Chapter Ninety-Three: Burning the Black Mountain Army
The night in winter can no longer be described as cold as water, the end is a cold wind, fortunately, Liu Meng's martial arts are superb, his qi and blood are much stronger than ordinary people, so he doesn't feel too cold, and his soldiers are all elite soldiers, and it is not a big problem to wear thick clothes.
"My lord, the enemy camp is quiet, and there is not even a single soldier patrolling and keeping vigil." The Xuantie Wolf Rider, who was sent by Liu Meng to investigate the enemy's situation, reported.
It's easy to observe whether the enemy is lax at night, just see if there are torches in the battalion, and you can't patrol in the dark, right?
Liu Meng was quite pleased when he heard this, if he changed to another opponent, he might suspect that the enemy army was cheating, but the opponent at this time was the Montenegrin army, he really didn't think that there was any great power in the enemy army that could predict in advance that the army would come to attack at night, and pretended to be defenseless to attract himself.
Liu Meng's original plan was just to take advantage of the night to lead the army to charge and fight the Montenegrin army by surprise, even if there were some patrol soldiers, it didn't matter, most of the enemy troops were asleep, and it took time to get up and fight, he fought this time difference, not to kill too many enemy troops, as long as he frustrated the enemy's spirit, but the current situation made Liu Meng feel that there was an opportunity to expand the results of the battle, and he naturally would not let go of such an opportunity.
"The whole army continued to approach quietly, and when they entered the enemy camp, they set fire to their tents in all directions." Liu Meng ordered.
Under the leadership of Liu Meng, 10,000 soldiers approached the Montenegrin military camp lightly.
The Montenegrin sergeants all felt that the enemy army heard that their own army was coming, even if they did not abandon the city and escape, they should be nervous and retreat in the city, and it was impossible to take the initiative to attack, after all, there were 500,000 people in the army, and the weather outside was cold, and the warm marching tent made people even more sleepy, so these soldiers were all sleeping very deeply, and they could not detect the movement outside under Liu Mengjun's deliberate light movements.
After a while, Liu Meng's corporal was all ready.
"Ignition." Liu Meng ordered in a low voice.
After hearing Liu Meng's order, several halberd battalion soldiers around him used the things in their hands to ignite the tent next to him, this action was like a signal, and the rest of the soldiers all lit the tent nearby, and the raging fire rose for a while. Expelled the cold of winter.
The previous little leader was a little worried that Zhou Cang would find out that he was lazy and punish him, so he didn't fall asleep for too long, and he didn't sleep too deeply, although it was not enough to hear the slight footsteps outside the tent, but the heat wave at this time made him aware of it. I was just confused, but I didn't know what was going on for a while.
"Why did it suddenly get warmer?" The little leader muttered, opened his eyes, and looked around with a hazy sleepiness on his face.
"Fire, it's on fire. Hurry up. The light of the fire drove away the little leader's drowsiness, and he hurriedly shouted after getting up.
The shouting alarm alarmed the rest of the soldiers in the same tent, and one of them said with sleepiness: "Head, what are you shouting, huh?" I suddenly feel so much warmer, it's so comfortable. ”
The little leader rushed to the side of the little soldier in a few steps, kicked the other party fiercely, and said angrily: "You kid is still sleeping, there is a fire, get up quickly and notify everyone to put out the fire." ”
The little boss thought that it was accidentally caused by one of his own soldiers, after all, it was indeed easy to cause a fire in winter when the weather was dry and dry. I didn't think it would be arson.
The little soldier was sobered up by the kick, and the angry shouting of his own little leader made him understand the situation at this time, and he was frightened to death when he saw the flames rising in all directions, and hurriedly ran out of the tent to shout loudly.
But as soon as he ran out of the tent, he was shot in the chest by Liu Meng, and he was killed before he could shout, and the remaining soldiers and the little leader were also killed by the halberd battalion soldiers guarding outside as soon as they ran out of the tent.
This situation is not only in this place, some of the Montenegrin troops who are more sober and faster have just been killed by Liu Mengjun who was guarding outside as soon as they got out of the camp.
The flames were burning more and more, and Liu Meng saw that the fire had gradually lost control, so he ordered the whole army to withdraw from the Montenegrin army camp, after all, the thick clothes on his soldiers were also flammable, and they were not suitable for fighting in the fire at all.
The wind fuels the fire. The camp of the Montenegrin army was also disorderly, the tents were quite densely placed, and the fire continued to spread.
"Chief, it's not good. The camp ahead is on fire, and it is gradually burning towards us. At this time, the fire will reflect the dark night sky as if it were day, and these soldiers are not blind to see clearly, and hurriedly reported to Zhou Cang to know.
Zhou Cang was shocked when he heard this. Said angrily: "What are the night watchmen in front of him eating, how can the fire burn so strongly, quickly stop the people from putting out the fire." ”
Unfortunately, due to the winter season, the river has frozen, and it is quite difficult to get water, and the Montenegrin soldiers are not enough to extinguish the fire at this time with their clothes alone.
"Boss, the fire is too big to be extinguished." The corporal reported.
"It's all rubbish, move all the tents, and don't let the fire spread again." Zhou Cang ordered.
The Montenegrin sergeants moved the tents one after another, and soon a barrier was formed, and the fire lost its combustible materials and no longer spread, and continued to burn for a while before being extinguished.
The fire was extinguished, but the Montenegrin army also suffered heavy losses, at first the fire was small because the warning people were killed, so no one noticed it, and then the fire was out of control, and it did not give the later soldiers time to escape, and they were all buried in the fire.
"Chief, nearly 60,000 soldiers of our army were burned to death in this fire." The soldiers reported to Zhou Cang after counting the casualties.
After hearing this, Zhou Cang's chest continued to rise and fall, and he was angry.
"Can you find out what happened? I want to know why the fire happened and why the fire got out of control so much. Zhou Cang shouted angrily.
Although he claimed to be an army of 500,000 this time, the 200,000 bandits from all walks of life were not directly under his command, they were all behind Zhou Cang all the way, so the 60,000 people lost this time were all Black Mountain sergeants, equivalent to one-fifth of his own army, this is his team, how can he not be angry.
"This, the leader is angry, no one in the front army survived, and the small ones can't be found." The soldier was frightened by Zhou Cang's performance and knelt on the ground and bowed.
Because of the fire, all the corpses were burned, and the soldiers who were killed by Liu Mengjun were also turned into ashes, and these soldiers naturally couldn't find anything.
"Waste, give me an order to the whole army, and if there is any slackness, it will not be spared." Zhou Cang said angrily.
Since he couldn't find out the reason, Zhou Cang naturally guessed that it must be the laxity of the night vigil soldiers of the self-army that caused the fire, and what kind of temperament his soldiers were, but Zhou Cang knew very well.
Liu Meng was leading the army at this time, returning triumphantly, looking at the killing intent value that had risen by more than 200,000, he only felt that the pressure in his heart had been greatly reduced, and he did not have the slightest unbearable heart, Liu Meng understood that there could be no woman's kindness on the battlefield, if he was defeated, where would so many people in Hedong be attached? (To be continued.) )