Three Kingdoms

Yanyan camp.

Because of the terrain, it stretched for two or three miles in the mountain road and formed three camps, divided into front, middle and back, with one side leaning on Tongshui and the other facing the road.

After a day's journey, there were only a few torches shining in the big camp, and the rest of the place was dark. The patrolling soldiers walked feebly in the camp, their shaky figures stretched very long under the light of sparse torches.

This is the rear camp. We need to carry heavy equipment along the way, keep up with the pace of the rush, and build camps for the front camp and the middle camp when we land again. Both the soldiers and the mules and horses are extremely tired. In addition, the original He is not a main battle soldier, so when it comes to the fence and sentry tower in his camp, it is just for the occasion, so he doesn't have much thought to fiddle with it. In the minds of the vast majority of Yan Yan's soldiers, especially those in the rear camp, they will not encounter any danger. The front is protected by the huge Yan Yan's soldiers. Even if they encounter soldiers from Zhengxi, most of them will be in front. We went to the camp to deal with it first, but there was a ghost behind us. The scouts who stayed behind did not sound the alarm at all. Besides, after walking fifty miles in a day, everyone was as tired as a dog. Is there anyone else who could follow? Come up?

Therefore, these auxiliary soldiers and civilians in Yan Yan's rear camp all slept soundly after being tired.

It can be said that when Yan Yan focused his attention in the direction of Zitong, he neglected the threat from the rear, and this kind of negligence can sometimes cost people's lives...

About a mile behind Yan Yan, there was a forest. On the edge of the forest, Huang Cheng was commanding the soldiers from the mountain battalion to deploy them according to different combat objectives.

Yes, if you follow Yan Yan's troops, you will inevitably be noticed by some of the scouts left behind by Yan Yan to watch the retreat. But the problem is that Huang Cheng and others do not follow the proper channels at all, but can be said to be directly Coming over the mountains...

Although there is no moon, the stars in the sky can still provide some light.

Behind Huang Cheng, there was no other sound except for some soldiers moving around and the occasional sound of soldiers' armor touching each other, making the surrounding area even more quiet.

Two days ago, Zhang Liao sent people to deliver the news. On the one hand, he communicated the overall plan, and on the other hand, he brought two questions from Fei Qian, the general who conquered the west...

What is mountain camp?

How should mountain camps be used?

Even at this moment, Huang Cheng still felt ashamed when he thought about it. These two problems were not the first time Huang Cheng had seen them, nor were they the first time Fei Qian had mentioned them, but Huang Cheng had actually been negligent in his specific command. When they cooperated with Wei Yan to attack Fu County, they were somewhat related. However, when they lured out Yan Yan's troops, due to their own eagerness and arrogance, they gave up the advantages of the mountain camp and became an ordinary soldier. The soldiers also joined Wei Yan on the battlefield for a head-on confrontation with Yan Yan...

Now is the time to prove yourself and correct your mistakes.

Huang Cheng turned his head to look at the soldiers who had assembled on the left and right, raised his arm, and then slashed at Yan Yan's rear camp like a sword!

In Yan Yan's rear camp, several mules and horses suddenly stood up on the ground. Although they did not raise their necks and bark, they shook their heads and snorted, which still woke up the sleeping horses curled up in the corner of the temporary stable. groom.

"Um, hi..." The shepherd climbed up from the hay with difficulty. He had been tired all day. It felt like he had just fallen asleep and was woken up. He was more or less angry when he got up, mumbling, and then subconsciously He was swaying about to drag a bundle of fodder to feed the horse.

When they reached the place where the fodder was piled, the horse herder felt something was wrong. He remembered that he had already fed them once before. Logically speaking, they should have stopped. Why were these big guys making a fuss again?

Mules and horses are naturally more docile than war horses. Although there are no horses in Sichuan and Shu, the small Yunnan horses of the Southern Barbarians have excellent endurance. Although they are not suitable for fighting on the battlefield, they are indeed the best for pulling vehicles and cargo. Best choice.

The horse herder raised his head and looked around doubtfully, feeling a little uneasy. His mules and horses have always been very docile, and they are rarely as abnormal as tonight. The horseherd couldn't help but stroke the necks of the mules and horses, trying to calm them down.

