Chapter 195
Shangguan Yuanrang was warlike and a general. He did not agree to withdraw the troops. No one could read the full text.
Peng Haochu found Shangguan Yuanrang and said, "General Yuanrang, your Excellency has ordered the withdrawal of our troops. If our troops do not withdraw, they will be disobeying the order and will be severely punished."
Shangguan Yuanrang sneered, waved his hand and said: "Don't pressure me with military regulations and laws. Although I don't understand much, I have also heard that generals will not accept military orders abroad. Now that I am the commander-in-chief, I naturally have to make decisions based on the actual situation. judge."
Peng Haochu was almost angry. What kind of judgment should he make now? The local army of 200,000 has surrendered, and our mission of blocking the enemy's reinforcements has been completed. It is meaningless to stay here without going back and giving orders to resume orders. He knew that Shangguan Yuan was belligerent and forced to stay because he wanted to fight Zhong Wen's army. But now that we have few people and the enemy has many soldiers, and the Central Army is the most powerful, in a real fight, our own army would also occupy a large area. Not cheap. But he didn't dare to say this. With Shang Guan Yuan Rang's character, the more he said that the enemy was powerful, the more he had to stay and try. Rolling his eyes, he asked: "How long will General Yuan Rang be prepared to wait? Our army does not have much food and grass. If we wait any longer, there will be no food in the army!"
"Oh..." Hearing that the army was about to run out of food, Shangguan Yuanrang thought for a while and said, "If the enemy troops haven't appeared early tomorrow morning, then we will retreat!"
Peng Haochu breathed a sigh of relief, fearing that Shangguan Yuanrang would regret it, so he hurriedly responded: "Okay! It's a deal!"
Shangguan Yuanrang sighed, stood on a raised rock, looked in the direction of Jinguang County, and murmured plausibly: "What is Zhong Wen's marching speed? Even if he crawls, he should crawl there now."
Peng Haochu smiled bitterly. There are only 60,000 of them now, while Zhong Wen and his group are 150,000 of the Central Army. It is too late for people to avoid the war. Only Shangguan Yuanrang is waiting eagerly, full of expectations.
I thought that after this night, I would be able to return to the army camp early tomorrow morning, but what I didn't expect was that Zhong Wen's army, which had never appeared, arrived at the junction of the two counties that night.
It was almost evening, and Shangguan Yuanrang, Peng Haochu and their soldiers were having a meal. At this time, a spy with a celestial eye quickly ran over. He knelt down in front of everyone and saluted. At the same time, he said urgently: "General Shangguan, General Peng, Zhong Wen's army is close to the border and has set up camp ten miles away."
"Oh?" After hearing this, Shangguan Yuanrang became very energetic. He threw away the bowls and chopsticks in his hands, stood up and asked excitedly: "Is this true?"
The Sky Eye Detective was stunned for a moment, and then said urgently: "This is a major military matter, and I don't dare to lie about it!"
Shangguan Yuanrang nodded and smiled at Peng Haochu: "God helps me! General Peng, at the third watch tonight, we will rob Zhong Wen's camp. What do you think?"
Peng Haochu shook his head like a rattle and waved his hands quickly: "No! General Yuan Rang, if we suddenly launch a sneak attack at an ambush location, it is okay to catch the enemy by surprise, but if we take the initiative to fight, our army will be at a numerical disadvantage. It's too big to win. I hope General Yuan Rang won't act hastily."
Shangguan Yuan gave Peng Haochu a blank look and thought to himself: Why shouldn't we act hastily? It’s true that you are timid and afraid of getting into trouble! He chuckled and said, "If General Peng is afraid, I will lead my own people to rob the camp tonight."
Not only did Peng Haochu not feel at ease, but he repeatedly blocked his way and repeatedly advised Shangguan Yuanrang not to go. Finally, Shangguan Yuanrang was also annoyed by his nagging. He glared and shouted: "I will only take three thousand brothers to go tonight. General Peng will lead the crowd to support me. Also, don't say any more, this is me." The command!"
Seeing that Shangguan Yuanrang was already angry, Peng Haochu swallowed and said no more. Shangguan Yuanrang went to rob the camp, and he only took 3,000 people there. How could he stay? Regardless of his life or death, if something happened to him, let alone feel sorry for him, he wouldn't even be able to explain it to the adults.
However, he had no intention of going with Shangguan Yuan Rang, but wanted to go quietly afterwards. Since Shangguan Yuan Rang was belligerent and arrogant, it would be best to let him learn a lesson first.
Shangguan Yuanrang left the spy with the Sky Eye who came to report the news and asked him to lead the way. When the third watch in the evening arrived, Shangguan immediately gathered the 3,000 elite soldiers he selected, took the spies, and left his ambush location. Go to the military camp where Zhong Wen is stationed.
Zhong Wen is the second son of Zhong Tian. As the commander-in-chief of the army, he did not want to concentrate his forces to defeat the enemy. However, because of his greed for life and fear of death, he divided the thirty-five-year-old army into two parts and let the local army of two hundred thousand take the lead. This led to the local The army defected before the battle. In the eyes of Tang Yin and his generals, Zhong Wen was a fatuous and incompetent young man. He became the commander-in-chief of the army because of his father's power.
Of course Shangguan Yuanrang also had this idea, and did not take Zhong Wen and his army seriously at all.
