The night in the steppe is beautiful, with stars filling the night sky, and although the weather has begun to cool, it is nothing at all for Mongolians who are used to the harsh winter.

On the wide grassland, piles of bonfires were lit, and countless Mongolian soldiers sat around the bonfires, drinking mare's milk wine and eating their own dried meat, laughing loudly, and some of them were drunk and performed wrestling in public, and the whole camp was very lively.

On the other hand, the Ming army camp, two miles away from the Mongol camp, was completely quiet, except for the piles of bonfires lit on the positions below the hill and the neat footsteps of the sergeants patrolling the camp, there was hardly any superfluous sound in the whole camp.

On the highest flat ground on the hill, Yang Feng and the officers were quietly looking at the Mongolian camp in the distance, looking at the ignorant people in the firelight, listening to the faint noisy laughter and scolding, and the faces of many officers were very unsightly.

Cao Yingmao gritted his teeth and shouted: "These Mongolian Tartars are really too rampant, the big war is imminent, they are so arrogant, do you really think that you can eat our Jiangning army?" ”

And Qiu Disheng said in a low voice: "Why should Lao Cao be angry, the more arrogant these Mongolian Tartars are, the better it will be for us, let's take it easier when we touch their nest tonight." However, I also served those Mongolian Tartars, and the army went out without even a tent, and I was not afraid of getting sick when I slept in the wilderness. ”

"Haha......" Everyone laughed softly when they heard this, and Huang Jiye smiled: "Mongolia is indeed like this, the more the Tartars don't take us seriously, the more beneficial it will be to us, if the Tartars put on a look like a great enemy, then it's bad." ”

Compared with the confident crowd, Qi Yan, a calm calming officer, said to Yang Feng with some concerns: "My lord, night raids have been very risky since ancient times, if the Mongols are careful and set up an ambush outside, our night raid is likely to be tricked!" ”

After Qi Yan's words came out, the laughter of the officers also stopped, and many people turned their eyes to Yang Feng, the initiator of this plan.

This plan for a night attack was proposed by Yang Feng.

In fact, this night attack plan Yang Feng was also improvised, since he saw the arrival of Wudamu, Yang Feng gathered everyone to discuss the feasibility of the night attack.

In the era of cold weapons, night combat is a difficult job. Night blindness, communication and command difficulties are all plaguing the implementation of night warfare, in the dark and chaotic night, once the two sides are engaged in battle, it is difficult for the commander to effectively command the troops, after the night, the command methods used during the day, whether it is the flag, the sound of drums, or the transmission of orders through the heralds, etc., almost all lose their effectiveness, so generally no commander will choose to fight the enemy at night unless absolutely necessary, because there are too many uncertain factors in this.

However, after studying for a while, everyone was surprised to find that since Yang Feng equipped the walkie-talkie to each of the following armies with a total (100 households) or more, the biggest problem restricting the night battle of the troops no longer exists, and the only thing to scruple about is some other uncertain factors, such as line of sight, etc., and these things can be solved through preparation.

Now after listening to Qi Yan's concerns, Yang Feng pondered for a while before saying: "Old Qi, your worries are not unreasonable, but you must know that now the Mongols have dragged us here, and the Mongols are all cavalry, they can come and go as they want." If those Mongols don't fight us, but just hang behind us, and harass us from time to time, what do you think will happen to us? ”

"Hiss......"

Everyone gasped when they heard this, if the Mongols really did what Yang Feng said, the Jiangning army, which was almost entirely infantry, would really be dragged here by the Mongols and couldn't move, you must know that now the Jiangning army itself has nearly 10,000 people, and it also carries tens of thousands of prisoners, and the daily consumption of material supplies is a large number, and everyone dare not imagine what will happen when the Jiangning army is exhausted of material supplies.

