By the middle of October, it was already winter. It was night, there was no rain or wind, the sky was dark, only a few thin clouds, through which the moonlight shone like to cover the dark earth with a layer of white gauze.

The area is mostly flat, close to Onozawa, with the occasional small hill in between, which is not conducive to defense but good for attack.

In the moonlight, there were countless black shadows bent down against the ground and walked out, and they did not walk and erected a simple sentry post, and painted the road with an open fire and a cane. Instead, it emerged from the side knolls, sparse trees, and cold, soft grass, as if water spirits had emerged from the darkness. Hundreds of people carried swords, spears and other weapons in their hands, as well as flint and other ignition tools, and had dead branches in their mouths.

These people are the elite soldiers under the thieves, and there are many difficulties in night attacks, and it is easy to get separated when marching at night, and it is not easy to distinguish between friend and foe, it is not easy to command, and it is inconvenient to communicate. Out of a total of six or seven thousand bandits, only the thieves' own soldiers could do this.

They took advantage of the darkness to rush to the barracks of warriors a few miles away, where there were many tents made of leather and cloth, and in the moonlight they looked like hundreds of white mushrooms had grown on the field.

"The general said that if the precautions are not very strict, you can set fire to it, and together with the signal, the general will bring everyone to cover up and kill this man in one fell swoop!"

Thinking about the ten years of experience in the thieves, the soldiers must have been extremely tired from the time they drove to Lucheng until the battle of Zhongdu for more than ten days, and they also experienced several fierce battles. Now there are too many makeshift conscripts and miscellaneous soldiers from other towns, and the barracks should be very poorly arranged.

This is the norm of camping in the Spring and Autumn Period, although Sima Fa and other military books specifically talk about the need to camp in them. But it's not so easy to implement. Otherwise, Hua Yuan would not have run into the Chu army camp so easily. Directly stood beside Sima Zi's bed.

However, after getting closer, the leading bandit "Brigade Marshal" was dumbfounded. Because the camp in front of you can no longer be called a camp, but a wooden wall!

The camp of the warriors was extremely stable, and the entire irregular line of the camp was surrounded by wooden stakes more than one person high, and the gap was walled by chariots. In order to prevent a surprise attack by a possible enemy, towering watchtowers were set up in several angular protrusions, and tents and fences were separated by about dozens of paces, leaving room for assembly, and inside were a forest of tents.

From a distance, sentries with torches patrolled the inside and outside of the camp. The thieves avoided it, and hurriedly lowered their bodies.

"The camp is so close, I can't find a chance to steal the camp......"

The brigade commander who came to spy on the night attack was stunned for a while, and could only beckon everyone to evacuate, but when he left, he happened to bump into another patrol soldier.

"Whoosh!" In the darkness of the night, a sharp short spear, I don't know if it was luck or the spear thrower's amazing skill, actually hit a blow from twenty or thirty paces, and nailed a young thief to the ground. Ignited the beginning of this night battle!

The other party seemed to have already discovered them, and in the night, countless people with small shields and short spears shouted and killed them, and immediately fought together after contact.

The robbers wanted to attack at night. But he was caught off guard, and retreated while resisting, only to find that there were not many people on the other side after a while.

"The other party is less than a hundred. Surround them up, crush them, and evacuate! ”

However, what made the "brigade commander" puzzled was that there was no formation. Night battles without rules and regulations are what they are good at. Who knows that the other party seems to be more proficient in this way.

Whether it is the skill of fighting or the ruthlessness of desperately, the robbers are far inferior!

At the same time, not far away, the entire camp had been alarmed, but there was no confusion that the thieves were expecting, and the soldiers were orderly out of the camp tents under the call of the military officials, and marched out of the camp to defend themselves against the enemy.

"You can't fight anymore, evacuate, disperse and evacuate!"

The result of this late-night chaotic battle was naturally the complete defeat of the campers who stole the chickens and rice. When I returned to the place where the 4,000 bandit army was densely ambushed a few miles away, and counted the number of people, I found that there were two hundred people missing, and the brigade commander was so distressed that these were all old brothers for many years!

How did he know that Fang Cai was participating in regular military training and was trained by Zhao Wuxian's special forces on the spot.

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"It's me who underestimated Zhao Wuxian, he is worthy of being a good use of soldiers, Sima Fayun, camped in the mountains and forests and wilderness areas, and used timber to form a fence called Huluochai Camp, although the march was tiring, but he did it in a proper manner, and he was worthy of a strong army that could defeat the people of Xiaqiuqi...... He has done enough to take precautions, and we have no chance to take advantage of it! ”

The thief, who was standing on the hillock and looked into the distance, sighed regretfully when he learned the result.

According to the prediction of the thief, this time the civil strife in Lu, Yang Hu and Sanhuan will most likely lose both, and the fire will not be finished in half a month, and it will even be chaotic until next year.

But Zhao Wuxian, the son of Jin Qing, his actions in Song and Cao, his adventures in Zhencheng and Xiaqiu, and some of his actions after entering Lu all made the thief a little worried.

He fought Yuncheng to defeat the east in order to sound the west, cut off the road for Zhao Wuxian's forces to advance eastward, and hit the capital to block the road to the north, and by the way, let the dissatisfied Lou go to the top tank and be the big boss. And his real goal has always been Kan Cheng, which has the temples and mausoleums of the nine ancestors of the Lu Kingdom, which is tantamount to a huge treasure trove!

thought that the plan was foolproof, but who expected that the soldiers would enter the civil strife in Lucheng, but the accident caused made the thief's abacus fail. It had only been a few days since the siege of the city, and only half of the tunnels into the city had been dug before Zhao Wuxian defeated the Zhongdu bandits, and looked at him with malice dozens of miles to the north.

was targeted by such an opponent, and the thief suddenly felt like a man's back,

When Zhao Wuxian was in Zhongdu, he was always paying close attention to the movements of the thieves in Kancheng. The thief was also paying attention to his actions at all times, he responded quickly, and even had the idea of sending troops north and attacking Zhao Wuxian by surprise.

