Volume 10 Chapter 133
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In fact, the organization of this offensive war of the Mo army is relatively easy. The Mo army mainly attacks with cavalry, eliminating the full text of the long-distance array attack. At the same time, fighting at night is a trouble for both sides. Nan Yan also understands the pros and cons of attacking at night, and has made special arrangements for this attack. The attack is roughly divided into two stages, and the troops are divided into three parts. First, with 20,000 Tiger Ben troops as the vanguard, they will not attack hard after approaching the wind camp, but mainly attack with fire. Secondly, 50,000 Tiger Ben troops will charge head-on and break through the wind camp that was burned by the fire. Another 30,000 people will hold the line, ready to deal with any abnormal situation that may occur at any time. In addition, the central army of the east and west camps is located on the two wings of the 30,000 Tiger Ben troops to guard, and is ready to pursue the fleeing wind army in all directions. The entire deployment is in the shape of a positive pyramid.
War horses, long halberds, red infants... Looking around, the overwhelming cavalry, like a piece of sculpture placed there, this is the magic weapon that Mo country is well-trained and proud of. Nan Yan and the generals stood on a high ground, looking at the 100,000 iron cavalry in front of them, looking confident, and at the same time glanced at the distant Fengying direction, about ten miles away from here. Under the faint moonlight, the outline of the Fengjun camp can be vaguely seen, and there are a few weak fires. Nan Yan sneered secretly, underestimating the strength of my Tiger Army, wait a while, this is your end. He seemed to see the twisted look on Xiao Muqing's handsome face. He couldn't help but sneer slightly, and the generals next to him seemed to feel the dawn of victory. Tomorrow, the most elite central army of Fengguo will no longer exist, and their own future will be bright.
With a low horn, the front part of the Mo army camp changed. Twenty thousand war horses poured out like a flood that broke the dam, and rushed straight to the Fengjun camp. The earth trembled in the middle of the night.
In the Pingyuan Army camp, the sentry immediately sounded the sneak attack alarm. Xiao Muqing had already guessed that the Mo Army would come to sneak attack the camp, but he didn't know when the attack would happen, so the soldiers all slept with their weapons and clothes in their arms, ready to fight at any time. After a while, the camp was full of Feng Army archers, each with their bows and arrows, waiting for an order.
Since the Feng Army had already made arrangements, all the generals were ordered to defend themselves against the enemy. In the Feng Army's central army tent, there was no one else except Xiao Muqing and two messengers. At this time, Xiao Muqing was in a heavy mood, thinking about the various possibilities of the battle. Xiao Muqing looked more flamboyant and liked to show off, which was different from other generals of the Feng Army, but in fact he was very cautious. He had a superb thinking ability and often thought more broadly and far than ordinary people. This was his capital and was also related to hard work. He knew that if he was not strong in certain occasions, many things might not be realized, and his carefully calculated strategy could not be realized, but suffered huge losses.
When he heard the news that the Mo army had begun to attack, he had no expression. After dinner, he received a lot of reports from spies. First, he received that the dinner time of the enemy camps was postponed for an hour. Then, the Central Army of the East and West Camps of Jincheng wanted to mobilize in the direction of the Huben Army Camp. There were unusual movements in the Huben Army Camp, and it seemed that they were making preparations for the war... A series of news gathered at Xiao Muqing, and he knew that the first guess was realized, and the enemy would launch a sneak attack. Next, the war has just begun.
The Feng Army knew Mo Ma's speed. The distance of ten miles was just a warm-up for Mo Ma. In a blink of an eye, it was less than two miles away from the Feng Army Camp.
On the Feng Army side, on the wall, from the corps commander to the ordinary soldiers, no one was afraid or nervous, but had a firm belief, which was accumulated from countless battles and was not comparable to the local army. The Pingyuan Army was not afraid of offensive battles, let alone defensive battles. They knew the difficulties of attacking, so they knew how to defend better. When there was no difference in strength, the key was the competition of willpower. But this time was different. The enemy was cavalry, the most elite Tiger Army of the Mo Kingdom. In a flash, the Mo Army seemed to be less than 600 to 700 meters away from the Feng Camp. The sound was getting louder and louder. For the experienced Pingyuan Army, the night had almost no effect on the arrow formation. By the size of the sound, the captains of the Feng Army could tell the distance. With the order to shoot arrows, countless sharp arrows flew out of the Feng Camp and headed straight for the Mo Army. In view of the amazing speed of the Huben Army, the Pingyuan Army had prepared in advance. They shot arrows before they entered their shooting range. By the time the Mo Army just entered the shooting range, the arrows had reached Mo Army's heads. Countless sharp arrows fell from the sky, covering the little moonlight above the Mo Army. The ensuing overwhelming screams mixed with the roars of horses, the Huben Army became extremely chaotic, people and horses hit by arrows kept falling and falling to the ground. The abnormality in the front also affected the cavalry in the rear, and the cavalry in the rear were repeatedly tripped by the dead and wounded people and horses in the front. The Pingyuan Army specially formulated a tactic for the Huben Army. It was not the usual alternate shooting of arrows by soldiers on the wall, but the soldiers under the wall shot arrows together. The wall could only accommodate 20,000 people. With the alternate shooting, only about 10,000 arrows could be shot at a time. The nearly 20,000 Feng Army under the wall were also added. In this way, the density of arrows doubled, and the damage to the Mo Army was even greater. After the first wave of arrows, nearly 4,000 cavalrymen were killed. Then the second wave of arrows was shot out. Although the time interval was very small and the bodies of the horses and men hindered the speed, the speed of the Mo horses was still too fast. When the second wave of arrows arrived, there were still nearly 1,000 cavalrymen rushing through the bodies, and the speed increased rapidly. Because when the second wave of arrows arrived, the Mo Army that entered the range of the arrows obviously increased. After this round, it is estimated that nearly 6,000 cavalrymen were killed and injured, and then the third wave.
