Chapter 376: Fierce Battle in the Rain (Part 2)
Late at night, no light, murderous intent shrouded the wilderness.
The sound was unusual, but it did not attract the attention of the spies of the Later Han Dynasty. Where the Han army was walking, the corpses on the ground could be seen, the throat of the Hu people was cut open, the heart was pierced, the wound was drizzled, and the cold wind blew, and the blood slowly flowed, gradually wetting the puddles and dyeing the soil red.
The scouts and spies sent by the Han army in advance were grouped together in order to wipe out the Hu people's spies as much as possible so that the Han army could constantly approach the Hu people's garrison.
The siege of Pingyuan City was removed, but the Hu people did not reduce their defense against the Pingyuan Han army. There were Hu troops stationed in all directions, although they lost some vigilance due to the rainy weather for several consecutive days, the troops stationed in various places were still shocking!
Among them, the most garrisons are located in the south and east directions of the plain. The south leads to Gaotang County, but the east is the only way to Leling Kingdom. If the Han army breaks through, it must have a place to settle down, that is, the destination for breaking through. Gaotang or Leling are undoubtedly two options that the plain guards are unable to break free. They must either, otherwise they will seek death!
However, the Han army did not break through this trip, so they chose the north.
After leaving Pingyuan City for about twenty miles, he entered the defense network of the Later Han garrison. There were not many Hu spies on the periphery, and most of them were lazy. Therefore, the scouts of the Han army advanced four or five miles and cut off more than ten heads. It was a very powerful and a small test. The Han army advance troops in the rear were also much faster than expected.
Suddenly, screams sounded in the depths of the wilderness, making people unable to react at all. Then two screams rang out in half a mile, and then the range of the screams continued to expand and could not be controlled at all!
"Hmph! I was finally discovered. The whole army attacked, follow me!!" Han general Deng Lang frowned and snorted coldly, let go of his war horse and led more than a thousand Han troops to stop covering up his movements, and rushed towards the target quickly.
Another Han army, two miles away from the flank of this Han army, was commander Yuan Chong. His face changed when he heard the sound, and he also commanded the Han army to run with all his might and rush to the base of the Later Han army!
The sound of the marching and the gradually dense killing sound completely awakened the land. The scouts of the Han army tried their best to kill the Hu spies as fast as possible. After all, after the Hu spies made a sound, the area of activity was limited in a short period of time. If they could culminate in time, the Hu people would not be able to obtain the exact information of the Han army's sneak attack.
The drizzle that sometimes dissipates became irrelevant, and the muddy path was full of footprints, incomplete, covering layer by layer. Although the target was exposed, the Han army still did not ignite torches. The sound of feet stomping on the mud was squirting under the night sky, and the wilderness was still sensational.
You know I'm coming, but you don't know where I come from.
The place where the firelight gathered was the Hu people's military camp. More than 2,000 Hu people woke up from their dreams by the police. Some of them were scouts and spies who were resting, and most of them were ordinary soldiers. They were busy dressing, picked up their weapons, and ran outside the camp to gather in a queue.
It is a nightmare to not be able to sleep peacefully on wet and rainy days. The resentful expression is still hanging on the face. The naughty people are sleepy and their eyes are covered in pineapple, but when they stand up straight, they still have the heroic spirit of a foreigner.
The first team of hundreds of people gathered quickly held the torches and moved out of the camp. The slightly slower ones added to the defense position of the camp and joined the ranks of patrolling soldiers at night. The more Hu soldiers only gathered more than 30 people at this moment, and most of them were still unable to get out of the camp and were still caught off guard.
It's strange that things that could be accomplished in the blink of an eye in the past were somehow hard to handle tonight. They complained and pushed each other, and it was a mess in the camp. The military officers in charge of leading the team either held whips or knives, urging and scolding each other one by one, but didn't notice that most of the thirty people who had gathered were in disarray.
The worse-stricken soldiers all stood up, but the military officers in charge had just gotten up and started wearing armor under the scouts of their own soldiers.
If a Han army spy saw him, he would definitely be able to draw a conclusion.
There are less than 400 well-trained Hu troops in this camp, and the remaining 1,600 are all new soldiers or auxiliary soldiers, not good at fighting. No one is willing to put such an army on the outpost. The only explanation is that there must be an elite force stationed nearby.
