Chapter 221 The morning light shining in the dark night (Part 2)
The night in Liangchengang is still as usual. From time to time, the howls of some wild animals can be heard from the surrounding dense woods, the most distinctive of which is the deciduous wolf. It does not have the ferocity and team spirit of the Maple Leaf Wolf, but they are still the most common hunters in this forest.
Under the dim moonlight, a dozen figures kept flashing in and out of the forest.
Yi Xifeng looked at the three people leading the team and couldn't help but recall the explanation given by Qingzhu and others in the big tent.
"Ji Rentu will definitely launch a night attack tonight, and we will also be passive. Will the opponent choose to fight at night and attack, or feint to harass? No one is sure of winning in this game between reality and reality." Middle-aged Xun Shan Dui said solemnly.
The tall, thin middle-aged man standing next to the sand table continued: "So, we have to arrange a relatively difficult task for you."
Zhang Yanshi and Zhou Di looked at each other, and both saw a hint of probing in their eyes. It was obvious that they had already guessed what the mission Zhao Yunming was talking about.
Qingzhu explained: "As soon as night falls tonight, you will leave this camp, sneak into the surrounding dense forest, and wait for an opportunity to attack the enemy camp at night!"
As soon as these words came out, these twelve people all took a deep breath.
Qi Chengcheng scratched his head and asked doubtfully: "Didn't you say that the enemy would attack at night? Why are we asked to attack each other at night again?"
It was obvious that the funny boy was still young and did not know much about these battlefield matters. However, Teng Snake on the side saw him asking and explained:
"The art of war is like a chess game. It is better to lose a piece than to lose an advantage! Since the enemy wants to attack at midnight, then we must kill him first! And the moonlight is dim tonight. You, a group of twelve people, with hidden figures, will definitely be able to do it. Hidden from the eyes and ears of the enemy.”
Yi Xifeng came back to his senses and looked at his companions, feeling somewhat excited in his heart.
Soon the group came to the edge of a dense forest, from where they could see the entire Luoye City camp. At this time, Zhang Yanshi said softly: "Sure enough, Brother Bodang has rich experience in the jungle, and he was able to find such a good place."
The strong young man smiled slightly and said nothing. After all, as a hunter since childhood, he was better than anyone else present at this kind of sentry and observation in the jungle.
Zhou Di looked at the hourglass he carried with him and calculated that he still had to wait for more than an hour before midnight. I believe that these black-armored soldiers will have to wait until after midnight even if they carry out a night attack tonight.
"Xiaoxiao, go check out the situation around the camp. Zhao Long, please follow." The young man carrying the Fang Tianji on his back ordered in a low voice.
The pony-tailed girl frowned and said solemnly: "I can do this kind of thing by myself. I'm more used to acting alone."
Zhao Long also frowned and looked at Wu Xiaoxiao, but he didn't say too much nonsense. He just nodded and said: "Okay, let's work separately."
After that, the two of them didn't say much, and their figures had disappeared.
Lin Fenghuo curled his lips and said: "These two are good people, both of them are ruthless and don't talk much!"
Lin Lei, who was unruly, glanced at the three young men at the head of the team with squinted eyes and said nothing more.
Instead, Li Xintian, who had always been quiet, chuckled and said, "These two will become good friends in the future!"
Yi Xifeng looked at the fair-skinned girl next to him, wondering what she was basing this judgment on, but Zhong Lingxi behind her understood the girl's thoughts and coughed twice.
Lu Huahua naturally did not care about the reactions of the people behind her. As one of the three captains of this operation, she took over the deployment of the night attack battle. She was the absolute main force.
Seeing that everyone had calmed down, the short-haired girl said in her unique magnetic voice: "If they haven't taken action until midnight, we will strike first!"
After all, Lu Huahua is a martial artist from the outside world, and she has done a lot of hard work in this kind of battle. Looking at the people behind her, she couldn't help but feel a little funny. These people were really talented.
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Although this camp composed of the cavalry from Luoye City is a marching camp, its specifications and defensive facilities are no worse than the huge camp on Liangchengang.
However, including the camp walls and turrets, this camp is indeed a little worse than Liangchengang. However, in just a few hours, a camp with a capacity of a thousand people was built, and there were also a thousand horses to take care of. Calculated in this way, the food consumption of these thousand cavalry in one day is equivalent to the consumption of nearly five thousand infantry.
