Late Tang

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In the middle of the night, the Shatuo soldiers stationed by the Huishui River felt the ground beneath them tremble slightly.

The soldiers who were in charge of resting their heads and listening to the ground during the march issued a sad and sharp warning, "A large number of unidentified cavalry is approaching rapidly!"

The Shatuo generals who woke up in their sleep quickly ordered to blow the horn to wake up the soldiers.And sent cavalry to check the identity of the cavalry, and asked the peasants to immediately push the supply and grain carts together to form a cart formation for defense.The order had just been issued, and the horn had just sounded, but at this moment, chaos suddenly broke out in the civilian husband's camp.

At first, it was just chaos in one corner.

When more than a dozen civilian husbands heard the sound of the horn, they suddenly screamed wildly, like a madman, screaming for their lives, lost, and started to ignite the grain carts next to them, and started to set fire to the side.

Then, very soon, the entire camp of tens of thousands of people began to light up little by little like fireflies in summer.Every time it lights up, there is something happening somewhere.Such a single spark, before Sha Tuo's coach Cheng Huaiyi fully reacted, has become a prairie fire, sweeping the entire camp.

In the dark night, the civilian husbands who yelled and set fires everywhere had a striking white cloth strip on their arms.

"Camp Xiao!"

The following generals responded to Cheng Huaiyi in this way.

Yingxiao, which has existed since ancient times, may be just a soldier's screaming in a nightmare at first, and then more people will be infected with this hysterical and crazy atmosphere, and then it will be a crazy **** that completely breaks away from the shackles of military discipline.

This kind of "camp scream" mostly occurs in places like military camps or prisons. Due to the large number of people, the small living space, and the fact that the whole group is under great mental pressure due to training or enmity, and is on the verge of collapse.Therefore, on a certain dark night, when a soldier or prisoner yells because of a nightmare, it often triggers a chain reaction of other people, causing the whole group to fall into hysteria, and even kill each other. The consequences are often very serious.

And at this time, there will often be some clear-headed guys who start to copy guys to avenge their grievances. Soldiers and officers have become the number one target. In the chaos, everyone is calculating their own accounts, and those who should pay their debts cannot escape.The ancient Chinese army had night terrors many times, that is, camp screams.

Camp storms are often catastrophic, and once they break out, they can sometimes even directly destroy an army.

But right now, the situation at the Minfu Daying is indeed very similar to Ying Xiao.After all, these civilian husbands were forced to enlist in the army not long ago, and this time they were taken out of the customs to fight.In addition, the weather is hot now, and after a day of marching during the day, they live in a densely populated place at night. The high temperature adds to the tension, and it happens that unknown cavalry are approaching. These civilians who have never fought at all panic when they hear the drums and horns in the night. Then it caused more panic, and some guys took the opportunity to make trouble, which eventually led to the current uncontrollable roar.

This is a perfectly plausible reason.

Cheng Huaiyi believed it, but he didn't know how to control the storm.

Generally, when a scream occurs, we can only wait for those people to calm down after sex.Under normal circumstances, as long as the Shatuo soldiers are not in chaos, it is just that some civilians are in chaos, and it is not terrible.The big deal is to surround them and let them kill one by themselves. It will be fine when the sun rises. When the time comes to punish some guys, things will calm down.

But at this juncture, there are cavalry approaching outside, and tens of thousands of civilians are attacking inside, which is fatal.

Cheng Huaiyi has not waited for Cheng Huaiyi to figure out how to deal with this matter, or Cheng Huaiyi has not thought that they will encounter a fierce attack.

He never thought that the unknown cavalry coming from behind him would be the Qin army, and there were so many of them.

Like a ghost suddenly appearing in the dark night, a cavalry formation composed of [-] cavalry came in at a speed that was not too fast.

The neat and dense red armor is like a steel wall, and it is like a mountain of swords and a sea of ​​swords, a hail of guns and arrows.

The gloomy, pitch-black wings stretched out silently, eerie and terrifying.

The dry and piercing sound of horseshoes came like thunder from nine heavens, and they came like a whirlwind, sweeping across and destroying everything in front of them.

In front of this terrible iron flow, the Khitan people's tents, men and horses were as vulnerable as paper. The Shatuo soldiers who were fleeing for their lives screamed in despair and were crushed to pieces by the iron cavalry and steel walls.

