Chapter 49: The Battle of Wencheng (2)

Duns took the second column to a place sixty kilometers away from the Harvey army to rest, this distance is only an hour's distance for them, and they can enter the battle at any time, but for the Harvey army, it is a little farther, send cavalry, the number is insufficient, can only be used as a dish, there are many people sent, and the movement is insufficient, and before they arrive, the mercenary army has already left. It can be said that it is not far but not close.

"It's numb, how can these people come so quickly? As long as we have ten more minutes, it is entirely possible for us to expand some more results, and if we miss this time, it will be difficult to achieve such a result in the future. Duns said dissatisfied, he didn't expect the Harvey Army to react so quickly, didn't give them more time, and came over all of a sudden, making his plan to hit the Third Army completely frustrated, and he was very unhappy.

"Come on, be content, we've wiped out their group of more than 2,000 magicians, and that alone is worth it. Sun Hong persuaded on the side, but in his heart he was also scolding those Harvey people how to react so quickly.

"Originally, I wanted to fight the autumn breeze, how could there be thirty or forty thousand people to fill my appetite, who knew that these Harvey soldiers were all guys who were afraid of death, and they came over at once. Hmph! It's really not hidden, you guy too, you are the same as me, persuade me?"

"Be kind to treat it as a donkey's liver and lungs, and I don't bother to pay attention to you!" Sun Hong didn't have a good airway.

The mercenaries of the second column, after resting for four hours, began a new round of weasel tactics experiments.

In a column, Lu Hai looked at the Harvey soldiers in front of him, many of them didn't look like a soldier at all, he knew that these people were city defense troops transferred from various cities. As a person who has dealt with the city defense army a lot, Lu Hai understands that when these people are fighting Shun lì, they are a pack of wolves. They fight fiercer than anyone else, but the results are less than anyone else's, and they often even rob each other of their battle merits, but once the battle falls to the disadvantage, they may be the first to flee. Lu Hai observed for a long time, and the magic mirror continued to observe the rear of the entire Harvey Army, which lasted for two hours, and at the same time, there were more than a dozen magicians and scouts who cooperated to continuously observe the rear of the entire Harvey Army. And constantly report some repetitive numbers to Lu Hai, as the commander of a column, Lu Hai has always been a steady person, although he has been fighting under Kong Ming for a long time. He also got a lot of guidance, but steadfastness is his characteristic. He once asked Kong Ming. "Is his character unsuitable for fighting?" Kong Ming said to him with a smile: "A battle is a battle, and the character of a commander is the character of a commander, these are two different things, although the formation of an army has a lot to do with the commander, but that is just a reflection of a commander's character and ability by the army." Personality is not a determining factor in battle, but only a commander's characteristic. A man of his steady character is well suited to be the chief officer of many armies. These words made Lu Hai have no opinion on his own character, and he was more suitable for Kong Ming's command. In this mission, we can't make mistakes, and we can only win in stability. is his method of fighting. Therefore, after bringing the first column here in concealment, he kept observing Harvey's rear army, so that Harvey's rear army knew that there was a mercenary army following them, but mistakenly thought that the first column was a small detachment of no more than a thousand people, because Lu Hai hid most of the army in the forest and hid it with magic, and only a small part of the guards were with him to reconnoitre.

The biggest difference between the city defense army and the field army is their vigilance and style, if the city defense army is a group of hooligans, then the field war is a group of bandits, hooligans will only wander in the city, while bandits want to rob in the mountains and wilderness, the difference between the two can be said to be heaven and earth. When the combat effectiveness of the city defense army is weak, it is not even as good as ordinary people, but if it is in the tailwind, you will see that they are more fierce than anyone else, of course, they are just fierce, and the fight is not the same at all. For more than a month, living in the wilderness, there were no beautiful women to be seen, and there was no wine to drink, and many of the city defense soldiers were about to make a fuss, and it was not easy to send these people away, which also made the city lord of Butterfly City break out in a cold sweat, and finally completed a task. At this time, although their rearguard saw a few mercenary soldiers scouting in the rear, they did not bother to make any effort to find out who those people were? Just send a few soldiers to watch at any time in the back, and they don't report it, and they don't care, or if they do, no one cares about it. This is no longer a soldier, but a group of masters.

