Turbulent Times Chapter 28: Night attack

Some people's war horses were still drinking water by the river. When they ran over, they had just mounted their horses, and before they had time to charge, a thousand Sui cavalry roared to them, and dense arrows poured over them. There were three Turkic soldiers. One-third of them screamed and fell off their horses, and the rest just let their horses run when Sui Jun bumped into them.

This was a war without disparity. The 500 Turkic cavalry soon began to be defeated. After half an hour, except for nearly a hundred people who left the herdsmen and their cattle, sheep, and food and fled, all the herdsmen included. was killed.

The escaped Turkic Sui army did not pursue, Du Duwei ordered to burn the food and grass, and began to slaughter cattle and sheep, blood stained the grassland and Wenfeng River. When tens of thousands of cattle and sheep corpses were put together with food and grass, the fire ignited, Du Duwei gave an order, and the cavalry of the Sui army, who had only lost more than 30 people, turned their horses and headed southeast. Fifty miles away, there was another The Western Turks escorted the food and grass team.

Half a day later in the evening, when the Turkic people dismounted to rest and cook, a thousand Sui cavalry in the bushes suddenly rushed out of a nearby grove and launched a surprise attack.

In one day, two food and grass delivery teams were intercepted, and the 160,000 Turkic army in Jincheng County had no food for two days. Knowing the strength of the Sui army's sneak attack on the grain road there, they immediately sent two food delivery teams escorted by 2,500 cavalry to drive 100,000 cattle and sheep to Jincheng County.

As a result, there were only 5,000 Turkic cavalry left in the Turkic logistics battalion out of 10,000.

At the same time, the letter eagle sent by Captain Du also brought the news that the Turkic grain road had been cut off, and the opportunity Wang Junlin had been waiting for finally came.

In the third year of Renshou, September 1st, the moon rose late, but the night sky was full of stars. Under the illumination of the stars, an army of 3,500 people marched in the vast wilderness near the Wenfeng River. . In the dark night, without any fire lights, it is difficult to spot this army that is quietly on its way unless you observe it closely.

After careful consideration, Wang Junlin decided to adopt the tactics of night attack.

According to Wang Junlin's request, everyone did not hold up torches, and walked at night with fire, and they could be seen from a long distance, so they could only move forward by starlight.

Wang Junlin personally took Wu San and Wu Si to the front. In case of encountering a floating sentry or an ambush sentry, with the strength of Wu San, Wu Si and Wang Junlin, they can completely attack before the enemy reacts. Kill it before it comes over.

3,500 people form an irregular prismatic shape, divided into four brigades. Marching in this formation can quickly change into several battle formations, which is simple and direct.

Walking in the front was the scout team led by Zhou Hu and several personal soldiers around Wang Junlin who were in charge of delivering orders, also leading horses and walking forward.

After setting off with 3,500 people, Wang Junlin rationally distributed his physical strength, going fast and slow, intersecting normal speed and express travel, without any rest in between, but walked nearly 30 miles in the dark, and it was only Just a little tired.

As they approached the Turkic logistics camp, the Sui army behind would see corpses in twos and threes faintly visible on the roadside from time to time. That was when they met the Turkic floating sentry and lurking sentry at night, Wu San and Wu Si killed them silently at the first time.

At the same time, Jiang Mulang, the deputy centurion leader of the scouting team, was carrying a waterproof leather bag, and slowly swam in the Wenfeng River from the north bank to the south bank, where there was a Turkic logistics camp that was seven or eight miles long. Behind him followed fifty soldiers in the same attire.

At the same time, there are forty-five people in the swimming team going to the other side like them. Except for Jiang Mulang's team, which is directly facing the tent of the chief general of the Turkic logistics battalion, there are fifty people. All in groups of ten. There is a team almost every 100 meters.

Although it is in the north, it is not difficult to select 500 soldiers with good water skills from 4,000 people. What's more, although the Wenfeng River is nearly 100 meters wide, the depth of the water can only cover the top of the head. Just over ten meters.

The cowhide bags they carried were well sewn, the gaps were covered with turpentine, and two layers of oiled paper were spread on them, so they were watertight, and there were bows and arrows and kerosene inside.

Swimming too fast will cause noise, so in order to prevent the night patrolling sentry of the Turkic logistics camp on the opposite side from being discovered, they swim very slowly. With a width of nearly 100 meters, they swam for a quarter of an hour before reaching the shore.

Forty-six squads, five hundred soldiers, after crossing the river, did not act immediately, but looked for a hiding place, then prepared rockets and flints, and waited for Jiang Mulang's team to take the lead before they could make a move. As for Jiang Mulang, after crossing the river, he stared at the south with the forty-nine people he led. He waited for Wang Junlin to lead the main force in place before sending him the agreed signal.

The riverside is dense with water and grass, so as long as you don't move around or make any noise, you don't have to worry about being exposed.

