People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 583: Killing
After pacifying Sun Quan, Zhou Yu returned to the battlefield again. He wiped the blood off his face and looked into the distance, which was the direction behind the Yellow Turban camp.

At this time, he was no longer paying much attention to the battle in front of him. Although the elite Wu army could still barely hold the front line, they were not enough to help Wu and Shu win. If all hopes were placed on the front battlefield, this battle was doomed to fail.

The panting Zhou Yu could see that the elite troops of Wu and Shu were almost wiped out and they didn't have much time to hold out.

"It's the final moment. If you don't hurry up, it will be over."

Zhou Yu muttered to himself as he looked at the darkness in the distance, not knowing to whom he was talking. It was not difficult to hear from his words that he had placed his last hope on some place or someone in the distance.

That was indeed Zhou Yu's last trick. If it worked, there might be a one percent chance of turning the situation around.

The probability of one percent sounds very slim, but it is the last hope after all. Everything of the Wu and Shu countries is entrusted to it.

At this moment of fierce fighting, it is time for this backup plan to come into play. Zhou Yu is fully focused on waiting for this turning point.

At the same time, two miles behind the Yellow Turban camp, a burst of dense footsteps gradually grew louder and louder from far away. Although the existence of these movements blended into the darkness and could not be seen, it could be felt from the noisy and dense movements that this was a large-scale army.

The army came stumbling along without lighting torches. Even though the march was extremely difficult, they did not want to be discovered in advance by the Yellow Turban camp not far away.

At this moment, they could see the Yellow Turban camp two miles away, with noise and flames everywhere. Even from a long distance, they could feel the intensity and danger of the battlefield.

There is no doubt that the fighting on the front line has entered a white-hot stage, and this is the time for them to exert their strength.

Perhaps because they were getting closer to their target, the army in the dark unconsciously quickened their pace during this last stretch of the march, and the noise of their march became louder and louder.

Fortunately, at this time, the Yellow Turban camp's full attention was on the front battlefield, so even if their movements were much louder, they would not be noticed immediately.

In the darkness of night, when the fighting was in full swing on the front battlefield, it was the best time for them to sneak in, which allowed them to get to the back of the Yellow Turban camp without the Yellow Turbans noticing.

The selection of camping sites is very particular, and most of them are located on dangerous roads or mountain passes. The Yellow Turban camp is no exception.

The camp here was arranged at the narrowest part of the mountain pass. From the low mountain pass to the hillsides on both sides were all within the camp, which cut off the road and left only one front facing Wu and Shu. This reduced the defensive pressure on the Yellow Turbans by nearly half, allowing them to concentrate their strength on resisting the main forces of Wu and Shu head-on.

This is indeed an extremely suitable arrangement, which makes the best use of the terrain advantages.

But sometimes an advantage can become the biggest weakness. It is precisely because the Yellow Turbans did not have to worry about the rear, so the defenses in the rear were inevitably relatively empty, which gave Wu and Shu an opportunity to take advantage.

If someone really got around to the rear and then launched a fatal attack at the most critical moment, it might change the situation of the battle, and this was exactly the opportunity that Zhou Yu saw early on.

When the army reached the Yellow Turbans' rear camp several hundred meters away in the dark, their pace and restlessness reached a point where they could no longer be restrained. Of course, they did not need to restrain anything at this time, because this was the limit of how close they could get without being noticed. If they got any closer, they would inevitably be alerted by the Yellow Turbans.

With a whoosh, a bright light suddenly lit up in the dark night as the torch was lit, and Jiang Qin's cold and hard face was immediately illuminated. At this time, he had already drawn a sharp blade in his hand, and his eyes were fixed on the camp in front. After Zhou Yu made a plan, Jiang Qin led 30,000 elite soldiers to sneak around the battlefield. Thanks to the cover of night operations, their tracks were not detected by the Yellow Turbans. After leaving the Yellow Turbans' detection range, they crossed the mountains all the way and finally successfully went around the back of the Yellow Turbans a day ago.

However, Jiang Qin was not in a hurry to act immediately. A surprise attack requires timing. He had to wait until the critical moment agreed with Zhou Yu to launch the attack in order to achieve the greatest effect.

Now is the moment!
"Everyone in the army, follow me and charge into the enemy camp. If we don't succeed in this battle, we will die!"

Jiang Qin roared and rushed towards the Yellow Turban camp first, and the 30,000 elite soldiers behind him immediately responded with loud shouts.

In an instant, the situation on the battlefield changed suddenly and the situation took a turn for the worse!

It was only a few hundred meters away, which was very close to 30,000 elite soldiers. Moreover, there was more light closer to the camp, allowing them to charge quickly.

It took only a short while from the time Jiang Qin raised the torch and shouted the order to charge to the time they rushed to the camp.

At this time, most of the Yellow Turban troops were concentrated in the front camp. Although the rear camp was not completely unprotected, its troops were also very weak.

Of course, this is not a big problem. As long as there is enough time for the Yellow Turbans to react, it will not be a big deal for them to return to defense with their excellent qualities. However, once the Yellow Turbans return to defense successfully, it will be difficult for Jiang Qin to do anything.

Unfortunately, in order to successfully carry out this surprise attack, Jiang Qin did everything he could to the extreme. By the time of the final charge, the time window left for the Yellow Turbans was too small.

The soldiers in the Yellow Turbans' rear camp discovered something was wrong and began to frantically blow whistles and beat drums to warn people. However, no matter how powerful the Yellow Turbans were, it would take them a long time to complete a large-scale defense. But the terrifying thing was that Jiang Qin had already arrived in front of the rear camp.

"Brothers, follow me and kill. If we win this battle, we can all get promoted and make a fortune!"

"Return to Jiangdong and restore our Great Wu!"

"Don't be afraid of the Yellow Turbans. They are just two eyes and one mouth. As long as we charge in, we can win this battle!"

The generals of the Wu army, both big and small, were shouting loudly at this time, leading their respective armies to rush quickly towards the Yellow Turbans' rear camp. The countless wooden ladders they had prepared long ago were quickly placed on the wall, and the soldiers climbed up in a large number.

At this time, the few Yellow Turban troops left behind in the rear camp also hurried over to block the attack.

Jiang Qin's attack was so sudden that the Yellow Turbans were unable to react in time. It seemed too much for this small force to face 30,000 elite Wu troops, but no Yellow Turban soldier was afraid. Everyone went forward without hesitation.

They knew that what they should do most at this time was to buy time for the deployment of the main camp. The rear camp must not be lost before the army returned to defend!
Although the defense line of the rear camp was weak, when the few Yellow Turbans were guarding the spot and forming a formation to resist the enemy, they still had a momentum as unshakable as a mountain.

If you want to break into the camp, you have to step over their dead bodies first!

(End of this chapter)