Chapter 76 Night (Continued)
In the morning, in Hou Jing's camp, many defeated soldiers gathered outside the camp gate in dust, waiting to verify their identities, and then enter the camp.
This is a measure taken by the camp to prevent enemy soldiers from taking advantage of the situation and as a cover for infiltrating into the camp as a means of defeated soldiers.
The chief general, Ren Yue, looked at the defeated soldiers from a distance from the arrow tower in the camp, looking at the faces of ugly.
The day before yesterday, Xiahou Huan led his army to attack, saying that he wanted to deal with a partial division of the Liang army, and then attacked Xiao Yuanzao, the army of Xichang Hou, and then advanced westward to "surround Wei and save Zhao" to lift the siege of Jingkou.
Now, defeated soldiers fled one after another. According to the information obtained from the inquiry, Xiahou Huai attacked the enemy camp at night, but was in a daze. Not only did he suffer heavy losses, but he was also sneak attacked by the enemy soldiers and his whereabouts were unknown.
Such a result made Ren Yue difficult to accept. He would rather believe that Xiahou Jian was just retreating, and many soldiers just got separated at night and might return one after another.
In a short while, Xiahou Huan will be back.
But even so, according to what the defeated soldiers said, this battle was undoubtedly a very bad loss.
The enemy's troops had about three or four thousand troops, but they set up two camps in the north and south across the river, including the North Camp as the main and the South Camp as the auxiliary. The South Camp was very inconspicuous, which was equivalent to the pits in the grass.
Xiahou Huai sent elite troops to attack the vanguard at night, and the attack was naturally the Beiying. The Liang army of Beiying then fled south, making it easy to cross the river to pursue it. As a result, they encountered a hidden place on the south bank and suffered heavy casualties.
At this time, Xiahou Huan had approached with his follow-up troops, but only two miles away. After learning about the battle situation, he increased his troops to rescue him. As a result, the Liang army in front of him was touched and his life and death were unknown.
At the same time, many generals were killed in the attack, resulting in chaos in the morale of the army. The soldiers were unable to organize a counterattack and were taken by the Liang army to take the opportunity to slash them. So the soldiers fled in the fields under the night.
Some of the defeated soldiers fled back here. As for the others, they didn't know whether they were dead, captured, or fled elsewhere.
Ren Yue looked at the defeated soldiers gathered outside the camp, and heard the louder noise, and felt a little headache. He walked down the arrow tower and headed towards the tent.
Xiahou Huan's defeat led to the increasing hope of defeating Xiao Yuanzao by his side, and he could not even stop the opponent's attack.
Once Qu A is lost, it is equivalent to the fact that his army in Jiangnan is cut off in half. At that time, the situation will take a sharp turn and it will be difficult to recover it.
As he thought about it, Ren Yue felt helpless: Is it really not a gamble?
He was not a subordinate of Hou Jing, but a general of Wei. Of course, this Wei State refers to the Wei State (Western Wei) with Chang'an as the capital.
Ren Yue is an ordinary general with a low status and although he is working very hard, it is difficult to make a comeback.
At that time, Hou Jing broke up with the Eastern thieves (Eastern Wei) and resigned to the court (Western Wei). So Prime Minister Yuwen Tai sent troops to help Hou Jing resist the Eastern thieves, and Ren Yue was one of the reinforcements.
Later, the court discovered that Hou Jing had ulterior motives and tried to annex the reinforcements, so he ordered the withdrawal of the troops, but Ren Yue did not leave, but instead led his subordinates to surrender Hou Jing.
He wanted to gamble that Hou Jing would get the help of Liang State and occupy the land of Henan, so he would have the chance to climb up.
As a result, the Liang State was unreliable. The Battle of Hanshan was very poor, and Hou Jing did not block Murong Shaozong's attack. He suffered losses and lost his troops, leaving only less than a thousand remaining soldiers, and fled into Liang State.
Fortunately, Hou Jing later raised an army and attacked Jiankang, and soon surrounded Taicheng, which made Ren Yue see hope.
As a result, he could not capture Taicheng and crossed north to Guangling. He finally waited for the opportunity to attack Jiangnan again, but he still could not attack Jiankang.
