Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 67
It was exactly the same as Xiang Kang's analysis and deduction. Knowing that the decisive battle with the Young Marshal Army would be head-on at noon the next day, and when the time was a bit tight, the Qin Army in Tongxian County did not spend a lot of energy and time. Come to build your own camp fortifications, just set up the camp fence, built the gate, a few sentry towers and a few archery towers, and didn't even dig the trenches to protect the camp, let alone build any camp walls, sheep and horse walls. Wait for solid fortifications.

Regarding this, although Hao Ce, Tongxian Zuowei, Gu County Magistrate's right-hand man, was also a little worried, he even ran to Gu County Magistrate to remind him, but because the sky was getting dark, Gu County Magistrate did not order the army to build and strengthen the camp overnight , and said with a wave of his hand: "That's about it. We will have a decisive battle with the thieves tomorrow. We can't let the soldiers sleep too late, which will affect tomorrow's battle. Just double the sentry tonight."

Unlike the Tongxian Qin Army who was somewhat careless, the Qin Army had just learned a lesson from underestimating the enemy two days ago, and spent a lot of effort building fortifications in the camp. Outside the camp trench, a wall of sheep and horses was built to guard the camp with the excavated earth, so that the crossbowmen of the Qin army could safely hide behind the wall and shoot arrows, which greatly strengthened the defense of the camp, although I dare not say that it is perfect , but it can also ensure that it is difficult for the young commander to attack successfully.

In addition, Chao Zhi also took the initiative to send someone to contact Gu County Magistrate, requesting to agree with Gu County Magistrate on a unified password to identify the enemy and ourselves at night.However, it is a pity that out of distrust of Chao Zhi himself and the officers and men of the Qin army, the magistrate Gu, who was afraid of the password revealing, chose to refuse, saying: "There is no need to unify the password, each use its own password, anyway, our The camp is far away, even if the scouts go out on patrol, they won’t be able to touch it, so there’s no need for that.”

After the envoy brought Gu County Magistrate's reply back to the Qin army's camp in Quli, he learned that his hot face was stuck to Gu County Magistrate's cold ass. He punched the table in front of him again, and said angrily, "It's fine if you don't want to unify the passwords. If the patrols collide with each other and fight accidentally at night, you will be responsible for all the consequences!"

It's a pity that the chance of face-slapping that Chao Zhi expected didn't happen, because the camps were indeed far apart, but the patrols of the Qin Army and Tongxian Qin Army who were active around the camp had never been in contact with each other. Naturally, there were no accidents due to inconsistent slogans at night.But fortunately, Chao Zhi is not the kind of person who is particularly small-minded. He didn't deliberately order his patrol team to rub against the Tong County Qin Army patrol team in order to retaliate against County Magistrate Gu, and he quickly forgot about the slap in the face. In the back of his head, as soon as the second watch arrived, he fell asleep in the warm military tent like countless soldiers of the Qin Army.

Considering that the Qin army slept soundly, the Qin army in Tongxian County slept even more soundly. Following the order to prepare for war issued by the county magistrate himself, not long after dinner, the soldiers of the Qin army in Tongxian County went to their tents to rest, and each of them slept soundly. It is fragrant and sweet, and the barracks is also full of snoring. Only a small number of sentries and patrol members try to keep their eyes open in the dark night, carefully paying attention to the movement in the distance, and looking forward to the time for the changing of the guard to come as soon as possible. Let yourself go back to sleep quickly.

It is half a month, so it should be the time when the moon is bright and clear, but because the weather has been bad this month, the night sky today is still cloudy, and there is no starlight or moonlight, and the light on the ground is even worse, although it is not enough He couldn't see his fingers, but it was still difficult to see the situation ten steps away, which caused a lot of trouble for the sentries and patrols of the Qin army.But fortunately, the surrounding area of ​​the two Qin army camps has always been calm, without any abnormality. The Qin army patrol team just worked a little harder, so they don't have to worry about their own safety.

When it was almost three o'clock, the situation finally changed a bit. A soldier of the Tong County Qin Army who was patrolling near the camp gate had sharp eyes and vaguely saw a figure swaying on the gentle slope, so he hurriedly reminded the leader of the patrol. Na Shichang tried his best to open his eyes wide and looked carefully for a long time, but all he could see was the darkness, so he said, "Is your eyes blurred? There is no one around?"

"It shouldn't be dazzled." The sharp-eyed Qin Bing said truthfully: "Although it is just shaking, I can clearly see that it is a figure, and there is more than one."

After hesitating for a while, Na Shichang made a correct decision and said, "Okay, let's go down with a torch and take a closer look to see if there is anyone there."