This is not to say that the Turkic logistics camp is loosely defended. On the contrary, because the food road was robbed, the defense of the Turkic logistics camp has also been improved a lot. There are patrol posts on the south, east and west sides patrolling day and night, but because the north is close to the Wenfeng River, no patrols are dispatched, just arrange A small number of fixed sentries were dispatched, but subconsciously thinking that no enemy could cross the river and attack sneakily, so he relaxed his vigilance.

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As the distance from the Turkic logistics camp got closer, the soldiers of the Sui army were a little nervous and became more vigilant. Wang Junlin also kept raising his ears to pay attention to the movement around him, and at the same time kept looking around.

The road they are walking now is the route determined after the scouts have repeatedly scouted in the past few days, and Wang Junlin led people to consider various factors and study carefully. The road is relatively flat, but it is difficult for ordinary people to walk on it under the light of the stars and moon at night, and if you are not careful, you will trip over the pile of stones and dirt, but the army is not ordinary people after all, and there are Wang Junlin and Wu San and Wu Si personally lead the way, and the people behind only need to look at the position of the person in front to step on, and then step on that position, so that they don't have to spend energy to choose the step, and they won't guess the wrong place.

The army stopped and walked in the wilderness. Wu San and Wu Si killed more than a dozen Turkic outposts along the way, and finally they were less than five miles away from the Turkic logistics camp. , everyone was excited with a little nervousness.

It's just that it's been nearly 50 miles, and everyone is a little nervous, which consumes more energy. Everyone finally starts to feel tired, and the breathing in the queue gradually becomes heavy.

When approaching the Turkic camp at 800 paces, Wang Junlin gave the order to stop, and ordered one person after another to pass on. After passing the baton like a baton, the brigade finally stopped gradually, and the sound of chaotic footsteps disappeared.

Wang Junlin counted the time and made a gesture of pressing down beside him. The three thousand and five hundred Sui soldiers took their horses in one hand and sat down in a mess. They took out their accompanying water bags to drink water and fed beans to the war horses. Materials and water, then quietly arrange the gear and weapons on the body, appease his horse, and prepare for the final rest before the battle.

The crowd squatted in the wilderness and waited for a quarter of an hour amidst the night wind and the chirping of insects. Wang Junlin saw that everyone's physical strength had recovered a lot, so he whispered an order to the back: "Pass it later, prepare to launch Charge, from now on, before rushing into the enemy camp, you are not allowed to speak, and whoever speaks will be killed immediately."

After the order was conveyed to everyone, Wang Junlin waved his hand, and everyone stood up gently, and quietly mounted their horses, but Wang Junlin still did not give the order to charge.

It was already late at night, and except for the mobile sentinels patrolling the camp, the Turkic people were already fast asleep in their tents.

"Send the scheduled signal and do it three times." Wang Junlin said.

Zhou Hu personally lit a torch and ordered the horse to be controlled. He stood on the horse and circled three times towards the north. Wang Junlin and the others are much higher than the riverside, and there is no need to worry about Jiang Mulang not being able to see them standing on the horse. As for the Turkic night sentry, even if you see it, it is too late, not to mention that in the middle of the night, unless the Turkic sentry keeps watching In this direction, otherwise it will take only one second to send a signal, and who can pay attention to it.

On the river bank to the north of the Turkic logistics camp, Jiang Mulang and his 500 people had been waiting for a quarter of an hour. Jiang Mulang was afraid of missing the signal sent by Wang Junlin, so he stared at the other side of the Turkic camp without moving. I didn't dare to blink my eyes, so that the tears blown by the wind flowed down.

At this time, just when he couldn't help blinking, he saw the circle of torches, Jiang Mulang's heart was shocked, his heart was pounding with nervousness, and he ordered in a low voice: "Get ready to launch the rocket."

All the soldiers had already soaked the cloth on the long arrows with fire oil. At this time, they slowly climbed ashore, crawled towards the Turkic camp little by little, and stopped when they were 80 steps away from the Turkic camp.

"Shoot!"

Jiang Mu let out a low cry, and shot the rocket at the Turkic camp first, followed by the others.

The other forty-five teams had been staring at the movement in the middle, and when they saw the fire, they also shot out the rockets they had been preparing for a long time.

Five hundred rockets soared into the sky one after another, covering nearly half of the tents in the Turkic camp seven or eight miles long. The rockets hit the target accurately, and soon, thousands of tents were ignited almost simultaneously. .

"Fire!"

"No, it's an enemy attack."

Turkic soldiers on night patrol saw flames and smoke billowing from a large number of large tents in the north, and screamed.

At the same time, on the hillside eight hundred miles to the south, Wang Junlin saw the flames appearing from a distance. He waved his saber, pointed at the camp, and ordered coldly, "Kill me! No matter men, women, or children, no one will be left behind." .”

3,500 cavalry suddenly mobilized and rushed towards the Turkic logistics camp. After a while, the Sui cavalry rushed into the southern camp. There are generals who can't find soldiers, soldiers who can't find generals, some who fetch water to put out fires, and some who go to the river to find the enemy desperately. Immediately, he was killed by the Sui army who rushed in.

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