Chapter 385: Attack on Zijin Mountain at night

Standing on the ruins of the front village of the Southern Tang Army, where the smoke had not dissipated, Li Chongjin patted Dong Zunhui on the shoulder heavily: "Brother, you really are! He achieved results as soon as he returned to our Huainan War Zone. He is really a blessing general of my Great Zhou!"

Dong Zunhui smiled and said, "If I had not had my brother's strong support, then I would not have a safe attack base; if I had not had this attack base, when we ran off the ship, the Southern Tang army would have been on high alert. How could we win so easily? If the merits of this battle should be remembered on my brother!"

Li Chongjin laughed and was very satisfied with Dong Zunhui. Not long ago, he was a little exposed in his killing of good deeds, and he suffered a small defeat recently, so he was a little bored. Although Dong Zunhui's military achievements cannot change the bad impression of the court of his own, he can also restore some impressions for himself.

At this time, Dong Zunhui lowered his voice and said to Li Chongjin: "Brother, what do you think we will attack the camp at night? We have just won the battle during the day. According to common sense, we have to celebrate. The Southern Tang army should be unprepared for our night attack!"

When Li Chongjin heard Dong Zunhui's suggestion, he did not rush to make the decision, but asked in surprise: "You have fought for more than an hour. Can you have the energy to fight again at night?"

Dong Zunhui nodded heavily, "No problem! The troops in front of our palace are all elite soldiers selected from all over the country, and they have very strong combat effectiveness. Besides, today's battle was a good fight and did not consume much effort from the soldiers. I can mobilize at least two thousand soldiers to join the war!"

When Li Chongjin heard that Dong Zunhui could mobilize 2,000 soldiers to participate in the night attack, he was a little envious. Unexpectedly, more than two-fifths of the soldiers in Dong Zunhui's army did not have night blindness. This proportion was already very high! But Li Chongjin thought about it, the Palace Front Office is one of the most elite armed forces in the country and should not be examined by the standards of ordinary troops.

Li Chongjin ordered his soldiers to drink more crucian carp soup these days, but now most of the soldiers in the army are from farmers and have weak nutrition. About 80% of the soldiers suffer from night blindness and cannot attack at all! Li Chongjin calculated and found that he could only take out 3,000 soldiers to participate in the night attack. If too many were drawn, it would affect the troops' night defense ability.

Li Chongjin smiled wryly and said, "Brother, although I have many soldiers and a wide range of generals, I can only draw 3,000 people to fight tonight. Let's command these 3,000 people myself and attack with you brothers! Let's attack separately from the mountain and from the back of the mountain, so that the enemy can't figure out how many people we have. Under the attacks from front to back, the enemy will definitely be defeated!"

So Li Chongjin and Dong Zunhui carefully discussed the details of the expedition. Just as they were discussing, Zhu Yuan also said to the generals: "The Zhou army was defeated not long ago. It was difficult to win today. We will definitely find ways to expand the results of this battle so that Zhou Ting can see their abilities. Everyone should be more careful tonight and be careful of the enemy's night attack!"

Zhu Renyu, who had just suffered a great defeat, nodded repeatedly, but the tooth general Shi Houqing was a little dissatisfied and said to Zhu Yuan: "Since the general is judging the enemy's attack, why not report to General Xu (Wenzhen) and General Bian (Hao)?"

Zhu Yuan frowned slightly. Shi Houqing was a native of the Southern Tang Dynasty. He distrusts Zhu Yuan and other people who defect to foreign countries. Chen Jue made him his subordinate and also wanted to monitor himself.

Zhu Yuan asked with a sneer: "Will they believe it?"

Shi Houqing was stunned. Zhu Yuan thought about it later and sent someone to warn Xu Wenzhen and Bian Hao. Xu Wenzhen and Bian Hao felt that they had many soldiers and had a wide range of generals and had a defensive advantage, so they did not agree. They even saw their perfunctory attitude.

After hearing the messenger's return, Zhu Yuan sighed repeatedly. Now he had to wash away the snow in front of the door and stop caring about the frost on others. He quickly ordered all departments to inspect and be prepared for unexpected reasons! Just in case, Zhu Yuan simply stopped sleeping tonight and sat in the big tent with his clothes. Soon, the first update passed, and the second update passed. After all, Zhu Yuan had been busy all day, and couldn't hold on, so he fell asleep with his clothes.

At this time, Dong Zunhui ordered people to open the camp gate quietly, and led the soldiers who had sufficient rest to sneak out and slowly touched the Nantang Army camp. In order to successfully attack the enemy, Dong Zunhui's troops generally removed the iron armor with limited mobility, and slowly touched the enemy camp with only leather armor.

The ones rushing in front were all elite soldiers from the front hall who were born as raiders. They all had unique skills and superb martial arts, which was most suitable for such small raids. Under the leadership of Zhang Yi, the soldiers quietly touched forward, and only the romantic but not slutty Zhang Yi could win them over. Some of them used crossbows, some used bows and arrows, and some were good at darts and blowing arrows. In short, everyone quickly eliminated the secret whistle ambushing in front of the Southern Tang Army's camp and quietly came to the front of the Southern Tang Army's camp.

Dong Zunhui also quietly rushed forward and lay in the grass and looked into the Southern Tang military camp. He saw a big flag erected in the camp. Under the illumination of the fire, the word "Xu" could be vaguely seen. It seemed that this camp was affiliated with Xu Wenzhen.