According to Shi Chang's instructions, the patrol team of the Qin Army walked down the gentle slope with torches, and Xiang Zhuang and Feng Zhong, who had already led the surprise attack team of the Young Marshal Army to lurk at the lower half of the gentle slope, also raised their hearts to their throats together, knowing that the army It is very likely that clues have been revealed, which made the enemy alert, and quickly discussed in a low voice.Feng Zhong lowered his voice and asked, "Brother Xiang Zhuang, we may have been exposed, what should we do?"

"There's no other way, they can't go any farther, they can only gamble on luck." Xiang Zhuang said in a low voice, "As soon as the order is passed down, I will do it together, and kill the patrol of the tyrant Qin army first." Team, and then go straight to the barracks gate of the Tyrant Qin army! No matter what, you must rush in!"

Feng Zhong agreed, and whispered Xiang Zhuang's order back, so that the carefully selected one hundred young marshals were ready to charge.Xiang Zhuang clasped his sword and shield tightly in both hands, silently watching the patrol team of the Qin army approaching slowly, and kept praying in his heart, "God bless, this patrol team must be killed immediately, and the camp gate must be rushed directly. Otherwise, our hard work will be in vain tonight."

Out of caution, the patrol team of the Qin army who accidentally discovered some clues did not walk fast. It took several minutes to reach the waist of the gentle slope, and they complained to each other because they never found anything unusual.However, just when the patrol team of the Qin Army thought that their hard work would be in vain, under the light of the torch, a burly figure suddenly jumped up, holding a sword and shield, and rushed towards them directly, which made the Qin army even more angry. The military patrol team was surprised that this burly man who suddenly appeared was still wearing the same Qin army uniform as them!

"There are enemies..."

Xiang Zhuang was originally a top player among the disciples of Xiaxiang Xiang's family, and now he was carrying a heavy responsibility, his movements were as fast as a rabbit, and he was as fierce as a tiger. The steel knife in Xiang Zhuang's hand had already pierced his chest, and at the same time, the shield in Xiang Zhuang's left hand accurately blocked the sword that the commander of the patrol team of the Qin Army had stabbed in hastily. Chang's right arm also snapped off, holding the sword and fell to the ground. The pain caused Na Shichang to cry out on the spot, "My hand!"

At the same time, Feng Zhong, who was all wearing the uniform of the Qin Army, and the rest of the young commanders had already jumped up and raised their swords and spears, and rushed towards the Qin Army patrol without hesitation. The other members of the patrol team of the Qin Army saw so many enemies lurking in the darkness, and they had no will to resist after their souls were scattered. They turned around and rushed up the slope, beating the gong while running and shouting, "Enemy attack! Enemy attack! There are enemies coming to steal the camp!"

The critical moment that determines success or failure has arrived. With a distance from the gate of the Qin Army camp, the surprise attack team of the Young Marshal Army led by Xiang Zhuang and Feng Zhong did not dare to have any hesitation, and just rushed directly to the Qin Army camp with big strides. According to Xiang Kang's instructions in advance, he rushed forward and shouted loudly, "The gangsters are coming! Run! The gangsters are coming!"

At this time, the confusion between the enemy and the enemy did not have any effect. Although it was strange why so many soldiers from the army suddenly rushed up from the mountain, but after hearing the alarm from the gong, the Qin army who was in charge of guarding the camp gate quickly lined up behind the gate. , He also stretched out the crossbow arrows from the gap in the camp gate, and cast a strong crossbow at the soldiers of the self army who rushed suddenly, shooting to death several real Qin soldiers who fled in front, and also shot to death and wounded several Xiang Kang's surprise attacks. team members.

"Oops! It's still a step too late!"

Xiang Zhuang groaned in his heart, knowing that the enemy had made preparations first, it was already very difficult for his own army to break through the camp gate and enter the enemy camp.However, at this moment, Feng Zhong, who was relatively more careful beside him, suddenly pointed to a place and shouted: "Brother Xiangzhuang, look quickly! There are enemies climbing over the fence! It seems that there is no trench for guarding the camp!"

Looking in the direction pointed by Feng Zhong, he saw that there were indeed two soldiers of the Qin Army climbing the fence and escaping into the camp. Xiang Zhuang, who did not know the situation of the enemy camp beforehand, was overjoyed, and secretly called God help me, and immediately He and Feng Zhong led the soldiers of the young marshals to that position, avoiding the heavily guarded camp gate, and directly charged the fence of the Qin Army's guard camp in Tongxian County, and confirmed it with great surprise when they rushed closer——Tongxian County The Qin army did not dig trenches for the guard camp!
There are no guards and ditches to protect the fences. Of course, the young commanders and soldiers who brought enough axes and ropes have a way to deal with these wooden fences. When the gatekeeper Qin army hastily divided up and came to stop them, a large row of fences had been pulled directly by the young generals. The young generals cheered like thunder, and rushed into the enemy camp under the leadership of Xiang Zhuang and Feng Zhong. Shouting, he rushed directly to the soldiers of the Qin army who had just woken up and were still sleepy.

