Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 149 Night Attack on Zhongshan Village

Zhang He's sharp eyes looked around at everyone present, and he said in a deep voice, "Exactly, there is a saying in the art of war: 'Attack those who are unprepared, and surprise them'. Today's Shu army is too strong and underestimates the enemy. The momentum is too strong. Zhongshan Tun Li Xu, so big, Seeing our army as nothing and our camps unprepared, if we don't take advantage of this opportunity to attack Zhongshantun and cut off Wei Yan's arm, how can we go south to rescue Longyou?"

Xu Miao, Inspector of Liangzhou heard about it, pondered for a moment and said: "Although the Zhongshan Tun camp is unprepared, Li Xu is a brave man who fought bravely. I am afraid that it will be difficult to rush down to Zhongshan Tun. Moreover, the general hastily arrived here, and the soldiers are tired. Even if Zhongshan Tun is captured, there will be no It is very close to the camp of Wei Yan, the general of Shu, and when the main force of the Han army arrives, it may be difficult for the general to escape."

Zhang He was displeased, pointed his finger to the south, and said, "Everyone knows, Longyou has been occupied by the Shu army for more than two months now. If you can't win quickly, Longyou will be lost. I hope you understand. Besides, it's raining today, and Shu The army is even more slack."

Zhang He stood up, cupped his hands to the east and said, "Your Majesty entrusted me with the task of saving Long. Now He is shouldering a heavy responsibility for the country. Faced with such a great opportunity, how can he slack off because of fatigue? Besides, the army he leads is the Chinese army, which is extremely elite. Today I have made up my mind, all you can obey!"

As soon as this remark came out, no one discussed it any more.The generals subconsciously stood up straight, waiting for Zhang He's order.

"Xu Miao, Inspector of Liangzhou."

"exist."

"You stay in the base camp to support the Chinese troops under my leadership, and send guides to follow my Chinese army to attack at night."

"promise!"

"Niu Jin!"

"The end is here!"

"Immediately rectify the Chinese army, let the soldiers rest and eat quickly, and wait until the fourth quarter of the ugly hour, and lead 500 people to follow me to the expedition. Each battalion should prepare more torches."

"promise!"

"Xiahouba!"

"The end is here!"

"You also let the soldiers rest and eat quickly, and lead 500 people to go to Zhongshantun and Weiyan camp to ambush in the passageway, waiting for my signal!"

"promise!"

At present, the battalions of the reinforcements hurriedly set up stoves and light fires, while Xia Houba and Niu Jin went to select the elite.Zhang He returned to his army, stood on the watchtower and looked around at the troops in the village. He saw the surrounding soldiers running back and forth in an orderly manner.

Zhang He nodded secretly. If his Jingzhou soldiers and horses were under him, they would definitely be dissatisfied and shouted, but the Chinese soldiers stationed in Luoyang would not be like this. tenacious.In addition, their wives and children were all in Luoyang, so they naturally did not dare to resist, and quickly entered the state.

It was night, and Zhang Yun, who served as the third king of Wei, didn't want to rest at first, but he was worried about the gains and losses of the war. Coupled with the continuous rapid march, for a while, his body was no longer young and strong, but he felt a sense of physical and mental exhaustion.

Finally, under the persuasion of everyone, he returned to the tent and slept for several hours.At four quarters (3:00) of Yiwai Chou, Xia Houba shouted for preparations.

At four o'clock in the ugly hour, Xia Houba waved his hand, and the drums of the Chinese army sounded.

As soon as the drum was blown, Zhang He's central army raised the commander's flag, Xia Houba and Niu Jin raised the tooth flag, and the lower battalion, Qu, Shi, and Wu army numbers responded and assembled quickly.After the second drum, the officers and soldiers will hold their mouths horizontally, roll their armor and carry their equipment on their backs. The officer checks his subordinates to see if there is anyone absent.After three drums, all ministries set off on time and orderly.

The radiant Zhang He waved his hand, and the torches in the army were ignited suddenly. Thousands of torches were divided into several fire dragons and filed out of the village.

Except for the sound of the bugle, the crowd was silent, there was no words, only the rustling footsteps and the dull sound of horseshoes, a total of 3000 people formed a team.

