The two sides immediately started a fierce battle! Soon, the 2,500 infantrymen of the New Army, who were obviously outnumbered, had no choice but to retreat into Tongyan City, and brought back the bodies of more than 400 comrades. The Tattoo Army did not pursue them.
Soon after the tattoo army entered the camp, it was already dawn. Mo Li, the deputy commander of the 16th Army Corps, discussed with several commanders in the tent for a long time, but they could not figure out why the three tattoo armies in the east, west, and north of Tongyan City were so easily defeated.
Annihilate them all.
Their preferred conclusion is that the Qi army dispatched all the more than 200,000 troops in the country and launched a surprise attack on them, which is why they achieved such results. However, this conjecture cannot explain why the scouts said they saw the combat effectiveness of the Qi army.
It is very strong, and it cannot explain why the Qi army was able to hide from the big-eyed gray harriers and so many scouts and sentries, and launch a surprise attack.
Due to the dangerous situation, Mo Li decided to send several small teams of cavalry to the capital of Ting State and the front line of Ting Chu to seek help.
The main camp of the Tattoo Army in the south of the city is on a mountain more than fifty feet high. All the trees on the hillside and within a thousand steps around it have been cut down, so the field of vision is extremely wide, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and a sneak attack is completely impossible.
You can even overlook the scene in Tongyan City from the camp.
At dawn, the tattooed sentry standing on the top of the watchtower saw a group of cavalry approaching the camp from a distance, and quickly reported it to his superiors. The news was soon sent to Mo Li's tent.
The whole army was ordered to be on alert, and then the guards came to the watchtower to watch.
On the thick camp wall, there are a large number of tattooed archers and bows on guard. At this time, it can be seen clearly: the cavalry running towards them are wearing tattooed armor and riding tattooed horses. Most of these black-armored cavalry are not neatly dressed.
There were bloodstains on them, and they seemed to be the tattooed troops who had just lost a battle, numbering about two thousand people.
These black-armored cavalry quickly ran outside the camp gate. The leader, the bearded middle-aged officer, asked in standard tattooed Mandarin to enter the camp. The tattooed sentry on the camp wall asked for the password, and the bearded middle-aged officer on horseback immediately asked for the password.
Correct answer.
Mo Li shouted a few words to an officer looking downstairs. The tattooed officer immediately ran a dozen steps forward and came to the camp gate. He pointed at a young soldier with a short beard next to the bearded middle-aged officer and said, "You
Come on, which army are you from? What's the name of your commander?"
The short-bearded soldier was stunned for a moment, and then nervously answered the question in Tattoo Mandarin. The tattooed officer who asked the question pointed at another cavalryman and asked a question, and the other party answered correctly in standard Tattoo Mandarin.
The officer who asked the question looked up at Mo Li who was looking upstairs. Mo Li was hesitating when a pock-marked officer next to him suddenly said: "Strange! Why is it that the armor of this defeated army has many pieces of broken armor, but not one of them?"
Missing arms and legs?!"
Mo Li's heart froze, and after thinking for a while, he said to the officer downstairs: "Open the door a crack, let twenty people put down their weapons, dismount their horses, come in, and then close the door."
The tattooed army officer ordered the soldiers to open the gate of the general camp just enough for one person. Then he pointed at each person outside and said loudly: "You, put down your weapons, dismount and come in! You, you, you, and you,
All put down their weapons, dismount and come in!..." The cavalrymen he selected dismounted with calm expressions, put their weapons on their horses, and walked into the gate of the tattoo camp with their heads held high.
Including the bearded middle-aged officer and the short-bearded young soldier, twenty unarmed black-armored cavalry were surrounded by more than a hundred tattooed troops with bows and swords, standing in the camp not far from the camp gate.
In the open space, the door behind them had been closed. They waited uneasily, not knowing what would happen next.
They saw five tattooed soldiers leading five huge black tigers through the tattooed soldiers surrounding them and approaching them. The tattooed soldiers commanded the black tigers to sniff the twenty of them one by one. They could smell the black tigers.
