Chapter 204: Attack on the camp
Li Yuan was stunned and said, "But what's the plan, let's talk about it quickly?" ”
Joining the army arched his hand and smiled: "Governor, after our army set up camp, I have carefully observed the terrain, the large camp of the Han army stretches for several miles, with the back of the hillside, and the rear is a whole mountain forest. If you can send a soldier and horse around the mountains and forests to attack the camp behind it and create chaos, the so-called pulling a trigger and moving the whole body, the entire Han army camp will have a corresponding.
The attention of the Han army guarding those siege equipment in the front battalion will inevitably be distracted, and they will definitely divide their troops to help, and once our army is in danger, it can quickly retreat into the mountains and forests at any time, and if you want to know the secrets of the mountains and forests, and on the back of the hillside, the Han army should not dare to chase into the forest.
Of course, even if the Han army really dares to follow, it is not afraid, and the lush forests and vegetation are an excellent place for ambushes......"
Li Yuan couldn't help but pat his thigh, and then immediately stretched out his hand and pointed at the map, and then laughed loudly and said, "Haha! What a plan! How could the Governor of Pontus forget that the enemy camp was facing away from the hillside, and that the terrain was looking down from above, wasn't this a good opportunity? As long as the pressure from the rear battalion is strong enough, the rebels in the front battalion will inevitably shrink their guard, and this matter is promising!
Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, the Governor of Pontus will personally take you to the camp of the Han army tonight to make a big fuss......"
Zhu Kuang got up first, and said eagerly: "Governor, you are the commander of our army, how can you risk yourself!" Why don't you let the last general lead the troops! ”
"Nope." Li Yuan looked like he was bound to win, and said with a meaningful smile: "The Governor of Pontus has another important task to be entrusted to you. ”
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The twilight was four, and the earth was plunged into a confused and gray chaos. The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, the crescent moon has hung in the sky, the surging clear light is hazy, and the scenery is faintly recognizable. However, the mountains are windy, and the clouds are flowing in the air, and the lush forests and grasses cover the moonlight from time to time, and it is difficult to distinguish the true chapter within a few dozen steps.
In the camp of the Wuping army, the door of the east camp slowly opened, and under the light of the weak torches, a team of soldiers and horses quietly went out of the camp gate, quickly walked to the bottom of the mountain, and then divided into several teams to go in different directions, and soon disappeared into the darkness.
Li Yuan did not put on the eye-catching golden armor, but changed into the black unicorn armor and rode on a tall black horse. The guards beside him, including Wang Jingguo, a young man who joined the army for the first time, were also dressed in black armor, all with awe-inspiring faces, and they were very capable and neat when they went into battle lightly. Behind them, more than 5,000 cavalry followed, galloping on the open ground at the foot of the mountain.
Seeing that the journey was about to be halfway through, Li Yuan summoned a few generals, and after a few brief explanations, the soldiers and horses began to turn to the north, marching in a small team of more than 100 people, and set off at a moment's interval, in order to avoid the large group of soldiers and horses acting together to make too much noise.
More than 5,000 soldiers and horses slowly moved north, far bypassing the camp of the Han army and the range of their night patrol, and deliberately made a huge circle. It was not until the darkness of the night, when the ugly time had passed, that the brigade of soldiers and horses arrived at the foot of the hillside that stretched five miles north of the Han army camp.
As the order was issued, all the soldiers dismounted, parked all their horses in the valley, and then walked into the mountains and forests on foot. After more than an hour of trekking, they finally detoured to the back of the Han army camp. On the protruding rocks between the mountains and forests, Li Yuan and a group of Wuping soldiers carefully poked their heads out in the darkness and looked down at the Han army camp below the hillside, and it was almost dawn at this time.
The Han army camp under the mountain is naturally brightly lit, and the camp that stretches for several miles is even more magnificent when viewed from the side, and the dense camp tent stretches away and cannot see the end, only a little fire flickering from time to time like stars in the dark night. As far as the rear camp can see, piles of tall material hoards stand tall.
In the second half of the night, the soldiers and horses of the Han army in the back camp were still cruising back and forth, without the slightest sign of slackness, and they naturally guarded the important materials such as grain and straw very closely.
Outside the wooden wall of the camp, a deep ditch was dug as a ditch, it is estimated that due to the hasty time of camping, there are still gaps in the walls of several camps that have not had time to be repaired, and there are only dozens of arrows and towers to reject horses, but there are naturally a lot of soldiers and horses.
