Chapter 195: The Battle of Le Chun (Part II)
Zhang Heng immediately ordered 7,000 horsemen to jump out of the salt pond and kill the camp of the Ma Dai army four or five miles away. The shouts of men and horses, the sound of war horses' hooves, instantly made the quiet autumn night noisy.
Ma Dai was overjoyed, pointed to a captain, and said, "You, transfer a thousand crossbowmen, light a rocket, and shoot into our military camp!" ”
"Yes!"
Ma Dai pointed to a military marquis and said, "You, lead fifty people to the city of Lechuan to raise the torch and raise the fire as a signal!" ”
"Yes!"
Ma Dai pointed to the two lieutenants and said: "The two of you led your subordinates to four thousand horses, and when you saw that the gate of Lechuan City was wide open, and the horse played and led the troops out of the city, they ambushed from the side, and then chased the horse play to rush into the city of Lechuan and seize the city gate!" ”
"Yes!"
Ma Dai pointed to the last two lieutenants and said, "You two will lead the remaining 5,000 horsemen with me, and when the camp is on fire, immediately go around the camp and pursue Zhang Hengbu!" ”
"Yes!"
With Ma Dai's four orders, the Xiliang Iron Rider who was dormant in the dark was immediately boiled like water, and came out in all directions.
Zhang Heng's troops immediately rushed to the bottom of the camp, and the crossbowmen fired a few arrows, and the defenders on the wall were not moved. Zhang Heng was overjoyed, thinking that it seemed that Ma Dai was not well guarded, and he actually used a few drunks to guard the gate of the village! But the ecstatic Zhang Heng didn't notice that the guards who were shot just didn't move after being shot, but they were still standing.
Zhang Heng didn't take a few more looks, and immediately ordered a song of soldiers to open the gate of the wall. The gate of the fortress did not even collide, and was immediately opened by the sergeant.
Zhang Heng was even more ecstatic, the prancing horse raised his sword, and pointed to the camp tent that had turned off the lights and sunk quietly under the darkness, and shouted: "Soldiers, follow me!" ”
The first one rushed into the camp, and the cavalry behind him followed him. After Zhang Heng's cavalry entered the camp, they immediately evacuated and killed each of them towards the camp tent where the enemy was sleeping. Zhang Heng did not choose those small and dilapidated tents that looked like ordinary soldiers lived, but went straight to the largest tent in the center of the camp, which must be Ma Dai's tent. Zhang Heng was overjoyed at the thought of being able to cut off the head of the brother of the dignified and mighty general Jin Ma Chao, and he didn't notice that he had led his army to kill for so long, and not a single enemy soldier had risen.
Zhang ran to the big tent and cut the tent with a knife, thinking that what he saw should be Ma Dai's frightened face, but he didn't expect to see a stack of grass and trees, which were still reflective and looked like grease.
Zhang Heng was stunned for a moment, and then understood that this was a well-planned ambush!
Zhang Heng looked back and saw that many soldiers were also like him, looking at the camp tent that had been split by the knife, with a look of surprise on their faces. Zhang Heng hurriedly shouted hysterically: "It's not good, it's an ambush, retreat, retreat!" ”
Before the words fell, suddenly the sound of "Xiu Xiu" sounded in the night sky. Zhang Heng raised his head and saw that under the bright moonlight and in the dim night sky, there were countless fires burning, as if half of the night sky was burned by fire. Zhang Heng opened his eyes and looked closely, those fires were dense rockets!
Zhang Heng subconsciously looked down, and the camp tent in front of him was full of fire-starting things.
When Zhang Heng raised his head again, the rocket had already been shot down. Rockets fall to the ground like meteors falling to the ground. Some shot the tents, and the tents immediately burst into flames; Some shot Zhang Heng's cavalry, and dozens of unlucky cavalrymen slapped the flames on their bodies.
Rockets hit the tents one after another, and the tents turned from dark to bright, and a raging fire erupted. The camp tent was set up very close to Ma Dai, and suddenly the camp group was full of flames and smoke, and the cavalry between the camp tents soon suffered, and some were burned by the fire, and the leather armor on their bodies became an excellent fire starter, and they were burned into a burning man; Some cavalrymen were choked by the smoke and tried to run out of the smoke, but the smoke had already filled the air, and they lost their direction in the smoke, and then they were smoked to death by the smoke; Some of the cavalry's mounts were frightened by the fire, and they threw down the cavalry on their backs and trampled them to death; Some of the frightened horses were too panicked, panicked, and rushed directly into the fire with the cavalry......
Zhang Heng himself was almost thrown off by a startled horse, his face was blackened by the smoke of the fire, and most of his hair and beard were burned off. He looked around, the wide camp was full of fire, thick smoke was billowing from the sky, countless horsemen were crying and crying in the fire and smoke, struggling to the death, some of them had been burned into burning men, running helplessly with flames all over their bodies; Many horses wailed, galloped between the fires, and finally crashed headlong into the flames and disappeared, leaving behind a heart-rending neighing sound; Even Zhang Heng saw that on the ground of the camp, there were many charred corpses lying on the ground, and they were no longer moving......
At the same time, the night sky was lit up by firelight several times, and the enemy fired rockets into the camp without mercy. Zhang Heng estimated that there were at least 1,000 horsemen who were burned to death by the fire! Fortunately, the gate was narrow, and his seven thousand horsemen did not fully enter, and the Xiliang army began to shoot rockets. Zhang Heng didn't care too much, and quickly organized the surviving cavalry to turn around and escape from this flaming hell.
Even if they were not burned, the rest of the more than 6,000 cavalry were choked by the smoke, realizing that they had been ambushed and attacked by the enemy, but they didn't know where the enemy would be waiting for them, and no one could still maintain a high fighting spirit, not to mention that they had been trained for less than a month, and their hearts were not in Han Sui's place.
Zhang Heng hurriedly ordered, and the whole army fled to Lechuan City. Zhang Heng's cavalry was about to turn around the war horse, and a large group of cavalry suddenly rushed from the direction of Leyun City, each of them held a torch in one hand and a weapon in the other, along the wall, screaming and killing, and it was impossible to see how many men and horses there were in the dark night.
Zhang Heng was shocked and hurriedly ordered his troops to escape, but when he turned his head, he saw that his cavalry had already scattered in a hurry and ran faster than him. The cavalry has been through all this, who will dare to fight? Zhang Heng struggled to whip the deserters with his horsewhip, but no one could stop him, and his horse was also hit by the deserters' horses.
And the enemy's cavalry was already galloping forward, and the light of the fire illuminated their hideous faces, and shining swords and spears. Zhang Heng saw that he couldn't organize a counterattack, and the general trend was gone, as long as he fled with the deserters.
The Xiliang Iron Cavalry rushed up, first cutting down hundreds of Han Sui's cavalry, and then pursuing frantically, shouting in the darkness: "Those who descend will not be killed!" Those who descend will not be killed! ”
The deserters fled like frightened birds, and when they heard this, they threw down their weapons without any psychological pressure.
Zhang Heng saw that more and more deserters stopped their horses and threw down their weapons, while the Xiliang soldiers were busy dismounting and surrendering, and the speed of the pursuit slowed down, and when he saw that the night sky was particularly dark, he took advantage of the night to quietly flee.