Fight for hegemony from a desert island

Chapter 483 Night Attack
On the Luoyang side, Cao An rushed to Yingchuan with a luxurious lineup, and on the other side, on the battlefield in Runan.

After Di Qing put the main force of the infantry in Ningcheng to clean up the mess in Ningcheng, and led the cavalry to chase after him first, he finally caught up before Huang Chao's army sent troops to Yingchuan.

However, Di Qing chased after Huang Chao's army at this time, but after catching up, Di Qing found that with his current strength, he was completely unable to deal with Huang Chao's army.

On the side of Huang Chao's army, after massacring Ningcheng and most of Runan County, the number of troops not only did not increase, but actually dropped a lot. The number of the original army, which was close to 150 million, decreased after the massacre in Runan County To around 100 million.

However, the one-third reduction in personnel did not reduce the strength of Huang Chao's army, and even made the strength of this army have a terrifying increase. Now the average strength of a million soldiers in Huang Chao's army has increased to 25.

The most terrifying thing is that the entire army of Huang Chao's army now has a terrifying aura.

With an incomparably rich smell of blood and an incomparably ferocious aura, from a distance, the army of the Huangchao army is like a vicious ghost that is so ferocious that people dare not look directly at it.

Even the elite cavalry under Di Qing's command would lose their guard and panic if they took a look at Huang Chao's army without preparation.

With Di Qing's military quality, he can confirm with just a glance that the Huang Chao army in front of him is not something his less than [-] cavalry can resist at all. Only his follow-up infantry main force can resist one or two.

But not every war can wait for both sides to prepare and shout one, two, three, and finally start the war.

This is exactly the situation Di Qing is facing right now. He knows very well that his current army is absolutely impossible to be the opponent of Huang Chao's army, but he has to fight.

Because if he doesn't take action, the Huang Chao army will march north to Yingchuan at this time.

What's even more frightening is that now Huang Chao's army has been completely demonized, and the most violent and ferocious wildness of all soldiers has been completely released. At this time, this army must have gone there to kill where.

At this point, I am afraid that even the commander-in-chief at this time, Huang Chao, will not be able to take back the killing intent released by the soldiers. The blood on the land of Runan in Ningcheng has not dried yet, and Di Qing can't let Yingchuan be stained with blood again no matter what.

So this battle, Di Qing must fight.

July 23, late at night, Runan County.

After making preparations, Di Qing launched an attack on Huang Chao's army.

In this battle, Di Qing had only one goal, and that was to destroy the logistics of Huang Chao's army.

With an army of one million, as long as Di Qing can destroy Huang Chao's logistics supplies, then this army must be paralyzed in Runan County for a period of time.

But now what Song Dynasty lacks most is time. As long as he can win ten days, Di Qing's own infantry will be able to arrive, and he will be able to hold Huang Chao's army in Runan again.

In the future, as long as reinforcements from the three forces of Ming, Sui and Chu come, they will naturally be able to easily take down Huang Chao's army.

The plan is a good plan, the premise is that Di Qing can really succeed in the night attack and really win the logistics of the Huang Chao army.

Huang Chao himself still has considerable military literacy, and Huang Chao still attaches great importance to logistics supplies, the lifeline of the army.

He almost puts the logistics in the center of the army, which means that if Di Qing wants to win Huang Chao's logistics supplies, he will have to fight into the army of millions. It is conceivable how difficult it is. If you are not careful, Di Qing's this A large army is afraid to stay inside forever.

Di Qing is very aware of the danger, or it should be said that everyone who will participate in this battle is very clear.

But they know even better that they have no choice, and no room for cowardice.

If they didn't take this risk, then Yingchuan would have corpses strewn all over the field, which these soldiers would never want to see.

So, when the night fell, the fifty thousand cavalry led by Di Qing set off.

At midnight, when people were most sleepy, Di Qing's cavalry launched a surprise attack under his leadership.

What I have to say here is that Di Qing, as one of the most powerful generals in the Song Dynasty, has many talents, both in martial arts and in the military formation. Perhaps it is because of Di Qing's record, there is a night In the battle of attacking Kunlun Pass, Di Qing has an excellent skill of attacking the army at night.

This skill can increase the concealment of Di Qing's army and reduce the vigilance of the enemy.

Judging from the attributes of the skill, this is a skill that does not increase one's combat power at all, but its practicality is beyond doubt.

With this skill, the [-] cavalrymen under Di Qing's command were not discovered until they were within a hundred meters of Huang Chao's army.

You know, Di Qing's cavalry is not one or two, but a total of [-]. Not to mention other things, the sound of horseshoes running is extremely terrifying.

Under such circumstances, it is already a miracle to be able to approach the enemy army within a hundred meters without making a sound.

And relying on this miracle, Di Qing's night attack achieved great success.

Fifty thousand cavalry, with top generals such as Di Qing and Yang Yanzhao taking the lead, rushed directly into the barracks of Huang Chao's army in one go.

Although Huang Chao's million-strong army has undergone two massacres, there has been a considerable change in strength and mentality, but these soldiers are all peasants anyway.

It is naturally majestic to fight against the wind, but in this kind of partial headwind state of being attacked, Huang Chao's army is prone to chaos when no one is in control.

And this chaos is the best opportunity for Di Qing.

Taking advantage of the chaos of Huang Chao's army, Di Qing led the army straight to the food and grass of Huang Chao's army.

Although Huang Chao deployed relatively elite troops at the grain and grass location, he still couldn't withstand the surprise attack of Di Qing's elite cavalry without preparation.

After a round of charging, Di Qing took down the granary with ease.

But even though he took down the granary, Di Qing didn't dare to be careless. He knew exactly how terrifying the army he was in right now. He was in extreme danger all the time. If he was not careful, his cavalry But it will be wiped out.

So after taking down the granary, he didn't dare to waste any time. He quickly ignited the granary. After ensuring that all the grain of Huang Chao's army was ignited, he immediately turned around with the cavalry and prepared to break out of the siege.

However, at this time, Di Qing realized that it was easier to come in than to go out. Just as he was setting fire to the other side's granary, Huang Chao had already reacted and took control of the army.

At this time, the momentum of the entire Huangchao army has changed, the original chaos disappeared, all the soldiers' eyes were red, and a terrifying force gathered over the legion.

(End of this chapter)