While they were waiting, the sound of arrows from the Tartars suddenly sounded in the east.

The shrill chirp spread far away in the silent night sky, and from the first sound, it sounded like a relay all the way to the Houjin army camp.

Then, soon, on the camp of the former army of Houjin, the sound of conch sounded.

Night raid, was discovered.

Listening to the constant sound of arrows around him, as well as the sound of conches coming from the side of the Houjin Army, Xiaohu couldn't help but scold in a low voice.

He knew very well that it was the other infantry detachments that were discovered by the Houjin sentries in the process of infiltrating the Houjin army camp.

Although he had expected this before the action, when it really happened, he couldn't help but curse twice.

The current situation clearly shows that the Houjin army has made relevant preparations, and if it directly changes the night attack to a strong attack and attacks the Houjin army's camp, I am afraid it will not have a very good effect.

However, just as the battalion commander analyzed him before, the Houjin army suffered a defeat today and lost a lot of men, horses and supplies.

Under this newly defeated situation, in the face of the night attack of the Huaxia army, they should not dare to go out of the camp to counterattack without authorization, and at most they will only hold within the camp.

In fact, even if the Houjin army was bold enough to make the opposite move that several officers expected, and chose to fight in the night, that. Xiaohu won't be afraid.

Because, fighting in a place with complex terrain at night, you can't ride a horse at all, and the Houjin army doesn't have the courage to swagger out with torches at night as a target, so you can only obediently line up.

And under this kind of positional battle where there is no cavalry involved at all, only infantry against infantry, or skirmishers fighting against each other, the Huaxia army is really not afraid of anyone.

At this time, the young officer who led the strange team to join the night attack came over and said to Xiaohu in a low voice: "Sergeant, it is enough to advance another 300 meters, we don't have time to wait for those who have fallen behind, it's better to go quickly, the task is important!" ”

Although he is an officer and Xiaohu is a sergeant, in this night attack infantry detachment, Xiaohu is the commander assigned by the headquarters, and everyone must act according to his orders.

This is not to say that military ranks are useless in the Huaxia Army, but because in the Huaxia Army system, small-scale operations other than large corps formations are generally task-centered.

In order to avoid the failure of the mission due to disagreement in such a night raid, the military code stipulates that the commander designated before the start of the mission is the final decision on the mission.

At the same time, the code also stipulates that the command level that assigns the team to carry out direct operations must determine in advance the list of personnel who will take over the command after the death of the commander according to the military rank and the high ground of the position of the personnel participating in the mission.

After that, officers who join the team temporarily during the mission, no matter how high their rank or how old their qualifications, are not eligible to take command.

Of course, all this is a prescriptive rule that should be followed in a small-scale direct operation, and in an ordinary, formed battle, the transfer of command is carried out in accordance with the ranks and duties of all those present.

After listening to the young officer's words, Xiaohu looked at the dark night around him, and nodded in agreement with the other party's opinion.

If it is really necessary to advance another 300 meters, then there is really no need to wait for those stragglers, there will definitely be the sound of guns and fires during the action, and the stragglers will definitely be able to find themselves if they are not far away.

But if it's too far away, then it's pointless for him to wait here. With this figured out, he gave the order to set off again.

The front special agent platoon carefully searched the front of the team in battle formation, and they needed to help the infantry detachment eliminate possible dangers ahead, such as ambushes, mines, traps, etc.

After walking a distance of several hundred meters, on the way to the march, the special service platoon really discovered the existence of the enemy's ambush army.

In the case of discovering the enemy, Xiaohu commanded the infantry detachment to attack in turn in order not to leave any trouble.

The special service platoon was responsible for suppressing the enemy head-on, not giving the opponent a chance to get up and shoot arrows, while the other two platoons launched a roundabout tactic and sneaked into the flank of the enemy's ambush army.

When the roundabout troop movement was in place, Xiaohu's whistle sounded, and all the roundabout troops fired a series of platoon guns in a row as a unit.

From the flank position, a continuous volley of guns was fired at the group of Houjin troops lying in the depression, as if they were machine guns fired sideways from later generations, and the effect was simply amazingly good.

In less than 1 minute, more than a dozen Houjin army ambush troops who were lurking in the hidden places and preparing to counterattack the night attack troops of the Huaxia Army were only corpses left.

On the road of just 300 meters, a full 5 Houjin Fulu armies were found, and the number of these ambush armies was generally not too many, only two or three people together, and more than a dozen people in a ditch.

Just such a small number of people, how can they block the attacks of so many Huaxia troops, and the clever ones among them quickly fled to the rear camp after they fired the arrows in their hands.

As for those post-Jin army corpses who are not very flexible in their brains, and the first wave of more than a dozen people, they are their role models.

After choosing a favorable terrain, Xiaohu stopped and looked at the young officer.

The young officer knew what Xiaohu meant, but he didn't immediately confirm it, but turned around and erected a makeshift improvised partition in a slightly higher place.

The partition was tightly blocked from the Houjin camp and the two sides next to it, and only the side facing the Huaxia army camp was open.

In between, the young officer turned on a set of small specular "searchlights" and lit a candle and placed it on the center point of the "searchlight".

Immediately afterward, he picked up a thick black cloth and sent a light signal to the rear in a way that blocked the light.

In less than a minute, a violent cannon fire was heard from the side of the Huaxia Army, and then, a cannonball with a bright flame flashed straight into the camp of the Houjin Army in an arc.

The shell seemed to slowly pass over the head of Xiaohu's infantry detachment, landing on the ground about 100 meters in front of them, and then, with a sudden flick, it flew forward again for some distance.

After bottoming out twice, it finally stopped in a specially cleared open space in front of the Houjin Army camp and never moved again.