The cavalry dismounted and led the horses. The infantry rolled up their armor and carried equipment on their backs. They all ran with torches held high. From a distance, it seemed that several huge fire snakes were winding forward, sometimes closing in on one place, sometimes collapsing. dispersion.

Wei Yan's headquarters and Zhongshantun are separated by a chaoling road. The two armies face each other, and they attack and help each other.That's why Zhang He had to break Weiyan if he wanted to go south to rescue Long. If he wanted to break Weiyan, he had to break Zhongshantun first, leaving him alone and helpless.

The downpour in the afternoon had stopped by midnight.Wei Jun walked through the mountain road, and everyone sniffed the aroma of the damp soil and waded through the accumulated water in the gullies.

The sky was gloomy, but fortunately Zhang Yun connected the villages with ropes before setting off. Every soldier grabbed the ropes and followed behind, so that no one would get lost on the mountain road.

When it was five miles away from Zhongshan, the whole army extinguished most of the torches, only sparse and dim lights;

At this time, Li Xu, a Han soldier in Zhongshantun, was lying lazily on the couch, wrapped in a blanket, and sleeping soundly.

Li Xu was a ranger in Jingzhou in his early years. He joined the army with Wei Yan and the late emperor Liu Bei.This person does not have outstanding talents, but relying on his courage and fearless spirit, he fights all the way to the top.However, he has been in the army for many years and has accumulated a lot of experience, which Wei Yan relies on.

When he first dispatched troops to Longyou, Li Xu often personally led troops to inspect the camps, but recently, as Longyou was gradually calmed down, Liangzhou's reinforcements were defeated again, and they retreated to Woganban, so in his eyes, Longyou has been calmed down.

So Li Xu also started to be lazy, and he didn't pay much attention to the defense of the camp.

From top to bottom, the guards of the Han army in the village did not dare to relax blatantly, but the guards scattered around the checkpoints and watchtowers in the outside world had already nodded their heads up and down, leaning on their spears to rest.

A soldier guarding the checkpoint on the west side, while sleeping, his mouth and nose were covered, his neck was cut, and he died of breathlessness.

In this way, the checkpoints one by one were attacked by the soldiers of the Wei army, and they soon arrived at the gate of the Zhongshan Tunying Village.

Niu Jin raised his hand and waved it. In the dark night, the fire light went from three to five o'clock to thirty or fifty o'clock, and then from three to fifty o'clock to three to five hundred o'clock, and then the fire burst into the sky.

The soldiers of the Wei army held up the torches, alternately covering and removing the antlers.Then the sergeant held up the giant log, hit the tooth door, and broke in, all in one go.

The guarding soldiers of the Han army couldn't help buzzing their heads, suddenly felt a huge sense of fear, and shouted: "Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

The soldiers of the Wei army poured in from all directions, and then there were countless short roars and blunt sounds of swords and swords.

Li Xu woke up startled from his sleep. He, who had experienced many battles, suddenly heard countless dull footsteps.

A strong sense of threat suddenly hit his heart, he turned over and jumped up, and in a subconscious reaction, he first took the armor and put it on his body, and then took the ring knife in his hand.

"Captain!" A guard from outside broke into the tent in panic and shouted. "Wei army attacked at night!"

At this time, the shouts of killing and the clash of weapons and armor in the village instantly resounded through the camp, even getting closer.

Li Xu couldn't care less about panic now, and hastily told his guards, "Notify General Wei immediately and ask him to send reinforcements to help."

After finishing speaking, Li Xu hesitated for a while, the village was attacked at night, the situation was bad, if he escaped, his wife and children would be hurt, he might as well fight hard for a chance of victory!
Li Xu then raised the ring-shouldered knife and called for soldiers to gather in the camp.Fortunately, the soldiers of the Chinese army were not in chaos, but moved closer to Li Xu, forming a circle to absorb the scattered soldiers of the Han army.

There are more than [-] Chinese soldiers stationed around Li Xu's tent.Although there were not many of them, they were veterans of Li Xu's southern and northern wars, or veterans of Jingzhou, who had rich combat experience and a very tenacious will to fight.

(End of this chapter)