Lu Hai observed for a long time and knew that this was a fighter, and if it was said that the enemy would be scared in a battle, the subsequent battle would be even easier.

"The order, ready to go, according to the pre-arranged qiē unchanged. ”

At midnight, the gloomy weather began to drift the first snow of the winter, small snowflakes fell from the sky, but the whole earth had a little more light, Harvey's entire rearguard barracks had already been encamped, except for a small number of soldiers who were carrying out normal patrols and standing guards, the rest of the people had entered their tents to hide from this cold winter. Outside the rear guard camp, a column of more than 50,000 people is slowly approaching the rear guard camp, this is the caution of Lu Hai, even when he saw such a Harvey army, he was stunned to observe for a long time and still did not move them, but waited until they were the most defenseless, and then carried out the most fatal blow, and now is the right time. In order to reduce the risk of the Harveys discovering it, all the people in the entire column bit a branch with their teeth, and the snow wolf had a bone in its mouth, and all the snow wolves' hooves were wrapped with thick cloth, and the armor of the swordsman was covered with a layer of gray cloth to avoid making a noise during the movement.

Lu Hai and Duns took two completely different paths, one used action to hide the intention of fighting, while the other used silence to hide the intention of fighting, both for the suddenness of the battle, it can be said that under the guidance of Kong Ming, the two had a great understanding of the suddenness of the battle. The suddenness of battle can put an unprepared army in a desperate situation, because there is no time to react, and even less the ability to react. All of this will give the party that strikes a surprise an overhead in any situation, provided that it is sudden, of course.

Three hundred meters, the snow wolf mercenary army has approached the enemy only three hundred meters left, Lu Hai pulled out the long sword, pointed forward, and then saw that the people on both sides drew the long sword one by one, and the magician began to prepare the magic scroll, two hundred meters, all the preparations were completed, and the impact began. All of them let go and ran, and the sound was heard in the distance. In Harvey's barracks, the guards of the city guards began to look over to this side.

"Little San, why does it sound like an army is coming?"

"Ah Si, it seems to be uh. It seems like there's a lot. ”

"Do you want to send an alarm?"

"Go, sound the alarm now. What if it's not enemy troops. You have to know that the enemy is on the other side, and look at it again?"

"What if so? Why don't you call the squad leader first?"

"Damn, that's the guy on duty right now, and he's going to push us out! ”

"Come on, who made the family the squad leader, and they got used to it. ”

"Ah Four. You've seen so many people!—ah!"

San's screams rang through the area, but no one heard them, as everything was drowned out in the magic attack. No matter how well the traps outside the city guards were set up, a wave of magic attacks passed, and all the traps and fences disappeared without a trace. The Snow Wolf Mercenary Army began to charge the wolves into it.

Lei Kai is a captain of a column, from the Han Empire, graduated from an ordinary military academy in the Han Empire, the third military academy of the empire, the brand is very large, in fact, it is very small, as the first batch of officers sent to the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army for training, at first he was very repulsive to this way, let him a regular army officer come to such a small mercenary army, not only Qu Cai, but also more Qu people, but with the victory step by step, he gradually experienced this feeling that he could not experience in his previous military service, and when he learned that the commander of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army was also from another country, he completely calmed down, into every battle, in these battles, he learned a lot, the suddenness of the battle is the biggest skill he learned, because he found that almost every unexpected attack of the enemy will make the mercenary army occupy, but if there is no suddenness, then often the battle will drag into a very cruel battle of the stronghold, at that time, all the advantages of the mercenary army will make the army of the Harvey Empire crushed. And today, he took part in another battle for a raid.