In the dark night, there was a vague smell that came with the night wind. This smell was vague, looming, and not very real.

The shepherd shrugged his nose. Could it be that something was burnt?

Just when the horse herder was still looking for the source of the smell, a sudden explosion, like a thunderbolt on dry land, sounded at the fence of the camp. The huge roar, accompanied by the rising flames and smoke, resounded throughout the world of the film, and even in the distance. The valleys are constantly trembling and echoing!

There were screams of fear from all over the camp, and soon after, the shouts rose into the sky and resounded throughout the entire military camp in an instant. The horse herder was so frightened that he couldn't stand still and sat down on the ground. Several mules and horses around him kept kicking and screaming, almost hitting him.

In the swaying light of the fire, the horseherd saw shadows passing by on the outer wall of the camp. He was trembling for a short time. He closed his eyes, pulled his neck, and screamed like a butchering pig: "There is a ghost." Ah ah ah ah ah!"

Yan Yan's three camps were all awakened by the loud noise, but there was not enough light in the tents, and nothing could be seen in the dark tents, which increased the fear. The huge His voice was like the wrath of a god, directly piercing the heart of Yan Yan's soldiers.

Soldiers who didn't know what they were doing were shouting nervously, hoarse and crazy, accompanied by unconscious actions without any goal, one after another in the camp, which seemed particularly terrifying.

Most of the people in Yan Yan's three camps didn't know what happened, and they didn't know what they should do. Every soldier had a huge question mark and exclamation mark on his head, and then he looked around blankly. , is also the confused look in other people's eyes.

"Surprise attack, enemy attack..."

Suddenly, a heartbreaking sound sounded in the chaos, and then the warning gong also sounded. Now is the darkest period before dawn. Although there is some light, there are still many people among the Sichuan and Sichuan soldiers who cannot see anything due to malnutrition. This has not only caused huge psychological consequences to the soldiers. The panic also increased the time it took for them to regain calm and order.

Yan Yan was also awakened by the sound, but in such a chaotic scene, he could only control the guards around him first, and then use these guards to wake up and rectify other soldiers, like a pyramid, Yan Yan Yan could only sort it out slowly from top to bottom. The Sichuan and Sichuan soldiers had almost never experienced any night battles. The reflex arcs in this area were so long that Yan Yan almost felt like his days were like years.

Although Yan Yan shouted loudly and tried his best to maintain order, too many soldiers were awakened in the three camps, and the scene was chaotic. Thousands of people were crowded in one place, and the soldiers were running around randomly. He was struggling to find the scattered army commanders, military lords, Qu Chang and other grassroots non-commissioned officers. Although he tried his best to speed up and try his best, the speed of recovery was still slow.

More bewildered soldiers rushed out of the tent, as if they were rolled together by the surging tide. They collided, trampled, crowded, and even broke out in the camp in an orderly manner. The darkest and most fearful side of my heart is like waves crashing on the camp one after another, inspiring greater and more chaos.

I don’t know when it started or where the fire started rising in the camp. Although the flames in every place may not have burned any important materials, it caused more panic. The unclear soldiers were involuntarily swept up by the chaotic flow of people, and even the soldiers who spontaneously fought to the rescue were not immune, becoming more fragmented and scattered.

Some noncommissioned officers shouted loudly, while others roared symbolically twice and then fell into the chaotic noise...

Yan Yan looked pale as he looked at the army that was bombing the camp. Although he tried his best to save the situation, he was still unable to save himself. Like a wild wolf in desperate situation, he burst out into the darkness with an angry and desperate howl.

Huang Cheng commanded his men to rush into Yan Yan's rear camp, like a steel knife piercing into the somewhat loose body of Yan Yan's barracks, and like a rake sweeping into the grain field, immediately cutting open Blood paths were cut one after another, and blood spurted out, making Yan Yan's rear camp auxiliary soldiers and civilians, who were originally weak in combat effectiveness, howl even more crazily, flee, run wildly, and run around in a panic.