Zhang Zimian and Wang Yanzhang are in the front, Gao Siji is on the left, Yang Shihou is on the right, and Song Wen is behind. One handsome and four generals led [-] cavalry. This place, which is very far away from Yunzhou and Yanmen, suddenly launched a surprise attack on the Shatuo people.

In the middle of the night, a full [-] light cavalry attacked from the southeast, crushing the thousands of Shatuo people who stood in front of them to pieces.Immediately, they charged like a broken bamboo.

After a few days of success, Cheng Huaiyi and most of the Shatuo generals relaxed their vigilance, thinking that there was no more enemy soldiers in Shuozhou.Unexpectedly, at this place, at this time, [-] fierce Qin cavalry suddenly rushed out.

But at this time, the [-] civilians who were under their care were in chaos, galloping around and shouting for defeat.All of a sudden, there were flames everywhere, and the sound of defeat was everywhere. Many Shatuo people who had just woken up from their sleep did not understand what happened. Scattered and the peasants fled together.

After a round of charge, Zhang Zimian's cavalry rushed back backwards, and then re-arranged.This time, Zhang Zimian arranged the four cavalry troops side by side, and 2 people formed a long horizontal row, divided into several columns, and attacked again.

It's just that this time they didn't charge anymore, but rode forward slowly, took out horn bows, crossbows, and thunderbolts.

This is a sweep, a sweep. They seem to be moving slowly, but they crush any Shatuo people in front of them.

The Shatuo people retreated steadily and began to be driven by them to escape to the west.

After fleeing for a short time, the Shatuo people found that they had no way to escape, because they fled to the Gray Water River.

The Huishui River is not a big river, but it is also the source and tributary of the upper reaches of the Sanggan River. It is not a small river in the south of Shuozhou.At this time, when the water is full in summer, the river is twenty feet wide, and the water depth in many places is ten feet deep.Although there are quite a few places where the water is not deep enough to be crossed by wading, it requires people who are familiar with the river water here.For these Shatuo people fleeing around in the dark, they don't know where to cross and where not to cross.

Even crossing the river on horseback is very dangerous in such deep water.

And the Qin army seemed to know all of this a long time ago. They came from the east, broke the formation first, and then drove them away. Obviously, they wanted to drive them all into the river.

This is a fuck!

If it was a face-to-face decisive battle with real swords and guns, even if [-] Shatuo soldiers could not beat [-] Qin troops, they would never be defeated so desperately and thoroughly.They didn't even have a chance to resist, they were just knocked out by a flurry of punches from the beginning to the end, and then they were stamped on the throat with a foot, and died for no reason.

Cheng Huaiyi didn't wake up until the prancing horse plunged into the rushing Huishui River, and it wasn't any noise at all tonight.It was just that the Qin people had sent J-spies into the civilian husbands in advance, and then launched a civil strife tonight, which caused riots. It was the Qin army who planned this camp riot.

Qin Jun, is Qin Jun, everything is Qin Jun's strategy.How many spies would it take to make such a big storm?I'm afraid that when they recruited civilian husbands after driving away Li Siyuan, the Qin army had already started to prepare and deliberately placed people in Xindai, so that they could catch them and become young men.

Remorse, unwillingness, guilt.

He shouldn't have been provoked by the generals to disregard King Jin's military order and lead troops into battle without authorization.

Now, he has completely fallen into Qin Jun's trap.The damned Qin army came from behind, which showed that they were Zhang Zimian's army who had already returned north.They didn't leave at all, but kept hiding near the Yanmen Pass, waiting there for him to leave the pass and deliver him to him.

He was too careless, and set up camp here, but he didn't take any precautions.It would be great if he brought soldiers and horses into the city of Shuozhou to set up camp. Even if Shuozhou was burned, at least there were still a few walls.At the critical moment, you can also block a block, and you won't lose so quickly.

Everything is over, [-] soldiers and horses are gone, and [-] civilian husbands are gone.

This is not the worst, the worst thing is that King Jin still can't come back in the river, and the barbarians in the north can't go south for a while, but he has already brought out almost all the soldiers and horses from Yanmenguan and Xindai.Now in Yanmen Pass, there are only [-] old and weak. In the Xin Dynasty, the soldiers and horses from the counties of the two prefectures and Guancheng added together did not have [-] soldiers.

Not only did he lose all the [-] soldiers and horses he brought out, but he also lost Yanmen, Yanmen Pass, and the entire Yanmen Town.

He is sorry for King Jin's trust, he is sorry for King Jin.

The war horse was ups and downs in the water, and the opposite bank was in front of him, but Cheng Huaiyi let out a long sigh, drew out the horizontal sword and put it on his neck.

