Marshal Night Parade led an army of 6,000 Night Rangers and marched to the periphery of the gopher maze. Such a secret battle plan is actually because the ghost army has built a forward base in the labyrinth.

From hiding and fighting guerrillas in hiding places to actively planning sneak attacks, it can be seen that the strength of the ghost army has been greatly expanded, and it is becoming more and more bold. This battle is probably not as simple as Du Zong guessed before, and it is definitely not easy to fight!

"When King Yama learned of this information, Long Yan was furious!" Ye You stopped the whispers of his subordinates and continued to clarify the severity of this military mission, "This group of ghost troops is really arrogant! The base is open to the door of the underworld! Therefore, today we night rangers must completely eradicate this base! ”

"Marshal, can you know the other side's military strength and deployment in detail?" The bold question was Bai Gui, the yin general who commanded the former army. Once the battle begins, his troops will definitely be the vanguard of the attack.

Yeyou shook his head and said, "Because of the suddenness of the incident, for the sake of secrecy, I didn't send scouts to investigate in advance. Along the way, I also specially told you not to divulge secrets, in order to catch this group of ghost troops off guard before they have time to react! ”

In the past, the Yin army went out to chase and suppress the ghost army everywhere, often because the team was huge and the action was too slow, and the cunning ghost army learned about the military situation early, and they escaped in time every time. This is also the main reason why the guerrilla tactics of the ghost army have repeatedly worked.

This time, the base of the ghost army was so close to the underworld, and Ye You simply took a rapid march to attack him, making it clear that he wanted to annihilate the other party and not give them a chance to escape.

The scouts sent by Marshal Night Wander soon returned. They found a large number of ghost army tracks moving in the labyrinth, confirming the intelligence reported by the spies before. But at the same time, there is a very tricky situation, the base of the ghost army is not built outside the gopher maze, but hidden in the rat hole. Moreover, there are too many trajectories of the ghost army, and it is impossible to determine which cave is the location of the ghost army's base for a while.

"Report Marshal, according to our investigations, it is likely that these caves are connected to each other." The scout finally made his own preliminary judgment, explaining, "So the ghost army can enter the base from any of the holes. As for where the base is located in the labyrinth, it can only be determined after a thorough search after entering. ”

After listening to the report, Marshal Yeyou frowned and muttered for a long time before he said: "It seems that it will not work to directly carry out a precise attack on the ghost army base, and you can only use a feint to lure them out, and if you can't do it, you can only storm in!" ”

"Bai Gui, you first lead the front army into the labyrinth, disperse the troops, and each till or army is responsible for exploring a hole, and try to make the movement as loud as possible. If you find that the ghost army is sending troops to fight back, you must not fall in love with the battle, retreat immediately, and lead the snake out of the hole! ”

"Order!" Bai Gui immediately replied with his fists clenched.

"The other armies, for the time being, are on standby outside the labyrinth, and once a ghost army rushes out of the labyrinth, they will come forward to support the front army at any time!"

"Yes!"

"In addition, in addition to the ghost army in the maze, we also need to deal with a large number of gophers, so this is a tough battle!" Marshal Night Tour said solemnly, "I hope you will do your best to boost the morale of the soldiers, overcome the difficulties of fatigue and combat, and take this ghost army base in one go!" ”

"Yes!"

The Yin generals and Yin Colonels returned to the camp, and immediately arranged for people to bury the pot and make food, and the soldiers woke up and had enough to eat before starting the battle. I also specially mobilized the 100 Yin soldiers under my command before the war, explained the difficult tasks they are currently facing, and asked all of them to cheer up and not to retain the mentality of underestimating the enemy.

An hour later, under the order of the marshal of the night tour, a total of 6,000 people from the front, center, left, right, and rear armies poured into the valley where the gopher maze was located. In addition to the former army's attack on the cave, the other four armies lined up at the mouth of the valley to prevent the ghost army from taking the opportunity to escape.

The gopher maze lives up to its name, and the inner stone walls of a huge horseshoe-shaped valley have long been drilled by gophers, like a hornet's nest. Each gopher has two huge front teeth, which are so hard that they can dig not only in the soil, but also in the crushing of loose stones. The potholes in the stone wall are actually all gopher nests, and because the interior extends in all directions, like a labyrinth, this place is named after it.

Judging by the dense craters in front of you, the number of gophers hiding inside is definitely a huge terrifying number. But fortunately, the pits with traces of the ghost army are concentrated on the periphery of the labyrinth, and the former army does not need to go deep into the valley to explore, otherwise it will be more difficult.

Although I haven't entered the maze yet, the dense "squeak" sound is already terrifying, and I have goosebumps on my body. Occasionally, a few large gophers would emerge from their holes, staring at the humans outside, as if they had seen that we were going to turn them against them.

