Song Xin asked someone to strip off a few pieces of enemy armor and asked Zhang Hu and others to change them. Then he quietly walked around to the camp on the north bank and waited for night to fall.
Arriving not far from the gate of the north bank camp, Song Xin saw that the place was sparsely defended, with only five or six soldiers guarding it. Judging from their laziness, they seemed not to be afraid of Cao Jun's attack.
Because they had been taking the initiative to attack the fortress set up by Niu Chuang in the past few days, these people felt that Sergeant Cao's soldiers had been frightened by Zhang Xi's momentum and did not dare to come out to fight back against them.
The soldier guarding the camp gate said to the team leader beside him: "Qiujialing has been fighting for several days. The west ridge was conquered in one day. Why can't the east ridge be conquered?"
The corps commander replied: "I heard that this enemy general is Niugai's clan brother. He has more than 300 heroes under his command, all of whom are very skilled in martial arts. Our army rushed several times but was forced back by them."
Xiaobing had obviously heard of Niugai's name, "It turns out he is his clan brother. I heard that Niugai is very brave, and his clan brother is also so powerful."
"Why not just bypass the enemy camp and go directly north?" The soldier scratched the back of his head in confusion, picked out a louse and crushed it with his fingers.
"Humph, what do you, a small soldier, know?" The corps commander hit the soldier on the head angrily, "We have gone around, what will happen to the baggage? If the enemy comes out to attack our food road and the army runs out of food and grass, what will you eat? ?」
The soldier stuck out his tongue, "The captain knows better. Being a soldier is for food. Hehe, I don't want to starve."
As he spoke, he looked in the direction of the big tent in the camp. In the warm cowhide tent, there were faint sounds of laughter and the sound of cups and cups being changed. At this time, a gust of cool wind blew through the gaps in the soldier's armor and stabbed him like a knife. The soldier shuddered and couldn't help tightening his tight clothes, complaining: "It's so cold in this damn weather. I really want to take a sip of wine to warm myself up."
"Brother Wu, you said that we are the ones who go to battle from birth to death, why do we not get to drink and eat meat?"
The team leader knocked him on the head and said, "Keep your voice down. It's good to have something to eat. Do you still want to eat meat? Stop talking nonsense. If the team leader hears it, I will whip you on the butt!"
Xiaobing covered his head and curled his lips in dissatisfaction, muttering dissatisfiedly, "It's just talk."
He raised his head inadvertently and frowned, "Captain, what do you see in front of you?"
The captain looked up and saw a black shadow appearing in the distance and rushing towards them.
The captain raised the torch and took a look, vaguely seeing the armor of his own soldiers. He breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that his scouts were returning to camp. The team leader told us that a team of people left the camp today to chase Cao Jun's deserters, and they should be coming back now.
"Our army's scouts must have returned to camp. Open the camp door quickly and let them in." The commander quickly ordered.
The soldier quickly sighed and turned around to open the camp door.
After a few soldiers struggled to push open the heavy camp door, the black shadow was already approaching. At this time, the team leader saw the tassel on Song Xin's head. Suddenly, cold sweat broke out on his back, and he hurriedly shouted: "Hurry, close it quickly..."
Before he could finish his words, a flying arrow shot straight through his head in an instant.
The corporal commander didn't have time to struggle and fell to the ground lifeless.
Several of his soldiers were frightened and stared blankly at Song Xin who was rushing over. They saw a dozen fast horses passing by them, sword flashes, and a few soldiers were killed under the horses without even shouting.
"Charge in! Kill the enemy general!"
Song Xin pulled out a long sword and rushed towards the tent where the enemy general lived.
The enemy soldiers standing in the camp were also stunned. However, the sky was dark at this time. They saw Zhang Hu and others were all wearing their own clothes and armor. How could they have imagined that there would be an enemy night attack at this time, but no one came up. Stop Song Xin.
More than a dozen tall horses rushed to the front of the Chinese army's tent without stopping at all. Song Xin's war horse jumped up and crashed directly into the tent.
When I went in, I saw that the lights were brightly lit inside. Several enemy officers were holding the captured women in their arms, drinking and drinking together.
Suddenly several horses rushed in,
The woman in their arms screamed, and the officers suddenly woke up. Just as he was about to scold him, he saw the murderous looks on the faces of Zhang Hu, Song Xin and others. No matter how stupid this person was, he knew that the enemy was attacking the camp, so the officer wanted to grab the handle of the knife beside him.
Song Xin and others never gave them a chance to counterattack. They rushed forward and chopped down several people like melons and vegetables. The soldiers dismounted and took the heads of several people, then climbed on the horse's back and rushed out of the tent.
"Go south!"
Seeing that the enemy general had been killed, Song Xin immediately gave the order. Relying on the speed of their horses, more than a dozen people rushed all the way towards the south of the camp. When they arrived near the camp gate, Song Xin saw a large cart with several bags of caltrops on it. He turned sideways and picked it up, throwing it into the storage ring. At the same time, he grabbed a few more bags and placed them in front of the camp gate behind him.
At this time, the people in the enemy camp shouted and gathered together. When they entered the tent, they found that all the officers had been killed. The soldiers were leaderless for a while, and the officers were all dead. They were like a group of headless flies, running around the camp in a panic.
When he was panicking, a night watchman heard the sound and ran over, shouting: "What's going on!?"
"My lord, something is wrong. The enemy troops suddenly rushed into the camp and killed Zhang Sima and Qian Sima!"
The general was horrified and looked toward the tent. He saw tables and chairs overturned, food scattered on the floor, and three or four headless corpses lying next to several frightened women. The general's face suddenly turned pale. These were all his superiors, and yet they were killed like this. The general spat angrily and asked, "How many enemy troops are there!?"
