Chapter 719 The decisive battle is ahead (1)
The reason for this is not a conventional way of combat. In addition to the fact that this tactic has much higher requirements for soldiers than daytime combat, there are also too many variables. If it were not for the generals who have great confidence in their own army and are well versed in military tactics, they would not dare to say that they could win a night attack.
Of course, night attacks also have their own benefits. As long as the sneak attack is successful and enters the enemy camp, no matter how capable the opponent has, it will have one-sided results. Sometimes a even-match battle will often completely change the trend due to a night attack and determine the outcome.
Although Liao Qing and other Wu generals who were eager to win and kill the enemy and took revenge did not have superman command skills, they had a clear understanding of the terrain outside Huzhou City and the efforts of the three armies to quietly approach the Song army camp as fast as possible, and flew into the air with a whistling sound. The team of more than 20,000 shouted, and rushed towards the Song camp at full speed in the front and left and right wings.
The people were still dozens of steps away from the dark military camp. The arrows were shot out by them and flew over like raindrops. This time, they wanted to disrupt the Song military camp as quickly as possible and completely defeat the enemy in their panic.
The panic screams echoed throughout the camp in an instant, and many torches rose up everywhere, and even shadowy human figures ran around. From a distance, it was obvious that the Song army was already in chaos after being attacked, and even could not organize the decent resistance for a while.
This made the Wu army more energetic and braver. They shouted loudly and rushed forward faster. They thought they could immediately rush into the military camp and start killing. For this reason, most of them even threw away the bows and arrows in their hands, held only swords and guns, and rushed forward at full speed.
Liao Qing rushed forward with his horse and rushed straight to Song Ying. Seeing that the row of deer antlers blocking the front were getting closer and closer, he had already made up his mind to jump over these defenses. But at this moment, an urgent drum beat suddenly sounded in front of him, and then a familiar sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air.
Before these Wu soldiers could react, hundreds of sharp arrows flew in front of each other, covering almost the entire direction they were rushing forward. Liao Qing's reaction was fast enough. Seeing these many locusts coming towards him, the Xuanhua axe in his hand quickly flew up, and was blocked by him like a big shield, blocking the arrows that were shooting near. However, his momentum of rushing forward had stopped.
Most of the Wu army behind him did not have such ability. Although they had quickly stopped sweeping and struggling, the dense arrows whistling from various directions could not be blocked casually. Even if they were swept by weapons, their lethality remained unabashed, and the angles of these arrows became more and more difficult to measure. Suddenly, the hundreds of Wu soldiers were already screaming and hitting arrows and fell down one after another.
The arrows in front seemed endless. After one round, there was no pause at all. Then another round of shot shots came. This not only caused the group of stroke arrows in the army to fall to the ground, but also the people behind were also shot in the arrows, which shocked them to retreat and block them.
Even Liao Qing was brave enough to retreat temporarily when facing these waves of arrows. In addition to being unwilling and angry, he also had doubts in his heart. Why did the Song army have such a fierce and timely counterattack, just like they were prepared for it!
Just when he was puzzled suddenly, the drums and the rain of arrows in front of him finally stopped, but followed by a loud horn sound and roar. Hundreds of torches suddenly lit up in the dark camp, illuminating the front of the Song camp as if it were daytime. A team of thousands of people was clearly dressed in a brightly armored line, and the roar was roaring and rushing towards him.
"No, they were prepared! I was trapped!" At this moment, Liao Qing finally woke up in shock, and his whole body suddenly felt cold sweat like a spring of water. The Song army in front of him had already been waiting for an ambush!
At the same time, the Wu generals who divided their troops to attack both sides of the Song camp also knew this fact. They entered the camp after only a moment later than the frontal team, but the situation was even more miserable than the frontal team. When they thought they could kill the enemy, the soldiers who rushed to the front were weak, and then their whole bodies fell to nowhere, and then screams quickly rang out from below.
All this happened so suddenly that even the people behind could not react and were desperately rushing forward. So they pushed more robes in front of them down the pits ahead until the screams sounded and countless people looked forward in panic, only to find that the side of the seemingly unprepared Song camp in front was filled with traps that were about to rise by one person. This was nothing, but what was even more terrifying was that there were barbs buried under these traps. At this time, the barbs were covered with Wu army soldiers, which made them thrust into blood and howls, but they couldn't get rid of them. In just a moment, many people died directly, and the pit was even more bloody, which was very miserable.
