Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 75 The Death of Dian Wei
In early February, the night sky in Nanyang is not as clear as it is in summer.

Although it is impossible to say that you can't see your fingers, the clouds dyed black by the night will eventually cover the moon and plunge the earth into endless haze.

When Zhang Xiu raised his head and stared fixedly at the dark cloud, which covered the moon, he gave the command for a general attack.

At this moment, it seemed that the whole world was only left with the light of countless torches lit in Cao Ying.

"call out!"

Since it was a sneak attack, it was naturally impossible to rush directly into the camp first.

Zhang Xiu was well versed in the Xiliang people's sneak attack style. First, he sent someone with excellent archery skills to slowly approach outside Cao's camp, and shot the guards on the tower to death with bows and arrows.

The operation of bows and arrows is far more troublesome than modern guns, but it is quiet, especially at night in February, there are many natural noises, the sound of insects and birds' hooves is endless, covering the bowstring and arrows.

Soon, with the efforts of several sharpshooters, the guards standing on the tower at the entrance of the camp were shot to death one after another. They couldn't even issue a warning, and they collapsed silently.

Without the outside warning people, Zhang Xiu immediately led the team to the outside of Cao Ying, pulled out the antlers, and behind him countless fire dragons rushed towards this side.

"Kill!"

"Kill Cao Cao!"

"Come on!"

In an instant, the sky-shattering shouts resounded throughout Cao Ying.

Just as Jia Xu expected.

Today is indeed the most vigilant time in Cao Ying, just like Gan Ning's night attack on Cao Ying in history.

In the same way, he first shot the watchman to death with a bow and arrow, and also went to the gate of the camp to move away the horses, and then rushed into the Cao camp for a while.

The only difference is that Gan Ning only brought 100 people with him.

And what about Zhang Xiu?

He brought more than 8000 Xiliang soldiers.

The soldiers behind him poured into Cao Ying like a tide.

At this time, most of Cao Jun's soldiers were still sleeping, and they didn't expect to be attacked at all.

The guard at the door was caught off guard and was immediately killed.The Xiliang army rushed into the tent like tigers into a flock of sheep, hacking and killing them continuously.

Swarms of cavalry rushed into the camp, throwing torches everywhere.

In an instant, the entire Cao camp was in chaos, and countless soldiers suddenly woke up from their sleep. In a panic, they rushed to the weapon rack at the door of the tent to get their weapons, but found that the weapon rack was empty.

It turned out that during this period of time, Cao Cao saw Zhang Xiu surrender and he easily pacified Nanyang. Therefore, in order to prevent the soldiers from being overly nervous, he asked the soldiers to put their weapons in the warehouse while they were sleeping.

In ancient times, battalion screaming was actually a very common thing. According to historical records, the number of times is too numerous to enumerate. Even in modern liberation battlefields, there have been many camp screaming incidents.

Therefore, no matter how experienced the general is, it is easy to encounter difficulties in how to deal with this matter.

If the soldiers are ordered to turn in their weapons and put them in the arsenal of the barracks before going to sleep, once the enemy launches a sudden attack and the soldiers have no weapons in their hands, they will undoubtedly be defeated.

But if the weapons are placed in the tents where the soldiers sleep, in case the soldiers are under pressure and suddenly burst into camp roars, it is easy to have a very terrible chain reaction.

At that time, the damage caused by a civil strife will be no less than a sudden attack by the enemy.

So this is actually a dilemma.

It's just that for most generals, they are more worried about being attacked than Ying Xiao.

Therefore, when there are enemies around, soldiers are often required to keep their armor and knives in their hands while sleeping, so as to prevent being attacked by the enemy.

But this time Cao Cao was different.

Cao Cao had already pacified Nanyang, and he did not expect that Zhang Xiu would dare to attack him. The main reason was that he did not know that his plan to kill Zhang Xiu had leaked out, so he felt that Zhang Xiu must not have the guts.

So in order to prevent the soldiers from being overly stressed and occasionally burst into battalion roars, Cao Cao asked the soldiers to store their weapons in the arsenal after ensuring that they were already safe.

In fact, the weapon depot is not that kind of large warehouse, but a separate weapon camp that is divided according to each team and each song.

The battalions and ministries of Cao Cao's army are neatly planned and disciplined, so there is already a complete set of procedures. The tents where each team sleeps are not far from the weapon depot, which is convenient for collection when gathering.

But no matter how close they are, after all, they are not by their side, and there is still a certain distance from the sleeping tent, about tens of meters for each team.

Therefore, when the soldiers rushed out of the camp and ran quickly to the nearby camp where weapons were stored, countless Xiliang troops around them had already rushed in and slaughtered wantonly.

Most of Cao's troops were unarmed at the moment, and the sky was dark. After rushing out of the tent, they ran around like headless chickens and were quickly killed.

No one wanted to resist anymore, but fled desperately to the north, one by one running in the opposite direction of the shouting.

