"You!" Han Sima trembled when he saw this strange man. The armor of the man in front of him was neither leather nor iron, and a ghostly face was looming under the firelight.
"Your guards are all dead, surrender." Song Xin said calmly.
At this time, all the sleeping soldiers in the camp woke up. They grabbed their clothes in a panic and tried to find weapons. But in this pitch-black night, the weapons had long been kicked around and some were trampled when a group of people fought for them. lethal. As a result, the soldiers became even more panicked. At this time, some people noticed that the direction of the rear camp was quiet, and did not bother to pick up weapons. They swarmed towards the rear of the camp and ran away.
At this time, a fire also broke out in front of the camp. In the middle of the week, several soldiers were sent to set fire to the tents and fodder at the entrance, and shouted, "The enemy has robbed the camp!"
"The enemy has robbed the camp! Run!"
Some soldiers thought that there were really enemy troops hijacking the camp, so they started shouting in panic. For a moment, the shouts rang through the camp, and everyone could only see figures moving back and forth in the mist and firelight. They thought they were enemy troops and didn't even think about it. Just run back.
"enemy!"
As they were running away, they encountered another group of people rushing towards them. These were originally soldiers from the rear camp. The fire there was smaller and there was no panic among the soldiers from the front camp. It happened that a Quhou organized them and prepared to stop them from resisting at the gate of the camp. In the fog, Zhou Zhong and his soldiers guessed that they were enemy troops, so they simply hid in the fleeing crowd and kept shooting at Quhou's men with bows and arrows.
The Quhou noticed that an arrow was coming, and became more convinced that the enemy running across the way was the enemy, so he ordered his men to kill them with a roar.
"Boom, boom, boom!" Continuous collision sounds came one after another, followed by the sound of swords clashing. The soldiers in the front camp wanted to escape, but they became even more anxious when they encountered someone blocking the way. They did not distinguish between friend and foe, and their eyes were red. Cut people down when you see them. Then the people in the back camp saw disheveled figures rushing out of the fog, slashing with knives with red eyes, and killing them without politeness. .
At this time, Zhou Zhong had already left the front camp and returned to the road. As agreed, he lit the prepared fire starter and threw the clothes and firewood of the previous soldiers into the fire.
After a while, the flames gradually spread along the mountain and burned to the entrance of the camp. The flames in the camp were also flying everywhere at this time. Many soldiers who were seriously injured after the enemy killed each other were burned alive.
Seeing the scene outside, Han Sima's eyes were about to burst, and he drew his sword and struck at Song Xin.
Song Xin turned slightly to one side, raised his hand and instantly pinched Han Sima's wrist. With a gentle squeeze, he dislocated his wrist and dropped the long knife to the ground.
Then the figure flashed behind him and hit him on the back of the head with a knife.
Han Sima rolled his eyes and fell limp. Song Xin pushed him onto a soldier behind him, who carried Han Sima on his shoulders. Song Xin said and picked up a deerskin map on the table.
At the same time, the flames soaring into the sky had blown away the mist, and Quhou also realized that he was killing his own people, and immediately shouted loudly to stop. The soldiers who were killing each other in the camp finally realized that they had been fooled.
"This must be a night attack by the enemy. The fire behind the camp is small. Break out from there!" Quhou was so angry that his teeth itched, but he had no choice but to take a look at the fire. He saw that the fire at the back door of the camp was small and there was no shadow of the enemy on the road.
He made a prompt decision and ordered a breakout to the rear of the camp. "Go to the back and go to Snake Crossing Gorge!"
They didn't care about Han Sima's life or death, and fled towards the back of the camp in embarrassment.
After a while, all the soldiers who were still able to move rushed out of the back door. When Song Xin saw them running backwards, he sneered and said to Zhou Zhong, who was coming over: "The next step is up to Zhang Hu. Let's follow up and take over."
On Quhou's side, he gritted his teeth with hatred as he looked at the camp behind him that was gradually being swallowed up by the fire. With less than a hundred remaining soldiers under his command, he ran towards the road behind the camp. He wanted to use this road to go to Snake Chuan Gorge and spread the news of the enemy's night attack. As long as you get there, you can join the large army.
The group of people ran in panic. At this time, the moonlight shone on the mountain road, casting a silvery white color. The surrounding fog also dispersed a lot. Qu Hou could see the road ahead clearly and felt a little more at ease.
But this comfort did not last long. They had just taken a few steps when the soldiers at the front screamed and disappeared from Quhou's sight with a few thumps.
"What's wrong!?!" Qu Hou asked loudly.
At this time someone replied, "Trap!"
Sure enough, a ringing sound came.
Quhou's scalp went numb and he cursed in a low voice: "Damn it, this must be a trap dug by our army!" It turned out that they had dug traps before and after the camp, with sharpened sticks and bells inserted in them, so they could encounter the enemy in this way. If you attack at night, you are likely to get trapped. Not only will you be stabbed to death with a wooden stick, but the bell will also ring, thus alerting the surrounding sentries.
But all these calculations fell on him in the end.
Qu Hou ran to the pit and saw that several soldiers had been pierced by wooden sticks and were still gasping for breath. It seemed that they were hopeless.
"Be careful to avoid the pits and let's go!" He shook his head helplessly and ordered to continue on his way.
