Chapter 65: Repeated Harassment
That night, the Shao Liang Qiong soldier who had crossbow tools had prepared a level of injury to the Qin army and the terror it brought to the Qin army was one level higher than before.
At the beginning, the surprise soldiers were a little bit savage. Even if they were within a distance of twenty steps, they might not be able to hit the arrow, even if they were responsible for one person.
However, there are many targets for surprise soldiers to practice on this land. After firing more than a dozen or twenty arrows, the accuracy of the surprise soldiers has been significantly improved.
With a huge confidence, a surprise soldier team gradually abandoned Li He's conservative two-person targeting method of one Qin soldier. This caused the shooting rate of surprise soldiers to drop, but the number of Qin soldiers was shot and killed greatly increased.
The Qin soldiers were not stupid either. They quickly came up with a way to avoid arrows. Once they encountered sudden shooting, they immediately squatted down or even lie on the ground, and threw away the torch, causing the person who attacked them to lose their target.
The surprise soldiers did not want to take the risk of approaching the murder, so they changed the aiming method of the two of them being responsible for one person, ensuring that as many Qin soldiers could be shot and killed during the first raid.
But no matter what kind of shooting method the surprise soldiers took, the Qin army's patrol was tortured by them that night, so that once a Qin soldiers were sent to patrol, they would be frightened and pale on the spot.
I remember that when I attacked Dongliang two days ago, I didn’t see these Qin soldiers so frightened. I can only say that the surprise soldiers put too much psychological pressure on these Qin soldiers.
Around the Mid-Times, Li He, Li Ying, Peng Chou and other more than 40 strange soldiers quietly sneaked to the loess plateau on the west side of Zhichuan, squatted on the hills and peered at the Qin army base on the flat ground below, and searched for the locations of the siege equipment according to their memories.
"Will we just have not enough people? Why not call Han Yan and the others to act together like yesterday?"
Hu Ben asked Hu Feng in a low voice.
The fox shook his head and said he didn't know. He turned to look at Li He who was peeping at the movements of the Qin army, but did not dare to disturb him.
Seeing this, Li Ying whispered to the two of them: "We used this trick last night, and suddenly stopped harassing and then attacked the Qin army's camp. If everyone is summoned tonight, the Qin army will stop harassing when they see us, as long as they are not stupid, they will immediately guess that we will gather together to attack them...either attack the General's Camp, or they want to destroy them to build siege equipment... On the General's Camp, they must have laid heavy troops. Thinking about it, we dare not go, then there will be siege equipment left. At that time, they will ambush around the siege equipment and wait for us... Therefore, Han Yan and others must continue to harass the Qin army and relax the Qin army."
"oh."
Fox, Hu Ben and the strange soldiers from the side suddenly realized and praised in admiration: "I am worthy of being our deputy general."
From the side, Li He didn't think anything was there.
After all, in his opinion, Li Ying, Han Yan, Wu Heng and others should have this insight.
"Prepare."
After whispering to everyone, Li He lowered his voice to discuss with Li Ying: "I will take people to destroy the siege equipment later. You can see the opportunity and create chaos on the periphery, and respond to us."
"careful."
"Well, fox, foxen, foxen, you three follow Li Ying."
"Ah? Oh..."
The fox and the other two were a little disappointed, but they did not dare to disobey Li He. Li He stood up and patted Peng Chou beside him: "Peng Chou, follow me."
"Hey." Peng Chou nodded silly.
It has to be said that Li He actually didn't want to accept the two bandits Li Ying and Peng Chou at the beginning, but now, these two guys are getting more and more convenient. Li Ying needs to say more, except for the poor strength, few of the surprise soldiers he can beat, and they are indeed excellent in their minds. Peng Chou is the second warrior in the surprise soldiers except him. With this reckless man, Li He would not be restrained in order to cover other surprise soldiers.
Unfortunately, this guy is not very smart, and he will only show a little philosophical cleverness occasionally and surprise everyone.
"Brother Li, be careful."
The fox handed Li He a bamboo can, which contained the key thing for their actions tonight, oil.
Although it is possible to ignite those wooden siege equipment without oil, it is only after oil that burns quickly and is difficult to extinguish.
For some reason, when Li He took the can of oil, he suddenly thought of fried chicken and fried fish.
"Speaking of this, I haven't eaten fried stuff for a long time..."
Holding the bamboo jar under his armpit, Li He looked serious but thought about something that had nothing to do with the battlefield.
The loess plateau area on the west side of Zhichuan, which is the southwest corner of the Qin army's garrison, has never visited this location before. Therefore, the Qin soldiers patrolling here are not as nervous as the east side of Zhichuan, and the patrol teams are not as dense as those on the east side.
Li He saw the opportunity and took advantage of the fact that several patrol teams closest to them turned east, and immediately asked everyone to take out the torches prepared in advance and ignite them with fire sticks. Then he pretended to be patrolling Qin soldiers and walked towards the Qin army's garrison with the torches in a dignified manner.
During this period, whether it was Li He or other surprise soldiers, they were actually unsure.
It’s not that they are afraid of exposure. What’s the big deal about exposure? What they are worried about is that the exposure arouses the vigilance of the Qin army and makes them miss the opportunity to destroy those siege equipment.
However, their concern was too much. Since no surprise soldiers had ever visited or killed anyone in this area, the Qin soldiers here were very weak in defense.
Soon, Li He and his group met a patrolling Qin army. The other party didn't realize anything at all. They passed by Li He and others more than twenty steps away, and did not even mention a command, which saved Li He some time.
Soon, the group arrived at the Qin army's garrison.