But this does not mean that this Hu army, who used to lure the enemy, can escape from this battle without any injuries...
The sound of the marching is getting closer and closer, but the sounds are everywhere in the wilderness. Which direction is the direction the enemy is coming!? The Hu army generals on the camp listened and watched intently. The fence was tightly grasped by their palms, but they could not find the answer.
Be alert, nervous, confused, how to fight in such a state? On the battlefield, if you enter a state of combat one breath slower than your opponent, it means you have lost your life.
"Hmm!" The general of the camp building suddenly turned to the left side of the camp, waved his hand, and a team of 100 people in the camp shouting loudly with spears in his hand and shouting loudly!!
These hundred people are the elite of this battalion, fifty people hold spears, fifty people hold swords. The spear holder holds the enemy with both hands to open the way, and the sword holder holds the torch in one hand to be responsible for lighting. Once he fights with the enemy, he has a spear to resist first, he can quickly withdraw to the battalion. In this way, the defenders in the battalion can see the enemy's reality and attack has a target.
The fire illuminated the large area, but there was no one, but the sound was still there!
"Turn to the right camp!" The Hu general was unwilling to accept it when he saw it, so he simply let the team of 100 people run quickly from the front of the camp and move towards the right wing.
The military officer of the Later Han Dynasty who led the team looked unhappy when he saw this. Under such circumstances, the enemy may be able to rush up at any time. If he cannot keep moving in the front direction, if he runs into the Han people, wouldn’t he be disrupted by someone? You must know that with such momentum, there will definitely be no less enemies.
The team of 100 people is simply insignificant. The reason why they are sure to withdraw to the camp is that the formation always goes outward and returns at a touch. When moving horizontally to the right side of the camp, they sell their flanks to the darkness of the periphery. If the formation is dispersed, there are only a hundred or ten people who don’t know how to die. They are still thinking about withdrawing the camp?
Military orders are like mountains, even outside the border.
In desperation, the team of hundreds of people began to move to the right side of the camp, praying in a hurry, but don't let the enemy rush up at this time.
The generals in the camp wanted to scold him when they saw it, but they insisted on enduring. Not that there were no one else in their camp who could go out to the camp to detect the attack, but since the troops had already left the camp and exposed themselves in the fire, they simply let the people suffer. This approach is not kind, but to maintain sufficient troops in the camp to prevent the smallest losses when encountering the enemy, this method can only be used as a stopgap measure.
Thinking of this, watching more than a hundred people stalking against the camp and stalking to the right wing with fear, the general sighed and could only let these people go.
It's strange that in this murderous night, there was no sign of Han people on the left and right side of Yingpan. But at this time, no one of the spies on the periphery returned. The enemy was definitely here, but where was the target?
The more you can't see the enemy, the more you think about it. As you think too much, you will deepen your fear. The inexplicable fear of unknowns comes, but it makes people feel heart in your throat. What should be come, but it has not come. They are ready to face the enemy's impact. They can't wait for the enemy for a long time, and everyone is panicked and at a loss.
Amid the shouts, the Hu General finally found that a firelight seemed very dazzling three or four miles behind the side of the camp!!
"That's it!" General Hu opened his eyes wide and shouted that something was wrong. This direction was the place where elite troops were stationed. It seemed that the purpose of the Han army was not himself, but the elite defenders of the Later Han who were dispatched to attack the Han army unexpectedly after hearing the news!!
Running down the city tower quickly, General Hu assigned a task to defend the camp, and took more than 300 capable people to fight, and plucked the courage to go to the dark direction.
The fireballs and other objects prepared in advance were not affected by the weak rain, and quickly ignited and crashed into the elite Hu army troops on the lurking flanks.
The elite Hu army soldiers who were rushing to the night were dreaming of hitting the enemy. They didn't expect that they would be ambushed by the Han people instead. They were panicked and were ambushed by two or three Han troops. Half of the troops were dispersed, and half of the troops remained on the spot to fight to the death!
Blood rain was flying, swords and guns shone brightly, and the Han army suddenly attacked and tried their best. The Hu army was ambushed and fought hard! The two armies fought against each other under dozens of large fireballs, killing very fiercely! The Han army took the lead in occupying the geographical advantage, and the fireball blocked the Hu army from countless battlefields of all sizes, and using its military advantage to defeat them one by one, it was said to have the upper hand.
