At the beginning of February, the night sky in Nanyang is not as clear as it is in summer.

Although it is impossible to say that you can't see your fingers, the clouds blackened by the night will eventually obscure the moon and plunge the earth into an endless haze.

When Zhang Xiu raised his head, stared at the dark clouds and covered the moon, he gave the order for a general attack.

At this moment, the whole world seemed to be left with only the light of the countless torches lit in Cao Ying.

"Whew!"

Since it was a sneak attack, it was naturally impossible to rush straight into the camp first.

Zhang Xiu was well versed in the sneak attack of the Xiliang people, and first sent someone with excellent archery skills to slowly approach outside the Cao camp and shoot the guards on the tower with bows and arrows.

The operation of the bow and arrow is far more troublesome than that of modern guns, but it is better than quiet, especially in the February night, there is a lot of natural noise, and the sound of insects and birds and hooves is incessant, which obscures the bowstring arrows.

Soon, with the efforts of several marksmen, the guards standing on the tower at the entrance of the camp were shot to death, and they could not even give a warning, and they fell down silently.

There was no one to warn from the periphery, Zhang Xiu immediately personally led the team to the outside of Cao Ying, pulled out the antlers, and countless fire dragons surged towards this side behind him.

"Kill!"

"Kill Cao Cao!"

"Rush!"

In an instant, the earth-shattering shout resounded throughout Cao Ying.

As Jia Xu expected.

Today is indeed the time when Cao Ying has relaxed his vigilance the most, just like Gan Ning's night attack on Cao Ying in history.

The same first shot the lookout guards with bows and arrows, and the same came to the gate of the camp to move away from the horses, and then smashed into the Cao camp and slashed indiscriminately.

The only difference was that Gan Ning only brought a hundred people with him at that time.

And what about Zhang Xiu?

He brought more than 8,000 Xiliang soldiers.

The soldiers behind him poured into Cao's camp like a tidal wave.

At this time, most of the Cao soldiers were still sleeping, and they did not expect to be attacked at all.

The guards at the gate were caught off guard and were immediately killed. The Xiliang army rushed into the tent like a tiger into the flock of sheep, and kept slashing.

The swarm of cavalry rushed into the camp, throwing torches everywhere.

In an instant, the entire Cao camp was in chaos, and countless soldiers suddenly woke up in their sleep, and in a hurry, they instinctively rushed to the weapon rack at the door of the tent to get their weapons, but found that the weapon rack was empty.

It turned out that during this time, Cao Cao saw Zhang Xiu surrender and easily pacified Nanyang, so in order to prevent the soldiers from being overly nervous, he asked the soldiers to put their weapons in the warehouse when they slept.

In ancient times, camp howling was actually a very common thing, according to the history records of countless times, even in modern liberation battlefields there have been many camp howling incidents.

Therefore, even the most experienced generals are prone to difficulties in how to deal with this matter.

If the soldiers were ordered to surrender their weapons to the armory of the barracks before going to bed, they would be defeated if the enemy suddenly attacked and the soldiers had no weapons in their hands.

But if you put your weapons in the tents where the soldiers are sleeping, if the soldiers are stressed and suddenly break out, it can easily have a very terrible chain reaction.

When the time comes, a civil strife will cause no less damage than a surprise attack by the enemy.

So it's really a dilemma.

It's just that for most generals, they are more worried about being attacked than Yingxiao.

Therefore, when there are enemies around, soldiers are often required to sleep with their armor and knives in their hands to prevent them from being attacked by the enemy.

But this time Cao Cao was different.

Cao Cao had already pacified Nanyang, and he didn't expect Zhang Xiu to dare to attack him, mainly because he didn't know that he planned to plot to kill Zhang Xiu and leaked out, so he felt that Zhang Xiu definitely didn't have the guts.

So in order to prevent the soldiers from being overstressed and occasionally breaking out into the camp, Cao Cao asked the soldiers to store their weapons in the arsenal when they were safe.

In fact, the weapons depot is not a large warehouse, but a weapons camp that is divided according to each team and each song, and stored independently.

Cao Cao's army was well-organized and disciplined, so there was already a complete set of procedures, and the tents where each team slept were not far from the weapons depot for easy collection.

But no matter how close it is, after all, it is not by his side, and there is still a certain distance from the sleeping tent, about dozens of meters per team.

Therefore, when the soldiers hurriedly rushed out of the camp tent and ran quickly to the nearby camp where the weapons were stored, countless Xiliang troops around had already killed in and wantonly slaughtered.

Most of Cao's troops were unarmed at the moment, and in addition to the fact that it was dark and dark, they spun around like headless flies after rushing out of the tent, and were quickly killed.

No one wanted to resist anymore, but desperately fled north, one by one in the opposite direction of the shouting and killing.

The chaotic scene to the south soon alarmed the middle camp.