But Marshal Night You's order has been given, and Bai Gui must also lead the front army of 1,000 people to start drilling holes. He scattered several battalions under his command in groups of five, with sword and shield soldiers in front, pikemen in second, and archers in the rear, and the Fu Array Division entered the pit separately by reinforcing at any time. The shield opens the way, the spear attacks, the bow and arrow are replenished, and the rune array is assisted, such a combination is very reasonable in the narrow pit. The canine cavalry could not fight in the rat hole, so they had to stay outside the cave to respond.

But when a reasonable combination meets an unreasonable swarm of gophers, everything is in vain!

The large and small potholes in the maze are all gopher nests, and groups of gophers in the holes rely on animal instinct to desperately defend their nests and attack the foreign enemies who come to attack. They gnawed their claws and gnawed, fearlessly charging at the soldiers of the front army, with extraordinary ferocity. The Yin soldiers were unable to play in the narrow pits, and after only going about a few tens of meters deep, they were forced to withdraw due to the casualties of the soldiers.

The division was unfavorable, and the front army, which had suffered losses, had to retreat behind the other four armies, reorganize its troops, and treat the wounded.

Marshal Night Tour had a gloomy face and a frown. The defeat of the former army shows that he still underestimated the resistance of the gopher swarm, and he doesn't know how the ghost army avoided such a ferocious gopher swarm, and was able to live with it without incident, and even set up a base in the cave?

But after such a big commotion, there is still no trace of the ghost army, and I am afraid that the next step can only be to adopt the tactics of strong attack. But the terrain inside the labyrinth is too narrow to be conducive to the movement of large troops, so he can't also adopt the same strategy as the gopher swarm, risking human lives to kill rats, right?

At this time, Gan Sheng was more scheming. He leaned behind the night swimmer and proposed, "Marshal, there are too many gophers in the cave, and we must get rid of a large number of them before we can go into the cave and search!" ”

"I know, what do you have a plan?" Yeyu asked impatiently.

Since Gan Sheng dared to come forward to offer advice, it showed that he had already made up his mind. He said: "In the cave, we can't use our swords, guns, bows and arrows, so we simply force them out and kill rats outside the valley." The subordinates believe that the most effective way should be to attack with fire! ”

"Fire attack?"

Yeyou groaned for a moment, frowned slightly, and then asked, "What kind of fire?" Ghost fire or open flame? ”

"It is said that ghost fire is more effective than open fire on gophers, but ghost fire is not easy to burn and spread. The pit is crooked, and it may be difficult to burn the gopher in the depths. Gan Sheng replied, "My subordinates think it's best to use an open flame, and it's best to burn them directly, but even if they can't burn to death, the smoke can smoke out the rats." Our army is in front of the valley, come and kill one by one! ”

"But where is there so much fire here?" The night tour again raises the question.

"Hehe, Marshal, I have walked this road before, and I remember that there is a small stone resin spring not far from the gopher maze in front of me, no need to refine it, just pick up a bucket and scoop it. After taking the stone grease, just pour it at the entrance of each hole and light it, and then order someone to fan the cave with a shield, and you should be able to smoke out all the rats in the hole! ”

"Well, what a strategy!" The marshal of the night tour was overjoyed, turned around and patted Gan Sheng's shoulder and praised: "It's still you, an old yin general, who has a lot of ideas and a familiar place!" In this case, Ben Shuai ordered your rear army to go out of the valley to fetch the stone grease and light the fire to smoke the rats, how about it? ”

"Yes! The last general will personally take someone to retrieve the stone grease! ”

"Go now, go back!"

Gan Sheng's memory was indeed correct, and soon after he hurried out of the valley with Wang Song's baggage camp, he soon returned with hundreds of barrels of dark, viscous, and pungent stone grease. Paraffin is liquid oil in its natural form, although it is not refined and does not burn well, it is completely sufficient for smoking mice.

Gan Sheng asked Wang Song's baggage battalion to directly dump all the stone grease at the entrance of the labyrinth cave, and then assigned his three sword and shield battalions to light the fire. When the fire was lit, we fanned the cave with our shields and fanned the wind into the cave with all our might. The pungent and foul-smelling smoke spread deep along the dense pits, and even the upper pits that had not been ignited began to smoke outward, which showed that the inside was indeed interconnected.

The "squeak" rat cries in the cave became more and more frenzied, and the hole even began to resonate, and a lot of dirt fell down. Listening to this sound and looking at this formation, I am afraid that all the gophers in the cave have been alarmed by us!

"Withdraw! Withdraw to the battle! Seeing this scene, Gan Sheng's face suddenly changed greatly, and he hurriedly beckoned us to stop fanning and retreat.

The left, right, and middle armies had already laid out their formations at the mouth of the valley, and the same tactics were swords and shields in front, spears in the side, bows and arrows in the back, and the rune formations were taken into account. The front army, which was unfavorable in the first battle, and the rear army that carried out the ignition mission were prepared behind the formation and supported at any time.

"Squeak! Creak! ”

Scalp-numbing rat cries came and went, and flocks of frightened gophers escaped from hundreds of pits, dense and layered, like a black tide surging towards the Yin Army. These gophers are red-eyed from the smoke, and they rush at us as if they don't want to die, and bite people when they see them!