Normally, one horse's daily rations are roughly equivalent to the rations of four ordinary soldiers. Someone here may ask, don’t all horses eat grass? How can you compare with others?
In fact, real war horses don't know how to eat hay. What really allows them to withstand long-distance attacks are various beans. Someone who is good at horse reading has long said that a man cannot run without strength, and a horse cannot run without beans. To put it simply, if a man fights without eating meat, he will not be able to use his strength, but if a horse follows a man in fighting, if he does not eat beans, he will not be able to run fast.
Based on this calculation, this temporary camp is actually much larger than the camp on Liangchengang.
However, the larger the camp, the more flaws will be exposed. Zhao Long looked at the camp in front of him and the black-armored soldiers who were constantly patrolling. The young man ducked and slipped in.
Although he successfully sneaked in at this time, he still did not dare to relax at all. From his observation outside the camp just now, it was not difficult to find that the general leading the army this time was indeed a talented leader. Although the defense of the camp was leaky, the patrols of the black armored soldiers were different for each shift.
The difference between the first patrol shift and the second one was thirty breaths. When the next patrols of the two teams alternated, the time actually became seventy breaths. And in the next shift, it became fifteen breaths...
You never guess when the next set of patrols will arrive.
Fortunately, Zhao Long has the unique "Dragon Eyes" skill, so his insight in the dark night is stronger than that of ordinary warriors, and naturally he is much better than these soldiers who are only a little stronger than ordinary people.
Finally managed to sneak in without any danger.
At this time, there was still an hour before midnight. In addition to the patrol teams in twos and threes, there were also many black-armored soldiers gathering together and muttering something.
It is not difficult to see that the atmosphere in the camp tonight is much more depressing than in the past. In Yao Jingshun's vanguard battle in the afternoon, more than a hundred of his own men died on the battlefield, shocking a thousand black-armored soldiers.
"I don't believe it even if I say I'll beat you to death, General Yao will actually lose!"
"Hey, I didn't expect it at first. Yinren Village actually has a magic-breaking crossbow. It seems like this battle is not going to be easy."
"Yes, I heard that there will be an action tonight. Our captain said it, and the higher-ups gave the order. Don't take off your clothes and armor, and don't take off your horses' saddles!"
"Yes, yes, we heard about it too."
Everyone was expressing their opinions on this afternoon's battle, and some were discussing tonight's night attack. But no one noticed that a man also wearing black armor lowered the brim of his hat and listened to the people around him.
The other men in black armor present came over to say hello to him, but they found that this man didn't pay much attention to others, and he had two iron knives stuck in his waist. He didn't look like someone to be trifled with, so they gradually stopped talking. People come to disturb him again.
This person is none other than Zhao Long, who sneaked into the enemy camp.
As expected by the boy with the double sword, the cavalry from Luoye City really planned to attack tonight, and judging from the momentum, it shouldn't be too small.
However, he had not yet obtained all the information Zhao Long wanted, so the young man decided to investigate further.
Time passed bit by bit, and soon most of the soldiers in the camp returned to their respective barracks. Although there would be fighting in the middle of the night, they could rest more and have more energy for the night battle.
Knowing this, Zhao Long secretly found a higher tent, stood on the top of the tent, and had a panoramic view of the entire camp.
At this time, most of the camps were dark. After all, in addition to sleeping in the camps at night, the soldiers would not light up lamps and boil oil to read the art of war. Any tent that is still brightly lit at this point must be the barracks of middle- and high-level officers.
Zhao Long found a brightly lit tent at the edge of the camp and gathered his energy, but there was a faint blue light in his eyes.
The boy with two swords has an outstanding ability to control his own inner energy, even among the twelve martial arts masters. At this time, he used his powerful soul control ability to suppress the fluctuations of his internal energy in his body.
"Damn it! Hu Qingzheng! You are actually playing tricks on me! What kind of camp is no more than a hundred feet long! The big camp on Liangchengang is enough to be three hundred feet square! Also, Jiren Tu, you are an old fox, and after losing the battle, you will arrange me to this bird A place where you don’t shit? They have a magic-breaking crossbow but you, as the coach, don’t know it. You are responsible for me accepting these more than a hundred lives!"
Yao Jingshun roared with red eyes. This time, the black-armored cavalry general served as the vanguard twice to attack Yinren, which was originally an extremely coveted achievement. Unfortunately, at this time, this matter became the laughing stock of all the soldiers in Luoye City after dinner.
