Eastern Jin Dynasty: My powerful father

Chapter 329 Leaving the camp late at night
Just as Murong Ke expected, with Huan Xi's cautious and suspicious temperament, he would only believe in the answers he got after peeling off the cocoons.

Now that Yan Ying and Yu Ying were causing commotion for two consecutive nights, Huan Xi believed that it was Murong Ke who quietly left the camp one night and went around to the rear to ambush Zhu Xu in order to make him careless. Just a cover.

Huan Xi's previous response was to send all the sentries out of the camp to search for traces of the enemy.

If he really did nothing, wouldn't he be telling Murong Ke that he didn't care about the safety of the reinforcements at all?

In the 356th year of Yonghe (AD ), on August th, a full moon hung in the sky, bright and bright.

At this time, Zhu Xu was only a day's journey from Liang Jun's camp, and he would be able to come and join Huan Xi before dusk tomorrow.

Huan Xi knew this, and so did Murong Ke.

If Murong Ke wants to ambush Zhu Xu, he must leave camp tonight.

If Huan Xi wanted to stage a counter-ambush, he couldn't stay in the camp tonight either.

When it was daylight, without the cover of night, it was impossible for their actions to be concealed from the other party's scouts.

Quan Yi took the order and left in a hurry.

"Mr. Liang!"

Huan Xi walked out of the handsome tent, looked at the stars and moon in the sky, and said to himself:

Huan Xi finally received the news he wanted:
"How many troops are there?"

Quan Yi said truthfully:
"The scouts don't dare to get too close. It's dark now, so we can't see clearly. But judging from its size, I'm afraid it won't be more than tens of thousands of steps away."

Quan Yi beamed with joy:

It was late at night, which was the beginning of the ugly time set by Huan Xi.

"Although I can't be by his side, I will celebrate his birthday with a big victory!"

When Huan Xi heard this, he smiled proudly and said:

It was already dark at this time, and Huan Xi was not sleepy at all. He had already regained his energy during the day.

Just when Huan Xi was full of ambition, thirty miles away, in Huan Xi's expectation, Murong Ke, who was supposed to lead his army westward, was still staying in the Yan army camp.

"The secret sentry came to report that the enemy troops had bypassed our camp from the north and were heading west."

With that said, Huan Xi looked at Quan Yi and ordered:
"Immediately send an order to the cavalry generals in the army and order them to supervise the troops and horses and assemble at the school ground at the beginning of the ugly hour (one o'clock in the morning)."

Therefore, after Li Wei bypassed Liang Jun's camp, he would not go too far, and he would not dare to return the same way to avoid running into Liang Jun's scouts. Instead, he would turn north and head towards Wenxi County temporarily.

"Tomorrow is Aman's birthday."

In fact, there was no problem with the information Quan Yi received.

The purpose of Li Wei's trip was just to convince Huan Xi that Murong Ke had left the camp.

Of course Huan Xi did not forget the birthday of his eldest son. He still remembers the joy when his eldest son was born.

There was indeed an army that was carefully bypassing Liang Jun's camp and pretending to ambush Zhu Xu. However, the leader of the army was not Murong Ke, but Li Wei.

"As expected, Murong Ke finally couldn't hold it any longer. That's right. Zhu Xu will arrive tomorrow. It will be too late if he doesn't take action."

A total of fifteen thousand knights led their horses and stood silently in the school grounds.

The man's mouth was tied, the horse's mouth was girded, and even the horse's hooves were wrapped in thick cloth.

Huan Xi glanced at the knights in the audience and said loudly:
"It's time! Soldiers! Extinguish the torches! Follow me and lead the horses out of the camp!" Following Huan Xi's order, the door of Liang Jun's camp slowly opened, and 15,000 cavalry surrounded him and filed out, first toward him. Heading west, the pretense was to catch up with the enemy troops who had bypassed Liang Camp, but in fact they took a long detour and headed towards the allied camp.

Under the cover of night, they marched towards the Yan Army camp.

"Drive! Drive! Drive!"

The Yan army scout waved the whip in his hand desperately, and urged his mount to gallop through the night without mercy.

From the time he saw the Liang Army's cavalry leaving the camp and heading west to the time he returned to the Yan Army's camp, the journey of about thirty miles took only more than half an hour.

Seeing the camp gate from a distance, the scout shouted loudly:
"Open the camp gate quickly! I have important military information that I need to report to King Chen Taiyuan!"

Yan Jun, who was guarding the camp gate, recognized the scout and saw that he was in such a hurry, so he opened a small gap to allow only one man and one horse to pass.

Murong Ke had not rested yet. Like Huan Xi, he also regarded the early morning of August 15th as the day to launch an attack.

Not only was this the last night for Zhu Xu to rush to the front line, but in Murong Ke's view, the Mid-Autumn Festival was a day for family reunions, and the Liang Army officers might have been distracted by missing their families and made omissions during night vigilance.

When two equally matched opponents compete, they must consider all factors that are favorable to them.

The scouts were led directly to the school grounds, and Murong Ke was already fully prepared to go out to fight.

Including Yao Chang's Qiang cavalry, a total of 30,000 cavalry were crowded in the school grounds and on standby.

The scout gasped for air and said:
"Report to the King of Taiyuan that the Yu army left camp late at night and sneaked westward, with a total of ten or twenty thousand riders!"

Murong Ke had been confronting Huan Xi for a long time, and he had a good idea of ​​Liang Jun's troop allocation. The scouts said it was 10,000 to 20,000 cavalry. Murong Ke estimated that Huan Xi should have brought all his guards Yi Cong and Guan Long Tu Qi. Gone, a total of fifteen thousand cavalry.

In other words, there were only 30,000 heavy infantry in the Liang Army camp at this time.

Murong Ke was overjoyed. He was very afraid of Huan Xi's heavy armored infantry, but if he could take advantage of Liang Jun's unpreparedness and attack his camp, he would be able to severely damage Huan Xi's elite infantry.

Those heavy infantrymen could not sleep wearing heavy armor. When the Yan army entered the Liang army camp, they had no time to put on armor. After all, such heavy armor was too cumbersome to wear.

"Okay! Well done! You can go down and have a rest. When my class returns to camp, you will definitely be rewarded!"

"Thank you, King Taiyuan!"

When the scout heard this, he was very excited. He took the risk to engage in this business of licking blood, wasn't he doing it just to get rewards for his meritorious service?

After he left, Murong Ke looked at the cavalrymen under his command who were gearing up, and everyone's fighting spirit was visible to the naked eye.

Yan Jun's trust in Murong Ke was just like Liang Jun's trust in Huan Xi. He believed that as long as he was under the other party's command, he would be invincible and attack everything.

This confidence is accumulated from winning battles in the past.

Needless to say, Huan Xi's achievements were not to be overstated, nor was Murong Ke's. He joined the army at the age of fifteen. Only in the battle for Luoyang did he return without success, but he escaped unscathed and the troops did not suffer any damage.

Murong Ke took a deep breath and said loudly:

"The enemy is unprepared. My sons and daughters, break the stronghold and kill the enemy, and achieve unparalleled military exploits today!"

Everyone responded in unison:

"I am willing to be driven by the king! Follow the king and fight to the death!"

Murong Ke saw that his army was ready, and with a wave of his hand, the 30,000 cavalrymen also led their horses and did not dare to go straight, so they chose a detour with Huan Xi.

(End of this chapter)