The chaotic scene in the south quickly alarmed the middle camp.

Naturally, Cao Cao's camps were not gathered together, but were divided into front, middle and rear camps, and each camp was divided into some small camps, which were intricate and occupied a large area.

But at present, there are almost no fortifications in Cao Ying. Except for a few horses at the gate of the camp, no internal structure of any camp has been built at all.

It's not that Cao Cao doesn't have this awareness, but that Nanyang has already been occupied by him, so what's the point of building a fortification now?

In the history of Zhang Xiu's rebellion, the entire Cao camp was in chaos. Only the Yujin camp, which was a little farther away, was not in chaos. Instead, he sent troops to fight Zhang Xiu and retreat. The village dug and built trenches to stick to it.

It can be seen that even Yu Jin did not build fortifications. He ran back to his own camp after encountering Zhang Xiu's rebellion to support Cao Cao's camp and was repelled. He built temporary defensive facilities to resist Zhang Xiu's army.

Without an internal defense structure, even if the camp was built in a good location, it would be useless.The soldiers could not use the terrain inside the camp to fight back, so they had to flee separately.

"what happened?"

The front camp is actually three or four miles away from the middle camp. It is normal for an army of more than 1 people to camp for more than ten miles.

Cao Cao came out of his camp, just now he was hugging Mrs. Zou on the bed tenderly.

"Father, Zhang Xiu rebelled and broke the front camp."

Cao Ang came to report in a hurry.

"what?"

Cao Cao's face turned pale with shock, and he hurriedly said, "Go!"

The surrounding guards hurriedly brought his horses, and at this moment, they didn't care about Mrs. Zou who was still in the tent, they hung him ruthlessly, and only cared about running for their own lives.

Before riding on Jueying, Cao Cao suddenly remembered something and asked left and right, "Where's Dian Wei?"

"Ming Gong!"

At this moment, Dian Wei stumbled out of a nearby tent.

He drank a lot of wine and passed out, but he was still vigilant. He heard the shouts of killing outside the camp, and was awakened for a while, and he got up with difficulty, just in time to see Cao Cao was about to leave.

"Hurry up, help Dian Wei, go north!"

Cao Cao didn't care about other things, and ordered the guards to support Dian Wei, and rode northward on horseback.

A group of hundreds of people, Cao Cao's guards, Cao Ang, Cao Anmin and Dian Wei, hurriedly fled all the way to the north gate.

However, Jia Xu had expected that once the battle at the south gate started, Cao Cao would flee from the north gate, so he asked Zhang Xiu to set up an ambush here early.

Soon everyone came to the gate of the camp to the north, the front camp was broken, the middle camp and the rear camp were in chaos, everyone was running away, no one cared about Cao Cao, they just knew they were running for their lives.

Therefore, at this time, the gate of the Houying camp was opened, and a large number of Cao soldiers escaped from it. Some ran into the night and disappeared, some stayed and watched, and some simply became rout soldiers and went to the nearby countryside to rob houses.

The discipline of the entire Cao camp was instantly dismantled after being charged by Zhang Xiu's army. Tens of thousands of soldiers scattered like birds and beasts, wolves and dolphins ran.

"Run."

"The fire is coming, run away."

"Ah, ah, help me."

"Let's go."

"It hurts me too, come quickly."

There was chaos in the camp, and countless Xiliang soldiers hacked and killed wantonly with knives. Cao Jun didn't even have a chance to fight back.

Under the reflection of the fire, Cao Cao was sweating profusely at this time, and came to the gate of the rear camp.

"Fire arrows!"

Almost as soon as he saw Cao Jun coming out of the brigade riding horses, the ambush soldiers arranged by Zhang Xiu immediately shot with bows and arrows.

Countless arrows pierced through the void like meteors and fell into Cao Cao's guards.

Immediately, wailing was everywhere, and a large number of Cao Jun's guards were shot to the ground.

puff.

With the sound of falling into the flesh, Cao Cao suddenly fell down.

It turned out that he was shot by an arrow in the face of Jue Ying in his crotch, and an arrow was shot in his foot, and he fell to the ground in pain.

"Father, you are hurt."

Seeing this situation, Cao Ang was in a hurry, so he got off his horse and came to him to help him up.

Cao Cao was also hit by an arrow, which hit his right arm, but anyone who has fought in battle knows that under the condition of high mental tension, the body is injured without feeling.

In the age of firearms in the later generations, there were also a large number of cases of gangsters still rampaging after being shot at close range by pistols. Only unlucky people like Jue Ying were shot in the head, pierced the head and damaged the brainstem, and died instantly on the spot.

Hearing Cao Ang's reminder, Cao Cao noticed that he had been shot in the shoulder by an arrow, and immediately felt pain, and said, "Go, my son."

"Father, you go first."

Cao Ang embraced Cao Cao, pushed him on the back of his horse and said, "I'll break the queen."

