Chapter 144: The Battle of Heyang (2)
When Li He led a thousand surprise troops to launch a surprise attack on Rangni's camp, it was around the time of the Chou.
Even the chief general Rang Ni mistakenly thought that the Qin and Liang coalition forces were planning to siege Heyang. How could the soldiers of the Wei army in the camp have thought that the Shaoliang Qibing would launch a sneak attack on them tonight. After all, in the battle with the Wei army so far, the Shaoliang Qibing had not been too close to the Wei army's garrison before.
Of course, this was not done by Shaoliang Qibing, but they did not have the ability to get too close to the Wei army's garrison. But it has to be said that this also caused a wrong judgment for the Wei army generals, that is, Shaoliang Qibing did not dare to attack the camp. The camp, as long as they stayed in the camp and the camp, they could be safe.
I believe Ying Qian will definitely have different opinions on this. After all, Li He sneaked into his commander's tent among the 200,000 Qin troops two years ago.
It can only be said that the Shaoliang Rising Soldier was not forced into a dead end like he did the previous year. After all, the Shaoliang Rising Soldier's purpose is to kill the enemy without any injury and not to be injured. Therefore, if there is no need, the strangers will not do too risky things.
The surprise attack that night was led by Li He and Han Yan and his team to launch the surprise attack first.
They found a blind spot of several mail towers and quietly touched outside the camp.
At this time, Rangi's camp was still covered with heavy snow, and the surprise soldiers were covered with white cloaks. If they were not careful, it would be difficult to find someone moving in the snow.
Even if there is any situation, the surprise soldiers lie on the snow and cover themselves with white cloaks, it will be even more difficult to find the Wei army's generals.
However, the so-called strict prevention of the Wei army did not even allow the surprise soldiers to cover up their whereabouts by using the snow. Li He and his team of 200 people easily touched outside the camp.
Immediately, two hundred people made several gestures to Han Yan. Several leaders following him immediately understood. More than a hundred people went to deal with the soldiers on duty outside the camp on both sides, while one of them took off the long ladder on his back.
This combination long ladder was created by Li He when he was surprise attacking the capital of Qin Liyang the second year before. The assembly long ladder carried by only one person can assemble a two-meter-high ladder. Although the ladder that is only two-meter-high is nothing to a city wall that is often three or four meters high. The key is that this kind of ladder can still be assembled. For example, combining the segmented long ladders carried by two people into one, which is equivalent to four meters high.
Although everyone's sword is the symbol of Shaoliang's surprise soldier, in fact, this combination of long ladders, thick hemp ropes, and short swords that can be carried with you are the essential treasures of surprise soldiers. These three magical weapons are indispensable for surprise soldiers. The surprise soldiers cross mountains and ridges, wading through mountains and rivers, and surviving in the wild.
As for the fourth artifact, it is the new crossbow that the surprise soldiers replaced last winter, which is the powerful crossbow with a range of 470 steps such as the Wei Ying crossbow soldiers, and the crossbows carried by the surprise soldiers with the squad leader and the squad leader or above.
To be fair, the surprise soldiers actually do not use powerful crossbows with a range of up to 470 steps. For them, a four hundred steps crossbow is more than enough, but who made the surprise soldiers the most elite soldiers in Shaoliang? As long as conditions allow, they can have the most advanced weapons in Shaoliang.
This is the same with the soldiers who have almost no chance to show off in this battle.
Not only that, although the powerful crossbow with a range of up to 470 steps was replaced, the surprise soldiers still tend to touch the enemy's back and use the daggers they carry with them to deal with their opponents.
I saw these highly tacit soldiers, who encountered the kind of sentry guards of three or five people, and they could tell what they should do with each other with one look in their eyes.
They could even make the three or five guards unable to even call for help, and they took action at the same time, killed the enemy at the same time, and then immediately replaced the armor on the corpse and buried the corpse in the snow.
This smooth and smooth set takes less than 200 breaths and can be said to be quite skillful.
