Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 486
Night battles have been the main tactic of defeating the strong with the weak since ancient times. Its main essence is that the elite soldiers rush into the enemy camp first, disrupt the enemy's line, use chaos to control chaos, use the small to fight the big, and use the weak to defeat the strong.

The earliest case of night battle in China was in 478 BC, the battle of Wuyue and Lize.The main force of the Vietnamese army used torches to hide the true direction of the main force, and sneaked into the Wu army's camp, which was won in one battle.

Guan Zhong has a saying that hearing each other's voices in night battles is enough to be misbehaving; seeing each other in daytime battles is enough to make acquaintances.Sun Bin also said that those who are good at daytime combat are brave generals; those who are good at night combat are strange.Therefore, for generals, if they can master the rules of victory in night battles and turn the tide of battle, they will become famous generals.

As far as Lu Xun is concerned, Liu Bei's army was defeated in the battle of Yiling, and Cao Xiu's army was defeated in the battle of Shiting. This World War II is enough to establish his position as a first-class general.

That's why for Huang Quan, night battles were no strangers, and he even practiced a lot during his army rule. This was also the confidence for him and his generals to attack the Wei camp at night.

Relying on the wailing of the soldiers and the shouts of fighting, Liu Yin in the formation immediately judged that the front of the Han and Wei Dynasties had already handed over.As a forward, he would not want to lag behind, wearing heavy armor, holding a long knife, beating drums and raising fire to find and summon the army as elite soldiers to follow him into the battle.

Taking advantage of the bright moonlight tonight, Liu Yin stepped forward, the money in his mouth was no longer there, replaced by constant shouting, using his unique Bashu accent, to greet the cronies beside him.Behind him is the confidant with the piccolo in his mouth, with a unique and sharp voice, making everyone follow.

The crossbowmen of the Han army were also moving quickly. They hid in the night and shot towards the visible people in the Wei army camp.This is another advantage of the attacking side, that is, they can see nearby enemy soldiers based on the fire source in the camp, so as to launch long-range strikes.However, the crossbowmen of the Wei army were different. Most of the soldiers could only shoot with the sound from the outside.

It was difficult to distinguish the arrows in the dark night, Liu Yin bent over and held the shield, and walked up the gentle slope, the rain of arrows fell on the shield surface, making a ding-ding-dong-dong sound.Even if an arrow hit his body, it only pierced into the armor and did not affect his activities at all, leading the soldiers in the back row to attack.

The next moment, Liu Yin, with more than a dozen arrow feathers stuck in it, led the soldiers with spears and jumped over the narrow ditch.With a spear in his hand, through the simple antlers, he stabbed at the dense crowd of Wei Jun.

Liu Yin discarded the shield, held a sharp spear, picked up the enemy's spear, stepped forward, and directly pierced the armor of the Wei army soldier, piercing his abdomen.

Because Liu Yin took an extra step forward and broke away from the cover of the army formation, the Wei soldiers on the left and right sides stabbed at his ribs on both sides.

Seeing this, the personal guards behind Liu Yin quickly filled up, holding up the shield, and blocking the spear on the left.And Liu Yin didn't look back, but directly dodged sideways, grabbed the spear on the right, and pulled it out with his extraordinary strength.Wei Zu's center of gravity was unstable, and he jumped down with the front, knocking down the simple antlers.

Liu Yin made a decisive decision, pulled out the ring head knife, turned over from the Wei pawn lying on the antlers, and rushed into the Wei army formation.He stabbed straight with the blade, pierced into the waist of another Wei soldier, and the red blade came out.

One inch is long, one inch is strong, one inch is short, and one inch is dangerous. Liu Yin relied on the shortness and danger of the ring sword to bully the soldiers of the Wei army when they held their spears and had no time to draw their swords. He hacked several people to death and opened the passage.The elite behind him did not live up to his expectations, destroying the antlers of the Wei army and entering the formation.

Liu Tiao chopped down one person, leaning against Liu Yin, panting heavily, and said: "The Wei soldiers tonight are not as fierce as yesterday morning, and the camp is not well built."

Listening to the familiar voice, Liu Yin spit and said, "If you had been attacking Wuzhang Plain for ten days in a row, you would have another field battle with us, chase for a long time, and have to build camp at night, are you tired? "

"hey-hey!"

Huo Yi had to be praised, the fleeting fighter was captured by him.Today, the Wei army chased until dusk, and then withdrew their divisions. There was not enough time to build the camp, and the soldiers were tired, so repairs to some areas of the camp were hastily done.

