Chapter 432: Night attack on the Huns
It's dusk.
Tou Manshan Yu took Mao Dun, Hu Yanzhu and other Xiongnu nobles out of the camp.
"The moon is round tonight."
Tou Manshan looked to the east and saw that the moon had risen, and it was indeed big and round.
Hu Yanru smiled: "The full moon tonight is a symbol of good luck. Tomorrow, those Qin people will send a large amount of food and weapons, Da Dan Yu led the warriors of the grassland to the south this time, so that everyone had a round stomach, and when they returned to the grassland, I think that more tribes would be willing to come to Da Dan Yu's tent for Da Shan Yu to whip. ”
"Only the wolf king who feeds the wolves is a good wolf king, and only in this way will more wolves come to follow."
Tou Manshan glanced at Mao Dun, and whispered his experience as a "wolf king".
He looked up at the full moon in the distance.
Then kneel on the ground and bow in the direction of the moon.
"After returning to the grassland, I can use the weapons and food given to me by the Qin people to conquer more tribes, let more grassland warriors join my tent, and strengthen the power of the Xiongnu."
"Then you can go and attack Donghu and Yueshi, defeat them, conquer them, and make the Xiongnu the real overlord of the steppe."
"I, the Huns' plough is lonely, and I will become the only king of the grassland!"
"Moon, fulfill my wish!"
Tou Manshan prayed, told his wish in his heart, and bowed down to the moon.
The Xiongnu worship ghosts and gods and revere nature.
For the sun and the moon, there is a custom of "going out of camp in the morning, worshipping the beginning of the sun, and worshipping the moon at night".
The full moon is profitable, and the monthly loss is unfavorable.
So tonight's full moon is a time of great benefit for the Huns.
Behind Touman Danyu, all the nobles also knelt down and prayed.
"Yue, let Shan Yu pamper me again."
Mao Dun muttered in his heart, bowing down to the full moon.
……
"The moon has risen."
In the Xiongnu camp, Yan Wangxi saw the Huns guarding his tent gate, bowing in batches in the direction of the rising moon, and his face was gloomy to the extreme.
The Huns did not listen to his provocation, and the Qin people did not launch a sneak attack, but also sent a batch of grain to show their sincerity, which means that the deal between the Qin army and the Huns is basically decided, and the fate of his Yan Wangxi has been doomed.
"Zidan heard that he was killed by a car, so miserable."
"I don't know if King Qin's anger has subsided, if Lone is escorted to Xianyang, he won't be torn apart."
Yan Wangxi's face was full of sorrow.
At this moment, he is an old and decrepit, surrounded by the Hun warriors, there is no hope of escape, and his heart can only become more and more desperate.
He looked at the Huns at the door, worshipping the moon reverently.
Yan Wangxi thought of the years of living in the grassland, and the devotion of those Huns to ghosts and gods.
He even thought of the scene when he was chased by the Qin army and fell in western Liaoxi.
Yan Wangxi took out a dirty and tattered cloth from the stenching fur.
He opened it with a shuddering hand, and there was a black particle the size of a fingernail.
It was a magic medicine that Fang Shijin gave him back then, which could communicate with ghosts and gods.
Back then, he took a pill when he was downtrodden in Liaoxi, and then he met the Hu people who went deep into Yandi.
For so many years, Yan Wangxi was reluctant to eat the remaining pills, and only when he was confused and desperate, he would deduct a small point and stuff it into his mouth.
Although the effect of the magic medicine was no longer enough for him to see those strange things again, it could also make Yan Wangxi get a moment of peace in fear and transcend the suffering in front of him.
Yan Wangxi threw the last black particles into his mouth, closed his eyes, and muttered: "The Huns rescued me from the pursuit of the Qin army back then, and someone can save me from the Huns today......
……
"The moonlight is so beautiful tonight, God help me."
Meng Tian looked up and glanced at the full moon hanging high in the sky.
The bright moonlight illuminated their path.
Behind him, five thousand cavalry lined up and slowly advanced.
This place is about seven or eight miles away from the location of the Xiongnu camp.
At this distance, the cavalry of the Qin army was already a human rank, and the horses picked up the bells, which was to prevent making a loud noise and attracting the vigilance of the Huns.
They walked slowly, avoiding alarming the Huns in advance, and when they were close enough, they could gallop into the Hun camp, slash and kill indiscriminately, and set fire everywhere.
There were several light horsemen flying in front of them.
"General, the Hu people are very poorly prepared, and there is no one to patrol for miles ahead. The Huns were not aware of the approach of our troops. "The scout captain came to report it.
Meng Tian bowed his head, but did not give the order to continue the march. Instead, he said to Su Jiao on his side: "Let the second and third sons find a leeward place to rest for a while, store horsepower, and wait for our army's foot soldiers to keep up." ”
Su Jiao frowned, feeling the wind blowing on his face, and he asked, "General, is it the direction of the wind?" ”
Meng Tian glanced at him appreciatively and said, "Yes." If our army wants to break the Hu camp, it will definitely set fire, and now that the north wind is strong, if it is set on fire to the wind, I am afraid that it will burn my foot soldiers, so wait here first to see if we can wait for the wind direction to change. ”
"What the general said is very true."