"Prince Jin, I'm sorry!"

After saying this sentence, Cheng Huaiyi made a slash, and the long sword cut into his chest, blood sprayed out, he fell into the river slowly, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

dawn.

The lower reaches of the Huishui River were filled with corpses of Shatuo soldiers, almost covering the surface of the Huishui River for several miles. Blood flowed into the river, staining the entire Huishui River red.The gray water river has become the red water river.

Zhang Zimian rode his horse by the river and watched the battlefield last night.

Of the [-] Shatuo troops, only less than [-] were captured in the end, and the rest basically died. A few were killed, most were forced into the river and drowned, and only a small part finally escaped to the other side. Or break out and flee to the north.

Among the [-] civilians, many jumped into the river in panic and were drowned.At this time, the remaining [-] civilian husbands were helping to clean up the battlefield, collecting scattered weapons and fleeing horses, and digging pits to bury the corpses.

The Qin army did not suffer a large loss last night. 2 people made a surprise attack, but in the end they only lost more than a thousand people. Compared with the victory, this loss is nothing to mention.

"Thanks to the Military Intelligence Bureau for this battle, they have made great efforts. If they hadn't planned the civil war, I'm afraid we would not have won this battle so smoothly." Song Wen walked behind Zhang Zimian, feeling emotional road.

Zhang Zimian nodded. Indeed, their achievements cannot be erased.

"This commander will present a memorandum to the King of Qin, detailing the experience before and after the battle, and give special credit to the many brothers in the Military Intelligence Bureau."

"The brothers from the Military Intelligence Bureau said that Yanmen is very empty right now. There are only five thousand old and weak. It is not difficult to take down Yanmen Pass."

"Well, yes, but I'm not worried about that right now."

Yang Shihou chuckled softly: "The commander is worried about Jincheng, right? The barbarians are going south, and we can't come back in time to help. It will be very difficult for General Zhang Yu."

Zhang Zimian sighed for a long time, although it has been proved that his decision to stay is right, but this may have missed his son's life.To King Qin, he is a qualified general, but to his son, he is not a qualified father.

"Hey, you guys are here. I want to tell you great news." Gao Siji galloped forward with a smile on his face.

"What good news?" Zhang Zimian cheered up.

"It's really great news, a great victory in Jincheng. Just the day before yesterday, Senior Brother Liu and others rushed to Jincheng with [-] soldiers and horses. He arrived just as the barbarians had already opened a hole in Jincheng. The enemy was wiped out in the first battle. The army, the [-] southward army of Jeruza, has been completely wiped out.'

"Where are the [-] auxiliary soldiers in Jincheng?" Zhang Zimian asked hastily, full of anxiety.

Gao Siji said in a deep voice: "Before Senior Brother Liu arrived, the Hu people had already captured the gates of all counties except Jincheng, almost all the [-] auxiliary troops were wiped out, and tens of thousands of people who helped defend the city were killed."

"My son..." Zhang Zimian lost his voice, his eyes darkened, and he almost fainted.

Gao Siji and Yang Shihou hurriedly supported him, "Zhang Shuai, the Major General is fine, he was just injured a little bit. Moreover, after hearing the news of the great victory in Jincheng, the King of Qin has made the Major General the Marquis of Jincheng County. Senior brother Liu and several other generals also have awards. Senior brother has already been promoted to the Duke of Yingcheng County, and the king of Qin organized the tens of thousands of horses into a legion, and even bestowed the title Wansheng. Jincheng County Marquis was awarded Wansheng The deputy commander of the legion is here, what a joy to congratulate. He is really a father and son, father and son in battle."

Hearing that his son not only survived, but also received so many rewards, Zhang Zimian felt happy for his son, but also felt guilty for the [-] soldiers who died in battle.If he came back, maybe they wouldn't have died.

Yang Shihou saw what he was thinking, and said: "Soldiers have to face sacrifices, but their deaths are valuable. The commander decided to stay. Now that we have defeated the Shatuo people, we will be able to regain Yanmen Pass and even the entire Yanmen Town Xin Dai Erzhou, this is also their credit."

Zhang Zimian nodded, "Get ready. We will send troops to Yanmen immediately. We have paid such a high price. We can't let them down!"

"Yes, soldiers are going to Yanmen!" Yang Shihou and Gao Siji responded loudly at the same time, their faces full of excitement and pride that they were about to seize the entire Yanmen Town. (To be continued.)