Seeing everyone's changing faces, Yang Feng said to Qi Yan meaningfully: "Now you understand why this official decided to attack those Mongolian camps tonight, if these Mongolians hang behind us, they will become epiphytes, and if we don't do it, we will be dragged down alive by them, not only will those captured prisoners not be able to keep them, but we may not be able to get out of it." ”

Hearing this, Qi Yan took a long breath, bowed deeply to Yang Feng and said solemnly, "My lord is wise, it's really better to be humble." ”

"If you know, it's good." Yang Feng pondered for a while and then said to him: "Tonight, my army will go down the mountain and attack at night, and the only thing I am worried about is the comfort of the baggage battalion, the medical battalion, and the artillery battalion, as well as tens of thousands of captured Mongolian herdsmen. So you don't have to follow the army tonight, you stay and guard the camp tonight, and make sure to keep the camp safe, can you do it? ”

Qi Yan took a step forward and solemnly gave a military salute: "Your Excellency, rest assured, unless you die, you will definitely protect the safety of the baggage battalion and the medical battalion." ”

"Good!"

Yang Feng nodded, and gave the order to go down, and the whole army would rest after a full meal. At three o'clock in the morning, an attack was launched on the camp of the Mongolian army!

"Yes!"

As time passed, the Mongols who were drinking and having fun in the camp began to fall asleep, and from the top of the hill there were only a few patrols patrolling the Mongol camp, and the Mongols did not set up tents, so they slept on the ground, and the snoring became one after another.

The time slowly came to three o'clock in the morning, more than 5,000 sergeants were quietly lurking about 300 meters away from the Mongolian army camp, although grasshoppers and fleas on the grassland harassed the sergeants from time to time, but under the constraints of the military order, none of the thousands of soldiers dared to make a sound, and the officers had issued a strict order as early as before departure, and those who spoke out without permission would be killed.

Cao Yingmao led the hundred households, as the vanguard of this attack, naturally deployed at the front of the team, lying on the ground, he was a little bored chewing a grass root, looking back from time to time to look behind, but from his angle, except for more than a dozen sergeants behind him, nothing else could be seen.

"...... What the hell is this weather, the stars that were all in the sky just now, but now they are gone, how can I attack later? Cao Yingmao muttered unwillingly in a voice that only he could hear.

Just as Cao Yingmao's words fell, he suddenly saw a little starlight suddenly lit up on the mountain behind him, and soon a low roar began to sound.

"Woo woo woo ......"

"Boom...... Boom ......"

Soon a burst of violent explosions sounded in the camp of the Mongolian army, the violent explosions continued to sound in the camp of the Mongolian army, the flames of the explosion illuminated the entire camp, Cao Yingmao could even clearly see a frightened war horse neighing and running in the camp, many Mongolian soldiers were chasing the war horses in panic, and the whole camp was a mess from a distance.

"Reload ......"

"Fire!"

"Boom ......"

At the foot of the hill less than two miles from the Mongol camp, one hundred and twenty guns were divided into two rows, and the muzzles of the black holes were bursting from time to time, and on both sides of the guns, torches illuminated the entire gun emplacement, and the gunners were constantly busy, and they received only one order tonight, that is, to pour as many shells as possible into the Mongol camp in a quarter of an hour.

As the explosion sounded, the stunned Mongol army was completely thrown into chaos.

A quarter of an hour passed quickly, the originally earth-shattering cannon sound came to an abrupt end, and the entire grassland suddenly fell into a strange silence, at this time Cao Yingmao suddenly stood up, raised his dangling long knife and shouted: "Brothers, follow me!" ”

"Rush!"

With the shouting of Cao Ying's spear, torches were lit one by one, and the sergeants followed him with torches and rifles in their hands, and rushed towards the Mongol camp.

The distance of more than 300 meters was not too far for the infantry advancing at full speed, but in a minute or two, Cao Yingmao and his sergeants rushed into the camp of the Mongol army.

After being bombarded by more than 100 artillery pieces for a quarter of an hour, the entire Mongolian camp was in a mess, full of the neighing of war horses and the sound of soldiers wailing, when Cao Yingmao led a hundred sergeants under his command to rush into the Mongolian army camp, he happened to see dozens of Mongolian cavalry riding horses and running out in a panic, just collided head-on with Cao Yingmao and his party, but because the sky was too dark, the torches in the hands of the sergeants were too close to illuminate, and the distance between the two sides was less than 50 meters when the sergeants saw each other.

Seeing the oncoming cavalry, Cao Yingspear raised his long knife without thinking and shouted: "Fire!" ”

"Bang ......"

