Chapter 98 Night Attack 1

However, there was silence in a jungle a few miles away from Ishii Village. After the fourth watch, it was broken by a call. The night whistle walked to the crowd and gently woke up one by one, including Xiao Tianjian, and soon the forest came back to life.

Xiao Tianjian stretched out his waist, stood up and moved his frozen legs and feet. With the help of the iron head, he hung his scales on his body, tied the belt hard, reached out and grabbed his long gun from the side of the tree, and looked up at the sky in the woods. There was a thin cloud in the sky. , which covers the bright moonlight and can only make a small amount of moonlight fall on the land through the clouds, making people's eyesight not far away, but they can still see more or less clearly under their feet.

"God is so beautiful! Fortunately, there is still a thin layer of clouds! Ha ha!" Xiao Tianjian stretched his body hard and checked the armor and weapons all over his body. In the winter night, the iron armor was cold, and the cold air could directly penetrate through the inner cotton robe and penetrate into people's skin, as if it was freezing through the bone marrow, but it also made the wearer to quickly sweep away sleepiness and lift his legs. I walked to Lin Yuan and looked in the direction of Shijing Village.

Not long after, Yan Chongxi and others gathered in front of Xiao Tianjian and reported to Xiao Tianjian: "General, everyone is ready. Please order!"

Xiao Tianjian nodded and said, "Very good! Just act according to the plan!" With that, he took a piece of white cloth handed to him by the iron head and tied it to his left arm, and someone at Lin Yuan began to distribute the white cloth to the hands of many people, and these people also tied the white cloth to their left arm one after another. Although the sight was not good at night, this white cloth can make people tell who it was at a glance. Your own person.

In a short time, more than 200 black figures quietly walked out of the woods. They walked quickly in the direction of Ishii Village with the faint moonlight in the sky. No one raised the fire and silently followed their respective officers. The armor on their bodies were as tight as possible, and the knives and guns tried not to touch the armor on their bodies. To avoid making any unnecessary noise, you can only hear the creaking footsteps of their feet stepping on dead branches and leaves nearby. Even so, it makes people very nervous.

Shi Ran and Wang Chengping's cavalry and scouts took off the bells under the horse's neck and put a head on the war horse, so that the war horse could not hiss. They also jumped on the horse's back one after another and walked slowly in the direction of Shijing Village.

Although most northerners in this era have night blindness, some people have mild symptoms. In addition, Xing Tianjun has maintained the supply of grain in the army for a long time. At the same time, meat will be supplied to the soldiers from time to time. The nutritional conditions are much better than that of ordinary people, so now Xing Tian Night blindness of some people in the army has been cured without treatment.

And tonight's action is to select some of the people with the best eyes in the army to participate, so the night did not become an obstacle to their night attack for them, but became their best cover. Although some of them were tired of back pain because of the forced army on the first day, they still insisted on joining. In the action, he didn't want anything else, just to save the brothers in Ishii Village from the officers and soldiers.

And just after the fourth watch, that is, about three o'clock in the morning, it is the most sleepy and relaxed time. The officers and soldiers have nothing in the middle of the night, and the soldiers on duty have been dozed off for a long time. If it weren't for the cold weather, I'm afraid there are a lot. If people casually rely on something, they will fall asleep. Even those who are not asleep have found a place to avoid the cold by the wind, so the whole army's camp is basically silent.

It may be that the officers and soldiers did not expect that this group of besieged thieves would have strong support at all, so the main attention of the officers and soldiers also focused on the side facing Shijing Village, but they were not guarding behind them, so that Xiao Tianjian and his party touched 200 steps outside the camp. Their arrival was still not found in the barracks.

Looking at the series of angry wind lights and dotted torches out of the official camp, everyone's bodies began to accumulate strength like a leopard. Xiao Tianjian raised his hand, and everyone behind him stopped. With Xiao Tianjian squatting in the dark place where the torch light could not reach in the camp.

Xiao Tianjian squatted on the ground and looked at the gate. There were only three or four officers and soldiers at the gate. They couldn't help but stamp their feet to keep warm themselves. On the low arrow towers on both sides of the gate, there was also a soldier leaning his hand on the pillar to doze off. The whole camp of the officers and soldiers seemed very quiet, which was To confirm that the officers and soldiers did not notice their arrival.

As soon as Xiao Tianjian waved his hand, several soldiers with hard crossbows came out more and more and came to the front of the team.

"You will listen to my instructions later and solve those sentries for me first! Pass it on and tell the people behind to be ready to light the fire! We're ready to do it!" Xiao Tianjian ordered to the people around him in a very low voice.

