Fenghou

Chapter 124 Sneak Attack
The north wind is bitter, the weather is gloomy, and there is no sunshine all day long. After nightfall, the dark clouds hang down even lower, and the starlight and moonlight are completely covered. silhouette.

An army of more than a thousand people marched quickly in the dark. This army was a Khitan army, led by the commander of the thousand, Xiao Cong. Their task was to attack Liu Ziyu's camp at night.

This army is tall and tall, and the elite selected from the [-] Khitan army are all dressed in heavy armor, holding long swords, and their combat effectiveness is very sturdy.

Behind this team, there is an army of tens of thousands of people, led by Wanyan Alubu himself. The camp of the Jinbing West Route Army is still fifty miles away from Wang Jianpo. Of course, they can't walk all the way here. They first Ride a horse ten miles away, and then walk ten miles away to the vicinity of the Song Army camp.

At two o'clock, a thousand heavily armored soldiers arrived a hundred paces away from the barracks and hid in the grass.

At this time, in a forest seven miles west of Daying, several Song army patrols were also resting under the tree. On the tallest tree, a soldier on duty suppressed his sleepiness and looked around boredly.

At this time, the soldier suddenly felt something. He leaned forward and looked out of the woods dozens of steps away. He saw a huge black shadow moving a hundred steps away. Although the night was dark, the color of this moving black shadow was slightly lighter. A rough outline can be seen, but the black shadow is very long, and the head and tail cannot be seen.

The soldier was inexperienced, and he was terrified, "Could it be a snake demon?" '

The soldiers hurriedly climbed down the tree and woke the escort from sleep, "Boss, go and see, there is a snake demon!"

"Fart! Where did the snake demon come from?"

"It's really a snake demon. It's very long, at least a few miles long, and it's moving outside the woods."

The guard blinked, suddenly came to his senses, and slapped the soldier across the face, "It's useless, it's the army marching, not the snake demon!"

The detachment woke up all the soldiers and prepared to retreat. He grabbed the gunpowder arrow and climbed up the tree until he reached the top of the tree. He also saw a huge shadow.

The escort team was not as inexperienced as the little soldiers. He recognized at a glance that this was a mighty army, at least tens of thousands of people.

The guard made a decisive decision, immediately lit three gunpowder arrows, and shot them into the air. The gunpowder arrows gave off a bright red light, flitted across the air, and finally exploded with a bang. Enemy situation.

The patrols in the camp found the gunpowder arrows and immediately sounded the alarm, "Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang!"

The rapid alarm bells echoed in the camp, and the soldiers of the Song Army who were sleeping were awakened one after another.

At the same time, Wanyan Alubu also saw the gunpowder arrows of the Song Army. He knew that his team had been spotted, and immediately shouted: "Go into the woods and catch them!"

Hundreds of Jurchen soldiers rushed into the woods, Wanyan Alubu didn't hesitate anymore, and immediately gave the order to attack.

Jin Bing's gunpowder arrows were also fired. Their gunpowder arrows had more powder, and the flames were more dazzling. The aperture was so large that they could be seen dozens of miles away, and there was no explosion sound.

Commander Xiao Cong shouted, "Kill—"

The heavily armored soldiers lying in ambush in the grass got up one after another, holding up their shields and spears, and charged towards the camp.
Liu Ziyu’s camp also had a ramp that was more than [-] feet long and about seven to eight feet wide. In the middle of the ramp, a stone road was built with stones. Soldiers and carts walked along the stone road. Of course, there is a special reason for this arrangement, that is, the ramp is covered with poisonous thorns.

Each general's defense has its own characteristics. For example, Chen Qing likes fire oil and gunpowder, while Liu Ziyu is good at using thorns.

How could a thousand heavily armored soldiers know this secret? They ran up the ramp, but after only a dozen steps, they fell down one after another. The sharp spikes pierced the soles of their boots, pierced into their skin, and the poison entered Inside, the feet soon began to go numb.

But the soldiers behind thought that the soldiers in front had been shot down by arrows, so they raised their shields and continued to charge. Except for more than a hundred soldiers on the stone road, the soldiers on the ramps on both sides fell to the ground one after another.

A centurion came to report, "General, there are poisonous caltrops on the ramp, and we suffered heavy casualties!"

