Chapter 287: Burning Grain
The night is deep, and the stars and moon are in the sky.
The cavalry, like ghosts, hurried forward in the darkness.
Gan Ning glanced back at the direction of the east, and saw the direction of the wild king, the fire was soaring into the sky, shining like day.
The sound of horses' hooves could not hide the sound of shouting and killing that faintly poured into the eardrums, and Gan Ning knew that a fierce bloody battle was going on on the front line of the wild king for more than ten miles.
More than two hours ago, Liu Beijun, who pretended to withdraw his troops and return to the west, suddenly launched a surprise attack on the main army on the front line of Yewang from three directions: north, south, and central. Among them, the number of enemy troops who directly attacked the Chinese army camp where the general Liu Feng was located reached as many as 30,000.
Gan Ning on the Wild King City clearly witnessed the fierce confrontation.
Immediately, he and his 4,000 cavalry received a secret order from Liu Feng to act according to the plan.
Gan Ning did not dare to delay for a moment, and immediately led 4,000 cavalry out of the city, marched lightly, bypassed the frontal battlefield of the warring sides from the north, and penetrated directly into the rear of Liu Bei's defense line under the cover of night.
More than two hours have passed, and at this moment it is only more than 20 miles away from the enemy's Shimen grain camp.
If it was placed in peacetime, it would be difficult for Gan Ning's lightly armed cavalry to bypass Liu Beijun's ears and eyes so easily and intersperse behind enemy lines.
It was precisely today that Liu Bei devoted all his energy and all his troops to this night's night attack, and in his opinion, this was a surprise attack that Liu Feng was not prepared against.
It was Liu Bei's ambition to win, but it created a loophole for Gan Ning to plan and calculate.
The horse's hooves galloped, but when he was interrogated by Liu Beijun's rangers along the way, Gan Ning either lied that his army had been deceived or directly besieged and killed the interrogated enemy.
When the sky was dark, the four thousand cavalry finally saw the shadow of the grain camp.
On the bank of Qinshui, the camps that stretch for miles are faintly visible, and the granaries like mountains stand abruptly in the camp.
As expected, the enemy forces defending the camp were unprepared.
The gate was not closed, and the antlers around the camp were not densely arranged, and from a distance, except for the sporadic patrols roaming around the camp, there was no sign of a great enemy.
Gan Ning's eyes flashed with a hideous killing intent , he didn't hesitate for a moment, shouted violently, and slapped his horse to kill the enemy camp.
Four thousand light horsemen, like a black, muddy tide, poured out.
The four hooves of the war horse have been wrapped in cloth, and although the four hooves are galloping, the vibration caused by them is far less loud than usual.
It wasn't until the 4,000 cavalry had reached the camp more than 100 paces that the enemy guards who were on duty and patrolling noticed the abnormality from the tremors under their feet.
Suddenly, when his gaze swept away, countless murderous ghosts had rushed out of the darkness.
The sound of the golden drum was raised, and the sleeping soldiers were all startled, and before they had time to put on their clothes and armor, they were reprimanded by the officers and driven out of the camp.
Thousands of enemy soldiers went straight to the edge of the camp, the scene was extremely hasty, and before they could form a defensive formation, hundreds of vanguard enemy horsemen had broken through the camp and entered.
Gan Ning took the lead, the blade passed over, and the enemy soldiers who were not in line were ruthlessly put down, and a large number of cavalry behind him, breaking through the antlers, or holding torches high, or brandishing weapons, roared into the Shimen grain camp.
Four thousand light cavalry, divided into three lanes, attacked the enemy camp from the northeast, east and south at the same time, with the speed of the cavalry, and the cover of the night, they successfully took the enemy by surprise.
Thousands of Liu Bei's soldiers were either beheaded or scattered, and Gan Ning, who had successfully raided the army, ordered his soldiers to set fire to them, and in the granaries, the mountains of grain and grass were all burned.
When the sky was bright, the entire Shimen grain camp had turned into a sea of fire.
#####ιηδΈηΊΏ, Liu Bei was commanding his army and launching a fierce attack on the southern army camp.
He was facing Liu Feng's large camp of the Chinese army, with a trench dug a little deep outside the camp and four antlers, which was the strongest of all enemy camps.
Liu Bei launched a strong attack on this strong camp from the front with 30,000 elite soldiers, including 10,000 fresh troops newly transferred from Guanzhong to the front.
These 10,000 soldiers and horses are all warriors newly recruited from Xiliang, and after nearly a year of training by Kong Ming, their combat effectiveness is by no means inferior to Liu Bei's elite soldiers in a hundred battles.
Moreover, the original armies of the two sides have been in a stalemate on the front line of the Yewang for a long time, and the soldiers are already tired, and the soldiers and horses who have just participated are enough to be called the strongest in the entire battlefield.
However, what made Liu Bei anxious was that although his high-spirited warriors launched the most fierce attack on the enemy camp, the effect was not satisfactory.
The attack lasted for half the night, and the quadruple antlers on the outskirts of the enemy camp were only broken twice, and his soldiers were still braving the rain of arrows in the sky, struggling to chop the remaining double antlers, and the arrows in the enemy camp seemed to show no signs of weakening at all.
Not only here in the middle of the road, according to the battle reports that came back one after another, the rest of the raiding troops also encountered the stubborn resistance of the enemy at the first time, and none of them could achieve the effect of a successful raid.
It seems that the enemy's side has long been prepared for its night attack plan.
