Chapter 56: Night Hunt
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Xia Yang Jun is right, the commander of the Qin army, Ying Qian, is not a brave but unscheming person.
When he ordered the establishment of a temporary commander's tent on the loess plateau in Dongliang City, he summoned all the Qin generals of the 5,000 generals under his command to the commander's tent and told them to be careful of the sneak attacks of the Shaoliang people tonight.
Some Qin generals felt incredible and asked in surprise: "How dare the little country of Liang take the initiative to attack our army?"
Ying Qian glanced at the general and said coldly: "The 'just Shaoliang Xiaoguo' you mentioned has blocked the fierce attack of my 200,000 Qin troops today!"
Hearing this, all the generals in the tent lowered their heads in shame.
They did not show any mercy today.
Perhaps they also looked down upon them at first, but when General Liang killed five generals outside the city, and when Ying Qian and his angrily issued an order to attack, everyone wanted to break through the city immediately, let alone Ying Qian later made a promise of "supporting troops" and "renewal title".
While his Qin army was performing normally, Dongliang City steadily blocked the fierce attack of his 200,000 Qin army, but this is also worthy of the Qin army's beginning to face up to this small country.
With his hands on his back, Ying Qian said with a deep face: "Although I don't know why Shao Liang has the courage to resist my Great Qin Tiger Master, you have also met Shao Liang's determination to defend the city today. If this is true, then Shao Liang will definitely take the initiative..."
After a pause, he frowned slightly and pointed out an enemy army: "For example, that... 'ghost soldiers'."
"Herong Ghosts?"
The generals in the tent looked at each other and their expressions gradually became solemn.
Some time ago, when the Qin army attacked the Rong Kingdom of Hexi, a strange enemy suddenly appeared on the battlefield, hunting him everywhere on the Qin army's patrols and scouts. Because of his fierce methods and almost no damage to the war, the Qin army soldiers called him "Ghost Soldier" in horror.
The generals of the Qin army naturally did not believe that there would be any ghost soldiers in this world. At first, they suspected that they were the elites of Herong, but later they found out that this "ghost soldiers" came from Shaoliang.
Yes, it is the Shaoliang Kingdom that the Qin army is now attacking.
The tiger's eyes glanced at the generals present, and Ying Qian said in a deep voice: "... The Shaoliang people set fire to the trees that are dozens of miles nearby in advance, delaying the date of our army's establishment. How could they let go of the opportunity to send those ghost soldiers to sneak attack our soldiers? I hope that all the troops will remain vigilant and don't be successful!"
"Yes!" The generals in the tent held their fists and took the order.
After dusk, just as Dongliang City was busy counting casualties, the Qin army retreated a few miles and stationed on a large area of land starting from Zhichuan in the west and ending in the south of Dongliang City in the east, which was called the Eastern Loess Plateau in the south of Dongliang City.
Because of the Shaoliang people, the Qin army could not even find the firewood to cook, so they could only send soldiers to walk south for more than ten miles to the Xushui area to cut wood for firewood, and then transport it to the military base to bury the pot to make rice.
After a day of hard attack, I had to go to more than ten miles away to cut wood for firewood after withdrawing my troops. It was a blessing that the Qin army was very strict. If it were an ordinary army, I would have complained a lot.
By the time the Qin army cooked the rice and filled their stomachs, it was around the third hour of Xu.
At this time, most of the Qin soldiers were sitting around the bonfires, holding weapons and preparing to fall asleep with their eyes closed, while the Qin soldiers who were on patrol were carrying torches and moving back and forth between Zhichuan and the eastern loess plateau.
It was also at this time that Li He led more than 200 strange soldiers to leave Dongliang City and came to this land with 200,000 Qin troops stationed.
The countless bonfires at the Qin army's garrison exposed the overall location of the Qin army, but Li He and others were not sure where the Qin army's tent was located and where the Qin army had accumulated food, grass and supplies.
So before approaching the Qin army's garrison, Li He summoned Han Yan, Wu Heng and other hundreds of generals in front of him and whispered to everyone: "There are two tasks tonight. One is to kill and injure the Qin soldiers as much as possible to create panic; the other is to find out where the Qin army had accumulated food, grass and supplies, and the location of the commander's tent."
Han Yan and hundreds of other generals nodded.
Seeing this, Li He said again: "I believe you have gradually adapted to the combat methods of my surprise soldiers, but there are a few points that I still want to remind you that the life of such surprise soldiers is much more precious than that of the Qin soldiers. If it is not necessary, it is not allowed to confront the Qin army head-on. If it is discovered by them, retreat immediately and look for another opportunity... Remember my surprise soldiers, I will not be allowed to be injured, and no one will be allowed to die in battle!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Han Yan smiled and whispered: "Five Hundred Generals, what if someone was injured?"
Everyone's eyes immediately turned to the hundred generals Hou Yun.
Li He also knew about this. During the daytime battle to defend the city, Hou Yun was shot in the arm by the Qin army's crossbow arrow because he could not hide in time.
"No...it won't affect the action at night..."
Seeing Li He looking over with expressionless face, Hou Yun explained embarrassedly, subconsciously hid his injured hand behind him, and looked at Han Yan angrily.
"snort."
Li He snorted lightly and answered Han Yan's previous question: "Being injured means that he is not diligent enough!... Forget about the daytime work today, that is not the job of a surprise soldier, but if someone is injured in the action tonight, the practice will be doubled in the future!"
Hearing this, the surprise soldiers unconsciously shrank their heads.
"If you have no problem, start to act." After glanced at the hundreds of generals, Li He said in a deep voice: "Han Yan, Wu Heng, you five each bring thirty people, and I will lead the rest......Action!"
"yes!"
