On the dim day of the third watch, all the units of the Wei army rushed out, all of them marched forward one after another, and arrived at the predetermined position one after another.

Only the few scout knights on the periphery were armed with torches, floating around like ghostly fire.

Tian Xin was scouting five miles outside the camp, followed by five little tigers, and the bright green eyes of the little tigers at night were more like ghost fires.

These five tigers spread their teeth and claws, pounced and roared around Tian Xin, and their voices spread far away, as if they were fighting in a group and competing for the tiger king.

In the night, the team of people and horses sneaked up, Tian Xin crouched on the ground and couldn't hear anything, couldn't see, couldn't smell anything, but these days the little tiger who was not afraid of the ground became more and more anxious, and even the roar was weak.

I am curious about what kind of configuration the night attack ambush of the Wei army will be.

After Yu Ban's second surrender, the Wei army's spears, hooks, hooks, crossbows and other tactics were exposed.

Human wisdom is infinite, and the Wei army should develop more routines and tactics to deal with themselves.

Perhaps this kind of tactics that have been practiced and matured have been organized into special squads and detachments that are deployed everywhere along with the ambush soldiers and night raiders, just waiting for them to collide.

The roar of the tiger spread, and the Wei army's leading pathfinders were all lightly armed and slow, all carrying strong crossbows, hanging crossbow arrows from their waists, holding shields in their left hands, throwing javelins hanging on the inside of the shields, and knives with grass juice blackened on the blade in their right hands, they were the pathfinders.

Tian Xin also planted a secret whistle in the dark night, and the dark whistle was mostly equipped with hunting dogs, and from time to time made a rapid dog bark, and the secret whistle retreated one by one to avoid meaningless battles.

Seeing a group of Wei knights carrying torches gradually approaching, there will definitely be stealth infantry on both wings of the knights to fight.

"Go back and eat meat!"

Tian Xin's left arm spread out and pointed at the camp, and the five-headed tiger chased and ran from the west side, leaving the battlefield.

Seeing that the tigers dispersed, the Wei knights who were moving towards this place stayed slightly, but they dismounted one after another, extinguished their torches, and disappeared in the dark night, and the neighing of horses came from time to time.

Tian Xin also slowly retreated, he was here to investigate, not to fight.

Not even wearing armor, he moved back quickly, and soon heard a dense barking of dogs from the direction of the original site, which was loud and loud, and it should be a large fierce dog, not a hunting dog.

Tonight, he wore the Western Regions fine iron chain mail, covered with a dark brown robe that was easy to lurk, and he led the lightly armed warriors to rush here.

Because of the smell left by the little tigers, all kinds of hunting dogs and mastiffs bark and are very noisy.

"Yikes! It's been exposed! ”

Dian Man carefully examined, grabbed a handful of fishy wet mud and sighed, who would have thought that some tiger feces and urine would cause these well-trained military dogs to bark out of control?

It may just be that the tigers raised by Tian Xin are playing outside, but they let themselves pounce like a frightened bird.

If you think about it carefully, how could Tian Xin come out with a few tigers to reconnoiter the military situation?

"Pole, red light!"

He sighed, and the accompanying military officers erected a long bamboo nearly five feet high, lit a red silk lantern and pulled it up.

The nearest ambush team was led by Zhang Hu, except for more than 500 armor soldiers, the rest were unarmored light infantry, and these light soldiers marched in rank. Or a sword and shield with a strong crossbow on his back, or a shield hanging on the north, shouldering all kinds of equipment.

Zhang Hu found his predetermined position, dug up the landmark token from the side of the marked stake, and was directing the light soldiers to arrange the equipment.

Many instruments are combined, in addition to bamboo guns and ground thorns, there are also thistles.

There is a hole in the middle of the thistle, one by one the iron thistle is connected with a thin cowhide rope, a string of seven or eight, loaded in baskets to carry, now the cowhide rope is straightened, and a tribulus belt can be arranged.

In addition to these, there are also tripwires composed of wooden stakes and ropes, and the three-foot-long wooden stakes are driven into the soil for nearly two feet, and the ground is exposed seven or eight inches, and the tripwires are tied on these seven or eight inches high wooden stakes.

These tripwires are almost flush with the ground, and seven or eight tripwires can reap miraculous results.

In addition to the tripping rope, the two wings of Zhang Hu's position were also dug one foot deep, like a thick horse pit. High-speed Mercedes ...... Don't go at high speed, just walk a horse normally, step into it with one hoof, and the inertia of leaning forward will break the horse's hooves.

It's just that at this time, the red light was raised, and Zhang Hu angrily smashed his fist on the ground: "Hateful!" Raise the red light! ”

Not far from him, there were also military officials who arranged red lights, gradually rising.