"Zixiu!"

Cao Cao's eyes were wide open, and he wanted to pull Cao Ang along, but he couldn't use his strength after being shot in the right arm, and he was pushed onto the horse's back.

Dian Wei walked over unsteadily and shouted, "Duke Ming, you go first, we will arrive later."

The flames shot up behind him, and Cao Cao was already sweating profusely.

"Father, go!"

Cao Ang pulled out the sword from his waist and stabbed the horse's buttocks. The horse suffered from pain and galloped away.

Fortunately, Cao Cao's equestrian skills are not bad, otherwise he would be overturned all at once.

"My son!"

Cao Cao's miserable screams streaked across the night sky.

Almost after the horses carried him galloping all the way to the northwest, Zhang Xiu's ambush soldiers had already killed him.

Dian Wei couldn't find his halberd anywhere before, so he just picked up a big ax at random, roared, and rushed over with more than ten soldiers behind him.

Soon the two sides fought together, more than a dozen spears aimed at Dian Wei at the same time, Dian Wei swung his big axe, chopped off these spears at once, and then swung his body suddenly, knocking his opponent to the ground.

On the right side, several Zhang Xiujun quickly rushed forward, also trying to pierce his back with their spears. Dianwei's left and right school soldiers rushed over at the same time, stopped behind Dianwei, and fought fiercely with the enemy.

At this time, Dian Wei was in a very dull state because of being too nervous, coupled with the previous alcohol stimulation, but there was also an advantage, that is, he was not afraid of pain, and his strength was a little stronger than usual, as if he had been injected with adrenaline. .

After the surrounding enemies rushed over, he also immediately made a reverse charge, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, slashing and killing with a big axe.After a while, there were corpses all around him, and he himself suffered more than ten wounds.

"Come on, come on!"

Dian Wei was panting heavily, the spirit produced by Huangmenting was too strong, under the effect of alcohol, he felt his physical strength was rapidly declining.

Therefore, after the handle of the big ax in his hand broke due to a hard chop, he picked up a long halberd from the ground.

The soldiers of the Xiliang Army all around were extremely frightened and looked at him in fear, not daring to step forward.

In just a few minutes, Dian Wei had already killed dozens of people.

If he hadn't been drunk, he might have killed more people.

At this time, Zhang Xiu had already reached the gate of the camp, and countless Xiliang troops rushed behind him like a tide.

Seeing Dian Wei standing at the gate of the back camp like a god of war, Zhang Xiu said angrily, "Kill him!"

"Kill it."

Immediately after, there were thousands of troops behind him, and countless people rushed towards Dianwei.

The guards around Dian Wei were basically dead, even Cao Ang and Cao Anmin were already lying in a pool of blood.

Angrily, he raised his halberd and swung it left and right. First, he stabbed the first enemy who rushed towards him to death, and then his whole body jumped up like a cannonball, jumped a foot away, and slammed into the second on an enemy.

The enemy was unexpectedly killed by him. Using the enemy's body as a shield, Dian Wei strangled his throat with one hand, and held a halberd in the other hand, slashing and killing in the crowd.

At the end, the halberd in his hand was also broken, and it was too late to find weapons from the ground, Dian Wei suffered dozens of wounds, stepped back a few steps, and stood leaning against the gate of the village.

He was covered in blood, like an evil ghost in the world, he bared his teeth and said with a big smile, "Come on, come and die!"

The surrounding soldiers did not dare to approach.

Seeing that he no longer had a weapon in his hand, Zhang Xiu said, "Go and capture him alive."

At that moment, more than a dozen Xiliang warriors rushed out and rushed towards Dian Wei, trying to restrain him with their bare hands and pin him to the ground to capture him alive.

However, Dian Wei's thick arm first punched the first person in the face, sending him flying a few meters away, then grabbed the second person with his right hand, pressed him on the neck, and suddenly forcefully Lock the throat and strangle.

The third person was kicked away by him, the fourth person was crushed to death by his punch, the fifth and sixth, and finally the last two people were held by his left and right hands and strangled alive.

"Ha ha ha ha."

Dian Wei laughed loudly and said, "What is the invincible Xiliang Army, a bunch of trash."

"Arrows, arrows, arrows!"

Seeing that there were already hundreds of Xiliang army corpses beside Dianwei, Zhang Xiu couldn't help becoming angry from embarrassment, and shouted: "Shoot him to death."

"Shhhhhh!"

Countless arrows shot at Dian Wei, he was already exhausted, and he no longer had the strength to pick up the corpses on the ground as a shield.

In an instant, the rain of arrows fell, without screams or wailing, but after a muffled grunt, blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.

At this moment, he seemed to have turned into a hedgehog, with arrows all over his body.

But even so, he still stood where he was, standing upright like a mountain, raised his head, looked at Zhang Xiu with a contemptuous expression, and finally fell down slowly.

(End of this chapter)