The melee started, all dressed in Qin army uniforms and only tied a white cloth on the left arm to distinguish between the enemy and the young generals. While killing and setting fire, he shouted loudly, "The thieves are coming in! Run! The thieves are coming in! Run!"

Contrary to the soldiers of the Young Marshals who had a clear tactical purpose, the poor generals of the Qin Army in Tong County were completely dizzy in the melee. What they heard were screams and screams, but all they saw in their eyes were wearing Qin Army uniforms His companions, dizzy and unable to distinguish between the enemy and ourselves, could only scurry around the camp like headless chickens, shouting and trying to find the enemy's location.What's even more exasperating and despicable is that the soldiers of the Young Marshal often shouted loudly that they were their own people, and at the same time greeted the soldiers of the Qin Army with their swords without hesitation. Even if they failed to kill the enemy, they still made the enemy Even more confused, and even more confused about whether the comrades-in-arms and companions around me are enemies or friends.

In order to protect themselves and survive, the soldiers of the Qin army who had suffered a lot and survived by chance generally chose to give priority to self-defense. As long as a companion approached, no matter whether it was true or not, they would all greet their companions with weapons first.The resulting chain reaction was that the soldiers of the Qin Army caught each other and fought each other. While shouting and asking each other's true identity, they stabbed each other with swords and spears desperately. Countless Qin soldiers died tragically at the hands of their companions.As a result, the chaos in the Qin army expanded more and more. No matter how loudly the middle-level and middle-level generals of the Qin army shouted orders, they still could not control the chaos. The chaos in the barracks increased.

At this time, the shouts of killing had of course awakened County Magistrate Gu, who was sleeping soundly in the cozy tent, but Hao Ce, the Zuowei of Tongxian County, who hurried into the tent to report the situation, was so annoyed that he was sleepy when he learned that it was an enemy sneak attack. County magistrate Gu even had the face to scream like this: "Enemy attack? How is it possible? Didn't Xiang Kang, that traitor, make an appointment with me for a decisive battle at noon tomorrow? Why did he come to attack our camp again tonight? What did he say?" No letter?!"

"Your Majesty, we've been fooled!" Hao Ce shouted angrily, "That rebel Xiang Kang invited us to a decisive battle tomorrow is a lie, and it's true that he lied to us to relax our vigilance tonight. We've fallen into his shameless scheme again!"

It took a while to come back to his senses, and then County Magistrate Gu jumped up and roared like a raging lion. "Traitors! Shameless traitors! Break your promises! Go back on your promises! Shameless villains! Despicable villains!"

"Xianzun, now is not the time to swear, you have to find a way to deal with the current situation!" Hao Ce stomped his feet anxiously, and said quickly: "The thieves have already rushed into our camp, and they are all wearing our military uniforms. Now we The soldiers can't tell who is the enemy at all, they have already started fighting on their own, you have to find a way to deal with it!"

"What? The thieves are still wearing our military uniforms?" County Magistrate Gu was shocked again, and after scolding Xiang Kang for being shameless and despicable again, County Magistrate Gu could only shout quickly: "Hurry up, send orders to all the troops, Gather your soldiers and horses and form an formation to fight! Anyone who disobeys orders will be shot to death! Also, send someone to send a letter to Chao Zhi, telling him to send troops to reinforce us, the rebels may have follow-up troops!"

According to County Magistrate Gu's prediction, not only did the Young Marshal's army really have a follow-up army, but the follow-up army was also the main force of the Young Marshal's army led by Xiang Kang himself. With the sword in his hand, he pointed at the camp of the Qin army in Tong County and shouted: "Beat the drums and attack! Break into the enemy camp and kill old man Gu Bi!"

At the same time, after seeing the camp of the Qin army in Tongxian County on fire, the sentinels of the Qin army quickly reported the news to Chao Zhi, the leader of the army. , Seeing that the friendly army camp in the distance was indeed on fire everywhere, Chao Zhi did not dare to hesitate, and immediately shouted: "Order the whole army, get up and prepare for battle immediately, and prepare to reinforce the friendly army in Tong County!"

According to Chao Zhi's order, there are still thousands of people in the Qin army in a hurry to get up and prepare for the battle, and gather in the open space in the camp to wait for orders. The sound of gongs was loud, no less than [-] gongs sounded at the same time, and the sound shook the whole field.Chao Zhi was taken aback immediately, and blurted out, "There are thieves ambushing next to our camp!"

But fortunately, the gong next to the Qin army camp just knocked for a while, and then quickly disappeared without a trace. However, the more this happened, the more frightened Chao Zhi became, and he did not dare to take the initiative to send troops to rescue Tong County. The friendly army can only let the troops under his command give priority to guarding the camp, and prevent the young generals from attacking their camp.After a period of time, when the magistrate Gu sent the request for help to Chao Zhi on a fast horse, Chao Zhi also fell into a dilemma.

