Chapter 967 Night Raid in Daijun(1/2)
Daijun is the northernmost county in the Julu Army's assisting defense plan. Going further north from Daijun is the grassland.
Because Dai County was the farthest away, the Julu Army was the slowest to arrive and was the least prepared. Shortly after Zhang Fei led his troops to Dai County, a main force of the rebel army came straight towards Dai County.
Zhang Fei and Daijun's army fought with the bandit army for several days and temporarily repelled the bandit army.
On the third night of the battle with the bandits, Zhang Fei decided to attack at night.
That night, Zhang Fei led more than 300 Julu cavalry and official cavalry. In order to avoid premature exposure, more than 300 people marched for several miles on foot with their horses wrapped up. When they got close to the enemy camp, Zhang Fei gave the order
The soldiers mounted their horses and prepared.
Observing the bonfires in the bandit camp from a distance, after observing carefully for a moment, Zhang Fei held the zhangba snake spear short, took out the fire starter from his waist, Zhang Fei took out a pine wood ring and a small water bag
, took out a strip of cloth, and found that the small water bag contained neither water nor wine, but tung oil.
Zhang Fei put the pine wood ring on the spearhead, wrapped the pine wood with a cloth strip, and poured a little tung oil on the cloth strip.
After all preparations were done, Zhang Fei asked his entourage for the fire seal. He blew the fire seal gently, and the open flame burst into flames. He put the open flame on the spearhead, the fire ignited the tung oil, the tung oil ignited the cloth strip, and the cloth strip ignited the pine wood. In an instant,
, the blade of Zhangba Snake Spear has a ring of fire made of flames.
Zhang Fei told everyone, "After that, when we charge into the camp, follow me and charge with my guns. If anyone doesn't follow, don't complain if you die if you fall behind!"
"Come!" Zhang Fei shouted.
The military order was issued in an instant, and the more than 300 cavalrymen who had quietly touched the enemy's camp immediately moved. The hooves of hundreds of horses and thousands of horses rang at the same time. In the silent night, it was like rolling thunder.
When the soldiers on vigil at night heard the sound of horse hoofbeats, some of them did not react for a moment and were still looking out. The next moment, they saw a flame like a will-o'-the-wisp coming from the darkness at high speed. In the blink of an eye, the outline of the cavalry followed closely.
appears.
The cavalry led by Zhang Fei was as unstoppable as a torrent. Before the rebels could react, Zhang Fei took the lead and ran straight into the door.
Facing the huge impact, the thieves and soldiers blocking the road were knocked upside down like broken sacks.
Rumble.
Following Zhang Fei, more cavalry filed in.
In front of the powerful cavalry, the flesh and blood of the thief soldiers was not worth mentioning at all. The manpower blocked by the thief army at the gate of the village was like a thin earth wall. This thin earth wall tried to block the mighty sky.
The torrent of cavalry, the result is that in the blink of an eye, amid the screams one after another, the "earth wall" was first pushed down in a teleportation, and then trampled by hundreds of horse hooves.
In the chaos of hooves, the thieves soldiers who were trampled by the horses just screamed, and the screams were instantly buried in the noisy hoofbeats.
With the weight and trampling power of the war horses, the entire cavalry group crushed him. In a short period of time, dozens or hundreds of hooves trampled on one person, killing him in just one breath.
At the front, Zhang Fei, who was responsible for leading the charge, flew his snake spear left and right in his hand like a tiger rushing into a flock of sheep, killing the enemy soldiers crying for their fathers and mothers, and ending the lives of many rebel soldiers.
Visibility in the dark was not good. The cavalry following Zhang Fei's charge could only see a little flame flying up and down. The cavalry closer followed the charge in the direction of the flames, and the cavalry behind followed in front, and then behind, and then followed.
The front one.
In this way, the cavalry led by Zhang Fei were able to ensure continuous attacks in the same direction in the dark.
In a moment, Zhang Fei rushed from the west gate to the east gate of the bandit army, and Zhang Fei ran out directly.
