Volume 1 A Hundred Battles Yellow Sand Wears Gold Armor Chapter 28 Night Attack

Some people's horses were still drinking water by the river, and when they ran over and just got on their horses, before they could charge, a thousand Sui cavalry roared, and dense arrows were spilled, and a third of the Turkic soldiers fell off their horses screaming, and the rest just let the horses run, and the Sui army crashed into them.

It was a war with no disparity, and the 500 Turkic cavalry soon began to rout, and after half an hour, all but 100 of them, who had fled with their herdsmen, cattle and sheep, grain and grass, were killed.

The fleeing Turkic Sui army did not pursue, so Du Duwei ordered the grain and grass to be burned, and began to slaughter cattle and sheep, and the blood stained the grass and the Wenfeng River. When tens of thousands of cattle and sheep carcasses and grain and grass were put together and the fire was blazing, Du Duwei gave an order, and the cavalry of the Sui army, which had only lost more than 30 people, turned their horses and headed southeast.

Half a day later, in the evening, also when the Turks dismounted to rest and cook, a thousand Sui cavalry in the bushes suddenly rushed out of a nearby grove and launched a sneak attack.

Within one day, two teams delivering grain and grass were intercepted, and the 160,000 Turkic army in Jincheng County was cut off for two days, and the Khan of Chuluo sent people to investigate and question, and the person in charge of the logistics base learned about the strength of the Sui army in the sneak attack on the grain route from the Turkic soldiers who had fled back, and then sent two grain delivery teams escorted by 2,500 cavalry to drive 100,000 cattle and sheep to Jincheng County.

In this way, 5,000 Turkic cavalry remained in the Turkic logistics battalion.

At the same time, the letter sent by Du Duwei also brought the news that the Turkic grain route had been cut off, and the opportunity that Wang Junlin had been waiting for finally came.

In the third year of Renshou, on the first day of September, the moon rose late, but the night sky was full of starlight, and by the illumination of the starlight, an army of 3,500 men marched in the vast wilderness near the Wenfeng River. In the dark of night, without any firelight, without a close look, it was difficult to spot this army that was quietly hurrying.

After careful consideration, Wang Junlin decided to adopt the tactics of night attack.

According to Wang Junlin's request, everyone did not hold torches, but walked at night, and they could see from a long distance, so they could only advance by starlight.

Wang Junlin personally took Wu San and Wu Si to the front, in case he encountered a swimming outpost, or there was a lurking post, with the strength of Wu San, Wu Si and Wang Junlin, he could kill the enemy before he could react.

Three thousand five hundred men were in an irregular prismatic shape, divided into four brigades. This formation marches can be quickly transformed into several battle formations, which is simple and straightforward.

Walking in the front were the scout team led by Zhou Hu and several personal soldiers around Wang Junlin who were in charge of heralding, and they also led their horses and marched forward on foot.

After Wang Junlin set out with 3,500 people, he reasonably distributed his physical strength, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, normal speed and rapid crossing, without any rest in between, but after walking nearly thirty miles in the dark, he was only slightly tired.

As they approached the Turkic logistics camp, the Sui army behind would see the corpses that could be seen faintly on the side of the road from time to time. It was the night Turkic swimming sentinel and the lurking post encountered earlier, and Wu San and Wu Si quietly killed them in the first time.

At the same time, Jiang Muchang, the deputy leader of the scout team, carried a waterproof leather bag on his back and slowly swam from the north bank to the south bank in the water of the Wenfeng River, where there was a Turkic logistics camp that was seven or eight miles long. He was followed by fifty soldiers in the same costume.

At the same time, there were forty-five teams that swam to the other side like this, except for Jiang Muchang's team, which was fifty people because it was directly facing the big tent of the chief general of the Turkic logistics battalion, the others were all in groups of ten. There is a team almost every 100 meters.

Although it is in the north, it is not difficult to select 500 soldiers with better water quality out of 4,000 people, not to mention that although the width of the Wenfeng River is nearly 100 meters, the water depth can only overflow the top of the head and only more than 20 meters in the middle.

The cowhide bags they carried were very strongly sewn, and the cracks were covered with pine resin, and two layers of oiled paper were covered with water, and there were bows and arrows and fire oil in them.

If they swim too fast, there will be a sound, so in order to prevent the night patrol sentinels of the opposite Turkic logistics battalion from detecting them, they swim very slowly. Nearly 100 meters wide, they swam a full quarter of an hour before they reached the shore.

Forty-six squads, five hundred strange soldiers, after crossing the river, did not act immediately, but looked for a hiding place, and then prepared rockets and flints, waiting for Jiang Muchang's team to take the lead before they could shoot, and Jiang Muchang was after crossing the river, he and the forty-nine people led by him stared at the south, he waited for Wang Junlin to lead the main force in place, and sent him the agreed signal.

The water and grass along the river are dense, so as long as you don't move or make a sound, you don't have to worry about being exposed.

This is not to say that the Turkic logistics battalions were loosely defended. On the contrary, because the grain route was robbed, the defense of the Turkic logistics battalion was also improved a lot, and there were patrol posts in the south, east and west to patrol day and night, but because the north side was next to the Wenfeng River, no patrol team was dispatched, only a small number of fixed sentries were arranged, but they also subconsciously thought that no enemy could cross the river and sneak attack, so they relaxed their vigilance.