Cao Cao's camp is naturally not gathered together, but is divided into three camps, each camp is divided into some small camps, which are intricate and cover a large area.

But at present, there are almost no garrisons in Cao Ying, except for a few repulsion horses at the entrance of the camp, no internal structure of the camp has been built at all.

It's not that Cao Cao doesn't have this awareness, but Nanyang has been occupied by him, so what's the point of building a fortification now?

In history, Zhang Xiu rebelled, and the entire Cao camp was in chaos, only the forbidden camp that was a little far away was not chaotic, but sent troops to fight and retreat with Zhang Xiu, and by the way, he punished some Qingzhou soldiers who plundered the township, and returned to the village to dig a trench and hold on.

It can be seen that even Yu Ban did not build fortifications, but after encountering Zhang Xiu's rebellion, he went to support Cao Cao's camp and was repulsed, and ran back to his own camp and built temporary defense facilities to resist Zhang Xiu's army.

Without an internal defense structure, even if the camp is well built, it is useless. The soldiers could not use the terrain inside the camp to counterattack, so they had to flee separately.

"What's going on?"

The front camp is actually three or four miles away from the middle camp, and it is normal for an army of more than 10,000 people to camp for more than ten miles.

Cao Cao came out of his camp, and he was still holding Mrs. Zou on the bed just now.

"Father, Zhang Xiu rebelled and broke the front camp."

Cao Ang hurriedly came to report.

"What?"

Cao Cao was shocked and hurriedly said, "Hurry up!" ”

The surrounding guards hurriedly brought his horses, and at this moment, he couldn't care about Mrs. Zou, who was still in the camp tent, and he was ruthless, only caring about his own escape.

Before riding on the Peerless Shadow, Cao Cao suddenly remembered something and asked left and right, "Where is Dian Wei?" ”

"Ming Gong!"

Just then, Dian Wei stumbled out of a nearby tent.

He drank a lot of wine and was so drunk that he was unconscious, but his vigilance was still there, and when he heard the sound of killing outside the camp, he was awakened for a while, and he struggled to get up, just when he saw Cao Cao leaving.

"Quick, help Dian Wei, go north!"

Cao Cao didn't care about anything else, and ordered the guards to support Dian Wei and rode north.

A group of hundreds of people, Cao Cao's guards, Cao Ang, Cao Anmin and Dian Wei, hurriedly fled all the way to the north gate.

However, Jia Xu had long expected that once the battle at the south gate began, Cao Cao would flee from the north gate, so he let Zhang Xiu set up an ambush here early.

Soon everyone came to the north camp gate, at this moment the front camp was broken, the middle camp and the back camp were also a big chaos, everyone was fleeing, no one could care about Cao Cao, only knew that he was fleeing.

Therefore, at this time, the gate of the rear camp was opened, and a large number of Cao soldiers fled from inside, some ran into the night and disappeared, some stayed in place and watched, and some simply became routs and went to the nearby countryside to rob their homes.

After the discipline of the entire Cao battalion was rushed by Zhang Xiu's army, it was instantly dispersed, tens of thousands of soldiers and soldiers were scattered, and the wolves ran away, and the camp in the rear had been ignited by Zhang Xiu's army, and the fire spread to the whole army.

"Run."

"The fire is burning, run."

"Ahhhh

"Let's go."

"Hurt me, come quickly."

There was chaos in the camp, and countless Xiliang troops slashed and killed with knives, and the Cao army didn't even have a chance to counterattack.

Under the reflection of the fire, Cao Cao was sweating profusely at this time and came to the gate of the rear camp.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Almost at the moment when he saw the Cao army on horseback coming out, the ambush soldiers arranged by Zhang Xiu suddenly shot with bows and arrows.

Countless arrows pierced the void like meteors and crashed into Cao Cao's guards.

Immediately, wails were heard all over the field, and a large number of Cao Army guards were shot to the ground.

Poof.

With a sound of entering the flesh, Cao Cao suddenly fell.

It turned out that he was hit by an arrow in the door of the Shadow Face under his crotch, and he was also hit by an arrow in his foot, and he fell to the ground in pain.

"Father, you're hurt."

Seeing this, Cao Ang was in a hurry, and hurriedly turned over and dismounted, came to his side and helped him up.

Cao Cao was also hit by an arrow in his right arm, but those who have fought know that in the case of high mental tension, the body is injured and unconscious.

In the later era of firearms, there were also a large number of cases of bandits still rampage after being shot at close range by a pistol, and only an unlucky person like Jueying was hit by an arrow in the head, which pierced the head and damaged the brain stem, and he would die instantly on the spot.

Hearing Cao Ang's reminder, Cao Cao noticed that he had been hit by an arrow in the shoulder, and immediately felt pain, and said, "Wu'er, go quickly." ”

"Father, you go first."

Cao Ang hugged Cao Cao, pushed him on the back of his horse and said, "I'll cut off the queen." ”

"Zixuan!"