After waiting for a day on the road with 4,000 people, the thief felt that something was wrong, and Zhao Wuxian did not rush south, but let the soldiers rest without hurry. Waiting for reinforcements, a division of people was gathered before it was opened.

Then he walked cautiously along the road. The outpost was twenty or thirty miles away, and the knights were extremely sensitive. Hundreds of armored apprentices followed, and several robber ambushes along the way were found and wiped out.

is decent, but there is no way to speak, this is the most uncomfortable way to play for thieves. His plan to ambush the marching soldiers failed again, so he wanted to risk leading his army to attack at night. Unexpectedly, it was like biting a turtle covered in carapace, not only did it not eat the meat, but it also knocked out a mouth full of good teeth.

But he still has a backhand, if Zhao Wuxian's whole army pursues overnight now, then the thief may be able to counterattack with his familiarity with the road terrain. Divide and break up each other, and break them all!

However, looking at the posture of the opposite side of the camp in an orderly manner to find the enemy, but the main force refused to go too far, the thieves could only grit their teeth in hatred and ordered the robbers to evacuate quickly and cancel this failed night attack.

Who said that Zhao Wuxian is reckless in battle and loves to take risks!?

"General, do we want to speed up?"

"Not necessarily. According to the general foot, many of us can not see clearly at night, so we can only walk with a rope, if the front army is too fast. By daybreak, I don't know how much the rear army will be scattered. ”

"But there's a fire dragon chasing over there......"

The thief was overjoyed, and looked back, only to find that it was only a small army. Extremely fast, presumably a light knight. It's really wealthy, and I'm not afraid of losing good horses at night.

He was disappointed: "This is Zhao Wuxian's strategy. I used to think that he was a risk-taking and enterprising person, but after this time, I realized that he is a person who makes good use of the situation and likes the combination of right and strange! Just let the rear army be careful. ”

Now, the thief can be seen that Zhao Wuxian, like him, is an opportunist who can't afford to make a profit! He didn't feel sorry for each other in his heart, only a feeling of irritability and powerlessness.

Whether you want to admit it or not, he was defeated in today's first battle.

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Zhao Wuxian's camp is indeed very tightly kept, this is the craft he learned from Post Wuzheng and Yang Tongue Rong, and Ran Qiu is also good at this, so he created this fence that makes thieves have a toothache.

The place where the warriors camped was thirty miles away from Kancheng to the south, and twenty miles away from the Onozawa Shuibo to the west, the perennial lake was soaked in water, and it was faintly softer than the land near Zhongdu when stepped on.

The neatly arranged Ge Ma fur tent can accommodate five people, that is, one Wu is one tent, and the two tents are adjacent to each other, taking care of each other. Then the 100 people and ten tents were a self-contained small camp, and there were small ditches dug between the tents as firebreaks, all of which were wound into an oval formation to guard the big tent of Zhao Wuxian in the middle.

The big tent was brightly lit, and after hearing the report of Tian Ben's soldiers, who fought with the robbers at night outside, killed and injured more than 100 enemies, and Yu Xi, who led the cavalry to follow and snoop, and cut off dozens of left ears, Zhao Wuxian was also full of regret like the thief.

"If all the people of the first division are soldiers, I want to lay a trap to lure the thieves into the depths, and then ambush them all. However, there are still more than 1,000 miscellaneous soldiers in the battalion, and if you are not careful, it will be self-defeating, resulting in a night howl to bomb the camp, so you can only take strict precautions. ”

These people can be strong and protective, but they can also hold back.

Therefore, this matter cannot be risked, but can only be stabilized. Zhao Wuxian and Ran Qiu discussed that the way to prevent the enemy's night attack was to "take the guard as a solid and the slack as defeat", set up a strict vigilance, send sentries in front of the position, stipulate the password in advance, and be ready for battle at any time.

When the enemy comes to attack, they will withdraw when they see that they are well guarded. At this time, the enemy is "exhausted" and is an excellent time to carry out a defensive counterattack, so it is possible to send elite troops to "attack it at any time".

When pursuing the enemy, one should be cautious and avoid being ambushed by the enemy. In this case, the troops should be divided into three parts, followed behind the enemy, and before reaching the enemy's ambush area, the three parts should attack at the same time, and the enemy can be defeated.

Theoretically, this is the case, but the problem is that this is a night when you can't see the road clearly, although Zhao Wuxian sent a scout horse to check the terrain in advance, how can he compare with the group of thieves who have lived in this area for half his life? Do you know that there is no second ambush for the thieves?

Too much greed will outweigh the losses, not to mention, his strategic goal this time is not to annihilate the thieves, but to break the siege, and all wars revolve around political purposes......

At this moment, looking at the east that was gradually revealing the white of the fish's belly, Zhao Wuxian secretly thought: "I heard that Liu Xiajiao is a smart person, I hope he can also see this, we are not enemies, Lu Guo is like an elk with broken limbs, a feast for a group of crows, me and him are just birds for their own benefit, why bother?" ”

Zhao Wuxian's idea was considered from a strategic level, and it would even slack morale when he said it, so it was not disseminated to the military officials. They only need to consider tactical issues at this stage, so Tian Ben, Yu Xi and the others feel that tonight's contact is just a small test, and the real battle will start tomorrow!

At least, among the mid-level military officials of the military guards, inspired by a series of victories, there was already a culture of "rejoicing when they heard the battle".

However, their ambition was poured cold water on the face by the actions of the thief the next day. (To be continued......)

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