After carefully observing the positions of the eight Huainan Army outside the tent for a while, Deng Zhan finally made the decision to launch an attack with the help of the tent as a cover.

After seeing Deng Zhan's gesture to them, the twelve dragoon guards all moved quickly towards the north of the tent.

Sure that it was impossible for the eight Huainan soldiers to see them approaching the tent, Deng Zhancai led the dragoon guards to rush to the back of the tent.

The speed of the dragoons was so fast that if they were ordinary soldiers, they would not have been able to detect them at all.

But these eight Huainan soldiers have obviously exceeded the expectations of Deng Zhan and others.

As the dragoons moved quickly, they heard a rustle of footsteps on the ground, and all eight turned their faces in the direction from which the footsteps were heard.

Although their sense of hearing is very sharp, it takes a moment to turn their heads.

At the moment when they turned their heads, Deng Zhan and the twelve dragoon guards had already reached the back of the tent.

"What's going on?" Hearing the footsteps but not seeing anyone, one of the Huainan soldiers muttered and said to the other soldiers: "I'll go and see!" ”

As he spoke, the Huainan soldier had already raised his steps and walked towards the back of the tent.

His steps were very light, but in the quiet barracks, Deng Zhan and the others could still hear clearly.

Listening to the footsteps of the Huainan army walking, Deng Zhan gestured to several dragoon guards.

Several dragoons saw his gesture and nodded, ready to jump out at any moment.

One arm was raised high, quietly listening to the footsteps of the Huainan army walking towards the back of the tent.

All this happened in a very short time, no more than two or three seconds at most, but in the feeling of Deng Zhan and the twelve dragoons, it was as long as a whole day.

Finally, Deng Zhan's arm slammed down.

At the moment when he pressed his arm, several dragoon guards who had been ordered by him rushed to the front of the tent.

And the Huainan soldier who went around behind the tent also appeared in the field of vision of Deng Zhan and the others.

The soldiers of the Huainan Army, who went around to the back of the tent, had just exposed half of their bodies, and Deng Zhan kicked his right leg hard and jumped towards him violently.

Although he had heard the footsteps of someone running before, he didn't believe that there really would be an assassin at all, and the Huainan soldiers were stunned for a moment when they saw Deng Zhan, but they didn't react to shout.

Just as he was stunned, the short sword in Deng Zhan's hand made an arc of light and cut through his neck.

His throat was slashed by a short sword, and the Huainan soldier's eyes widened and he slowly fell.

Before he fell to the ground, Deng Zhan reached out and dragged his back to prevent him from making a noise when he fell to the ground.

The soldiers of the Huainan Army who had just been killed by him were flattened behind the tent, and the few dragoons who had rushed out earlier had already dragged the Huainan Army that had been solved by them back behind the tent.

Nodding to the dragoons, the eight dragoons immediately walked outside the tent and chose their positions like the eight Huainan soldiers just now.

The Huainan army outside the tent was changed, and Deng Zhan led the remaining four dragoons to the tent curtain.

Gently lifted the curtain and looked inside, the curtain was dark, and there was no light at all.

Quietly listening to the movement in the tent, Deng Zhan didn't hear any sound, and Zhang Xun was obviously still outside and didn't return to the tent.

Beckoning to the four dragoons and leading them into the tent, Deng Zhan whispered to them: "The corpse is not safe to put outside, you wait to drag the corpse into the tent." ”

The four dragoons who had followed him into the tent received the order, but did not answer, but had already turned and left the tent.

After a while, the eight corpses were dragged into the tent by the dragoon guards and placed in the corners of the tent.

When the dragoon guards placed the corpses properly, Deng Zhan pressed the hilt of his sword and stood straight in the tent, quietly waiting for Zhang Xun to come back from outside.

Deng Zhan and others had already occupied the tent, and Zhang Xun was still patrolling around the barracks at this time.

When the leader came to Shouchun, he proposed to Yuan Shu on the same day that he either lead the army to the south bank of the Huai River and confront the main force of Liu Wei's Qin army across the river, or immediately lead the soldiers into the city.

But both proposals were rejected by Yuan Shu on the same day.

He also knew in his heart that Yuan Shu was afraid of his 100,000 army, and Zhang Xun had no choice but to station the army outside Shouchun City.

But stationed outside Shouchun City, Zhang Xun felt a burst of uneasiness in his heart.

The dragoon guards entered the city of Xuzhou in front of Cao Jun in Xuzhou, and also took Lu Bu, Chen Gong and Diao Chan out of Xuzhou unharmed.

That incident has already spread now, not only the generals of the Huainan Army know that the Qin army's dragoon guards are powerful, but even the generals under the command of the princes in other places are afraid that when they mention the Qin army, they will also be jealous.

Since the dragon cavalry guards of the Qin army came and went without a trace, and no more precautions were taken, in Zhang Xun's opinion, once there was a problem, it was categorically unforgivable.