After fighting out of the village gate, there were no enemies outside the village, so there was no need to fight. Zhang Fei raised his snake spear so that the pine wood fire ring on the snake spear appeared high.
Following Zhang Fei, the cavalry filed out of the east gate.
Most of the cavalry rushed out with Zhang Fei. At the end, there were a few official cavalry who were too busy killing. A few official cavalry were too busy killing people and forgot about coordinated operations.
An officer's cavalry subconsciously looked around while he was killing people, and when he saw something bad, he was the only one around, and his own horses and horses were nowhere to be seen.
The lone officer cavalry suddenly panicked. Just as he was panicking, he heard the thunderous sound of horse hooves. He followed the sound and saw a cluster of flames higher than the wall of the enemy's stronghold outside the wall.
Move quickly around the wall.
Seeing this, knowing the location of his own cavalry team, the lone official cavalry quickly stopped fighting and chased after them.
Zhang Fei had been charging for a while. He fought from the west gate to the east gate. After fighting out of the east gate, he circled to the north gate and entered again.
The enemy camp was even more chaotic. Zhang Fei's cavalry was still unstoppable. All the thieves and soldiers they met along the way were killed by the cavalry's swords and guns, or by the horses' hooves. The slightest resistance was immediately defeated by the cavalry.
In an instant, Zhang Fei reached the south gate again and fought out from the south gate again.
After rushing out of the south gate for a hundred and fifty steps, Zhang Fei stood on his horse, holding the eight-foot-long snake spear vertically in his hand. The flame at the tip of the snake spear was still burning. In the darkness, this flame was as conspicuous as a guiding light.
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It took time for the cavalry to form a team. After almost all the cavalry had gathered, Zhang Fei leveled his snake spear and gave the order, "Let's go!"
Zhang Fei then rushed to the camp many times, either going out from the east gate, going out from the west gate, or entering from the north gate, or going out from the south gate, and killed through the enemy camp many times. Finally, the enemy army was completely defeated.
The morale of the enemy soldiers was greatly shattered, and they abandoned the camp and fled.
After the enemy army was defeated, Zhang Fei randomly found a direction and chased them all the way.
During the pursuit, the pine wood fire ring on Zhang Fei's snake spear had burned out and was about to be extinguished. Seeing this, Zhang Fei took off the water bag containing tung oil from his waist. While the horse was galloping, it was difficult to operate, so he poured it on without hesitation.
Okay, Zhang Fei simply took a sip of tung oil and sprayed it onto the spearhead with a pop. The oil-drained snake spear was sprayed with tung oil, and the fire suddenly brightened.
The Julu Army's "musketry" command method was fully demonstrated. The difficulty in fighting at night lies in commanding. The difficulty in commanding at night is that the flag cannot be seen clearly at night, so fire is used as a weapon at night.
There is no big problem in using fire cavalry to command the infantry. The infantry has enough manpower. The infantry riders can stay behind the formation and do not have to fight. However, the cavalry is different. The cavalry fights very fast. The infantry formation changes at the same time, while the cavalry does not.
In the blink of an eye, the battle situation changes rapidly. The cavalry's combat speed is ten times that of the infantry. This means that the command must also be ten times faster than the infantry.
If cavalry combat is to be commanded efficiently enough, the flag must be in front.
The problem lies here. The flag-bearing cavalry who are fighting in front must participate in the battle, but the general fire flag is a wooden stick with a torch tied to it. Such a fire flag is too bulky and cannot be held in battle.
Therefore, the Julu Army adopted the [Musket] tactic, which used light fire starters to put on the lances so that the lances could be used dual-purpose, without delaying the command and without affecting the combat. Zhang Fei tested it himself this time
, the "musket" tactic is really useful.
Zhang Fei chased and defeated the defeated troops, and at the end of the chase, only the enemy's cavalry was still on the run.
In the chaos, the enemy general who fled on horseback was most likely the enemy general. This was a big fish, and Zhang Fei was chasing after him.
After chasing for another two miles, it was pitch black ahead. The fleeing enemy cavalry turned a corner through the woods and disappeared.
