Chapter 103: Breaking the Camp
The vision under the moonlight was hazy, and Brother Guan walked in quickly, turning his head from time to time to stare at the bright light of the flag captain's bright helmet, and the detachment in front of him had turned into a jumping and undulating point of light.
They were 300 paces away from the edge of the Liukou camp, and the detachment was sixty or seventy paces in front of the brigade.
The Mandarin Duck Formation on both flanks each had sixteen battle groups, and eight battle groups in each of them, under the guidance of the special service team, carried out a rapid joint attack on the position of the old camp of Zijin Liang from both flanks. The same task is the detachment in the middle road, their pace is getting faster and faster, Dengzhou Town is divided into two formations in front and back, only the large formation of the Ming army in the middle road still maintains a fast march,
Brother Guan turned his head to look at the two wings, on both sides were countless surging soldiers and spear shafts, the reflection of the bright helmet spread all the way to the end of the darkness, looking at it from Zhou Shao'er's point of view, as if there were thousands of troops.
There was an exclamation in front, followed by a few loud bangs, and an exclamation stopped abruptly, and Brother Guan knew that it was the special service team that opened the way that was shooting the remaining ambush army, and the further forward it was, the more it would be.
Soon a few scattered rogues jumped up from the nest, they threw away their weapons and fled in the direction of the camp, these people were ambush soldiers, but they didn't even bring the alarm arrows, only by constantly shouting to warn.
The detachment leader took control of the group, not letting the soldiers shoot at the sparse rogues, but continued to run after them, and the spearhead was the special service and the sentry cavalry, who began to shoot the rogues that appeared nearby with bows and arrows and crossbows. There was a continuous shouting ahead, and some of the detachment soldiers began to leave their ranks to assassinate the fleeing ambush troops nearby.
Some figures vaguely appeared by the fire at the edge of the camp, and Brother Guan clenched his gun tightly......
A few people walked around the camp, and one after another got up, and the low sound of conversation signaled that a new day was about to arrive. These were the first to rise up were the families of Liukou Dingzhuang, and their formation was according to a team of fifty dings. These Ding Zhuang's families also belong to this team, with a total of nearly two hundred people, usually led by one or two Lao Kou.
The families of the displaced people got up early and added wood to the fires that were about to be extinguished, so that they could cook food for the horsemen and the old man before dawn. A homeless man with a bucket yawned and walked slowly out of the edge of the camp to fetch water, and in a flash, he noticed that something seemed to be moving in the distance, and it was a long one.
"What is it?" The homeless muttered that he had night blindness. Rubbing his eyes, it seems to be some light. But he never imagined that an official army would come from the mountains to sneak attack, nor did he imagine that the armor would look like this at night, and he was confused for a while.
"Which battalion leader got up so early?" The homeless man said to the old Kou in the nest next to him, "Master Jiang." There is a battalion head who is earlier than us, so he may go to grab firewood. ”
The old man had just woken up, holding a multigrain cake and biting it, lying listlessly in the nest, although he lit a fire to attract insects, but he was still bitten enough last night, and he scratched a lot of red bars all over his body. At this time, I didn't look at it when I heard it. Turn over and sleep again.
The homeless man flattened his mouth, grabbed a bucket and was about to go to the pond to fetch water, when suddenly there was a shout from the north, and he was far from hearing what it was. Then there were two bangs, and there was a faint call, and the old man in the nest suddenly turned over and stood up, and he jumped out of the nest and pushed the homeless away. Lao Kou was experienced, although the sound just now was not noticeable in the cacophony of the camp. But when he heard it, he knew it was the sound of the bowstring vibrating,
Lao Kou took the multigrain cake and looked north, the scene in front of him made him dumbfounded, a long line composed of countless silver points of light kept undulating, and was coming towards the camp.
The homeless man got up and picked up the bucket, and asked flatteringly, "Master Jiang, what's over there?" Could it be that the evil spirits in the mountains have come out? ”
"Yes, there is ......" The old man didn't say it for a long time, and the homeless people next to him looked at the old man with a smile, and the old man shouted violently: "There are officers and soldiers!! ”
"Officers and soldiers?" Lao Kou shouted loudly, the people next to him stopped, and several people in the nest were also awakened, looking up with sleepy eyes, and the families of the homeless people who were busy around also walked to the edge of the camp to see what was going on.