But he didn't know that when he was still inspecting the barracks, Deng Zhan had already led twelve dragoons to wait there in his tent.

led a team of soldiers to patrol around the barracks, feeling that the precautions everywhere were strict enough, and it was not early, Zhang Xun took the accompanying soldiers to the tent.

When he arrived near the tent, he saw eight soldiers standing outside the tent from a distance, Zhang Xun breathed a sigh of relief, and his steps towards the tent were much faster than on the way back.

The soldiers of the Huainan Army, who were following Zhang Xun, stopped only six or seven steps away from the tent, turned around one by one, and their eyes wandered around the barracks, carefully observing whether there was anything unusual nearby.

Zhang Xun led the two personal Huainan troops to the big tent.

Standing outside the tent, Zhang Xun did not open the curtain and walked in, a Huainan soldier behind him hurriedly stepped forward and helped him open the tent curtain, while another Huainan soldier walked into the tent.

As soon as the Huainan army entered the tent, they faintly smelled a faint smell of blood.

The eight corpses that were dragged into the tent by Deng Zhan and the others, although the blood qi had dispersed a lot outside the tent, there was still blood spilling from the broken necks.

It was precisely because of this that the soldiers of the Huainan Army who entered the tent sniffed and sniffed the breath in the tent. At the moment when the Huainan army soldier sniffled, a dragoon guard hiding in the tent jumped out like a ghost, and with a short blade in his hand, he cut the neck of the Huainan army impartially in the darkness.

Zhang Xun, who was standing outside the tent, waited for the soldiers who entered the tent to light the white candle, but when he was standing, there was a slight sound in his ears that did not match the sound of lighting the white candle.

"What's wrong?" Hearing that voice, Zhang Xun asked the tent.

Almost at the moment when he asked, the pale face of the Huainan soldier appeared in front of his eyes.

"Damn, it takes so long to light a candle!" Glaring at the Huainan soldier, Zhang Xun scolded and strode into the tent.

"General be careful!" At the moment when Zhang Xun raised his feet, the soldiers who opened the tent curtain found that the soldiers who entered the tent seemed to look wrong, and hurriedly shouted.

But his shout was obviously a little late, and before Zhang Xun could react to what was happening, a sharp short sword had already pierced his chest.

Seeing this scene, the Huainan army who lifted the curtain was about to shout loudly, and a dragoon guard guarding outside the tent pretending to be the Huainan army grabbed his mouth from behind, and then slashed his short sword at his throat.

The throat was slashed, and the Huainan soldier didn't even snort, and fell to the ground softly.

The Huainan army that followed Zhang Xun back to the tent all turned their heads when they heard the words "General be careful" shouted by the soldiers who lifted the curtain curtain.

What they saw when they looked back was not Zhang Xun, but a halo of light shining faintly in the night.

The halo flashed, and a group of Huainan soldiers spurted blood from their necks and fell to the ground.

A sword pierced Zhang Xun's heart, Deng Zhan reached out and turned Zhang Xun's face, making sure that he had not killed the wrong person, and worried that this sword was not completely fatal, so he grabbed Zhang Xun's hair bun with one hand, put the short sword on his neck, and slashed it hard.

The sharp short sword cut Zhang Xun's throat, and a stream of dark red blood gushed out, Deng Zhan could almost see the white bones in Zhang Xun's neck under the faint light, and then whispered to the dragoon guards who infiltrated the Huainan army camp with him: "Set fire!" ”

Deng Zhan gave an order, and a dragoon guard took out a fire fold and set Zhang Xun's tent on fire.

The moment the tent was lit, Deng Zhan beckoned to the twelve dragoons and led them into the darkness.

Zhang Xun's tent caught fire, and the Huainan army camp exploded instantly, and countless Huainan troops ran out of the camp tent and ran in the direction of the burning tent.

It's just that in an instant, the entire barracks is like a fried pot, with shouts everywhere and Huainan troops running back and forth everywhere.

With twelve dragoon guards, taking advantage of the chaos of the Huainan army, Deng Zhan swaggered towards the periphery of the barracks.

Although it was swaggering, their speed was not very slow, at least it was much faster than when they came, but with half a pillar of incense, thirteen people wearing Huainan military armor ran out of the barracks.

Behind them, what was left was a noisy Huainan army camp.

Out of the barracks, Deng Zhan glanced at the twelve dragoons who followed behind him, and saw that there was no one missing, so he beckoned his hand and led the group to jump towards the path they passed when they came.

The Huainan army camp was in chaos, and the Shouchun city wall was immediately lit with a piece of torches, and after a while, the city gate slowly opened, and a Huainan general led a team of soldiers and horses to the military camp!

The one who led the soldiers to the barracks was none other than Ji Ling, who had earlier suggested that Yuan Shu line up on the shore of Huaishui and confront Liu Wei's main force.

The city gate of Shouchun City was closed all day, and this day coincided with Ji Ling's duty, and when he heard the chaos in the military camp outside the city, he knew that something must have happened, Ji Ling did not dare to delay for a moment, and hurriedly led a team of people out of the city to check.