Hu Jun, who were on the edge and were scattered by fireballs, turned around and rushed into the battlefield, but was shot wildly by Zhuge's crossbowmen hiding in the dark, and suddenly suffered a large number of casualties and were difficult to get close to the battlefield.
After a short period of fierce battle, hundreds of people were killed and injured on both sides. Corpse could be seen everywhere, blood mixed with water, reflected by sword lights and sword shadows, and the fire lights were flying, making it look extremely strange.
The shouts and killings spread to the sky in waves, and then reflected from the sky to the wilderness. Under the night, the entire earth seemed to boil for a moment, and wars in various places continued to ignite.
Han general Deng Lang led more than a thousand men to avoid the Hu people's garrison and quickly arrived at the elite Hu army camp on the lurking flank. There were only more than a hundred people left in the battalion to guard the Han army. The sudden intrusion of the Han army made these defenders not have time to fight. When they shouted forward with their weapons, they were chopped up by crossbows and knifes in the blink of an eye, and forty or fifty people were killed.
Seeing that the rest of Hu army was not good, they turned around and fled, but the Han army did not leave any survivors. They had already broken into the camp from all directions and killed everyone!
"Set the fire! Keep moving forward!" Deng Lang was very unhappy in his killing, but the thunder attack quickly defeated the opponent's camp, which was also a pleasant thing. When the camp was swallowed by the flames, Deng Lang and more than a thousand Han troops had already thrown into the darkness and were missing.
The elite Hu Jun, who was fighting stubbornly, was suddenly confused when he saw this. How long did it take for him to have a camp from ambush to his own camp burned by the Han army? If there was no accurate information, how could he fall into the Han plot everywhere and be suppressed and restricted by the Han people everywhere?! However, no one had time to remember that the spies from a certain camp disappeared last night.
In fact, the corpse of the spy that sank into the puddle will be seen at least two days and two nights before the weather is sunny...
The Hu general who went to rescue dared to join the war, and suddenly a Han army broke out from the diagonal assassination, and the number of people was ten times higher than that of the three hundred Hu army! Such troops, even in such a situation, even the brave people were unable to fight back and were quickly swallowed up by the Han army crowd.
At this moment, the worried Hu military camp was also captured by the subsequent Han Dynasty troops, and a massacre was underway...
Having discovered the military situation of the Hu people, it is not difficult to break through the two battalions in one fell swoop, and the protagonist of this battle is about to appear.
The first thing the two battalions of the outpost was to be affected is reasonable. Only by annihilation of the Hu army of the two battalions as soon as possible can we compete with the main forces of the Hu army in this area. The main forces of the Hu army are huge. From discovering military information to mobilizing forces, even if they react quickly, they can capture some troops to help, and finally, the main forces will take time to attack.
The Han army set fire at the place of battle and burned down two Hu army camps. The remaining troops hid in the night after the war. Even if the Hu people came to rescue, was there an ambush from the Han army where the fire shone? Is there a sneak attack from the Han army in the unknown night? All of this is in the uncertain sky. Do you have the courage and courage to lead the army to fight, or seek steadily and slowly advance. This is a 55-5 number. Therefore, even if the Han army exposed the purpose of the battle, it still took the initiative in this battlefield and dominated the direction of the war.
The sound of killing and noise in the distance did not have much impact on Pingyuan City, and the departure of the raid troops was extremely inspiring. Dare to attack in the face of a strong enemy is not only courage, but also wisdom. This battle is about winning, not simply attacking and consumption.
Even late at night, some people crossed the streets to send Han troops out of the city to cheer their children. No one knows how many people survived after this battle. Even looking at the piles of bones, we can count how many people died...
The Han soldiers on the city were cheering up, either looking around, or leaning against battlements to sharpen their knives and guns, with excitement on their faces. This was a destined not to be peaceful. The people took advantage of this free time to transport the city guard supplies to the city and delivered food at the same time. This was not the time to eat, but it might be the last meal for some people.
The mansions in the city were empty, with only a few servants who were in their own responsibilities, and no one could fall asleep. This battle tonight would either defeat the Hu army or return to the defeat. No one knew what the future of Pingyuan City was, but seeing a group of confident soldiers heading for war, both the servants and the military and civilians in the city hoped that the army would win the flag and win the victory, and the news of success was frequent.
