Chapter 1025 Night Attack

"Let all the machine gunners prepare, they should launch a night attack at night. Reading" Standing on a raised earthen mound, Guan Tong observed with a telescope for a while.

Seeing that the Piman army did not take the next step, he made a judgment.

The last time the Piman attacked Yunzhou, they had suffered a loss at the hands of the Suzaku Army and knew how powerful the Suzaku Army was.

If they attacked during the day, they would not only fail to achieve their plan to force the Suzaku Army into the Great Swamp, but also suffer heavy losses.

And using the night to weaken the accuracy of the Suzaku Army's muskets and artillery, it would be possible to launch an attack at this time.

He believed that the Piman people would definitely think of this.

"Yes, General." There were three generals standing in front of Guan Tong.

Their names were Yan Heng, Nie Yun, and Xue Yuan, commanding the First, Second, and Third Armies of the Suzaku Army.

After a military salute, they turned and left, deploying troops against the Piman army.

As the two armies confronted each other, the sun gradually set in the west.

The mountains turned from green to red, and were finally submerged in darkness.

At this moment, the location where the Piao Man army was stationed lit up. It turned out that the Piao Man soldiers had lit torches.

Under the light of the torches, the Piao Man army moved, and the elephant soldiers consisting of 500 elephants were arranged in the front row.

The other Piao Man soldiers followed the elephant soldiers, preparing to charge the Dasong army.

"Hahaha, the Dasong people will be scared to death, and our elephant soldiers will trample them into meat paste." The Piao Man general next to Yong Ya said.

Yong Ya looked at the place where the Dasong army was stationed, and a bonfire was also lit there, which was vaguely visible.

Hearing this, he showed a cruel smile.

When he led his troops to fight against the Dasong army in Yunzhou, he realized that his own muskets and artillery were quite different from those of the Dasong army.

Except for the rifled guns that could play some role, the flintlock guns and matchlock guns were equivalent to nothing.

In this case, it is natural to take advantage of the night to launch a sneak attack.

Moreover, he also asked all the soldiers who participated in the sneak attack to carry swords.

The darkness was not conducive to the firing of the muskets and artillery of the Dasong army, and naturally it was not conducive to the firing of their own muskets and artillery.

Therefore, it was better to fight directly and use numbers to annihilate the Dasong army.

Thinking of this, he became more and more proud, as if he saw victory in front of him.

After the elephant soldiers and others had finished their battle formation, Yong Ya gave the order to attack.

The Piu Man soldiers controlled the elephants and walked into the darkness.

Although there were torches everywhere in the camp, the Piu Man soldiers responsible for the sneak attack acted in the dark.

They were distributed on the five-mile-long battle line, with an elephant soldier every five meters, and moved forward.

Before the Piu Man launched the attack, the Suzaku Army sent scouts to go forward and put bells 200 meters in front of the camp.

The bell is small and convenient, and it is a weapon against night attacks. The scouts naturally carried it with them.

After nightfall, the Suzaku Army deployed its main forces on the south side, with only a small number of troops on the east, west and north sides, and no machine guns.

Because although the Great Swamp is a Jedi, it has become a wall for them at this moment.

Except for the tens of thousands of Barbarian soldiers who may take the opportunity to kill them after the battle starts, there will be no more troops.

The east and west sides belong to the edge of the Great Swamp.

This is why Guan Tong chose to station here.

It is to use the edge of the swamp to build a geographical advantage.

In this way, they only need to focus on defending the Barbarian army in the north.

At this moment, 180 machine guns are distributed on the front line.

Soldiers are deployed between machine guns.

The soldiers untied the grenades from their waists and placed them in front of them so that they can be used at any time during the battle.

The artillerymen were also ready to bomb the Barbarian army that attacked after the flares were launched.

For a while, the battlefield was terribly quiet, with only the sound of insects.

Guan Tong did not sleep.

Instead, he walked back and forth in the camp, and he was a little nervous.

He was afraid that the Piman would see through his intentions and not fall into his trap.

In this way, he would have to go through a lot of trouble to annihilate the Piman army.

The generals stared at Guan Tong, their eyes following his figure.

About half an hour later, there was a sudden fierce bell sound.

Guan Tong heard the sound and immediately shouted, "Flare!"

With a "puff!", a flare soared into the air, and the sky and the earth were instantly as bright as day.

Under the light, the elephant soldiers and infantry of the Piman were exposed to the Suzaku Army.

"We've been fooled!" Zhou Yi was excited and clenched his fists tightly.

He had used this bell to prevent sneak attacks against the Beidi people a long time ago.

Now it was successful again. Obviously, the Piman had no relevant experience and fell into the trap.

As the first flare was launched, more and more flares were launched along the battle line, and the width of the attack formation of the entire Piman army was also exposed.

"Fire!"

At this moment, Guan Tong shouted and issued an order.

"Da Da Da..."

At almost the same time, the machine guns spewed out flames.

One hundred and eight machine guns instantly poured out a large number of bullets.

The soldiers also fired at the Piao Man army in various postures.

The artillery pulled the fuse, and shells flew out of the muzzle one by one and fell into the Piao Man army.

In order to attack the Suzaku Army, Yong Ya invested a large number of troops.

The open space between the Suzaku Army camp and the Piao Man camp was full of Piao Man soldiers.

Facing the machine gun fire and artillery bombardment, they had nowhere to hide.

When the flares were raised, the Piao Man army was startled by the sudden light.

The elephants on which the elephant soldiers sat were even a little uneasy, taking a few steps forward and then a few steps back.

When the Suzaku Army machine guns, rifles and artillery fired at the same time.

The elephants that were the biggest targets were immediately injured.

The sudden loud noise also frightened the elephants. They no longer listened to the elephant soldiers' commands and ran away screaming.

This made the Piman soldiers around the elephant soldiers unlucky, and they were immediately trampled to death by the elephants.

The soldiers who were not trampled to death by the elephants were also shot because they had no elephants to block them, and fell in a pool of blood.

"Da Da Da..."

"Bang Bang Bang..."

Due to their full preparation, the machine guns and soldiers fired crazily.

Under the dense rain of bullets, the Piman soldiers fell one by one.

"Go for me!"

"Don't retreat, charge!"

"..."

The front row of Piman soldiers were suddenly attacked, with heavy casualties, and they were frightened by the sudden light. Some Piman soldiers fled in fear.

Seeing this, the Piman general immediately stopped the soldiers from fleeing.

Their emperor Yongya was determined to launch this night attack.

As long as they could frighten the Dasong army with a fearless night attack and force them to flee south, they would win.

Therefore, even if they were discovered by the Dasong army, they would continue the night attack.

After all, they were already 200 meters away from the Dasong army.

Under the urging and coercion of the generals, some of the Piu Man soldiers turned back and joined the charge again, howling and rushing towards the Suzaku army.