Two hours later, when the sky was getting a little brighter, the general from the enemy camp at the foot of the mountain rushed into the tent again, knelt on one knee and shouted: "General! It's not good!"
The enemy general was drowsily asleep. He was frightened by the movement and sat up with a sigh. He asked angrily: "What's the matter!?"
"The enemy took advantage of our camp to be on fire and broke out!" the general shouted in an almost crying tone.
"What did you say!?" The enemy general was frightened and hurriedly stood up and rushed outside the tent. He stared at Cao Jun's camp on the hillside for a long time. He saw that the flags were still there and there were still people looking at his camp. It was no different from usual. .
The enemy general's face suddenly darkened. He looked at the general with dissatisfaction and shouted, "Aren't there people in the enemy camp? How dare you lie about the military situation?"
"It was reported from our army camp in the northeast. An hour ago, Niu Chuang took advantage of the fire to suddenly attack the camp and killed the sergeants guarding the camp. The civilians were so scared that they fled. We only received the news when they gathered early in the morning!"
The enemy general was furious, "What's going on? How did they know it was an empty camp!"
The general was stunned immediately, "Empty...empty camp?"
The enemy general then realized that he had spilled the beans, but at this time Zhang Yu's plan to deceive the soldiers had been seen through by the enemy, and there was no point in deceiving his subordinates anymore. He simply told the whole story, and the general looked shocked when he heard it. It turned out that the camps around him were empty, and they were just guarded by some civilians and a small group of soldiers to confuse the enemy troops on the mountain from coming out to disturb the grain road.
The enemy general gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "There must be a traitor who leaked the news!"
He angrily shouted at his followers: "Put on my armor! Let me chase you!"
"My lord, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up." The general said with a mournful face, "They ran away at the fourth watch, and now I'm afraid they have gone into the mountains without knowing where to go."
The enemy general cursed angrily: "Thieves kill talents, unite the army, and I will attack the enemy camp!" But he still couldn't hide his anger, and raised his hand to slap the general in the face. He also wanted to break into Niu Chuang's camp and kill all the soldiers there to vent his anger.
The general was slapped inexplicably. Although he felt aggrieved, he did not dare to moan. He just covered his swollen cheeks, cursed secretly, and went to gather his troops. After a while, more than 900 enemy soldiers gathered, and the enemy general also put on his armor. Facing Cao Jun's camp on the hillside, he drew his Huanshou sword and shouted: "No need to form a formation, kill for me!"
The enemy troops started to rush up the hillside with shouts. They knew that there were only a dozen remaining soldiers inside, and they didn't care about their formation. They just climbed up the hillside like a group of ants.
Xu Zhong had already seen the enemy's movements clearly, and knew that the news of Niu Chuang's escape had been leaked. He looked at the injured brothers beside him and said loudly: "Brothers, the enemy is coming, let's kill him!!"
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" The wounded soldiers roared at the same time, and even those who could no longer move shouted with all their strength. They all held broken weapons tightly in their hands.
Xu Zhong, who was standing on the wall, saw the enemy approaching, took out his bow and arrow, opened it, and shot an arrow with a bang.
The arrow cut through the cold morning dew and hit the face of a charging enemy soldier...
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Zhang Hu set fire to the enemy camp according to Song Xin's instructions, and quickly led his troops to leave, all the way back to the camp on the north bank.
Just now, Song Xin led them in and rushed in. The enemy army was already exhausted after being tortured all night. Even the soldiers guarding the camp gate were leaning against the pillars at the gate, holding their weapons and taking a nap. To Zhang Hu's surprise, the camp gate was not closed, and only a few deer antlers were randomly placed at the door.
Most of the elite soldiers left behind by Zhang Hu were confronting Niu Chuang. They were originally old and weak men who were not strong in combat. After Song Xin and others charged, the guard was also beheaded. The soldiers had long been disinclined to fight, and one-third of them escaped that night.
Zhang Hu watched carefully for a while. He originally wanted to follow Song Xin's instructions and go around the camp, but when he saw that the enemy's defenses were so thin, he changed his mind.
