Chapter Seventy-Five: Disaster Strikes
―― After Sun Xiaozhe led his troops to leave Luoyang, he marched westward along the valley water, gathering men and horses along the way, and it was not until near Kip Stone Fort that 150,000 people were collected.
After the whole army was assembled, he divided the 150,000 men into three armies, the front, the middle, and the rear, led by himself, Tian Qianzhen, and Ling Guchao. However, he never dreamed that when he led the front army out of Kip Stone Fort, he would encounter trouble hundreds of miles away from Shaanxi County.
It was the first night out of Kip Stone Fort, and after camping, Sun Xiaozhe summoned the generals to discuss the military situation. Because he was not close to Shaanxi County, and there were not many military affairs to arrange, after simply giving the task and purpose of tomorrow's march, he ordered the generals to disperse, and Sun Xiaozhe himself went back to the big tent to sleep.
However, he did not go to sleep immediately when he returned to the big tent, he was an energetic man, and extremely lustful. After conquering Luoyang, An Lushan rewarded him with many women, and from then on, he was indispensable to be accompanied by women every night, even during war. If there is no woman to sleep one day, and the energy is not vented, the next day there will be no energy, and after the military meeting, he will hurry back to the woman's belly to fight.
After marching more than 70 miles in a day, the soldiers were quite tired, and they only had much time, and the whole camp was full of snoring.
Even the sergeants who watched the night yawned.
Just when most of the rebel soldiers were asleep in the middle of the night, no one knew when a group of mysterious figures were sneaking in the camp. There were several teams of these mysterious figures, each of which numbered about two dozen people, dressed in the same costumes as the rebel sergeants. In the infiltration camp, cooperate with each other to sneak in the camp. Secretly moved near the camp where Sun Xiaozhe lived.
Sun Xiaozhe's tent was located in the easterly direction of the camp, and there was a distance of dozens of steps between the other tents. The interval between this distance was full of patrolling sergeants, and no one was allowed to approach without Sun Xiaozhe's order.
However, these people who lurked into the camp did not pay attention to these, and they used all kinds of support to slowly approach Sun Xiaozhe's big tent.
Sun Xiaozhe's patrol around the big tent was very intensive, and after sneaking up to his big tent quietly, this group of mysterious figures immediately lurked, waiting for an opportunity to get close to the big tent.
They didn't make any noise, and they were very secretive. And they communicate with each other not with their voices, but with some gestures.
One group of sergeants patrolled by, and the other team followed immediately after a few moments. After carefully observing for a while, these mysterious figures lurking close to Sun Hyo-cheol's tent figured out the pattern of patrolling, and after exchanging gesture signals, they immediately prepared to start today's planned operation.
A group of sergeants patrolled over, and before the latter group of sergeants approached, two people who were lurking suddenly made a move and jumped a few times. Without making any movement, he crouched near the big tent. Just as they had just lowered down and hidden, the latter group of sergeants had already patrolled closer. Fortunately, their actions were not detected. But everyone was shocked into a cold sweat.
It was also these people who were hiding, and after the patrolling rebel sergeant passed, there was a sudden movement from the other direction. Someone seems to be sneaking closer. The sergeants on patrol were immediately alert, and several groups of men and horses shouted and shouted in unison.
It was after the rebel sergeants on patrol had all gone in the other direction. The team of more than 20 people who were lurking immediately got up and lit the fire. Then he used the fire fold to ignite the other thing in his hand. As the rope in the hands of his companion burned, several sergeants who had just lurked near the big tent also jumped up, cut the tarpaulin of the big tent with the daggers in their hands, and pulled them open to both sides.
Just as they tore open the tarpaulin, the lit objects in the hands of their companions were thrown into the tent with very rapid movements, and after dozens of items with gunpowder were thrown into the tent, they also immediately retreated, fleeing quickly in a different direction from where they came. The two people who sneaked up to the tent also immediately rolled away, escaped from Sun Xiaozhe's tent, and chased after their companions.
Their movements had already alarmed the patrolling sergeants, and two groups of men and horses shouted in pursuit, but those who rushed in front were immediately shot off their horses by the crossbows in the hands of the mysterious group, but the sergeants in the back continued to shout and charge.
But just as the sergeant on patrol was shouting and rushing over, an earth-shattering explosion was heard from inside the tent. The horse on which the patrol sergeant rode was startled by the loud explosion, and began to neigh, not paying attention to his master's command. The whole camp was alarmed, and countless sergeants who had been awakened from their sleep did not know what was happening, and ran out of the tents in a panic and became a mess.
Some of them were rout soldiers who had fled back from Shaanxi County, and they had heard the explosion of explosives, a sound they would never forget, and they would dream of it when they dreamed, and today this familiar sound came, although it was not very loud in their ears, but it still made their hearts beat.
But something even more frightening ensued, and the fire burned on the other side of the camp, where the grain and grass were piled up, and the fire soon burned so brightly that it turned half the sky red.
The camp was even more chaotic, crying dad and mother for help, desperately shouting for the sergeants to put out the fire, and shouting that the Tang army was attacking the camp, all kinds of voices were intertwined, and it was extremely lively.
And the mysterious people who sneaked into the camp to attack, taking advantage of the chaos everywhere in the rebel camp, calmly retreated and escaped from this Longtan tiger's den.
There were also all kinds of screams from Sun Xiaozhe's big tent, from the men's howls of pain to the continuous screams and painful moans of the women.
Sun Xiaozhe's personal guards also reacted quickly, and when the explosion in the big tent sounded and the fire ignited, they immediately rushed into the tent, smoking smoke while putting out the fire and saving people.
They also soon carried the coach Sun Xiaozhe out of the tent.
Sun Xiaozhe, who was carried out naked by the guards, kept moaning in pain at that time, and scolding at the same time.
is really lucky, Sun Xiaozhe was not killed, but was seriously injured, and even the second child of the Sun family in his lower body seemed to be injured.
Today, when Sun Xiaozhe went back to sleep, he let the two women sleep, and after several fierce battles, the two women hugged him to sleep on the left and right. It was the company of these two women that allowed him to escape. Although the explosion of those improvised grenades thrown into the big tent injured him, it was not fatal, and the shock wave of the explosion was shared by the two women beside him. The woman who slept in the direction of the attack blocked most of the force of the explosion for him, and the woman was injured on the spot, and the other woman was also slightly injured.
Sun Xiaozhe, of course, was terrified, and when the explosion occurred, he was still frightened and his soul did not possess his body, and when he was carried out, he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time, he just moaned instinctively, and kept scolding, and he didn't think of any countermeasures to take, or make a decision to guard against and search for the attacker, and he didn't even react when his subordinates came to report that the grain and grass were burned.
Not only Sun Xiaozhe's big tent was attacked, but Tian Qianzhen and Ling Guchao's big tent were also attacked, but Tian Qianzhen was lucky, he was not injured because there was a case of obstruction on the side of the marching bed, but he was frightened.
And Ling Guchao was very unlucky, three simple grenades happened to be thrown on the marching couch where he slept, killing him on the spot.
150,000 rebels were in disarray immediately after the attack.