Chapter 54 Attack on the Night of the Song Barbarian War

What was unexpected happened soon. The barbarians did not hide because they were afraid of the power of the Song army as Wang Chong, Wang Junqing or other Song army generals expected. He did not even repeat his old tricks and introduce the Song army into the already prepared ambush circle by tempting the enemy to go deep. Instead, he took the initiative to launch a frontal attack on the Song army that had entered his territory. Just because in the process of the confrontation with the Xizhou Army, the barbarians have learned the combat power of the Song army, and they believe that their current strength is enough to defeat the seemingly powerful Song Army under a favorable situation.

This time, the first person to be attacked by the barbarians was the Guizhou army on the left of the three-way army. When sending troops, in order to take care of each other, Wang Chong divided 100,000 troops into three roads, left, middle and right. He led 40,000 people to take the middle road, with the remnants of the Xizhou army led by Xiang Cang and a man and a man and horse in Dingxi, while the Guizhou army took the left road. The three are only 30 miles apart, which is enough to ask the other two people for help in time after any situation. However, there is still a disadvantage, that is, to dilute the original overwhelming force and give the barbarians a chance to take action.

In the second day of March, the army on the left has advanced to the ground of the barbarians. The main general of this army is Qi Zhan, the governor of Guizhou, an elegant man who looks more like a scholar than a general. However, most of his current position still depends on his own merits. He was once in a small-scale conflict with the Hu people in the north. At that time, Qi Zhan, who was less than 30 years old, had made a brilliant record of beheading more than 100 enemies, and was known as Qi Baizhan.

However, if someone thinks that Qi Zhan is just a brave man, it would be too underestimated. Qi Zhan was not only brave in battle, but also witty. The victory that made him famous was because he had laid a pocket array in the local area, so that he could calmly kill Baihu people and become famous for a while.

However, although he is capable of both literature and martial arts, and has made a lot of contributions, because he is ordinary and does not like to welcome horses, his promotion in the army is very slow. It was not until he came to the southwest that he was promoted to the governor of a state by Wang Chong. But in fact, in terms of ability, he is far more than Xiang Cang, who only knows how to show his personal force, not to mention Ye Hao. Therefore, Wang Chong was still very relieved to let him lead the Guizhou army to the left.

Qi Zhan did have the ability to reassure Wang Chong. Although he guessed that the barbarians should have hidden in the deep mountains, he kept reminding his subordinates to be careful on the march. Moreover, they also sent their 300 scouts far away to explore the environment 30 miles away. Once an enemy really appears, they have enough time to deal with it. Such a safe approach reassured Qi Zhan and his subordinates that they all thought it was safe.

But things often happen when you are safe, and the barbarians seem to have grasped this.

In the evening of the second lunar month, seeing that the sunset was about to sink, Qi Zhan raised his hand and stopped the team still on his way. Then he ordered the soldiers around him to open the topographic map. After research, he ordered, "Let's rest here today!" Thirty miles away, it is a dangerous place in the barbarians. Tell the brothers to have a good rest tonight, and they will recover their strength. Tomorrow, they will walk through that hurdle with courage!"

"Yi!" The generals all agreed. Then they led their men to camp, and several confidant generals gathered in front of him to discuss with him how to get through this dangerous place tomorrow.

"In fact, with the strength of the barbarians, even if there is an ambush there, as long as the brothers are careful, they can't please them." Luo Zhao, the general, said first.

Many other generals also nodded, even saying that the barbarians really set an ambush there, and they could deal with it calmly. Qi Zhan was not optimistic about everyone's self-confidence: "Don't be careless. How did the Xizhou army damage the soldiers and generals that day? Did you forget it so quickly?" With that, he hummed: "Today's barbarians are much more cunning than we think. We must not underestimate the enemy. The wind is difficult to cross and the terrain is dangerous. As long as the barbarians set up some organs there, it will be enough for us to suffer a big loss. Coupled with their familiarity with the terrain, once we really underestimate the enemy, we will be seriously dead and injured. This battle is related to our big plan. We must be foolproof. Do you all remember it?

"Yes!" The generals quickly agreed in unison. Although they still didn't agree with this, they did not dare to show what they wanted.

Qi Zhan said again: "Also, the scouts will go to the place before the main force early tomorrow morning to investigate the situation, and make sure that the important places there have not been controlled by the barbarians. Tell your brothers to have a good rest. You have to walk nearly 50 miles of mountain road tomorrow.

After the generals agreed again, they separated, and only another general Dong Cheng stayed. Qi Zhan looked at this subordinate strangely: "What, do you have anything else to say?"