Zhang Hu ordered the soldiers behind him, "Everyone mount up, let's charge over!"
A soldier next to him grabbed Zhang Hu and said, "Brother Zhang, Lieutenant Song asked us to go around. What if we fall into the trap?"
Zhang Hu smiled contemptuously and said: "This enemy general is probably a loser. He must think that we dare not come back again, but he is not prepared at all. Stop talking nonsense and mount your horse!"
The soldiers mounted their horses without saying a word. Following Zhang Hu's order, more than twenty war horses rushed towards the enemy camp like the wind.
The enemy soldier guarding the door suddenly woke up when he heard the sound of horse hooves. He squinted his eyes for a long time, but the sky was too dark to see clearly.
When Zhang Hu rushed three or four feet away from him, the pawn turned pale with shock, "They... they're back again!?"
"Quickly...quickly set up the antlers!"
"Caltrops... where are the caltrops!?" The soldiers at the door panicked, running around like a group of headless flies.
Upon seeing this, a chief hurriedly raised his weapon and shouted loudly. But as soon as he shouted, a steel knife swept over him, flying the chief into the air, and fell directly into the arms of a panicked pawn. The soldier was so frightened that his liver and gallbladder split apart, he threw his long head away and ran away howling into the camp.
"The enemy is back!" he shouted while running.
Zhang Hu and others did not pursue, but rushed straight into the enemy camp.
Along the way, enemy soldiers who heard the alarm rushed out, but Zhang Hu and the others were too fierce. The enemy soldiers raised their weapons and watched from a distance, not daring to step forward to stop them.
Zhang Hu laughed loudly and suddenly clamped the horse's belly. The horse galloped and was about to rush out of the camp.
Suddenly, Zhang Hu's originally excited expression froze on his face. As the camp door in front of them slowly closed, the sound of war drums seemed to hit their hearts.
Amidst the shouts of killing, more than a hundred enemy troops poured out like a tide, blocking Zhang Hu's path. A big man wearing a general's armor rode out and laughed loudly in an arrogant voice: "Hahaha, I have long expected that you will come back, so I will save my life today!"
The one who spoke was the Tun general who had narrowly escaped before. If he was not patrolling the camp at that time, but was drinking and having fun with his superiors, he might have been killed by Song Xin. But the general was not stupid. He guessed that the enemy might leave and come back, so he deliberately created an unprepared situation and then caught the enemy in a jar.
Zhang Hu's face sank and he looked at his colleagues around him, seeing that they were all looking at him with fear on their faces. He bit his steel teeth, regretting that he had not listened to Song Xin's instructions, and cursed: "I fell into the trap, let's go!" After that, he turned around and turned his horse to escape from the original route.
But as soon as he turned around, he saw two to three hundred people pouring out behind him.
"If you don't dismount and surrender, I will keep your whole body!" The enemy saw Zhang Hu and his group, which were only about 20 people, and surrounded them with various weapons.
Zhang Hu shouted and urged the horse to move, pulled out the ring-shou knife and placed it on the saddle. Wherever the war horses passed by, there was an alley of flesh and blood. The sharp blade uses the speed of the horse to harvest lives one after another.
"There are too many enemy troops, charge to the west!"
Seeing the enemy troops one after another, Zhang Hu knew that he could not rush through, so he ordered a breakout to the west. As long as he rushed out from there, he could get into the forest.
The enemy general looked at them rushing left and right like a bunch of headless flies. He sneered and waved his hand behind him, "Fire arrows!"
"Peng Peng Peng" the sound of a crossbow firing reached Zhang Hu's ears. A soldier behind him was shocked when he saw this, "Sir, be careful!" At the same time, several soldiers gathered in an instant and blocked Zhang Hu's back.
There was a scream, and they were shot to death by dense arrows, including their men and horses.
Zhang Hu looked at these fallen soldiers with tears in his eyes. These were the soldiers Wei Tong gave him. All of them had experienced hundreds of battles, but now they died here inexplicably!