Huang Cheng's mountain elites wielded machetes skillfully, and sometimes even used the edges of sharp small steel shields to chop, collide, and drive, slashing along the way and quickly devouring one after another. Life, from time to time, crossbow bolts roared out from the darkness, killing Yan Yan's soldiers who tried to intercept them to pieces.

Starting from the breach in Yan Yan's rear camp where Yan Yan was blasted, until the auxiliary soldiers and civilians of Yan Yan's rear camp opened the gate of the camp, Huang Cheng and his men were like a tornado, as long as they swept through The area was a mess, with bloody corpses and soldiers lying groaning in a pool of blood everywhere.

Yan Yan closed her eyes in pain.

All signs indicate that Zhengxi Bingjia is near Zitong, and has even cut off the connection between him and Zitong. Even the four scouts he sent out in one day resulted in heavy casualties, and no specific information about Zitong could be obtained. , and when Yan Yan focused his attention in the direction of Zitong, he discovered that all this was a scam by Zheng Xi and others. At some point, Huang Cheng's soldiers, who were originally behind, targeted the weakly defended soldiers. Yan Yan's rear camp soldiers died.

When Yan Yan gathered the soldiers and horses in the central camp as quickly as possible, avoiding the auxiliary soldiers and civilians who fled from the rear camp and ran around aimlessly, he made a slight circle and rushed towards the rear camp. By that time, Huang Cheng had already led his men to kill Yan Yan's rear camp and penetrate it.

Huang Cheng did not expect that today's harvest would be so great. In fact, not many soldiers died directly under the attack of Huang Cheng and others, not even one-tenth of the number in the rear camp, but the chaotic deserters As a result, more casualties were caused. Yan Yan's auxiliary soldiers and civilians, who had little combat effectiveness, were noisy like headless flies. Sometimes they were entangled together and sometimes they ran away. Their unorganized behavior delayed their attack. The speed of escape makes death come to them faster.

Huang Cheng used to think that tactics such as night attacks, destruction, and confusion required special elite scout warriors like Ling Jie, but he never thought that today he could achieve such tactics with his mountain soldiers. Lingjie's general effect.

But looking at Yan Yan's soldiers rushing towards him, Huang Cheng did not let his excitement and pride dilute his reason.

"Withdraw! Withdraw troops!"

The rapid and deep sound of the trumpet woke up the soldiers in the mountain camp who were immersed in the bloody fight. Looking at the Yanyan deserter in front of him who was crying and screaming and unable to resist, his blood-red eyes were full of murderous intent. Unwilling to do so, but still following the original plan, he stopped the pursuit.

Huang Cheng, surrounded by his personal guards, looked back at Yan Yan, who was charging from the east, laughed proudly, and then disappeared into the darkness without stopping.

The chaos finally calmed down without any sustained damage. Amidst the tension and uneasiness, the sky gradually became brighter.

Everything in front of him made Yan Yan's heart and blood boil, and he was extremely angry.

The entire rear camp was basically gone. In addition to dead bodies everywhere, collapsed camp gates, and fallen fences, more than half of the materials in the camp were burned in the chaos, leaving only a field of ashes. land.

There were basically corpses of Yan Yan's auxiliary soldiers and civilians all around, but none of them belonged to the Zhengxi soldiers. I don't know if there were really no casualties, or if those casualties were also killed by the Zhengxi soldiers when they retreated. One handle was taken away. Before last night, it seemed that the camp was still bustling with people, but now only the remains were left, like a slaughterhouse that was messy with blood and had been hit by a fire.

"General..." The close guards around Yan Yan looked at Yan Yan's changing expression and asked hesitantly, "We, what should we do now?"

"There weren't many people in Zhengxi last night! It's not that easy for them to catch up!" Yan Yan seemed to have figured it out, "We were negligent! We were negligent! Get your troops in order and don't worry about these damn guys, they are To drag us down, as long as we can get back to Zitong, these losses are nothing... nothing..."

Yes, normally speaking, it is common for people to cheat in war situations. As long as the final victory is achieved, cheating has its value. But the problem is that General Fei Qian of the Conquest of the West has never been a man of rules...