The sergeant who received the order raised the fire gun in his hand and pulled the trigger, and after a dull burst of gunfire, dozens of Mongolian cavalrymen fell off their horses.

The remaining few lucky cavalrymen were also frightened at this time, and hurriedly beat their horses and turned around and ran towards the way they came.

"Hurry up and reload!"

Cao Yingmao looked around vigilantly, there is no need for daylight at night, the visibility is less than 100 meters now, and the probability of the two sides suddenly loading head-on is very high, if you don't load the ammunition in advance, it will be troublesome to encounter the enemy.

As the battle continued, the Jiangning army smoothly advanced towards the camp of the Mongol army, and although there was some resistance along the way, it was basically a one-touch collapse.

Listening to the good news that kept coming, everyone was smiling, but Yang Feng felt that something was wrong, and he always felt that there was something wrong that he had ignored.

With the help of the firelight, looking at Yang Feng's slightly frowning brows, Song Ye, who was standing behind Yang Feng, could see it clearly, although he was very puzzled in his heart, he didn't dare to ask Yang Feng.

Yang Feng thought hard for a while, but still didn't get an answer, and finally could only smile bitterly, secretly scolding himself for being suspicious.

Sighing lightly, Yang Feng turned his head to Song Ye and said, "Song Ye, let's ...... over"

"Bumper Bang Bang ......"

Before Yang Feng finished speaking, he heard a low voice behind him.

"Huh...... How could these gunshots come from behind? ”

Yang Feng first said in surprise, and then his whole body stiffened, and his face changed.

"Not good...... Something happened to the baggage camp! ”

A flash of lightning flashed in Yang Feng's mind, he finally knew what the reason why he didn't dare just now, it turned out that the person who had the idea of stealing the camp at night was not only himself, but the Mongols on the opposite side also fought this idea, which was terrible.

"Quick...... Bring someone back to camp with me right now! ”

Yang Feng, whose voice had changed, didn't have time to say more, jumped on his war horse, turned the horse's head, and quickly whipped his horse and ran towards the nameless hill behind......

Yang Feng was right, he was not the only one who had the idea of a night attack, but the Mongols also had the same idea as Yang Feng.

I have to say that although Udamu is brave and brutal, he is a very strategic Mongolian general, after learning that the Ming army has a large number of firearms, he also realized that it is impossible to eat the Ming army on the opposite side with the power in his hands, and he may even plant a big heel.

After thinking about it, Udamu also thought of the strategy of night attack. As mentioned earlier, night raids were originally a very difficult and rarely occurring tactics in this era, but Udamu thought that he had one of his biggest advantages, that is, the more than 20,000 Mongolian herdsmen in the Ming army, as long as he started a sneak attack, those Mongolian herdsmen would inevitably respond to his attack, he did not ask those Mongolian herdsmen to help him deal with the Ming army, as long as those herdsmen could cause trouble to the Ming army or drag down part of the Ming army's strength, then the success rate of tonight's sneak attack would be a few points greater.

For tonight's sneak attack, Udamu selected six thousand elites led by himself, Buhe Chaolu and Balhu, and sneaked out of the camp in the dark night. In order to avoid the Ming army's outpost, he even went around in a big circle before secretly lurking a mile away from the nameless mountain and began to lurk.

Not only that, in order to confuse the Ming army, he even ordered the Mongolian soldiers who stayed in the camp to perform a good show, and the scenes of those Mongolian soldiers drinking and fighting were also specially ordered by him to be performed for Yang Feng and them.

Just now, just when Udamu was about to give the order to start a sneak attack, he heard the sound of shelling and fighting from the front, and at this time Udamu knew that the Ming army was also fighting with the same idea as him, and at this moment Udamu only felt a cold sweat flowing from his back. Not only him, but Buhe Chaolu and Balhu were also dumbfounded, and the first thought in their hearts was that the more than 6,000 Mongol troops left in the camp were probably going to run out.

However, Wudamu is also a ruthless man, after being surprised, he also put his heart sideways, since the Ming army also carried out a sneak attack on his camp, then their camp must be extremely empty, as long as he can end the camp of the Ming army, and by the way, more than 20,000 herdsmen will be rescued, this round can be regarded as a draw, so he did not hesitate to order an attack.