Su Jiao praised and immediately went down to give the order.
After a while, Zhao Tuo also led 30,000 foot soldiers to arrive.
"Meng Tian is waiting for the wind?"
Zhao Tuo couldn't help nodding when he heard the movement of the cavalry in front.
Meng Tian is indeed very talented in military affairs, and he has not been on the battlefield many times, but he has already shown the qualities that a general should have, no wonder he can become a general of the Qin Dynasty in history.
If you change to someone like Black Buttocks to lead the team, maybe you will ignore the problem of wind direction when you are excited, and you may just set fire to the wind.
That's where everyone's potential is different.
But it's not a way to do this and wait, if the north wind blows overnight tonight, wouldn't it not be a sneak attack? And if you keep waiting, there is still a possibility of exposure, and the soldiers can't bear the wind blowing all night in this field.
Zhao Tuo gave an order for the soldiers to rest in place and recover the energy they had expended on the road. On the one hand, he sent someone to inform Meng Tian, just wait for an hour, if the wind direction has not changed, he will not care, and directly attack the camp.
Fortunately, not only is there a moon tonight, but even the north wind has no intention of making a special obstruction, and it becomes an east wind after a while.
"Attack!"
Meng Tian felt the change in the direction of the wind, his eyes immediately lit up, and he gave the order to attack the camp.
The five thousand cavalry of the Qin army immediately lined up in an orderly array and rushed towards the location of the Hu camp.
Behind them were tens of thousands of Qin soldiers who had rested well and were full of war.
Because of the night attack, they were not allowed to speak, but in those eyes, there was a blazing flame.
Sweep away Hu Yi and raise the prestige of Zhuxia!
……
In the Hun camp, except for a small number of people who kept vigil, most of the Huns had already fallen asleep.
Even the so-called night watchmen mostly dozed off.
Only a few people were still chatting.
"Let's follow Da Dan Yu south this time, but we are really full of food, and when we get something from the Qin people tomorrow, we can go back to the grassland."
"How's it going to be this time?"
"Hehe, I killed several of them when I broke through the city that day, and those old things and little cubs stabbed them one by one, and it was a pleasure to cut off their heads."
"I didn't kill anyone, but I robbed a woman to pay the bill. This southern woman is just different from the prairie, tsk......"
Just when these Huns were chatting with each other about the harvest.
Suddenly, the dog, which was dozing on the ground on their side, barked and barked at the southern fox.
"What's the matter?"
A Hun exclaimed.
Next to him, another person immediately lay on the ground, listened to it, and suddenly changed his face greatly: "There are horses running!" ”
"Our warriors of the grassland are resting here, where are the cavalry from the south, could it be that those Qin people sent food and treasures in horse-drawn carts? But isn't it the middle of the night? ”
"Fool, it's an enemy attack!"
In the screams of these Huns, in the direction of the south, a large rushing black shadow appeared under the illumination of the moonlight.
The war horse charged in the moonlight, with a good line of sight, and how fast it was.
As soon as these Huns guarding the southernmost part saw it clearly, they were screaming and turning around, when they were chased behind by the Qin cavalry.
In an instant, these Huns had been cut down to the ground, and those who did not die were immediately trampled into rotten flesh by the horses' hooves.
At this time, in the movement caused by the gallop of the five thousand war horses, in the neighing of all kinds of hunting dogs and horses in the camp, and in the shouts of the Huns before they were killed.
The sleeping prairie people were awakened, and many screamed and panicked out of their felt tents to check.
Angry faces and shining blades awaited them.
"Set fire!"
The cavalry commander Meng Tian shouted loudly.
The Qin cavalry, carrying torches, began to set fire to the felt tents of the Huns.
In an instant, the flames burned, and under the fierce wind, they quickly began to spread.
"Kill!"
"Annihilate the Huns, sweep away the Huyi!"
Behind the cavalry, a large number of Qin soldiers rushed up, shouting high slogans in their mouths, and using the fire, they slashed and killed the frightened Huns everywhere.
On a small hill to the south.
Zhao Tuo looked at the flames covering the sky in the distance, his face expressionless.
In his eyes, these Huyi barbarians who invaded Zhuxia should be wiped out.
……
In the middle of the countless felt tents, in a small felt tent near where the Xiongnu nobles were.
"Goddess, can you send heavenly soldiers to save the orphan?"
King Yan was fascinated by the lake, and his mouth was still chanting his wishes.
At that moment, he was suddenly awakened by the movement outside the felt tent.
As soon as he opened his eyes, the cries of various Huns penetrated into his ears.
Yan Wangxi's first reaction was great joy.
"Heavenly Soldiers!"