Chapter 36: Night Attack on the Thieves' Camp (2)
Although there were only 200 cavalry and nearly 2,000 foot soldiers, these people were exiles who were about to starve to death. When the www.biquge.info of the pen and the court abandoned them, it was Wu Yi and the Chen Liuwu clan behind him who gave them life-saving porridge and rice. The people of this era are very simple and simple, and whoever treats them well will remember that person's kindness for the rest of their lives. And since their own life was saved by Wu Yi, since Wu Yi needed their help at this moment, they would naturally use this life to help Wu Yi.
Of the more than 2,000 people, except for the two hundred elite cavalry of the Wu Clan, only half of the foot soldiers had complete full-body armor and iron weapons, and the other half were equipped with hurried leather armor or even cloth armor and sharpened bamboo spears.
But Wu Yi took Dian Wei and the two hundred cavalry to take the lead in the charge, and none of the two thousand foot soldiers hesitated, all of them followed Wu Yi's pace, and charged to the camp where tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops were stationed with a decisive mentality.
A pale lightning bolt tore through the veil of the night, and the Yellow Turban sergeant who was in charge of guarding the back door of the camp finally discovered Wu Yijun's surprise attack, but the short distance of five hundred meters was just a charge distance for the cavalry.
If the Yellow Turban Army placed heavy antlers at the entrance of the camp, it might still be able to create a little trouble for the more than 200 cavalry, but this group of Yellow Turban Army has always been a burning, killing and looting party since it became an army, and has never experienced a defensive battle, and secondly, among the leading generals, neither Bian Xi nor Du Yuan has excellent military talent, so they have never thought of placing antlers to prevent the cavalry from rushing to the camp.
The only obstacle standing in front of these two hundred cavalry was actually a few fires used by the Yellow Turban sergeants to keep warm! In a hurry, these Yellow Turban sergeants let out a terrible cry of 'enemy attack', and at the same time raised their swords and gathered at the entrance of the camp, thinking that with their few numbers and equipment, they could block the charge of the two hundred cavalry, and win time for the sleeping robes in the camp to counterattack.
The person in charge of commanding these two hundred cavalry was Cheng Xun, who was once in charge of guarding Wu Yi, and he was born in the border area, and when he saw the stupid actions of those Yellow Turban soldiers, he laughed and said: "Brothers, give these thieves a taste!" ”
The two hundred cavalrymen agreed one after another, and when they were still more than a hundred paces away from the Yellow Turban soldiers, they all balanced with their legs with superb horsemanship, and took off their bows and crossbows from their backs with their hands off the reins, and shot arrows with a scream of death.
Although there were only more than 200 arrows, for these Yellow Turban soldiers who gathered at the entrance of the camp because they were preparing to meet the cavalry charge with all their might, these powerful arrows were already regarded as the soul hooking talisman of the Lord of Yama.
"Kill!!" Cheng Xun and other cavalry put away the archers' crossbows, lifted their spears and horizontal knives, and swung their weapons at the ten or so Yellow Turban soldiers who were lucky enough to survive at the mouth of the camp with horsepower.
More than 2,000 foot soldiers followed by the cavalry also rushed into the Yellow Turban Army camp, and under the leadership of Wu Yi and Xu Shu, they were divided into two armies to attack the left and right camps of the Yellow Turban Army.
The soldiers of the rear battalion of the Yellow Turban Army, who were awakened by the screams of their companions, just rushed out of the camp tent with their eyes rubbed their eyes, and ran into Cheng Xun's more than 200 cavalry head-on. Many people were knocked away by the cavalry's horses before they could figure out what was happening, and some people tried to resist with weapons before they had time to put on their armor, but Cheng Xun, who knew that the cavalry paid the most attention to flexibility, did not entangle with them, and led his brothers to the deeper part of the camp to kill.