"Big... about fifteen or six riders." One of the soldiers said in shock.
The general was furious when he heard this and cursed: "You damn dog thief! Chase me!" He never expected that the enemy's cavalry, with more than a dozen horses, would dare to break into their camp. This was a deep blow to his self-esteem. Deep insult. Tonight is the time when the general is patrolling the camp. It is his responsibility for the enemy troops to break into the camp. Zhang Jie will definitely behead him if he finds out.
After the commander gave the order, dozens of enemy soldiers chased them out on horseback. However, as soon as they arrived at the gate of the camp, they heard the neighing of the war horses and the screams of people. It turned out that their horses' hoofs were pierced by iron caltrops and they rolled to the ground in pain. The soldiers on horseback also fell down, and they were pricked with holes all over their bodies.
There was a sudden chaos at the entrance of the camp. At this time, Song Xin and the others were running very fast and were already far away.
After running for seven or eight miles, Song Xin and the others stopped. Zhang Hu laughed and said, "It's so happy, so happy! If we hadn't had fewer soldiers, we would have killed him several more times!"
Song Xin smiled and said, "There are plenty of opportunities to behead someone. Let's go rescue Niu Chuang."
Zhang Hu was stunned for a moment, "Save...save Niu Chuang!?"
Song Xin smiled faintly, "How about it? Do you dare?"
"But he is surrounded by thousands of enemy troops. How can we get close?"
Song Xin looked at the looming fire in the distance, smiled calmly and said, "The enemy thought the same way. Why, are you afraid?"
When Zhang Hu heard this, he hurriedly said: "Sir, I'm not afraid. I'm afraid that you might make a mistake."
Song Xin smiled noncommittally, "I'll be fine. If you're scared, just go back."
Zhang Hu said quickly: "I, Zhang Hu, are not afraid. Even if you go to the dragon's pond and tiger's den, I will go with you!"
Song Xin nodded with satisfaction, found a secluded place, took out a dozen pairs of black armor from Shanshui Lingze's arsenal, and asked everyone to put them on. Zhang Hu had seen this kind of mysterious armor before and knew that it was an invulnerable treasure, so he happily took it and exchanged it. But the other soldiers didn't know the benefits of this thing, and were also curious about where Song Xin came from.
However, they didn't dare to ask questions, they just changed their armor and put on face protection as ordered. A dozen people looked like a dozen bloodthirsty ghosts in the night.
A dozen riders crossed the river and headed south. After a while, I saw Qiu Jialing.
Looking around, we found that the enemy had set up several camps on the main road of Qiujialing and on the west ridge, far away from the Niugai camp on Dongling Mountain. Whether it was the East Ridge or the West Ridge, the hillside was burned to a white ground.
On the hillside of Dongling, there were many enemy corpses lying here and there, like ants, most of them were shot to death by crossbows.
Song Xin looked at it from a distance and nodded, "It seems that Niugai has been prepared and cut down the trees on the mountain in advance.
, to prevent the enemy from burning the mountain. "
He looked far away at the lonely camp on the East Ridge. A large flag with the word "ox" fluttering in the cold night wind, the flag was full of holes. The East Ridge where Niugai's camp is located is slightly shorter than the West Ridge. From the camp on the West Ridge, you can overlook the situation of the East Ridge camp. In order to avoid being spied by the enemy, no fires were allowed in the Niugai camp at night, and it was dark.
Different from the darkness on the east ridge, an enemy camp on the west ridge and the mountain road was crowded with people. Soldiers were making fires to make food, and many soldiers were building equipment.
Zhang Hu looked at the movements of the enemy troops in the camp, frowned and said, "Sir, they are building a stone catapult."
Song Xin frowned, "It's strange. The enemy's army is several times larger than Niu Chuang's, so why do they go to so much trouble to build these stone ripraps?"
Zhang Hu frowned and felt puzzled, "Yes, this thing is not thrown accurately. Throwing stones from the bottom of the mountain is even more inaccurate. If the stones roll down, won't they hurt one of our own people?"
"I think Niu Chuang and the others are running out of arrows. If the enemy attacks at this time, they will definitely be able to break through."
"Moreover, the enemy is going to rescue Tianzhu Peak, but now they are spending so much time here to besiege Niuchang. It's really strange."
Song Xin pursed his lips in the direction of Dongling. Zhang Hu and others looked over and saw dozens of figures crawling quietly among the enemy corpses, taking advantage of the darkness to collect arrows from the corpses.
"It seems that Niu Chuang has run out of arrows and asked the soldiers to come out at night to collect arrows from the dead." Zhang Hu said while chewing a straw.
In the past few days of fighting, the arrows in Niuchang camp were almost exhausted. Without arrows, they could only fight face to face with the enemy. With the enemy outnumbered, they could not hold on at all. However, Song Xin saw that there were more corpses of Cao Jun on the hillside, but there were very few enemy troops. It seemed that Niu Chuang had forced his way out of the encirclement and was shot back with a crossbow.
Song Xin said a few words in Zhang Hu's ear, and the two of them dispersed. Song Xin headed towards the enemy camp besieging Niuchang, while Zhang Hu quietly returned with his men.
"I'm going to see Niu Chuang. Once you see three fires rising from Niu Chuang's camp, you rush down and burn the enemy's catapults and grain and grass. Then go to meet Zou Yi and the others in the middle of the week. Remember, when you encounter North bank camp, go around it, don’t force your way in.”
Song Xin said, grabbing a handful of fire talismans, and after telling Zhang Hu and the others how to use them, he headed towards Niu Chuang's camp alone.
