Tonight, when he learned the news that tens of thousands of Tang troops attacked Houying, Shao Tingxuan was very puzzled. Then why is Li Yuan, the coach of the Tang Army, so bold? With so many troops, the CCP dared to go out of the camp and sneak attack? Is this how famous generals fight? It's really not a common sense......

In any case, since the strength of the Tang army is used in the rear battalion, his own front battalion should be safe and sound.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Shao Tingxuan finally ordered to withdraw all the 3,000 sergeants who were placed outside the camp to patrol the periphery.

Just because in addition to Li Yuan's more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, Shao Tingxuan suddenly remembered the situation when he was in Tanzhou before, when he was attacked by the Tang army's light cavalry, although he was not suddenly attacked by the elusive light cavalry recently, but who can guarantee that Li Yuan will not arrange such a strange army again?

Later, Shao Tingxuan issued another order, so that all the 3,000 soldiers in the retreat camp would shrink next to the camp tents to defend, and never give the Tang army any chance to sneak attack. Coincidentally, at the same time that Shao Tingxuan gave the order, Xie Gui happened to send someone to come, and after reporting it, he asked the soldiers and horses in the front battalion to shrink and strengthen the vigilance.

Shao Tingxuan secretly sneered in his heart, do you think Xie Gui doesn't understand anything? We've done this for a long time.

The retreating figure of the 3,000 Han troops in the front battalion fell into the eyes of the Wuping army scouts. A few hours ago, they had been hiding in the bushes with the leaves of the trees in the woods, and they were waiting for this moment. When the 3,000 Han troops gave up their patrols and retreated, the scouts were immediately overjoyed and sent the news to the rear.

After listening to the scout's eager return, Zhu Kuangcong, who had been waiting anxiously for a long time, finally breathed a sigh of relief, the governor deserves to be the governor, it seems that the movement in the rear camp is not small, and the Han army in the front camp really retreated to defend!

Zhu Kuangcong immediately gave the order, and a moment later, the leaves of the trees suddenly fluttered in the mountains and forests five miles west of the Han army's front camp, and dozens of carts that had been waiting for a long time quietly advanced under the moonlight.

The team moved slowly, trying not to make a sound. More than 1,000 crossbowmen slowly approached the front camp of the Han army in a scattered formation on both sides, responsible for monitoring the movements of the Han army at any time, in case they were discovered by the Han army, and could give bows and arrows to block the attack in time. After a short time, all the carts slowly stopped more than 500 steps away from the Han army's front camp.

Zhu Kuang raised his eyes to look at the light in the distance, and immediately ordered in a low voice: "Quick! Quick assembly, light action! ”

Hundreds of wrestlers who came with the car immediately took action, and in order to avoid making a sound, they all took off their boots and stepped on the ground barefoot. In order to mask the sound of assembling the trebuchet, all the parts that need to be hammered and tamped are cushioned with animal skins, and all the hammers are carefully wrapped in a layer of cotton cloth to make the sound as dull and dull as possible.

The Han army outside the camp knew nothing, they didn't know that five hundred paces away in the darkness, hundreds of Wuping soldiers were busy assembling trebuchets.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

Even if some sergeants knew what a trebuchet was, they couldn't imagine how terrifying the trebuchet that had been improved by Li Yuan's hand was. The initial test firing distance can reach 390 steps, and now it can reach more than 500 steps after many adjustments, which is obviously beyond their understanding.

Moreover, there was a commotion in the camp at the moment, and the chatter about the attack on the rear camp by the Tang army had long blinded the ears of the Han soldiers, and some sergeants were moving in line, all kinds of sounds that were enough to cover their hearing, so that they did not care about hearing some faint strange sounds all of a sudden.

Of course, in the process, there were still scouts on duty, and they vaguely heard some mortise and tenon tapping, but they subconsciously thought that it was the sound of the fellow sergeant next to him reinforcing the camp tent, and only after a slight glance, he focused his attention on the battle in the rear camp......

In this way, 500 steps away from the front camp of the Han army, under the noses of a large number of Han soldiers, 30 trebuchets were successfully assembled and formed, and soon stood on the ground in a row.

The nightmare starts now.

Thirty trebuchets were all in place, the high throwing arms were slowly pulled down, and the hundred-pound stone bullets were neatly loaded into the throwing baskets.

Zhu Kuang waved his big hand and ordered, and thirty heavy stone bullets suddenly rose into the air, throwing high and far, and the siege vehicles and bed crossbows that were the targets were already large, plus the Han army's commander Xie Gui helped a lot, all the equipment was parked densely, so that the trebuchet of the Wuping army did not need to aim very accurately at all, it was enough to hit and kill.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! The earth-shattering explosions sounded again and again, and the stone bullets continued to bloom in the front camp of the Han army.

Not only did the wood chips fly and the soil splashed, but the ground in Fang Yuan Zhang Xu was directly exploded and sunken, and the impact and splashed up the gravel and mud and sand spread all around, and the air waves overturned all the rushing cars that had not been hit around to the ground, and the scattered and miserable ones were unbearable.

Seeing that the plan was smooth, Zhu Kuangcong took a deep breath that seemed to be soothing, and I have to say that tonight's sneak attack, in fact, all the generals were very nervous. Li Yuan, the governor of the capital, used the strategy of joining the army to attack the east and west, and ordered 5,000 soldiers and horses to bypass the hillside of the Han army's rear camp to attack and disturb in order to attract the attention of the entire Han army's soldiers and horses, which was an adventure in itself.

Not to mention the combat power of the sergeants in the rear camp of the Han army, if the other party has a general who dares to choose to go out of the camp to attack the hillside at the first time, maybe not long before the attack, Li Yuan has to lead the army to retreat to the mountains and forests, after all, he only brought a mere 5,000 men and horses, where can he really fight with the Han army?

On the other hand, after the sergeants of the Han army's front battalion retreated to the defense as planned, it was also unexpected to use 30 trebuchets to bomb in close proximity. This is obviously the audacity of the artist, not to mention the range of these trebuchets, no one could have expected that the Wuping army would take such a bold attack, and dare to push the heavy siege equipment to the front camp of the Han army only a few hundred paces away.

If the Han army did not retreat from the soldiers and horses outside the camp, but stepped up their patrols, the plan for tonight would have been completely miscalculated. But before Li Yuan set off, he and Zhu Kuangcong, who were apprehensive, said firmly, the so-called plan is in the people, and the success is in the sky, and the Wuping army must have a heavenly roll......

Zhu Kuang has never believed in such words that are obviously comforting and encouraging, but these words came from the mouth of Li Yuan, the famous governor of the world, but he had to believe it.

What is a famous general, in addition to their ability to lead troops to fight and unexpected calculations, luck has always been much better than ordinary people, this is the so-called heavenly roll. There are countless generals in ancient times, and the critical time is that there is a trace of luck, some people become famous in a fight, and some people are defeated.

As for Li Yuan, who has counted all the big and small wars that this twenty-one-year-old governor has participated in since last year, who dares to say that he is unlucky? What's more, the anecdote that Li Yuan is a "god man" has been circulating in Langzhou City for a day or two......

Of course, if the commander of the Han army is also such a lucky person, then Zhu Kuangcong will admit it, the military order is in his body, and the big deal is to fight hard, as for personal life and death, it is really at a critical juncture, and he Zhu Kuangcong will never .....be intimidated.