Chapter 48: Camp Break
In the past three days, the two armies have been fighting each other, and the two sides have not had the opportunity to calmly reorganize the camp, and the main camp of the Wandering People's Army directly north of Feixiaji has only erected a single-layer fence wall, and some obstacles have been piled up in front of the fence wall, and there is no time to dig a trench.
The rain was pouring down, except for a few canopies, there were campfires burning and sentry guards, and the whole camp was plunged into darkness with no fingers visible, and the soldiers also hid in the tents to avoid the rain.
There are not many tents that do not leak rain, and the terrain is low, and it rains all night, and many places are flooded, most of the people toss and turn all night without sleeping, and the soldiers can't control the ban, so they move the ground to hide from the rain, and the camp is already in chaos, and it is a little lucky that the camp is not bombed on the spot.
Finally, when the rain stopped, the sentries looked around for dry wood to light the campfire, and the officers carried lanterns and shouted to find their soldiers.
Several firewood stacks were watered, and the first thing to light was the wind lantern of the flagpole, and like a flag-raising, a long lantern was hung up, providing some light in the four places.
This light was not enough, and an officer of the Wandering People's Army stood under the flagpole and shouted: "What about the people at the gate, why haven't they lit the campfire yet?" If you let the officers and soldiers steal the battalion, chop up your chickens! Before the sentry could respond, there was an uproar at the gate, and an officer carried a lantern over, flashing a bright blade, and then someone woke up and screamed: "Attack the camp!" ”
It had just rained heavily, kicked over a few camp tents and set fire, the fire could not get out, at this time the sky had been slightly clear, and it would not be long before dawn, this was a large camp with 3,000 people, Xiao Kuian did not distinguish the campfire, listening to where the chaos was and then led people to rush where, rushing from the south to the north, almost falling into the flooded pit, and turning to the west, wanting to pass through, taking advantage of the camp to the west of the bandits......
At this time, the sky was already visible, and the main force of the Duhuai army on Feixia Rock also moved away from the obstacles in front of the camp, and came out in turn, and the fish scale formation was ready to break through.
The main camp of the bandits in the north failed to burn the fire, it was a heavy rain, Liu Tingzhou took advantage of the morning light to watch the people in the main camp of the bandits running around, and the front base of the bandits only had more than 100 soldiers who rushed to the front, and it was not an obstacle at all, knowing that Xiao Kuian and the dead soldiers had successfully disrupted the current enemy camp!
Liu Tingzhou wore lacquer-dyed leather armor and a metal scarf on the outside of the crimson official robe, straddled the horseback, held the reins with one hand, pulled out the saber with the other, and shouted: "Generals, Tingzhou and Er will advance together to destroy and kill the thieves!" "Wave your sword and give the order to march.
Generally speaking, after the main general of the fish scale array is in the center, Liu Tingzhou commands the battle between the two phalanxes on the second layer, moving forward with the formation, once the front line is blocked, Liu Tingzhou himself will have to meet the enemy. Although it is dangerous, it also arouses the high morale of the generals.
Teng Xing is far away, although he is a civil servant, he also learns from Liu Tingzhou to put on armor. Teng Xingyuan's riding skills are very poor, fortunately there are close people on the left and right, and there are also people leading the way in front, he actually replaced Liu Tingzhou as the position of the chief general of the Chinese army, commanding and coordinating the entire fish scale array, concentrating troops, and breaking through the main camp of the bandits in the north.
Ma Fu and Ma Rulong are located behind the formation.
This time to cross the Huai to aid Xu, nearly 1,000 private soldiers of the Ma family were dispatched, after all, Aiding Xu was the father-in-law of the King of Chu. Although thousands of Ma family private soldiers were incorporated into the Duhuai Army, the actual command was not ceded by Ma Rulong, with Ma Rulong as the main general, and Ma Fu also followed in the army. In the previous tough battle, the Ma family's private soldiers did not participate much, and they still preserved their strength very well.
The fish scale array moved forward a little slowly, and a stick of incense took a little more time, and it also rushed to the front of the main camp of the bandits directly opposite, and the more than 100 defenders in the front base did not form a substantial block. The main camp had already been set on fire, and in the chaos there were two or three hundred bandits who gathered to stop the army from setting foot on the camp, just like the mantis arm blocking the car was crushed, killing thirty or fifty people on the spot, and the rest of the people fled.
There was no doubt that the enemy's main camp was broken, and Xiao Kuian led the dead soldiers to break through to the camp west of the bandits.
