In the night, Shen Mu and other two battalions of 600 armored horses stood silently behind the shallow reeds, the horses were all caged, and the people were also covered in armor.

In order to transport their hundreds of heavy horsemen across hundreds of miles of enemy territory while maintaining secrecy, the Huainan army on the vortex can be said to have been overdrawn to the extreme. All the rangers were sent out, disturbing people's sight and clearing the wilderness. In the water camp, under the condition of maintaining the rear transportation capacity, the boats and servants that could be dispatched were dispatched, and a considerable part of the manpower of the Xuzhou army was also borrowed.

In addition to the six hundred heavy cavalry of these two battalions, there were also equal light cavalry at the rate of Ying Sheng on the rear side. In addition to attacking the flanks, these light cavalry also served as reserve carriers when the battle did not go well and failed to break through the enemy's defenses. In other words, if this raid could not be successful and the enemy's operational strength could be replenished, then the hundreds of light cavalry would need to be abandoned, so as to ensure that the heavy cavalry could leave the battle and return to the rear camp in Whirlpool Bay.

Shen Zhezi did not underestimate the enemy because he had many small victories in the previous disturbances, so he invested the strongest armored cavalry of the Huainan Army in the field in this battle. But if these armored cavalry are not here, the Huainan Army will also be greatly damaged, and it will not be able to restore the system in a short time, so this time it is also a big gamble.

At this time, the front team had been dispatched, and it was more than 200 elite infantry soldiers who were in charge of the first camp. According to the information transmitted by Liu Di, the fort ahead was an outpost guarded by hundreds of Peijun scattered soldiers. But more than ten miles away, there was a large fort garrisoned by the slave soldiers. Shen Mu and the others need to break through two forts in a row before they can enter the slave soldiers' camp, and once the fire breaks out, it will be a signal for the rest of the troops to besiege in groups.

But if even the grain and grass can't be burned, then it means that the raid has failed, and even if the various departments barely attack, it will be difficult to break through the forts and make any big gains.

Liu Meng and other people in charge of pulling out the village are sneaking in the low reeds, with sharp blades and backs, and some of them carry strong bows and crossbows on their shoulders. In order to make a quick decision, they have spent more than half an hour in just a few miles, and their physical strength has been lost.

After many years of high-intensity training and combat, at Liu Meng's age, it is difficult to maintain his physical strength at his peak. But as the main family becomes more and more powerful, it is inevitable that there will be a shortage of people, and now that the master of Lang has changed his surroundings, Liu Meng simply joined the brigade and continued to serve.

But after all, he is not young, and when he attacked and killed the Yixing Zhou clan in previous years, he traveled more than ten miles, and he was still able to climb over the dock wall and rush into the fierce fight. But now, his shoulders and back are sore, and he can only stop and rest. When I caught up again, I had already fallen from the front to the last.

Moving forward again, the soldiers paused here. In an open area ahead, there was no shelter, more than half of the firewood was burned, and the bonfire was about to be extinguished, but there was still light. There was a sentry on the left, two soldiers were lying on the railing and had fallen asleep, and the other was also yawning against the wooden pillar, but his sleepy eyes were still looking around.

The outpost was still a little distance from the bonfire, the light was dim, and although the soldiers had bows and crossbows on their bodies, they were not sure that they would be hit with a blow, and they were thinking about countermeasures. After Liu Mengxing stepped forward, he groaned for a while, then unleashed his crossbow and motioned for the two soldiers to sneak from the flank to the edge of the reed.

Liu Meng held the crossbow in both arms, aimed slightly, and suddenly pulled the wrench, and the crossbow arrow came out of the string. Suddenly, the body of the guard on the sentry was already shook, and his hands covered his throat, staggering. The two soldiers in front of them rushed to the ground, and the hook rope wrapped around their arms was suddenly thrown upward, and then two black shadows rushed up to the lookout platform near the height of the rope with the power of the rope.

At this time, the pawn who was hit by the arrow fell to the ground tilted and fell, and when he heard the sound of landing, the two soldiers in his sleep had been awakened, and just opened his eyes, his vision was still blurred and then it darkened, and his calloused palm choked their throats, and with a slight mistake, the throat had been pinched off!

The soldiers rushed out and continued to stealth. At this time, Liu Meng returned to the front, uprooted two more lookout posts, and the group went to the bottom of the wall. The camp on the shallow slope was not very large, and the fence was less than a foot long, because of the neglect of repair, some of the fence trees had even taken root and sprouted new branches, making it even more difficult to stop these soldiers.

At this point, there is no need to make any more travel, and a group of people should just climb over. Probably because he was too confident in the outside outposts, there were not even patrols in the village. But so many people jumped in, and the sound was by no means small, and there were still shallow sleeping soldiers who were awakened, poked their heads out of the barracks, and even when they saw hundreds of wolf-like soldiers slaughtering them, they shouted in shock: "What kind of person ......?"

"Quick Kill!"

Liu Meng raised his hand to shoot an arrow, then put away the crossbow and lifted the knife, and the handle of the knife smashed against the earthen wall for a moment's trial, and then fit and crashed through the thin wall. There were seven or eight sleeping soldiers in the barracks, all of whom were awakened by the loud noise, some of them turned over and got up, and some of them hid their faces and cursed.

