Chapter 67: Night Attack
Sun Ce took Sun Ben and Sun Sheng to leave his camp, and the three brothers were full of confidence and wanted to make a great contribution tonight.
If you want to talk about such a thing as a night attack, ordinary people will not do it, mainly because this work is too risky and not completely certain. Moreover, people in ancient times had night blindness, and at night they were no different from blind people. But at this time, Sun Ce was young and frivolous, and his bravery was abnormal, so he naturally had the mentality of being a master of art, and the other two brothers were also rookies, and they had not experienced any major battles, and their minds were full of desire for meritorious service, and they were full of thoughts about being an invincible general. To put it simply, the three brothers are all young and brainless.
Two thousand men and horses trotted all the way to the other party's camp.
Along the way, they did not encounter local rangers, sentinels or anything, and the three brothers naively thought that their sneak attack was unexpected, and the enemy was unprepared.
Soon arrived at a place three or four miles away from the other party's camp, the other party still didn't feel anything, and the three brothers felt excitedly that they had great merit in their hands and became famous. Of course, the three brothers are not completely stunned, this march is wrapped in horseshoe cloth, and the movement is very small, almost imperceptible.
When I was more than a mile away from the local camp, that is, about 500 meters away from the local camp, I suddenly saw a big wooden sign on the ground in front of me, and looked carefully at what it read: Beware of the trap ahead!
Sun Ce was amused when he saw it, and the surname Dong was really interesting.
At this time, the older Sun Ben felt that something was wrong, so he said to Sun Ce: "Bo Fu, I'm afraid there is fraud ahead?" ”
Sun Ce raised his eyebrows and asked rhetorically: "How can you see it?" ”
Sun Ben continued: "The wooden sign here appeared for no reason, reminding me that there is a trap ahead, how can Dong Bai Xiao'er be so kind, isn't there a lot of doubts." When the ancestor Sun Bin fought Pang Juan, he used this method to set up an ambush on the Maling Road, and wrote on the bark that "Pang Juan died under this tree". Bo Fu, this is a lesson from the past! ”
Sun Ce smiled softly and said: "Brother is too worried, at this time, our side is only a mile away from the enemy camp, Dong Bai Xiao'er's move is a suspicious tactic, it is okay to deceive a three-year-old child, we can't be frightened by these simple tricks, wouldn't that be laughed at." ”
Sun Ben saw that what Sun Ce said also made some sense, and he knew Sun Ce's character better, so he didn't persuade him again.
With no objections, Sun Ce commanded his troops to move on.
Before the group of horses had walked a few tens of meters, the soldiers under them began to scream, and before they could check what the situation was, they saw several of their horses disappear from their side.
It turned out that Dong Shouye had arranged some tricks here before, sprinkled with iron nails on this piece of ground, and the soldiers in Sun Jian's army wore some straw sandals, cloth shoes or something. Fortunately, the current steel smelting technology is not developed enough, and Dong Shouye has not prepared many iron nails in the army, so the area where the iron nails are placed is not large. After finally dodging the iron nail, there is a horse trap ahead. The inside of the pit was hollowed out, covered with something like licorice, and then sprinkled with a thin layer of earth, and once the horse stepped on it, the branch could not bear the weight, and it immediately sank.
Sun Ce's martial arts are outstanding, his reaction speed is very fast, and he reined in his mount in time, so that he could even keep people and horses and did not fall into the trap, and Sun Sheng was not so lucky, without Sun Ce's fast reaction, even people and horses would fall into the horse pit. Someone had just fallen into the pit, and all the screams of people and horses were heard, and it seemed that some bamboo spears and other things must have been erected high in the pit, quietly waiting for the prey to be sent to the door.
At this time, Sun Ce saw that his good brother Sun Sheng was about to fall into the pit, so he waved the overlord halberd in his hand, and used a clever trick to hook Sun Sheng's belt with the crescent blade of the overlord halberd, and then at the moment when the belt broke, he used the moon blade of the overlord halberd to lay it flat, dragged Sun Sheng's back, and dragged Sun Sheng into the air with a strong support.
At this time, after Sun Sheng's lifting, he finally stopped the falling situation, took advantage of the situation to pull the halberd shaft of the overlord halberd with both hands, held it hard, and with the strength of the halberd, rolled in the air, touched the bottom with both feet, and fell to the ground steadily. But the mount under him was not so lucky, fell into the pit, and with a wail, it was estimated that he would never live again.
The only thing that made Sun Ce feel fortunate that he didn't bring many cavalry out this time, there were only a few dozen war horses, and most of his kung fu was lost in the blink of an eye, and he was even more glad that he and the two brothers who came with him were safe and sound.
Sun Ce saw that the other party had really laid traps, and now that it was dark, he didn't know how many traps were waiting for him. This has not yet reached the opponent's camp, and his own men and horses are already dead and wounded, and his own 2,000 people don't know if they are enough to fill the opponent's trap, so they don't have the intention to continue attacking the camp, and quickly command the men and horses to retreat.
Dong Shouye's soldiers who were patrolling the night heard the movement not far away and knew that someone was attacking the camp, so a team of cavalry immediately came out to check, and after seeing that the other party had lost some men and horses, they retreated. So I hurriedly lit a lot of torches, and went forward to check to see if I could chase and kill by the way.
Sun Ce led the men and horses all the way back, after all, he was young and inexperienced, and he didn't know how to restrain his own people in a panic, so people kept falling behind on the way back.
The group of cavalry chased out of Dong Shouye's army, that is, more than 200 people, simply put, came out to find out the bottom and see the situation. But these more than 200 are similar to the cavalry who came out to die, this time they made a lot of money, and by the light of the torches, these more than 200 people pursued all the way, or killed or surrendered, which was a lot of gain!
The three brothers Sun Ce, Sun Ben, and Sun Sheng didn't know how many people were chasing behind them, but they were just running wildly, eager to grow a few more legs.
Because Sun Ce did not organize the break in time to block the attack, the cavalry that came out to pursue in Dong Shouye's army was a leak, and along the way, with more than 200 people, he killed more than 400 people and captured more than 800 people, but he had almost no losses, mainly because it was dark, and the other party was too panicked. Quite efficient input and output! Because it was dark, he didn't dare to pursue too much, and he had limited manpower. There were many prisoners, and there were not too many troops to continue the pursuit, so they gave up, took more than 800 prisoners, and returned to the army happily.
PS: The squad leader of this battle will be explained later.