Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 657
Fan Ling led the order to go down to the city, gathered [-] cavalrymen, opened the city gate, roared out of the city, and within a few dozen miles, he arrived outside the camp of Huang Zhong's army and horses in about a cup of tea.

He was cautious and refused to go any further. He stopped at the foot of a hill a few miles away from the barracks opposite, took two or three people with him, rode up the hill, and watched from a height.

Originally, there were Yangzhou military sentries all over the city, but half of the enemies didn't see him during his journey, and his heart was already moved.At this time, when I climbed up and looked far away, I saw a mess in the camp of the Yangzhou Army, with a lot of dust and smoke; and nearer, the noise was even more clear.

"County lieutenant, look!"

Following the fingers of one of his soldiers, Fan Ling saw a cloud of dust and smoke rising from the north of the barracks stretching for several miles, billowing up and rising into the sky, even though it was extremely obvious at night, he immediately beamed with joy, and blurted out: : "This must be water in the bandit barracks!"

When the fire came together, the camp became brighter and brighter, at least the north of the camp was as bright as day.He concentrated his attention and looked clearly. He saw that Yangzhou Beiying was like a mess of horses and guns, with countless people running around.There were also a large group of soldiers fell to the ground, and blood was faintly flowing everywhere.Some people rushed to the gate of the camp, drew their knives and raised their guns, cut down the guards, robbed the gate of the camp, and fled in all directions yelling.

The noise of people is getting louder and louder, and the yelling is several miles away, and it is deafening.

"What are they calling?"

"Some people are shouting 'Wenpin's relatives have arrived in Hanshou, Jingzhou reinforcements have arrived'; and more people are shouting 'White horses are always afraid of green cattle'?"

"White horses are always afraid of green bulls?"

Fan Ling knew that this was a popular saying among the people, originally referring to the six evils in the zodiac, but what did it have to do with the night terrors of the Yangzhou Army.

"What do you mean?"

"It seems that the green ox appeared outside our city today, causing rumors to spread among the bandits. Some people said that the cyan ox was transformed by the heavens, and it also represented the Eastern Jiayi wood. The rebel army is at a great disadvantage, and some people say that General Wenpin is a ox, while their general Huang Zhong is a horse. This is also an innate restraint, so people panic and think that this battle will be lost."

"This..." Fan Ling was speechless for a while, and couldn't help asking: "Is Wenpin really a ox?"

The Tanma scratched his head when he heard the words, "You don't know the county lieutenant, how can the villain know, but the green cow appeared extremely abruptly, and it has been stopping outside my Linxiang City, making these thieves think it represents our army. Auspicious, it makes sense."

This is a good point. Ordinary soldiers are all rough people, not to mention this kind of yellow scarf bandits. The more ignorant people are, the easier it is to be obsessed with such false talk. Seeing that the fire broke out everywhere in the north of the camp, and the black smoke filled the air, gradually enveloping the entire camp, I was [-]% convinced.

A soldier said: "It looks real. If it's a play, there's no need to make it so realistic. If the camp is burned down, won't we be afraid that we won't be able to attract our army tonight, and our army will take the opportunity to attack tomorrow? "

Fan Ling was not in a hurry, and turned his head again, looking at Zhou Tai's camp on the other side of the river.

Because the distance was too far, he couldn't see clearly, but the shadows were faint. He saw the flames in Zhou Tai's camp first little by little, and soon it became full of bright lights.There were scouting horses with torches running out of the camp one after another, as if they were also alarmed by the camp in the south of the city, and they planned to cross the river to find out what happened.

Seeing this scene, Fan Ling believed [-]% of it.

At this time, another detective came to report: "County captain, the bandit army that broke out of the camp is coming towards us!"

Fan Ling hurriedly turned his head, and hundreds of Yangzhou soldiers were running towards this dirt mountain. The running team was sparsely stretched, and some people fell down and got up quickly, as if there were some monsters chasing after them. There was no time to look back, Gutou didn't care about his back, panicked, just sprinted.

Looking at it so far, Fan Ling is [-]% convinced!
When the two armies confronted each other, [-]% confidence was actually [-]% certainty, he immediately turned his horse's head around, ran down the hill, laughed and said: "The thief is at his own peril, the whole team obeys orders, and light the fireworks! Come with me."

As he said that, he drew out his saber, lightly clamped the horse's belly, and took the lead, facing the night, with his cloak rustling, rushing to and from the enemy.The 500 people behind him yelled at the same time, uttering a mighty and threatening sound of "ho, ho", and rushed out to the place where the fire started.

