Chapter 39: Night Attack

The weather is getting warmer as the early spring approaches, but in the middle of the night, there is still a chill in the air that has not yet dissipated. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Han Yu, who failed to block it, rushed to the city as soon as possible, and watched from a distance as Zhang Tanghuai led hundreds of cavalry, taking advantage of the night to gallop out of the city, and quickly rushed towards the Kou army camp.

This plan is very bold, although Han Yu knows that the Kou army buries the pot in the evening, in order to prepare for the general attack at midnight, most of the Kou army must rest and wait for the moment of the decisive battle to come, it can be said that now is indeed the time when the Kou army is the most slack, maybe it can really create a miracle, but Han Yu's blocking of Zhang Tanghuai is not about the night attack, but the sword and gun have no eyes, and no one can guarantee the return unscathed.

It's just that Zhang Tanghuai has a stubborn personality, and the decision is that the eight-headed horse can't be pulled back, so Han Yu can only let it go.

Han Yu immediately found Zhen Xing and ordered the soldiers defending the city to increase or decrease the number of torches at the head of the city, so as to attract the attention of the Kou army guards, but it is a pity that the garrison Zhu Guozheng lost all the Fengyang cavalry, otherwise Zhang Tanghuai would not have to take a hundred horsemen pitifully, there is no assumption in this world, at present, there is only so much Han Yu can do, whether he can return safely or not, everything depends on Zhang Tanghuai's creation.

The night was vast, and Zhang Tanghuai, who rushed out of Fengyang City, took the lead and led a hundred horsemen to advance quickly.

But then again, the advantage of fewer people and fewer people, the movement caused by more than 100 horses is not big, and before going out of the city, Zhang Tanghuai personally ordered, horse bits, hooves wrapped in cloth, and those who made a sound for no reason were immediately beheaded, and more than 100 horses followed closely and left, and soon approached the Kou army camp, seeing that the Kou army camp was in front of him, Zhang Tanghuai's eyes became resolute, and he took out the horseback longbow and pulled the bow without hesitation to shoot arrows.

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In front of the Kou camp, more than 30 Kou soldiers with swords in their hands stood or sat horizontally, many of them dozing off against the bushes.

"There's going on over there!" A lean sentry with a spear suddenly became vigilant and whispered to his sleepy-eyed companion beside him.

With a snap of his mouth, the left side of the warning guard's face suddenly swollen.

A sturdy man with a blunt axe threatened viciously, "If you dare to disturb Lao Tzu's dream again, I will directly chop you with a knife!" "This big man is a small boss with his brother-in-law, and he is not weak, he has always been arrogant and domineering, the sentry guard is full of grief and anger, but he dares to be angry and dare not speak, but think about it, the Ming army has already been beaten out of breath by the continuous attacks of the Kou army, and the sudden attack in the evening this evening almost took Fengyang City.

At the beginning, the 1,000 cavalry led by Zhu Guozheng of Fengyang garrison was indeed a huge threat, but because the lone army went deep, it was led into a depression full of traps and annihilated.

"The third master is not strange, not strange!" The lean sentry hurriedly confessed to the sturdy man, and sat abruptly on the side in the unscrupulous ridicule of several sentries, he secretly regretted offending the third master, presumably the movement in the distance just now, he must have heard it wrong.

"No, what kind of movement is this!" The third master, who had been woken up earlier, suddenly turned over and looked vigilantly into the darkness.

"Uhhhhhh

With a low muffled snort, the whistling arrow instantly pierced his throat, and before the big man who was known as the third master could react, the blood on his neck spurted out a cloud of blood, and he lost his breath in an instant, and the corpse fell straight backwards.

Seeing that the third master who had just slapped his mouth was shot and died, the lean sentry's heart inexplicably produced a trace of happiness, but he was soon filled with endless fear, judging from this sudden sneak attack, the previous movement must have been the Ming army, he didn't have time to think about whether the Ming army was crazy, and shouted loudly at the top of his voice, "The Ming army is coming, the enemy...!" ”

Before the words fell, an arrow pierced into the chest, and the thin sentry only felt a heart-rending colic, and his knees fell to the ground weakly, and in his constricted pupils, he looked at the Ming cavalry who rushed to the front in a daze, raised his sword without mercy, and killed the Kou troops on both sides.