Between the main camp and the west base is low-lying land, flooded by stagnant water, there are dozens of bandits to Xiao Kuian led the dead soldiers to flee to the west, watching them flee into the low-lying land flooded by stagnant water in a panic, and the whole person fell into it and couldn't see the top of his head!
"There's a pit!" Xiao Kuian was shocked, the bandits did not dig a trench in front of the camp, but they dug a big pit between their own camps, which was too weird.
At this time, I saw a row of bows and crossbows raised on the wall of the bandits' west base, and the arrows flashed with cold light, Xiao Kuian's back chilled, and he instantly understood that the main camp of the bandits was a trap. A wave of random arrows came, Xiao Kui'an's position was too protruding, his short body was covered with a shield, and his calf was pierced by an arrow, and he hugged him left and right to protect him and retreat.
In the early morning after the rain, the weather was cool, but Xiao Kuian's forehead was sweating, he broke the arrow on his calf and pulled it out, kept bleeding from the arrow hole, stopped a running horse, jumped on the horse's back and looked.
The Duhuai army almost moved in the nest, the front line was killed in front of the battalion, and tens of thousands of people filled the open space between the two armies, and the retreat at this time would only cause collapse chaos, and they could only rush north from the direction of the main camp of the bandits according to the established route.
At this time, to confirm whether the bandits had set up an ambush in the north of the main camp, Xiao Kui'an straddled the horse, asked someone to pick up a spear for him, carried the horse's head, turned to the north, and called a person: "Xu Gou'er, you go and tell Lord Liu that the main camp of the bandits has been broken, and you want the army to slow down a little, and kill all the rebels in the main camp of the bandits as much as possible, and we will be the pioneer and guide the way for the army...... You remember, don't say a word more about other nonsense! "At this time, telling the truth is likely to induce chaos, Xiao Kui is relieved that the bandits may not expect them to attack the camp this morning, even if there are ambushes behind the main camp, they should be poured into the heavy rain in the middle of the night, as long as the road to the north is poked out, the army will pass through first like a spear, and there may not be no chance of turning defeat into victory......
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Sun Gongzi and Ma Lantou were both in the west camp of the Wandering People's Army, and when they saw that the officers and soldiers were really stealing the camp after the rain, they screamed excitedly: "Liu Tingzhou, this little boy, let someone shoot me with an arrow the year before last, and today I want to avenge an arrow!" "At the moment, I want people to move the obstacles in front of the western camp and lead the cavalry to stand out.
"Wait!" Ma Lantou grabbed Sun Pole, the officers and soldiers are fish scale formation, there is no chaos, they rush from the flank, the flank of the fish scale formation can divide the troops to kill, and said, "It's not the time yet, the officers and soldiers are moving this time, and there is no return arrow when the bow is opened." The weak point of the fish scale formation is the back and abdomen, and when the front wing of the officers and soldiers passes through the main camp in the middle, and the butt behind is exposed, you lead the cavalry to insert it from the tail to the front wing, then the array of officers and soldiers will be inserted in one fell swoop! ”
"You have a lot of flowers!" Sun Gongzi's heart was restless, his blood boiled, he straddled the horse's back, put the saber on his knees, forcibly pressed it, and watched the array of officers and soldiers penetrate into the main camp.
In order to lure the Huai officers and soldiers into being fooled, not all the soldiers in the main camp were withdrawn, and there were more than 1,000 people inside, so Xiao Kuian took advantage of the night raid and did not notice the abnormality. The more than 1,000 people themselves were disrupted, and they had no resistance, just scattered and fled for their lives.
In addition to the chaos in the main camp, the camps on the east and west sides were silent, and Liu Tingzhou also saw the abnormality and sent someone to ask Xiao Kuian. Xiao Kuian had already found out that there was no danger ahead, pulled out the horse and came back to see Liu Tingzhou, and said in a suppressed voice: "It's a trap, now I can only take advantage of the situation to rush forward, the two wings will be scattered to the east and west, the adults will send someone to inform Ma Rulong, and ask him to lead the Ma family's private soldiers to protect the rear wing of the army, this battle may not be without a chance of victory!" ”
Liu Tingzhou is a person with a firm will, and immediately sent his cronies to see Teng Xingyuan, Ma Fu, and Ma Rulong, and asked them to act according to the plan and stabilize the morale of the army.
Ma Fu and Ma Rulong heard that the main camp of the bandits in the north was a trap, and only more than 1,000 bandits were killed, and the camps on the east and west sides of the bandits were not chaotic......
"it! Idiot! Seeing Ma Fu and Ma Rulong retreating to Feixiaji, Xiao Kuian scolded with hatred, without elite rear wings, the entire fish scale array would become a rag that would be torn when stabbed.