The road ahead was not smooth, although in the plains, there was a saying that there was a flat river, but this was only a statement, there were still many bumps in the ground, and there were more traps in front of Harvey's barracks. But these things are not traps in the snow wolf's travel, you must know that these traps become traps because they are not noticed or not discovered, but for the snow wolf, many of these traps cannot become traps, either too rough, or too shallow inside to stop the snow wolf? That's why Kong Ming chose the snow wolf instead of other magic horses when he chose the magic horse, not only because of the large number of snow wolves, high attack power, and strong tactical awareness, but more importantly, the snow wolf can adapt to any living environment, which many magic horses do not have. What's more, the trap here is just used by the Harvey City Defense Army for early warning, and it doesn't have much lethal power. Lei Kaice wolf moved forward, only to see the snow wolf suddenly cross in the steady movement, then stop and cross again, and then move steadily. The same goes for most of the other snow wolves. What is surprising is that although most of the snow wolves are jumping around, there is not much sound when they land, even if they jump in large quantities, even if there is a sound, it is covered up a lot in the magician's magic. Two hundred meters in front was Harvey's rear barracks, and the bright light of the bonfire illuminated Harvey's barracks facing the attacking side, and even the people inside could see clearly what they were doing. Lei Kai saw that those Harvey soldiers were still patrolling and standing guard calmly, and even some people fell asleep on their posts because they were too tired during the day, all of them were very calm, without a trace of abnormality, Lei Kai knew that their preliminary work was not in vain, and it was harvest season. Suddenly, a crisp sound of the long sword came out of the sheath, this is the order to attack, he also pulled out his own long sword, and the teammate next to him also drew the long sword, and then quickly stabbed the long sword into the wrapping cloth on several legs of the mount. Cut them all off, the snow wolf is still moving forward, there is no pause because of this matter, such things they have trained many times, plus a senior swordsman's skills, so that it can master this skill faster, this is a small skill necessary for the snow wolf mercenary army, only this method will allow the snow wolf to stealthily approach the enemy in the battle, and only in this way can the snow wolf exert its maximum combat power when fighting, and now there is no need to hide something. Attack with all your might. There were no shouts of killing, no grandiose words, only the sound of snow wolves moving on the ground, and as he approached quickly, Lei Kai suddenly felt bursts of magic fluctuations. It was the magicians who followed them, who were responsible for destroying the traps and fences of the barracks ahead. In this kind of makeshift barracks. The fence was nothing more than a fence made of trees cut down from the vicinity to protect against the enemy's cavalry. After a round of magical attacks, the fence in front of it disappeared, along with the guards and tents near the fence. Rekai saw a flash of light, his eyes suddenly confused, but he still moved backwards and forwards. In just a second, the eyes have adapted to this kind of light, and the scene ahead gradually becomes clearer. The enemy's fence was gone, and all the snow wolf mercenaries knew what they should do at this time, and the sound and light of magic were orders. "Rush!"

"Rush!"

"Rush!"

"Rush!"

"Rush!"

In an instant, the snow wolf mercenaries rushed through a hundred meters between them and the Harvey army, and then, began a new round of three-stage attacks, a tactic that had been matured by the snow wolf mercenaries. After three rounds of attack, the mercenary soldiers' swords began to attack every moving object that could be seen, whether it was an enemy or an enemy mount, and these were included in the target, which was the conclusion of the actual battle. Lei Kai rushed to the front of the whole team, he saw a figure rushing out of a tent, so a fighting spirit slash directly attacked the past, the fighting spirit slash cut the target in half, Lei Kai looked over, only to see that it was a Harvey soldier wearing only a single coat, his face was still full of horror, thinking that he didn't expect to just want to escape to the back, but became the first person to be killed by Lei Kai. Lei Kai rushed from the edge of the tent, the long sword easily cut the tent directly, only to see three shirtless Harvey soldiers exposed inside, Lei Kai ignored them, but rushed over directly, seeing this phenomenon made the three people inside breathe a sigh of relief, but then the three long swords killed them in half, this is just a kind of battle of the mercenaries, the people in front rushed over and passed, can not stay, so as not to delay the impact speed of the entire mercenary, and similar problems in the middle are solved by the people behind, this is not the time to leave prisoners of war, so these three people were killed by several mercenaries around Lei Kai with a sword, no suspense. The tent became the only shelter in the barracks, but at this time, many of the tents on the side that were close to the mercenary army's attack fell on the crowd of the Harvey army's own people, falling in rows, and then they saw many disheveled people constantly running in the opposite direction to the mercenaries, there was no reason, they thought that only in this way could they escape the pursuit of the mercenaries, and the city guards who didn't know what was going on just came out, and saw countless people escaping from the side, and some of them didn't react, so they let those who fled go forward, and some other people who were still thinking about what was going on saw the mercenaries riding snow wolves rushing over, and then fled back, so, in the places where many mercenaries have not yet attacked, the rearguards composed of Harvey City Defenses have begun to trample on each other, and many people will not have a chance to get up again as long as they fall, because they have stepped on the footsteps of many colleagues, and in the darkness, no one can recognize what is happening under their feet, only running for their lives is real. In other words, Harvey's rearguard army has bombed the camp.