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As they got closer and closer to the Turkic logistics battalion, the soldiers of the Sui army were a little nervous and more vigilant. Wang Junlin also kept pricking up his ears to pay attention to the movements around him, and at the same time kept looking at the four fields.

The road they are walking on now is the route that the scouts have repeatedly reconnoitred in the past few days, and Wang Junlin has led people to consider various factors and carefully study the route that was determined. The road is quite flat, but if it is difficult for ordinary people to walk in it by the light of the stars and moon at night, they will tripped over the stones and mounds if they are not careful, but the army is not an ordinary person after all, plus Wang Junlin and Wu San and Wu Si personally led the way in front, and the people in the back only need to look at the position of the person in front of him, and then step on that position himself, so that he does not have to spend energy to choose a place to step, and he will not guess the wrong place.

The army stopped and walked in the wilderness, and after Wu San and Wu Si killed more than a dozen Turkic sentinels along the way, they finally came less than five miles away from the Turkic logistics camp, and they had already vaguely seen the lights of the Turkic logistics camp in the distance, and everyone was excited with a little nervousness.

It's just that it's been nearly fifty miles now, and everyone is a little nervous, and the consumption of physical strength is greater, everyone finally begins to feel tired, and the breathing in the queue slowly becomes heavy.

When approaching the Turkic camp at 800 paces, Wang Junlin ordered to stop, ordering one person to pass one person after another, and after passing the baton like a pass, the brigade finally gradually stopped, and the chaotic footsteps disappeared.

Wang Junlin calculated the time, made a downward gesture beside him, and the three thousand five hundred Sui troops led the horses in one hand, sat down a little messily, took out the accompanying water bladder to drink, fed the war horses with beans and water, and then quietly sorted out the tools and weapons on their bodies, comforted their war horses, and prepared for the last rest before the war.

Everyone squatted in the wilderness and waited in the night wind and the sound of insects, and waited for half an hour, Wang Junlin saw that everyone's strength had recovered a lot, so he quietly gave an order to the back: "Pass back, prepare to charge, from now on, before rushing into the enemy's camp, do not speak, and the speaker will be cut immediately." ”

After the order was conveyed to everyone, Wang Junlin waved his hand, and everyone stood up lightly and quietly got on their horses, but Wang Junlin still did not give the order to charge.

It was late at night, and the Turks were already asleep in their tents, except for the itinerant sentinels patrolling the camp.

"Signal the predestination, do it three times." Wang Junlin said.

Zhou Hu personally lit a torch to let the horse be controlled, and he stood on the horse and circled three times towards the north. Wang Junlin and their place is much higher than the river, plus there is no need to worry about Jiang Muchang not being able to see it when standing on the horse, as for the Turkic night sentry, even if he sees it, it is too late, not to mention that in the middle of the night, unless the Turkic sentry has been staring in this direction, it will only take a second to send a signal, who can pay attention.

On the bank of the river north of the Turkic logistics camp, Jiang Muchang and his party of 500 people had been waiting for a quarter of an hour, and Jiang Muchang was afraid of missing the signal sent by Wang Junlin, so he stared at the other side of the Turkic camp motionlessly, and did not dare to blink his eyes, so that the tears blown by the wind flowed down.

At this time, just when he couldn't help blinking, he saw the torches circling in a circle, Jiang Muchang's heart was shocked, his heart was pounding with nervousness, and he commanded in a low voice: "Prepare to send rockets." “

The soldiers had already soaked the cloth on the long arrows with fire oil, and at this time slowly climbed ashore, crawling little by little towards the Turkic camp, and stopped when they were still eighty paces away from the Turkic camp.

"Shoot!"

Jiang Muchang let out a low cry and took the lead in shooting the rocket in his hand at the Turkic tent, and the others followed suit.

The other forty-five teams had been staring at the movement in the middle, and when they saw the firelight appearing, they also shot out the rockets that had been prepared for a long time.

Five hundred rockets soared into the air, covering nearly half of the tents of the Turkic battalion seven or eight miles long, and one rocket after another accurately hit the target, and soon, thousands of tents were ignited almost simultaneously.

"It's on fire!"

"No, it's an enemy attack."

The Turkic soldiers, who were on night patrol, screamed when they saw the fire and smoke rising from the large tents in the north.

At the same time, on the hillside eight hundred to the south, Wang Junlin saw the light of fire appear from a distance, he waved his sword, pointed at the camp, and coldly ordered: "Kill me!" Neither men, women, nor children, but not a single one remains. ”

Three thousand five hundred cavalry suddenly launched, rushing towards the Turkic logistics camp, a moment, the Sui cavalry slaughtered into the southern camp, panicked out of the tent out of the Turkic soldiers because of the camp fire ignited, completely messed up, will not find soldiers, soldiers can not find generals, some to fetch water to extinguish the fire, some to the river to find the enemy desperately, a large part of them have not had time to put on the armor, let alone have not had time to ride on the horses, they were killed by the Sui army rushing in.

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