The general trend has gone and no one can cover it back, Xiao Kuian and Liu Tingzhou said, "My lord, you lead the left wing, I lead the right wing, break through the front camp, and go to both sides separately, don't care about the others, keep the elite soldiers of Shanyang County, maybe you can be rescued by the control envoy!" ”
The rear wing of the officers and soldiers suddenly stopped and retreated, and Sun Gongzi couldn't hold it anymore, and said to Ma Lantou: "Lao Tzu has gone to seize the camp, don't you come with me to fight for merit!" Without waiting for Ma Lanlong to reply, he rode his horse forward and shouted: "Open the gate, sons, follow the pole master and I will kill his mother's farts and pee...... More than 300 cavalrymen who were lying in the west camp made a loud noise, and followed Sun Pole to rush to the gate of the Yuan.
Ma Lantou wanted to stop it too late, his original intention was to let Sun Gongzi let go of the rear flank of the retreating officers and soldiers, and use cavalry to trample the main formation of the officers and soldiers crossing the Huai from the flank, and a big victory would be within reach. Turning his mind and being greedy again, he took advantage of the retreat of the officers and soldiers to capture Feixiaji in one fell swoop, and all the officers and soldiers who entered Siyang would become turtles in the urn.
In addition to the more than 2,000 precious cavalry of Chen Hansan's department, although the wandering army had many soldiers and horses, there were few cavalry. A small number of cavalry are also mostly used for communication and scouting, so Sun Pole has the cheekiness to save six or seven hundred cavalry, and there is no formed cavalry under Ma Lantou.
The only thing that the wandering army could use to trample on the infantry array was the three or four hundred cavalry brought by Sun Gongzi.
Ma Fu and Ma Rulong learned of the plan, and immediately abandoned Liu Tingzhou and them, and led more than 1,000 elites to retreat to the Feixiaji camp.
Sun Gongzi led the crowd to pass through the flanks of the middle flank of the Duhuai officers and soldiers, and went straight to the back of the retreating Ma family's private soldiers, and the seven or eight foot-long horse chopping knife swung left and right, and the heads of the two Ma family pawns who turned around to block were slashed away......
The Ma family has been a salt and iron merchant for generations, and the family has a huge amount of money, and he knocked out 300,000 taels of silver to Lin Lian at once, which is more humiliating for Ma Fu, and he can't move the foundation of the Ma family. Salt merchants, salt merchants, buy and sell official salt, but there are few who do not smuggle salt, in order to smuggle salt, Ma Jiahua vigorously raised private soldiers.
In terms of the quality of the soldiers, the more than 1,000 private soldiers of the Ma family can be said to be a few points stronger than the soldiers of Shanyang County.
Even if the more than 1,000 private soldiers of the Ma family block ten, but Queen Cang withdrew and gave Sun Gongzi the elite cavalry to cover from behind, and it was difficult to escape the doom of the collapse of the whole army.
The infantry against the cavalry, the emphasis is on iron discipline and joint confrontation, once killed, you can only hate your father and mother for having two legs.
People with better eyesight ran directly to the beachhead where the cavalry could not chase, and more people were slaughtered all the way back by Sun Gongzi, some people were brave, and several or more than a dozen people joined forces to fight, but blocking the cavalry knife and spear commander, rushing from all directions to trample, can only hold the idea of killing a sufficient one.
Sun Pole can kill sexually, and those who surrender on the ground, he will step on the horse with the reins, and the brave soldiers under his command are also very killing, and they are happy to kill, and they have no intention of leaving prisoners, and they have to be killed clean to be happy.
Ma Fu was wearing gorgeous armor, riding on a green horse, the most conspicuous, Sun Gongzi shouted: "That armor belongs to the master, whoever robs the master is raised by a bitch!" Both left and right scolded Sun Pole for being shameless, and several riders followed and snatched it out.
Sun Gongzi's rules, other property is sufficient, and whoever captures the armor belongs to whom.
Ma Fu's soul was scattered, and he turned around and begged for mercy: "I have silver!" But a lance did not understand him, and poked it straight through his vest.
Before he died, Ma Fu only hated himself for being greedy for war merits, and dragged him back to the south bank early, and lost his life here.
Seeing that the gorgeous armor gave people the first hand, Sun Gongzi scolded and laughed, and saw that there was an official more than 20 zhang away on the left side who was fighting with a gun, and was about to chop the saber as a dart and throw it out. The big knife seven or eight feet long, more than 20 zhang away, pierced Ma Rulong's chest with broken armor.
Ma Fu and Ma Rulong were killed, and the private guards of the Ma family were scattered like beasts, and no one resisted.