"Remember, light the tent as much as you can, chant slogans, gather together, and don't get separated!" Zhang Tanghuai, who slowed down slightly, looked around at the surrounding cavalry and said loudly, "Brothers, follow me into the enemy formation and strike first, kill!" After Zhang Tanghuai finished speaking, he took the lead with a war knife in his hand, wielding his blade with all his might, and suddenly killed a few Kou soldiers who heard the movement outside and came out of the camp tent to find out, and the war horses moved forward with the help of impact, with the sound of broken bones, many Kou soldiers were knocked out of the distance by the oncoming war horses, and fell heavily to the ground and did not know whether they were alive or dead.

The Ming troops on both sides casually threw torches on top of the tents, and for a while the flames filled the air, and thick smoke billowed up.

Before many Kou troops understood what was going on, they were burned alive by the flames that quickly took off, and a group of Ming cavalry followed Zhang Tanghuai to the left and right, while lighting the fire, they kept shouting loudly: "Tens of thousands of Ming troops are coming, they can't stop it, Zhang Dashuai is dead, King Chuang is seriously injured, and General Li Chuang is missing..."

Such slogans quickly spread in the darkness, and the Kou army, who were terrified by the sudden attack, fled in all directions, trampled on and killed an unknown number of people, and even took advantage of the chaotic situation to rob the property of their colleagues who had already coveted it.

The camp was in chaos, filled with screams and screams.

In this dark night, the Kou army didn't know how many Ming troops came, and they didn't know whether Gao Yingxiang and others were really killed, there were corpses of their companions everywhere, the flames were soaring, and the scorching waves of air continued to sweep in, and many of them escaped by luck, and the already frightened Kou Jun didn't even have time to wear clothes, naked, and fled into the distance with the strength of breastfeeding, and many people secretly hated why they didn't have two more legs.

Zhang Tanghuai led more than 100 cavalry to rush all the way to kill, along the way to ignite, kill, shout slogans, the attack went smoothly and even far beyond expectations, until the king Gao Yingxiang led three hundred cavalry to kill, seeing that Zhang Tanghuai, who had enough of this, immediately decisively led his troops to retreat towards Fengyang City, rushed out of the camp of the Kou army, and retreated all the way to Fengyang City, many Ming troops on horses were still unable to hide their excitement, this battle was too enjoyable, and finally took a bad breath, although it is not clear how many Kou troops were killed all the way with Zhang Qian's horse, But judging from the blades of the curly blades and the blood-spattered war horses, the results are bound to be brilliant.

Zhang Tanghuai probably counted, the night attack was fighting, and more than 30 of his subordinates failed to rush out, and what made him a little regretful was that if the 1,000 cavalry were still there, I am afraid that this night attack could completely defeat the Kou army, but it was a big profit to survive, there was nothing to complain about, looking at the Kou army camp with raging fire and thick smoke in the distance, Zhang Tanghuai suddenly laughed.

Gao Yingxiang led the cavalry to pursue Zhang Tanghuai all the way, until he was full of resentful eyes, helplessly watched the Ming army calmly enter the city, he could no longer pursue, originally wanted to take advantage of the night to attack, but carelessly was attacked by the Ming army first, this sneak attack on the Kou army suffered heavy casualties, morale plummeted, it was not easy to regather the soldiers who fled from the rout, let alone continue to attack the city, who would have thought that the cavalry was lost, and the Ming army who was struggling to hold the city dared to lead a hundred cavalry to attack at night.

Gao Yingxiang sighed slightly, and when he pulled the reins and patted the horse back, he glanced at Fengyang City with a towering city wall with a lonely expression, and he remembered a name, "Zhang Tanghuai, the commander of the Fengyang battalion!" After this battle, the Kou army paid an extremely heavy price, almost all the strength was used, the three battalions combined with one army, with more than 100,000 troops, but still failed to break through Fengyang City, which was only a few thousand defenders, Gao Yingxiang had decided to withdraw his troops, and if he continued to consume it, he would only wait for the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court reinforcements, and he even regretted that he should not have cooperated with Zhang Xianzhong in the first place.