If this continues, Hou Jing will definitely be over. Ren Yue is not very worried because he can surrender to Liang State.
However, he was unwilling to give up because he still had a chance.
However, when Xiahou Jian was defeated, the chance became smaller and smaller. Ren Yue began to consider whether he wanted to leave a way out for himself: for example, confront the Xichang Hou first, and if the situation is not good, surrender quickly.
But if you surrender like this, you will not receive good treatment. Even if you want to surrender, you have to win the battle first and then surrender, and the treatment will be better.
After a while, a general came to report that he found several detailed works of Liang troops from the defeated soldiers.
"Sure enough, they want to take advantage of the troubled waters." Ren Yue laughed, "Ask, ask them, what do they want to do when they get in!"
"If you don't say it, guys will serve you!"
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At night, the moon was still covered by dark clouds, and Hou Jingjun camp was silent. Except for the tents illuminated by sporadic flames, the camp was pitch black.
In the wilderness to the north, many black shadows gradually appeared. These black shadows slowly approached the camp, but stopped at more than two hundred steps away.
I don’t know how long it took, but these black shadows remained unmoved, making Ren Yue, who was waiting in the empty military camp, feel a little impatient.
However, the prey is about to enter the trap, so it is natural to be careful. At this time, the hunter who is guarding the trap must be patient.
At this moment, Ren Yue was in the middle of the military camp, and most of the soldiers were lurking south outside the camp.
There were only some soldiers left in the camp, observing the surrounding situation on the arrow tower. Now, the enemy situation has been discovered in the north, and we have occasionally sent messages to Ren Yue.
As long as the enemy launches an attack, the people he arranges will yell in the camp, making the other party think that the detailed actions of infiltrating the military camp will begin to support him.
Then he bumped into the carefully prepared trap.
Liang Jun, who was mixed with the defeated soldiers today, has been arrested. After being severely tortured, he asked about Liang Jun’s intention: to attack tonight.
Ren Yue took advantage of the plan and wanted to surprise the Liang army. Now the Liang army is outside the camp, and it is estimated that after a moment of testing, he will launch an attack.
Time disappeared, Ren Yue felt his eyelids become heavy, and he kept yawning on both sides. It was late at night. It was said that the Liang army attacked at night should also launch an attack, but there was still no movement outside.
After waiting for a while, Ren Yue felt something was wrong and wanted to send someone out to investigate, but he was afraid of disturbing the enemy. After thinking about it, he decided to continue waiting.
He has carried out many night attacks. Generally speaking, it is best to attack when the person is the most sleepy in the early morning and sleeps most well, so that the enemy will be more likely to be fooled.
In order to make a plan tonight, the entire army was ambushing the south of the camp, enduring the cold weather and unable to sleep, so as not to expose the snoring, which made the attacking Liang army realize that there was a fraud in the camp.
So, just bear with it.
Ren Yue shook his energy and continued to wait. Before he knew it, the east was gradually white.
However, the Liang army still did not launch an attack.
On the arrow tower, the sentries who had been staying up all night found figures in the wilderness in the north, standing still for a long time. They were puzzled and reported to the general.
Ren Yue sent someone out of the camp. When he looked closer, he found that all these "people" were straw men.
Ren Yue, who had not closed his eyes all night, was stunned for a while after learning about it. He knew that he had been fooled. Before he could even feel upset, a visitor came to report: There were a large number of Liang troops marching to the west and approaching his camp.
It seems that it is necessary to launch an attack.
Ren Yue looked at the left and right who was yawning constantly, and felt a chill on his back: He was hit by a tired soldier!
Liang Jun had no intention of actually attacking at night!
Many soldiers did not sleep all night, and the cold wind blew in the wild all night. As soon as it was bright today, the Liang army attacked with all their might. It was obvious that they were prepared to fight the war of attrition while they had no rest.
I don’t have to sleep at night and I work for one day during the day. In the evening, the soldiers may be too tired to hold on!
It was so frustrating that Ren Yue ordered the fight and ordered: "Hurry up and let the chef cook and let the soldiers fill their stomachs!"
Chapter completed!