People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 577 Ambush
Under the cover of night, everything is hidden, which facilitated Zhou Tai's night attack last night. However, what Zhou Tai can do, Zhao Yun can also do, and do it better. After all, the strength levels of both sides are different, and the same thing will produce different effects.

Last night, Zhou Tai was only a few hundred steps away when the Yellow Turbans alerted him and he raised the alarm. However, today, Zhao Yun led his troops in a night attack and approached within a hundred steps before he was discovered by the night sentinels of Wu and Shu.

"Enemy attack, enemy."

The sentry had just uttered a scream when he saw an arrow shot out from the darkness and hit the sentry's throat accurately, piercing him through the throat. His screams stopped abruptly, and his body swayed and fell limp to the ground without movement.

Fortunately, although the sentry died, his short warning scream was enough to make the Wu Shu camp react.

Zhou Yu's arrangements for the camp defense were also very strict. Following this warning, there was rapid movement in the Wu and Shu camps. Suddenly there was a loud shout in the camp, and panicked generals ran out of the tents, yelling and kicking the soldiers as they quickly gathered to the camp gate for defense.

The process was far from orderly, but at least it was fast.

However, Zhao Yun's surprise attack was even more swift. Just a dozen breaths after the sentry's exclamation, Zhao Yun shouted "Kill!" and then 10,000 night attack troops had already rushed to the Wu and Shu camp.

The main forces of Wu and Shu were stationed outside the city, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the camp. They were suddenly attacked, and the camp, which had been quiet just a moment ago, suddenly became restless. The soldiers and generals were all in a mess and moved in panic, and then they encountered Zhao Yun who was rushing towards them.

The advantage of the night attack was that they were caught off guard. Zhao Yun seized the opportunity to force his way in and immediately collided with the Wu and Shu troops who were hastily forming a defensive formation. The close combat was a life-and-death battle. Zhao Yun used himself as the tip of the sword to lead the elite troops straight in.

I saw a silver spear swung around the battle line, accompanied by a suit of silver armor, moving flexibly and destroying the battle formation like a silver dragon.

Not only was Zhao Yun brave and unparalleled, he swept the battlefield. The elite Yellow Turbans behind him were also unstoppable. Under the protection of armor, they charged into the battle formation as if they were entering an empty land, and faced the Wu and Shu soldiers as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.

In a short period of time, the camp of Wu and Shu became precarious. The hurried Wu and Shu soldiers were immediately beaten back by the aggressive 10,000 Yellow Turbans.

The situation seemed to make people wonder whether Zhao Yun would rush into the camp and defeat the enemy in one go.

Although the situation was obviously extremely dangerous, Zhou Yu, who was inside the camp at this time, observed the situation calmly, and seemed not to be worried about the danger at all.

Sun Quan, who was standing beside him, could not help but feel a little excited and nervous: "Gongjin's calculations are brilliant. The Yellow Turbans really fought back tonight. But will they really fall for it?"

Zhou Yu's face was calm, his eyes still fixed on the fierce battle line, his hand also clenched on the hilt of the sword: "Planning strategies depends on human factors, whether they will work or not can only be determined by God's will. Your Majesty should wait patiently and you will see the results."

After hearing this, Sun Quan stopped talking, nodded, and observed the situation from a distance.

At this time, although Zhao Yun was enjoying the killing in the midst of a fierce battle, he gradually realized that something was wrong. He had never been an impulsive and reckless man, and would not lose his reason in such a rapid advance.

So even though this night attack was a whirlwind and broke through the enemy camp, even at this heated moment, he was still able to keenly perceive the problem.

Even if it was a night attack, it seemed to be too smooth, so smooth that it was a little unreasonable. The Wu and Shu soldiers in front of them seemed to be much weaker when fighting than when fighting in the daytime.

After fighting like this, Zhao Yun had a vague feeling that this abnormal weakness seemed to be intentional. But why did the opponent show weakness to the enemy?
In the fierce battle, Zhao Yun was still able to distract himself and think quickly. This was the keen military sense of a top general, as well as the necessary calmness. Just such a simple thought flashed through his mind, and Zhao Yun quickly understood what was going on.

He looked back and found that he had unknowingly entered the camp, and a small part of the team behind him had also followed in. This gave him a sudden shock.

"Everyone in the army, retreat immediately, the enemy must be ambushing behind us!"

Zhao Yun's reaction was very quick. The moment he realized something was wrong, he stabbed the enemy in front of him to death with a single shot, then started shouting loudly, and his orders were quickly conveyed to the rest of the team.

This command was like a signal that triggered a mechanism, causing the entire Yellow Turban army to respond instantly.

The Yellow Turban soldiers, who had just been fighting fiercely, received the military order and immediately slowed down their offensive and contracted their formation, then began to retreat steadily. A part of the troops at the back quickly became alert to guard against the possible ambush that Zhao Yun mentioned.

The entire process went smoothly. The switch from attack to retreat was extremely smooth, and there was not even a hint of chaos when the army's formation changed.

Just like that, the Yellow Turban Army, which had just been advancing fiercely, suddenly shrank rapidly like the ebbing tide.

Zhou Yu and Sun Quan, who saw all this, began to look visibly regretful. It was obvious that their plan of luring the enemy into a trap had failed again.

Zhou Yu sighed helplessly. He had specially transferred the troops with average combat effectiveness to the front camp to fight the Yellow Turbans. However, the Yellow Turbans took the bait but did not bite the hook. This made him very helpless.

Sun Quan smiled bitterly and said, "The Yellow Turbans are indeed invulnerable. They can turn back in time despite this attack."

Zhou Yu could only sigh and said, "We have already set up an ambush. We can't let them get away so easily. Come on, immediately tell Zhou Tai to attack from the outside to cooperate with the battle. Even if we can't stop the enemy, we must take a piece of meat from them!"

At the order, Zhou Yu drew his sword and led his personal soldiers to charge forward, intending to personally pursue Zhao Yun.

At the same time, Zhou Tai, who had been lying in ambush outside the camp, also heard the changing drum sounds inside the camp. He immediately knew that it was time for him to take action. He no longer hid in the darkness, but stood up and shouted.

"Brothers, follow me and kill. If you can kill one Yellow Turban, you will be rewarded 100 coins. If you can kill two, you will be rewarded 300 coins. The more you kill, the more rewards you will get. Charge!"

In the dark night outside the camp, clusters of torches suddenly lit up, and Zhou Tai led tens of thousands of troops to kill the Yellow Turbans. Although the Yellow Turbans were not completely lured into the camp as expected, Zhou Tai had to take action now.

Catching the turtle in the jar didn't work, so the only thing he could do was to block the Yellow Turbans' retreat. He knew that it would be very difficult to stop the Yellow Turbans with the combat effectiveness of his soldiers, but all he could do now was to move forward.

This night was not peaceful either.

(End of this chapter)