The sky gradually brightened, and once the sky was bright and the field of vision was opened, the lethality of the enemy's bows and crossbows would be greatly increased, and at that time, it would also mean the failure of this night attack on all fronts.
At this time, a horse came galloping, it was the third brother Zhang Fei.
"The whole army is in your hands, why can't you break the camp at this time!" Liu Bei was a little angry, and shouted to Zhang Fei in a reprimanding tone.
Zhang Fei came galloping at this time, originally planning to complain to Liu Bei about the stubbornness of the enemy and want to ask for more soldiers and horses, but he was scolded by Liu Bei like this, and he suddenly felt disgraced.
Under the shame, anger suddenly appeared in his heart, so he raised his snake spear and shouted: "Big brother, don't worry, if I don't break through the enemy camp within an hour, my name Zhang Fei will be written backwards." β
With that, he only arched his hand and sped away with his horse.
Returning to his own position, Zhang Fei led the elite of 3,000 Chinese troops to the best of his ability and personally joined the battle group attacking the camp.
The handsome flag of the word "Zhang" on that side galloped from the rear to the front line like the wind, and the military flag hunted and hunted, and it could be seen for several miles.
The handsome flag represents the location of the main general, and as soon as the soldiers saw the flag, they realized that General Zhang Fei had come to the front line.
In this way, the morale of all the officers and men was greatly encouraged, and under the encouragement of fighting spirit, the offensive became more and more fierce.
At this time, in the camp of the Southern Army, Liu Feng was standing on horseback, quietly watching the confrontation between the two armies on the front line of the camp gate.
Liu Beijun's offensive was indeed beyond his imagination.
Since the confrontation in Yizhou, Liu Feng has not had a head-to-head confrontation with Liu Bei for many years, and before he marched into Hanoi, his impression of Liu Beijun was only stuck in the battle for Shuzhong.
Unexpectedly, since Liu Bei captured Yongliang, the number of troops has not only expanded in a short period of time, but its combat effectiveness has also risen to a higher level than before.
Zhuge Liang's set of training methods really has its own uniqueness.
Now that the third antlers have been broken and the enemy has broken through the camp, it seems that a life-and-death hand-to-hand battle is no longer inevitable.
"Bring me my gun."
Liu Feng stretched out his hand, and the left and right pro-soldiers presented his heavy spear, he clenched the heavy silver spear, tightened his armor, and was ready for a bloody battle.
The sky is getting brighter, the fourth antler has been broken, and the enemy soldiers who are becoming more and more brave are following the banner of "Zhang" and marching forward.
At this moment, a treacherous sneer appeared on Liu Feng's face.
In the star-bright eyes, there was a faint flickering fire.
To the west of this battlefield, at the end of the sky, the light of wolf smoke and fire was rising into the sky.
Liu Feng knew that it was Gan Ning's surprise attack army that succeeded in burning grain.
Seeing this signal, Liu Feng raised his silver gun high and shouted: "The whole army, attack!" β
The drumbeat of the attack rumbled, and the banner of the Chinese army was pointed directly at the enemy outside the camp.
The Southern Army, which was originally on the defensive side, saw the signal to attack, and more than 20,000 soldiers immediately boiled with enthusiasm, and they all rushed to break out of the camp without waiting for the enemy to attack.
At this time, the enemy outside the camp was attacking wildly, but he did not expect that the enemy, who had been struggling to defend it, suddenly left the camp and took the initiative to launch a counterattack.
Although Zhang Fei felt surprised, the enemy's counterattack seemed to him to be nothing more than a dying struggle, which was exactly what he wanted, so he waved his army to cover the kill, and more than 30,000 elites swept up like wolves and tigers.
More than 50,000 soldiers on both sides fought together on the front line of the Chinese army's camp, and at this time, Liu Feng had an idea, and ordered hundreds of pro-soldiers to shout loudly in unison: "The enemy's grain has been burned out, and Liu Bei has been defeated and fled." β
Although the number of these hundreds of people is not large, they are rhythmic at the same time, holding their voices and speaking in unison, like a muffled thunder, which suddenly overshadows the noise of the entire battlefield, regardless of the methods of the enemy and our soldiers, everyone has heard of it.
On the battlefield, the means of disturbing the morale of the enemy army in this way are not new, and Liu Bei's subordinates are not idiots, so they will naturally not be fooled so easily.
However, when they heard the enemy's shouts like this, they instinctively couldn't help but look in the direction of their own army's grain camp.
It didn't matter what they saw, what they saw was fireworks rising into the sky in the northwest direction.
Although they could not see clearly where the fire in the rear was taking place, it did not matter, the important thing was that they all knew that the direction of the grain camp was to the northwest.
The morale of the army was in chaos in an instant.
Panic, like a plague, spread rapidly throughout the army.
Soon, not only the center side, but also the troops attacking the other battalions saw the fire on the north-west side.
The originally high fighting spirit was shaken in a blink of an eye.
Seeing that the enemy's fighting spirit was depressed, Liu Feng immediately made a decision and ordered all battalions to attack on all fronts and launch the deadliest counterattack against the enemy.
Liu Feng himself, on the Prancing Horse, carried a gun, and personally led thousands of Chinese troops to join the battlefield.
The situation on the battlefield has been reversed, and seeing that his side is at a disadvantage, Liu Bei at this moment can't help but be greatly surprised.
When he heard the cries of the enemy troops, he couldn't help but look back.
When Liu Bei saw the raging fire in the northwest, his entire old face instantly turned as white as paper.
(To be continued)