Zhang Yi slowly climbed to Dong Zunhui's side and whispered in Dong Zunhui's ears: "General, we have not received any signal from Li Chongjin yet. He will not fool us, right?"

Dong Zunhui shook his head and then whispered: "General Li is a trusted man. Since he said he would attack us from the front and back, he would definitely lead the troops to attack. I believe that their elite forces in the army were limited and he could not quickly kill the secret whistle and 'no night' of the Tang army, which wasted time. You should immediately order our troops to be ready to snatch the camp gate at any time. We must rush into the Tang camp in one go, and we must not hesitate!"

Zhang Yi nodded and hurriedly went to make arrangements. Especially those soldiers carrying fire-induced objects are the targets of everyone's focus on protecting. The few enemies must take advantage of the chaos, and the fire is undoubtedly the best cover!

Everyone waited and waited for about two quarters of an hour. The gong sounded at the third update, and then they vaguely saw a torch suddenly lit up in the back mountain and quickly drew two large circles.

Zhang Yi saw the signal that had been agreed in advance and immediately blew a special cricket whistle. Hearing the strange cricket sound, his subordinates immediately acted and rushed towards the gate of the camp. Several scouts who were born in Jiangyang thieves had slowly touched the gate of the camp. After hearing the whistle, they immediately attacked and jumped to the vicinity of the Tang soldiers guarding the gate. With a dagger in their hands, they had cut their throats!

Soon, Zhang Yi's troops secretly captured the camp gate of Xu Wenzhen's troops. Everyone secretly opened the camp gate, moved the antlers and refused to horses, and rushed in. Before being discovered by the Tang army, all the soldiers walked forward silently while the Tang army soldiers were still sleeping sounded and massacred these sleeping soldiers. Soon, the Tang army soldiers patrolling the night discovered the group of death and quickly sounded the alarm!

As soon as the alarm sounded, Dong Zunhui shouted: "Disrupt the enemy and set fire quickly!"

Hearing his orders, the soldiers all scattered and set fire while charging. However, the soldiers under Xu Wenzhen's army were sleepy and tried hard to open their eyes, but they saw the raging fire in front of the tent. Most of them did not dare to resist and ran away with their heads in their arms. Especially in the camp, there were many night blind patients who could not see clearly at night. Before their eyes could adapt to the fire, they subconsciously screamed around and ran away!

It doesn't matter what they called, the entire camp was filled with fear, fearful shouts, and indignant roars. Especially recently, the soldiers were unable to eat and could not get their salary, and they had accumulated a lot of resentment and took the opportunity to shout out.

Xu Wenzhen's tears were about to fall, why did the camp suddenly burst out now? Why is my luck so bad?! Now let's talk about tidying up the troops to counterattack, it was purely a daydream. He quickly gathered his trusted troops, quickly abandoned the main camp, and ran to the small village next to him.

After Xu Wenzhen ran away, Bian Hao's troops next to him were also affected. The soldiers had no confidence to resist on the spot and ran to the branch village behind the mountain.

Although Dong Zunhui was determined to pursue, the power in his hands was really limited. He had to make disrupting the enemy's first goal and could only give up these two big fish. However, Dong Zunhui gave up chasing them, but some people were unwilling to give up, that was Li Chongjin!

At this time, Li Chongjin saw the scene in front of him and felt very happy. If anyone said that Dong Zunhui was not a lucky general, Li Chongjin would fight with him! This would trigger Ying Xiao. He was not a lucky general. Who would dare to say that he was a lucky general?!

Li Chongjin immediately ordered: "Let attack immediately and block the retreat of Xu Wenzhen and Bian Hao!"

Hearing Li Chongjin's order, three thousand soldiers of the Later Zhou army rushed out of their hiding place and rushed towards Xu Wenzhen's escape.

At this time, Xu Wenzhen and Bian Hao were surrounded by his trusted troops, with strong combat power. In addition, everyone was thinking of escaping from the siege, and all of them had super combat power. Xu Wenzhen and the other two fled in a hurry and couldn't get together. Their strength was extremely limited, but they blocked Li Chongjin's attack with nearly a thousand troops in their hands!

At this time, Zhu Yuan had already heard the movement and hurried to the high place to watch the battle. Seeing Xu Wenzhen, Bian Hao and his main businesses were all ignited with raging fires. Zhu Yuan knew that what he expected was that, and the Later Zhou indeed launched a night attack. At this time, Zhu Yuan did not care about gloating and hurriedly ordered the riots to command Zhu Renyu to guard the camp. He led Shi Houqing and others to rush out of the camp and went to pick up Xu Wenzhen and Bian Hao's troops.

Zhu Yuan's troops were fully armored and were mentally prepared for the night attack of the Zhou army. After they rushed out, they actually successfully suppressed Li Chongjin's troops. Seeing the benefits, Xu Wenzhen and Bian Hao hurriedly gathered the remaining soldiers and urged the soldiers to join the war immediately.

Seeing that more and more Tang troops had already completed their pre-war goals, Li Chongjin immediately decided to retreat.

When Li Chongjin retreated like this, Zhu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and quickly ordered the soldiers to keep their formations strictly and not pursue them. At night, the vision was limited and the field of vision was unclear, so it was better to be cautious.

However, Shi Houqing, who was under his command, disagreed with it. Relying on his own confidant, he immediately led his troops to rush forward, and was beaten up by Li Chongjin and Dong Zunhui. In the end, Shi Houqing was seriously injured and led more than ten personal soldiers to break through the siege and flee back to Zhuyuan Camp...

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