Liu Meng's movements were even faster, and the ring knife in his hand was like a poisonous snake and snake sticking out, and a bloody hole appeared in the chest of a soldier in front of him, and then the knife fell in his hand. When he walked out, there was no living mouth in the room. Between entering and leaving, it was only within a few breaths, and at this time, some of the soldiers who had entered with them had not yet found their opponents, and they looked at the soldiers who were already stained with blood, and changed color in shock.

The scale of this fort is not large, more than 200 soldiers rushed in, and many of the guards lost their lives in their sleep, even if someone woke up and rushed out, they were all dismembered by random knives. If you don't count the stealth time, it would have taken less than a quarter of an hour to pull down this barracks.

After breaking through the camp, the soldiers did not slack off, some collected the bows, knives, arrows and other weapons stored in the camp, some picked out the corpses of those slaves and threw them on the way, and others gathered firewood and other things and stacked them inside and outside the wall. After a quarter of an hour, the busyness came to an end, and only then did he raise a fire high in the camp.

At this time, Shen Mu and the others, who had been waiting for a long time, turned over and got on their horses, followed the real road that had been explored in front of them, and waded through this shallow reed. Then he stopped downwind and was not in a hurry to move forward.

The reaction of the slave soldiers in the distance was much more agile than expected, and by the time Shen Mu and the others had finished lining up across the shallows, the neighing of the rangers had already sounded in the night.

However, when the slave soldiers rode to the front and back, they were first attracted by the camp that had been conquered, and they went around the camp to shoot at the inner middle soldiers for a little temptation, and then they divided their horses and returned to warn of urgency.

After several other slave soldiers who were still roaming here bypassed the camp, they soon discovered the existence of Shen Mu and other armored horses, but they were soon chased and killed by the light cavalry of Ying Sheng's headquarters with protruding flanks, and shot in the field.

After a while, there were already torches in the distance, people roared and neighed, and the ground began to shake as many war horses slashed and charged!

There was no moon on this night, and the light was dark. As the slave soldiers came out of the camp, the camp that was conquered first was also full of fire, and the light gathered here, and the rest of the place was even darker. So Shen Musuo's equipment was heavily ridden, and it was completely hidden in the darkness.

The fierce battle was imminent, Shen Mu's face was covered with iron armor, but he couldn't see his expression, but under the armor leaves, there were already moist and slightly dry lips with frequent tongues.

Although there have been many victories before, but the opponent in this battle is different, it is the elite of the Chinese army that attacked from all directions, and its combat power may be comparable to that of Huang Quan, Peng Biao and other slave generals, but due to various reasons during the battle, the two sides actually did not have much head-to-head confrontation. Therefore, many generals, including Shen Mu, do not have an intuitive understanding and feeling of the combat effectiveness of the slave soldiers.

Although there has not yet been a formal battle at the moment, it can be inferred from the sound of the opponent mobilizing the camp in the distance that this army is really not to be underestimated. At this time, it was already midnight, the people were sleepy, and the attack was sudden, but the enemy was still able to organize a counterattack so quickly, and the sound of its impact was not chaotic, if it were not for the elite of the long-term battle, it would have been impossible to experience it so far. It is also conceivable that even if the Huainan Army is a light cavalry raid, it may not be able to grab much advantage in the face of the elite Chinese army of slaves.

At this time, Shen Mu already had hidden worries in his heart, worried that even if Liu Meng and the others had the support of the camp, they might not be able to withstand the first round of impact of the slave soldiers. In the earlier plan, Liu Meng and the others had to lure out more than half of the slave soldiers before the heavy cavalry would attack. Now it seems that although they had estimated the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army before the war, they were actually a little too much.

In the camp, Liu Meng was also worried in his heart. They attacked so far that it was difficult to carry too many weapons, so they planned to conquer a slave barracks to support the war, but they didn't expect the difference between slaves and soldiers to be so serious.

The combat effectiveness of the slave soldiers in this camp is indeed weak, and the use of weapons is even more rudimentary, and the collection of knives and guns is not more than hundreds, which are basically evenly distributed on the heads. There are dozens of inferior bows, and even many of them are native bows, and the lethality is not enough to count on. This is not enough, the Huainan army itself carries strong bows and crossbows, but the problem is that there are not many arrows. There are more than 200 iron-cast arrows, and the rest are mostly native bamboo arrows, which are light and fluttering without weight, even if they are strong bows and arrows, it is difficult to break the armor at all!

No matter how good the tactics are, there are always variables in the battle, while the slave soldiers are still attacking, Liu Meng ordered the soldiers to stack them outside, and at the same time cut the spears into short spears. But the slave soldiers didn't give him much time, and soon dozens of horses rushed into view.

"Drain!"

At this time, it was difficult to fight for a long time according to the original plan, so Liu Meng no longer left his strength, and ordered the army to carry dozens of strong crossbows in front, and the crossbow arrows were shot in a round, and many of the slave soldiers who rushed to the front fell in response to the arrows, and the momentum was a pause. The few slaves who remained in the range of the fire quickly retreated, leaving no second chance to shoot.

When they rushed closer, the torches of the slaves were extinguished, making it difficult to observe the enemy's position. Fortunately, he had accumulated firewood outside, and at this time, Liu Meng ordered someone to use bamboo arrows to ignite the firewood outside, and the fire spread out in an instant, and the slave soldiers hidden in the night were also exposed. More than 300 slave soldiers appeared in the field of vision, and the original sharp charging array was poking out towards the two wings, ready to ride on the side!