Although the marching battle set up by Li Tai's men and horses greatly avoided being intercepted and killed by the enemy's elite cavalry, it basically had nothing to do with speed. In the few hours after the first confrontation between the two sides, they only advanced more than a dozen miles, and there were still more than twenty miles away from the Golden Barn City, the destination of this trip.

As night falls, the field of vision is greatly limited, and the perception of the environment is also sharply reduced, and traveling at night is undoubtedly a greater risk.

Although the march of one day is not long, the energy consumption of men and horses is not small, and if you cannot win in the field environment, you will have to pay greater energy and price.

Li Tai knew that the whole march would be exposed to the ears and eyes of the enemy, and these Jinyang soldiers were all elite in a hundred battles, and any slight negligence or omission could be taken advantage of by the enemy, so the spirit was also tense after the march on this day.

Although the two sides have not fought again, they are engaged in another form of contest with each other. For Li Tai, not fighting is a kind of victory, which shows that his marching method is thorough and meticulous, so that the enemy can not find the fighter plane loopholes at all.

From this point of view, he is already a qualified or even excellent general, and he may not be able to talk about winning battles and conquering battles, but he has mastered the basic skills of a general very solidly.

Although the advance on land was not large, due to the enemy's weak control of the river, the advance and retreat of the boats were limited to a certain extent, which replaced the function of cavalry scouts to a certain extent, allowing Li Tai to gain a basic understanding of the enemy's dynamics, and also knew that the enemy army was attacking the Golden Barn City.

Although Han Xiong's troops are not many, they are also old revolutionaries who have been fighting with the enemy army on the border for many years, and they are very rich and impressive in terms of ability and experience, relying on the terrain of Cangcheng to repel the enemy's fierce offensive several times. It's just that the enemy army is outnumbered after all, and under repeated attacks, they occupy the trestle water village on the periphery of Cangcheng, so that they cannot communicate directly with each other through the waterway.

After nightfall, Li Tai chose a slightly higher hill as a garrison first, and formed a chariot formation on the periphery, and the men and horses rested inside.

The enemy scouts were still wandering outside the chariot formation like vultures, and when they saw that they had no intention of immediately hitting the road, they left a few horsemen to keep an eye on them, while the others withdrew for the time being.

"Lord Lang, after nightfall, all the men and horses can not see far, the voice is inconvenient to convey, the number of enemy horsemen has become a disadvantage, the command and dispatch can not be calm, if you have three hundred elite horsemen to rush the camp to shake the formation, it will be able to make the thief frightened and uneasy."

After dinner, He Ruodun came up again and whispered: "This is not far from the thief camp, and you can go straight to reach it for more than ten miles, and the servants please attack and disturb the enemy, even if they can't break through their camp defenses, they can let the people trapped in Jingu City know that there are rescuers, so that they will not be frustrated, frightened, and lose their fighting spirit." ”

Because of its strong mobility and fast movement, cavalry is also more difficult to command battles, and once the field of vision is limited at night, it is more difficult to carry out large-scale assembly and dispatch and become an effective combat unit, and it is difficult to fully exert the advantage of being outnumbered.

After thinking about it, Li Tai agreed to He Ruodun's invitation to fight, and his riding and archery skills were also among the best among his subordinates, and he was responsible for attacking the enemy camp at night, and the success rate would be greatly increased.

Of course, now is not a good time to launch a night attack, and after confirming this plan, Li Tai asked He Ruodun to personally select the entourage to fight, and then let these people rest and stay overnight in advance, so that they no longer have to participate in the night guard. And he sent two brisk boats down the river to carefully probe the enemy's camp and movements.

After arranging these, Li Tai also went to sleep in the account, and after the march of this day, he was already exhausted and needed to recuperate.

I don't know how long I slept this night, Li Tai was woken up by Li Quji outside the tent, and when he walked out of the tent with a knife in his clothes, he looked up and saw the starry sky, so he asked, "What time is it?" Did He Ruodun and others depart? ”

"It's been a while, the night attack team hasn't set off yet, and there is a new change in the thief camp, which needs to wait for Ah Lang to decide."

Li Qujian whispered before entering: "At three o'clock in the morning, the thief camp suddenly sounded a drum order, and the soldiers were gathered to be dressed in armor, as if they were going to launch a night attack on Jingu City, but now the thief camp is bright and the army is gathered, but there is no other movement. After some discussion, the servants and other generals felt that the thief army might pretend to attack at night, but in fact it was to lure our army to save the city......"

When Li Tai heard this, he also frowned, went straight to the campfire where the generals gathered, and summoned the scouts on the ship to come close to inquire carefully, and he also agreed with the guess of Li Quji and the others.

The enemy army gathered in the middle of the night, but did not attack the nearby city of Jingu, and the only way to lure himself to rescue him was to make sense.

