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Chapter 61 The Strange Night Attack

In the middle of the night when Lord Lian confirmed the plan to burn the army rations and supplies, the sky was still snowing heavily with goose feathers, and the north wind whizzed past like a knife.

This time period originally belonged to sleep, but at this moment, hundreds of thousands of troops have gathered in Wu'an City, including cavalry and infantry, and each soldier holds a torch in his hand.

The icy cold wind swayed the fireworks on the torches. Against the backdrop of the fire, the faces of the soldiers looked extremely resolute.

"Woo~~~"

"Woo~~~"

"Woo~~~"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

At this moment, the boundless and ancient sound of horns and the roar of war drums resounded through every corner of Wu'an City.

Under the control of the Hercules, the heavy bronze city gate on the east side of Wu'an City made the sound of mechanical friction of "Kaka" and "Kaka", and opened slowly. After the gate was fully opened, hundreds of thousands of Lian's troops were like black The flood flooded out from the city gate.

The light cavalry rushed to the front, the heavy cavalry followed closely, and finally the infantry. They stepped on the ground and made a rumbling sound, like rolling thunder, and the whole earth couldn't help shaking.

The place where hundreds of thousands of Lian's troops rushed was actually the Qin army's barracks dozens of miles away.

In the snowy field three miles away from Wu'an City, there were dozens of soldiers of the Qin Army who were in charge of guarding. They saw the boundless flames in the distance, and heard the rumbling steps, the long sound of horns and the thunderous sound of war drums.

A look of horror appeared on their faces: Could it be that Zhao Jun took the initiative to attack his own camp at night?

"Quick...quick...quickly send the signal and pass the news on!" The leader of the group of Qin soldiers shouted loudly.

The five Qin soldiers beside him immediately took out five pitch-black cylindrical objects, grabbed the lead wires under the cylindrical objects, and pulled them hard.

"call out!"

"call out!"

"call out!"

……

A bunch of meteor-like clusters of light pierced the darkness with their long tail flames, soaring into the sky, and then burst into the night sky with a roar, turning into gorgeous and beautiful flowers.

The fireworks exploding in the night sky can be clearly seen even tens of miles away.

The Qin army set up sentry posts every mile, and all the next sentry posts fired fireworks signals almost at the same time.

Qin Jun, who was thirty miles away, clearly saw the fireworks exploding in the night sky and heard the roar of the fireworks.

Among them, the soldiers guarding outside the commander's big tent hurriedly opened the curtain door of the military tent and entered inside, shouting:
"The commander-in-chief is not good. The fireworks are going up into the sky. It must be Zhao Jun who came to attack my camp at night!"

Meng Tian, ​​who was in a state of meditation, suddenly opened his eyes, full of murderous intent, and said viciously:

"This commander didn't trouble the old man Lianpo. He just let him live for a few days, and then he came to seek death! Blow the horn and let the army gather!"

The next moment, the ancient and vast horns sounded in the Qin army camp that stretched for dozens of miles. All the sleeping soldiers quickly got up, rushed out of the camp with their weapons, and assembled urgently.

After a while, Meng Tian rode a big black horse and led the remaining 200 million Qin troops out of the camp, preparing to meet the night attacking Lian's army.

……

At this moment, the Lian family army, which had just rushed to the camp of the Qin army for more than a dozen miles, quickly retreated in the direction of Wu'an City after killing hundreds of guard posts of the Qin army.

At this time, the old army leader Lian, who was as majestic as a giant bear, uttered a thunderous roar in the direction of the Qin army camp:

"Meng Tian, ​​you won't let me live in peace, and I won't let you live in peace either! Haha~~~"

As soon as he finished speaking, he steered the horses and retreated in the direction of Wu'an City.

……

Ten miles away, Meng Tian and a group of generals of the Qin army who were just about to attack the Lian family army head-on at night couldn't help but beard and stare at Lian Po's words!

"Old man Lian Po is playing tricks on me, it's hateful!!!"

In the end, although Meng Tian was very angry, he did not pursue Lian's army.

He was worried that this night attack might be a trick by Lian Po, after all soldiers never tire of deceit.

……

In the middle of the night for the next seven days, Lian's army rushed out of Wu'an City strangely and rushed towards the Qin Army's camp.

However, when the Qin army assembled their troops and prepared to fight, they retreated to Wu'an City.

Meng Tian was both worried and angry at the strange actions of the Lian's army. For seven days in a row, the soldiers of the Qin army did not dare to sleep peacefully.

On the eighth day, Meng Tian finally couldn't bear it anymore and launched another attack on Wu'an City...

As a result, after losing part of his troops and being unable to take Wu'an City, Meng Tian had to order a retreat.

On the night of the eighth day, the Lian family army seemed to have been beaten badly by the Qin army, so they stopped "night attacking" the Qin army!

