Episode 10 Chapter 576
Chapter 576
Under the frenzied killing of the soldiers of the Huan army, the soldiers of the coalition standing on the wall fell to the ground one after another. People raised torches and looked down, their faces all changed greatly. The people who fell to the ground were not people at all, but straw men wearing military uniforms and armor. ()
Looking to the inside of the wall, it can be seen that many soldiers of the coalition are fleeing to the inside of the coalition camp.
"We have been fooled, our army has been fooled!" Seeing this, the commander of the front army, Wang Heng, stomped his feet heavily, grabbed a straw man at random, quickly retreated from the wall, and hurried back to his own central army camp to report to Qian Chong.
When he saw Qian Chong, he threw the straw men to the ground and said in a hurry: "General, the soldiers on the wall of the enemy camp are all straw men. The main force of the enemy is no longer in the camp. I don't know where they have fled to!"
"Ah?" Qian Chong hurriedly got off his horse, looked down at the straw man that was thrown to the ground, and was stunned for a moment, and finally understood what was going on.
The coalition forces did fall for the poisoning trick, but they did not dare to retreat openly, fearing that they would be hunted down by their own side, so they deliberately left an empty camp and set up these straw men to scare them.
What a cunning coalition! Qian Chong stomped on the straw men twice in a rage, and then gritted his teeth and roared: "Order the whole army to kill into the enemy camp. Even if the enemy escapes to the ends of the earth, we must catch them!"
At this moment, the Huan army finally understood why the coalition camp was so strange. It turned out that the enemy had already fled, leaving only a small group of soldiers and a large number of straw men as scare soldiers to scare them. This was simply a great shame.
Under Qian Chong's order, 400,000 Huan troops rushed into the coalition camp. After entering the camp, the soldiers ran around looking for the deserters of the coalition, but where could they find them?
Just as Qian Chong was walking forward in the coalition camp, several soldiers in front of him ran back with sweat on their foreheads, pointed to a place not far away, and said in a hurry: "General, the enemy's central army camp is here!"
Oh? Qian Chong was refreshed, sneered to the left and right, shook his head and said: "Let's go! Let's go and see what the coalition's central army camp looks like!"
Hearing this, the generals grinned and followed Qian Chong, walking quickly towards the central army camp.
The coalition's camp was large, and the central army camp was also large, but the furnishings inside did not become a mess because of the coalition's escape. Everything was placed neatly and orderly, and even the sand table and the battle map were not taken away.
After looking at it, Qian Chong snorted and said: "It seems that the enemy ran away in a hurry and didn't even have time to take the map away!" While speaking, he walked to the map and looked down. The marks on it clearly showed the tactics planned by the coalition.
Qian Chong was in the mood, so he went around to the commander's desk, sat down, leaned forward, and looked at the map intently.
This was a camp map, and the outlines on it were also very messy, but for Qian Chong, an expert, he could still see clearly that the coalition's tactics were to besiege from all sides.
He couldn't help but laugh upside down. The two wings of his camp were both high mountains and steep ridges. How could the coalition attack on both wings? They couldn't even break through the front of their camp, so how could they get around to the back of their camp? This was simply nonsense on paper!
Besides, this camp map was completely different from his camp. If it was only the internal structure that was inconsistent because the coalition couldn't find out, it would be reasonable. The interesting thing was that even the external shape was different. I really couldn't understand how the coalition's spies found and drew their own camp. Could it be that they imagined it out of thin air?
When Qian Chong was sitting there laughing, his laughter suddenly stopped. He felt that the more he looked at this camp map, the more familiar it looked, as if he had seen it somewhere before.
After pondering for a long time, he suddenly stood up with a look of surprise on his face. He lowered his head and looked at the camp map carefully. He couldn't help but exclaimed in his heart: Isn't this the camp map of the coalition army?
Is the coalition army's commander crazy? Why is he making an attack plan in his own camp? Before he could figure out what was going on, a general next to him said in surprise: "General, look, why is there a letter from the general here?"
"What?" Qian Chong shuddered and turned his head to take a look. Sure enough, there was an envelope on the corner of the case, with four big characters written on it: Qian Chong's personal letter.
Qian Chong grabbed the envelope, pulled out the letter paper with trembling fingers, and unfolded it. There were only a few words in it: The commander was incompetent, the whole army suffered, and buried here, it was the will of heaven.
After reading the letter, it was only a moment, and Qian Chong was scared and sweated all over his body. Sweat beads dripped down his temples onto the letter paper, and his hands holding the letter paper were shaking violently.
As if someone stepped on his tail, Qian Chong suddenly jumped up and screamed: "Oh no, our army has been tricked! Retreat! Get out of the enemy camp quickly--" He seemed to be crazy and shouted to the generals in the central army tent.
People were all stunned by Qian Chong, and they didn't understand why he suddenly went crazy. Just at this time, the sound of shouting and killing came faintly from outside the central army tent, and the sound did not come from one direction, but from all directions.