The sky was covered with clouds and the stars were dark. A specially made rocket blasted into the sky, and then burst into extremely gorgeous fireworks that filled the night sky.

The city is majestic, and two Yangzhou army camps stand across the river, between them, there is a wilderness and plain, the garrison in the city is silent, black smoke billows in the camp outside the city, and the noise vibrates the ground.

Seeing the fireworks rising into the sky, all the generals who had been staying at the top of the city showed joy at the same time, but Zhang Xian remained calm and silent.

Seeing that he never issued orders, a captain couldn't help asking for orders: "The fireworks were lifted into the sky, and it was the signal from Captain Fan County, which proved that the roar of the bandit camp was true. Immediately dispatch the army to attack!"

"No matter how I think about it, it's too weird."

Hearing this, Zhang Xian looked around, and said in a deep voice: "I passed the camp outside the city carefully before, and it was quite neat. This shows that Huang Zhong is not a brave and foolhardy person. If so, how could he let his own barracks Rumors spread because of a green bull, and it even caused Ying Xiao Ye Jing?"

"The prefect is too worried," another general said, "Things like Yingxiao can easily lead to the collapse of the whole army. How can anyone dare to cheat by this?"

This is not bad. Seeing Zhang Xian pondering to himself, he said humanely: "The prefect also told the last general that disasters in the three armies were caused by suspicion, and that hesitation caused the greatest harm in using troops! Now that the bandit army is in chaos, it is time to fight hard. When you go to strike, maybe this is the opportunity to turn things around, if you miss it, it will be too late to regret!"

This sentence "The most harmful thing to use soldiers is hesitation", which deeply hit Zhang Xian's heart!

It has to be said that after experiencing a defeat in the army, not only his prestige was greatly reduced, he was no longer able to stand up to everyone's opinions as before, and he was arbitrary, and even he often had an idea in his heart.
Was it really a mistake not to rescue Jianchang that day?

And when facing the Yangzhou Army, was his attitude too conservative?

Seeing that everyone agreed to send troops, the crowd was excited, and Zhang Xian's expression under the lights kept changing. After hesitating countless times, he finally made a decision.

"What you said is true, that is, pass the military order, and the whole army will go out of the city!"

Zhang Xian shouted in a deep voice: "But just in case, don't call out all the defenders. In this way, leave half of the troops to defend the city, and divide the troops out of the city into two teams. 2000 people will be the forward team and 4000 people will be the rear team. If the striker is safe, then the rear team will attack, this time I will personally lead the rear team to kill the thieves together with you!"

Hearing this, all the generals peeped at each other.

You must know that there are currently three tribes entrenched outside the city. Huang Zhong's tribe lost its fighting power because of Ying Xiao. Xu Fang also has at least nearly [-] people on his side, plus more than [-] people from Zhou Tai's side on the other side, who took the initiative to attack. If there are six thousand soldiers and horses, at most the battalion of Huang Zhongbu will be wiped out, then the remaining Yangzhou army can still continue to besiege the city, and the situation has not changed.

Some people were still waiting to speak, and since they were attacking, they had to go all out. Before they could say anything, Zhang Xian interrupted him directly: "Linxiang can't afford to lose, half of the soldiers and horses must be left behind!"

Seeing that the generals did not dare to refute clearly, but they all showed resentment, Zhang Xian sighed secretly, thought for a moment, and added: "Well, Hanshou is less than a hundred miles away from Linxiang, and Qingqi can arrive in the middle of the night. Send a messenger to inform General Wenpin on horseback, saying that the rebel army is in civil turmoil, and our army is going out of the city to attack at night, worrying about the lack of troops, please send some reinforcements."

At three o'clock today, Hanshou's garrison received the military report, and then sent troops out of the city, and they could arrive in Linxiang by noon tomorrow at the latest. Finally, at least Zhang Xian felt safer.

The assignment has been made, and while the courier is leaving the city, urgent transfers are also being made in the city.

Zhang Xian divided the army and horses in the city into two groups. 6000 people guarded the city strictly, and 6000 people went out of the city to attack the enemy. Behind the North City Gate, it is always ready to go.

The clouds were dense, and the wind was picking up, and there was no one in the open field outside the city.I saw a group of people lighting torches and rushing out of the city.Although the wind in April was very warm, the sound of weapons colliding against their armors added a chill to this warm late summer night for no reason.