"Ah!" Zhang Hu shouted angrily, turned his horse back, and looked in the direction of the enemy general, his eyes seemed to burst out with flames.
He saw the general raising his head and looking at Zhang Hu with a smile on his face, a look of joking on his face.
"Kill!" Zhang Hu suddenly clamped the horse's belly, raised his knife and charged forward. I'm afraid I won't survive today, and if I die, I'll have to support a few more people.
"Shoot him to death!" The general ordered with a sneer as he watched Zhang Hu charging towards him.
His crossbowmen were about to release arrows when they suddenly heard a gust of wind behind them, and then a large number of flying arrows fell from the sky, hitting the enemy's ranks like raindrops.
The enemy troops who were preparing to shoot arrows were caught off guard and were shot down in large numbers.
"Zhang Hu, don't panic, we're coming in the middle of the week!"
With a loud shout, the enemy's camp door was slammed open behind him, and Zhou Zhong and Zou Yi led their troops in.
Zhang Hu was overjoyed when he saw Zhou Zhong coming to help. He turned to the soldiers behind him and shouted: "Kill the thieves and make great achievements today. Come and kill with me!"
The soldiers who followed him thought they would die today, but they never thought that reinforcements would come to save him! He immediately threw fear at the enemy and followed Zhang Hu to ride towards the enemy.
The general of Natun could not have imagined that the enemy would suddenly attack, so he hurriedly ordered a resistance. But before he finished his order, he heard the camp door on the other side burst open with a blast of flames, and then a young man and a man who looked like a general rushed in on horseback.
The general did not know that this young man was Song Xin, but he recognized the general who came with him.
"Niu...Niu Chuang!!!"
He never expected that Niu Chuang, who was under siege, would break out here.
Seeing that he who had the advantage was actually attacked from two sides, the general panicked immediately. His soldiers became even more panicked, and the formation suddenly showed signs of loosening.
Zhou Zhong and Niu Chuang's infantry rushed into the camp with shouts, and soon the two armies collided with the enemy defenders.
"Hold it!" the enemy general shouted loudly, urging his soldiers to resist desperately. Song Xin and the others had killed several officers in their previous raid. If he was defeated again in this battle, it would be a death penalty to return.
However, his soldiers were completely discouraged. No matter how much the general yelled and cursed, he saw his formation gradually being squeezed and deformed. Just like a bent stick, it will break at any time.
"The enemy general is here!" When the general was in despair, a loud shout interrupted his thoughts. Zhang Hu took the lead and rushed into his own formation, waving two ring-headed knives like windmills. , and all enemy soldiers who came close would be hacked to death by him.
Seeing that Zhang Hu was about to rush in front of him, the general couldn't hold himself any longer and ran away without even thinking about it. His soldiers fled when they saw their commander, and their formation collapsed instantly.
Song Xin, Niu Chuang, Zhou Zhong, and Zou Yi led their troops to cut through the enemy's formation, like tearing up a piece of silk. Immediately after several troops were divided and surrounded, the enemy troops who had already lost their will to fight threw away their weapons and knelt down to beg for surrender.
The general had just escaped a few steps with a few soldiers when he heard Zhang Hu's roar behind him. The general turned around and a steel knife swept over him. The general's reaction was not slow, and he hurriedly ducked to avoid it, but Zhang Hu's other knife quickly followed up.
The general was caught off guard and saw only a blade in his eyes. He closed his eyes in despair.
But a few moments passed, and the general opened his eyes, only to find that he was not dead. A young man in front of him grabbed Zhang Hu's wrist at some point.
"Zhang Hu, wait. I have something to ask."
Seeing that Song Xin was stopping him, Zhang Hu had no choice but to put away his knife. He jumped off his horse and captured the general.
"The enemy general has been captured, and you still haven't surrendered!"
When Cao Jun in the entire camp heard this shout, they immediately cheered. In the end, those enemy troops who were still resisting were heartbroken. All the generals in the camp were captured. What else could they resist...