At this time, the long line of dense bright spots was within two hundred paces, and the moonlight reflected by the sharp spear blade and bayonet was faintly visible. The people who come at this time are not who the officials and soldiers will be.
A group of people stood there looking at Lao Kou, they didn't have any training, they just followed the big camp, and now suddenly someone told them that the officers and soldiers were rushing in front of them, and no one knew what to do.
The old man was stunned for a moment, and said as he stepped back: "Give it to our old man, take your stick up, and no one is allowed to run." After he finished speaking, no one moved, they all looked at him stupidly, the bright spots over there ran faster and faster, and there was a loud sound in the distance, Lao Kou didn't have time to threaten these people, and suddenly turned around and ran.
A group of homeless people looked at it for a moment, and suddenly they all howled loudly, threw down the pots and buckets and sticks in their hands, and ran to the back in a frenzy, screaming "the officers and soldiers are coming" while running, the homeless people along the road are unknown, I heard that the officials and soldiers were coming, and when they saw someone fleeing, they all got up and ran with them, and some people who were still sleeping woke up and couldn't react for a while, and when they got up, they saw the panic scene in front of them, and they didn't know what to do, and ran around behind others. The northern edge of the camp was in chaos.
A moment later, the light reached the edge of the camp, the first group of Ming army figures appeared in the firelight, like mandrills flashing from the darkness, rows of sharp bayonets shining in the light of the firelight, the detachment quickly rushed into the camp, fiercely assassinated the displaced people in front of them, the screams continued to sound, the north of the camp was noisy, and the first wave of chaotic ripples appeared in the calm camp......
The 400 musketeers of the detachment and the soldiers of the 1,000th headquarters began a fierce centripetal assault, like a quick knife cutting butter into the huge Liukou camp, and the Ming army did not shoot with muskets for the time being, in order to delay Zijinliang's escape as much as possible.
The untrained homeless people panicked at the sudden blow, many woke up from their sleep, scurrying around like headless flies, their panic exacerbated by the screams that filled the darkness, and many suffered from night blindness. In a panic, they crashed directly into the Ming army's advance route, and then were stabbed to death by several bayonets. The chaos spread in the direction of Dengzhou's attack, and the chaotic screams converged into a loud howl.
The mandarin duck formations on both flanks each split into a bureau to attack outward, expanding the chaotic range to both flanks to cover the weak flanks of the front. The soldiers of the central detachment, each in a small line, rushed into the camp of the rogues, killing the homeless people in front of them with their bayonets, ignoring the families who were running around. Rushing towards the interior of the Liukou camp, about a hundred paces behind them was the large formation of the Ming army advancing rapidly.
In the large array of eight phalanxes, a dense sound of footsteps, mixed with the sound of rattling chain mail, poured into the camp like mercury.
The position of the second general thousand is a military horn. Zhou Shao'er and the deputy company commander at the same time pulled out their waist knives and pointed straight ahead, while giving a loud order, the flag captains pointed forward, and the spearmen in the front row put the spears flat in unison.
Brother Guan walked around a fire with his spear. They had just entered the camp of the rogues, and in front of them were the figures of the detachment flashing among the fires, and in front of them were countless rogues, and the shouts in front of them were earth-shattering. The ground was a mess, littered with countless thrown objects and corpses, and people in the queue were tripping.
Brother Guan was engrossed in identifying obstacles on the ground by the moonlight. More than ten paces ahead, a group of homeless people suddenly burst out, and they howled and rushed straight over. Brother Guan didn't know if they had weapons or not, so he shouted at the same time as the spearmen next to him, stabbing at the black shadows, and there was a scream on the other side, and after a while, the remnants fled south into the darkness.
That inexplicable feeling of excitement came to his heart again, and the sharp secretion of adrenaline made Brother Guan feel like he wanted to charge, but he could still remember the military discipline, he suppressed the impulse in his heart, and the corner of his eye paid attention to the position of the bright light of the flag captain's helmet, maintaining a fast pace of advancement.
The more you enter the camp of the Liukou, the more homeless people appear in front of you, the spearmen continue to kill the black shadows that appear in front of them, and some screams sound like women, but Brother Guan has no time to sympathize, as long as there is no clear helmet, it is the enemy.
