Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 479 Burning Camp
"Kill!"

"Their camp is broken, rush in."

"Whoever breaks the camp will be rewarded with a thousand pieces of gold!"

After the Leiding camp was broken, Cao Jun's soldiers were going crazy.

Because Cao Zhen had already given the death order, whoever broke the Han army camp first, the generals would be promoted, the soldiers would be rewarded, and even be named a marquis.

Under such favorable conditions, Cao Jun's soldiers were not afraid of death, and rushed towards the gap that Lei Ding broke.

Lei Ding was also going crazy, he didn't expect that his camp was the first to be broken, and he had boasted in front of Shen Chen before that Cao Jun would not be allowed to enter the camp, but now his face was slapped.

Without hesitation, he personally led the guards to launch a counterattack, and led the guards to form a formation, like an iron wall, filling the gap recklessly.

But Cao Jun was still coming in continuously, and the defenders on the walls on both sides of the village could hardly hold on. They kept stabbing with spears, shooting with bows and arrows, and even threw kerosene to cut off Cao Jun behind, but they all failed. to no avail.

Cao Jun has gone crazy.

Lei Ding had several wounds in his body, and when he was about to fall down, the shadow of the saber flashed in front of him, and a body like a towering sky appeared in front of him, blocking the saber attacking him.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of elite Han soldiers rushed over, and with close cooperation, they quickly killed all the surrounding Cao troops, and then rushed to the gap.

"Great governor, the last general will die!"

Lei Ding covered the wound with one hand, and said apologetically to Shen Chen who rushed to help.

Shen Chen patted his shoulder, looked at the minor injuries, and said, "It's okay, you've tried your best, go to the back and bandage it."

"only!"

Full of guilt, Lei Ding was pulled back by the guards.

After repelling these Cao troops, Shen Chen looked around the front, and there were still a steady stream of Cao soldiers coming.

With a shout, he ordered the surrounding guards to scatter and climb over the walls on both sides of the wall, and closed the gap from the top of the wall, and also asked the soldiers behind to push the vehicles in the camp to the front.

Soon one after another, the chariots used to transport supplies rushed to the front. The soldiers of the Han army stood on the chariots condescendingly and stabbed down. At the same time, a large number of crossbowmen were sent to the surrounding arrow towers. Clean up Cao Jun who broke into the camp, but aim at the outside of the gap.

The current situation is like a hole in the ship, and the water is constantly pouring into the cabin.Just plugging the hole is definitely not enough, and the water source must also be cut off.Therefore, first suppress the Cao army outside so that they dare not come in, and then slowly deal with the Cao army in the camp.

Shen Chen clenched the tiger gall knife tightly in his hand, and several Cao soldiers surrounded him in front of him. He took a left step forward and dodged the knife first, then raised the tiger gall knife with his right hand, and directly opened a Cao soldier He broke his belly, then slashed down diagonally with the knife, and cut off another Cao Jun's neck from his neck.

In an instant, blood spattered, staining his face red, making Shen Chen as fierce as an evil ghost.

Although his physique is not as exaggerated as Zhang Fei's, he is still muscular, and he is at the peak of a military general. He just sits in the position of coach and will not easily end the battle. The world only thinks that he is the commander, but forgets that he once beheaded Cao Jun himself. I don't know how many senior generals.

At this moment, Shen Chen swung left and right, constantly slashing and killing. The surrounding guards staggered to cover each other. In a short while, he was close to the gap in the camp, and the chariots behind also surrounded him, filling the gap.

It wasn't until this time that Shen Chen turned over beautifully and climbed onto the chariot, picked up a spear, and kept stabbing it out. The surrounding Han troops also climbed onto the chariot continuously. Take control of the camp.

Then when the Han army slowed down, countless rolling stones, trees, bows and crossbows were still swaying down, defeating the Cao army who originally wanted to gather to fight for the gap again.

Seeing this situation, Shen Chen said to Lei Ding's lieutenant general: "This place has been defended, you continue to guard it, and I should go elsewhere to save the country."

"only!"

Lieutenant General Lei Ding hurriedly saluted.

Shen Chen was about to take back his blood-stained tiger knife and return to his headquarters camp.

The camps of the Han army were criss-crossed, and the camps were connected with each other by gates, so he could go directly from Lei Ding's camp to his own camp.

He has now decided to act as a firefighter. If the battalions are unable to hold on, he must immediately rush to the rescue. At least for now, he needs to buy time and wait for Pound Madai to win.

But before Shen Chen returned to the headquarters camp, soldiers came to report on the way: "Report, the governor, the middle camp is about to lose its hold."

"go!"

With a wave of Shen Chen's hand, hundreds of guards followed him like a shadow.

"Burn, burn me hard!"

In the direction of the rear camp of the Han army, the Cao cavalry led by Sun Li and Zhou Sheng had already broken through the rear camp and charged towards the middle camp.