"Captain, I thought the precautions should be more careful tonight." After seeing everyone go out, Dong Cheng said, "After all, this is a wild land. They are more familiar with the surrounding situation than us. If I were a barbarian, they could also guess that we would station here early to refresh ourselves and prepare for tomorrow's dangerous place. But in this way, our defense tonight will inevitably be relaxed, and maybe they will take this opportunity to attack us.

"Well, your worries are not unreasonable!" Qi Zhan couldn't help touching his beard and said, "I really neglected this. Then you will be responsible for tonight's vigilance. Make sure that you don't give the barbarians any opportunity!"

"Ouch, I'm going to arrange it!" Seeing that the governor adopted his proposal, Dong Cheng was full of joy and immediately commanded his soldiers and horses to begin to defend. Not only did he put a lot of dark whistles around the camp, but he also dug several traps several feet long and wide on the mountain road in the distance, so as to ensure that they could be found in time when the barbarians really attacked at night.

When Song Jun was busy camping and resting, the depths of the mountains and forests less than ten miles away from them, tens of thousands of barbarians were hiding there, paying attention to every move here from afar. After all, this is the boundary of barbarians. The familiarity with the terrain and the dense woods provide them with too much convenience. Even though the Song army has sent a lot of scouts, as long as they hide in the depths of the woods, it is still impossible for the scouts to find their tracks.

This is exactly where the barbarians dare to take the initiative to attack. They believe that no matter how powerful the Song army is, it is just a group of lambs to be slaughtered. Mu Jerry, the king of the barbarians, squatted under a big tree and was discussing what to do with the Han soldiers around him.

"I didn't expect Song Jun to be so careful. He wanted to ambush them in the wind, but he didn't expect them to stop. Now it will take another day to let Song people know how powerful we are. Mu Jerry said unhappily. Since the previous defeat of the Xizhou Army, his confidence has reached a new height. In his eyes, the Song Army is no longer a terrible opponent as before. If he had known this, he should have taken people to invade Songjing.

Li Bei did not agree with this as usual, but said carefully: "King, depending on the situation, this Song army is a little different from what we have encountered before. Their generals are much more cautious. If we still want to attack them in the wind, I'm afraid they will be on guard and make our plan impossible to achieve it perfectly.

"Hmm?" Mu Jerry was a little angry when he heard the words, but he still valued this Han soldier, so he was just a little dissatisfied and said, "Why, are you underestimate our fighting power?"

"Of course not, but the price we have to pay in this way is too big. It's really not costable." Li Bie hurriedly explained, "But the villain has an idea that can make us win a bigger victory at a smaller cost!"

"What's the idea?" Mujeri's spirit suddenly came and asked immediately.

"That's the surprise attack on the Song army in front of us tonight!" Li Besen smiled and said, "I think the Song general also knows the difficulties ahead, so he will let the army have a good night's rest tonight. In this way, they will be slack in their defense, and as long as our warriors kill at night, they will certainly catch them off guard. And this is a mountain forest with changeable terrain. As long as the Song army is in a mess, it will only wait to be killed.

Mu Jerry's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard the words: "Gao, your method is really smart. Just do what you want!" With that, he suddenly stood up and called the leaders of all departments to him and issued their new instructions to them.

For these barbarians, where and when to attack is not a problem, so although they changed their policy, they did not have any opinions and immediately received their own orders. Next, he only waited for an appropriate time to come, and then launched a raid on the Song army more than ten miles ahead.

After the third update, more than a thousand of the most agile barbarians came out of the deep mountains and quickly touched the camp of the Song army. Their role is to completely destroy the Song army's camp first, so as to create better conditions for the collective charge of the later army.

Although it was dark everywhere, it did not affect the actions of these barbarians who had lived in the mountains and forests for a long time, but after a meal, they had already touched outside Song Jun's camp. Looking at the dark Song army camp, these barbarians showed a greedy and fierce light in their eyes, because they knew that they could not only kill many Song soldiers this time, but also take everything they had.

The life of barbarians is not easy. Both food and clothing are tight, and many people can only get full in a few days, and they are also very nervous about weapons. Now there is a lot of food, armor and weapons in front of them. How can they not be excited?

After confirming that Song Ying was indeed completely unprepared, more than a thousand barbarians suddenly launched a charge to the camp from a high place. They should disturb the whole Song army camp in as short a time as possible, thus creating favorable conditions for the army that is about to arrive behind them. But at the moment they rushed down, there were several sharp roars in Song's camp, and several feather arrows shot from the dark, hitting the bodies of the first few barbarians, making these people suddenly fall to the ground.

At the same time, several barbarians suddenly became short and disappeared from the ground, but fell into the trap that Song Jun had been preparing for a long time. Under the pit, Song Jun had already prepared sharpened wooden stakes. As soon as those barbarians went, they were stabbed through their bodies and could not move at all. Several unlucky people were even more injured and saw that they were not alive.