Zhang Fei lost the man.
Just when Zhang Fei was hesitating whether to pursue him or not, there was a sudden noise from the forest.
"Shoot the arrows! Shoot at the one holding the fire, shoot them there!" A shout suddenly sounded.
The thief reinforcements who were ambushed in the forest immediately attacked, and the crossbowmen missed all their arrows and poured them towards Zhang Fei.
The fire on Zhang Fei's snake spear was too conspicuous. In the darkness, his position was simply a target.
Suddenly, countless arrows flew towards Zhang Fei from the darkness.
Hearing the sound of an arrow approaching, Zhang Fei quickly lay down on his horse to avoid it.
The horse under him suddenly neighed and tilted to the side. Zhang Fei thought to himself that it was not good and quickly jumped on the horse.
Sure enough, the next moment, the war horse fell to the ground with a crash.
Among the random arrows, the war horse was shot to death. If Zhang Fei hadn't reacted quickly and jumped off the horse first, Zhang Fei would have fallen down when the horse fell to the ground.
There were an unknown number of thieves in ambush. The arrows were flying around like locusts. Zhang Fei didn't know how many arrows had hit him. He didn't dare to stop and ran back quickly.
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Suddenly attacked, the official cavalry ran away as soon as they saw something was wrong. The cavalry from the Julu Army headquarters was still reliable. The Julu Army cavalry risked their lives to rescue Zhang Fei. Zhang Fei got on his horse and quickly escaped from danger with his own cavalry on the same horse.
At the end of the war, Zhang Fei launched a night attack and defeated an enemy camp. Due to insufficient intelligence in advance, he did not detect that there were enemy troops not far away. As a result, Zhang Fei was ambushed by enemy reinforcements and suffered a slight loss.
A small loss. Overall, a big win.
Zhang Fei had an extremely hot temper. After Zhang Fei returned, he caught the generals and scolded him. The cavalry also knew that it was unethical for his own cavalry to escape from the battle, so they had no choice but to be reprimanded by Zhang Fei for being unreasonable.
Its daybreak.
The officers and soldiers went to take over the captured enemy camp.
Zhang Fei did not care about his first victory, nor did he care about the enemy's armor and weapons. He made an agreement with the officers and generals, and the Julu army only needed food and horses. The officers and generals got a big deal for nothing, and they were overjoyed. The officers and generals clapped their chests and promised
, all the grain, grass and war horses will be brought back to the Julu Army.
Needless to say, what is Zhang Fei's background? Zhang Fei is a powerful man, commonly known as the landlord and old money. Zhang Fei doesn't want the first victory, because the first victory is of little use to the Julu Army. Zhang Fei doesn't want weapons and armor because of the Julu Army.
He himself has armor technology that far exceeds that of the current generation, so he doesn’t need heads and armor. However, since he needs food, grass, and war horses, even if the captured grain, grass, and horses are not much, even if the officers and soldiers supplement it themselves, they still have to make up enough for the heads and heads.
Just equal portions.
If the government and army refuse to subsidize, that's a problem.
Zhang Fei was idle in the camp, inspecting his armor.
In the battle last night, we were not in much danger when we attacked the camp. When we were ambushing behind, damn it, all the enemy arrows were fired at Lao Zhang.
Zhang Fei carefully counted the traces of missing arrows on the armor, including the front, chest, back, helmet, mail, wrist armor, leg armor, etc. There were no less than forty dent marks caused by missing arrows.
After suffering so many attacks, except for some parts of the armor that became pitted and damaged, the armor was still generally intact.
Zhang Fei's hand touched the nail plate that had been shot by a crossbow in the chest of the stomach. The nail plate had been penetrated, but the arrow missed and only penetrated a small tip, leaving a small opening on the nail plate as big as a grain of rice. This
The penetration depth is not enough to hurt anyone.
With a crash, Zhang Fei lifted up the breastplate and unfolded it to take a look. Looking at the dark and cold armor leaves, Zhang Fei sighed, the cold forged armor was indeed overbearing, like a sword or a spear.
To be continued...