The unique smell of beasts on their bodies, and the stench with the smell of blood coming out of their mouths. The giant black tiger sniffed them, feeling a little irritable, and kept opening its mouth to reveal its fangs.
Although the black tiger did not actually bite them, the feeling of being close to the ferocious monster at such a close distance was still very terrifying.
The person commanding these black tigers was a tattooed centurion. The centurion felt something strange about these cavalry, so he looked at Mo Li, who nodded to him. The tattooed centurion then said to
Twenty cavalrymen shouted: "Take off your armor and throw it to the ground, quickly!"
The unarmed cavalry were nervous, but had no choice but to take off their armor and throw it on the ground. The tattooed centurion shouted again: "Ten steps forward, quickly!" The cavalry took ten steps forward as instructed.
The five giant black tigers sniffed the cavalrymen who were only wearing underwear a few more times, then suddenly became violent, their eyes revealed a fierce light, and they opened their huge mouths to bite those cavalrymen!
The sharp fangs bit through the necks, chest and abdomen of the cavalry in one bite, or bit off the resisting arms! In an instant, five cavalry were killed in the tiger's mouth! The rest of the cavalry were shocked and resisted immediately, but they
The unarmed resistance was insignificant compared to the five huge ferocious beasts and the more than a hundred heavily armed tattooed soldiers around them. In just a few blinks, all twenty cavalry were killed and were beaten by the black giant tigers.
Bite and tear!
It turns out that in order to prevent the war beasts from biting and devouring their own people, the Tattoo Army added a special medicine to the food of each officer and soldier. After the medicine was taken, a special medicine would be emitted on the body that ordinary people could not smell.
It has a faint smell. Strictly trained combat monsters use this smell to identify whether it is one of their own. If it does not have this smell, it is the enemy!
The twenty black-armored cavalry who dismounted and entered the Tattoo Army's camp, as well as the two thousand comrades outside the camp, were all cavalry pretending to be from the New Army. Because the Tattoo Army's South Camp was difficult to defend and difficult to attack, Jiang Yuan ordered
They wore tattooed armor and rode
The war horses of the Tattoo Army pretended to be the Tattoo Army to deceive the camp gates; and some former Wei soldiers who knew the Tattoo language were selected to answer the enemy sentries. As for the passwords and the names of the commanders of the various units of the Tattoo Army, they were obtained from the captured Tattoo soldiers.
It was learned from the mouth of the military scout.
Since the tattooed armor they wore still had a faint medicinal smell from the dead tattooed soldiers, although the black tiger smelled something strange, it was still not sure, so it showed its irritability, but did not dare to pounce and bite.
Once the twenty people took off their tattooed armor and no longer smelled of medicine, the giant black tiger immediately knew that these were not its own, so it immediately began to attack and devour the delicious food!
The New Army cavalry who were closer outside the camp clearly saw what happened inside the camp. They immediately raised their left hands. This was a signal for their comrades to retreat immediately as planned. All the New Army cavalry outside the camp pretending to be tattooed soldiers
It became clear immediately: the twenty comrades in the enemy camp had been seen through by the cautious tattoo army, and all of them were sacrificed! They immediately turned their horses and retreated.
At this time, only the sound of the trumpet was heard in the camp, and the tattooed archers on the wall of the camp immediately shot sharp arrows at the cavalry outside the camp. While running away, the cavalry raised their shields to block the arrows. Suddenly "whoosh"
There were continuous sounds of "whooshing" and "thumping" and the sound of sharp arrows entering the body.
After killing more than a dozen comrades and wounding about 200 others, the cavalrymen of the New Army escaped from the range of the Tattoo Army's bows and arrows. More than 400 horses still had the Tattoo Army's arrows stuck in their butts, causing pain.
Having to run around and jump around, the cavalry finally managed to calm down the injured horses. The tattoo army did not pursue them.
So the new army's "cheating attack on the camp" failed after paying the price of more than 30 sacrifices and the injury of more than 200 people and more than 400 horses! The only result is: knowing that the black giant tiger can actually
Use your sense of smell to identify friends and foes!