Watching the departure of the enemy cavalry, before those Yellow Turban soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, Wu Yijun's infantry rushed over in a simple battle formation, and the first to usher in was countless sharpened bamboo spears, the lethality of bamboo spears is not high, but the length is far beyond ordinary swords, and finally dodged the stabbing of bamboo spears, and a group of well-dressed foot soldiers rushed over with knives and spears, slashing and stabbing straight to kill these unarmored Yellow Turban sergeants.
Since Dian Wei took effect, Wu Yi got his medicinal bath recipe for refining his body, in fact, that medicinal bath is not a miracle medicine that can be reborn after washing, the biggest effect of this medicinal soup is to relieve muscle soreness after exercise and treat damaged muscles, but just this effect has also brought Wu Yi a lot of help. Originally, Wu Yi had back pain after exercising for at most one hour a day, but since he had the help of this medicinal soup, Wu Yi could still be energetic the next day after exercising for three hours a day. In just half a year, Wu Yi's foundation has been consolidated, and there is a master Dian Wei on the side to guide and teach, and the kung fu in his hands is no longer comparable to Yingchuan's himself back then.
Tonight is Wu Yi's first battle, originally his mother Tao was resolutely opposed to Wu Yi going into battle in person, but his father Wu Ke knew that the young eagle would never learn to soar under the protection of his parents, and all he could do was give Wu Yi the greatest support. War horse, he gave Wu Yi the blue-maned horse he bought from Dawan. Battle armor, he spent a lot of money to find a famous craftsman to create a set of silver leaf chain mail half a year ago. Even for weapons, he also prepared a hundred-forged steel sword for Wu Yi that sharpened iron like clay.
Riding a horse under his crotch, wearing strong armor and holding a sword in his hand, Wu Yi felt his blood boiling after leading the army into the enemy camp, and his whole body seemed to be gushing with infinite strength, waiting to be used on these Yellow Turban Army.
Helplessly, as the commander of the first army, he not only had more than 1,000 foot soldiers around him to block the enemy's counterattack, but also several family guards sent by Wu Ke to protect him throughout the process. Even if one or two Yellow Turban soldiers were lucky enough to escape the interception of these people, and there was a man named Dian Wei with a double halberd following Wu Yi as his last line of defense, no Yellow Turban Army could survive Dian Wei's hands, and naturally Wu Yi would not have a chance to let the sword in his hand taste the blood of the enemy.
"Fire these tents with fire oil, and Captain Zhang Chao in the city will come to fight the Yellow Turban thieves with us when he sees the fire." Seeing that he had no chance to kill the enemy, Wu Yi began to command the soldiers to light the camp tent and let the fire burn. This was a signal that he had already discussed with Zhang Chao, the captain in charge of commanding the remaining county soldiers in the city, before leaving the city, that once an enemy army attacked Chen Liucheng, he would sneak attack the enemy camp that night. When Zhang Chao saw the fire in the enemy camp, he needed to go out of the city and cooperate with him to flank the enemy army.
The tents of the Yellow Turban Army were very wet on a rainy night, but Wu Yi specially brought a lot of expensive fire oil, and with the help of this kind of ignition weapon, the fire burned rapidly against the dripping raindrops. Seeing the fire burning in the camp around him, the Yellow Turban soldiers who were still struggling to support suddenly panicked, and were attacked by the soldiers of the righteous army, and gradually some people began to drop their weapons and flee backwards.
After all, the shouting and killing sound of the back camp woke up the sleeping Bian Xi, and when Bian Xi hurriedly put on his clothes and armor and walked out of the big tent with a long knife, he found that his back camp had become a sea of fire!
Bian Xi grabbed a yellow turban colonel with a panicked look and asked loudly, "Who set fire to the back camp?" ”
"It's the army of the imperial court that has arrived! It was the officers and soldiers who set fire to the rear camp. ”
The Yellow Turban Colonel's answer shattered Bian Xi's last illusion, tonight was definitely not the chaos caused by the fire of his own people, it was the officials and soldiers of the imperial court who came over.