It was almost the same as the one in the east. At this moment, most of the Qin soldiers sat around the campfire and fell asleep with weapons.
Looking at the dense bonfires deep in the base, the surprise soldiers secretly thanked that the siege equipment built by the Qin army and the wood they cut were all piled up in the south, far away from the center of the base. Otherwise, they would have to set fire under the eyes of more than 100,000 Qin soldiers here. If this is seen through, wouldn’t it be chopped into meat paste?
This is also the reason why Li He decided to try.
If he was really at the center of more than 100,000 Qin troops here, he would not dare to come even.
Isn't this obviously a death sentence?
Of course, even in the south and back, there is a close distance between the Qin army. As long as someone shouts, I believe that thousands of Qin troops will come in an instant. Therefore, Li He and his group dare not take it lightly and do not attract the attention of the Qin army as much as possible.
The luck was pretty good. After about one stick of incense, Li He and his party approached the Qin army's place where the wood was piled up without disturbing the other Qin army patrols. There were three piles, like a hill.
There were several teams of Qin soldiers holding torches from beside him, some on duty, and some walking back and forth, obviously guarding the wood.
In order to observe carefully, Li He did not get too close, so he took a turn and moved slightly away from the piles of wood, changing direction toward the depths of the station.
At this time, he noticed that a long torch was inserted into the ground every few feet, and the surroundings were shining brightly.
Relying on these lights, Li He clearly saw that there were more than 20 siege vehicles built by the Qin army today parked there. Except for four sprinters used to hit the city gate, the rest were ladder vehicles that made it easier for the soldiers to climb the city.
Listen carefully, you can also hear the sound of pounding, slashing wood, and conversations of people. You can vaguely see some people who are different from the Qin soldiers dressed in, most of them are still rushing to make these siege equipment.
Seeing that the attack was almost over, Li He looked back at the surprise soldiers, and then walked straight towards the Qin soldiers on duty.
The surprise soldiers immediately understood and lowered their heads and followed Li He closely.
The Qin soldiers on duty on the opposite side soon noticed the suspicious patrol team walking straight towards them, and scolded them in an accent that Li He couldn't understand.
Li He didn't care what the other party called, and the moment the other party opened his mouth and wanted to shout, he tore off his disguise and drew his sword and killed him.
Immediately, Peng Chou and more than 20 other surprise soldiers rushed forward.
The Qin soldiers on duty only felt that Li He and his other people were suspicious of their behavior. Unexpectedly, the strange soldiers immediately started to kill them. In a blink of an eye, more than a dozen people were killed. The remaining people shouted loudly: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
Li He had no time to pay attention to the yelling Qin soldiers, shouted "Burn!", then opened the bamboo can she carried with him and poured the oil on two siege weapons.
Their actions alarmed the nearby Qin army and the craftsmen who were building weapons. These craftsmen were not as brave as Qin soldiers. Seeing Li He and others killing Qin soldiers in a row, they exclaimed, threw down the tools in their hands, turned around and fled.
"These people are the craftsmen of the Gongshu, aren't they?"
Li He, who was unable to catch up, thought to himself.
Because oil helped to burn, more than twenty siege equipment quickly started to burn, and even a surprise soldier set a few fires on the three piles of hills of wood.
However, during this period, the alarmed Qin army also rushed over like a tide.
"withdraw!"
Li He made a quick decision and led the surprise troops to retreat.
They shouted "Enemy attack" and "Fight the fire quickly", and quickly mingled with the Qin army that arrived.
Because they were wearing the armor of the Qin army and their accents were very different within the Qin army, there were no Qin soldiers who could accurately distinguish Li He and others, only knowing that a group of enemy troops had intervened in them.
"Ghost soldiers! A young Liang ghost soldiers have sneaked in!"
Many Qin soldiers shouted in panic, guarding against each other, but they didn't know that Li He and others had already taken advantage of the chaos and left in the crowd.
When the Qin generals arrived, they scolded everyone and quickly put out the fire. Seven of the more than 20 siege equipment had collapsed.
Half an hour later, Miao Lin, the Qin general who was responsible for supervising the construction of siege equipment, gritted his teeth and came to the commander's tent of the East Loess Plateau again. He didn't care that Ying Qian was already asleep at this time, so he could only wake up the commander and report the news of the attack at the camp: "...Shaoliang ghost soldiers attacked the Nanying Camp, ignited the wood placed there and the more than 20 siege equipment built today. After the soldiers tried their best to put out the fire, they finally rescued... Nine, and 60% of the wood."
Ying Qian was awakened in his sleep and his mood was already bad. When he heard the news of the attack at the station, his expression became worse.
However, he was not angry, at least he did not show it, because he had expected that he would not build a camp, wouldn’t he be mentally prepared to be repeatedly attacked and harassed by Shao Liang Qibing?
He said expressionlessly: "The craftsman who called Gongshuo's nine siege equipment overnight, and then another new one. The Shaoliang people burned ten, and our army would build twenty more! He burned twenty more, and our army would build forty more! See if he burned fast, or our army would build fast!... Having said that, this time you have to send people to take strict precautions, and I don't want to hear similar news again. In this battle, my Qin army lost enough face..."
"……yes!"
Miao Lin quickly agreed.
"Also, two days later, on September 23rd, our army will attack the city, and this time we will swear to take down Dongliang and step onto the ground!"
"yes!"
The moment he walked out of the handsome tent, Miao Lin breathed a sigh of relief. Even when he heard a slap in the tent, as if something had been smashed, he did not dare to look back.
He was familiar with Ying Qian and knew in his heart that the young man was extremely angry.
Chapter completed!