Speaking of the short swords used by these surprise soldiers to assassinate, they were originally used to cut off the flesh of the surprise soldiers trained in the wild, but later the surprise soldiers discovered that using the short sword to attack unprepared enemies is better than using the long sword on their bodies.
So, Han Yan, Wu Heng and five 200 generals, including five 200 generals, gave Li He all the same advice, and Li He also agreed to forge a sharper short sword in the future as one of the standard equipment for the surprise soldiers.
By the way, with the help of Zheng Jing and other Shaofu craftsmen, an iron smelting workshop has been built in the Jiuliang area. However, no iron weapons have been built so far. Only some hoes, shovels, iron plows and other agricultural tools have been built, and domestic labor tools have been given priority. This has been highly recognized and praised by Mohist disciples.
In just one stick of incense, dozens of Wei soldiers patrolling the camp were silently killed by the surprise soldiers in the northeast corner of the camp.
In order not to attract the attention of the Wei army on the inner sentry tower of the camp, dozens of surprise soldiers changed into the Wei army's clothes, carried weapons, and continued to patrol the camp in a fake manner, ready to support their companions at any time.
During this period, Han Yan and others had assembled several ladders two and a half meters high, climbed up the camp gate on the ladder, and peeked at the movements in the camp, especially the reactions of the approaching towers in the camp.
Seeing that the Wei soldiers on the mail towers did not pay attention to this side, Han Yan tied a circle of thick hemp rope hanging around his waist and put it on the wood of the camp. Then he turned over and entered the camp. Because he grabbed the hemp rope and used the force, there was almost no movement when he fell, and he landed lightly. He quickly lay on the snow in the camp and covered his body with a cloak.
Immediately afterwards, the second and third persons, in just over a hundred breaths, dozens of surprise soldiers sneaked into the city quietly.
Seeing this, Han Yan made a gesture to those who were: Kill the Wei soldiers on the mail tower.
The dozens of surprise soldiers nodded and understood, and under the guidance of their respective talents, they hugged and sneaked under the urns.
To be honest, there are not only people above the top, but also below. But obviously the Wei army relaxed and did not send people under the top, which made the dozens of surprise soldiers sneak up smoothly and easily killed the three or five guards on the top.
Then he also changed into the other party's armor and pretended to continue on duty.
In a moment, the surprise soldiers followed the rules for several nearby sentry towers, quietly killing the soldiers on duty and replacing them.
Eliminating the Wei army's on duty, the surprise soldiers accelerated their rapid infiltration into the battalion.
Soon, the four 200 generals, Wu Heng, Xu Wu, Gao Yun and Hou Yun, led their surprise soldiers to the outside of the camp and quietly climbed into the city.
Immediately, the group of people launched a sneak attack on the Dongying Gate of the camp. Poor Wei Jun who was on duty in the Dongying Gate, they couldn't even understand why these companions suddenly killed them before they died.
Some people may ask, are the soldiers of the Wei army blind? Can't you see the sharp swords carried by these strange soldiers pretending to be Wei soldiers? Isn't everyone wearing a sword a unique symbol of strange soldiers?
It's very simple, just unplug the sword in advance - the reason why the surprise soldier never unplugs the sword on his body before necessary and allows the "Everyone's Sword" to distinguish others from his surprise is actually to do the opposite at critical moments.
For example, in the Battle of Dongliang two years ago, Li He led his men to attack the Qin army's garrison and destroyed the siege equipment built by the Qin army. At that time, the strange soldiers followed Li He's advance instructions. When the Qin army in the camp was alarmed, they threw away their swords in time and mixed with countless Qin soldiers. When countless Qin soldiers opened their eyes wide and stared at the soldiers with "swords" around them, they successfully escaped and saved their lives.