Xiao Cong said coldly: "Attack me, even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead!"

Liu Ziyu led thousands of people and finally rushed to the front of the camp. The gate had collapsed. Hundreds of soldiers from the Song army were fighting fiercely with more than two hundred heavily armored enemy troops. Arrows were shot, and a steady stream of enemy troops came from behind. The poisonous tribulus formation had been broken by the golden soldiers, and more than [-] dead soldiers fell on the hillside, becoming stepping stones for the soldiers behind.

Liu Ziyu is worthy of being an experienced veteran. He knows that the attack at the gate is just an appetizer, and there must be a large army attacking later, so it will not be limited to the gate. There can be no delay at the gate, and it must be resolved before the enemy's large-scale attack.

"Push out the bed crossbow!"

The soldiers rolled out a hundred bed crossbows, and Liu Ziyu shouted, 'Retreat! '

'when!when!when! As the bell rang, hundreds of Song troops who were fighting fiercely with the enemy retreated one after another, revealing the hundreds of bed crossbows behind them.

"shoot!"

The jackdaw arrows from the bed crossbow shot out like a storm. They were powerful and dense. Hundreds of heavily armored soldiers fell to the ground screaming. Their armor could not stop the bed crossbow from firing at close range. Standing soldiers, corpses piled up like a mountain in front of the gate.

Song Jun quickly cleaned up the corpses and piled sandbags in front of the gate to form a sandbag wall. Liu Ziyu immediately ordered, "Destroy all the tents and light the beacon fire!"

Liu Ziyu is well aware that night battles are afraid of fire. Once the big tent is ignited by enemy rockets, the consequences will be disastrous.

At the same time, he wanted to inform Chen Qing to be prepared in case he was attacked by the enemy.

The battle came to an end temporarily, less than half an hour of fierce fighting, there were only about [-] heavily armored soldiers left, the powerful bed crossbow of the Song army made Xiao Cong hesitate a bit, and he didn't dare to push the remaining [-] people up.

Wanyan Alupu had led an army of [-] soldiers to a distance of one mile. At this time, he received a report from Xiao Zong that the bed crossbows of the Song Army were too sharp, and nearly [-] heavy armored soldiers had died in battle, so they had to stop attacking temporarily.

This news made Wanyan Alupu extremely annoyed. He originally planned to launch an attack at the same time at the third watch. Launch the offensive in advance, thus destroying the connection between the two armies.

The head of Wanfu, Se Muda, stepped forward and suggested, "It's better to give the Song army a blow first, and blow their morale!"

Wanyan Alupu nodded, "Order the Fire Crow to shoot!"

The fire crow is a wooden bird. Its body is covered with flammable kerosene, and its abdomen is filled with gunpowder. After being ignited, it can be shot out with a crossbow. Excellent, it is a sharp weapon against enemy camps.

Following the order of the general, a thousand fire crows soared into the sky, sparkling in the air, which was very spectacular, and flew towards the Song Army camp on Wang Jianpo with fireworks.
Liu Ziyu has rich experience, and he will not leave the opportunity to the opponent. He has already dismantled all the big tents before the opponent's fire crows launch. One by one, the fire crows flew into the camp, fell to the ground and burned, and were quickly killed by the soldiers. Bury directly with soil.

Seeing that the fire crow had no effect, Han immediately stepped forward and said, "General Alupu, the opponent has already removed the big tent. Attacking the camp will not have any effect. We can attack the camp fence. Burning the camp fence will help us to attack aggressively."

Wanyan Alupu woke up immediately, and shouted: "The fire crow shoots at the barracks!"

Two thousand Khitan soldiers rushed out, one of them was holding a heavy crossbow, the two of them pulled the heavy crossbow together, installed the fire crow, one soldier lit the fire, the other pulled the hanging knife, and a thousand fire crows flew away into the air , Shooting towards the battalion fence on the cliff.

They carried [-] fire crows this time, enough to fire three times.

The soldiers had a very clear goal. One by one, the fire crows hit the camp fence and fell one after another, or got stuck on the camp fence. After a while, the flames of the camp fence to the west shot up into the sky, and the flames on the several-mile-long camp fence rose into the air, blazing The sky was red with flames.

(End of this chapter)