The faces of the generals changed at the same time, looked at each other, and then rushed out of the central army tent together. When they got outside the tent, they looked around again. The surroundings of the coalition camp had turned into a sea of fire, and the sound of shouting and killing rose and fell one after another.
At this time, even if the Huan army wanted to withdraw, it could not. Countless coalition soldiers suddenly emerged around the coalition camp, exactly the same as the outline on the map left in the central army tent. The coalition launched a siege tactic against the Huan army that entered the camp.
The straw men arranged on the walls of the coalition camp have now become piles of haystacks, which will catch fire when they stick to the fire. When the coalition soldiers rushed into the camp through the camp gate, they also set the wall on fire to prevent the Huan army from escaping.
The Huan army was completely unprepared and was killed by the coalition soldiers who suddenly rushed in. On the east side of the coalition camp, the one who led the way was a tall and handsome general. This was the war tiger of Feng country.
He held a huge spiritual hammer and rushed into the Huan army, just like a tiger into a flock of sheep. When the spiritual hammer was swung, the surrounding Huan army soldiers would die if they stuck to it, and the sounds of broken armor and broken bones came one after another.
On the north side of the coalition camp, the leading general was wearing white spiritual armor, riding a white horse, holding a crescent moon spiritual sword. This was Wu Guang, one of the four great generals of Feng State.
The crescent moon spiritual sword in his hand occasionally flashed thousands of rays of light, and various large-scale killing spiritual martial arts skills were released one after another. The Huan army in front of him fell in groups in front of his horse.
On the west side of the coalition camp, the leading general held a spear. This was Shi Xiao, a fierce general of Yu State. His strength was not as great as Zhan Hu, and his spiritual martial arts were not as exquisite as Wu Guang, but his bravery was still not something that ordinary Huan army could stop.
While urging his horse to gallop, Shi Xiao's spiritual spear fired continuously, and the surrounding Huan army was like a cannonball shot out of the muzzle, flying backwards one after another. When they landed, looking at their bodies, they all had a blood hole as big as a palm in their chests.
On the south side of the coalition camp, the commander of the An army, Bai Qing, and his generals were in charge of the charge. Their advance was the slowest. Of course, this was also related to the heavy armor of the An army. However, the An army was very calm at this time. They marched step by step, with a neat formation. The An army, which was in a group, advanced forward as a whole, causing great damage to the Huan army.
The armies of Feng, Yu, and An surrounded the Huan army from all sides, which made the Huan army, which had just entered the camp and had not yet established a firm foothold, dizzy and confused.
The camp gate of the coalition camp had been blocked by the continuous influx of coalition soldiers. The Huan army could not run out at all, and the camp wall had become a wall of fire. If the Huan army wanted to escape over the wall, it would be like a moth flying into a flame. In the situation where they could not fight or escape, the Huan army could only retreat to the center of the camp.
Soon, the East Camp, West Camp, South Camp, and North Camp of the Allied Forces were successively occupied by the Allied Forces, and hundreds of thousands of Huan troops were pressed against this point in the center of the camp.
Such a small place had to accommodate nearly 400,000 Huan troops. The result can be imagined. At this time, the Huan troops had no formation to speak of. People were standing next to each other, squeezing each other, and pushing each other. There were shouts and wails everywhere.
The enemy was pressed firmly in the center of their own camp. The Allied Forces were not in a hurry to launch an attack. The whole army reorganized the formation, with the heavy shieldmen in the front to hold the position, and the archers behind them to set up the arrow formation. Then, the Allied soldiers turned the catapults in the camp and aimed them at the camp.
Under the orders of Liang Qi and Ziying, the coalition forces started to launch catapults together. In an instant, countless stone bullets hit the Huan army camp from all directions. There was no place to hide in such a crowded crowd. The power of the stone bullets could not be resisted by shields. The screams in the Huan army camp were earth-shaking, and the cries and wails were deafening. There was blood and flesh flying everywhere, and broken limbs and armor fragments covered with blood and flesh could be seen everywhere.
Under a round of volleys from the catapults, no less than 10,000 soldiers of the Huan army were killed and injured by the stone bullets.
The tragic scene of the Huan army in front of them was really like a region, which shocked many soldiers of the Yu army and the An army who had just entered the battlefield. People opened their mouths and stared with their eyes wide open, and for a moment they seemed to forget to breathe.
The Feng army led by Liang Qi and Ziying had long been accustomed to this. This was far from the most brutal battle they had ever fought. Under the repeated urging of these two commanders, the coalition forces launched the second round, the third round... of catapult volleys.
The Huan army, which was cornered, was not willing to sit and wait for death. Qian Chong also led his soldiers to break out, but how could they break out at this time?
After breaking through one layer of coalition forces, looking up, there was another layer behind. After breaking through another layer, there was still a huge sea of coalition soldiers behind, as if there was no end.