After two consecutive defeats, for whatever reason, General Yao Qi's path to joining the army was indeed blocked in the future.
At this time, a confidant soldier outside the camp bowed and walked in, saying in a deep voice: "Sir, the general sent someone to pass the order. At three o'clock in the evening tonight, Liangchengang will be attacked at night. This time..."
The black-armored soldier hesitated for a moment, then quickly looked up at his master, and then added: "This night attack will be led by the general himself."
"Crack! Crack!" A table was almost overturned to the ground, and Yao Jingshun asked coldly: "In this night attack, our troops have an absolute advantage, and the enemy is exposed and we are hidden, so we are in an invincible position! He remembered that he had fallen into this kind of thing! Huh, old thief!"
The black-armored soldier who was bowing down had no choice but to bury his head deeper. In the army, there are people who gossip, even penniless pawns like him. Even if you give him 10,000 courages, he would not dare to say anything wrong with his coach.
However, what the two people in the camp didn't know was that there was a stern-faced man standing outside their tent at this time, listening to the conversation between them.
Soon, this news came to Zhou Di. The young man holding the halberd looked at the note in his hand and murmured: "At three o'clock in the morning? Time is a bit tight!"
The ten people present discussed it one after another and started to carry out the next night attack.
The cold wind at midnight blew over the mountain ridges of Liangchengang and into the camp of Liangchengang. It was already midnight, and the bonfires in the camp had been extinguished. Also dark were the tents where the strong men were resting.
However, there was indeed no one in the big tent at this time. They did not fall asleep, but stood on the camp wall, facing the Luoye City camp in the distance, waiting for the upcoming night battle.
"Is the news reliable?" Teng She asked worriedly.
Obviously, Liangchengang was somewhat passive in response to this night attack. If the enemy did not come all night, then by dawn the next day, our disadvantage would be even more obvious.
"Humph! They have to come whether they come or not." Zhao Yunming said with narrowed eyes.
Luoye City Camp.
The black-armored soldiers in various camps were awakened by their captains and corps commanders and hurriedly formed formations in the school grounds.
But before they could move the horses to the horse farm behind the camp, a bright sword light was like a meteor streaking across the sky, slashing straight at the handsome flag in the center of the camp!
"Qing Mingchen Light Sword!"
A young boy's shout echoed through the quiet school grounds, but soon a huge figure burst out of a tent!
"Hmph! How dare you be so presumptuous even though you are just a man of cultivation!"
It wasn't until the sword light, as bright as the dawn light, approached that everyone present could clearly see the huge figure that had just been blocked. He seemed to be wearing a piece of blue iron armor!
The person who came was none other than Hu Qingzheng, one of Ji Rentu's four cavalry generals.
The strong man, who was as big as a ball of flesh, responded in a hurry and only had time to blast out a palm. Although he barely shattered the sword light, the huge force of the shock still knocked him away.
After a brief reaction, all the black-armored soldiers in the field raised their magic-breaking crossbows and aimed at the young man who made a sneak attack.
Yi Xifeng was not surprised when he saw someone blocking him. After all, the flags in every military camp were the lifeblood of the army. If it were normal times and no war, even if it was blown away by the wind, it would not be a big deal.
But at this time, when the battle is about to begin, if the commander's flag is chopped off, the morale of the soldiers will be a devastating blow.
But before everyone could react, just like in response to the fair boy's bright sword, the horse farm located behind the camp suddenly burst into flames!
"No! It's gone! It's gone!"
"Damn it, where are the people guarding the horses? Are all these losers just for food?"
The place immediately fell into chaos. You must know that for a general marching camp, the tents are not far apart, but for fire prevention, the camp is divided into five camps: front, rear, left, right, and center. , they are divided by ravines, which is conducive to management and, most importantly, fire prevention.
Originally, the rear camp was in a fire and flooded. As the warriors in the front camp, they should not be so uneasy. What really made them feel incredible was the horses in the backyard, which were the darlings of this group of cavalry.
Because once it loses its strong mobility, even if the Demon-Breaking Crossbow can withstand one round of attacks from the opponent, it will fail once it is approached by the opponent. They are still certain to die.
However, compared to ordinary soldiers, the Bijia Cavalry General was more worried about the response of the rear camp, because he knew that so far, they had not sent any distress message.
In other words, before the incident happened, all the soldiers guarding the rear camp were probably killed!
"Are they all assassinated?!"
Hu Qingzheng said in disbelief.
