At night, strange screams came from time to time in the mountains and forests, creating a creeping atmosphere for the Killing Hu Ridge under the moonlight. In the military camps on both sides of the river in the valley, in tents, the soldiers tossed and turned a little as they listened to the movement outside.

At night, wild animals came out to find food. It was nothing scary to scream a few times. Everyone had killed people and saw blood. Thousands of people camped together. They were not worried about jackals, tigers and leopards coming to eat people. The reason why they couldn't sleep well was that they were worried about someone attacking them.

There are mountains on the left and right of this Killing Hujian, but there are exits at the north and south ends. Once someone blocks both ends and sets a fire, there is really no place to run.

However, the enemy was defeated and fled south from Yinshan Pass, while the official army marched south from the north. If someone really came to attack, they could only come from the south. The southern end of the camp was particularly vigilant, and three wooden fences were trenched, so there was nothing to worry about.

Even if the enemy has climbed up the mountains on both sides of the valley, it is not easy to get off the bare stone wall. Even if elite soldiers really do it, these few night attackers cannot do substantial things.

Because there are soldiers watching the night in the camp, they can react immediately as soon as there is movement outside. At night, the generals of all departments have repeatedly ordered that if there is movement at night, those who are not vigilant must not leave their camp without permission, otherwise they will be regarded as enemies and will be killed without permission.

Seeing that everything was arranged in an orderly manner, the soldiers gradually felt relieved. As the night was deep, more and more people fell asleep. The snoring sounds in the camp that lasted for miles were blowing away, sweeping away the pervasive atmosphere rendered by the strange screams in the valley.

However, the gradually calming valley suddenly sounded continuous thunder, just like countless thunders exploding in the long valley, alarming countless birds living in the forest. The sound came too suddenly and too stimulating, which directly woke many soldiers up.

Everyone has seen the sound of the explosion of the sky thunder, so they would not think that the sky thunder fell to the ground. The only idea is that the enemy attacks and uses the sky thunder to open the way. The sound is so dense that I think there are many sky thunders to invest in.

That means there are also many enemy troops attacking at night.

The camp suddenly became boiling. Many soldiers who woke up from their sleep had no time to wear armor and had to take out the tent. However, they were soon scolded by the team generals for not daring to move around, because there were already repeated orders beforehand, and who deserved to be killed by anyone who dared to walk around.

Taking the team as a unit, the soldiers held their breath and stood in their camps, silently watching the movements around them, while the soldiers watching the night were as if they were facing a great enemy, holding bows and crossbows to look out of the camp vigilantly.

The mountain breeze blew on his face, bringing the unique smell after the explosion of the sky thunder. However, no movement was seen other than that. After a long time, the valley gradually became quiet, and the unexpected night attack on the enemy did not appear.

However, no one dared to relax his vigilance, because the enemy was most likely to be cheating, and waited for the government army to relax its vigilance before launching a real night attack.

So no matter whether it was the soldiers who were watching or the soldiers who should have rested, they did not dare to take it lightly. Everyone listened carefully to the movements around them. As they listened, some people were tired and yawning, their eyelids became heavier and heavier.

Just as they were about to fall asleep, a fire fell from the mountain walls on both sides, and the explosion of thunder sounded from all over the valley. The sound was very rapid, as if hundreds or even thousands of thunders were exploding. The soldiers who were dozing woke up instantly and looked around nervously.

Maybe the enemy really attacked this time?

Many people think so, so they don’t dare to neglect at all, for fear that if they are not careful, they will touch the camp. As a result, they will get tired of their eyes when they look at it, but they just don’t see anyone touching it.

After a while, the valley became quiet again, and the soldiers gradually became sleepy. After a while, the snoring sounds one after another. At this moment, the third round of explosions came again.

In the central army tent, General Tian Xingshou listened to the movement outside, frowned for a moment and issued an order: except for the guards, if there was no sound of drums to warn, the rest of the soldiers would just sleep without damaging the morale of the army for the explosion.

Tian Xingshou has been through the battlefield for a long time and knows what a tired army is. The Huangzhou army attacked at night and must have made a bluff. The sides of the Killing Hujian are mountains. As long as he guards the north and south ends of the camp, even if the other party can send a small group of elite troops to slide down the stone wall to attack the camp, he will not be able to stir up trouble.

So the other party was just trying to make his side feel in a panic and couldn't sleep well all night. If this happened for several days, he would be careless because of his fatigue. At that time...

Tian Xingshou would not fall into the trap, but he did not dare to be entrusted. He should be warned so that he would not be caught by a small group of enemy troops and set fire to the camp. At that time, not many people would be killed, but would be burned to death, and many more people would be trampled on each other and died.

If it were on the plain, it would not have been so frustrating. There were many officers and horses, and many cavalrymen could disperse within dozens of miles outside the camp and move around as an external warning. However, in this mountain, the scattered outposts were easily touched by the enemy.

Tian Xingshou heard from Tian Qiancheng and others that those slave hunting teams that rage in the Dabie Mountains relied on their one-legged bronze men as their backers. They not only did all the bad things, but also were well-equipped, especially good at fighting in the mountains, and could use any evil sneak attack trick.

It is conceivable that if the other party cannot beat him in person, he will definitely send someone to attack him. After all, the roads in the mountains are lined with plants and trees, and cold arrows shot from time to time are hard to defend against, let alone the other party has thunder, so the official army must be careful when marching and setting up camp.

Thinking of this, Tian Xingshou couldn't help but be alert. Generally speaking, the so-called exhausted soldiers were to send people to approach the enemy camp at night, and then beat gongs and drums, making the other party think that a large group of people were coming, causing them to be unable to sleep at night. After a few days of trouble, either the morale of the army would be in chaos or relax their vigilance.

At this time, the enemy attacked them, not using gongs and drums but thunder.

He had heard the movement carefully and found that the other party made a lot of noise, which seemed to have ignited hundreds or even thousands of thunders. According to reports from the generals of various departments, no one on his side was injured.

In other words, the enemy ignited the sky thunder so that they could not live in peace. Such a luxurious move made Tian Xingshou feel uneasy.

He didn't know how the sky thunder was made, but he probably knew that the cost was not cheap, and only the wealthy court could prepare countless sky thunders. It would be a waste to use hundreds or even thousands of sky thunders to scare people instead of killing people.

Perhaps Huangzhou Army was just using a small trumpet bombing thunder at this time, but the cumulative number of use must be quite large. Tian Xingshou felt that the other party was so willing to spend a lot of money, so he could not just make them unable to sleep well.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. Tian Xingshou turned out of the tent and looked up at the dark mountains on both sides. After looking at it for a long time, he couldn't tell anything about it. He carefully recalled the series of arrangements he made for the camp alert. He couldn't think of any flaws and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Chapter completed!