For example, today, when Wu Heng and his surprise soldiers untied their swords and approached Dongying Gate as soldiers of Wei, the Wei soldiers on duty at Dongying Gate did not expect that this group of people would be pretending to be Shaoliang's surprise soldiers. After all, they already had a fixed impression of Shaoliang's surprise soldiers-everyone was Shaoliang's surprise soldiers-everyone was Shaoliang's surprise soldiers.
But unfortunately, the reason why surprises are surprises is that they never act according to common sense.
Many of their behaviors seem a bit stupid, but they are actually to save their lives, or to use them in necessary moments.
Just a moment, the Dongying Gate of Rangi slowly opened a line, and a young Liang Qiong soldier dressed as a Wei soldiers walked out and held a torch to signal to his fellow soldiers lurking outside the camp: this area has been controlled.
Seeing this, the surprise soldiers outside the camp quickly got up from the snow and rushed to the camp. Li He was relatively backward. When he walked into the camp, the bodies of the Wei soldiers had long been covered by snow, and even the blood on the ground had been swept away, and there was almost no sign of an attack here.
"doctor."
Han Yan brought a set of Wei general armor that had wiped away the bloodstains to Li He.
Li He took the armor and immediately changed it, and praised with a smile: "It's very good. You have already started the army. It seems that I'm in vain this time."
Originally, he thought he could command the surprise soldiers and give them some guidance, but he didn't expect that Han Yan, Wu Heng and others had already become skilled in this way.
While Han Yan was expressing his modesty, the surprise soldiers from the side, especially the second-generation surprise soldiers, all showed joy on their faces. After all, they were praised by Li He, which means they were a qualified surprise soldiers.
"Tell me some news to Gongsun Zhuang."
"yes!"
Under Li He's order, the surprise soldiers launched a surprise attack on the camp and ignited the soldiers' tents everywhere.
At this time, Gongsun Zhuang had already led 5,000 Qin troops to quietly cross Heshui, climbed high and looked at Rangni's camp, waiting for the signal of Shaoliang's surprise soldiers.
Suddenly, he saw a fire breaking out in Rangni's camp.
"It's done!"
Gongsun Zhuangda was overjoyed and immediately led the five thousand Qin soldiers to Rangi's camp.
At this time, Rang Ni, who had already fallen asleep, was also alarmed by the chaos in the camp. Before he could even wear armor, he rushed out of the central general. Seeing that the camp was full of chaos, he was shocked and asked the guards outside the tent: "What's going on? What's going on?"
The guards outside the tent looked at each other, and some one whispered: "It seems that they were attacked..."
At this time, Rang Ni also calmed down and murmured at the chaos in the camp: "The soldiers on duty did not have an early warning. It seems that it was done by Shao Liang Qibing... Damn! Who said that these people don't know how to attack the camp..."
As he was talking, he suddenly thought of something: Shao Liang's army came to attack the camp, how could the Qin army not come?
"not good!"
Rang Ni, whose face changed drastically, shouted quickly: "Hurry up! Gather the soldiers, the Qin army is about to kill!"
I have to say that he reacted very quickly, but unfortunately, there was chaos in his camp at this moment. How could he immediately gather troops to fight against the Qin army?
Before he could assemble the soldiers in the camp, Gongsun Zhuang's army arrived. Five thousand fighting Qin soldiers screamed and passed through the surprise soldiers, opened the camp gate for them and entered the city.
Subsequently, Miao Lin, who was stationed in the Heshui Bridge area, and the two generals Gan Xing saw a fire in the distance, and were very happy to lead their troops to aid.
That night, Rangqi's army was defeated. Thirty-forty thousand Wei troops were killed by more than ten thousand Qin's army and failed to form a army. Only more than ten thousand fled to Heyang under Rangqi's leadership. The rest of the Wei soldiers either fled in scattered or became prisoners of the Qin army.
Upon hearing the good news, Ying Qian clenched his fists excitedly, not because he had severely damaged Rangni's army, but because he once again confirmed the combat effectiveness of the Qin and Liang coalition forces.
Chapter completed!