But this obstruction obviously could not stop the impact of these barbarians, and soon they had killed the Song army camp. Although the barbarians are only the simplest weapons in their hands, they are only facing some Song soldiers who don't even have time to put on their clothes and some faint. In this way, the barbarians naturally have an overwhelming advantage.

Soon, the barbarians broke through dozens of camp tents and fought with the nearly 3,000 Song army. The first half of the whole Song army battalion was in a mess.

Qi Zhan, who was shocked by this chaotic war, was also a little happy. If he hadn't listened to Dong Cheng's advice and made a certain arrangement after setting up the camp, I'm afraid that the damage caused by these intruding barbarians would be even more serious. However, he just thought about this idea and began to spend all his energy on how to repel the enemy.

Until now, Qi Zhan did not know how many barbarians had come to the night attack. In order to prevent them from having a backhand, Qi Zhan did not dare to throw all the horses in, but ordered each battalion to send 3,000 people to support them, and the other 20,000 people guard their own camps to make plans after understanding the situation.

It was such a decision that saved Qi Zhan and the Guizhou army. Because half an hour after the start of the melee, there was also a shout of killing on both sides of the Song camp. First, thousands of bamboo arrows opened the way, injuring many unprepared Song soldiers, and then nearly 10,000 barbarians were killed from both sides.

This is the advantage of the night battle against the attacker. In a dark environment, those who are attacked do not know where the other party will be killed and how many people there are, which makes their combat effectiveness only 50% of the original. In this way, although the barbarian army is actually far inferior to the Song army in terms of strength, it can still encircle the Song army with inferior forces and retreat the somewhat confused Song army.

In the dark, cold arrows are shot from time to time, and enemies are killed in front of them from time to time, which makes Song Junlian, who is not familiar with the mountain and forest landscape, suffer losses. Many Song soldiers did not even die at the hands of the enemy. Some were accidentally injured by their own people in the dark, and some were killed at other people's feet because their feet were tripped by stones or tree roots and other debris. For a moment, screams and howls were mixed together, which was frightening.

Qi Zhan is not frightened, all he has is anger! The barbarians actually launched a raid on himself at this time, which made him unable to forgive his carelessness. The only way now is to send all the soldiers and horses out, fight hard with the barbarians who have been killed in the camp, and then delay the time. After dawn, the initiative can return to your side again.

Qi Zhan has made his own judgment through the intensity of the three-sided battle. The barbarian's raid team is much less military strength than his own. As long as he can survive this dark moment, it is not impossible to turn defeat into victory.

His judgment was correct, and as time went by, Song Jun, who was originally panicked, began to calm down slowly. After all, the Guizhou army is an elite team that occupies a single-minded **. Although it is not as good as Wang Chong's elite soldiers in Dingxi, they are also good at fighting. As long as their mood is stable, the Song army, which formed a formation, begins to stabilize their position.

Once the Song army really stabilized its position, it would not be so easy to break through the Song army's defense line with the combat effectiveness of the barbarians as before, and the two armies soon fell into a state of glue. And time has also passed little by little in the battle between the two sides, and it has come to the fifth update in a blink of an eye.

As the lord of the barbarians, it is naturally impossible for Mu Jerry to kill like others. At this time, he stood high and looked at the two teams of people who killed inexplicit in the darkness below. He couldn't help but look a little solemn: "This Song army is also a little capable. How can it quickly stabilize in such a raid and block our continuous attack..."

Li Bei over there also looked at everything there strangely. After a while, he said, "King, it seems that we can't destroy this Song army today. Once it is dawn, they will have a greater advantage in military strength, and we may suffer losses. In my opinion, it's better to stop the army for the time being and wait for the future.

Although Mu Jerry was quite reluctant, he had to accept this suggestion. After all, he had already seen that there was still a gap between the barbarians and Song people. Immediately, he issued an order to withdraw from the army.

With a whining horn sounded, the barbarians who were still desperately moving forward turned around and fled to the depths of the mountains and forests. Song Jun wanted to catch up. After all, the enemy killed so many of his brothers. How could he watch them leave? However, Qi Zhan issued a military order to stick to it. He was well aware of the danger of chasing the barbarians into the forest under such circumstances, which may lose more lives. Now the most important thing they should do is to stand still and wait for the sky to light up.

After the sun rose on the third day of March, the soldiers found that the bodies of thousands of brothers had fallen around them. In this night attack, the Song army suffered great frustration. 2,000 people died on the spot and more than 4,000 were injured, while the barbarians only paid the price of 500 casualties...