Thousands of soldiers were assigned to guard the middle battalion, and they used the wall and crossbows to resist tenaciously.

As Sun Li and Zhou Sheng entered the back camp of the Han army, the camp where the Han army stored supplies was already on fire. The fire was raging, and the smoke covered the sky and the sun.

Since ancient times, the front, middle, and back three battalions have been separated in the normal camp layout, and there is a school field in the middle for soldier training.

So in fact, the fire in the rear camp could not threaten the middle camp. The problem lies in where their food and supplies are stored. Sun Li obviously did not expect that Shen Chen would also send people to make a surprise attack, thinking that burning their food and supplies first would break the morale of the Han army. .

What he didn't know was that the back camp was almost full of food and grass, and the weapons and equipment and bows and crossbows were all placed in the middle camp. When they rushed to the middle camp, the soldiers sent by Shen Chen to defend them shot all over their heads.

It's just that the defensive strength of the Han army is still too small. After all, there are more than 1 people on Sun Li's side. They chose to attack in sections, and the rear of the camp where Dou Mao was located could no longer be defended.

The sunshine in late April has taken off the warm veil of spring, revealing its fiery face, spewing out enthusiasm and scorching the earth wantonly.

Yan Zhi was panting heavily, leaning against the wall of the middle camp, the knife in his hand was covered in blood, and there was even a scratch on his own right shoulder - that was when he was entangled with an officer of Cao Jun , left behind by another enemy sneak attack.

Fortunately, he dodged that knife to the limit, the scratch was not deep, it just broke the skin, and blood gushed out, but most of the blood on his body was the blood of the enemy, so he could still hold on now.

At this time, the rear camp had already fallen, and Cao Jun's soldiers were divided into square formations on the school field between the rear camp and the middle camp, and they were constantly harassing.

The middle battalion stores weapons, equipment and other supplies, as well as a large number of tents. It is the place where Han soldiers sleep. Now there are probably less than 400 Han soldiers staying on the wall. There are seven or eight camps, and each camp has only three or four hundred people to defend.

Even before there were less than 2000 people, it was Shen Chen who sent Yan Zhi and led two more 1000 people to defend, otherwise, even the middle battalion would have been defeated by Cao Jun at this time.

At this time, Yan Zhi had just repelled an attack by Cao Jun's soldiers. In fact, the reason why they were able to persist for so long was that Cao Jun had no siege equipment at all, not even ladders. The knife and ax split the wooden gate of the village to break in.

The Han soldiers above can calmly deal with it with crossbows and spears.

But after all, the number of enemies is more than five times that of theirs, and each camp has to face the siege of more than [-] Cao soldiers, so it is still quite difficult to defend.

At this moment, a series of urgent horns suddenly sounded in the distance.

With the sound of the horn, two teams of Cao Jun in brown leather armor split from the large square formation, and marched forward in three rows, their horseshoes kicked up a long circle of floating dust.

In addition, as they stepped forward, they rhythmically slapped the ring-shoulders in their hands to make the leather shield protecting their chests ring loudly, so the team of more than 200 people seemed quite majestic and majestic.

Yan Zhi, who was resting on the wall, also heard this voice, he raised his head to look at the two teams of troops, the deputy next to him was holding his bloody right upper arm with his left hand, and a steel knife in his right hand, he came over and squinted at the wall of the village He said: "General, I'm afraid it's not easy to defend."

"What are you afraid of? They won't be able to climb the wall at all."

Yan Zhi snorted, noncommittal to the deputy general's words, and then asked without looking back, "How many people do you have?"

The lieutenant general licked the blood dripping from his mouth and said, "There are more than 300 people who can stand up."

He was in charge of stationing on the west side of the camp. The section of the wall had been attacked by Cao Jun before.

Yan Zhi asked again: "Have the people who went to the front camp to rescue the soldiers come back?"

"came back."

The deputy general spat out the blood in his mouth and said, "General Lei's camp is broken. The governor is leading people there now. It seems that he can't send anyone. The person who asked for help went to General Deng who was near the camp. General Deng The defense over there was also very difficult, and more than 100 people were assigned to help guard the camp to the west."

"It seems that we can only rely on ourselves for the time being."

Yan Zhi shook her head.

Their total strength was less than 4000. Before that, Shen Chen sent about [-] people to Leishou Mountain to set up camp.

Later, when he decided to come to watch in person, he brought another 1 people over.

And Cao Zhen's main force was 1. Xu Huang sent Xu Shang with about 6 cavalry, and the Cao Wei court sent Sun Li with [-] cavalry to help, and there were more than [-] horses.

Therefore, the strength of Shen Chen's troops became very tight. Facing Cao Zhen's indiscriminate bombing, the defensive pressure of the various camps became extremely high.

At this moment, towards the west and approaching the direction of the Yellow River, a shocking cry erupted from the wall of the camp that was separated from Yan Zhi and the others. Yan Zhi hurriedly climbed to an arrow tower behind the nearby wall to watch .