"Bang, bang, bang!" Three crossbow sounds were heard, and then three soldiers fell down. Qu Hou suddenly lowered his head and shouted at the same time: "Be careful, it's one of our own!!"
He thought it was a crossbow machine from his own sentry.
As soon as he finished speaking, several more crossbow arrows were fired in the dark night. Several more soldiers screamed and fell down, and some lost their balance and fell directly into the pit.
"There are enemy troops!" At this time, Quhou realized that he had been ambushed again. "Hide quickly!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several more arrows were shot from the side, one of which hit Quhou's arm. "Ouch!" He screamed, covering the wound with his hand, and found that the crossbow arrow had penetrated his arm, revealing a scarlet arrowhead.
However, this Quhou was obviously experienced. Judging from the number of crossbows, the number of people in the ambush was not large. "There are few enemy soldiers, rush over quickly!"
The soldiers were like frightened birds, running forward without their lives. Crossbow arrows shot from behind from time to time, knocking them to the ground one by one.
In the darkness, no enemy troops were seen, but only one of their own people kept falling, which had a huge psychological impact on everyone. At this time, they had no intention of fighting and just wanted to escape quickly!
However, they had just run less than a hundred steps when a dozen figures suddenly appeared on the mountain road in front of them. When the soldiers at the front saw these figures, they were so frightened that they stopped in a hurry. The people behind them couldn't stop their feet for some unknown reason. It hit him, and for a moment, he was on his back and his horse was in a state of embarrassment.
I saw these figures holding up their crossbows and firing a burst of arrows, taking away more than a dozen lives in an instant. Qu Hou raised his shield to block the crossbow arrows, and was about to order his men to charge. At this time, the figure on the opposite side escaped into the darkness and fog and disappeared strangely.
The soldiers looked at the corpses scattered on the ground and were so frightened that they stopped moving forward. The timid ones even peed their pants.
"Sir, what should we... do?" A soldier looked at Qu Hou with a sad face.
But he saw that the chief was also trembling all over and dumbfounded. He turned his head and looked at the flames blazing into the sky behind him, but there was an unknown enemy situation on the other side.
Gritting his teeth, he pulled out his sword and shouted, "Brothers, there are few of them, let's get closer and fight them out together!"
These soldiers were like trapped animals in a cage. After hearing Quhou's order, they also picked up their weapons and began to move slowly.
Suddenly, there was a rapid sound of horse hooves from their side, and then dozens of soldiers rushed out of the darkness. An impact dispersed them. The courage these people had just mustered up was popped like a balloon. Also left behind were more than a dozen headless corpses.
This group of soldiers refused to fight even after the impact. They instantly escaped into the dark night before them and disappeared.
But Quhou's soldiers were still in the panic just now. They fled in panic. As a result, several of them didn't notice that there was a cliff to the left. Their feet were empty and they fell down screaming.
These screams completely tore their will into pieces.
Quhou was so frightened that he had never encountered such an attack before. He finally couldn't help it and shouted loudly: "We surrender! Don't kill anymore!"
After a moment, a group of figures in black armor slowly walked out, and the heavy breathing of the horses seemed to carry endless murderous intent.
Zhang Hu took the lead and walked out, pointing his sword.
The soldiers rushed forward and surrounded the remaining soldiers.
At this time
When a ray of moonlight shone on the faces of these soldiers, everyone saw that they were terrifying ghost faces. Looking at him again, he was also wearing pitch black armor, like a demon in the dark night.
Qu Hou had never seen this kind of ghost face and armor, which was very different from the Cao Jun's armor he was familiar with.
"Mountain ghost!" Qu Hou screamed.
He is originally a native of this mountain. He has heard the legends of mountain ghosts from his elders since he was a child, and they will capture living people to replace them. When he was young, every time he cried and couldn't sleep at night, his mother would scare him, "If you don't sleep, the mountain ghost will come to catch you."
When Quhou thought of this, he knelt down with a plop.
"Zhang Hu, disarm."
Suddenly, Song Xin's voice came from behind. When Qu Hou heard it, how could this mountain ghost still speak human language? He quickly turned around and saw a young man walking over, followed by Zhou Zhong and dozens of brothers.
Qu Hou saw a man carrying an unconscious person on his shoulders and couldn't help but exclaimed, "Han Sima!?"
"Aren't you mountain ghosts!?"
Song Xin chuckled, and then said seriously: "I am Song Xin, who is under the command of General Zhang Wenyuan, the pioneer of the imperial court."
Quhou felt relieved when he heard the other party's name being announced. It was better to be captured by the enemy than by a mountain ghost. At this time, he also saw clearly that Song Xin only had about fifty people under his command, and he suddenly felt aggrieved.
"I didn't expect that such a small number of people would dare to raid our military camp..."
Song Xin smiled faintly, "No more nonsense. If you don't resist, I won't kill you. Tell me the road leading to Snake Chuan Gorge."
Qu Hou lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then nodded, "Continue walking three miles from this road, and there will be a fork to the northeast, which leads to the Snake Chuan Gorge."
"How many of you are there?"
"I just heard that there were three troops. Ours was destroyed by you, and there are still two troops left. But they should have seen the fire here. I'm afraid they will arrive soon."
Song Xin's eyes flashed, and he suddenly raised his sword and cut off Qu Hou's ear.