At this time, Tian Xin returned to the camp, the camp gate was open, and there was a constant influx of retreating outposts.

Climb to the watchtower, you can vaguely see two red dots, and you can see it here...... Ma Chao can't see it there.

Three miles after Zhang Hu, a group of military officials arranged a curtain with black cloth to cover the southeast direction, and lit a red light to transmit a warning signal to the north.

In the north, Zhang Liao saw the first red light signal gradually coming on the city wall, and sighed slightly: "It's cautious, raise the white light." ”

As the white light rises, a white light rises everywhere on the Wankou Great Wall.

The ambush troops were not yet fully positioned, nor were they engaged, they were in a state of motion, and at this moment began to carry out backup tactics.

The Leqi Department was still moving, sticking to the Ma Chao camp west of the five miles to the south, discarding the defensive equipment and continuing to arrange the garrison equipment here by a small number of light soldiers.

The main force of Le Qi continued to go deeper to the south, and gradually approached the Han army Yongdao, which was the Yongdao with the Beifu camp and Ma Chaozhong's army camp, and it was the only safe high-speed passage for the Beifu soldiers at night.

In order to defend the road, there are simple fences, antlers or traps outside the road, and bonfires are also erected to light and warn.

The Han army under the light and fire at night could not have a keen insight into everything in the darkness, and in the eyes of Le Qi, who sneaked in the dark, he could almost clearly see the Han army sentries dozing on the watchtower.

He lurked still, feeling the cool breeze blowing from the south and sticking to the ground, and couldn't help but take a long breath of turbidity.

The wind direction is excellent, and the smell and slight sound of your own side will be masked by the south wind.

Zhang Hu also quickly moved and arrived at the equipment left behind by Le Qi, and used these equipment to rearrange the defensive line against the Beifu soldiers.

Dianman also moved his position to the defense area predetermined by Zhang Hu, relying on the simple fortifications and traps here to lurk and wait for battle.

On the eastern battlefield, in the easternmost mountains, Ma Dai led his horse on foot, the horse was equipped with a halter, and the horse's hooves were wrapped in straw hoof sleeves to eliminate noise.

The officials of the department are also mouth-titled wooden pieces, and they go one after another.

"Volt! Coo, coo, coo! ”

The scout in front of the team let out a low cry, like a partridge, and the two-mile-long marching team gradually crouched on the ground, and even the war horses cooperated with the lying on the ground, and the horse's head lay on its side.

Ma Dai sat on the ground, raised his hand to caress his horse's mane, this horse was just a normal training, closed his eyes to accept Ma Dai's reassurance.

Ma Dai himself also closed his eyes, let go of his thoughts, and did not think about anything.

"Quack! Croak! ”

"Quack!"

Just two miles to the west, the Wei army Yuzhou Thorn Shi Lu Gong also led his horse and marched along the east side of the Lishui riverbed, and from time to time he heard a flock of night crows circling and croaking.

He glanced up at the top of his head, where the crow was the loudest, and his heart was clouded, and the crow's voice would reveal himself.

Also to blame Ma Chao, the trees around the banks of the Lishui River were either felled by the Wei army or set on fire, forcing Ma Chao to go to Dongshan to cut wood, making many crows the first refugees affected by the war.

On the west bank of the Lishui Riverbed, Li Xu was wearing an iron basin collar armor, leading a sword, shield, and armor soldier in front of him to slowly approach the antlers and fences on the periphery of Ma Chao's camp.

This matter has reached the end of the third watch, and it is close to the beginning of the fourth watch.

Li Xu took a closer look and saw that the defenders on the watchtower where Ma Chao's camp was set up were in low spirits, and he couldn't help frowning tightly.

It's been the third watch, and after midnight, how can the sentinel still look like he hasn't woken up?

"Phew."

Spat his doubts and impulses to his feet, Li Xu slowly retreated back into the shield array.

Now it's useless to think about it, the army has already set off, and now go back to argue with Zhang Liao, saying that Ma Chao is prepared...... That Zhang Liao will definitely cut himself.

The shield array in the dark night obscured the view of the defenders, and the first assault warriors behind the shield array were already in place.

They were all lightly armoured, and at the moment they were wearing two layers of armor inside and out, with face armor on their faces, shin armor on their calves, and even their combat boots were made of patent leather and iron bottoms, and they would be responsible for the first round of attacks.

If it is attacked into the camp, it is a proper trap of sharp soldiers, mainly to disturb the order of the defenders.

If they could not break into the camp, then their only role was to withstand the defenders' bows and crossbows, and orderly dismantle the fortifications outside the camp to clear the way for the follow-up attack.