Cao Cao's eyes widened and he wanted to pull Cao Ang along, but he couldn't use his strength after being shot in his right arm, and he was pushed onto the horse.

Dian Wei staggered over and shouted, "Ming Gong, you go first, and we will arrive later." ”

The fire behind him was soaring, and Cao Cao was already sweating like rain at this time.

"Father, go!"

Cao Ang pulled out the sword at his waist and stabbed the horse's buttocks violently, causing the horse to suffer pain and gallop away suddenly.

It's also a shame that Cao Cao's equestrianism is not bad, otherwise he would have been overturned all of a sudden.

"Wu'er!"

Cao Cao's terrible screams streaked across the night sky.

Almost after the war horse galloped all the way to the northwest, the soldiers in Zhang Xiu's ambush had already been killed.

Dian Wei couldn't find the halberd he had in his hand anywhere before, so he could only take a big axe casually at this moment, roared angrily, and rushed over with more than ten military schools behind him.

Soon the two sides fought together, and more than a dozen spears were aimed at Dian Wei at the same time, and Dian Wei swung a big axe, cutting off these spears at once, and then suddenly shook his body and cut the opponent to the ground.

On the right side, several Zhang Xiujun quickly pounced, and also tried to pierce his back with spears, and Dian Wei's left and right colonels killed him at the same time, stopped behind Dian Wei, and fought fiercely with the enemy.

At this time, because Dian Wei was too nervous, coupled with the previous alcohol stimulation, the whole person was actually in a very sluggish state, but there was also an advantage, that is, he was not afraid of pain, and it was like adrenaline, and his strength was a little greater than usual.

After the surrounding enemies rushed over, he also immediately made a reverse charge, like a tiger into the flock, wielding a big axe to slash and slash. After a while, he was surrounded by corpses, and he himself suffered more than ten wounds.

"Come on, come on!"

Dian Wei gasped, the liquor produced in Huangmen Pavilion was too strong, and under the influence of alcohol, he felt that his physical strength was rapidly decreasing.

Therefore, after the handle of the axe in his hand was broken because of a hard chop, he picked up a halberd from the ground.

The soldiers of the Xiliang Army around him were extremely frightened, looking at him in fear, not daring to step forward.

In just a few minutes, Dian Wei had already killed dozens of people.

If he hadn't been drunk, I'm afraid he would have killed more people.

At this time, Zhang Xiu had already arrived at the gate of the camp, and countless Xiliang troops behind him were surging like a tide.

Seeing Dian Wei standing at the gate of the back camp like a god of war, Zhang Xiu said angrily: "Kill him!" ”

"Kill."

Immediately after that, thousands of troops and horses behind him, countless people surged towards Dian Wei.

The guards around Dian Wei have basically been killed, and even Cao Ang and Cao Anmin have fallen in a pool of blood.

In a fit of rage, he lifted his halberd and swung it left and right, stabbing the first enemy who rushed at him, and then the whole person jumped up like a cannonball, jumped a foot away, and slammed into the second enemy.

The enemy was actually killed by him, using the enemy's body as a shield, Dian Wei choked his throat with one hand, and held a halberd in the other, constantly slashing in the crowd.

Until the end, the halberd in his hand was also broken, and it was too late to find weapons from the ground temporarily.

He was covered in blood, like a demon in the world, bared his teeth and laughed: "Come on, come one and die!" ”

The surrounding soldiers did not dare to come closer.

Zhang Xiu saw that there was no weapon in his hand, and said, "Go and capture him alive." ”

At that moment, more than a dozen Xiliang warriors rushed out and rushed towards Dian Wei, wanting to restrain him with their bare hands and hold him to the ground and capture him alive.

However, I saw Dian Wei's thick arm first punch the first person in the face, smashing him several meters away, and then grabbed the second person with his right hand, pressed it on his neck, and suddenly locked his throat and strangled him to death.

The third person was kicked by him, the fourth person was smashed to death by his punch, then the fifth and the sixth, and the last two people were held by his left and right hands and strangled alive.

"Hahahaha."

Dian Wei laughed and said: "What the invincible Xiliang Army in the world, a group of waste." ”

"Arrows, arrows, arrows!"

Zhang Xiu looked at the hundreds of corpses of the Xiliang Army around Dian Wei, and couldn't help but be annoyed and angry, and shouted, "Shoot him." ”

"Woohoo!"

Countless arrows were fired towards Dian Wei, who was already exhausted and no longer had the strength to pick up the corpses on the ground as shields.

In an instant, the rain of arrows fell, and there was no screaming and wailing, but after a muffled snort, blood flowed from the corners of his mouth.

At this moment, he was like a hedgehog, and his body was full of arrows.

But even so, he still stood in place, standing tall, like a mountain, raised his head, looked at Zhang Xiu, showed a contemptuous expression, and finally slowly fell.