Soon, Shangguan Yuanrang led his troops to approach the camp where Zhong Wen was stationed and hid in the nearby forest. Then he climbed up an old tree and raised his eyes to watch.
This camp is very large, built against the mountain, and is semicircular in shape. There is a wooden fence around the perimeter. At regular intervals, tall watchtowers are built in the fence for warning purposes. On the fence There is also a circle of oblique cross-shaped horse-repelling horses erected outside, which can block the impact of cavalry.
Just looking at its size, it is hard to imagine that this camp was built temporarily.
Shangguan Yuanrang didn't understand the art of setting up a camp, and he couldn't tell whether Zhong Wen's camp was good or bad. However, he could see the other party's lack of precautions. There were no soldiers on patrol outside the huge camp, and most of the watchtowers in the fence were empty, with no one stationed at all. Only a few soldiers standing guard could be seen sparsely at the camp's camp gate. .
After reading this, Shangguan Yuanrang secretly smiled. He thought that Zhong Wen had never expected that someone would come to attack his camp on his own territory. The timing tonight was just right. It was obvious that coming with him would make a great contribution, but it was a pity that Peng Haochu was too timid, so he couldn't blame himself for not supporting him.
Thinking of this, the smile on Shangguan Yuanrang's face deepened, he jumped down from the old tree, looked at the three thousand soldiers around him, and said in a low voice: "The enemy camp's guard is lax. When the brothers follow me to rob the camp, just follow me to the camp." Charge forward and kill whoever you see, don’t worry about anything else, do you understand?”
These soldiers had heard of Shangguan Yuanrang's bravery, but had never seen it. At this time, they had no fear in their hearts, and they all nodded and said, "Yes! General Shangguan!"
When it was halfway through the fourth watch, Shangguan Yuanrang took off his three-pointed two-edged sword from his horse. Without riding a horse, he led 3,000 soldiers on foot and slowly sneaked towards the camp gate of Zhongwen's camp.
The defense of the camp was indeed very lax. There were so many troops stationed here, and there were not even hidden sentries posted outside. Shangguan Yuan made the advance of the group go extremely smoothly, and they soon approached the camp gate.
Several soldiers on guard were holding spears and sitting on the ground leaning against the pillars of the camp gate, their heads drooping downwards, and they were dozing off.
Shangguan Yuanrang smiled, observed for a while, and confirmed that there were indeed no sentries around. He stood up from the grass and walked directly to the camp gate.
When the soldiers behind him saw this, they straightened their bodies and followed Shangguan Yuanrang out of the vast grassland.
No matter how careful the three thousand soldiers were, they would still make slight noises when walking. Soon, several sentries outside the camp heard the noise and woke up from their sleep. But as soon as they raised their heads, they were already in front of them. Shangguan Yuanrang swung the knife in his hand fiercely, and long spiritual waves shot out.
The sentries didn't even see clearly what was going on, and before they even had time to scream, they were all cut off by the spiritual waves cast by Shangguan Yuanrang.
His cultivation level was too high, and his spiritual wave was too sharp. He cut off several soldiers at once, but his spiritual wave was not weakened in any way, and his power continued unabated. He hit the pillar of the camp gate again, and with a clear clicking sound, that The big pillar, which no one could hold, broke at the sound.
Boom!
The thick wooden pillar fell to the ground with a dull sound, which also kicked off Shangguan Yuanrang's charge.
He pointed the knife forward, turned his head and shouted: "Brothers, charge with me!"
Wow - Shangguan Yuanrang and the three thousand soldiers under his command rushed into Zhong Wen's camp like a swarm.
Entering it, everyone followed Shangguan Yuanrang and charged towards the military tent located in the center of the camp at full speed. The momentum was so fierce and the speed was so fast that it was like entering an uninhabited land.
In fact, no one came out to stop them. The huge camp was empty, not even a shadow of an enemy soldier was seen, and the entire camp was filled with a strange atmosphere.
Shangguan Yuanrang led his men to charge for another period, but still didn't see an enemy. At this time, he began to notice that something was wrong. The noise on his side was so loud, even if the enemy soldiers were asleep and dead, they should have heard it. Why didn't they? Did you see people coming out of the barracks?
Thinking of this, his heart moved. No wonder the other party had expected that he would come to steal the camp, and had laid an ambush in advance?
He shook his head again. Zhong Wen was not a god, so how could he be sure that he was going to steal the camp? Then I thought about it, no matter what, what if there was an ambush? I will still kill him without leaving a trace! After thinking about it, he quickened his pace and continued to rush towards the central military tent.
Soon, the Chinese military tent was visible in the distance, but at this moment, drums were heard all around, people shouted and horses neighed, and then, countless soldiers and generals wearing red helmets and red armor poured out from behind the Chinese military tent. , after this group of troops came out, they formed a square formation, with the halberdiers in front and the spearmen in the back. Looking back, they were all archers. Not to mention, there were three men on both sides and behind Shangguan Yuanrang. More than 30,000 enemy soldiers emerged from each direction, with lamps, ball torches, and bright pitch pine, illuminating the camp as bright as day.
"Ah——" The faces of Tianyuan's soldiers all changed drastically at this time, and the two captains who were close to Shangguan Yuanrang shouted in unison: "No, General Shangguan, we have fallen into a trap!"