Chapter 573 Night Attack
"Where are we now? How far is it from Hukou Camp?" Liu Feng asked the personal guards beside him.
Ling Bing replied, "Young Master Qi, go north fifty miles to the north and it will be Hukou Camp. A small team of scouts are heading to investigate the situation of the battle."
Liu Feng nodded and said, "Transfer our military orders and accelerate the advance. Be sure to arrive at Hukou before dark today. If you can arrive on time, everyone will be rewarded with wine and meat!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there were sounds of horse hooves coming from the front of the queue, and several scouts rushed over. The guard next to Liu Feng who had just answered, said to himself in confusion: "Strange, aren't they scouts who went to Hukou to find out the battle situation? Why did they turn back so quickly?"
The scouts came to Liu Feng in a blink of an eye. The leader jumped off his horse and bowed to Liu Feng and said, "Young Master, we have just encountered the Liang army scout halfway. We are afraid that the Liang army has prepared for our army and rushed back to report the news immediately."
Liu Feng was shocked when he heard the news and immediately thought about it. If the Liang army had set up an ambush against him, he should immediately turn around and withdraw back to Nanchang. But what if it was just the Liang army's peripheral scout who happened to encounter him? Then he should arrive outside the Hukou camp where the Liang army was fighting at the fastest speed before the Liang army was prepared and launch a surprise attack on the Liang army, so that he could complete the things his adopted father told him. Otherwise, he would inevitably be afraid of the enemy's dereliction of duty.
But Liu Feng could not tell what the situation was. After thinking about it, he finally ordered the left and right commanders: "A certain military order was passed, the entire army stopped moving forward, and temporarily set up camp here. Another ten most capable scouts were sent to divide them into two groups and go to Hukou to investigate the situation separately. Be sure to get the most reliable and detailed information for this young master."
After most of the day, Liu Feng's infantry finally built a simple camp before dark. At night, the soldiers began to bury the pot and cook. After a while, Liu Feng's personal soldiers brought him dinner. However, Liu Feng could not eat it at all, because none of the scouts he sent came back.
One of his deputy generals saw it and comforted him, "Young master, don't worry, it will take fifty miles to get to Hukou from now on, and it will take a hundred miles to go back. In addition, it takes time for the scouts to inquire, and at the earliest they will have to wait in the middle of the night to get back." Liu Feng's heart was slightly calmer. He took a few bites of food and then went to the tent to rest. After running around for a day, his eyelids were fighting constantly, and finally fell asleep in a drowsy way.
Liu Feng woke up again because he was rushing to wake up by the Qingwei. He rubbed his sleepy eyes and said, "What? Are those scouts back?"
But the personal guard said anxiously: "Young master, something is not good, the Liang army's cavalry has come to attack the camp. Listening to the sound of horse hooves, they are not far from our camp."
After hearing this, Liu Feng was shocked and he was completely sleepy. He raised his ears and heard it. The sound of horses galloping like thunder in summer came from outside the tent. Liu Feng hurriedly asked his guards to put on armor for him. Outside the tent, the soldiers of Linjiang Army also took their weapons and weapons with all their strength and lit torches. They lined up the low fence on the edge of the camp, and the spears and spears of the spears and guns reached outside the fence like a forest, and the crossbowmen were drawing bows.
Liu Feng looked out of the fence and saw a fire dragon rushing towards his temporary camp, which was the heavy cavalry of the Liang army wearing torches. When the fire dragon was less than thirty battles away from Liu Feng's camp, Liu Feng shouted with all his strength: "Boardman, volley!"
Thousands of arrows swept towards the Liang army's cavalry like a storm. However, Liu Feng only heard the sound of metal collisions, and did not hear the neighing of the horses or shouting, indicating that the Liang army's iron cavalry was not injured.
Liu Feng shouted in fear: "Pulleyman is ready..." Before he finished speaking, he saw fireballs flying from the night sky outside more than twenty battles. Some hit the low fences of the camp, some fell into the crowd behind the fence, and of course some fell to the ground when they were far away from the fence, or fell to the ground after a long distance across the fence.
After these "fireballs" landed, most of them first made crackling sounds like crumbs, and then a large flaming area of flames several feet high rose.
Liang Jun heavy cavalry carried several hot bombs with him. These hot bombs were tied with a rope, so they could be thrown out like throwing a ball. Of course, before being thrown, they would use a torch to ignite the outside fire-induced object in advance.
These fire bombs shot out obviously deliberately focused on attacking several points on the fence. The fences of these points burned in the flames, and soldiers, including the Linjiang Army spearmen, were also dispersed by the flames. Some people even couldn't dodge and were stained with splashed naphtha and became firemen. They ran wildly and wailed, and finally fell to the ground.
Dozens of heavy cavalry rushing in the front threw out dozens of rope-carved hook claws under the light of the remaining fire in the camp. These hook claws hung several sections of burning fences, and then the war horses ran wildly in the opposite direction. With a few dull loud noises, these sections of fences either fell apart or were uprooted.
The heavy cavalry of Liang's army rushed up quickly and poured into the fence gaps. The wolf-toothed stick in his hand smashed and swept the soldiers of Linjiang army in a chaotic group. The speed of the cavalry under his crotch did not weaken at all, and rushed around in the camp of China. Countless Liang's soldiers, such huge cavalry, flew into the air, and their limbs were broken in an instant, and they died on the spot.
"Retreat! Retreat!" Liu Feng shouted at the top of his voice. He had already rode his horse to the south of the camp. Without his order, the Linjiang Army had already fled outside the camp like a torrent of opening the gate. The Liang army's combat cavalry lined up, combing the place where the defeated soldiers passed like a comb.
Liu Feng ran not far away, but found that the lights were brightly lit in front of him. When he looked up, he was stunned. He had never seen such a scene in his life. A few bright headlights hung in the sky, making the lights of the sky and the earth brightly lit. In fact, this was just a hot air balloon used for lighting by Liang Jun.
Li Feng, who was in a daze, heard the sound of arrows breaking through the air in his ears, and then came to his senses and shouted: "No, there are Liang troops here."
Before he could finish his words, seven or eight arrows shot into his body almost at the same time. However, because of the protection of the sperm armor, none of them could cause him a fatal blow, but so many arrow injuries would make him die even if he lost blood. The soldiers next to him, Linjiang, also died under the rain of arrows.
These arrows were shot by two thousand light cavalry flying feathers. A moment before the heavy cavalry launched an attack on Liu Feng's camp, they walked a long way to the south of the camp to wait for the rabbit.
Chapter completed!