Chapter 0357: Shadows of the Night
The sun sets, the dusk fades, and darkness hangs over the earth.
It seems to indicate that the blood is rushing to the sky tonight, and the thin clouds cover the moon from time to time, and the moonlight shining down through the clouds and mist looks extremely dark, for the vast majority of grassland warriors with blindness, this time is no different from opening their eyes and being blind. In fact, even if the moon is transparent, they can't see far, it's pitch black.
The lights lit on the grassland, dotted with starlight that seemed to flicker on the grassland, shooting into the deep and infinite universe.
A figure shot out from Xihe City, like a dark bat, flying quickly, silently, and pounced into a group of grassland warrior patrols closest to Xihe City, and after a while, quietly left, the time was only a few tens of seconds.
This figure is like a ghost in the night, and he is the Blue Winged Bat King Wei Yixiao.
"All the horses are wrapped in cotton cloth, everyone goes out in teams, no sound is allowed, and the movement is fast!" A group of Xihe soldiers quickly gathered and left the barracks in an orderly manner under the order of the centurion.
In the outer city east of Xihe City, players gathered here, bored to sleep or offline, a few players who seemed to have nothing to do and did not go offline wanted to go out, but when they saw the burning torches on the surrounding city walls, they couldn't help but complain indignantly, and they didn't dare to step out of the door half a step.
On the other side, the soldiers, who had rested for less than two hours, were sleeping comfortably, and their companions were lucky enough to take the rations handed over to them silently, stuffed them into their arms or waists, and carefully sharpened the blades in their hands with tattered linen cloth so that they would not rust because they had drunk too much blood.
Hundreds of knights dressed in black quickly rushed out of the surrounding camps and disappeared into the darkness.
Almost all the players concentrated in the Chinese army went offline, that is, a few did not go offline and fell asleep directly in the expedition, these days of fierce battles, not only the number of players has decreased, and the night patrol mission has not been accepted by many players, just the day before yesterday Xi Juan simply stopped releasing the mission.
Because of the fierce fighting every day, both sides let go of their hands and feet and fought with all their might, so that a lot of physical strength was consumed by everyone, and even the Mongols could not attack at night. The Han army only needed to set up a few outposts around the perimeter and near the Mongol camp to get the movement of the Mongol iron cavalry at the first time.
Two hours passed, and the forward of Xihe City had already left Xihe City and gathered under the south city of Xihe, and the vanguard army of the Yuan Dynasty did not realize the appearance of the other party at all, just as Jia Xu expected, Zhao Min did not think that Zhang Yuan would give up their advantages and launch an attack. Of course, with the heart of just in case, Zhao Min still strengthened his vigilance, but as Jia Xu said, although he strengthened his vigilance, his tightness in his heart did not improve.
Think about it at the top, and have an effect at the bottom.
Even Zhao Min didn't think that the other party would attack, those grassland warriors below were originally coarse nerves, and they didn't have so many crooked intestines, and the strict defense shown by Xihe City these days was even more regarded by them as cowards, turtles.
What's more, because Zhao Min didn't pay attention to it, he only increased the manpower and didn't let people be careful, which made the people below naturally pay less attention to it.
For example, the surrounding sentinels, they didn't even change the place, or a few days ago, a fire was even lit, which shows that in their hearts, they don't care more than Zhao Min. And it was precisely because of their lack of attention that they gave Wei Yixiao, the blue-winged bat king who was constantly wandering around these days, a chance to smile, and almost easily extinguished one by one the sentry posts, and almost didn't spend much time looking for it.
When Xiao Lu, Chu Feng, Luo Chong, Han Qu, Qing Yang, and other four responsible commanders of the four major tribes under Zhang Yuan, led the light cavalry to take the lead out, two hours had passed, and the surrounding outposts were cleaned up by Wei Yixiao.
For this attack, Zhang Yuan had all the soldiers and horses in his hands, and even the guards were replaced by ordinary young men, and the young men of the four major tribes were all pulled out to fight, because although they herded livestock on weekdays, under the leadership of Chu Feng and other four people, they trained almost as soon as they had time, and they grew up on horseback, proficient in riding and archery, and they were one of the sources of soldiers in Zhang Yuan's hands, and their strength may not be as good as the regular soldiers in Zhang Yuan's hands, but they are all higher than ordinary grassland warriors, all of them are elite soldiers, and there are many strong soldiers in a hundred battles, Discipline is the top priority, and all of them are trained by retired officers in reality.
Nearly 20,000 light cavalry were divided into two teams, Xiao Lu and Qingyang led 10,000 people to the left, Chu Feng, Han Qu, and Luo Chong took the others to Xiangyou, and went around in a big circle from a distance, appearing on the left and right sides of the Yuan army, waiting for the next move.
Followed by the heavy cavalry, then the heavy infantry, time passed little by little, at one o'clock in the morning, all the troops were concentrated under the Xihe City, Zhang Yuan rode a snow lion, with a heavy armor guard waiting for something at the front.
Wei Yixiao was like a shadow, descending from the dark sky, dragging his body full of exhaustion, wiping a handful of sweat, and said: "Fortunately, the outposts on the grassland have all been solved, and within an hour, the other party will not send someone to hand over, but your actions are going to be fast, I don't know if the general needs us to help deal with the other party's innate masters?" ”
"Then there is the King of Labor, our army will go first, and you can follow!"
Zhang Yuan thought for a while, and did not refuse, the people in the rivers and lakes may not even be able to exert one-tenth of their strength on the battlefield, even the innate masters will be killed by small soldiers, but if the innate masters are not surrounded and want to escape, it is really difficult for these soldiers who are weaker than them to stop them.
"It doesn't matter! Then I'm leaving! The blue-winged bat king Wei smiled and arched his hand, quickly tapped a few steps, and showed his clothes, like a slapping bat, gliding away, getting higher and higher, as if flying.
"What a strange man!"
Zhang Yuanmu saw him leave and praised him, he had also been a chivalrous man in his previous life, and although he later became a general, he was still very clear about the endless means of chivalry, especially after the player joined, it made the whole rivers and lakes bloom like a hundred flowers, and became more and more lively.
Zhang Yuan said to Zhang Ji beside him: "General Zhang Ji, then please help me and wait for me!" ”
Zhang Ji didn't say much, and responded: "It must be a dead force!" ”
After that, Zhang Ji took the lead in leaving with a thousand heavy cavalry, while Zhang Yuan looked at the real elite of nearly five thousand Xihe City behind him, and his heart was full of confidence, and said, "Let's go!" ”
The army quietly and quickly escaped into the darkness, and the entire city wall of Xihe City was brightly lit, and the city was silent, and there was nothing unusual to see.