If this is indeed the case, then the enemy must have prepared for an ambush, and if the night attack is carried out according to the original plan, it will undoubtedly be self-defeating, and it is natural to abandon this plan.

But He Ruodun was still a little unwilling to do this, and raised his own doubts: "If the thief really lured me to attack, then he would have to make some sheep attack posture, but now I only see the crowd but not the camp, but it seems to be a trick to intimidate, as if I am afraid of my attack......"

It is indeed strange that the enemy forces cannot be gathered, but it is not very likely to be a bluff and intimidation. After all, the gap between the forces of each other is not small, and even if Li Tai attacks with the whole army, it is not worth the other party's sleepless nights and queues in the camp to scare people.

"I'm afraid I haven't seen the details of the peeping in the river, maybe there are some changes in the thief camp that I can't find out. The servants were asked to go and take a closer look, and if there was any conspiracy outside their camp, they could also be foreseen. ”

He Ruodun opened his mouth again and said that he had been idle for a long time, and now he had finally been put into Li Tai's sect and used again, and he did not want to miss any opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

When Li Tai heard this, he nodded, and sent a few more small boats to cooperate with the inspection. After this interruption, he did not feel sleepy, so he simply waited here for further news, so that the other soldiers on duty could rest first.

Not only were the soldiers of Li Tai and the Communist Party puzzled, but the soldiers in the Eastern Wei military camp were also looking at each other at this time, not knowing why. Obviously, in the evening, the main general Xue Guyan personally ordered to eat and rest in advance and prepare to continue the siege and battle at night, but now that the agreed time has passed for a while, and the soldiers have all assembled, there is no further order in the main general's camp.

Without the order of the Lord, they could not leave the camp. And because of the previous assembly order, they did not dare to disband the troops without authorization, so the situation became awkward for a while.

"The Lord is just to deal with important matters in the account, and ask the general and other governors to wait for the military orders."

The soldiers guarding outside the big tent laughed and said to the governors who came here to ask for instructions, whether they believed it or not, they were already complaining in their hearts.

The smell of wine was permeated in the big tent, and Xue Guyan, who had sworn that he would only drink one bucket of wine before, was lying on his stomach in the banquet at this time, and there were leftover barbecue dishes on the eucalyptus, but there was no trickle left in the wine urn next to the eucalyptus, obviously self-defeating.

For a person who is addicted to alcohol, forcibly setting a limit on how much to drink will only become a goal that he must break through. If he had this kind of self-control, he wouldn't have drunk before the war.

Fortunately, the soldiers already knew the temperament of the lord very well, and they were quite experienced in dealing with similar situations, and they patiently dealt with the generals who came to ask for instructions, and began to cook the soup to cure the hangover in the tent, and with great difficulty breaking the lord's teeth and carefully pouring the soup into it, and then waiting for the sobering up.

As for how long it will take to sober up, they have no way of knowing, so they can only beg in their hearts as soon as possible. Although this situation is helpless, according to past experience, there are no dangers, and I hope this time will not be an exception.

"It's not right, there's a weird ......"

Outside the camp, He Ruodun's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and he didn't see any arrangements made by the enemy along the way, and even the scouts were barely visible, which was really not in line with the plan to lure the enemy.

He couldn't figure it out for a while, but since he had already marched here, he simply continued to go to the enemy camp, and the campfire in front of him was already in sight, and a reprimand finally sounded beside the wilderness road: "Who is it?" ”

He Ruodun raised his hand to shoot at the sound, and then a short scream was followed by a person jumping up in the grass cave, and ran straight to the direction of the camp in the dark, but was grabbed by He Ruodun riding in front of him and bending down to reach out.

"If you want to live, be honest!"

He Ruodun pressed the blade of his saber against the man's neck, and even though he quickly asked about the ambush plan in the battalion, the battalion guard shook his head and said that he didn't know, and only said that he was going to attack Jingu City tonight, and no soldiers left the camp to set up an ambush along the river.

"Send this alive back, and I'll go to the enemy camp again."

On the one hand, the words were not enough to be believed, but what He Ruodun saw along the way was not inconsistent with the enemy's explanation, so he threw this live mouth to his fellow soldiers and brought it back, and the other two soldiers bypassed the front of the camp, approached from the side, and successfully arrived at the enemy's horse camp.

The camp was enclosed by a rudimentary fence, with posts at intervals, guarded by several soldiers and grooms, and the horses were not allowed to travel outside the camp.

"Kill!"

Under the cover of night, He Ruodun raised his hand to shoot a dog barking outside the sentry, and took advantage of the sentry to dismount and draw a knife to kill when the sentry was startled.

The sound of the fight here also aroused the awareness of the enemy soldiers on the left, and some war horses in the circle who were more sensitive to blood also neighed.

The first of Horodun's guards seized the time to crack down on the fence, and soon broke a huge gap, and then threw the ignited grass into bundles inward, and the warhorses rushed out of the gap.