Li Yuan took the water bladder carefully handed over by Wang Jingguo and drank a large sip of water, then handed the water bladder back, pointed to the Han army camp under the mountain and whispered: "In the end, this rear camp has always been an important place for storing grain and grass materials, and the Han army's defense is strict. ”
Wang Jingguo blinked, Xu is first time in battle, and said excitedly: "Dudu, if we can burn their grain and grass, wouldn't it be a great achievement?" ”
Looking at this childish young man, Li Yuan shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Our trip is just to create chaos, and we don't have the luxury of destroying its grain and grass. You see, the battalion is clearly prepared. The stacks of grain and grass were divided into dozens of places, and there were ditches around them, and each of them was next to the sergeant's tent.
Whenever there is a fire, they can quickly isolate the fire and quickly mobilize their troops and horses to defend against the invading enemy...... This night attack, but it depends on the destiny of heaven! ”
The generals beside him looked in the direction of Li Yuan's fingers, and the stacks placed independently one by one were indeed isolated from each other, and there was a narrow and pitch-black ditch in the middle, surrounded by rows of sergeants' tents. Indeed, as the governor said, the Han army does have a set of preventive means, and in the past six months, the Han army has been able to win many battles, but how can its main general be mediocre?
"Guys, are you ready?" Li Yuan said to several generals in the shadows.
"Please give the Governor's order!"
Li Yuan nodded and said, "For a while, the governor of Pontus will only bring five hundred soldiers to accompany him, and the rest of the people will be on standby!" Remember, don't be stingy with the oil, just make a big noise, but when you see Pontus's signal, you will immediately act according to your plan! If the Han army chases out when the governor of Pontus retreats, we must not fight hard, and we can retreat into the mountains and forests. Don't forget to plant more flags here! ”
"The last general obeys!" The generals responded in unison.
Li Yuan led Wang Jingguo and other five hundred guards to cross the rocks first, and quickly walked through the mountains and forests, only to appear on the edge of the woodland after a while. It is about a few hundred steps away from the rear camp of the Han army, and in the middle is an open hillside meadow, and the large and small tree stumps left behind are naturally left by the trees cut down by the Han army when they set up camp.
Originally, the edge of the woodland was only a few hundred steps away from the Han army camp, and after a large number of trees were cut down, Li Yuan had to lead everyone to walk around along the place where there was still a forest to cover it, and the distance naturally became farther away, after all, he swaggered and approached in the open place on the hillside, and he was afraid that he would immediately meet the live target of the Han soldiers.
After a short time, everyone finally rushed to a corner of the Han army's rear camp, and there was a gap here, just because dozens of large and small rocks protruded from the ground, so that it was impossible to erect a wooden wall here, and the Han army also knew how to be flexible, so on both sides of this rocky beach, high fences were erected to connect.
But even if the rocky land is difficult to navigate, in Li Yuan's opinion, the physical work of climbing up is better than the big movement of demolishing the wooden wall fence, and the so-called best breakthrough is undoubtedly here.
Leading more than 500 guards lurking in the dark, Li Yuan looked around and observed for a while, then took a strong bow from the guard's hand, and took a rocket with an arrow that was blazing, and then Shen Li raised his hand to hold the bow and released it towards the sky.
There was a "buzz" sound, and meteors instantly pierced the night sky on the flat ground. After a few sharp breaths, he heard an earth-shattering shout of killing from the high mountain forest behind him, resounding throughout the mountain. The surrounding night-perched birds flew up one after another, frightened by the sudden shouting and rushing into the night sky.
With the sound of shouting and killing that resounded through the night sky, the sky dome above the hillside drew a series of fiery red flame trails, flying over a distance of hundreds of steps, and falling into the camp of the Han army. It was a rocket fired by more than 4,000 Wuping sergeants on the hillside from a ballista.
Each long crossbow arrow, the arrow is not only soaked in fire oil, but also tied to a spare oil bladder, in the hope that after landing, the strong impact force will shatter the fire oil bladder, and a fierce flame can be ignited.
The continuous rockets fell into the rear camp of the Han army like a meteor shower, and soon more than 100 fires were ignited in the rear camp of the Han army, even if some rockets were just shot to the ground, igniting some weeds, but as long as they hit the camp tent or the pile of grain, it was out .....of control.