For example, the eastern camp of the Wei army attacked by Liu Yin's troops was built on the Xinling Ridge, which has a certain defensive advantage geographically, so the eastern area is not as well repaired as the northern one. Antlers are stronger.If the Wei army completes the camp here tomorrow, it will be difficult to attack.

"The kid surnamed Huo is quite capable of spotting such an opportunity. If he misses such a good opportunity today, it will be difficult for us to enter the camp when the Wei army camp is complete tomorrow."

"Tell my brothers, whoever dares to run today, I'll kill anyone, and if they die, I will die here." Liu Yin said.

"promise!"

While talking, the soldiers of the Han army in the middle suddenly heard the sound of fighting and the sound of golden drums from the north. They knew that this was the left army led by Deng Ai and Xiang Yu starting to storm the right camp of the Wei army.

Although the Wei army camp was stationed on the slope of Xinling, it was only the Chinese army and a small part of the army, and the rest of the soldiers were stationed on the periphery.

In the dark night, amidst the whistles of more than a dozen Qiang shepherds, [-] desensitized horses headed towards the camp on the right side of the Wei army.Behind the horses were holding torches, [-] Qingjiawei led by Xiang Yu, Deng Ai led [-] infantry to follow behind the Qingjiawei, and the rest of the soldiers waited for the military order.

The offensive method adopted by the left army is different from that of the front. Because the left army faces the barracks that the Wei army has carefully repaired, in order to save its troops, it adopts the nomadic warfare method. Fall into the formation, and then charge into the formation with infantry.

The reason why desensitization-trained war horses are used is because horses are highly intelligent animals and are easily frightened due to their weak eyesight. Having said that, horses have better night vision than humans due to their eye characteristics.Therefore, as a war horse, it must first be artificially desensitized to make it used to it.

Driven by the Qiang herders, thousands of war horses began to move in the dark night. Tens of thousands of horses hoofed the ground quickly, splashing dust, approaching the Wei army camp like thunder.

In the Wei army camp, the generals inspected the army formations and urged the soldiers to line up quickly.Facing the sound of horseshoes getting closer and closer, the soldiers of the Wei army did not panic, because there were not only solid antlers in front of them, but also a gully several meters wide dug out, which was specially used to resist the incoming cavalry.

In the next moment, countless war horses emerged from the night, and the leading war horse looked at the gully in front of him. Although he had undergone desensitization training, the fear in his heart still restrained his steps.It's a pity that the companion behind it, who doesn't know how deep it is, squeezes forward.The leading horse was pushed into the ravine by the rear horses, and trampled by the rear horses, and its wailing sound resounded through the night sky.

The Wei soldiers standing behind the antlers opened their eyes wide, their faces full of horror.Because in their eyes, the horses in the front row filled the gully, and the horses in the back rushed forward one after another, but the impact force dropped slightly.

At this moment, they miss the WISCO carts very much. With the strength of the WISCO carts, supplemented by bows and crossbows, and spears as obstacles, they will most likely be fine.

The crossbowmen of the Wei army behind the antlers, amidst the shouts of the generals, shot the arrows in their hands towards the horses frantically. The dense rain of arrows fell like raindrops, and the horses neighed and fell down, blood stained red. land.

Immediately afterwards, the remaining war horses rushed to reject the horse.

"boom!"

The war horse hit Juma with a huge impact, broke the wooden spear, and the body brought Juma down.The soldiers in the front row of the Wei army could even hear the wailing of the horses falling to the ground. Before they could panic, the only remaining horses in the rear also hit the spears of the Wei army.

Some Wei soldiers in the front row felt that they were hit by a strong impact. The spears in their hands broke off, and they all rose into the air and fell into the crowd, making people dizzy.Or occasionally a few unlucky people bump into the brazier and get burned.

Fortunately, there were not many horses left in the battle, and the scattered horses, driven by Wei Zu, retreated in fear.

At the same time, the lower-ranking officers of the Wei Army greeted the soldiers who had retreated due to fear to re-form, and the military judges also patrolled appropriately, hacking and killing several soldiers who shouted in order to abolish military discipline.

Looking at the corpse of the war horse in front of him, Xiang Yu felt very distressed.This kind of gameplay of using war horses to charge the battle was too costly for the Han army, and it was difficult to play again.

As far as the big man is concerned, the current number of domestic war horses that can be ridden in battle is only more than [-] accumulated over the years.The remaining horses are still pack horses, which are difficult to use in battle.These lost [-] horses, which is equivalent to losing one-seventh, and the big man lost [-] cavalry.

If it weren't for the attack on Cao Rui's camp tonight and the fact that the Wei army's camp was not complete, no one would have the heart to waste everything like this.

(There will be one more tonight)
(End of this chapter)