Han Yan, Xu Wu, Wu Heng, Gao Yun and Hou Yun, five hundred generals clasped their fists and took the order. They quickly disappeared under the night sky with their respective teams, leaving only Li Ying, Peng Chou, Hu Feng, Hu Ben and more than 40 other surprise soldiers.
At this time, Li Yingcai asked Li He: "Which direction should we go?"
Li He frowned and looked at the Qin army's bonfire in the distance. He then raised his hand to point to the East Loess Plateau and whispered: "There is there!... the loess Plateau is relatively high and closest to Dongliang City. I guess the Qin army's tent is located there."
Li Ying was slightly surprised when he heard this: "Only we people, go to attack the Qin army commander's tent?"
Li He shook his head and said, "I just said to go in this direction, as for attacking the Qin army's chief tent... and then act according to the opportunity."
Hearing this, Li Ying and some of the surprise soldiers breathed a little relieved, but another part of the surprise soldiers led by Peng Chou, Hu Feng and Hu Ben were quite interested in "attacking the Qin army's tent".
After a while, Li He divided his forty people into two teams, one led by him and the other led by Li Ying. The two teams covered each other and slowly approached the Qin army's garrison.
After gradually approaching the Qin army's garrison, two teams crawled on the ground and peered at the patrol team back and forth in the distance.
『It's very strict...』
Li He had observed for a long time and frowned slightly.
For some reason, he felt that the Qin army's patrol teams were much denser tonight, far better than the battlefield on the west side of Luoshui. In this case, the sudden attack on the Qin army's patrol team would definitely arouse the alertness of other patrol teams.
But so what?
After patting the fox lying on his right, Li He pointed to the Qin army patrol team closest to them and gestured.
Hu Feng nodded and also passed Li He's instructions to Hu Ben who was lying on his right. Soon, their team of more than 20 surprise soldiers received signals that they were about to take action.
The Qin army patrol team opposite didn't know at all, and was coming toward this side with a torch. In fact, Li He could even vaguely hear conversations or complaints from several Qin soldiers.
"... The damn Shaoliang people burned all the nearby mountains and forests, which made me wait for more than ten miles to move firewood... Speaking of which, will Shaoliang people really dare to attack us tonight?"
"The general gave the order, just obey the order."
"I...ah, I'm so sleepy that I can't even open my eyes..."
"I guess I'll have to attack the city tomorrow..."
A group of Qin soldiers complained endlessly, holding the torches to approach the location of Li He and others.
Suddenly, the Qin army, who was walking in front of the team, suddenly saw the black shadow in front of him, and subconsciously shouted: "Wait--"
Before he could finish calling, Li He, who was already ready, suddenly rushed from the ground and rushed towards the team leader in a few steps.
"enemy--"
The Qin army exclaimed loudly in horror, and at the same time pulled out the sword from his waist and slashed at Li He. However, his hasty counterattack could not hurt Li He at all. Li He easily used his sword to open the sharp blade, and then stabbed him into the other party's abdomen with a sword.
Hu Feng, Hu Ben and others, who were in the same team as Li He, launched a raid on the patrol team almost at the same time, and rushed towards their respective targets with weapons, like a group of wolves who were suddenly attacking.
After only a few breaths, more than a dozen Qin soldiers were killed. The other dozen Qin soldiers who were lucky enough not to be attacked were shocked.
You should know that the place where Li He and others were ambushing just now had no grass or anything to cover up. Therefore, the team leader immediately discovered Li He when they approached. But even in this situation, Li He still led the surprise troops to launch a strong attack. Taking advantage of the fact that most of the people in this patrol team had not yet realized the danger, they instantly killed half of the Qin soldiers.
When the remaining Qin soldiers of this patrol team reacted, Li He and more than a dozen other surprise soldiers who had started attacking had already dealt with their opponents. They stood up one by one, holding the swords still dripping blood, and looked at them coldly, as if they were attacking the wolves of the travelers at night.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
The remaining Qin soldiers shouted in horror.
However, the surprise soldiers were not surprised. Under the leadership of Li He, they continued to attack the remaining Qin soldiers. Except for three Qin soldiers who noticed that something was wrong, turned around and ran away, the rest of the Qin soldiers were surrounded by the surprise soldiers.
"Kill them!"
He gave a low order, and Li He took the lead in killing forward and slashed at a Qin soldier with one sword.
The Qin soldiers were frightened and subconsciously raised their long spear to resist, but they saw Li He's sword change, and he slashed his throat with a sword, and then attacked another Qin soldiers without looking back.
The performance of other surprise soldiers such as Hu Feng and Hu Ben was not bad either. They cooperated with each other, one of them took the lead in attacking and luring the Qin soldiers to resist, while the other took the opportunity to attack him unprepared. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen Qin soldiers fell down seven or eight more people.
"You...you..."
The remaining eighty or nine Qin soldiers finally noticed the uninvited guests holding sharp swords. They were so scared that their faces turned pale and they could not perform at normal levels. They were killed by the surprise soldiers in just over twenty breaths.
However, this attack also alarmed other nearby patrol teams.
Just when Li He and others killed the last Qin soldiers, two Qin army patrols rushed from different directions and shouted: "Who is it?!"
The torches in the hands of these people also clearly shone with strange soldiers such as Li He.
"Ghosts..."
One of the teams changed suddenly.
"withdraw!"
Without hesitation, Li He and the surprise soldiers faced the enemy, quickly retreated, and once again submerged into the darkness, leaving only the two Qin soldiers of the patrol team, looking at each other.
After a long time, the team leader gritted his teeth and ordered: "What the hell is he...chasing him!"
Hearing the pursuing soldiers behind him, Li He was not panicked and led him to the ambush point of Li Ying and others.
Chapter completed!