……

In the military lord's mansion, the old military lord Lian, who was as majestic as a giant bear and with white beard and hair, stood in front of the sand table, his eyes were shining brightly, and he stared at the sand table without blinking.

"Hmph! The seven-day performance has played tricks on Meng Tian'er. He hasn't discovered my real purpose of doing this. It is to cover the Shenji Camp and the Tiger and Leopard Division out of Wu'an City!"

"This time, I hope that the Shenji Camp will live up to their mission and successfully burn the Qin army's food and supplies! If the task of burning the food and supplies fails, Wu'an City will really be in danger! Today, they should have arrived at Luziling, right?"

The old army leader Lian stared at a mountain on the sand table that looked like a prostrate donkey's head, and muttered to himself.

……

The same is the eighth day, night.

Tonight, it is rare that the sky is not covered by thick dark clouds. The long-lost full moon hangs high in the night sky, reflecting each other with the stars and the magnificent Milky Way in the sky. Accompanied by the heavy snow all over the sky, it sheds white and soft moonlight.

The moonlight shone on Donkey Ridge, two thousand and five miles away from Wu'an City, shining brightly on the snow-covered Donkey Ridge, as if coated with a layer of soft white light.

At this time, Donkey Ridge looks very beautiful from a distance, like a snow-white donkey head crouching under the moonlight.

Donkey Ridge was originally a barren mountain, and few people have walked it all year round.

At this time, there are many white spots slowly moving on the mountain path of Luziling. This is a team of thousands of people.

Everyone's body and head were covered with snow, and even the color of the original clothes could not be seen.

Not long after, the team reached the lee of the halfway up the hillside of Luziling. Everyone stopped, found a comfortable position, and sat down.

Li Kang was also in this team. He was pulling a heavy horse with a snow-white little white fox on his shoulders. He found a place and sat down.

Leaning against a rock, he took out the package on the horse's back and a buckskin jug, opened the package and took out two pieces of cold jerky.

He handed one piece to the little white fox on his shoulder. It stretched out its front legs to hold the stone-like dried meat, and opened its small pink mouth to eat with relish.

Because the jerky was too hard and not heated, the little white fox made a "cracking" sound when eating it.

Li Kang also put the stone-like jerky to his mouth, biting it in small bites. Then, he opened the buckskin flagon and took a sip of the strong wine in it to keep out the cold.

It wasn't that Li Kang didn't want to light a fire to heat the jerky, but Tao Wu, the leader of the Tiger and Leopard Division, ordered that when he set off, open flames were not allowed along the way, and he was not allowed to talk casually.

Li Kang didn't know what the mission was this time, and why he had to enter the territory of Qin State cautiously all the way, and he walked all the way through rugged and secret paths and mountain roads.

However, he thought that the mission this time must not be easy, otherwise he would not be so cautious, and he would have to go deep into the territory of Qin.

If the mission is completed this time, there will definitely be a big reward when you return to Wu'an City.

He also came with Cao Hu's brothers from this capital, and there were thousands of soldiers from the other Tiger and Leopard Divisions.

They set off from Wu'an City in the middle of the night eight days ago.

They followed the army of the Lian family's army that attacked the Qin army's barracks at night, and after leaving Wu'an City for a few miles, they secretly separated from the army. Going in the direction of Qin...

"This old army leader Lian really has a good plan. Originally, thousands of people went out of the city and they couldn't hide it from the Qin army anyway. However, after using the army as a cover and attracting the attention of the Qin army, these thousands of them can't know what happened. It came out before I knew it!" Li Kang thought to himself that the old army leader Lian really deserves to be a famous general of Zhao.

Soon, he ate half of the jerky in his hand, then rewrapped it, and put it back in the package. It was really tasteless.

At this time, Wang Kui, Shudun, Freckleface and the others sitting next to him only ate half a piece of jerky, so they stopped eating. They were all gulping strong wine to resist the wind and cold.

……

Compared with the hardships of the Lian's army, the Qin State's grain transport army, which was two thousand miles away from the Tiger and Leopard Division in a valley, had a much better life.

This is a valley with a size of a hundred miles. White military tents were set up in the valley, and piles of bonfires were burned in the open space between the military tents. People feel warm when they look at it.

Almost half of the valley was occupied by the Qin army, and there were tens of thousands of large carriages covered with tarpaulins, densely packed.

The generals of the Qin army lived in tents to rest, while the soldiers sat around the campfire, eating roasted dry food, drinking steaming broth and spirits.

The weapons were stacked together and piled up around.

They were drinking, laughing and talking in low voices.

Some soldiers who were already sleepy took a nap around the campfire.

The majestic horses pulling the big carriages were also eating good forage, drinking salted water, snorting and exhaling white breath from time to time.

Groups of soldiers in charge of patrolling, armed with weapons, kept patrolling back and forth.

At this time, in the largest military tent in this valley, there was the sound of an orchestra.

(End of this chapter)