I saw that the wall of the village in the distance was actually attacked by Cao Jun. Cao Jun seemed to be ruthless. He used a leather shield against the rain of arrows, dragged the horse's corpse, and even rushed over on purpose on horseback, letting the Han army The soldiers shot the horses with bows and crossbows, and then carried the horses to the wall of the village as a stepping stone.

This is undoubtedly very crazy, not to mention that the horses are relatively heavy, at least several people are required to lift them up. During this process, the soldiers of the Han army can shoot arrows to harass them unscrupulously.

Simply speaking, war horses are a scarce resource, so if you just discard them at will, the other party is really willing to spend.

Seeing this scene, Yan Zhi became a little nervous, because there were only about 300 soldiers of the Han army over there, and at least two or three thousand soldiers of the Cao army besieging outside. I couldn't hold on anymore.

The camp of the Han army is divided into three rows, one row for the front camp, one row for the middle camp, and one row for the rear camp. There is an open space in the middle of each row.

But this also means that once one of the camps in any row of the three rows of camps is breached, if the gates of the camps cannot be controlled in time, the enemy may enter through the internal passage, so it is obviously extremely dangerous there.

"Zhang Zheng."

Yan Zhi yelled to the lieutenant below: "Take the people with you to support them, there is almost no defense over there, so there is no need to keep a reserve team."

Lieutenant General Zhang Zheng immediately took out a bone whistle from his bosom, and ran towards his line of defense while blowing. Two or three hundred soldiers sitting in the corner who had just experienced the bloody battle stood up silently, holding rings. The first knife began to line up under the command of the officer.

The battle had already begun in the distance, and the fence of the middle camp was not as high as the front camp, only one foot three four, less than three meters high, and the human body could climb up it, not to mention that there were footsteps underneath.

Now Sun Li is probably also regretting why he directly set fire to the Han army's food and grass before?It would be great if the carriages of the Han army carrying grain and grass were used as a stepping stone.

But now there is still time to wake up, groups of soldiers have already begun to climb up the fence, entangled with the Han army.

Soon Zhang Zheng hurriedly brought people over to support him. As soon as he left, the defense of Yan Zhi's camp became weaker. The enemy generals outside probably also noticed this, and immediately ordered the attack to begin.

The dense Cao soldiers started to attack again, Yan Zhi shouted, and the Han soldiers who were resting behind the wall immediately climbed up the cloud platform and continued to fight.

However, when the main force and the Han army on the wall of the village were fighting, the two teams of Cao soldiers that split off before sneaked to the left side of the wall where there were fewer people, apparently intending to steal chickens.

If Zhang Zheng hadn't left, Yan Zhi could definitely send a reserve team, but now that there is no reserve team, he can only run there with more than ten people himself.

Before rushing over there, Cao Jun had already climbed the wall of the village.

Not only on his side, but for several miles horizontally, Cao Jun has already begun to climb up the fences of several camps. The entire camp is in danger, and it is a critical moment.

Yan Zhi rushed over and fought hard, but he couldn't stop Cao Jun from climbing up continuously. He slammed the ring-sword in his hand into an enemy's stomach, and knocked that Cao Jun soldier out of the wall. A steel knife slashed at his back.

Under normal circumstances, a general of his level must be protected by personal guards, and it is difficult for him to be attacked by surprise.However, almost all the personal guards are fighting against three or four, and everyone in the chaotic army is like a rickety boat, and there is no time to help.

At this moment, Yan Zhi heard a "swoosh" in his ear, and when he turned his head again, he saw that Cao Jun who was sneaking behind him had a feathered arrow stuck in his neck, and his tail was still swaying slightly in the wind.

"Captain."

He was pleasantly surprised to see a burly man standing about 20 feet behind him, putting down the crossbow in his hand.

Hundreds of personal guards swarmed up behind the man, climbed onto the platform and quickly helped them resist Cao Jun's offensive. Cao Jun outside saw the reinforcements coming from the other side, and retreated like a tide with a shout.

Shen Chen hurried forward and asked, "How's the situation?"

Yan Zhi shook his head and said: "The opponent has too many people. Although we have a good location, each soldier has to deal with seven or eight people. Now there are several camps that are in danger of being breached."

"Blow the whistle, Ming Jin, retreat to the front camp!"

Shen Chen gave the order without hesitation.

Yan Zhi was shocked and said: "Commander, the defense of the front battalion is already very difficult, if they are attacked later"

"Go and pass on my order: set fire to the camp!"

Shen Chen replied: "The middle battalion is full of tents and supplies. When you leave, bring your bows and crossbows with you. You can take as much as you can. Don't need anything else. They will all be burned. I don't believe they can still rush through the flames! "

"only!"

Yan Zhi immediately understood what Shen Chen meant, and immediately carried out the military order without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)