The leader of these two thousand pioneers is the captain who said before that "there are no heroes in the land of Qingxu, and Fang Lingzhuzi became famous by chance." Over there, they were all defeated by the Jingzhou army. Except for Zhang Mancheng who was killed by Nanyang prefect Qin Jie, the rest of the yellow scarves fled south, and one of them fled to Changsha, where they were flattened by Zhang Xian. Qu Shuai Sun Xia was even killed by Zhao Renzhen.

It is precisely because of this that Zhao Ren has always felt that Zhang Xian was too conservative when facing Wang Zheng this time, and it is cowardly to put it bluntly!So this time I want to take the lead and seize the flag.

With the speed of the cavalry, even at night, tens of miles can be reached in an instant, but in a short time, the barracks of Huang Zhong's troops are revealed in front of Zhao Ren's eyes.

Although he wanted to make a contribution, Zhao Ren didn't rush forward, he waved his hand to stop his subordinates, looked over, and saw the smoke and dust billowing in the Yangzhou camp from a distance.There were bursts of shouts, screams, and running in disorder.

After watching for a while, Zhao Ren became more and more determined, and couldn't help laughing: "The prefect is also cautious, thinking about the past and the future, and I don't know what to worry about. The yellow scarf bandits have no military discipline. Isn't it common to have night terrors?"Let's see, can this Yingxiao still be fake? "

He also ordered the left and right: "Set off the fireworks again, let the prefect lead the army out of the city quickly!"

"Captain, should we wait for the prefect to come now? Or should we go to meet Captain Fan and the others first?"

"Have you found any trace of Lieutenant Fan?"

"No."

"Grandma, he must have entered the bandit camp!" Zhao Ren thought for a moment, and then stopped drinking: "The bandit camp is in chaos, and this is a good opportunity to destroy the bandits. The great credit is right in front of us. Is it possible to pay back?" Do you want to hand over to others?"

As he spoke, he raised his hammer and shouted: "Excellent feat in breaking thieves is now! You sons, why don't you fight hard?" All the generals and soldiers echoed in unison, and the sound of killing shook the sky, and they ran straight into the camp.

Because the Yangzhou camp caught fire earlier, and the fire was the biggest in the northern camp, and the fences, camp gates, etc. were all burned down, so Zhao Ren and Fan Ling coincided with each other and rushed to the northern camp.

In the middle of the night, the smoke was heavy, and the remaining fire was not extinguished. The 2000 men and horses rushed into the camp with their heads covered. Everyone raised their spirits, their eyes were red, and the steel knives were bright.

It's just that after going deep into the camp for only a moment, Zhao Ran's expression froze when he glanced inadvertently, and when he took a closer look, his eyes were as big as copper bells!
Along the way, there were corpses everywhere, bloodstains everywhere, it was really a mess, but now when they got close to them, it was suddenly horrifying, these corpses in the camp had turned into dummies made of hemp straw!

"not good!"

Zhao Ren yelled.Immediately raised their heads and looked around, in addition to the dead bodies, they also saw a lot of burning figures, now they can see clearly, where are the "figures"?Like the corpse, they are all straw figures in clothes!
His brain was not slow to react, and he knew that Zhang Xian's worries had come true. The bandit barracks roar was indeed a fraud, trying to lure them into the camp, and he reined in his horse and shouted: "It's a trick, get back!"

It's just that after the cavalry charged up, how could it be so easy to stop abruptly?
I saw exclamations one after another, and from time to time some people turned their backs on their backs. Zhao Renzheng was anxiously restraining the front team and urging the rear team to retreat first, but he heard the drums beating like thunder!
After the sound of the drums, the flames blazed brightly, revealing that in the camps that had not been burned, there were countless Yangzhou army soldiers, all of them were wearing black armor, and their swords, guns and spears were all painted with black paint.

The next moment, these pawns who had been standing still moved at the same time!
They were like a group of evil spirits that came out of the night, without shouting, they just pounced on them, and hundreds of archers kept shooting arrows behind them!

The horror of cavalry is always when they are exerting their mobility. When they stop, they are actually more conspicuous targets than infantry. It was this first wave of long-range attacks that shot hundreds of Linxiang troops who couldn't dodge!

The power of the rain of arrows is not only the damage caused, but also makes the Linxiang army completely unable to form a formation. Seeing this, Zhao Ren immediately shouted: "The front team becomes the rear team, and the rear team becomes the front team. If you go out, you should retreat first. It will be broken!"

It has to be said that Zhao Ren made an extremely correct judgment when he was in danger.

Especially the sound of "I'm going to break the rear", in fact, he was the one who rushed to the front, and he couldn't do it if he wanted to retreat first. , Qiqi went to kill outside the camp.

(End of this chapter)