At this time, the Hu Ben Army in the front was less than 300 meters away from Fengying. Fengying had entered the range of the Hu Ben Army. Bows and arrows were of limited significance to the Hu Ben Army. What they wanted was speed. Although they were rarely used, they were also standard equipment for the Hu Ben Army. Compared with the Feng Army's bows, the Hu Ben Army's bows were obviously shorter for the sake of portability, which affected their range, but their accuracy was higher at close range. These 20,000 Hu Ben Army were the vanguards and formulated a fire attack tactic. Before Fengying was about to enter their range, they had already put their bows on and loaded arrows. The arrows had been processed and attached with flammable oil. Once they entered the range, they were shot immediately. They did not need to shoot people, but the huge wooden walls of the camp. In addition, at a distance of 300 meters, there was almost no empty space.
After the Pingyuan Army fired four rounds of arrows, the arrows and rockets of the Huben Army also hit the Pingyuan Army's wall. The wooden wall, under the action of the burning grease, started to ignite a point, and then quickly spread and burned. As the Huben Army fired more and more rockets, many fire points began to connect into lines, and then connected into a surface. After a while, a huge flame ignited outside the wall.
Ten miles away, seeing the flames rising to the sky at the Pingyuan Army camp, Nanyan breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the fire was lit, it would not take half an hour for the Feng Army camp to turn into ashes. At that time, the Pingyuan Army infantry, who had lost their support, would be like a lamb lying there. But what he didn't expect was that because it was dark, he couldn't check the situation on the battlefield. For his own plan of only fire attack, the loss of elite cavalry reached 15,000 people, which he never expected. At last, there were about 5,000 troops left. They followed the pre-war plan and did not continue to attack Fengying or retreat. Instead, they turned their horses and headed west. This was also the plan. Not far to the west of Fengjun, about 10 miles away, there was a mountain forest. In order to prevent Fengjun from being defeated here, Nanyan ordered the fire attack cavalry to intercept the defeated enemy after completing the mission.
Fengjun Camp, as it was a temporary camp, had no large water source nearby. Only drinking water was available, and the fire could not be put out at all. The soldiers could only watch the wall being engulfed by the fire, and they had to retreat to the camp.
As the fire gradually grew, the battle had already stopped. The Mo army was waiting, waiting for the fire to continue burning and burn the wall to ashes. The Pingyuan Army was not waiting. Although Xiao Muqing did not expect the enemy to use fire attack, when he saw the fire, he understood Nan Yan's intention. He reacted quickly and ordered the Pingyuan Army to build a second line of defense. Forty meters inside the wall, he first placed the city-breaking crossbow in front, and at a distance of sixty meters, he placed the catapult. The other vehicles of his side were placed at a distance of one hundred and ten meters. His intention was very clear, to slow down the speed of the cavalry and give full play to the huge advantage of our arrow formation.
Time passed by bit by bit, and the fire gradually tended to get smaller. At this time, on the high ground, Nan Yan had received the battle report from the front and was secretly surprised. With Mo Ma's speed, he lost nearly eight layers of troops just by attacking the Feng Army camp with fire at night without a direct confrontation. It was unbelievable. While feeling sorry for his elite cavalry, he was also surprised by the arrow formation of the Plain Army. However, for destroying the Feng Army camp, the loss was not big. It was normal for any party to attack the enemy camp and lose tens of thousands of people. If this loss could be exchanged for the entire Plain Army, he could accept it, even if the loss doubled. At the same time, this made him believe that the main force of the Plain Army was still in the camp. Immediately, Nan Yan ordered 50,000 Tiger Soldiers to prepare to attack, rush into the Feng Army camp, and slaughter. He also ordered the infantry corps on both wings to prepare to advance with the main cavalry.