Then Xiao Tianjian's orders were passed on one by one. Some people who followed Xiao Tian's fitness began to touch the fire folds in their arms and were ready to light the torches.

As Xiao Tianjian got up and walked towards the camp gate again, the soldiers behind him also began to get up one after another and slowly followed Xiao Tianjian's back and took steps.

One hundred and fifty steps, one hundred steps, ninety steps, eighty steps, seventy steps. Several officers and soldiers at the camp gate are still not alert to the coming danger. They scold and gossip with each other. They curse that the damn ghost weather is too cold. They are really unlucky. They have to be here at night. Sentinel.

When Xiao Tianjian had been leading people to approach nearly 50 steps outside the camp gate, the officers and soldiers on duty still did not notice their arrival.

At this time, suddenly there was a scream and exclamation from the east, and then there was a rapid sound of horseshoes, during which was mixed with the sound of killing.

After hearing this sound, Xiao Tianjian no longer hesitated. He immediately shouted down to the dozen soldiers with hard crossbows walking in front of him, "Arrow!"

Without saying a word, more than a dozen crossbowmen immediately knelt on one knee on the cold land, steadily picked up the hard crossbows that had already been prepared in their hands, and aimed at the door.

And several soldiers at the gate were also attracted by the voice in the east. They became a little nervous and at a loss. They didn't know what happened in the east.

I only heard a string of bows and strings suddenly sounded in the dark night. More than a dozen crossbow arrows then cut through the night sky and rushed straight to these valuable officers and soldiers at the gate. Several officers and soldiers didn't figure out what was going on at all, so they screamed one after another and fell to the ground one after another, an arrow upstairs. The officers and soldiers even fell directly from the simple arrow building. After only one officer and soldier was hit by an arrow, they seemed to fail to hit the point. They staddled for a moment, turned around and ran towards the camp door, shouting crazily: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack..." He screamed and knocked hard on the gong hanging at the door to warn.

The sharp sound of gongs suddenly cut through the night sky and spread all over the barracks, but at the same time, a group of people with white cloth on their left arm also rushed out of the darkness and hit the battalion of officers and soldiers like a heavy hammer.

Yan Chongxi shouted and rushed to Xiao Tianjian first. He held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, and cut the officers and soldiers who were beating gongs to the ground with a knife. Then more members of the Xing Tianjun stepped on the bodies of these officers and soldiers into the camp.

At this time, the torches were also lit by the people of the Xing Tianjun. The person holding the torch held the torch in his left hand, but did not hold the knife and gun in his right hand, but held a round thing, and rushed into the barracks with Yan Chongxi.

And the officer's camp suddenly became chaotic, because two people broke into their camp from the southeast. The sleepy but frightened officers and soldiers ran out of the tent in panic to find their weapons and resist. In the chaos, the soldiers could not find the generals. The generals couldn't find soldiers, and the chaos made them lose any organization.

And Xiao Tianjian and his party quickly broke into the camp. As long as they saw groups of officers and soldiers gathering, someone would ignite the round things in their hands and throw them into the crowd of officers and soldiers. Soon, there would be a roar in the crowd of officers and soldiers, and then the officers and soldiers would scream and fall to the ground.

The sound of such an explosion spread throughout the barracks. The headless officers and soldiers could not find out the number of enemies who attacked their barracks at all. Many officers and soldiers were immediately scared and bumped into each other like headless flies. Many officers and soldiers simply fled to the west like a tide.

Zhang Yan had been sleeping well in his tent. In a muddle, several soldiers suddenly broke in and directly pulled him out of the quilt, put a dress on him randomly, and dragged him out of the tent.

"What happened? What the hell is going on? Zhang Yan panicked while trying to figure out the situation.

A personal soldier shouted at him, "It's not good, my lord. I don't know where a group of thieves came from. Suddenly, they broke into our camp. Now the army is in chaos. Let's go quickly!" In order to avoid being harmed by thieves!"

It was not until this time that Zhang Yan heard the roar around the South Gate, as well as the screams and killings in the east. The whole camp boiled like a pot, and there were officers and soldiers everywhere like headless flies. It was no clear how many enemies there were.

Zhang Yan, as the chief general, of course, knew that he was already weak in this situation. At present, before he figured out the enemy's situation, he had no choice but to run quickly, so he could no longer ask more questions. Surrounded by his own soldiers, he climbed up his war horse. He fled out of the camp under the escort of his own soldiers.