Throughout the previous battles, especially in the era of cold weapon battles, because the people in the barracks are very close to each other, especially at night, they live quite closely, once this situation occurs in the bombing of the camp, it is almost equivalent to declaring the death of an army, no matter what the reason is at the beginning, but after the bombing of the camp, more casualties come from the crowding and stampede between the personnel within the army, rather than the enemy's attack. Especially at night, the infection between ignorance will be more rapid and more blind, this is the nature of human beings, to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. When a person is at a loss in a frightened environment, their feelings will quickly spread to more people, they usually follow the crowd, always think that among so many people there are always some people whose wisdom is stronger than them, and the crowd is usually a kind of blind thinking driven by them, this kind of lack of self-confidence makes it difficult for them to get out of a correct decision, in fact, more often they should rely on their own judgment, this is actually the most basic reason for the bombing of the camp, everyone wants to be farther away from those disasters, so it causes the flow, this kind of lovesickness caused the tragedy of the entire military camp。 If it is a well-trained army, it should resist on the spot when it encounters such a situation, so that the people behind can have more time to prepare after knowing the specific situation, but this also means that the team attacked in front must be self-sacrificing, and use self-sacrifice to win time for the people behind to react, maybe this time may be very long, or it may be short, depending on the training of an army and the scale of the enemy's attack. But these self-sacrificing spirit is not everyone will have, in peacetime, especially during the day, there are officers in this kind of place, those who want to escape have no way to do it, and they will not impact other armies, the darkness at night gives these people a kind of physical and psychological cover, making the escape situation more likely to occur. This is also a fundamental reason why we see that in ancient times, 800 people often attacked a camp of nearly 100,000 people, and they could still enter and exit safely.

Lei Kai led the team to rush forward, constantly killing those Harvey soldiers who were running away in front of them with their backs to them, these people had become frightened rabbits, and there was no sense of resistance in their minds, they only knew how to flee forward, escape, and escape faster, and some people also rushed towards Lei Kai in despair, but soon these people were covered by the tide of the mercenary army, leaving only a dead corpse. At this time, if it was daytime, you could see the entire Harvey Army's rearguard camp, all the Harvey soldiers fled from one side to the other side of the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army, and those who did not attack on both sides fled in the direction of the outward direction on both sides. Lei Kai looked at a person dressed as a magician in front of him, and he also inserted himself in the team and desperately fled forward, but the front was blocked by a swordsman, maybe the magician's magic was powerful and mysterious, but their bodies were not as good as the swordsman who was mainly fighting spirit, and finally the magician was annoyed, and an extremely strong wind blade tore the swordsmen in front of him who only cared about escaping to pieces, and then he wanted to escape from the middle, but his moment angered the swordsmen on both sides, and several people rushed over from the side, and more than ten sword qi directly tore the magician into pieces, but then they saw countless mercenary armies crushed over, and they also died under the swords of these mercenary armies。 Lei Kai didn't have much movement in his heart when he looked at this phenomenon, because he was too familiar with this scene, and he had seen it many times, because it was a consequence of the mercenary army's specialty - a surprise attack. More than an hour passed, in front of the still fleeing Harvey's guard, the whole barracks were a chaotic image, there was no organization, those who tried to organize these chaos, either killed by those rebels, or were swept across by the rebels, in order to facilitate the escape, those people rushed across the tents, the fire burned a small piece of place, the horses neighed, the flames flew, the long sword was inserted into the ground, the corpses were scattered, the sound of sorrow was flying, the way to escape was difficult to find, people stepped on people, and there were often cases of self-slaughter, this was a scene that shocked the entire Harvey Guard Army, this was a rare phenomenon in the world, and the Snow Wolf Mercenary Army chased and killed for two hoursbefore the arrival of enemy reinforcements. The light snow grew heavier and heavier, turning into heavy snow, covering all traces. (To be continued......)

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