The cruel scene in front of him immediately made these Wu soldiers feel timid and quickly retreated.
But as soon as they retreated, the same sound of trumpet sounded from here. There was an ambush on each side of the Song camp, rushing forward with the most favorable vanishing arrow formation. After cleverly avoiding the pits one by one, he rushed to the Wu army.
One side was already timid and wanted to retreat, fearful, while the other side was ready to go and was prepared. When the two sides fought head-on, the night attack battle had quickly decided to win. With the shouts, the Song army's offensive was like rolling in the snow, and immediately melted the opponent's defense line, killing the Wu army completely messed up, and the team formation was even more scattered. Everyone threw away their armor and ran away with their heads, and they could not organize any decent resistance.
In just one meeting, the Wu army that attacked the Song camp on three sides were all defeated. Even if Liao Qing and others were reluctant, they fought hard to save the situation, but they were futile. The defeat was like a mountain of fall, how could one or two generals change and reverse?
Unable to fight for the meal, even Liao Qing was seriously injured and was protected by his personal soldiers and retreated in a panic. The situation on the other two sides was almost the same. He was completely chased by the Song army like a stray dog. He turned around and ran towards the Huzhou city gate. At this time, they had no other thoughts and just wanted to run into the city and save their lives.
But in the distance, Pang Wanchun, who looked at all this with a pale face, saw a further problem. Once the city was really opened and the soldiers came in, they might even put the Song army into Huzhou. By then, when the melee was fought, Huzhou would probably be completely destroyed.
He really hated these subordinates who refused to obey his orders, and at the same time he was more afraid of Sun Tu, and even respected him. The other party's grasp of the situation and the people's hearts were so accurate, so accurate that it was so accurate!
Obviously, all the previous things, whether it was to let other troops leave, or not to attack Huzhou for two days, and to act like they were about to retreat, they were all to lead his troops to risk their attacks. For this reason, he even set up a trap early in the morning.
Now that I think about it carefully, the Song army suddenly retreated was also preparing for this. Because it was farther away from the city, it could hide the defenders, allowing them to calmly dig a row of fatal traps on both sides of the barracks. Who would have thought that they would set such traps in their own camps?
Now, all this has fallen into Sun Tu's plan. The 20,000 troops who risked leaving the city were not only seriously damaged, but also in critical condition and could be completely wiped out by the enemy at any time!
In addition to sighing and anger, Pang Wanchun was also quickly making trade-offs in his heart. What choice should he make to minimize the losses of this defeat or even reverse the decline?
It is absolutely impossible to open the city gate to welcome this defeated army, which will completely fall. But if there is no rescue, once these 20,000 people are swallowed by the Song army, it will be a very dangerous result for Huzhou. Because once the troops are reduced by half, with the size of Huzhou City, the defense will inevitably be stretched. Maybe if an negligence is negligent, the enemy will break through a little, and the city defense will collapse.
Whether it is open to the city or defending the city, it is obviously not advisable, but what should we do?
"Shuai Pang..." The generals around were anxious when they saw the defeat outside the city, and couldn't help but scream: "We can't watch the soldiers be killed without helping them, otherwise, the army's motives will be in turmoil and Huzhou will not be able to defend..."
Yes, no matter what choice you make, you can't change the extremely passive result, so you might as well just make a desperate effort!
Suddenly, a bold, even crazy idea emerged from Pang Wanchun's heart. Whether it was opening the city or defending the city to the death, it was already Sun Tu's expectation, but there was one thing he would never think about - attack! Not only did he not think about how to defend, he directly attacked and took this opportunity to have an early decisive battle with the Song army!
When this crazy thought arises, it is hard to curb. There are two clusters of flames burning in Pang Wanchun's eyes. Since fighting with Sun Tu, he has used all kinds of means and used various methods to win a safe game, but the result is all in failure.
Danyang, Changshu, Suzhou... I think about being safe and winning in every battle! But every time there will be changes and never develop according to his arrangements. This is the case in Huzhou today. Since they have already come to such a situation, let go. No matter what stability or not, or what consequences are, they will simply fight head-on!
"Transfer our military orders, and the entire army will leave the city and attack the enemy head-on!" After his thoughts were settled, Pang Wanchun quickly issued a military order that made everyone stunned.
In Huzhou City, drums suddenly sounded, and more than 20,000 people left in the city quickly gathered, and the city gate suddenly opened!
The unexpected decisive battle started in advance!
Chapter completed!