"Take a risk to save? Or do you give priority to self-protection?"

While struggling and hesitating in his heart, Chao Zhi couldn't help but suddenly remembered all the ugly faces that Magistrate Gu had made in front of him these two days, as well as the innocent injustice he had suffered.Then Chao Zhi quickly made up his mind and said to the envoy sent by Gu County Magistrate: "Go back and tell Gu County Venerable that there is also an army of rebels ambushing next to my camp. If I divide the troops at this time, my camp will also die." Can’t keep it! So there’s no other way but to ask him to keep the camp with all his strength!”

As if to testify for Chao Zhi, just as Chao Zhi finished his refusal, there was another loud sound of gongs in the darkness in the distance. Determined, no matter how much the envoys of the Qin Army in Tong County kowtowed and begged, they would not let go and send troops...

In fact, even if Chao Zhi took the risk of sending troops to save the Qin army in Tongxian County, it would not be able to reverse the situation on the battlefield—at most, it could make the Qin army in Tongxian County lose less miserably.Because County Magistrate Gu's hastily issued contingency orders to form an formation and fight did not have any effect at all. It is very difficult to find people in the dark, and the battlefield is already in chaos. It was communicated to the middle and lower generals of the Qin Army. Fortunately, a few middle-level generals received the order, and it was difficult to find their subordinates and corporals in the chaos. Naturally, there was no way to implement Gu County Magistrate's orders.And as Xiang Kang personally led the main force of the Young Marshal Army into the Qin Army camp and joined the battlefield inside the camp, the death knell of the Qin Army in Tong County also sounded.

Amidst the shouts of the tide, the main force of the Young Marshal Army, who is still purely a mob, is brave, all of them vying to be the first, and charging up after the banners of the Young Marshal Army, like a torrent, rushing directly into the chaotic city. A group of Qin army camps became even more frantic, killing people and cutting enemies when they saw them, knocking down sentry towers, overturning arrow towers, and chopping the dizzy Qin soldiers into pieces and stabbing them into honeycombs.However, the Qin army had no fighting spirit. They fled to the camp of the Chinese army almost without any resistance, trampled on the fence of the camp of the Chinese army of the Qin army, tore down the tents and overturned the carriage, and at the same time completely disrupted Gu County. The Chinese army team led by Ling personally trampled on each other and killed countless people. County magistrate Gu, Hao Ce and others were so anxious that they cursed, but there was nothing they could do.

The main force of the Young Marshal, who drove the defeated Qin army as the vanguard, quickly rushed directly into the Qin army's camp in Tongxian County. The Qin army's camp in the middle of the Qin army, which was already in chaos, was flustered. They ran away screaming, including many soldiers of the Qin Army.Seeing that the situation is over, Hao Ce, who is still loyal, can only quickly pull up the magistrate Gu, who is beating his chest and feet, and leading a few entourages into the crowd, fleeing in the direction of the barn in a panic, preparing to seize the horse and flee to the Qin army. The camp took refuge.

It's a pity that Hao Ce was able to think of taking the horse and fleeing for his life in the chaos, and many soldiers of the Qin Army also thought of this, so when Hao Ce and Gu County Magistrate fled to the stable here in a panic, the stable was already overcrowded , There are also many soldiers of the Qin Army fighting for horses.Hao Ce had no choice but to yell: "Get out of the way! Get out of the way! The county lord is here! The county lord is here, get out of the way immediately!"

It's useless to shout, the soldiers of the Qin army who have become frightened can only think of running for their lives, and how can they make way for the magistrate Gu to get on his horse in a big way?At the same time, Hao Ce's hysterical yelling had the opposite effect. In the chaos, a team of the Qin Army suddenly swept in and asked loudly, "Where is the county lord? Where is the county lord?"

"I'm here! I'm here! This officer is here!"

County magistrate Gu kept yelling in tears, and at the same time squeezed through the crowd to meet the loyal Qin army team, and miraculously joined the Qin army team carrying the centurion banner, shouting with tears in his eyes Said: "I am County Magistrate Gu! Come and save me!"

The answer to County Magistrate Gu was the snarky laughter of the Qin army's hundred-man team, as well as the impatient swords and spears that were stabbed. After a heavy blow, he was chopped into meat paste in the blink of an eye, and he didn't understand until his death, "Strange? How could my subordinates kill me?"

"They are thieves!" Hao Ce's reaction was faster than that of Gu County Magistrate. He had just seen Gu County Magistrate fall down, and immediately guessed the true identity of this so-called Qin army.However, it was too late to guess, the distance was too close, and more swords and spears had already greeted him one after another, and in a blink of an eye, they sent him to Huangquan Road to be with County Magistrate Gu.

(End of this chapter)