalry.

When the man passed by Wang Ansheng's side, he glanced at it by the moonlight and recognized it as the lord's personal soldier, and guessed in his heart that this person should have come to give orders.

After the man left, the captain raised the military flag in his hand and danced back and forth above his head, which was the flag that ordered him to stop advancing and dismount to trim.

The team began to slow down slowly, and soon stopped, and everyone jumped off their horses, and all the leaders hurried to the captain's side as soon as they got off their horses, and after a while they ran back to their teams of ten, and gave orders one by one.

"Trim for an hour, don't make a sound!"

After a night of driving, he could finally rest, and the first thing Wang Ansheng did after receiving the order was not to rest by himself, but to take care of his war horse.

Because of the military order, he did not dare to untie the saddle of his beloved horse, but only took a pocket from the horse's back, took out the dry cake inside, and fed it to the war horse.

These dry cakes were sent out before departure, and were made from a mixture of wheat bran, bean dregs, hay and a small amount of spiritual grass, as a ration to replenish the strength of the military horses during the war.

Seeing that the horse devoured a whole cake and drank some water, Wang Ansheng took out his water bag and dry food, and ate it with satisfaction, his dry food was mixed with Linggu, which was also present before departure, and after the cold boiled the water and went down the abdomen, Wang Ansheng felt that there was a warm current from the viscera and flowed to the whole body, clearing the fatigue caused by the overnight journey.

While Wang Ansheng and the other ordinary soldiers were repairing, the captains of each team gathered around Pan Xiaogu again.

"We are now located about five miles east of the camp, and there is still an hour and a half before dawn, so we are now making the final deployment."

Along the way, Pan Xiaogu worked with a few personal soldiers to perfect the attack plan.

"The army is divided into four groups, the first to the fifth cavalry team is the right wing cluster, which is responsible for attacking the north side of the camp, the temporary command is Pan Hu, and the fifth team of personal soldiers is responsible for guiding the direction of the attack in front; The 6th to 10th cavalry teams are the left flank clusters, responsible for attacking the south side of the camp, commanding Pan Xiaohe, and the fourth team of personal soldiers is responsible for guiding in front; The 11th to 18th cavalry teams were used as the middle army, attacking the main camp of the Turks from the middle road, commanding Lu Dingbang, and guiding the three teams of personal soldiers; The other teams are in reserve, under my personal command! "Lu Dingbang is the captain of the sentry cavalry who performed well before

"An hour later the attack shall be launched, with the two wings going first, and all men shall march forward on foot, and shall mount their horses a mile from the camp, and shall not shout for death before rushing into the camp."

"The teams are lined up in turn, and when attacking, they should be divided into teams, and the left and right flanks will mainly create chaos, and the Chinese army will attack the middle of the camp to find and eliminate the head of the Turkic battalion."

"The main point of the attack is fast, and the Turks cannot be allowed to organize resistance, and if the Turks are found to have signs of assembly, they will immediately concentrate on the assault and disperse them..."

"Don't set fire to the camp after entering it, there are too many clutter in the camp, and once the fire is lit, you may trap yourself..."

Pan Xiaogu repeatedly told these captains the details he thought of, and he didn't stop until his throat was dry

"Do you remember them all?"

All the officers nodded in unison, and Pan Xiaogu turned his head with satisfaction and looked at the people in Zhichong Mansion

"Captain Cheng, I'm sorry for you to bring two government soldiers to support the right wing, the Lu team is you leading people to support the left wing, and the middle army of Captain Yang will ask you."

For the people of Zhechong Mansion, Pan Xiaogu's attitude was much more polite.

Cheng Yun: "Don't worry about leaving it to my brother." ”

Ruda: "The Sprinkle family has been waiting impatiently for a long time. ”

Yang Wenxing: "The old man must protect the integrity of the Chinese army. ”

The three leaders of the Zhichong Mansion have expressed their stance one after another, and this high-paid warrior can be regarded as done.

With these guards covering, the attack will go a little smoother.

"Remember, the key to this battle is to make the Turks chaotic, the more chaotic they are, the fewer casualties we will have, and we must do everything possible to make them chaotic."

Pan Xiaogu finally admonished again.

Time passed quietly in Pan Xiaogu's restlessness, and soon it was time for the attack to be launched.

The first to set out were the pro-soldiers who were responsible for guiding the direction of the attack, who marched on foot in straggler lines, most of whom were skilled in shooting, armed with bows and arrows and heavy crossbows, and were responsible for clearing the offensive route in advance of the sentinels and traps, and destroying the improvised fences that might exist outside the large Turkic camps.

A quarter of an hour after the departure of the own soldiers, the cavalry also began to move, and they were assembled in units of hundreds, the two hundreds were separated by about ten meters, and the eighteen hundreds were staggered into two rows, and the line was exactly the width of the battalion.

The cavalry front slowly advanced towards the Turkic camp, because the two wings moved ahead of the Chinese army, and the whole formation turned into a huge crescent moon, like a large open mouth, ready to swallow the Turkic camp in one gulp.

Wang Ansheng led his beloved horse to walk in the procession, in front of which was the camp of the Turks, at this time it was the darkest hour before dawn, and the sparks in the camp could be seen from two miles away, which was the light from the campfire that had burned all night.

Wang Ansheng was very nervous, just like when he first went to the battlefield before, and the people around him were the same, he saw Lao Xu, who was walking on the left, constantly fiddling with the knife at his waist, as if he could draw courage from the knife by doing so.

By the way, these knives were captured from the Turks in the last battle, and Wang Ansheng also caught a Turk with a sleeve pole at that time.

It's easier than catching a horse. Wang Ansheng thought of the scene of himself trapping the Turks, and muttered in his heart.

Thinking about it like this, Wang Ansheng suddenly became less afraid.