Chapter 37 Night Raid and Killing
Zhou Bing, who was on guard, complained that he was not lucky today. The general above informed him that there was only one squad today. This means that when they completed the guard duty, they would not be able to rest and would immediately start fighting.
Although the winter in the Yiluo Basin is not as cold as it is, it is still unbearable for thin soldiers in the middle of the night. Ji Chang issued another military order not to make fires to keep warm. They could only shrink their necks and tighten their clothes, hold their long spear in their arms, and tremble.
The bright moonlight made the entire Zhou army camp seem to be covered with frost. Not long after Lao Jichang fell asleep, several flags suddenly stood up from the grass, of course, the Zhou army's post would not notice it.
The flag was raised as a signal, and hundreds of sharp arrows immediately broke through the grass around the camp and flew towards the soldiers at the same time.
These soldiers standing guard were all scattered soldiers, not even leather armor. The person who shot the arrow was the most elite archer in Xia Kingdom - the Qilin Guard compound archer.
More than 60 guard soldiers surrounding the camp were shot at an arrow at almost the same time, and strong arrows pierced their bodies and heads. Most of them collapsed without a snorting. Some of them were not completely dead after being pierced by arrows. They fell to the ground and twitched their bodies and made faint moans. This sound was impossible to awaken their sleeping partners and attract the attention of the central post of the camp.
In an instant, thousands of G-Dun militias and Long-Dun militias stood in the grass around them, as well as more than 200 Hu Ben Shield Guards. These were old soldiers who had experienced the Battle of Suyi. The torches in the hands of the Long-Dun militias were quickly passed and ignited, and then they rushed to the Zhou army camp together.
When these militiamen crossed the wall of vehicles and rushed into the camp, more than a dozen soldiers and whistlemen who were patrolling in the center of the camp discovered the situation, began to shout and rushed towards them.
While throwing the torches in their hands and dry firewood straws coated with lard, the Xia militia killed the soldiers. The torches were given priority to the grain piles and supplies, and then to the camp.
It is Hua's order to give priority to burning grain. If food is lost, the Zhou army will be defeated no matter what the result of this night attack will be. The probability that this night attack will not defeat the Zhou army in one fell swoop is very small, but even so, Hua is not willing to bear the risk of this small probability for a little food, so it will burn the grain first.
With the sound of "puffing" broken flesh, a shield militia's blade slashed into the left chest of the screaming Zhou army soldiers. Then he shut up and limped.
A Zhou army soldier waved his long spear and slashed at a Xia Guo halberd soldier who was throwing a torch. The sword blade slashed on the opponent's armor and armor, without any damage effect, and only pulled off a few armor pieces on the opponent's armor.
Another Xia army's Ge Dun militia rushed over, waved a short spear, and the spear blade easily slashed into the body of the Zhou army soldier. At the same time, he also taught the corpse a lesson with the pride of the veteran: "Wife, with such a small strength, you can't kill the armored soldiers with armored soldiers. If you don't have the strength to quickly split twice more quickly, you can break the armored soldiers first."
The halberds quickly completed the arson task, and the whistlemen in the center of the camp had already been killed. So they, together with the Ge Dun militia and the Hu Ben Shield Guard, began to charge towards the camp tents.
The loud screams of the whistlemen have awakened some people who are not sleeping deeply. In a certain camp, an insomnia soldier heard the scream and had already stood up to touch his big shield and short spear, and woke up the people around him loudly. The military rules of the Zhou army, the soldiers did not remove their armor at night during the battle camp. Therefore, as long as these soldiers stood up and got their weapons, they could fight.
But at this time, a Hu Ben Shield Guard broke in, and the big sword in his hand easily cut open his leather armor and stabbed him into his abdomen.
Then the Huben Shield Guard stabbed the sword to the ground next to him, and the sword edge cut off the neck of another soldier who had just opened his sleepy eyes. Another soldier who stood up touched the short spear leaning beside him, and the soldier waved his sword and howled in pain.
A short sword slashed the shoulders of the shield guards, and a few sparks were drawn from the bronze armor on the shoulders. The shield guards didn't even look at it, and stabbed the sword backwards and stabbed the old sneak attacker's stomach.
When another Shinge militia rushes into the tent, the four remaining soldiers in the tent are already split. They drill out of the tent in different directions and run outwards. Hu Ben Shinguards and Ge soldiers follow closely behind and continue to chase and kill...
Many camp tents were lit with fire. The soldiers of Zhou army rushed out of the fire tent and rolled on the ground. Some were attacked by Xia army's shield hands, ending the pain of the second-degree burn. Some wiped out the fire on their bodies and ran out like frightened birds in panic.
Four or five long halberd militiamen stabbed into a tent with three-meter long halberds in their hands. With two screams, six soldiers fled out of the gate of the tent and were immediately stabbed to death by the halberd soldiers who had already prepared.
At this time, the Zhou army camp was already in a sea of fire, and the smell of burning and blood filled the air, crackling and burning sounds, howlings, crying for help, and the sound of collision between soldiers and soldiers gathered together.
There were also some Zhou army soldiers who fought back, but these unorganized counterattacks collapsed under the brutal attack of the heavily armored soldiers of the Xia Kingdom. At this time, both the Zhou army, both the soldiers and the soldiers, had only one idea [Run]. Those who did not have this idea eventually became corpses.
But the person who escaped from the camp was immediately shot and killed by sharp arrows from nowhere. These powerful arrows and arrows carried the sound of breaking through the air and penetrated the bodies, limbs and heads of running people.
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Old Jichang was awakened by his personal guards. He was sleepy and was about to ask angrily why he broke his good dream. He was so excited that he woke up suddenly by the noise outside the tent.
"What happened."
"The enemy attacked. The enemy army robbed the camp."
At this time, Bo Yikao had also fled into Ji Fa's tent.
"Enemy troops robbed the camp? Organize a counterattack!" Old Ji Chang shouted angrily. The soldiers of the personal guards living around Ji Chang's tent gathered here one after another. Ji Chang and Bo Yikao fled to the camp under the escort of more than a dozen personal guards.
"You are going in the wrong direction, why go out? Go to the open space of the camp to organize a counterattack!" Ji Chang shouted at the top of his lungs. At this time, Ji Chang found that the camp had already lit a fire. Three Hu Ben Shield Guards and four or five Dunge militias came to them.
"It's too late, go quickly." The guards set up Ji Chang, who was shouting and ran out of the camp, and left the distance of a battleground. The "swoosh" cold arrows came from time to time, and were extremely accurate. The soldiers guarding Bo Yikao and Ji Chang were constantly shot and killed and fell to the ground. Their leather armor inlaid with copper spikes could not stop the strong arrow shot within 80 meters of the composite strong bow.
At this time, if you look down from a high altitude, you will find that in a nearly circular geometric figure surrounded by a baggage truck, there are dead bodies everywhere, and the wailing wounded soldiers, of course, they are all Zhou army soldiers. The other living Zhou army soldiers fled in all directions like ants flooded by water, trying to stay away from this circle as far as possible.
Chapter completed!