There are troops from the Later Han Dynasty in each direction, so it is very dangerous to choose one direction to attack. Because once the sneak attack is successful, the effect can be comparable to a great harvest. But once it fails, it will face a catastrophe, especially the situation of the Han army in the Plain, which cannot tolerate failure at all.
There are many factors that lead to failure, such as how the Han army retreated after a surprise attack, and how to ensure that the pursuit of Hu army was removed. For example, after obtaining information, Hu army in other directions went to aid or attack the plains. Each idea would lead to different results. The task of the surprise attack troops was to move forward and defeat the enemy.
Then the mission of the Han army to stay is to block the enemy from approaching the plains and leave a road for the brothers who have left out to return to the city safely.
It is not surprising that the sound of killing sounds twenty miles away are the most important. The defensive arrangement around the plain is the top priority. Simply defeating the enemy is meaningless, and the enemy in one direction is insignificant. Being able to successfully defeat the enemy and retreat to preserve its strength is the real victory!
Offense is the best defense, this is just one-sided.
When you have enough strength to defend against enemy attacks, you don’t need to take risks at all; and when you are fully capable of attacking, you don’t need to be forced to take an offensive for the sake of defense.
The Han army in Pingyuan was at a disadvantage, but Pingyuan City was as solid as a rock! If you chose to fight and attack, you would maintain a certain defense system in Pingyuan City.
No one felt that the remaining troops could withstand the crazy attacks of the Hu people, so Yuanyan took an offensive and pretended to attack and restrained the Hu army!
The war in one direction has begun. If the Hu army in other directions also received information about the Han army's sneak attack, it would be impossible for him to ignore the situation on his own side. Using the night color as a cover, he sent a small team to sneak into the opponent's reconnaissance system and acted as if he wanted to attack. Although it was impossible to really scare the enemy, the effect of delaying time was still effective.
This also requires countless warriors' lives, but it is less than fighting head-on.
The war in one direction soon turned into a war in all directions. The Hu army in various places had not yet understood the intentions of the Han army and remained silent for a while. Only the party that was truly attacked had sent troops. The Han army's strategy was a blessing to be grateful for, but the urgent military information came at this moment!!
Gu Xiang, the chief general of the Han army on the east road, and Liu Qian, deputy general, were killed by the Hu army one after another. A Hu army had already approached the east of the plain city!!
When I heard the news in the city, I felt nervous. Why is the Hu army on the east road so fierce?!
Standing at the top of the city, you could hear the noise of the Hu people marching. The soldiers on the top of the city were ready for battle and wanted to fight to the death! Suddenly, a Han army rushed out of the darkness, and seemed to resist the Hu army to the east!!
"Gu Yuanyou is steady and Liu Zicheng is resourceful, why is he defeated so much?" The Han army general Gao Heng originally led 5,000 troops to rescue various places. When he heard that the Eastern Road was defeated, he hurriedly urged the troops to come. He met the defeated army and was summoned to the horse and asked questions. He was very surprised by the sudden situation!
Seeing this, the defeated soldier cried: "Our army has all the arrangements, and General Gu personally commanded them, which is very meticulous. For some reason, the Hu people came to hear the news and just rushed all the way..."
"Well... What a reckless man!" Gao Heng realized after hearing this. The Hu army on the east route didn't care whether you were ambushing or not, and didn't think so much. They just rushed all the way. The Han army was completely feinted, with dispersed troops and no ability to stop them?
"Report! The Hu army in front is here!" At this moment, we will report!
Gao Heng opened his eyes wide and said angrily: "Wait for a certain battle!" He came here first and set up a formation without moving forward, in order to gain a foothold. Now the five thousand Han troops have already formed a formation, even if the Hu people have thousands of troops, what are they afraid of?
In less than a moment, he saw countless Hu soldiers rushing towards him with torches. The leader Hu general was more than a meter tall, his arms were longer than a knee, naked, and only had a piece of tiger skin tied around the waist. His dark skin, protruding skull, his eyes were full of fierce light, his face was covered with cruel smiles, and he was carrying two heads on his spear!
Chapter completed!