A shack appeared in front of it, and there was a black hole in it, and the flag captain gave an order, and more than a dozen spearmen in the front row continued to stab inside, and after hearing a few screams, they went around the shack and continued to advance, still without using musketeers to fire a volley. The phalanx was constantly distorted by the camp's shacks, and could only maintain a base and advance quickly. The arc-shaped Ming army front drove all the rogue in front to the center, forcing them to attack the position of the old camp of Zijin Liang.
At this time, the entire camp of the rogues shook, and tens of thousands of rogues in the north fled in it, and the chaos had spread to the middle of the camp, and countless sleeping rogues were awakened by the howls of the earth, and in the darkness they didn't know what the situation was, and they couldn't even understand the direction, so they began to run around naked for no reason.
At this moment the first trumpet sounded on the left flank, and the sharp sound of the horn spread far into the night sky, followed by a volley of muskets. This meant that the left flank encountered the first wave of strong resistance and needed a fire blow from muskets to crush the enemy forces.
After this round of musket salvo, there was no need to hide in Dengzhou Town, the drums and trumpets of the Ming army front sounded in unison, and the whole line began to fire salvos one after another, and the dense gun flames reflected the night sky with pieces of red light, which was very dazzling in the darkness before dawn.
The nerves of the displaced people completely collapsed in the thunderous gunfire, this is a night attack that could not be more clear, the sudden blow, coupled with the fear of not being able to see the object intensified, everyone began to scream hysterically and flee for their lives, in the collective panic, the people who could still keep calm at the beginning were also surrounded by the panicked atmosphere, and became overwhelmed, most of the thousands of infantry troops were scattered and camped, most of them lost their weapons, and they didn't even have time to put on their clothes, they were wrapped up and scattered by tens of thousands of wanderers, and they could not exert their combat power at all.
The sound of gunfire gradually approached the center of the Zijinliang camp, and the chaos spread from the camp of Zijinliang to the camps of other rogues, the huge camp area was like a boiling cauldron, and tens of thousands of rogue bandits were like panicked ants, bumping everywhere without knowing the direction, the dense crowd pushed each other, countless people were knocked to the ground, and then trampled by the crowd, hundreds of horses were also frightened by the crowd, they rushed left and right in the camp and trampled indiscriminately, and the whole camp shouted and neighed, like a dark hell.
Chen Xin was wearing a suit of chain mail, and he had just entered the camp at this time, and next to him was the reserve of the Chinese army led by Zhu Daichun. Chen Xin followed the direction of the Chinese army's assault, and the guards guarded him carefully.
Chen Xin followed the road for a night, his weekday exercise is far inferior to these soldiers, since becoming the chief soldier, there are more and more things to deal with every day, not to mention training, even the time for fitness is less, this trip is tired enough, at this time to continue to move forward.
The ground in front of him was full of corpses and debris, several shacks were burning nearby, and many wounded rogues were wailing on the ground, and Zhu Daichun's reserve team ignored them and only assassinated the wounded on the route.
Hearing the earth-shattering cries of the Liukou camp, Wang Mafu said excitedly: "Won the battle." ”
Chen Xin shook his head and smiled: "Since we successfully reached the north of the camp, we have won this battle, but if we don't get the head of Zijin Liang, we won't really win." I'm still worried that he will run away, has the cavalry liaison returned? ”
"Nope." Wang Mafu was still full of confidence and said: "Bucktooth said at that time that Zijinliang camped generally to dig a trench, in the center of the whole camp, now the camp is in chaos, their horsemen can't run out, he can't walk us, he may not dare to run alone, he may be trampled to death when he comes out, for us, the only thing is that the trench is troublesome." ”
"No hassle." Chen Xin looked at the corpses all over the ground and said lightly, "The camp is in chaos like this, these homeless people are enough to fill the trench." I'm still worried about him running away, so it's up to us when our cavalry arrives. ”
At this time, a herald ran back from the front, and he said breathlessly: "My lord, the detachment in the front has discovered the camp wall of the old camp of Zijinliang, and the soldiers on both flanks are encircling it to the south, and they will attack immediately." ”
"Got it, let them send troops to maintain the pressure on the periphery, exacerbate the momentum of the collapse of the Liukou, so that the other battalions can't come to help, and the horsemen of Zijinliang can't escape quickly, our attack on the old camp of Zijinliang must be swift and powerful, don't worry about casualties, and do our best to solve the old camp in the middle before dawn." After Chen Xin finished speaking, he turned his head to look at the east, and a white fish belly was appearing in the sky.
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